Includes documents, biographical information, correspondence, and other material relating to JJM as an individual, rather than as the holder of a given office. Very little of the material is truly "personal" in the sense of being related to JJM's private or family life.

The series is divided into four subseries:

General - Includes documents (birth certificate, army documents, bar credentials, passports, etc.), correspondence regarding JJM's potential service in the Cabinet and other government positions, and a small amount of family-related material.

Correspondence - Includes correspondence, mostly from the 1940's, of a general, personal, or unofficial nature. Many of the letters include exchanges of ideas on current events, foreign policy, and other subjects. The material is also interesting for what it reveals about JJM's friendships. Of particular interest is the correspondence with JJM's early mentors Colonel Guy Preston, Colonel Henry Stimson, and Justice Felix Frankfurter and with his longtime friend General George Marshall. (Note that official correspondence with these and other individuals is filed in the series to which it pertains.)

Requests - Consists mainly of requests for JJM's autograph. Most of the requests were made in the 1960's, and many were made because of his connections with John Kennedy and the Warren Commission. In a few cases, the writer also asked for JJM's opinion about a given subject (e.g., the Warren Commission's findings, Lyndon Johnson as a president), to which JJM generally replied. Material within the subseries is arranged alphabetically by person or type.

Foreign Affairs Articles - Includes notes, correspondence, and article drafts for Foreign Affairs articles from 1947, 1949, and 1966.

RELATED SERIES: Correspondence, Retrospectives

(See Also: +RTRO2:26 Penn Mutual Life)

(See: PA3)

SERIES 2: DIARIES includes several subseries:

War Department: diaries, 1941-1945, 5 volumes. The war diaries document JJM's activities as Assistant Secretary of War. The information includes records of JJM's appointments, meetings, telephone calls, and activities; itineraries and accounts of official travel; reports of selected meetings, encounters, and conversations; and JJM's personal impressions of individuals and events. The diaries also contain copies of some material written by other people, as well as a few copies of memos, reports, and other official documents produced by JJM.

These diaries reflect JJM's changing and developing role in the War Department. They also provide a behind-the-scenes view of wartime Washington and first-hand impressions of the conduct and aftermath of the war.

Some topics of particular interest covered by the war diaries include:

(See: DY1:22)

(See: DY1:23)

RELATED SERIES: Much of the scrapbook material is related to the contents of other series. For example, photographs of JJM giving a particular speech might be found in the SCRAPBOOKS, whereas the speech itself would most likely be found in Series 4: SPEECHES. For additional HICOG material see Series 13. For Photographs see Series 6.

Volume 1-2 (1938-49, bulk 1948-49) contains material largely related to JJM's activities as head of the World Bank. There is no discernible order to the material.

Volumes 3-10b (1949-1953) consist mostly of news clippings, photographs and signatures related to JJM's activities as High Commissioner of Germany (HICOG). The material is arranged chronologically.

Volumes 11-17 (1959-1980) include material on a variety of subjects, generally in chronological order.

Volumes 18-33 (1947-1976) consist of single-subject scrapbooks. Most often, these were assembled by other people and sent to JJM as mementos of a given occasion, such as the 20th anniversary of the World Bank or the launching of the U.S.S. Henry L. Stimson. These are arranged alphabetically by subject

(see also Series 6 - Photographs)

Listings of special topics scrapbooks follow.

(See Also: Series 10 - WORLD BANK)

(See Also: Series 5 - AWARDS and Series 6 - PHOTOGRAPHS)

Series 4, SPEECHES, 1941-1985, includes public statements made in JJM's various official and unofficial capacities, beginning when he was Assistant Secretary of War. While the bulk of the material may be classified as speeches, the series also includes lectures, Congressional testimony, broadcast interviews, oral history, and a few published articles. Among the audiences addressed by the speeches are Amherst College student and alumni groups; groups from other educational institutions; government agencies; the press; business associations; and private and social clubs. The series is arranged chronologically and contains handwritten, typed, and printed texts, as well as a small number of notes and ancillary materials. (All versions of a given speech are housed together.) Many of the speeches from the period 1949-1952, when JJM was High Commissioner of Germany, are in German as well as English.

Most of the speech listings include notes as to subjects covered by the speech. These notes were taken from information supplied by JJM's office. The following abbreviations appearing in the speech descriptions indicate broad categories of type of speech:

INS: inspirational
REM: reminiscences
SOW: state of the world

In some cases, JJM's speech was included in a larger volume (such as Congressional proceedings), or was accompanied by related material (such as a summary report for hearings of which JJM's testimony formed a part). Such bulky material, which is listed at the end of the speeches and indicated in the speech descriptions by an asterisk (*), is stored separately from the speeches. Photocopies of the portions pertaining directly to JJM are included in the appropriate speech folders.

The speeches were received by Amherst College in the form of forty-two spiral-bound volumes. These were disassembled, the original order retained, and the original volume and speech numbers included in the listings below. Speeches found loose among the papers were added to the Speeches series in chronological order, with a code (-) to indicate that they were not part of the original set of bound volumes. Undated material is listed at the end of the listing of volumes. Material that was part of the 1990 accession are coded +. Oversized material and unidentified drafts and notes are located at the end of the series.

Note: Two volumes of the speeches, VI and VI-A, overlap for the period 1949 Oct 4 to 1951 Jan 1.

RELATED SERIES: The Correspondence, Scrapbooks, Photographs, and Awards series include photographs and information directly related to JJM's speaking engagements. The speeches span JJM's entire public career and thus are related in their content to most of the other series in the collection.

(See Also: Personal Affairs - PA3:1 for related correspondence)