A Guide to the J. Rives Childs Papers
A Collection in
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 9256-f
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
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Use Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
J. Rives Childs Papers, Accession #9256-f, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was gifted by Mr. Childs on 1974 March 4.
Scope and Content Information
This addition to the Childs Papers consists primarily of
memoranda, dispatches and resumes of telegrams from J. Rives
Childs' consular activities, ca. 1940, in the Near East and
North Africa, mainly Tangiers. Of special interest are the
minutes of the Franco-American negotiations of 1939 concerning
French Morocco. Also included are signed one page letters by
Presidents 
Wilson and Truman, and a Dec. 16, 1823 signed note
by 
President Jefferson recommending Mr. Philips as an
accomplished bricklayer.
Arrangement
The collection is filed both by subject matter and chronologically.