Willard L. (AC 1920) and Clarice Brows Thorp Papers, 1857-1994 (bulk 1920-1967)
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Willard L. (AC 1920) and Clarice Brows Thorp Papers
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64 records storage boxes, 8 archives boxes, 3 small flat boxes, 6 file boxes, 5 oversize boxes, 4 framed items.
Thorp, Willard Long, 1899-1992
Biographical History for: Willard L. (AC 1920) and Clarice Brows Thorp Papers
Biographical Notes WILLARD L. THORP Willard Thorp was born in Oswego, New York in 1899. He was the son of Charles Nicholas Thorp (a Congregational minister) and Susan Long Thorp. Thorp spent his early life in Oswego, Chelsea, Massachusetts, and Duluth, Minnesota. He entered Amherst College in 1916. After an interruption to serve as second lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1918 (in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), he graduated from Amherst in 1920. Thorp then taught economics at the University of Michigan while obtaining his master's degree in that field. Upon completion of his degree (1921), he became an instructor at Amherst College, noting later that he ended up teaching men who had been his fellow students in 1920. Between 1922 and 1924 he completed the doctoral program in economics at Columbia University and then joined the research staff at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 1927, he became one of the youngest-perhaps the youngest-tenured professor in the United States when he rejoined the Economics Department at Amherst College. In 1933, Thorp began his long and varied career as a government servant. Appointed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in August, 1933, as Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Thorp served in this capacity until May, 1934, when his nomination to that post was blocked in the Senate for political reasons. In spite of this disappointment, Thorp continued to play a role in the Roosevelt administration's program of economic recovery from the Great Depression. Between 1933 and 1938, he served with and was consultant to a number of federal agencies and boards, including the Federal Alcohol Control Administration, the National Recovery Administration, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the National Emergency Council. In 1935, he also became Director of Economic Research at Dunn and Bradstreet and was the founding editor of Dunn's Review. While at Dunn and Bradstreet, he became an advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Harry Hopkins, and represented the Commerce Department on the Temporary National Economic Committee. From 1940-1945, he was tapped by the Federal court to help oversee the reorganization of the bankrupt Associated Gas Electric System. Federal authorities were anxious to avoid a complete breakdown of the sprawling, 26,000-employee system. In 1945, Thorp was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. In 1946, while still serving as the Chairman of the Board of the newly-reorganized General Public Utilities (formerly Associated Gas and Electric), Thorp was promoted to Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and became deeply involved in negotiating U.S. economic policy in postwar Europe. He served in this post until 1952. Thorp was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Treaty Conference (1946) and an advisor at the New York meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers the same year. He represented the U.S. on the United Nations Economic and Social Council (1947-1950) and at negotiations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (1950-1952). A primary focus of his work was the development, promotion, and implementation of the Marshall Plan, a massive program of economic assistance initiated by the U.S. State Department in 1947 to facilitate the economic recovery of Western Europe and to strengthen European capitalist democracies. In 1949, Thorp also became responsible for development of the Point IV program of technical assistance to industrially underdeveloped countries. Thorp appears to have performed his very public duties with aplomb. His appearance was so relaxed that he was sometimes perceived as approaching critical issues "too casually." A 1949 sketch of Thorp in the United Nations World countered this impression by summarizing the view of an unnamed Thorp colleague: Thorp's "air of seeming relaxation is deceptive,… he has a mind of steel-spring tension which makes him one of the most brilliant and effective performers in public life, here and abroad" (May 1949: 54). Thorp left government service in 1952 and returned to the Economics Department at Amherst College. Although involved in teaching, Thorp almost immediately embraced a new role as Director of the Merrill Center for Economics. Sponsored by Amherst College and located at the former estate of Charles Edward Merrill (AC 1908) in Southampton, New York, the Merrill Center's summer sessions brought economists, policy-makers, and business executives from the U.S. and abroad to discuss economic issues in a relaxed setting. During this time, Thorp was also serving on the Amherst College Board of Trustees (1942-1955) and in 1957 he served for a number of weeks as interim president of the college. In addition, he served on the Board of Trustees of Brandeis University from 1956-1962. In 1960, Thorp was asked by the United Nations to conduct an economic survey of the newly-independent Republic of Cyprus, and, in 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked him to head the President's Special Study Mission to Bolivia. The Merrill Center had in the meantime ceased operations. Following on these assignments, Kennedy appointed Thorp Chair of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). After repeatedly requesting relief from his teaching duties at Amherst, he retired from teaching in 1965 and continued his work as Chair of the Development Assistance Committee for another two years. He continued to pursue numerous professional and policy-related activities into the 1970s. During his career, Thorp also authored a number of books and articles on economic topics. From 1956 to the early 1960s, Thorp's experience with anti-trust law led to his work as an expert consultant on several high-profile cases involving price-fixing and price gouging by oil companies and electrical equipment manufacturers. During his retirement, Thorp served for several years on the Pelham (Mass.) Finance Committee and as Town Treasurer. In 1947, Thorp married Clarice F. Brows, who had been a staff attorney with Associated Gas and Electric. After their marriage, Clarice Brows Thorp became his assistant and accompanied him on most of his foreign assignments. Thorp was previously married to Hildegarde Ellen Churchill, with whom he raised three children. Willard Thorp died in 1992. Willard L. Thorp: Chronology1899 May 24Born in Oswego, NYca. 1905-1915Schooling in Duluth, MN; Chelsea, MA1916Enrolled at Amherst College1918 Jul-DecServed as second lieutenant in World War I (stationed in Pittsburgh, PA)1920Bachelor's degree from Amherst College1921Master's degree in economics from the University of Michigan (Thesis: "Correlation and the Price of Coal"); Instructor in Economics1921-1922Instructor in Economics at Amherst College1923Joined research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research1924Completed doctorate in economics from Columbia University (Dissertation: "The Integration of Industrial Operation")1925Chief Statistician for the New York State Board of Housing1926Published Business Annals1926-1934Professor of Economics at Amherst College; in 1927, reported to have become youngest tenured professor in U.S. 1928-1929Lecturer, Mount Holyoke College1932-1935Visiting Examiner, Swarthmore College1933Director, Wellesley Summer Instituteca. 1933-1934Served on six-member committee that created the Reciprocal Trade Act1933-1934Director, U.S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (did not receive Congressional approval for appointment to post)1933-1935One of the original members of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration1934Director of the Consumer Division of the National Emergency Council1935Honorary L.L.D. degree from Marietta College, OH1934-1935Chairman, Advisory Council, National Recovery Administration1935-1945Director of Economic Research, Dun and Bradstreet; created and became first editor of Dun's Review1938-1940Economic Advisor (part-time) to the Secretary of Commerce and the Temporary National Economic Committee (U.S. Congress)1940-1946Named by the Federal Court as one of two trustees of the failing Associated Gas and Electric System; oversaw its reorganization as General Public Utilities1946Served as chairman of the board of the General Public Utilities1942-1955Trustee, Amherst College (two six-year terms)1945-1946Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs1946-1952 (Nov 15) Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs1946Member, U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Treaty Conference1946Special adviser on economic matters, New York meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers1947U.S. Delegate, U.S./U.K. Meeting on Bizonal Arrangements for Germany1947-1948Alternate U.S. representative the United Nations General Assembly1947-1950U.S. Representative on the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) 1947U.S. Representative, Intergovernmental Working Party on the Safeguarding of Foreign Interests in Germany1947Chairman, U.S. delegation to the Ruhr Coal Production Talks, Washington, D.C.ca. 1947-1952Attended annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank 1947President, American Statistical Association1947 AugDivorced from Hildegarde Ellen Churchill; Married Clarice Brows1949Assigned to carry out the Point IV international assistance program, as outlined in President Truman's inaugural address1949Acting Alternate Governor, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and International Monetary Fund1950-1952Chairman of the U.S. delegation to sessions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Torquay, England (1950); Geneva (1951,1952)1952U.S. Delegate, Second Tripartite Conference on Assistance to Yugoslavia1952-1965Professor of Economics, Amherst College1949-1952Board of Governors, American Red Cross1953-1961Director of Merrill Center for Economics 1956-1962Trustee at Brandeis University 1954Published Trade, Aid or What?1957Acting President of Amherst College (for approximately 10 weeks)1956-[?]Director, National Bureau of Economic Research1960Chief, United Nations Economic Survey Mission to Cyprus 1961Chosen by John F. Kennedy to head the President's Special Study Mission to Bolivia 1961Economic consultant to the Anti-trust Investigation Group (ATIG)1963-1967Named Chairman of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) by John F. Kennedy, with the rank of Ambassador (Paris, France)1965Retired from teaching; Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Amherst College1967-1969Shepardson Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations 1970-1971Served on the Administration Management Survey, United Nations Secretariat1971Visiting Professor, University of Florida1977-1987Served on Pelham, Mass., Finance Committee1987-1990Pelham Town Treasurer1992 May 10Died in Pelham CLARICE BROWS THORP Clarice Brows Thorp was born Clarice Florence Brows in 1912 in New York City. Graduating from Washington Square College in 1933 and New York University School of Law in 1935, she was admitted to the New York State bar in 1936. While working as a law clerk and later at the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Brows Thorp found most of her professional satisfaction in her vibrant political and legal activities. A strong proponent of civil liberties, alien rights, women's engagement, and the Democratic Party, she was an active organizer, speaker, and supporter on behalf of many organizations throughout her life. She worked for several years with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Democratic National Committee. Her resume relates that she delivered hundreds of speeches in support of President Roosevelt. While working as legal staff at Associated Gas and Electric, Brows Thorp met and later married Willard L. Thorp. She accompanied and supported Thorp in his political trips and work, attending U.N. sessions and other official functions whenever permitted. She also assisted in management of the Merrill Center for Economics. Brows Thorp remained active in national and local affairs throughout her life, especially in women's organizations, in defense of civil liberties, and in the Thorps' eventual hometown of Pelham, Mass. She was widowed in 1992, and died in 2003. Clarice Brows Thorp: Chronology1912 Oct 15Born in New York City, New York1929Graduated from Wadleigh High School in New York 1933Graduated from Washington Square College of New York University1935Graduated from New York University School of Law1936 MarAdmitted to New York State Bar1935 Jul-1937 MayWorked as law clerk and legal researcher1936-1939Democratic National Committee, Women's Division, Speakers Bureau1937-1938New York Young Democratic Club, Inc1937-1938American Association of University Women, Chairman of Legislative Committee1937-1939Magistrates' Courts Social Service Bureau, Board of Directors, specializing in defending indigent criminals1937-1942Women's City Club of New York, Labor and Industry Committee, Prevention and Correction, Civil Liberties, Speakers' Bureau1938Women's Bar Association, Labor sub-committee1939-1942Assistant, and then Acting Staff Council American Civil Liberties Union, Secretary Committee on Alien Civil Rights1939-1940New York City Coordinating Committee for Democratic Action1937-1942Worked for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Second District, New York, Bankruptcy Division1942 Mar-1945 DecMember of the legal staff at Associated Gas and Electric1943 MayMoved to new home in Great Neck, New York with mother, sister Gertrude Brows Rosen, and brother-in-law Hyman Rosen. 1944National Independent Voters for Roosevelt and Truman, Nassau-Suffolk Independent Voters for Roosevelt, Co-Chair1944Democratic State Committee, Democratic National Committee, Committee on International Civil Liberties1945 OctMoved to New York City from Great Neck, New York. 1947 AugMarried Willard Long Thorp1948 Jul-DecTrip to Italy, Switzerland, and France for Willard Thorp's participation as a member of the United States Delegation to the Third Regular Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in Paris. 1952Moved to Pelham, Massachusetts1953- 1961 Assisted Willard L. Thorp at Merrill Center for Economics1955Accompanied Willard L. Thorp on trip to Japan, gave speeches on women's rights1963-1967Moved to France when Willard L. Thorp was named U.S. Ambassador to Paris1976-1977Chairman of Pelham Growth Policy Committeen.d.Pelham Library Trusteen.d. Pelham Watershed Committee1978-1981Pelham Board of Selectmen1986-1991Pelham Zoning Board of Appeals1987Pioneer Valley Transit Authority, Finance Committee, Chairman1992 May 10Widowed when Willard L. Thorp dies in Pelham, Massachusetts2003 Aug 5Died in Pelham, Massachusetts
Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection includes papers and artifacts gathered by Willard L. and Clarice Brows Thorp in the course of their personal, professional, and social activities from circa 1900 until their deaths in 1992 and 2003, respectively. The collection is a rich source of information about U.S. domestic and international economic policy-making in the politically and economically turbulent decades of the 1930s and 1940s. It also provides insights into the economic dimensions of U.S. foreign policy during the Truman administration. It documents in considerable detail Thorp's perspective on and involvement in large scale international programs of economic and technical assistance undertaken by the U.S., the United Nations, and other organizations from the post-war period through the 1960s. It provides detailed information about the activities of the Merrill Center for Economics between 1953 and 1961, which drew scholars, researchers, businessmen, and policymakers from around the world for wide-ranging discussions of economic issues and problems. The collection also provides insights into how an intelligent, ambitious husband-wife team negotiated the gendered power structures of Washington, D.C. and United Nations organizations from the 1940s to the 1960s. Willard Long Thorp's papers include biographical materials, photographs, transcripts of testimony, writings, publications, conference proceedings, and scrapbooks and newsclippings documenting his many professional activities. Thorp's collection includes correspondence and numerous reports and speeches on a wide variety of economic topics produced in the course of his work as a statesman, economist, statistician, and international development specialist. The Thorps' social engagements and travels, particularly during their years in Europe, are also documented in the collection. The collection includes legal documents generated in the course of Thorp's work as an economic consultant and corporate board member. The activities of the Merrill Center for Economics, which Thorp directed, are documented by correspondence, curriculum vitae, financial records, memoranda, and bound summaries of the Center's summer sessions. Teaching materials, reports, and memoranda document Thorp's career in the Economics Department at Amherst College. Clarice Brows Thorp's papers consist largely of materials collected before her marriage to Thorp in 1947. These materials include professional and personal correspondence, typescripts, newsclippings, and financial records, biographical materials, memorabilia, and photographs. Pamphlets, legal briefs, typescripts, printed materials and correspondence document Brows Thorp's work in the 1930s for the American Civil Liberties Union, the Democratic National Committee Women's Division and Speakers Bureau, the New York Young Democratic Club, the Women's City Club of New York, and other Democratic and women's organizations. Professional and personal correspondence and printed material document Brows Thorp's continued involvement in advocacy of civil liberties; women's, minority, and voters rights; and her interest in insurance and labor law. Writings in the collection also reveal her political passions: a project proposal for a political radio program for women, several speech drafts, and note cards from a speech on civil liberties written in the wake of the 1940 passing of the Alien Registration Act. The collection also contains some records and correspondence from her private legal practice. The work of Willard Thorp after their marriage is also revealed in later records, notably in her collection of correspondence, visiting cards, pamphlets and other descriptive material from the couple's trip to Europe in 1948 for the Third General Assembly of the United Nations, as well as in materials from later travels. The collection also includes a small amount of material (manuscripts, correspondence, genealogical information, clippings) created or collected by Willard Thorp's father, Charles N. Thorp.
There is no restriction on access to the Willard L. Clarice Brows Thorp Papers for research use with the exception of restrictions to protect the privacy of third parties. Particularly fragile items may also be restricted for preservation purposes.
Requests for permission to publish material from the Willard L. and Clarice Brows Thorp Papers should be directed to Amherst College Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.
Amherst College Alumni Biographical Files: Thorp, Willard L. (AC 1920)Amherst College. Trustees. (Access restrictions apply)Academic Department RecordsCommittee Records Fraternities Collection Moratoria Papers John J. McCloy (1895-1989, AC 1916) Papers Joseph B. Eastman (AC 1904) Papers Merrill-McGowan Family Papers Related Material at other Repositories (not inclusive) Associated Gas and Electric Company records, 1902-1954. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY
Processed September 2011 - January 2012 by Eileen Crosby, Project Archivist.
American Civil Liberties Union
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Antitrust law--United States--Cases
Economic assistance -- Developing countries.
Monetary policy--Congresses
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Petroleum industry and trade.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Germany (West).
Technical assistance--Developing countries.
Technical assistance, American.
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Thorp, Charles N. (Charles Nicholas), b. 1870
Thorp, Clarice Brows
Eastman, Joseph B. (Joseph Bartlett), 1882-1944
Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971
Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981
Djojohadikusumo, Sumitro, 1917-
Duner, Michael
Ernst, Morris Leopold, 1888-1976
Freeman, Joseph, 1897-1965
Hammarskjold, Dag, 1905-1061
Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005
Mendes-France, Pierre, 1907-1982
Merrill, Charles Edward (October 19, 1885 - October 6, 1956)
Nitze, Paul H.
Rand, Paul, 1914-1996
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, Pres. U.S., 1882-1945
Rosenblatt, Maurice
Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994
Santa Cruz, Hernan
Schaetzel, J. Robert, 1917-
Seligman, Eustace
Stinebower, Leroy Dean, 1904-
Whiteside, Arthur Dare
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Amherst College--Alumni and alumnae
Amherst College--Faculty--Sources
Amherst College--Dept. of Economics
Associated Gas and Electric Company
Associated Gas and Electric Corporation
Brookings Institution
Chris-Craft Industries
Coordinating Committee for Democratic Action
Council on Foreign Relations
Democratic National Committee (U.S.). Speakers Bureau
Democratic National Committee (U.S.). Women's Division
European Economic Community
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization)
Marshall Plan Technical Assistance Program (U.S.)
Marshall Plan.
Merrill Center for Economics
National Bureau of Economic Research
National Emergency Council (U.S.)
New York Young Democratic Club, Inc.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Assistance Committee
Pioneer Valley Transit Authority
Texaco, inc.
Texas Company
United Nations. Economic and Social Council
United Nations. General Assembly
Women's City Club of New York
Bolivia--Economic conditions--1952-1982.
United States--Economic policy--1933-1945.
United States--Foreign economic relations--Europe.
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953.
United States--Foreign relations--Europe.
United States--Foreign relations--Germany.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Foreign Trade Policy
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
United States. Economic Cooperation Administration
United States. Federal Alcohol Administration
United States. Federal Alcohol Control Administration
United States. National Recovery Administration
United States. Technical Cooperation Administration
United States. Temporary National Economic Committee
series
Series 1: WILLARD L. THORP
Series 1, WILLARD L. THORP, consists of Thorp's personal and professional papers collected over the course of his long and varied career as an economist, U.S. government official, international development specialist, business consultant, and teacher. It also includes family photographs and material related to Thorp's hobbies.
subseries
Subseries A: PERSONAL AFFAIRS AND EDUCATION 1899-1992
Consists of curriculum vitae and biographical sketches of Thorp's career, clippings about Thorp, early writings and school records, diplomas, transcripts of oral history interviews with Thorp, and travel-related materials. The subseries also includes information about Thorp's two marriages and divorce, a minor personal lawsuit, and several of Thorp's hobbies. Two boxes of realia are included in this subseries.
Biographical summaries-WLT, employment application 1935-1967, n.d.
Biographical sketches, correspondence with biographical publications 1936-1939
Biographical sketches, correspondence with biographical publications 1948-1952, n.d.
Genealogical information and correspondence 1981, n.d.
Passports, certificates, identification cards, ephemera 1920-1973
Mother's record; report cards 1882; 1899-1916
School graduations and performances 1912-1916, n.d
WLT early writings 1906-1920, n.d.
Amherst College-grades, commencement program 1916-1920
University of Michigan-Economics examinations, course materials 1920-1921
Economics Ph.D. examination questions, bibliographies 1922-1924
American Institute of Banking-examination questions 1923, n.d.
Honorary degrees, awards 1949-1950, 1960
Honorary degree-University of Massachusetts -33 rpm disc recording, enclosure 1960
Diploma, award 1954, [1960]
Diplomas (honorary degrees) 1949,1960
United Nations Distinguished Service Award; Certificates of recognition on the occasion of Thorp's 90th birthday from the Massachusetts House of Representatives and from Governor Michael Dukakis 1973,1989
Framed certificate in honor of Thorp's 85th birthday, from the Amherst College Economics Department 1984 May 24
Religious affiliations 1934, 1953-1954
Printed material with mentions of WLT 1933-1971
Amherst Student; Mount Holyoke News (with stories mentioning WLT 1953-1963
Clippings about WLT 1930s
Clippings about WLT 1940s
Clippings about WLT 1950s
Clippings about WLT 1960s
Clippings about WLT n.d.
The Amherst Student (fragments) 1952-1961
Truman Library oral history interview with WLT - notes and correspondence 1979, n.d
Truman Library oral history interview with WLT - transcript 1971, 1978
Amherst College Oral History Project - Interview with WLT (copy 1) 1978
Amherst College Oral History Project - Interview with WLT (copies 2 and 3) 1978
Interview with Susan Aaronson and related material 1990-1991
Wedding service - WLT and Hildegarde Ellen Churchill 1923
Divorce 1928-1947
Lawsuit (rental agreement); divorce agreement, correspondence; power of attorney 1939, 1947, 1948
Reproduction map of America (1777); birthday greetings, certificate; sheet music cover 1947, 1991, n.d.
Wedding - list, correspondence 1947
Order of Service: In Memoriam WLT 1992 Oct 11
Notes 1953, 1962, n.d.
Map to Harkness Road, Pelham n.d.
[Cedar] Shingle - unidentified n.d.
Roses - brochures and certificate 1984-1985
Golf scores 1963-1967, n.d.
Golf scores 1972-1973, n.d.
"How not to rob a bank"-Gerhard, Richard K. (WLT grandchild) (typescript) n.d.
Music and biographies of composers n.d.
Travel-receipts, notes 1957
Travel brochures 1959, n.d.
Travel-brochures, receipts, photograph 1952, 1962-1963. n.d.
Latin American trip-receipts, itineraries 1970
Latin American trip-brochures 1970, n.d.
Travel materials-Taiwan, Greece 1973, n.d.
Travel-San Marcos 1980
Travel-Italy-itineraries, receipts, brochures 1983
Restaurant menu from trip to Italy [1983]
Realia (Plaque from Pelham Lions Club; jewelry, pocket watches, pins, medals, ribbons, Amherst College matchbook, tokens, keys, Phi Beta Kappa keys, penknife, cigar cutters, calling cards) 1990, n.d.
Realia (pipe cleaners, harmonica, mouth harp, cigarette cases, calling cards, paint samples)
Subseries B: FINANCIAL AFFAIRS 1923-1992
consists of account books, receipts, wine-cellar inventories, and tax-related documents. It includes correspondence of Clarice Brows Thorp during several months of 1952, when the Thorps were planning their move from Washington, D.C. to Amherst and undertaking renovation of their Harkness Road home.
This subseries has received minimal processing.
Account books (with gaps) 1923-1963
Account books (with gaps) 1965-1992
Account book; mileage log 1956, 1971-1987
Receipts, warranties, financial records 1952-1991
Correspondence-WLT and CBT-Albert Lumley-re: Harkness Road house 1952
Receipts and records-Harkness Road house 1952
Geneva Modern Kitchen-kitchen plan, Harkness Road house 1952
Landscaping plan and sketches-David S. Robinson n.d.
Bank records, receipts, prospectus 1947-1966, n.d.
Insurance receipts and correspondence 1952-1960
Life insurance memo n.d.
"General Public Utilities claim" 1970-1983
Amherst College retirement plan 1942-1973
Tax worksheets-Maybell E. Churchill 1938-1944
Wine-lists, receipt 1963-1992, n.d.
Bills 1980
Financial and tax records 1939-1954
Financial and tax records 1956-1976
Financial and tax records 1977-1986
Financial and tax records 1980s-1990s
Subseries C: SCRAPBOOKS 1933-1945
The scrapbooks include numerous clippings, correspondence, invitations, and additional ephemera documenting the years when Thorp became a nationally-known figure in the field of economics. They document the particularly eventful year of 1933-1934, when Thorp served as Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce until the Senate blocked his confirmation. The scrapbooks provide details of Thorp's continued career in public service and as Director of Economic Research for Dunn and Bradstreet for the remainder of the 1930s.
Related material: Series 1, Subseries G: Dunn and Bradstreet Series 1, Subseries H: Government Service I Series 1, Subseries I: Associated Gas and Electric Series 1, Subseries J: Government Service II
Scrapbook ("41 - Department of Commerce") 1933-1935
Scrapbook ("41 - Department of Commerce") and clippings 1938-1945
Subseries D: PHOTOGRAPHS 1891-1991
The collection's photographs provide a nearly comprehensive photographic document of Thorp's career. They include professional portraits from the 1930s and 1940s as well as official and unofficial photographs of Thorp's work with the United Nations in the 1960s. This subseries also includes numerous family and ancestral photographs in addition to many unlabeled snapshots from the Thorps' travels. Photographs of the Amherst Class of 1920 (from 1920 and 1970) are also part of this subseries.
Related material: Series 4: THE MERRILL CENTER Series 3: CHARLES N. THORP Series 2: CLARICE BROWS THORP
One envelope of fused ektachrome photographs [Restricted pending conservation measures] n.d.
Photographs - WLT and family 1899, n.d.
Photographs - WLT and family 1903-1912, n.d.
Cyanotypes-WLT and family members 1901-1903, n.d.
Photographs - WLT portraits 1914-1918, n.d.
Photographs - WLT professional and formal portraits n.d.
Photographs - WLT professional and formal portraits 1948-1954, n.d.
Photographs - WLT - Amherst College 1954, n.d.
Photographs - WLT and CBT - events 1948, n.d.
Photographs - [WLT ancestors] n.d.
Copy of pistol license photograph-William Brows 1928
Photographs - Susan Long Thorp and Charles Nicholas Thorp 1891-1909, 1952, n.d.
Cyrus M. Brown-ambrotype (item located in Box 60, folder 28) n.d.
Photographs - Thorp family members [?] 1941, n.d.
Photographs - WLT and CBT n.d.
Photographs - CBT 1952, n.d.
Photographs - WLT and CBT 1957-1964, 1970
Photographs - Monticello, family, unidentified places ca. 1950
Photographs - WLT, CBT, and unidentified people 1962-1969, n.d.
Photographs at Amherst College-WLT, CBT, Hammarskjold, Dag, and unidentified person [1959]
Photographs - WLT and CBT at formal outdoor event, Southampton, NY n.d.
Photographs - Amherst College Class of 1920 1970, n.d.
Photographs - Harkness Road House, Amherst/Pelham n.d.
Photographs - family photographs (includes WLT) Before 1952
Photographs - Hildegarde Ellen Churchill, Thorp children n.d.
Photographs - WLT children and grandchildren; other relatives (2 folders) 1955-1991, n.d.
Photographs - family n.d.
Photographs - transatlantic crossing on board the Saturnia [1948]
Photographs and negatives - travel - Europe ca.1948
Photographs and negatives - travel - Geneva ca.1948
Photographs and negatives - travel ca.1948
Photographs and negatives - travel ca.1946-1948
Photographs and postcards - Megève, and other locations ca.1948
Photographs and negatives - travel - Switzerland and France (2 folders) ca.1948
Photographs - UN events 1948, n.d.
Photographs - government service; United Nations events ca.1948-1984
Photographs-WLT, CBT, Kristensen, Thorkil, unidentified people-Development Assistance Committee (at the Chateau de la Muette, Paris Jul 23-24, 1964; Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development 1964, n.d.
Photographs and negatives - travel ca.1946-1949
Photographs and negatives - travel (2 folders) ca.1949
Photographs - travel ca.1949
Photographs - Merrill Center for Economics 1954
Photographs - Merrill Center for Economics 1954, ca.1958, n.d.
Photographs and negatives - Merrill Center for Economics ca.1956
Negatives - travel ca.1961
Photographs - Washington, D.C. n.d.
Photographs and negatives - travel n.d.
Photographs - travel n.d.
Photographs - unidentified (people); photograph of painting n.d.
Photographs - WLT - portraits n.d.
WLT - graduation photograph n.d.
Photographs - Charles Nicholas Thorp; Hildegarde Ellen Churchill; portrait of children n.d.
Photographs - WLT - Childhood and family photographs; Charles Nicholas Thorp 1898-1900, 1914, n.d.
Photographs - Amherst College Class of 1920, Chi Phi Fraternity, Clarice Brows Thorp, other group portraits 1887, [1920], 1931, n.d.
Framed, signed photo of Franklin D. Roosevelt [19--]
Framed, signed photo of Dean Acheson [19--]
Framed, signed photo of Harry Truman [19--]
Subseries E: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH (NBER) 1932-1992
Contains records of Thorp's career-long relationship with NBER, a non-partisan economic research organization founded in 1920. The subseries consists primarily of correspondence, meeting minutes, printed material, reports, and conference papers.
NBER - correspondence, reports 1932-1934
NBER - correspondence, minutes 1959
NBER - correspondence, minutes 1961
NBER - correspondence, minutes, reports 1962
NBER - correspondence, minutes, reports 1963
NBER - correspondence, minutes 1960
NBER - "Philanthropy" - correspondence, conference material 1960-1962
NBER - correspondence, reports 1952-1978
NBER - correspondence, minutes, reports 1968-1972
NBER - reports, correspondence, conference papers, printed material 1968-1984
NBER - printed material, grant application 1968-1972
NBER - printed material 1977-1980
NBER - curriculum vitae ca. 1979
RESTRICTED UNTIL 2064.
NBER - handbook/report (curriculum vitae restricted for 85 years from date of item) 1992
Subseries F: AMHERST COLLEGE 1912-1991
Consists of materials Thorp gathered in the course of teaching at the college for nearly twenty years, while serving on various committees and on the Board of Trustees (1942-1955), and while serving as interim College President briefly in 1957. Documentation of the latter two roles is fragmentary. The subseries also includes Thorp's correspondence with college offices and affiliated organizations, including the fraternity Chi Phi, of which he was a member, and the Class of 1920. A small amount of material documents responses to the student-led protests in 1969 and 1970 ("The Moratoria"). Materials include correspondence, open letters, minutes, reports, memoranda, printed material, syllabi, and exams. Where possible, folders have been grouped by Amherst organization or department and arranged chronologically within each grouping.
Portions of Thorp's teaching materials have restricted access because of privacy of third parties. Folders affected are noted in the container list.
Related material: Subseries A: Personal Affairs and Education Subseries L: Correspondence
Amherst College
Chi Phi Fraternity - correspondence, printed material 1953-1963
Chi Phi Fraternity 1959-1961
RESTRICTED: PERSONAL INFORMATION
Amherst College Class of 1920 - correspondence, printed material 1934-1962
Amherst College Class of 1920-correspondence, printed material, enclosures (photographs) 1975-1991
Correspondence - Amherst College 1955-1972
"Chanson de Charlie" 1960
"The Three Amherst Profs"-poem n.d.
Amherst College-memoranda, news releases, correspondence 1972-1979
Amherst College-correspondence-WLT-Weathers, Paul (Treasurer) 1963, n.d.
Amherst College-Charter; Trustee by-laws 1945, 1953
Amherst College Board of Trustees-correspondence, memoranda, Committee on Instruction materials 1952-1960, 1967
Restricted.
Amherst College Board of Trustees-Report on College-Doshisha Relations 1962 Apr 19
Amherst College-correspondence-re: student conduct 1957, n.d.
Joseph B. Eastman Foundation 1945-1946
Amherst College Dining Services-special function catering n.d.
Memorials-Charles Hill Morgan, Colston Warne 1984, 1987
Amherst College-printed material 1923-1973
Amherst College Glee Club-printed material 1974
Amherst College United Nations Association-minutes 1990, n.d.
Amherst College Economics Department
Economics Department-notes and correspondence, printed material 1953-1962
Economics Department-business 1953-1962
Economics Department-Committee on Educational Policy 1959, 1960
Economics Department-curriculum, thesis requirements 1954-1956
Economics Department - staffing 1956-1961
Economics Department-schedules, teaching load 1954-1963, n.d.
Amherst College-Economics exam (includes mimeograph masters) 1962-1963
Economics Department-exams, honors 1963, n.d.
Economics Department-course offerings and descriptions; exams (including comprehensive) 1929--1963, n.d.
Economics Department-J.R. Nelson to the Committee on a Summer Term 1960 May
Economics Department - book orders 1954-1961
Economics Department - research proposal - Arnold Collery 1962, n.d.
Economics Department - visiting lecturers 1954-1963
Amherst College-Staffing, students [RESTRICTED] 1953-1965
Economics Department [RESTRICTED] 1954-1962
Amherst College-Willard Thorp Endowed Professorship in Economics 1988-1990
Economics-teaching materials 1912, 1922-1923
Amherst College-Economics examinations and course materials 1922, 1929, n.d.
Economics I 1930-1932
Economics 21 1933-1934
Economics 53 - outline and notes 1953-1954
Economics 53 - assignments and exams 1953-1954
Economics 53 - enrollment and grades 1953-1954
Economics 79-80 1953-1954
Economics 79A, 79B, 80 1954-1955
Economics 53 1954-1955
Economics 53 and 54 1954-1959
Economics 18 1955-1956
Economics Department honors 1955-1956
Economics 80 1955-1956
Economics 53 1956
Economics 18 1956
Economics 53 and 54 1956-1961
Economics 54 - balance of payments 1956-1960
Economics 54 1957
Economics 21 and 21s 1957-1958
Economics 21 and 21s 1958
Economics 54 1958
Economics 54 1958-1960
Economics 24 - first half 1959
Economics 24 - final half 1959
Economics 24 1959
Economics 54 1960
Economics 44 and 54 1960
Economics 54 1960-1962
Economics 44 1960-1961
Economics 54 1960-1961
Economics 44 1961
Economics 54 1961
Economics 44 1961-1962
I.R.O. Reading Course 1962
Economics 54 1962
Economics 44 1962
Economics 44 1963
Economics 54 1963
Amherst College - teaching 1963, n.d.
Amherst College - Committees, Reports, Memoranda, Dean of Faculty
Amherst College - memoranda, registrations, exams, fellowships 1958-1964
Amherst College - Office of the Dean - memoranda, reports 1950-1963, 1969
Amherst College - Office of the Dean - correspondence 1955 Dec 16
Amherst College curriculum and orientation - correspondence and memoranda 1959
Amherst College - Office of the Dean - memoranda re: faculty oaths, student honor code 1958-1959
American Association of University Professors - Amherst Chapter - reports 1957-1958
Amherst College - faculty retirement plan, tax laws 1958
Amherst College and Four College curriculum - area studies, non-western studies, Ph.D. program 1953-1963
Amherst College Committee on Educational Policy reports 1954-1968, n.d.
Amherst College Subcommittee on Student Environment 1959
Amherst College Curriculum Review Committee report, departmental replies 1959, n.d.
Amherst College - course enrollments 1956-1962
Amherst College - committee reports (Curriculum Review Committee, Long Range Planning Committee, Priorities and Resources Committee) 1971, n.d.
Amherst College - Report of the Select Committee on the Curriculum 1977 Feb
Correspondence - Dean of Faculty Prosser Gifford to Amherst College faculty, Earl Latham to Prosser Gifford 1969 Jul 3-24
Correspondence (copy) - Kennedy, Gail to Hook, Sidney 1969 Jun, Oct
Amherst College - Statement of the African-American Society on the Moratorium n.d.
Amherst College - proposals for change n.d.
Gifford, Prosser - letter to the Amherst community 1969 Apr 26
George Wald - "A Generation in Search of a Future"-text of a speech at M.I.T. n.d.
Archibald MacLeish - address to the Century Association 1969 Oct 2
Amherst College Scrutiny 1968-1969, 1974
Committee on the Future Size of the College - memoranda, reports, drafts, notes (2 folders) [1957-1958]
Committee on the Future Size of the College - memoranda, notes, reports 1957-1958
Committee on the Future Size of the College - reports and printed material 1954-1957
Committee on the Future Size of the College - press release, reports, data 1957-1958
Presentation of Toxophilus to President Cole (Folger Shakespeare Library) 1947
Amherst Water Company - correspondence, legal brief, notes 1932
Friends of the Amherst College Library - correspondence, agendas, minutes, data 1981-1991
Friends of the Amherst College Library - printed material 1982-1991
Subseries G: DUNN AND BRADSTREEET 1936-1941
Consists of a small amount of material (3 folders) collected during Thorp's work for the business information company as a researcher and as founding editor of Dunn's Review. Materials include clippings, speeches, editorials, and printed material.
Related material: Subseries L: Correspondence-Whiteside, Arthur Dare
Dunn and Bradstreet - clippings, speeches, announcements, correspondence, statement 1936-1937, n.d.
Dunn and Bradstreet - correspondence, editorials, public lecture announcements 1936, 1943-1945
Dunn's Review 1941 Sep
Subseries H: GOVERNMENT SERVICE I 1933-1940
Includes materials gathered after Thorp was recruited into President Roosevelt's "Brain Trust," whose members crafted the economic policies of the New Deal. Materials here provide a rich but incomplete history of Thorp's work for several government agencies and boards. It includes materials related to the Federal Alcohol Control Administration; which managed the end of Prohibition. This subseries also documents Thorp's role as Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Research and his subsequent failure to receive Senate confirmation to that post; his advisory role to the National Recovery Administration and the Commerce Department; and his service on the Temporary National Economic Committee (TNEC). Materials include correspondence, notes, clippings, reports, transcripts of Congressional testimony, speeches, press releases, minutes, and printed material.
Federal Alcohol Control Administration
Federal Alcohol Control Administration - "Hearing on destructive price cutting", clipping 1934
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce - clipping 1933-1934
Speeches - Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce 1933-1934
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce - reports 1934
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce - congressional record 1934 Jan 31
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce - senate confirmation hearings 1934 Feb-May
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce - correspondence 1934 May
See also: Subseries L: Correspondence-re: failure of confirmation, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
National Recovery Administration - application, press release 1934-1935
National Recovery Administration - office diary n.d.
National Recovery Administration - Advisory Council meeting minutes 1934
National Recovery Administration - Advisory Council meeting minutes 1935
National Recovery Administration - history (typescript); memoranda, correspondence 1934-1935
National Recovery Administration - The Price Study - Report no. 6 by WLT 1934 Dec
National Recovery Administration - Price filing - "notes" - report 1935, n.d.
TNEC and Department of Commerce
TNEC - WLT'S appointment 1939
TNEC Hearing - clippings, printed material, press release 1938-1939
TNEC testimony, statement (WLT) 1939 July, n.d.
WLT testimony 1938-1939
Department of Commerce - speeches, clipping, correspondence 1935-1938
Potash Industry - reports, draft, correspondence 1940
"Price Behavior and Business Policy" - report (2 folders) 1939 Nov
Clippings, correspondence 1936-1940
"Price Filing - Final Copy" - reports 1936, n.d.
European Trip 1938
Subseries I: ASSOCIATED GAS AND ELECTRIC 1940-1946
Documents collected by Thorp in his capacity as one of two trustees appointed by a Federal court to oversee reorganization of the bankrupt Associated Gas and Electric System (AGE), the third largest utility system in the U.S. Reorganization was mandated after a lengthy investigation of the company by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The investigation had uncovered a massive pyramid scheme devised by Howard Hobson, the founder of the two companies that made up AGE (AGEco and AGEcorp). Materials in the collection include correspondence, memoranda, office diaries, legal documents, spreadsheets, reports, and printed material. Where a clear original order existed, as with binders of correspondence, memoranda, and office diaries, this order has been maintained. Remaining material has been grouped by general topic.
Related material: Subseries L: Correspondence-General Public Utilities Subseries K: Board Memberships and Trusteeships-General Public Utilities
General
Bankruptcy proceedings, Trustee appointments 1940
See also: Box OS 3, folder 9
AGE Trustees Manual 1941
AGECO/AGECORP and Subsidiaries - payroll and personnel policies 1943-1945, n.d.
Severance agreements; Correspondence - personnel matters 1945-1946
AGE Reorganization - Clarice Brows Thorpe - Employment 1942
Clarice Brows Thorp - daily record 1946
AGECORP reports 1940 Apr 15-1941 May 15
AGECORP reports 1941 Aug 15-1941 Dec 31
AGECORP reports 1942 Feb 16-1942 Dec 31
AGECORP reports 1943 Jan 8-1944 May 15
AGECORP reports 1944 Aug 15-1945 Nov 15
Office diary, author unknown 1940 Oct 16-1941 Nov 6
AGECO reports 1940 Apr 15-1941 Nov 15
AGECO reports 1942 Feb 16-1945 Nov 15
AGE Report on management - McKinsey and Co. 1943 Jun 15
Allowances - petitions, related memoranda (2 folders) 1945
Allowances -legal memoranda 1945
Allowance petition of WLT, related notes, petition spreadsheet 1945
Allowances - petitions, briefs, internal memoranda, notes 1945
Allowances - legal memoranda 1946
Allowances - petitions, legal memoranda, office memoranda, briefs 1945-1946
Allowances - petitions, memoranda, schedules, press release 1945-1946
Petition for allowance - Jack Lewis Kraus II (2 folders) 1945 Sep
Memorandum on petition of Jack Lewis Kraus II 1945 Oct
Allowances - petitions, statements, and replies 1945-1946
Allowances - legal notices and memoranda, notes, clipping 1945-1946
General Public Utilities Corp. - correspondence 1945-1946
General Public Utilities Corp. - personnel policies 1945-1946
General Public Utilities Corp. -Board of Directors - meeting minutes, forms 1945-1946
General Public Utilities Corp. - correspondence re: successor to Mr. Waite 1946
RESTRICTED UNTIL 2021.
General Public Utilities Corp. - Board meetings - minutes 1945-1946
AGE Reorganization
Legal staff assignments 1944 Oct
Executive salaries 1945
Sales of companies 1945, n.d.
Lists 1944-1945
Memoranda 1942-1944, n.d.
AGE Reorganization-Correspondence
Thorp, W.L. - Agecorp 1940-1944
Thorp, W.L. - Agecorp, Book II 1944-1945
Thorp, W.L - Agecorp 1942-1945
Thorp, W.L. - Letters to the S.E.C. 1943-1945
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, [Book I] 1940 Mar-Sep
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book II 1940 Oct-Dec
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book III 1941 Jan-Jun
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book IV 1941 Jul-Oct
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book V 1941 Nov-1942 Jan
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book VI 1942 Feb-Mar
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book VII 1942 Apr-Jun
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book VIII 1942 Jul-Sep
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book IX 1942 Oct-Dec
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book X 1943 Jan-Mar
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book XI 1943 Apr-Sep
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book XII 1943 Oct-Dec
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book XIII 1944 Jan-Jul
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book XIV 1944 Aug-Dec
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book XV 1945 Jan-May
Leibell, Vincent L., Judge General, Book XVI 1945 Jun-1946 Jan
Index cards to "Confidential Memos" A-B n.d.
See also: Index to Confidential Memos, C-Z, Box 63
Index to Confidential Memos, C-Z 1940-1945
Confidential Memos - Book I 1940 Mar-May
Confidential Memos - Book I 1940 Jun
Confidential Memos - Book I 1940 Jul-Aug
Confidential Memos - Book II 1940 Sep-Dec
Confidential Memos - Book II 1941 Jan-May
Confidential Memos - Book III 1941 Jun-Oct
Confidential Memos - Book III 1941 Nov-1942 Sep
Confidential Memos - Book IV 1943 Jan-Jun
Confidential Memos - Book IV 1943 Oct-1945 Jan
Office Diary - Friendly, Alfred 1940 May-Aug
Office Diary - Friendly, Alfred 1940 Sep-1941 Jan
Office Diary - Halligan, Howard K. 1941 Jan-Mar
Office Diary - Halligan, Howard K. 1941 Apr-Jun
Office Diary - Halligan, Howard K. 1941 Jul-Sep
AGE - "Miscellaneous Reports" - notes, printed material 1941-1943, n.d.
AGE Reorganization - Opinion of Judge Leibell on the Plan of Reorganization... 1944 Aug 25
Associated Gas & Electric Company - Corporation - Plan of Reorganization - Volume II (Clarice F. Brows's copy)
Associated Gas & Electric Company - Corporation - Plan of Reorganization - Volume III (Clarice F. Brows's copy)
Associated Gas & Electric Company - Coorporation - Plan of Reorganization - Volume IV (Clarice F. Brows's copy)
Legal Proceedings
W.L. Thorp - SEC testimony - Correspondence, memoranda 1941
W.L. Thorp - SEC testimony - "SEC Hearing - Testimony, WLT Data, Sept. 1941" - notes, notice of hearing 1941
W.L. Thorp - SEC testimony - "SEC Data WLT 12/16/41" - maps, charts, list of exhibits 1941
W.L. Thorp - SEC testimony - "Property Sales - Present Status" 1940-1941
Petition to Circuit Court of Appeals - AGE vs. SEC 1943 Dec
SEC Findings and Opinions 1946, n.d.
Virginia Hearing - 1 set of charts, exhibits, May 1942 1942 May
Virginia Public Service Company - SEC Hearing (3 folders) 1942 May
Virginia Public Service Company - SEC Hearing - exhibits n.d.
Virginia Public Service Company - SEC Hearing - press release 1943-1944
Virginia Public Service Company - SEC Hearing - briefs and memoranda 1942
Virginia Public Service Company - SEC Hearing - appeal, memoranda, clipping (2 folders) 1943-1945
Gengas 11(e) Proceedings (3 folders) 1941-1945, n.d.
"Gengas Plan and Hearing Papers (1943)" (2 folders) [food debris removed] 1943
General Gas and Electric - petitions, briefs, declarations, report 1942-1944
J.C.F. Holding Corp.v. Gengas - legal memoranda, briefs n.d.
J.C.F. Holding Corp.vs. Gengas - motions, summons, briefs 1942
J.C.F. Holding Corp.vs. Gengas - memoranda, briefs 1943-1944
J.C.F. Holding Corp.vs. Gengas - legal memoranda, office 1942-1944
J.C.F. Holding Corp.vs. Gengas - legal proceedings, office memoranda 1942-1943
J.C.F. Holding Corp.vs. Gengas - legal proceedings 1943
J.C.F. Holding Corp.vs. Gengas - notes n.d.
"W.L. Thorp - Testimony: Chase Suit" (2 folders) 1940-1945
Pension Plans and Employment Policies
Model pension plans (2 folders) 1929-1946, n.d.
Pension plans - printed material 1933-1944, n.d.
Pension plans and employment policies - printed material, memoranda, reports, press release 1941-1945
AGE - pension plans 1937-1945
AGE - pension plans - correspondence, contracts, memoranda 1935-1945, n.d.
Pension trust - correspondence (1 of 2) 1943-1946, n.d.
Pension trust - correspondence (2 of2) 1943-1946, n.d.
Pension trust - printed material, memoranda 1936-1945
Pension plans - Florida Power 1944
Pension plans -Utilities Mutual 1946
Pension plans - New York State Gas and Electric 1937-1945
New Jersey Power and Light (2 folders) 1944-1945, n.d
Pension plan - Jersey Central Power and Light (2 folders) 1944-1947, n.d
Magee Pension - correspondence, memoranda (2 folders) 1937-1944. n.d.
Magee Pension - correspondence, notes 1943-1944, n. d.
Anti-discrimination law - fair employment practices-printed material 1944-1945, n.d.
Anti-discrimination law - clippings, printed material 1944-1945.
Anti-discrimination law -memoranda, correspondence 1943-1945
Anti-discrimination - statement of AGE trustees n.d.
Salaries - petitions, correspondence, spreadsheets, printed material 1942-1943
Salaries and personnel policies - correspondence, memoranda, petitions 1945
Executive salaries, legal retainers 1944-1945, n.d.
Subseries J: GOVERNMENT SERVICE II 1936-1986
The materials in this subseries were gathered by Thorp during his service as Deputy Assistant and then Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1945-1952) and in the course of a series of appointments in the 1960s. The materials Thorp retained from his work at the State Department consist largely of speeches and notes for speeches on distinct topics that he gave at a wide variety of institutions to immensely varied audiences between 1945 and 1952. Many of these were these were public statements and addresses; others were for a limited audience of government officials. This portion of the collection also includes some correspondence, memoranda, notes, organizational charts, and directories. Thorp's Chairmanship of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, his role as the U.S. delegate to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and his other activities in the field of international development are more thoroughly documented with memoranda, minutes, correspondence, reports, and printed material. The Thorps' extremely full social calendar during their years in Paris, Geneva, and elsewhere in Europe is documented through correspondence, menus, and invitations. Willard Thorp's relatively brief official research trips to the Republic of Cyprus in 1960 and to Bolivia in 1961 are also well documented with correspondence, reports, and printed material. Materials are organized into sections by organization or agency and chronologically within each section. Speeches (1945-1952) are contained in a subsection of the Department of State materials (Boxes 28 and 29). Maintaining Thorp's organization of these materials, these folders contain U.N. and GATT speeches as well as addresses delivered in his capacity as Assistant Secretary of State. The United Nations section contains some retrospective material on Thorp's overlapping roles and activities in the 1960s.
Related material: Subseries D: Photographs Subseries K: Professional activities-Speeches Subseries K: Professional activities-Subject Files; Conferences
Department of State
Organizational chart; Outline of responsibilities of Economic Division; printed material 1945-1951
"Chain of Command in the State Department," The New York Times (newsclipping) 1947 Jun 29
Personnel documents, receipts 1945-1952
Diplomatic Lists 1950, 1953
Reports, memoranda, notes 1946-1952
United Nations Liaison Committee (Department of State)-minutes, memoranda, notes 1947 Feb
RESTRICTED PENDING CLASSIFICATION REVIEW
Council of Foreign Ministers - Satirical Prayer for the Recovery of Russian Deputy Kiselev 1949 Feb
Honor Awards ceremony 1952 Oct
Photographs of WLT 1949
Memorandum re: Mildred McAfee Horton 1953 May 28
Affidavit of loyalty for Lewis Lorwin 1950
Personnel 1950
RESTRICTED: HEALTH INFORMATION OF THIRD PARTIES
Correspondence 1946-1951
Correspondence 1952, n.d.
Correspondence - Resignation 1952-1953
Correspondence - Subscriptions and Address Changes 1948-1952
Correspondence 1953-1959
Correspondence 1960 -1961
Correspondence 1961-1969
New York Journal American 1946 Mar 20
National Defense Executive Reserve - member list 1960
"Record of Meeting of Economic Consultants" 1952 Apr 1-2
Appearance at Dept of Commerce - Bureau of Public Roads 1952 May
International conferences - directories and background information 1951-1953
Department of State - speeches
Speeches - chronological lists 1945-1952
Our Relief Policy for Europe-NBC Broadcast 1945 Aug 10
The Necessity for Foreign Investment-National Industrial Conference Board 1945 Nov 20
Some Steps in the Reconstruction of Europe-Service Bureau for Women's Organizations 1946 Feb 11
The British Loan and its Relation to International Trade 1946 Apr 15
The British Financial Agreement-Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York 1946 May 2
The Interrelation of Foreign and Domestic Policy 1946 Nov 21
NBC Broadcast Transcript - "Our Foreign Policy" 1946 Nov 22
Full Productivity and World Trade 1946 Dec 6-7
The Farmers' Stake in American Economic Foreign Policy-American Farm Bureau Federation 1946 Dec 10
Notes for State Dept. Speech [1947] Jan
Remarks - American Chamber of Commerce Dinner for the Prime Minister of Italy 1947 Jan 13
CBS Speech on U.S. Tariff Policy 1947 Feb 8
Why Are We Helping Greece? - NBC Broadcast, Foreign Policy Series 1947 Mar 15
Tariffs, Cartels, and the Mineral Industry-American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers 1947 Mar 18
Economic Progress and World Peace-Women's Action Committee 1947 Mar 27
Our Domestic Economy and Foreign Affairs-The Economic Club of New York 1947 Apr 16
Economic Developments in Europe-The Economic Club of New York 1947 Apr 17
International Agreements and International Trade-Academy of Political Science 1947 Apr 17
The Future of Foreign Trade-American Marketing Association 1947 Jun 12
Germany's Coal; Key to the Marshall Plan-NBC University of the Air radio interview 1947 Aug 16
Development of International Investment-First Hemispheric Conference of Stock Exchanges 1947 Sep 18
Coal for Europe-Coal Exporters Assoc. of the U.S. 1947 Sep 25
Remarks on UN Appeal for Children-American Broadcasting Co. Network 1947 Sep 29
Statement before Committee 2 (Economic and Financial) of the UN 1947 Oct 8
Remarks before Joint Second and Third Committees of the UN 1947 Oct 13
Report on Geneva-National Foreign Trade Council 1947 Oct 22
European Recovery-Chicago Council on Foreign Relations 1947 Oct 23
Government Policy and International Trade 1947 Oct 24
Participation by the American Republics in the European Recovery Program-Inter-American Economic and Social Council 1947 Nov 17
The Necessity for Foreign Investment-National Industrial Conference Board 1947 Nov 20
Fundamentals of European Recovery-Investment Bankers' Assoc. of America 1947 Dec 4
Statistics and Foreign Policy-American Statistical Organization 1947 Dec 29
Notes for Speeches 1948
Speeches - 3rd Session, General Assembly, Paris 1948
Economic Accomplishments of the General Assembly-Amer. Assoc. for the UN 1948 Jan 10
Elements in European Recovery-National Industrial Conference Board, New York City 1948 Jan 22
UN ECOSOC #370 1948 Feb 2
Statement before Special Subcommittee on Petroleum of House Committee on Armed Services 1948 Feb 5
UN ECOSOC New York City 1948 Feb 16
The Future of Germany-Herald Tribune Forum 1948 Mar 6
World Trade and European Recovery-World Trade Conference 1948 Mar 12
American Policy Toward World Needs-Milwaukee's Second Conference on the UN 1948 Mar 30
The Importance of Imports-National Council of American Importers 1948 Apr 22
The European Recovery Program - From Blueprint to Action-American Supply and Machinery Manufacturers, Inc. 1948 Apr 26
Speeches - 7th Session UN ECOSOC Geneva 1948 Aug
Statement before Committee 2 (Economic)-3rd Regular Session of the UN, Paris, France 1948 Oct 4
Statement before Committee 2 (Economic)-3rd Regular Session of the UN, Paris, France 1948 Nov 4
Transcript of Broadcast from 3rd Regular Session of the General Assembly, Paris, France 1948 Nov 7
Statement before Committee 2 (Economic)-3rd Regular Session of the UN, Paris, France 1948 Nov 10
Address to Rotary Club of Brussels 1948 Nov 23
Radio broadcast script; notes; forum transcript 1949
Significant Developments in the United Nations-Assn. of American Colleges 1949 Jan 11
Ways and Means Committee of House of Reps; The Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1949 1949 Jan 24
International Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Conference 1949 Jan 26
Newsweek telecast: The President's Fourth Report (Technical Assistance Program) 1949 Jan 30
Re: Forced Labor, UN ECOSOC, N.Y. 1949 Feb 14
Statement before Joint Committee on President's Economic Report 1949 Feb 15
Statement before Senate Committee on Finance on the Trade Extension Act of 1949 1949 Feb 17
Statement on the World Economic Situation 1949 Feb 21
Statement on Economic Development and Technical Cooperation - UN ECOSOC 1949 Feb 25
Point Four Speeches 1949 Mar
The U.S. in World Affairs. "Point Four: Technical Cooperation"-NBC network broadcast 1949 Apr 3
The Continuous Creation of Peace and Prosperity-Hotel Biltmore 1949 Apr 8
Present Day International Economic Picture-Mississippi Valley World Trade Conference 1949 Apr 22
Our Economic Foreign Policy-4th Annual Cleveland World Trade Conference 1949 Apr 29
Meeting of Modern Industrial Bank 1949 May
Stability in the International Wheat Market-Statement before Subcommittee of Senate of Foreign Relations Committee 1949 May 19
Interview about Point IV-Voice of America Shortwave System 1949 Jun 7
Statement before Foreign Affairs Committee of Senate-Institute of Inter-Am. Affairs 1949 Jun 10
Where is the Horizon?-Baccalaureate Address, University of Connecticut 1949 Jun 12
Iron Curtains-Commencement Exercises, Amherst College, Amherst MA 1949 Jun 12
The Church and International Relations-6th Annual Congregation Council, Wellesley College 1949 Jun 23
Economic Development of Under-Developed Countries-UN ECOSOC, Geneva 1949 Jul 21
United Nations Today-UN ECOSOC, Geneva 1949 Jul 22
Economic Development of Under-Developed Countries-UN ECOSOC, Geneva 1949 Jul 28
Forced Labor-UN ECOSOC, Geneva 1949 Aug 3
Technical Assistance-UN ECOSOC, Geneva 1949 Aug 4
Report of the Economic and Employment Commission-UN ECOSOC, Geneva 1949 Aug 8
Article Written in American Foreign Service Journal-ECOSOC in Action 1949 Oct 30
Significant Developments in the United Nations 1949 Nov 1
The Basic Need for the International Trade Organization-Virginia Conference on World Trade 1949 Nov 17
Speech, schedule notes 1950
Transcript of Address - "U.S.-U.N. Cooperation on Economic Development and Technical Assistance." Summary of Remarks - World Affairs Council of Philadelphia 1950
The Dollar Gap and our Foreign Economic Policy (summary)-World Affairs Council of Philadelphia 1950 Jan 14
Statement - Conservation and Utilization of Resources 1950 Feb 13
An Investment in Futures-NY Times Magazine Section 1950 Feb 14
Statement on Forced Labor-UN ECOSOC 1950 Feb 14
"Extemporaneous Remarks... on the Report of the International Monetary Fund" - Press release, handwritten notes, outline 1950 Feb 16
Statement - The World Economic Situation 1950 Feb 20
Statement (DRAFT) 1950 Feb 20
Statement - Financing of Economic Development 1950 Feb 28
Re: Point IV-UN Quarterly Magazine 1950 Mar 3
Point IV - Statement before House Appropriations Committee (DRAFT) 1950 Mar 27
The Future of Foreign Trade 1950 Mar 29
Statement before Special Subcommittee on Petroleum - House Committee on Inter-State and Foreign Commerce 1950 Apr 7
Address - Fourth Annual Conference of Harvard Business School - "U.S. Objectives in World Affairs" 1950 Apr 8
Practical Problems of Point IV 1950 Apr 14
The Greater Voice of America 1950 Jun 2, 5
Statement - Subcommittee of Unemployment - Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare 1950 Jun 6
Remarks - United Nations Technical Assistance Conference 1950 Jun 12
The Roots of American Foreign Policy 1950 Jun 22, 26
Statement re: Proposal to Renew Suspension of Excise Tax on Imported Copper 1950 Jul 10
Article for Hindustani Times, Independence Edition of August 15 1950 Aug 3
Remarks before the American Australian Association 1950 Aug 3, 4
Impact of National Defense on our International Trade Program 1950 Oct 16
United Nations Day, D.O.S. 1950 Oct 23-24
New International Programs in Public Health 1950 Oct 30, 31
Speech, Press Release, Reprint - Some Basic Issues in Economic Development 1950, 1951
"Security at Home and Abroad" (transcript), notes, schedule 1951
Statement in Support of Repeal of Sec. 104 of the Defense Production Act 1951
The Economic Challenge of 1951 1951 Jan, Mar
Statement by Thorp on Committee III - Fourth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers on Foreign Affairs 1951 Mar 27
International Cooperation in the Maritime Field-The Journal of Commerce (published May 22) 1951 Apr 27
Excerpts - Informal Speech - D.O.S. National Conference on Foreign Policy 1951 May 3
Department of State and Economic Mobilization-Industrial College of the Armed Forces 1951 May 18
American Red Cross-New York City 1951 Jun 26
The New International Economic Challenge-Univ. of Michigan 1951 Jul 19
GATT Speech - Geneva 1951 Sep 26
Land and the Future 1951 Oct 9
Security and Shortages-Boston Conference on Distribution 1951 Oct 16
The World Economic Outlook-Annual Agricultural Outlook Conference 1951 Oct 29
Statement for "Battle Report" on WNBW, Washington D.C. 1951 Nov 4
International Allocation of Strategic Materials-Metal Market Review, Calcutta, India 1951 Nov 19
Meeting Documents (National Farmers Union; Economic Consultants); radio broadcast transcripts, notes 1952
Midwest Democratic Conference, Kansas City, MO 1952 Jan 26
Faith in the Future-Fifth Annual Rochester Institute of International Affairs 1952 Feb 16
Health and Geography-National Health Council 1952 Mar 13
The Future of Foreign Trade-National Council of American Importers Inc. 1952 Apr 24
Statement on Sec. 104 of Defense Production Act before the House Banking & Currency Committee 1952 May 2
National Conference on U.S. Foreign Policy-transcript, notes, memorandum 1952 May
Role of the Department of State in Economic Mobilization-Industrial College of the Armed Forces 1952 May 22
Difference and Uniformity-General Assembly of the International Organization for Standardization 1952 Jun 19
The Book Industry and International Relations-Publishers' Weekly 1952 Jul 19
The Economic Underpinning of our Foreign Policy-Fourth Annual Conference on American Foreign Policy 1952 Jul 28
Fourth Annual Awards Ceremony of the Department of State 1952 Oct 31
Cyprus
U.N. memoranda, reports on Cyprus 1960 Jan-Feb
Cyprus - Thorp's appointment 1960 Apr-Jun
Mission to Cyprus - appointment diary, invitation 1960
Cyprus - personnel - U.N. Economic Survey Mission 1960
Cyprus - payment vouchers, receipts, accounts, itineraries 1960-1961
U.N. Technical Assistance Board - policies 1957-1960
Cyprus - "Administrative structure," list of persons and organizations 1960
Cyprus - interim report, press release 1960 Sep-Oct
Cyprus - correspondence with headquarters, reports 1960 Sep-Dec
Correspondence, lists, report 1960 Aug-Nov
Correspondence 1960-1961
Correspondence, job descriptions 1960 Apr-Oct
Correspondence 1960
Correspondence, enclosures 1961-1974, n.d.
Cyprus - cables 1960
Restricted until 2040 - curriculum vitae, offers of employment 1960
Cyprus - economic surveys - typescript 1960
Economic report on Cyprus by the Economic Advisory Commission with enclosures 1960
Cyprus - 1961-1962 program 1960
Cyprus - suggestions for development program by WLT 1961
Cyprus - draft report 1960
Cyprus - economic review (WLT? Typescript) 1960
Cyprus - appointments, lists 1960
Cyprus - minutes of meetings with banks and cooperatives 1960 Sep
Cyprus - meeting minutes, schedules - F.A.O. 1960 Sep
Cyprus - WLT meeting notes, reports 1960
Cyprus notes, memoranda 1960, n.d.
Cyprus - "general recommendations" - correspondence, reports, memoranda, press reports; "The Turkish Cypriot Community" (economic report) 1960
Cyprus - financial structure - research, reports, correspondence, notes 1960
Cyprus - agriculture - correspondence, report, proposals 1960
Cyprus - power - research, notes, data, correspondence 1960, n.d.
Cyprus - industry - reports, memoranda, notes 1960
Cyprus - "background" - data, notes, meeting notes 1960
Cyprus - "trade" - data, notes, report 1959-1960
Cyprus - water - reports, site reports, correspondence, data 1959-1960
Cyprus - "mining" - reports, draft reports, memoranda 1960
Cyprus - "tourism" - reports, notes, data, printed material 1960-1961
Digest of the Cyprus vernacular press 1960 Sep-Oct
Digest of the Cyprus vernacular press 1960 Nov-Dec
Cyprus - press reports, correspondence 1960 Dec
Preliminary Draft: Cyprus-Suggestions for a Development Program (printed material) 1960 Dec 8
Cyprus-Statistical Abstract-1958 (printed material) 1959
Cyprus-Estimates of Expenditures (printed material) 1960
Cyprus-Financial Report; Republic of Cyprus...Revenue and Expenditure (printed material) 1959, 1961
Cyprus - statistical summaries, report, notes, press release 1959-1961
Cyprus - statistics of imports and exports - 1959 1960
Cyprus - economic reports, conference reports 1958-1961
Cyprus - industry reports - printed material 1936-1959
Cyprus - second five-year plan, enclosure 1968
Cyprus - "Study of Industrial Development" - First Report, vol. II - Second Report, part I 1963
The Times (London); The Economist (fragments) 1961 Mar
Bolivia
Special Study Mission to Bolivia - personnel documents, correspondence, clippings, press releases, schedules, photographs, memoranda 1961
Special Study Mission to Bolivia - handbook 1961 Mar
Bolivia - notes, notes for speech, memoranda (WLT) 1961
Bolivia - receipts, travel documents 1961
"Report to the President by the Special Study Mission to Bolivia" 1961 Mar 24
Special Study Mission to Bolivia - draft report, draft letter to John F. Kennedy 1961
Bolivia - clippings, notes 1961
Bolivia - Inter-American Development Bank Report of the Mission to Bolivia 1961 Feb
Bolivia - printed material 1960-1964
Bolivia and Latin America - printed material 1954-1962
Development Assistance Committee
Schedule - swearing in 1963 Mar 13
DAC - correspondence, press release, license, calling card 1963 Jan-May
DAC - correspondence 1963-1964
DAC - correspondence 1965-1967
DAC - correspondence 1967 Oct-Dec
DAC - correspondence 1968, n.d.
DAC - schedules 1963-1967, n.d.
DAC - travel, conferences 1965-1967
DAC - reports, articles, and addresses by WLT 1964-1966
DAC- clippings 1963-1967
DAC - reports, notes 1962-1963
DAC - WLT notes, correspondence, reports, memoranda 1963-1964
DAC - 26th Session (United Nations) 1964 Jan 24
DAC meeting - meeting minutes, reports, notes 1964 Mar 5
DAC Regional Meeting on the Middle East - reports, meeting minutes, notes, correspondence 1964 Mar 19-20
DAC Meeting on International Financial Institutions - reports, meeting minutes, notes, correspondence 1964 Apr 7
DAC Regional Meeting on W. Africa - reports, meeting minutes, notes 1964 Apr 21-22
DAC Meeting on Multicultural Investment Guarantees - reports, meeting minutes, notes, correspondence 1964 Apr
DAC - meeting on UNCTAD 1964 Jul 9
DAC Regional Meeting on Latin America 1964 Jul 16-17
DAC High Level Meeting 1964 Jul 23-24
DAC Latin America Meeting 1964 Sep 24-25
DAC - Future Programme of Work 1964 Oct 14
DAC - notes: Le Table Ronde, Paris 1964 [Oct] 29-30
DAC - co-ordination arrangements with CIAP 1964 Nov 13
DAC - Future Work in the Technical Assistance Field 1964 Nov 20
DAC - Plans for 1965 Aid Reviews 1964 Nov 24
DAC - Review of Existing Co-ordination Arrangements 1964 Dec 9-10
DAC Technical Assistance in Latin America - memoranda, meeting notes, correspondence 1965 Mar 4-5
DAC meeting - Austria - reports, meeting minutes, notes 1965 Mar 8
DAC Meeting on Technical Assistance Co-ordination - reports, meeting minutes, notes, correspondence 1965 Mar 30
Fiscal Incentives for Private Investment - 51st Session - reports, meeting minutes 1965 May 12
DAC Meeting - reports, meeting minutes, notes, correspondence 1965 Jul, n.d.
DAC High-Level Meeting - reports, meeting minutes, notes, correspondence 1965 Jul 22-23
DAC Discussion of Programme of Work - reports, meeting minutes, notes, correspondence 1965 Oct 28-29
DAC Meeting - reports, meeting minutes, notes, correspondence 1965 Dec
DAC Working Party on UNCTAD Issues - reports, correspondence, meeting minutes, notes 1967 Feb-May
DAC Working Party on Assistance Requirements - reports, meeting minutes, notes, correspondence 1967 Feb-Jun
DAC Working Party on Financial Aspects 1967 Mar 16-17
DAC Working Party on Financial Aspects 1967 Jun 6-7
DAC Working Party on Financial Aspects 1967 Jun 29
DAC Meeting on Chairman's Report 1967 Jul 2
DAC Meeting - Population Control - correspondence, report 1967 Jul 3
DAC High-Level Meeting 1967 Jul 19-20
Development Assistance Committee - annual aid reviews
France 1962
France 1963
France 1964
Germany 1962
Germany 1963
Germany 1964
European Economic Community 1962-1963
European Economic Community 1964
United States 1966
United States 1967
Development Assistance Committee-Social
DAC -guest lists 1963
DAC - social, Paris 1963 Jan-Jul
DAC - social, Paris 1963 Aug-Dec
DAC - letters, Paris 1963
DAC - bills, Paris 1963
DAC - social, Paris 1964 Jan-Jun
DAC - social, Paris 1964 Jul-Dec
DAC - letters, Paris 1964
DAC - social, Paris 1965 Jan-Jun
DAC - social, Paris 1965 Jul-Dec
DAC - [?], Margaret to CBT 1965 Jun, Jul, Aug
DAC - social, Paris 1966 Jan-Jun
DAC - social, Paris 1966 Jul-Dec
DAC - letters, Paris 1966
DAC - social, Paris 1967 Jan-Jun
DAC - social, Paris 1967 Jul-Nov
DAC - social, Paris n.d.
DAC - Paris - travel brochures, maps [1962-1963]
Lists with prices; Advertising: L'Hostellerie de la Tête Noire n.d.
DAC - receipts 1963
DAC-reports, bulletins, printed material
UNCTAD Trade and Development Board 1967 Aug
DAC - memoranda, meetings 1964-1967, n.d.
DAC - bulletins, press releases, clippings 1965-1967, n.d.
DAC - notes, reports, memoranda, bulletins 1967
DAC - notes, fragmentary writings n.d.
DAC - research and conference reports 1963-1967, n.d.
"The Case for Foreign Aid," by David Rockefeller 1967 Apr 18
DAC - Statement of Pontifical Commission, "Justice and Peace" 1967 Apr 25
DAC - "Multilateral Finances" - notes, printed material 1966, n.d.
DAC - Africa Conference on Progress through Cooperation 1965
DAC/OECD - printed material, clippings 1961-1964
DAC - printed material 1963-1967
DAC - U.N. publications, survey of international development 1965-1967
DAC - printed material, clippings 1965-1966
DAC - printed material, clippings 1967, n.d.
Uganda Argus (newspaper, fragment) 1965 May 12
Poster: Communist Party Protest against the U.S. in Vietnam, Paris 1966
1964 Trip - Middle and Far East 1964
United Nations 1947-72, 1984-86
WLT appointment to U.N. ECOSOC 1947 Jul
Statements to U.N. General Assembly; WLT public statements 1947, 1948
U.N. General Assembly - orientation materials, address lists, memoranda 1948
U.N. General Assembly/U.N. ECOSOC - correspondence, calling card, identification cards, memoranda, notes 1948, n.d.
U.N. ECOSOC - "Chastisement of Traitors to the Social Order" re: C. Wilfred Jenks 1948 Aug 20
United Nations Economic and Social Council - speech by Hernán Santa Cruz 1948 Aug
U.N. Charter - WLT's copy 1948
European Trip - invitations 1948 Jul-Dec
Correspondence "European Trip" (Geneva and other locales) 1948
Newsclippings 1948, n.d.
New York Times (fragments) 1948 Oct-Nov
European Trip - financial records and travel documents 1948 Jul-Dec
Dag Hammarskjold Memorial 1961
U.N., OECD - correspondence, speech, press release 1965, 1972
U.N. reports, notes, correspondence n.d.
International Aid - data, recommendations, appropriation requests 1969-1971, n.d.
International meeting on development policy - Heidelberg 1970
U.N. Economic and Social Council - bulletins, reports 1969-1971
U.N. ECOSOC - bulletins, reports, notes 1968-1972, n.d.
U.N.-Economic and Social Affairs-bulletins, notes, memoranda 1970-1971, n.d.
U.N. - Economic and Social Affairs - reports 1970-1971, n.d.
U.N. - Economic and Social Affairs - reports, notes 1971-1972, n.d.
U.N. - Economic and Social Affairs - reports 1970, n.d.
U.N. - Economic and Social Affairs - reports, notes 1970, n.d.
U.N. - Economic and Social Affairs - reports, notes 1971, n.d.
U.N. - Economic and Social Affairs - reports, notes 1971 Feb
U.N. - Economic and Social Affairs - reports, notes 1972, n.d.
U.N. - Economic and Social Affairs - typed comments 1972, n.d.
U.N. - reports (General Assembly, budget) 1969-1970
U.N. - reports (transport, Latin America) 1970, n.d.
U.N. General Assembly - report, correspondence 1971-1972
U.N. - reports and meetings 1970-1972
U.N. mission to the Philippines - report, travel documents, clippings, correspondence 1974, n.d.
UNITAR 1970-1972
International Development printed material 1968-1972
International Development printed material 1975-1986, n.d.
DAC - meetings and correspondence 1972, 1985, n.d.
DAC 25th anniversary preparations 1984
UNITAR seminar - conference papers 1984 Sep
"A Postmortem on UNCTAD III" n.d.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [See also: Department of State - Speeches]
GATT - correspondence, representatives 1966, n.d.
GATT conference handbook (Torquay) 1950
Subseries K: PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 1913-1992
The materials in this subseries encompass most of Thorp's professional and scholarly activities outside of his government service and employment at Amherst College. Included are appointment books, speeches, scholarly and humorous writings, book reviews, conference proceedings, and correspondence and minutes documenting his involvement with professional associations. Included as well are syllabi and correspondence related to Thorp's guest teaching at the Army and National War Colleges, at the University of Florida, and as Honors Examiner at Swarthmore College. Thorp served as Chairman for several years of the Claremont-Bologna international economic conferences and his work in this regard, especially between 1968 and 1983, is well documented in the collection. This subseries contains some documentation of Thorp's corporate and institutional board membership. It also contains extensive documentation of four legal cases in which he was involved as an expert economic analyst or witness. Three of these involved major U.S. oil companies; the fourth concerned price-fixing by dozens of electrical equipment manufacturers. In the United States v. Arkansas Fuel Oil, et al., Thorp was a consultant to a group of 29 U.S. oil companies indicted by the U.S. Justice Department for plotting to fix oil and gas prices during the 1956 Suez Canal crisis. A federal district court judge acquitted the defendants in February, 1960. In the "ECA" case, the U.S. government lodged a series of complaints against several oil companies, claiming that they had overcharged for crude oil purchased with dollars for eventual sale to countries included the Marshall Plan. Thorp's research provided evidence that they had not done so. Thorp's precise role in a third oil case-The Federal Trade Commission v. Texaco-is less clear. The collection also contains extensive material relating to the Anti-trust Investigation Group (ATIG). In February, 1961, a large number of U.S. electrical equipment manufacturers were found guilty in Federal court of price-fixing. A consortium of the victims-a large number of American utility companies and government entities-wanted to know to what extent damage claims would be justified. They hired Thorp and Jerry Cohen of Columbia University to assemble price data research for use by their attorneys. The collection includes Thorp's subject files and correspondence related to the case. These files contain notes, spreadsheets, correspondence, meeting minutes, reports and draft reports, legal proceedings, clippings, and additional printed material. For additional information on the legal proceedings, see Charles A. Bane. The Electrical Equipment Conspiracies: the treble damage actions. New York: Federal Legal Publications, 1973. The subseries contains some additional documentation of Thorp's consulting work and expert testimony and a series of subject files on economic topics. The final section of this subseries includes retrospective views of the Marshall Plan and Point IV (Thorp's and others') as well as writings by unidentified authors.
Related material: Subseries L: Correspondence (with various professional organizations; Correspondence -Anti-Trust Investigation Group; Correspondence-Peske, Edgar; Correspondence-American Telephone and Telegraph; Correspondence-Industrial College of the Armed Forces/The National War College; Correspondence-Naval War College) Series 5: PRINTED MATERIAL, Willard L. Thorp-articles and offprints, 1936-1951 (Box 84, folder 1)
Appointment Diaries
Appointment Diaries 1953, 1957-1959
Appointment books 1956-1957
Appointment books 1958-1959
Appointment books 1960-1961
Appointment books 1962-1963
Appointment books 1963
Appointment books 1967
Speeches
Speeches 1929-1938
Speeches, indexed by the Department of Commerce 1933, 1934
Speeches 1932,-1933
Speeches 1934
List of addresses by Willard L. Thorp 1935-1938
Speeches 1935
Speeches 1936
Robinson-Patman Act - speech, mock trial program, newspaper 1936-1937
Speeches (2 folders) 1937
Speeches 1938
Speeches and notes; related correspondence and clippings (2 folders) 1940-1944
University of Buffalo lecture 1943
Speeches and notes for speeches 1947-1956
Speeches and notes for speeches 1958-1963
Speeches 1952 Nov-Dec
European Economic Integration-War College 1952 Nov 4
Maintaining International Friendship-New York City 1952 Nov 25
Orton Lecture-Smith College 1953 Apr 30
Mt. Holyoke 1953 Mar 3
"Are You an Eremite?" - notes for talk, Holyoke Second Congregational Church 1953 Mar
Speeches 1954
Speeches, notes, correspondence re: speeches 1963-1964
Speeches, notes, correspondence re: speeches 1965
Speeches, notes, correspondence re: speeches 1966
Speeches, notes, correspondence re: speeches 1967
United Nations Day 1973
Remarks at first meeting of Willard Long Thorp Economics Society 1986 Oct 19
Speeches, notes for speeches n.d.
Writings
National Income - mss. - correspondence, notes 1929
National Income - mss. - correspondence 1932, n.d.
National Income - mss. (2 folders) 1932
National Income - mss. - appendices n.d.
National Income - mss. - "1st Copy" 1932
National Income - mss. - "2nd Copy" 1932
National Income-draft, notes [1932]
National Income - mss. - Chapter II 1932
National Income - mss. - Chapter III 1932
National Income - mss. - "General" and "Sources" 1932
National Income - mss. - "U[nited] K[ingdom]" 1932
National Income - mss. - "France; "Belg[ium], Neth[erlands], Switz[erland]" 1932
National Income - mss. - "Germany" 1932
National Income - mss. - "VII"; "IX"; "X" 1932
National Income - mss. - "Asia"; "Russia, Greece," "Italy," "Appendix" 1932
National Income - mss. - notes 1932
National Income - mss. -notes (7 folders) n.d.
National Income - mss. - notes, data 1926-1931, n.d.
National Income - mss. - notes and data 1932, n.d.
National Income - mss. - data n.d.
Mss. Notes n.d.
WLT bibliographies 1930-1937
Writings - humorous ca.1970
A dozen ditties to Durham Duplex-WLT n.d.
Manuscript fragments n.d.
"Business Research" - Typescript draft (fragments) n.d.
Essays, conference presentations ca.1930, n.d.
Articles 1935
"Variations on a Theme about Identical Bids" - WLT draft 1937
Articles 1937-1938
Articles and essays by WLT; notes 1949-1972, n.d.
"Problems of our Economic Policy" - Foreign Affairs 1953
Book chapter - "Mason Volume" - typescript, correspondence 1958-1959
"The Expansion of Trade," in British-American trade: Basis for mutual understanding, advertising supplement to the New York Times. 1959 Apr 19
"The Meaning of Point Four" - Michigan Conference on International Development 1960 May
Letter to the Editor; correspondence re: publications 1965
Book chapter - "The Atlantic Council" - correspondence, draft, typescript 1966
Summary of WLT book on foreign aid; correspondence 1969
Intragovernmental Conflict and Foreign Affairs n.d.
"The Reality of Foreign Aid" - mss. 1969 Aug
Reviews of WLT's The Reality of Foreign Aid and Trade, Aid, or What? 1966, 1971
"Foreign Aid: A Report on the Reports" - Foreign Affairs 1970
Memorial of Charles Hill Morgan; Comment on Wesley Mitchell, Simon Kuznets 1984
DAC - Retrospective essay by WLT; Correspondence 1985
Essay by WLT - mss. n.d.
Book Reviews (2 folders) 1974-1990, n.d.
Book Reviews n.d.
Book Reviews - Council on Foreign Relations n.d.
"Working File II" - Book reviews, notes n.d.
Book Reviews 1963, n.d.
Board memberships, trusteeships
General Public Utilities Corporation - correspondence, reports, memoranda 1949-1952
Brandeis University - Board of Trustees - correspondence 195601962
Cometa Fund-prospectus, agreements 1970
Chris-Craft Industries - correspondence, printed material, press releases 1971-1972
Chris-Craft Industries - proxy statements 1962-1972
Chris-Craft Industries - memoranda, meeting minutes 1971
Chris-Craft Industries - WLT testimony transcript 1972
Chris-Craft Industries - legal proceedings [1971-1972]
Chris-Craft Industries - legal proceedings 1971-1972
Chris-Craft Industries -letters to stockholders 1971-1972
Chris-Craft Industries - proxy election documents, affidavit, printed material 1971, .n.d.
Chris-Craft Industries - clippings, printed material 1962-1972, n.d.
Worldwide Financial Corporation 1962-1970
Worldwide Financial Corporation 1968
Worldwide Financial Corporation 1969
Worldwide Financial Corporation 1969-1971, n.d.
Worldwide Financial Corporation 1969-1972
Worldwide Financial Corporation (3 folders) 1971-1972
Worldwide Financial Corporation 1972-1973
Worldwide Financial Corporation 1972
Worldwide Financial Corporation 1973, n.d.
Worldwide Financial Corporation 1971-1972, 1974
Consulting and Expert Testimony
Deposition on Resolution on Restrictive Business Practices 1955
Federal Trade Commission vs. Tag Manufacturers
Testimony - FTC vs. tag manufacturers 1934-1945
Potash Hearing
The Potash Study - by Willard L. Thorp and Ernest A. Tupper 1940
Potash anti-dumping hearing - correspondence, typescripts 1954
Potash anti-dumping case - correspondence, typescripts by Willard L. Thorp 1955
Potash anti-dumping case - statement by Almarin Phillips ca. 1954
Potash anti-dumping hearing - briefs, reports, statements, printed material 1954-1955
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley Authority 1958-1960
Oil Cases
Oil Cases - correspondence, reports 1956-1957
Oil Cases - correspondence, reports 1958-1959
Oil Cases - correspondence, reports 1960-1963
U.S. v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. et al. - testimony and background material - WLT; legal memoranda 1957-1958
U.S. v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. et al - WLT report 1957-1959
U.S. v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. et al - complaint (U.S. v. Standard Oil); legal briefs n.d., 1960
U.S. v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. et al - background documents n.d., 1959
U.S. v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. et al - post-decision announcements and memoranda 1960
Clippings, Congressional reports, press release re oil import quotas 1957-1959
U.S. v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. et al - exhibits n.d.
U.S. v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. et al - reports, data, printed material 1954-1959
U.S. v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. et al - notes, correspondence, reports, copies of legal proceedings 1959-1960
U.S. v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. et al - correspondence, memoranda, reports, data 1957-1959
U.S. v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. et al - correspondence, testimony, trial, preparation documents, memoranda 1958-1959
U.S. v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. et al - research, notes, data, memoranda 1959, n.d.
U.S. v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. et al - trial briefs 1959-1960
U.S. v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. et al - trial brief 1960
Documents Retained by the Government, Products - Prices and Sales, Series B, Volume 1-3 1948-1957
Documents Retained by the Government, Non-Price and Other Documents, Series B, Volume 1 1948-1957
Documents Retained by the Government, Crude - Prices, Sales and Inventories, Series B, Volume 1-3 1948-1957
U.S. v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. et al - printed material 1959
ECA Case - legal briefs, opinion 1957-1958
ECA Case - memoranda, research 1956-1957
ECA Case - WLT testimony (2 folders) 1957
ECA Case - WLT testimony (Bound copies) 1957
ECA Case - legal brief, motion 1956-1958'
ECA Case - correspondence, data, legal brief, appeal 1959, n.d.
FTC v. Texaco - legal proceedings and law review article 1959-1961
FTC v. Texaco - correspondence, memoranda, research 1952-1961
FTC v. Texaco - correspondence, notes, photographs 1960-1961, n.d.
FTC v. Texaco - Hearing transcripts: "Respondent's Defense, Oil Company Witnesses and Hall, Volume XI" 1960 Sep 19-21
FTC v. Texaco - Hearing transcripts: "Respondent's Defense, Bartlett and Jansen, Volume XII" 1960 Sep 26-30
Anti-Trust Investigation Group
Members 1961
Meeting minutes, reports, memoranda 1961-1964
Settlement 1962-1963
Correspondence 1961-1962
Press release, correspondence 1961
Litigation group - correspondence 1961-1962
Correspondence (2 folders) 1961
Correspondence 1962
Correspondence, clippings 1962
Correspondence 1963
Correspondence 1963-1965, n.d.
Correspondence-Philadelphia Electric Company 1961-1963
Correspondence - Reid and Priest 1962
Correspondence and economic analyses 1961-1962
Correspondence and economic analyses 1962-1963
Arraignments 1960
Indictments and complaints (2 folders) 1960
Indictments and complaints (1 of 2) 1961
Indictments and complaints (2 of 2) 1961
Equipment lists, by indictment 1961
Complaints 1961
Dockets and petitions 1960-1961
Philadelphia cases - pleas and sentences [1961]
Legal briefs - U.S. District Court, New Jersey n.d.
Interrogatories 1962, 1963
Legal memoranda 1964-1965
Report to members 1963 Dec
Reports and analyses 1962-1963, n.d.
Litigation group - reports 1962-1963
Reports 1963-1964
Reports 1961-1962
Answers, options, opinions 1961, 1965, n.d.
Distribution Transformers (3 folders) 1961-1962, n.d.
Power Switchgears (1-2 of 4 folders) 1961-1963, n.d.
Power Switchgears (2-4 of 4 folders) 1961-1963, n.d.
Watt-Hour Meters (2 folders) 1961-1962, n.d.
Insulators (3 folders) 1961-1962, n.d.
Company size 1962
Anti-Trust - notes, printed material 1957-1961, n.d.
"The Great Studies" 1961
Escalation 1957-1961
'Wisconsin group' - Earl, James S. - correspondence, research 1962
'Wisconsin group' - correspondence, research (2 folders) 1962-1963
Re: Miscellaneous equipment 1963
General Electric - reports, clippings 1959-1961
Business conditions 1961-1962
"General Statistical Series" 1961-1963
Costs 1959-1961
Printed material, notes, clippings 1958-1963
Printed material 1963-1964
Stone and Webster Engineering Corp. - general 1961-1962
Stone and Webster Engineering Corp - reports 1961
Hydro-Electric Generators 1960-1963
Instrument Transformers 1961-1963
Power Switching Equipment 1962
[Power Switching Equipment] ca. 1961
[Power Switching Equipment] 1961-1962
Power Switching Equipment - early IBMs 1961-1962
Circuit breakers - lists 1961-1962
Circuit breakers 1961-1962
Oil circuit breakers 1961-1962
Circuit breakers - charts 1961
Circuit breakers - small and large 1962
Circuit breakers - Mss 1961-1962
Circuit breakers 1962
[Circuit breakers] 1961
Circuit breakers - accessory data 1961
Industrial control equipment 1961-1963
Philadelphia Electric Co. (2 folders) 1961-1962
Power Transformers (1-3 of 4 folders) 1961-1962, n.d.
Power Transformers (4 of 4 folders) 1961-1962, n.d.
Turbine Generators - legal proceedings 1964
Turbine Generators 1961, n.d.
Turbine Generators (3 folders) 1961-1962, n.d.
Turbine Generators - worksheets n.d.
Turbine generators-spreadsheets (3 folders) 1961
Surface Condensers 1956-1963
Surface Condensers (2 folders) 1961-1963, n.d.
Low Voltage Distribution 1961-1963, n.d.
General Electric 1963
WLT notes 1962, n.d.
"Determination of competitive price" - report and notes ca. 1962
"Price Theory" 1958-1962
Price data and reports 1961-1962
Bound Reports, vols. 1-10 1962-1963
Bound Report, vol. 13 (1963); The Electrical Trust Cases, Hearing held before [a] Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, vols. 1-23 1961
Legal transcripts 1961
Legal memoranda, complaints 1961
Legal memoranda, proceedings 1961
Legal memoranda 1961
Legal transcripts, answers, memoranda 1961
Legal memoranda 1961-1962
Legal memorandum 1962 May
Legal proceedings and depositions - 9 bound volumes 1962-1963
Manila Electric Company-spreadsheets 1961
AT&T Group
Correspondence, enclosures 1961-1962
Notes, research, and commentary 1961-1962, n.d.
Research and correspondence 1962
"Misgivings Concerning Public Utility Regulation" by WLT 1963
Research and commentary 1962-1963
Research, presentations 1959-1963
Presentations, testimony 1961-1962
Presentation to FCC 1961
Reports 1960-1961
Legal briefs and memoranda 1961
Legal briefs, decision 1961-1962
Printed material, reports 1954-1963
Conferences
Institute on Credit - Proceedings 1938
Conference proceedings - The Social Sciences in the Liberal Arts College (Princeton) 1945
Conferences 1953
The Economic Panel 1958-1962
Brookings Institution Conference on the United Nations (2 folders) 1958 Apr 25-27
Japanese-American Conference on Culture and Education (3 folders) 1961-1962
Foreign Policy Association - Traveling Conference 1968 Mar
Symposium - Europe - Wellesley 1968-1969
Correspondence - The Claremont Graduate School 1958
Claremont International Monetary Conference 1968-1971, n.d.
Bologna Center Conference 1967-1971
Bologna Center Conference 1968
Claremont International Monetary Conference 1968-1969
Claremont and Bologna Conferences 1973-1975
Claremont International Monetary Conference 1972-1975
Claremont International Monetary Conference 1975-1977
Claremont International Monetary Conference 1975-1978
Claremont International Monetary Conference 1978-1979
Claremont International Monetary Conference 1980-1983
Claremont International Monetary Conference 1983, 1992
Conference transcript (?) (fragment) n.d.
Conferences 1967-1971
Conference - Taiwan 1973-1974
UNITAR Seminar: President Harry S. Truman and the United Nations-an historical consideration (includes conference paper by WLT) 1984
Colloquium - The Marshall Plan and the Building of the Atlantic Community 1987-1988
S.I.D. Conference paper - Milan (fragment) n.d.
Professional Associations
American Statistical Association Committee on Committee Organization and Activity 1940, n.d.
American Statistical Association 1943-1946, 1967
American Economic Association - Directory 1991
Correspondence - Council on Foreign Relations 1965-1966
Council on Foreign Relations - working file 1956-1970
Council on Foreign Relations - Remarks at the Diebold Dinner 1983 Jun
Council on Foreign Relations - correspondence, bibliography 1969-1971
Council on Foreign Relations-correspondence 1968-1981
Teaching (outside Amherst)
Swarthmore College-Honors Examiner-exams, correspondence, rosters, notes 1935, 1944
Army War College - notes, outlines, schedules 1951, 1959
Army War College-curriculum materials, correspondence 1956-1960
National War College-syllabus, lectures, correspondence 1953-1957
National War College-correspondence, lectures 1957-1960
National War College-syllabi 1958-1960
Syracuse University-consultant, Doctor of Social Science program-reports, correspondence, notes, printed material 1957-1958
University of Florida-visiting professorship-correspondence, printed material, receipts 1970-1971
University of Florida-visiting professorship-grades [RESTRICTED UNTIL 2071] 1971
Lecture notes-Mount Holyoke College n.d.
Subject Files
Subject Files (folders 1-19 of 22) 1913-1934, n.d.
Subject Files (folders 20-22 of 22) 1913-1934, n.d.
Subject Files 1927-1958, n.d.
Study notes 1923, n.d.
Subject Files - finance ca 1970-?
"The Project" - notes, clippings, correspondence (retrospective views of the Marshall Plan and the Cold War) 1972-1973
"The Marshall Plan"-WLT -draft and notes n.d.
Retrospective views of the Marshall Plan - radio transcript, conference papers 1985-1986
Marshall Plan film project 1992
Clippings, notes 1934-1966, n.d.
"Memorial address of Chaplain Roland B. Gittelson...on Iwo Jima"-broadcast transcript 1945 Apr 13
Conference paper - "Reexamination of Professional and Popular Thought on Assistance for Economic Development: 1949-1952," Kennedy, Joseph V; Ruttan, Vernon W 1984
Articles by James J. Leary-U.S. Trust 1988-1990
"A few free thoughts on the United Nations..."-Muller, Robert 1969
Speech and conference paper; statement to Congress (not WLT) 1953, 1978
Writings-author unknown 1952, n.d.
Writings by others (not WLT); writings-authors unknown n.d., 1945
Truman Library oral history interview with Leroy Dean Stinebower-transcript, photograph, correspondence 1974-1979
"A preliminary report on the Gloversville project"-Goldwasser, Betti 1957
Research notes on United States institutions of higher education (unidentified creator)-notes and index cards n.d.
Research notes on United States institutions of higher education (unidentified creator)-index cards n.d.
Subseries L: CORRESPONDENCE 1906-1991
Much of the correspondence in the collection associated with specific professional activities is filed in the subseries that documents each activity. However, during the 1950s and 1960s, Thorp appears to have maintained comprehensive, alphabetically-indexed correspondence files. Thorp's organization has been preserved to the extent possible in the alphabetically-organized section of this subseries. His original index file with cross-references and his contacts file are part of this subseries (Boxes 66, 67, and 68). In the alphabetically-arranged correspondence, the section for each alphabetic letter contains correspondence from individuals (in alpha order), correspondence from organizations and institutions (in alpha order), followed by a general folder for that alphabetic letter.
Contacts
Contacts index
Correspondence and contacts index n.d.
Correspondence, chronological
Correspondence - WLT to parents 1906, n.d.
Correspondence - family to WLT 1909
Correspondence - re: first marriage 1939, 1947
Correspondence 1934
Correspondence - re: failure of confirmation, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce 1934
Correspondence, list of events - WLT to parents (Charles N. and Susan Long Thorp) 1933-1934, n.d.
Correspondence (2 folders) 1938-1939
Correspondence to Thorp, Hildegard Churchill 1939
Correspondence - Churchill, Maybelle E. - Mass. Tax returns 1939-1940
Correspondence - Churchill, Maybelle E. - tax correspondence from WLT 1939-1945, n.d.
Correspondence 1939-1940
Correspondence - WLT to parents 1940-1949
Correspondence - "Garden and Rabbits" (Westport, CT) 1944, n.d.
Correspondence - WLT to Thorp, Barbara 1943 Nov-1946 May
Address lists, contacts 1947, n.d.
Correspondence 1946
Correspondence 1947
Correspondence 1948
Correspondence (2 folders) 1949
Correspondence (2 folders) 1950
Correspondence - WLT to parents 1950-1959
Correspondence 1951
Correspondence - WLT (2 folders) 1952
Correspondence with family members 1953-1954, n.d.
Correspondence re: Thorp, Jeffrey C. 1954-1956
Correspondence 1960-1962
Correspondence re: WLT family 1961-1966
Correspondence 1964
Correspondence 1965
Correspondence 1966
Correspondence 1967
Correspondence 1967-1968
Correspondence - family members to WLT, WLT to family members 1960-1976, n.d.
Correspondence 1969, n.d.
Correspondence 1970-1972
Correspondence 1972, n.d.
Correspondence 1973-1975
Correspondence (includes enclosure dated 1945) 1976-1979
Correspondence - family members to WLT 1982-1988
Correspondence 1981-1991
Correspondence n.d.
Correspondence-drafts n.d.
Christmas letter from Kuala Lumpur (unidentified sender) n.d.
Correspondence, invitations and dinner programs
Invitations, award dinners, admission cards
Program and eating list - American-Swiss Friendship Dinner - WLT, principal speaker 1952 Nov 25
Program for dinner dance in honor of WLT and Salzano, Carlo de Ferrariis, Baron 1952 Nov 22
Correspondence, greeting cards and postcards
Birthday greetings to WLT 1969 May
Postcards and greeting cards (4 folders) 1960s-1980s, n.d.
Correspondence, restricted
Letters of recommendation, CVs 1959-1977
RESTRICTED for 85 years.
Personnel recommendations A-L 1953-1963
Personnel recommendations M-Z 1953-1963
Recommendation letters 1953-1963
Recommendation letters 1959-1963
Correspondence-Amherst College-related (students and prospective students) 1952-1973
RESTRICTED.
Correspondence-applicants-Conference Board of Associated Research Councils 1963
RESTRICTED UNTIL 2015.
Correspondence-Tevis, Sally 1950-1952, n.d.
RESTRICTED UNTIL 2027; MAY CONTAIN FURTHER RESTRICTIONS.
Correspondence 1952-1972
RESTRICTED: health information, recommendations
Correspondence-Tilly, Winthrop and Isadora 1957
RESTRICTED UNTIL 2032 (Tilly family members excepted)
Correspondence-Social Science Research Council-recommendations and evaluations 1943-1946
RESTRICTED UNTIL 2026.
Correspondence, alphabetical
Acheson, Dean 1949-1967
Adelman, Morris (includes typescript) 1960
Ali, Syed Ajmad 1955-1959
Asher, Robert E 1979
American Arbitration Association 1940-1945
American Association for the United Nations 1963
American Association of University Professors 1959-1963
American Economic Association 1961-1963
American Econ. Assoc. Comm. on Research and Publications 1961-1963
American Institute for Intermediate Coinage 1950
American Society for Friendship with Switzerland 1952 Nov 25
American Telephone and Telegraph Co. - See also Correspondence - Peske, Edgar 1962-1963
American Statistical Association 1954-1962
Anti-Trust Investigation Group; See also: Subseries K, Boxes 43-50 1963-1964
Correspondence - A 1953-1962
Bader, Franz 1955
Bernays, Edward L. 1959-1961
Boggs, Hale 1959
Brimmer, Andrew F. 1978
Brown, Courtney C. 1953-1960
Bryant, Emmons 1958-1959
Bundy, William P. 1960-1961
Burns, Joseph D. Re: Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly 1955
Baldwin-Wallace College and Oberlin College-re: lecture "Democracy and our economy" 1954-1956
Brookings Institution 1956-57
Brookings Institution 1958-75
Bulova Watch Company 1952-1953
Correspondence - B 1952-1963
Chalmers, Allen Knightly - See Correspondence - Meinardus, Otto F.A.
Child, Sargent Burrage 1953
Clemm, W.C. von-to and from WLT; to and from Acheson, Dean 1970
Coffin, Frank 1965
Cohen, Jerome A. 1966
Cole, Charles W.; See also: Subseries F: Amherst College 1960-1963
University of California 1952-1958
Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science 1959-1960
Challenge Magazine Book Review 1954-1955
University of Chicago - Fifth Annual Management Conference - Talk 1955-1957
College of the Air 1962
Columbia University 1953-1962
Committee for a National Trade Policy 1957-1962
Conference Board of Associated Research Councils 1963
Congregation Christian Service Committee 1945
Cornell School of Business and Public Administration Annual Management Conference 1953-1959
Council for Social Action 1941-1945
Correspondence - C (2 folders) 1952-1963
Domar, Evsey D. 1955-1960
Dulles, John Foster 1953 Jan 27
Dunn, James C. 1948 Jul 20
Dag Hammarskjold Foundation 1962-1965
Ditchley Foundation 1957-1963
Doshisha University-Amherst House 1957-1958
Correspondence - D 1952-1962
Epstein, Ralph C. 1958
Ezekiel, Mordecai (re: loyalty investigation) 1954-1955
Engagements 1952-54
Correspondence - E 1952-1962
Firth, Norman C. 1951 Jan 11
Fogel, Robert-Re: Simon Kuznets 1990-1992
Friedrich, W. G. 1953-1958
Friendly, Alfred 1953-1962
Fulbright, J. William (James William) 1959,1972
Farrar, Rinehart, Inc. 1940-1945
Federal Reserve System 1954-1955
Ford Foundation 1953-1960
Foreign Affairs 1953-1963
Foreign Policy Association (Randall Report Article) 1952-1957
Correspondence - F 1953-1961
Galbraith, John Kenneth 1963
Galbraith, Virginia 1965
Garwood, Ellen Clayton 1958-1959
George, Edwin; includes copies of correspondence with Keyserling, Leon 1939- 1956
[Giordanetti?], Elmo 1964-1967
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1954
Correspondence - G 1953-1963
Hadley, Eleanor 1962-1966
Hammarskjold, Dag (enclosures-photographs) 1953-1960
Heineman, D.N. 1947 Mar 10
Humphrey, Hubert 1965
Correspondence - H 1952-1963
Irvine, Reed to WLT; Irvine, Reed to Helfgott, Elliot 1968-1969
Industrial College of the Armed Forces/The National War College 1952-1960
International Air Transport Group 1962
International Business Machines Corporation 1959-1962
Investment Committee Economic Panel 1957-1963
Invitations refused 1952-1954
Correspondence - I 1954-1962
Javits, Jacob K. 1959
Jessup, Philip; includes letter from McGrew, Donald 1967
Japan trip and related correspondence 1955-1961
Joint Economic Committee (United States Congress)- correspondence , report, statement (WLT) 1955 Feb
Joint Economic Committee (United States Congress)-correspondence, reports, statements, printed material 1956-1962
Correspondence - J 1953-1962
Kennan, George 1954
Kennedy, Edward M. 1968
Kennedy, John F. 1957-1962
Correspondence - K 1953-1962
Larkin, Clarence J. 1950
Lie, Trygre 1953
Linowitz, Sol 1952-1966
Loewenstein, Karl 1954-1972
Lumley, Albert 1954-1967
League of Woman Voters 1955-1960
Loyalty Review Board - re: Rifat Tirana [1951]
Correspondence - L 1953-1963
Makarios III, Archbishop of Cyprus n.d.
Malik, Charles 1953
Marshall, George C. 1947-1948
McCloy, John J. (1895-1989, AC 1916) 1960
McGarrah, Robert E. 1973
Meinardus, Otto F.A. to Chalmers, Allan Knight ; also re: Meinardus, Otto F.A. 1950
Mendes-France, Pierre 1954-1968
Merrill, Charles 1958
Morehouse, Edward W. 1955-1961
McGraw-Hill Book Company (1) 1954-1959
McGraw-Hill Book Company (2) 1961-1963
University of Michigan 1960-1962
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1953-1961
Correspondence - M 1953-1963
Naval War College 1955-1961
Niebuhr, Reinhold 1958
Nitze, Paul 1954-1961
The New Inflation: Letters from recipients 1959-1960
Correspondence - N 1953-1963
Office of Education 1960-1962
Correspondence - O 1954-1963
Parker, Frederick A. (Re: Faburn DeFrantz) 1951
Peske, Edgar See also - Correspondence - American Telephone and Telegraph Co. 1962-1963
Phillips, Charles 1959
Plimpton, Calvin H. See also: Subseries F: Amherst College, Box 15 1963-1966
Polangin, Frederick N. 1950-1951
Polangin, Frederick N. and Dorothy [RESTRICTED - health information] 1955-1956
Phi Beta Kappa 1963-1969
Phi Beta Kappa 1964-1969
Correspondence - P 1952-1963
Reinstein, Jacques J. 1954-1965
Ribicoff, Abraham 1959-1961
Robinson, Ruth L. 1951
Roosevelt, Eleanor 1960
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1943 Apr 7
Rostow, W.W. 1950 Jan 8
Rothenberg, Jerome and Winnie 1953-1957
Rueff, Jacques; Enclosed typescript: "The problem of balance of payments' equilibrium inside the Marshall Plan 1949 May 13
Rusk, Dean 1954-1962
Correspondence - R 1953-1962
Sakakibara, Yasuo 1956-1960
Schaetzel, Robert 1951
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. 1961
Seligman, Eustace 1949-1964
Spear, William W. 1950
Stern, Boris 1966
Stinebower, Leroy n.d.
Surrey, Walter Sterling 1950-1972
Correspondence - S 1953-1963
WLT to Thorp, Clarice Brows 1961
Truman, Harry S. 1950-1966
Correspondence-T 1953-1962
United Nations 1962
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Foreign Trade Policy 1953
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations (WLT statement) 1955 Feb
United States. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare. Education Division 1960-1962
United States. Dept. of Labor-correspondence, printed material, committee documents 1943-1945
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation-"Request for report on loyalty data" 1947
Correspondence - U and V 1953-1963
Ward, Barbara (Baroness Jackson) 1954-1955
White, Walter 1953
Whiteside, Arthur Dare 1949-1957
Willcox, Robert W.E. 1952 Sep
Wilson, Eugene S. 1965
Wood, Graham W. 1954
Woodward, Robert F. 1952
Washington Cathedral - 50th Anniversary Program 1957
Washington State College - Pullman 1955-1958
Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. 1956-1959
John Wiley and Sons 1951-1952
College of William and Mary 1955
Correspondence - W 1953-1963
Yale Review 1953-1956
Correspondence - Y, Z 1953-1960
Correspondence-unidentified senders n.d.
Correspondence-WLT to Peggy [?] 1942 Oct 10
Subseries M: POSITIONS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Creation of Subseries M: POSITIONS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Time of Creation of Subseries M: POSITIONS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Reports, notes, data, and correspondence relating to Thorp's participation in Pelham town government. He was on the Finance Committee from 1975-1987, Treasurer from 1987-1990, and on the Police Study Commission.
Finance Committee, Pelham (WLT) n.d.
Correspondence-WLT to Pelham Board of Selectmen n.d.
Friends of the Pelham Conservation Commission (WLT) 1986-1988
Pelham Historical Society 1974, n.d.
Pelham Police Study Committee (WLT) 1975
Pelham Police Study Committee-data 1975
Pelham Police Study Committee-report ca. 1989
Pelham Finance Committee-"Comments by Willard L. Thorp on the Operation of the Finance Committee" ca. 1985
Town of Pelham and State of Massachusetts-reports and budgets 1987-1989
Treasurer of Town of Pelham (WLT) 1986-1990
Subseries N: COLLECTIONS 1857-1987
Cancelled stamps, a small amount of foreign and U.S. currency and coins, postcards, and a framed, signed cartoon by Herb Lock.
Collection of cancelled stamps (11 folders) (Restrictions on use may apply) various, n.d.
U.S. and foreign currency 1857-[?]
U.S. and foreign coins [?]-1982
Blank postcards n.d.
Poster - The sculpture of Picasso, MOMA; three prints-various subjects 1968, n.d.
Framed, autographed cartoon, "Sacred cow" by Herb Lock, The Washington Post 1952
Series 2: CLARICE BROWS THORP
Professional and personal correspondence, typescripts, newsclippings, and financial records, biographical materials, memorabilia, and photographs. Pamphlets, legal briefs, typescripts, printed materials and correspondence document Brows Thorp's work in the 1930s for the American Civil Liberties Union, the Democratic National Committee Women's Division and Speakers Bureau, the New York Young Democratic Club, the Women's City Club of New York, and other Democratic and women's organizations. Professional and personal correspondence and printed material document Brows Thorp's continued involvement in advocacy of civil liberties; women's, minority, and voters rights; and her interest in insurance and labor law. The collection also contains some records and correspondence from her private legal practice. Materials dated 1948-1992 provide partial documentation of the activities of both Willard and Clarice Thorp, most notably their 1948 trip to Europe for the Third General Assembly of the United Nations. Correspondingly, portions of Clarice Brows Thorp's life are well-documented in Series 1, WILLARD L. THORP: Numerous additional photographs of Brows Thorp are in Subseries L: photographs, and extensive correspondence between Brows Thorp and Albert Lumley regarding renovation of the Thorp's Harkness Road house in Pelham, Mass., is located in Subseries B: Financial Affairs. Social correspondence that included both Thorps is also located in Series 1. See, in particular, Subseries J: Government Service II. Since Brows Thorp was deeply involved in organizing the summer sessions at the Merrill Center for Economics from 1953 through 1961, additional materials belonging to her may be found in Series 5: MERRILL CENTER FOR ECONOMICS.
Subseries A: PERSONAL AFFAIRS 1929-1994]
Applications, resumes, passports, correspondence, calendars, check books, clippings, typescripts, financial records, and a war ration book, as well as assorted materials from her trip accompanying Willard Thorp to the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948. Related materials appear in the Correspondence subseries.
Employment - correspondence, applications, resumes 1938-1942
Elementary school diploma 1925
Encyclopedia Britannica - correspondence, pamphlet, coupons 1945
Engagement calendars 1937, 1938
Engagement calendars 1939, 1940
Last will and testament n.d.
"Brim O'er" -Lake Bryn Mawr Camp (booklet) 1927-1928
Lists, notes n.d.
European trip - transatlantic crossing - travel documents, printed material 1948 Jun 25 - Dec 11
European trip - visiting cards, ephemera 1948, n.d.
European trip - playbills, menus, printed material 1948, n.d.
European trip - tourist materials, maps, pamphlets (2 folders) 1948, n.d.
Map (with marginalia)-United Nations visit to Amiens, France [1948 Nov]
Essay on the day of the assassination attempt on Palmiro Togliatti, Rome, Italy 1948
European trip - United Nations visit to Amiens - photographs, schedule, descriptive materials, maps 1948 Nov 16 - Nov 28
European trip - poetry, transcripts n.d
Two [mock] agent's reports on CBT to "J.E.H." [J. Edgar Hoover] ca. 1950
Finances - Checks, bank statements 1945 Jan-1946 Aug
Finances - receipts 1929-1961
Finances - wedding - receipts, budgets 1947 Jul - 1947 Aug
Finances - check registers 1947 Aug - 1948 Feb
Notes and printed material-Harkness Road house 1952, n.d.
Finances - estate of Freeman, Rose-fiduciary and tax returns, account statements, correspondence, notes 1958 - 1966
[RESTRICTED UNTIL 2041]
Finances - estate of Freeman, Rose-fiduciary and tax returns, account statements, correspondence, budgets 1961 - 1973
[RESTRICTED UNTIL 2048]
Finances - estate of Freeman, Rose - fiduciary and tax returns, account statements, correspondence, budgets 1966 - 1970
[RESTRICTED UNTIL 2045]
Finances - estate of Freeman, Rose - fiduciary and tax returns, account statements, correspondence, budgets 1970 - 1975
[RESTRICTED UNTIL 2050]
Finances - estate of Freeman, Rose - trust of Freeman, Lester - will, correspondence, legal records, accounting notes, account statements 1961, 1974 - 1979
[RESTRICTED UNTIL 2054]
Finances - estate of Freeman, Rose - fiduciary and tax returns, account statements, correspondence, budgets 1974 - 1979
Finances - investment statements, annual reports, receipts, tax return statements 1992 - 1994
Finances - printed materials, investment statements, annual reports, receipts 1992 - 1994
Passport, diplomatic 1948 Jun 22
Passport, diplomatic 1963 Mar 6
Passport 1973 - 1978
Printed materials - clippings, pamphlets, articles 1942, 1944, n.d.
Printed materials, clippings, ephemera 1938-1962, n.d.
Newsclippings and excerpts 1938
Memorandum of conversation at Brookhaven Laboratories 1955 Jul
Project proposals - correspondence, writings 1940-1941, n. d.
Typescripts - poems, excerpts, notes n.d.
Vacation materials - pamphlets, maps 1985
War ration book [1943]
Amherst College Library-gift list, correspondence 1992
Celebration of life-Hugh G.J. Atkin 1994
Subseries B: PROFESSIONAL AND VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES 1934-1993
Correspondence, printed materials, legal briefs, pamphlets, speech notes, contracts, meeting minutes, and financial statements reflecting Brows Thorp's political, legal, and bureaucratic activities. Related materials appear in the Correspondence subseries.
Notes and research materials-re: Supreme Court powers 1934, n.d.
The New Masses (New York) (five issues)
American Civil Liberties Union - pamphlets, legal briefs 1938-1941
American Civil Liberties Union - Press releases, speeches; correspondence (Baldwin, Roger N. and others); notes; printed material 1939-1941, 1955
American Civil Liberties Union - correspondence (Baldwin, Roger N.; Ernst, Morris; and others); report (Freeman, Joseph) of a hearing before the Rapp-Coudert Committee [New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate the Educational System of the State of New York] (16 May 1941) 1940-1942
American Civil Liberties Union - Alien Rights - correspondence, printed material 1940-1942
American Civil Liberties Union Alien Rights - notes for speech 1940
Associated Gas and Electric - Securities and Exchange Commission annual statements, AGECO and AGECORP directories 1942-1946
Associated Gas and Electric - AGE staff-poems, memorandum, newsclippings 1943 -1946
"Through the wringer with AG E"-Fortune Magazine article (incomplete), with enclosure to CBT from L. Byron Cherry 1945 Dec
Democratic National Committee, Women's Division - correspondence - McAllister, Dorothy Smith 1930-1939
Democratic National Committee, Women's Division - printed material - The Democratic Digest 1936-1937
Democratic National Committee, Women's Division - printed material - The Democratic Digest 1940-1944
Democratic National Committee, Women's Division - newsclippings 1938 Aug 31
New York Young Democratic Club, Inc. - correspondence, printed material, yearbook 1938
New York Young Democratic Club, Inc.-galley proof and photographs 1938
National Independent Committee for Roosevelt and Truman - newspapers; address by Dorothy Thompson (typescript); correspondence and accounts 1944
Organizations and Clubs - correspondence, printed material; includes summary report of the New York Coordinating Committee for Democratic Action, Summer-Autumn, 1939 (author: Rosenblatt, Maurice) 1936-1942
Organizations and Clubs - printed material, pamphlet, map 1943-1944
Organizations and Clubs - printed materials, correspondence 1993
Legal practice - Rand, Paul - correspondence, contracts, portfolio ][RESTRICTED UNTIL 2021] 1941, 1945-1946
Legal practice [RESTRICTED UNTIL 2021] 1943-1946
Gilbert and Associates 1946-1947
Legal practice - Maxine and Shirley Rosenberg guardianship [RESTRICTED UNTIL 2020] 1943-1945
Legal practice - family 1945-1946
Pioneer Valley Transit Authority - Members lists, meeting minutes, reports, budgets, correspondence 1987
Pioneer Valley Transit Authority - Members lists, meeting minutes, reports, budgets, map, legal records, correspondence 1987
Town of Pelham-list of registered voters n.d.
Subseries C: CORRESPONDENCE 1938-1993
Clarice Brows Thorp's personal and professional correspondence files. An attempt has been made to maintain her organization of this material.
Stationery, Clarice F. Brows and Willard L. Thorp n.d.
List of contacts n.d.
Correspondence-Buchdahl, Rosa 1954
Correspondence-Surrey, Walter 1954
Correspondence-re: college admissions 1961
[RESTRICTED UNTIL 2036]
Correspondence 1938, 1942-1943
Correspondence 1944 Jan 4 - 1944 Dec 27
Correspondence 1945 Jan 4 - 1945 May 31
Correspondence 1945 Jun 1 - 1945 Sep 27
Correspondence 1945 Oct 1 - 1946 Feb 26
Correspondence - European trip - Thorp, Willard L. 1948 Aug 11-1948 Sep 16
Correspondence [bulk 1948] 1948 Sep 20 - 1958 Aug 22
Correspondence 1949 - 1959
Correspondence 1960 - 1968
Correspondence - Thorp, Willard L [1961] Mar
Correspondence, printed material-re: relocation to Paris 1963
Correspondence 1992-1993, n.d.
Correspondence - Sympathy notes 1992 Oct - Nov
Correspondence - Christmas greetings 1992-1993, n.d.
Subseries D: PHOTOGRAPHS 1928-1945
Includes early photographs of Brows Thorp, one family photograph, and a small number of photographs sent to her by friends and acquaintances.
Photographs -Thorp, Clarice Brows; unidentified individuals [1929], 1934-1939, n.d.
Photographs-fragment of pistol license belonging to William Brows; Willard L. Thorp 1928, n.d.
Photographs -Duner, Michael 1943-1945
Photographs - Unidentified individuals and other subjects n.d.
Series 3: CHARLES N. THORP 1900-1963
Series 3 includes a small amount of material belonging to Willard Thorp's father, Charles Nicholas Thorp. The elder Thorp was born in Oxford, NY in 1869 or 1870, graduated from Amherst College in 1891, and went on to Yale Divinity School. He married Susan Gertrude Long in 1898. He was a Congregational minister and pastor of churches in Oswego, N.Y.; Duluth, Minn.; and Chelsea, Holyoke, Lincoln, and Chatham, Mass.. Materials include correspondence, clippings, writings, and two unpublished manuscripts (in typescript). An undated glass plate negative, presumably of Thorp ancestors, is also in this series. Additional materials about Willard Thorp's parents and other relatives may be found in Series 1, Subseries A, D, and L.
Correspondence - Charles N. Thorp 1900-1959, n.d.
Thorp family genealogical research n.d.
Ambrotype-Brown, Cyrus. M. (genealogical information enclosed) n.d.
Glass plate negative "Carriage-Fred, Etta, and Nelli"- [in fragments] n.d.
Obituary-Charles N. Thorp [1963]
Clippings, ephemera 1882-1960
Writings by Charles N. Thorp; poetry; writings by unidentified authors 1932, n.d.
'Everyman's Bible"-Charles N. Thorp (typescript) 1953
"The Joy of Immortality"-Charles N. Thorp (typescript) n.d.
Series 4: MERRILL CENTER FOR ECONOMICS 1948-1963
Series 4 documents the operations of the Merrill Center for Economics from 1953 to 1961. In 1951, Charles Edward Merrill (AC 1908) initiated the creation of the Merrill Center, a series of summer institutes that drew scholars, policy-makers, and business executives from the U.S. and abroad for wide-ranging discussions of economic issues. The Merrill Center was located at Charles Merrill's sixteen-acre estate in Southampton, NY ("The Orchard"), which he had made available for this purpose. Willard L. Thorp was asked to be director of the Merrill Center; he ran the Center jointly with his wife, Clarice Brows Thorp, from 1953 to 1961. This series contains clippings, reports, correspondence, administrative and financial records, conference papers, and the curriculum vitae of the large number of conferees who attended Merrill Center sessions during its nine years in operation. The series also includes a full set of the typescript, bound "Notes" from each session, which include summaries of the content of formal discussions.
Related material: Series 1, Subseries D: Photographs Merrill-McGowan Family Papers, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
Merrill Center -memoranda for conferees 1954, n.d.
Photographs-Charles Edward Merrill, Willard Thorp, Clarice Brows Thorp and unidentified individuals n.d.
Merrill Center for Economics-press release, clippings speech by Charles Edward Merrill, notes 1952-1956
Correspondence 1953-1962
Merrill Center conferees from colleges and universities 1956-1960
Merrill Center speakers 1953-1961
"Mr. McCloy's remarks-Merrill Foundation for Economics Southampton, N.Y." [McCloy, John J. (1895-1989, AC 1916)] 1954
Merrill Center visitors 1955
Proposals (unidentified authors) n.d.
Songs (3 folders) 1955-1961
Receipts, ephemera 1953-1954
Correspondence- Trade, Aid or What? (by WLT) 1952-1963
Session on Philanthropy- conference papers, correspondence, clippings, notes, printed materials (3 folders) 1961
Check stubs Merrill Center 1953-1961
Expense book 1957-1961
Expense book, the Orchard 1948-1959
Appointment book 1953
Administration, finances, annual report [1952-1961]
Address lists; lists of conferees; curriculum vitae of conferees; invitations declined [1953-1961
Invitations declined; lists; Merrill Center conferees- Abramson-Fels [1953-1961]
Merrill Center conferees-Ferguson-Moore [1953-1961]
Merrill Center conferees-Morag-Zwick [1953-1961]
Appraisal and inventory of the Orchard, Southampton, New York (furnishings) 1952
"Who was who at the Merrill Center" (curriculum vitae) 1953-1957
"Who was who at the Merrill Center" (curriculum vitae) 1958-1961
Bound Merrill Center conference notes (set 1) 1953-1960
Bound Merrill Center conference notes (set 1) 1961
Bound Merrill Center conference notes (set 2) 1953-1960
In remote storage.
Bound Merrill Center conference notes (set 2) 1961
In remote storage
Series 5: PRINTED MATERIAL 1850-1992
Series 5 includes newsletters and bulletins on economics and international affairs; offprints and articles by Willard L. Thorp and other authors; a selection of Amherst College publications; and books related to the town of Amherst, Amherst College, and higher education. The series includes a small number of publications not in any of these categories, including a book by the "other" Willard Thorp (a literature professor at Princeton University), given to Willard L. Thorp as a joke.
United States Congress, Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations-Hearings; United States House of Representatives, Committee on Banking and Credit-hearings 1952-1953
Willard L. Thorp-articles and offprints 1936-1951
Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Distinguished Service Award Announcement-Dean Acheson 1953 Oct.
Auction catalogues - Japanese prints (some annotated); fine art 1924-1927,n.d.
Pamphlets 1977-1992, n.d.
Brochures, stock reports, ephemera 1945-1989,n.d.
Pamphlets and photocopies-economic topics 1942-1991
Printed material and typescript-Edwin C. George 1948-1949
Printed material-economics; professional associations 1926-1963
Foreign Grants and Credits by the United States Government 1959-1961
Items - Social Science Research Council 1953-1962
India Economic Newsletter 1958-1961
Index-Svenska Handelsbanken Economic Review 1960-1962
Economic Intelligence 1952-1962
Capital Goods Review 1953-1960
Building Business 1956-1962
NATO Letter 1956-1961
Bulletin from the European Community 1954-1960
Technical Assistance Newsletter (United Nations) 1957-1958
Books - not Amherst-related (six books and pamphlets; one three-vol. set) 1917-1968
Amherst College publications 1952-1990
Books about Amherst (town) and Amherst College 1850, 1923-1976
Publications, mostly Amherst College, but also including three issues of Zenith, the yearbook of Duluth (Minn.) High School (1913-1915) 1913-ca. 2000
Certificate; program-inauguration of John William Lederle (University of Massachusetts) 1961, n.d.
Newspaper excerpts and clippings (book reviews, recipes, crossword) 1962-1968, n.d.
Life Magazine John F. Kennedy Memorial Edition (enclosure from John F. Kennedy, Jr.) 1963