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(Hugh Smith), 1869-1948","United States. Department of State","family papers","Correspondence","photographs","Fair - fragile paper and photographs","This collection is open for research use.","Some daguerreotypes have glass coverings that are cracked. Please handle with extreme care.","This addition to the Cumming Family Papers, the first series in this finding aid, is arranged into four files: Correspondence that relate to the personal and professional lives of members of the Cumming Family; Photographs which include portraits of family ancestors and famous individuals, as well as images depicting the professional lives of family members; Scrapbooks relating to Hugh S. Cumming's children, Winifred Burney West, and to Diana Cumming; and Printed and miscellaneous materials.","The folders in each of these files are arranged chronologically, except for undated photographs and a written commentary of various photographs. The undated photographs are arranged alphabetically by the subject's last name after the dated folders.","Arrangement is as follows:","Series 1- Cumming Family Papers addition ViU-2021-0153","\n   File 1- Correspondence\t\t","\n   File 2- Photographs\t\t","\n   File 3- Scrapbooks\t\t","\n   File 4- Printed and miscellaneous materials","Samuel Cumming, a purported former resident of  Wigtownshire, Scotland , was born circa 1816 and died before 1916. After immigrating to  Baltimore, Maryland  around 1823, he moved to Virginia before August 13, 1868, to continue his profession as a  stonemason  at Fort Monroe. There, he married  Diana Whiting Smith  of  Elizabeth City County  and had at least two children, Samuel Gordon Cumming and Hugh Smith Cumming. In  1879 , he established the  Hampton Presbyterian Church , now known as First Presbyterian Church. He remarried after Diana's death to  Margaret Cumming , and had several other children, including the Presbyterian Missionary, Calvin Knox Cumming. His son, Samuel Gordon Cumming, an attorney in Hampton, Virginia, died in 1920 after being shot by his wife, Elizabeth Bell Waller, following a divorce agreement. Marital ties expanded the Cumming Family to include members from the Waller, Booth, West, Whiting, Kendrick and Smith families. ","Hugh Smith Cumming was born on  August 17, 1869 , in  Hampton, Virginia . He attended high school at  Baltimore City College  and then matriculated at the University of Virginia to study medicine. In  1896 , he married  Lucy Almira Booth , whose grandfather,  Edwin Gilliam Booth , was a noted Philadelphia  lawyer  and philanthropist to Confederate prisoners held in Northern prisons during the American Civil War. The couple had three children:  Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. ,  Clara Diana Cumming  (Kendrick,) and  Lucy Booth Cumming , who died as an infant. His half-nephew, Samuel Calvin Cumming, was a Major General in the United States Marine Corps who served during the first and second World Wars and died in  1986 . ","He graduated from medical school at the  University College of Medicine  in  Richmond, Virginia . A year later, in  1895 , he began working as a  physician  for the United States Marine Hospital Service during which time he was stationed in  San Francisco  and  Ellis Island , among other posts. During the World War I, he was then detailed to the  U.S. Navy  as an adviser in sanitation. In  February 1920 , he was appointed to be the fifth Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service by President  Woodrow Wilson . He kept his position as Surgeon General until he retired in  1936  but continued working as director of the  Pan American Sanitary Bureau  until his death in 1948.  ","Hugh Smith Cumming's son, Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. was born  March 10, 1900 , in Richmond, Virginia, and married Winifred Burney West in  1935 , with whom he had no recorded children. He graduated from  Western High School  in  Washington, D.C.  before attending the Virginia Military Institute and serving in the  United States Army  during the first World War. After graduating with a degree in law from the University of Virginia in  1924 , he worked in the international department of the  National City Bank of New York . ","In  1927 , Cumming, Jr., accepted a position at the United States Department of State as a  clerk  with the U.S. Legation in  Peking, China . He was then transferred to  Washington, D.C.  and worked to assist diplomatic and economic relations between the U.S. and several Northern European countries, namely  Sweden , and in  1936 , he was appointed Executive Assistant to U.S. Secretary of State,  Cordell Hull . ","During the World War II, he represented the State Department during the Joint Anglo Swedish American Commission dealing with Allied Pilots downed in Neutral Sweden. After the war, he was a founding conference delegate to the United Nations, and from  1947  to  1950 , was counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Sweden. From  1950  to  1952 , he acted as counselor of the U.S. Embassy in  Moscow  and briefly acted as its ambassador.  ","Cumming, Jr., was the  Deputy Secretary General  for Political Affairs of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) before U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated him for the position of ambassador to Indonesia, where he served in  Djakarta  from 1954-1957. After returning to Washington, he organized the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He retired in  1964 , after working as Counselor for the State Department.  ","He was a member of several social clubs, including the Alibi Club of Washington, D.C., and the Chevy Chase club of Chevy Chase, Maryland. He survived his wife by eight years and died in  1986 .  ","Reference list:","Cumming, H. S. (1945–1977). Hugh S. Cumming papers (MS C 325). Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. ","Edwin Gilliam Booth (1810-1886). American Aristocracy. (n.d.) https://americanaristocracy.com/people/edwin-gillam-booth  ","First Presbyterian Church of Hampton. \"Our History.\" First Presbyterian Church of Hampton. Accessed June 25, 2025. https://www.firstpreshampton.org/our-history. ","Hamm, Robert D. \"Diana Whiting Smith.\" Hamm Roots. Accessed June 25, 2025. https://hammroots.com/getperson.php?personID=I149131\u0026tree=Main. ","Hugh S. Cumming. (1948). American Journal of Public Health, 39, 225–225. https://doi.org/10.70706/ajph  ","Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. FamilySearch.org. (n.d.-b). https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L5YN-CJ6/hugh-smith-cumming-jr.-1900-1986  ","Hugh Smith Cumming. FamilySearch.org. (n.d.-a). https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K4LF-9J2/hugh-smith-cumming-1869-1948  ","JAMA. (1936, March 7). Surgeon general Hugh S. Cumming retires | JAMA | jama network. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/1155674  ","Priest, E. (2016, January 13). Samuel Cumming. FamilySearch.org. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFLR-N1Q?lang=en  ","Washington Post. (1986, November 26). Hugh Cumming Jr. dies. Washington Post. https://web.archive.org/web/20171227122650/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1986/11/26/hugh-cumming-jr-dies/e58af8fc-ccb7-4c30-926e-7212c7c34208/ ","The purpose of this collection guide is to describe the most recently acquired part(s) of this collection (2021-0153). Boxes listed in this collection guide do not start with Box 1 because previous acquisitions are listed in the library catalog (Virgo) and/or Archival Resources of the Virginias (ARVAS).  ","Box numbering begins at 84. Staff counted all of the boxes in earlier additions and then continued numbering boxes after that total. ","The records/guides for this collection's original acquisition and other previous additions can be found in VIRGO, the Library's online catalog, as well as (in many cases) on the Archival Repositories of the Virginias (ARVAS) website.","For best results, search using the collection's Identifier/Call Number.","This addition to the Cumming family papers, includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and certificates related to members of the  Cumming  family, with most pertaining to  United States Surgeon General ,  Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.  (1869-1948) and his son,  Ambassador Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.  (1900-1986). Items include materials related to Hugh Cumming, Jr.'s service in the United States Department of State, and to Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s study at the  University of Virginia , as well as Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.'s study at the  Virginia Military Institute .  ","Most of the correspondence relates to the social and professional lives of Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. and his wife,  Winifred Burney West Cumming . The periods covered include Cumming's time as  United States Ambassador  to  Indonesia , but more broadly relate to his time in the  United States Department of State . There is a small amount of correspondence relating to Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. and his career as Surgeon General of the United States, as well as travel documents and White House invitations mostly relating to  Diana Cumming Kendrick  and her husband,  Manville Kendrick .  ","Many photographs include images of Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. and Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.'s public service careers along with portraits of members of the Cumming,  Kendrick ,  Booth , and  West  families. Of particular interest is a series of inscribed and autographed regular and oversize photograph portraits of individuals involved in the careers of Hugh Cumming, Sr. and Hugh Cumming, Jr. Autographed portraits include those from  Richard M. Nixon ,  Herbert Hoover ,  Lou Henry Hoover ,  Dwight D. Eisenhower ,  Cordell Hull , and  Sukarno . There are eleven daguerreotypes of family ancestors and an included folder of commentary on their subjects by Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. Also, of note are photographs of the Department of State by Henry \"Hank\" G. Walker for Life Magazine. ","Scrapbooks in this addition include Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s scrapbook (ca. 1900), which contains descriptions of his newborn children and photographs. An included copy of A.O Kaplan's \"The Baby Biography,\" (ca. 1897-1898) describes the infancy of Lucy Booth Cumming and important events around the time of her birth, along with loose correspondence, parlor cards, and childhood photographs of her. This copy of \"The Baby Biography\" was filled in by her parents, Hugh S. Cumming and Lucy Booth Cumming. Diana Cumming's scrapbook (ca. 1918) holds pasted-in letters, ticket stubs, photographs, and illustrations, among other items. The memorial scrapbook regarding Winifred Burney West Cumming is an unbound second volume of a series of photocopied condolence letters to her widower, Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. ","Printed materials and miscellaneous items comprise Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s  1893  copy of the University of Virginia \"Corks and Curls\" Yearbook, newspaper clippings, and U.S. Department of State Commendations awarded to Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. It also includes a roster of the Virginia Military Institute's Class of  1921  and an etching by Don Swann of the University of Virginia's Rotunda. Oversize materials include a caricature and the official public service appointments of Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.","This collection may contain some in-copyright material. Visit our Permissions and Publishing page (https://www.library.virginia.edu/special-collections/services/publishing) for more information about use of Special Collections materials. 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From \u003cdate\u003e1950\u003c/date\u003e to \u003cdate\u003e1952\u003c/date\u003e, he acted as counselor of the U.S. Embassy in \u003cgeogname\u003eMoscow\u003c/geogname\u003e and briefly acted as its ambassador.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCumming, Jr., was the \u003coccupation\u003eDeputy Secretary General\u003c/occupation\u003e for Political Affairs of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) before U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated him for the position of ambassador to Indonesia, where he served in \u003cgeogname\u003eDjakarta\u003c/geogname\u003e from 1954-1957. After returning to Washington, he organized the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He retired in \u003cdate\u003e1964\u003c/date\u003e, after working as Counselor for the State Department.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHe was a member of several social clubs, including the Alibi Club of Washington, D.C., and the Chevy Chase club of Chevy Chase, Maryland. He survived his wife by eight years and died in \u003cdate\u003e1986\u003c/date\u003e.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eReference list:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCumming, H. S. (1945–1977). Hugh S. Cumming papers (MS C 325). Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth (1810-1886). American Aristocracy. (n.d.) https://americanaristocracy.com/people/edwin-gillam-booth  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFirst Presbyterian Church of Hampton. \"Our History.\" First Presbyterian Church of Hampton. Accessed June 25, 2025. https://www.firstpreshampton.org/our-history. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHamm, Robert D. \"Diana Whiting Smith.\" Hamm Roots. Accessed June 25, 2025. https://hammroots.com/getperson.php?personID=I149131\u0026amp;tree=Main. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHugh S. Cumming. (1948). American Journal of Public Health, 39, 225–225. https://doi.org/10.70706/ajph  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHugh Smith Cumming, Jr. FamilySearch.org. (n.d.-b). https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L5YN-CJ6/hugh-smith-cumming-jr.-1900-1986  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHugh Smith Cumming. FamilySearch.org. (n.d.-a). https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K4LF-9J2/hugh-smith-cumming-1869-1948  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJAMA. (1936, March 7). Surgeon general Hugh S. Cumming retires | JAMA | jama network. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/1155674  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePriest, E. (2016, January 13). Samuel Cumming. FamilySearch.org. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFLR-N1Q?lang=en  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWashington Post. (1986, November 26). Hugh Cumming Jr. dies. Washington Post. https://web.archive.org/web/20171227122650/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1986/11/26/hugh-cumming-jr-dies/e58af8fc-ccb7-4c30-926e-7212c7c34208/ \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Samuel Cumming, a purported former resident of  Wigtownshire, Scotland , was born circa 1816 and died before 1916. After immigrating to  Baltimore, Maryland  around 1823, he moved to Virginia before August 13, 1868, to continue his profession as a  stonemason  at Fort Monroe. There, he married  Diana Whiting Smith  of  Elizabeth City County  and had at least two children, Samuel Gordon Cumming and Hugh Smith Cumming. In  1879 , he established the  Hampton Presbyterian Church , now known as First Presbyterian Church. He remarried after Diana's death to  Margaret Cumming , and had several other children, including the Presbyterian Missionary, Calvin Knox Cumming. His son, Samuel Gordon Cumming, an attorney in Hampton, Virginia, died in 1920 after being shot by his wife, Elizabeth Bell Waller, following a divorce agreement. Marital ties expanded the Cumming Family to include members from the Waller, Booth, West, Whiting, Kendrick and Smith families. ","Hugh Smith Cumming was born on  August 17, 1869 , in  Hampton, Virginia . He attended high school at  Baltimore City College  and then matriculated at the University of Virginia to study medicine. In  1896 , he married  Lucy Almira Booth , whose grandfather,  Edwin Gilliam Booth , was a noted Philadelphia  lawyer  and philanthropist to Confederate prisoners held in Northern prisons during the American Civil War. The couple had three children:  Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. ,  Clara Diana Cumming  (Kendrick,) and  Lucy Booth Cumming , who died as an infant. His half-nephew, Samuel Calvin Cumming, was a Major General in the United States Marine Corps who served during the first and second World Wars and died in  1986 . ","He graduated from medical school at the  University College of Medicine  in  Richmond, Virginia . A year later, in  1895 , he began working as a  physician  for the United States Marine Hospital Service during which time he was stationed in  San Francisco  and  Ellis Island , among other posts. During the World War I, he was then detailed to the  U.S. Navy  as an adviser in sanitation. In  February 1920 , he was appointed to be the fifth Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service by President  Woodrow Wilson . He kept his position as Surgeon General until he retired in  1936  but continued working as director of the  Pan American Sanitary Bureau  until his death in 1948.  ","Hugh Smith Cumming's son, Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. was born  March 10, 1900 , in Richmond, Virginia, and married Winifred Burney West in  1935 , with whom he had no recorded children. He graduated from  Western High School  in  Washington, D.C.  before attending the Virginia Military Institute and serving in the  United States Army  during the first World War. After graduating with a degree in law from the University of Virginia in  1924 , he worked in the international department of the  National City Bank of New York . ","In  1927 , Cumming, Jr., accepted a position at the United States Department of State as a  clerk  with the U.S. Legation in  Peking, China . He was then transferred to  Washington, D.C.  and worked to assist diplomatic and economic relations between the U.S. and several Northern European countries, namely  Sweden , and in  1936 , he was appointed Executive Assistant to U.S. Secretary of State,  Cordell Hull . ","During the World War II, he represented the State Department during the Joint Anglo Swedish American Commission dealing with Allied Pilots downed in Neutral Sweden. After the war, he was a founding conference delegate to the United Nations, and from  1947  to  1950 , was counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Sweden. From  1950  to  1952 , he acted as counselor of the U.S. Embassy in  Moscow  and briefly acted as its ambassador.  ","Cumming, Jr., was the  Deputy Secretary General  for Political Affairs of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) before U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated him for the position of ambassador to Indonesia, where he served in  Djakarta  from 1954-1957. After returning to Washington, he organized the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He retired in  1964 , after working as Counselor for the State Department.  ","He was a member of several social clubs, including the Alibi Club of Washington, D.C., and the Chevy Chase club of Chevy Chase, Maryland. He survived his wife by eight years and died in  1986 .  ","Reference list:","Cumming, H. S. (1945–1977). Hugh S. Cumming papers (MS C 325). Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. ","Edwin Gilliam Booth (1810-1886). American Aristocracy. (n.d.) https://americanaristocracy.com/people/edwin-gillam-booth  ","First Presbyterian Church of Hampton. \"Our History.\" First Presbyterian Church of Hampton. Accessed June 25, 2025. https://www.firstpreshampton.org/our-history. ","Hamm, Robert D. \"Diana Whiting Smith.\" Hamm Roots. Accessed June 25, 2025. https://hammroots.com/getperson.php?personID=I149131\u0026tree=Main. ","Hugh S. Cumming. (1948). American Journal of Public Health, 39, 225–225. https://doi.org/10.70706/ajph  ","Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. FamilySearch.org. (n.d.-b). https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L5YN-CJ6/hugh-smith-cumming-jr.-1900-1986  ","Hugh Smith Cumming. FamilySearch.org. (n.d.-a). https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K4LF-9J2/hugh-smith-cumming-1869-1948  ","JAMA. (1936, March 7). Surgeon general Hugh S. Cumming retires | JAMA | jama network. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/1155674  ","Priest, E. (2016, January 13). Samuel Cumming. FamilySearch.org. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFLR-N1Q?lang=en  ","Washington Post. (1986, November 26). Hugh Cumming Jr. dies. Washington Post. https://web.archive.org/web/20171227122650/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1986/11/26/hugh-cumming-jr-dies/e58af8fc-ccb7-4c30-926e-7212c7c34208/ "],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMSS 6922, Cumming Family Papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["MSS 6922, Cumming Family Papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe purpose of this collection guide is to describe the most recently acquired part(s) of this collection (2021-0153). Boxes listed in this collection guide do not start with Box 1 because previous acquisitions are listed in the library catalog (Virgo) and/or Archival Resources of the Virginias (ARVAS).  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox numbering begins at 84. 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"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe records/guides for this collection's original acquisition and other previous additions can be found in VIRGO, the Library's online catalog, as well as (in many cases) on the Archival Repositories of the Virginias (ARVAS) website.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFor best results, search using the collection's Identifier/Call Number.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["The records/guides for this collection's original acquisition and other previous additions can be found in VIRGO, the Library's online catalog, as well as (in many cases) on the Archival Repositories of the Virginias (ARVAS) website.","For best results, search using the collection's Identifier/Call Number."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis addition to the Cumming family papers, includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and certificates related to members of the \u003cfamname\u003eCumming\u003c/famname\u003e family, with most pertaining to \u003coccupation\u003eUnited States Surgeon General\u003c/occupation\u003e, \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e (1869-1948) and his son, \u003coccupation\u003eAmbassador\u003c/occupation\u003e \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e (1900-1986). Items include materials related to Hugh Cumming, Jr.'s service in the United States Department of State, and to Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s study at the \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003e, as well as Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.'s study at the \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Military Institute\u003c/corpname\u003e.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMost of the correspondence relates to the social and professional lives of Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. and his wife, \u003cpersname\u003eWinifred Burney West Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e. The periods covered include Cumming's time as \u003coccupation\u003eUnited States Ambassador\u003c/occupation\u003e to \u003cgeogname\u003eIndonesia\u003c/geogname\u003e, but more broadly relate to his time in the \u003ccorpname\u003eUnited States Department of State\u003c/corpname\u003e. There is a small amount of correspondence relating to Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. and his career as Surgeon General of the United States, as well as travel documents and White House invitations mostly relating to \u003cpersname\u003eDiana Cumming Kendrick\u003c/persname\u003e and her husband, \u003cpersname\u003eManville Kendrick\u003c/persname\u003e.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMany photographs include images of Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. and Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.'s public service careers along with portraits of members of the Cumming, \u003cfamname\u003eKendrick\u003c/famname\u003e, \u003cfamname\u003eBooth\u003c/famname\u003e, and \u003cfamname\u003eWest\u003c/famname\u003e families. Of particular interest is a series of inscribed and autographed regular and oversize photograph portraits of individuals involved in the careers of Hugh Cumming, Sr. and Hugh Cumming, Jr. Autographed portraits include those from \u003cpersname\u003eRichard M. Nixon\u003c/persname\u003e, \u003cpersname\u003eHerbert Hoover\u003c/persname\u003e, \u003cpersname\u003eLou Henry Hoover\u003c/persname\u003e, \u003cpersname\u003eDwight D. Eisenhower\u003c/persname\u003e, \u003cpersname\u003eCordell Hull\u003c/persname\u003e, and \u003cname\u003eSukarno\u003c/name\u003e. There are eleven daguerreotypes of family ancestors and an included folder of commentary on their subjects by Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. Also, of note are photographs of the Department of State by Henry \"Hank\" G. Walker for Life Magazine. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eScrapbooks in this addition include Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s scrapbook (ca. 1900), which contains descriptions of his newborn children and photographs. An included copy of A.O Kaplan's \"The Baby Biography,\" (ca. 1897-1898) describes the infancy of Lucy Booth Cumming and important events around the time of her birth, along with loose correspondence, parlor cards, and childhood photographs of her. This copy of \"The Baby Biography\" was filled in by her parents, Hugh S. Cumming and Lucy Booth Cumming. Diana Cumming's scrapbook (ca. 1918) holds pasted-in letters, ticket stubs, photographs, and illustrations, among other items. The memorial scrapbook regarding Winifred Burney West Cumming is an unbound second volume of a series of photocopied condolence letters to her widower, Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePrinted materials and miscellaneous items comprise Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s \u003cdate\u003e1893\u003c/date\u003e copy of the University of Virginia \"Corks and Curls\" Yearbook, newspaper clippings, and U.S. Department of State Commendations awarded to Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. It also includes a roster of the Virginia Military Institute's Class of \u003cdate\u003e1921\u003c/date\u003e and an etching by Don Swann of the University of Virginia's Rotunda. Oversize materials include a caricature and the official public service appointments of Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This addition to the Cumming family papers, includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and certificates related to members of the  Cumming  family, with most pertaining to  United States Surgeon General ,  Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.  (1869-1948) and his son,  Ambassador Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.  (1900-1986). Items include materials related to Hugh Cumming, Jr.'s service in the United States Department of State, and to Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s study at the  University of Virginia , as well as Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.'s study at the  Virginia Military Institute .  ","Most of the correspondence relates to the social and professional lives of Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. and his wife,  Winifred Burney West Cumming . The periods covered include Cumming's time as  United States Ambassador  to  Indonesia , but more broadly relate to his time in the  United States Department of State . There is a small amount of correspondence relating to Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. and his career as Surgeon General of the United States, as well as travel documents and White House invitations mostly relating to  Diana Cumming Kendrick  and her husband,  Manville Kendrick .  ","Many photographs include images of Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. and Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.'s public service careers along with portraits of members of the Cumming,  Kendrick ,  Booth , and  West  families. Of particular interest is a series of inscribed and autographed regular and oversize photograph portraits of individuals involved in the careers of Hugh Cumming, Sr. and Hugh Cumming, Jr. Autographed portraits include those from  Richard M. Nixon ,  Herbert Hoover ,  Lou Henry Hoover ,  Dwight D. Eisenhower ,  Cordell Hull , and  Sukarno . There are eleven daguerreotypes of family ancestors and an included folder of commentary on their subjects by Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. Also, of note are photographs of the Department of State by Henry \"Hank\" G. Walker for Life Magazine. ","Scrapbooks in this addition include Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s scrapbook (ca. 1900), which contains descriptions of his newborn children and photographs. An included copy of A.O Kaplan's \"The Baby Biography,\" (ca. 1897-1898) describes the infancy of Lucy Booth Cumming and important events around the time of her birth, along with loose correspondence, parlor cards, and childhood photographs of her. This copy of \"The Baby Biography\" was filled in by her parents, Hugh S. Cumming and Lucy Booth Cumming. Diana Cumming's scrapbook (ca. 1918) holds pasted-in letters, ticket stubs, photographs, and illustrations, among other items. The memorial scrapbook regarding Winifred Burney West Cumming is an unbound second volume of a series of photocopied condolence letters to her widower, Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. ","Printed materials and miscellaneous items comprise Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s  1893  copy of the University of Virginia \"Corks and Curls\" Yearbook, newspaper clippings, and U.S. Department of State Commendations awarded to Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. It also includes a roster of the Virginia Military Institute's Class of  1921  and an etching by Don Swann of the University of Virginia's Rotunda. Oversize materials include a caricature and the official public service appointments of Hugh S. Cumming, Jr."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection may contain some in-copyright material. Visit our Permissions and Publishing page (https://www.library.virginia.edu/special-collections/services/publishing) for more information about use of Special Collections materials. The library can provide copyright information upon request, but users are responsible for making their own determination about lawful use of collections materials.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["This collection may contain some in-copyright material. Visit our Permissions and Publishing page (https://www.library.virginia.edu/special-collections/services/publishing) for more information about use of Special Collections materials. The library can provide copyright information upon request, but users are responsible for making their own determination about lawful use of collections materials."],"names_ssim":["Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Hampton Presbyterian Church","Baltimore City College","University College of Medicine","U.S. Navy","Pan American Sanitary Bureau","Western High School","United States Army","National City Bank of New York","University of Virginia","Virginia Military Institute","United States Department of State","Cumming","Kendrick","Booth","West","Sukarno","Diana Whiting Smith","Margaret Cumming","Lucy Almira Booth","Edwin Gilliam Booth","Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr.","Clara Diana Cumming","Lucy Booth Cumming","Woodrow Wilson","Cordell Hull","Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.","Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.","Winifred Burney West Cumming","Diana Cumming Kendrick","Manville Kendrick","Richard M. Nixon","Herbert Hoover","Lou Henry Hoover","Dwight D. 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(Hugh Smith), 1869-1948","United States. Department of State","family papers","Correspondence","photographs","Fair - fragile paper and photographs","This collection is open for research use.","Some daguerreotypes have glass coverings that are cracked. Please handle with extreme care.","This addition to the Cumming Family Papers, the first series in this finding aid, is arranged into four files: Correspondence that relate to the personal and professional lives of members of the Cumming Family; Photographs which include portraits of family ancestors and famous individuals, as well as images depicting the professional lives of family members; Scrapbooks relating to Hugh S. Cumming's children, Winifred Burney West, and to Diana Cumming; and Printed and miscellaneous materials.","The folders in each of these files are arranged chronologically, except for undated photographs and a written commentary of various photographs. The undated photographs are arranged alphabetically by the subject's last name after the dated folders.","Arrangement is as follows:","Series 1- Cumming Family Papers addition ViU-2021-0153","\n   File 1- Correspondence\t\t","\n   File 2- Photographs\t\t","\n   File 3- Scrapbooks\t\t","\n   File 4- Printed and miscellaneous materials","Samuel Cumming, a purported former resident of  Wigtownshire, Scotland , was born circa 1816 and died before 1916. After immigrating to  Baltimore, Maryland  around 1823, he moved to Virginia before August 13, 1868, to continue his profession as a  stonemason  at Fort Monroe. There, he married  Diana Whiting Smith  of  Elizabeth City County  and had at least two children, Samuel Gordon Cumming and Hugh Smith Cumming. In  1879 , he established the  Hampton Presbyterian Church , now known as First Presbyterian Church. He remarried after Diana's death to  Margaret Cumming , and had several other children, including the Presbyterian Missionary, Calvin Knox Cumming. His son, Samuel Gordon Cumming, an attorney in Hampton, Virginia, died in 1920 after being shot by his wife, Elizabeth Bell Waller, following a divorce agreement. Marital ties expanded the Cumming Family to include members from the Waller, Booth, West, Whiting, Kendrick and Smith families. ","Hugh Smith Cumming was born on  August 17, 1869 , in  Hampton, Virginia . He attended high school at  Baltimore City College  and then matriculated at the University of Virginia to study medicine. In  1896 , he married  Lucy Almira Booth , whose grandfather,  Edwin Gilliam Booth , was a noted Philadelphia  lawyer  and philanthropist to Confederate prisoners held in Northern prisons during the American Civil War. The couple had three children:  Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. ,  Clara Diana Cumming  (Kendrick,) and  Lucy Booth Cumming , who died as an infant. His half-nephew, Samuel Calvin Cumming, was a Major General in the United States Marine Corps who served during the first and second World Wars and died in  1986 . ","He graduated from medical school at the  University College of Medicine  in  Richmond, Virginia . A year later, in  1895 , he began working as a  physician  for the United States Marine Hospital Service during which time he was stationed in  San Francisco  and  Ellis Island , among other posts. During the World War I, he was then detailed to the  U.S. Navy  as an adviser in sanitation. In  February 1920 , he was appointed to be the fifth Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service by President  Woodrow Wilson . He kept his position as Surgeon General until he retired in  1936  but continued working as director of the  Pan American Sanitary Bureau  until his death in 1948.  ","Hugh Smith Cumming's son, Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. was born  March 10, 1900 , in Richmond, Virginia, and married Winifred Burney West in  1935 , with whom he had no recorded children. He graduated from  Western High School  in  Washington, D.C.  before attending the Virginia Military Institute and serving in the  United States Army  during the first World War. After graduating with a degree in law from the University of Virginia in  1924 , he worked in the international department of the  National City Bank of New York . ","In  1927 , Cumming, Jr., accepted a position at the United States Department of State as a  clerk  with the U.S. Legation in  Peking, China . He was then transferred to  Washington, D.C.  and worked to assist diplomatic and economic relations between the U.S. and several Northern European countries, namely  Sweden , and in  1936 , he was appointed Executive Assistant to U.S. Secretary of State,  Cordell Hull . ","During the World War II, he represented the State Department during the Joint Anglo Swedish American Commission dealing with Allied Pilots downed in Neutral Sweden. After the war, he was a founding conference delegate to the United Nations, and from  1947  to  1950 , was counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Sweden. From  1950  to  1952 , he acted as counselor of the U.S. Embassy in  Moscow  and briefly acted as its ambassador.  ","Cumming, Jr., was the  Deputy Secretary General  for Political Affairs of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) before U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated him for the position of ambassador to Indonesia, where he served in  Djakarta  from 1954-1957. After returning to Washington, he organized the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He retired in  1964 , after working as Counselor for the State Department.  ","He was a member of several social clubs, including the Alibi Club of Washington, D.C., and the Chevy Chase club of Chevy Chase, Maryland. He survived his wife by eight years and died in  1986 .  ","Reference list:","Cumming, H. S. (1945–1977). Hugh S. Cumming papers (MS C 325). Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. ","Edwin Gilliam Booth (1810-1886). American Aristocracy. (n.d.) https://americanaristocracy.com/people/edwin-gillam-booth  ","First Presbyterian Church of Hampton. \"Our History.\" First Presbyterian Church of Hampton. Accessed June 25, 2025. https://www.firstpreshampton.org/our-history. ","Hamm, Robert D. \"Diana Whiting Smith.\" Hamm Roots. Accessed June 25, 2025. https://hammroots.com/getperson.php?personID=I149131\u0026tree=Main. ","Hugh S. Cumming. (1948). American Journal of Public Health, 39, 225–225. https://doi.org/10.70706/ajph  ","Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. FamilySearch.org. (n.d.-b). https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L5YN-CJ6/hugh-smith-cumming-jr.-1900-1986  ","Hugh Smith Cumming. FamilySearch.org. (n.d.-a). https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K4LF-9J2/hugh-smith-cumming-1869-1948  ","JAMA. (1936, March 7). Surgeon general Hugh S. Cumming retires | JAMA | jama network. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/1155674  ","Priest, E. (2016, January 13). Samuel Cumming. FamilySearch.org. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFLR-N1Q?lang=en  ","Washington Post. (1986, November 26). Hugh Cumming Jr. dies. Washington Post. https://web.archive.org/web/20171227122650/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1986/11/26/hugh-cumming-jr-dies/e58af8fc-ccb7-4c30-926e-7212c7c34208/ ","The purpose of this collection guide is to describe the most recently acquired part(s) of this collection (2021-0153). Boxes listed in this collection guide do not start with Box 1 because previous acquisitions are listed in the library catalog (Virgo) and/or Archival Resources of the Virginias (ARVAS).  ","Box numbering begins at 84. Staff counted all of the boxes in earlier additions and then continued numbering boxes after that total. ","The records/guides for this collection's original acquisition and other previous additions can be found in VIRGO, the Library's online catalog, as well as (in many cases) on the Archival Repositories of the Virginias (ARVAS) website.","For best results, search using the collection's Identifier/Call Number.","This addition to the Cumming family papers, includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and certificates related to members of the  Cumming  family, with most pertaining to  United States Surgeon General ,  Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.  (1869-1948) and his son,  Ambassador Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.  (1900-1986). Items include materials related to Hugh Cumming, Jr.'s service in the United States Department of State, and to Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s study at the  University of Virginia , as well as Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.'s study at the  Virginia Military Institute .  ","Most of the correspondence relates to the social and professional lives of Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. and his wife,  Winifred Burney West Cumming . The periods covered include Cumming's time as  United States Ambassador  to  Indonesia , but more broadly relate to his time in the  United States Department of State . There is a small amount of correspondence relating to Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. and his career as Surgeon General of the United States, as well as travel documents and White House invitations mostly relating to  Diana Cumming Kendrick  and her husband,  Manville Kendrick .  ","Many photographs include images of Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. and Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.'s public service careers along with portraits of members of the Cumming,  Kendrick ,  Booth , and  West  families. Of particular interest is a series of inscribed and autographed regular and oversize photograph portraits of individuals involved in the careers of Hugh Cumming, Sr. and Hugh Cumming, Jr. Autographed portraits include those from  Richard M. Nixon ,  Herbert Hoover ,  Lou Henry Hoover ,  Dwight D. Eisenhower ,  Cordell Hull , and  Sukarno . There are eleven daguerreotypes of family ancestors and an included folder of commentary on their subjects by Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. Also, of note are photographs of the Department of State by Henry \"Hank\" G. Walker for Life Magazine. ","Scrapbooks in this addition include Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s scrapbook (ca. 1900), which contains descriptions of his newborn children and photographs. An included copy of A.O Kaplan's \"The Baby Biography,\" (ca. 1897-1898) describes the infancy of Lucy Booth Cumming and important events around the time of her birth, along with loose correspondence, parlor cards, and childhood photographs of her. This copy of \"The Baby Biography\" was filled in by her parents, Hugh S. Cumming and Lucy Booth Cumming. Diana Cumming's scrapbook (ca. 1918) holds pasted-in letters, ticket stubs, photographs, and illustrations, among other items. The memorial scrapbook regarding Winifred Burney West Cumming is an unbound second volume of a series of photocopied condolence letters to her widower, Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. ","Printed materials and miscellaneous items comprise Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s  1893  copy of the University of Virginia \"Corks and Curls\" Yearbook, newspaper clippings, and U.S. Department of State Commendations awarded to Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. It also includes a roster of the Virginia Military Institute's Class of  1921  and an etching by Don Swann of the University of Virginia's Rotunda. Oversize materials include a caricature and the official public service appointments of Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.","This collection may contain some in-copyright material. Visit our Permissions and Publishing page (https://www.library.virginia.edu/special-collections/services/publishing) for more information about use of Special Collections materials. 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Cumming's children, Winifred Burney West, and to Diana Cumming; and Printed and miscellaneous materials.","The folders in each of these files are arranged chronologically, except for undated photographs and a written commentary of various photographs. The undated photographs are arranged alphabetically by the subject's last name after the dated folders.","Arrangement is as follows:","Series 1- Cumming Family Papers addition ViU-2021-0153","\n   File 1- Correspondence\t\t","\n   File 2- Photographs\t\t","\n   File 3- Scrapbooks\t\t","\n   File 4- Printed and miscellaneous materials"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSamuel Cumming, a purported former resident of \u003cgeogname\u003eWigtownshire, Scotland\u003c/geogname\u003e, was born circa 1816 and died before 1916. 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His son, Samuel Gordon Cumming, an attorney in Hampton, Virginia, died in 1920 after being shot by his wife, Elizabeth Bell Waller, following a divorce agreement. Marital ties expanded the Cumming Family to include members from the Waller, Booth, West, Whiting, Kendrick and Smith families. ","Hugh Smith Cumming was born on  August 17, 1869 , in  Hampton, Virginia . He attended high school at  Baltimore City College  and then matriculated at the University of Virginia to study medicine. In  1896 , he married  Lucy Almira Booth , whose grandfather,  Edwin Gilliam Booth , was a noted Philadelphia  lawyer  and philanthropist to Confederate prisoners held in Northern prisons during the American Civil War. The couple had three children:  Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. ,  Clara Diana Cumming  (Kendrick,) and  Lucy Booth Cumming , who died as an infant. His half-nephew, Samuel Calvin Cumming, was a Major General in the United States Marine Corps who served during the first and second World Wars and died in  1986 . ","He graduated from medical school at the  University College of Medicine  in  Richmond, Virginia . A year later, in  1895 , he began working as a  physician  for the United States Marine Hospital Service during which time he was stationed in  San Francisco  and  Ellis Island , among other posts. During the World War I, he was then detailed to the  U.S. Navy  as an adviser in sanitation. In  February 1920 , he was appointed to be the fifth Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service by President  Woodrow Wilson . He kept his position as Surgeon General until he retired in  1936  but continued working as director of the  Pan American Sanitary Bureau  until his death in 1948.  ","Hugh Smith Cumming's son, Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. was born  March 10, 1900 , in Richmond, Virginia, and married Winifred Burney West in  1935 , with whom he had no recorded children. He graduated from  Western High School  in  Washington, D.C.  before attending the Virginia Military Institute and serving in the  United States Army  during the first World War. After graduating with a degree in law from the University of Virginia in  1924 , he worked in the international department of the  National City Bank of New York . ","In  1927 , Cumming, Jr., accepted a position at the United States Department of State as a  clerk  with the U.S. Legation in  Peking, China . He was then transferred to  Washington, D.C.  and worked to assist diplomatic and economic relations between the U.S. and several Northern European countries, namely  Sweden , and in  1936 , he was appointed Executive Assistant to U.S. Secretary of State,  Cordell Hull . ","During the World War II, he represented the State Department during the Joint Anglo Swedish American Commission dealing with Allied Pilots downed in Neutral Sweden. After the war, he was a founding conference delegate to the United Nations, and from  1947  to  1950 , was counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Sweden. From  1950  to  1952 , he acted as counselor of the U.S. Embassy in  Moscow  and briefly acted as its ambassador.  ","Cumming, Jr., was the  Deputy Secretary General  for Political Affairs of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) before U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated him for the position of ambassador to Indonesia, where he served in  Djakarta  from 1954-1957. After returning to Washington, he organized the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He retired in  1964 , after working as Counselor for the State Department.  ","He was a member of several social clubs, including the Alibi Club of Washington, D.C., and the Chevy Chase club of Chevy Chase, Maryland. He survived his wife by eight years and died in  1986 .  ","Reference list:","Cumming, H. S. (1945–1977). Hugh S. Cumming papers (MS C 325). Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. ","Edwin Gilliam Booth (1810-1886). American Aristocracy. (n.d.) https://americanaristocracy.com/people/edwin-gillam-booth  ","First Presbyterian Church of Hampton. \"Our History.\" First Presbyterian Church of Hampton. Accessed June 25, 2025. https://www.firstpreshampton.org/our-history. ","Hamm, Robert D. \"Diana Whiting Smith.\" Hamm Roots. Accessed June 25, 2025. https://hammroots.com/getperson.php?personID=I149131\u0026tree=Main. ","Hugh S. Cumming. (1948). American Journal of Public Health, 39, 225–225. https://doi.org/10.70706/ajph  ","Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. FamilySearch.org. (n.d.-b). https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L5YN-CJ6/hugh-smith-cumming-jr.-1900-1986  ","Hugh Smith Cumming. FamilySearch.org. (n.d.-a). https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K4LF-9J2/hugh-smith-cumming-1869-1948  ","JAMA. (1936, March 7). Surgeon general Hugh S. Cumming retires | JAMA | jama network. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/1155674  ","Priest, E. (2016, January 13). Samuel Cumming. FamilySearch.org. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFLR-N1Q?lang=en  ","Washington Post. (1986, November 26). Hugh Cumming Jr. dies. Washington Post. https://web.archive.org/web/20171227122650/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1986/11/26/hugh-cumming-jr-dies/e58af8fc-ccb7-4c30-926e-7212c7c34208/ "],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMSS 6922, Cumming Family Papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["MSS 6922, Cumming Family Papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe purpose of this collection guide is to describe the most recently acquired part(s) of this collection (2021-0153). Boxes listed in this collection guide do not start with Box 1 because previous acquisitions are listed in the library catalog (Virgo) and/or Archival Resources of the Virginias (ARVAS).  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox numbering begins at 84. 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"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe records/guides for this collection's original acquisition and other previous additions can be found in VIRGO, the Library's online catalog, as well as (in many cases) on the Archival Repositories of the Virginias (ARVAS) website.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFor best results, search using the collection's Identifier/Call Number.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["The records/guides for this collection's original acquisition and other previous additions can be found in VIRGO, the Library's online catalog, as well as (in many cases) on the Archival Repositories of the Virginias (ARVAS) website.","For best results, search using the collection's Identifier/Call Number."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis addition to the Cumming family papers, includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and certificates related to members of the \u003cfamname\u003eCumming\u003c/famname\u003e family, with most pertaining to \u003coccupation\u003eUnited States Surgeon General\u003c/occupation\u003e, \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e (1869-1948) and his son, \u003coccupation\u003eAmbassador\u003c/occupation\u003e \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e (1900-1986). Items include materials related to Hugh Cumming, Jr.'s service in the United States Department of State, and to Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s study at the \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003e, as well as Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.'s study at the \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Military Institute\u003c/corpname\u003e.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMost of the correspondence relates to the social and professional lives of Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. and his wife, \u003cpersname\u003eWinifred Burney West Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e. The periods covered include Cumming's time as \u003coccupation\u003eUnited States Ambassador\u003c/occupation\u003e to \u003cgeogname\u003eIndonesia\u003c/geogname\u003e, but more broadly relate to his time in the \u003ccorpname\u003eUnited States Department of State\u003c/corpname\u003e. There is a small amount of correspondence relating to Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. and his career as Surgeon General of the United States, as well as travel documents and White House invitations mostly relating to \u003cpersname\u003eDiana Cumming Kendrick\u003c/persname\u003e and her husband, \u003cpersname\u003eManville Kendrick\u003c/persname\u003e.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMany photographs include images of Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. and Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.'s public service careers along with portraits of members of the Cumming, \u003cfamname\u003eKendrick\u003c/famname\u003e, \u003cfamname\u003eBooth\u003c/famname\u003e, and \u003cfamname\u003eWest\u003c/famname\u003e families. Of particular interest is a series of inscribed and autographed regular and oversize photograph portraits of individuals involved in the careers of Hugh Cumming, Sr. and Hugh Cumming, Jr. Autographed portraits include those from \u003cpersname\u003eRichard M. Nixon\u003c/persname\u003e, \u003cpersname\u003eHerbert Hoover\u003c/persname\u003e, \u003cpersname\u003eLou Henry Hoover\u003c/persname\u003e, \u003cpersname\u003eDwight D. Eisenhower\u003c/persname\u003e, \u003cpersname\u003eCordell Hull\u003c/persname\u003e, and \u003cname\u003eSukarno\u003c/name\u003e. There are eleven daguerreotypes of family ancestors and an included folder of commentary on their subjects by Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. Also, of note are photographs of the Department of State by Henry \"Hank\" G. Walker for Life Magazine. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eScrapbooks in this addition include Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s scrapbook (ca. 1900), which contains descriptions of his newborn children and photographs. An included copy of A.O Kaplan's \"The Baby Biography,\" (ca. 1897-1898) describes the infancy of Lucy Booth Cumming and important events around the time of her birth, along with loose correspondence, parlor cards, and childhood photographs of her. This copy of \"The Baby Biography\" was filled in by her parents, Hugh S. Cumming and Lucy Booth Cumming. Diana Cumming's scrapbook (ca. 1918) holds pasted-in letters, ticket stubs, photographs, and illustrations, among other items. The memorial scrapbook regarding Winifred Burney West Cumming is an unbound second volume of a series of photocopied condolence letters to her widower, Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePrinted materials and miscellaneous items comprise Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s \u003cdate\u003e1893\u003c/date\u003e copy of the University of Virginia \"Corks and Curls\" Yearbook, newspaper clippings, and U.S. Department of State Commendations awarded to Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. It also includes a roster of the Virginia Military Institute's Class of \u003cdate\u003e1921\u003c/date\u003e and an etching by Don Swann of the University of Virginia's Rotunda. Oversize materials include a caricature and the official public service appointments of Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This addition to the Cumming family papers, includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and certificates related to members of the  Cumming  family, with most pertaining to  United States Surgeon General ,  Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.  (1869-1948) and his son,  Ambassador Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.  (1900-1986). Items include materials related to Hugh Cumming, Jr.'s service in the United States Department of State, and to Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s study at the  University of Virginia , as well as Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.'s study at the  Virginia Military Institute .  ","Most of the correspondence relates to the social and professional lives of Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. and his wife,  Winifred Burney West Cumming . The periods covered include Cumming's time as  United States Ambassador  to  Indonesia , but more broadly relate to his time in the  United States Department of State . There is a small amount of correspondence relating to Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. and his career as Surgeon General of the United States, as well as travel documents and White House invitations mostly relating to  Diana Cumming Kendrick  and her husband,  Manville Kendrick .  ","Many photographs include images of Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. and Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.'s public service careers along with portraits of members of the Cumming,  Kendrick ,  Booth , and  West  families. Of particular interest is a series of inscribed and autographed regular and oversize photograph portraits of individuals involved in the careers of Hugh Cumming, Sr. and Hugh Cumming, Jr. Autographed portraits include those from  Richard M. Nixon ,  Herbert Hoover ,  Lou Henry Hoover ,  Dwight D. Eisenhower ,  Cordell Hull , and  Sukarno . There are eleven daguerreotypes of family ancestors and an included folder of commentary on their subjects by Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. Also, of note are photographs of the Department of State by Henry \"Hank\" G. Walker for Life Magazine. ","Scrapbooks in this addition include Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s scrapbook (ca. 1900), which contains descriptions of his newborn children and photographs. An included copy of A.O Kaplan's \"The Baby Biography,\" (ca. 1897-1898) describes the infancy of Lucy Booth Cumming and important events around the time of her birth, along with loose correspondence, parlor cards, and childhood photographs of her. This copy of \"The Baby Biography\" was filled in by her parents, Hugh S. Cumming and Lucy Booth Cumming. Diana Cumming's scrapbook (ca. 1918) holds pasted-in letters, ticket stubs, photographs, and illustrations, among other items. The memorial scrapbook regarding Winifred Burney West Cumming is an unbound second volume of a series of photocopied condolence letters to her widower, Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. ","Printed materials and miscellaneous items comprise Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.'s  1893  copy of the University of Virginia \"Corks and Curls\" Yearbook, newspaper clippings, and U.S. Department of State Commendations awarded to Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. It also includes a roster of the Virginia Military Institute's Class of  1921  and an etching by Don Swann of the University of Virginia's Rotunda. Oversize materials include a caricature and the official public service appointments of Hugh S. 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Cumming,\n         Jr.","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00113#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003chead\u003eScope and Content\u003c/head\u003e\u003cp\u003eGENERAL DESCRIPTION\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Cumming Familypapers consist of ca. 53,100 items (23 Hollinger boxes, ca. 8 linear shelf feet), 1777-1778, 1806 (1820-1977) 1984, including correspondence, financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, bound volumes, writings, printed material, and miscellaneous related items pertaining to the life and activities of Dr. Hugh Smithand Lucy Booth Cumming, Sr., and their son, Ambassador Hugh S. Cumming, Jr., (1900-1986), and his wife, Winifred Burney West, as well as other family members. Also present are papers relating to the Booth Family.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Cumming (1869-1948) was Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Servicefrom 1920 to 1936; Ambassador Cumming (1900-) was a career diplomat and served primarily in Europeand Indonesiafrom 1933 until his retirement in 1963.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe majority of the collection is chiefly correspondence dealing with family, professional, and diplomatic matters. In addition, Ambassador Cumming maintained extensive files containing additional correspondence, photographs, reports, memoranda, notes, and other related materials regarding his public and personal activities.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection has been divided into three subgroups: I. Booth FamilyPapers, II. Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Smith Cumming, Sr., and III. Papers of Ambassador Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr.There are various series and subseries within each subgroup. A more detailed description of the papers, especially biographical and organizational information, can be found later in this guide, under each subgroup. The descriptions were compiled by Robin D. Wear (Subgroup I), T. Sharon Defibaugh (Subgroup II), and Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. (Subgroup III). This collection contains 6922-b, 6922-d, 6922-e, 6922-f, 6922-h, 6922-h, 6922-i, 6922-k, 6922-l, 6922-m, 6922-n, 6922-p, 6922-r, 6922-s, 6922-u, 6922-w, 6922-ab, 6922-ac and 6922-ad.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSUBGROUP I BOOTH FAMILY PAPERS\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSCOPE AND CONTENT\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis subgroup of the Cumming Papers pertains chiefly to the Booth family, and consists of ca. 270 items, (Boxes 1 and 2), encompassing the years 1814-1978. Included are correspondence, legal papers, and photographs of the Booth family; and biographical and genealogical information in the form of correspondence, notes, copies of family documents, and printed material concerning the Boothand allied families such as Armistead, Thomson, Throckmorton, Gilliam, Rootes, Bernard, and Terry.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Rebecca Hicks Booth, Robert Henry Booth, Edwin Gilliam Booth, and the latter's children, Edwin Gilliam Booth, Archer Jones Booth, Francis Rebecca Booth, and Sarah Tanner Booth, as well as Clara Haxall Thomson Booth, Lucy Almira Booth, Hugh Smith Cumming, Charles J. Cabaniss, and William Cabell Rives.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth's two older sons fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side in Virginia. Archer Jones Boothwrote to his father from Clark County, and to his grandmother from a camp near Fredericksburgmentioning long marches and various campsites. Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr., wrote to his father from a camp near Yorktown(June 5, 1861), discussing camp life, the hardships of warfare, and their hopes that President [Jefferson] Daviswould send an additional 25,000 men; and, later writes from the C. S. Steamer Selma off Mobile, Alabama(April 13, 1864) mentioning the occupation of Vicksburgby Yankees, the defense of Richmond, and news of Archer's regiment and an anticipated battle.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther letters of interest include those from E. C. Cabellto Edwin Gilliam Booth(November 22, 1846 and November 14, 1847) concerning a controversy between Booth and his brother, Archer, and the Bank of Florida; two letters from William Cabell Rivesto Edwin Gilliam Booth(July 5, 1858 and November 24, 1862); and a lengthy letter from Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr.to his sister, Frances Rebecca Booth, from Paris, France(February 5, 1866).\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00113#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viu_viu00113","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00113","_root_":"viu_viu00113","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00113","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/uva-sc/viu00113.xml","title_ssm":["Cumming Family Papers \n          1777-1984"],"title_tesim":["Cumming Family Papers \n          1777-1984"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["6922-b, -d, -e, -f, -h, -i,\n         -k, -l, -m, -n, -p, -r, -s, -u, -w, -ab, -ac and -ad"],"text":["6922-b, -d, -e, -f, -h, -i,\n         -k, -l, -m, -n, -p, -r, -s, -u, -w, -ab, -ac and -ad","Cumming Family Papers \n          1777-1984","ca. 53,100 items","Organization ORGANIZATION This subgroup of the \n             Cumming Papers is divided into three\n            series: I. Correspondence and Legal Papers; II.\n            Genealogical Papers; and, III. Photographs and Printed\n            Material. The folders in the first series have been\n            arranged chronologically. The folders in the second series\n            have been arranged in alphabetical order by family name.\n            The series entitled \"Miscellaneous\" contains photographs\n            and printed material, with folders in alphabetical\n            order.","Organization ORGANIZATION The papers of Dr. and Mrs. \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , are arranged\n            chronologically and have been arranged in five series: 1)\n            Correspondence; 2) Memoirs; 3) Miscellaneous Papers; 4)\n            Bound Volumes; and 5) Oversize Items.","Organization ORGANIZATION This subgroup is divided into three series: I.\n            Correspondence, II. Photographs and Miscellaneous, and III.\n            Bound Volumes. Series I is divided into five subseries of\n            correspondence: general, chronological, alphabetical files,\n            topical files, and subject files. Series II contains\n            photographs followed by miscellaneous folders. Folder\n            headings have been modified as necessary and the material\n            has been arranged chronologically within each series.","Biography BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Edwin Gilliam Booth was born on January\n            11, 1810, at \" \n             Shenstone , \" \n             Nottoway County , to \n             Gilliam Booth and \n             Rebecca (Hicks) Booth . At age ten he\n            was sent to \n             Winfield Academy in \n             Dinwiddie County , where he began a\n            friendship with \n             Theodorick Pryor , who later became one\n            of the most influential and successful ministers in\n            southeastern \n             Virginia . His chief preparation for\n            college was at \n             Oxford, North Carolina ; he\n            matriculated at the \n             University of North Carolina at Chapel\n            Hill in 1824, (at the age of fourteen) after an\n            arduous course in classics and mathematics. Subsequently,\n            he studied law at \n             Fredericksburg under the supervision of\n            Judge \n             John Taylor Lomax , a professor at the \n             University of Virginia and a judge of\n            the \n             Court of Appeals ; and, although not a\n            well-disciplined student, he was diligent in his quest for\n            legal knowledge, and afterward returned to \n             Nottoway County to practice law in the\n            five southeastern counties of \n             Virginia . In 1833, he married \n             Sarah Tanner Jones (May 10, 1811,\n            -August 29, 1860) with whom he had five children: \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. , (February\n            27, 1839 -January 5, 1922); \n             Archer Jones Booth (May 22, 1844\n            -November 22, 1864); \n             Frances Rebecca Booth (December 17,\n            1846 -June 7, 1885); \n             Sarah Tanner Booth (June 3, 1848\n            -September 23, 1865); and, \n             William Travis Booth (July 12, 1850\n            -June 25, 1861). Booth was known for his public spirit and devotion to\n            politics, his activities for the welfare of man and for the\n            promotion of Christianity. On August 30, 1838, he made a\n            public profession of his faith in Christ, and was soon made\n            the ruling elder in the \n             Nottoway Church . In 1847, he was\n            elected from the Nottoway District to serve in the \n             Virginia Legislature for the 1848 and\n            1849 sessions, and took part in the revision and\n            codification of the civil laws of \n             Virginia . During the Civil War, he\n            attempted to alleviate the miseries of military prisons by\n            obtaining permission to assist friends in prison. He\n            received permission from President \n             Abraham Lincoln to pass through the\n            blockade in April 1863, and dined with Lincoln and Davis\n            over the month, by their invitations. In 1876, he erected\n            the Old Virginia Building at the \n             National Centennial Exhibition in \n             Fairmont Park, Philadelphia . Edwin Gilliam Booth, Sr. , passed away\n            on February 13, 1886 in \n             Philadelphia . More information on Booth may be found in \n             The Life and Character of Edwin Gilliam\n               Booth by \n             Henry Edwin Dwight (F230.B74). Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. , was born on\n            February 27, 1839, in \n             Nottoway County to \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth and \n             Sarah Tanner (Jones) Booth . He\n            attended \n             Winfield Academy , \n             Dinwiddie County , and was prepared for\n            college by \n             David Comfort , a Princeton graduate.\n            He then attended \n             Hampton-Sydney College for two years,\n            graduating in 1859, and spent part of a session at the \n             University of Virginia before enrolling\n            in the \n             University of Pennsylvania at\n            Philadelphia where he graduated as a doctor of medicine in\n            1861. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the \n             Confederate Army as a member of the \n             Nottoway Cavalry in the G and E\n            companies of the \n             Third Virginia Regiment . His company\n            fought at the Battle of \n             Big Bethel on June 10, 1861. On May 1,\n            1863, he was commissioned as assistant surgeon in the \n             Confederate Navy , and was a surgeon on\n            the C. S. S. Selma during the Battle of \n             Mobile Bay , where their fleet was\n            defeated and the steamer was sunk on August 5, 1864. He was\n            taken prisoner and sent to \n             Pensacola , and later released on\n            parole. After the war he visited \n             Europe , then returned to live at \" \n             Shenstone \" until ca. 1886 when he\n            moved to \" \n             Carter's Grove , \" James City County.\n            In October 1870, he married \n             Clara Haxall Thomson of \n             Jefferson County, West Virginia ; they\n            had the following children: \n             Lucy Almira Booth (July 15, 1871\n            -1960); \n             Frances Rebecca Booth (October 1, 1873\n            -? ); \n             Henrietta Edwina Booth (January 6,\n            1876-? ); \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, III (July 14, 1878\n            -? ); \n             Clara Thomson Booth (July 10, 1880 -?\n            ); \n             John Thomson Booth (May 13, 1883 -? );\n            and, \n             William Harris Booth (June 16, 1885 -?\n            ). In 1907, he settled in the old \n             George Wythe home at \n             Williamsburg , and was a member of the \n             Board of Visitors of the College of William and\n            Mary . He died at home on January 5, 1922.","Biography BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES See entries from: \n             Who Was Who In America , Volume II, 1943 -1950, page 139; \n             Who's Who in America , 1984-1985, 43rd edition, Volume I, A-K, pp.\n            723-724; the \n             National Cyclopedia of American Biography , pp. 279-280, and the obituary for \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. from the November\n            26, 1986 \"Washington Post.\"","Scope and Content GENERAL DESCRIPTION The \n             Cumming Family papers consist of ca.\n            53,100 items (23 Hollinger boxes, ca. 8 linear shelf feet),\n            1777-1778, 1806 (1820-1977) 1984, including correspondence,\n            financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings,\n            photographs, bound volumes, writings, printed material, and\n            miscellaneous related items pertaining to the life and\n            activities of Dr. \n             Hugh Smith and \n             Lucy Booth Cumming , Sr., and their\n            son, Ambassador \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , (1900-1986), and\n            his wife, \n             Winifred Burney West , as well as other\n            family members. Also present are papers relating to the \n             Booth Family . Dr. Cumming (1869-1948) was Surgeon General of the \n             U. S. Public Health Service from 1920\n            to 1936; Ambassador Cumming (1900-) was a career diplomat\n            and served primarily in \n             Europe and \n             Indonesia from 1933 until his\n            retirement in 1963. The majority of the collection is chiefly correspondence\n            dealing with family, professional, and diplomatic matters.\n            In addition, Ambassador Cumming maintained extensive files\n            containing additional correspondence, photographs, reports,\n            memoranda, notes, and other related materials regarding his\n            public and personal activities. The collection has been divided into three subgroups: I.\n             Booth Family Papers, II. Papers of Dr.\n            and Mrs. \n             Hugh Smith Cumming, Sr. , and III.\n            Papers of Ambassador \n             Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. There are\n            various series and subseries within each subgroup. A more\n            detailed description of the papers, especially biographical\n            and organizational information, can be found later in this\n            guide, under each subgroup. The descriptions were compiled\n            by Robin D. Wear (Subgroup I), T. Sharon Defibaugh\n            (Subgroup II), and Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. (Subgroup III).\n            This collection contains 6922-b, 6922-d, 6922-e, 6922-f,\n            6922-h, 6922-h, 6922-i, 6922-k, 6922-l, 6922-m, 6922-n,\n            6922-p, 6922-r, 6922-s, 6922-u, 6922-w, 6922-ab, 6922-ac\n            and 6922-ad. SUBGROUP I BOOTH FAMILY PAPERS SCOPE AND CONTENT This subgroup of the Cumming Papers pertains chiefly to\n            the \n             Booth family , and consists of ca. 270\n            items, (Boxes 1 and 2), encompassing the years 1814-1978.\n            Included are correspondence, legal papers, and photographs\n            of the \n             Booth family ; and biographical and\n            genealogical information in the form of correspondence,\n            notes, copies of family documents, and printed material\n            concerning the \n             Booth and allied families such as \n             Armistead , \n             Thomson , \n             Throckmorton , \n             Gilliam , \n             Rootes , \n             Bernard , and \n             Terry . Correspondents include \n             Rebecca Hicks Booth , \n             Robert Henry Booth , \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth , and the latter's\n            children, \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth , \n             Archer Jones Booth , \n             Francis Rebecca Booth , and \n             Sarah Tanner Booth , as well as \n             Clara Haxall Thomson Booth , \n             Lucy Almira Booth , \n             Hugh Smith Cumming , \n             Charles J. Cabaniss , and \n             William Cabell Rives . Edwin Gilliam Booth 's two older sons\n            fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side in \n             Virginia . \n             Archer Jones Booth wrote to his father\n            from \n             Clark County , and to his grandmother\n            from a camp near \n             Fredericksburg mentioning long marches\n            and various campsites. \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. , wrote to his\n            father from a camp near \n             Yorktown (June 5, 1861), discussing\n            camp life, the hardships of warfare, and their hopes that\n            President \n             [Jefferson] Davis would send an\n            additional 25,000 men; and, later writes from the C. S.\n            Steamer Selma off \n             Mobile, Alabama (April 13, 1864)\n            mentioning the occupation of \n             Vicksburg by Yankees, the defense of \n             Richmond , and news of Archer's\n            regiment and an anticipated battle. Other letters of interest include those from \n             E. C. Cabell to \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth (November 22, 1846\n            and November 14, 1847) concerning a controversy between\n            Booth and his brother, Archer, and the \n             Bank of Florida ; two letters from \n             William Cabell Rives to \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth (July 5, 1858 and\n            November 24, 1862); and a lengthy letter from \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. to his sister,\n             Frances Rebecca Booth , from \n             Paris, France (February 5, 1866).","Scope and Content SUBGROUP II PAPERS OF DR. AND MRS. \n             HUGH SMITH CUMMING, SR. SCOPE AND CONTENT This subgroup of the \n             Cumming family papers includes papers of\n            Dr. \n             Hugh Smith Cumming, Sr. (1869-1948) and\n            his wife, \n             Lucy Booth Cumming (1871-1960), and\n            contains ca. 825 items, (Boxes 3-7, 4 Hollinger boxes, 3.5\n            linear shelf feet), 1897-1956. They consist of\n            correspondence, memoirs, essays, speeches, invitations,\n            printed items, photographs, legal papers, bound volumes,\n            and oversize items. Correspondence forms the largest series of the papers;\n            there are letters of congratulation to Dr. and Mrs. \n             Hugh S. Cumming concerning the birth of\n             Lucy Cumming , 1897, and \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , 1900, as well as\n            letters of condolence regarding the death of \n             Lucy Cumming in 1898. Letters from \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. to his wife, Lucy,\n            1900-1938, were usually written during his absences from\n            home due to work connected with his appointments to the \n             U.S. Public Health Service (1894-1920)\n            and as Surgeon General (1920-1936); they contain references\n            to his inspection and quarantine duties, departmental\n            gossip, family news, and personal observations about the\n            various places that he visited. Notable topics include: the\n            endorsement of the \n             Public Health and Marine Hospital\n            Service by the \n             American Medical Association (July 13,\n            1905); the case of an insane Russian alien (November 12,\n            1911); Lucy's appointment to the \n             Sanitation Committee (November 15,\n            1912); Surgeon General \n             Rupert Blue 's and Cumming's chances of\n            an assignment in \n             Philadelphia (August 17, 1912), and his\n             Virginia Survey and other inspection\n            work along the \n             Atlantic Seaboard , especially of\n            sewage systems and oyster beds (1914-1915). The majority of\n            Dr. Cumming's letters to his wife were written during his\n            service in \n             Europe , 1918-1920, where he visited\n            and inspected ports of embarkation, evacuation points,\n            departing ships, and camps used by the American forces in \n             France for evidence of epidemics or\n            disease. He also represented the \n             United States in 1919 at the \n             Cannes conference which organized the \n             League of Red Cross Societies and\n            headed a medical mission to \n             Poland . Topics in this group include:\n            post-war conditions in \n             England (December 20, 1918); \n             American University Union in \n             Europe (December 29, 1918); abominable\n            conditions at the American camp at \n             Brest, France (January 9, 1919);\n            effects of shelling on the ruins at \n             Rheims, France (February 9, 1919);\n            typhoid fever outbreak at \n             Rotterdam, Netherlands (February 20,\n            1919); \n             Red Cross Conference at \n             Cannes (March 20, 1919); chances for an\n            enduring peace (March 28, 1919); work on a committee on\n            preventive medicine and hygiene and a subcommittee on \n             Public Health Laboratories (April 3-23,\n            1919); and comments on the high cost of food and its affect\n            upon the morals of civilians in \n             Europe (April 24, 1919). These letters,\n            in general, describe Cumming's itinerary while in \n             Europe , including \n             England , \n             France , \n             Belgium , \n             Poland , \n             Spain , \n             Italy , \n             Greece , and \n             Turkey , his duties of inspection, and\n            the appearance of post-war \n             Europe . Letters to \n             Lucy Booth Cumming include the\n            following topics: a sketch of the life of \n             Archer Jones Booth , (an uncle of hers)\n            as a Confederate soldier, by \n             James F. Epes (November 26, 1903); \n             Leake and \n             Haxall genealogy (October 21, 1905); \n             Thomson genealogy (March 29, 1914;\n            [February 9, 1934]; November 15, 1929); \n             Cabaniss genealogy (September 27, 1933)\n            and photographs of celebrities attending the \n             Lausanne Peace Conference (December 26,\n            1922). Lucy Cumming also corresponded with her mother, \n             Clara Booth , and sister, \n             Henrietta Wise , while residing in \n             Yokohama, Japan , (1906), and while\n            visiting her husband in \n             Europe in 1919-1920. The miscellaneous correspondence of Hugh and Lucy\n            Cumming contains: a copy of \n             Charles J. Hatfield 's comments\n            introducing \n             Hugh S. Cumming at the \n             University of Pennsylvania (October 20,\n            1930); copy of Mrs. Cumming's comments in a prologue to a\n            series of radio broadcasts regarding the health of young\n            people for the \n             Committee on Periodic Health\n            Examinations (January 12, 1932), and a copy of \n             Herbert Hoover 's letter of\n            appreciation to Cumming about his work in the \n             Public Health Service (February 25,\n            1933). Dr. and Mrs. Cumming's letters to their son, \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , generally\n            contain family news and descriptions of trips undertaken in\n            connection with Cumming's work as Surgeon General, with\n            occasional references to Dr. Cumming's viewpoints amd\n            opinions, including the technical meeting of the \n             Commission on Nutrition (May 24 and 31,\n            1937) and his opinion of his successor, \n             [Thomas] Parran (May 12, 1939). The letters of \n             Winifred Burney (West)\n            Cumming (1907-1978) to \n             Lucy B. Cumming , 1948-1956, furnish a\n            varied picture of the life of the wife of a diplomat and\n            her responsibilities in the work of an embassy. These\n            letters were written while her husband, \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , (1900-1986) was\n            stationed in \n             Sweden , \n             Russia , and \n             Indonesia . Two letters in particular\n            (March 5 and 19, 1951) describe the city of \n             Moscow , its living conditions, and the\n             Lubianka prison , which was near the\n            Cumming's \n             Moscow quarters. This collection also contains the typescript of Dr. \n             Hugh S. Cumming 's personal memoirs,\n            beginning with his birth on August 17, 1869, in \n             Hampton, Virginia , and ending with his\n            last day at the \n             Pan American Sanitary Bureau on\n            February 1, 1947, and Lucy Cumming's memoirs of her\n            childhood in \n             Nottoway County, Virginia . Other items of note include two speeches of \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , \"Toast at Tennis\n            Club\" (N.D.) and \"Address at the opening session of the\n            Septima Conferencia Sanitaria\" (November 1924), and a Power\n            of Attorney re the estate of \n             Lucy B. Cumming 's grandfather, \n             Edwin G. Booth , \" \n             Beechwood \" in \n             York County, Virginia , (June 19,\n            1919). The collection also contains a diary and date book\n            of \n             Lucy Booth Cumming ; a pictoral record\n            of the Medical Conference held at \n             Cannes, France , (April 1-11, 1919) at\n            the invitation of the \n             Committee of Red Cross Societies ; a\n            scrapbook of \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , containing\n            academic diplomas, official certificates, honorary degrees,\n            appointments, photographs, newsclippings, obituaries, etc.;\n             Lucy Cumming 's membership certificate\n            in the \n             United Daughters of the Confederacy ;\n            and a charcoal-and-chalk profile sketch of \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.","Scope and Content SUBGROUP III PAPERS OF AMBASSADOR \n             HUGH SMITH CUMMING, JR. SCOPE AND CONTENT This subgroup consists of ca. 5,200 items (Boxes 7-23,\n            ca. 4.5 linear shelf feet), 1777-1778, 1806, 1820,\n            1861-1892, 1907 (1931-1977) 1984, correspondence,\n            photographs, financial and legal items, newspaper\n            clippings, tape recordings, bound volumes and miscellaneous\n            items relating to \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , a career\n            diplomat. These papers are chiefly comprised of personal\n            and diplomatic correspondence. Topics of interest in the\n            subgroup include: Cumming's life as a diplomat in \n             Moscow , \n             Stockholm , \n             Paris , and \n             Indonesia ; European economic\n            conditions, 1939-1945; the \n             University of Virginia ; American\n            activities in \n             Iceland and \n             Greenland before and during World War\n            II; diplomacy, family and personal matters; and\n            involvements in civic and professional organizations. As a diplomat, Cumming corresponded with several\n            prominent contemporaries, especially his fellow diplomats,\n            but the majority of their letters are concerned with\n            routine matters. The correspondence was written in various\n            places: Austria, Belgium, China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Great\n            Britain, Greece, Greenland, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy,\n            Liberia, the Netherlands, Poland, South America, the Soviet\n            Union, Sweden, and Switzerland. Among the noted correspondents are: \n             Dean Acheson ; \n             Joseph W. Alsop ; \n             John A. Blatnik ; \n             Daniel J. Boorstin ; \n             John Stewart Bryan ; \n             Harry F. Byrd, Jr. ; \n             Richard E. Byrd ; \n             Bernard P. Chamerlain ; \n             Virginius Dabney ; \n             C. Douglas Dillon ; \n             Thomas N. Downing ; \n             Allen W. Dulles ; \n             John Foster Dulles ; \n             Homer Ferguson ; \n             J. Allen Frear, Jr. ; \n             Douglas Southall Freeman ; \n             J. William Fulbright ; \n             Wilson D. Gillette ; \n             Joseph C. Grew ; \n             Christian A. Herter ; \n             Lou Henry Hoover (Mrs. Herbert Hoover);\n             Cordell Hull ; \n             Herschel V. Johnson ; \n             Walter Lippman ; \n             Henry Cabot Lodge ; \n             John O. Marsh, Jr. ; \n             Christopher C. McGrath ; \n             David C. Mearns ; \n             L. Quincy Mumford ; \n             Stanley F. Reed ; \n             Eleanor Roosevelt ; \n             Elliot Roosevelt ; \n             Dean Rusk ; \n             Hugh D. Scott, Jr. ; \n             John W. Snyder ; \n             John Sparkman ; \n             Maurice Stans ; \n             Edward E. Stettinius, Jr. ; \n             Potter Stewart ; \n             Robert Taft, Jr. ; \n             Edward Thye, Jr. ; \n             Harry S. Truman . In addition, there are references to: \n             Edwin Barclay ; \n             Chiang Kai-shek ; \n             Andrei Gromyko ; \n             George Kennan ; \n             Hunter Holmes McGuire ; \n             Raoul Wallenberg . Cumming's correspondence, 1907-1984, relates to his life\n            and career and includes letters from and to his wife, his\n            mother, relatives, friends, and colleagues. There are\n            several letters congratulating him on his marriage to \n             Winifred Burney West (1907-1978), 1935,\n            as well as her letters to members of her family, 1930-1932\n            and 1951-1952, while she was living in the American\n            Consulate in \n             Hankow, China , and in \n             Moscow where her husband was counselor\n            to the American Embassy. In these letters, which were\n            primarily addressed to her brother-in-law, \n             Frank A. West , she discusses her\n            social and personal activities. The letters contain\n            references to contemporary events and individuals such as:\n            executions taking place near the American Consulate in \n             Hankow , January 30, 1931; the U.S.S.\n            Panay's attempt to pay ransom to secure the release of a\n            kidnap victim, February 27, 1931; \n             Chiang Kai-shek , December 16, 1930;\n            May Day celebrations in \n             Moscow , May 11, 1951; and meeting \n             Andrei Gromyko , November 11 and 18,\n            1951. Her Moscow letters were signed \"jed.\" Letters of interest include several from Mr. and Mrs. \n             Cordell Hull , 1933-1950; \n             Walter Lippman discussing the case of \n             Raoul Wallenberg , December 8, 1947; a\n            thank-you letter from \n             Eleanor Roosevelt , June 13, 1950; \n             Richard E. Byrd regarding his efforts\n            on behalf of the \n             U.S. Antarctic Service , August 21 and\n            December 27, 1941; and President \n             Harry S. Truman 's appointment of\n            Cumming to the personal rank of Minister while serving as\n            deputy chief of mission and counselor of the embassy at \n             Moscow , August 14, 1951; condolence\n            letters, 1948-1949, regarding the death of his father, \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , and of his\n            mother, \n             Lucy Booth Cumming, 1960 . Correspondence from Cumming's diplomatic service,\n            1926-1964, includes copies of correspondence with the \n             State Department , a report on economic\n            and political situations in Nazi \n             Germany , November 15, 1939, and an\n            incomplete report of an assassination attempt against\n            Liberian President \n             Edwin Barclay which involved the use of\n            medicine men and magic, 1934, as well as several\n            confidential reports and related papers pertaining to his\n            service in \n             Latin America , \n             Europe , and \n             Asia . The subject files, 1934-1984, comprise the largest\n            section of the collection; arranged alphabetically by name\n            or subject, they contain correspondence and related papers\n            pertaining to Cumming's civic and professional activities.\n            These include appointments and efficiency reports, papers\n            regarding members of the \n             Cumming family , the \n             Alibi Club , the \n             John Foster Dulles Oral History Project at\n            Princeton University , \n             Bath County Community Hospital , the \n             National Cathedral Association , the \n             State Department , Diplomatic and\n            Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR) and other similar\n            subjects. Correspondence and files regarding the \n             University of Virginia include the \n             Raven Society , the \n             Hugh S. and Lucy Booth Cumming Memorial\n            Fund , the \n             O.W.L.S. Society , and others. As a\n            consequence, he corresponded with several members of its\n            faculty, students, and staff such as \n             Julius P. Barclay , \n             Edmund Berkeley, Jr. , \n             Colgate W. Darden, Jr. , \n             Ernest H. Ern , \n             Arthur P. Gray III , \n             Frank L. Hereford, Jr. , \n             William H. Runge , \n             B. F. D. Runk , \n             Edgar F. Shannon , and \n             John Cook Wyllie . The photographs, 1918-1961, pertain to: life at the \n             Virginia Military Institute in 1918, \n             U. S. Coast Guard activities in \n             Greenland during 1941; the first\n            commerical flight between \n             Reykjavik, Iceland , and \n             Washington, D.C. Of special interest is\n            a 1923 photograph of Cumming as a park ranger in \n             Mesa Verde National Park , \n             Colorado , and four photographs of \n             Richard M. Nixon during a visit to \n             Indonesia as part of his 1953 Asian\n            tour. Bound volumes, 1777 -1778, 1806, 1820, 1850-1892 and\n            1941, include a scrapbook regarding Sunday School\n            conventions in \n             Albemarle County, Virginia , 1868-1875,\n            a journal containing entries regarding the issuing of\n            military rations, 1777-1778; and a 1866-1868 diary and\n            commonplace book of \n             Diana Whiting Smith Cumming , a school\n            teacher and resident of \n             Hampton, Virginia . Also present is\n            Cumming's diary of his official trip to \n             Greenland during 1941. Other items of interest include: passsports of Hugh and\n            Winifred Cumming, 1922-1947; invitations, a 1909 school\n            report, guest tickets to the \n             1924 Democratic National Convention ;\n            three 1913 visitor passes to public viewing galleries in\n            Congress from \n             Bird McGuire , \n             James P. Clarke , and \n             Claude A. Swanson ; two tape recordings\n            of Cumming interviews, 1954 and 1969; an article by him\n            regarding \n             Liberia , February, 1937; three pages\n            from the New York Daily Tribune, April 23, 1861, with\n            references to the early phase of the Civil War, a 1940\n            Cumming article on the \n             U.S. Antarctic Service ; and a pass for\n            Cumming as an official observer at a nuclear test explosion\n            (\"Diablo\") in \n             Nevada during 1957.","","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Shenstone","Winfield Academy","University of North Carolina at Chapel\n            Hill","University of Virginia","Court of Appeals","Nottoway Church","Virginia Legislature","National Centennial Exhibition","Hampton-Sydney College","University of Pennsylvania","Confederate Army","Nottoway Cavalry","Third Virginia Regiment","Confederate Navy","Carter's Grove","Board of Visitors of the College of William and\n            Mary","U. S. Public Health Service","Bank of Florida","U.S. Public Health Service","Public Health and Marine Hospital\n            Service","American Medical Association","Sanitation Committee","League of Red Cross Societies","American University Union","Red Cross","Public Health Laboratories","Lausanne Peace Conference","Committee on Periodic Health\n            Examinations","Public Health Service","Commission on Nutrition","Lubianka prison","Pan American Sanitary Bureau","Beechwood","Committee of Red Cross Societies","United Daughters of the Confederacy","U.S. Antarctic Service","State Department","Alibi Club","John Foster Dulles Oral History Project at\n            Princeton University","Bath County Community Hospital","National Cathedral Association","Raven Society","Hugh S. and Lucy Booth Cumming Memorial\n            Fund","O.W.L.S. Society","Virginia Military Institute","U. S. Coast Guard","Mesa Verde National Park","1924 Democratic National Convention","St. Mary's Episcopal\n                     Church","Committee of Red Cross\n                     Societies","United Daughter of the\n                     Confederacy","Anderson and Sheppard,\n                           Ltd.","Atlantic Council","Bath County Community\n                        Hospital","Berkshire Farm For Boys\n                           (Washington Committee)","Board of Examiners of Foreign\n                           Service","Frederick Bunnell-Vassar\n                           College","Chevy Chase Club","Christ\n                        Church","Cosmos Club","University of\n                        Pennsylvania","Hugh Smith Cumming\n                        Trust","Hugh S. and Lucy Booth Cumming\n                           Memorial Fund","Diplomatic and Consular Officers,\n                        Retired","Davidson College","Princeton University Oral History\n                        Project","Episcopal Diocese and Research\n                        Committees","Foreign Service Advisory\n                           Committee","Foxcroft School","Garth Newel Music Center","Historic Georgetown,\n                           Inc.","Meridan House\n                           Foundation","Metropolitan Club","Moscow Church","National Cathedral\n                        Association","The Raven Society","State\n                        Department","Swannanoa","United States Navy","University of the\n                        Pacific","University of\n                        Virginia","Virginia Historical\n                           Society","Virginia Military\n                        Institute","Washington Institute of Foreign\n                           Affairs","Birne T. West Trust","Woodrow Wilson House\n                           Council","U.S. Guard Coast","U. S. 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Cumming, Jr.","Hugh Smith","Lucy Booth Cumming","Winifred Burney West","Booth Family","Hugh Smith Cumming, Sr.","Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr.","Rebecca Hicks Booth","Robert Henry Booth","Francis Rebecca Booth","Clara Haxall Thomson Booth","Hugh Smith Cumming","Charles J. Cabaniss","William Cabell Rives","[Jefferson] Davis","E. C. Cabell","HUGH SMITH CUMMING, SR.","Hugh S. Cumming","Lucy Cumming","Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.","Rupert Blue","Virginia","James F. Epes","Clara Booth","Henrietta Wise","Charles J. Hatfield","Herbert Hoover","[Thomas] Parran","Winifred Burney (West)\n            Cumming","Lucy B. Cumming","Edwin G. Booth","HUGH SMITH CUMMING, JR.","Dean Acheson","Joseph W. Alsop","John A. Blatnik","Daniel J. Boorstin","John Stewart Bryan","Harry F. Byrd, Jr.","Richard E. Byrd","Bernard P. Chamerlain","Virginius Dabney","C. Douglas Dillon","Thomas N. Downing","Allen W. Dulles","John Foster Dulles","Homer Ferguson","J. Allen Frear, Jr.","Douglas Southall Freeman","J. William Fulbright","Wilson D. Gillette","Joseph C. Grew","Christian A. Herter","Lou Henry Hoover","Cordell Hull","Herschel V. Johnson","Walter Lippman","Henry Cabot Lodge","John O. Marsh, Jr.","Christopher C. McGrath","David C. Mearns","L. Quincy Mumford","Stanley F. Reed","Eleanor Roosevelt","Elliot Roosevelt","Dean Rusk","Hugh D. Scott, Jr.","John W. Snyder","John Sparkman","Maurice Stans","Edward E. Stettinius, Jr.","Potter Stewart","Robert Taft, Jr.","Edward Thye, Jr.","Harry S. Truman","Edwin Barclay","Chiang Kai-shek","Andrei Gromyko","George Kennan","Hunter Holmes McGuire","Raoul Wallenberg","Frank A. West","Lucy Booth Cumming, 1960","Julius P. Barclay","Edmund Berkeley, Jr.","Colgate W. Darden, Jr.","Ernest H. Ern","Arthur P. Gray III","Frank L. Hereford, Jr.","William H. Runge","B. F. D. Runk","Edgar F. Shannon","John Cook Wyllie","Richard M. Nixon","Diana Whiting Smith Cumming","Bird McGuire","James P. Clarke","Claude A. Swanson","Robert H. Booth","Edwin Gilliam\n                     Booth","Clara Haxell (Thomson)\n                     Booth","Archer Jones\n                     Booth","Frances Rebecca\n                     Booth","Lucy Booth","Hugh Smith\n                     Cumming","Gilliam\n                     Booth","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                     Jr.","Annie Terry","Rebecca Sealy Terry\n                     White","Edwin Gilliam","E. G. Booth","Hugh S. Cumming Sr.","Lucy Booth\n                     Cumming","Hugh S. Cumming,\n                     Jr.","Franklin D. Roosevelt","H. Morganthou, Jr.","Winifred Cumming","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                     Sr.","Bess Furman","Hugh S. Cumming,\n                     Sr.","Hugh Smith\n                        Cumming","Winifred B. Cumming","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                        Jr.","Hugh S. Cumming,\n                        Sr.","Lucy Booth\n                        Cumming","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                        Sr.","Nell Hayne","Culver Gleysteen","John B. Kendrick, II","Margaret Kendrick","Anthony Lake","Oscar Morland","H. R. Mumford","Marjorie Savage","Birne T. West","Diana Whiting Smith\n                     Cumming","Marion Kemp","[Bob Wilson]","English"],"unitid_tesim":["6922-b, -d, -e, -f, -h, -i,\n         -k, -l, -m, -n, -p, -r, -s, -u, -w, -ab, -ac and -ad"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Cumming Family Papers \n          1777-1984"],"collection_title_tesim":["Cumming Family Papers \n          1777-1984"],"collection_ssim":["Cumming Family Papers \n          1777-1984"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":["Hugh S. Cumming,\n         Jr."],"creator_ssim":["Hugh S. Cumming,\n         Jr."],"acqinfo_ssim":["These papers, 6922-b, 6922-d, 6922-e, 6922-f, 6922-h,\n            6922-h, 6922-i, 6922-k, 6922-l, 6922-m, 6922-n, 6922-p,\n            6922-r, 6922-s, 6922-u, 6922-w, 6922-ab, 6922-ac and\n            6922-ad, were donated to the Library by the Honorable Hugh\n            S. Cumming, Jr., of Washington, D.C., on June 3, November\n            16, and December 30, 1985, and bear no restrictions"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["ca. 53,100 items"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eORGANIZATION\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis subgroup of the \n            \u003cfamname\u003eCumming\u003c/famname\u003ePapers is divided into three\n            series: I. Correspondence and Legal Papers; II.\n            Genealogical Papers; and, III. Photographs and Printed\n            Material. The folders in the first series have been\n            arranged chronologically. The folders in the second series\n            have been arranged in alphabetical order by family name.\n            The series entitled \"Miscellaneous\" contains photographs\n            and printed material, with folders in alphabetical\n            order.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eORGANIZATION\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe papers of Dr. and Mrs. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e, are arranged\n            chronologically and have been arranged in five series: 1)\n            Correspondence; 2) Memoirs; 3) Miscellaneous Papers; 4)\n            Bound Volumes; and 5) Oversize Items.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eORGANIZATION\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis subgroup is divided into three series: I.\n            Correspondence, II. Photographs and Miscellaneous, and III.\n            Bound Volumes. Series I is divided into five subseries of\n            correspondence: general, chronological, alphabetical files,\n            topical files, and subject files. Series II contains\n            photographs followed by miscellaneous folders. Folder\n            headings have been modified as necessary and the material\n            has been arranged chronologically within each series.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization ORGANIZATION This subgroup of the \n             Cumming Papers is divided into three\n            series: I. Correspondence and Legal Papers; II.\n            Genealogical Papers; and, III. Photographs and Printed\n            Material. The folders in the first series have been\n            arranged chronologically. The folders in the second series\n            have been arranged in alphabetical order by family name.\n            The series entitled \"Miscellaneous\" contains photographs\n            and printed material, with folders in alphabetical\n            order.","Organization ORGANIZATION The papers of Dr. and Mrs. \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , are arranged\n            chronologically and have been arranged in five series: 1)\n            Correspondence; 2) Memoirs; 3) Miscellaneous Papers; 4)\n            Bound Volumes; and 5) Oversize Items.","Organization ORGANIZATION This subgroup is divided into three series: I.\n            Correspondence, II. Photographs and Miscellaneous, and III.\n            Bound Volumes. Series I is divided into five subseries of\n            correspondence: general, chronological, alphabetical files,\n            topical files, and subject files. Series II contains\n            photographs followed by miscellaneous folders. Folder\n            headings have been modified as necessary and the material\n            has been arranged chronologically within each series."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cbioghist\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eBiography\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003ewas born on January\n            11, 1810, at \" \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eShenstone\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eNottoway County\u003c/geogname\u003e, to \n            \u003cpersname\u003eGilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003eand \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRebecca (Hicks) Booth\u003c/persname\u003e. At age ten he\n            was sent to \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eWinfield Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eDinwiddie County\u003c/geogname\u003e, where he began a\n            friendship with \n            \u003cpersname\u003eTheodorick Pryor\u003c/persname\u003e, who later became one\n            of the most influential and successful ministers in\n            southeastern \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. His chief preparation for\n            college was at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eOxford, North Carolina\u003c/geogname\u003e; he\n            matriculated at the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel\n            Hill\u003c/corpname\u003ein 1824, (at the age of fourteen) after an\n            arduous course in classics and mathematics. Subsequently,\n            he studied law at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eFredericksburg\u003c/geogname\u003eunder the supervision of\n            Judge \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Taylor Lomax\u003c/persname\u003e, a professor at the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003eand a judge of\n            the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eCourt of Appeals\u003c/corpname\u003e; and, although not a\n            well-disciplined student, he was diligent in his quest for\n            legal knowledge, and afterward returned to \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eNottoway County\u003c/geogname\u003eto practice law in the\n            five southeastern counties of \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eIn 1833, he married \n            \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tanner Jones\u003c/persname\u003e(May 10, 1811,\n            -August 29, 1860) with whom he had five children: \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, (February\n            27, 1839 -January 5, 1922); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eArcher Jones Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(May 22, 1844\n            -November 22, 1864); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eFrances Rebecca Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(December 17,\n            1846 -June 7, 1885); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tanner Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(June 3, 1848\n            -September 23, 1865); and, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Travis Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(July 12, 1850\n            -June 25, 1861).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eBooth was known for his public spirit and devotion to\n            politics, his activities for the welfare of man and for the\n            promotion of Christianity. On August 30, 1838, he made a\n            public profession of his faith in Christ, and was soon made\n            the ruling elder in the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eNottoway Church\u003c/corpname\u003e. In 1847, he was\n            elected from the Nottoway District to serve in the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Legislature\u003c/corpname\u003efor the 1848 and\n            1849 sessions, and took part in the revision and\n            codification of the civil laws of \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. During the Civil War, he\n            attempted to alleviate the miseries of military prisons by\n            obtaining permission to assist friends in prison. He\n            received permission from President \n            \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003eto pass through the\n            blockade in April 1863, and dined with Lincoln and Davis\n            over the month, by their invitations. In 1876, he erected\n            the Old Virginia Building at the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eNational Centennial Exhibition\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eFairmont Park, Philadelphia\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e, passed away\n            on February 13, 1886 in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003ePhiladelphia\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eMore information on Booth may be found in \n            \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life and Character of Edwin Gilliam\n               Booth\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Edwin Dwight\u003c/persname\u003e(F230.B74).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, was born on\n            February 27, 1839, in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eNottoway County\u003c/geogname\u003eto \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003eand \n            \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tanner (Jones) Booth\u003c/persname\u003e. He\n            attended \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eWinfield Academy\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eDinwiddie County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and was prepared for\n            college by \n            \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Comfort\u003c/persname\u003e, a Princeton graduate.\n            He then attended \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eHampton-Sydney College\u003c/corpname\u003efor two years,\n            graduating in 1859, and spent part of a session at the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003ebefore enrolling\n            in the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Pennsylvania\u003c/corpname\u003eat\n            Philadelphia where he graduated as a doctor of medicine in\n            1861.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eDuring the Civil War, he enlisted in the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eConfederate Army\u003c/corpname\u003eas a member of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eNottoway Cavalry\u003c/corpname\u003ein the G and E\n            companies of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eThird Virginia Regiment\u003c/corpname\u003e. His company\n            fought at the Battle of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eBig Bethel\u003c/persname\u003eon June 10, 1861. On May 1,\n            1863, he was commissioned as assistant surgeon in the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eConfederate Navy\u003c/corpname\u003e, and was a surgeon on\n            the C. S. S. Selma during the Battle of \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMobile Bay\u003c/geogname\u003e, where their fleet was\n            defeated and the steamer was sunk on August 5, 1864. He was\n            taken prisoner and sent to \n            \u003cgeogname\u003ePensacola\u003c/geogname\u003e, and later released on\n            parole.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eAfter the war he visited \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003e, then returned to live at \" \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eShenstone\u003c/corpname\u003e\" until ca. 1886 when he\n            moved to \" \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eCarter's Grove\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" James City County.\n            In October 1870, he married \n            \u003cpersname\u003eClara Haxall Thomson\u003c/persname\u003eof \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eJefferson County, West Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e; they\n            had the following children: \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Almira Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(July 15, 1871\n            -1960); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eFrances Rebecca Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(October 1, 1873\n            -? ); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHenrietta Edwina Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(January 6,\n            1876-? ); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth, III\u003c/persname\u003e(July 14, 1878\n            -? ); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eClara Thomson Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(July 10, 1880 -?\n            ); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Thomson Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(May 13, 1883 -? );\n            and, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Harris Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(June 16, 1885 -?\n            ).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eIn 1907, he settled in the old \n            \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Wythe\u003c/persname\u003ehome at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e, and was a member of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eBoard of Visitors of the College of William and\n            Mary\u003c/corpname\u003e. He died at home on January 5, 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/bioghist\u003e","\u003cbioghist\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eBiography\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSee entries from: \n            \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eWho Was Who In America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, Volume II, 1943 -1950, page 139; \n            \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eWho's Who in America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, 1984-1985, 43rd edition, Volume I, A-K, pp.\n            723-724; the \n            \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eNational Cyclopedia of American Biography\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, pp. 279-280, and the obituary for \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003efrom the November\n            26, 1986 \"Washington Post.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/bioghist\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Biography BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Edwin Gilliam Booth was born on January\n            11, 1810, at \" \n             Shenstone , \" \n             Nottoway County , to \n             Gilliam Booth and \n             Rebecca (Hicks) Booth . At age ten he\n            was sent to \n             Winfield Academy in \n             Dinwiddie County , where he began a\n            friendship with \n             Theodorick Pryor , who later became one\n            of the most influential and successful ministers in\n            southeastern \n             Virginia . His chief preparation for\n            college was at \n             Oxford, North Carolina ; he\n            matriculated at the \n             University of North Carolina at Chapel\n            Hill in 1824, (at the age of fourteen) after an\n            arduous course in classics and mathematics. Subsequently,\n            he studied law at \n             Fredericksburg under the supervision of\n            Judge \n             John Taylor Lomax , a professor at the \n             University of Virginia and a judge of\n            the \n             Court of Appeals ; and, although not a\n            well-disciplined student, he was diligent in his quest for\n            legal knowledge, and afterward returned to \n             Nottoway County to practice law in the\n            five southeastern counties of \n             Virginia . In 1833, he married \n             Sarah Tanner Jones (May 10, 1811,\n            -August 29, 1860) with whom he had five children: \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. , (February\n            27, 1839 -January 5, 1922); \n             Archer Jones Booth (May 22, 1844\n            -November 22, 1864); \n             Frances Rebecca Booth (December 17,\n            1846 -June 7, 1885); \n             Sarah Tanner Booth (June 3, 1848\n            -September 23, 1865); and, \n             William Travis Booth (July 12, 1850\n            -June 25, 1861). Booth was known for his public spirit and devotion to\n            politics, his activities for the welfare of man and for the\n            promotion of Christianity. On August 30, 1838, he made a\n            public profession of his faith in Christ, and was soon made\n            the ruling elder in the \n             Nottoway Church . In 1847, he was\n            elected from the Nottoway District to serve in the \n             Virginia Legislature for the 1848 and\n            1849 sessions, and took part in the revision and\n            codification of the civil laws of \n             Virginia . During the Civil War, he\n            attempted to alleviate the miseries of military prisons by\n            obtaining permission to assist friends in prison. He\n            received permission from President \n             Abraham Lincoln to pass through the\n            blockade in April 1863, and dined with Lincoln and Davis\n            over the month, by their invitations. In 1876, he erected\n            the Old Virginia Building at the \n             National Centennial Exhibition in \n             Fairmont Park, Philadelphia . Edwin Gilliam Booth, Sr. , passed away\n            on February 13, 1886 in \n             Philadelphia . More information on Booth may be found in \n             The Life and Character of Edwin Gilliam\n               Booth by \n             Henry Edwin Dwight (F230.B74). Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. , was born on\n            February 27, 1839, in \n             Nottoway County to \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth and \n             Sarah Tanner (Jones) Booth . He\n            attended \n             Winfield Academy , \n             Dinwiddie County , and was prepared for\n            college by \n             David Comfort , a Princeton graduate.\n            He then attended \n             Hampton-Sydney College for two years,\n            graduating in 1859, and spent part of a session at the \n             University of Virginia before enrolling\n            in the \n             University of Pennsylvania at\n            Philadelphia where he graduated as a doctor of medicine in\n            1861. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the \n             Confederate Army as a member of the \n             Nottoway Cavalry in the G and E\n            companies of the \n             Third Virginia Regiment . His company\n            fought at the Battle of \n             Big Bethel on June 10, 1861. On May 1,\n            1863, he was commissioned as assistant surgeon in the \n             Confederate Navy , and was a surgeon on\n            the C. S. S. Selma during the Battle of \n             Mobile Bay , where their fleet was\n            defeated and the steamer was sunk on August 5, 1864. He was\n            taken prisoner and sent to \n             Pensacola , and later released on\n            parole. After the war he visited \n             Europe , then returned to live at \" \n             Shenstone \" until ca. 1886 when he\n            moved to \" \n             Carter's Grove , \" James City County.\n            In October 1870, he married \n             Clara Haxall Thomson of \n             Jefferson County, West Virginia ; they\n            had the following children: \n             Lucy Almira Booth (July 15, 1871\n            -1960); \n             Frances Rebecca Booth (October 1, 1873\n            -? ); \n             Henrietta Edwina Booth (January 6,\n            1876-? ); \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, III (July 14, 1878\n            -? ); \n             Clara Thomson Booth (July 10, 1880 -?\n            ); \n             John Thomson Booth (May 13, 1883 -? );\n            and, \n             William Harris Booth (June 16, 1885 -?\n            ). In 1907, he settled in the old \n             George Wythe home at \n             Williamsburg , and was a member of the \n             Board of Visitors of the College of William and\n            Mary . He died at home on January 5, 1922.","Biography BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES See entries from: \n             Who Was Who In America , Volume II, 1943 -1950, page 139; \n             Who's Who in America , 1984-1985, 43rd edition, Volume I, A-K, pp.\n            723-724; the \n             National Cyclopedia of American Biography , pp. 279-280, and the obituary for \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. from the November\n            26, 1986 \"Washington Post.\""],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Scope and Content GENERAL DESCRIPTION The \n             Cumming Family papers consist of ca.\n            53,100 items (23 Hollinger boxes, ca. 8 linear shelf feet),\n            1777-1778, 1806 (1820-1977) 1984, including correspondence,\n            financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings,\n            photographs, bound volumes, writings, printed material, and\n            miscellaneous related items pertaining to the life and\n            activities of Dr. \n             Hugh Smith and \n             Lucy Booth Cumming , Sr., and their\n            son, Ambassador \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , (1900-1986), and\n            his wife, \n             Winifred Burney West , as well as other\n            family members. Also present are papers relating to the \n             Booth Family . Dr. Cumming (1869-1948) was Surgeon General of the \n             U. S. Public Health Service from 1920\n            to 1936; Ambassador Cumming (1900-) was a career diplomat\n            and served primarily in \n             Europe and \n             Indonesia from 1933 until his\n            retirement in 1963. The majority of the collection is chiefly correspondence\n            dealing with family, professional, and diplomatic matters.\n            In addition, Ambassador Cumming maintained extensive files\n            containing additional correspondence, photographs, reports,\n            memoranda, notes, and other related materials regarding his\n            public and personal activities. The collection has been divided into three subgroups: I.\n             Booth Family Papers, II. Papers of Dr.\n            and Mrs. \n             Hugh Smith Cumming, Sr. , and III.\n            Papers of Ambassador \n             Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. There are\n            various series and subseries within each subgroup. A more\n            detailed description of the papers, especially biographical\n            and organizational information, can be found later in this\n            guide, under each subgroup. The descriptions were compiled\n            by Robin D. Wear (Subgroup I), T. Sharon Defibaugh\n            (Subgroup II), and Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. (Subgroup III).\n            This collection contains 6922-b, 6922-d, 6922-e, 6922-f,\n            6922-h, 6922-h, 6922-i, 6922-k, 6922-l, 6922-m, 6922-n,\n            6922-p, 6922-r, 6922-s, 6922-u, 6922-w, 6922-ab, 6922-ac\n            and 6922-ad. SUBGROUP I BOOTH FAMILY PAPERS SCOPE AND CONTENT This subgroup of the Cumming Papers pertains chiefly to\n            the \n             Booth family , and consists of ca. 270\n            items, (Boxes 1 and 2), encompassing the years 1814-1978.\n            Included are correspondence, legal papers, and photographs\n            of the \n             Booth family ; and biographical and\n            genealogical information in the form of correspondence,\n            notes, copies of family documents, and printed material\n            concerning the \n             Booth and allied families such as \n             Armistead , \n             Thomson , \n             Throckmorton , \n             Gilliam , \n             Rootes , \n             Bernard , and \n             Terry . Correspondents include \n             Rebecca Hicks Booth , \n             Robert Henry Booth , \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth , and the latter's\n            children, \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth , \n             Archer Jones Booth , \n             Francis Rebecca Booth , and \n             Sarah Tanner Booth , as well as \n             Clara Haxall Thomson Booth , \n             Lucy Almira Booth , \n             Hugh Smith Cumming , \n             Charles J. Cabaniss , and \n             William Cabell Rives . Edwin Gilliam Booth 's two older sons\n            fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side in \n             Virginia . \n             Archer Jones Booth wrote to his father\n            from \n             Clark County , and to his grandmother\n            from a camp near \n             Fredericksburg mentioning long marches\n            and various campsites. \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. , wrote to his\n            father from a camp near \n             Yorktown (June 5, 1861), discussing\n            camp life, the hardships of warfare, and their hopes that\n            President \n             [Jefferson] Davis would send an\n            additional 25,000 men; and, later writes from the C. S.\n            Steamer Selma off \n             Mobile, Alabama (April 13, 1864)\n            mentioning the occupation of \n             Vicksburg by Yankees, the defense of \n             Richmond , and news of Archer's\n            regiment and an anticipated battle. Other letters of interest include those from \n             E. C. Cabell to \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth (November 22, 1846\n            and November 14, 1847) concerning a controversy between\n            Booth and his brother, Archer, and the \n             Bank of Florida ; two letters from \n             William Cabell Rives to \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth (July 5, 1858 and\n            November 24, 1862); and a lengthy letter from \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. to his sister,\n             Frances Rebecca Booth , from \n             Paris, France (February 5, 1866).","Scope and Content SUBGROUP II PAPERS OF DR. AND MRS. \n             HUGH SMITH CUMMING, SR. SCOPE AND CONTENT This subgroup of the \n             Cumming family papers includes papers of\n            Dr. \n             Hugh Smith Cumming, Sr. (1869-1948) and\n            his wife, \n             Lucy Booth Cumming (1871-1960), and\n            contains ca. 825 items, (Boxes 3-7, 4 Hollinger boxes, 3.5\n            linear shelf feet), 1897-1956. They consist of\n            correspondence, memoirs, essays, speeches, invitations,\n            printed items, photographs, legal papers, bound volumes,\n            and oversize items. Correspondence forms the largest series of the papers;\n            there are letters of congratulation to Dr. and Mrs. \n             Hugh S. Cumming concerning the birth of\n             Lucy Cumming , 1897, and \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , 1900, as well as\n            letters of condolence regarding the death of \n             Lucy Cumming in 1898. Letters from \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. to his wife, Lucy,\n            1900-1938, were usually written during his absences from\n            home due to work connected with his appointments to the \n             U.S. Public Health Service (1894-1920)\n            and as Surgeon General (1920-1936); they contain references\n            to his inspection and quarantine duties, departmental\n            gossip, family news, and personal observations about the\n            various places that he visited. Notable topics include: the\n            endorsement of the \n             Public Health and Marine Hospital\n            Service by the \n             American Medical Association (July 13,\n            1905); the case of an insane Russian alien (November 12,\n            1911); Lucy's appointment to the \n             Sanitation Committee (November 15,\n            1912); Surgeon General \n             Rupert Blue 's and Cumming's chances of\n            an assignment in \n             Philadelphia (August 17, 1912), and his\n             Virginia Survey and other inspection\n            work along the \n             Atlantic Seaboard , especially of\n            sewage systems and oyster beds (1914-1915). The majority of\n            Dr. Cumming's letters to his wife were written during his\n            service in \n             Europe , 1918-1920, where he visited\n            and inspected ports of embarkation, evacuation points,\n            departing ships, and camps used by the American forces in \n             France for evidence of epidemics or\n            disease. He also represented the \n             United States in 1919 at the \n             Cannes conference which organized the \n             League of Red Cross Societies and\n            headed a medical mission to \n             Poland . Topics in this group include:\n            post-war conditions in \n             England (December 20, 1918); \n             American University Union in \n             Europe (December 29, 1918); abominable\n            conditions at the American camp at \n             Brest, France (January 9, 1919);\n            effects of shelling on the ruins at \n             Rheims, France (February 9, 1919);\n            typhoid fever outbreak at \n             Rotterdam, Netherlands (February 20,\n            1919); \n             Red Cross Conference at \n             Cannes (March 20, 1919); chances for an\n            enduring peace (March 28, 1919); work on a committee on\n            preventive medicine and hygiene and a subcommittee on \n             Public Health Laboratories (April 3-23,\n            1919); and comments on the high cost of food and its affect\n            upon the morals of civilians in \n             Europe (April 24, 1919). These letters,\n            in general, describe Cumming's itinerary while in \n             Europe , including \n             England , \n             France , \n             Belgium , \n             Poland , \n             Spain , \n             Italy , \n             Greece , and \n             Turkey , his duties of inspection, and\n            the appearance of post-war \n             Europe . Letters to \n             Lucy Booth Cumming include the\n            following topics: a sketch of the life of \n             Archer Jones Booth , (an uncle of hers)\n            as a Confederate soldier, by \n             James F. Epes (November 26, 1903); \n             Leake and \n             Haxall genealogy (October 21, 1905); \n             Thomson genealogy (March 29, 1914;\n            [February 9, 1934]; November 15, 1929); \n             Cabaniss genealogy (September 27, 1933)\n            and photographs of celebrities attending the \n             Lausanne Peace Conference (December 26,\n            1922). Lucy Cumming also corresponded with her mother, \n             Clara Booth , and sister, \n             Henrietta Wise , while residing in \n             Yokohama, Japan , (1906), and while\n            visiting her husband in \n             Europe in 1919-1920. The miscellaneous correspondence of Hugh and Lucy\n            Cumming contains: a copy of \n             Charles J. Hatfield 's comments\n            introducing \n             Hugh S. Cumming at the \n             University of Pennsylvania (October 20,\n            1930); copy of Mrs. Cumming's comments in a prologue to a\n            series of radio broadcasts regarding the health of young\n            people for the \n             Committee on Periodic Health\n            Examinations (January 12, 1932), and a copy of \n             Herbert Hoover 's letter of\n            appreciation to Cumming about his work in the \n             Public Health Service (February 25,\n            1933). Dr. and Mrs. Cumming's letters to their son, \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , generally\n            contain family news and descriptions of trips undertaken in\n            connection with Cumming's work as Surgeon General, with\n            occasional references to Dr. Cumming's viewpoints amd\n            opinions, including the technical meeting of the \n             Commission on Nutrition (May 24 and 31,\n            1937) and his opinion of his successor, \n             [Thomas] Parran (May 12, 1939). The letters of \n             Winifred Burney (West)\n            Cumming (1907-1978) to \n             Lucy B. Cumming , 1948-1956, furnish a\n            varied picture of the life of the wife of a diplomat and\n            her responsibilities in the work of an embassy. These\n            letters were written while her husband, \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , (1900-1986) was\n            stationed in \n             Sweden , \n             Russia , and \n             Indonesia . Two letters in particular\n            (March 5 and 19, 1951) describe the city of \n             Moscow , its living conditions, and the\n             Lubianka prison , which was near the\n            Cumming's \n             Moscow quarters. This collection also contains the typescript of Dr. \n             Hugh S. Cumming 's personal memoirs,\n            beginning with his birth on August 17, 1869, in \n             Hampton, Virginia , and ending with his\n            last day at the \n             Pan American Sanitary Bureau on\n            February 1, 1947, and Lucy Cumming's memoirs of her\n            childhood in \n             Nottoway County, Virginia . Other items of note include two speeches of \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , \"Toast at Tennis\n            Club\" (N.D.) and \"Address at the opening session of the\n            Septima Conferencia Sanitaria\" (November 1924), and a Power\n            of Attorney re the estate of \n             Lucy B. Cumming 's grandfather, \n             Edwin G. Booth , \" \n             Beechwood \" in \n             York County, Virginia , (June 19,\n            1919). The collection also contains a diary and date book\n            of \n             Lucy Booth Cumming ; a pictoral record\n            of the Medical Conference held at \n             Cannes, France , (April 1-11, 1919) at\n            the invitation of the \n             Committee of Red Cross Societies ; a\n            scrapbook of \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , containing\n            academic diplomas, official certificates, honorary degrees,\n            appointments, photographs, newsclippings, obituaries, etc.;\n             Lucy Cumming 's membership certificate\n            in the \n             United Daughters of the Confederacy ;\n            and a charcoal-and-chalk profile sketch of \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.","Scope and Content SUBGROUP III PAPERS OF AMBASSADOR \n             HUGH SMITH CUMMING, JR. SCOPE AND CONTENT This subgroup consists of ca. 5,200 items (Boxes 7-23,\n            ca. 4.5 linear shelf feet), 1777-1778, 1806, 1820,\n            1861-1892, 1907 (1931-1977) 1984, correspondence,\n            photographs, financial and legal items, newspaper\n            clippings, tape recordings, bound volumes and miscellaneous\n            items relating to \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , a career\n            diplomat. These papers are chiefly comprised of personal\n            and diplomatic correspondence. Topics of interest in the\n            subgroup include: Cumming's life as a diplomat in \n             Moscow , \n             Stockholm , \n             Paris , and \n             Indonesia ; European economic\n            conditions, 1939-1945; the \n             University of Virginia ; American\n            activities in \n             Iceland and \n             Greenland before and during World War\n            II; diplomacy, family and personal matters; and\n            involvements in civic and professional organizations. As a diplomat, Cumming corresponded with several\n            prominent contemporaries, especially his fellow diplomats,\n            but the majority of their letters are concerned with\n            routine matters. The correspondence was written in various\n            places: Austria, Belgium, China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Great\n            Britain, Greece, Greenland, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy,\n            Liberia, the Netherlands, Poland, South America, the Soviet\n            Union, Sweden, and Switzerland. Among the noted correspondents are: \n             Dean Acheson ; \n             Joseph W. Alsop ; \n             John A. Blatnik ; \n             Daniel J. Boorstin ; \n             John Stewart Bryan ; \n             Harry F. Byrd, Jr. ; \n             Richard E. Byrd ; \n             Bernard P. Chamerlain ; \n             Virginius Dabney ; \n             C. Douglas Dillon ; \n             Thomas N. Downing ; \n             Allen W. Dulles ; \n             John Foster Dulles ; \n             Homer Ferguson ; \n             J. Allen Frear, Jr. ; \n             Douglas Southall Freeman ; \n             J. William Fulbright ; \n             Wilson D. Gillette ; \n             Joseph C. Grew ; \n             Christian A. Herter ; \n             Lou Henry Hoover (Mrs. Herbert Hoover);\n             Cordell Hull ; \n             Herschel V. Johnson ; \n             Walter Lippman ; \n             Henry Cabot Lodge ; \n             John O. Marsh, Jr. ; \n             Christopher C. McGrath ; \n             David C. Mearns ; \n             L. Quincy Mumford ; \n             Stanley F. Reed ; \n             Eleanor Roosevelt ; \n             Elliot Roosevelt ; \n             Dean Rusk ; \n             Hugh D. Scott, Jr. ; \n             John W. Snyder ; \n             John Sparkman ; \n             Maurice Stans ; \n             Edward E. Stettinius, Jr. ; \n             Potter Stewart ; \n             Robert Taft, Jr. ; \n             Edward Thye, Jr. ; \n             Harry S. Truman . In addition, there are references to: \n             Edwin Barclay ; \n             Chiang Kai-shek ; \n             Andrei Gromyko ; \n             George Kennan ; \n             Hunter Holmes McGuire ; \n             Raoul Wallenberg . Cumming's correspondence, 1907-1984, relates to his life\n            and career and includes letters from and to his wife, his\n            mother, relatives, friends, and colleagues. There are\n            several letters congratulating him on his marriage to \n             Winifred Burney West (1907-1978), 1935,\n            as well as her letters to members of her family, 1930-1932\n            and 1951-1952, while she was living in the American\n            Consulate in \n             Hankow, China , and in \n             Moscow where her husband was counselor\n            to the American Embassy. In these letters, which were\n            primarily addressed to her brother-in-law, \n             Frank A. West , she discusses her\n            social and personal activities. The letters contain\n            references to contemporary events and individuals such as:\n            executions taking place near the American Consulate in \n             Hankow , January 30, 1931; the U.S.S.\n            Panay's attempt to pay ransom to secure the release of a\n            kidnap victim, February 27, 1931; \n             Chiang Kai-shek , December 16, 1930;\n            May Day celebrations in \n             Moscow , May 11, 1951; and meeting \n             Andrei Gromyko , November 11 and 18,\n            1951. Her Moscow letters were signed \"jed.\" Letters of interest include several from Mr. and Mrs. \n             Cordell Hull , 1933-1950; \n             Walter Lippman discussing the case of \n             Raoul Wallenberg , December 8, 1947; a\n            thank-you letter from \n             Eleanor Roosevelt , June 13, 1950; \n             Richard E. Byrd regarding his efforts\n            on behalf of the \n             U.S. Antarctic Service , August 21 and\n            December 27, 1941; and President \n             Harry S. Truman 's appointment of\n            Cumming to the personal rank of Minister while serving as\n            deputy chief of mission and counselor of the embassy at \n             Moscow , August 14, 1951; condolence\n            letters, 1948-1949, regarding the death of his father, \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , and of his\n            mother, \n             Lucy Booth Cumming, 1960 . Correspondence from Cumming's diplomatic service,\n            1926-1964, includes copies of correspondence with the \n             State Department , a report on economic\n            and political situations in Nazi \n             Germany , November 15, 1939, and an\n            incomplete report of an assassination attempt against\n            Liberian President \n             Edwin Barclay which involved the use of\n            medicine men and magic, 1934, as well as several\n            confidential reports and related papers pertaining to his\n            service in \n             Latin America , \n             Europe , and \n             Asia . The subject files, 1934-1984, comprise the largest\n            section of the collection; arranged alphabetically by name\n            or subject, they contain correspondence and related papers\n            pertaining to Cumming's civic and professional activities.\n            These include appointments and efficiency reports, papers\n            regarding members of the \n             Cumming family , the \n             Alibi Club , the \n             John Foster Dulles Oral History Project at\n            Princeton University , \n             Bath County Community Hospital , the \n             National Cathedral Association , the \n             State Department , Diplomatic and\n            Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR) and other similar\n            subjects. Correspondence and files regarding the \n             University of Virginia include the \n             Raven Society , the \n             Hugh S. and Lucy Booth Cumming Memorial\n            Fund , the \n             O.W.L.S. Society , and others. As a\n            consequence, he corresponded with several members of its\n            faculty, students, and staff such as \n             Julius P. Barclay , \n             Edmund Berkeley, Jr. , \n             Colgate W. Darden, Jr. , \n             Ernest H. Ern , \n             Arthur P. Gray III , \n             Frank L. Hereford, Jr. , \n             William H. Runge , \n             B. F. D. Runk , \n             Edgar F. Shannon , and \n             John Cook Wyllie . The photographs, 1918-1961, pertain to: life at the \n             Virginia Military Institute in 1918, \n             U. S. Coast Guard activities in \n             Greenland during 1941; the first\n            commerical flight between \n             Reykjavik, Iceland , and \n             Washington, D.C. Of special interest is\n            a 1923 photograph of Cumming as a park ranger in \n             Mesa Verde National Park , \n             Colorado , and four photographs of \n             Richard M. Nixon during a visit to \n             Indonesia as part of his 1953 Asian\n            tour. Bound volumes, 1777 -1778, 1806, 1820, 1850-1892 and\n            1941, include a scrapbook regarding Sunday School\n            conventions in \n             Albemarle County, Virginia , 1868-1875,\n            a journal containing entries regarding the issuing of\n            military rations, 1777-1778; and a 1866-1868 diary and\n            commonplace book of \n             Diana Whiting Smith Cumming , a school\n            teacher and resident of \n             Hampton, Virginia . Also present is\n            Cumming's diary of his official trip to \n             Greenland during 1941. Other items of interest include: passsports of Hugh and\n            Winifred Cumming, 1922-1947; invitations, a 1909 school\n            report, guest tickets to the \n             1924 Democratic National Convention ;\n            three 1913 visitor passes to public viewing galleries in\n            Congress from \n             Bird McGuire , \n             James P. Clarke , and \n             Claude A. Swanson ; two tape recordings\n            of Cumming interviews, 1954 and 1969; an article by him\n            regarding \n             Liberia , February, 1937; three pages\n            from the New York Daily Tribune, April 23, 1861, with\n            references to the early phase of the Civil War, a 1940\n            Cumming article on the \n             U.S. Antarctic Service ; and a pass for\n            Cumming as an official observer at a nuclear test explosion\n            (\"Diablo\") in \n             Nevada during 1957."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc/\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":[""],"names_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. 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William Fulbright","Wilson D. Gillette","Joseph C. Grew","Christian A. Herter","Lou Henry Hoover","Cordell Hull","Herschel V. Johnson","Walter Lippman","Henry Cabot Lodge","John O. Marsh, Jr.","Christopher C. McGrath","David C. Mearns","L. Quincy Mumford","Stanley F. Reed","Eleanor Roosevelt","Elliot Roosevelt","Dean Rusk","Hugh D. Scott, Jr.","John W. Snyder","John Sparkman","Maurice Stans","Edward E. Stettinius, Jr.","Potter Stewart","Robert Taft, Jr.","Edward Thye, Jr.","Harry S. Truman","Edwin Barclay","Chiang Kai-shek","Andrei Gromyko","George Kennan","Hunter Holmes McGuire","Raoul Wallenberg","Frank A. West","Lucy Booth Cumming, 1960","Julius P. Barclay","Edmund Berkeley, Jr.","Colgate W. Darden, Jr.","Ernest H. Ern","Arthur P. Gray III","Frank L. Hereford, Jr.","William H. Runge","B. F. D. Runk","Edgar F. Shannon","John Cook Wyllie","Richard M. Nixon","Diana Whiting Smith Cumming","Bird McGuire","James P. Clarke","Claude A. Swanson","Robert H. Booth","Edwin Gilliam\n                     Booth","Clara Haxell (Thomson)\n                     Booth","Archer Jones\n                     Booth","Frances Rebecca\n                     Booth","Lucy Booth","Hugh Smith\n                     Cumming","Gilliam\n                     Booth","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                     Jr.","Annie Terry","Rebecca Sealy Terry\n                     White","Edwin Gilliam","E. G. Booth","Hugh S. Cumming Sr.","Lucy Booth\n                     Cumming","Hugh S. Cumming,\n                     Jr.","Franklin D. Roosevelt","H. Morganthou, Jr.","Winifred Cumming","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                     Sr.","Bess Furman","Hugh S. Cumming,\n                     Sr.","Hugh Smith\n                        Cumming","Winifred B. Cumming","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                        Jr.","Hugh S. Cumming,\n                        Sr.","Lucy Booth\n                        Cumming","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                        Sr.","Nell Hayne","Culver Gleysteen","John B. Kendrick, II","Margaret Kendrick","Anthony Lake","Oscar Morland","H. R. Mumford","Marjorie Savage","Birne T. West","Diana Whiting Smith\n                     Cumming","Marion Kemp","[Bob Wilson]"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":222,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-01T02:16:17.771Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cscopecontent\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eScope and Content\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eGENERAL DESCRIPTION\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe \n            \u003cfamname\u003eCumming Family\u003c/famname\u003epapers consist of ca.\n            53,100 items (23 Hollinger boxes, ca. 8 linear shelf feet),\n            1777-1778, 1806 (1820-1977) 1984, including correspondence,\n            financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings,\n            photographs, bound volumes, writings, printed material, and\n            miscellaneous related items pertaining to the life and\n            activities of Dr. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh Smith\u003c/persname\u003eand \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Booth Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e, Sr., and their\n            son, Ambassador \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, (1900-1986), and\n            his wife, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWinifred Burney West\u003c/persname\u003e, as well as other\n            family members. Also present are papers relating to the \n            \u003cpersname\u003eBooth Family\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eDr. Cumming (1869-1948) was Surgeon General of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eU. S. Public Health Service\u003c/corpname\u003efrom 1920\n            to 1936; Ambassador Cumming (1900-) was a career diplomat\n            and served primarily in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eIndonesia\u003c/geogname\u003efrom 1933 until his\n            retirement in 1963.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe majority of the collection is chiefly correspondence\n            dealing with family, professional, and diplomatic matters.\n            In addition, Ambassador Cumming maintained extensive files\n            containing additional correspondence, photographs, reports,\n            memoranda, notes, and other related materials regarding his\n            public and personal activities.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe collection has been divided into three subgroups: I.\n            \u003cfamname\u003eBooth Family\u003c/famname\u003ePapers, II. Papers of Dr.\n            and Mrs. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh Smith Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e, and III.\n            Papers of Ambassador \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh Smith Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003eThere are\n            various series and subseries within each subgroup. A more\n            detailed description of the papers, especially biographical\n            and organizational information, can be found later in this\n            guide, under each subgroup. The descriptions were compiled\n            by Robin D. Wear (Subgroup I), T. Sharon Defibaugh\n            (Subgroup II), and Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. (Subgroup III).\n            This collection contains 6922-b, 6922-d, 6922-e, 6922-f,\n            6922-h, 6922-h, 6922-i, 6922-k, 6922-l, 6922-m, 6922-n,\n            6922-p, 6922-r, 6922-s, 6922-u, 6922-w, 6922-ab, 6922-ac\n            and 6922-ad.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSUBGROUP I BOOTH FAMILY PAPERS\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSCOPE AND CONTENT\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis subgroup of the Cumming Papers pertains chiefly to\n            the \n            \u003cfamname\u003eBooth family\u003c/famname\u003e, and consists of ca. 270\n            items, (Boxes 1 and 2), encompassing the years 1814-1978.\n            Included are correspondence, legal papers, and photographs\n            of the \n            \u003cfamname\u003eBooth family\u003c/famname\u003e; and biographical and\n            genealogical information in the form of correspondence,\n            notes, copies of family documents, and printed material\n            concerning the \n            \u003cfamname\u003eBooth\u003c/famname\u003eand allied families such as \n            \u003cfamname\u003eArmistead\u003c/famname\u003e, \n            \u003cfamname\u003eThomson\u003c/famname\u003e, \n            \u003cfamname\u003eThrockmorton\u003c/famname\u003e, \n            \u003cfamname\u003eGilliam\u003c/famname\u003e, \n            \u003cfamname\u003eRootes\u003c/famname\u003e, \n            \u003cfamname\u003eBernard\u003c/famname\u003e, and \n            \u003cfamname\u003eTerry\u003c/famname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRebecca Hicks Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Henry Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, and the latter's\n            children, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eArcher Jones Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eFrancis Rebecca Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n            \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tanner Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, as well as \n            \u003cpersname\u003eClara Haxall Thomson Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Almira Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh Smith Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eCharles J. Cabaniss\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Cabell Rives\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003e's two older sons\n            fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eArcher Jones Booth\u003c/persname\u003ewrote to his father\n            from \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eClark County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and to his grandmother\n            from a camp near \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eFredericksburg\u003c/geogname\u003ementioning long marches\n            and various campsites. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, wrote to his\n            father from a camp near \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eYorktown\u003c/geogname\u003e(June 5, 1861), discussing\n            camp life, the hardships of warfare, and their hopes that\n            President \n            \u003cpersname\u003e[Jefferson] Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewould send an\n            additional 25,000 men; and, later writes from the C. S.\n            Steamer Selma off \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMobile, Alabama\u003c/geogname\u003e(April 13, 1864)\n            mentioning the occupation of \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eVicksburg\u003c/geogname\u003eby Yankees, the defense of \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003e, and news of Archer's\n            regiment and an anticipated battle.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOther letters of interest include those from \n            \u003cpersname\u003eE. C. Cabell\u003c/persname\u003eto \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(November 22, 1846\n            and November 14, 1847) concerning a controversy between\n            Booth and his brother, Archer, and the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eBank of Florida\u003c/corpname\u003e; two letters from \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Cabell Rives\u003c/persname\u003eto \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(July 5, 1858 and\n            November 24, 1862); and a lengthy letter from \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003eto his sister,\n            \u003cpersname\u003eFrances Rebecca Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, from \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eParis, France\u003c/geogname\u003e(February 5, 1866).\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/scopecontent\u003e","\u003cscopecontent\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eScope and Content\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSUBGROUP II PAPERS OF DR. AND MRS. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHUGH SMITH CUMMING, SR.\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSCOPE AND CONTENT\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis subgroup of the \n            \u003cfamname\u003eCumming family\u003c/famname\u003epapers includes papers of\n            Dr. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh Smith Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e(1869-1948) and\n            his wife, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Booth Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e(1871-1960), and\n            contains ca. 825 items, (Boxes 3-7, 4 Hollinger boxes, 3.5\n            linear shelf feet), 1897-1956. They consist of\n            correspondence, memoirs, essays, speeches, invitations,\n            printed items, photographs, legal papers, bound volumes,\n            and oversize items.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eCorrespondence forms the largest series of the papers;\n            there are letters of congratulation to Dr. and Mrs. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming\u003c/persname\u003econcerning the birth of\n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e, 1897, and \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, 1900, as well as\n            letters of condolence regarding the death of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Cumming\u003c/persname\u003ein 1898.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eLetters from \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003eto his wife, Lucy,\n            1900-1938, were usually written during his absences from\n            home due to work connected with his appointments to the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Public Health Service\u003c/corpname\u003e(1894-1920)\n            and as Surgeon General (1920-1936); they contain references\n            to his inspection and quarantine duties, departmental\n            gossip, family news, and personal observations about the\n            various places that he visited. Notable topics include: the\n            endorsement of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003ePublic Health and Marine Hospital\n            Service\u003c/corpname\u003eby the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eAmerican Medical Association\u003c/corpname\u003e(July 13,\n            1905); the case of an insane Russian alien (November 12,\n            1911); Lucy's appointment to the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eSanitation Committee\u003c/corpname\u003e(November 15,\n            1912); Surgeon General \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRupert Blue\u003c/persname\u003e's and Cumming's chances of\n            an assignment in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003ePhiladelphia\u003c/geogname\u003e(August 17, 1912), and his\n            \u003cpersname\u003eVirginia\u003c/persname\u003eSurvey and other inspection\n            work along the \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlantic Seaboard\u003c/geogname\u003e, especially of\n            sewage systems and oyster beds (1914-1915). The majority of\n            Dr. Cumming's letters to his wife were written during his\n            service in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003e, 1918-1920, where he visited\n            and inspected ports of embarkation, evacuation points,\n            departing ships, and camps used by the American forces in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003efor evidence of epidemics or\n            disease. He also represented the \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eUnited States\u003c/geogname\u003ein 1919 at the \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eCannes\u003c/geogname\u003econference which organized the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eLeague of Red Cross Societies\u003c/corpname\u003eand\n            headed a medical mission to \n            \u003cgeogname\u003ePoland\u003c/geogname\u003e. Topics in this group include:\n            post-war conditions in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003e(December 20, 1918); \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eAmerican University Union\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003e(December 29, 1918); abominable\n            conditions at the American camp at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eBrest, France\u003c/geogname\u003e(January 9, 1919);\n            effects of shelling on the ruins at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eRheims, France\u003c/geogname\u003e(February 9, 1919);\n            typhoid fever outbreak at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eRotterdam, Netherlands\u003c/geogname\u003e(February 20,\n            1919); \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eRed Cross\u003c/corpname\u003eConference at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eCannes\u003c/geogname\u003e(March 20, 1919); chances for an\n            enduring peace (March 28, 1919); work on a committee on\n            preventive medicine and hygiene and a subcommittee on \n            \u003ccorpname\u003ePublic Health Laboratories\u003c/corpname\u003e(April 3-23,\n            1919); and comments on the high cost of food and its affect\n            upon the morals of civilians in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003e(April 24, 1919). These letters,\n            in general, describe Cumming's itinerary while in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003e, including \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eBelgium\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003ePoland\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eSpain\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eGreece\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eTurkey\u003c/geogname\u003e, his duties of inspection, and\n            the appearance of post-war \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eLetters to \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Booth Cumming\u003c/persname\u003einclude the\n            following topics: a sketch of the life of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eArcher Jones Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, (an uncle of hers)\n            as a Confederate soldier, by \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJames F. Epes\u003c/persname\u003e(November 26, 1903); \n            \u003cfamname\u003eLeake\u003c/famname\u003eand \n            \u003cfamname\u003eHaxall\u003c/famname\u003egenealogy (October 21, 1905); \n            \u003cfamname\u003eThomson\u003c/famname\u003egenealogy (March 29, 1914;\n            [February 9, 1934]; November 15, 1929); \n            \u003cfamname\u003eCabaniss\u003c/famname\u003egenealogy (September 27, 1933)\n            and photographs of celebrities attending the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eLausanne Peace Conference\u003c/corpname\u003e(December 26,\n            1922).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eLucy Cumming also corresponded with her mother, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eClara Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, and sister, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHenrietta Wise\u003c/persname\u003e, while residing in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eYokohama, Japan\u003c/geogname\u003e, (1906), and while\n            visiting her husband in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003ein 1919-1920.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe miscellaneous correspondence of Hugh and Lucy\n            Cumming contains: a copy of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eCharles J. Hatfield\u003c/persname\u003e's comments\n            introducing \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming\u003c/persname\u003eat the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Pennsylvania\u003c/corpname\u003e(October 20,\n            1930); copy of Mrs. Cumming's comments in a prologue to a\n            series of radio broadcasts regarding the health of young\n            people for the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eCommittee on Periodic Health\n            Examinations\u003c/corpname\u003e(January 12, 1932), and a copy of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHerbert Hoover\u003c/persname\u003e's letter of\n            appreciation to Cumming about his work in the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003ePublic Health Service\u003c/corpname\u003e(February 25,\n            1933).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eDr. and Mrs. Cumming's letters to their son, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, generally\n            contain family news and descriptions of trips undertaken in\n            connection with Cumming's work as Surgeon General, with\n            occasional references to Dr. Cumming's viewpoints amd\n            opinions, including the technical meeting of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eCommission on Nutrition\u003c/corpname\u003e(May 24 and 31,\n            1937) and his opinion of his successor, \n            \u003cpersname\u003e[Thomas] Parran\u003c/persname\u003e(May 12, 1939).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe letters of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWinifred Burney (West)\n            Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e(1907-1978) to \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy B. Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e, 1948-1956, furnish a\n            varied picture of the life of the wife of a diplomat and\n            her responsibilities in the work of an embassy. These\n            letters were written while her husband, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, (1900-1986) was\n            stationed in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eSweden\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eRussia\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eIndonesia\u003c/geogname\u003e. Two letters in particular\n            (March 5 and 19, 1951) describe the city of \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMoscow\u003c/geogname\u003e, its living conditions, and the\n            \u003ccorpname\u003eLubianka prison\u003c/corpname\u003e, which was near the\n            Cumming's \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMoscow\u003c/geogname\u003equarters.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis collection also contains the typescript of Dr. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e's personal memoirs,\n            beginning with his birth on August 17, 1869, in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eHampton, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, and ending with his\n            last day at the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003ePan American Sanitary Bureau\u003c/corpname\u003eon\n            February 1, 1947, and Lucy Cumming's memoirs of her\n            childhood in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eNottoway County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOther items of note include two speeches of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \"Toast at Tennis\n            Club\" (N.D.) and \"Address at the opening session of the\n            Septima Conferencia Sanitaria\" (November 1924), and a Power\n            of Attorney re the estate of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy B. Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e's grandfather, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin G. Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, \" \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eBeechwood\u003c/corpname\u003e\" in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eYork County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, (June 19,\n            1919). The collection also contains a diary and date book\n            of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Booth Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e; a pictoral record\n            of the Medical Conference held at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eCannes, France\u003c/geogname\u003e, (April 1-11, 1919) at\n            the invitation of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eCommittee of Red Cross Societies\u003c/corpname\u003e; a\n            scrapbook of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e, containing\n            academic diplomas, official certificates, honorary degrees,\n            appointments, photographs, newsclippings, obituaries, etc.;\n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e's membership certificate\n            in the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUnited Daughters of the Confederacy\u003c/corpname\u003e;\n            and a charcoal-and-chalk profile sketch of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/scopecontent\u003e","\u003cscopecontent\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eScope and Content\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSUBGROUP III PAPERS OF AMBASSADOR \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHUGH SMITH CUMMING, JR.\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSCOPE AND CONTENT\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis subgroup consists of ca. 5,200 items (Boxes 7-23,\n            ca. 4.5 linear shelf feet), 1777-1778, 1806, 1820,\n            1861-1892, 1907 (1931-1977) 1984, correspondence,\n            photographs, financial and legal items, newspaper\n            clippings, tape recordings, bound volumes and miscellaneous\n            items relating to \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, a career\n            diplomat. These papers are chiefly comprised of personal\n            and diplomatic correspondence. Topics of interest in the\n            subgroup include: Cumming's life as a diplomat in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMoscow\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eStockholm\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eParis\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eIndonesia\u003c/geogname\u003e; European economic\n            conditions, 1939-1945; the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003e; American\n            activities in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eIceland\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eGreenland\u003c/geogname\u003ebefore and during World War\n            II; diplomacy, family and personal matters; and\n            involvements in civic and professional organizations.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eAs a diplomat, Cumming corresponded with several\n            prominent contemporaries, especially his fellow diplomats,\n            but the majority of their letters are concerned with\n            routine matters. The correspondence was written in various\n            places: Austria, Belgium, China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Great\n            Britain, Greece, Greenland, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy,\n            Liberia, the Netherlands, Poland, South America, the Soviet\n            Union, Sweden, and Switzerland.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eAmong the noted correspondents are: \n            \u003cpersname\u003eDean Acheson\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph W. Alsop\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn A. Blatnik\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel J. Boorstin\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Stewart Bryan\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHarry F. Byrd, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRichard E. Byrd\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eBernard P. Chamerlain\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eVirginius Dabney\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eC. Douglas Dillon\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eThomas N. Downing\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eAllen W. Dulles\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Foster Dulles\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHomer Ferguson\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJ. Allen Frear, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eDouglas Southall Freeman\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJ. William Fulbright\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWilson D. Gillette\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph C. Grew\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eChristian A. Herter\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLou Henry Hoover\u003c/persname\u003e(Mrs. Herbert Hoover);\n            \u003cpersname\u003eCordell Hull\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHerschel V. Johnson\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWalter Lippman\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Cabot Lodge\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn O. Marsh, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eChristopher C. McGrath\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eDavid C. Mearns\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eL. Quincy Mumford\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eStanley F. Reed\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEleanor Roosevelt\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eElliot Roosevelt\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eDean Rusk\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh D. Scott, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn W. Snyder\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Sparkman\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eMaurice Stans\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdward E. Stettinius, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003ePotter Stewart\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Taft, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Thye, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHarry S. Truman\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eIn addition, there are references to: \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Barclay\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eChiang Kai-shek\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eAndrei Gromyko\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Kennan\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHunter Holmes McGuire\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRaoul Wallenberg\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eCumming's correspondence, 1907-1984, relates to his life\n            and career and includes letters from and to his wife, his\n            mother, relatives, friends, and colleagues. There are\n            several letters congratulating him on his marriage to \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWinifred Burney West\u003c/persname\u003e(1907-1978), 1935,\n            as well as her letters to members of her family, 1930-1932\n            and 1951-1952, while she was living in the American\n            Consulate in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eHankow, China\u003c/geogname\u003e, and in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMoscow\u003c/geogname\u003ewhere her husband was counselor\n            to the American Embassy. In these letters, which were\n            primarily addressed to her brother-in-law, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eFrank A. West\u003c/persname\u003e, she discusses her\n            social and personal activities. The letters contain\n            references to contemporary events and individuals such as:\n            executions taking place near the American Consulate in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eHankow\u003c/geogname\u003e, January 30, 1931; the U.S.S.\n            Panay's attempt to pay ransom to secure the release of a\n            kidnap victim, February 27, 1931; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eChiang Kai-shek\u003c/persname\u003e, December 16, 1930;\n            May Day celebrations in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMoscow\u003c/geogname\u003e, May 11, 1951; and meeting \n            \u003cpersname\u003eAndrei Gromyko\u003c/persname\u003e, November 11 and 18,\n            1951. Her Moscow letters were signed \"jed.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eLetters of interest include several from Mr. and Mrs. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eCordell Hull\u003c/persname\u003e, 1933-1950; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWalter Lippman\u003c/persname\u003ediscussing the case of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRaoul Wallenberg\u003c/persname\u003e, December 8, 1947; a\n            thank-you letter from \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEleanor Roosevelt\u003c/persname\u003e, June 13, 1950; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRichard E. Byrd\u003c/persname\u003eregarding his efforts\n            on behalf of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Antarctic Service\u003c/corpname\u003e, August 21 and\n            December 27, 1941; and President \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHarry S. Truman\u003c/persname\u003e's appointment of\n            Cumming to the personal rank of Minister while serving as\n            deputy chief of mission and counselor of the embassy at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMoscow\u003c/geogname\u003e, August 14, 1951; condolence\n            letters, 1948-1949, regarding the death of his father, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e, and of his\n            mother, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Booth Cumming, 1960\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Cumming's diplomatic service,\n            1926-1964, includes copies of correspondence with the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eState Department\u003c/corpname\u003e, a report on economic\n            and political situations in Nazi \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eGermany\u003c/geogname\u003e, November 15, 1939, and an\n            incomplete report of an assassination attempt against\n            Liberian President \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Barclay\u003c/persname\u003ewhich involved the use of\n            medicine men and magic, 1934, as well as several\n            confidential reports and related papers pertaining to his\n            service in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eLatin America\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eAsia\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe subject files, 1934-1984, comprise the largest\n            section of the collection; arranged alphabetically by name\n            or subject, they contain correspondence and related papers\n            pertaining to Cumming's civic and professional activities.\n            These include appointments and efficiency reports, papers\n            regarding members of the \n            \u003cfamname\u003eCumming family\u003c/famname\u003e, the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eAlibi Club\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eJohn Foster Dulles Oral History Project at\n            Princeton University\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eBath County Community Hospital\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eNational Cathedral Association\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eState Department\u003c/corpname\u003e, Diplomatic and\n            Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR) and other similar\n            subjects.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and files regarding the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003einclude the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eRaven Society\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eHugh S. and Lucy Booth Cumming Memorial\n            Fund\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eO.W.L.S. Society\u003c/corpname\u003e, and others. As a\n            consequence, he corresponded with several members of its\n            faculty, students, and staff such as \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJulius P. Barclay\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdmund Berkeley, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eColgate W. Darden, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eErnest H. Ern\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eArthur P. Gray III\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eFrank L. Hereford, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam H. Runge\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eB. F. D. Runk\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdgar F. Shannon\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Cook Wyllie\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe photographs, 1918-1961, pertain to: life at the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Military Institute\u003c/corpname\u003ein 1918, \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eU. S. Coast Guard\u003c/corpname\u003eactivities in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eGreenland\u003c/geogname\u003eduring 1941; the first\n            commerical flight between \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eReykjavik, Iceland\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington, D.C.\u003c/geogname\u003eOf special interest is\n            a 1923 photograph of Cumming as a park ranger in \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eMesa Verde National Park\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eColorado\u003c/geogname\u003e, and four photographs of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRichard M. Nixon\u003c/persname\u003eduring a visit to \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eIndonesia\u003c/geogname\u003eas part of his 1953 Asian\n            tour.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eBound volumes, 1777 -1778, 1806, 1820, 1850-1892 and\n            1941, include a scrapbook regarding Sunday School\n            conventions in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbemarle County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, 1868-1875,\n            a journal containing entries regarding the issuing of\n            military rations, 1777-1778; and a 1866-1868 diary and\n            commonplace book of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eDiana Whiting Smith Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e, a school\n            teacher and resident of \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eHampton, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. Also present is\n            Cumming's diary of his official trip to \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eGreenland\u003c/geogname\u003eduring 1941.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOther items of interest include: passsports of Hugh and\n            Winifred Cumming, 1922-1947; invitations, a 1909 school\n            report, guest tickets to the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003e1924 Democratic National Convention\u003c/corpname\u003e;\n            three 1913 visitor passes to public viewing galleries in\n            Congress from \n            \u003cpersname\u003eBird McGuire\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJames P. Clarke\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n            \u003cpersname\u003eClaude A. Swanson\u003c/persname\u003e; two tape recordings\n            of Cumming interviews, 1954 and 1969; an article by him\n            regarding \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eLiberia\u003c/geogname\u003e, February, 1937; three pages\n            from the New York Daily Tribune, April 23, 1861, with\n            references to the early phase of the Civil War, a 1940\n            Cumming article on the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Antarctic Service\u003c/corpname\u003e; and a pass for\n            Cumming as an official observer at a nuclear test explosion\n            (\"Diablo\") in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eNevada\u003c/geogname\u003eduring 1957.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/scopecontent\u003e"],"collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_viu00113","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00113","_root_":"viu_viu00113","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00113","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/uva-sc/viu00113.xml","title_ssm":["Cumming Family Papers \n          1777-1984"],"title_tesim":["Cumming Family Papers \n          1777-1984"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["6922-b, -d, -e, -f, -h, -i,\n         -k, -l, -m, -n, -p, -r, -s, -u, -w, -ab, -ac and -ad"],"text":["6922-b, -d, -e, -f, -h, -i,\n         -k, -l, -m, -n, -p, -r, -s, -u, -w, -ab, -ac and -ad","Cumming Family Papers \n          1777-1984","ca. 53,100 items","Organization ORGANIZATION This subgroup of the \n             Cumming Papers is divided into three\n            series: I. Correspondence and Legal Papers; II.\n            Genealogical Papers; and, III. Photographs and Printed\n            Material. The folders in the first series have been\n            arranged chronologically. The folders in the second series\n            have been arranged in alphabetical order by family name.\n            The series entitled \"Miscellaneous\" contains photographs\n            and printed material, with folders in alphabetical\n            order.","Organization ORGANIZATION The papers of Dr. and Mrs. \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , are arranged\n            chronologically and have been arranged in five series: 1)\n            Correspondence; 2) Memoirs; 3) Miscellaneous Papers; 4)\n            Bound Volumes; and 5) Oversize Items.","Organization ORGANIZATION This subgroup is divided into three series: I.\n            Correspondence, II. Photographs and Miscellaneous, and III.\n            Bound Volumes. Series I is divided into five subseries of\n            correspondence: general, chronological, alphabetical files,\n            topical files, and subject files. Series II contains\n            photographs followed by miscellaneous folders. Folder\n            headings have been modified as necessary and the material\n            has been arranged chronologically within each series.","Biography BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Edwin Gilliam Booth was born on January\n            11, 1810, at \" \n             Shenstone , \" \n             Nottoway County , to \n             Gilliam Booth and \n             Rebecca (Hicks) Booth . At age ten he\n            was sent to \n             Winfield Academy in \n             Dinwiddie County , where he began a\n            friendship with \n             Theodorick Pryor , who later became one\n            of the most influential and successful ministers in\n            southeastern \n             Virginia . His chief preparation for\n            college was at \n             Oxford, North Carolina ; he\n            matriculated at the \n             University of North Carolina at Chapel\n            Hill in 1824, (at the age of fourteen) after an\n            arduous course in classics and mathematics. Subsequently,\n            he studied law at \n             Fredericksburg under the supervision of\n            Judge \n             John Taylor Lomax , a professor at the \n             University of Virginia and a judge of\n            the \n             Court of Appeals ; and, although not a\n            well-disciplined student, he was diligent in his quest for\n            legal knowledge, and afterward returned to \n             Nottoway County to practice law in the\n            five southeastern counties of \n             Virginia . In 1833, he married \n             Sarah Tanner Jones (May 10, 1811,\n            -August 29, 1860) with whom he had five children: \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. , (February\n            27, 1839 -January 5, 1922); \n             Archer Jones Booth (May 22, 1844\n            -November 22, 1864); \n             Frances Rebecca Booth (December 17,\n            1846 -June 7, 1885); \n             Sarah Tanner Booth (June 3, 1848\n            -September 23, 1865); and, \n             William Travis Booth (July 12, 1850\n            -June 25, 1861). Booth was known for his public spirit and devotion to\n            politics, his activities for the welfare of man and for the\n            promotion of Christianity. On August 30, 1838, he made a\n            public profession of his faith in Christ, and was soon made\n            the ruling elder in the \n             Nottoway Church . In 1847, he was\n            elected from the Nottoway District to serve in the \n             Virginia Legislature for the 1848 and\n            1849 sessions, and took part in the revision and\n            codification of the civil laws of \n             Virginia . During the Civil War, he\n            attempted to alleviate the miseries of military prisons by\n            obtaining permission to assist friends in prison. He\n            received permission from President \n             Abraham Lincoln to pass through the\n            blockade in April 1863, and dined with Lincoln and Davis\n            over the month, by their invitations. In 1876, he erected\n            the Old Virginia Building at the \n             National Centennial Exhibition in \n             Fairmont Park, Philadelphia . Edwin Gilliam Booth, Sr. , passed away\n            on February 13, 1886 in \n             Philadelphia . More information on Booth may be found in \n             The Life and Character of Edwin Gilliam\n               Booth by \n             Henry Edwin Dwight (F230.B74). Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. , was born on\n            February 27, 1839, in \n             Nottoway County to \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth and \n             Sarah Tanner (Jones) Booth . He\n            attended \n             Winfield Academy , \n             Dinwiddie County , and was prepared for\n            college by \n             David Comfort , a Princeton graduate.\n            He then attended \n             Hampton-Sydney College for two years,\n            graduating in 1859, and spent part of a session at the \n             University of Virginia before enrolling\n            in the \n             University of Pennsylvania at\n            Philadelphia where he graduated as a doctor of medicine in\n            1861. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the \n             Confederate Army as a member of the \n             Nottoway Cavalry in the G and E\n            companies of the \n             Third Virginia Regiment . His company\n            fought at the Battle of \n             Big Bethel on June 10, 1861. On May 1,\n            1863, he was commissioned as assistant surgeon in the \n             Confederate Navy , and was a surgeon on\n            the C. S. S. Selma during the Battle of \n             Mobile Bay , where their fleet was\n            defeated and the steamer was sunk on August 5, 1864. He was\n            taken prisoner and sent to \n             Pensacola , and later released on\n            parole. After the war he visited \n             Europe , then returned to live at \" \n             Shenstone \" until ca. 1886 when he\n            moved to \" \n             Carter's Grove , \" James City County.\n            In October 1870, he married \n             Clara Haxall Thomson of \n             Jefferson County, West Virginia ; they\n            had the following children: \n             Lucy Almira Booth (July 15, 1871\n            -1960); \n             Frances Rebecca Booth (October 1, 1873\n            -? ); \n             Henrietta Edwina Booth (January 6,\n            1876-? ); \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, III (July 14, 1878\n            -? ); \n             Clara Thomson Booth (July 10, 1880 -?\n            ); \n             John Thomson Booth (May 13, 1883 -? );\n            and, \n             William Harris Booth (June 16, 1885 -?\n            ). In 1907, he settled in the old \n             George Wythe home at \n             Williamsburg , and was a member of the \n             Board of Visitors of the College of William and\n            Mary . He died at home on January 5, 1922.","Biography BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES See entries from: \n             Who Was Who In America , Volume II, 1943 -1950, page 139; \n             Who's Who in America , 1984-1985, 43rd edition, Volume I, A-K, pp.\n            723-724; the \n             National Cyclopedia of American Biography , pp. 279-280, and the obituary for \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. from the November\n            26, 1986 \"Washington Post.\"","Scope and Content GENERAL DESCRIPTION The \n             Cumming Family papers consist of ca.\n            53,100 items (23 Hollinger boxes, ca. 8 linear shelf feet),\n            1777-1778, 1806 (1820-1977) 1984, including correspondence,\n            financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings,\n            photographs, bound volumes, writings, printed material, and\n            miscellaneous related items pertaining to the life and\n            activities of Dr. \n             Hugh Smith and \n             Lucy Booth Cumming , Sr., and their\n            son, Ambassador \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , (1900-1986), and\n            his wife, \n             Winifred Burney West , as well as other\n            family members. Also present are papers relating to the \n             Booth Family . Dr. Cumming (1869-1948) was Surgeon General of the \n             U. S. Public Health Service from 1920\n            to 1936; Ambassador Cumming (1900-) was a career diplomat\n            and served primarily in \n             Europe and \n             Indonesia from 1933 until his\n            retirement in 1963. The majority of the collection is chiefly correspondence\n            dealing with family, professional, and diplomatic matters.\n            In addition, Ambassador Cumming maintained extensive files\n            containing additional correspondence, photographs, reports,\n            memoranda, notes, and other related materials regarding his\n            public and personal activities. The collection has been divided into three subgroups: I.\n             Booth Family Papers, II. Papers of Dr.\n            and Mrs. \n             Hugh Smith Cumming, Sr. , and III.\n            Papers of Ambassador \n             Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. There are\n            various series and subseries within each subgroup. A more\n            detailed description of the papers, especially biographical\n            and organizational information, can be found later in this\n            guide, under each subgroup. The descriptions were compiled\n            by Robin D. Wear (Subgroup I), T. Sharon Defibaugh\n            (Subgroup II), and Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. (Subgroup III).\n            This collection contains 6922-b, 6922-d, 6922-e, 6922-f,\n            6922-h, 6922-h, 6922-i, 6922-k, 6922-l, 6922-m, 6922-n,\n            6922-p, 6922-r, 6922-s, 6922-u, 6922-w, 6922-ab, 6922-ac\n            and 6922-ad. SUBGROUP I BOOTH FAMILY PAPERS SCOPE AND CONTENT This subgroup of the Cumming Papers pertains chiefly to\n            the \n             Booth family , and consists of ca. 270\n            items, (Boxes 1 and 2), encompassing the years 1814-1978.\n            Included are correspondence, legal papers, and photographs\n            of the \n             Booth family ; and biographical and\n            genealogical information in the form of correspondence,\n            notes, copies of family documents, and printed material\n            concerning the \n             Booth and allied families such as \n             Armistead , \n             Thomson , \n             Throckmorton , \n             Gilliam , \n             Rootes , \n             Bernard , and \n             Terry . Correspondents include \n             Rebecca Hicks Booth , \n             Robert Henry Booth , \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth , and the latter's\n            children, \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth , \n             Archer Jones Booth , \n             Francis Rebecca Booth , and \n             Sarah Tanner Booth , as well as \n             Clara Haxall Thomson Booth , \n             Lucy Almira Booth , \n             Hugh Smith Cumming , \n             Charles J. Cabaniss , and \n             William Cabell Rives . Edwin Gilliam Booth 's two older sons\n            fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side in \n             Virginia . \n             Archer Jones Booth wrote to his father\n            from \n             Clark County , and to his grandmother\n            from a camp near \n             Fredericksburg mentioning long marches\n            and various campsites. \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. , wrote to his\n            father from a camp near \n             Yorktown (June 5, 1861), discussing\n            camp life, the hardships of warfare, and their hopes that\n            President \n             [Jefferson] Davis would send an\n            additional 25,000 men; and, later writes from the C. S.\n            Steamer Selma off \n             Mobile, Alabama (April 13, 1864)\n            mentioning the occupation of \n             Vicksburg by Yankees, the defense of \n             Richmond , and news of Archer's\n            regiment and an anticipated battle. Other letters of interest include those from \n             E. C. Cabell to \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth (November 22, 1846\n            and November 14, 1847) concerning a controversy between\n            Booth and his brother, Archer, and the \n             Bank of Florida ; two letters from \n             William Cabell Rives to \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth (July 5, 1858 and\n            November 24, 1862); and a lengthy letter from \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. to his sister,\n             Frances Rebecca Booth , from \n             Paris, France (February 5, 1866).","Scope and Content SUBGROUP II PAPERS OF DR. AND MRS. \n             HUGH SMITH CUMMING, SR. SCOPE AND CONTENT This subgroup of the \n             Cumming family papers includes papers of\n            Dr. \n             Hugh Smith Cumming, Sr. (1869-1948) and\n            his wife, \n             Lucy Booth Cumming (1871-1960), and\n            contains ca. 825 items, (Boxes 3-7, 4 Hollinger boxes, 3.5\n            linear shelf feet), 1897-1956. They consist of\n            correspondence, memoirs, essays, speeches, invitations,\n            printed items, photographs, legal papers, bound volumes,\n            and oversize items. Correspondence forms the largest series of the papers;\n            there are letters of congratulation to Dr. and Mrs. \n             Hugh S. Cumming concerning the birth of\n             Lucy Cumming , 1897, and \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , 1900, as well as\n            letters of condolence regarding the death of \n             Lucy Cumming in 1898. Letters from \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. to his wife, Lucy,\n            1900-1938, were usually written during his absences from\n            home due to work connected with his appointments to the \n             U.S. Public Health Service (1894-1920)\n            and as Surgeon General (1920-1936); they contain references\n            to his inspection and quarantine duties, departmental\n            gossip, family news, and personal observations about the\n            various places that he visited. Notable topics include: the\n            endorsement of the \n             Public Health and Marine Hospital\n            Service by the \n             American Medical Association (July 13,\n            1905); the case of an insane Russian alien (November 12,\n            1911); Lucy's appointment to the \n             Sanitation Committee (November 15,\n            1912); Surgeon General \n             Rupert Blue 's and Cumming's chances of\n            an assignment in \n             Philadelphia (August 17, 1912), and his\n             Virginia Survey and other inspection\n            work along the \n             Atlantic Seaboard , especially of\n            sewage systems and oyster beds (1914-1915). The majority of\n            Dr. Cumming's letters to his wife were written during his\n            service in \n             Europe , 1918-1920, where he visited\n            and inspected ports of embarkation, evacuation points,\n            departing ships, and camps used by the American forces in \n             France for evidence of epidemics or\n            disease. He also represented the \n             United States in 1919 at the \n             Cannes conference which organized the \n             League of Red Cross Societies and\n            headed a medical mission to \n             Poland . Topics in this group include:\n            post-war conditions in \n             England (December 20, 1918); \n             American University Union in \n             Europe (December 29, 1918); abominable\n            conditions at the American camp at \n             Brest, France (January 9, 1919);\n            effects of shelling on the ruins at \n             Rheims, France (February 9, 1919);\n            typhoid fever outbreak at \n             Rotterdam, Netherlands (February 20,\n            1919); \n             Red Cross Conference at \n             Cannes (March 20, 1919); chances for an\n            enduring peace (March 28, 1919); work on a committee on\n            preventive medicine and hygiene and a subcommittee on \n             Public Health Laboratories (April 3-23,\n            1919); and comments on the high cost of food and its affect\n            upon the morals of civilians in \n             Europe (April 24, 1919). These letters,\n            in general, describe Cumming's itinerary while in \n             Europe , including \n             England , \n             France , \n             Belgium , \n             Poland , \n             Spain , \n             Italy , \n             Greece , and \n             Turkey , his duties of inspection, and\n            the appearance of post-war \n             Europe . Letters to \n             Lucy Booth Cumming include the\n            following topics: a sketch of the life of \n             Archer Jones Booth , (an uncle of hers)\n            as a Confederate soldier, by \n             James F. Epes (November 26, 1903); \n             Leake and \n             Haxall genealogy (October 21, 1905); \n             Thomson genealogy (March 29, 1914;\n            [February 9, 1934]; November 15, 1929); \n             Cabaniss genealogy (September 27, 1933)\n            and photographs of celebrities attending the \n             Lausanne Peace Conference (December 26,\n            1922). Lucy Cumming also corresponded with her mother, \n             Clara Booth , and sister, \n             Henrietta Wise , while residing in \n             Yokohama, Japan , (1906), and while\n            visiting her husband in \n             Europe in 1919-1920. The miscellaneous correspondence of Hugh and Lucy\n            Cumming contains: a copy of \n             Charles J. Hatfield 's comments\n            introducing \n             Hugh S. Cumming at the \n             University of Pennsylvania (October 20,\n            1930); copy of Mrs. Cumming's comments in a prologue to a\n            series of radio broadcasts regarding the health of young\n            people for the \n             Committee on Periodic Health\n            Examinations (January 12, 1932), and a copy of \n             Herbert Hoover 's letter of\n            appreciation to Cumming about his work in the \n             Public Health Service (February 25,\n            1933). Dr. and Mrs. Cumming's letters to their son, \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , generally\n            contain family news and descriptions of trips undertaken in\n            connection with Cumming's work as Surgeon General, with\n            occasional references to Dr. Cumming's viewpoints amd\n            opinions, including the technical meeting of the \n             Commission on Nutrition (May 24 and 31,\n            1937) and his opinion of his successor, \n             [Thomas] Parran (May 12, 1939). The letters of \n             Winifred Burney (West)\n            Cumming (1907-1978) to \n             Lucy B. Cumming , 1948-1956, furnish a\n            varied picture of the life of the wife of a diplomat and\n            her responsibilities in the work of an embassy. These\n            letters were written while her husband, \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , (1900-1986) was\n            stationed in \n             Sweden , \n             Russia , and \n             Indonesia . Two letters in particular\n            (March 5 and 19, 1951) describe the city of \n             Moscow , its living conditions, and the\n             Lubianka prison , which was near the\n            Cumming's \n             Moscow quarters. This collection also contains the typescript of Dr. \n             Hugh S. Cumming 's personal memoirs,\n            beginning with his birth on August 17, 1869, in \n             Hampton, Virginia , and ending with his\n            last day at the \n             Pan American Sanitary Bureau on\n            February 1, 1947, and Lucy Cumming's memoirs of her\n            childhood in \n             Nottoway County, Virginia . Other items of note include two speeches of \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , \"Toast at Tennis\n            Club\" (N.D.) and \"Address at the opening session of the\n            Septima Conferencia Sanitaria\" (November 1924), and a Power\n            of Attorney re the estate of \n             Lucy B. Cumming 's grandfather, \n             Edwin G. Booth , \" \n             Beechwood \" in \n             York County, Virginia , (June 19,\n            1919). The collection also contains a diary and date book\n            of \n             Lucy Booth Cumming ; a pictoral record\n            of the Medical Conference held at \n             Cannes, France , (April 1-11, 1919) at\n            the invitation of the \n             Committee of Red Cross Societies ; a\n            scrapbook of \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , containing\n            academic diplomas, official certificates, honorary degrees,\n            appointments, photographs, newsclippings, obituaries, etc.;\n             Lucy Cumming 's membership certificate\n            in the \n             United Daughters of the Confederacy ;\n            and a charcoal-and-chalk profile sketch of \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.","Scope and Content SUBGROUP III PAPERS OF AMBASSADOR \n             HUGH SMITH CUMMING, JR. SCOPE AND CONTENT This subgroup consists of ca. 5,200 items (Boxes 7-23,\n            ca. 4.5 linear shelf feet), 1777-1778, 1806, 1820,\n            1861-1892, 1907 (1931-1977) 1984, correspondence,\n            photographs, financial and legal items, newspaper\n            clippings, tape recordings, bound volumes and miscellaneous\n            items relating to \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , a career\n            diplomat. These papers are chiefly comprised of personal\n            and diplomatic correspondence. Topics of interest in the\n            subgroup include: Cumming's life as a diplomat in \n             Moscow , \n             Stockholm , \n             Paris , and \n             Indonesia ; European economic\n            conditions, 1939-1945; the \n             University of Virginia ; American\n            activities in \n             Iceland and \n             Greenland before and during World War\n            II; diplomacy, family and personal matters; and\n            involvements in civic and professional organizations. As a diplomat, Cumming corresponded with several\n            prominent contemporaries, especially his fellow diplomats,\n            but the majority of their letters are concerned with\n            routine matters. The correspondence was written in various\n            places: Austria, Belgium, China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Great\n            Britain, Greece, Greenland, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy,\n            Liberia, the Netherlands, Poland, South America, the Soviet\n            Union, Sweden, and Switzerland. Among the noted correspondents are: \n             Dean Acheson ; \n             Joseph W. Alsop ; \n             John A. Blatnik ; \n             Daniel J. Boorstin ; \n             John Stewart Bryan ; \n             Harry F. Byrd, Jr. ; \n             Richard E. Byrd ; \n             Bernard P. Chamerlain ; \n             Virginius Dabney ; \n             C. Douglas Dillon ; \n             Thomas N. Downing ; \n             Allen W. Dulles ; \n             John Foster Dulles ; \n             Homer Ferguson ; \n             J. Allen Frear, Jr. ; \n             Douglas Southall Freeman ; \n             J. William Fulbright ; \n             Wilson D. Gillette ; \n             Joseph C. Grew ; \n             Christian A. Herter ; \n             Lou Henry Hoover (Mrs. Herbert Hoover);\n             Cordell Hull ; \n             Herschel V. Johnson ; \n             Walter Lippman ; \n             Henry Cabot Lodge ; \n             John O. Marsh, Jr. ; \n             Christopher C. McGrath ; \n             David C. Mearns ; \n             L. Quincy Mumford ; \n             Stanley F. Reed ; \n             Eleanor Roosevelt ; \n             Elliot Roosevelt ; \n             Dean Rusk ; \n             Hugh D. Scott, Jr. ; \n             John W. Snyder ; \n             John Sparkman ; \n             Maurice Stans ; \n             Edward E. Stettinius, Jr. ; \n             Potter Stewart ; \n             Robert Taft, Jr. ; \n             Edward Thye, Jr. ; \n             Harry S. Truman . In addition, there are references to: \n             Edwin Barclay ; \n             Chiang Kai-shek ; \n             Andrei Gromyko ; \n             George Kennan ; \n             Hunter Holmes McGuire ; \n             Raoul Wallenberg . Cumming's correspondence, 1907-1984, relates to his life\n            and career and includes letters from and to his wife, his\n            mother, relatives, friends, and colleagues. There are\n            several letters congratulating him on his marriage to \n             Winifred Burney West (1907-1978), 1935,\n            as well as her letters to members of her family, 1930-1932\n            and 1951-1952, while she was living in the American\n            Consulate in \n             Hankow, China , and in \n             Moscow where her husband was counselor\n            to the American Embassy. In these letters, which were\n            primarily addressed to her brother-in-law, \n             Frank A. West , she discusses her\n            social and personal activities. The letters contain\n            references to contemporary events and individuals such as:\n            executions taking place near the American Consulate in \n             Hankow , January 30, 1931; the U.S.S.\n            Panay's attempt to pay ransom to secure the release of a\n            kidnap victim, February 27, 1931; \n             Chiang Kai-shek , December 16, 1930;\n            May Day celebrations in \n             Moscow , May 11, 1951; and meeting \n             Andrei Gromyko , November 11 and 18,\n            1951. Her Moscow letters were signed \"jed.\" Letters of interest include several from Mr. and Mrs. \n             Cordell Hull , 1933-1950; \n             Walter Lippman discussing the case of \n             Raoul Wallenberg , December 8, 1947; a\n            thank-you letter from \n             Eleanor Roosevelt , June 13, 1950; \n             Richard E. Byrd regarding his efforts\n            on behalf of the \n             U.S. Antarctic Service , August 21 and\n            December 27, 1941; and President \n             Harry S. Truman 's appointment of\n            Cumming to the personal rank of Minister while serving as\n            deputy chief of mission and counselor of the embassy at \n             Moscow , August 14, 1951; condolence\n            letters, 1948-1949, regarding the death of his father, \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , and of his\n            mother, \n             Lucy Booth Cumming, 1960 . Correspondence from Cumming's diplomatic service,\n            1926-1964, includes copies of correspondence with the \n             State Department , a report on economic\n            and political situations in Nazi \n             Germany , November 15, 1939, and an\n            incomplete report of an assassination attempt against\n            Liberian President \n             Edwin Barclay which involved the use of\n            medicine men and magic, 1934, as well as several\n            confidential reports and related papers pertaining to his\n            service in \n             Latin America , \n             Europe , and \n             Asia . The subject files, 1934-1984, comprise the largest\n            section of the collection; arranged alphabetically by name\n            or subject, they contain correspondence and related papers\n            pertaining to Cumming's civic and professional activities.\n            These include appointments and efficiency reports, papers\n            regarding members of the \n             Cumming family , the \n             Alibi Club , the \n             John Foster Dulles Oral History Project at\n            Princeton University , \n             Bath County Community Hospital , the \n             National Cathedral Association , the \n             State Department , Diplomatic and\n            Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR) and other similar\n            subjects. Correspondence and files regarding the \n             University of Virginia include the \n             Raven Society , the \n             Hugh S. and Lucy Booth Cumming Memorial\n            Fund , the \n             O.W.L.S. Society , and others. As a\n            consequence, he corresponded with several members of its\n            faculty, students, and staff such as \n             Julius P. Barclay , \n             Edmund Berkeley, Jr. , \n             Colgate W. Darden, Jr. , \n             Ernest H. Ern , \n             Arthur P. Gray III , \n             Frank L. Hereford, Jr. , \n             William H. Runge , \n             B. F. D. Runk , \n             Edgar F. Shannon , and \n             John Cook Wyllie . The photographs, 1918-1961, pertain to: life at the \n             Virginia Military Institute in 1918, \n             U. S. Coast Guard activities in \n             Greenland during 1941; the first\n            commerical flight between \n             Reykjavik, Iceland , and \n             Washington, D.C. Of special interest is\n            a 1923 photograph of Cumming as a park ranger in \n             Mesa Verde National Park , \n             Colorado , and four photographs of \n             Richard M. Nixon during a visit to \n             Indonesia as part of his 1953 Asian\n            tour. Bound volumes, 1777 -1778, 1806, 1820, 1850-1892 and\n            1941, include a scrapbook regarding Sunday School\n            conventions in \n             Albemarle County, Virginia , 1868-1875,\n            a journal containing entries regarding the issuing of\n            military rations, 1777-1778; and a 1866-1868 diary and\n            commonplace book of \n             Diana Whiting Smith Cumming , a school\n            teacher and resident of \n             Hampton, Virginia . Also present is\n            Cumming's diary of his official trip to \n             Greenland during 1941. Other items of interest include: passsports of Hugh and\n            Winifred Cumming, 1922-1947; invitations, a 1909 school\n            report, guest tickets to the \n             1924 Democratic National Convention ;\n            three 1913 visitor passes to public viewing galleries in\n            Congress from \n             Bird McGuire , \n             James P. Clarke , and \n             Claude A. Swanson ; two tape recordings\n            of Cumming interviews, 1954 and 1969; an article by him\n            regarding \n             Liberia , February, 1937; three pages\n            from the New York Daily Tribune, April 23, 1861, with\n            references to the early phase of the Civil War, a 1940\n            Cumming article on the \n             U.S. Antarctic Service ; and a pass for\n            Cumming as an official observer at a nuclear test explosion\n            (\"Diablo\") in \n             Nevada during 1957.","","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Shenstone","Winfield Academy","University of North Carolina at Chapel\n            Hill","University of Virginia","Court of Appeals","Nottoway Church","Virginia Legislature","National Centennial Exhibition","Hampton-Sydney College","University of Pennsylvania","Confederate Army","Nottoway Cavalry","Third Virginia Regiment","Confederate Navy","Carter's Grove","Board of Visitors of the College of William and\n            Mary","U. S. Public Health Service","Bank of Florida","U.S. Public Health Service","Public Health and Marine Hospital\n            Service","American Medical Association","Sanitation Committee","League of Red Cross Societies","American University Union","Red Cross","Public Health Laboratories","Lausanne Peace Conference","Committee on Periodic Health\n            Examinations","Public Health Service","Commission on Nutrition","Lubianka prison","Pan American Sanitary Bureau","Beechwood","Committee of Red Cross Societies","United Daughters of the Confederacy","U.S. Antarctic Service","State Department","Alibi Club","John Foster Dulles Oral History Project at\n            Princeton University","Bath County Community Hospital","National Cathedral Association","Raven Society","Hugh S. and Lucy Booth Cumming Memorial\n            Fund","O.W.L.S. Society","Virginia Military Institute","U. S. Coast Guard","Mesa Verde National Park","1924 Democratic National Convention","St. Mary's Episcopal\n                     Church","Committee of Red Cross\n                     Societies","United Daughter of the\n                     Confederacy","Anderson and Sheppard,\n                           Ltd.","Atlantic Council","Bath County Community\n                        Hospital","Berkshire Farm For Boys\n                           (Washington Committee)","Board of Examiners of Foreign\n                           Service","Frederick Bunnell-Vassar\n                           College","Chevy Chase Club","Christ\n                        Church","Cosmos Club","University of\n                        Pennsylvania","Hugh Smith Cumming\n                        Trust","Hugh S. and Lucy Booth Cumming\n                           Memorial Fund","Diplomatic and Consular Officers,\n                        Retired","Davidson College","Princeton University Oral History\n                        Project","Episcopal Diocese and Research\n                        Committees","Foreign Service Advisory\n                           Committee","Foxcroft School","Garth Newel Music Center","Historic Georgetown,\n                           Inc.","Meridan House\n                           Foundation","Metropolitan Club","Moscow Church","National Cathedral\n                        Association","The Raven Society","State\n                        Department","Swannanoa","United States Navy","University of the\n                        Pacific","University of\n                        Virginia","Virginia Historical\n                           Society","Virginia Military\n                        Institute","Washington Institute of Foreign\n                           Affairs","Birne T. West Trust","Woodrow Wilson House\n                           Council","U.S. Guard Coast","U. S. Antartic\n                     Service","University of Virginia O.W.L.S.\n                     Society","Coast Guard","Cumming Family","Booth Family","Booth family","Booth","Armistead","Thomson","Throckmorton","Gilliam","Rootes","Bernard","Terry","Cumming family","Leake","Haxall","Cabaniss","Cumming","Hicks family","Thomson Family","Armistead family","Terry family","Thomson family","Kendrick Family","West Family","Wise Family","Edwin Gilliam Booth","Gilliam Booth","Rebecca (Hicks) Booth","Theodorick Pryor","John Taylor Lomax","Sarah Tanner Jones","Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr.","Archer Jones Booth","Frances Rebecca Booth","Sarah Tanner Booth","William Travis Booth","Abraham Lincoln","Edwin Gilliam Booth, Sr.","Henry Edwin Dwight","Sarah Tanner (Jones) Booth","David Comfort","Big Bethel","Clara Haxall Thomson","Lucy Almira Booth","Henrietta Edwina Booth","Edwin Gilliam Booth, III","Clara Thomson Booth","John Thomson Booth","William Harris Booth","George Wythe","Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.","Hugh Smith","Lucy Booth Cumming","Winifred Burney West","Booth Family","Hugh Smith Cumming, Sr.","Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr.","Rebecca Hicks Booth","Robert Henry Booth","Francis Rebecca Booth","Clara Haxall Thomson Booth","Hugh Smith Cumming","Charles J. Cabaniss","William Cabell Rives","[Jefferson] Davis","E. C. Cabell","HUGH SMITH CUMMING, SR.","Hugh S. Cumming","Lucy Cumming","Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.","Rupert Blue","Virginia","James F. Epes","Clara Booth","Henrietta Wise","Charles J. Hatfield","Herbert Hoover","[Thomas] Parran","Winifred Burney (West)\n            Cumming","Lucy B. Cumming","Edwin G. Booth","HUGH SMITH CUMMING, JR.","Dean Acheson","Joseph W. Alsop","John A. Blatnik","Daniel J. Boorstin","John Stewart Bryan","Harry F. Byrd, Jr.","Richard E. Byrd","Bernard P. Chamerlain","Virginius Dabney","C. Douglas Dillon","Thomas N. Downing","Allen W. Dulles","John Foster Dulles","Homer Ferguson","J. Allen Frear, Jr.","Douglas Southall Freeman","J. William Fulbright","Wilson D. Gillette","Joseph C. Grew","Christian A. Herter","Lou Henry Hoover","Cordell Hull","Herschel V. Johnson","Walter Lippman","Henry Cabot Lodge","John O. Marsh, Jr.","Christopher C. McGrath","David C. Mearns","L. Quincy Mumford","Stanley F. Reed","Eleanor Roosevelt","Elliot Roosevelt","Dean Rusk","Hugh D. Scott, Jr.","John W. Snyder","John Sparkman","Maurice Stans","Edward E. Stettinius, Jr.","Potter Stewart","Robert Taft, Jr.","Edward Thye, Jr.","Harry S. Truman","Edwin Barclay","Chiang Kai-shek","Andrei Gromyko","George Kennan","Hunter Holmes McGuire","Raoul Wallenberg","Frank A. West","Lucy Booth Cumming, 1960","Julius P. Barclay","Edmund Berkeley, Jr.","Colgate W. Darden, Jr.","Ernest H. Ern","Arthur P. Gray III","Frank L. Hereford, Jr.","William H. Runge","B. F. D. Runk","Edgar F. Shannon","John Cook Wyllie","Richard M. Nixon","Diana Whiting Smith Cumming","Bird McGuire","James P. Clarke","Claude A. Swanson","Robert H. Booth","Edwin Gilliam\n                     Booth","Clara Haxell (Thomson)\n                     Booth","Archer Jones\n                     Booth","Frances Rebecca\n                     Booth","Lucy Booth","Hugh Smith\n                     Cumming","Gilliam\n                     Booth","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                     Jr.","Annie Terry","Rebecca Sealy Terry\n                     White","Edwin Gilliam","E. G. Booth","Hugh S. Cumming Sr.","Lucy Booth\n                     Cumming","Hugh S. Cumming,\n                     Jr.","Franklin D. Roosevelt","H. Morganthou, Jr.","Winifred Cumming","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                     Sr.","Bess Furman","Hugh S. Cumming,\n                     Sr.","Hugh Smith\n                        Cumming","Winifred B. Cumming","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                        Jr.","Hugh S. 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Cumming,\n         Jr."],"acqinfo_ssim":["These papers, 6922-b, 6922-d, 6922-e, 6922-f, 6922-h,\n            6922-h, 6922-i, 6922-k, 6922-l, 6922-m, 6922-n, 6922-p,\n            6922-r, 6922-s, 6922-u, 6922-w, 6922-ab, 6922-ac and\n            6922-ad, were donated to the Library by the Honorable Hugh\n            S. Cumming, Jr., of Washington, D.C., on June 3, November\n            16, and December 30, 1985, and bear no restrictions"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["ca. 53,100 items"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eORGANIZATION\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis subgroup of the \n            \u003cfamname\u003eCumming\u003c/famname\u003ePapers is divided into three\n            series: I. Correspondence and Legal Papers; II.\n            Genealogical Papers; and, III. Photographs and Printed\n            Material. The folders in the first series have been\n            arranged chronologically. The folders in the second series\n            have been arranged in alphabetical order by family name.\n            The series entitled \"Miscellaneous\" contains photographs\n            and printed material, with folders in alphabetical\n            order.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eORGANIZATION\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe papers of Dr. and Mrs. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e, are arranged\n            chronologically and have been arranged in five series: 1)\n            Correspondence; 2) Memoirs; 3) Miscellaneous Papers; 4)\n            Bound Volumes; and 5) Oversize Items.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eORGANIZATION\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis subgroup is divided into three series: I.\n            Correspondence, II. Photographs and Miscellaneous, and III.\n            Bound Volumes. Series I is divided into five subseries of\n            correspondence: general, chronological, alphabetical files,\n            topical files, and subject files. Series II contains\n            photographs followed by miscellaneous folders. Folder\n            headings have been modified as necessary and the material\n            has been arranged chronologically within each series.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization ORGANIZATION This subgroup of the \n             Cumming Papers is divided into three\n            series: I. Correspondence and Legal Papers; II.\n            Genealogical Papers; and, III. Photographs and Printed\n            Material. The folders in the first series have been\n            arranged chronologically. The folders in the second series\n            have been arranged in alphabetical order by family name.\n            The series entitled \"Miscellaneous\" contains photographs\n            and printed material, with folders in alphabetical\n            order.","Organization ORGANIZATION The papers of Dr. and Mrs. \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , are arranged\n            chronologically and have been arranged in five series: 1)\n            Correspondence; 2) Memoirs; 3) Miscellaneous Papers; 4)\n            Bound Volumes; and 5) Oversize Items.","Organization ORGANIZATION This subgroup is divided into three series: I.\n            Correspondence, II. Photographs and Miscellaneous, and III.\n            Bound Volumes. Series I is divided into five subseries of\n            correspondence: general, chronological, alphabetical files,\n            topical files, and subject files. Series II contains\n            photographs followed by miscellaneous folders. Folder\n            headings have been modified as necessary and the material\n            has been arranged chronologically within each series."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cbioghist\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eBiography\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003ewas born on January\n            11, 1810, at \" \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eShenstone\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eNottoway County\u003c/geogname\u003e, to \n            \u003cpersname\u003eGilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003eand \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRebecca (Hicks) Booth\u003c/persname\u003e. At age ten he\n            was sent to \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eWinfield Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eDinwiddie County\u003c/geogname\u003e, where he began a\n            friendship with \n            \u003cpersname\u003eTheodorick Pryor\u003c/persname\u003e, who later became one\n            of the most influential and successful ministers in\n            southeastern \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. His chief preparation for\n            college was at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eOxford, North Carolina\u003c/geogname\u003e; he\n            matriculated at the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel\n            Hill\u003c/corpname\u003ein 1824, (at the age of fourteen) after an\n            arduous course in classics and mathematics. Subsequently,\n            he studied law at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eFredericksburg\u003c/geogname\u003eunder the supervision of\n            Judge \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Taylor Lomax\u003c/persname\u003e, a professor at the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003eand a judge of\n            the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eCourt of Appeals\u003c/corpname\u003e; and, although not a\n            well-disciplined student, he was diligent in his quest for\n            legal knowledge, and afterward returned to \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eNottoway County\u003c/geogname\u003eto practice law in the\n            five southeastern counties of \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eIn 1833, he married \n            \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tanner Jones\u003c/persname\u003e(May 10, 1811,\n            -August 29, 1860) with whom he had five children: \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, (February\n            27, 1839 -January 5, 1922); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eArcher Jones Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(May 22, 1844\n            -November 22, 1864); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eFrances Rebecca Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(December 17,\n            1846 -June 7, 1885); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tanner Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(June 3, 1848\n            -September 23, 1865); and, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Travis Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(July 12, 1850\n            -June 25, 1861).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eBooth was known for his public spirit and devotion to\n            politics, his activities for the welfare of man and for the\n            promotion of Christianity. On August 30, 1838, he made a\n            public profession of his faith in Christ, and was soon made\n            the ruling elder in the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eNottoway Church\u003c/corpname\u003e. In 1847, he was\n            elected from the Nottoway District to serve in the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Legislature\u003c/corpname\u003efor the 1848 and\n            1849 sessions, and took part in the revision and\n            codification of the civil laws of \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. During the Civil War, he\n            attempted to alleviate the miseries of military prisons by\n            obtaining permission to assist friends in prison. He\n            received permission from President \n            \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003eto pass through the\n            blockade in April 1863, and dined with Lincoln and Davis\n            over the month, by their invitations. In 1876, he erected\n            the Old Virginia Building at the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eNational Centennial Exhibition\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eFairmont Park, Philadelphia\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e, passed away\n            on February 13, 1886 in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003ePhiladelphia\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eMore information on Booth may be found in \n            \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life and Character of Edwin Gilliam\n               Booth\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Edwin Dwight\u003c/persname\u003e(F230.B74).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, was born on\n            February 27, 1839, in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eNottoway County\u003c/geogname\u003eto \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003eand \n            \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tanner (Jones) Booth\u003c/persname\u003e. He\n            attended \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eWinfield Academy\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eDinwiddie County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and was prepared for\n            college by \n            \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Comfort\u003c/persname\u003e, a Princeton graduate.\n            He then attended \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eHampton-Sydney College\u003c/corpname\u003efor two years,\n            graduating in 1859, and spent part of a session at the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003ebefore enrolling\n            in the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Pennsylvania\u003c/corpname\u003eat\n            Philadelphia where he graduated as a doctor of medicine in\n            1861.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eDuring the Civil War, he enlisted in the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eConfederate Army\u003c/corpname\u003eas a member of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eNottoway Cavalry\u003c/corpname\u003ein the G and E\n            companies of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eThird Virginia Regiment\u003c/corpname\u003e. His company\n            fought at the Battle of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eBig Bethel\u003c/persname\u003eon June 10, 1861. On May 1,\n            1863, he was commissioned as assistant surgeon in the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eConfederate Navy\u003c/corpname\u003e, and was a surgeon on\n            the C. S. S. Selma during the Battle of \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMobile Bay\u003c/geogname\u003e, where their fleet was\n            defeated and the steamer was sunk on August 5, 1864. He was\n            taken prisoner and sent to \n            \u003cgeogname\u003ePensacola\u003c/geogname\u003e, and later released on\n            parole.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eAfter the war he visited \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003e, then returned to live at \" \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eShenstone\u003c/corpname\u003e\" until ca. 1886 when he\n            moved to \" \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eCarter's Grove\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" James City County.\n            In October 1870, he married \n            \u003cpersname\u003eClara Haxall Thomson\u003c/persname\u003eof \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eJefferson County, West Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e; they\n            had the following children: \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Almira Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(July 15, 1871\n            -1960); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eFrances Rebecca Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(October 1, 1873\n            -? ); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHenrietta Edwina Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(January 6,\n            1876-? ); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth, III\u003c/persname\u003e(July 14, 1878\n            -? ); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eClara Thomson Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(July 10, 1880 -?\n            ); \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Thomson Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(May 13, 1883 -? );\n            and, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Harris Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(June 16, 1885 -?\n            ).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eIn 1907, he settled in the old \n            \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Wythe\u003c/persname\u003ehome at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e, and was a member of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eBoard of Visitors of the College of William and\n            Mary\u003c/corpname\u003e. He died at home on January 5, 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/bioghist\u003e","\u003cbioghist\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eBiography\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSee entries from: \n            \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eWho Was Who In America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, Volume II, 1943 -1950, page 139; \n            \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eWho's Who in America\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, 1984-1985, 43rd edition, Volume I, A-K, pp.\n            723-724; the \n            \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eNational Cyclopedia of American Biography\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, pp. 279-280, and the obituary for \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003efrom the November\n            26, 1986 \"Washington Post.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/bioghist\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Biography BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Edwin Gilliam Booth was born on January\n            11, 1810, at \" \n             Shenstone , \" \n             Nottoway County , to \n             Gilliam Booth and \n             Rebecca (Hicks) Booth . At age ten he\n            was sent to \n             Winfield Academy in \n             Dinwiddie County , where he began a\n            friendship with \n             Theodorick Pryor , who later became one\n            of the most influential and successful ministers in\n            southeastern \n             Virginia . His chief preparation for\n            college was at \n             Oxford, North Carolina ; he\n            matriculated at the \n             University of North Carolina at Chapel\n            Hill in 1824, (at the age of fourteen) after an\n            arduous course in classics and mathematics. Subsequently,\n            he studied law at \n             Fredericksburg under the supervision of\n            Judge \n             John Taylor Lomax , a professor at the \n             University of Virginia and a judge of\n            the \n             Court of Appeals ; and, although not a\n            well-disciplined student, he was diligent in his quest for\n            legal knowledge, and afterward returned to \n             Nottoway County to practice law in the\n            five southeastern counties of \n             Virginia . In 1833, he married \n             Sarah Tanner Jones (May 10, 1811,\n            -August 29, 1860) with whom he had five children: \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. , (February\n            27, 1839 -January 5, 1922); \n             Archer Jones Booth (May 22, 1844\n            -November 22, 1864); \n             Frances Rebecca Booth (December 17,\n            1846 -June 7, 1885); \n             Sarah Tanner Booth (June 3, 1848\n            -September 23, 1865); and, \n             William Travis Booth (July 12, 1850\n            -June 25, 1861). Booth was known for his public spirit and devotion to\n            politics, his activities for the welfare of man and for the\n            promotion of Christianity. On August 30, 1838, he made a\n            public profession of his faith in Christ, and was soon made\n            the ruling elder in the \n             Nottoway Church . In 1847, he was\n            elected from the Nottoway District to serve in the \n             Virginia Legislature for the 1848 and\n            1849 sessions, and took part in the revision and\n            codification of the civil laws of \n             Virginia . During the Civil War, he\n            attempted to alleviate the miseries of military prisons by\n            obtaining permission to assist friends in prison. He\n            received permission from President \n             Abraham Lincoln to pass through the\n            blockade in April 1863, and dined with Lincoln and Davis\n            over the month, by their invitations. In 1876, he erected\n            the Old Virginia Building at the \n             National Centennial Exhibition in \n             Fairmont Park, Philadelphia . Edwin Gilliam Booth, Sr. , passed away\n            on February 13, 1886 in \n             Philadelphia . More information on Booth may be found in \n             The Life and Character of Edwin Gilliam\n               Booth by \n             Henry Edwin Dwight (F230.B74). Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. , was born on\n            February 27, 1839, in \n             Nottoway County to \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth and \n             Sarah Tanner (Jones) Booth . He\n            attended \n             Winfield Academy , \n             Dinwiddie County , and was prepared for\n            college by \n             David Comfort , a Princeton graduate.\n            He then attended \n             Hampton-Sydney College for two years,\n            graduating in 1859, and spent part of a session at the \n             University of Virginia before enrolling\n            in the \n             University of Pennsylvania at\n            Philadelphia where he graduated as a doctor of medicine in\n            1861. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the \n             Confederate Army as a member of the \n             Nottoway Cavalry in the G and E\n            companies of the \n             Third Virginia Regiment . His company\n            fought at the Battle of \n             Big Bethel on June 10, 1861. On May 1,\n            1863, he was commissioned as assistant surgeon in the \n             Confederate Navy , and was a surgeon on\n            the C. S. S. Selma during the Battle of \n             Mobile Bay , where their fleet was\n            defeated and the steamer was sunk on August 5, 1864. He was\n            taken prisoner and sent to \n             Pensacola , and later released on\n            parole. After the war he visited \n             Europe , then returned to live at \" \n             Shenstone \" until ca. 1886 when he\n            moved to \" \n             Carter's Grove , \" James City County.\n            In October 1870, he married \n             Clara Haxall Thomson of \n             Jefferson County, West Virginia ; they\n            had the following children: \n             Lucy Almira Booth (July 15, 1871\n            -1960); \n             Frances Rebecca Booth (October 1, 1873\n            -? ); \n             Henrietta Edwina Booth (January 6,\n            1876-? ); \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, III (July 14, 1878\n            -? ); \n             Clara Thomson Booth (July 10, 1880 -?\n            ); \n             John Thomson Booth (May 13, 1883 -? );\n            and, \n             William Harris Booth (June 16, 1885 -?\n            ). In 1907, he settled in the old \n             George Wythe home at \n             Williamsburg , and was a member of the \n             Board of Visitors of the College of William and\n            Mary . He died at home on January 5, 1922.","Biography BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES See entries from: \n             Who Was Who In America , Volume II, 1943 -1950, page 139; \n             Who's Who in America , 1984-1985, 43rd edition, Volume I, A-K, pp.\n            723-724; the \n             National Cyclopedia of American Biography , pp. 279-280, and the obituary for \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. from the November\n            26, 1986 \"Washington Post.\""],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Scope and Content GENERAL DESCRIPTION The \n             Cumming Family papers consist of ca.\n            53,100 items (23 Hollinger boxes, ca. 8 linear shelf feet),\n            1777-1778, 1806 (1820-1977) 1984, including correspondence,\n            financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings,\n            photographs, bound volumes, writings, printed material, and\n            miscellaneous related items pertaining to the life and\n            activities of Dr. \n             Hugh Smith and \n             Lucy Booth Cumming , Sr., and their\n            son, Ambassador \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , (1900-1986), and\n            his wife, \n             Winifred Burney West , as well as other\n            family members. Also present are papers relating to the \n             Booth Family . Dr. Cumming (1869-1948) was Surgeon General of the \n             U. S. Public Health Service from 1920\n            to 1936; Ambassador Cumming (1900-) was a career diplomat\n            and served primarily in \n             Europe and \n             Indonesia from 1933 until his\n            retirement in 1963. The majority of the collection is chiefly correspondence\n            dealing with family, professional, and diplomatic matters.\n            In addition, Ambassador Cumming maintained extensive files\n            containing additional correspondence, photographs, reports,\n            memoranda, notes, and other related materials regarding his\n            public and personal activities. The collection has been divided into three subgroups: I.\n             Booth Family Papers, II. Papers of Dr.\n            and Mrs. \n             Hugh Smith Cumming, Sr. , and III.\n            Papers of Ambassador \n             Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. There are\n            various series and subseries within each subgroup. A more\n            detailed description of the papers, especially biographical\n            and organizational information, can be found later in this\n            guide, under each subgroup. The descriptions were compiled\n            by Robin D. Wear (Subgroup I), T. Sharon Defibaugh\n            (Subgroup II), and Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. (Subgroup III).\n            This collection contains 6922-b, 6922-d, 6922-e, 6922-f,\n            6922-h, 6922-h, 6922-i, 6922-k, 6922-l, 6922-m, 6922-n,\n            6922-p, 6922-r, 6922-s, 6922-u, 6922-w, 6922-ab, 6922-ac\n            and 6922-ad. SUBGROUP I BOOTH FAMILY PAPERS SCOPE AND CONTENT This subgroup of the Cumming Papers pertains chiefly to\n            the \n             Booth family , and consists of ca. 270\n            items, (Boxes 1 and 2), encompassing the years 1814-1978.\n            Included are correspondence, legal papers, and photographs\n            of the \n             Booth family ; and biographical and\n            genealogical information in the form of correspondence,\n            notes, copies of family documents, and printed material\n            concerning the \n             Booth and allied families such as \n             Armistead , \n             Thomson , \n             Throckmorton , \n             Gilliam , \n             Rootes , \n             Bernard , and \n             Terry . Correspondents include \n             Rebecca Hicks Booth , \n             Robert Henry Booth , \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth , and the latter's\n            children, \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth , \n             Archer Jones Booth , \n             Francis Rebecca Booth , and \n             Sarah Tanner Booth , as well as \n             Clara Haxall Thomson Booth , \n             Lucy Almira Booth , \n             Hugh Smith Cumming , \n             Charles J. Cabaniss , and \n             William Cabell Rives . Edwin Gilliam Booth 's two older sons\n            fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side in \n             Virginia . \n             Archer Jones Booth wrote to his father\n            from \n             Clark County , and to his grandmother\n            from a camp near \n             Fredericksburg mentioning long marches\n            and various campsites. \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. , wrote to his\n            father from a camp near \n             Yorktown (June 5, 1861), discussing\n            camp life, the hardships of warfare, and their hopes that\n            President \n             [Jefferson] Davis would send an\n            additional 25,000 men; and, later writes from the C. S.\n            Steamer Selma off \n             Mobile, Alabama (April 13, 1864)\n            mentioning the occupation of \n             Vicksburg by Yankees, the defense of \n             Richmond , and news of Archer's\n            regiment and an anticipated battle. Other letters of interest include those from \n             E. C. Cabell to \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth (November 22, 1846\n            and November 14, 1847) concerning a controversy between\n            Booth and his brother, Archer, and the \n             Bank of Florida ; two letters from \n             William Cabell Rives to \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth (July 5, 1858 and\n            November 24, 1862); and a lengthy letter from \n             Edwin Gilliam Booth, Jr. to his sister,\n             Frances Rebecca Booth , from \n             Paris, France (February 5, 1866).","Scope and Content SUBGROUP II PAPERS OF DR. AND MRS. \n             HUGH SMITH CUMMING, SR. SCOPE AND CONTENT This subgroup of the \n             Cumming family papers includes papers of\n            Dr. \n             Hugh Smith Cumming, Sr. (1869-1948) and\n            his wife, \n             Lucy Booth Cumming (1871-1960), and\n            contains ca. 825 items, (Boxes 3-7, 4 Hollinger boxes, 3.5\n            linear shelf feet), 1897-1956. They consist of\n            correspondence, memoirs, essays, speeches, invitations,\n            printed items, photographs, legal papers, bound volumes,\n            and oversize items. Correspondence forms the largest series of the papers;\n            there are letters of congratulation to Dr. and Mrs. \n             Hugh S. Cumming concerning the birth of\n             Lucy Cumming , 1897, and \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , 1900, as well as\n            letters of condolence regarding the death of \n             Lucy Cumming in 1898. Letters from \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. to his wife, Lucy,\n            1900-1938, were usually written during his absences from\n            home due to work connected with his appointments to the \n             U.S. Public Health Service (1894-1920)\n            and as Surgeon General (1920-1936); they contain references\n            to his inspection and quarantine duties, departmental\n            gossip, family news, and personal observations about the\n            various places that he visited. Notable topics include: the\n            endorsement of the \n             Public Health and Marine Hospital\n            Service by the \n             American Medical Association (July 13,\n            1905); the case of an insane Russian alien (November 12,\n            1911); Lucy's appointment to the \n             Sanitation Committee (November 15,\n            1912); Surgeon General \n             Rupert Blue 's and Cumming's chances of\n            an assignment in \n             Philadelphia (August 17, 1912), and his\n             Virginia Survey and other inspection\n            work along the \n             Atlantic Seaboard , especially of\n            sewage systems and oyster beds (1914-1915). The majority of\n            Dr. Cumming's letters to his wife were written during his\n            service in \n             Europe , 1918-1920, where he visited\n            and inspected ports of embarkation, evacuation points,\n            departing ships, and camps used by the American forces in \n             France for evidence of epidemics or\n            disease. He also represented the \n             United States in 1919 at the \n             Cannes conference which organized the \n             League of Red Cross Societies and\n            headed a medical mission to \n             Poland . Topics in this group include:\n            post-war conditions in \n             England (December 20, 1918); \n             American University Union in \n             Europe (December 29, 1918); abominable\n            conditions at the American camp at \n             Brest, France (January 9, 1919);\n            effects of shelling on the ruins at \n             Rheims, France (February 9, 1919);\n            typhoid fever outbreak at \n             Rotterdam, Netherlands (February 20,\n            1919); \n             Red Cross Conference at \n             Cannes (March 20, 1919); chances for an\n            enduring peace (March 28, 1919); work on a committee on\n            preventive medicine and hygiene and a subcommittee on \n             Public Health Laboratories (April 3-23,\n            1919); and comments on the high cost of food and its affect\n            upon the morals of civilians in \n             Europe (April 24, 1919). These letters,\n            in general, describe Cumming's itinerary while in \n             Europe , including \n             England , \n             France , \n             Belgium , \n             Poland , \n             Spain , \n             Italy , \n             Greece , and \n             Turkey , his duties of inspection, and\n            the appearance of post-war \n             Europe . Letters to \n             Lucy Booth Cumming include the\n            following topics: a sketch of the life of \n             Archer Jones Booth , (an uncle of hers)\n            as a Confederate soldier, by \n             James F. Epes (November 26, 1903); \n             Leake and \n             Haxall genealogy (October 21, 1905); \n             Thomson genealogy (March 29, 1914;\n            [February 9, 1934]; November 15, 1929); \n             Cabaniss genealogy (September 27, 1933)\n            and photographs of celebrities attending the \n             Lausanne Peace Conference (December 26,\n            1922). Lucy Cumming also corresponded with her mother, \n             Clara Booth , and sister, \n             Henrietta Wise , while residing in \n             Yokohama, Japan , (1906), and while\n            visiting her husband in \n             Europe in 1919-1920. The miscellaneous correspondence of Hugh and Lucy\n            Cumming contains: a copy of \n             Charles J. Hatfield 's comments\n            introducing \n             Hugh S. Cumming at the \n             University of Pennsylvania (October 20,\n            1930); copy of Mrs. Cumming's comments in a prologue to a\n            series of radio broadcasts regarding the health of young\n            people for the \n             Committee on Periodic Health\n            Examinations (January 12, 1932), and a copy of \n             Herbert Hoover 's letter of\n            appreciation to Cumming about his work in the \n             Public Health Service (February 25,\n            1933). Dr. and Mrs. Cumming's letters to their son, \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , generally\n            contain family news and descriptions of trips undertaken in\n            connection with Cumming's work as Surgeon General, with\n            occasional references to Dr. Cumming's viewpoints amd\n            opinions, including the technical meeting of the \n             Commission on Nutrition (May 24 and 31,\n            1937) and his opinion of his successor, \n             [Thomas] Parran (May 12, 1939). The letters of \n             Winifred Burney (West)\n            Cumming (1907-1978) to \n             Lucy B. Cumming , 1948-1956, furnish a\n            varied picture of the life of the wife of a diplomat and\n            her responsibilities in the work of an embassy. These\n            letters were written while her husband, \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , (1900-1986) was\n            stationed in \n             Sweden , \n             Russia , and \n             Indonesia . Two letters in particular\n            (March 5 and 19, 1951) describe the city of \n             Moscow , its living conditions, and the\n             Lubianka prison , which was near the\n            Cumming's \n             Moscow quarters. This collection also contains the typescript of Dr. \n             Hugh S. Cumming 's personal memoirs,\n            beginning with his birth on August 17, 1869, in \n             Hampton, Virginia , and ending with his\n            last day at the \n             Pan American Sanitary Bureau on\n            February 1, 1947, and Lucy Cumming's memoirs of her\n            childhood in \n             Nottoway County, Virginia . Other items of note include two speeches of \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , \"Toast at Tennis\n            Club\" (N.D.) and \"Address at the opening session of the\n            Septima Conferencia Sanitaria\" (November 1924), and a Power\n            of Attorney re the estate of \n             Lucy B. Cumming 's grandfather, \n             Edwin G. Booth , \" \n             Beechwood \" in \n             York County, Virginia , (June 19,\n            1919). The collection also contains a diary and date book\n            of \n             Lucy Booth Cumming ; a pictoral record\n            of the Medical Conference held at \n             Cannes, France , (April 1-11, 1919) at\n            the invitation of the \n             Committee of Red Cross Societies ; a\n            scrapbook of \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , containing\n            academic diplomas, official certificates, honorary degrees,\n            appointments, photographs, newsclippings, obituaries, etc.;\n             Lucy Cumming 's membership certificate\n            in the \n             United Daughters of the Confederacy ;\n            and a charcoal-and-chalk profile sketch of \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.","Scope and Content SUBGROUP III PAPERS OF AMBASSADOR \n             HUGH SMITH CUMMING, JR. SCOPE AND CONTENT This subgroup consists of ca. 5,200 items (Boxes 7-23,\n            ca. 4.5 linear shelf feet), 1777-1778, 1806, 1820,\n            1861-1892, 1907 (1931-1977) 1984, correspondence,\n            photographs, financial and legal items, newspaper\n            clippings, tape recordings, bound volumes and miscellaneous\n            items relating to \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , a career\n            diplomat. These papers are chiefly comprised of personal\n            and diplomatic correspondence. Topics of interest in the\n            subgroup include: Cumming's life as a diplomat in \n             Moscow , \n             Stockholm , \n             Paris , and \n             Indonesia ; European economic\n            conditions, 1939-1945; the \n             University of Virginia ; American\n            activities in \n             Iceland and \n             Greenland before and during World War\n            II; diplomacy, family and personal matters; and\n            involvements in civic and professional organizations. As a diplomat, Cumming corresponded with several\n            prominent contemporaries, especially his fellow diplomats,\n            but the majority of their letters are concerned with\n            routine matters. The correspondence was written in various\n            places: Austria, Belgium, China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Great\n            Britain, Greece, Greenland, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy,\n            Liberia, the Netherlands, Poland, South America, the Soviet\n            Union, Sweden, and Switzerland. Among the noted correspondents are: \n             Dean Acheson ; \n             Joseph W. Alsop ; \n             John A. Blatnik ; \n             Daniel J. Boorstin ; \n             John Stewart Bryan ; \n             Harry F. Byrd, Jr. ; \n             Richard E. Byrd ; \n             Bernard P. Chamerlain ; \n             Virginius Dabney ; \n             C. Douglas Dillon ; \n             Thomas N. Downing ; \n             Allen W. Dulles ; \n             John Foster Dulles ; \n             Homer Ferguson ; \n             J. Allen Frear, Jr. ; \n             Douglas Southall Freeman ; \n             J. William Fulbright ; \n             Wilson D. Gillette ; \n             Joseph C. Grew ; \n             Christian A. Herter ; \n             Lou Henry Hoover (Mrs. Herbert Hoover);\n             Cordell Hull ; \n             Herschel V. Johnson ; \n             Walter Lippman ; \n             Henry Cabot Lodge ; \n             John O. Marsh, Jr. ; \n             Christopher C. McGrath ; \n             David C. Mearns ; \n             L. Quincy Mumford ; \n             Stanley F. Reed ; \n             Eleanor Roosevelt ; \n             Elliot Roosevelt ; \n             Dean Rusk ; \n             Hugh D. Scott, Jr. ; \n             John W. Snyder ; \n             John Sparkman ; \n             Maurice Stans ; \n             Edward E. Stettinius, Jr. ; \n             Potter Stewart ; \n             Robert Taft, Jr. ; \n             Edward Thye, Jr. ; \n             Harry S. Truman . In addition, there are references to: \n             Edwin Barclay ; \n             Chiang Kai-shek ; \n             Andrei Gromyko ; \n             George Kennan ; \n             Hunter Holmes McGuire ; \n             Raoul Wallenberg . Cumming's correspondence, 1907-1984, relates to his life\n            and career and includes letters from and to his wife, his\n            mother, relatives, friends, and colleagues. There are\n            several letters congratulating him on his marriage to \n             Winifred Burney West (1907-1978), 1935,\n            as well as her letters to members of her family, 1930-1932\n            and 1951-1952, while she was living in the American\n            Consulate in \n             Hankow, China , and in \n             Moscow where her husband was counselor\n            to the American Embassy. In these letters, which were\n            primarily addressed to her brother-in-law, \n             Frank A. West , she discusses her\n            social and personal activities. The letters contain\n            references to contemporary events and individuals such as:\n            executions taking place near the American Consulate in \n             Hankow , January 30, 1931; the U.S.S.\n            Panay's attempt to pay ransom to secure the release of a\n            kidnap victim, February 27, 1931; \n             Chiang Kai-shek , December 16, 1930;\n            May Day celebrations in \n             Moscow , May 11, 1951; and meeting \n             Andrei Gromyko , November 11 and 18,\n            1951. Her Moscow letters were signed \"jed.\" Letters of interest include several from Mr. and Mrs. \n             Cordell Hull , 1933-1950; \n             Walter Lippman discussing the case of \n             Raoul Wallenberg , December 8, 1947; a\n            thank-you letter from \n             Eleanor Roosevelt , June 13, 1950; \n             Richard E. Byrd regarding his efforts\n            on behalf of the \n             U.S. Antarctic Service , August 21 and\n            December 27, 1941; and President \n             Harry S. Truman 's appointment of\n            Cumming to the personal rank of Minister while serving as\n            deputy chief of mission and counselor of the embassy at \n             Moscow , August 14, 1951; condolence\n            letters, 1948-1949, regarding the death of his father, \n             Hugh S. Cumming, Sr. , and of his\n            mother, \n             Lucy Booth Cumming, 1960 . Correspondence from Cumming's diplomatic service,\n            1926-1964, includes copies of correspondence with the \n             State Department , a report on economic\n            and political situations in Nazi \n             Germany , November 15, 1939, and an\n            incomplete report of an assassination attempt against\n            Liberian President \n             Edwin Barclay which involved the use of\n            medicine men and magic, 1934, as well as several\n            confidential reports and related papers pertaining to his\n            service in \n             Latin America , \n             Europe , and \n             Asia . The subject files, 1934-1984, comprise the largest\n            section of the collection; arranged alphabetically by name\n            or subject, they contain correspondence and related papers\n            pertaining to Cumming's civic and professional activities.\n            These include appointments and efficiency reports, papers\n            regarding members of the \n             Cumming family , the \n             Alibi Club , the \n             John Foster Dulles Oral History Project at\n            Princeton University , \n             Bath County Community Hospital , the \n             National Cathedral Association , the \n             State Department , Diplomatic and\n            Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR) and other similar\n            subjects. Correspondence and files regarding the \n             University of Virginia include the \n             Raven Society , the \n             Hugh S. and Lucy Booth Cumming Memorial\n            Fund , the \n             O.W.L.S. Society , and others. As a\n            consequence, he corresponded with several members of its\n            faculty, students, and staff such as \n             Julius P. Barclay , \n             Edmund Berkeley, Jr. , \n             Colgate W. Darden, Jr. , \n             Ernest H. Ern , \n             Arthur P. Gray III , \n             Frank L. Hereford, Jr. , \n             William H. Runge , \n             B. F. D. Runk , \n             Edgar F. Shannon , and \n             John Cook Wyllie . The photographs, 1918-1961, pertain to: life at the \n             Virginia Military Institute in 1918, \n             U. S. Coast Guard activities in \n             Greenland during 1941; the first\n            commerical flight between \n             Reykjavik, Iceland , and \n             Washington, D.C. Of special interest is\n            a 1923 photograph of Cumming as a park ranger in \n             Mesa Verde National Park , \n             Colorado , and four photographs of \n             Richard M. Nixon during a visit to \n             Indonesia as part of his 1953 Asian\n            tour. Bound volumes, 1777 -1778, 1806, 1820, 1850-1892 and\n            1941, include a scrapbook regarding Sunday School\n            conventions in \n             Albemarle County, Virginia , 1868-1875,\n            a journal containing entries regarding the issuing of\n            military rations, 1777-1778; and a 1866-1868 diary and\n            commonplace book of \n             Diana Whiting Smith Cumming , a school\n            teacher and resident of \n             Hampton, Virginia . Also present is\n            Cumming's diary of his official trip to \n             Greenland during 1941. Other items of interest include: passsports of Hugh and\n            Winifred Cumming, 1922-1947; invitations, a 1909 school\n            report, guest tickets to the \n             1924 Democratic National Convention ;\n            three 1913 visitor passes to public viewing galleries in\n            Congress from \n             Bird McGuire , \n             James P. Clarke , and \n             Claude A. Swanson ; two tape recordings\n            of Cumming interviews, 1954 and 1969; an article by him\n            regarding \n             Liberia , February, 1937; three pages\n            from the New York Daily Tribune, April 23, 1861, with\n            references to the early phase of the Civil War, a 1940\n            Cumming article on the \n             U.S. Antarctic Service ; and a pass for\n            Cumming as an official observer at a nuclear test explosion\n            (\"Diablo\") in \n             Nevada during 1957."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc/\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":[""],"names_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. 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Cumming, Jr.","Hugh Smith","Lucy Booth Cumming","Winifred Burney West","Booth Family","Hugh Smith Cumming, Sr.","Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr.","Rebecca Hicks Booth","Robert Henry Booth","Francis Rebecca Booth","Clara Haxall Thomson Booth","Hugh Smith Cumming","Charles J. Cabaniss","William Cabell Rives","[Jefferson] Davis","E. C. Cabell","HUGH SMITH CUMMING, SR.","Hugh S. Cumming","Lucy Cumming","Hugh S. Cumming, Sr.","Rupert Blue","Virginia","James F. Epes","Clara Booth","Henrietta Wise","Charles J. Hatfield","Herbert Hoover","[Thomas] Parran","Winifred Burney (West)\n            Cumming","Lucy B. Cumming","Edwin G. Booth","HUGH SMITH CUMMING, JR.","Dean Acheson","Joseph W. Alsop","John A. Blatnik","Daniel J. Boorstin","John Stewart Bryan","Harry F. Byrd, Jr.","Richard E. Byrd","Bernard P. Chamerlain","Virginius Dabney","C. Douglas Dillon","Thomas N. Downing","Allen W. Dulles","John Foster Dulles","Homer Ferguson","J. Allen Frear, Jr.","Douglas Southall Freeman","J. William Fulbright","Wilson D. Gillette","Joseph C. Grew","Christian A. Herter","Lou Henry Hoover","Cordell Hull","Herschel V. Johnson","Walter Lippman","Henry Cabot Lodge","John O. Marsh, Jr.","Christopher C. McGrath","David C. Mearns","L. Quincy Mumford","Stanley F. Reed","Eleanor Roosevelt","Elliot Roosevelt","Dean Rusk","Hugh D. Scott, Jr.","John W. Snyder","John Sparkman","Maurice Stans","Edward E. Stettinius, Jr.","Potter Stewart","Robert Taft, Jr.","Edward Thye, Jr.","Harry S. Truman","Edwin Barclay","Chiang Kai-shek","Andrei Gromyko","George Kennan","Hunter Holmes McGuire","Raoul Wallenberg","Frank A. West","Lucy Booth Cumming, 1960","Julius P. Barclay","Edmund Berkeley, Jr.","Colgate W. Darden, Jr.","Ernest H. Ern","Arthur P. Gray III","Frank L. Hereford, Jr.","William H. Runge","B. F. D. Runk","Edgar F. Shannon","John Cook Wyllie","Richard M. Nixon","Diana Whiting Smith Cumming","Bird McGuire","James P. Clarke","Claude A. Swanson","Robert H. Booth","Edwin Gilliam\n                     Booth","Clara Haxell (Thomson)\n                     Booth","Archer Jones\n                     Booth","Frances Rebecca\n                     Booth","Lucy Booth","Hugh Smith\n                     Cumming","Gilliam\n                     Booth","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                     Jr.","Annie Terry","Rebecca Sealy Terry\n                     White","Edwin Gilliam","E. G. Booth","Hugh S. Cumming Sr.","Lucy Booth\n                     Cumming","Hugh S. Cumming,\n                     Jr.","Franklin D. Roosevelt","H. Morganthou, Jr.","Winifred Cumming","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                     Sr.","Bess Furman","Hugh S. Cumming,\n                     Sr.","Hugh Smith\n                        Cumming","Winifred B. Cumming","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                        Jr.","Hugh S. Cumming,\n                        Sr.","Lucy Booth\n                        Cumming","Hugh Smith Cumming,\n                        Sr.","Nell Hayne","Culver Gleysteen","John B. Kendrick, II","Margaret Kendrick","Anthony Lake","Oscar Morland","H. R. Mumford","Marjorie Savage","Birne T. West","Diana Whiting Smith\n                     Cumming","Marion Kemp","[Bob Wilson]"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":222,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-01T02:16:17.771Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cscopecontent\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eScope and Content\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eGENERAL DESCRIPTION\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe \n            \u003cfamname\u003eCumming Family\u003c/famname\u003epapers consist of ca.\n            53,100 items (23 Hollinger boxes, ca. 8 linear shelf feet),\n            1777-1778, 1806 (1820-1977) 1984, including correspondence,\n            financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings,\n            photographs, bound volumes, writings, printed material, and\n            miscellaneous related items pertaining to the life and\n            activities of Dr. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh Smith\u003c/persname\u003eand \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Booth Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e, Sr., and their\n            son, Ambassador \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, (1900-1986), and\n            his wife, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWinifred Burney West\u003c/persname\u003e, as well as other\n            family members. Also present are papers relating to the \n            \u003cpersname\u003eBooth Family\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eDr. Cumming (1869-1948) was Surgeon General of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eU. S. Public Health Service\u003c/corpname\u003efrom 1920\n            to 1936; Ambassador Cumming (1900-) was a career diplomat\n            and served primarily in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eIndonesia\u003c/geogname\u003efrom 1933 until his\n            retirement in 1963.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe majority of the collection is chiefly correspondence\n            dealing with family, professional, and diplomatic matters.\n            In addition, Ambassador Cumming maintained extensive files\n            containing additional correspondence, photographs, reports,\n            memoranda, notes, and other related materials regarding his\n            public and personal activities.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe collection has been divided into three subgroups: I.\n            \u003cfamname\u003eBooth Family\u003c/famname\u003ePapers, II. Papers of Dr.\n            and Mrs. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh Smith Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e, and III.\n            Papers of Ambassador \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh Smith Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003eThere are\n            various series and subseries within each subgroup. A more\n            detailed description of the papers, especially biographical\n            and organizational information, can be found later in this\n            guide, under each subgroup. The descriptions were compiled\n            by Robin D. Wear (Subgroup I), T. Sharon Defibaugh\n            (Subgroup II), and Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. (Subgroup III).\n            This collection contains 6922-b, 6922-d, 6922-e, 6922-f,\n            6922-h, 6922-h, 6922-i, 6922-k, 6922-l, 6922-m, 6922-n,\n            6922-p, 6922-r, 6922-s, 6922-u, 6922-w, 6922-ab, 6922-ac\n            and 6922-ad.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSUBGROUP I BOOTH FAMILY PAPERS\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSCOPE AND CONTENT\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis subgroup of the Cumming Papers pertains chiefly to\n            the \n            \u003cfamname\u003eBooth family\u003c/famname\u003e, and consists of ca. 270\n            items, (Boxes 1 and 2), encompassing the years 1814-1978.\n            Included are correspondence, legal papers, and photographs\n            of the \n            \u003cfamname\u003eBooth family\u003c/famname\u003e; and biographical and\n            genealogical information in the form of correspondence,\n            notes, copies of family documents, and printed material\n            concerning the \n            \u003cfamname\u003eBooth\u003c/famname\u003eand allied families such as \n            \u003cfamname\u003eArmistead\u003c/famname\u003e, \n            \u003cfamname\u003eThomson\u003c/famname\u003e, \n            \u003cfamname\u003eThrockmorton\u003c/famname\u003e, \n            \u003cfamname\u003eGilliam\u003c/famname\u003e, \n            \u003cfamname\u003eRootes\u003c/famname\u003e, \n            \u003cfamname\u003eBernard\u003c/famname\u003e, and \n            \u003cfamname\u003eTerry\u003c/famname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRebecca Hicks Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Henry Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, and the latter's\n            children, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eArcher Jones Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eFrancis Rebecca Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n            \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tanner Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, as well as \n            \u003cpersname\u003eClara Haxall Thomson Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Almira Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh Smith Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eCharles J. Cabaniss\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Cabell Rives\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003e's two older sons\n            fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eArcher Jones Booth\u003c/persname\u003ewrote to his father\n            from \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eClark County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and to his grandmother\n            from a camp near \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eFredericksburg\u003c/geogname\u003ementioning long marches\n            and various campsites. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, wrote to his\n            father from a camp near \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eYorktown\u003c/geogname\u003e(June 5, 1861), discussing\n            camp life, the hardships of warfare, and their hopes that\n            President \n            \u003cpersname\u003e[Jefferson] Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewould send an\n            additional 25,000 men; and, later writes from the C. S.\n            Steamer Selma off \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMobile, Alabama\u003c/geogname\u003e(April 13, 1864)\n            mentioning the occupation of \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eVicksburg\u003c/geogname\u003eby Yankees, the defense of \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003e, and news of Archer's\n            regiment and an anticipated battle.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOther letters of interest include those from \n            \u003cpersname\u003eE. C. Cabell\u003c/persname\u003eto \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(November 22, 1846\n            and November 14, 1847) concerning a controversy between\n            Booth and his brother, Archer, and the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eBank of Florida\u003c/corpname\u003e; two letters from \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Cabell Rives\u003c/persname\u003eto \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth\u003c/persname\u003e(July 5, 1858 and\n            November 24, 1862); and a lengthy letter from \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Gilliam Booth, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003eto his sister,\n            \u003cpersname\u003eFrances Rebecca Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, from \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eParis, France\u003c/geogname\u003e(February 5, 1866).\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/scopecontent\u003e","\u003cscopecontent\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eScope and Content\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSUBGROUP II PAPERS OF DR. AND MRS. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHUGH SMITH CUMMING, SR.\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSCOPE AND CONTENT\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis subgroup of the \n            \u003cfamname\u003eCumming family\u003c/famname\u003epapers includes papers of\n            Dr. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh Smith Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e(1869-1948) and\n            his wife, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Booth Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e(1871-1960), and\n            contains ca. 825 items, (Boxes 3-7, 4 Hollinger boxes, 3.5\n            linear shelf feet), 1897-1956. They consist of\n            correspondence, memoirs, essays, speeches, invitations,\n            printed items, photographs, legal papers, bound volumes,\n            and oversize items.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eCorrespondence forms the largest series of the papers;\n            there are letters of congratulation to Dr. and Mrs. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming\u003c/persname\u003econcerning the birth of\n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e, 1897, and \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, 1900, as well as\n            letters of condolence regarding the death of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Cumming\u003c/persname\u003ein 1898.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eLetters from \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003eto his wife, Lucy,\n            1900-1938, were usually written during his absences from\n            home due to work connected with his appointments to the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Public Health Service\u003c/corpname\u003e(1894-1920)\n            and as Surgeon General (1920-1936); they contain references\n            to his inspection and quarantine duties, departmental\n            gossip, family news, and personal observations about the\n            various places that he visited. Notable topics include: the\n            endorsement of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003ePublic Health and Marine Hospital\n            Service\u003c/corpname\u003eby the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eAmerican Medical Association\u003c/corpname\u003e(July 13,\n            1905); the case of an insane Russian alien (November 12,\n            1911); Lucy's appointment to the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eSanitation Committee\u003c/corpname\u003e(November 15,\n            1912); Surgeon General \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRupert Blue\u003c/persname\u003e's and Cumming's chances of\n            an assignment in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003ePhiladelphia\u003c/geogname\u003e(August 17, 1912), and his\n            \u003cpersname\u003eVirginia\u003c/persname\u003eSurvey and other inspection\n            work along the \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eAtlantic Seaboard\u003c/geogname\u003e, especially of\n            sewage systems and oyster beds (1914-1915). The majority of\n            Dr. Cumming's letters to his wife were written during his\n            service in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003e, 1918-1920, where he visited\n            and inspected ports of embarkation, evacuation points,\n            departing ships, and camps used by the American forces in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003efor evidence of epidemics or\n            disease. He also represented the \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eUnited States\u003c/geogname\u003ein 1919 at the \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eCannes\u003c/geogname\u003econference which organized the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eLeague of Red Cross Societies\u003c/corpname\u003eand\n            headed a medical mission to \n            \u003cgeogname\u003ePoland\u003c/geogname\u003e. Topics in this group include:\n            post-war conditions in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003e(December 20, 1918); \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eAmerican University Union\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003e(December 29, 1918); abominable\n            conditions at the American camp at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eBrest, France\u003c/geogname\u003e(January 9, 1919);\n            effects of shelling on the ruins at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eRheims, France\u003c/geogname\u003e(February 9, 1919);\n            typhoid fever outbreak at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eRotterdam, Netherlands\u003c/geogname\u003e(February 20,\n            1919); \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eRed Cross\u003c/corpname\u003eConference at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eCannes\u003c/geogname\u003e(March 20, 1919); chances for an\n            enduring peace (March 28, 1919); work on a committee on\n            preventive medicine and hygiene and a subcommittee on \n            \u003ccorpname\u003ePublic Health Laboratories\u003c/corpname\u003e(April 3-23,\n            1919); and comments on the high cost of food and its affect\n            upon the morals of civilians in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003e(April 24, 1919). These letters,\n            in general, describe Cumming's itinerary while in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003e, including \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eBelgium\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003ePoland\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eSpain\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eGreece\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eTurkey\u003c/geogname\u003e, his duties of inspection, and\n            the appearance of post-war \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eLetters to \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Booth Cumming\u003c/persname\u003einclude the\n            following topics: a sketch of the life of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eArcher Jones Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, (an uncle of hers)\n            as a Confederate soldier, by \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJames F. Epes\u003c/persname\u003e(November 26, 1903); \n            \u003cfamname\u003eLeake\u003c/famname\u003eand \n            \u003cfamname\u003eHaxall\u003c/famname\u003egenealogy (October 21, 1905); \n            \u003cfamname\u003eThomson\u003c/famname\u003egenealogy (March 29, 1914;\n            [February 9, 1934]; November 15, 1929); \n            \u003cfamname\u003eCabaniss\u003c/famname\u003egenealogy (September 27, 1933)\n            and photographs of celebrities attending the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eLausanne Peace Conference\u003c/corpname\u003e(December 26,\n            1922).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eLucy Cumming also corresponded with her mother, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eClara Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, and sister, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHenrietta Wise\u003c/persname\u003e, while residing in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eYokohama, Japan\u003c/geogname\u003e, (1906), and while\n            visiting her husband in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003ein 1919-1920.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe miscellaneous correspondence of Hugh and Lucy\n            Cumming contains: a copy of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eCharles J. Hatfield\u003c/persname\u003e's comments\n            introducing \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming\u003c/persname\u003eat the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Pennsylvania\u003c/corpname\u003e(October 20,\n            1930); copy of Mrs. Cumming's comments in a prologue to a\n            series of radio broadcasts regarding the health of young\n            people for the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eCommittee on Periodic Health\n            Examinations\u003c/corpname\u003e(January 12, 1932), and a copy of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHerbert Hoover\u003c/persname\u003e's letter of\n            appreciation to Cumming about his work in the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003ePublic Health Service\u003c/corpname\u003e(February 25,\n            1933).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eDr. and Mrs. Cumming's letters to their son, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, generally\n            contain family news and descriptions of trips undertaken in\n            connection with Cumming's work as Surgeon General, with\n            occasional references to Dr. Cumming's viewpoints amd\n            opinions, including the technical meeting of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eCommission on Nutrition\u003c/corpname\u003e(May 24 and 31,\n            1937) and his opinion of his successor, \n            \u003cpersname\u003e[Thomas] Parran\u003c/persname\u003e(May 12, 1939).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe letters of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWinifred Burney (West)\n            Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e(1907-1978) to \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy B. Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e, 1948-1956, furnish a\n            varied picture of the life of the wife of a diplomat and\n            her responsibilities in the work of an embassy. These\n            letters were written while her husband, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, (1900-1986) was\n            stationed in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eSweden\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eRussia\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eIndonesia\u003c/geogname\u003e. Two letters in particular\n            (March 5 and 19, 1951) describe the city of \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMoscow\u003c/geogname\u003e, its living conditions, and the\n            \u003ccorpname\u003eLubianka prison\u003c/corpname\u003e, which was near the\n            Cumming's \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMoscow\u003c/geogname\u003equarters.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis collection also contains the typescript of Dr. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e's personal memoirs,\n            beginning with his birth on August 17, 1869, in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eHampton, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, and ending with his\n            last day at the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003ePan American Sanitary Bureau\u003c/corpname\u003eon\n            February 1, 1947, and Lucy Cumming's memoirs of her\n            childhood in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eNottoway County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOther items of note include two speeches of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \"Toast at Tennis\n            Club\" (N.D.) and \"Address at the opening session of the\n            Septima Conferencia Sanitaria\" (November 1924), and a Power\n            of Attorney re the estate of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy B. Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e's grandfather, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin G. Booth\u003c/persname\u003e, \" \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eBeechwood\u003c/corpname\u003e\" in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eYork County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, (June 19,\n            1919). The collection also contains a diary and date book\n            of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Booth Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e; a pictoral record\n            of the Medical Conference held at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eCannes, France\u003c/geogname\u003e, (April 1-11, 1919) at\n            the invitation of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eCommittee of Red Cross Societies\u003c/corpname\u003e; a\n            scrapbook of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e, containing\n            academic diplomas, official certificates, honorary degrees,\n            appointments, photographs, newsclippings, obituaries, etc.;\n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e's membership certificate\n            in the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUnited Daughters of the Confederacy\u003c/corpname\u003e;\n            and a charcoal-and-chalk profile sketch of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/scopecontent\u003e","\u003cscopecontent\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eScope and Content\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSUBGROUP III PAPERS OF AMBASSADOR \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHUGH SMITH CUMMING, JR.\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSCOPE AND CONTENT\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis subgroup consists of ca. 5,200 items (Boxes 7-23,\n            ca. 4.5 linear shelf feet), 1777-1778, 1806, 1820,\n            1861-1892, 1907 (1931-1977) 1984, correspondence,\n            photographs, financial and legal items, newspaper\n            clippings, tape recordings, bound volumes and miscellaneous\n            items relating to \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, a career\n            diplomat. These papers are chiefly comprised of personal\n            and diplomatic correspondence. Topics of interest in the\n            subgroup include: Cumming's life as a diplomat in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMoscow\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eStockholm\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eParis\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eIndonesia\u003c/geogname\u003e; European economic\n            conditions, 1939-1945; the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003e; American\n            activities in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eIceland\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eGreenland\u003c/geogname\u003ebefore and during World War\n            II; diplomacy, family and personal matters; and\n            involvements in civic and professional organizations.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eAs a diplomat, Cumming corresponded with several\n            prominent contemporaries, especially his fellow diplomats,\n            but the majority of their letters are concerned with\n            routine matters. The correspondence was written in various\n            places: Austria, Belgium, China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Great\n            Britain, Greece, Greenland, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy,\n            Liberia, the Netherlands, Poland, South America, the Soviet\n            Union, Sweden, and Switzerland.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eAmong the noted correspondents are: \n            \u003cpersname\u003eDean Acheson\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph W. Alsop\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn A. Blatnik\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel J. Boorstin\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Stewart Bryan\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHarry F. Byrd, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRichard E. Byrd\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eBernard P. Chamerlain\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eVirginius Dabney\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eC. Douglas Dillon\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eThomas N. Downing\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eAllen W. Dulles\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Foster Dulles\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHomer Ferguson\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJ. Allen Frear, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eDouglas Southall Freeman\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJ. William Fulbright\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWilson D. Gillette\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph C. Grew\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eChristian A. Herter\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLou Henry Hoover\u003c/persname\u003e(Mrs. Herbert Hoover);\n            \u003cpersname\u003eCordell Hull\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHerschel V. Johnson\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWalter Lippman\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Cabot Lodge\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn O. Marsh, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eChristopher C. McGrath\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eDavid C. Mearns\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eL. Quincy Mumford\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eStanley F. Reed\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEleanor Roosevelt\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eElliot Roosevelt\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eDean Rusk\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh D. Scott, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn W. Snyder\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Sparkman\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eMaurice Stans\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdward E. Stettinius, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003ePotter Stewart\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Taft, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Thye, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHarry S. Truman\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eIn addition, there are references to: \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Barclay\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eChiang Kai-shek\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eAndrei Gromyko\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Kennan\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHunter Holmes McGuire\u003c/persname\u003e; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRaoul Wallenberg\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eCumming's correspondence, 1907-1984, relates to his life\n            and career and includes letters from and to his wife, his\n            mother, relatives, friends, and colleagues. There are\n            several letters congratulating him on his marriage to \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWinifred Burney West\u003c/persname\u003e(1907-1978), 1935,\n            as well as her letters to members of her family, 1930-1932\n            and 1951-1952, while she was living in the American\n            Consulate in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eHankow, China\u003c/geogname\u003e, and in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMoscow\u003c/geogname\u003ewhere her husband was counselor\n            to the American Embassy. In these letters, which were\n            primarily addressed to her brother-in-law, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eFrank A. West\u003c/persname\u003e, she discusses her\n            social and personal activities. The letters contain\n            references to contemporary events and individuals such as:\n            executions taking place near the American Consulate in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eHankow\u003c/geogname\u003e, January 30, 1931; the U.S.S.\n            Panay's attempt to pay ransom to secure the release of a\n            kidnap victim, February 27, 1931; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eChiang Kai-shek\u003c/persname\u003e, December 16, 1930;\n            May Day celebrations in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMoscow\u003c/geogname\u003e, May 11, 1951; and meeting \n            \u003cpersname\u003eAndrei Gromyko\u003c/persname\u003e, November 11 and 18,\n            1951. Her Moscow letters were signed \"jed.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eLetters of interest include several from Mr. and Mrs. \n            \u003cpersname\u003eCordell Hull\u003c/persname\u003e, 1933-1950; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWalter Lippman\u003c/persname\u003ediscussing the case of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRaoul Wallenberg\u003c/persname\u003e, December 8, 1947; a\n            thank-you letter from \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEleanor Roosevelt\u003c/persname\u003e, June 13, 1950; \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRichard E. Byrd\u003c/persname\u003eregarding his efforts\n            on behalf of the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Antarctic Service\u003c/corpname\u003e, August 21 and\n            December 27, 1941; and President \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHarry S. Truman\u003c/persname\u003e's appointment of\n            Cumming to the personal rank of Minister while serving as\n            deputy chief of mission and counselor of the embassy at \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eMoscow\u003c/geogname\u003e, August 14, 1951; condolence\n            letters, 1948-1949, regarding the death of his father, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eHugh S. Cumming, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e, and of his\n            mother, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Booth Cumming, 1960\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Cumming's diplomatic service,\n            1926-1964, includes copies of correspondence with the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eState Department\u003c/corpname\u003e, a report on economic\n            and political situations in Nazi \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eGermany\u003c/geogname\u003e, November 15, 1939, and an\n            incomplete report of an assassination attempt against\n            Liberian President \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdwin Barclay\u003c/persname\u003ewhich involved the use of\n            medicine men and magic, 1934, as well as several\n            confidential reports and related papers pertaining to his\n            service in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eLatin America\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eAsia\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe subject files, 1934-1984, comprise the largest\n            section of the collection; arranged alphabetically by name\n            or subject, they contain correspondence and related papers\n            pertaining to Cumming's civic and professional activities.\n            These include appointments and efficiency reports, papers\n            regarding members of the \n            \u003cfamname\u003eCumming family\u003c/famname\u003e, the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eAlibi Club\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eJohn Foster Dulles Oral History Project at\n            Princeton University\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eBath County Community Hospital\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eNational Cathedral Association\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eState Department\u003c/corpname\u003e, Diplomatic and\n            Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR) and other similar\n            subjects.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and files regarding the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003einclude the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eRaven Society\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eHugh S. and Lucy Booth Cumming Memorial\n            Fund\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eO.W.L.S. Society\u003c/corpname\u003e, and others. As a\n            consequence, he corresponded with several members of its\n            faculty, students, and staff such as \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJulius P. Barclay\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdmund Berkeley, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eColgate W. Darden, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eErnest H. Ern\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eArthur P. Gray III\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eFrank L. Hereford, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam H. Runge\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eB. F. D. Runk\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eEdgar F. Shannon\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Cook Wyllie\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe photographs, 1918-1961, pertain to: life at the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Military Institute\u003c/corpname\u003ein 1918, \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eU. S. Coast Guard\u003c/corpname\u003eactivities in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eGreenland\u003c/geogname\u003eduring 1941; the first\n            commerical flight between \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eReykjavik, Iceland\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington, D.C.\u003c/geogname\u003eOf special interest is\n            a 1923 photograph of Cumming as a park ranger in \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eMesa Verde National Park\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eColorado\u003c/geogname\u003e, and four photographs of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eRichard M. Nixon\u003c/persname\u003eduring a visit to \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eIndonesia\u003c/geogname\u003eas part of his 1953 Asian\n            tour.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eBound volumes, 1777 -1778, 1806, 1820, 1850-1892 and\n            1941, include a scrapbook regarding Sunday School\n            conventions in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbemarle County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, 1868-1875,\n            a journal containing entries regarding the issuing of\n            military rations, 1777-1778; and a 1866-1868 diary and\n            commonplace book of \n            \u003cpersname\u003eDiana Whiting Smith Cumming\u003c/persname\u003e, a school\n            teacher and resident of \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eHampton, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. Also present is\n            Cumming's diary of his official trip to \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eGreenland\u003c/geogname\u003eduring 1941.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOther items of interest include: passsports of Hugh and\n            Winifred Cumming, 1922-1947; invitations, a 1909 school\n            report, guest tickets to the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003e1924 Democratic National Convention\u003c/corpname\u003e;\n            three 1913 visitor passes to public viewing galleries in\n            Congress from \n            \u003cpersname\u003eBird McGuire\u003c/persname\u003e, \n            \u003cpersname\u003eJames P. Clarke\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n            \u003cpersname\u003eClaude A. Swanson\u003c/persname\u003e; two tape recordings\n            of Cumming interviews, 1954 and 1969; an article by him\n            regarding \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eLiberia\u003c/geogname\u003e, February, 1937; three pages\n            from the New York Daily Tribune, April 23, 1861, with\n            references to the early phase of the Civil War, a 1940\n            Cumming article on the \n            \u003ccorpname\u003eU.S. Antarctic Service\u003c/corpname\u003e; and a pass for\n            Cumming as an official observer at a nuclear test explosion\n            (\"Diablo\") in \n            \u003cgeogname\u003eNevada\u003c/geogname\u003eduring 1957.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/scopecontent\u003e"]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00113"}},{"id":"viu_viu00115","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Cumming Family Papers \n          1864-1986","creator":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00115#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Hugh Smith Cumming,\n         Jr.","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00115#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eThis addition to the papers of Ambassador Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.(1900-1986) consists of ca. 2,000 items (7 Hollinger boxes, ca. 3 linear feet), 1864-1986, and includes photographs, photograph albums, memorabilia, scrapbooks, slides, certificates, passports, diaries, correspondence, a law course notebook from the University of Virginia, genealogical material, legal papers, printed material, and a memorial album for Winifred B. 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Cumming, Jr. (1900-1986) consists\n         of ca. 2,000 items (7 Hollinger boxes, ca. 3 linear feet),\n         1864-1986, and includes photographs, photograph albums,\n         memorabilia, scrapbooks, slides, certificates, passports,\n         diaries, correspondence, a law course notebook from the \n          University of Virginia , genealogical\n         material, legal papers, printed material, and a memorial album\n         for \n          Winifred B. Cumming (1907-1978).","The collection has been separated into three different\n         types of material: miscellaneous papers, bound volumes, and\n         photographs. The photographs comprise the largest amount of\n         material.","The miscellaneous papers include certificates;\n         correspondence; the \n          Ft. Monroe Coast Artillery School Gunnery\n         Bulletins (1918); genealogical material; gunnery notes and\n         related printed material; the High School Cadet Corps Papers\n         of \n          Hugh Smith Cumming, Jr. ; legal papers; a\n         memorial album for \n          Winifred Burney West Cumming ;\n         memorabilia; a report entitled, \"Owners of `the Grove' from\n         1839-1906 ( \n          Thomas Wynne through Dr. \n          E. G. Booth )\" by \n          Lou Powers ; newsclippings; and papers\n         concerning the \n          Washington Cathedral Association College of Church\n         Musicians .","The correspondence is generally of a personal nature\n         consisting of congratulatory letters upon \n          Hugh Cumming, Jr. 's engagement to \n          Winifred B. West and letters from family\n         and friends. An exception is an electrostatic copy of a letter\n         from \n          George Kennan to \n          Elbridge Durbow , November 10, 1980,\n         discussing their differences of opinion on foreign policy.\n         There is also a folder of correspondence between Cumming and\n         various \n          University of Virginia officials.","Legal papers include \n          Winifred B. Cumming Trust material and\n         copies of the wills of \n          Birne T. West , \n          Winifred B. Cumming , \n          Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , and \n          Edwin G. Booth (photostat).","The bound volumes include several printed works; diaries of\n          Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. , 1913, 1931-1932,\n         1945, and diaries/memorandum books, 1946, 1965-1983, 1985; and\n         a law lecture course notebook.","Photographs, photograph albums, and slides include those\n         from Cumming's service as Ambassador to Indonesia, 1953-1957;\n         photographs of the \n          Cumming and related families; \" \n          Carter's Grove \" and \" \n          Overlook \"; the Cummings in \n          Europe and \n          South America ; European Scenes (1919,\n         1935-1936); Cumming at the \n          Virginia Military Institute ; vacation\n         scenes; and the World War I Era.","Oversize material includes photographs, a map of \n          Tierra del Fuego , and a \n          Virginia Military Institute Memorabilia\n         Scrapbook.","","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","University of Virginia","Ft. 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