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Author: Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987.
Title: Clare Boothe Luce papers, 1862-1988 (bulk 1930-1987).
Description: 460,000 items.
796 containers plus 2 classified and 11 oversize.
319 linear feet.
Local Call No: 0557M
Oversize 0111H
Oversize 1:6
Vault 0202A
Small backlog (Unprocessed ac. 23,972)
Microfilm 20,873-41P-41N
Notes: Restrictions apply.
Classified, in part.
Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
Correspondence particularly relating to politics,
religion, and literary and artistic endeavors;
secretarial file; literary file containing business
records, articles, essays, reviews, commentaries,
journals, notebooks, memoirs, novels, short stories,
plays, non-ficition, pamphlets, and proposals,
together with notes, drafts, fragments, and other
writings; congressional and ambassadorial
correspondence and subject files; Boothe (Booth) and
Luce family and personal papers; speech files;
scrapbooks (141 volumes); and other papers.
Documents Luce's multifaceted career as an editor at
Vanity Fair, author of such Broadway hits as The
Women (1936), Kiss the Boys Good-bye (1938), and
Margin for Error (1939), advisor to Henry Robinson
Luce on publishing matters at Time, Inc., supporter
of Wendell Willkie in the 1940 presidential campaign
and subsequent Republican Party activities, World
War II correspondent for Life magazine, U.S.
representative from Connecticut, syndicated
newspaper columnist and contributor to McCall's
magazine, U.S. ambassador to Italy, and member of
the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
(1972-1977; 1980-1986). Topics include diplomacy,
intelligence service, international relations,
national defense and security, public roles for
women, and Luce's conversion to Roman Catholicism in
1946.
Correspondents include Michael Barrie, Bernard M.
Baruch, William Benton, William F. Buckley, Carlos
Chávez, May-ling Soong Chiang, Clarita de
Forceville, Gerald Heard, John F. Kennedy, Joseph P.
Kennedy, Marjorie Wolfe Kittleman, John Davis Lodge,
Joseph W. Martin, Ruth Morton, John Courtney Murray,
Nesta Obermer, Elizabeth Cobb Chapman Rogers, Spyros
Panagiotes Skouras, Fulton J. Sheen, Clarence K.
Streit, Mark Sullivan, Arthur H. Vandenberg, R. G.
Waldeck, George Waldo, Helen Wrigley, and Darryl
Francis Zanuck.
Scrapbooks available only on microfilm, no. 20,873.
Gift and deposit converted to gift, Clare Boothe Luce,
estate of Clare Booth Luce, and Luce family
1956-2000.
Some photographs, pen and ink drawings of political
cartoons, and theatrical posters transferred to
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Division.
Motion picture films and sound and video recordings
transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture,
Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
Journalist, dramatist, magazine editor, U.S.
representative from Connecticut, and U.S. ambassador
to Italy. Born Ann Clare Boothe; married George
Tuttle Brokaw, 1923; divorced, 1929; married Henry
Robinson Luce, 1935.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress
Manuscript Reading Room and at
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003044
MSS30759
Subjects: Barrie, Michael -- Correspondence.
Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965 --
Correspondence.
Benton, William, 1900-1973 -- Correspondence.
Booth family.
Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008 --
Correspondence.
Chávez, Carlos, 1899-1978 -- Correspondence.
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003 -- Correspondence.
Forceville, Clarita de -- Correspondence.
Heard, Gerald, 1889-1971 -- Correspondence.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 --
Correspondence.
Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969 --
Correspondence.
Kittleman, Marjorie Wolf -- Correspondence.
Lodge, John Davis, 1903-1985 -- Correspondence.
Luce, Henry Robinson, 1898-1967.
Luce family.
Martin, Joseph W. (Joseph William), 1884-1968 --
Correspondence.
Morton, Ruth -- Correspondence.
Murray, John Courtney -- Correspondence.
Obermer, Nesta -- Correspondence.
Rogers, Elizabeth Cobb Chapman -- Correspondence.
Skouras, Spyros Panagiotes, 1893-1971 --
Correspondence.
Sheen, Fulton J. (Fulton John), 1895-1979 --
Correspondence.
Streit, Clarence K. (Clarence Kirshman), 1896-1986 --
Correspondence.
Sullivan, Mark, 1874-1952 -- Correspondence.
Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951 --
Correspondence.
Waldeck, R. G. (Rosie Goldschmidt), 1898-1982 --
Correspondence.
Waldo, George C. (George Curtis), 1888-1956 --
Correspondence.
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.
Wrigley, Helen -- Correspondence.
Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979 -- Correspondence.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Time, inc.
United States Congress. House.
United States. President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board.
Catholic Church.
Life (Chicago, Ill.)
McCall's magazine.
Vanity fair (New York, N.Y.)
Art.
Authors.
Conversion.
Diplomacy.
Intelligence service -- United States.
International relations.
Internal security -- United States.
Journalists.
Military readiness.
National security -- United States.
Periodical editors.
Periodicals -- Publishing.
Playwriting.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1940.
Religion.
Women in public life.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Journalists.
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Italy.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th
century.
Diplomats. itoamc
Dramatists. itoamc
Journalists. itoamc
Representatives, U.S. Congress -- Connecticut. itoamc
Other authors: Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987. Kiss the boys good-bye.
1938.
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987. Margin for error. 1939.
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987. Women. 1936.
Location: Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington,
D.C. 20540 USA dcu
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
Source: DLC DLC DLC dacs
Control No.: 5809579
URL: Finding aid
Finding aid (PDF)
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