Finding Aid to the William Carey Jones Papers, 1834-1923, bulk 1884-1923
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Finding Aid to the William Carey Jones Papers, 1834-1923, bulk 1884-1923
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 536
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Josh Schneider
- Date Completed:
-
April 2007
© 2007 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
Collection Title: William Carey Jones papers
Date (inclusive): 1834-1923,
Date (bulk): bulk 1884-1923
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 536
Creators :
Jones, William Carey, 1854-1923;
Jones, William Carey, 1814-1867
Extent:
Number of containers: 6 boxes, 1 carton, 1 portfolio
Linear feet: 4.5
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: The William Carey Jones Papers comprise the professional correspondence and research files of William Carey Jones, 1854-1923,
administrator, professor, and founder and first director of the School of Jurisprudence at the University of California. The
papers include extensive materials relating to Jones' administrative appointments at the University of California, including
his membership on the advisory board of the Phoebe A. Hearst International Architectural Competition, and his term as dean
of the Graduate Division, as well as his academic positions on the faculty of the Department of History and the Department
of Jurisprudence, prior to the founding of the School of Jurisprudence. The collection also contains drafts and notes for
Jones'
Illustrated History of the University of California, and correspondence and writings regarding city charters in California and elsewhere. Also included are documents belonging
to Jones' father, William Carey Jones, 1814-1867, relating to land title claims in California, including Rancho Santa Ana
y Quien Sabe, and the San Francisco Pueblo Lands.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English and French
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head
of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94270-6000. Consent is given on behalf of The
Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright
owner. Such permission must obtained from the copyright owner. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], William Carey Jones Papers, BANC MSS C-B 536, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Alternate Forms Available
Letters from Josiah Royce to William Carey Jones, (Box 2, Folder 15), is also available on microfilm (BANC MSS X-X FILM 10).
Additional Notes on Collection:
3 boxes and 2 cartons of additions to the William Carey Jones papers, previously identified by the call number BANC MSS 76/166
c, have been integrated into this collection.
Related Collections
Documents pertaining to the adjudication of private land claims in California, BANC MSS Land Case Files (individual call number
assignments vary).
Separated Material
Chapters from a manuscript written by University of California Professor of Jurisprudence Dudley Odell McGovney have been
separated and added to a new collection:
Our 18th Century Heritage of United Democracy: ms., circa 1940, by Dudley Odell McGovney, BANC MSS 2007/108.
Administrative records have been transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law records in the University
Archives in The Bancroft Library, CU-48.
A scrapbook of clippings concerning the Kaweah Colony, given by William Carey Jones and William A. Knowles, has been transferred
to BANC MSS C-V 24.
Issues of the
Kaweah Commonwealth have been added to the
Kaweah Commonwealth collection, xfF868.T8K28.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Jones, William Carey, 1854-1923--Archives
Jones, William Carey, 1814-1867--Archives
University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Jurisprudence
University of California, Berkeley. School of Jurisprudence
University of California, Berkeley. School of Law
University of California (1868-1952)--Faculty
Rancho Santa Ana y Quien Sabe
Municipal government--California
Land tenure--California--San Francisco
California--Politics and government
Bartlett, Louis, 1872-1960
Cable, G.W. (George Washington), 1844-1925.--Correspondence
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900.--Correspondence
Davis, Horace.--Correspondence
Dunbar, Charles Franklin, 1830-1900.--Corespondence
Eldredge, Zoeth Skinner.--Correspondence
Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902.--Correspondence
Gilman, Daniel Coit, 1831-1908.--Correspondence
Hanna, Edward Joseph, 1860-1944.--Correspondence
Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943.--Correspondence
Hastings, Serranus Clinton, 1814-1893.--Correspondence
Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1842-1919.--Correspondence
Hittell, Theodore Henry, 1830-1917.--Correspondence
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914.--Correspondence
Hosmer, Hezekiah L. (Hezekiah Lord), 1814-1893.--Correspondence
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910.--Correspondence
Kellogg, Martin, 1828-1903.--Correspondence
London, Jack, 1876-1916.--Correspondence
McKinstry, Elisha William, 1825-1901.--Correspondence
Miller, Adolph Caspar, 1866-1930.--Correspondence
Moses, Bernard, 1846-1930.--Correspondence
Reid, William Thomas, 1842-1922.--Correspondence
Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916.--Correspondence
Slack, Charles William, 1858-1945.--Correspondence
Stebbins, Horatio, 1821-1902.--Correspondence
Stoddard, Charles Warren, 1843-1909.--Correspondence
Taussig, Frank William, 1859-1940.--Correspondence
Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897.--Correspondence
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927.--Correspondence
Worcester, Joseph, 1836-1913.--Correspondence
Manuscripts for publication.
Addresses.
Biographies.
Charters.
Clippings.
Faculty papers.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The William Carey Jones papers, C-B 536, were acquired by the Bancroft Library beginning with a donation from William Carey
Jones of five letters regarding the Kaweah Colony. Additions of two boxes were donated by Frank Melvin Bumstead in August
1935. Additions of three boxes, as well as a portfolio containing materials on California land cases, were purchased from
Mrs. Francis Freyers by the Bancroft Library in July 1954. Additions of two boxes and one carton, previously identified under
the call number BANC MSS 67/177 c, were transferred from the Law Library in 1976.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
System of Arrangement
Arranged to the folder level.
Processing Information
Processed by Josh Schneider in 2006.
Biographical Information
Background and Early Education
William Carey Jones, former professor of law at the University of California, was born on October 15, 1854 in Washington DC,
to a well-respected family with strong political and military ties. His father, also named William Carey Jones, was a United
States Land Commissioner, who in 1849 headed the government's investigation into land titles in California. His mother, Eliza
Benton Jones, was the sister of General John Charles Frémont and the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri. Proceeding
further back on his father's side, Jones was the great grandnephew of General Joseph Warren, who fell at Bunker Hill, and
of Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford, a Loyalist and scientist whose inventions included central heating, the closed
oven, thermal underwear, and the pressure cooker.
The younger William Carey Jones was educated at public and private schools until the age of 17, when he enrolled at the University
of California, founded only three years prior to his arrival. Throughout his time as a student at the University of California,
Jones avidly pursued his interest in the law. He compensated for the lack of a formal program of legal education on the Berkeley
campus by supplementing his coursework in political theory and history with independent readings into the theory and practice
of law in California. He received his A.B. from the University of California in 1875, after submitting as his bachelor's
thesis an essay entitled,
Alfred the Great and George Washington.
Teacher and Administrator
Jones had intended upon graduating to immediately enter into practice. However, members of the University of California faculty
and administration had recognized his talent in legal matters, and had begun requesting for his services. In 1876, University
of California President John Le Conte offered Jones an administrative role as Recorder of the Faculties. In 1877, Jones was
appointed instructor in Latin at the insistence of Professor (and future university president) Martin Kellogg. In 1879, after
passing the bar exam and receiving his M.A., he attempted to resign his position at the University of California, in order
to once again pursue practice of law in San Francisco. His attempt at resignation met with swift opposition from the Board
of Regents. They referred the matter to a special committee, chaired by Dr. Horatio Stebbins, who personally convinced Jones
to stay on at the university.
From 1882-1894, Jones taught courses in Roman law, constitutional law, international law, and jurisprudence, as an Instructor
in United States History and Constitutional Law in the History Department. In 1894, the President and Board of Regents created
a new Department of Jurisprudence. Jones was selected to chair the new department, whose creation signaled the beginning of
a formal program of legal education on the campus.
The 1868 Organic Act, which created and organized the University of California, included provision for the establishment of
a law college. The Hastings College of Law, founded in San Francisco in 1878 through the generous funding of the first Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of California, Serranus Clinton Hastings, began offering courses in conjunction with the University
of California Department of Jurisprudence in 1898. Following extended discussions among William Carey Jones, President Benjamin
Ide Wheeler, and other longtime supporters of the University of California, the decision was reached to establish a more robust
program of legal education at the university, which would focus on abstract concepts as well as more practical applications,
and which would benefit from being in close proximity to the other academic departments and resources of the Berkeley campus.
On November 12, 1912, following fourteen more years of development and planning, the Department of Jurisprudence was transformed
into the School of Jurisprudence, with a new home at Boalt Hall, named for Elizabeth Boalt, who contributed $100,000 towards
the construction of the law school building. Jones was appointed its first director, a position he held until his death in
1923.
Besides serving as a de facto legal advisor to the University throughout his career, Jones served as a strong advocate of
the University. He helped attract many talented faculty, and was also a successful fundraiser, who played a major role in
strengthening Phoebe Hearst's relationship with the University. Although the Regents selected Benjamin Ide Wheeler to succeed
Martin Kellogg as President in 1899, Jones was under heavy consideration for that position, and there is some evidence that
his candidacy remained under consideration throughout his academic career.
Jones served as dean of the Graduate Division from 1918 to 1920, and in 1919 also served as chairman of the administrative
board that presided over the University in the nine-month interim between President Benjamin Ide Wheeler's resignation and
the inauguration of David S. Barrows.
Among his many contributions to the University of California, Jones wrote the University's first comprehensive history,
The Illustrated History of the University of California, first published in 1895. A revised edition of that volume, covering the university's history to the turn of the 20th century,
was published in 1901.
Public Servant and Legal Scholar
Apart from his close relationship with the University, Jones was very active in the affairs of the City of Berkeley. He served
for six years as President of the Berkeley Board of Education (1884-1890), and also held a seat for two years on the Berkeley
City Council (1894-1896). Jones served as President of the Berkeley Unitarian Club (1908), and also served as Chair of the
Board of Trustees of the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley (1911).
Jones was a member of the American, California, and Alameda County Bar Associations, the Phi Beta Kappa scholarship society,
and the Commonwealth Club of California, as well as the Golden Bear and Winged Helmet Clubs of the University of California.
Following many years of local affiliation, Jones also served as President of the National Committee of the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation (1921).
Jones helped write or amend the charters of many California cities, including Berkeley, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco,
and Vallejo, and was often contacted by municipal governments throughout the United States for his legal expertise. He also
authored numerous scholarly publications and articles, including treatises on torts in
Modern American Law, papers on constitutional law in the
California Law Review, and a number of legal textbooks, including the
Elements of Civil Government (1891).
Personal and Family Life
Jones married twice; his first marriage, to Alice Harriet Whitcomb, of Berkeley, took place on October 17, 1880. They had
one daughter, Alice Benton. Jones' second marriage, to Ada M. Butterfield, of San Francisco, took place on November 18, 1893.
Together they had two daughters, Frances Carey, and Elsie.
Jones maintained close ties with his children, and in the final year of his life, he visited his daughter Alice and her husband,
Willys Ruggles Peck, at their home in Peking, China. William Carey Jones died in Peking on October 2, 1923.
Chronology
1854 |
William Carey Jones is born on October 15, in Washington, D. C. |
1875 |
Receives A.B. from the University of California |
1876 |
Appointed Recorder of the Faculties |
1877 |
Appointed Instructor in Latin |
1879 |
Receives M.A. from the University of California |
|
Admitted to the State Bar of California |
1880 |
Marries Alice Harriet Whitcomb, of Berkeley, on October 17 |
1882 |
Appointed Instructor in United States History |
1884-1890 |
Serves as President of the Board of Education of Berkeley |
1891 |
The Elements of Civil Government is published
|
1893 |
Marries Ada M. Butterfield, of San Francisco, on November 18 |
1894-1896 |
Serves as member of the Berkeley City Council |
1895 |
First edition of
The Illustrated History of the University of California is published
|
1896 |
Nominated by Phoebe A. Hearst as the University Representative and Trustee of her endowment to the University |
1897-1900 |
Serves as Secretary of the California Historical Society |
1901 |
Revised edition of
The Illustrated History of the University of California is published
|
1908 |
Serves as President of the Berkeley Unitarian Club
|
1911 |
Serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley |
1912 |
Becomes Director of School of Jurisprudence |
1918-1920 |
Serves as Dean of Graduate Division |
1919 |
Serves as Chairman of the Board of Administration of the University |
1921 |
Serves as President of the National Committee of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation
|
1923 |
William Carey Jones dies on October 2, in Peking, China |
Scope and Content of Collection
The William Carey Jones papers comprise the professional correspondence and research files of William Carey Jones, 1854-1923,
professor, administrator, and first director of the School of Jurisprudence at the University of California.
Jones' extensive correspondence with faculty and administrators of the University of California, including seven presidents
of the university, represents one of the collection's major strengths. Correspondents from the University of California include
presidents Daniel Coit Gilman, William Thomas Reid, Edward Singleton Holden, Horace Davis, Martin Kellogg, and Benjamin Ide
Wheeler; professors Josiah Royce, Bernard Moses, and Horatio Stebbins; university librarian and archivist Joseph Cummings
Rowell; and philanthropist Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Much of the University of California correspondence relates to the creation
of the Department of Jurisprudence, as well as the founding of the School of Jurisprudence under Jones' direction.
Notable correspondents outside of the University of California include writers Jack London, George Washington Cable, and Charles
Warren Stoddard; historians Albert Bushnell Hart, Herbert Baxter Adams, and Theodore Henry Hittell; economists Adolph Caspar
Miller, Francis Amasa Walker, Charles Franklin Dunbar, and Frank William Taussig; State Supreme Court Justices Serranus Clinton
Hastings, Elisha William McKinstry, and Hezekiah Lord Hosmer; Mayor Louis Bartlett of Berkeley, and Mayor Edward Hull Crump,
of Memphis, Tennessee; physician and philanthropist Levi Cooper Lane; anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing; abolitionist
and social activist Julia Ward Howe; and Swedenborgian minister Joseph Worcester.
Another of the collection's strengths includes an extensive file on city charters, including correspondence, notes, essays,
and annotated charter drafts. The charter materials relate primarily to California cities; correspondence and notes on the
creation and amendment of the charters of Berkeley, Fresno, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Vallejo are particularly extensive.
The file culminates in the inclusion of a hand-bound volume of writings and articles collectively titled
Full Text of Model City Charter Drafted by William Carey Jones.
Although the collection includes a small number of unpublished essays, the draft materials and related correspondence for
Jones' published works are not very well represented. A notable and fortunate exception to the scarce documentation of Jones'
writings can be found in the inclusion of a comprehensive set of background materials for Jones'
The Illustrated History of the University of California, the first comprehensive history of the university. These materials, which include biographical notes, annotations, and drafts,
often demonstrate the same methodical reasoning, penchant for detail, and strict adherence to presenting factual evidence
unimpeded by emotion or bravado that typify Jones' legal opinions.
However, the drafts also reveal Jones' talent for infusing these characters from the early life of the university with a relevance,
substance, and vitality that is undeniably facilitated by Jones' intimate familiarity with the contributions of his subjects
on a personal as well as a professional level. The
Illustrated History background materials, replete with illustrations and anecdotal recollections, enable a researcher to see the author's unmistakable
dedication to ensuring that the rich history of the young university and its founders would be transmitted with the same candor
and steady purpose that is revealed in those who contributed, through their accomplishments and sacrifices, to the university's
creation and early successes.
The collection also includes limited materials relating to investigations into California land claim cases conducted by Jones'
father at the behest of the Commissioner of the United States General Land Office following the Mexican Cession. The land
case materials, which relate primarily to Rancho Santa Ana y Quien Sabe, and the San Francisco Pueblo Lands, represent a particularly
valuable addition to the collection on their own merits. In this context, they also provide a researcher with further perspective
into Jones' life and early influences.
Series 1
Correspondence
1855-1923
Physical Description:
Box 1, Folders 1-54; Box 2, Folders 1-50; Box 3, Folders 1-17.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent into two subseries: Incoming, and Outgoing and Incoming.
Scope and Content Note
Jones maintained extensive records of his professional correspondence. Apart from a general incoming correspondence file,
Jones kept a separate set of files for his drafts and copies of outgoing correspondence. In cases where the correspondence
with an individual was extensive, Jones often kept any incoming letters from that individual together with his drafts in this
second set of files.
Subjects include administrative work and fundraising for the University of California and matters related to Jones' positions
on various legal, social, and religious committees outside of the University of California, as well as topics in civic law,
including the creation and amendment of city charters. Additional correspondence may be found in Series 3, Professional Files.
Subseries 1:1
Incoming Correspondence
1884-1923
Physical Description:
Box 1, Folders 1-66; Box 2, Folders 1-50.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence addressed to William Carey Jones for which there is no reply contained in the collection. Incoming
correspondence can also be found integrated in Series 1.2, Incoming and Outgoing Correspondence, as well as throughout Series
3, Professional Files.
Box 1, Folder 1
American Academy of Political and Social Science
1891
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with Roland P. Falkner, associate editor of the
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Box 1, Folder 2
Ames, Pelham W. (Pelham Warren)
1890
Box 1, Folder 3
Andrews, Elisha Benjamin
1889
Box 1, Folder 5
Belford, Clarke and Co.
1886
Box 1, Folder 6
Bonté, John Harmon C.
1889-1894
Scope and Content Note
Includes notice of the appointment of William Carey Jones to the position of Associate Professor of United States History
at the University of California, on July 1, 1889.
Box 1, Folder 7
Bradley, Cornelius Beach
1890
Box 1, Folder 8
Burnham, S.W. (Sherburne Wesley)
1892
Box 1, Folder 9
Butler, Nicholas Murray
1918
Box 1, Folder 10
Cable, G.W. (George Washington)
1892
Box 1, Folder 12
Catlin, Amos Parmlee
1890
Box 1, Folder 13
Century Magazine
1890
Scope and Content Note
Includes a letter to William Carey Jones from Robert Johnson Underwood (1853-1937), regarding an article submitted to the
journal by William Carey Jones' aunt, Jesse Benton Frémont, on the role played by her husband, General John C. Frémont, in
the exploration of the Western Unites States.
Box 1, Folder 14
Charles Scribner's Sons
1887
Box 1, Folder 15
Cook, Albert S. (Albert Stanburrough)
1886-1891
Box 1, Folder 16
Coolidge, William W.
1907
Box 1, Folder 17
Cooper, Sarah Brown (Ingersoll)
1894-1895
Box 1, Folder 19
Cushing, Frank Hamilton
1887
Box 1, Folder 21
Davidson, George
1889-1890
Box 1, Folder 22
Davis, Horace
1889-1891
Scope and Content Note
Includes six letters to William Carey Jones from the sixth President of the University of California, Horace Davis, covering
topics ranging from the status of higher education in California to Jones' contributions to the Berkeley campus. Davis served
as President of the University of California from 1888-1890, and President of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University
from 1885-1916.
Box 1, Folder 23
Detroit, Michigan Public Library (Utley, H.M.)
1888
Box 1, Folder 24
Doyle, John Thomas
1888-1894
Box 1, Folder 25
Dunbar, Charles Franklin
1891
Box 1, Folder 26
Edgar, William Francis
1890
Box 1, Folder 27
Eldredge, Zoeth Skinner
1913
Box 1, Folder 30
Ford, Paul Leicester
1889
Scope and Content Note
Includes a letter to William Carey Jones from Paul Leicester Ford, presumably providing a response to an earlier inquiry regarding
the possibility of securing a copy of Ford's privately printed
List of Members of the Federal Convention of 1787 (1888).
Box 1, Folder 32
Gilman, Daniel Coit
1887
Scope and Content Note
Includes a single handwritten letter to William Carey Jones from the second President of the University of California, Daniel
Coit Gilman. The letter concerns Frederick Billings, an original trustee of the College of California. In 1876, Gilman left
the University of California to become the first President of Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Jones contributed the
chapter on Gilman's experience in California to Fabian Franklin's
Life of Daniel Coit Gilman (1910).
Box 1, Folder 34
Grand Army of the Republic - Dept. of California.
1888
Scope and Content Note
Includes a single letter to Jones from Adolphus Skinner Hubbard (1840-1913), lamenting the loss of a colleague.
Box 1, Folder 35
Hager, John Sharpenstein
1887
Box 1, Folder 37
Hanna, Edward Joseph
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes a single undated letter to Jones from the Archbishop of San Francisco, Edward Joseph Hanna.
Box 1, Folder 38
Hart, Albert Bushnell
1888
Box 1, Folder 39
Haskell, Burnette Gregor
1891
Box 1, Folder 41
Hastings, Serranus Clinton
1887
Scope and Content Note
Includes a single letter from Serranus Clinton Hastings to Jones dated August 13, 1887. Hastings served as the first Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of California, and founded the Hastings College of the Law in 1878 with his gift of $100,000.
Box 1, Folder 42
Hearst, Phoebe Apperson
1892
Scope and Content Note
Contains a brief note to Jones from Phoebe Hearst, thanking him for an invitation to join in an upcoming faculty reception
for Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot.
Box 1, Folder 43
Hinckley, Frank Erastus
circa 1912-1920
Box 1, Folder 44
Holden, Edward Singleton
1886-1891
Scope and Content Note
Contains a broad range of letters to William Carey Jones from the fifth president of the University of California, Edward
Singleton Holden. Following his presidency, Holden served as the first director of the Lick Observatory; the letters here
cover both periods. Includes a letter from American sculptor Caspar Buberl to General John C. Frémont, Jones' uncle, apparently
forwarded to William Carey Jones through Holden.
Box 1, Folder 45
Hosmer, Hezekiah L. (Hezekiah Lord)
1888
Scope and Content Note
Contains a single letter from Hosmer to William Carey Jones, dated January 26, 1888, commending Jones for his work analyzing
the California histories of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Hosmer was a fierce abolitionist, a novelist, and a legal scholar, who was
appointed the first Supreme Court Justice of Montana by Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
Box 1, Folder 46
Howard, George Elliott
1889
Box 1, Folder 47
Howe, Julia Ward
1888
Scope and Content Note
Contains a telegram from Howe to Jones, dated May 31, 1888, in which Howe confirms that she will lecture in Berkeley on June
5, 1888, as per his request. Also includes a brief handwritten note addressed to Jones, dated June 4, 1888, detailing travel
arrangements.
Box 1, Folder 48
Howison, George Holmes
1887
Box 1, Folder 49
Hyde, Charles Cheney
1922
Scope and Content Note
Includes a typed letter from Hyde to Frank Erastus Hinckley (1871-1950), regarding a submission to the
California Law Review.
Box 1, Folder 50
Kincaid, Mary W.
1891-1892
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters, telegrams, and notes from Kincaid to Jones, detailing Phoebe Hearst's desire to endow a scholarship fund
that would enable five "poor young women" to attend the University of California, in the amount of $1,500 per annum.
Box 1, Folder 51
Lane, Levi Cooper
1887-1891
Box 1, Folder 52
Lane, Pauline C.
1887-1891
Box 1, Folder 53
Laughlin, James Laurence
1891
Box 1, Folder 54
LeBreton, A.J.
1887,
1889
Scope and Content Note
Contains two letters from A.J. LeBreton to William Carey Jones, including one dated March 18, 1887, in which LeBreton thanks
Jones for correcting a mistaken assumption underlying LeBreton's analysis of Hubert Howe Bancroft's historical works.
Box 1, Folder 55
Leeson, Adelaide Hanscom
1891
Box 1, Folder 56
Levermore, Charles Herbert
1888-1891
Box 1, Folder 58
Martin, James John
1891
Scope and Content Note
Includes two letters addressed to William Carey Jones from James Martin, Secretary of the Kaweah Cooperative Colony Company.
Box 1, Folder 59
McKinstry, Elisha William
1889
Scope and Content Note
Includes one letter to Jones from Elisha William McKinstry, former Justice of the Supreme Court of California. McKinstry retired
from the court in 1888 to become a professor of law at Hasting College of Law in San Francisco.
Box 1, Folder 62
Miller, Adolph Caspar
1890-1892
Scope and Content Note
Includes an extensive run of correspondence between Jones and economist Adolph Caspar Miller. Miller was later appointed an
original member of the first Federal Reserve Board under President Wilson in 1914.
Box 1, Folder 64
Moses, Bernard
1887-1902
Scope and Content Note
Contains thirteen letters to William Carey Jones from Bernard Moses, Professor of History and Political Science at the University
of California from 1876-1930. Most of the correspondence is administrative in nature, with a focus on the acquisition of faculty
and development of curricula in the social sciences.
Box 1, Folder 65
New Haven Colony Historical Society (Bowers, Dwight E.)
1888
Box 1, Folder 66
O'Melveny, Henry William
1886-1892
Scope and Content Note
Includes six letters from O'Melveny to Jones. Topics include family, revisions of the Los Angeles Charter, the study and practice
of law, and the California Historical Society.
Box 1, Folder 67
O'Neill, Edmond
1886-1887
Box 2, Folder 1
Pennsylvania, State Library of
1888
Scope and Content Note
Contains a single letter from William Henry Egle, 1830-1901, State Librarian of Pennsylvania, addressed to Bernard Moses in
his capacity as Secretary of the California Historical Society.
Box 2, Folder 2
Perkins, Frederic Beecher
1887-1888
Box 2, Folder 5
Plehn, Carl Copping
1891
Scope and Content Note
Contains one letter and supporting materials sent to William Carey Jones by Carl Copping Plehn, inquiring on the availability
of a faculty position in the Department of History and Political Science at the University of California. Plehn arrived at
Berkeley the following year, and taught finance and economics until his retirement in 1937.
Box 2, Folder 6
Putzer, Albin
1888
Scope and Content Note
Contains one letter and one postcard, in German.
Box 2, Folder 8
Reid, William Thomas
1886-1892
Scope and Content Note
Contains eight letters and one note card addressed to William Carey Jones from the fourth president of the University of California,
William Thomas Reid.
Box 2, Folder 9
Reinstein, Jacob Bert
1891-1892
Scope and Content Note
Contains two letters addressed to William Carey Jones from Jacob Bert Reinstein, in which Reinstein discusses Martin Kellogg's
candidacy for the Presidency of the University of California.
Box 2, Folder 10
Richardson, Friend William
1913
Box 2, Folder 11
Richardson, Locke
1889-1890
Box 2, Folder 12
Rising, Willard Bradley
1889
Box 2, Folder 13
Rodgers, Arthur
1888-1892
Box 2, Folder 14
Rowell, Joseph Cummings
1886
Scope and Content Note
Contains a letter addressed to William Carey Jones from Joseph Cummings Rowell, dated June 30, 1886, in which Rowell provides
Jones with a list of well-known authors with the surname Roosevelt, presumably in response to a previous inquiry. The list
includes future United States President Theodore R. Roosevelt, and includes a brief paragraph identifying him as the Roosevelt
who "took part in the Independent movement of 1884." Rowell served as Librarian of the University of California from 1874-1919,
and as University Archivist from 1919-1938.
Box 2, Folder 16
Schurman, Jacob Gould
1892
Box 2, Folder 19
Slack, Charles William
1886-1890
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence to William Carey Jones from Charles William Slack, who served as professor, and later Dean at the
Hastings College of the Law. Slack also served on the University of California Board of Regents from 1894-1911. The subject
matter is administrative, and includes a latter dated October 13, 1886, in which Slack informs Jones that the Board of Directors
has unanimously approved his application to serve as Professor of Roman and Constitutional Law, "services to be rendered gratuitously."
Box 2, Folder 20
Slate, Frederick
1887-1890
Box 2, Folder 21
Stearns, Robert Edwards Carter
1887,
1889
Box 2, Folder 22
Stevenson, Jonathan Drake
1888
Box 2, Folder 23
Stillman, John Maxson
1887
Box 2, Folder 24
Stoddard, Charles Warren
1888
Box 2, Folder 25
Stratton, C.C. (Charles Carroll)
1888
Box 2, Folder 27
Swift, John Franklin
1887
Box 2, Folder 28
Syle, Louis Du Pont
1889-1892
Box 2, Folder 29
Thornburgh, Laselle
1922
Scope and Content Note
Contains a single letter address to William Carey Jones from Laselle Thornburgh, Secretary of the Class of 1922, informing
Jones that his class has presented him with a phonograph as a "memento of their respect and affection."
Box 2, Folder 30
Taussig, Frank William
1891
Scope and Content Note
Contains a single letter addressed to William Carey Jones from Frank William Taussig, Professor of Economics at Harvard University,
and editor of the
Quarterly Journal of Economics. The letter discusses Jones' recent submission to that publication of a manuscript on the Kaweah Colony.
Box 2, Folder 31
Tillinghast, Caleb Benjamin
1887
Box 2, Folder 32
Tyler, Moses Coit
1884,
1889
Box 2, Folder 33
United States - Department of the Interior
1913
Box 2, Folder 34
United States - Department of State
1888
Box 2, Folder 35
United States - General Land Office
1891
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence addressed to William Carey Jones by Thomas H. Carter, Commissioner of the General Land Office, regarding
the Kaweah Colony.
Box 2, Folder 36
Walker, Francis Amasa
1891
Box 2, Folder 39
Wendte, Charles William
1887-1889
Box 2, Folder 41
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide
1900
Scope and Content Note
Contains one letter to William Carey Jones from the eighth president of the University of California, Benjamin Ide Wheeler.
The letter discusses the future of the Department of Jurisprudence, as well as the bequest left by Jane Sather for the establishment
of a law library at the University of California.
Box 2, Folder 43
Whitcomb, Sybell H.
1891
Scope and Content Note
Includes one letter to Jones from Sybell H. Whitcomb, regarding the Kaweah Colony.
Box 2, Folder 44
Wickson, Edward James
1887
Box 2, Folder 45
Willey, Samuel Hopkins
1887
Box 2, Folder 46
Williams, Florence
1887-1890
Box 2, Folder 48
Woodbury, Charles J.
1889-1890
Box 2, Folder 49
Worcester, Joseph
1888-1890
Scope and Content Note
Contains 20 letters, covering a multitude of subjects, addressed to William Carey Jones from Joseph Worcester, a Swedenborgian
minister and amateur architect. For many years, Worcester served as spiritual leader of the Worcester Group, a San Francisco
Bay Area circle of architects, artists, and writers, which for a time included among its ranks Willis Polk, Mary Curtis Richardson,
John Galen Howard, and Charles Keeler.
Subseries 1:2
Outgoing and Incoming Correspondence
1887-1923
Physical Description:
Box 3, Folders 1-17.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Scope and Content Note
Includes copies of correspondence written by Jones, as well as any related incoming correspondence. Further correspondence
can also be found in Series 3, Professional Files.
Box 3, Folder 1
Adams, H.B. (Herbert Baxter)
1887-1888
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters regarding William Carey Jones' proposed authorship of an educational history of California, and later, a
history of the Pacific Coast.
Box 3, Folder 2
Bartlett, Louis
1915-1919
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence between William Carey Jones and Louis Bartlett (1872-1960), mayor of Berkeley, California. The letters
are primarily concerned with a lease on waterfront property held by the city of Berkeley. A copy of the lease is included,
along with an unrelated circular titled "We Want Hoover," produced by a small committee of the same name, on which Jones and
Bartlett served as members.
Box 3, Folder 3
Clark, George C.
1915,
1918,
1921
Box 3, Folder 4
Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
1909
Box 3, Folder 7
Hittell, Theodore Henry
1889,
1916
Scope and Content Note
Includes a letter to William Carey Jones from Theodore Hittell, regarding California Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson
Field (1816-1899).
Box 3, Folder 8
Kellogg, Martin
1899
Scope and Content Note
Includes a draft of a letter addressed to the seventh president of the University of California, Martin Kellogg (1828-1903),
in the last year of Kellogg's presidency, requesting leave and funds to attend a professional meeting on college entrance
requirements.
Box 3, Folder 9
Peck, Willys Ruggles
1913,
1920
Box 3, Folder 10
Robinson & Robinson, Attorneys
1911,
1914
Box 3, Folder 13
Smith, Paul Jordan
1915,
1918
Box 3, Folder 14
Southern Pacific Company
1887
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence between William Carey Jones and J.A. Fillmore of Southern Pacific Company, regarding a request made
by Jones in his capacity as Vice President of the East Berkeley Light Company.
Box 3, Folder 15
Stebbins, Horatio
1887-1889
Box 3, Folder 17
Unlisted Miscellany
1923
Scope and Content Note
Already in poor health prior to his trip to Peking, Jones contacted various organizations and businesses before leaving to
ensure that all outstanding accounts were settled. Includes correspondence with representatives of the University of California
on the status of Jones' retirement compensation and life insurance policy.
Series 2
Publications
1868-1920
Physical Description:
Box 3, Folders 18-26; Box 4, Folders 1-8; Box 5, Folders 1-7.
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically into two subseries: Articles, Essays, and Speeches; and Materials for the Illustrated History of California.
Scope and Content Note
This series contains published and unpublished writings by Jones. Subjects include the University of California, municipal
legislation, and the creation of a union to support higher education in the United States. The majority of the series consists
of biographical research and historical notes composed and compiled by Jones to assist in the creation of
The Illustrated History of the University of California.
Subseries 2:1
Articles, Essays, and Speeches
circa 1885-1896
Physical Description:
Box 3, Folders 18-26.
Arrangement
Arranged into sub-subseries by format; further arranged by title.
Scope and Content Note
Includes published articles as well as handwritten drafts and typescripts.
2:1:1
Published Articles
circa 1885-1896
Physical Description:
Box 3, Folder 18.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by genre.
Scope and Content Note
Includes one folder containing clippings of published newspaper and journal articles written and collected by Jones.
Box 3, Folder 18
Published articles
circa 1885-1896
2:1:2
Unpublished Essays and Drafts of Speeches
1874-1920
Physical Description:
Box 3, Folders 19-26.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject; further arranged chronologically.
Scope and Content Note
Includes handwritten manuscript drafts and typescripts, many relating to the University of California.
Box 3, Folder 19
Essays and speeches regarding municipal legislation
1913-1914
Box 3, Folder 20-21
Essays and speeches regarding the University of California
circa 1874-1920
Box 3, Folder 22
The Future of the United States
undated
Box 3, Folder 23
The Prospects for a Federal Educational Union
1895
Box 3, Folder 24
The State University
1894
Box 3, Folder 25
The Unity of Education
1889
Box 3, Folder 26
Unlisted miscellany
undated
Subseries 2:2
Materials for
The Illustrated History of the University of California
circa 1868-1901
Physical Description:
Box 4, Folders 1-8; Box 5, Folders 1-7.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Scope and Content Note
Includes biographical research, historical reference materials, and notes relating to the University of California.
Box 4, Folder 1-8
Biographical notes: A - K
circa 1868-1901
Box 5, Folder 1-6
Biographical notes: L - Z
circa 1868-1901
Box 5, Folder 7
Clippings related to the University of California
1870,
1899
Series 3
Professional Files
1884-1923
Physical Description:
Carton 1, Folders 1-72.
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically into three series: City Charters, School of Jurisprudence, and General Subject Files.
Further arranged alphabetically.
Scope and Content Note
This series includes materials on city charters, the University of California School of Jurisprudence, and a variety of subjects
related primarily to the University of California, professional associations, education, and law.
Although William Carey Jones sometimes kept his correspondence filed by last name of correspondent, more often he kept both
incoming and outgoing correspondence concerning specific subject matter together with related materials in topical subject
files. In cases where there is one principal outside correspondent, the name of that correspondent follows the folder title.
Subseries 3:1
City Charters
1905-1921
Physical Description:
Carton 1, Folders 1-34; Box 6.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by state and city. Further arranged chronologically.
Scope and Content Note
William Carey Jones maintained extensive files related to the drafting and amendment of city charters. This subseries includes
correspondence, drafts of charters and amendments, research notes, speeches, and annotated clippings from news sources. Materials
related to California cities make up the bulk of the series. Noted correspondents include Louis Bartlett, Mayor of Berkeley;
William F. Toomey, Mayor of Fresno; and Edward Hull Crump, mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
The subseries culminates in a bound volume of Jones' writings and related materials collectively titled
Full Text of Model City Charter Drafted by William Carey Jones.
Carton 1, Folder 1
Charters: California - Franchises
1905-1907
Carton 1, Folder 2
Charters: California: Berkeley - Correspondence re: amendments
1911,
1915-1920
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence between William Carey Jones and many well-known individuals on the subject of amendments to the Berkeley
Charter. Principal correspondents include Berkeley mayor Louis Bartlett (1872-1960), and the ninth President of the University
of California, David Prescott Barrows (1873-1954).
Carton 1, Folder 3
Charters: California: Berkeley - Correspondence re: assessments
1908
Carton 1, Folder 4
Charters: California: Berkeley - Charter (signed)
1908
Carton 1, Folder 5
Charters: California: Berkeley - Speech to Commonwealth Club
undated
Carton 1, Folder 6
Charters: California: Chico - Correspondence
1910
Carton 1, Folder 7
Charters: California: Fresno
1912
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials relating to William Carey Jones' position as a consultant on the drafting of the city charter of Fresno,
California. Includes correspondence as well as related clippings.
Carton 1, Folder 8
Charters: California: Fresno - Correspondence and charter
1919,
1920
Scope and Content Note
Includes extensive correspondence, including incoming and outgoing letters between William Carey Jones and William F. Toomey,
mayor of Fresno from 1912-1917. Also includes typescripts and Jones' handwritten draft of the charter of the City of Vallejo.
Carton 1, Folder 9
Charters: California: Los Angeles - Correspondence
1907-1909
Carton 1, Folder 10
Charters: California: Los Angeles - Correspondence
1912-1913
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence between William Carey Jones and Fred C. Wheeler, on the topic of proportional representation and the
legality of alternative propositions in city charters. Wheeler, here writing solely as a member of the Board of Freeholders
of Los Angeles, was the Socialist candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles in the 1909 recall election of A.C. Harper. Wheeler lost
by a slight margin in that race, to the progressive "Good Government" coalition candidate, George Alexander.
Carton 1, Folder 11
Charters: California: Los Angeles - Correspondence
1916
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence between William Carey Jones and W.C. Mushet, in which Jones relays the opinion of Earle Ashley Walcott,
1859-1931, on the proper interpretation of an alternative proposition provision within the Los Angeles Charter.
Carton 1, Folder 12
Charters: California: Los Angeles - Printed literature and collected materials
1907-1912
Carton 1, Folder 13
Charters: California: Los Angeles - Correspondence
1912-1913
Carton 1, Folder 14
Charters: California: Modesto - Correspondence and collected materials
1910
Carton 1, Folder 15
Charters: California: Oakland - Correspondence; literature; drafts
1907-1910
Carton 1, Folder 16
Charters: California: Palo Alto - Correspondence and collected materials
1908-1910
Carton 1, Folder 17
Charters: California: Petaluma - Collected materials
1905,
1911
Carton 1, Folder 18
Charters: California: Richmond - Charter and correspondence
1908
Carton 1, Folder 19
Charters: California: Riverside - Correspondence and collected materials
1907
Carton 1, Folder 20
Charters: California: Sacramento - Correspondence and committee report
1910-1911
Carton 1, Folder 21
Charters: California: Sacramento - Correspondence
1920
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence between William Carey Jones and V.A. McGeorge, Assistant Secretary to the Sacramento Board of Freeholders,
on the legality of including a provision to the Sacramento charter that would "provide for the whole scope of municipal affairs
and also for the operation of general laws."
Carton 1, Folder 22
Charters: California: San Francisco - Correspondence
1907
Carton 1, Folder 23
Charters: California: San Francisco - Proposed charter amendments and background materials
1907
Carton 1, Folder 24
Charters: California: San Francisco - Correspondence; proposed charter amendments; amendment ballot
1907-1908
Carton 1, Folder 25
Charters: California: Vallejo - Correspondence; meeting minutes
1910
Carton 1, Folder 26
Charters: California: Vallejo - Drafts of charter
1911
Scope and Content Note
Includes a typescript of the charter of the City of Vallejo that has been heavily corrected by William Carey Jones. Also includes
a page of handwritten notes regarding the charter.
Carton 1, Folder 27
Charters: California: Vallejo
1915,
1921
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence between William Carey Jones and Donald Munro, in which Jones provides his opinion regarding the conclusiveness
of the 1915 Vallejo mayoral election of J. Roney over J.J. Maddigan. Also includes a 1921 letter to Jones from Sacramento
city attorney Harry A. Gee, in which Jones' judgment is solicited regarding the intended extent of mayoral supervisory powers
provided for in the Vallejo Charter.
Carton 1, Folder 28
Charters: California: Watsonville - Correspondence
1912-1913
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence between William Carey Jones and E.E. Luther, in which Jones elaborates on the steps necessary to begin
Watsonville's transition to a commission form of government.
Carton 1, Folder 29
Charters: Iowa: Des Moines - Collected materials
1907
Carton 1, Folder 30
Charters: Massachusetts: Boston - Collected materials
1908
Carton 1, Folder 31
Charters: Missouri: St. Joseph - Correspondence and collected materials
1909
Carton 1, Folder 32
Charters: Nebraska: Lincoln - Correspondence
1913
Scope and Content Note
The charter of Lincoln, Nebraska, is discussed in correspondence between William Carey Jones and L.E. Aylesworth, Professor
of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Carton 1, Folder 33
Charters: Tennessee: Memphis - Correspondence and collected materials
1910
Scope and Content Note
Includes a brief letter to William Carey Jones from Edward Hull Crump (1874-1954), mayor of Memphis, Tennessee from 1910-1916.
Carton 1, Folder 34
Charters: Washington: Tacoma - Correspondence
1909
Box 6, Folder 1
Full Text of Model Charter Drafted by William Carey Jones
circa 1905-1920
Subseries 3:2
School of Jurisprudence
1906-1912
Physical Description:
Carton 1, Folders 35-36.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Scope and Content Note
This subseries includes materials related to the founding of the School of Jurisprudence at the University of California in
1912. It includes a history of the Department of Jurisprudence (the precursor to the School of Jurisprudence on campus), administrative
correspondence regarding fundraising for the construction of the original Boalt Memorial Hall of Law (later renamed Durant
Hall) and the Sather Law Library, and handwritten drafts of important speeches, including
The Problem of the Law School,an address Jones delivered at the dedication of Boalt Memorial Hall on April 28, 1911, and
The Genesis of a Law School,an address Jones delivered at the banquet of the Law Association of the University of California on March 9, 1912.
Principal correspondents include Benjamin Ide Wheeler, the eighth President of the University of California, and Frederick
C. Woodward, Acting Dean of the School of Law at Stanford University. Correspondence with Serranus Clinton Hastings, the first
Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court and benefactor of the Hastings College of Law, can be found in Box 1, Folder
41, of Series 1: Correspondence.
Carton 1, Folder 35
Administrative files and drafts of speeches
1910-1922
Carton 1, Folder 36
Building dedication materials
1906,
1911
Subseries 3:3
General Subject Files
1884-1923
Physical Description:
Carton 1, Folders 37-73.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject. Further arranged chronologically.
Scope and Content Note
This series includes materials related to professional associations, various personal legal transactions, city advisory committees,
legislation regarding education, and a variety of miscellaneous subjects. Extensive coverage of the Berkeley elections of
1909 and 1912 can be found in this subseries.
Noted correspondents in this subseries include Bernard Maybeck, John C. Merriam, John Jay Hamilton, and Charles Roger Woodruff.
Materials related to the University of California include files on the Phoebe Apperson Hearst International Architectural
Competition, and committee notes planning the construction of the Henry Morse Stephens Memorial Union (later renamed Stephens
Hall).
Carton 1, Folder 37
Alameda County: Municipal Water Supply
1913
Carton 1, Folder 38
American Historical Association
1884,
1887
Carton 1, Folder 39
Bancroft-Whitney Company
1908-1923
Carton 1, Folder 40
Berkeley City Council
1910-1911
Carton 1, Folder 41
Berkeley: Election, 1909
1909
Scope and Content Note
Includes a brief undated note from Bernard Maybeck, as well as an exhaustive file of campaign literature providing broad coverage
of the election.
Carton 1, Folder 42
Berkeley: Election, 1912
circa 1912
Carton 1, Folder 43
Berkeley: Municipal Water Committee
1920
Carton 1, Folder 44
Berkeley: School bonds (Bush, Robert E.)
1914,
1928
Carton 1, Folder 45
Berkeley: School bonds (Merriam, John C.)
1913
Scope and Content Note
Includes one letter from William Carey Jones to John C. Merriam (1869-1945), Professor of Paleontology at the University of
California, Berkeley, on the legality of the Berkeley Board of Education issuing bonds to support playgrounds in Berkeley.
Carton 1, Folder 46
Blackstone Institute (Wermuth, William Charles)
1913-1920
Carton 1, Folder 47
Bureau of Municipal Reference (Quire, J.H.)
1914
Carton 1, Folder 48
California Historical Society
1887-1890
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence and related materials compiled during Jones' service as Secretary of the California Historical Society.
Carton 1, Folder 49
California State Assembly - Constitutional Amendments (Clark, William C.)
1913-1914
Carton 1, Folder 50
Children's Mission to Children (Blinn, George R.)
1921
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence between William Carey Jones and George R. Blinn regarding property left to the Unitarian institution
Children's Mission to Children in Boston, Massachusetts.
Carton 1, Folder 51
Christy, Samuel Benedict
1912-1914
Carton 1, Folder 52-53
City Club of Berkeley
1908-1913
Scope and Content Note
These folders include reports composed by William Carey Jones on various aspects of Berkeley governance,
as well extensive incoming and outgoing correspondence exchanged between Jones and other prominent members of the City Club
of Berkeley over the course of Jones' service as chairman of the Committee on Municipal Affairs. Topics of reports include
the Department of Public Health, the police force, the City Charter, and elections. Principal correspondents include George
E. Burlingame and John Debo Galloway.
Carton 1, Folder 55
Commonwealth Club of California
1912-1923
Carton 1, Folder 56
Consolidation of East Bay Cities
1920
Scope and Content Note
Contains a letter to William Carey Jones from a student of Technical High School in Oakland, CA, soliciting his opinion on
the benefit of the consolidation of East Bay cities. Includes a two-page response by Jones.
Carton 1, Folder 57
Contest on sample bill
1922
Carton 1, Folder 58
Corcoran, May Stanislaus
1917
Carton 1, Folder 59
First Unitarian Church of Berkeley/Berkeley Unitarian Club
1909-1921
Carton 1, Folder 61
Gang outrages: legislation
1920
Carton 1, Folder 62
Geographical Society of the Pacific
1892
Carton 1, Folder 63
High school education
1889-1895
Carton 1, Folder 64
National Municipal League (Hamilton, John Jay)
1912-1913
Carton 1, Folder 65
National Municipal League (Woodruff, Charles Rogers)
1911-1913
Carton 1, Folder 66
National Municipal Review
1911-1912
Carton 1, Folder 67
Oakland Council for the Suppression of the Saloon
1895
Carton 1, Folder 69
Phoebe A. Hearst International Architectural Competition
1891-1899
Carton 1, Folder 70
School district legislation
1913-1915
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence between William Carey Jones and Arthur H. Chamberlain, Editor of the
Sierra Educational News, and includes an essay by Jones on the subject of school district legislation in secondary education, entitled
Schools: County High Schools and Union High Schools.
Carton 1, Folder 71
Stephens Memorial Committee
1919
Carton 1, Folder 73
Vallejo Milk and Meat Inspection Ordinances
1914
Series 4
Biographical Materials of William Carey Jones (1854-1923)
1890,
1892,
undated
Physical Description:
Carton 1, Folders 74-76.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Scope and Content Note
Includes an autobiographical essay and a speech composed in honor of William Carey Jones, 1854-1923.
Carton 1, Folder 74
Autobiographical essay
undated
Carton 1, Folder 75
Speech in honor of William Carey Jones
1892
Carton 1, Folder 76
University of California, Class of 1889 - Reunion materials
1890
Series 5
Land Case materials of William Carey Jones (1814-1867)
1837-1855
Physical Description:
Portfolio 1, Volumes 1-2; Folders 1-4.
Arrangement
Arranged as received.
Scope and Content Note
Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States was charged with respecting and upholding all titles
to lands acquired previous to the Mexican Cession. William Carey Jones, 1814-1867, was appointed by the United States General
Land Office to investigate land title claims in California. This series includes two volumes containing depositions and handwritten
notes on claims relating to Rancho Santa Ana y Quien Sabe, and San Francisco Pueblo Lands, as well as professional correspondence
and clippings related to Jones' role in various other California land cases.
Portfolio 1, Volume 1
Investigation into the Claim of San Francisco on pueblo lands
1834-1855
Portfolio 1, Volume 2
Santa Ana y Quien Sabe, No. 22: Claimant's Brief
1839
Portfolio 1, Folder 1
Letter to William Carey Jones from Justin Butterfield, Commissioner of the General Land Office, containing instructions for
Jones as a confidential agent for the government
1849
Portfolio 1, Folder 2
Letter to William Carey Jones from the Citizens of the Counties of Santa Barbara and of San Luis Obispo, Translation into
Spanish by T.R. Eldredge, San Francisco
1855
Portfolio 1, Folder 3
Clipping regarding the Limantour Land Case from the
Daily Alta California
1857
Portfolio 1, Folder 4
Deed of William Carey Jones, Eliza Benton Jones, John C. Frémont, Jesse Benton Frémont, and others to John T. Brennan
1860