Guide to the David Morris Potter Papers SC0088
Note
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Papers
Professional correspondence, A-Z 1964-1968
Potter - bibliography
Placement correspondence
Reference letters for students -1969
Rosters
Letters of reference - students 1969-1970
Letters of reference - defaulted
Looking for positions
Letters of reference 1970-1971
Letters of reference 1969-70, non-grad students 1969-1970
Bird books - invoices, etc.
Potter - recent correspondence
Professional correspondence A-Z 1969-1970
Unfiled correspondence
Restricted material from box 2
Two folders of letters received while at Oxford University, with a few drafts of outgoing letters 1947-48
Correspondence A-Z 1956-1961 (incoming and some outgoing carbons) 1956-1961
Series of Potter's folders:Stephen Kline
Series of Potter's folders: Correspondence: my teaching 1961-1962
Series of Potter's folders: Letters answered 1960-1963
Series of Potter's folders: University College, London 1961-1963
Series of Potter's folders: Answered or not to be answered 1942-1964
Series of Potter's folders: Items not requiring an answer 1966-1968
Series of Potter's folders: Correspondence answered (to be filed) 1948-1963
Series of Potter's folders: Correspondence 1952-1954
Series of Potter's folders: Council, AHA 1968
Series of Potter's folders: Humanities Foundation and Behavioral Center
Series of Potter's folders: Program on Culture, OAH 1970
Accordion files of letters received A-Z 1947-1950
Accordion files of letters received A-Z 1950-1956
Correspondence
Correspondence A-Z for, mostly letters received with a few carbons of outgoing letters and a few drafts of letters. 1932-1947
Letters received from his parents (mostly his mother) 1933-1948
Correspondence, largely from family and friends 1927-1937
Two folders of correspondence to be filed 1955-1960
Teaching materials-Yale
Teaching materials-Stanford
Teaching materials-Stanford
Teaching materials, lecture notes, grade books, appointment books
Teaching materials-Stanford
Writings-Scott Foresman text
Research and bibliographical notes, letter record
Professional committees, etc
Album containing various articles
Potter - book reviews and notes
Saturday Review and the New Republic - assorted copies
Saturday Review
Saturday Review and Yale Review - assorted copies
Assorted publications
Miscellaneous lectures - notes and typescript
Lecture at Stanford - written draft and correspondence 1963
Journalism conference at Stanford - program 1968
American women - written and typed drafts
Paper for Committee on Historical Analysis - written and typed drafts; notes; and correspondence
Paper on Vice-Presidents - typescript
Paper on advertising; originally for the Sat. Rev.
Paper for Barnes Riznik - written and typed draft; notes; and correspondence, 1961-63 1961-1963
Article for Am. Hist. Review – multiple versions
Paper on Nationalism - written and typed drafts
Article on Nationalism - typescript, correspondence
Lincoln and His Party" - written and typed drafts
Trail to California, Revision - correspondence, notes, text re preface by Potter, 1948, 1961 1948, 1961
Hinton Helper - biographical note
Paper for Yale Review, 50th year - mss and typescript
Typed textbook script, chaps. 1-3
typed textbook script, chaps. 4-7
Quest for the National Character - written and typed script, correspondence re publication, 1959-62 1952-1962
Phillips Introduction and Bibliography
Abolition Movement - article for Encyc. Britt.
Huey Pierce Long - article for Encyc. Britt.
Papers for LS. U. Press
Richard Watson - correspondence 1959-1961
The South - article and notes 1963
Nathan Hale - notes, articles, and facsimile of Hale letter
Walgreen lectures - typed text
Walgreen lectures - notes
People of Plenty - typed article, and various publications re 1958
American economics and agriculture
Problems book - revisions requested by Henry Holt 1958
Problems - notes
Disputes in coal industry - typescript articles
M. Savary letter with historical analysis, notes
Undergraduate papers
Elmer Henry - photographs and papers by Henry
Papers written by Potter in graduate school
Ralph Ross - article and Potter's response 1958
John Brown - written manuscript
Herman Belz paper - Reconstruction of the Union
Division and the Stresses - Chap 1 typescript and critique of material
Division and the Stresses - Chap. 1-3 typescript
Division and the Stresses - Chaps. 1-4 typescript
Review of Pacific Circle - printed and typescript versions
Review of Catton - printed version, notes, and correspondence re publication 1969
Potter, memo re Report of the History Panel
Review of Heard Round the World - typescript and correspondence 1969
Critique of Stampp paper
Division and the Stresses - notes
Women's Magazines and Woman's Role in American life" - first draft, correspondence with Good Housekeeping, 1955 "And Nixon Makes Eight" and "Heirs to the Presidency" - typescript and correspondence re publication 1955
"American Leisure as an American Force" - written draft and correspondence re publication 1963, 1968-1969
L.S.U. - South and Sectional Conflict - correspondence with L.S.U. Press re his book, 1968-69 and correspondence 1963 with Alexander Riasanovsky re publication 1963, 1968-1969
South and Sectional Conflict--reviews, publicity 1969-1970
South and Sectional Conflict - corrections in mss for the galleys
Bobb-Merrill - correspondence and financial records 1969
My writing - manuscripts, typescripts, reprints of articles, reviews, speeches with some clippings and letters 1952-1963
Permissions - correspondence re use of Potter's work 1967-1970
United States Information Service lincoln Exhibition - catalog for traveling exhibit; texts selected by Potter Circa 1959
ROTC - my address - text and correspondence re talk at commissioning ceremony 1970
Review copy of The Progressive Historians by Richard Hofstadter; with Potter's comments [not foldered]
DMP-bibliography 1968
list of Ph.D.'s completed with DMP
Bobbs-Merrill - correspondence, bibliography re Reprint Series in American History 1963-1966
Kyoto - phone memo
Class Day Talk - text of talk on class day at Stanford 1967 Jun 17
Genovese Paper - correspondence, text re Potter's comments on Eugene Genovese's paper on U.B. Phillips and its publication 1966-1977
AHA Dec '68 Stampp Paper - correspondence re Potter as commentator 1968
Reviews - correspondence, text 1965-1966, 1968
Review of Status Politics - correspondence, text 1963
Journalism Prog - background info on conference where Potter spoke 1968 Jun 26
Essay for [C. Vann] Woodward on Civil War - broadcast lecture on Voice of America, correspondence and text, 1966 1966
Conference Danforth Fellows - correspondence 1968 Feb 6-9
Commission on Violence [National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence] - correspondence, text of comments, information 1968
PCB meeting Aug. 1968 [Pacific Coast Branch of AHA] - correspondence, text of talks by others 1968 August
Planting Fields- correspondence, lists, bibliography, lecture notes from Potter's course at Institute for American History and Government at SUNY, Stony Brook 1966 Summer
Conf. on Political Parties-St. Louis - summary report
[Daniel J.] Boorstin Anthology - correspondence and text for Potter's entry to Boors tin 's American Primer, 1966 1966
Canada-U.S. - correspondence and text for Potter's article in Canada Views the United States, 1966-67 1966-1967
Janeway [Eliot] - correspondence and publications by Janeway 1967
Paper at Duke - correspondence, galleys, text re participation in symposium and publication of paper, 1966-67 1966-1967
Pickett papers - mss copies of historical sources
Civil Rights- clippings and articles 1966 Summer
Southern Sectionalism - research correspondence, notes, clippings 1940
Senior Class Day - correspondence and text of talk 1964
St. John Papers - info re Isaac Munroe St. John Papers at Yale University library, 1951 1951
Symposium on People of Plenty at San Francisco - correspondence and text of comment 1966
Civil War pictures - photographs and negatives of illustrations
Anderson at Sumter - notes from contemporary sources
Detweiler Paper - correspondence and text of review for Journal of Southern History, 1964 1964
Mississippi: maps, legis. apportionment - research notes
Carbon copies-Phillips notes - typescripts of historical sources of 1850s 1850s
Henry Adams and Boston Advertiser - typescript copies of sources; typescript article by Potter; manuscript notes
Reprints by others
Broadcasts at Texas - correspondence, notes re 1V lectures 1962-1963
Misc. U.S. lectures - notes
Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in American History - correspondence, lists, catalog, 1966 1966
Bobbs-Merrill - correspondence, catalogs, lists 1963-1964
Hexter manuscript - on historiography, with one page of comments by Potter, n.d.
Miscellaneous - clipping re students being ignorant of U.S. history 1943
Yale Press-Janeway [Eliot] - correspondence of Potter, Janeway, George Pannly Day of Yale Press, and Arthur H. Brook re mss of Janeway's, 1950-51 1950-1951
Comparative Civilization - seminar papers, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1958 1958
Janeway - correspondence, 1950-59, with some clippings and reviews 1950-1959
Ronald Press - correspondence re mss Potter reviewed with some notes 1944-1950
Advertising - examples and notes for proposed article, and correspondence 1958
Herzenberg [Leonard A.] - correspondence re rejection of Potter's daughter from summer program at Stanford Medical School 1965
Program at SHA 1966 on Confederate leaders after the War - correspondence and one paper (Potter was chair of session) 1966
untitled - articles on Civil Rights 1958-1963
First Sumter Centennial - clippings 1961
History of the South - bibliography, exam questions, assignments, clippings plus an 1895 brochure re lecture tour of Gen. John B. Gordon
Negro - one clipping 1967-1968
History of South - clippings, articles, notes, bibliography 1947-1960
South- clippings, notes, reprints, bibliography 1961-1964
South - clippings re Democratic Convention 1948
untitled - misc. clippings, bibliographies, sources
Segregation-Citizens' Council Material- publications and brochures by CC and newspapers from other segregationist organizations, 1959-63 1959-1963
Oxford, Miss Riots 1966 - clippings 1966
Potter, Memorandum on the Report of the History Panel, Behavioral and Social Sciences Survey, May 1969 (2 copies)
Potter, Historical Aspects of the Rejection of or Disaffiliation from the Prevaling American Society, n.d. (2 copies)
Typescript paper "The Virginia Council" by Leonard W. Labaree with extensive genealogy charts, n.d.
Note cards for lecture "Three Woodrow Wilsons" during Berkeley summer session 1965
Professional correspondence A-H 1950s
Professional correspondence I-Z 1950s
Professional correspondence 1960s
[Chapter XIV; South and Sectional Conflict lectures; placement correspondence Sept. 69-70; Furness lectures - conflict/consensus; Dilys; loose notes; Fleming lectures;] 1969-1970
[Southern history essays; loose papers; Committee on the Hoover; misc; OAH since Nov. 1970; OAH April 70 meeting; OAH committees] Since 1970
[OAH since 4/70; placement 1970; Molly Minehan; OAH Committees before April 1970; Snyder; DP correspondence; Departmental; Bernstein; Bernstein-archive]
Letters of reference to be filed
Answer - personal
Later action
No title
Defer
No title - correspondence 1969
No title - correspondence 1968-1970
Correspondence to be filed
Misc. correspondence
Misc. notes
Manuscript copies of papers and lectures. Also, holograph MS of The South and the Concurrent Majority, published 1972; the Fleming lectures were delivered from this MS. 1972
First draft, holograph, of Potter's 2-vol. book for Harpers on the Coming of the Civil War, chapters 1-9.
First draft, holograph, of Potter's 2-vol. book for Harpers on the Coming of the Civil War, chapters 10-19 (incomplete).
Unfinished MSS of textbook on American history (1953-56). Chapters I-VI holograph with Potter's corrections; correspondence with the typist Katherine Barnes. Copy of John E. Cook's The Wearing of the Grey, with three letters from Cook. 1953-1956
Annotated MSS of History and AmeriCan Society, chapters 1-16 and index
Galley proofs of History and American Society; reviews of The South and the Concurrent Majority
MSS of Freedom and Its Limitations on American Life; review of Craven's Historian and the Ciyil War
Publishers MSS of The Impending Crisis
Publishers MSS of The Impending Crisis
Paper by Walter Metzger and comments Circa 1960
J.K. Galbraith's The Affluent Society, annotated by Potter for reviewing
Lecture tapes, 1989-178 ARCH-1989-178
13 reels 1965-1966
"History of South" audio lecture tapes
Addenda, 1989-259 ARCH-1989-259
Lecture files and correspondence 1941-1967
Addenda, 2018-222. Lectures Accession ARCH-2018-222 1969-1970
Syllabus - American History (History 163) 1969-1970
Estrangement & Conflict and Consensus Lectures 1_01 1969 Dec 3-4
Divisive Forces in America & Character Lectures 1_02 1969 Dec 10-11
Untitled 1_03 1969
Untitled 1_04 1969
Radical Right & New Compulsions to Conformity Lectures 1_05 1969 Nov 24-25
Untitled 1_06 1969
Untitled 1_07 1969
Potter October Lecture #1 & #2 1_08 1969 Oct 1-3
Potter Lecture #3 & #4 1_09 1969
Potter Lecture #5 & #6 1_10 1969
#16 1_11 1969
#13 1_12 1969
Untitled 1_13 1969
Untitled 1_14 1969
Discussion of May Lecture 1_15 1969
Conflict and Consensus & Changing American Character Lectures 1_16 1969 Dec 8-9
Discussion of May & Alienation Lectures 1_17 1969 Nov 20-Dec 2
Untitled 1_18 1969
Technological Society & Other Direction Lectures 1_19 1969 Nov 26-Dec 1
Untitled 1_20 1969