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Call Number: SC0142
Creator:
Adams, Ephraim Douglass, 1865-1930.
Title: Ephraim Douglass Adams papers
Dates: 1730-1931
Physical Description:
7.25 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Custodial History
Gift of James D. Adams, 1975, 1981.
None.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.
[Identification of item], Ephraim Douglass Adams Papers (SC0142). Department of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Ephraim Douglass Adams was born in Decorah, Iowa, on December 18, 1865. Adams attended Grinnell College and graduated from
the University of Michigan in 1887, receiving a doctorate in 1890. He became principal of the high school in McGregor, Iowa,
in 1887-88, and after his graduate work he served in Washington on the staff of the Eleventh Census, 1890-91. He then joined
the history department of the University of Kansas, and eventually became professor of European History, resigning to accept
an appointment at Stanford in 1902.
Professor Adams taught European history for his first six years at Stanford, but in 1908, with the reorganization of the department,
he took over recent American history, and especially British-American relations. Adams also became head of the department
in 1908 and served in that capacity until 1922.
Adams' published works include The Control of the Purse in the United States Government (1894), The Influence of Grenville
on Pitt's Foreign Policy (1904), British Interests and Activities in Texas (1910), The Power of Ideals in American History
(1913), Great Britain and the American Civil War (1925).
Adams was collaborating with Charles Francis Adams, Jr. on the
Life of Charles Adams, Sr., at the time of Charles Francis Adams, Jr.'s death in 1915. When E.D. Adams used some of the research materials gathered
for this biography in his work
Great Britain and the American Civil War it led to a major controversy (here called the Ford Controvery) with Worthington C. Ford, President of the Massachusetts Historical
Society.
When Herbert Hoover assumed the direction of the wide-reaching operation of Belgian relief, Adams called to his attention
the importance of preserving all the significant records of his administration. From this correspondence arose the project
a War Library. Professor Adams directed the acquisition of materials throughout Europe after the war; these papers formed
the original collections in the new Hoover War Library (later renamed the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace).
Adams died of pneumonia on September 1, 1930.
The E.D. Adams Papers, dating from 1730 to 1931 (1900-1931 bulk), include correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of some
of Adams' writings, research materials, and a small amount of Stanford administrative records. The correspondence is arranged
chronologically, but the letters for the years 1929 and 1930 are arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
The Adams papers contain a substantial amount of correspondence concerning the Stanford History Department and the Hoover
War Library. Adams' correspondence with Hoover touches on other university matters also, such as the tenure system and the
Stanford Union.
The Adams papers also include correspondence pertaining to the establishment of the National Archives (J. Franklin Jameson).
E.D. Adams was collaborating with Charles Francis Adams, Jr., on
The Life of Charles Francis Adams, Sr. at the time of C.F. Adams, Jr. 's death in 1915. When E.D. Adams used some of the research materials gathered for this
biography in his work
Great Britain and the American Civil War it led to a major controversy (here called the Ford Controversy) with Worthington C. Ford, President of the Massachusetts
Historical Society. E.D. Adam's documentation of this dispute has been separated into its own series, the Ford Controversy.
Major correspondents include the following:
- Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
- Nina Almond
- American Historical Association
- Max Farrand
- Worthington C. Ford
- Herbert C. Hoover
- Lou Henry Hoover
- J. Franklin Jameson
- H. Barrett Learned
- Sir charles Lucas
- Ralph Lutz
- Edgar E. Robinson
- Lady Agatha Russell
- Ray Lyman Wilbur
- Frederick Jackson Turner
Correspondence Boxes 1 - 2
Publications Boxes 3 - 7
Ford Controversy Boxes7 - 8
Miscellaneous Box 8
Administrative Records Box 9
Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915
Adams, Elisabeth Douglass.
Adams, Ephraim Douglass, 1865-1930.
Adams, Ephraim, 1818-1907.
Almond, Nina.
American Historical Association
Farrand, Max, 1869-1945.
Fester, Ruth.
Ford, Worthington C.
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944.
Jameson, J. Franklin, (John Franklin), 1859-1937.
Learned, H. Barrett.
Lucas, Charles Prestwood,, Sir,, 1853-1931.
Lutz, Ralph Haswell, 1886-1968.
Massachusetts Historical Society..
National Archives (U.S.).
Ritchey, Lawrence.
Robinson, Edgar E.
Russell, Agatha,, Lady.
Stanford University. Department of History. -- General subdivision--Faculty.;
Stanford University. Stanford Union.
Treat, Payson J. (Payson Jackson), 1879-1972
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932.
Wilbur, Ray L., (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949
College teachers--Tenure--California--Stanford.
Manuscripts (for publication).
Notes.
(Taken in part from Payson Treat's A Tribute to Friend and Scholar,
Stanford Illustrated Review, 10/30)