As orga­ni­za­tions grow and change through time, so do their archives.The Mudd Man­u­script Library col­lects the records of the Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union [ML.2011.011], the Asso­ci­a­tion on Amer­i­can Indian Affairs [ML.2011.005], and Amer­i­cans United for Sep­a­ra­tion of Church and State [ML.2011.003], among many other orga­ni­za­tions. In the last few months, we’ve had the plea­sure of receiv­ing a new cache of mate­ri­als from each of these orga­ni­za­tions and adding them to exist­ing col­lec­tions. Although some mate­ri­als from both the ACLU and AAIA may be restricted for some time to com­ply with legal and pri­vacy con­cerns, the remain­der will be valu­able to researchers hop­ing to learn about the recent his­tory of these impor­tant organizations.

In addi­tion to these orga­ni­za­tion records, we have also received an accrual of papers from James A. Baker III, for­mer Chief of Staff to Pres­i­dent Rea­gan and Sec­re­tary of State to Pres­i­dent George H.W. Bush [ML.2011.002]. These records, mostly from his post-Washington career, include research files cre­ated dur­ing the writ­ing of his mem­oir, cor­re­spon­dence, events files, and a small num­ber of finan­cial files. They also include his “desk drawer” files, let­ters and notes from impor­tant fig­ures in his career, includ­ing Pres­i­dents George H.W. and George W. Bush, Nancy Rea­gan, Henry Kissinger, and Karl Rove. Please con­sult the find­ing aid for this col­lec­tion for access restrictions.

A related and content-rich col­lec­tion is from Baker’s colleague

Mar­garet Tutwiler [ML.2011.001]. These records, her pro­fes­sional diaries, doc­u­ment her work and life dur­ing her time as Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of State dur­ing the

George H. W. Bush presidential

admin­is­tra­tion (1989–1992).

Another high-profile col­lec­tion recently added to Mudd’s hold­ings is a trove of newly-declassified records from John Fos­ter Dulles’s tenure at the State Depart­ment. These are obvi­ously gov­ern­ment records and avail­able else­where, but we keep them as a con­ve­nience to researchers using other John Fos­ter Dulles collections.

Other recently-acquired mate­r­ial includes:

• [ML.2011.007] A sound record­ing of a speech given by by Illi­nois Gov­er­nor Adlai E. Steven­son before the 1950 Cen­tral Regional Con­fer­ence of the Civil Ser­vice Assem­bly of the United States and Canada in Spring­field, IL.
• [ML.2011.008] Papers of Elmer C. Werner, a for­mer spe­cial agent for the inter­nal rev­enue ser­vice, and his expe­ri­ences inves­ti­gat­ing Lyn­don John­son.
• [ML.2011.013] Let­ters from Jerusalem and the Sinai, a pri­vate edi­tion of fam­ily cor­re­spon­dence span­ning the years 1976–1978 from Owen and Janet Roberts.
• [ML.2011.014] An accrual of mate­ri­als from the Harold Hoskins papers.