James Truslow Adams papers, 1918-1949

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence



Box 1 Adams, Henry - Adams, James Truslow



Box 2 Amory, Cleveland


Box 2 Arnall, Ellis


Box 2 Arms, John Taylor


Box 2 Aswell, Edward C.


Box 2 Baldwin, Raymond E.


Box 2 Barr, Stringfellow


Box 2 Becker, Carl


Box 2 Benet, Steven Vincent


Box 2 Boni, Albert


Box 2 Breasted, James Henry


Box 2 Brooks, Van Wyck


Box 2 Buck, Pearl


Box 2 Burlingham, Charles C.


Box 2 Butler, Nicholas Murray


Box 2 Callender, Harold


Box 2 Canby, Henry Seidel


Box 2 Coker, Francis W.


Box 2 Commager, Henry Steele


Box 2 Cortissoz, Royal


Box 2 Coudert, Fredric Rene


Box 2 Cousins, Norman


Box 2 Cross, Wilbur L.


Box 2 Damrosch, Walter Johannes


Box 2 Darrow, Whitney


Box 2 Dashiell, Alfred S.


Box 2 Dewey, John


Box 2 Dewey, Thomas E.


Box 2 duPont, Eugene E.


Box 2 Erskine, John


Box 2 Fadiman, Clifton


Box 2 Finley, David


Box 2 Ford, Worthington C.


Box 2 Fox, Dixon Ryan


Box 2 Freeman, Douglas Southall


Box 2 Garland, Hamlin


Box 2 Gibson, Charles Dana


Box 2 Hagedorn, Herman


Box 2 Hamilton, Clayton


Box 2 Hampden, Walter


Box 2 Hazlitt, Henry


Box 2 Hirst, Francis W.


Box 2 Hoover, Herbert


Box 2 Hoover, J. Edgar


Box 2 Howard, Sidney


Box 2 Howe, M. A. DeWolfe


Box 2 Howe, Mark Antony



Box 3 Howe, Will D.


Box 3 Hull, Cordel


Box 3 Johnson, Robert Underwood


Box 3 Jusserland, Jean Jules


Box 3 Keller, Helen


Box 3 Kent, Henry Watson


Box 3 Kingsly, Charles


Box 3 LaFarge, Oliver


Box 3 LaGuardia, Fiorello H.


Box 3 Landon, Alf M.


Box 3 Lamont, Thomas W.


Box 3 Leach, Henry Goddard


Box 3 Liddell Hart, Sir Basil Henry


Box 3 Lippman, Walter


Box 3 Lord, Edward


Box 3 Loveman, Amy


Box 3 McAfee, Helen


Box 3 McIntyre, Alfred


Box 3 MacLeish, Archibald


Box 3 Manship, Paul


Box 3 Merritt, Carol B.


Box 3 Millikan, Robert Andrews


Box 3 Moore, Charles


Box 3 Morison, Samuel Eliot


Box 3 Muirhead, J. F.


Box 3 Murry, J. Middleton


Box 3 Muzzey, David S.



Box 4 Nathan, Robert


Box 4 Nevins, Allan


Box 4 Nixon, Richard M.


Box 4 Palmer, Paul


Box 4 Pearson, Edmund


Box 4 Perkins, Maxwell E.


Box 4 Phelps, William Lyon


Box 4 Pollock, Channing


Box 4 Post, Emily (Mrs. Price)


Box 4 Pringle, Henry Fowles


Box 4 Putnam, Herbert


Box 4 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


Box 4 Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr.


Box 4 Scribner, Charles


Box 4 Sedgwick, Ellery


Box 4 Sinclair, Upton


Box 4 Sloan, Alfred Pritchard, Jr.


Box 4 Smuts, Jan Christian


Box 4 Speicher, Eugene


Box 4 Stout, Rex


Box 4 Stowe, Lyman Beecher


Box 4 Sullivan, Mark


Box 4 Swope, Gerard


Box 4 Tarkington, Booth


Box 4 Thompson, Dorothy


Box 4 Tinker, Chauncey Brewster


Box 4 Train, Arthur


Box 4 Untermeyer, Louis


Box 4 Vanderbilt, Harold Stirling


Box 4 Van Doren, Carl


Box 4 Van Doren, Mark


Box 4 van Loon, Hendrik Willem


Box 4 Weeks, Edward


Box 4 Wheelock, John Hall


Box 4 White, William Allen


Box 4 Young, Owen D.

Series II: Arranged Correspondence



Box 5 Letters A-B



Box 6 Letters C-E



Box 7 Letters F-J



Box 8 Letters K-O



Box 9 Letters P-S



Box 10 Letters T-Z and unidentified fragments



Box 11 Letters of Condolence A-Z



Box 12 Copies of letters to and from J.T. Adams



Box 13 Correspondence concerning the collection



Box 14 Correspondence with Irving Trust, 1930-1948

Series III: Manuscripts



Box 15 "An American Family". Typed manuscript. Note: restricted and unpublished


Box 15 "An American Family". Typed manuscript (draft), with handwritten revisions pp. 76-106.


Box 15 "America's Tragedy". Typed manuscript (unpublished).


Box 15 Memorials of Old Bridgehampton.1 volume, with handwritten revisions.



Box 16 "Empire on the Seven Seas"


Box 16 Other manuscripts


Box 16 Miscellaneous manuscripts and notes


Box 16 Copy of The American with letters by the author tipped in

Series IV: Ephemera and Photographs



Box 17 Awards and Degrees


Box 17 Juvenilia


Box 17 Memorabilia


Box 17 Miscellaneous


Box 17 Miscellaneous family documents


Box 17 Pamphlets


Box 17 Photographs

Series V: Scrapbooks and Newspapers



Box 18-19 Scrapbooks on the Supreme Court Number 1-4, 1932 and 1937, 1932, 1937



Box 20 Newspaper and magazine clippings by and about J.T. Adams



Box 21 Newspaper and magazine clippings by and about J.T. Adams



Box 22 Four scrapbooks of news clippings; articles by and about J.T. Adams,, 1928-1930



Tube Box 25 MA Historical Society. Election as a correspondeng member


Tube Box 25 Michelena Family Genealogy, 1849

Series VI: Oversized Scrapbooks



Box 22 Articles by and about J. T. Adams with handwritten notes in margins. 2 volumes


Box 22 New York Times: World's Fair supplement (sect. 8) ; article by J.T.A,, 3/5/39


Box 22 Awards and degrees; watercolor. (1 Folder)

Series VII: Card File



Box 23-24 Nevins, Allen. Index to the papers prepared for and used by Allen Nevins for his biography of James Truslow Adams, 1968 [4 card file Boxes], 1968