William W. Abbot papers [manuscript], ca.1943-1992.

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William W. Abbot papers [manuscript], ca.1943-1992.

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Professional, academic and personal papers of William W. Abbot, Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George Washington. Included are correspondence including letters to his parents during World War II, topical and committee files, class notes and lectures, and student papers, grade books and recommendations. Major topics include meetings and programs of the American Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association; the Faculty Senate of the University of Virginia; the University of Virginia Corcoran Dept. of History; the University of Virginia Library; the Papers of George Washington; the University Press of Virginia; and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Correspondents include Clarence A. Bacote, Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., Warren M. Billings, Carol K. Bleser, Fredson Bowers, Julian P. Boyd, Richard Maxwell Brown, Lester Cappon, William H. Cartwright, John Casteen, Thomas D. Clark, Weldon Cooper, Robert D. Cross, Charles F. Delzell, Charles B. Dew, David H. Donald, Mary Maples Dunn, Norman Fiering, Edwin E. Floyd, Jimmie Franklin, Joe B. Frantz, Jack P. Greene, Philip J. Greven, Gilbert Gude, Martin J. Havran, Frank L. Hereford, Richard G. Hewlett, S. W. Higginbotham, Thomas C. Holt, James H. Hutson, Harvey H. Jackson, Sydney V. James, William Kelso, Richard S. Kirkendall, Stephen G. Kurtz, Melvin Leffler, Clifford Lewis, Arthur S. Link, Dumas Malone, William H. Masterson, Charles Mathias, Joseph H. McConnell, Michael McGiffert, James McPherson, Andrew Forest Muir, Paul C. Nagel, William H. Nelson, R. Ncholas Olsberg, Robert M. O'Neil, Carl P. Parrini, Edward Pessen, Merrill Peterson, Martin H. Quitt, Charles G. Roland, John J. Rumbarger, David Shannon, Edgar F. Shannon, Richard B. Sherman, James Morton Smith, Thad W. Tate, Paul S. Taylor, John J. (Jack) TePaske, Joseph Tregle, Bennett H. Wall, Richard L. Watson, Charles H. Wesley, Gordon S. Wood, C. Vann Woodward, and John Wiley & Sons, publishers. Additional organizations represented include the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute of Early American History and Culture, the editors of the Atlas of Early American History, the Association for Documentary Editing, the Society of the Cincinnati, the conference on the Northwest Ordinance the Georgia Historical Society, the Journal of Southern History, the Library of Virginia, the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, the Stratford Hall Seminar, National Council for the Social Studies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the City University of New York, the New York Historical Society, the Organization of American Historians, the Potomac River Basin Consortium, the Social Studies yearbook, the Papers of James Monroe, the Papers of George Mason, the United States Navy and the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. The collection also contains financial records, reviews of grant proposals, lecture notes for several classes. Also contains several manuscripts and papers including "The colonial beginnings of the United States, 1607-1753" by Abbot as well as Richard Ryerson: "The institutional response to crisis politics"; W. G. McLoughlin: "Religion and the republic: The search for religious liberty in a Charistian commonwealth; Richard Maxwell Brown: "The legitimizing of violence in the Revolutionary era: the American Revolution and American violence; and Dumas Malone: "My long journey with Mr. Jefferson." There are also student papers by John B. Boles, Richard E. Ellis, Seve Hochman, Donald S. Spencer, and Judy Wellman; and correspondence regarding Paul Taylor's "Georgia plan."

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