Series 1. Correspondence, 1998 - 2001
Scope and Contents
A professor and scholar of seventeenth-century Dutch art, Dr. Cynthia P. Schneider was appointed by President Clinton in 1998 as the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, where she served until 2001. The papers consist of correspondence, daily schedules, notebooks, printed items, and subject files, recording in detail her posting there. It includes letters from Jozias van Aartsen, Jimmy Carter, Wesley K. Clark, her father Anthony L. Perrin, Thomas R. Pickering, and Strobe Talbot, among others. There is also considerable material about the international conference on biotechnology that she helped organize at The Hague in 2000.
Dates
- 1998 - 2001
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
3 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Creator
- From the Collection: Schneider, Cynthia P. (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu