Series 1. Appointment Books
1952-1963
1964-1974
1975-1979
Series 2. Bio/Personal/Family
Includes early family correspondence, prints and negatives, awards and recognitions, bibliographies, clippings, early papers and reports
Series 3. Correspondence
1930s-1950s
1960s
1970s - 1980s, n.d.
Alphabetical Files
Bobbs-Merrill
Civil War Centennial Commission
Fulbright
Little, Brown
State Department
Series 4. Diaries
Diaries (apparently JM's), ca. 1909, 1920s
Series 5. History Teaching
History Teaching (UCSB H181), 1960s
Series 6. Illinois State Historical Society
Correspondence, minutes of meetings, constitution, memos, clippings, ca. 1941-1950
Series 7. Research Files
General
Alaska
Arms and Ammunition
Barrel
Benton
Black Hawk
Buffalo and Elk
Cartoon History
Castella
Chesapeake
Custer, Libbie
Dictator in Peru
Expansion of Europe
Kansas
Lincoln
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
McLane
Memmler
San Jose Convention
Sandburg, Carl
Scott, Dred
Spiritualism
Spiritualism and the Civil War
Steel Traps
Thesis (JM's PhD)
Tousel Head Lincoln
Traveller
Turdhin, John B.
Ute
Vivid Expressions
Western Course
Wild West
Wilde, Oscar
Archivo General de Indias (Seville), Contaduria 851
Department of Interior, Office of Indian Affairs (photocopies of records)
Taylor, Bayard, and Darlington family
Series 8. Scrapbook
Mainly picture postcards of Europe, ca. early 1900s
Series 9. Speeches and Lectures
Speeches and Lectures (including trips for U.S. State Department)
Series 10. Writings
Monographs
Australians and the Gold Rush: California and Down Under, 1849-1854 (University of California Press, 1966)
Book of the American West (Julian Messner, Inc., 1963)
Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849
Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865 (Little, Brown, 1955)
Custer: Life of Gen. George A. Custer (Little, Brown, 1959)
Diplomat in Carpet Slippers: Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs (Bobbs-Merrill, 1945)
Great Rascal: The Life and Adventures of Ned Buntline (Little, Brown, 1951)
Last of the Bad Men: The Legend of Tom Horn (Bobbs-Merrill, 1947)
Lincoln Bibliography, 1839-1939 (Illinois State Historical Society Library, 1943-1945)
Overland Trail (Bobbs-Merrill, 1947)
The Man Who Elected Lincoln (Bobbs-Merrill, 1956)
Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy (University of California Press, 1977)
Swamp Fox of the Confederacy: The Life and Military Services of M. Jeff Thompson (Confederate Pub. Co., 1956)
This Is Illinois: A Pictorial History (University of Chicago Press, 1949)
Articles
Ms drafts (mainly typescripts)
Print copies
Series 11. Photographs and Illustrations
Photographs and Illustrations (mainly for publications; includes some original prints)
Series 12. Slides and Film
Slides and Film (includes 35mm b/w negative strips and microfilm)
Series 13. Artifacts
Two pieces of unidentified fabric
Series 14. Miscellany
Unidentified items
Series 15. Oversize
Photographs and Illustrations (mainly for publications)
Scrapbooks
Articles
News clippings
Reviews