Allan Nevins papers, 1912-1992
Allan Nevins papers, 1912-1992
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- Ms Coll\Nevins,Ms Coll/Nevins, A
- Bib ID:
- 4079154 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 104 linear feet (205 boxes; ca.40700 items in oversize items; 207 record storage cartons of books)
- Language(s):
- English .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection has no restrictions.
The following boxes are located off-site: 8-17, 32-205. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Description
Scope and Content
Approximately 12,000 letters to Allan Nevins from various correspondents including James Truslow Adams, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Willa Cather, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Van Wyck Brooks, Robert Frost, Newton D. Baker, Archibald MacLeish, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Carl Sandburg, and Henry Wallace; notes and typescripts for Nevins' books including Emergence of Lincoln, The Ordeal of Democracy, Rockefeller, and History and Historians, with notes by editor Ray A. Billington; miscellaneous transcripts, clippings, newspapers, and photographs. Also, autograph letters and manuscripts by presidents, Civil War figures, financiers, politicians, and authors. There are also the Brand Whitlock World War I Diaries and letters to him by such people as Herbert Hoover, Gen. John J. Pershing, and others.
Arrangement
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. Cataloged correspondence, A-Z: Boxes 1-6; Cataloged professional correspondence, A-Z: Boxes 18-31; Cataloged manuscripts: Box 7; Brand Whitlock diaries, etc.: Boxes 8, 9& 16; Uncataloged materials arranged by topic: Boxes 10-15, 17, 32-205; Books, Boxes 1-6.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection has no restrictions.
The following boxes are located off-site: 8-17, 32-205. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Allan Nevins Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Related Materials
Additional papers relating to ORDEAL OF THE UNION are at the Henry Huntington Library
Research files and manuscripts relating to his biography of Herbert H. Lehman are in the Lehman Papers, 406 International Affairs
Additional papers relating to Ordeal of the Union are at the Henry Huntington Library.
Research files and manuscripts relating to his biography of Herbert H. Lehman are in the Lehman Papers.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Alternate Form Available
Lord Bryce letters are on: microfilm.
Willa Cather letters are on: microfilm.
Royal Cortissoz letters are on: microfilm.
Elizabeth Benton Fremont diary is on: microfilm.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Nevins, Allan. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1953. Accession number--M-53.
Papers: Source of acquisition--Mayer, Meredith Nevins. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/04/1992. Accession number--M-92-12-04.
Gift of Allan Nevins, 1953 & 1954.
Bequest of Alan Nevins, 1971.
Gift of Anne Nevins Loftis & Meredith Nevins Mayer, 1982.
Gift of Meredith Nevins Mayer, 1992.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
The books from Prof. Nevins' own library, which were formerly shelved with these papers, have been moved to offsite storage.
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/1989.
Papers Processed HR 10/05/1992.
Processed by Henry Rowen 3/2000.
Revision Description
2010-02-18 Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.
2014-03-19 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Biographical / Historical
American historian and editor.
Nevins, Joseph Allan May 20 1890 Mar. 5 1971 historian and educator. He attended the University of Illinois wher he earned a B. A. 1912 and an M. A. in English 1913 Nevins moved to New York to work as a journalist in 1913. While working as a journalist Nevins found time to write books on history.
In 1928 Nevins accepted a position teaching history at Columbia University. In 1931 he was appointed Dewitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. Nevins was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University in 1940 1941 and 1964 1965
Nevins was a quite prolific writer producing more than 50 books and scores of srticles. He produced biographies of Henry White, Grover Cleveland, Abram Hewitt, Hamilton Fish, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, and and Herbert Lehman.
Subject Headings
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.
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Series I: Historical Correspondence
In Boxes 1-6 of the collection
Box 1
Box 2
Box 3
Box 4
Box 5
Box 6
Series II: Professional Correspondence
In Boxes 18-31 of the collection
Box 18
Box 19
Box 20
Box 21
Box 22
Box 23
Box 24
Box 25
Box 26
Box 27
Box 28
Box 29
Box 30
Box 31
Series III: Manuscripts, Diaries etc.
Box 7
Box 8
[8]
Box 9
[9]
Box 10
[10]
Box 11
[11]
Box 12
[12]
Box 13
[13]
Box 14
[14]
Box 15
[15]
Box 16
[16]
Box 17
[17]
[vols. 17, 18, 19 ]
Box 32
Box 33
Box 34b
Box 34a
Box 34b
[On top of diaries, Box 32]
[On top of Diaries, Box 32]
Box 35
[Gift of Mrs. Allan Nevins]
Box 36
[Gift, 1973]
Box 37
Box 38
Box 39
Box 40
Box 41
Box 42
Box 43
Box 44
Box 45
Box 46
Box 47
Box 48
Box 49
Box 50
Box 51
Box 52
Box 53
Box 54
Box 55
Box 56
Box 57
Box 58
Box 59
Box 60
Box 61
Box 62
Box 63
Box 64
Box 65
Box 66
Box 67
Box 68
Box 69
Box 70
Box 71
Box 72
Box 73
Box 74
Box 75
Box 76
Box 77
Box 78
Box 79
Box 80
Box 81
Box 82
Box 83
Box 84
Box 85
Box 86
Box 87
Box 88
Box 89
Box 90
Box 91
Box 92
Box 93
Box 94
Box 95
Box 96
Box 97
Box 98
Box 99
Box 100
Box 101
Box 102
Box 103
Box 104
Box 105
Box 106
Box 107
Box 108
1875
Box 108
1876
Box 108
Box 108
Box 108
Box 108
Box 109
Box 109
Box 109
Box 109
Box 110
Box 110
Box 110
November 1879
Box 110
December 1879
Box 110
Box 110
Box 111
April -December 1880
Box 111
Box 111
May -December 1881
Box 111
Box 111
Box 111
Box 112
January -June 1883
Box 112
July -December 1883
Box 112
Box 112
Box 112
Box 113
Box 113
Box 113
Box 113
Box 113
Box 114
Box 114
May -December 1887
Box 114
January -April 1888
Box 114
Box 115
Box 115
January -June 1889
Box 115
July -December 1889
Box 115
Box 115
January -June 1890
Box 115
July -December 1890
Box 115
July -December 1890
Box 116
January -April 1891
Box 116
April -December 1891
Box 116
January -June 1892
Box 116
July -December 1892
Box 116
1893
Box 116
January -June 1894
Box 116
July -December 1894
Box 116
1895
Box 116
1896
Box 116
1897
Box 116
1898
Box 116
1899
Box 116
1900
Box 116
1901
Box 116
1902
Box 116
1903
Box 116
1904
Box 117
1905
Box 117
1906
Box 117
1907
Box 117
1908
Box 117
1909
Box 117
1910
Box 117
1911
Box 117
1912
Box 117
1913
Box 117
1914
Box 117
1915
Box 117
Box 118
Box 118
Box 118
Box 118
Box 118
Box 118
Box 118
Box 118
Box 118
Box 118
Box 118
Box 118
Box 118
Box 119
Box 119
Box 119
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Box 119
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Box 136
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Box 140
Box 141
Box 142
Box 143
Box 144
Box 145
Box 146
Box 147
Box 148
Box 149
Box 150
Box 151
Box 152
Box 153
Box 154
Box 155
Box 156
Box 157
Box 158
Box 159
Box 160
Box 161
Box 162
Box 163
Box 164
Box 165
Box 166
Box 166a
Box 167
Box 168
Box 169
Box 172
Box 170
Box 171
Box 173
Box 174
Box 174
Box 175
Box 176
Box 177
Box 178
Box 179
Box 181
Box 182
Box 183
Box 184
Box 185
Box 186
Box 187
Box 188
Box 189
Box 190
Box 191
Box 192
Box 193
Box 194
Box 195
Box 196
Box 197
Box 198
Box 199
Box 200
Box 201
Box 202
Box 203
Box 203
Box 204
Series IV: 1982 Gift
Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, photographs, obituaries, memorials, and scrapbooks. Included are three letters from Van Wyck brooks and one letter from Willa Cather.
Box 205
Series V: Oversize Material
Flat Box 340
Flat Box 340
Flat Box 341
Flat Box 342