Chandler P. Anderson Papers
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Chandler P. Anderson Papers 1894-1953 (bulk 1896-1929)
Anderson, Chandler P. (Chandler Parsons), 1866-1936
Biographical History for: Chandler P. Anderson Papers 1894-1953 (bulk 1896-1929)
Biographical Note Date Event 1886, Sept. 5 Born, Lakeville, Conn. 1887 A.B., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1888-1889 Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. 1891 Admitted to New York bar 1896-1897 Secretary for United States, Bering Sea Claims Commission 1897 Formed partnership with Henry B. Anderson in law firm of Anderson and Anderson 1898-1899 Secretary for United States, U.S.-Great Britain Joint High Commission on Canadian Question 1899 Married Harriet S. Ward 1903 Assistant counsel for United States, Alaska Boundary Tribunal 1905-1910 Legal adviser for Department of State, Anglo-American negotiations for Canadian questions 1910 Agent for United States, North Atlantic Coast Fisheries arbitration, Hague, Netherlands 1910-1913 Counselor for Department of State 1913-1923 U.S. arbitrator, American-British Pecuniary Claims Arbitration 1913-1914 Counsel for Costa Rica, Costa Rica-Panama boundary dispute 1914-1915 Legal adviser for Department of State 1917-1918 Counsel for War Industries Board 1919 Counsel for International Red Cross 1918-1921 Counsel for Guatemala, Guatemala-Honduras boundary dispute 1920-1921 Counsel for Nicaragua, Nicaragua-Honduras 1921-1922 Legal adviser for United States, Washington Conference on Limitation of Armament 1921-1922 U.S. arbitrator, American-Norwegian Shipping Claims Arbitration 1923 Counsel for Costa Rica, British-Costa Rican Arbitration 1923-1936 U.S. Commissioner, U.S.-Germany Mixed Claims Commission 1927 Published Inviolability of Private Property Against Confiscation. New York: Appeal Printing Co. 1933 Sole commissioner, Tripartite Claims between United States, Austria, and Hungary 1936, Aug. 2 Died, York Harbor, Maine
Scope and Content Note The papers of Chandler Parsons Anderson (1866-1936) cover the period 1894-1953, with the bulk of the material from 1896 to 1929. The collection is organized into Diary, General Correspondence, Office File, Subject File, Speeches and Writings, Miscellany, and Oversize series. Except for some letters that Anderson sent to his wife during his stays in Europe, the papers contain little that reveal his family life. The focus is on his career in international law, official activities in the Department of State, relationships with key State Department officials, particularly Robert Lansing and Elihu Root, and thinking on important matters of world affairs. For the years between 1914 and 1928 and for most of 1934, Anderson kept a detailed typescript diary of his thoughts and activities. The diary includes descriptions of public and official opinion in Great Britain in 1914-1915, character descriptions of associates and individuals, and summaries of conversations with Lansing, Root, Woodrow Wilson, Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Bernard M. Baruch, and others. Most of the correspondence is located in the Office File. Among the significant correspondence in the General Correspondence series are copies of Anderson's letters in the letterpress books and the letters he sent to his wife while he was in Europe during 1914-1915 and 1918-1919. The Office File contains records generated by Anderson as a government official and as a participant in various legal cases. The records contain information on subjects such as Anglo-American relations in North America, boundary problems between Central American countries, relations between the United States and Great Britain during 1914, the treatment of American economic interests by the Soviet Union in the 1920s, the Arms Limitation Conference of 1921-1922, and internal problems in Nicaragua during the 1920s. The Subject File contains papers that Anderson collected as a result of his interests in various subjects. Some subjects relate to topical material in the Office File. Particularly significant are papers relating to the peace treaty with Germany and the League of Nations. Included are correspondence with senators, a paper showing Anderson's contribution to the treaty, and notes on a meeting with President Wilson. The Speeches and Writings File contains drafts and printed copies of papers, articles, editorials, and book reviews written by Anderson. Most of the subjects in which he was involved are represented. He wrote an especially large number of articles on aspects of international law. Included in the Miscellany series are a biographical file, printed matter on international law, passports, invitations, autographs, and commissions. Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan, Otis T. Cartwright, Charles Evans Hughes, David Starr Jordan, Philander C. Knox, Robert Lansing, Frank L. Polk, Elihu Root, James Brown Scott, and Charles Beecher Warren.
series
Diary, 1914-1934
Typescript diary and holograph drafts.
Available on three reels of microfilm, shelf no. 15,819.
file
1914, Dec.-1918, Apr.
1918, Apr.-1922, Dec.
1923, Jan.-1928, Sept.
1934, Mar.-Nov.
Holograph draft, 1916, Jan.-May
General Correspondence, 1894-1953
Letters received with enclosures, copies of letters sent, and letterpress books of letters sent
Letters received
Undated
Letters sent
Letterpress books
Office File, 1896-1933
Correspondence, transcripts of court proceedings, minutes of meetings, court awards and decisions, legal briefs, extracts from legal authorities, reports, appointment calendars, duplicate diary entries, notes, directories, clippings, press releases, bibliographies, printed and near-print material, maps. Arranged chronologically according to the office and position that Anderson held while generating the records.
Secretary for U.S., Bering Sea Claims Commission, 1896-1898
Rules, brief, proclamations, correspondence
Transcript of interview with William McKinley, 1898, Nov. 19
Secretary for U.S., U.S.-Great Britain Joint High Commission on Canadian Questions, 1897-1900
Correspondence
With U.S. commissioners
Between Charles W. Fairbanks and Baron Farrar Herschell
Letter to William McKinley from Charles W. Fairbanks, 1899, Feb. 3
Official transcripts of proceedings and committee reports
Transcript of early commission proceedings prepared by Anderson
Summary report prepared by Anderson
Announcement of U.S. participation and appointments of United States commissioners
Committee assignments
Instructions to British commissioners
Confidential report on Baron Farrar Herschell
Bibliography and lists of supportive documents
Forms and form letters
Reference materials and clippings
Assistant counsel for United States, Alaska Boundary Tribunal, 1903
Correspondence, 1903
Authorization by U.S.-Great Britain Joint High Commission
List of delegates and rules of procedure
Briefs
Supportive documents
Notes and drafts of briefs
Lecture by John. W. Foster on tribunal
Clippings
Legal Adviser for State Department, Anglo-American negotiation of Canadian questions, 1905-1910
Work schedules and letter of commendation for services from Elihu Root
Summary of negotiations, 1905-1910
Proposals for negotiations, 1906
Subject file
Alien labor question
Armament on the Great Lakes
Boundary treaty negotiations
Drafts of treaty
Reports
Great Lakes and the Lake of the Woods boundary line
Northwest boundary line
Passamaquoddy Bay and Northeast boundary
Reference material
Conveyance of Prisoners and Wrecking and Salvage Treaty
Fur seal herd in Alaska, answer to H. W. Elliot's claim of its ruin
Fur Seal Treaty negotiations, 1899-1906
Inland Fisheries Treaty negotiations
International Waterways Treaty of 1910
International Waterways Commission negotiations, 1906-1907
Clinton-Gibbons, negotiations, 1907
Anderson-Gibbons negotiations, 1908
Negotiations relating to Joint Commission of Inquiry proposal
Negotiations relating to problem of water level on the Lake of the Woods
Condemnation of property at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Presidential signing, 1909, Jan. 11
Negotiations relating to Senate amendment
1909, Jan.-Mar.
1909, Mar.-Dec.
Senator William Alden Smith's opposition to treaty and accusation of Anderson
Correspondence subsequent to ratification, 1911-1918
Minnesota Canal and Power Co. project
Report on question of international relations, 1907
Reference materials
Northeastern Fisheries agreement, negotiations
Passamaquoddy Bay boundary dispute, 1908-1910
Reciprocal mining rights proposal
Treaty of 1891
U.S.-Great Britain Joint High Commission of 1898
Unofficial transcript of proceedings submitted to State Department by Anderson, 1905, Nov.
Report on questions raised by Commission, 1905, Nov.
Agent for United States, North Atlantic Coast fisheries arbitration, 1908-1910
Correspondence, 1908-1910
Letters received from Allen Bristol Aylesworth, 1909-1910
Letters of appointment to members of U.S. delegation
Proceedings and awards
Brief
Argument on servitude by George Turner
Summary reports
Draft of address to tribunal
List of members of delegations
Press releases
Notes
Counselor for State Department, 1910-1913
Summary reports to secretary of state
Appointment and work calendar, 1911, Mar.-1913, Apr.
Letterpress book, 1911, Jan.-1913, Apr.
Arbitration, general
Arbitration Treaty with France
Arbitration Treaty with Great Britain
British-American relations
Camisole case
Cipriano case
Cuban Ports Improvement Co.
Favored national treatment (Reciprocity Act)
Fisheries, modification of North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration Award
German potash law
International Fur Seal Conference
Correspondence, 1911-1913
Treaty and protocols
Report to secretary of state
Notes and reference materials
Maiorano, Ceseano C.
Panama Canal tolls controversy
Russia
San Juan Naval Reservation
Arbitrator, American-British Pecuniary Claims Arbitration, 1910-1924
Treaty and procedural rules
Minutes of meetings, 1920, Nov.-1921, Dec.
Documents submitted by claimants
Transmittals and receipts of memorials
Draft of awards
Case file
Argonaut and Colonel Jonas H. French
Coquitlam
Adams, David J.
Favourite
Gerring, Frederic, Jr.
Hemming, H. J. Randolph
Home Missionary Society
Jessie, Thomas F. Bayard, Pescawha
Kate
Newchwang
Sidra
Studer
Tattler
Wanderer
Arbitration, 1910-1924
Biographical file
Congressional appropriations
Counsel for Costa Rica, Costa-Rica-Panama boundary dispute, 1913-1921
Convention submitting dispute to arbitration
Opinion of Edward White
Report of Commission of Engineers
Vols. 1-2
Vol. 3
Synopsis of case for Costa Rica
Argument for Costa Rica
Brief for Costa Rica
Brief of reply for Costa Rica
Reply for Costa Rica to Panama's protest of award
Panama's argument on jurisdiction of arbiter
Statement for Panama
Reply for Panama
Panama's protest of award
Map of boundary lines
“Question of nullity of arbital awards,” by J. B. Moore
Statement by Panama legation counsel
U.S. notes to Costa Rica and Panama
Legal adviser for State Department, 1914-1915
With Ambassador Walter Hines Page
With American embassies in London, England, and Berlin, Gemany
With secretary of state
Transcripts of telegrams between State Department and American Embassy in London, England
Appointment and work calendar
Reports to secretary of state and president
Certification by secretary of state
Joint State and Navy Neutrality Board
Seizures and neutrality violations
Treatment of prisoners of war in Great Britain
Frye, William P., case
Counsel for American meat packers, claims against Great Britain, 1915-1921
Correspondence, 1915-1921
Agreements
Maracas case
Vouchers and receipts of payment
Certificate authorizing full power of substitution
Report submitted to State Department
Summaries of meetings
Diary, 1916-1919, relating to case (duplicate)
Counsel for Costa Rica, objection to U.S.-Nicaragua Canal Treaty, 1916-1917
Counsel for War Industries Board, 1917-1919
Index to board's correspondence, 1918
Directory of members
Notes and reference material
Counsel for Nicaragua, boundary dispute with Honduras, 1918-1921
Correspondence, 1918-1921
Nicaraguan arbitration proposal
Brief for Nicaragua
Appendices to Nicaraguan brief
Nos. 1-15
Nos. 16-30
Brief for Nicaragua in reply
Honduras memorandum to U.S. secretary of state
Reply of Honduras
Counsel for Guatemala, boundary dispute with Honduras, 1918-1921
Documents submitted in mediation
Brief for Honduras
Brief for Guatemala
Corrections of brief
Early treaties
Bibliography
Counsel for Morris and Co. Sernia case, 1916-1923
Correspondence, 1916-1931
Notice of appearance, summons, brief, agreement
Opinion by Barry, Wainwright, Thacker, Symmers
Legal adviser for U.S., Washington Conference on Limitation of Armament, 1921-1922
Correspondence, 1921-1922
Four Power Treaty and drafts
Treaties on submarines and poisonous gas
Nine Power Treaty (with drafts)
Five Power Treaty (with drafts)
Credentials of delegates and list of members
Reports of committees
Proposal for Commission of Inquiry
Proposal for limitation of naval armament
Addresses by Charles Evans Hughes and Henry Cabot Lodge
Appeal by Korea
Press release, 1921, Dec. 10
Reference materials, clippings, miscellany
Arbitrator, American-Norwegian Shipping Claims
Arbitration, 1921-1926
With president of tribunal
Transcript of proceedings (printed)
Annotated proofs of proceedings
Index markers to verbatim proceedings
Transcripts of verbatim proceedings
1922, July 31-Aug. 17
1922, Aug. 21-Oct. 13
Miscellaneous drafts of verbatim proceedings
Award of tribunal
Dissenting statement by Anderson
Draft award of president of tribunal
Memoranda of Anderson
Memoranda of Norwegian arbiter
Notes of president's first statement
Notes on conferences
Diary, 1922, July-1923, Jan. (duplicate)
Paper on tribunal by Anderson's assistant
Counsel for Costa Rica, British-Costa RicanArbitration, 1922-1923
Agreement, list of exhibits, award
Extracts from legal authorities
Extracts for legal authorities
List of documents
Press releases and clippings
Legal adviser for International Harvester Co., claims against Soviet Union, 1923-1936
Correspondence, 1923-1936
Correspondence relating to fee arrangements
Diary, relating to case, 1923-1924 (duplicate)
Statement of claims
Translation of Soviet Civil Code, 1923
Press releases from State Department
Notes and extracts from legal authorities
Printed matter
Clippings about Soviet Union
Counsel for Nicaragua, claim for U.S. income tax refund, 1919-1923
Charter and financial statements
Tax returns
Counsel for Nicaragua, petition for removal of R. R. Hill from Nicaragua High Commission, 1923
Legal and foreign affairs adviser for Nicaragua, 1921-1932
Diary, 1925-1927 (duplicate)
Legal documents
American Commissioner, U.S.-Germany Mixed Claims
Commission, 1928-1933
Decisions, nos. 1-58
Report of American commissioner
Subject File, 1910-1936
Correspondence, clippings, notes, printed and near-print material, and reports.
Board of U.S. General Appraisers
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Fur Seal Industry of Pribilof Island, Alaska
Inland fisheries
National Civic Federation
Pan American Financial Conference, 1915, 1920
Peace Treaty and League of Nations
Correspondence, 1918-1920
“Memo showing changes made in treaty at my suggestion”
Draft of Senate resolutions
Notes of meeting at President Woodrow Wilson's residence
Prohibition
Prisoners of war
World Court of International Justice
Speeches and Writings File, 1907-1936
Correspondence, bibliographies, drafts of writings, and printed copies of writings.
Bibliography of writings
Articles, speeches, and editorials
1907, “Extent and Limitations of Treaty-Making Power under the Constitution
“The Final Outcome of the Fisheries Arbitration”
“Issues between the United States and Great Britain in Regard to Panama Canal Tolls” speech
1914, “Panama Canal Tolls”
1917, “Freedom of the Seas”
1918-1919, “Guatemala-Honduras Boundary Negotiations”
1919, “International Executives
“The World Court Movement”
1920, “U.S. Congressional Peace Resolution”
“American-British Claims Arbitration Tribunal
“Peace with Germany
1922, “The Power of Public Opinion for Peace”
1923, “Plan by Which the United States May Cooperate with Other Nations to Achieve the Peace of the World”
1924, “Exclusion Law and Diplomacy
“Claims against Germany”
“International Control and Distribution of Raw Materials”
“Title of Confiscated Property”
“Exploitation of the Products of the Sea”
“Inviolability of Private Property against Confiscation”
“Basis of the Law against Confiscating Foreign Owned Property”
“Projects for the Codification of American International Law”
“New Arbitration Treaty with France”
“Arbitration of Attorneys' Fees under the Settlement of the War Claims Act of 1928
1929, “Scope and Character of Arbitration Treaties”
1930, “Immunity of Neutral Sea Borne Commerce”
“Final Liquidation of German War Reparations”
“Our Policy of Non-Recognition in Central America”
“Basis of an Advisory Opinion by the World Court on the Proposed Austro-German Customs Union”
“The St. Lawrence Waterway Project”
“The Senate and Obligatory Arbitration Treaties”
“Advisory Opinions from Commissions of Inquiry”
“ Harmonizing the League Covenant and the Peace Pact”
1933, “ Production of Evidence by Subpoena before International Tribunals”
1934, “Recognition of Russia
and “Assignment of Claims by the Russian Government to the United States”
“Treaties as Domestic Law”
“Recent Trade Agreements with Russia”
“Frustration of President Wilson's Attempt to Commit the Senate to Endorsement of League of Nations”
“The Price of Freedom of Seas”
“Revision of Paris Peace Treaty to Protect American Interests”
“Monroe Doctrine Distinguished in Principle from Mutual Protective Pacts”
Undated, “Immunity of a State from Suit in the Supreme Court by a Foreign Government without State's Consent”
Book reviews, 1924-1936
Miscellany, 1896-1936
Biographical material, clippings, commissions passports, invitations, autographs, and printed matter.
Commissions See Oversize
Oversize
Commissions.
Commissions (Container 61)