A Preliminary Inventory of the Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Creator:
Harry Ransom Center
Title:
Watergate Collection
Dates:
1962-2007
Extent:
4 document boxes (1.47 linear feet), 1 oversize folder (osf)
Abstract:
The Watergate Collection contains manuscript drafts, correspondence, notes, photographs,
and ephemera that were acquired separately from the Woodward and Bernstein and Ben
Bradlee Papers.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-04968
Language:
English
Access:
Open for research. Some materials are restricted due to condition, but facsimiles
are available to researchers.
Researchers must create an online Research Account and agree to the Materials Use
Policy before using archival materials.
Use Policies
Ransom Center collections may contain material with sensitive or confidential information
that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations.
Researchers
are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable
living
individuals represented in the collections without the consent of those individuals
may have
legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of
privacy may
arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would
be deemed
highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the Ransom Center and The University
of
Texas at Austin assume no responsibility.
Restrictions on Use
Authorization for publication is given on behalf of the University of Texas as the
owner of
the collection and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright
holder
which must be obtained by the researcher. For more information please see the
Ransom
Center's Open Access and Use Policies.
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Watergate Collection (Manuscript
Collection MS-04968).
Acquisition:
Purchase, 2014 (14-07-004-P) and 2017 (17-09-021-P), Transfer, 2011 (11-08-016-T),
and Gifts, 2008 (08-05-001-G), 2007 (07-03-006-G), 2005 (05-06-016-G, 05-07-012-G),
and 2004 (04-03-006-G)
The Ransom Center’s Watergate Collection contains manuscript drafts, correspondence,
notes, photographs, and ephemera that were acquired separately from the Bob Woodward
and Carl Bernstein Watergate Papers and Benjamin C. Bradlee Papers. The collection
includes two incomplete drafts of All the President’s Men, referred to as the second intermediate and third intermediate drafts because they
appear to fall in between the intermediate and late drafts present in the Woodward
and Bernstein Papers. The second intermediate draft consists of original typescripts
and carbons, and the third intermediate draft consists of photocopies of the original
typescripts; both are heavily annotated with revisions in various hands.
Other items present in the collection are a file of correspondence regarding Nixon
Administration official Egil "Bud" Krogh, Jr.’s status as a member of the Washington State Bar Association, including
a letter from the Watergate Special Prosecution Force describing his conduct at trial
and several letters supporting Krogh’s reinstatement to the bar; notes from Bob Woodward’s
2007 interview with William D. "Bill" Dunlap, Nixon’s assistant Postmaster General; a photograph of Ben Bradlee; an issue
of the New York Daily News from 1973 with a cover story on the Nixon tapes; a Watergate coloring book; and a
notebook created by Jury Foreman John A. Hoffar containing trial documents, notes,
and clippings.
Related Material
The Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Watergate Papers and the Benjamin C. Bradlee Papers
at the Ransom Center contain additional material related to Watergate.
