Collection inventory

Overview of the Collection
Creator:	Sherrod, Robert Lee, 1909-1994.
Title:	Robert Lee Sherrod Papers
Inclusive Dates:	1910-1963
Quantity:	25.0 linear ft.
Abstract:	Papers of the American journalist, editor, war correspondent. Correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1926-1963); typescript manuscripts for articles, books, interviews, press copy, radio scripts, and speeches; notebooks (1935-1950); photographs (1910-1963); scrapbooks; and printed material. Notable correspondents include James Agee, Claude Auchinleck, Hanson Baldwin, Omar Bradley, James F. Byrnes, Mark W. Clark, James Forrestal, Ford C. Frick, Martha Gellhorn, Raymond Henle, John F. Kennedy, Henry Luce, Joseph W. Martin, Mary Margaret McBride, William C. Menninger, Carl Mydans, Richard L. Neuberger, Chester W. Nimitz, Roger Pineau, Arthur W. Radford, Sam Rayburn, Haru M. Reischauer, James Roosevelt, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Eric Sevareid, David M. Shoup, Holland M. Smith, Time, Inc., Harry S. Truman, Frank W. Wead, and Walter Winchell.
Language:	Majority in English, a few items in Japanese and French
Repository:	Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center

Biographical History

Robert Lee Sherrod (1909-1994) was an American war correspondent, editor, and author. Born on February 8, 1909 in Thomas County, Georgia, he graduated from the University of Georgia in 1929 and began his newspaper career (1929-1935) as a reporter for various newspapers in the south. From 1935-1952, he served with Time and Life magazines as their Washington correspondent, associate editor and War and Far East Correspondent. From 1952-1966, he worked for the Saturday Evening Post as magazine editor, editor and editor-at-large. In 1965, he also took on the responsibilities of editorial coordinator for the Curtis Publishing Company and was named its vice-president in 1965.

Sherrod covered several battles during World War II, and went ashore with the U.S. Marines at the Battle of Tarawa, an experience narrated in his book Tarawa: the story of a Battle (1944). The U. S. Navy Department commended Mr. Sherrod at the Battle of Attu and at the Battle of Tarawa in 1943. In 1944, he was the recipient of the Headlines Club award for war reporting. He also received the Benjamin Franklin award in 1954, and the Overseas Press Club Certificate in 1955.

Sherrod's other books include On to Westward: the Battles of Saipan and Iwo Jima (1945), and History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II (1952). He co-authored the text for Life's Picture History of World War II (1950) and Kobonshi's Picture History of the Pacific War in Japanese.

Sherrod's first wife, Elizabeth Hudson, whom he married in 1936, died in 1958, leaving two children, John and Robert Lee. In 1961 Mr. Sherrod married Margaret C. Ruff; after their divorce in 1972 he married Mary Gay Labrot Leonhardt, who died in 1978.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Robert Lee Sherrod Papers include biographical material, correspondence, manuscripts, cabled press dispatches, photographs, notebooks, scrapbooks, published material and letters in a frame.

Correspondence comprises both incoming and outgoing correspondence. Subject files include published material, manuscripts, and correspondence. Cables consists of cabled press dispatches written or edited by Mr. Sherrod. Notebooks contain Sherrod's own handwritten notes. Subjects of Photographs include the Aleutian Islands, Attu, Iwo Jima, and Tarawa as well as family, friends, and Sherrod himself. Scrapbooks on various time periods and topics include published material, photographs, and letters. Manuscripts includes manuscripts of articles, books, book reviews, press copy, drawings, radio scripts, interviews, and speeches. Published material contains articles, books, magazine and newspaper clippings, press releases, and other printed items.

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Arrangement of the Collection

Correspondence and subject files are arranged alphabetically. Cables, notebooks, and scrapbooks are arranged chronologically. Manuscripts and published material are arranged alphabetically by type and within that by title.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.

Use Restrictions

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

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Related Material

Several of the notebooks in the original collection were returned to the donor in 1973. These are noted in the inventory below.

A few published books have been transferred to Rare Books for separate cataloging, as noted in the inventory below. Please refer to Libraries Search to locate these items.

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Subject Headings

Persons

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

Genres and Forms

Occupations

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Robert Lee Sherrod Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Gift of Robert L. Sherrod, 1966.

Finding Aid Information

Created by: --
Date: Jan 1967
Revision history: 10 Jul 2008 - converted to EAD (MRC); 23 Nov 2011 - noted returned journals (MRC); 31 May 2016 - inventory checked, some items rehoused, prepped for SULF (MS/MRC)

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Inventory

	Correspondence
		Incoming
Box 1			A
Box 1			Agee, James
Box 1			Alexander, Roy
Box 1			Alpha Tau Omega
Box 1			Auchinleck, Claude
Box 1			Aulick, June
Box 1			B
Box 1			Baldwin, Hanson
Box 1			Belknap, Walter K.
Box 1			Billingsley, Sherman
Box 1			Block, Herb
Box 1			Board of Education, Thomasville, Georgia
Box 1			Boutell, C. B.
Box 1			Bradley, Omar N.
Box 1			Buckley, William E.
Box 1			Bush, James D., Jr.
Box 1			Byrnes, James F.
Box 1			C
Box 2			Canadian Academy
Box 2			Cates, Clifton
Box 2			Childs, Marquis
Box 2			Clark, Mark W.
Box 2			Collins, J. Lawton
Box 2			Cornell University
Box 2			D
Box 2			Duell, Sloane and Pearce, Inc. 1943-1955 (2 folders)
Box 2			E
Box 2			Estes, Mrs. Charles T.
Box 2			F
Box 2			Fischer, Marion
Box 2			Forrestal, James
Box 2			Fortune
Box 2			Frick, Ford
Box 2			Foreign Service of the U. S. A.
Box 2			G
Box 3			Gellhorn, Martha
Box 3			Georgia, University of
Box 3			Gray, William P.
Box 3			Gruenther, Alfred M.
Box 3			H
Box 3			Hackney, James
Box 3			[Lord] Halifax
Box 3			Hall, Benn
Box 3			Hamilton, Thomas, Jr.
Box 3			Haverford School
Box 3			Henle, Ray
Box 3			Hill School
Box 3			Howard, Alan
Box 3			Hulburd, David
Box 3			I
Box 3			Imperial War Museum
Box 3			J
Box 3			Jannell, Anne
Box 3			K
Box 3			Kennedy, Edward M.
Box 3			Kennedy, John F.
Oversize 2			Kennedy, John F. - 2 letters, framed
Box 3			Kennedy, Robert F.
Box 4			L
Box 4			Lambs Servicemen's Morale Corps
Box 4			Landon School
Box 4			Life
Box 4			Luce, Henry and Clare Booth
Box 4			Lyons, Leonard
Box 4			M - Me
Box 4			Mi
Box 4			Marin, Munoz
Box 4			The Marine Corps Gazette
Box 4			A. N. Marquis Company
Box 4			Martin, Joseph W., Jr.
Box 4			Matthews, Francis P.
Box 4			Matthews, T. S.
Box 4			McBride, Mary Margaret
Box 4			Menninger, William C., M.D.
Box 4			Merwin, Davis
Box 4			Monahan, James
Box 4			Mountbatten
Box 4			Mydans, Carl and Shelley
Box 4			N
Box 4			N. S. Bienstock
Box 4			Nakano, Goro
Box 5			Neuberger, Richard L.
Box 5			N. Y. Herald Tribune
Box 5			Nimitz, Admiral C. W.
Box 5			O
Box 5			O'Connor, Mr. and Mrs. Basil
Box 5			P
Box 5			Parker, Mr. and Mrs. David B.
Box 5			Pineau, Roger 1951-1958 (2 folders)
Box 5			Provine, Christine
Box 5			Q
Box 5			R
Box 5			Radford, A. W.
Box 5			Rayburn, Sam
Box 5			The Reader's Digest
Box 6			Readers ( Saturday Evening Post)
Box 6			Red Cross
Box 6			Reischauer, Haru Matsukata
Box 6			Remedial Education Center
Box 6			Roosevelt, James
Box 6			Rosenthal, Dr. Harold
Box 6			S - Sn
Box 6			So
Box 6			Saint Albans
Box 6			Sandoz, Inc.
Box 6			Sanford Preparatory School
Box 6			Saturday Evening Post
Box 6			Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
Box 6			Servicemen's families - letters from
Box 6			Sevareid, Eric
Box 6			Shepherd, Lemuel C., Jr.
Box 7			Sherrod, Mrs. Elizabeth Hudson
Box 7			Sherrod, John
Box 7			Sherrod, Joseph A.
Box 7			Sherrod, Mrs. Joseph A.
Box 7			Sherrod, Joseph Jr.
Box 7			Sherrod, Leone
Box 7			Sherrod, Louise
Box 7			Sherrod, Olin Jay
Box 7			Sherrod, Robert Jr.
Box 7			Sherrod, Robert E.
Box 7			Shoup, David M.
Box 7			Smith, Edna Loftus
Box 7			Smith, Holland M.
Box 7			Sobol, Lewis
Box 7			T
Box 8			Tartar, Jerome
Box 8			Tarawa fan mail
Box 8			Time, Inc. 1931-1950 (3 folders)
Box 9			Time, Inc. 1951-1953, undated (2 folders)
Box 9			Correspondence books 1945-1947 - incoming and outgoing, Time
Box 10			Correspondence books 1947-1948 - incoming and outgoing, Time
Box 10			Treasury Department
Box 10			Truman, Harry S.
Box 10			Turner, Gorden B.
Box 10			U
Box 10			United Press Associations
Box 10			U. S. Army
Box 10			U. S. Marine Corps
Box 10			U. S. Navy
Box 10			U. S. Naval Institute
Box 10			V
Box 10			W
Box 10			W. C. and A. N. Miller
Box 10			War Department
Box 11			Wead, Frank
Box 11			Wilson, Earl
Box 11			Winchell, Walter
Box 11			Worley, Eugene
Box 11			W. Colton Leigh, Inc.
Box 11			XYZ
Box 11			Telegrams A-Z Unidentifiable
Box 11			Not identified
		Outgoing
Box 11			[General] 1926-1942 (4 folders)
Box 12			[General] 1943-1944 (3 folders)
Box 12			Saipan controversy 1944-1945
Box 12			[General] 1945-1949 (4 folders)
Box 13			[General] 1950-1956 (8 folders)
Box 14			[General] 1957-1958 (12 folders)
Box 14			[General] 1959, Jan-Mar (3 folders)
Box 15			[General] 1959 Apr-Dec (9 folders)
Box 15			[General] 1960 Jan-Apr (4 folders)
Box 16			[General] 1960 May-Dec (8 folders)
Box 16			[General] 1961 Jan-Jun (6 folders)
Box 17			[General] 1961 Jul-Dec (6 folders)
Box 17			[General] 1962-1963 (4 folders)
Box 17			Telegrams 1942-1958, undated
Box 18			[General] Undated
		Correspondence of others, Sherrod family
Box 18			Mrs. Elizabeth Hudson
Box 18			John Sherrod
Box 18			Mrs. Margaret Carson
Box 18			Robert Sherrod, Jr.

	Subject files
Box 19		Alaska-Attu 1943
Box 19		Applications
Box 19		Artifacts - includes a Japanese soldier's senninbari or "One Thousand Stitch Belt"
Box 19		Australia 1941-1942 (2 folders)
Box 19		Awards and certificates
Box 19		B-36 controversy 1949 (2 folders)
Box 20		Biographies
Box 20		Calling cards, tickets, time tables, menus
Box 20		China
Box 20		Citations
Box 20		Dutch East Indies 1946
		Financial
Box 20			Banks 1925-1953
Box 20			Bills and receipts, Europe 1951
Box 20			Bills and receipts, hotel 1930-1949
Box 21			Bills and receipts, miscellaneous 1932-1953
Box 21			Earnings 1941-1951
Box 21			Expense accounts 1936-1957
Box 21			Insurance
Box 21			Saturday Evening Post 1954
		Financial and legal
Box 21			Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1943-1954
Box 21			Kobun-sha 1952-1956
Box 21		Fortune articles 1935-1936
Box 21		Galley proofs for Tarawa 1944
Box 21		Hardbooks 1928-1950
Box 22		Hawaii 1944
Box 22		History of Marine Corps Aviation 1952-1954
Box 22		Identification cards 1936-1951
Box 22		Income taxes 1937-1957 (2 folders)
Box 22		India 1946
Box 22		Iwo Jima 1945
Box 22		Korea 1951-1953
Box 22		Lattimore Owen 1938-1952
Box 22		Legal documents 1942-1951
Box 22		Life's Picture History of World War II 1950-1963
		Lists
Box 23			Books, courses, places, words 1927-1940
Box 23			Directories 1925-1929, 1934
Box 23			Graves
Box 23			Inventories
Box 23			Persons, civilian 1940-1959
Box 23			Persons, military 1943-1952
Box 23			Maps
Box 23		Medical record, family 1942-1959
Box 24		Memos (mimeograph), Armed Forces 1942, 1954
Box 24		New Guinea 1942
Box 24		Notes
Box 24		Notes from secretary 1944, 1962
Box 24		Notes to secretary
Box 24		Okinawa 1945
Box 24		Operation Crossroads, Bikini [Atoll] 1946
Box 24		Organizations
Box 24		Organization charts
Box 24		Passports
Box 24		Programs 1926, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1936, 1938, 1939
Box 25		Programs 1941, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1950-1955, 1957, 1959, undated
Box 25		Propaganda, World War II
Box 25		Research Material "Op. 23" 1949 (2 folders)
Box 25		Round the World Story 1945
		Saipan controversy
			See Manuscripts: Articles: Saipan Controversy and Manuscripts: Notes: Saipan Controversy
			Action report 1944
				Returned to donor, 1973
			Manuscripts
				Returned to donor, 1973
			Proceedings of a Board of Officers
				Returned to donor, 1973
			Published material
				Returned to donor, 1973
		Sherrod family
Box 26			Elizabeth Sherrod
Box 26			John Sherrod 1938, 1942, 1946-1961 (2 folders)
Box 26			Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Sherrod
Box 26			Robert Sherrod, Jr. 1939-1956 (2 folders)
Box 27			Robert Sherrod, Jr. 1957-1959
Box 27		Statistics
Box 27		Tarawa 1943, 1953
Box 27		Tarawa, pre and post 1943
Box 27		Tarawa: The Story of a Battle
Box 27		Time magazine 1940-1962
Box 27		[J. Walter] Thompson Co.
Box 27		Travel authorizations 1943-1945, 1949
Box 28		U. S. budget 1950-1953
Box 28		U.S. Marine Corps
Box 28		U.S. Naval Ships
Box 28		U.S. Navy 1944, 1945, 1951
Box 28		U.S. War, Navy Department Unification 1949
Box 28		Warfare 1949
Box 28		Western Pacific Trip 1944

	Cables
		Press dispatches
Box 29			Time Magazine 1942-1946, 1948 (4 folders)
Box 29			Time Magazine 1949 Feb.-Dec (2 folders)
Box 30			Time Magazine 1950 (2 folders)
Box 30			T ime Magazine 1951, Jan-Oct (3 folders)
Box 31			Time Magazine 1951, Nov-Dec
Box 31			Time Magazine 1952 Jan-Apr, undated (2 folders)

	Notebooks
Box 31		[untitled] 1935, 1936, 1938, 1941
Box 31		[untitled] 1940-1941 - pre-war
Box 31		[untitled] 1941
		[untitled] 1942-1943 - Australia
			Returned to donor, 1973
		[untitled] 1943-1944 - Aleutians, Wake, Tarawa
			Returned to donor, 1973
		[untitled] 1943-1944 - Aleutians, Wake, Tarawa
			Returned to donor, 1973
		[untitled] 1944-1945 - Saipan, Okinawa
			Returned to donor, 1973
		[untitled] 1945 - Saigon, South China, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
			Returned to donor, 1973
Box 32		[untitled] 1950

	Photographs
Box 32		Aleutians
Box 32		Attu 1943
Box 32		Iwo Jima
Box 32		Self, family, friends
			Scrapbooks also contain photographs.
Box 32		Tarawa
Box 32		Miscellaneous 1936-1937
Box 32		Miscellaneous 1942
Box 32		Miscellaneous 1951, 1945, 1963, undated

	Scrapbooks
Box 32		[Untitled] 1925-1935
Box 32		[Untitled] May 28, 1932 - March 17, 1933
Box 33		[Untitled] 1933 - newspaper clippings
Box 33		[Untitled] 1942-1945 - mostly Tarawa
Box 33		[Untitled] 1946-1947
Box 33		[Untitled] 1952
Oversize 1		Photographs

	Manuscripts
		Articles
Box 33			Drawings of Robert Sherrod by others
Box 33			About Captain Woodyard 1954
Box 33			Admiral Reeves 1950
Box 33			American Nurses and Doctors in Korea
Box 34			Australia Tries a Blood Transfusion 1953
Box 34			Chiang-Kai Shek's Formosa
Box 34			Comments on Mr. Huie's Reader's Digest Series
Box 34			Bob Jackson 1940
Box 34			Darndest Battle We Ever Fought
Box 34			The H-Bomb and The Tuna
Box 34			How Can Japan Survive?
Box 34			How The War Ended In Korea 1950
Box 34			Is This Our Next War? 1954
Box 34			Kashmir
Box 34			Kyoto
Box 34			Last Chance In The Philippines 1953
Box 34			A Layman's Guide to The Military 1951
Box 34			Look Where They're Holding The Olympics 1953
Box 34			Most Expensive City In The World 1953
Box 34			1941
Box 34			On Looking For A Job in New York 1931
Box 34			Our Korean Dilemma 1953
Box 34			Palm Beach Was Built Upon Sand 1935
Box 34			Saipan Controversy
				See also Notes: Saipan Controversy in this series, and Subject files: Saipan Controversy
Box 34			Singapore 1955
Box 34			Tarawa Revisited
Box 34			The Trouble About Islands 1952
Box 34			The Trouble About Paradise
Box 34			Vacationing on Three Dollars a Day 1954
Box 34			What Shall We Do About American Micronesia? 1952
Box 34			What's Eating Nehru? 1954
Box 34			Young Indonesia Flirts With Calamity 1953
Box 34			Corrections and inserts
Box 34			Incomplete
Box 35			Outlines for
Box 35			Untitled 1941, undated
		Books
Box 35			Iwo Jima (incomplete)
Box 35			Kobun-sha's Picture History of Pacific War 1952
Box 35			On to Westward 1945
Box 35			Tarawa: The Story of a Battle 1944, 1954
Box 35			Tarawa (incomplete)
Box 35			Outlines
Box 35		Drawings 1943, 1957
Box 35		Interviews
		Notes
Box 35			[General] 1927-1935
Box 35			[General] 1940, 1952, undated
Box 36			[General] 1949-1951
Box 36			B-36 hearing 1949
Box 36			James Forrestal suicide 1962
Box 36			India
Box 36			Korea Medical History 1954
Box 36			Life Pictorial History of World War II 1950
Box 36			Marine Aviation History 1948
Box 36			Saipan Controversy
				See also Articles: Saipan Controversy in this series (above), and Subject files: Saipan Controversy
Box 36		Press copy 1941-1943 (3 folders)
Box 37		Press copy 1945, 1950-1951, undated
Box 37		Radio scripts 1939, 1942-1945, 1950-1952, undated
Box 37		Short story, untitled
Box 37		Speeches
Box 37		Of others

	Published material
Box 37		Advertisements
Box 37		Articles about
Box 37		Articles by 1928-1929, 1935, 1938 (3 folders)
Box 38		Articles by 1942-1945, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1970, undated - magazine issue from 1970 also contains article by Ed Diamond (3 folders)
Box 39		Articles by and about others
Box 39		Book reviews by
		Books
			I Can Tell It Now - anthology with article by Sherrod, "Secret Conference with General Marshall"
				Transferred to Rare Books for cataloging.
Box 39			A Concise History of the Pacific War, Kobunsha 1956 - in Japanese; signed by Sherrod (2 volumes)
			History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II
				Transferred to Rare Books for cataloging.
Box 39			Iwo Jima (in Japanese)
Box 39			Kobunsha's Picture History of the Pacific War, Kobunsha 1952 - in Japanese (2 volumes)
			On to Westward 1945
				Transferred to Rare Books for cataloging.
Box 40			Life’s Picture History of World War II, Time Inc. 1950
Box 40			Saipan: Decision in the Central Pacific, Kobunsha 1951 - in Japanese; translated by Goro Nakano, signed by Sherrod
Box 40			Tarawa, Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1944 - signed by Sherrod
Box 40			Tarawa, Pocket Books 1944 - signed by Sherrod
Box 40			Tarawa, Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1954 - 10th anniversary edition, signed and inscribed by Sherrod
Box 40			Tarawa, Overseas Editions 1944 - in French; signed by Sherrod
Box 40			Tarawa, Kobunsha 1950 - in Japanese; translated by Goro Nakano, signed by Sherrod
Box 41			The Fourth Marine Division in World War II, edited by Carl W. Proeh, Infantry Journal Press 1946
Oversize 2		Magazine clippings, framed
		Newsletters
Box 41			American Aviation Daily
Box 41			F.Y.I. mimeographed
Box 41			Matson Line Wireless
Box 41		Newspaper clippings about
Box 41		Newspaper clippings by
Box 41		Newspaper clippings by or about others
		Newspapers
Box 41			The Chatter Sheet, edited by Sherrod
Box 41			Foreign
Box 41			Servicemen
Box 41			Miscellaneous
Box 42		Press releases (2 folders)
Box 42		Radio scripts 1944
Box 42		U. S. Government publications

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