Papers, 1916-1972
MC 21
5 boxes (2 cu.ft.)
(includes 2 oversized boxes)
About William Yale:
William Yale, an authority on the Middle East, was born in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., on August 6, 1887. He served as a civil engineer with the Isthmian Canal Commission in Panama in 1907, and received a doctorate from Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1910. His career in the Middle East began in 1913 when he was sent to Constantinople by Standard Oil Company of New York to explore for oil. In 1917, he was appointed special agent in Cairo for the U.S. Department of State, and the following year he was commissioned a captain in the U.S. Army and assigned as American Military Observer with General Allenby’s forces in Palestine. In 1919, he was technical advisor to the King-Crane Commission sent by President Wilson to the Paris Peace Talks to discuss the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire following World War I.
Yale served as Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire from 1928-1942, and again from 1945-1957; from 1942-1945 he was Department of State Specialist for the Palestine Area. From 1957-1967 he taught history at Boston University. He died on February 26, 1975 in Derry, New Hampshire.
Yale authored The Near East: A Modern History (1958; revised 1968) and many articles and letters on related concerns.
About the William Yale Papers:
The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts – mainly written by Yale after 1970 – copies of earlier writings, documents dealing with his activities in the Middle East, and photographs from Yale’s college days, work on the Panama Canal, and his journeys to the Middle East.
Of special interest is the correspondence of François Monod, a French civil servant, concerning the Nazi occupation of France. Monod, a former curator of the Musée du Luxembourg, was chief of staff under M. Tardiere and on the Secretariat of the League of Nations.
There are also three letters from the Honorable Felix Frankfurter discussing the possibility of a Jewish homeland, written in November 1930.
Folder Listing:
- Correspondence
- To Yale, 1916-1972
- From Yale, 1917-1972
- Others to others
- Manuscripts
- Documents
- Printed Material
- Miscellaneous
- Photographs
- Scrapbooks
I. Correspondence
A. Letters to Yale, 1916-1972
| f.1 | Richard Aldington, Nov. 7, 1955 (1) [copy]. The Atlantic Monthly, Nov.3, 1939 (1). Jeanne Baurain, April 14, 1919 [in French] (1). W.B. Bishai, Sept. 2, 1964 (1). Dennis S. Boyer, Jan. 25, 1971 (1). R.B. Brown, n.d. (1). Ralph J. Bunche, United Nations, June 4, 1956 (1). Robert Caix, Sept. 25, 1919 & October 14, 1919 [in French] (2). Erwin Canham, Editor-in-Chief, Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 11, 1970 (1). The Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 24 1939; Nov. 6, 1939; Dec. 2, 1939 (3). L. Curtis, August 26, 1935 (1). Edna M. Eckert, July 5, 1970 (1) [has Yale's response on back]. W.H. Edgar, April 11, 1923 (1). Hall [Ellsworth], Nov. 23, 1969 (1). Prince Faisal [Feisal] of Jordan, dinner invitation [--] 28, 1918 (1) [in Arabic with English translation]. Sydney N. Fisher, Nov. 10 & Nov. 23, 1972 (2). Elizabeth Fox, August 29, 1972 (1). Mill[icent?] Fox, June 13, 1965 (1). Felix Frankfurter, Nov. 14, Nov. 18 & Nov. 25, 1930 (3). |
| f.2 | Zvi Ganin, Sept. 15, 1972 (1). J.L. Garvin, director of The Observer (British newspaper), August 19, 1926 (1) [misaddressed to "William Galg"]. David Garnett, Nov. 15, 1955 (1) [copy]. M. Gaster, Sept. 14, 1917 (1) [also enclosed is letter to Mr. Buckler dated Sept. 11, 1917 referring to Yale's proposed visit]. Alanta Gillette, Christmas 19–? (1 small card]. Dana Greeley (?), Oct. 22, 1964 (1). Martin H. Halabian, Sept. 16, 1970 (1). Harper & Row, Publishers (Fred D. Wieck, editor), June 30, 1966 (1). Harper’s Magazine, Oct. 25, 1939 (1). Granville Hicks, April 24, 1937 (1). D.G. Hogarth, May 24, 1919 (1). Harry N. Howard, Sept. 18, 1970 (1). — Humphrey, March 29, 1942, April 12, [1942] (2). Robert John, Sept. 23, 1968 (1). Garé Lecompte, May 16, 1969 & Jan. 17, 1970 (2). Michele, Nicole, Andre, Dory and Garé Lecompte, Christmas 1971 (1). |
| f.3 | C.S. Maitrfoir (?), Sept. 8, 1916 (1). Tom E. Marshall, Dec. 12, 1971 (1). Jeffery Meyers, Feb. 10, Feb. 16 & Feb. 26, 1971 (3). Abdul Mejid, August 20, 1919 (1). Major General A. W. Money, Chief Administrator, O.E.T.A., Jerusalem, Palestine, June 14, 1919 (1). Lieut. F.F. Monk, [British Intelligence], Oct. 27 & Nov. 2, 1918 (2). |
| f.4 | François Monod, 1926-35 (8) (in French). |
| f.5 | François Monod, 1936-37 (9) (in French). |
| f.6 | François Monod, 1938-39 (16) (in French). |
| f.7 | François Monod, Jan-April 16, 1940 (12) (in French). |
| f.8 | François Monod, April 17-May 9, 1940 (9) (in French). |
| f.9 | François Monod, May 10-May 21, 1940 (7) (in French). |
| f.10 | François Monod, May 23-June 6, 1940 (5) (in French). |
| f.11 | François Monod, undated (2)(in French). |
| f.12 | Yale’s translations of letters from Monod: May 8, 1939; Sept. 9, 1939; Nov. 15, 1939 (3). |
| f.13 | Newspaper clippings and printed matter from Monod, 1940 (in French). |
| f.14 | Elizabeth Monroe, Middle East Centre, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, Dec. 17, 1968 &
Jan. 10, 1969 [written by Mrs. R. Puri for Miss Monroe], Jan. 15, 1969, June 19, 1970, & Dec. 15, 1971 (5). Henry Morgenthau, Feb. 14, 1931 (1). Eveline Ogilvy, March 16, 1924 (1). Howard E. Ordway, Waterville Empire Press, Feb. 23, 1957 (1). Allan Partridge, UNH History Dept., Dec. 7, 1971 (1). John P. Richardson, American Near East Refugee Aid, Inc., April 28, 1969 & Dec. 11, 1970 (2). Everett B. Sackett, Sept. 26, 1970 (1). Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 26, 1939. Standard Oil Company, Henry Cole, director, May 17, 1919 & June 4, 1919; L.I. Thomas, director, Sept. 12 & Sept. 18, 1919 (4). |
| f.15 | Sefton D. Temkin, Rabbi, Temple Emanuel, Lowell MA, Nov. 10, 1967 (1). Lowell Thomas, Dec. 1, 1965 (1). Maximillian V. Toth, March 25, 1919 (1). University of Michigan Press, Oct. 15, 1969 (1). Arthur Walworth, Jan. 21, 1965 (1). Kim Watson, Dec. 1, 1970 & Jan. 11, [1971?] (2). Loyal Lincoln Wirt, International Commissioner, Near East Relief, April 20, 1923 & May 29, 1923 (2). Yale University Library, Oct. 22, 1969 (1). Israel Zangwill, Oct. 5, 1919. |
| f.16 | Unidentified: French Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sept. 17, [1919?] (1) [in French, with Yale's reply, also in French]. [Tranblerbetty?], Le Temps, Paris, Oct. 2, 1919 (1) [in French]. Trisha — (Yale’s niece), Huntington Beach, CA, Nov. 6, 1969 (1). Webb & Phyl —, December 1971 (1). |
B. Letters from Yale, 1917-1972
| f.17 | 1917-1966: Leland Harrison, Dec. 10 and Dec. 17, 1917. François Monod, Oct. 18, 1939. Joseph Barber, Jr., Editor, The Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 19, 1939. Editor, The Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 19, 1939. Lee Hartman, Editor, Harper’s Magazine, Oct. 19, 1939. Editors, Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 19, 1939. Editorial Board, The Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 30, 1939. François Monod, Nov.4, 1939. J. Roscoe Drummond, Executive Editor, The Christian Science Monitor, Nov.7, 1939. François Monod, March 29, 1940. David Jolly, UNH Librarian, October 7, 1941 re Yale’s donation of his article “Ambassador Henry Morgenthau’s “Special Mission” of 1917″ to the library (see Box 2 f.15). Thelma Brackett, UNH Librarian, April 25, 1945 re Yale’s attendance at the opening session of the United Nations Conference on International Organization. Program for same. Evan Wilson, NE Division, Dept, of State, Washington, D.C., May 23, 1946. Dr. Oskar Rabinowicz, Oct. 27, 1959. Judith Schiff, Yale University Library, Sept. 25, 1964. Lowell Thomas, Dec. 9, 1965. Ruth Davis, Editor, Yale University Press, Nov. 9, 1966. |
| f.18 | 1969-1972: John P. Richardson, NERA, May 14, 1969. Erwin Canham, Editor-in-Chief, Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 1970. Editors, Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 1970. Editors, Boston Globe, Dec. 8, 1970. Walter Lippman, Dec. 15, 1970 (2 drafts). John P. Richardson, Secretary of the Organizing Committee for an Appeal for Peace and Justice, Dec. 15, 1970. Erwin Canham, Editor-in-Chief, Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 19, 1970 (second and third drafts of this letter Dec. 21, 1970). Millicent Fox, Jan. 19, 1971. John P. Richardson, Jan. 28, 1971. Prof. Paul Bohannan, Feb. 14, 1971. Jeffrey Meyers, Feb. 15, 1971. Editors, Boston Globe, Feb. 19, 1971. R. Bradley & Co., Oct. 21, 1971. Mr. Lilenthal, Nov. 20, 1971 [?]. Millicent Fox, April 17, 1972. Erwin Canham, May 13, 1972. Erwin Canham, Editor-in-Chief, Christian Science Monitor, May 14, 1972. Editor-in-Chief, Boston Globe, May 16, 1972 (2). Millicent Fox, May 27, 1972. Dr. Howard Gottlieb, Boston University, May 1972 (in blue examination book). President Thomas Bonner, University of New Hampshire, June 15, 1972. Editors, Bennett Bulletin, Oct. 1, 1972. Millicent Fox, Nov. 2, 1972. |
| f.19 | Undated or unidentified: William F. Buckley, Boston Globe (1). Joseph C. Harsch, Christian Science Monitor (1). Editor, The Derry News (4). Millicent Fox (2). Edward Fox (1). Moshe Menuhin, Institute for Palestine Studies, Beirut (2). Editor, New York Times (1). Times Publishing Company, London (1). Arthur (1). Draft of contents of various “Letters to the Editor.” Two lists of letters written and received by Yale. |
C. Others to others
| f.20 | Maud — to Edith Yale, April 24, 1964. Major General A. W. Money to Frank L. Polk, Assistant Secretary of State, March 15, 1919 (1 page fragment). From Polk, Acting Sec. of State, May 21, 1919, typed copy of telegram. From Phillips, Acting Sec. of State, Sept. 18, 1919. François Monod to Stettinius, Feb. 4, 1920 (in French). 1 page fragment, handwritten, author unknown. |
II. Manuscripts
| f.1 | Materials for review/analysis of The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, by Phillip Knightly and Colin Simpson (1970), preliminary drafts, foreword and introductory remarks. |
| f.2 | Review of Secret Lives, foreword and introduction. |
| f.3 | Review of Secret Lives, chapters 1 and 2. |
| f.4 | Review of Secret Lives, chapters 3-5. |
| f.5 | Review of Secret Lives, chapters 6-7. |
| f.6 | Review of Secret Lives, chapters 8-10. |
| f.7 | Review of Secret Lives, chapters 11-14. |
| f.8 | Review of Secret Lives, chapters 15-18. |
| f.9 | “Evolution of United States Near East Policies” – preliminary materials for a book. |
| f.10 | “Audition” – projected work on U.S. Near East policy, 1942-45. |
| f.11 | “Audition” – drafts & incomplete version of book. |
| f.12 | Notes towards “An Autobiography,” November 1972. |
| f.13 | “U.S. Policy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.” |
| f.14 | “Central Asia.” |
| f.15 | Miscellaneous short writings: “Adjustment and Environment”; “The Arab-Jewish Conflict”; “The Basic Law of Life”; “Darwinism”; “The Evolution of Love”; “How Palestine Became a Major Interest in My Life”; “Illusions”; “A Memorable Decade in Retrospect:The Near East, 1913-1923″; “Reflections on the Changing World”; “Reflections on Religion”; “Revolution Now”; “Sex and Love,” “A Walk with an Arab Moslem;” and “Ambassador Henry Morgenthau’s “Special Mission” of 1917.” |
| f.16 | Notebook containing drafts. |
| f.17 | Notebook containing drafts, 1970. |
| f.18 | Notes, scraps, and unidentified writings. |
| f.19-20 | Typed drafts of “Egyptian Nationalism,” 1923 – notes and materials collected on the subject, speaking notes for lecture, and copy of manuscript. |
| f.21 | Typed copies of Yale writings, 1923-1945: “Near East Relief,” 1923; segment of “Allenby’s Last Campaign,” 1928; “It Takes So Long,” 1938; “Talk to the Graduating Class of the Perley High School, Georgetown, Mass.”, 1941; “Memorandum Concerning Palestine and the Other ‘Arab lands’ in Western Asia,” 1942; “Reflections on Palestine”; “The Security of the State of Israel” and copy of a telegram sent by Yale to the Foreign Editor of the Christian Science Monitor, 11/15/45. |
| f.22 | Miscellaneous copies of published articles: “The Middle East Crisis,” The New Hampshire Alumnus, Jan. 1957; Letter to the Editor, Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 6, 1967; “Recollections,” an account of King Hussein of Jordan’s visit to Boston in 1969, Boonville Herald, Boonville, Oneida County, New York, July 17, 1969. |
III. Documents
| f.1 | GHQ Intelligence Summaries, Sept. 17-30, 1918. |
| f.2 | GHQ Intelligence Summaries, Oct. 1-16, 1918. |
| f.3 | GHQ Intelligence Summaries, Oct. 18-31, 1918. |
| f.4 | GHQ Intelligence Summaries, Nov. 1-Dec. 21, 1918. |
| f.5 | Topographical reports, Sept. 25-Oct. 24, 1918, including Beirut-Tripoli, Alexandretta and surrounding country, Aleppo-Alexandretta. Undated topographical reports, including Tripoli-Homs, Damascus-Homs, Rayak-Homs, and Homs-Aleppo. |
| f.6 | Meteorological reports, Sept.-Nov. 1918, and translations of various captured documents, including the orders of battle of the Turkish Army, the Yildirim Army Group, and the XXII Army Corps. Also map of occupied area as result of operations from Dec. 31, 1917-Sept. 17, 1918. |
| f.7 | Photostatic copies of documents dealing with Yale’s activities in the Middle East at the close of WWI: Memorandum by Yale on Emir Faisal’s communication to Lloyd George, September 16, 1919. Report by Yale to American Peace Commission (on interviews conducted in London, September 27, 1919 to October 14, 1919). Report by Yale to American Peace Commission entitled “Position of the Syrian Question Today,” October 21, 1919. Letter to Yale from Colonel J. K. Watson, October 28, 1919. Letter to Yale from W. H. Buckler, Dec. 9, 1919. Draft of article by Yale, published anonymously, in London Times. Memorandum by W. H. Buckler, entitled “Memorandum on the Policy of the U.S. Relative to the Treaty with Turkey.” |
| f.8 | Documents concerning the end of the First World War: Commission des Capitulations: Etats des Travaux (in French). 14pp carbon copy, typed. Undated. Various typed documents concerning agreements reached between Britain, France and Russia at the end of the First World War about the spehres of influence of each as regards Asiatic Turkey. 18pp.typed |
IV. Printed Material
| f.9 | The full text of the Peace Treaty, The Times, London, June 28, 1919. Memorandum by Hristo Mexi for members of the Peace Conference concerning the rights of Albanians (in French). Published in Bucharest, 1919. Photocopied front page of Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 17, 1945 with lead story “More Promise for Palestine: Can Anglo-U.S. Commission Untie Knot?” |
| f.10 | Middle-East materials, late 1960s: “The Moral Case For The Arabs,” Dr. John Nicholls Booth. “Political Circumstances and Land Use: Tunisian Private Farms,” John L. Simmons, Oct. 1969. “Towards An Evaluation of Adult Education in a Developing Country,” John L. Simmons, Nov. 1969. |
| f.11 | Middle-East materials, late 1960s: Newsletter: Middle East Perspective, Sept., Oct., and Dec. 1969 and cover letter. Newsletter: Kuwait, Dec. 1969. Reader’s Digest reprint: “King Faisal: Saudi Arabia’s Modern Monarch,” 1967. Refugees in the Middle East: A Solution in Peace, Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C., 1967. “How The Arab Leaders Created the Middle East Refugees.” From The London Evening Standard, 1969. “Four Solutions to the Palestinian Problem.” The Association for Peace, Tel Aviv, 1969? American Middle East Rehabilitation, letter of March 24, 1969 and minutes of 1969 annual meeting. Provisional list of articles on the Middle East situation, New Haven Committee on the Middle East Crisis, Oct. 1967. “Nietzsche and T.E. Lawrence,” Jeffrey Meyers, Summer 1970 (with some annotations by Yale). Clipping from The New York Times, letter written by Bruce J. Chasan, June 1, 1969 on the Israel-Arab Peace and copies of two letters to Chasan in response to it. |
V. Miscellaneous
| f.12 | Personal documents including a letter of passage signed by the first secretary of the U.S. Embassy, Arthur Hugh Frazier, Oct. 4, 1917; Special Order, Feb. 15, 1919; menu, June 22, 1919, signed (on reverse) by King-Crane Commission members; certificate of appreciation from Project Learn, and insurance policy certificate. |
| f.13 | Yale’s genealogy notes. |
| f.14 | Materials about Yale. |
| f.15 | Inventories of Yale Papers at Houghton Library, Harvard University and at Yale University Library. |
| f.16 | Materials on Frank Maria. |
| A6 | Map published by Le Matin, March 17, 1919, showing 31 countries in eastern Europe and western Asia that regained their independence after The Treaty of Versailles. Outline map of Central Palestine showing troop movements for the week ending Sept. 13, 1918. |
VI. Photographs
| f.17 | Envelope 1: 58 miscellaneous negatives [1948]. |
| f.18 | Envelope 2: 28 miscellaneous negatives [around home, 1955]. Envelope 3: 20 miscellaneous b/w photographs [around home, 1955]. Envelope 4: 28 miscellaneous b/w photographs [around home, 1955]. |
| f.19 | Envelope 5: 35 miscellaneous b/w photos / 1 color photo [1960]. Envelope 6: 16 miscellaneous b&w photographs. |
| f.20 | Envelope 7: b&w Fabian Bachrach studio portrait of Yale, n.d. Envelope 8: b&w studio portrait of William Yale, n.d. Another from the above session Envelope 9: b&w photo of Yale accepting an award, n.d. Envelope 10: Two b&w photos taken at lecture by William Yale at Middle East. |
| f.21 | Envelope 11: b/w photo, unidentified, n.d. (William’s father?) Envelope 12: 7 b/w photos of Amalfi, Italy, n.d. |
VII. Scrapbooks
| Item 1: Scrapbook of Yale University years, 1906-09, photos and memorabilia, etc. Item 2: Photo-book: Trip to Cairo, 1914. Item 3: Photo-book: “Our Happy Home: Palestine in War Time.” Sept.-Oct. 1918. Item 4: Photo-book: “Tunbridge Wells to Port Said,” July 3-Aug.4, 1921. Item 5: Photo-book: Cairo, 1922. Item 6: Yale passport, 1917 (12×17). |
| Item 1: Scrapbook of Yale University years, 1909-10 (Vol. 2 of above), photos, memorabilia, etc. Item 2: Leather-bound book with illustrated cover containing autographs, photos, calling cards, memorabilia from trip to Egypt 1921-23. Item 3: Yale Genealogy and History of Wales, by Rodney Horace Yale, 1908. |
February 25th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Very useful listing here, helping me beyond my visit some years ago. What I am not finding, however, is a date-of-death more specific than 1975, Derry, NH. I think I have seen it in a photocopy of a Christian Science Monitor obituary, but can’t find that. May I suggest that you review your entry for V.f.12, the menu for June 22, 1919 “signed on the back King-Chase Commission”. Shouldn’t that notation read “King-Crane Commission”, Identifying Charles R. Crane, Chicago-based industrialist & diplomat. I have never heard of a “Chase” being associated with the Commission. The definitive word is in Harry N. Howard’s book,”The King-Crane Commission”, Beirut, 1967 of which I hope you have a copy, secured. William Yale is well reported there. Zionists have sought to “disappear” it from public view. I would be very grateful if you could supply me with a complete date of death. He was a wonderful man, and I appreciate your care in preserving his records. At age 92, I have difficulties getting to Archives & I’m pleased to find this new posting. Ernestine E.King Topsham, Maine
February 25th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Thank you for your comment about the William Yale finding aid and for catching the egregious error – Chase instead of Crane in series V. In the biographical note we got it right. I have now made the correction.
The Campus Journal of March 6, 1975 states that William Yale died on February 26, 1975 in Derry, NH. I have added this information to the biographical note.
Roland Goodbody Manuscripts Curator