Guide to the Ephraim Douglass Adams Papers
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2000
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Overview
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
Administrative Information
Provenance
Custodial History
Gift of James D. Adams, 1975, 1981.
Information about Access
None.
Ownership & Copyright
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.
Cite As
[Identification of item], Ephraim Douglass Adams Papers (SC0142). Department of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical Note
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.
Scope and Content Note
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
Outline of Arrangement
Correspondence Boxes 1 - 2
Publications Boxes 3 - 7
Ford Controversy Boxes7 - 8
Miscellaneous Box 8
Administrative Records Box 9
Access Terms
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.
General note
(Taken in part from Payson Treat's A Tribute to Friend and Scholar,
Stanford Illustrated Review, 10/30)
Our United States of America
Box 3, Folder 1
Outline of story,
Physical Description:
manuscript and typescript
Box 3, Folder 2
Chapter 1,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 3, Folder 3
Chapter 2,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 3, Folder 4
Chapter 3,
Physical Description:
typescript
Box 3, Folder 5
Chapter 4,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 3, Folder 6
Chapter 5,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 3, Folder 7
Chapter 6,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 3, Folder 8
Chapter 7,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 3, Folder 9
Chapter 8,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 3, Folder 10
Chapter 9,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 3, Folder 11
Chapter 10,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 3, Folder 12
Chapter 11,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 3, Folder 13
Chapter 12,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 1
Chapter 13,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 2
Chapter 14,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 3
Chapter 15,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 4
Chapter 16,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 5
Chapter 17,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 6
Chapter 18,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 7
Chapter 19,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 8
Chapter 20,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 9
Chapter 21,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 10
Chapter 22,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 11
Chapter 23,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 12
Chapter 24,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 13
Chapter 25,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 14
Chapter 26,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 4, Folder 15
Chapter 27,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 5, Folder 1
Chapter 28,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 5, Folder 2
Chapter 29,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 5, Folder 3
Chapter 30,
Physical Description:
ms.
Box 5, Folder 4
Chapter 31,
Physical Description:
ms. and typescript
Box 5, Folder 8
Notes, manual of illustrations
Box 5, Folder 9
Notes, manual of illustrations
Great Britain and the American Civil War
Box 6
Part I,
Physical Description:
typescript [bound]
Box 6
Part II,
Physical Description:
typescript [bound]
Box 6
Part III,
Physical Description:
typescript [bound]
Life of Charles Francis Adams
Box 7, Folder 3
Vol. II, chapters 7, 16, 17
Box 7, Folder 9
Correspondence with Charles Francis Adams,
Jan-Mar 1914
Box 7, Folder 10
Correspondence with Charles Francis Adams,
Apr-Jun 1914
Box 7, Folder 11
Correspondence with Charles Francis Adams,
Jul-Dec 1914
Box 7, Folder 12
Why We Are at War With Germany,
circa 1917
Box 7, Folder 13
Correspondence with Learned and Jameson,
1925
Box 7, Folder 14
Material sent to Learned and Jameson from Adams
Box 7, Folder 15
Correspondence re the question of collaboration and pledge to Charles Francis Adams,
circa 1913-1915
Box 7, Folder 16
Analysis of correspondence with Charles Francis Adams and Worthington C. Ford on
The Life of Charles Francis Adams
Box 8, Folder 1
Research materials used for
The Life of Charles Francis Adams held by E.D. Adams
Box 8, Folder 2
Lange's Biographical Notes used by Adams for
The Life of Charles Francis Adams
Box 8, Folder 3
Bibliography of Adams' writings
Box 8, Folder 4
A Collection of Letters of Ephraim and Elisabeth Douglass Adams. Section 3. Edited by James Douglass Adams. Iowa Historical Society,
1979
Box 8, Folder 5
A Collection of Letters of Ephraim and Elisabeth Douglass Adams. Section 4. Edited by James Douglass Adams. Iowa Historical Society,
1979
Box 8, Folder 6
Hoover, Herbert. Recollections of Herbert Hoover by E.D. Adams
Box 8, Folder 7
Hoover, Herbert. Clippings
Box 8, Folder 8
Lewis, Mrs. John. Diary, [Adams' typescript transcription]
1730-1775
Box 8, Folder 9
Lecture on the Monroe Doctrine
Box 8, Folder 10
Patrick, M.R. Diary, 15 Oct. 1846 - 26 March 1848 [Adams' typescript transciption]
Box 8, Folder 11
Patrick, M.R. Diary,
Jan-31 May 1862
Box 8, Folder 12
Patrick, M.R. Diary,
Jun-15 Sep 1862
Box 8, Folder 13
Patrick, M.R. Diary,
15 Sep-25 Dec 1862
Box 8, Folder 14
Patrick, M.R. Diary,
26 Dec 1862-5 May 1863
Box 8, Folder 15
A Personal Reaction to the Great War,
undated
Box 8, Folder 18
Reviews: -
Autobiography of Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
Reviews -
Rivalry of the United States and Great Britain over Latin America by J.F. Rippy
Box 9, Folder 1
Faculty and Council Rules, Admissions requirements [also includes Adams' book list]
Box 9, Folder 2
Suggested Plan of Policy for the Reorganization and Development of Stanford University,
1909
