Max Farrand papers, 1816-1947

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Summary

Creators:
Farrand, Max, 1869-1945
Abstract:
Max Farrand was an American historian and first director of the Huntington Library from 1927 to 1941. This collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents, and a scrapbook, primarily related to Farrand's research from 1816 to 1947.
Extent:
28.75 Linear Feet (21 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Max Farrand papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

The Max Farrand papers consist of letters, manuscripts, documents, and one scrapbook from 1816 to 1947. Many of the pieces are typewritten and photostatic copies of academic correspondence from and to historians and other scholars, Wesleyan; Stanford; Cornell; and Yale Universities; Commonwealth Fund, 1918 to 1927; Huntington Library, 1927 to 1941; American Historical Society; American Philosophical Society, etc. Included is primary source material for research in American history, particularly in politics of the revolutionary and early federal periods. Also included are materials relating to the drafting of United States Constitution and Benjamin Franklin and journals of travels in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and Maryland at the beginning of the nineteenth century. There is also material relating to Mary Cadwalader Jones, Farrand's mother-in-law and the author of Lantern slides (Boston, 1937). Also present are 16 Theodore Roosevelt letters to Max Farrand, see Box 15 for details.

Biographical / historical:

Max Farrand was born in Newark, New Jersey, son of Samuel Ashbel Farrand and Louise Wilson Farrand. He graduated from Princeton University, where he also received his Ph.D.; later he continued further graduate work in Leipzig and Heidelberg, and at Wesleyan and Yale Universities. He became professor of history at Wesleyan; Stanford; Cornell; Harvard; and Yale Universities 1896 to 1925; Incorporator and Director of the Commonwealth Fund, 1918 to 1927; and Director of the Huntington Library from 1927 to 1941, remaining as Research Associate after 1941. He was also a Trustee of the California Institute of Technology from 1931; President of American Historical Society, 1940; Trustee of the American Academy in Rome; and member of a number of scholarly and honorary societies and clubs. Farrand was married to Beatrix Cadwalader Jones, niece of Edith Wharton.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Max Farrand, 1936 and 1945.
Processing information:

Processed by Huntington Staff, 1982. In 2020, Gina C Giang created a finding aid derived from a legacy summary report. In 2022, Melissa Haley enhanced description of the presidential material present in the collection as part of the American Presidential Papers Project.

Arrangement:

Organized in the following series: 1. Correspondence; 2. Mary Cadwalader Jones; 3. Photostats.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.

Terms of access:

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Max Farrand papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
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