Pierre Jay papers

Collection

Call Number: MS 660

Scope and Contents

The Yale University Library's collection of Pierre Jay Papers is rather limited in scope: chronologically speaking, it comprises material dating almost entirely from the time of Jay's assignment in Berlin. The collection has been arranged in six series, as follows: I. General Correspondence (part of l box) - There are seven topical subdivisions, the largest of which comprises congratulatory letters received by Jay at the time of his appointment to the post of Deputy Agent General in Berlin. (A "List of Correspondents" is also included.) II. Personal and Memorabilia (part of 1 box). III. Weekly Credit and Financial Summary (4 boxes) - Mimeographed reports issued by the Economic Service section of the Transfer Committee. Filed monthly, January 1925 - April 1930, with indexes. IV. Documents (6 boxes) - Mimeographed materials issued by the Economic Service section of the Transfer Committee. Filed in original numerical order. [Documents Nos. 3, 5, 6, 10, 35, 69, 106, 126, 130, 132, 187, 202 321, 322, 325, 327, 332 are missing.] V. Minutes of Meetings of the Transfer Committee (7 boxes) - Incomplete set of mimeographed sets of notes, with annexes and/or appendices. VI. Printed Materials (2 boxes).

Dates

1920-1930
Majority of material found within 1925 - 1930

Creator

Jay, Pierre, 1870-1949

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Pierre Jay, 1933.

Arrangement

Arranged in six series: I. General Correspondence. II. Personal and Memorabilia. III. Weekly Credit and Financial Summary. IV. Documents. V. Minutes of Meetings of the Transfer Committee. VI. Printed Materials.

Extent

8 Linear Feet (22 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0660

Additional Description

Overview

Correspondence, reports, and other papers of Pierre Jay, banker and Deputy Agent General for Reparations in Berlin from December, 1926 to May, 1930. These papers deal primarily with the Dawes Plan for collecting reparations from Germany following World War I and consist mainly of reports, minutes, and printed materials related to the work of the Economic Service section of the Transfer Committee.

Biographical / Historical

Pierre Jay: banker; vice-president of the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston, 1903; later vice-president of the Bank of Manhattan Company and chairman of the board of directors and Federal Reserve Agent of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Deputy Agent General for Reparation Payments in Berlin, 1926-1930.

Pierre Jay, a direct descendant of the first Chief Justice of the United States, was born in Warwick, New York, in 1870. He prepared for Yale at Hopkins and Groton and received his B. A. in 1892. In 1903 he was elected vice president of the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston. Subsequently he became vice president of the Bank of Manhattan Company, and chairman of the board of directors and Federal Reserve Agent of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Jay had already traveled extensively in Europe before being appointed Deputy Agent General for Reparation Payments in December 1926. He was posted to Berlin where he remained until May 1930. He then returned to New York to become chairman of the board of the Fiduciary Trust Company, a post he held until his retirement in 1945. He died in 1949.