Copland's visit to America and Committee for the Nation, 1933-1934

Component identifier:

Series 27

Content Summary:

Part of Copland's overseas trip in 1933-1934 was spent in the United States of America lecturing at Harvard and other universities and studying the effects of the Depression. He had discussions with business groups in New York concerning the New Deal and while in Washington consulted with Federal Reserve Bank authorities. Series 27 contains material about the Depression that Copland gathered or produced while in America. There are two subseries.

The Committee for the Nation was formed in January 1933 to 'rebuild prices and purchasing power'. It was something like a specific purpose National Chamber of Commerce. Material on the Committee forms the first subseries. Copland received a good number of their circulars, reports and publications, and as well as these, there is correspondence with Frank A. Vanderlip and Dr E.A. Rumely, and the text of a speech he gave to a Committee breakfast in January 1934.

The second subseries is a mixture of miscellaneous reports, cuttings, press releases, and speeches all referring to American political and economic policy issues dating from the 1933-35 period. Copland's press articles about Roosevelt, the New Deal, the United States Supreme Court, and the Depression in America have also been filed here.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Lady Copland presented the personal papers of Sir Douglas Copland to the National Library in September 1973. Additions to the collection were received from the Copland Family between 1977 and 1981.

Names:

Copland, D.B. (Douglas Berry), 1894-1971

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