Bert Fish Papers and Albums

Description

This collection includes correspondence, scrapbook, photo albums, and other papers.

Correspondence includes letters to US Secretary of State Cordell Hull that depict Fish's experience in Saudi Arabia, and offer insight into diplomatic practices and etiquette.

Items from Bert Fish's scrapbooks albums include photos and ephemera.

Collection Items

Letter from Robert Walton Moore to Bert Fish
Letter from Robert Walton Moore, Counselor of the Department of State to Bert Fish, February 28, 1938. Moore discusses his recovery from recent injuries and praises Fish's work in Montreux, Switzerland, where Fish advocated for the abolishment of the…

Letter to Cordell Hull from Bert Fish dated March 4, 1940
A letter from Bert Fish to the United States Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, describing a formal audience with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on February 14, 1940.

In this dispatch, Fish describes his journey from…

Program for the Coronation of King Farouk I
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