J.L. Tupy collection on Adolph J. Sabath, 1849-1953 | Louisiana Research Collection

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Box 1: Sabath material

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1934, 1945-1952

The correspondence includes the following items:

A carbon copy of a letter, dated 1934 December 17, written by J.L. Tupy to Representatives in Congress, asking them to vote for A.J. Sabath for Democratic Floor Leader;

A carbon copy of a letter, dated 1945 December 18, from Sabath to President Harry S. Truman, urging him to appoint Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, William Jennings Bryan's daughter, as a member of the United States delegation of the United Nations Assembly;

A telegram, dated 1946 May 4, from President Harry S. Truman, congratulating Sabath on forty years' service in the House of Representatives;

Autographed letter signed, dated 1946 August 8, from Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, to Sabath, thanking him for placing in the Congressional Record, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of her father's first nomination for the Presidency, Ambassador Joseph Daniels' account of the 1896 Chicago Convention;

Three letters from various countrymen.

Folder 2: Autobiographical notes of Congressman Adolph Sabath

These notes were either written or dictated by Sabath. The narrative covers the period from 1882 to the 1930s. In Czech and English.

Folder 3: Biographical notes on Adolph Sabath

These notes, which are in J.L. Tupy's hand, cover the period from Sabath's birth in 1866 to the 1890s. They contain information about Sabath's early life before his emigration to the United States. Chiefly in English, but there are some Czech words and phrases.

Folder 4: Sabath and World War I

Notes dictated by Sabath, 1952 April 7, to J.L. Tupy, concerning the assistance he gave the Roumanian government in securing a war loan. In English.

Folder 5: Sabath and World War I, fragment

This two-page manuscripts is incomplete. It may be in Sabath's hand. In Czech.

Folder 6: Adolph Sabath Memoirs

Sabath began dictating his memoirs to J.L. Tupy in 1952. The narrative begins with Sabath's arrival in the United States in 1881 and continues through the 1930s. The reminiscences are not in straight chronological order. Sabath mainly discusses his political career. There are almost no references to his private life. The first page is numbered "500" and contains the notation "A.J.'s personal dictation 7/11/52." There are seventy numbered sheets, written on both sides. Notation on pages 513, 519, 542, 554, and 566 indicate that the memoirs were probably dictated onto a recording device and were later transcribed.

After the memoir there are seven pates on which were transcribed eight letters from President Harry S. Truman to Sabath, and one letter each from Prseident Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, and Cordell Hull. In English.

Folder 7: Other biographical notes and Adolph Sabath biography

Biographical notes-In English.

Biography- typed carbon copy. This is an incomplete typescript copy of a biography of Congressman Sabath written by J.L. Tupy. The biography, which is largely based on the autobiographical and biographical notes kept by Tupy and on Sabath's memoirs, covers the period from 1866 to approximately 1910.

Folder 8: Part I, Sabath's childhood in Bohemia

In Czech. Typed (carbon).

Folder 9: Part II, Emigration of Sabath to the United States of America

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 10: Part III, About the first letter Sabath wrote to his parents from America

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 11: Part V, About Sabath's activities in America among the Czechs and Slovaks in the country

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 12: Part VI, About the beginnings of Sabath's commercial and political career in America

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 13: Part VII, Sabath's election as Municipal Judge and later as Congressman

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 14: Part XIII, About the foundation of the Czech Orphanage in Chicago and Sabath biographical sketches

Part XIII.- Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Biographical sketches- Typed (carbon). In addition to the typescript of the Sabath biography, there are eight brief articles dealing with various aspects of Sabath's political career. Tupy may have planned to incorporate these into the biography.

Folder 15: Sabath in the working class movement in Chicago: his struggle for social justice, 1893

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 16: Sabath's election as Democratic Congressman from Chicago in 1906 and his departure for Washington

Typed (carbon). In Czech. This contains information on the social democratic movement in the Czech section of Chicago.

Folder 17: Chicago Mayor Carter H. Harrison and his close relations with Sabath

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 18: Nomination of Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and Sabath's attitude

Typed (carbon). In Czech.

Folder 19: Sabath's struggle in 1917 for the independence of the small national groups of Central and Eastern Europe

Typed (original and carbons). In Czech. This also contains Sabath's speech of 1917 December 7.

Folder 20: Sabath's struggle against speculators, 1929