Correspondence, speeches, notebooks, press releases, clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Colby's career as a politician and statesman after 1912, including his service as U.S. secretary of state in Woodrow Wilson's administration. Subjects include national politics, the Progressive Party, political campaigns including the presidential campaigns of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 and of Alfred M. Landon in 1936, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the New Deal, the American Liberty League, and a trip to South America. Includes correspondence with Woodrow Wilson (circa 150 items; 1917-1923) relating to foreign policy and personal affairs and Colby's state paper (August 10, 1920) enunciating America's refusal to recognize the new Russian government following the revolution of 1917. Other correspondents include James M. Cox, Josephus Daniels, Samuel Gompers, William Randolph Hearst, Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Cordell Hull, David Lloyd George, Henry Cabot Lodge, Medill McCormick, Theodore Roosevelt, Alfred Emanuel Smith, John Spargo, and André Tardieu.