Guide to the William E. Lunt Papers, 1904-1926, undated
William E. Lunt Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine.
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William Edward Lunt was born in Lisbon, Maine, on January 13, 1882, to the town's postmaster and his wife, Edward Henry and Katherine Garcelon Lunt. He was graduated from Bowdoin in 1904 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1908. Lunt was the Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of History and Political Science at Bowdoin from 1911-1912 and served as a member of the Board of Overseers from 1939-1956. Lunt also taught history at the University of Wisconsin (1908-1910), English history at Cornell University (1912-1917) and the University of Pennsylvania (1944-1945), and was the Walter D. and Edith M.L. Scull Professor of English and Constitutional History at Haverford College (1917-1952). He was the author of many works on medieval England.
After the First World War, Lunt served in Paris as chief of the Italian Division for the American Commission to Negotiate Peace (1918-1919), the commission responsible for the American position on the post-war borders of Italy.
Lunt married Elizabeth Atkinson in 1910. They had two sons, William and Robert, the latter a member of Bowdoin's class of 1942. Lunt died November 10, 1956, in Haverford, Pennsylvania.
Letters, documents, reports, maps, original or photostatic statistical charts and clippings concerning the American Commission to Negotiate Peace (Paris Peace Committee, 1918-1919). Much of the material deals with issues relating to what is now the Italian-Yugoslav border and to the general negotiations of the Peace Commission. The letters, from Lunt and other negotiators on the team, include some to President Woodrow Wilson. Also included are biographical clippings, correspondence, and photographs about or featuring Lunt.
Biographical newspaper clippings, including articles concerning Lunt's retirement and death. Also included are personal photographs, letters to Lunt's wife, Elizabeth, regarding his death, and a typescript copy of Lunt's 1904 report, "The American Merchant Marine."
Arranged by material type.
Biographical newspaper clippings
Correspondence with Elizabeth Lunt regarding William Lunt's death
"The American Merchant Marine", 1904
Personal photographs (3 small, 1 medium, 1 large)
Materials concerning the Paris Peace Committee of 1918-1919, including correspondence, special reports, statistics and census information, and clippings. Also includes a collection of Central and Eastern European maps and two reports, "Italian Tirol" and "The Kustenland" prepared by Lunt for the House of Representatives and used at the Paris Peace Conference.
Arranged by material type.
Correspondence: Index of correspondence
Correspondence: 1918 Oct. 28-1919 Jan. 31
Correspondence: 1919 Feb. 22-April 24
Correspondence: 1919 April 25-May 29
Correspondence: n.d.
Special Reports: "Adriatic Settlements"
Special Reports: "Dalmatia and Tyrol"
Special Reports: "Fiume"
Special Reports: "Italian Claims"
Special Reports: "Italian/Jugo-Slav Boundaries"
Special Reports: "Kustenland"
Special Reports: "North Italian Border"
Special Reports: "Rebuttal"
Special Reports: 1918 Jan. 17-1918 Dec. 19
Special Reports: 1918 Dec. 20-26
Special Reports: 1918 Dec. 27-31
Special Reports: 1919 Jan. 2-31
Special Reports: 1919 Feb. and March
Special Reports: 1919 April
Special Reports: 1919 May and June
Special Reports: Miscellaneous
Statistics: The Kustenland
Statistics: Tyrol
Statistics: Maps and keys
Statistics: Miscellaneous
Statistics: Photostats of Statistics
Maps: Legal-sized: Includes maps of Yugoslav, Trieste, Greece, Taramo, Adriatic Sea, Venice, Austro-Hungary, Dalmatian Islands and Austria
Maps: Oversized: Includes maps of Trieste, Istria, Trentino Region, Balkland Peninsula, Gorz and Gradisca, Tyrol, Austria and Northern Italy
Newspaper clippings: 1918
Newspaper clippings: 1919 Jan.
Newspaper clippings: 1919 Feb.
Newspaper clippings: 1919 March
Newspaper clippings: 1919 April
Newspaper clippings: 1919 May-July
Newspaper clippings: 1920-1926
Newspaper clippings: Miscellaneous
Printed Material: 1919 Jan. 18-May 1
Printed Material: Miscellaneous
Reports Prepared for House Committee: "Italian Tirol," 1918 Nov. 13
Reports Prepared for House Committee: "The Kustenland," 1919 Feb. 28