Massachusetts Reform Club records, 1896-1913; bulk: 1896-1903 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Physical Description:3 boxes and 1 narrow box.

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:8268109

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Records of the Massachusetts Reform Club, established in 1882 for the promotion of civil service reform and indepedent action in politics. The collection includes two boxes of correspondence, including letters of Charles Francis Adams, Edward Atkinson, Gamaliel Bradford, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, William Everett, Samuel Gompers, Moorfield Storey, Charles Warren, and Winslow Warren. Subjects treated include Massachusetts political campaigns, civil service reform, the tariff, and Republican and Democratic Party leadership, policy, and legislation, together with lists of members, meeting notices, and data collected from veterans on the mismanagement of the Spanish-American War

There are also three scrapbooks containing (1) lists of members of the Massachusetts Reform Club, (2) a miscellaneous collection of clippings, correspondence, and printed literature, 1894-1897, and (3) a volume of clippings concerning the Club's investigation of the mismanagement of the Spanish-American War