Bliss, Tasker Howard, 1853-1930 mixed material Personal correspondence. monographic eng 80,000 393 1 104 Part I: General File, 1870-1919. Part II arranged in six series. Series 1: Personal File, 1917-1920; Series 2: Office File-Supreme War Council, 1917-1930; Series 3: Family Correspondence, 1864-1933; Series 4: General Correspondence, 1892-1927; Series 5: Speech and Article File, 1909-1927; and Series 6: Miscellany, 1907-1929. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, minutes of meetings, speeches, lectures, reports, articles, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to Bliss's military career and participation in peace negotiations following World War I. Documents his service with the U.S. American Commission to Negotiate Peace following the war, participation in the Allied and Associated Powers Supreme War Council, term as chief of staff of the U.S. War Dept. General Staff in 1917, and association with the Army War College. Also documents his service in Cuba during and after the Spanish-American War of 1898; in the Philippines, 1905-1909; and on the Mexican border during the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920. Subjects include freedom of the seas and postwar economic and political issues in Europe. Correspondents include Henry T. Allen, Newton Diehl Baker, Oscar Terry Crosby, Joseph C. Grew, Leland Harrison, Herbert Hoover, Edward Mandell House, Robert Lansing, Frank L. Polk, Henry White, and Woodrow Wilson. Open to research. Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Tasker Howard Bliss Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Gift, Tasker Howard Bliss, 1929-1930. Gift, Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1935. Gift, Eleanora Frances Knopf, 1936-1971. Gift, trustees of the estate of Tasker Howard Bliss, 1939. Army officer, diplomat, and scholar. Collection material in English. Maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Broadsides transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013058 Allen, Henry T. (Henry Tureman), 1859-1930 Correspondence Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 Correspondence Crosby, Oscar Terry, 1861-1947 Correspondence Grew, Joseph C. (Joseph Clark), 1880-1965 Correspondence Harrison, Leland, 1883-1951 Correspondence Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 Correspondence House, Edward Mandell, 1858-1938 Correspondence Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928 Correspondence Polk, Frank L. (Frank Lyon), 1871-1943 Correspondence White, Henry, 1850-1927 Correspondence Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 Correspondence United States. American Commission to Negotiate Peace. United States. Army. United States. Army Foreign service Cuba United States. Army Foreign service Philippines United States. War Department. General Staff. Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920). Supreme War Council. Army War College (U.S.) Freedom of the seas Spanish-American War, 1898 Cuba World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918 Peace Cuba History 1895- Europe Economic conditions 1918-1945 Europe Politics and government 1918-1945 Mexico History Revolution, 1910-1920 Philippines History 1898-1946 United States Foreign relations 1913-1921 Army officers Diplomats Scholars Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home MSS13037 mm 78013037 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms013058 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms013058.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013058 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013058.3 dacs DLC 781002 20250607224907.5 5802112 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng