Simpson, Smith. mixed material Personal correspondence. monographic eng fre gre 10,000 40 15.2 Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material, followed by an addition arranged by type of material or subject. 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. Open to research. Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Smith Simpson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 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 Gift, Smith Simpson, 1992-2002. Gift, Margaret Maurin and Zelia S. Broyles, 2013. Diplomat, labor attaché, industrial relations expert, and educator. Full name: Robert Smith Simpson. Born 1906; died 2010. Collection material in English, with French and Greek. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010247 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. 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