Collection #

M 0112
F 0203

 

 

john l. h. fuller
papers, ca. 1840–1962

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Contents

Cataloging Information

 

 

 

Updated by

Emily Castle
8 November 2005

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

 

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF
COLLECTION:

2 manuscript boxes, 1 roll of micro-film

COLLECTION
DATES:

1840–1962

PROVENANCE:

John L.H. Fuller, Indianapolis, IN, 30 June 1978

RESTRICTIONS:

None

COPYRIGHT:

 

REPRODUCTION
RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE
FORMATS:

 

RELATED
HOLDINGS:

Fuller, John L.H. The Journal of John L.H. Fuller While in Russia, 1917. General Collection: DK265.7 .F8 1999;
Fuller, John L.H .Letters & Diaries of John L.H. Fuller, 1917-1920. General Collection: D921 .F8 2004

ACCESSION
NUMBER:

1978.0625

NOTES:

 

BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH

John Louis Hilton Fuller was born in 1894 and grew up in Indianapolis. He graduated from Butler University and spent most of his life as a business man and insurance executive in the city.

From 1917 to 1920 he was a trainee with the international division of the National City Bank of New York. His first assignment was to the bank’s Petrograd branch in September 1917, where he worked for nearly a year. In March 1918, he moved with the bank to Vologda, a city 250 miles northeast of Moscow, to which most of the foreign diplomatic corps in Russia had already retired.

He left Russia in early August 1918, a week after the diplomatic corps had been removed from Vologda to Archangel, and only a few days after the Russian government had declared war on the British and their allies who were in the process of occupying Archangel and Murmansk. After leaving Russia, he spent a year and a half working with the International Banking Corporation in Scandanavia and England.

Sources:

Materials in collection.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The bulk of the papers in this collection cover Fuller’s years as a trainee with the National City Bank from 1917 to 1920. In the seventeen letters and journal from this period he wrote of conditions in Russia, reported on rumors regarding the progress of the Revolution and the fate of foreigners, and described the operations of the bank. There are forty-five letters and three journals from the year and a half after he left Russia in which he wrote mostly of his social life.

There are eight letters regarding the career of his father, Hector Fuller, a reporter for The Indianapolis News and a columnist for The Washington Herald. Seven of the letters relate to Fuller’s trip to the Far East in 1903–04 to cover the Russo–Japanese War.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CONTAINER

Correspondence from Nova Scotia and Stockholm, July–Sep. 1917

Box 1, Folder 1

Correspondence from Petrograd, Sep.–Dec. 1917

Box 1, Folder 2

Correspondence from Russia, Apr.–Sep. 1917

Box 1, Folder 3

Correspondence from Stockholm and Copenhagen, Sep.–Dec. 1918

Box 1, Folder 4

Correspondence from England, Jan.–Apr. 1919

Box 1, Folder 5

Correspondence from England, May–Dec. 1919

Box 1, Folder 6

Correspondence, 1920

Box 1, Folder 7

Journal, re: experiences in Russia, 1917–18

Box 1, Folder 8

Journals, Oct. 1918–Mar. 1920

Box 1, Folder 9

Applications and letters of recommendation, 1917–19

Box 1, Folder 10

Miscellaneous letters, ca. 1840–1907

Box 1, Folder 11

Letters and newspaper clippings, re: Russia, 1918–20

Box 1, Folder 12

English grammar book in Russian, 1917

Box 2, Folder 1

Armistice Dinner for American Ambassador in London, Table plan, 15 Nov. 1917

Box 2, Folder 2

Aspersions, Official Organ of the American International Banking Club, Newsletter, 1916

Box 2, Folder 3

First National Bank training classes reunion materials, 1947–62

Box 2, Folder 4

Letters, journals, and reunion materials, ca. 1840–1962

F 0203

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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