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Garrison family papers, 1801-1948 (inclusive), 1840-1907 (bulk).

Title: Garrison family papers, 1801-1948 (inclusive), 1840-1907 (bulk).

Papers of American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and his family.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (7.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00673/catalog View

Claude Halstead Van Tyne papers

Title: Claude Halstead Van Tyne papers

Professor of history at University of Michigan; scholar of America's revolutionary era. Correspondence concerning the historical profession, publishing, current events, and personal matters; lecture notes, newspaper clippings concerning personal matters and travels in Europe and India; papers concerning his activities during World War I, particularly with the National Security League.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-86747?rgn=main;view=text View

Papers of John Spencer Bassett, 1770-1978 (bulk 1894-1928).

Title: Papers of John Spencer Bassett, 1770-1978 (bulk 1894-1928).

Correspondence, diaries and journals, lectures, speeches, writings, research material, subject files, family correspondence, and collected historical manuscripts. Documents Bassett's teaching career at Trinity College, Durham, N.C. (later Duke University), and at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., his biography of Andrew Jackson, and his secretaryship of the American Historical Association. Includes Bassett's writings and research material on the Regulator movement, slavery, and other topics in North Carolina history; his editorship of the South Atlantic Quarterly; and his interest in race relations, politics, and educational reform in the South, and in national politics and the League of Nations. Bassett's collected historical manuscripts include letters (1802) between governors William Charles Cole Claiborne, Archibald Roane, and Benjamin Williams concerning the extradition of Stockley Donelson and William Tyrrell, implicated in the Yazoo land frauds; papers of Ralph Earl, artist and intimate of Andrew Jackson; family and personal papers of Alabama lawyer and planter Henry Watson; and literary papers. Family members represented include Bassett's wife, Jessie Lewellin Bassett, and their children, Margaret Byrd Bassett and Richard H. Bassett. Correspondents include Herbert Baxter Adams, Charles McLean Andrews, Kemp P. Battle, William Kenneth Boyd, George Washington Cable, J. Franklin Crowell, Josephus Daniels, William Edward Dodd, Robert L. Flowers, Albert Bushnell Hart, J. Franklin Jameson, Walter Hines Page, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Peterfield Trent, and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 25,450 items.67 containers plus 1 oversize.26.8 linear feet.

https://lccn.loc.gov/mm92081299 View

Richard Gaither Walser Papers, 1918-1988

Title: Richard Gaither Walser Papers, 1918-1988

Richard Gaither Walser (1908-1988) was a professor of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and author of numerous works, chiefly relating to North Carolina's literary heritage. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other materials chiefly relating to North Carolina' literary heritage. Files on individual authors and literary subjects dominate, with special emphasis on the life and works of Thomas Wolfe. Other authors represented in the collection include Doris Betts, Helen Bevington, James Boyd, Richard Chase, Jonathan Daniels, Wilma Dykeman, Charles Edward Eaton, John Ehle, Paul Green, Bernice Kelly Harris, George Moses Horton, Gerald W. Johnson, Frederick H. Koch, Guy Owen, Robert C. Ruark, Wilbur D. Steele, Hardin E. Taliaferro, and Jonathan Williams. There is also material on North Carolina folklore and other topics not directly connected to literature. A small number of items relate to Walser's life as a student at the University of North Carolina and to his service with the United States Naval Reserve during World War II.

ArchivalResource: About 27,800 items (32.5 linear feet)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04168/ View

August Charles Krey Papers, 1887-1961.

Title: August Charles Krey Papers 1887-1961.

A.C. Krey’s papers, accumulated throughout his career as a historian at the University of Minnesota, contain correspondence by and about the leading contemporary historians in the U.S. Krey’s leadership in national and state historical organizations such as the American Association of University Professors, American Historical Association especially its Commission on the Investigation of Social Studies in the Schools, Minnesota Historical Society. and the National Council for the Social Studies.

ArchivalResource: 16.8 linear feet (41 boxes).

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/uarc00973.xml View

Bassett, John Spencer, 1867-1928. John Spencer Bassett collection, 1802-1998 (bulk 1893-1911).

Title: John Spencer Bassett collection, 1802-1998 (bulk 1893-1911).

The collection contains personal and professional papers related to the life and work of John Spencer Bassett. Materials range in date from 1802 to 1998 (bulk 1893-1911) and include biographical information, correspondence, printed material, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, and souvenirs. The collection also includes the autobiography of Jessie Lewellin Bassett, who was John Spencer Bassett's wife.

ArchivalResource: 250 items (1.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53906262 View

Van Tyne, Claude Halstead, 1869-1930. Claude Halstead Van Tyne papers, 1885-1930.

Title: Claude Halstead Van Tyne papers, 1885-1930.

Correspondence concerning the historical profession, publishing, current events, and personal matters, lecture notes, newspaper clippings concerning personal matters and travels in Europe and India; also papers concerning his activities during World War I, particularly with the National Security League; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft. and 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34422626 View

Brown, William Garrott, 1868-1913. Papers, 1898-1917.

Title: Papers, 1898-1917.

Personal and professional correspondence and literary notes, Brown's diploma from Harvard, and a copy of his will. The letters center around Brown's literary work and friends, but also discuss Republican politics in the South, political reaction to the imperialistic policies of Theodore Roosevelt and support of Woodrow Wilson, and the passage of the Aldrich monetary bill, which formed the basis of Federal Reserve System. Also includes letters from Brown to John Spencer Bassett giving biographical information. Other correspondents include many promiment literary and political figures. Additional papers include copies of Brown's letters in the Charles William Eliot Papers, Harvard University, and the Edward Mandell House Papers, Yale University. These concern race relations and Woodrow Wilson's presidential campaign, 1912.

ArchivalResource: 1,013 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19316870 View

John Spencer Bassett Papers 42., 1867 - 1928, 1895 - 1990

Title: John Spencer Bassett Papers 1867 - 1928 1895 - 1990

Professor of History. Contains professional papers, correspondence, news clippings and photographs belonging to John Spencer Bassett.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes; (1.5 linear feet)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/smitharchives/manosca380.html View

Wendell Holmes Stephenson Papers, 1820-1968

Title: Wendell Holmes Stephenson Papers, 1820-1968

ArchivalResource: Linear feet of space occupied: 34.6; Number of items: ca. 25,950

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/stephen/ View

Biographical Reference Collection, ., 1972 - 2004

Title: Biographical Reference Collection, . 1972 - 2004

The Biographical Reference Collection contains files of clippings, publications, biographical sketches, curriculum vitae, and other materials about the activities of Duke University administration, faculty, staff, and alumni, as well as other people connected or associated with the University, including members of the Duke family. These files were compiled from a variety of sources by University Archives staff for use in reference and research.

ArchivalResource: 15.0 Linear Feet,; 15,000 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/uabio/ View

Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Company reader reports on manuscripts submitted for publication. 1882-1931.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company reader reports on manuscripts submitted for publication

Reader reports on manuscripts submitted for review and potential publicationby Houghton Mifflin Company.

ArchivalResource: 103 boxes, 1 volume (130 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01623/catalog View

Trinity College Historical Society. Trinity College Historical Society collection, [1492?]-1981.

Title: Trinity College Historical Society collection, [1492?]-1981.

The collection includes historical notes about Trinity College and the Society, correspondence, meeting announcements, administrative files, publications, speeches, and artifacts. Materials range in date from [1492?] to 1981.

ArchivalResource: 3500 items (20.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55635812 View

Bassett, John Spencer, 1867-1928. Papers, 1806-1943.

Title: Papers, 1806-1943.

Correspondence, notes, and clippings, concerning Bassett's academic and historical interests, including North Carolina history, slavery and race problems, abolition, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Roanoke Colony Memorial Association, and Trinity College.

ArchivalResource: 303 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19242277 View

Boyd, William Kenneth, 1879-1938. William Kenneth Boyd papers, 1851-1956.

Title: William Kenneth Boyd papers, 1851-1956.

The William Kenneth Boyd papers include correspondence, diaries, financial and legal materials, writings, notes, student papers, photographs (including tintypes), and other materials related to the personal and professional life of Boyd. Major correspondents include N. B. McDowell, Pat LeGrand, Marion Colley, and John Spencer Bassett. There are also letters from W. E. B. Du Bois and other prominent African Americans.

ArchivalResource: 20000 items (20.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60654579 View

Duke University. University Archives. Bassett Affair collection, 1903-2003.

Title: Bassett Affair collection, 1903-2003.

The collection contains essays, articles, clippings, correspondence, reminiscences, and other published and unpublished matter including Bassett's article, "Stirring Up the Fires of Race Antipathy" (1903); a scrapbook (1903-1904) kept by Trinity College officials with newspaper clippings documenting national coverage the case received; copies of letters by Theodore Roosevelt to Owen Wister (1906) commenting on the case and on Trinity; manuscripts of "My Recollections of the Bassett Trial," by Robert Lee Durham (1936), "The Bassett Affair: A Play in Six Acts," by Baird Straughan (1975), and "Crisis at Trinity" a play by John Merritt (1989); lists of related materials in other collections; and various shorter articles and speeches including comments by Richard L. Watson, and an address to the Academic Council by Terry Sanford. The collection also features clippings and addresses related to the Bassett Affair centennial celebration in 2003.

ArchivalResource: 300 items (2.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53906263 View

Adams, Herbert Baxter, 1850-1901. Papers, 1891-1913; (bulk 1891-1902).

Title: Papers, 1891-1913; (bulk 1891-1902).

Letters consisting chiefly of communications from Stephen Beauregard Weeks and John Spencer Bassett concerning the organization of the History Department at Trinity College (now Duke University), Durham, N.C. Also discusses current political problems in North Carolina. Persons mentioned include John Franklin Crowell, president of Trinity College, William Kenneth Boyd, W.T. Laprade, and John Martin Vincent.

ArchivalResource: 52 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19105170 View

Kingsbury, Theodore Bryant, 1828-1913. Theodore Bryant Kinsbury papers, 1840-1915.

Title: Theodore Bryant Kinsbury papers, 1840-1915.

Business and personal letters, editorials and other writings, and other materials of Theodore Bryant Kingsbury. Corresopndence, 1840-1849, is to him while a student in Oxford, N.C.; at Lovejoy's Military Academy in Raleigh, N.C.; and at the University of North Carolina from friends in Oxford and students at several schools and colleges. Later letters, beginning in 1858, are from educational, literary, and political leaders in North Carolina and elsewhere, including Josephus Daniels, Zebulon Baird Vance, Charles B. Aycock, Walter Hines Page, John Spencer Bassett, Kemp P. Battle, Henry E. Shepherd, John O. Guion, Calvin H. Wiley, Seaton Gales, V. C. Barringer, and members of the Kittrell and Kingsbury families. Some letters relate to University of North Carolina history. Also included are newspaper clippings and a letter book entitled "Some old letters of my boyhood," dating 1840-1849. There are also undated drafts and fragments of Kingsbury's writings.

ArchivalResource: About 240 items (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23289503 View

John Spencer Bassett Papers 42., 1867 - 1928, 1895 - 1990

Title: John Spencer Bassett Papers 1867 - 1928 1895 - 1990

Professor of History. Contains professional papers, correspondence, news clippings and photographs belonging to John Spencer Bassett.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes; (1.5 linear feet)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/smitharchives/manosca380.html View

Duke University. Library. Papers relating to John Spencer Bassett's article, Stirring up the fires of race antipathy, which appeared in the South Atlantic quarterly [microform].

Title: Papers relating to John Spencer Bassett's article, Stirring up the fires of race antipathy, which appeared in the South Atlantic quarterly [microform].

ArchivalResource: 1 collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37876581 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918. Papers, 1889-1917.

Title: Papers, 1889-1917.

Papers include letters concerning the publication of articles in the various journals with which Page was associated, including three letters from James Whitcomb Riley, one of which contains portions of a poem entitled "The Sermon of the Rose;" and copies of letters to Page by John Spencer Bassett and Edwin Mims pertaining to Bassett's references to Booker T. Washington in an editorial in The South Atlantic quarterly, vol. II, no. 4 (1903).

ArchivalResource: 23 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20077806 View

Dodd, William Edward, 1869-1940. Papers, 1901-1939.

Title: Papers, 1901-1939.

Reply to a letter from President Roosevelt; copies of letters to Dodd from John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, and from Dodd to Professors Rippy and McLaughlin; clippings regarding illnesses of Dodd and a hit-and-run driver charge against him in 1939.

ArchivalResource: 43 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41546400 View

John Spencer Bassett Collection, 1802 - 1998 (bulk 1893-1911)

Title: John Spencer Bassett Collection, 1802 - 1998 (bulk 1893-1911)

John Spencer Bassett, a professor in the History Department of Trinity College from 1893-1906, was a renowned educator and advocate of freedom of expression. A native of North Carolina, Bassett received his A.B. from Trinity College in 1888 and his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University in 1894. He returned to Trinity College to teach and was active in teaching, writing and collecting southern Americana. Bassett began publication of an annual series of of the Trinity College Historical Society; founded the honorary society 9019, a precursor to Phi Beta Kappa; founded and edited the scholarly journal, the ; and encouraged his students to publish and fostered their interests in Southern history. In 1903, Bassett published an article, in the that praised the accomplishments of African Americans and offered views on how to improve race relations. Bassett's views brought on a controversy that became known as the that helped to establish the concept of academic freedom in higher education in the United States. The collection contains personal and professional papers related to the life and work of John Spencer Bassett. Materials range in date from 1802 to 1998 (bulk 1893-1911) and include biographical information, correspondence, printed material, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, and souvenirs. Historical Papers South Atlantic Quarterly Stirring Up the Fires of Race Antipathy South Atlantic Quarterly, Bassett Affair

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Linear Feet,; 250 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/uabassett/ View

William Garrott Brown papers, 1898-1917

Title: William Garrott Brown papers 1898-1917

This collection contains personal and professional correspondence and literary notes of historian and essayist William Garrott Brown. The letters center around Brown's literary work and friends, but also discuss Republican politics in the South, political reaction to the imperialistic policies of Theodore Roosevelt and support of Woodrow Wilson, and the passage of the Aldrich monetary bill, which formed the basis of Federal Reserve System. It also includes letters from Brown to John Spencer Bassett giving biographical information. Other correspondents include many promiment literary and political figures. Additional papers include copies of Brown's letters in the Charles William Eliot Papers, Harvard University, and the Edward Mandell House Papers, Yale University. These concern race relations and Woodrow Wilson's 1912 presidential campaign.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 linear feet; 4 boxes, 1,013 items (inc. 2 vols.)

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/brownwilliamg/ View

Fisher, I. M. [Diary], 1777 Apr 5-29 / I. M. Fisher.

Title: [Diary], 1777 Apr 5-29 / I. M. Fisher.

Diary of a trip made by Fisher from Dover, England to France. Vol. 1 deals with the trip from Dover to Calais and onward towards Paris; v. 2 concerns Fisher's time in Paris and return to England. He comments on each town visited, their buildings and churches and the customs of the people he meets. Vol. 2 also contains some financial accounting of the journey.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. ; 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68906433 View

Papers of John Spencer Bassett, 1770-1978 (bulk 1894-1928).

Title: Papers of John Spencer Bassett, 1770-1978 (bulk 1894-1928).

Correspondence, diaries and journals, lectures, speeches, writings, research material, subject files, family correspondence, and collected historical manuscripts. Documents Bassett's teaching career at Trinity College, Durham, N.C. (later Duke University), and at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., his biography of Andrew Jackson, and his secretaryship of the American Historical Association. Includes Bassett's writings and research material on the Regulator movement, slavery, and other topics in North Carolina history; his editorship of the South Atlantic Quarterly; and his interest in race relations, politics, and educational reform in the South, and in national politics and the League of Nations. Bassett's collected historical manuscripts include letters (1802) between governors William Charles Cole Claiborne, Archibald Roane, and Benjamin Williams concerning the extradition of Stockley Donelson and William Tyrrell, implicated in the Yazoo land frauds; papers of Ralph Earl, artist and intimate of Andrew Jackson; family and personal papers of Alabama lawyer and planter Henry Watson; and literary papers. Family members represented include Bassett's wife, Jessie Lewellin Bassett, and their children, Margaret Byrd Bassett and Richard H. Bassett. Correspondents include Herbert Baxter Adams, Charles McLean Andrews, Kemp P. Battle, William Kenneth Boyd, George Washington Cable, J. Franklin Crowell, Josephus Daniels, William Edward Dodd, Robert L. Flowers, Albert Bushnell Hart, J. Franklin Jameson, Walter Hines Page, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Peterfield Trent, and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 25,450 items.67 containers plus 1 oversize.26.8 linear feet.

https://lccn.loc.gov/mm92081299 View

Kilgo, John C. (John Carlisle), 1861-1922. John C. Kilgo records and papers, 1888-1970 (bulk 1894-1920).

Title: John C. Kilgo records and papers, 1888-1970 (bulk 1894-1920).

Records and papers contain correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, printed matter, and scrapbooks pertaining to Kilgo's career as an educator, as President of Trinity College, and as a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Subjects include Kilgo's educational philosophy, family affairs, Duke family philanthropy and the financial state of Trinity College, union of Methodist churches, Kilgo's election as bishop, and controversies in which he and the College were involved, including the Gattis vs. Kilgo, B.N. Duke, and W.R. Odell slander case and the John Spencer Bassett Affair concerning academic freedom.

ArchivalResource: 10000 items (12.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55635806 View

Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Title: Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Letters from various correspondents to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page concerning his editorial work and his interest in education in the South.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01471/catalog View

William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Craven-Pegram Family Papers, 1785-1966

Title: Craven-Pegram Family Papers, 1785-1966

ArchivalResource: 11.4 linear feet; Approximately 6,565 items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/cravpeg/ View