THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS DIVISION ACCESSION SHEET Accession # 45 M 25; 46 M 46; 49 M 115 60 M 13; 71 M 41; 48 M 116, 2000 M 20 Location 8 - C Annex Title Richard Welling Papers Approximate inclusive dates 1881-1941 bulk dates 1925-41 Date of receipt 1945;1946; 1949;1960;1971 Received from R. Nelling; Welling *****ate Winifred Letts, National ***** ***** Committee Mrs. Sophia Rush; ANONYMOUS Volume on arrival unknown Number of boxes (after reboxing) 52 AB; 2 catalog card boxes; 23 linear ft. 1 FLAT BOX Condition Poor-good. Mostly good. Restrictions none Description 351 The papers of Richard Welling are arranged in two main series: 1) General Correspondents and Prominent Correspondents 2) Organizations and subject correspondence 545 Richard Ward Greene Welling, lawyer, social reformer and author was born in North Kingston, Rhode Island, August 27, 1858, the son of Charles Hunt Welling and Katherine Celia Green. #b Welling graduated from Harvard with an A.B. in 1880; he studied for 2 yrs. at Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar of NY in 1883. He received a P.D.M. from New York University in 1911. Welling was known as an active political and municipal reformer in New York City and also as a founder and member of many organizations. They include: City Reform Club; the City Club which organized 25 "Good Government Clubs"; the Citizens Union", responsible for electing Seth Low to office, and the "National Arts Club" (Director). #b Welling's writings include "Self Government Miscellanies" and his autobiography "As the Twig's is Bent". 520 The papers basically covers the many social and reform organizations ***** Welling was involved. Prominent correspondents include Thomas E. Dewey; Virginia Gildersleeve; F.H. LaGuardia; Winifred Letts; Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin S. Roosevelt; Theodore Roosevelt; Norman Thomas & H.G. Wells. 520 Organizations include A.S.P.C.A.; Boys Brotherhood Republic; Citizens Union of New York; City Reform Club; George Junior Republic; Municipal Arts Society; National Sculpture Society; Philharmonic Symphony Society; Roosevelt Memorial Association; American Labor Party and Citizens & Non Partisan Committee. His interests also include civil service reform, New York City parks and the National Self Government Committee. 520 The remaining papers are writings that include a typescript of Welling's autobiography "As the Twig is Bent"; scrapbooks, printed material and photographs. The photographs are mainly of Welling from childhood to adult. Special Formats - Photographs - Maps - Audio Tapes - Films - Graphics - Artifacts - Machine-readable records -Other (list) Film Negatives; index Cards, *****type (1) Temporary catalog card added entries A.S.P.C.A. Boys Brotherhood Republic Citizens Union of New York City City Reform Club George Junior Republic Municipal Arts Society National Sculpture Society Philharmonic Symphony Society Roosevelt Memorial Association American Labor Party Citizens & Non Partisan Committee Dewey, Thomas Edmund 1902-1971 Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron 1877-1965 La Guardia, Fiorello H. 1882-1947 Roosevelt, Anne Eleanor 1884-1962 Franklin Delano 1882-1945 Theodore 1858-1919 Thomas, Norman Mattoon 1884-1968 Wells, H.G. 1866-1946 Letts, Winifred RICHARD WELLING PAPERS Container list Box 1. General Correspondents A-C 2. D-I 3. J-O 4. P-S 5. S-Z; unidentified 6. Prominent Correspondents A-B (incl. Burlingham, 1942) 7. Burlingham, 1943 - L 8. ***** Letts, Winifred. Incoming Correspondence 1924-41;n.d. Outgoing " 1925-35 9. 1936-43;n.d. 1936-43;n.d. ***** M; McAndrew, William 1902-34 10. 1935--; N-Z Organizations and Subject Correspondence American Civil Liberties Union 1936-41 11. A.S.P.C.A. 1910-49 Bar Association: Commitee on Art 1930-41 12. Boys Brotherhood Republic 1937-52 Assorted material Central Parks & parks 1926-38; etc. 13. Citizen Union of N.Y. 1896-1902; corres. re fusion ticket, 1903 City Club City Reform Club: re violations of the excise law 1888-90 14. City Reform Club. Corres. 1915-33; memos; receipts & vocuchers 1889-93; salary vouchers 1887-93; bills & receipts 1887-89 15. bank books; cancelled checks; assorted material 16. Civil Service Reform. Corres. 1915-39; 17. 1940-46; Court clerk fight 1934-35; Craig case; Deputy Commissioners corres. 1932-34; exemptions 18. Good government contest 1939-40; Hatch Bill 1939; Law suit regarding substitute list 1943-44; The Merit System 1932; Mark Starr 1943 re rejection as Director of Adult Education; Veteran's material; radio addresses by Richard Welling 1932-34 19. George Junior Republic. Corres. 1926-46; corres. with General Pershing; radio talk; article on "Daddy" George; constitution & general laws; papers of incorporation Judicial Nominators - Committee on Meetings & Speakers A-P (1906) 20. R-Z; corres. regarding requests for tickets to mass meetings, 1926; checkbooks 21. Municipal Arts Society. Corres. 1923-45 National Sculpture Society. Corres. 1928-46 New York Symphony Society. Corres. 1900-33 22. Philharmonic Symphony Society. Corres. 1928-45 23. assorted Prohibition. Corres. 1924-32 Robey Report. re high school textbooks, 1941 Roosevelt Memorial Association 1938-39 Political Papers American Labor Party see: Citizen Union of NY box 13 Citizens & Non Partisan Committee. Corres. 1940-45 City Council Election Campaign 1939 24. City Fusion Party. Corres. 1932-41 Good Government. Corres. 1894-1902 25. Jerome Campaign. Corres. 1905; vouchers; assorted material 26. La Guardia Campaign, 1937 ***** other political papers: Municipal elections in various states; NYC Committee for World Federation; Progressive City Committee. Civil Service Committee, 1937; Supreme Court 1937; Tammany Hall, 1934-39. 27. Assorted political papers 28. Writings- Articles 1884-1944; Civic & Politics; Freedom of the Press 29. "As the Twig is Bent" (typescript) related corres. 30. publicity; reviews "From Tweed to Laguardia" (typescript) revised and published as "The Twig is Bent". "The Needy Rich and the Grateful Poor", 1935 (formed basis of Welling's autiobiography. 31. notes by R.W. & unpublished chapter from "Trips Around the World"; articles on Theodore Roosevelt Diaries: 1883-95 (index); 1892-95 32. 1898; 1899; 1900; 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904 33. 1905; 1906; 1907; 1914; 1927-30 34. 1931-34; 1935-37; 1938-41; 1942-45 35. Scrapbooks: 1) American Civilizations 1927-42; 2) City Manager Plan-Proportional Representation-Voting Charter 3-4) City Politics 1929-42 5) City Waste 1932-38 36. 6-7) Civil Service 1929-44 37. 8) Fusion Administration 1933-37 9) Health 1929-34 10) LaFayette cross presented to Kinswoman of Nathaniel Greene 1924-31 11) Mortgage 1933-41 38. 12) Motors (automobiles) 1926-32; 13) Nazi 1938-42; 14) Parks 1932-33; 15) Peace & Military articles 1924-39; 16) Personal Miscellaneous v. 1: 1883-1917 39. 17) v.2: 1876-1932; 18) v. 3: 1932-1941; 19) v. 4: 1941-46 40. 20) v.--1884-98; 21) Philharmonic & Music 1931-43 41. 22-23) Pictures 42. 24) Polo; 25) Press; 26) Religion 1929-36 43. Personal assorted papers Biographical data; etc. 44. Military Papers: W.W.I: W.W.II 45. Family members corres; notes; address book (1); Family tree books (2) 46-47 Assorted Papers Letters to newspapers Cremation; Monsignor Chidwick address 48. School Citizens Committee; printed material Printed Material: horses; politics; phobition; women suffrag 49 Women suffrage Photostats; sketches 50. Photographs (FB) see also: oversize group shot of Conference of Eastern States Mapease-Annex Association of Professional School Teachers (includes RW) 51. postcards commenting on article by RW in the NY Times "1st Steps in Citizenship", 1932; reply cards reporting student gov't activities in high schools and colleges 52. questionnaire reply cards on self government in the schools 1936; replies to "You and Politics" and self government booklet. 53. Unprocessed addition, 2000 54. " 55. " (flat box; includes sketch inscribed to Welling by Ivy Litvinoff List of prominent correspondents (note: incomplete) Adams, James T. Ade, George Barlow, Sir Montague Barton, Bruce Beard, Charles Mary Bloom, Sol Bori, Lucrezia Brandeis, Louis D. Brooks, Phillips Broun, Heywood Buck, Pearl S. Butler, Nicholas M. Carnegie, Louise Conant, James B. Crowninsheild, Frank Damrosch, Walter Dewey, John Thomas E. Downes, Olin Eliot, Charles W. Field, Marshal Finley, John H. Flagler, Harry Harkness Gildersleeve, Virginia Hart, Albert Bushnell Ickes, Harold James, Henry William Keppel, F.W. Lafarge, John LaGuardia, F.H. Lamont, Thomas Laski, Harold Lehman, Herbert Lippmann, Walter Lowell, A. Lawrence Ludwig, Emil Mackay, Clarence Manning, Bishop William T. Millikan, Robert A. Norman, Sir Harry Patri, Angelp Peabody, George Roster Perry, Ralph Barton Pershing, John J. Pinchot, Gifford Roosevelt, Edith K. Eleanor Franklin D. Theodore Root, Elihu Satterlee, Herbert L. Schurz, Carl Shaw, George B. Smith, Alfred E. Stimson, Henry L. Stokowski, Leopold Tarkington, Booth Taylor, Deems Thomas, Norman Thompson, Dorothy Tunney, Gene Wagner, Robert F. Wallenstein, Alfred Welles, Sumner Wells, H.G. Wharton, Edith ? White, William A. Willkie, Wendell L. Wilson, Woodrow