Thayer, Charles W. Papers

FOLDER TITLE LIST

ALPHABETICAL CORRESPONDENCE FILE

Box 1

• A
• Adenauer, Konrad, articles re
• Africa, trip to - 1961
• Afghanistan, correspondence re 1942-44
• Almy family correspondence
• The Arsonist, correspondence re 1954
• B
• Berlin, American Consulate General - 1939 (not identified)
• Blassingame, Lorton
• Bohlen, Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. (largely personal)
• Brandt & Brandt - literary agents
• Brandt, Willy (German language correspondence)

Box 2

• Ca - Cl
• Castles, correspondence re
• Co - Cy
• Cochrane, Diane
• Contracts, literary
• D
• Dunn, James C.
• E
• Education, story on military
• F
• Foreign Service

Box 3

• G
• Georgescu, V.C. (Rumanian displaced person)
• German disarmament after World War I - report by Charles W. Thayer - 1944
• Germany, 1937-39
• Gruenther, General Alfred M.
• H
• Harper & Brothers Publishers
• Harriman, W. Averell 1942-68
• Henderson, Loy 1939-58
• Hunting, correspondence re
• Invitations - guest list - 1961
• J-K
• Kennan, George F. 1935-59
• Kennedy, Robert F. 1961-65
• Korea - documents re 1946
• L
• Lebanon crisis 1958 - correspondence re
• Legion of Merit - award to Charles W. Thayer

Box 4

• Mc
• M
• Mallorica, articles re
• Murrow, Edward R., 1953-55
• N
• O
• Office of Strategic Services (OSS) - Austria 1945-46
• R
• S
• Schweitzer, Dr. Albert
• State Department, correspondence re Thayer's resignation - 1953
• Socialism in Germany - correspondence re
• T

Box 5

• Thayer, Cynthia D. (personal correspondence with his wife)
• Thayer family correspondence - contains biographical material on Charles W. Thayer
• Thayer, Mrs. George C. "Muzzy" - correspondence with his mother
• Thayer, Mrs. Gertrude, estate of - 1964
• Thayer, James D. (personal material re his son)
• Thompson, Llewllyn, E., 1950-67
• Tito - Reader's Digest articles re
• Truman, Harry S. - correspondence re Bears in the Caviar and Hands Across the Caviar - 1952
• U-V
• Voice of America - correspondence re 1946-54
• W
• Wilder, Thornton 1953-54
• Wiley, John C. 1940-62
• Yugoslavia - correspondence and articles re
• XYZ
• Unidentified correspondence

DIARIES

Box 6

• West Point - June 29, 1928 - July 1, 1929 (2 folders)
• West Point - Feburary 17, 1931 - July 8, 1932
• Moscow - September 20, 1933 - February 17, 1934
• Moscow - February 18-28, 1934
• Moscow - July 31-August 7, 1935 (trip back to the United States)
• Moscow - 1934, September 20, 1937 and Berlin - September 22, 1937
• Moscow and Kazan (personal and private) June 22, 1941 - September 5, 1941
• Moscow, Kazan, and Kuibyshev - September 5 - October 9, 1941
• Kuibyshev, USSR and Teheran, Iran - December 10, 1941 - May 6, 1942

Box 7

• Kabul, Afghanistan - May 7 - June 22, 1942
• Kabul, Afghanistan - June 23-August 24, 1942
• Yugoslavia - September - October 1944
• Munich, Germany - June 3 - November 17, 1952
• Munich, Germany - November 18, 1952 - July 15, 1953
• Munich and Mallorea - March 28, 1953 - May 24, 1954 (2 folders)
• 1955
• November 1955 - January 1956

Box 8

• November 1, 1955 - January 7, 1956 (2 folders)
• United States trip - October 20 - November 30, 1957
• Beirut, Lebanon - July 1959
• February 23-29, 1961 (2 folders)
• Nashville trip - January 1962 - January 1963
• Germany - 1967

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND DIARIES (originals)

Box 9

• Miscellaneous notes and diaries, 1931-58 (2 folders)
• Newspapers - The Russian Daily News - 1917 (English edition)
• Newspaper clippings - miscellaneous
• Posters - World War II (German language)

SUBJECT FILE

Box 10

• Afghanistan - articles re
• Afghanistan - correspondence re 1943
• Afghanistan - general (2 folders)
• Afghanistan - autographed photographs - 1943
• Bavaria, tales from
• Bears in the Caviar by Charles W. Thayer
• Berlin, articles re - 1962
• Bombing, articles re - "Who's Fault was the Break-Back Bombing?"
• Brandt, Willy - article re 1958

Box 11

• Egypt - "Expedition to St. Catherine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula"
• European trip - December, 1948 - January 1949 - report to George V. Allen - State Department
• Germany - article re "German Army - Old or New?"
• Germany - article re "Seven Lean Years"
• Germany - article re "Germany's Aspirations in the East"
• Germany - article re "Some of my Best Friends are Germans"
• Germany - article re 1951
• Germany - article re 1954
• Germany - article re 1957
• Germany - article re 1967
• Germany - article re miscellaneous
• Germany - article re humorous stories re Office of War Information (OWI)
• Germany - instrument of surrender
• Germany - National Socialism (NSDP - Nazis)
• Germany - proposed novel re
• Germany - Brandt, Willy - curriculum vitae of
• Deutsche Partei of Bavaria

Box 12

• Guerrilla warfare, article re
• "Help" article dictated by Charles W. Thayer at the Wills Eye Hospital
• Hunting in the Balkans
• Hunting - lease in Ruhpolding
• Hunting - Russian hunting trips 1959-66
• Hunting - Sports Illustrated - articles 1954
• Iran "The Khas Road" by John Russell, Teheran - April 1959
• Japan, Allied Council for - 1946
• Jokes - Anti-Communist humor
• Korea - 1946
• Lebanon, articles re 1958
• Marshall Plan (Marshall's speech at Harvard University June 5, 1947)
• Mongolia - article re "A Rotten Apple and a Dinosaur's Egg" - 1963
• Mongolia - biography of Sun Tzu
• Newspaper clippings - general
• Newspaper clippings - re publications

Box 13

• Olympic Games - story on - 1960
• Post cards - miscellaneous
• Public Papers of the Presidents - Franklin D. Roosevelt - Message to Congress on UNRRA - November 15, 1943
• Public Papers of the Presidents - Harry S. Truman - Statement of the President on Demobilization - January 8, 1946
• Rhine River trip - 1957
• Russia - articles on 1933-37
• Russia - articles on 1937-41 (drafts)
• Russia - articles on "Anecdotes on Russia"
• Russia - published by Charles W. Thayer
• Russia - serious articles on

Box 14

• Russia - articles on Stalin - related article
• Russia - miscellaneous articles re
• Russia - general information re 1939-41
• Russia - play "Voice Out of Russia"
• Russia - Russian oriented stories
• Russia - Russian fiction stories - general
• Russia - Russian fiction stories - unsold
• Russia - Russian fiction stories - "Ivan" series
• Russia - Russian fiction stories - "Katrinka" series
• Russia - short non-fiction stories re
• Russia - miscellaneous materials re 1933-37

Box 15

• State Department - Consul General - USSR - general
• State Department - Radio broadcast by Secretary Hull re India October 13, 1943
• Thayer, Charles W. - miscellaneous articles and lecture notes
• Thayer, Charles W. - personal - certificates and honors
• Time-Life Publications - humorous stories by Charles W. Thayer
• Treasury Department - "An International Stabilization Fund for the United and Associated Nationas" - July 10, 1943
• Trout fishing in Bavaria
• United States Military Academy - general information
• United States Navy and Marine Corps - biographical sketches
• United States Navy - Civilian Air Cruise, Pensacola, Florida 1968
• United States in a New World - IV "Relations with Europe" 1943
• United States Senate - Committee on Foreign Relations - 1958

Box 16

• Voice of America - Russian Branch-reports 1947-62
• Voice of America - newspaper and magazine editorial comments
• Voice of America - Radio Free Europe - Munich
• Yugoslavia - articles and notes re
• Miscellaneous notes and materials

WRITINGS AND PUBLICATIONS: Chronological Correspondence re

Box 17

• December 1954-1955
• 1956
• 1957
• 1958
• 1959
• Outlines - 1955-57

WRITINGS AND PUBLICATIONS: Topical File

Box 18

• Africa - article "Juba Safari" by Charles W. Thayer
• Bombing - article re "Who's Fault was the Back-Break Bombing?"
• Debutantes "Magic and Religion in the Potamac [sic] River Valley" (draft article)
• Egypt - article "When I was in Egypt" - visit to St. Catherine's Monastery
• Foreign Area Studies - Research Guide - August 1966
• Foreign Service - 1939-59
• Foreign Service - Guide book to the
• Foreign Service - "Diplomat" by Charles W. Thayer, Chapters 1-4
• Foreign Service - "Diplomat" by Charles W. Thayer, Chapters 5-7
• Foreign Service - "Diplomat" by Charles W. Thayer, drafts
• Foreign Service - Reviews of "Diplomat"

Box 19

• Foreign Service - article - "Do We Need Diplomats?"
• Foreign Service - "Officer and Gentlemen" by Charles W. Thayer (Novel about McCarthyism and the Foreign Service)
• Foreign Service - "Officer and Gentlemen" - drafts
• Foreign Service - "Officer and Gentlemen" - 2nd draft
• Foreign Service - "Officer and Gentlemen" - original manuscript 1963
• Foreign Service - report on - prepared in the Office of the Director General, Foreign Service, December 1959

Box 20

• Germany - Martin Agronsky interview with West German Chancellor Kiesinger
• Germany - educational and cultural exchange
• Germany - article "The Future of Educational Television in Germany"
• Germany - Look Magazine article (page proofs)
• Germany - "News from Germany" 1955-56
• Germany - article, "Some of My Best Friends are German"
• Germany - article, "Time of My Life"
• Germany - Unquiet Germans by Charles W. Thayer
• Germany - "Westerberg" - a novel by Charles W. Thayer
• Germany - report on the Amerika Haus - 1972
• Germany - notes re Lowell M. Clucas
• Germany - introduction to "Stalingrad" by Theodore Pliever
• Germany - Weekly Biography - Ambassador Hans Heinrich von Herwarth
• Germany - "How to Redeem a Fatherland" by Richard A. Yahroes 1955
• Germany - German language article - "20 Jahre Ohne Frieden" by Hans Hertel
• Germany - German language artilce - "Zur Frage des West-OST-Handels" by Dr. Vallrath Freiherr von Maltzan
• Germany - German language article "Un die Zukunft des deutschen Fernsehens" by Dr. Clemens Munster
• Germany - German language - National Democratic Party of Germany (NDP)
• Germany - article, "Ruhpolding, Bevolkerungszahlen Von" by L. Schumaker
• Germany - German language - Social Democratic Party (SDP)
• Germany - German language article "Zur Frage eines Kommerziellen Fernsehens" by Franz Kommerziellen Fernsehens Stadelmayer

Box 21

• Germany - German language - galley proofs for "Die Unruhigen Deutschen"
• Germany - German language "Uteillbares Deutschland"
• Germany - German language newspapers
• Germany - German language reviews of Thayer's writing
• Germany - German and other foreign language reviews
• Germany - Neo-Nazism, articles re-1961
• Germany - Miscellaneous articles re the German Federal Republic and NATO
• Germany - German language document - unidentified
• Guerrilla warfare - U.S. Army, Special Warfare School, Fort Bragg, North Carolina - reports (folders 1 & 2)

Box 22

• Guerrilla warfare - U.S. Army, Special Warfare School, Fort Bragg, North Carolina (folder 3)
• Guerrilla warfare - Chinese Community Revolutionary Strategy, 1945-49
• Guerrilla warfare - "La Guerra de Guerrillas" re Cuba
• Guerrilla warfare - Counter Insurgency operations - handbook
• Guerrilla warfare - "International War and Pacification: The Vender 1789-1797" by Peter Paret, Center for International Studies, Princeton University
• Guerrilla warfare - Interview with Colonel White, Australian Military Attache, Washington, D.C. re Malayan guerrilla warfare
• Guerrilla warfare - reprint of articles
• Guerrilla warfare - Thayer's hand written notes re
• Guerrilla warfare - U.S. Department of State - remarks of Roger Helsman, Director of Intelligence and Research, August 10, 1961
• Guerrilla warfare - VietNam War - reports 1961-62 (2 folders)

Box 23

• Guerrilla warfare - Manuscript, "Guerrilla" (5 folders)
• Guerrilla warfare - galley proofs for "Guerrilla" (2 folders)

Box 24

• Humor - articles on, written by Charles W. Thayer, 1953-54
• Hunting - Sports Illustrated, articles published in, 1959-61
• Hunting - articles - general
• Living abroad "Mallorca for Living," "Bringing up Children Abroad" and "Snow Job" articles
• Mongolia - manuscript "Rotten Apples and the Dinosaur Egg"
• Russia - articles by Charles W. Thayer (A-C)
• Russia - articles by Charles W. Thayer (D-L)
• Russia - articles by Charles W. Thayer (M-W)
• Russia - Reporter magazine articles 1959
• Russia - articles and reviews by Charles W. Thayer - general
• Russia - draft of ficticious letter addressed to the President of the U.S. dated December 18, 1981 re appointment of Thayer as Ambassador to the USSR
• Russia - "Changes in Soviet Society," Conference, Oxford University, June 24-29, 1957
• Russia - history excerpts from Dispatch of American Minister to Russia, Neill S. Brown, Petersburg, November 6, 1851
• Russia - memorandum of conversation with Ambassador Smirnov May 8, 1957
• Russia - memorandum of conversation with Herr von Cube, political commentator of the South German radio and Herman Probst, Chief Editor, Suddeutsche Zeitung - May 21, 1960

Box 25

• Russia - Moscow daily press reviews - October 5, 1955
• Russia - Moscow traffic regulations for city of - 1953
• Russia - Newspaper clippings - Russian language - Moscow 1930-37
• Russia - Manuscript "Olga and die Junge Garde" by Kurt Kava
• Russia - Pravda - article from, "A Free Day in Mozhaisk"
• Russia - Russian language manuscript
• Russia - Seminar report, "Public Opinion and Propaganda in the Soviet Union"
• Russia - Soviet Affairs and Analysis Service - January 12, 1960
• Russia - Trip to Russia - W. Averell Harriman - May 12 - June 26, 1959
• Russia - Harriman trip - 1959- Diary of (copy 3)
• Russia - Harriman trip - 1959- Diary of (copy 4)
• Russia - Harriman trip - 1959- Magazine article re published in Life, Look, American Weekly and Munich Illustrated
• Russia - Harriman trip - 1959- Notebooks re (6)
• Russia - Trip to Russia - Charles W. Thayer - 1956
• Russia - U.S. reply to Soviet Aide Memoir on Germany and Berlin, July 18, 1961
• Russia - World War II - reactions of the Soviet people to German invasion

Box 26

• Russia - Charles W. Thayer's writings re 1937-39
• Russia - Charles W. Thayer's early writings e.g. Bears in the Caviar - notes and working papers
• Russia - Manuscript, Bears in the Caviar by Charles W. Thayer - publishers mock-up copy (2 folders)
• Russia - Manuscript, Hands Across the Caviar by Charles W. Thayer (draft)
• Russia - Manuscript - untitled (2 folders)

Box 27

• Russia - Hands Across the Caviar - reviews
• Russia - Manuscript, "To Decide to Die" by Charles W. Thayer - Chapters 1-10, 11-15
• Russia - background material - newspaper clippings, outline on "Russia" 1932, Foreign Policy Reports used by Thayer in "Decide to Die"
• Russia - manuscript, Moscow Interlude, historical novel by Charles W. Thayer - publisher's mock-up copy (3 folders)
• Russia - dossier on Yuri Loginov alias Edmund Trinka prepared for Readers Digest - working papers and notes
• Russia - article "A West Pointer Looks at Russia," published in The Forum January-June 1934
• Russia - article, "Lessons of World War II" by Charles W. Thayer

Box 28

• Soviet Satellite Countries - general
• Soviet Satellite Countries - Communist China - "The Glorious Military Thought of Comrade [sic] Mao Tse-Tung" by Samuel B. Griffith II
• Soviet Satellite Countries - Czechoslovakia - Supreme Court of Delaware-case of Bota v. Hill re book on Czechoslovakia
• Soviet Satellite Countries - Czechoslovakia - manuscript, "John Anderson" (draft)
• Soviet Satellite Countries - East Germany - manuscript Check Point by Charles W. Thayer - chapters 1-10, chapters 11-18
• Soviet Satellite Countries - East Germany - Check Point drafts and working papers
• Soviet Satellite Countries - East Germany - Check Point early versions - Berlin
• Soviet Satellite Countries - East Germany - manuscript, Check Point (annotated copy - page proofs) - chapters 1-10, chapters 11-18

Box 29

• Soviet Satellite Countries - East Germany - manuscript, Check Point, publisher's mock-up copy (2 folders)
• Soviet Satellite Countries - East Germany - manuscript Check Point, galley proofs (2 folders)

Box 30

• Soviet Satellite Countries - Hungary - article, "Tito vs. Rakosi: The Vendetta Behind the Hungarian Revolution" by Charles W. Thayer
• Soviet Satellite Countries - Hungary - article, "When They Stole the Code in Budapest" by Charles W. Thayer
• Soviet Satellite Countries - Poland - article, "B-15: The True Story of an Almost Perfect Spy" by Charles W. Thayer
• Soviet Satellite Countries - Rumania - manuscript, "Constantin and Peter Georgescu: Two Boys under the Hammer and Sickle as told to Brutus Coste"
• Soviet Satellite Countries - Rumania - Testimony of Ex-King Michael of Rumania before the Kersten Committee, London
• Soviet Satellite Countries - Yugoslavia - article published in Reader's Digest, "Yugoslavia: The Bell-Weather Keeps Turning Right" by Charles W. Thayer
• Soviet Satellite Countries - Yugoslavia - article, "Tito - The Man Who Buries Marx" by Charles W. Thayer
• Soviet Satellite Countries - Yugoslavia - memorandum of conversation with Jozca and Vilfan - November 10, 1956
• Soviet Satellite Countries - Yugoslavia - Summary of the Yugoslav press - 1955
• Soviet Satellite Countries - Yugoslavia - reports re
• Soviet Satellite Countries - Yugoslavia - copies of Telegrams 1956
• Soviet Satellite Countries - Tito address, November 16, 1956 (reprint)
• Thayer, Mrs. George C. "Muzzy" - biography of his mother by Charles W. Thayer - correspondence and notes re 1964-66
• Thayer, Mrs. George C. "Muzzy" - drafts and rewrites - introduction, chapters 1-2
• Thayer, Mrs. George C. "Muzzy" - drafts and rewrites - chapter 3

Box 31

• Thayer, Mrs. George C. "Muzzy" - biography of his mother by Charles W. Thayer - drafts and rewrites, chapter 4
• Thayer, Mrs. George C. "Muzzy" - drafts and rewrites, chapters 5-6
• Thayer, Mrs. George C. "Muzzy" - drafts and rewrites, chapter 7
• Thayer, Mrs. George C. "Muzzy" - page corrections - original manuscript (2 folders)

Box 32

• Thayer, Mrs. George C. "Muzzy" - biography of his mother by Charles W. Thayer - unused manuscript (2 folders)
• Thayer, Mrs. George C. "Muzzy" - publisher's mock-up copy (2 folders)
• Thayer, Mrs. George C. "Muzzy" - galley proofs - Harper & Row, February 19, 1966
• Thayer, Mrs. George C. "Muzzy" - galley proof - Harper & Row
• Thayer, Mrs. George C. "Muzzy" - April 4, 1966, "About the Author Copy"

Box 33

• United States service academies - general - background material for possible study urged by Harper & Row - 1966
• Review of books - "Guerrilla" manuscript - 1963-64
• Review of books - "Check Point" manuscript - 1966
• Review of articles by other authors - reviewed by Thayer, 1966-67

PERSONAL AND MISCELLANEOUS FILES

• Agriculture, Department of - address by Secretary Orville L. Freeman - March 6, 1963
• Automobile - 1953 Plymouth - brochure re
• Calling Cards - Charles W. Thayer - U.S. Soviet Joint Commission
• Calling Cards - miscellaneous

Box 34

• New Years Celebration - USSR - 1956 - program in Russian
• New York City - Department of Commerce and Public Events "New York City Highlights," September 15, 1955
• Newspaper - Polish - 1941
• Passports - U.S. diplomatic
• Personal materials sent to his mother, Mrs. George C. Thayer - 1940
• Russian mileage figures
• School records - Charles W. Thayer - Haverford School - 1920-23
• School records - Charles W. Thayer - St. Paul School - 1923-28
• School records - Charles W. Thayer - U.S. Military Academy - 1930-33
• School records - Charles W. Thayer, Jr.
• Stamps - German - Adolph Hitler (cancelled)
• Stamps and money - Mongolia
• Cross reference sheets

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