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Title: Ephraim Douglass Adams papers
Date (inclusive): 1908-1929
Collection Number: XX104
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box
(0.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence and leaflets relating to the administration and finances of Stanford University and to American participation
in World War I. Correspondence mostly with Herbert Hoover. Includes a series of leaflets by E. D. Adams, entitled
Why We Are at War with Germany, 1918. Includes photocopied correspondence.
Creator:
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Creator:
Adams, Ephraim Douglass, 1865-1930
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
[Identification of item], Ephraim Douglass Adams papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Original correspondence in: Stanford University Archives.
American historian; director of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, 1919-1925.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Ephraim Douglass Adams Papers consist of correspondence and speeches and writings. The correspondence includes his exchanges
of letters with Herbert Hoover regarding the finances and other operations of Stanford University. The letters also concern
The Commission for Relief in Belgium and the establishment of the Hoover Library at Stanford University. The correspondence
series also includes a lengthy letter to Ray Lyman Wilbur in which Adams sets forth his views on the administration of Stanford
University and the role of the faculty in the university. The speeches and writings series includes copies of a multi-part
pamphlet entitled
Why We are At War with Germany in which Adams explains his view of why America had to go to war with Germany in World War I. The speeches and writings series
also contains a lengthy speech in which Adams gives his personal reminiscences of Herbert Hoover as an individual and as an
administrator.
The collection is arranged into 2 series: Correspondence; and Speeches and writings
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States
Stanford University