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Andre De Coppet Collection 1566-1942 (mostly 1770-1865)
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portions of 2 boxes
This collection is stored at Firestone Library and Firestone Library.
This collection is stored onsite at Firestone Library. Boxes 18-19, 21-22, 36-38, and 47 are stored in special vault facilities.
Requests will be delivered to Manuscripts Division, RBSC Reading Room .
Collection Creator: De Coppet, Andre, 1892-1953..
Dates: 1904-1922.
Extent: portions of 2 boxes
Languages: English.
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research use. Researchers may be required to use surrogates of collection items stored in special vault facilities.
Description
Warren G. Harding was an American politician from Ohio who served as the twenty-ninth President of the United States (1921-1923). This series includes both personal and professional correspondence sent by and to Harding. A number of letters relate to his success as publisher and owner of Ohio newspaper the Marion Star. The series also includes over thirty letters sent from both Warren and his wife (Florence) to Charles R. Forbes, a friend whom Harding appointed head of the Veterans' Bureau. (Forbes later proved to be corrupt and was convicted for improprieties conducted while in office.) Other letters address various political and governmental business, including a group of letters to Frank A. Harrison, who was frustrated with the U.S. representation at the Brazilian International Centennial Exposition of 1922. Two miscellaneous documents and a photograph are housed at the end of the series.
Preferred Citation
Harding, Warren Gamaliel (1865-1923); 1904-1922; Andre De Coppet Collection, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.