Association for Documentary Editing records, 1977-2004 ( bulk 1978-1990).

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Association for Documentary Editing records, 1977-2004 ( bulk 1978-1990).

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The collection consists largely of correspondence regarding several facets of the Association for Documentary Editing. These include the formation of the Association for Documentary Editing, correspondence and manuscripts for "A Guide to Documentary Editing" (published in 1987), materials related to the organization of annual conventions, membership records, financial records, correspondence regarding several awards, and correspondence related to a questionnaire about members' projects and protocol. Much of the material is from persons who occupied the positions of President, Secretary-Treasurer (later divided into two posts - Secretary, and Treasurer), and Director of Publications. Mary-Jo Kline, as author of "A Guide to Documentary Editing" (1987), also contributed a significant portion of the correspondence. There are many people represented within the vast body of correspondence in this collection. However, the following individuals contributed a majority of the correspondence: Charlene Bickford, Warren Billings, Jo Ann Boydston, Lester Cappon, David Chesnutt, Don Cook, Charles Cullen, Richard Leffler, John Kaminski, Mary-Jo Kline, Jon Kukla, Arthur Link, Beth Luey, Thomas Mason, Joel Myerson, Barbara Oberg, Linda Pike, Robert Rutland, Richard Showman, Harriet Simon, John Y. Simon, Raymond Smock, Sharon Ritenour Stevens, and Celeste Walker.

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Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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Cappon, Lester Jesse, 1900-1981

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Lester Jesse Cappon (1900-1981) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Jesse Cappon and Mary E. Geisinger Cappon. He studied music, earning a diploma from the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in 1920, but was also interested in history and earned degrees at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and at Harvard University, acquiring a Ph.D. in 1928. In 1925, Cappon went to the University of Virginia, where he worked on editions of Virginia historical publications and newspapers funded by the...

Cullen, Charles

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Oberg, Barbara

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Cook, Donald, 1907-

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Bickford, Charlene N.

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Boydston, Jo Ann, 1924-2011

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Smock, Raymond.

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Stevens, Sharon Ritenour

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Mason, Thomas, Dr.

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Luey, Beth, 1946-....

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Billings, Warren M., 1940-....

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Historian. From the description of Temple v. Gerard [manuscript] : an example of appellate practices in colonial Virginia, 1667-1668. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647963898 Warren M. Billings (1940- ), a scholar of seventeeth-century Virginia history and early American law, is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and Historian of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. He holds degrees from the College of William and Mary, the Universi...

Walker, Celeste

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Leffler, Richard

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Chesnutt, David R.

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Link, Arthur A.

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Arthur A. Link was born in Alexander, N.D. in 1914, and attended schools in McKenzie County. Later, he studied farm husbandry at the North Dakota Agricultural College. Link served in the North Dakota House of Representatives from 1946 to 1970, including 14 years as minority floor leader, and as Speaker of the House in 1965. He was also active in township and county affairs, serving as a member of the Randolph Township Board, McKenzie County Welfare Board, and Randolph School Board. Link also ser...

Rutland, Robert Allen, 1922-....

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Historian. Editor, The papers of James Madison, University of Virginia. From the description of Robert A. Rutland [manuscript], 1981. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814660 From the description of Papers of Robert Allen Rutland [manuscript], 1979 August-October. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647914391 From the description of Papers of Robert Allen Rutland [manuscript], ca. 1972. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647914386...

Simon, John Y.

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Showman, Richard K.

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Myerson, Joel.

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Simon, Harriet Furst.

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Kaminsky, John P.

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Kukla, Jon, 1948-

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Association for Documentary Editing

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In April of 1978 a session was chaired by John Y. Simon, editor of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, to discuss forming an organization to promote documentary editors and their work. By April, 1979, the group had registered 153 members. The newly-formed Association for Documentary Editing served to promote documentary editing through the cooperation and exchange of ideas among the community of editors. The ADE established and bestows several awards to recognize excellence by editors, their project...

Kline, Mary-Jo.

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Pike, Linda Joy, 1953-

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