Douglass Adair Papers: Finding Aid
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Overview of the Collection
Title: Douglass Adair Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1946-1968
Bulk dates: 1960-1968
Collection Number: mssAdair papers
Creator:
Adair, Douglass.
Extent: Approx. 10,000 pieces in 28
boxes.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains the papers of American historian and editor Douglas Adair (1912-1968), chiefly from the 1960s, including
correspondence, lectures, research notes, professional and teaching papers, scholarly writings, and papers related to the
Claremont colleges.
Language: English.
Access
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Administrative Information
Publication Rights
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Douglass Adair Papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Provenance
Gift of Virginia Adair, 1969 and 1975.
Biographical Note
American historian and editor Douglass Greybill Adair 1912-1968) was born in New York
City in 1912. He received a B.A. from the University of the South (1933), an M.A.
from Harvard (1935), and a Ph.D. from Yale (1943). From 1936 to 1938 he was a
research assistant with the Social Security Board, which he left to join the faculty
of Yale as an instructor in the 1939-1940 term. He left Yale for a Princeton
instructorship from 1941 to 1943. In 1943 he moved to the College of William and
Mary, where he achieved the rank of Associate Professor. From 1946 to 1955 he was
managing editor of the
William and Mary Quarterly, which position he
resigned to become Professor of History at Claremont Graduate School in 1955 until
his death in 1968. Adair’s fields of interest included early American history, 18th
century intellectual history, and the establishment of the United States
Constitution.
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, lectures, and research notes, Adair's scholarly writings, papers
relating to professional organizations and meetings, research publications,
photographs, teachings aids, papers relating to the Claremont colleges.
Correspondents include Julian Parks Boyd, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Lester Jesse
Cappon, Martin Diamond, Edmund Sears Morgan, Allan Nevins, John Adolph Schutz,
Clifford Kenyon Shipton. Geographical origins: mostly southern California; New England, Virginia and the mid-west are also
represented.
Arrangement
The material is organized into the following categories:
correspondence, lecture and research notes, Adair’s scholarly writings
(exclusive of his dissertation, which is not in this collection), papers relating to professional
organizations, photographs, teaching aids, papers relating to the Claremont Colleges,
secondary source material, such as newspaper clippings and articles from scholarly and popular periodicals,
student papers and copies of primary source material, such as letters.
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Adair, Douglass --
Archives.
Boyd, Julian P. (Julian
Parks), 1903-1980 -- Correspondence.
Butterfield, L. H.
(Lyman Henry), 1909-1982 --Correspondence.
Cappon, Lester Jesse,
1900-1981 -- Correspondence.
Diamond, Martin,
1919-1977 -- Correspondence.
Morgan, Edmund S.
(Edmund Sears), 1916- -- Correspondence.
Nevins, Allan,
1890-1971 -- Correspondence.
Schutz, John A., 1919-
-- Correspondence.
Shipton, Clifford
Kenyon, 1902-1973 -- Correspondence.
Claremont
Colleges.
History -- Study and teaching (Higher)
-- United States.
United States --
History -- Study and teaching.
Forms/Genres
Letters (correspondence) -- United
States -- 20th century.
Personal papers -- United States --
20th century.
Professional papers -- United States
-- 20th century.
Additional Contributors
Boyd, Julian P. (Julian Parks),
1903-1980.
Butterfield, L. H. (Lyman Henry),
1909-1982.
Cappon, Lester Jesse, 1900-1981.
Diamond, Martin, 1919-1977.
Morgan, Edmund S. (Edmund Sears),
1916-.
Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971.
Schutz, John A., 1919-.
Shipton, Clifford Kenyon, 1902-1973.
Lecture and research notes, teaching aids, and Adair's writings
Box 4
Lecture and Research Notes
Box 5
Lecture and Research Notes
Box 6
Lecture and Research Notes
Box 7
Lecture and Research Notes
Box 8
Lecture and Research Notes
Box 9
Lecture and Research Notes
Box 10
Lecture and Research Notes
Box 11
Lecture and Research Notes
Box 12
Lecture and Research Notes
Box 13
Lecture and Research Notes
Box 14
Lecture and Research Notes; Teaching Aids
Box 15
Teaching Aids; Adair’s Writings
Papers relevant to Research and Publication Projects, Photographs
Box 18
Papers relevant to Research and Publication Projects
Box 19
Papers relevant to Research and Publication Projects; Photographs
Examination; Papers relevant to Professional Organizations/Meetings
Box 20
Examination; Papers relevant to Professional Organizations/Meetings
Claremont Colleges papers
Box 21
Papers. To the Claremont Colleges
Box 22
Papers. To the Claremont Colleges
Box 23
Papers relevant to the Claremont Colleges
Secondary Source Material
Box 24
Secondary Source Material
Box 25
Secondary Source Material
Copies of Primary Material; Miscellaneous
Box 28
Copies of Primary Material; Miscellaneous