Simpson, Smith. collectionmanuscriptmixed material Personal correspondence. lcgft https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026141 eng Correspondence, oral history interview, writings, subject files, family papers, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Simpson's career as a labor and industrial relations expert, educator, and diplomat, as well as his efforts, late in his diplomatic career and following his retirement, to improve the quality of American diplomacy. Documents his work as a labor and industrial relations expert prior to World War II; postwar service as labor attaché in Belgium, Greece, and Mexico; deputy consul general in India; consul general in Mozambique; advisor on African affairs, U.S. Department of Labor; and member of the Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service. Also documents his student years at the University of Virginia; law studies at Cornell Law School; service during the New Deal in Franklin D. Roosevelt presidential administration as a labor advisor and administrator with the U.S. National Recovery Administration (NRA); years as a professor at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; work in the U.S. War Shipping Administration's Recruitment and Manning Organization during World War II; and his role as cofounder and board member of the Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. Includes an oral history interview with Smith Simpson conducted in 1991 for the Frontline diplomacy : the U.S. foreign affairs oral history collection. Subjects include the American peace movement during the post-World War I period; the International Labour Organisation; communist penetration of trade unions in western and southern European countries following World War II; portrayal of labor in the American popular, official, industrial, and trade union press between 1945 and 1954; quality, conduct, and history of American diplomacy; and the recruitment and training of Foreign Service officers. Correspondents include college friends; diplomats; educators; leaders of national and international labor organizations, in particular, of the International Labour Organization; and peace activists, in particular, Newton Diehl Baker, Charles A. Beard, Gilson Blake, Bruce Bliven, James B. Bowers Jr., Robert W. Bruère, Kenneth W. Colegrove, M.H. Hedges, Elmo Paul Hohman, Marcel J. Lemmers, Helen Margaret Moats, Hugh Anderson Moran, Irene Hornby Moran, Jean Moran, Frances Perkins, E.J. Phelan, James W. Riddleberger, James T. Shotwell, William L. Tayler, Florence Calvert Thorne, Oscar W. Underwood, Pierre Waelbroeck, Robert J. Watt, Richard Wilson, and John G. Winant. Family correspondents include Simpson's wife, Henriette Lanniée Simpson; and parents, Edith Smith Simpson and Hendree P. Simpson. Family papers include genealogical information concerning the Hendree, Simpson, Smith, and Tinsley families. Includes a letter (1865 January 16) describing the participation of the USS Wabash (frigate) in the capture of Fort Fisher in North Carolina during the Civil War. Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Smith Simpson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Smith Simpson, Margaret Maurin and Zelia S. Broyles, Diplomat, labor attaché, industrial relations expert, and educator. Full name: Robert Smith Simpson. Born 1906; died 2010. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937--Correspondence. Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948--Correspondence. Blake, Gilson--Correspondence. Bliven, Bruce, 1889-1977--Correspondence. Bowers, James B., Jr.--Correspondence. Bruère, Robert W. (Robert Walter), 1876-1964--Correspondence. Colegrove, Kenneth W. (Kenneth Wallace), 1886-1975--Correspondence. Hedges, M. H. (Marion Hawthorne), 1888-1959--Correspondence. Hohman, Elmo Paul, 1894-1977--Correspondence. Lemmers, Marcel J. (Marcel Jacques), 1908---Correspondence. Moats, Helen Margaret, 1906---Correspondence. Moran, Hugh Anderson, 1881-1977--Correspondence. Moran, Irene Hornby, 1881-1964--Correspondence. Moran, Jean--Correspondence. Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965--Correspondence. Phelan, E. J. (Edward Joseph), 1888-1967--Correspondence. Riddleberger, James W. (James Williams), 1904-1982--Correspondence. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. Shotwell, James T., 1874-1965--Correspondence. Simpson, Edith Smith--Correspondence. Simpson, Hendree P.--Correspondence. Simpson, Henriette Lanniée, 1908-2007--Correspondence. Tayler, William L. (William Lonsdale), 1899-1992--Correspondence. Thorne, Florence Calvert--Correspondence. Underwood, Oscar W. (Oscar Wilder), 1890-1962--Correspondence. Waelbroeck, Pierre, 1891-1944--Correspondence. Watt, Robert J.--Correspondence. Wilson, Richard (Corporate lawyer)--Correspondence. Winant, John G. (John Gilbert), 1889-1947--Correspondence. Hendree family. Simpson family. Smith family. Tinsley family. United States. Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service. United States. Department of Labor. United States. Department of State. United States. Foreign Service. United States. National Recovery Administration. United States. War Shipping Administration. Recruitment and Manning Organization. Cornell Law School--Students. Georgetown University. Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. International Labour Organisation. International Labour Organisation--Correspondence. University of Virginia--Students. Wabash (Frigate) Wharton School--Faculty. Communism--Europe. Diplomacy. Diplomatic and consular service, American. Diplomatic and consular service, American--Belgium. Diplomatic and consular service, American--Greece. Diplomatic and consular service, American--India. Diplomatic and consular service, American--Mexico. Diplomatic and consular service, American--Mozambique. Industrial relations--Africa. Industrial relations--United States. International labor activities. Labor unions--Europe. Labor unions--United States. Labor unions and mass media--United States. Merchant marine--United States. New Deal, 1933-1939. Peace movements--United States. World War, 1939-1945--United States. Africa--Economic conditions. Fort Fisher (N.C. : Fort)--Capture, 1865. North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. United States--Economic policy--1933-1945. United States--Foreign relations--20th century. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns. Container 4 : transcript of an oral history interview with Smith Simpson conducted in 1991 for the Frontline diplomacy : the U.S. foreign affairs oral history collection available through the Library of Congress Web site at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mfdip.2004sim06 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mfdip.2004sim06 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010247 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010247.3 Open to research.