Guide to the Jacob Peter Mayer Collection
Arrangement and description by D. Tambo
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Guide to the Jacob Peter Mayer Collection, 1910-1985 [bulk dates 1940s-1960s]
Collection number: Mss 215
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- Feb. 11, 2010
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2010 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Jacob Peter Mayer Collection
Dates: 1910-1985
Bulk Dates: 1940s-1960s
Collection number: Mss 215
Creator:
Mayer, J. P. (Jacob Peter), 1903-
Collection Size:
0.2 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Abstract: The collection contains correspondence, photographs, and related materials, most of which accompanied the 14,500 volume library
of Jacob Peter Mayer, political scientist and Alexis de Tocqueville scholar.
Physical location: Del Sur.
Languages:
English
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Jacob Peter Mayer Collection. Mss 215. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Purchase from Jacob Peter Mayer, 1962-1963.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains correspondence, photographs, and related materials, most of which accompanied the 14,500 volume library
of Jacob Peter Mayer, political scientist and Alexis de Tocqueville scholar. Rarer volumes from the library are housed in
Special Collections and have been cataloged separately.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Mayer, J. P. (Jacob Peter), 1903-
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
Box 1: 1
Copies of University of Colorado press release,
1961
Box 1: 1
Donald C. Davidson (UCSB University Librarian) biographical sketch,
1962
Box 1: 2
General - mainly correspondence to Mayer re Tocqueville and publishing matters,
1910-1960s
Includes letter from G. Sterling to Idwal [Jones?] on Bohemian Club, San Francisco, stationery,
1920
Box 1: 3
Letters laid in volumes from Mayer's library
Box 1: 4
Tocqueville - letters concerning Mayer's edition of Alexis de Tocqueville's
Democracy in America,
1965-1985
Box 1: 5
Photographs - three black and white 8x10 prints of Mayer,
n.d.
