Dr. Robert A. Brooks and William Blackie, Caterpillar director,
standing with the first Caterpillar diesel engine which
was given to the National Museum of History and Technology,
now the National Museum of American History.
Series 1. PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1948-1976, AND UNDATED. ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY.
Series 2. DALHOUSIE CASTLE SCHOOL, 1926-1935, 1960.
Series 3. ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL, 1933-1944.
Series 4. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 1936-1976.
Series 5. PAPERS RELATING TO MILITARY SERVICE, 1942-1956.
Series 6. HARBRIDGE HOUSE, INC., 1951-1975.
Series 7. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE ARMY FOR INSTALLATIONS AND LOGISTICS, 1965-1971.
Series 8. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1971-1976.
Series 9. MEMBERSHIPS.
Series 10. DRAMA PRODUCTIONS, ARTICLES, SPEECHES, AND POETRY.
Series 11. MISCELLANY.
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Dr. Robert A. Brooks and William Blackie, Caterpillar director, standing with the first Caterpillar diesel engine which was given to the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History. |
This collection division consists primarily of incoming personal correspondence. Included are letters from Robert A. Brooks's family, McGeorge Bundy, Army Secretary Stanley R. Resor, Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, and General W. C. Westmoreland. The correspondence is fairly ephemeral. Many of the letters express admiration for Brooks's poetry or concern during his illness. Box 1 of 13
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
SERIES 1.
PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1948-1976, AND UNDATED. ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY.
| Folder | 1 | A, general | |
| Folder | 2 | B, general | |
| Folder | 3 | Baker, Charles D., 1968, 1976 | |
| Folder | 4 | Becker, Eugene M., 1969, 1971, Assistant Secretary of the Army | |
| Folder | 5 | Brooks, Alison, 1975 | |
| Folder | 6 | Brooks, Camilla, undated | |
| Folder | 7 | Brooks, Mabel, 1975, undated | |
| Folder | 8 | Brooks, Milton, 1960-1961 | |
| Folder | 9 | Brooks, Robert A. and Jane, Christmas letter, 1969 | |
| Folder | 10 | Brooks, Roger, undated | |
| Folder | 11 | Bundy, McGeorge, 1969 | |
| Folder | 12 | C-D, general | |
| Folder | 13 | Cook, Coleman P., 1965, 1969 | |
| Folder | 14 | F-H, general | |
| Folder | 15 | K, general | |
| Folder | 16 | Keller, John W., M.D., 1970. Concerns health of Robert A. Brooks. | |
| Folder | 17 | Kennedy, George, 1969-1973 | |
| Folder | 18 | L, general | |
| Folder | 19 | M, general | |
| Folder | 20 | McNamara, Margaret (Mrs. Robert S.), undated | |
| Folder | 21 | P-R, general | |
| Folder | 22 | Resor, Stanley R., 1970 | |
| Folder | 23 | Ripley, S. Dillon, 1976. Written just before Brooks's death. | |
| Folder | 24 | S, general | |
| Folder | 25 | Sanyour, Michael, 1969-1970 | |
| Folder | 26 | T-Z, general | |
| Folder | 27 | Westmoreland, General W. C., 1969 | |
| Folder | 28 | Unidentified correspondence, 1965-1976, undated |
This collection division includes correspondence between Dalhousie and Robert Brooks's parents, Milton and Mabel; two letters from Robert's father concerning his conduct and responsibilities as a young man; receipts and bills; Brooks's grades and papers; several editions of the school publication, the Dalhousie Chronicle; and a brief diary kept by Brooks during the spring 1934 school semester.
Box 1 of 13
| Folder | 29 | Dalhousie correspondence with Milton and Mabel Brooks, 1929-1935, 1960 | |
| Folder | 30 | Correspondence, Milton Brooks to Robert A. Brooks, 1926-1933 | |
| Folder | 31 | Dalhousie receipts and bills, 1928-1935, and undated | |
| Folder | 32 | Dalhousie school papers and reports, 1928-1934 | |
| Folder | 33 | Dalhousie Chronicle, 1934-1935 | |
| Folder | 34 | Robert A. Brooks diary, 1934, and miscellany |
This collection division consists of grade reports, letters to Milton Brooks concerning Robert's performance, newspaper clippings, programs, and other memorabilia. Also included are several editions of the Roxbury Latin School Tripod.
Box 2 of 13
| Folder | 1 | Roxbury Latin School grades, papers and memorabilia, 1933-1937, 1944, and undated | |
| Folder | 2 | Roxbury Latin School Tripod, 1934-1942 |
This collection division documents Robert A. Brooks's years in attendance and in association with Harvard. Included are papers relating to Brooks's admission, general guides and reports for Harvard students, and Brooks's grades and awards while at Harvard. Brooks also kept many of his exams and lecture notes from his classes in Greek, Latin, geography, history, etc., and programs, certificates and diplomas for academic and extracurricular activities, including diplomas for drama and acting. The collection contains records relating to Brooks's graduate studies and junior fellowship at Harvard; his fellowship with the American Academy in Rome during the 1940s; his employment as a professor of classics, and job opportunities refused from other universities in the late 1940s and early 1950s; his place on the Harvard Board of Overseers Committee to Visit the Department of Astronomy in the 1970s; and his doctoral thesis, "Ennius and Roman Tragedy."
Box 2 of 13
| Folder | 3 | Harvard admission papers and exam, 1936 | |
| Folder | 4 | Harvard registers, guides and reports, 1936-1943 | |
| Folder | 5 | Harvard financial records, 1936-1943 | |
| Folder | 6 | Harvard grade reports and awards, 1937-1940 | |
| Folder | 7 | Robert A. Brooks graded papers, Harvard, 1936-1940 | |
| Folder | 8 | Robert A. Brooks exams and papers, Harvard Greek |
Box 3 of 13
| Folder | 1 | Robert A. Brooks exams and papers, Harvard French, history and Latin | |
| Folder | 2 | Harvard examination papers and Graduate Record Exam | |
| Folder | 3 | Harvard geography lecture notes | |
| Folder | 4 | Harvard Greek lecture notes | |
| Folder | 5 | Harvard Greek lecture notes and papers | |
| Folder | 6 | Harvard Greek lecture notebook |
Box 4 of 13
| Folder | 1 | Harvard history lecture notebook | |
| Folder | 2 | Harvard Latin lecture notes | |
| Folder | 3 | Harvard Latin lecture notebook | |
| Folder | 4 | Harvard philosophy lecture notes | |
| Folder | 5 | Harvard lecture notes, miscellaneous |
Box 5 of 13
| Folder | 1 | Harvard programs, certificates, memorabilia | |
| Folder | 2 | American Academy in Rome, application for scholarship and correspondence, 1940-1944, 1947, 1972, 1975 | |
| Folder | 3 | Harvard graduate school and employment, 1940-1951 | |
| Folder | 4 | University employment offers, 1948-1958 | |
| Folder | 5 | Harvard Board of Overseers, Committee to Visit the Department of Astronomy, 1973-1976 | |
| Folder | 6 | Harvard doctoral thesis, 1949 |
This collection division outlines Robert A. Brooks's service in the Army Air Force. It contains several training manuals, handbooks, and intelligence school notes kept by Brooks. Most of the documents included are official papers and special orders relating to Brooks's duties and personal effects, and follow his career during the war, and in the Reserve Corps after the war. The collection also contains newspaper clippings, souvenir publications, and other memorabilia, including certificates of gratitude (one from President Harry Truman), an officer's candidate school year book, and a farewell publication for the Seventh Air Force.
Box 6 of 13
| Folder | 1 | Army training manuals | |
| Folder | 2 | Army Air Force Intelligence School handbooks and manuals | |
| Folder | 3 | Army Air Force Intelligence School notes, 1943 | |
| Folder | 4 | Air intelligence photographs |
Box 7 of 13
| Folder | 1 | Maps, Pacific Theater of Operations | |
| Folder | 2 | Photo intelligence manuals | |
| Folder | 3 | Photo intelligence report | |
| Folder | 4 | Medical papers | |
| Folder | 5 | Memorandum receipts | |
| Folder | 6 | Pay vouchers and allotments of pay, 1943-1945 | |
| Folder | 7 | Personal and legal affairs, 1943-1946, 1956 | |
| Folder | 8 | Special orders--leave | |
| Folder | 9 | Special orders--promotion | |
| Folder | 10 | Special orders--transfers |
Box 8 of 13
| Folder | 1 | Discharge and separation papers | |
| Folder | 2 | Letters, commendations, certificates and diplomas | |
| Folder | 3 | Air Force Officers' Reserve Corps, 1946-1953, undated | |
| Folder | 4 | Souvenir war publications | |
| Folder | 5 | Newspaper clippings | |
| Folder | 6 | Air Force memorabilia | |
| Folder | 7 | Officer candidate school yearbook |
This collection division documents Robert A. Brooks's involvement as an employee and a stockholder in Harbridge House, Inc. Records in this collection include business letters, interoffice memoranda, board of directors' meeting agendas and notes, and stockholders' reports. Also included are Brooks's personal holdings and transactions with the company, memorabilia, and awards received.
Box 9 of 13
| Folder | 1 | Harbridge House, Inc. Includes letters, interoffice memoranda, board of directors meetings and notes, 1962, 1969-1972. | |
| Folder | 2 | Harbridge House profit sharing trust | |
| Folder | 3 | Harbridge House, Inc. Includes general financial and miscellaneous articles. | |
| Folder | 4 | Harbridge House, Inc. Includes stockholders' reports, 1970-1974. | |
| Folder | 5 | Harbridge House personal stock, 1967-1975 | |
| Folder | 6 | Harbridge House, Inc. Includes personal and financial records, 1970-1972. | |
| Folder | 7 | Harbridge House, Inc. Includes newspaper clippings and awards and memorabilia. |
This collection division consists of papers relating to Robert A. Brooks's service as Assistant Secretary of the Army. Several items of special interest are contained in the Smithsonian collection: the White House press release announcing Brooks's appointment; the invitation and procedures for Robert F. Kennedy's graveside memorial services; itineraries for Brooks's official visits to Southeast Asia, Hawaii, and the West Coast; Brooks's letter of resignation; a reflective letter written by Brooks on the mistakes made in Vietnam and the United States during his term in office; clippings and articles saved by Brooks; and an exit questionnaire about his service in the Johnson administration.
Box 9 of 13
| Folder | 8 | Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Logistics, undated, 1965-1968 | |
| Folder | 9 | Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Logistics, 1969, 1971 | |
| Folder | 10 | Hearings before the special subcommittee on the M-16 rifle program, 1967 |
Box 10 of 13
| Folder | 1 | Newspaper clippings and articles, 1965-1970, and undated | |
| Folder | 2 | Memorabilia, programs and photographs as Assistant Secretary of the Army, 1965-1970, and undated. See also description of oversize material (listed after box 13) for related items. | |
| Folder | 3 | Evaluation of term as presidential appointee | |
| Folder | 4 | Lyndon Baines Johnson Library contribution |
This collection division consists primarily of incoming and outgoing records, letters and memoranda, including proposals for a museum of man, and a zoo restaurant. Also included are Brooks's editing and publishing notes, and other memorabilia.
Box 10 of 13
| Folder | 5 | Smithsonian Institution reports, letters and memoranda, 1972-1975, and undated | |
| Folder | 6 | Smithsonian Institution reports, letters and memoranda, 1976 | |
| Folder | 7 | Smithsonian Institution editing and publication notes | |
| Folder | 8 | Smithsonian Institution articles, clippings and programs |
This collection division concerns Robert A. Brooks's membership in both political committees and informal clubs. Brooks served on President Nixon's Advisory Council for Minority Business Enterprise from 1969 to 1971. These papers consist of memoranda and publications relating to the committee's activities and findings. Brooks also served as a consultant for the Commission on Government Procurement, and included in his papers is the 1972 Congressional report from the commission. Other papers concern the Council for a Livable World, the Northeast Electronics Research and Engineering Meeting of 1969, the Washington, D.C., Cosmos Club, the Harvard Club of Boston, the American Philological Association, the Saint Andrews Society of Washington, D.C., and the Savin Hill Yacht Club.
Box 10 of 13
| Folder | 9 | Memberships--Advisory Council for Minority Enterprise, 1969-1971 | |
| Folder | 10 | Memberships--Commission on Government Procurement | |
| Folder | 11 | Memberships--Cosmos Club |
Box 11 of 13
| Folder | 1 | Memberships--Council for a Livable World | |
| Folder | 2 | Memberships--Harvard Club of Boston | |
| Folder | 3 | Memberships--Northeast Electronics Research and Engineering Meeting, 1969 | |
| Folder | 4 | Memberships--miscellaneous |
This collection division contains notes, letters and programs relating to speeches, articles, plays and performances given, or participated in, by Robert A. Brooks. Included are staging plans for a Christmas play directed by Brooks, and articles and speeches on new company survival and the military-industrial complex. A significant part of this collection contains poetry written and translated by Brooks. Of special interest are an essay on Virgil, translations of Erich Kastner, and a poem probably written shortly before his death.
Box 11 of 13
| Folder | 5 | Productions and plays participated in and directed by Robert A. Brooks | |
| Folder | 6 | Articles and speeches, copies, notes and letters | |
| Folder | 7 | Virgil: A Collection of Critical Essays, containing R.A. Brooks essay | |
| Folder | 8 | Poetry by Robert A. Brooks | |
| Folder | 9 | Unedited collection of poems by Robert A. Brooks | |
| Folder | 10 | Reviews of Robert A. Brooks poetry and performances | |
| Folder | 11 | Robert A. Brooks poetry translations |
Box 12 of 13
| Folder | 1 | Robert A. Brooks translations of Erich Kastner poetry | |
| Folder | 2 | Poetry Society of Georgia | |
| Folder | 3 | Robert A. Brooks notes on Byron |
This collection division contains various items concerning Robert A. Brooks's finances and travels. Of note are Brooks's resumes and a "Who's Who" biography, his employment inquiries and refusals before he accepted the Smithsonian position, his obituaries and several memorial tributes, and papers from his father's company in India, circa 1933.
Box 12 of 13
| Folder | 4 | Personal and financial records, 1953, 1966-1970, 1974 | |
| Folder | 5 | Automobile ownership, maintenance papers and receipts | |
| Folder | 6 | Travel papers and receipts | |
| Folder | 7 | Skisearch, Inc. | |
| Folder | 8 | The Brooks School | |
| Folder | 9 | Robert A. Brooks resume and recommendations, and Standard Form 171 | |
| Folder | 10 | Employment searches and refusals, 1970-1971 | |
| Folder | 11 | Independent council - Tufts-New England Medical Center, 1971 | |
| Folder | 12 | Obituaries and memorials | |
| Folder | 13 | Milton Brooks letters of recommendation and personnel affairs, The Angus Company, Ltd., Calcutta, 1933 |
Box 13 of 13
| Folder | 1 | Stamp collection | |
| Folder | 2 | Miscellaneous clippings, notes, memorabilia | |
| Folder | 3 | Portrait of Robert A. Brooks | |
| Folder | 4 | Certificate of Appointment to Advisory Council for Minority Enterprise |
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