Series III: Speeches and addresses; travel diaries

Scope and Contents Note

This series includes copies of the numerous addresses Harbord gave to political and social clubs, such as the American Legion, Union League Club, Women's National Republican Club, the Republican National Committee, the Baltic Society, and the American Asiatic Association. In addition to speaking at dedication services for several war monuments, he gave talks on military topics at the Virginia Military Institute, Army War College, West Point Society, and the Military Intelligence Reserve Society. He also spoke at scientific societies, including Engineering Societies and the American Society of Mechanical Engineering. He received invitations widely to speak on the topic of the role of radio in society, the addresses of which are included here.

Also included are several interesting journals describing Harbord's travels to Russia (1905-1906), Java (1928), and India (1930).

Addresses and articles, 1908, 1920-1924

Offsite-Box: III.1, Folder: 1-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scrapbook, Banquet tendered to General James G. Harbord by the Association of the Army of the United States, 1923 March 20

Offsite-Box: III.1, Folder: 4-5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scrapbook, "Radio's Message to Latin America," an address by General J.G. Harbord, 1927 May 1

Offsite-Box: III.1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Addresses, 1925-1929

Offsite-Box: III.2, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Addresses, 1930

Offsite-Box: III.2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Addresses, 1931

Offsite-Box: III.2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Addresses, 1932

Offsite-Box: III.2, Folder: 5-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Addresses, 1933

Offsite-Box: III.2, Folder: 8-9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Addresses on Radio, 1923-1925

Offsite-Box: III.3, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Addresses on Radio, 1926-1931

Offsite-Box: III.3, Folder: 3-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Addresses on Radio, 1933-1940

Offsite-Box: III.3, Folder: 5-6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Diary, Russia, 1905-1906

Offsite-Box: III.3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents Note

Harbord wrote this diary while on a six-month leave to Russia. Interesting (and copious) details about Russian lifestyles, clothing, food, language, and customs at the turn of the century. He gives a lot of information about travel, by ship and by train.

Diary, Java; Diary, India, 1928; 1930

Offsite-Box: III.3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents Note

Descriptions of the flora and fauna of Java in 1928. This appears to be a pleasure trip that Harbord took on his own. Lots of description of the people, customs, food, clothing, habits of the Java when part of the Dutch East Indies. Also descriptions of India in July 1930, in which he focuses quite a lot of his attention on Indians protesting against Great Britain and boycotting British goods, and supporting Gandi. Also in the folder are several informative letters, one he writes from Manchuria on October 12, 1924.