Fonds consists of records pertaining primarily to the professional activities of Elisabeth Mann Borgese, focusing on major organizations and projects with which she was affiliated from the beginning of her North American career in the 1940s. The collection includes correspondence, publications and drafts, administrative records, conference materials, sound and video recordings, research materials, photographs, and other materials.
File contains correspondence with M.J. Anstee (Department of Technical Co-operation for Development) and K. Mushakoji (UN University - with "The United Nations University's Next Stage: Statement before the Sixteenth Session of the Council of the UN University on 1 December 1980"). File also includes handwritten notes by Elisabeth Mann Borgese for a United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) talk (on the new industrial revolution and the oceans).
File includes correspondence to/from: [Kirthisinga], Dale Krause (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO), Martin Kaplan (World Health Organization, or WHO), Heimo Kellner, Birabhongse Karemrri, Johan Kaufman (The Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations), Susan Kaeser (World College West), and Franz Koenig (Archbishop of Vienna), which discusses the Holy See's position on the Law of the Sea.
File contains correspondence with the Commission of the European Communities, Rallph Collier, Consumers Union of US Inc., Centre d'Architecture de la Mer, Jerrgen Claus, Mae Cullin, Rafael Castello-Valdis, Ray Canterbury, Jonathan Charney, CBS, Nigel Calder (on "The Blue Revolution"), Michelle Canterella, and "Conjunctions."
File contains correspondence with Mike McCormack, Carol McCabe, McGraw-Hill Book Company (on a piece Mann Borgese wrote for "Today's Secretary"), Donald McDonald, and J.B. MacInnis. See also MS-2-744, Box 226, Folder 18 for additional correspondence between Mann Borgese and MacInnis.
File contains correspondence with Nicholas Peckham, M.A. Parry, Elaine Parent, Aris Papas, Pesci d'Oro, Norbert Psuty, and Mario Primicerio. Also includes "A Sociological Hypothesis" by M.A. Parry, "A Scientific Approach to World Organization for Peace" by M.A. Parry, and "The New Cosmopolitans" by Aris Papas and memos.
File contains correspondence with the "Quarterly Review of Biology," Joyce Rosner, Mr. Ronning, and Plenum Publishing Corporation (the latter referring to pictures for inclusion in "The Mines of Neptune").
File contains a form letter, listing publications relating to Pacem in Maribus (PIM), as well as publications by Mann Borgese, and Arvid Pardo, which was sent to a number of libraries. Also contains a mailing list of libraries.
File contains correspondence with Alex Comfort, V. Dedijer, Da Capo Press Inc., Encyclopedia of the Sea, Rita Ettl, Fayard Editions, Peter Fricke, FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), Donald Gledhill, and Jay Goldburg Cousteau Society.
File contains correspondence with Dimitri Rebekoff, John Schaffner, University of Chicago Press, Phie van Ettinger. Also includes a Rebekoff Institute notice, advertising courses at the Institute.
File includes correspondence to/from: M.E. Arie (UNCTAD - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), S. Andersen (UNDP - United Nations Development Programme), and M.O. Adio (Delegation of Nigeria, UNCLOS - United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea).
File contains "Synopsis of Objective" for talks on the Law of the Sea, as well as correspondence with H. Gajentaan, A. Gacia Robles, F. Galindo, G.H. Gottlieb, and M.E. Galey.
File contains correspondence with A. Papadopoulos, Renate Platzoder, and Ambassador Arpad Prandler of Hungary. Correspondence concerns the International Ocean Institute (IOI)'s training programme, Pacem in Maribus, and other topics.
File contains outgoing correspondence to Dieter Thomas (San Marino), on the role of small or mini-States in the United Nations, and a letter to West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
File contains correspondence with Lynnelle Herrick, John Humphrey, Robert Hutchins, Peter Howorth, Gordon Hewes, Eve Herrmann, and John Haag. Also includes newspaper clippinsg concerning Gerald Hickey and a biography of Eve Herrmann.
File contains correspondence with Claude Gregory, John Dodge, F. Weizsacker, Jean R. de Salis, John Kendrew, P. Kapitza, Salvatore Quasimodo, Daniele Bovet, Georg Likacs, D. Lavergne, Linus Pauling, S. Radhakrishnan, C.F. Weizsacker, Werner Heisenberg, Robert Forbes, Robert Hutchins, and Theodor Svedberg. Correspondence mainly includes invitations to join the Encyclopedia Universalis' project. Also includes comments written about the encyclopedia by Marcello Colocci (on the "Physics" and "Chemistry" pieces) and Guiseppe Barbreri (on the "Geography" section). Contains English, Italian, and German correspondence.
File contains project descriptions, documents related to Pacem in Maribus X and XIV (ten / 10 and fourteen / 14), correspondence to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, "Convention for the protection of the Mediterranean Sea against pollution," "Report of the ad hoc Expert Group meeting on the Draft World Charter for Nature," and other miscellaneous reports. Reports written in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.
File contains correspondence with Maurice Strong, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Chairman and Director of Petro-Canada. File also contains a postcard announcing Strong's candidacy for a seat in the Canadian Parliament in the 1979 election.
This file contains a circular letter on the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Human Development. This flyer asks participating groups to support the UNCSTD mission, and this copy includes a typed message to Pacem in Maribus (PIM), asking them to become a participating group, a request to which they agreed.
File contains an agenda from a conference by United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), outling the sessions and speakers. The conference was held in Los Angeles, California.
File contains correspondence with Gil Winham, Canadian External Affairs, and the Delegation of Suriname to United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS) III. File also includes a project proposal for "Science and Technology for Development and Disarmament," by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, and a report from the twenty-third United Nations General Assembly.
File contains an intervention (statement) by Arvid Pardo in the main committee to the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Sea-bed and the Ocean Floor Beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction.
File contains an extract from a report of Arlie, Virginia Workshop on "The Conservation of Wild Living Resources," relating to resource management and the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS).
File contains a summary of the Fifth Session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS) by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, along with a history of the talks since 1967. Contains some handwritten annotations/corrections.
File contains background papers distributed by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Includes "The United Nations (UN) Conference on the Law of the Sea" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese,"The Preparations for the Law of the Sea Conference" by John R. Stevenson and Bernard Oxman, and "The Latin American Contribution to the Development of the Law of the Sea" by F.V. GarcĂa-Amador. Also includes a brief letter from Ambassador John R. Stevenson (the American Special Representative of the President for the Law of the Sea Conference) on the Fifth Pacem in Maribus (PIM V) Convocation.
File contains a speech by Ambassadr Pardo delivered to Subcommittee III of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor Beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction. This version has handwritten comments and marking by Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
File contains correspondence with Bogdan Trifunovic, Louis Turner, Lawrence Thorpe, W.T. Thorneycroft, Ernest Thorn, Texas AandM Univeristy, and Rodney Tarboosh. Contains copies of pictures of Elisabeth Mann Borgese's dog and chimpanzee. Also includes an article, "How to Share Sebed's Riches" by Ernest W. Thorn.
File contains an untitled draft article, correspondence with B. Foodagri, F. Hall, A. Biro, and P. Hendry, regarding "Ceres" and a copy of the journal "Ceres" (November-December 1974) cointaining the article "The Common Heritage" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
File includes correspondence to R.A. Ness (of the Ambassador Trading Company) and Satya Nanden (of the United Nations). Topics discussed include the Law of the Sea and Micronesia, and the Preparatory Commission for the International Sea-Bed Authority and for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
File contains two copies (one is an earlier draft) of an article by Elisabeth Mann Borgese regarding the Fifth Session of the Third Law of the Sea Conference.
File contains two copies of an op-ed article written by Elisabeth Mann Borgese for the Christian Science Monitor (one is an edited (abbreviated) version).The articles deal with the forthcoming Seventh Session of the Law of the Sea Conference.
File contains two articles on world federalism, likely written by Elisabeth Mann Borgese. The first summarizes the Chicago Committee to Frame a World Constitution, the second is a draft of "The World Communities" by Mann Borgese (see MS-2-744, Box 147, Folder 1 for another version of that paper).
File contains a letter with the United States Consul in Halifax regarding Elisabeth Mann Borgese's adoption of Canadian citizenship, and a letter with the Department of State, sent with a CV, and articles by Mann Borgese.
File contains correspondence with K.O. Emery of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and his wife. Topics of discussion include Emery's attendence at an International Ocean Institute (IOI) Training Programme, and his wife's illness.
File contains an excerpt from the Congressional Record of the United States Senate, regarding the Fifth Session of the Law of the Sea. Senator Clairborne Pell read "The Complexities of a Sea Change" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese into the record.