Bulkley Southworth Griffin papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS304
This miscellaneous collection of Bulkley Southworth Griffin's contains autographed letters of notable figures and printed ephemera from the 19th and 20th centuries. Of note are two photographs by G.D. Wakeley of the White House and the Capitol Building from 1865 and 1866 respectively, accompanied by an assortment of genealogical materials from the Bulkley, Southworth and Griffin families of the 19th and 20th centuries. Of special interest from this period is his journal of 1922 regarding domestic politics during the Harding presidency. An avid collector of Mark Twain books, Griffin donated his collection to the Buffalo and Erie County Library, NY. After his death, his daughter donated many of Griffin's books to Georgetown. The Georgetown University Library holds a copy of his own book, Offbeat History: A Compendium of Americana, 1967 (call #E173.G87).
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Bulkley Southworth Griffin (1893-1967) was a Washington based newspaperman for most of his career. From 1916-1917 and 1919-1922 he served as a reporter, city editor and Washington correspondent for his father's paper, the Springfield Republican. Ultimately he founded the Griffin-Larrabee News Bureau in 1922. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on August 16, 1893 to Solomon Bulkley and Ida Southworth Griffin. At 23 he moved to Washington, and later served with the U.S. Army and Navy in World War I as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army Air Service. Griffin married Isabel Kinnear on July 8, 1926. In 1945 he returned to Europe as a war correspondent for five months with the 3rd Army. He died in 1967.
3.75 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
English
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository