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Title: Nicol Smith papers
Dates: 1900-1994
Collection Number: 2003C71
Creator: Smith, Nicol.
Collection Size:
8 manuscript boxes
(3.2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, military orders and dispatches, interview transcripts, printed matter, and photographs,
relating to world travel, and to Office of Strategic Services operations in France and Thailand during World War II. Includes
research materials collected by Sharon E. Karr for her authorized biography Traveler of the Crossroads: A Biography of Adventurer
Nicol Smith (Dorrington, Calif., 1994).
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
Collection is open for research.
Access to sound recordings, video recordings, or motion picture material requires at least two weeks advance notice. Please
contact the Hoover Institution Archives for further information.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Nicol Smith papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2003.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Lieutenant colonel, United States Army; member, Office of Strategic Services, 1942-1945; travel writer.
Scope and Content of Collection
Speeches and writings, correspondence, military orders and dispatches, interview transcripts, printed matter, and photographs,
relating to world travel, and to Office of Strategic Services operations in France and Thailand during World War II. Includes
research materials collected by Sharon E. Karr for her authorized biography Traveler of the Crossroads: A Biography of Adventurer
Nicol Smith (Dorrington, Calif., 1994).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
United States. Office of Strategic Services.
Voyages and travels.
World War, 1939-1945 Secret service.
Secret service United States.
World War, 1939-1945 France.
World War, 1939-1945 Thailand.
Karr, Sharon E.