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Harold B. Hoskins Papers
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Harold Boies Hoskins was a businessman, diplomat, and educator working in Middle Eastern affairs. Born in Beirut and raised by American missionary parents, he graduated from Hill School in 1913 and Princeton in 1917. Hoskins served in both WWI and II, and in 1942, he was commissioned by President Roosevelt to act as a U.S. diplomatic emissary in Palestine. He became a special assistant to the U.S. ambassador in Tehran in 1944, and served as a counselor for economic affairs at the American embassy in Cairo, and for American diplomatic missions in Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Ethiopia over the course of his career. From 1955 until his retirement in 1961, he served as director of the Foreign Service Institute.
The Harold B. Hoskins Papers consist of correspondence, diaries, notes, photographs, publications, maps, and professional files that document Hoskins' personal and professional activities, as well as the Hoskins family. See individual series descriptions for more specific information on each series.
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Gifted to the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming by Grania H. Ackley in 1991. The American Heritage Center deaccessioned the papers in November 2007. Transferred from the American Hertitage Center at the University of Wyoming in November 2007.
Scott Rodman approved the gifting to Mudd on behalf of the Hoskins family in November 2007 (accession number ML.2007.037). Grania Ackley donated eight rolls of 16mm safety film and a file of correspondence in May 2012 (accession number ML.2012.020). The materials that comprise Series 3 were donated by John and Binti Ackley in 2014 (accession number ML.2014.029).
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A preliminary inventory list, MARC record and collection-level description were created in 2007. The April 2011 accession was incorporated into the collection and was processed by Kate Dundon in 2011. The finding aid was revised by Kate Dundon in July 2011. Materials from the May 2012 accession were incorporated into Series 2 and the finding aid was updated at this time. The finding aid was updated by Rachel Van Unen in October 2014 to reflect the materials from the 2014 accession.
Two boxes of books were separated during processing in 2007. No materials were separated from Series 3.
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Subject
Place
- Publisher
- Public Policy Papers
- Finding Aid Author
- Kate Dundon
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
- Sponsor
- These papers were processed with the generous support of the John Foster and Janet Avery Dulles Fund.
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research use.
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Collection Inventory
The U.S. Diplomacy Career series largely focuses on Hoskins' work in Middle Eastern diplomacy, including his years as Director of the Foreign Service Institute in Beirut, and features correspondence, speeches, diaries, maps, notes, reports, publications, and reel-to-reel tapes.
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Includes memo to Hoskins from John Foster Dulles.
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The Personal Papers series includes correspondence, notes, diaries, photographs, and other materials relating to Hoskins travels, his time at Hill School and Princeton, and his service in both World Wars. Also included are correspondence, diaries, photographs, and scrapbooks that document several members of the Hoskins family, including his parents, Franklin Evans Hoskins and Harriet E. Hoskins, and their time as missionaries in Syria in the late 19th through early 20th century.
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School years, World War II and travels.
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1 box16mm safety film
The 2014 accession is mainly comprised of photographs of Harold Hoskins's travels in the Middle East and his correspondence to his wife, Grania. To a lesser extent, it contains military documents from Hoskins's service in World War I and other documentation of his travels in the form of journals, postcards, and a map. Hoskins family photographs, personal correspondence related to the birth of Harold and Grania Hoskins's daughter, and a small amount of material on Harold Hoskins's father, Franklin Hoskins, is also included.
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