Marriner S. Eccles, general correspondence, 1951 - 1977: L [15]

Correspondence of Marriner S. Eccles with Claire Booth Luce, discussing the need for the United States to engage with Communist China to draw it out from the influence of Soviet Russia. Includes a 21-page typescript of a commencement address by Luce delivered 9 June 1964 at St. John's University in Jamaica, New York. The speech was entitled "The crisis in Soviet-Chinese relations.

Marriner S. Eccles, correspondence with Senator J. William Fulbright [04]

Correspondence of Marriner S. Eccles with J. William Fulbright, U.S. Senator from Arkansas in 1966. As Fulbright was Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, these letters often reflect his and Mr. Eccles's growing concern over U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. There are also references to the politics of the time, as well as personal notes between two friends. Includes a 9-page typescript of a "Prospectus" for a national conference of Democrats on a "strategy for a reappraisal of American policy in Southeast Asia," to be held in San Francisco in July; and letters exchanged with Gerald N. Hill, President of the California Democratic Council, which hosted the July conference

Speech before the Manhattan Society, New York, February 21, 1938

Typescript (3 pages) of a short talk by Marriner S. Eccles given at the Manhattan Society in New York City on February 21, 1938. The occasion was in honor of Mr. Menc S. Szymczak, a colleague on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Letter to Senator Harry F. Byrd from M. S. Eccles, December 22, 1938

Scan of a letter dated 22 December 1938 from Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, to Virginia Senator Harry F. Bird, responding to the senator's speech on 10 December 1938 that "grossly misrepresented" Eccles's views. The letter was issued as a press release on 23 December 1938

Dedicatory remarks, First Security Building, Salt Lake City, Utah: Monday, August 22, 1955

Scan of a 7-page booklet entitled, "Dedicatory remarks, First Security Building, Salt Lake City, Utah: Monday, August 22, 1955." Includes remarks by George S. Eccles, Marriner S. Eccles, Salt Lake Mayor Earl J. Glade, Utah Governor J. Bracken Lee, and LDS First Counsellor Stephen L. Richards. Accompanied by a letter dated 10 November 1955 by Marriner S. Eccles to Ransom M. Cook, to whom he sent a copy of the booklet

Marriner S. Eccles Christmas and New Year correspondence [14]

Holiday correspondence from 1948 between Marriner S. Eccles and others, including colleagues in the Federal Reserve system and members of the Truman Administration. Correspondents included U.S. Attorney General Tom C. Clark; John H. Fahey; Harold Ickes; Randolph E. Paul; Robert H. Hinckley; and New Zealand Finance Minister Walter Nash

Marriner S. Eccles personal correspondence, 1946 [02]

Scan of Marriner S. Eccles personal correspondence from August through December of 1946. The letters mainly touched on various private matters not connected with his work as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

Marriner S. Eccles correspondence related to invitations, 1964 [01]

Correspondence from 1964 between Marriner S. Eccles and various people and groups requesting his participation and attendance at various events. Due to his busy schedule and dividing his time between residences in Salt Lake City and San Francisco, Mr. Eccles declined many more invitations than he accepted. Correspondents included James O. Wilson, Director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard University; Winthrop Rockefeller on behalf of Colonial Williamsburg; and Albert Ray Olpin, President of the University of Utah

Marriner S. Eccles, correspondence related to Beckoning Frontiers [37]

Correspondence of Marriner S. Eccles related to his 1951 autobiography, Beckoning Frontiers. The letters, all from 1976, are primarily requests for copies and comments on its contents as well as Mr. Eccles's replies

Marriner S. Eccles appointment calendar, 1972 [02]

Scan of the "Monthly Minder" day book, maintained by a secretary in either San Francisco or Salt Lake City, showing Marriner S. Eccles's schedule of appointments each month in 1972