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Series I: Correspondence
Series II: Manuscripts
Series III: Off Prints, Reprints, Clippings, Photographs, and Books

Charles Austin Beard collection, 1911-1976

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Series I: Correspondence

A:


Box 1 Folder 1 Alfred A Knopf Inc., 4 December 1944

(Re. Henry Seidel Cancy)

Box 1 Folder 2 Amery, L. S., 3 January 1955

(Re. U.S. economic policy post WWII)

B:

Box 1 Folder 3 Baldwin, Hanson W. (NY Times Military Editor), 9 April 1946

(Re. Vagts' "Landing Operations")

Box 1 Folder 4 Barnes, Harry Elmer, 12 August 1946-3 July 1948

(Re. Roosevelt and WWII)

Box 1 Folder 5 Barton, Bruce, 8 May 1945

Box 1 Folder 6 Baruch, Bernard M., 11 & 14 May 1927

(Re. profits made in war)

Box 1 Folder 7 Bayley, W. C., 5 November 1917

(Re. teaching American history in elementary schools)

Box 1 Folder 29 Beard, Charles A. to various recipients, 1935-1945

Box 1 Folder 8 Beard, Daniel Carter (Boy Scouts of America), 26 October & 23 November 1938

(Re. list of early Americans responsible for molding American thought)

Box 1 Folder 9 Beard, Jack to Miriam Vagts, 27 July 1970

(Re. his mother and flying his plane in 1933)

Box 1 Folder 10 Beard, William to Miriam Vagts, 1970-1978

Box 1 Folder 11 Becker, Carl, 1938-1943

Box 1 Folder 12 Bemis, Samuel Flagg, 28 May 1947

Box 1 Folder 13 Benton, Elbert J., 30 October & November 5 1917

Box 1 Folder 14 Berger, Doris (US Week), 25 February 1941


Box 3 Folder 39 Berle, Adolf Augustus, Jr., 28 September 1938


Box 1 Folder 15 Beveridge, Albert J., 10 October 1917

Box 1 Folder 16 Black, Hugo L. (Justice), 7 January 1942-18 November 1943

Box 1 Folder 17 Bone, Homer T. (US Senate), April 1938

Box 1 Folder 18 Borah, William E. (US Senate), 16 February 1938

Box 1 Folder 19 Borchard, Edwin M. (Yale Law), 1 March 1938-3 May 1945

Box 1 Folder 20 Bowen, Catherine Drinker, 19 April 1944 & 16 October 1970

Box 1 Folder 21 Bowman, Isaiah (Johns Hopkins), 31 May 1940-20 May 1941

Box 1 Folder 22 Boyd, Julian P. (Librarian, Princeton), 31 January -1 July 1948

Box 1 Folder 23 Brandeis, Louis (Supreme Court), 16 March 1934

Box 1 Folder 24 Brecht, Arlold to Dr. Vagts, 11 November 1968

(In German)

Box 1 Folder 25 Brodney, Spencer, 17 February 1936-22 August 1944

(re. Roosevelt)

Box 1 Folder 26 Brooks, Robert C. (American Political Science Association), 1917

Box 1 Folder 27 Brooks, Van Wyck, 12 February 1947

Box 1 Folder 28 Bruncken, Ernest (Library of Congress), May 1913


Box 2 Folder 1 Butler, Nicholas Murray, 18 February 1913-2 May 1944

Box 2 Folder 2 Butterfield, Victo L. (Wesleyan University), 11 May 1945

Box 2 Folder 3 Byrns, Joseph W., 20 & 26 August 1946

(re. Cordell Hull)

Box 2 Folder 4 Byrnes, James F., 24 February 1947

C:

Box 2 Folder 5 Capper, Arthur (US Senate), 25 February 1941

Box 2 Folder 6 Case, Francis (Congress), 11 October 1943

Box 2 Folder 7 Castle, William R., 11-21 January 1946

Box 2 Folder 8 Castle, William R., 25 January 1946

(with his revised "Note to Chaper VI" of Beard's manuscript)

Box 2 Folder 9 Chandler, Edward H. (the Twentieth Century Club), 23 October 1917

Box 2 Folder 10 Chantland, William T. (Federal Trade Commission), 23 January 1930

Box 2 Folder 11 Clark, Tom C. (Attorney General), 14 July 1947

(re. definition of "subversive")

Box 2 Folder 12 Clark, William P., 14 December 1925

(re. "Economics Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy")

Box 2 Folder 13 Coblentz, E. D., 31 May 1945

Box 2 Folder 14 Director of Naval School (Columbia University), 7 June 1944

Box 2 Folder 15 Commager, Henry Steele, 13 & 19 September 1937

(re. "Constitutional History" by Andrew C. McLaughlin)

Box 2 Folder 16 Cook, Jeffey W. to Miriam Vagts, 23 December 1970

Box 2 Folder 17 Coudert, Frederic R., 28 April 1913

Box 2 Folder 18 Counts, Geroge S. (Southern Illinois University) to Miriam Vagts, 11 May - 5 June 1970

Box 2 Folder 19 Crane, Robert T., 3 February 1941

Box 2 Folder 20 Croce, Benedetto, 24 June 1933 & 12 May 1947

(in Italian)

Box 2 Folder 21 Cross, Wilbur L. (CT Governor), 23 August 1933 - 20 April 1936

Box 2 Folder 22 Cunningham, Owen, 29 April 1948

Box 2 Folder 23 Curran, Fred

Box 2 Folder 24 Cushman, Robert E., 10 April 1945

Box 2 Folder 25 Cutting, Bronson M. (US Senate), 8 January 1930

D:

Box 2 Folder 26 Daniels, Josephus (Ambassador to Mexico), 21 September 1934

Box 2 Folder 27 Davidson, Eugene (Yale University Press), 8 May 1939

Box 2 Folder 28 Dept. of History. State University of Iowa, 14 December 1917

Box 2 Folder 29 Dewey, John, 17 December 1917

Box 2 Folder 30 Dickinson, John, 6 March 1931

Box 2 Folder 31 Dooman, Eugene H., 18 May & 22 June 1948

Box 2 Folder 32 Duffus, R.L. (NY Times), 8 June 1939

Box 2 Folder 33 Durant, Will, 14 October 1917

Box 2 Folder 34 Dykstra, C.A. (University of Wisconsin), 7 December 1942

E:

Box 2 Folder 35 Ely, Robert Erskine (League for Political Education), 25 October 1917

Box 2 Folder 36 Engelking, L.L. (NY Herald Tribune), 1944

Box 2 Folder 37 Estelle, Larry to Mary Beard, 20 October 1954

F:


Box 3 Folder 1 Fackenthal, Frank D. (C.U. Provost), 15 March & 27 April 1944

Box 3 Folder 2 Farley, James A. (CocaCola Chairman of the Board), 20 June 1945-4 August 1948

Box 3 Folder 3 Farrand, Max (Yale University), 2 May 1913

Box 3 Folder 4 Fay, Sidney Bradshaw (Smith College), 9 November 1928

Box 3 Folder 5 Fenton, Frank P. (American Federation of Labor), 27 January 1948

Box 3 Folder 6 Ferguson, Homer (US Senate), 11 October 1947

Box 3 Folder 7 Flack, Horace E., 4 November 1911

(re fourteenth ammendment)

Box 3 Folder 8 Fosdick, Harry Emerson (Riverside Church), 10 April 1942

Box 3 Folder 9 Fosdick, Raymond B., 8 February 1916

Box 3 Folder 10 Frank, John P., 28 August 1944 & 25 June n.y.

Box 3 Folder 11 Frankfurter, Felix, 30 April 1943 & 21 January 1948

Box 3 Folder 12 Freedman, I, 13 October 1917

G:

Box 3 Folder 13 Galloway, George B., 21 May 1947

Box 3 Folder 14 Goodknow, Frank J. (Johns Hopkins)

Box 3 Folder 15 Galton, Lawrence N., 6 March 1944

Box 3 Folder 16 Graham, Howard Jay, 29 January 1939

Box 3 Folder 17 Greenfield, Kent Roberts, 31 May 1940

H:

Box 3 Folder 18 Harvard Law, 5 May 1931

(re. "10 Milestones in the History of Privale Law")

Box 3 Folder 19 Hawkes, Mary (C.U. Dean), 4 January 1918

(re. "Fraser incident")

Box 3 Folder 20 Hearst, William Randolph to E. D. Coblentz, 21 January 1932

(re. "Politics shouldn't be a Shell Game") (Typed copy)

Box 3 Folder 21 Hagemann, Werner (New School), 19 April-18 November 1934

(re. his "Entlarvte Geschichte")

Box 3 Folder 22 Hoag, G. C. (Proportional Representation League), 24 October 1917

Box 3 Folder 23 Hughes, Rupert, 8 March 1937

J:

Box 3 Folder 24 Johns Hopkins University telegram to Senator Walter George, 5 February 1941

(re. Lend-lease Bill; sent to Beard by Harold Cherniss)

K:

Box 3 Folder 25 King, Judson (National Popular Government League), 9 & 11 October 1917

Box 3 Folder 26 Krock, Arthur (NY Times), 8 January 1941

(re. Beard's war with Japan prediction in 1933)

L:

Box 3 Folder 27 L.K.7., 23 November 1921

Box 3 Folder 28 Lindberg, Charles A., 20 March 1945-21 August 1948

(typed copy)

Box 3 Folder 29 Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 3 July 1947

M:

Box 3 Folder 30 Macfarland, Charles S., 14 May 1940

Box 3 Folder 31 March, Alton, 15 October 1917

Box 3 Folder 32 Mencken, H. L., 20 May 1939

O:

Box 3 Folder 33 O'Rourke, Grace (for Dr. Bradley), 20 August 1940

P:

Box 3 Folder 34 Palmer, Paul (The American Mercury), 12 May 1927

Box 3 Folder 35 Patterson, J. M. (The News), 16 May 1945

Box 3 Folder 36 Phelps, William Lyon (Yale University), 21 November 1935

Box 3 Folder 37 Pratt, Frances (Foreign Policy Association), 29 August 1934

(Includes copies of letters from Rudolph Katz to Alfred Vagts)

Box 3 Folder 38 Putman, James, 4 December 1932

R:

Box 3 Folder 39 R.W.M. (Assistant Secretary of State), 9 January 1936

(re. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission)

Box 3 Folder 40 Ratcliffe, Richard P. to Miriam Vagts, 3 August 1973

Box 3 Folder 41 Ritter, Halsted L., 24 October 1917

Box 3 Folder 42 Rogers, Lindsay, 8 May n.y.

Box 3 Folder 43 Rodgers, J. Woowall (American and Planning and Civic Association), 10 February 1948

Box 3 Folder 44 Roosevelt, Franklin, 15 January 1936

(re. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission)

Box 3 Folder 45 Russell, H. D., 9 August 1947

S:


Box 4 Folder 1 S____ and A. A. Young (War Trade Board), 22 September - 6 November 1917

(re. Academic Freedom in Time of War)

Box 4 Folder 2 Sinclair, Upton, 7 August 1939

Box 4 Folder 3 Smith, G. Herbert (willamette University), 21 May 1943

Box 4 Folder 4 Stangeland (NJ State Chamber of Commerce), 21 September & 9 October 1917

Box 4 Folder 5 Seppel, F. P. (War Department), 23 & 25 October 1917

Box 4 Folder 6 Stewart G. W. (State University of Iowa), 26 November 1917

Box 4 Folder 7 Stone, Harlan Fisk (Supreme Court), 13 March 1934 - 13 November 1945

Box 4 Folder 8 Sullivan, Mark (Collier's), 17 October 1917

Box 4 Folder 9 Symonds, Maurice to J. M. Peterson, 16 May 1945

T:

Box 4 Folder 10 Taylor, Helen K., 27 March 1944

Box 4 Folder 13 Triplett, Norman, 11 October 1917

V:

Box 4 Folder 11 Vagts, Miriam to various, 25 July 1970 - 8 January 1971

W:

Box 4 Folder 12 Witham, W. Tasker, 31 August 1945

Box 4 Folder 14 Wildman, Murray Shipley, 26 November 1917

Box 4 Folder 15 Works, John D. (US Senate), 5 May 1913

Y:

Box 4 Folder 22 Yale University Press to "Uncle Charlie", 29 July 1948

Series II: Manuscripts

By Beard:

Box 4 Folder 18 "The Big Railway Wreck" by Charles A. Beard

(Photocopy from Hoover Institute)


Box 6 Folder 1 "American Nationalism the Foe of Peace and Prosperity for the Whole World", 1944

(A report on the formula for The Reader's Digest)

Box 6 Folder 2 "An Unforgettable Woman"

(About Beard's grandmother, Sarah Payne)

Box 6 Folder 3 "Report to Governor Cross on Milk Situation", 29 August 1933

Box 6 Folder 4 Lectures on "The Scope of Politics" at The Bureau of Municipal Research, 1918

Box 6 Folder 9 "Note on Pearl Harbor"

Columbia Resignation:


Box 4 Folder 21 "Columbia Controversy" manuscript material


Box 6 Folder 8 Essay by Beard on the Columbia University and the Great War

Box 6 Folder 6 Columbia University Special Committee on Subversive Beliefs or Disloyalty, 1917

(Includes manuscripts, reports, and photocopies)

Box 6 Folder 7 "Statement of Facts in the Matter of the Committee of Education of the Board of Education of trustees of Columbia University and professor Charles A. Bead"

Research Photocopies:


Box 4 Folder 16 Photocopies of Raymond Moley correspondence from the Hoover Institute Archives, 1934-1936

Box 4 Folder 17 "Debts and Credits: An Economic Balance Sheet Drawn Up to Meet Political Necessities" by W. Y. Elliott

(Photocopy from Hoover Institute)

Box 4 Folder 19 Notes as to Military Record of Colnel Edward David

(Photocopy from Hoover Institute)

Box 4 Folder 20 Photocopies of correspondence from Harvard and other institutions

Biography of Charles A. Beard:


Box 5 Original manuscrips (ca 1000pp)

(Includes notes, drafts of chapters,  photocopies, and other archival materials compiled for Vagts's biography of C.A.B. The manuscript  appears to be fragmentary, with only a few chapters having proceeded to the finished stage. Materials  arranged as received, many pages clearly out of sequence; completeness impossible to gauge but still a  substantial archive of primary biographical material relating to Beard. )

Meetings:


Box 6 Folder 5 Meeting of the Commission on Direction American Historical Association Investigation of the Social Studies in the Schools, 7-8 May 1931

Series III: Off Prints, Reprints, Clippings, Photographs, and Books


Box 7 "What Can Government Do To Prevent and Relieve Unemployment?" by Robert F. Wagner and Charles A Beard. University of Chicago Press, 1932

Box 7 "Issues of Foreign Policy" by Charles A. Beard. University of Chicago Press, 1932

Box 7 "Issues of Domestic Policy" by Charles A. Beard. University of Chicago Press, 1932

Box 7 "The Idea of Let Us Alone" by Charles A. Beard. Virginia Quarterly Review, 1939

Box 7 "Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels" by Charles A. Beard. Harpers Magazine, 1939

Box 7 "Roosevelt's Place in History" by Charles A. Beard. Events, February 1938

Box 7 "A Memorandum on Social Philosophy" by Charles A. Beard. Journal of Social Philosophy, October 1939

Box 7 "Wirtschaft und Regierung den Vereinigten Staaten" by Charles A. Beard

Box 7 "Limitations to the Application of Social Science in Recent Social Trends by Charles A. Beard. Social Forces, May 1933

Box 7 "Time, Technology, and the Creative Spirit in Political Science" Edited by Charles A. Beard, 1927

Box 7 "The Individual and the Group in Marxist Theory" by John D. Lewis, October 1936

Box 7 "The Struggle against the Historical Blackout" by Harry Elmer Barnes

(Includes the poem "Tribute to Charles Austin Beard" by Eugene Davidson

Box 7 "The Predicament of History" by Eugen Rosenstock-Hussy, February 1935

Box 7 "Causes of Revolution" by Louis Gottschalk, July 1944

Box 7 "Social Change v. The Constitution" by Charles A. Beard, July 1936

Box 7 AHA Newsletter , June 1970

Box 7 "Charles Beard, Conneticut Farmer" by Albert Vagts in CLIO, 1976

Box 7 "Charles A. Beard's Recollictions of Henry County, Indiana" Editied by Clifton J. Phillips, March 1959

Box 7 Ritter Family - With Sketch of Eli Foster Ritter

Box 7 "The Relativity of History" by C. Vincent Confer in The Hellenist, May 1934

Box 7 Clippings and articles (ca. 200 items)

Photographs:


Box 6 Folder 10 Photograph of Frances Perkins giving a speech

Box 6 Folder 10 Photograph of an unidentified young boy

Books:


Box 7 Charles A. Beard: An Appraisal. Edited by Howard K. Beale. University of Kentucky Press, 1954

(The copy owned by Mary Beard and marked by her. With a photograph of Charles A. Beard inside the front cover)

Box 7 Charles A. Beard: An Appraisal. Edited by Howard K. Beale. University of Kentucky Press, 1954

(Inscribe to Mary Beard by Howard K. Beale, 8 April 1954)

(Inscribed to Eileen O'Daniel Eddy by Mary Ritter Beard, 31 October 1954)