1920-1982
Guide to the Collection
Restrictions on Access
The bulk of the Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. papers is stored offsite and must be requested at least two business days in advance via Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should provide additional advance notice. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@28277cc.com.
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., author, reporter, United States senator, and ambassador. Included are letters, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, audio tapes, newsreels, and memorabilia concerning Lodge's career as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, Massachusetts state representative, United States senator, and representative to the United Nations.
Biographical Sketch
Henry Cabot Lodge (1902-1985) was a U.S. senator and diplomat, the son of poet George Cabot Lodge and Mathilda Frelinghuysen (Davis) Lodge, and the grandson of U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924). He graduated from Harvard in 1924 and worked as a journalist until 1933. He married Emily Sears in 1926, and the couple had two children. Elected as a Republican state representative in Massachusetts in 1932, he moved up to the U.S. Senate in 1936. He took a temporary leave of absence from the Senate and served in World War II with American tank units in Libya. Lodge was re-elected to the U.S. Senate in 1942, but resigned in 1944 to serve with the army in Europe. He was elected once again to the Senate in 1946, but lost in 1952 to John F. Kennedy while working on Eisenhower's campaign. President Eisenhower appointed Lodge ambassador to the United Nations, where he served until 1960, when he ran as vice president with Richard Nixon, losing to the Kennedy/Johnson ticket. In 1963, President Kennedy appointed Lodge ambassador to Vietnam, and he was again appointed in 1965 by President Johnson. He served in that position until 1967 and then served in 1968-1969 as ambassador to Germany. In 1969, Lodge headed the U.S. delegation to the unsuccessful Paris Peace Talks with Vietnam. From 1969 to 1977, he served occasionally as an envoy to the Vatican for Presidents Nixon and Ford.
Collection Description
The papers of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., author, reporter, United States senator, and ambassador, include letters, speeches, scrapbooks, audio tapes, newsreels, and memorabilia concerning Lodge's career as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, Massachusetts state representative, United States senator, and representative to the United Nations. The collection also contains campaign literature, legislative subject files, and Senate correspondence; material related to Eisenhower's inauguration, including a Truman-Eisenhower transition diary, 1952-1953; material related to Lodge's service as 1952 Republican campaign manager, United Nations ambassador (1953-1960), Republican vice-presidential candidate (1960), and director of the Atlantic Institute (1961-1962); and diaries kept by Lodge, 1928-1929, 1943-1944, recording world trips.
Acquisition Information
The Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. papers were a gift to the Massachusetts Historical Society from Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Feb. 1978, with additions in 1983. Lodge's speech on the Panama Canal, ca. 1977, was a gift from Mark Zashin, March 2018.
Restrictions on Access
The bulk of the Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. papers is stored offsite and must be requested at least two business days in advance via Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should provide additional advance notice. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@28277cc.com.
Arrangement
Please note that this collection has only received a preliminary arrangement.
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Campaigns, 1932-1964
II. Legislative subject files, 1947-1952
III. General subject files, 1948-1975
IV. Voting record, 1933-1952
V. Eisenhower material, 1952-1957
Note: Lodge-Eisenhower correspondence has been moved to H. C. Lodge Papers II (Ms. N-166).
VI. United Nations, 1950-1976
VII. Speeches, 1926-1977
Note: Series VII is on microfilm P-519, Reels 1-14.
This item is not on microfilm.
VIII. Vietnam, 1963-1969
Included is material related to Lodge's appointment as ambassador, trips, correspondence, memorabilia, and photographs.
IX. Atlantic Institute, 1959-1963
Note: Series IX is on microfilm P-519, Reels 13-14.
Included are chronological files, 1959-1963; alphabetical subject files; Partnership for Progress files; alphabetical correspondence files; and printed matter about the Atlantic Institute.
X. Miscellaneous material, 1922-1977
XI. Special collections, 1920-1977
Included is correspondence with presidents Jimmy Carter, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman, and correspondence with Frances Wilcox.
XII. Diaries, 1928-1969
XIII. Memorabilia: passports, 1932-1964
XIV. Additions, 1946-1982
XV. Scrapbooks, 1923-1978
Oversize scrapbooks
XVI. Photographs
The bulk of the photographs are stored ONSITE in the MHS Photograph Archives.XVII. Audio/visual material
Stored ONSITE in the MHS A/V Archives. Two boxes of LPs stored ONSITE at Ms. N-1583 (XT).Included are films and audiotapes, as well as two boxes of records (LPs).
Note: For information about the material in this series, please contact the MHS library at library@28277cc.com.
Voice of America audio recordings
Note: The Voice of America audio recordings have been reformatted to CD-ROM for onsite access only. The MHS does not own the copyright to these items and cannot provide copies to researchers. For copies, please contact: National Archives, 8601 Adelphi Road, NWCS-M Room 3360, Motion Picture, Sound & Video, College Park, MD 20740-6001.
"Cabot Lodge Press Conf. Paris Aug. 18, 1964" (1 reel)
"1 Sep 64 Press Conference
Henry Cabot Lodge" (2 reels)
"18 June 65 Oxford Teach In Wed 16 June. Amb Cabot Lodge -
Question and Answer session" (1 reel)
"April 18, 1967 - 194 Cong Ly - Goodbye for Amb.
& Mrs. Lodge & Amb. & Mrs. Porter" (3 reels)
Face the Nation television interviews (16 mm film)
Note: The Face the Nation television interviews have been reformatted to CD-ROM for onsite access only. The MHS does not own the copyright to these items and cannot provide copies to researchers. For copies, please contact CBS.
18 Sep. 1955 (1 reel)
4 Oct. 1961 (1 reel)
23 Mar. 1961 (2 reels)
Home movies (16 mm film)
Note: These items have been reformatted for use by researchers. For copies, please contact the MHS library at library@28277cc.com.
Reel 1: "In Ocotillo Desert," etc.
Reel 2: "Home movie" [no other labeling
information]
Reel 3: "West Texas Pecos Canyon," etc.
Reel 4: "Claude Yokam
movies/Home movie"
Reel 5: "Boats La. High Bridge," etc.
Unreformatted material
Included are 30 audio tapes (mostly reel to reel, a few cassettes), 13 films, and 6 audio discs (records).
XVIII. Oversize material
Stored ONSITE at Ms. N-1583 (OS).Included are three oversize boxes of awards and citations, maps, commissions, political cartoons, drawings, etc. Box 3 contains the oversize scrapbook #5 (disbound) with news clippings from 1953.
Materials Removed from the Collection
Photographs from this collection have been removed to the Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. photographs, ca. 1861-1985. Photo. Coll. 184.
Preferred Citation
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
Access Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in ABIGAIL, the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should search the catalog using these headings.