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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Guy D. Goff Papers, A&M 0017, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, clippings, printed material, speeches, and essays of Guy Despard Goff (September 13, 1866 - January 7, 1933), son of Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920).

Guy D. Goff was United States district attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin (1911-1915), assistant to the Attorney General of the United States (1917, ca. 1920-1923), and a U.S. Senator from West Virginia (1925-1931), among other things.

Correspondence includes letters on family matters, post-World War I Europe, and Goff's career (1 inch; 1919-1931). Speeches date from the years 1920-1931, when Goff was assistant to the U.S. Attorney General and Senator from West Virginia.

Correspondence includes letters on family matters, world affairs, and Goff's career (5 items; 1930-1931) and a bound volume of letters written by Goff from Europe while he was a member of General Pershing's legal staff (1 inch, 1919-1920). Letters in the bound volume do not include recipients; they concern Goff's work in the military, his travels in France and Germany, and his observations on the political, economic, and social conditions in post-World War I Europe. He also discusses the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations, and international relations. Please note, this bound volume of letters is identical to the volume in A&M 622.

Speeches and essays include topics such as "The Chinese Republic and the Truth about its Existence" and "The Soviet and the Jews."

Related Material

17, 622

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933
• Lawyers - letters and papers.
• Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948
• World War, 1914-1918