Arthur White Collection | Valdosta State University Archives

By Erin Abbott Blanton

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Collection Overview

Title: Arthur White Collection

Predominant Dates:1960s-1980s

ID: MS/105

Creator: Arthur White, 1923-2001

Extent: 28.0 Linear Feet

Date Acquired: 12/31/2009. More info below under Accruals.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Arthur White Collection includes general memorabilia from Mr. White’s long career with TIME Magazine. The topics and subject matters are varied. This collection provides a wide range of artifacts, including, but not limited to: correspondence, newspaper articles, pamphlets, passports, birth certificates, brochures, and personal and work-related keepsakes. Most of the artifacts were in good to decent condition, few were in fair condition. A large amount of the content in this collection is in the original format.

Administrative Information

Accruals: The 25 boxes, 28 linear feet, came to us in batches. The first batch was a bunch of boxes that had been poorly stored. Plastic bins were also sent over with publications and papers in better condition. Also, we have been given scanned images and documents from the Lowndes County Historical Society from the Louie Peeples Collection that relate to the White Collection. We acquired the collection over the course of a year.

Acquisition Source: Lowndes County Historical Society

Acquisition Method: The Arthur White collection is a subset of the Louie Peeples White papers which she left to the Lowndes County Historical Society (LCHS). Because of the international nature of this collection, they have donated it to the VSU Archives where they expect it will be able to be used with classes and other patrons not naturally drawn to LCHS.

Appraisal Information: This is a valuable collection because White was an international correspondent for Time magazine during the late 1950's thru the 1980's. Issues of the times from Johnson's poverty programs to Watergate to the birth of Punk Rock are covered in these ms. There are photographs, copies of Time magazine, interview notes, drafts of stories, edits of stories, and final published versions. There are also personal papers and information about travel. This collection should be of use to students and researchers in journalism, political science, history and international affairs.The condition of the papers is fair, and bad in some cases.

Preferred Citation: Arthur White Collection. Courtesy of Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, Odum Library.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Box:

[Box 1: Personal and Career, 1940s-1980s],
[Box 2: TIME Magazine, 1960s-1980s],
[Box 3: Great Britain],
[Box 4: Great Britain],
[Box 5: Great Britain],
[Box 6: People, 1963-1984],
[Box 7: People, 1964-1983],
[Box 8: 1960s],
[Box 9: 1960s],
[Box 10: Education, Tennis, & Agriculture],
[Box 11: Press],
[Box 12: Labor, Medical, & Other Topics],
[Box 13: Misc. articles & telex],
[Box 14: Misc. & Undated Telex],
[Box 15: Misc. & Undated Telex],
[Box 16: 1960s-70s],
[Box 17: Telex],
[Box 18: Telex],
[Box 19: Telex],
[Box 20: Telex],
[Box 21: Telex],
[Box 22: Telex],
[Box 23: TIME Magazine],
[Box 24: TIME Magazine],
[Box 25: Magazines & Books],
[Box 26: Scrapbook, 1960s],
[Box 27: Commemorative Newspaper and Scrapbook Contents, 1985],
[Box 28: Newspapers, various dates],
[All]

Box 3: Great Britain

Folder 1: Eyam - Misc., 1981: Contains telex and handwritten notes regardign the town of Eyam in Derbyshire, England. The story follows the 1665 Bubonic Plague outbreak that killed most of the town's citizens.
Folder 2: Eyam - Guidebooks, 1980: Contains guidebooks and pamphlets to the town of Eyam in Derbyshire, England.
Folder 3: The Church of St. Lawrence, Eyam, Derbyshire: Contains a large drawing of the Parish Church at Eyam.
Folder 4: Telex - Eyam, 1981: Contains drafts and correspondence about the town of Eyam and how the people quarantined themselves in the 1600s to prevent the spread of Bubonic Plague.
Folder 5: IRA: File includes a book about Ulster with a focus on political issues. Several news clippings concerning the IRA and Sinn Fein are also included.
Folder 6: IRA Bombings - Telex: Cotains drafts and correspondence regarding the bombing of the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guard and 1st Dragoons, a part of the Household Cavalry).
Folder 7: IRA Bombings - Printed Magazine Article: Contains magazien articleso n the rash of IRA bombings targeting conservative politicians in the erly 1980s. Details on other bomingsin London, suchas the Herrod's blast and Hyde park blast, are included.
Folder 8: Clippings about Bombs: Ater WWII, undetonated bombs and landmines remained buried in Great Britain. Overtime, these bombs were discovered and written about in local papers.
Folder 9: Reuters WWII Bombs: Contains eyewitness accounts of the Fleet Street, London bombing that closed Reuters news service on April 17, 1941.
Folder 10: UXB: Contains information about bombings in England.
Folder 11: UXB: Contains newpaper articles about World War II in Great Britain. Danger UXB was a televsion series about a bomb hunting squad.
Folder 12: British Spies, 1983-84: Contains newsclippings about British espionage and MI-5 and MI-6
Folder 13: British Spies - Telex, 1981: Contains drafts, correspondence, and information regarding alleged British spies.
Folder 14: British Spies - Prior, Howe, and White, 1984: Contains newsclippings about British espionage with James Prior, Geoffery Howe, and Peter Wright.
Folder 15: British Spies - Telex, 1979: Contains drafts and correspondence about the Anthony Blunt Scandal
Folder 16: British Spies - Vetting, 1982: Articles about previous vetting practice that did not uncover future scandals and what was being done to produce a stricter vetting process.
Folder 17: British Spies - Misc., 1982: Contains articles about the 1982 British spy scandals. These articles also include misc. articles about international spies in America and France. Also included is Parliament's reaction to spying.
Folder 18: British Spies - Trestrail Scandal, 1982: Following the 1982 Spy Scandals, The Queen's chief security officer , Commander Michael Trestrail, was discoverd to be homosexual. The articles included detail the scandal which followed.
Folder 19: British Spies - Geoffery Prime, 1982: Contaisn articles about George Prine who spied on behalf of the KGB for fourteen years while working in British GCHQ. He was also a child molestor which precipitated additional scandal.
Folder 20: British Spies - About Spying, 1981
Folder 21: British Spies - Political Cartoons, 1981: Contains political cartoons relevant to he 1981 Spy Scandal.
Folder 22: British Spies - Anthony Blunt, 1981: Anthony Blunt was the Queen's Surveyor of Pictures until he was discovered as a spy during and shortly after WWI. His membership in The Societ, a communist club at Cambridge brought to light other spies that he recruited for Russia.
Folder 23: British Spies - Leo Long, 1981: Leo Long was one of Anthony Long's spy recruits from Cambridge. He confessed to spying in 1964 and was never prosecuted. After the Blunt spy scandal, Long went public with his confession. An interview transcription is included.
Folder 24: British Spies - Phlip Leslie Aldridge, 1983: Contains articles about Lance Corporal Philip Leslie Aldridge's sentence to four year jail for attempting to pass classified documents to the Russian embassy.
Folder 25: British Spies - Hamilton and Ritchie, 1982: Articles about two spy trials which opened the same week in Great Britain. The alleged spies were Professor Hugh Hamilton and Ramona Richie, a British diplomat who passed classified information to her Egyption lover.
Folder 26: British Spies - Double Agent and Mules, 1983: Contains TIME, Inc. correspondence pertaining to the British spy scandals of the early 1980s. A large amount of information is relevant to other folders, particularly folders 23-37.
Folder 27: British Spying - Micahel Straight and Louis Dolivet, 1983: Contains article regarding American Michael Straigh's involvement with the discovery of Anthony Blunt and Leo Long's espionage. Several included articles were written by Straigh himself. Louis Dolvet was Micahel Straight's brother-in-law.
Folder 28: British Spies - Donald Maclean, 1983: Contains newspaper clippings about former turn-coat spy Donald Maclean, who fled Britain for Russia.
Folder 29: British Spies - Russian Spies in Great Britain, 1982: Contains newspaper clippings about Russian espionage agents living and working in Great Britain.
Folder 30: British Spies - General Information and Opinion, 1982-83: Contains British and International opinion about the Spy Scandals of the early 1980s. Included are clippings about specific spies and spies as a general group.
Folder 31: Telex - Greenham Protests, 1983: Contains drafts and correspondence about the Greenham Women's Peace Movement which protested the storage of American nuclear warheads in Greenham, England.
Folder 32: Greenham, 1984: Cotnains articles and clippings about the Greenham Common Women who protested for over two years about US nuclear-tipped cruise missiles in Great Britain.
Folder 33: Greenham, 1983: Contains articles and clippings about the protest of the Grrenham Common Women who spent more than two years camping outside RAF Greenham.
Folder 34: "Yorkshire Ripper" - Telex and Poster, 1978-80: Cotnains telex reports regardinf the "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Folder 35: "Yorkshire Ripper" - Notes and Photocopies, 1980s: Contains notes and photocopied articles related to the Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Folder 36: "Yorkshire Ripper" - News Clippings, 1977-79: Contains articles regarding the Yorkshire Ripper and his victims.
Folder 37: "Yorkshire Ripper" - Telex, 1981: Contains drafts, correspondence, and information related to the Yorkshire Ripper murders and the trial of Peter Sucliffe who was accused of the murders.