Each semester, the Vice President organizes a Speaker Series in which distinguished figures in academia, the arts, and professional environments are invited to speak in Jefferson Hall during one of the Society’s Friday-night meetings. This box contains many of the letters sent to invite individuals such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, Kweisi Mfume, Connie Chung, Noam Chomsky, Eric Shinseki, and Barbara Bush to participate in the Speaker Series.
Title | # of items | Type | Date | Notes on condition |
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Al Groh Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | Ink bled |
Roger W Ferguson Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | Ink bled |
Jim Gilmore Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | Includes envelope |
Jesse L. Jackson Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | |
Coretta Scott King Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | Ink bled |
Jeffrey Koplan Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | |
Norman Mailer Letter | 1 | Typed with handwriting on them | 2001 | Wrote in Sharpie |
David McCullough Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | |
Jim Lehrer Letter | 2 | Typed | 2001 | |
Gary Lewis Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | |
Charles Lewis Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | Ink bled |
Peter Low | 1 | Typed | 2001 | |
Melvyn Leffler Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | |
Trent Lott Letter | 2 | Typed | 2001 | Includes envelope |
Richard Myers Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | |
Mrs. Carter Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | Ink bled |
Secretary Norton Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | |
Richard Neustadt Letter | 1 | Handwritten | 2001 | |
Harold Bloom Letter | 2 | Handwritten | 2001 | |
Antonin Scalia Letter | 2 | Typed | 2001 | Includes envelope |
Henry Shelton Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | Ink bled |
Eric Shinseki Letter | 2 | Typed | 2001 | Includes envelope |
Davit Satcher Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | Ink bled |
R.E. Turner Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | Ink bled |
Tommy Thompson Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | |
Tom Wolfe Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | |
Anthony Williams Letter | 2 | Typed | 2001 | Includes envelope |
William Renquist Letter | 2 | Typed | 2001 | Includes envelope |
Terence Ross Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | Ink bled |
UN Deputy Secretary-General Letter | 1 | Typed | 2001 | |
Kweisi Mfume Letters | 4 | Typed | 2001, 2002 | Includes envelope |
Undelivered Speaker Invitations | 15 | Typed with handwriting on them | 2002 | Some torn |
Ambassador Ayalon Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Heber Jentzsch Letter | 3 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Dominick Dunne Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Paul Wellstone Letter | 3 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Carly Fiorina Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Jeff Immelt Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope, ink bled |
Connie Chung Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Henry Nyde Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Ronald Dworkin Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Michael Eisner Letter | 4 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelopes |
British Ambassador Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Rupert Murdoch Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
James Rogan Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Kenneth D. Lewis Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
J.W. Marriott, Jr. Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
House of Lords Letter | 2 | Handwritten | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Burton Malkiel Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Ambassador Kergin Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope, ink bled |
William Keeler Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope, ink bled |
Patricia Russo Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Sumner Redstone Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope, torn |
John Makinson Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Asa Hutchinson Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
John F. McManus Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope, ink bled |
Howell Raines Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Rod Paige Letter | 3 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Colin Powell Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Sargent Shriver Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Mel Martinez | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Leon Kass Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Samuel Huntington Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Drew Faust Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope, ink bled |
Cornel West Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Barry Knestout Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Gabriel Montalvo Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope, ink bled |
Gregory Mustaciuolo Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Avery Cardinal Dulles Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope, ink bled |
Renato Martino Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
William Buckley Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Gail Paster Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Carlson Gerdau Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Virgil Goode Jr. Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Amo Houghton Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Shirley Tilghman Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
William Harrison Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
US Securities and Exchange Commission Letter | 1 | Typed | 2002 | In envelope, taped shut |
Barry S. Friedberg Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Tim Russert Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
David Remnick Letter | 2 | Typed | 2002 | Includes envelope |
Mr. Wolfenshon Letters | 6 | Typed with handwriting on them | 2002 | Includes envelopes |
Coy Barefoot Letter | 1 | Typed | 2002 | |
John McIntyre Letter | 1 | Typed | 2002 | Ink bled |
Roger Mahony Letter | 1 | Typed | 2002 | Ink bled |
Bob Clark Letter | 1 | Typed | 2002 | |
Noam Chomsky Letter | 1 | Typed | 2002 | |
Esther Canja Letter | 1 | Typed | 2002 | |
John Galbraith Letter | 1 | Typed | 2002 | |
Henry Carrico Letter | 1 | Typed | 2002 | Ink bled |
Jeb Bush Letter | 1 | Typed | 2002 | |
Barbara Bush Letter | 1 | Typed with handwriting on them | 2002 |