Frank Lawrence Owsley Papers

Figure in parentheses immediately following name denotes the number of letters if more than one. The dates are the inclusive dates of the letters. Asterisk indicates letters of particular interest and value.

*Abernethy, Thomas Perkins, (12), 1933-53; Professor of History, University of Virginia; comments on writings of agrarians and Owsley's historical writings.

Adams, Homer J., 1953; re: thesis on anecdotal materials. (4), 1935-36; re: plans for Who Owns America with enclosures of Ferris Greenslet (Houghton Mifflin Company) and Chard Powers Smith (who praises Land of the Free).

Akens, David and Helen (2), 1954; students expressing appreciation.

Alderson, William T. (5), 1945-54; re: dissertation and book reviews.

*Alexander, Thomas B. (39), 1942-56. These are good letters full of descriptions of England during and after V.E. day, opinions on politics and burning issues of the period. Anyone interested in World War II would find them valuable. Alexander was a naval officer. Other letters were written from places where he taught, including Clemson Agricultural College, Clemson, S.C., and Georgia Teachers College, Collegeboro, Ga. He discusses writings and teaching problems. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955.

Allen, James L., 1932; re: a note paid.

Andrews, Charles M., 1927; re: article on "Defeatism in Confederacy."

Andrews, Matthew Page (4), 1933-34; re: Simon Baruch Prize won by Owsley's student, S. B. Thompson.

Ander, O. Fritiof (4), 1951; re: Bureau of Census.

Applewhite, Davis, 1944; former student back in service.

Atkinson, Littleton B. (3), 1949-53; re: possible position.

Ausfeld, Mrs. Wilhelmina C., 1953; re: Abner McGehee's will regarding gift of Bibles to his descendants by Alabama Bible Society.

Austin, Jessie, 1934; re: request for vote.

Avant, Will L. (2), 1949; re: room for Larry.

Bagby, Muriel Martin (Mrs. A. Paul), 1952; re: books of grandfather, T. H. Ball, on Clarke County and Creek War.

Bailey, Hugh (15), 1953-56; re: work on dissertation on John Williams Walker and other subjects.

Bailey, Kenneth K., 1949; re: teaching position.

Bailey, Thomas A. (2), 1938, 1954; re: reading chapters of his Diplomatic History.

*Bankhead, J. H.

Barnes, Barbara Sue (3), 1951-52; re: Civil War history.

Barnes, J. Ward (21), 1941-54; re: school work, politics, and a speech to Southern Illinois Historical Society.

Barnhart, John D., 1945, re: historical writings.

Barton, B. W., 1945; re: growing kudzu.

Baylen, Joseph O. (2), 1956; re: teaching position.

*Beach, Leonard B. (2), 1954-55, re: collecting papers of Fugitives and Agrarians; also Waller project.

Beale, Howard K., 1940; re: program for SHA at AHA in New York.

*Beard, Charles A.

Beard, William E., 1949; re: meeting of Tennessee Historical Commission.

*Beatty, Richmond C. (4), 1934-50; re: ms. of Bayard Taylor - if published, "it will just step up to you and call you Pappy"; compliments Plain Folk, especially chapter on Southern Folkways.

Benedict, A. B., 1951, re: friends at Vanderbilt who miss Owsley.

Benjamin, Harold, 1947: re: confirmation of appointment for summer session, University of Maryland.

Bennett, J. Jefferson, 1956; re: congratulations on Fulbright.

Benson, Carl, 1955; re: request to participate in panel.

Bernier, Charles, 1952; re: obituary of brother, Dr. W.M. Owsley.

Berthoff, Howland T., 1952: re: Southern opposition to immigration.

Bethea, Barron, 1955; re: Jefferson's agrarian society.

Bettersworth, John K. (2), 1950; re: address at Mississippi State.

Bills, Mrs. Hay, 1953; re: contest in Bedford County, Tenn.

*Binkley, William C. (13), 1931-54; re: graduate work at Vanderbilt (1930's); reorganized program; material in census (1937); Chancellor Kirkland's resignation (1937) and Carmichael as successor; Tennessee Historical Society (1937); athletic situation at Vanderbilt (1951); life in Huntsville , 1880-95; subject for thesis; Joe Lehmann; move to Tulane; research projects (1954).

Bird, Gerald D. (2), 1935; re: desire for scholarship funds.

Bird, Susan (McGehee) (2), 1931, 1935; re: McGehee family.

Bolton, Herbert (2), 1926; re: Owsley as possible candidate for position at University of California; article "Defeatism in the Confederacy."

Bolton, Mary (2), 1920; re: summer session at Chicago; trial marriage, etc.

*Bonds, A. B., Jr,

Bonham, M. L., 1940; re: article on "Economic Basis of Society in Late Ante-Bellum South."

Bonner, James C, 1950; re: speech at Carrolton, Ga.

*Borsodi, Ralph

Bourne, Henry C. (2), 1936; re: round table on Confederate government.

Bradley, Harold W., 1955; re: invitation to Vanderbilt Party at SHA.

Bragg, James W., 1953; re: teaching position available.

Bramblett, Fred (4), 1953-54; re: requirements for the Master's degree and other ideas.

Branscomb, Harvie (10), 1948-55; re: textbooks, Fulbright recommendation and candidates for chairman of History Department.

Branscomb, L. C., 1920; re: C.G. Daniels.

Breedlove, J.P., 1937; re: inter-library loan of census books.

Brockman, Allan (2), 1953; re: study of Francis Ticknor, physician and poet.

Brogdon, Harriette B. (14), 1939-56; re: former teacher and friend of Frank Owsley.

Bromley, Elizabeth Walker (2), 1952, 1958; re: diary and letters of Walker family, Huntsville, Ala.

*Brooks, Cleanth (7), 1934-39, re: writings and literary discussions, and proposed essays for Southern Review.

Brooks, R. P., 1938; re: writings for volume on contemporary Georgia.

*Brown, C. K.

Brown, J. V., 1928; re: notes due Auburn.

Brownback, Peter (2), 1951,55; re: curriculum at University of Alabama and invitation to visit in Washington.

Bryan, T. Conn (2), 1954; re: summer teaching and paper at SHA.

Buck, Paul H., 1945; re: "The Pattern of Migration and Settlement on the Southern Frontier."

Buck, Solon J., 1940; re: article on economic basis of society and agricultural census.

Buford, James L. (3), 1949-56: re: Larry and Margaret's credits and applications.

Burbank, Lyman B., 1952; re: writings and summer teaching position.

Burgess, E.W., 1918; re: course in psychology.

Caldwell, Betty, 1954; re: good wishes.

Caldwell, John T. (2); re: Alabama College, etc.

Canfield, Cass, 1947; re: contract for The Confederacy in The Rise of the American Nation series.

Campbell, Mary R., 1935; re: work for Ph.D.

Carey, L.J. (5), 1953-54; re: collecting manuscripts.

Carmichael, Oliver Cromwell (9); re: writings, Presidency of University of Alabama and difficulties faced.

Carroll, E. Malcolm (2), 1954; re: teaching position at Duke.

Carpenter, William T., 1954; re: Sons of American Revolution.

*Carter, Thomas H. (3); re: article on agrarians in the Shenandoah.

Caskey, W. M. (11), 1933-56, re: writings on Louisiana and his teaching positions.

Cate, Wirt Armistead (3), 1935-36; re: reviews of his books and other writings.

*Cauley, T. J.

Cayton, Horace R., 1933; re: Scottsboro case.

*Chambers, D. L.

Chapman, J. Kenton, 1943; re: appreciation of assistance and of personal qualities.

*Chappell, James E. (6), 1935-51; re: writings in American Review; Carmichael's situation at Vanderbilt and other Vanderbilt problems of Board of Trust.

Chase, Henry B., 1952; re: speech to Huntsville Historical Society.

Chenault, Betty Ann, 1953, to A. B. Moore; re: Southern history.

Cheney, Brainard (2), 1946, 1950; re: Plain Folk and the research for it.

Chicago Press, University of (9), 1924-54; various editors and assistants including R. F. Holloway, G. J. Laing (10), Mary Irwin (2), W. R. Jordan, and Jean DeVare; and John T. McNeill.

Chitwood, Oliver Perry (94), 1940-55; re: writing of American history textbook.

Church, William T. (2), 1942; re: desire to continue graduate study.

Clark, A. N. -- see Van Nostrand - Clark.

Clark, Blanche Henry (3), 1935-40; re: work on dissertation. See also: Weaver, Blanche Henry Clark.

Clark, Sam L. (2), 1951; re: representative of Phi Alpha Theta.

Clark, Thomas D. (12), 1945-54; re: Various history projects, Blazer lectures, etc.

Cochran, Perry, 1956; re: Ph.D. work.

Coleman, Charles H. (3), 1934-53; re: historical research and address on Lincoln in Illinois.

Coleman, James S., 1950; re: historical data.

Coles, Harry (15), 1942-55; re: research for doctoral dissertation, Linden, Flanders, Shugg, Futrell, South, Jordan, et al; Ohio State.

Collins, Seward, 1935; re: congratulations on article.

Comer, Donald, 1950; re: article on Clays.

Commager, Henry Steele (3), 1947-48; re: volume on Confederacy in new American Nation Series.

Conover, Frederick L. (4), 1944-55; re: letter of recommendation and friendly letter.

Cooper, John Irwin, 1955, re: Admiral Raphael Semmes.

Cooper, Robert F., 1920; re: personal news of former colleague at Birmingham-Southern College.

Corlew, Robert E. (16), 1953-55, re: doctoral work at University of Alabama and work book for American history textbook.

Cotton, Thomas, 1934; re: recommendation.

Coulter, E. Merton (9), 1933-54, re: historical programs and writings.

*Couch, W.T. (7), 1934-35; re: publication of student's historical writings and agrarianism.

Cox, Carl S., 1920; re: new position in Florida.

Cox, Frederick J. (3), 1952-53; re: Fulbright Fellow in Egypt, experience, etc.

Crabb, A. L., 1949, re: regrets departure of Frank Owsley.

Craig, Daisy D., 1952; re: speech to Moble Society.

Crane, Edward. See D. Van Nostrand -- Crane.

Crane, Verner W., 1940; re: reprint.

*Craven, Avery O. (14) 1953-56; re: historical writings, symposium for Dodd, reprints, etc.

Cresap, Bernarr (5), 1950-54; re: teaching position, historical writings, etc.

Crittenden, C. C. (4), 1935-40; re: articles in North Carolina Historical Quarterly.

Cruickshank, Earl F. (2), 1936-42, re: experiences in U.S. Array.

Curlee, Erline, 1951; re: homecoming at Cain's Chapel.

Curt, Merle (3), 1940-48; re: reprints of articles.

Dale, E. E., 1952, to A. B. Moore; re: lecture tour.

Dale, W.P., 1953; re: former student at Howard College.

Dambrink, John, 1952; re: desire to continue graduate work.

Daniel, C. C. (3), 1919; re: position at Birmingham-Southern College.

Daniels, Francis Clifton, 1954; re: recommendation.

*Daniels, Jonathan

Davenport, F. Garvin (9), 1940-53; re: historical writings and application for grant.

*Davidson, Donald (11), 1935-52; very fine letters about Agrarians and Fugitives.

Davidson, John (11), 1945-54; re: graduate work at Yale, doctoral dissertation and historical, writings.

Davidson, Philip (6), 1936-49; re: academic affairs, salaries, etc.

Davis, Charles S. (2); re: teaching positions.

Davis, Edwin A. (3), 1953; re: qualifications of students.

Davis, Lambert (15); re: writing for Virginia Quarterly Review.

Dawson, Ed, 195-; re: recommendation.

Denbo, Bruce F. (6), 1949-55; re: reading manuscripts for the Press.

Denman, Clarence P. (2), 1932, 1946; re: series of brief studies on topics of American history.

Denson, N. D. (2), 1952; re: address to U.D.C.

Des Champs, Margaret Burr (13); 1949-55;

De Witt, Mrs. John H., 1946; re: election to membership of Tennessee Historical Commission.

Dickerson, O. M. (2), 1955; re: reprint on Revolution.

Diemer, G. W., 1955; re: application of student.

*Dodd, William E. (4), 1931-35, re: King Cotton Diplomacy; articles in American Review; and agrarianism.

Dorman, Lewy (6), 1933-55; re: politics; Barbour County, Alabama; and dissertation.

Dorrance, Ward Allison, 1938; re: appreciation.

Dorris, J. T., 1952; re: publication of his book on Lincoln.

Doster, James F. (9), 1953-54; re: work at Harvard and headship of History Department.

Douglas, Mary S., n.d.; re: book review.

Dowell, Madie, 1919; re: girls basketball team.

Dowell, Spright, 1918; re: teacher's certificate.

Du Bois, W. E. B., 1942; re: resignation from SHA.

Duncan, L. N. (4), 1942-45; re: Dr. Petrie's memoirs.

Duncan, O. D., n.d.; re: writings.

Dunning, William A. (2), 1917; re: graduate study at Columbia University.

D. Van Nostrand Company, 1940-54; Brown, Harold S. (2), 1954; Clark, A. N. (21), 1941-54; Gander, Gustav H., 1952; Gum, William Lee, 1952; Heany, Arthur G. (12) 1949; Van de Velde, L. R., 1940; Victor, O.A., 1952; Crane, Edward M. (25), 1940-50 (especially good regarding various phases of textbook writing); Crane, Edward M., Jr., 1956.

*Dyer, John Percy

Dykes, R. O., 1919, re: program of commencement.

Eades, William, 1952; re: former student.

Earle, Edward Mead, 1938, re: King Cotton Diplomacy.

Easterby, J. H. (2), 1940; re: meeting of SHA in Charleston.

Edelston, Emily, 1933; re: England.

Edwards, Everett E., 1940; re: reprint on "Economic Basis of Society," etc.

Edwards, J. E., 1956, re: Anglo-American Conference.

Eidson, John O. (2), 1953; re: article on D. R. Hundley.

Ellis, Elmer (2), 1935-36; re: program of MVHA; teaching position.

Elmore, Col. Vincent M., 1951; re: archives position of Mrs. Elmore.

Emerson, O. B., 1953; re: fellowship.

England, J. Merton (2); 1954-55; re: article and Blazer lecture.

*England, Robert

English, Sara John, 1953; re: speech on Lincoln.

Evans, Edward H., 1952; re: teaching positions.

Faircloth, J. M., 1953; re: research project honor.

Faremont, Marquis de Champvans de, 1938; re: membership in Conseil Historique et Heraldique de France.

Farish, Hunter D., 1940; re: reprint of "Economic Basis of Society."

Farraud, Max

Faulkner, Harold W.

Favrat, Leo M. (2), 1936; re: research grant.

Feidelson, Charles N. (2), 1931, 1934; re: Owsley's book and son's scholarship.

Fields, Emmett B. (2), 1954; re; program for SHA.

Finney, Bob, 1952; re: doctoral exam.

Fishel, Rabbi H.A., 1953; re: Religion in Life week.

Fisher, Le Hoy H., 1954; re; nominations for SHA.

Flanders, Ralph B., 1937, re: program for SHA.

Fleming, Mary Boyd, 1930; re: appreciation for dedication of I'll Take My Stand.

Fleming, Walter Lynwood (4), 1920-27; re: position at Vanderbilt, courses, and grant.

*Fletcher, John Gould

Ford, Guy Stanton (2), 1947, 1951; re; Linden's review; advisory committee on census.

*Forrester, Donal F. (2), 1933-34; re; comparison of agrarians with Belloc, Chesterton, et al.

Freeman, Douglas Southall (2), 1935; re; review of R. E. Lee.

Friedman, Hugo (4), 1949-53; re; writings and appreciation.

Friedrich, Carl J., 1935; re; historical approach to political science.

Fulbright correspondence -- Young, Francis A. (3), 1956; re; Fulbright assignment and recommendations.

Fuller, Grady (3); 1955; re; research and writing.

Fulton, R. E., 1950; re; Friersons.

Gachel, Dana, n.d.; re; MeGehee family.

Gallalee, John M. (4), 1949-52; re:speech and writings.

Ganaway, Loomis, 1945; re; Army experiences.

Gardner, John W., 1954; re; list of books which would give foreign readers a balanced picture of U. S.

Garner, J. W., n.d.; re; program of AHA.

Gewehr, Wesley M. (3), 1947; re; summer teaching at University of Maryland.

Gewin, Walter P., 1954; re; resignation.

Gilbert, William E. (2), 1954; re; teaching position.

Gill, William H., 1953; re; recommendation.

Glenn, L. C. (2), 1950; re; books.

Going, Allen (6), 1951-52; re: writings, health, salary, promotion, etc.

Govan, Tom, 1954; re: program of SHA.

Gower, Herschel, 1952; re: thesis on Agrarians.

Graham, Jane Kirkland (5), 1932-55; re: Vanderbilt, and her manuscript book. 1955; re: writings and I'll Take My Stand.

Greaves, Carl P. (2); re: graduate work.

Green, Fletcher M. (8), 1936-50; re: SHA, writings, etc.

Greene, J. N. (2), 1953; re: Alabama Hall of Fame.

Greenfield, Kent Roberts (4), 1935; re; program of AHA.

Gregory, Lillian, 1935, re: book.

Griffith, Lucile (2), 1953; re: I'll Take My Stand.

Griffin, Richard W., 1952; re: graduate work.

Grimmett, Floy, 1952; re: speech to U.D.C.

Guyton, Walter, 1954; re; graduate work.

Hails, Frances M., 1942; re: reprints.

Hall, Fitzgerald (7), 1943-44; re: courses in American history; nonslaveholder in South.

Hall, Martin (2), 1956; re: teaching position and appreciation.

Hamilton, Lillian C., 1954; re: speech in Mobile.

Hammill, Grace, n.d.; re: whereabouts.

Harcourt, Alfred (2), 1926; re: novel on Civil War.

Hart, Laura Louise, 1953; re: student's record.

Hartje, Bob, 1955; re: dissertation and teaching positions.

Harper, Roland M. (9), 1933-42; re: American Review; South misrepresented; writings on land tenure, etc.

Harrell, Costen J., 1944; re: Sam Jones.

Harris, T. H.

Hauser, Ernst O. (2), 1936; re: Scottsboro article.

Hawthorne, Frank H., 1949; re: return to Alabama.

Hayes, Joseph P., 1935; re: article in American Review.

Haynes, Jim, 1935; re: combatting communism.

Head, Holman (3); 1953; re: teaching position.

Hendrix, Noble, 1952; re: quotation from Charles A. Beard.

Henry, Robert, 1941; re: SHA presidential address.

Higginbotham, S. W., 1953; re: articles on Mississippi history.

Hill, Louise Biles (4), 1933-51; re: academic problems.

Hill, Walter B., 1936; re: physical examination.

Hingers, Edward, 1953; re: graduate work.

Hobeika, John E. (2), 1936; re: Southern history.

Hoffman, Don, 1954; re: greetings of Phi Alpha Theta.

Hoffman, Philip G. (10), 1952-53; re: extension courses.

Hofstadter, Richard, 1954; re: article on slavery.

Hohenberg, Adolphe (2), 1919; re: recommendation.

Hoke, K. J., 1936; re: summer teaching position.

Holliday, R. H., 1926; re: State Rights in Confederacy.

Holt, Henry and Company -- John E. Neill and Alden H. Clark; re: book on Old South.

Holt, W. Stull (2), 1933, 1940; re: dissertation-subject originality; article on Economic Basis.

Holton, Holland (3); 1937-40, re: summer teaching.

Hoole, W. Stanley (5); 1949-54; re: speech at Alabama Historical Association; teaching-at Columbia, etc.

Horton, George E., 1933; re: writings on the South.

House, R. B. (2), 1926, 1939, re: copyright of material; summer session at Chapel Hill.

Howard, G. H., 1951; re: records of Coosa County.

Howell, Isabel (55), 1949-56, to Harriet Owsley; re: all sorts of interesting people and ideas.

Howell, Morton (11), 1949-55, re: insurance, etc.

Hubert, Ruth B., 1953, re: evaluating manuscript.

Huff, A. Le Roy (4), 1934-35; re: teaching etc.

Ingram, Irvine G. (2), 1949, re: speech at Carrolton, Ga.

Inzer, Peggy Jean (2), 1954-55; re: Speech at Judson College.

Izard, Thomas C., 1934; re: Columbia Summer School.

Jackson, Kenneth, 1950; re: graduate work and teaching Civil War and Reconstruction.

James, Kathrina, 1950; re: University Research Committee.

Jemison, Robert, 1949; re: address to Alabama Historical Association.

Jenkins, William T., 1951; re: graduate fellowship.

Jernegan, M. W. (3), 1934, 1935; re: maps and speech.

Johnson, C. E., 1921; re: cartoons in The Montgomery Journal.

Johnson, Samuel A., 1936: re: dissertation.

Johnston, G. Burke (3), 1951-52; re: teaching position.

Jones, Millard Van, 1953; re: teaching position.

Jordan, Holman D., 1952; re: desire to study at Alabama.

Jordon, Weymouth Tyree (23), 1935-56; re: research and writings, teaching positions, etc.

Karl, Barry D., 1954; re: ms. for U. of C. Press.

Karlin, J. Alexander, 1941; re: Presidential address.

Kendrick, B. B., 1937; re: Tates, teaching position.

Kennedy, Joseph M., 1938; re: Harmsworth professorship.

Kethley, W. M. (2), 1953; re: teaching position.

Kiger, Joseph C. (13), 1951-55; re: teaching positions and research work.

Kilby, Thomas, 1919; re: recommendation.

Kimura, Kikuya (4), 1951-55; re: reprints and bibliography.

Kinard, James C., 1945; re: recommendation.

Kirkland, James H. (6), 1927-56; re: salary and leaves; also appreciation for friendship.

Knapp, Charles M. (2), 1934-35; re: organizing Southern Historical Association.

Knopf, Alfred A. (5), 1938-44; re: contract for proposed book and advanced royalties.

Krauskopf, Frances, 1955; re: book review.

Krock, Arthur (2), 1939; re: Harrasworth professorship.

Krout, John A., 1940; re: reprint of article on "Economic Basis."

Krueger, E. J.

*Kuhlman, A. F. (3), 1942-43; re: proposal to establish Fugitive-Agrarian collections.

Landruth, Harold F., 1954; re: graduate school.

Lane, Kate, 1948; re: appreciation for tribute to Dr. Petrie.

Lamer, E. A., 1934; re: George Washington as Virginia gentleman.

Larsen, Laurence M. (5); 1936-37; re: Summer school at University of Illinois.

Lasky, Melvin J., 1941; re: article on "Economic Basis."

Latimer, John (5); 1947-50; re: teaching position.

Lazenby, Candler, 1934; re: teaching German.

Le Breton, Maurice (3), 1951-52; re: French Archives.

Le Due, Thomas (2), 1950; re: methodology in studying land tenure.

Lefler, Hugh T., 1939; re: SHA.

Lehmann, Joseph H. (4), 1953; re: teaching position.

Lewis, Louise Garland, 1950; re: Croxton's Raid on University of Alabama.

Lipsey, Plautus Iberius, 1952; re: textbook on Civil War, etc.

Little, Brown, & Company (3); Herbert F. Jenkins, 1936; re: request for manuscripts on South.

Lloyd, Arthur Young (l4), 1934-49; re: dissertation, teaching, public welfare, and Legislative Research Commission.

Locket, Mary, n.d.; re: thanking for dinner party.

Lord, Clifford (8), 1952-53; re: American Association for State and Local History.

Louisiana Press, 1953; re: death of Wilkerson; evaluation of manuscripts; volumes on Civil War.

Lowes, Marvin McCord (9), 1934-35; re: articles and book reviews for American Review.

Lusky, Lehman M., 1941; re: seeking a job.

Lyle, Olive, 1954; re: speech to Mobile Historical Society.

Lynch, William O., 1950; re: review of Plain Folk.

*Lytle, Andrew

McCann, Thomas R. (2), 1954; re: graduate work.

McGehee, Edward (11), 1943-51; re: experiences in the armed services; proposed writings and graduate study.

McGill, John T., 1937, re: Phi Beta Kappa membership.

McGrew, Mason, 1950; re: position and research.

McIntosh, John W. (2), 1934; re: graduate work.

McLaughlin, A. C., 1921; re: work at University of Chicago.

McLean, Ross H. (3); 1939-40; re: SHA programs in European history.

McLemore, R.A. (2), 1945-49; re: writings and position at University of Alabama.

McLure, John R., 1952; re: student examination.

McPherson, Joseph, Sr., 1953; re: accident of Joseph, Jr.

McPherson, Joseph, Jr. (2), 1954; re: resignation as graduate assistant.

Manning, John (9), 1934-47; re: research, speaking engagements, teaching positions University of Kentucky, National Institute of Public Affairs, and political job in Kentucky.

Marchant, Alexander, 1950; re: Rolls Royce.

Markey, Morris, 1926, re: using historical works for fiction.

Martin, John M.

Martin, Roscoe C. (2), 1949; re: acceptance of position at Alabama.

Martin, Thomas P. (2), 1934; re: establishment of a National Archives and the position of Archivist.

Meacham, Boyd, 1935; re: purchase of farm.

Meade, Robert D. (3), 1940-44; re: SHA program, and his Benjamin book.

Meadows, Austin, 1955; re: adoption of Alabama history textbooks.

Measomer, M. B., 1935; re: graduate work.

Merritt, Edgar C., 1953; re; McGehee family.

Miles, T. J., 1948; re: school associations. (6); re; agrarianism, articles in American Review and Southern Review.

Milton, George Fort, 1935; re: Lincoln's attitude on Crittenden compromise.

Mims, Edwin (2), 1950; re: Plain Folk.

Mississippi Valley Historical Association (2), 1937-40; re: annual meeting and payment of dues.

Moe, Henry Allen (12), 1927-55; re: Guggenheim Fellowships and friendly messages.

Moffatt, Charles H. (5), 1943-52; re: graduate work.

Moffitt, James W. (3); 1936-39; re: SHA and Southern historical scholarship.

Mooney, Chase (6), 1950-54; re: research and writings.

*Moore, Albert Burton

Moore, Charles, 1926; re: article on defeatism.

Moore, Glover (10), 1940-50; re: array services, Hitler, Roosevelt, Civil War writings, politics, dissertation publication, etc.

Moore, J. M., 1917; re: old friendship.

Morgan, Helen, 1952; re: history of Clarke County.

Morgan, Walter M. (2), 1956; re: politics, and school problems.

Morris, Richard B. (3), 1953-54; re: summer teaching at Columbia and criticism of article dealing with South.

Morton, Richard L. (3), 1936-46; re: teaching position at William and Mary; article on pattern of migration with request for article for Quarterly.

Morison, S. E.

Mudroch, Vratislav, 1926; re: School of Music.

Mullins, Edna Earle (2), 1953; re: graduate work at Yale.

Murphy, Rev. DuBose, 1955; re: Biblical references.

Murphy, T. F., 1938; re: purchase of census microfilms.

Neese, Joseph Maynard (5), 1936-39; re: work in North Carolina.

Nettels, Curtis (3), 1934-42; re: thesis on Emigrant Aid Society, policies of 1850's, and comments on reprint on Economic Structure of Rural Tennessee.

Nevins, Allan (9), 1939-54; re: University of Jerusalem, recommendation of his student; invitation to visit.

Nevins, Mrs. Allan, 1954; re: directions for trip to Connecticut.

Newman, J. H., 1953; re: operation Bootstrap.

Newsome, A. R. (2), 1934-38; re: Archives and teaching position.

Newton, Wesley P., Jr.

Nichols, Roy F., 1943; re: reprint of article on Economic Basis.

*Nixon, H. C. (24), 1926-56; re; experiences in Europe; politics and FDR; farm tenancy; Pillars of Agrarianism; refusal to write for Who Owns America; ideas on textbook.

*Odum, Howard (2), 1936, 1940; re; "poor whites" and article on Economic Basis of Society.

Oliver, Dr. Oren A. (2), 1947-50; re: orthodontics.

Oliver, Revils Pendleton (2), 1935; re: Three American Crusades.

Omicron Delta Kappa Society (2), 1948; re: appointment as faculty adviser.

Owen, Marie Bankhead (4), 1941-53; re: article on "Fundamental Cause of the Civil War" and other writings.

Owen, Thomas M., Jr. (2), 1935; re: biography of General Joseph Wheeler.

Ownbey, Richard L., 1950; re: Plain Folk.

Palmer, Gordon D., 1953; re: A. B. Moore.

Palmer, John (2), 1946, 1947; re: essay book review.

Park, No-Yong (10), 1951-52; re: lectures and teaching.

Parks, Edd, 1938; re: recommendation.

Patrick, Joseph B., 1954; re: graduate work.

Patton, James W. (6), 1939-42; re: SHA.

Peel, Roy V., 1953; re: Census program.

Pentecost, Percy M. (2), 1949-50; re: teaching.

Peoples, James A., 1933; re: article on Scottsboro.

Perry, Charles D. (2), 1951, 1952; re: Pharr's Aeneid.

Petrie, George (9), 1915-42; re: recommendations and writings, reminiscences.

Pharr, Clyde, 1945; re: Theodosian Code.

Phillips, Ulrich B., 1903 to Henry; re: reasons for going to Wisconsin and hopes to produce something noteworthy on history of South.

Pickens, W. E., Jr., 1956; re: social security regulations.

Pierce, Bessie L. (2), 1935, 41; re: presentation of Dodd volume and her research.

Pi Gamma Mu, 1925; re: membership.

Pipkin, Charles W. (2), 1934; re: writings for Southern Review.

Pomfret, John E. (8), 1936-45; re: Social Science Research grants and others; reprint of article.

Posey, Walter B. (2), 1934, 1952; re: review and graduate students.

Pruitt, Maurice (3); 1954-56; re: experiences in armed forces and historical characters.

Ramsdell, Charles W. (5), 1935-36; re: programs of SHA, Lincoln and Fort Sumter, state socialism in the Confederacy, etc.

Ramsey, John (4), 1953; re: University of Alabama History Department.

Rand McNally & Co., 1956; re: selections from King Cotton.

Randall, J. G. (2), 1945; re: comments on book; reprint of article on settlement of Southern frontier.

*Rawe, John C., S. J., Reeves, Ada M., 1935; re: speech to Colonial Dames.

Regen, W. D., Jr., 1942; re: armed services.

Reynolds, T. H., 1936; re: program of SSSA

Reynolds, Wade (5), n.d., 1949; re: teaching, writing, etc.

Rhodes, M. C., 1952; re: teaching position.

Rice, Nannie H. (2), 1951; re: Walker genealogy.

Rich, Dr. Celia, 1949; re: Plain Folk.

Richardson, Patrick W. (2), 1952; re: paper to Huntsville Historical Society.

Richardson, W. C., 1953; re: recommendation.

Rippa, Sol Alexander (2), 1952, 1955; re: Ford Fellowship.

Rippy, J. Fred (7), 1925-55; re: review of State Rights; Archivist of U.S., program of American Historical Association; conditions at Chicago in 1955.

Robert, Joseph C. (2), 1944-45; re: program and reprint.

Roberts, Frances (10), 1951-54; re: graduate work and writings at University of Alabama.

Robertson, J. Fall, 1954; re: daughter Nancy.

Robinson, Janie Grace, 1952; re: writings of father.

Robinson, William M. (3), 1935-37; re: program and writings on Confederate Judiciary.

Robinton, Madeline, 1939; re: Prize Court decisions.

Robison, Dan M. (4), 1950-54; re: Plain Folk reprint, position with TSLA, Tennessee Historical Quarterly.

Ross, Letitia D., 1951; re: new position.

Rowland, Donald W., 1951; re: summer teaching position.

Rutland, J. R., 1942; re: genealogy, Dr. Petrie and English instructors.

Ryle, Walter H. (2), 1934; re: dissertation and recommendation for Social Science position.

Samford, Thomas, n.d.; re: Battle of Shiloh.

Sarratt, Madison, 1949; re: Vanderbilt's loss of Frank Owsley.

Savage, Ernest C. (3), 1931-32; re: writings on Civil War.

Schlesinger, A, M., 1940; re: request for reprint of "Economic Basis of Society," etc.

Schmidt, L. B., 1941; re: presidential address and other writings.

Schmitt, Bernadotte E. (5), 1926-351 re: "Defeatism in Confederacy" and festschrift for Dodd.

Shannon, Fred A. (2), 1940-42; re: reprints

*Shryock, Richard H.

Shugg, Roger W, (3), 1950-55; re: proposed writing.

Shumate, Thomas D., 1953; re: new position.

*Silver, James W.

Simms, Henry H., 1934; re: review of Cole's book.

Simms, LeRoy A., Sterling J. Foster, and Clyde W. Ennis, 1933; re: "Scottsboro -- The Third Crusade."

Simpkins, Francis B. (2), 1951, 1953; re: student; and program of SHA

*Simpson, Albert (16), 1935-53; re: farmer's situation in 1935, Pillars of Agrarianism, teaching positions, dissertation, SHA meeting in Charleston, Presidential address, Georgia history, work at Maxwell Field; World War II, work with Historical Division, Army Air Force; Negro problem.

Skipper, Otis C. (25), 1940-54; re: programs and meetings of SHA, biography of DeBow.

Smith, Charles E.

Smith, Culver H., 1934; re: AHA meeting.

Smith, James Anderson, 1945; re: King Cotton Diplomacy.

Smith, Louis (2), 1934, 1950; re: graduate work and teaching positions.

Smith, T. Lynn (3), 1950-55; re: volume on Brazil and The Peoples of Latin America.

Smith, Warren Irving (15), 1950-56; re: dissertation and teaching positions.

Social Science Research Council (13), 1930-44; re: programs and grants.

South, Percy (3), 1945-49; re: dissertation on land tenure in Montgomery County, Alabama.

Southard, Shelby E. (2), 1939; re: graduate work.

Spengler, Joseph J. (2), 1937, 1940; re: reprint on "Economic Basis of Society," etc.

Sprigg, Earle F., 1953; re: admiralty records at Key West.

Stanley, C. M., 1954; re: "The Education of a Southern Girl."

Stanton, William A., 1945; re: John Brown and Kansas.

Staples, Thomas S, (3), 1934-39; re: teaching position, SHA program, and Roosevelt.

Stevens, George, 1935; re: review for The Saturday Review of the Lamar book.

*Stephenson, Wendell H. (14), 1935-53; re: book reviews for Journal of Southern History; articles for publication; teaching techniques; dissertations.

Sterkx, Gene, (9), 1953-56; re: teaching positions, dissertation, etc.

*Stewart, Edward Bay

Stewart, John Craig, 1955, to Gordon Chappell; re: fourth-grade textbook on Alabama.

Stewart, Randall (2), 1956; re: Fugitive Reunion.

Stockdale, William, 1949; re: Phi Alpha Theta membership.

Stocking, George W. (3); 1947-49; re: summer grants, etc.

*Stone, Geoffrey (4), 1936-51: re: The Examiner, and the lack of a periodical representing the point of view of the American conservative.

Strode, Hudson, 1955; re: volume on Jefferson Davis.

Sulzby, James F. (3), 1948-49; re: speeches to Alabama Historical Association.

Summersell, Charles G. (17), 1942-56; re: recommendations and history department at University of Alabama.

*Swint, Henry Lee (33); 1933-56; re: graduate work, army service, segregation. and integration, teaching positions, politics, etc.

*Sydnor, Charles S. (9), 1937-50; re: SHA, recommendation to Social Science Research Council, historical writings on Southern yeomen, and appreciation for review.

Talman, James J., 1941; re: writings in Southern history.

Tansill, Charles G., 1946; re: book on Bayard.

*Tate, Allen

ten Hoor, Martin (19); 1948-56; re: decision to come to U. of A., Operation Bootstrap, discussion of successor as head of History Department, various Department problems, approval of leave.

Terry, Benjamin

Thach, Charles C., 1913; re: letter of recommendation.

Thach, Harry S., 1941; re: fellowship at Vanderbilt.

Thach, Mrs. Charles C. (4), 1941; re: son Harry Thach.

Thomas, Alfred H., 1951; re: congratulations on promotion.

Thomas, Dan H, (2), 1934, 1953; re: teaching positions, writings, etc.

Thomas, David, 1933; re: King Cotton Diplomacy.

Thompson, Brooks and Hariett, 1954-55; re: dissertation and teaching positions.

Thompson, S. B., 1937; re: teaching positions.

Thompson, Scerial, 1952, 1953; re: writings.

Thrasher, James D., 1950: re: accident and failure to return to Graduate School.

Tidwell, R. E., 1924; re: teaching position.

Tilley, Nannie M. (2), 1940, 1950; re: Barnsley papers and recommendations.

Todd, Herbert H. (2), 1934-35; re: teaching positions, dissertation etc.

Todd, L. O., 1954; re: writings.

Toner, Ethel Fowlkes (2), 1953; re: Colonial Dames recommendation regarding study of American History.

Truett, Randle B. (4), 1936-45; re: work with Department of Interior's National Park Service, etc.

Tucker, William H., 1953; re: historical research.

Turner, Hill

Tyler, Sue Ruffin (Mrs. Lyon G.) (2), 1936; re: article for Tyler's Quarterly.

Van Auken, Sheldon (4), 1953; re: dissertation at Oxford.

*Vance, Rupert B.

Vandiver, Frank (2), 1948, 1953; re: recommendation etc.

Van Sickle, John, 1943; re: reprint on economic structure.

Venable Austin L. (17), 1935-54; re: teaching positions.

Vipond, Herbert E., 1920; re: death of George.

Virginia History Committee (Mary D. Carter), 1936; re: work the the Committee enclosing letters of George B. McClellan, Charles W. Ramsdell, E. L. Masters, Claude G. Bowers, and Lloyd F. Wagner.

Virginia Quarterly Review (12), 1942-49; re: book reviews and other writings.

Volwiler, A. T., 1934; re: speech on "Three American Crusades."

*Wade, John Donald (13), 1934-47; re: speech at University of Georgia, Georgia Review.

Walker, Curtis H. (7), 1950-54; re: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Plain Folk, etc.

Walker, Harry J., n.d.; re: address on WSM.

Wall, Bennett H. (2), 1953; re: membership in SHA.

Wallace, Mary Barbour, 1934; re: speech to Colonial Dames.

Wallace, Sarah Agnes, 1950; re: review of Benjamin Horan.

Waller, George M., 1954; re: manuscript.

Walser, Zeb V., 1926; re: State Rights in the Confederacy.

*Walters, Bennett

Watson, Elliott O., 1934; 1935; re: graduate work.

*Warren, Robert Penn (43); 1933-55; re: writings for Southern Review, literary criticism, poetry, etc.

Weaver, Blanche Henry Clark (3), n.d.; re: dissertation and other writings (numerous other letters to Harriet Owsley)

*Weaver, Herbert (27); 1941-54; re: dissertation, armed services, land tenure studies attacked, publication of Mississippi Farmers, Air Force Historical Division.

Weber, Bernerd C., 1953; re: salary.

Welker, Robert, 1952; re: visit.

Wertenbaker, Thomas J. (2), 1940-4l; re: reprints.

West, Richard S. (6), 1942-44; re: King Cotton Diplomacy, writings, recommendations, Gideon Welles, reviews, etc.

Westwood House School, 1956; re: Margaret's attendance.

Wilber, Leon A., 1954; re: teaching position.

Wiley, Bell I. (13), 1942-50; re: program of SHA, Fleming Lecturer, program for lectures, publication of Plain Folk, reviews, etc.

Wilkerson, Marcus W. (7), 1942-52; re: publication of Plain Folk.

Williams, Charlotte, 1941

Williams, Clanton W. (19), 1935-55; re: McGehees, graduate work, dissertation Air War College, Operation Bootstrap, University of Houston.

Williams, C. E., 1949; re: summer school.

Williams, Ernest G., 1952; re: speech of No Yong Park.

Williams, Frank B., 1951; re: grant-in-aid.

Williams, Ralph R.

Williams, T. Harry, 1948; re: Fleming lectures.

Williams, William Appleman, n.d.; re: selection from King Cotton Diplomacy.

Windham, William T. (5), 1952-55; re: dissertation, teaching positions.

Winn, Frederick G. (2), 1951, 1952; re: doctoral dissertation on diplimatic history.

*Winters, Curtis R. (2), 1933; re: The Third Crusade and I'll Take My Stand, sectionalism.

Wirth, Fremont P. (3), 1950-54; re: writings and recommendations.

Woodward, G. Vann (2), 1940, 1952; re: program of S.H.A., fellowships at Johns Hopkins.

Woody, Robert H. (3), 1936-37; re: programs, writings, etc.

Wuorinen, John H. (5), 1954-55; re: summer teaching at Columbia, writings, etc.

Yale Review (5), 1935-40; re: writings for the Review.

Yates, Richard E. (Dick) (13), 1936-49; re: teaching position, writings, Hendrix College, personal problems, dissertation on Vance.

*Young, Stark (4), 1936; re: McGehee's, selection of writings, etc.

Younger, Edward, 1952; re: nominating committee of SHA.

To Donald Davidson (8), 1927-52; re: agrarianism, poetry and other writings, communism, fascism, etc.

To John Gould Fletcher (5), 1933-35; re: agrarianism and the cause of the South, boycott of Virginia Quarterly Review (comments).

To Andrew Lytle (23), 1930-56; re: I'II Take My Stand, The Long Night, and other writings.

To Allen Tate (15), 1932-55; re: Who Owns America, teaching positions, agrarianism, etc.

To Robert Penn Warren (10), 1943-50; re: poetry and other writings, agrarianism writings for American Review. teaching positions, comments on various novels, balanced economy, characterizations of several old friends.

84 copies of outgoing letters of Frank Owsley for the inclusive dates 1932- 1956. A very fine letter to Chancellor Kirkland dated Jan. 8, 1935. These letters are only a few of which copies were kept. Frank Owsley usually wrote long hand and did not make copies.

BROCK, W.R. (2) 1956; re: position at Selwyn College, Cambridge and accomodations for family in Cambridge

CARR, S.H. (1) 1956; re: accommodations in Cambridge

CLARK, ADRIAN N., Vice-President of Van Nostrand (2); re: Owsley's appraisal of a ms. and revision of a history book

CLARK, ALDEN H., Vice-President of Henry Holt & Co. (2) 1956; ret publication of history book

COHEN, RUTH (1) 1956; re: daughter's schooling in Cambridge

DENBO, BRUCE F., of Louisiana State U. Press (1) 1949; re: Owsley's book Plain Folk

FAIN, TYREE (1) 1956; re: request for recommendation

GOWER HERSCHEL (4) 1955-1956; re: Fulbright recommendation, Agrarian news, house in Cambridge Owsley will rent

JORDAN, BILL, former student (3) 1956; re: congratulations on Fulbright and thank yous for Owsley's recommendations (1) 1956; re: request for Guggenheim applicants

MOORE, A.B. (1) 1956 re: bill passing to create National Military Park

MUMFORD, D.E. (1) 1956; re: schooling for daughter in Cambridge

MURRAY, A.R.

OWSLEY, HARRIET C, (1) n.d. ; re: post card filling Owsley in on his mail

PEACE, K.M. (1) 1956: re: schooling for daughter in Cambridge (1) 1919; re: recommendation on Owsley's behalf

RIPPA, SOL A. (1) 1957; re: former student requests recommendation

SCOTT, M.A. 9(1) 1956; re: schooling for daughter in Cambridge

ROBINSON, RONALD (2) 1955-1956; re: position at St. John's College (1) 1956; re: mentions probable divorce of Tate

SNYDER, LOUIS L. (1) 1956; re: about publication of history book (1) 1956; re: news from University of Alabama

THISTLEWAITE, FRANK (2) 1956-1957; re: housing in Cambridge, letter of sympathy to Mrs. Owsley on her husband's death

VANAUKEN,SHELDON (2) 1956; re: VanAuken's thesis (1) 1955; re: Christmas letter

WEINER, BERNARD (1) 1956; re: thank you note

YOUNG, FRANCES A. (1) 1956; re: concerning Fulbright schlorships

To BEARD, CHARLES A. (1) Oct. 12, 1940; re: research for an article on farm families

To BUFORD, JIM (1) 1952; re: thank you note (dinner)

To CLARK, JULIE (2) 1956; re: accomodations in Cambridge

To GAIMES, WILLIAM L. (3) 1956; re: Junior Fulbright Award applicant, duties at St. Johns, luncheon invitation

To GOWER, HERSCHEL (4) Oct. 18, 1955; re: Fulbright Award, Oct. 25, 1955; re: Fulbright Award, Nov. 4, 1955; re: Fulbright Award and project Battle for Survival: The American Civil War in Europe, Apr. 27, 1956; re: accommodations in Cambridge, Fugitive reunion, Oct. 30, 1956; from William Gaines re: death of Frank Owsley

To OWSLEY, GORDON (26) (these letters are xeroxed) [1927-28]; April 15, 1929; March 18, 1940; November 29, 1940; February 24, 1941; May 8, 1941; May 15, 1941; June 23, 1941; September 19, 1942; February 1, 1944; March 21, 1944; April 14 [1944] (incomplete); February 16, 1948; May 4, 1950; September 6, 1950; September 24, 1950; February 15, 1952; July 12, 1953 (incomplete?); October 31, 1953; February 14, 1954; April 16, 1954; May 2, 1954; November 30, 1954; January 15, 1955; n.d.; August 18, 1956.

To OWSLEY, HARRIET (4) 1956; re: (post cards) first impressions in London, shopping, finding abundant records to research

To PETRIE, DR. GEORGE (7) 1917-1927; re: requests for recommendations and new about Vanderbilt (these letters are xeroxed)

To SECRETARY-U.S. EDUCATIONAL COMMISSION IN UNITED KINGDOM (1) 1956; re: questions upon recieving the Fulbright Award

To VAN AUKEN, SHELDON (1) 1956; re: discoveries concerning U.S. diplomacy in England and other countries

To WATT, MR. GEOFFREY (1) 1956; re: ship voyage to England and daughter's schooling