Papers of Bernard Mayo [manuscript], ca.1940-1972.

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Papers of Bernard Mayo [manuscript], ca.1940-1972.

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Papers pertaining to Mayo's career as a professor of history, chiefly at the University of Virginia. The collection contains correspondence, research notes, manuscripts, photographs, speeches, ariticles, reviews, lectures, newsclippings, and other related items. The bulk of the collection concerns Mayo's extensive research on Henry Clay and Thomas Jefferson and his books, "Myths and Men," "Jefferson Himself," and "Henry Clay." Articles, speeches, and related publicity, about Clay and Jefferson form another major segment, and Mayo's correspondence with dozens of American historians is a third. Mayo's speeches and lectures usually were biographical sketches of famous Americans, including Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, and George Washington. With the papers are an 1979 obituary of Bernard Mayo written by William W. Abbot and a 1979 October 29, "A memorial Resolution for Professor Bernard Mayo," prepared by William W. Abbot, and Julian Bishko, and adopted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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