1920-1968
Foreign Service officer, 1933-1953; Chief, Division of International Broadcasting, Voice of America, 1947-1949; Political Liaison Officer to the German Government, Bonn, 1950-1951; Consul General, Munich, 1952-1953
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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
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
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)
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
Box 17
- December 1954-1955
- 1956
- 1957
- 1958
- 1959
- Outlines - 1955-57
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 Democrati