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Series I: Catalogued Correspondence
Series II: Subject Files

William Archibald Dunning papers, 1781-1922

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Series II: Subject Files


Box 3 Miscellaneous letters, mss., printed matter and clippings, 1922

Box 3 Includes the following subject folders: American Historical Association 1913; Centenary of Anglo-American peace, 1913; Dartmouth College; Obituary notes.


Box 4 Family documents, 1781-1877

Box 4 Includes: a composition written by William A. Dunning when he was a boy.

Family correspondence and manuscripts


Box 5 Robert Kerr--(32) letters to William A. Dunning

Box 5 Dartmouth College--(23) a.l.s. concerning the college

Box 5 Matilda M. Dunning--(78) letters, post cards etc. addressed to her

William A. Dunning

Box 5 (2) journals, 1873-1987

Box 5 (22) diaries

Box 5 Charlotte Dunning--(1) journal, fragmentary, 1899-1915

Box 5 Dunning family: miscellaneous letters among family members; visiting cards


Box 6 Personal property of William A. Dunning--for example, glasses, watch, pipe ex cetera


Box 7 Photographs and postcards

Box 7 Biographical--Columbia College, circa 1878-1881

Civil War


Box 8 Beginning of Secession to Report of Reconstruction Committee, 1866--Notes and Correspondence, 1886-1910, undated

Box 8 Reconstruction--Manuscripts and Notes, undated

(2 folders)

Box 8 The History of the United States with special reference to the United States Constitution--Manuscript, undated

(2 folders)


Box 9 American Historical Association--Correspondence, Minutes, and Reports, 1914-1915

(2 folders)

Box 9 "Truth in History"--paper read before the American Historical Association--Annual Meeting--Charleston, 29 December 1913.--Published: American Historical Review, 19, no. 2 (January 1914): 217-229.--Drafts, Notes, and Research, 1913-1914

Box 9 The British Empire and the United States--Manuscript and Notes, undated

(2 folders)

Box 9 Children's Stories--Typescript, undated

Political Theory


Box 10 Manuscript--Book Chapters, undated

(4 folders)

Box 10 Notes, undated


Box 11 Andrew Johnson papers--Notes, 1905, undated

Box 11 Carl Schurz papers--Notes, undated

(4 folders)


Box 12 Irish Land Legislation Since 1845--Manuscript--Draft, undated

(4 folders)

England and Ireland

Box 12 Lectures, undated

(15 lectures)


Box 13 Notes, undated

(2 folders)

Box 13 The Political History of Europe since 1815 with special reference to the Nations of the Continent--Manuscript, undated (2 folders), undated

(2 folders)

Box 13 Notes on Languages, undated