Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr. Papers, 1895-1939

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Summary

Creators:
Hathaway, Charles Montgomery
Abstract:
The collection includes calendars or lists for dispatches and reports from Ireland and Germany, depositions and proceedings from the Dail Funds Suit, documents and official dispatches, correspondence, clippings and notes from both Ireland and Germany, and financial statements and reports on trade with Ireland.
Extent:
7 linear feet (5 cartons; 1 oversize box; 2 map folders)
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr. Papers. Bernath Mss 9. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr., Papers are divided into the following series:

General. Contains calendars or lists for dispatches and reports from Ireland, ca. 1917-1927, and Germany, 1930-1938.

Dail Funds Suit [Irish Free State, Provisional Government of Ireland, et al, Plaintiffs, against Guaranty Safe Deposit Company, Central Union Safe Deposit Company, et al. Defendants]. Includes depositions, proceedings, and other court records, ca. 1923-1924.

Documents. The largest series in the collection, which includes material relating both to Ireland and Germany, in the form of Official Dispatches, Weekly Summary of Events, Monthly Reports, Reports, and Miscellaneous Documents. Of particular note is Hathaway's April 13, 1932 report on "The Economic and Social Ideas of the National-Socialistic Movement of Adolf Hitler," and his August 5, 1933 dispatch to Ambassador William E. Dodd, on his "Visit to Dachau Concentration Camp," in which he describes the prisoners and conditions at that camp.

Correspondence. Primarily outgoing, 1918-1938.

Ephemera, relating both to Ireland and Germany. Mainly clippings, notes, and printed documents and pamphlets. Included is a copy of "The Jews in Nazi Germany: The Factual Record of Their Persecution by the National Socialists" (New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1933).

Oversize. Includes financial statements and reports on trade with Ireland, some apparently related to the Dail Funds Suit.

Newspapers. Irish, ca. 1922-1925, and German, ca. 1928-1933.

Biographical / historical:

Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr., was born in Deposit, New York, on March 31, 1874, and received his B.A. (1899), M.A. (1901) and Ph.D. (1902) degrees from Yale. Hathaway was a Ben Jonson scholar and author of a critical edition of Jonson's The Alchemist, Yale Studies in English, vol. 17 (New York: H. Holt, 1903). He taught English at Adelphi College (1902-1903) and Columbia University (1903-1905), and was an Instructor in English and law at the U.S. Naval Academy (1905-1911), before his first diplomatic appointment as Consul in the Dominican Republic in 1911. His Irish experience began with an assignment as Consul in Cork on May 22, 1917, and except for brief terms in Budapest and Bombay, between 1919 and 1921, he remained in Ireland, principally at Dublin, until 1927. He was transferred to Munich on July 27, 1927, where he served as Consul until his retirement in 1939. On his return to the United States, Hathaway lived in Santa Barbara, California until his death in 1954.

A more extensive account of Hathaway's career and a description of some of the collection's highlights can be found in Christian Brun, "The Papers of Charles M. Hathaway: A Diplomat's Experience in Ireland and Germany," [UCSB Library] Soundings (Nov. 1970): 17-29.

Acquisition information:
Purchase, 1962.
Physical location:
Boxes 1-5 (SRLF); Box 6 (Annex 2); Map Folders (Map Cabinet 20/5).
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Majority of collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval. Collection contains confidential material that was declassified by the State Department in 1962. See Head of UCSB Special Collections for further details.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr. Papers. Bernath Mss 9. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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