Arthur family papers

LC control no.	mm 76049577
Type of material	Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
Main title	Arthur family papers, 1817-1972 (bulk 1874-1972).
Related names	Arthur, Chester Alan, 1864-1937. Chester Alan Arthur papers. 1874-1937. » More like this Arthur, Chester Alan, 1901-1972. Chester Alan Arthur papers. 1853-1972. » More like this
Description	20,000 items. 75 containers plus 2 oversize. 31 linear feet.
Access advisory	Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
Summary	Chiefly papers of the son and grandson of U.S. president Chester Alan Arthur, Chester Alan Arthur, Jr. (1864-1937), sportsman and rancher, and Chester Alan ("Gavin") Arthur III (1901-1972), author and bohemian, consisting of correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, writings, printed material, and clippings. Correspondents include Herbert Agar, Upton Sinclair, and Alan Watts. Papers of Chester Alan Arthur, Jr., chiefly 1874-1937, relate to his travels abroad and in the United States and to his interest in clubs, cookery, horses, hunting, and the Trinchera Estate, his 250,000 acre ranch in Costilla County, Colo. Papers of Chester Alan Arthur III, chiefly 1900-1972, relate to the Irish republican movement, his founding of the magazine Dune Forum, his work with the Utopian Society of America, and his interest in poetry, free-lance writing, astrology, the occult, and sexology. Includes manuscript of his book, The Circle of Sex (1962), and of an unfinished biographical study of the Arthur family. Other persons represented include Chester Alan Arthur, Jr.'s wife, Myra Fithian Andrews Arthur; her son by her first marriage, Loring Andrews; President Arthur's brother and sister, William A. Arthur and Malvina Arthur Haynesworth; and other members of the Andrews, Arthur, and Fithian families.
Notes	Photographs: transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Collection material in English. MSS49577
Finding aids	Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011190>
Acquisition source	Gift, Thomas C. Reeves, 1973.
Subjects	Agar, Herbert, 1897-1980--Correspondence. » More like this Andrews, Loring. » More like this Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886--Family. » More like this Arthur, Myra Fithian Andrews, 1870-1935. » More like this Arthur, William A., b. ca. 1833. » More like this Haynesworth, Malvina Ann Arthur, 1832-1916. » More like this Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968--Correspondence. » More like this Watts, Alan, 1915-1973--Correspondence. » More like this Andrews family. » More like this Arthur family. » More like this Fithian family. » More like this Utopian Society of America. » More like this Dune Forum. » More like this American periodicals. » More like this Astrology. » More like this Bohemianism. » More like this Clubs. » More like this Cooking. » More like this Horses. » More like this Hunting. » More like this Occultism. » More like this Poetry. » More like this Ranches--Colorado--Costilla County. » More like this Republicanism--Ireland--History--20th century. » More like this Sexology--Research. » More like this Europe--Description and travel. » More like this Ireland--Politics and government--20th century. » More like this Trinchera Ranch (Colo.) » More like this United States--Description and travel. » More like this
Local shelving no.	0319K Oversize 0111C Small backlog (Unprocessed ac. 23,040)
Repository	Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home>
Links	Finding aid: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011190> Finding aid (PDF): <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011190.3>