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The newly opened papers of Louise Bryant, a foreign correspondent during the Russian revolution, and her diplomat husband William C. Bullitt Jr. will be the focus of an exhibition and symposium this month in Sterling Memorial Library.
The exhibit, "Witnesses to War and Revolution: The Papers of Louise Bryant and William C. Bullitt Jr.," will be on display through March 31 in the library's Memorabilia Room. It draws from the individual sets of the couple's papers and covers major events in the separate and combined lives of both individuals.
Bryant married John Reed, the Bolshevik sympathizer, and spent six months in Russia with him at the time of the 1917 revolution. After his death she married Bullitt, and the marriage lasted from 1923 to 1930. Bryant was a foreign correspondent during the 1910s and 1920s and was a writer of short stories and plays, as well as the book "Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship."
A small portion of Bullitt's papers was on deposit at Yale through 1967, when his daughter, Anne Moen Bullitt, removed them following his death. Until she deposited the two collections at Yale between 2003 and 2005, her parents' papers were unavailable for research by authors and historians. Anne Bullitt provided funding for the arrangement and description of the papers and preservation of the manuscripts. She has also funded the symposium being held in conjunction with the exhibit.
The exhibit can be viewed during regular library hours: 8:30 a.m.-11:45 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 8:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m. on Friday; 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m. on Saturday; and 1-11:45 p.m. on Sunday. During spring break in March, the library has reduced hours. See www.library.yale.edu/hours for details.
For additional information on the Bryant Papers, visit www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n30/story24.html.
The symposium, titled "New Insights: The Papers of Louise Bryant and William C. Bullitt Jr.," will be held in the lecture hall of the library on Friday, Feb. 17, 2:30-5 p.m.
The guest speakers will be Sahr Conway-Lanz, Mary V. Dearborn and Yale professor John L. Gaddis.
Conway-Lanz, who arranged and described the papers of Bryant and Bullitt, will talk on "An Intimate View: The Personal Papers of William C. Bullitt and Louise Bryant." He is currently a member of the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff at the National Archives and Records Administration.
Dearborn, the author of several biographies including "Queen of Bohemia: The Life of Louise Bryant," will speak on "Louise Bryant Redux: A Biographer's Notes on an Unexpected Treasure Trove."
Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History and Political Science, will discuss "William C. Bullitt and American Foreign Policy."
For further information, contact William Massa at william.massa@yale.edu or (203) 432-1735.
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Exhibit, symposium focus on two
'Witnesses to War and Revolution'
Louise Bryant
Bullitt, a 1913 graduate of Yale, was a diplomat and writer. His papers feature a collection of historical material and correspondence with an array of the mid-20th-century's leading politicians, thinkers and writers, including Sigmund Freud, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-shek. Bullitt served as a diplomat during both of the world wars. On behalf of Woodrow Wilson, he undertook a secret mission in 1919 to Russia, where he negotiated peace terms with Lenin. In 1933, Roosevelt appointed Bullitt the first American ambassador to the Soviet Union, where he served 1933 to 1936. He later became ambassador to France, where he witnessed the outbreak of World War II and the country's occupation by Nazi Germany. Bullitt held brief additional diplomatic posts during America's involvement in the war and served in the Free French Armed Forces from 1944 to 1945. He ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic candidate for mayor of Philadelphia in 1943, but by 1952 had switched party allegiance when he endorsed Robert A. Taft as a Republican for president. He later endorsed Richard M. Nixon in the 1960 election.
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