Ansel F. Luxford Papers

8395

1940-1947

series

textual records

12.5 linear feet of textual records.

Fund, IBRD, United States

Ansel F. Luxford, Bretton Woods Conference

The series (boxes 7-25) contains files maintained by Ansel F. Luxford while at U.S. Treasury, then as a technical advisor to the U.S. delegation at the Bretton Woods Conference and later at the Bank. Materials consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, drafts, Conference and Bank / IMF issuances and printed material. Some of the material was re-arranged during Luxford's tenure as Assistant General Counsel of the Bank in well organized and indexed sets. When transferred to the IMF, the files were in a loose alphabetical order by subject. Generally, files contain: documents regarding the development of the initial proposal for an International Stabilization Fund (in files: International Stabilization Fund, International Stabilization Fund Memoranda and Correspondence/ Preliminary Draft Outline/ Questions and Answers); correspondence, memoranda and drafts of the Joint Statement by Experts on the Establishment of an International Monetary Fund of the United and Associated Nations (in files: Reports -International Monetary Fund [Joint] Statement, International Stabilization Fund, Joint Statement /Legal Memoranda); drafts and minutes of meetings of the Conference at Atlantic City (in files: Bank Atlantic City and Fund Pre-Atlantic City); memoranda regarding the organization of the Conference, the drafting and the interpretation of the Articles of Agreement as well as Conference Documents, and printed copies (in files: Bank, IMF, Bretton Woods, Articles of Agreement, Comparisons, Reports, Preliminary Draft, Working Draft:); and correspondence with Department of State, Federal Reserve, Congressmen, bankers regarding the U.S. enabling legislation (in files: Bank Legal Memoranda, Bankers, Legislation, Congressional Records). There is also material regarding the Inaugural Meeting of the Board of Governors in Savannah (in files: Board of Governors) and the drafting of the IMF Rules and Regulations (in files: Rules and Regulations), as well as a fairly large collection of press clippings.