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Guide to the Papers of William Baskerville Hamilton, ca. 1700-1972

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Descriptive Summary

Title
William Baskerville Hamilton Papers, 1700-1972
Creator
Hamilton, William Baskerville, 1908-1972.
Extent
45,200 Items
Repository
Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Language
English.
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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions
Access to portions of the William Baskerville Hamilton Papers is restricted.
In addition, patrons must sign the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection.
Also, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in the William Baskerville Hamilton Papers have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information consult the section on copyright in the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], The Papers of William Baskerville Hamilton, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Papers of William Baskerville Hamilton were gifts to Duke University, 1965-1973.
Processing Information
Processed by: Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Staff
Completed ca. 1973
Encoded by Stephen Douglas Miller
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note

William Baskerville Hamilton was Professor of history, Duke University, Durham, N.C. Biographical and Autobiographical Information is filed in the first box of the collection. It includes a vita, letters, articles, clippings, obituaries, and other Items.

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Collection Overview

Correspondence, memoranda, and reports, relating to Hamilton's teaching career; reasearch notes for his work in antebellum Mississippi history, particularly the Territorial period, and for biographies of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, and William Murray, Earl of Mansfield; and personal and family papers. Includes ca. 9,000 British historical manuscripts donated by Hamilton, cataloged separately by the repository. Correspondents include Nash Kerr Burger, Hubert Creekmore, Eudora Welty, and other Mississippi literary figures.
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Subject

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
List of Series in Collection
Biographical and Autobiographical Information
Alphabetical Files
Printed Material
Pictures
Mississippi Research
Grenville Research
Mansfield Research
Australia and New Zealand Research
Grand Juries Research
British Manuscripts
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Detailed Description of Collection

Biographical and Autobiographical Information

This information is filed in the first box of the collection. It includes a vita, letters, articles, clippings, obituaries, and other items.

Alphabetical Files

Adair, Douglass 1947
Adams, Randolph G. 1940-1942
Addoms, Ruth 1943
Advisory Committee on Historical Markers 1949-1952
Aldstadt, David P. 1961-1966
Allen, George Garland 1960
Altschul, Frank 1940
American Antiquarian Society 1939
American Council on Education 1942
American Council of Learned Societies. Faculty Study Fellowship 1949-1962
American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch 1962
American Historical Association-Publications Sales 1963
American Historical Association- see also Littleton-Griswold Fund Committee
American Peoples Encyclopedia 1945
Americans United for World Organization, Inc. 1945
Anglo-American Conference of Historians 1957-1966
Appleton-Century Co. 1944-1948
Archie, William C. 1950-1959
Archivists Convention 1948
Arizona Faculty Organization 1949
Army Air Forces 1942
Arnold, Noble 1940
Artz, Frederick B. 1941-1948
Askew, William C. 1940-1957
Association of Research Libraries 1954
Athenaeum 1942-1962
Austin, Warren R. 1939
Ausubel, Herman 1952
Bagnell, Sam H. 1940
Bailey, Mrs. Edward 1934-1946
Bailey, John C. 1941
Bailey, Josiah W. 1939-1946
Baldwin, Alice M. 1939-1960
Baldwin, Benjamin R. 1940
Barber, Harold R. 1948-1952
Barkley, Alben W. 1941
Barnes, Walter C. 1941
Barnwell, Robert 1938
Barron, Bryton 1943
Barr, Stringfellow 1940
Barnhart, John D. 1946
Barrett, Laura (Social Science Research Council) 1941-1942
Bassett, Mrs. J. L. 1944
Bassett, W. G. 1938-1939
Bassett Project of Publication Board 1963
Beall, Mrs. L. L. 1944
Beatson, James A. 1950-1959
Beres, Herbert 1946-1947
Bernard, L. L. 1939
Bettersworth, John Knox 1932-1952
Bevington, M. M. 1955-1961
Bieber, Ralph 1944
Biggs, Walter A. 1952
Bilbo, Theodore G. 1937-1939
Binkley, William C. 1944-1950
Bishop, David H. 1936-1954
Bisland, Louise 1936-1937
Blackburn, William Maxwell undated
Blank and Stoller 1938
Bolich, W. Bryan 1947-1972
Bond, N. B. 1931
Bond, W. F. 1932
Bondurant, Mrs. A. L. 1941
Boney, F. N. 1971-1972
Boyce, Peter undated
Boyd, Julian P. 1940
Boyd, Minnie Clare 1955
Boyd, William Kenneth 1938
Bradley, Harold W. 1944
Brady, Jane Tullia Smith 1939
Bradway, John S. 1950
Brandenburg, David J. 1949-1950
Brandon, Mrs. Charles G. 1937
Branscomb, Harvie 1946
Bratton, Theodore D. 1936-1937
Bratton, Thomas and Nettle 1933-1948
Bremer, R. E. 1940
Breedlove, Joseph Penn 1953
Brickell, H. and N. 1941-1946
Bristow, J. Chambers 1949
British Embassy 1940
British Information services 1959-1960
British Library of Information 1938
British Columbia, University of 1967
British Daily and Sunday Press 1959
British War Relief Society 1940
Bromleigh, Gray, Jr. 1958-1964
Brookings Duke Conference on International Relations 1949
Brower, A. S. 1945-1956
Brower, A. S., Party for 1959
Brown, Elizabeth H. G. 1954
Brown, Frances 1962
Brown, Lloyd A. 1945
Brown, Maud M. 1929
Brown, Patricia 1953
Brown, Truesdell S. 1940-1941
Brown University--Librarian 1949-1952
Brown, William O.. 1958
Brownell, William A. 1947-1958
Budd, James 1945
Bull, Mr. and Mrs. H. N. 1963
Bulwinkle, Alfred L. 1944
Burger, Nash Kerr 1932-1948
Burns, Sir Alan 1962
Burton, Harold H. 1944
Butts, A. B. 1941
Butterfield, L. H. 1952
Cartwright, William H. 1953-1968
Caldwell, Wallace E. 1953
Campbell, E. S. 1941
Canadian Historical Association 1961-1966
Canadian Learned Societies 1963
Candler, Frances G. 1943
Carswell, G. H. 1940
Capers, Charlotte 1943-1952
Cappon, Lester 1948-1956
Carnegie Corporation 1948
Carnegie Institution of Washington 1939-1941
Carroll, E. Malcolm 1940-1959
Carter, Clarence E. 1937-1954
Caughey, John W. 1944
Cavett, Longstreet 1946
Cavett, Mrs. James R. 1945
Cavitt, John B. 1931
Chaffin, Nora C. 1940-1956
Chambers, Moreau B. 1936-1942
Chapel Hill Road Fight 1949
Chastain, James G., Jr. 1934
Cheshire, Leone E. 1940
Christopher, John B. 1941
Churchill, George M. 1940
Citizens Travel Bureau 1938
Claitor's Book Store 1939
Clapham, L. B. 1942
Clarion-Ledger 1941-1943
Clark, A. N. 1942
Clark, H. E. 1942
Clay, Capt. A. T. 1943
Clay, Charles Travis 1938
Clay, David M. 1945-1948
Clerk of Chancery Court 1945
Clerk of Parliament 1938
Clifton, James M. 1955-1956
Clonts, Forrest W. 1940
Clyde, Paul H. 1940-1942
Coates, Miss W. D. 1958-1963
Cohn, David S. 1940
Cole, Arthur C. 1940
Cole, R. Taylor 1946-1972
Coleman and Adams 1945
Collector of U.S. Customs 1958
Collier, P. F., and Son Corp. 1945-1951
Collins, Carvel 1959
Columbia Broadcasting System 1941-1945
Commager, Henry S. 1952
Community Chest 1947
Conacher, J. B. 1969
Conference on British Studies 1958-1964
Connery, Robert H. 1959
Conger, Thea 1940
Connor, R. D, W. 1938
Cook, R. C. 1934
Cooper, John 1942
Corbitt, D. L. 1950-1959
Cornell Law School 1942
Cornwall's Old Book Shop 1939
Cox, Robert C. 1947
Cranmer-Byng, J. L. 1960
Creekmore, Hubert 1934-1937
Crittenden, Christopher 1941-1954
Cross, Arthur Lyon 1935
Crowe, Charles R. 1958
Currier, Stephen 1963
Davidson College 1941
Davis, Charles S. 1935-1959
Davis, Edwin A. 1939
Davis, Godfrey 1942
Davis, Whitman 1936-1944
DeConde, Alexander 1957-1961
Delaware Historical Society 1948-1953
Dept. of Archives, LSU 1939
Dept. of State, Division of Research and Publication 1939
Destler, Chester McArthur 1948
Dictionary of American History 1938
Dillon, Richard H. 1962
Doherty, Dr. Robert E. 1939
Dooley, Dennis A. 1940
Dornbusch, C. E. 1962
Doubleday and Co. 1948
Dowd, David 1964-1965
Dozier, John M. 1963-1965
Drake, W. M. 1937-1946
Duke, Bill 1953

Duke University
Academic Council:
Ballots 1963
By-Laws 1962
Executive Committee Minutes 1962-1964and Aug. 31,1967
Executive Committee Correspondence, etc. 1962-1964
Academic Council Minutes 1962-1972
Academic Council Correspondence,
Reports, Memoranda, etc. 1962-1968 (For earlier material, see records of the University Council, predecessor of the Academic Council)
Academic Standards 1953-1961
African Studies:
Africa Applications and Expenditures 1957-1966
Africa Expenditures (Manchester) 1965-1966
Africa Grants 1965
Africa Instructor 1966
Africa Session 1966
African Committee (Old) 1962-1968
African Committee (New) 1965-1966
Beidelman, Thomas O. 1964-1966
American Association of University Professors 1942-1967
Archives and Records Management 1947 1954-1966
Attrition Subcommittee 1956-1958
By-Laws undated
Centennial Celebration 1938-1939
Centennial Celebration of Teacher Education-Conference on Teacher Training 1951-1952
Committees, Committee on 1963
Commonwealth-Studies Center:
Conference on Canada-U.S. Relations 1961
A Decade of the Commonwealth-Conference at Bellagio, Italy 1964
A Decade of the Commonwealth (1966): Letters, interviews, and Drafts of Essays
International Conference--Hemispheric Relations of the Caribbean and the Commonwealth 1969-1970
Joint Seminar 1957-1966
List of Selected Official Publications and Serials of the British Commonwealth in the Duke University Library 1959
The Transfer of Institutions 1964-1967
Commonwealth-Studies Committee 1955-1969
Communication with the Public, Committee on 1960-1963
Council on Instruction for Women 1941
Courses of Instruction, Committee on 1948
Curriculum Report 1960
Duke Homestead 1968
Educational Facilities Committee 1962-1969
Educational Facilities Committee: Men's Athletics 1964-1965
Educational Facilities Committee: West Campus Dormitories 1962-1964
Engineering College 1951-1969
Faculty Club 1946,1967
Faculty Matters 1947-1963
Faculty Reorganization, Committee on 1950-1952
Faculty--Retired 1949-1952
Faculty-Student Advisory System Committee 1952-1953
Financial Aid Report 1965
Forestry School (See Hamilton's Writings,1949)
Freshman Advisory Council 1939
Graduate School 1950-1962
Historical Publications 1959-1966
Historical Publications: Addy, Bumgartner, Esler, Esthus, Goff, Rock, Salmond, Stark, Steele, TePaske
History Department 1935-1968
Alumni Letters 1948-1953
Census 1938-1958
Course Descriptions
Course Grade Books 1930's-1970's
Course Notes
Course Schedules 1943-1946
Examinations 1931-1972
Instructorship Applicants 1961-1962
Long-Range Planning Committee 1958-1959
Newsletters 1949-1968
Newspaper Articles
Persons with History Ph.D.'s
Seminar in Teaching of History in College 1929-1960
Student Evaluations of Hamilton's Courses 1951-1971and Undated
Student Recommendations and Other Matters 1946-1969
Trip to Recruit Graduate Students 1953
Honorary Degrees 1959-1965
Institutional Studies Office: Placement of Doctoral Recipients 1959-1961
International Studies Committee 1963-1966
Junior English Examination 1949
Law School:
Bench and Bar Society 1948
Undergraduate Preparation for the Study of Law 1949
Library:
Acknowledgments of Gifts by Hamilton
Annual Reports 1941/42-1967/68
Friends of the Library 1939-1969
History Department Library Committee 1945-1951
Labor Archives 1952
Latin American Library Project
Library Notes 1937-1943
Newsletters 1954-1961
Library and Library Council 1934-1970and Undated
Library Council:
Charter and By-Laws 1934-1949
Executive Committee Minutes 1934-1951
Council Minutes 1934-1960
Committee on Publications by the Library 1946
Human Relations Area Files 1950
Nominating Committee for Librarian 1945
Newspaper Committee 1945-1948
Periodicals Committee 1946-1951
Local Historical Resources Conference 1953-1954
Long Range Planning and Development Committee 1958-1963
Men's Interfraternity Council 1947
National Council (Alumni) 1948-1953
Presidents:
Flowers, Robert L. 1941-1948
Selection of President 1948
Edens, Hollis
Inauguration 1949
Correspondence 1949-1960
Resignation 1960
Hart, Deryl 1960-1963
Knight, Douglas M.
Inauguration 1963
Correspondence 1962-1969
Clippings 1962-1968
Press 1938and Undated
Research Council 1939-1961
Seminars (University in a Changing World)
Senior Professors to Trustees 1969
Social Standards Committee 1939
South Atlantic Quarterly 1951-1958
Southern Studies Center 1965
Space Allocation Committee 1960-1963
Student Life and Activities 1947-1967
Symposia 1963-1967
Trinity College Historical Society 1942-1969
Trustee-Faculty Liaison Committee 1960-1964
Undergraduate Faculty Council 1946-1969
Undergraduate Student Counselling on Military Service Committee 1951
University Admissions Committee 1962
University Council 1951-1962
University Council: University By-Laws 1960-1962(For later material, see records of the Academic Council, successor of the University Council)
University Planning Committee 1958-1965
University Policy Advisory Committee 1963-1964
Woman's College:
Art Center 1963-1967
Board of Visitors 1964-1965
Committee on Dormitories 1965-1966
Committee on Woman's College 1963-1967
Library 1941-1968
Physical Education 1965-1966
Report of Dean Margaret Ball 1964
Space for Offices, Classrooms, etc. 1960-1968
Woman's College Question 1961-1963
Woman's Student Government Association 1942-1946
YMCA 1942-1945

Duke University-See also Printed Material: Duke University
Dukes, Charles A. 1940-1960
Duly, Leslie Clement 1960-1966
Dupre, Prof. Huntley 1941
Durham, Carl T. 1939-1951
Durham City Club, Inc. 1963-1965
Durham County Draft Board No. 3 1942
Dwire, Henry R. 1940-1943
Eades, M. R. 1941
Easterbrook, Professor W. T. 1957-1958
Easton, J. C. 1940
Edwards, Everett E. 1941-1946
Edwards, Francis, Ltd. 1938-1939
Ellen, John C. 1942-1948
Emerson, Mrs. E. H. 1950
Emporium 1939
Encyclopaedia Britannica 1937
England, J. Merton 1952
English Proficiency undated
English-Remedial 1947
English Teachers Association (N.C.) 1951-1953
Entenman, Edith 1944
Evans, Mary L. 1952-1954
Evans, W. H., Jr. 1944
Everett, Mrs. B. B. 1940
Fant, Mrs. C. L. (Lester Glenn and Cordelia) 1930-1948
Farley, Alice and Nancy 1928-1945
Farley, Robert J. 1937-1938
Farrar and Rinehart, Publishers 1939
Farthing, J. D. 1968
Feild Co-operative Association 1938
Fiddes, Patricia M. 1965-1966
Fieldhouse, D. R. 1957
Finley, Mrs. Thomas 1944-1961
Fitzgerald, Mrs. Fletcher P. 1938-1939
Fletcher, F. J. 1966-1967
Flynn, W. Paul 1954
Folger Library 1960-1966
Forbes, Allyn B. 1939-1940
Ford Grants 1955-1956
Foster, T. D. 1949
Franklin, Burt 1945
Fuller, F. L., Jr. 1940-1941
Funderburk, E. C. 1958
Gagan, David P. 1964
Garner, Alfred W. 1945
Gates, Paul W. 1953
George, Walter F. 1941
Georgia Review 1947
German, Paul M. 1946
Gerschefski, Edwin 1942
Gibbs, Ann Margaret 1936
Gibson, William M. 1943-1950
Gilbert, Katherine 1946
Gimbels 1939
Ginn and Company 1941
Gipson, Lawrence Henry 1949-1955
Givan, Walker F. 1947-1950
Glanville, J. Linus 1940
Glasson, W. H. 1934
Gohdes, Clarence 1937-1940
Golden, Mrs. Stella 1939
Goodman, Victor M. R. 1938
Goucher College 1940
Govan, Thomas Payne 1941
Government Printing Office 1939
Graham, Frank P. 1950
Green, Fletcher M. 1945
Green, William Mercer 1934
Greene, Dean W. K. 1938-1942
Greenewalt, Crawford H. 1963
Gross, Paul M. 1960-1965
Guess, R. Malcolm 1936-1951
Guillot, Ed 1942
Guillot, Mrs. Ed 1950
Hales, Frances 1939
Hall, Arthur R. 1949
Hall, Louise 1940-1965
Hall, Medora 1939
Halsell, Willie D. 1945-1946
Hamilton, Holman 1946-1954
Hamilton, J. D T. 1941-1945
Hamilton, J. G. de Roulhac 1945
Hamilton, Thomas 1955

Hamilton, William Baskerville:
Personal and Family Correspondence
Personal and Family Legal and Financial Papers
Personal and Family Memorabilia 1833-1840and 1911-1968
Appointment Books 1955-1971
Jackson High School Annual 1924
Reviews 1934-1968and Undated
Speeches and Talks 1941-1968
Trips to England, Africa, and Australia 1935-1967
Writings ca. 1930-1968and Undated

Hamilton, Mary Elizabeth (Boyd)
Letters and Memorabilia from Goucher College, Travel in U.S. and Europe, etc. 1928-1948
Blueprint of Hamilton Residence on Cranford Road
Hamm, J. R. 1945
Hanna, A. J. 1941
Harcourt Brace and Co. 1939-1953
Hardwick, Lucile 1938
Harper and Brothers 1938-1947
Harrison, Pat 1936-1941
Hartley, L. C. 1942
Hartzell, Earl D. 1940
Harvard University 1940-1948
Hastings, H. G. 1941
Hayden, Carl 1944-1945
Heartman, Charles F. 1945
Hedderick, Vashti 1958
Hederman Bros. 1940-1945
Henderson, Alfred J. 1937-1954
Henderson, Cary Smith 1955-1964
Herrick, John W. 1947
Herring, Dean H. J. 1939-1947
Hill, John L. 1963-1964
Himstead, Dr. R. E. 1939
Hodgins, Bruce 1959-1969
Hoey, Clyde R. 1946-1951
Hoffman, Prof. J. Wesley 1956
Hogan, William R. 1948-1949
Holcomb, Gene 1939
Holdt, David M. 1964-1968
Holt, Henry, and Co. 1942
Holton, Prof. Holland 1939-1947
Home Building and Loan Assoc. 1945
Honsinger, Robert W. 1952
Hooper-Holmes Bureau 1935
Hoopes, Luther H. 1963
Hoover, Calvin B. 1941-1944
Hopkins, Everett H. 1961-1963
Home, Josh L. 1955
Hotel Dupont 1948
Hotel Reservations 1946
Howard, Clinton Newton 1960
Howell, Bob 1938
Hubbell, Jay B. 1943-1945
Huitt, Homer C. 1940
Hull, Cordell 1943
Humber, Robert L. 1945
Hume, Alfred 1928-1941
Hunter, Louis C. 1944
Hyde, Henry 1944
Hyer, June 1955
India Office Library 1960-1965
Irving, W. H. 1957
James, Joseph B. 1954
Jarman, Pete 1944
Jenks, William A. 1957-1963
Johnson, Allen 1968
Johnson, Cecil 1939
Johnson, Lyndon B. 1968
Joiner, Charlie Frank, Jr. 1961-1962
Jones, Anna 1939
Jordan's Book Store 1939
Journal of Southern History 1939
Judicial Office, House of Lords 1938
Junior Historians 1953
Kahle, John R. 1941
Kendrick, Prof. B. B. 1940
Kennow, Albert W., Jr. 1942
Ketchum, Mrs. Mabel D. 1939
Keusch, A. William 1941
Kimbrough, T. C. 1936
Kirby Lithographic Co. 1944
Kirwan, Albert Dennis 1947
Rnaplund, Paul 1958-1959
Knight, Edgar W. 1945-1952
Knopf, Alfred A. 1941-1956
Konelin, Martha 1940
Kramer, Robert 1952
Krey, August Charles 1941
Kubicek, Robert Vincent 1960-1966

Laprade, William Thomas:
Letters 1935-1968
List of Printed Writings 1952
Dinner in Honor of Laprade 1953
Newspaper Article 1949
Writings 1950-1960and Undated
Laing, Lionel H. 1957-1958
Lamar Life Insurance Co. 1948
Lambdin, J. Carl 1948
Lambert, B. W., Jr. 1945
Lanahan, E. L. 1942
Land, Augusta 1944
Landis, R. J. 1935-1952and Undated
Langer, William L. 1940-1943
Lefler, Hugh 1946
Leith, James Andrews 1954
Levine, Bertram 1944
Lewis, Arthur Beverly 1962
Library of Congress 1937-1957
Lincoln's Inn Library 1938
Lippincott, J. B., and Co. 1943
Little, Brown and Co. 1943-1946
Littleton-Griswold Fund Committe of American Historical Association 1944-1960
Lockwood, Wendell N. 1952
Long, J. W., Jr. 1939
Longest, Christopher 1941
Longmans 1938
Lonn, Ella 1947
Louisiana State University Press 1946
Lye, William F. 1963-1965
Lyell and Lyell 1937
Lyon, E. Wilson 1939
Mabry, Alex 1941-1945
McAllister, John 1955-1957
McCain, Paul M. 1952-1953
McCain, William David 1936-1962
McCallum, C. A. 1957-1958
McCardell, Ella C. undated
McCarrell, David K. 1938-1942
McCarren, Senator Pat 1943
McCloy, Shelby T. 1939-1961
McClutchie, Mrs. J. D. 1944
McCool, Dr. Dick Cauthen 1952
McCormick, Richard P. 1948
McDermott, Roger D. 1944-1947
McFeaters, Capt. C. P. 1945
McKenzie, Prof. L. W. 1950
McKinney, Loren C. 1940
MacLean, Guy Robertson 1955-1969
McLean, Ross H. 1940-1941
McLeish and Sons 1940
McLemore, R. A. 1940-1946
Macmillan Co. 1945-1949
McMillen, James A. 1939
McMurtrie, Douglas C. 1936-1940
McNaught, J. C. R. 1939
Macy and Co. 1945
Maddox, Houston N. 1953
Malone, Dumas 1947-1958
Malone, Thomas P. undated
Manning, Helen Taft 1965-1967
Manno, F. J. 1950
Manuscripts 1812-1840
Markham, C. B. 1939-1951
Marquette, C. L. 1945
Marshall, Roger P. 1948
Marshall, Theodora B. 1936-1945
Martin, A. J. 1945
Martin, Abbot 1925
Mason, Stevens T. 1948
Massachusetts Historical Society 1939-1940
Massachusetts State Library 1940
Masterson, W. H. 1954-1959
Mathews, Prof. Joseph J. 1936-1964
Mathews, Marcia M. 1938-1943
Matterson, Clarence 1947
Matthews, William 1939-1944
May, D. C. 1945
Mayfield, Henry D., Jr. 1966-1967
Meneely, A. Howard 1940
Merritt, Gertrude 1957-1970
Metcalf, K, D. 1954-1955
Metcalfe, W. C. 1961-1962
Methuen and Co. 1939
Miles, Guy 1941
Miller, R. M. 1941
Mills, Bonnie 1944
Mintz, R. E. 1945
Miscellaneous 1938-1969and Undated
Miscellany 1935-1941
Mississippi, Misc. Articles on Undated
Mississippi Advertising Commission 1937
Mississippi Art Association 1946
Mississippi Department of Archives and History 1936-1947
Mississippi Geological Survey 1933
Mississippi Historical Society 1945-1968
Mississippi Quarterly 1960
Mississippi Society for the Acquisition and Dissemination of Useful Knowledge 1803-1814
Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1940-1953
Mitchell, F. K. 1944-1946
Mitchell, Fannie Y. 1968
Mitchell, S. C. 1940
Moffett, William A. 1962-1968
Montague, L. L. 1939
Montgomery, Clifford 1944
Montgomery, G. Rip 1940
Moore, Alice undated
Moore, Edith Wyatt 1936-1947
Moore, Elliott L., Jr. 1947
Moore, Mrs. John Trotwood 1931
Moore, Meredith 1941-1944
Moore, Ross H. 1937-1962
Morgan, Thomas S., Jr. 1958-1962
Morris, M. H. 1944
Morris, Richard B. 1947-1951
Morrison, A. A. 1951
Morse, Theodore F. 1953-1956
Morshead, Sir Owen 1958
Morton, Jack 1953
Morton, Louis 1941-1949
Morton, Richard L. 1944
Mosser, Mrs. Philip 1944-1945
Mowat, C. L. 1960
Moyerman, S. 1939
Munroe, John A. 1948
Munter, Robert L. 1962
Munyan, Merrill 1942
Myers, Winifred A. 1957-1972
Nasher, Ray 1942-1944
Natchez Democrat 1941
National Archives 1940
National Broadcasting System 1941-1945
National Campaign Committee 1932
National Conference of Bar Examiners 1952
National Cyclopedia of American Biography 1938-1940
National Geographic Society 1945
Naval Officer Procurement, Office of 1943
Neal, Catherine 1946
Nelson, Duncan 1951
Nelson, Ernest William 1936-1964
Nelson, Ronald R. 1965-1969
Nevins, Allan 1952
New York Herald Tribune 1948
New York Public Library 1946-1947
New York Times 1940-1959
New York Times Book Review 1945-1959
New York University, School of Law 1947-1948
New York University Press 1944
New Yorker 1946
Newhouse, W. John 1952
Newman, Louis E. 1939
Nichols, Roy F. 1948
Nicholson, S. J. 1939
Nigeria 1957-1971
Nigeria, Article on1957(Moved to Wm. B. Hamilton-Writings)
N.C. English Teachers Assoc. 1954-1955
N.C. Historical Association 1943-1949
N.C. Historical Markers Committee 1954-1961
N.C. State Literary and Historical Assoc. 1947-1948
Norwig, George W. 1947
Notestein, Wallace 1948
Novick, Jerome F. 1943
Nuermberger, Ruth K. 1943-1961
Nunn, Grady H. 1957-1958
O'Brien, Thomas D., Jr. 1941-1942
Odell, Robert H. 1951
Odgers, Merle M. 1956
Ogden, J. P. 1941
Oklahoma Historical Society 1941
Oldham, Edward A. 1945
Ormsby, Miss M. A. 1966-1967
Overdyke, W. Darrell 1951
Owsley, Frank L, 1937
Oxford University Press 1939-1961
Oyler, Helen 1946
Pace, Antonio 1947
Packard, Highland Bryant 1961-1964
Packard, Sidney R. 1940
Painter, Sidney 1940-1959
Pargellis, Stanley 1953-1954
Parker, Harold T. 1968-1971
Parker, Harold T. Textbook 1950
Parker, Thomas Fleming 1951
Parks, Joseph 1946
Paschal, George W. 1948
Passport Bureau 1938
Patrick, Ben M. 1940
Patrick, R. W. 1958
Payne, Ethel (WPA) 1940-1941
Payne, Mrs. John 1956
Peacock, John R. 1953-1954
Pearson and Crain 1938
Peckham, Howard 1942
Pegg, C. H. 1948
Pennsylvania Hotel 1946-1947
Perry, Marvin 1959
Perry, Percival 1963
Peters, Frank A. 1944
Phi Beta Kappa 1964-1966
Philbrick, Francis S. 1937-1938
Phillips, C. E., and Son 1939
Photo Reproducing Equipment Co. 1944
Piney Woods School 1945
Polier, Arthur 1949-1950
Pomeroy, Earl H. 1949
Pope, Warren H. 1946
Popper, Annie M. 1940
Porter, Earl 1960-1969
Porter, Henry P., Jr. 1965-1966
Porter, Henry P., Jr. Letters to Parents1965
Posey, Walter B. 1946-1951
Posner, Ernst 1953
Post Cards 1933-1938
Potter, David M. 1945-1948
Predmore, R. L. 1963-1965
Pre-Legal Education 1948-1950
Prentice-Hall 1947-1949
President of the U.S. 1940-1951
Price, K. G. 1945
Pruitt, Olga Reed 1948
Putnam's, G. P., Sons 1938
Qantas Airways 1957
Quintana, Ricardo B. 1939
Quynn, William, and Dorothy 1939-1949
Raines, G. N. 1951-1969
Rainwater, Percy Lee 1931-1940
Ramsey, John F. 1949
Rankin, Robert S. 1935
Read, James Morgan 1940
Red Cross Drive 1946
Reed, Roy T. 1944
Reeves, R. N. 1940
Research Triangle (at end of it's)
Reynolds, Nathan 1942
Reynolds, Senator Robert 1939-1941
Rich, Elizabeth 1942
Ricketts, Mrs. B. R. 1945
Rinehart and Co. 1947-1952
Rivera, Rodolfo 1939-1963
Roberts, J. L. 1939-1945
Roberts, Mrs. John C., Jr. 1944
Roberts, Dr. L. E. 1951
Robinson, John F. 1937-1946
Robinson, Lionel and Philip (Earl of Kimberley) 1958-1959
Robinson, Ralph 1946
Robison, Dan M. 1946
Rockefeller Foundation 1963
Roosevelt, Eleanor 1945
Ropp, Theodore 1940
Roseberry, James Royal 1966
Rowland, Dunbar and Mrs. Dunbar 1934-1942
Rowse, Alfred Leslie 1956
Royal Commonwealth Society
Library Notes and Accessions 1959
Ruff, Hazel 1940
Russell, J. C. 1941
Rutherford, James 1956-1961
Rutledge, Anna Wells 1940-1941

Research Triangle
Folders 1955-1970
Drafts of Writings On 1965-1966
Clippings 1965-1969
St. Paul, John, Jr. 1947
St. Phillips Church 1943-1947
Salvation Army 1966
School of Library Science, U.N.C. 1940
Schultz, Harold J. 1956
Schuster, Sir Claude 1938
Scientific Aids to Learning, Committee on 1940
Charles Scribner's Sons 1939-1944
Sealey, L. B. 1940-1949
Searcy, Hubert 1937-1960
Secretary of State 1942
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations 1939
Sensabaugh, Leon F. 1953-1957
Shanks, Henry T. 1946-1953
Sharp, Mrs. W. Q. 1945
Shepherd, Harold 1947-1949
Sherwood, Robert E. 1951
Shryrock, Richard H. 1941-1968
Shuff, Mrs. C. W. 1940
Silver, James W. 1946-1957
Simester, Don 1942
Sink, R. C. 1962
Siousatt, St. George L. 1945
Skaggs, Professor M. L. 1949
Smiley, David L. 1965-1966
Smith, B. L. 1953
Smith, Culver H. 1938-1956
Smith, Frank 1941
Smith, Mrs. Hazen 1945
Smith, John H., Draft of Colonial Cadet1966-1969
Smith, Mrs. L. A. 1934-1947
Smith, Martha R. 1939
Smith, Rhea Marsh 1940
Smith, Robert S. 1947-1949
Smith, Willis 1949-1950
Sneed, Pearl 1945-1955
Snyder, Major 1942
Social Science Research Council 1942-1956
Southern Historical Association--At end of S's
Southern Railway 1944
Southern Review 1936
Spears, Marshall T. 1945
Spears, Mrs. Marshall T. 1943
Spencer, Rt. Hon. Earl 1958-1965
Spengler, Joseph J. 1940and1972
Spiro, Robert H. 1953-1957
Spivey, Lydia 1968
Stabler, Caxey V. 1954
Stackpole, Stephen 1965
Stanford University 1942
States Rights Party 1948
Stein, Luther R. 1945
Stephens, B. Nelson 1945-1958
Stephenson, George 1936-1938
Stephenson, Wendell H. 1935-1964
Stevens, Harry R. 1949
Stevenson Campaign at Duke 1952
Stewart, Robert Percy 1940
Still, Bayrd 1941-1946
Stokes, Eric 1962
Strode, Hudson 1956
Stroupe, Henry S. 1947-1956
Sugg, Dr. Eugene S. 1939
Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library 1948
Swearingen, Prof. M. 1938-1949
Sweet and Maxwell, Ltd. 1936
Sydnor, Charles S. 1931-1953

Southern Historical Association
Meetings 1936-1959
European Section 1940-1967
Session on Law and the Historian 1963
Tate, Caroline Gordon undated
Taylor, Orville W. 1956-1969
Taylor Hall 1964-1965
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Assoc. 1939-1948
Third Chancery Court District (Miss.) 1936
Thomas, Mary Elizabeth 1950
Thompson, Allen C. 1940-1949
Thompson, E. Bruce 1946
Thompson, Leonard M. 1960-1966
Tilley, Nannie M. 1940-1959
Topper, Annie M. 1940
Torray, Robert 1960-1962
Townsley, W. A. 1963-1964
Travel Bibliography Undated
Triangle Blue Print Co. 1939
U.S. Navy 1943
University Microfilms, Ltd. 1958-1964
University of Chicago Press 1945
University of London 1935
University of Mississippi. History Dept. 1958-1960
University of N.C. Summer Session 1953
University of the South 1936
Upchurch, W. M., Jr. 1941-1960
Upshaw, John R. 1939
V-E Day and V-J Day 1945
Valinger, Leon de, Jr. 1949
Van Deusen, Glyndon G. 1948
Van Dusen, A, E. 1943-1945
Van Nostrand, D., Company 1940-1943
Vandenburg, Senator Arthur 1945
Vanderbilt, Arthur T. 1935-1957
Vanderbilt, Arthur T. (George Warren) 1938-1940
Vanguard Press 1946
Walker, Kenneth F. 1957-1958
Wallace, J. T. 1935
Walters, Louise undated
Wannamaker, Dean W. H. 1941-1953
War Bond Drive 1943-1944
War Day 1942
War Department 1940-1942
War Miscellaneous 1945
Ward 1938
Ward, John M. 1957-1968
Ward, Russel undated
Warlick, R. A. 1956
Watkins, Will 1937-1940
Watson, J. Steven 1961-1962
Watson, Richard L. 1940-1968
Wellborn, Mary Moss 1945-1968
Welty, Eudora 1937-1968and Undated
Werber, William M. 1947-1968
Werk, George B. 1950-1952
West Indies, University of. History Dept. 1965-1966
Weston, Corinne Comstock 1948-1958
Wharton, Vernon L. 1948-1960
Wheeler, Sen. Burton K. 1940
Whipple, Dean George H. 1947
White House Secretariat 1939
Whiteside, Andrew G. 1954
Widener Memorial Library 1940
Wienefeld, R. H. 1954-1964
Wiley, Bell I. 1947
Wilkinson, A. A. 1943
Willging, Eugene P. 1955
William and Mary Quarterly 1947-1955
Williams, J. D. 1956-1960
Williams, Mrs. Ruth J. 1945
Williams, T. Harry 1947
Williams Bookstore 1940
Williamsburg Seminar 1960
Willkie, Wendell 1940
Willson, David Harris 1939-1962
Wilson, Robert R. 1942or1943
Wimberley and Gregory 1939
Wittke, Carl 1941
Wolf, John B. 1941
Wolfe, Karl F. 1945
Wood, Charles K. 1961
Woodfin, Miss Maude H. 1942-1943
Woodward, Ellen S. 1944-1946
Worcester Blue and Photo Print Co. 1939
Worley, John S. 1943
Wright, Dudley 1939
Wright, Grover C. 1949
Wright, Louis B. 1940-1962
Wright Howes 1946
Young, Stark 1934-1935

Printed Material

Printed materials have been filed in the alphabetical folders when they were related to the persons, organizations, or topics represented in those folders.
Duke University (Including Duke Endowment) 1931-1972
Great Britain (1932-1969), Africa (1950-1968), Australia (1886), and Malaysia (1965)
Miscellaneous
Mississippi 1866-1968
New Zealand 1938-1963

Pictures

Two boxes of pictures include numerous photographs of William B. Hamilton and members of his family. Most pictures date from the twentieth century, but a few are from the nine-teenth century. Scenes in Mississippi and elsewhere are also included, several of them being of "Burnside," the antebellum Hamilton home near Henderson, N.C. Several engravings and copies of portraits are of English scenes and the Grenvilles, Fourteen framed engravings, mostly of English statesmen and mansions, also belong to the collection, and a list of them is filed with the pictures.

Mississippi Research


Letter on Origin of Court Records

Adams County:
County Court Minutes (Transcripts):
Volume, 1802-1804,pp. 1-269
Volume, 1804-1812,pp. 1-511
Volume, 1804-1810,pp. 1-94
Volume, 1812-1818,pp. 1-221
Volume, 1818-1831,Index and pp. 1-113
Court of Common Pleas:
Judgments and Dismissions (Transcripts):
Volume A, 1799-1801,pp. 1-552
Volume B. 1802-1811,pp. 1-484
Mayor's Court:
Judgments and Dismissions (Transcripts):
Volume C, 1803-1804,pp. 1-134

Alphabetical Files, A-Z:
Several boxes of notes and transcripts and photographic copies of manuscripts. Some folders are grouped into categories and others are simply filed alphabetically.
Thomas Rodney
Several boxes of letters, journals, notebooks, legal papers, writings, and other items, mostly written by or to Rodney or pertaining to him. Mostly photographic copies of manuscripts from various libraries.
Notes
Several card file boxes and drawers of notes on Mississippi history during the later decades or the 18th century, the territorial period, and, to a lesser extent, the antebellum decades, These notes have been left in their original boxes and order, and chronology and topics are not necessarily in order. Researchers should examine all these boxes.
Microfilm:
The contents of a number of these reels were reproduced as prints that are filed mostly in the Thomas Rodney section and occasionally in the alphabetical section.
Reel  1
Manuscripts, 1797-1807,of Winthrop Sargent. No source. Negative.
Reel  2
Thomas Rodney, Accounts, 1803-1810,No source, Negative.
Reel  3
Thomas Rodney, Court Notebooks, 1806-1809,Library of Congress. Negative.
Reel  4
Manuscripts, 1800-1809,from the Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Thomas Rodney papers in the Library of Congress. Negative.
Reel  5
John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne's diaries, recollections, etc.,1820's-1840's. Thomas Rodney letters, 1804-1807, Library of Congress. Negative.
Reel  6
"Wailes' Extracts from [William] Dunbar's Letter Book," 1775-1803,No source, Negative.
Reel  7
Journal of Thomas Rodney kept on trip from Dover, Delaware, through Pennsylvania and down Mississippi River, Aug.-Oct., 1803.Library of Congress, Negative.
Reel  8
Thomas Rodney. Court Notebooks, 1804-1805and1807. Library of Congress. Negative.
Reel  9
Manuscripts, 1804-1808,from the Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Rodney papers in the Library of Congress. Negative.
Reel  10
Manuscripts, 1798-1811,from James Madison and possibly other collections at the Library of Congress. Negative.
Reel  11
"Miscellaneous Scraps of Legal Dicta Rodney. Library of Congress. I have enlarged Prints." Film left in original box. Negative.
Reel  12
Personal Tax Rolls, Mississippi Territory. Roll #299. Adams County,1802,thru Jefferson County,1812.Positive.
Reel  13
Personal Tax Rolls, Mississippi Territory. Roll #300 Jefferson County,1813,through Wilkinson County,1817.Positive.

Grenville Research


Boconnoc, Cornwall:
Correspondence, 1803-1828
Correspondence possibly from Boconnoc, 1792-1828and undated
Lord Grenville's "Commentaries of My Own Political Life and of Public Transactions Connected With It"

Miscellaneous Sources and Materials:
Bucks Record Office:
A.R. 30/63, 1792-1845
A.R. 41/63, 1791-1831and Undated
Sir William Henry Fremantle Papers, 1806-1814and Undated
Huntington Library
Public Record Office
Correspondence from Unidentified Sources, 1803-1854
Miscellaneous Notes and Lists
Contents of Dropmore as Auctioned by Sotheby's in1969

Microfilm:
Most of this microfilm, unlike that for Mississippi, is not duplicated by Xerox or other photographic copies. The sources of the film are: Boconnoc, the British Museum, the Public Record Office, the Bedfordshire Record Office, the Clements Library, the John Rylands Library, the Huntington Library, the Bodleian Library, and the Cleveland Public Library.
Guide to Contents
Reels 1-17

Notes (Arranged chronologically), 1700's-1900's
Includes bibliography as well as notes taken upon manuscripts and printed sources.

Mansfield Research

Notes for a biography of William Murray, First Earl of Mansfield ( 1705-1793 ). These notes were made for Arthur T. Vanderbilt who planned, but did not publish, a biography of Lord Mansfield.

Australia and New Zealand Research

Descriptions, bibliographies, and notes on manuscripts and newspapers available at libraries in Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne, South Australia, Tasmania, and at the Mitchell Library. Notes on politics in New Zealand date mostly during the 1870's, 1880's , and 1890's . Correspondence, 1957-1959 . Reports on archives in Australia, 1952-1956 .

Grand Juries Research

Notes on grand juries, especially their presentments, in the United States, 18th-20th centuries.

British Manuscripts

The following collections were donated by Professor Hamilton or his estate. They range in size from one or two items to several thousand. Each collection is described in detail in the card catalog.
1. Anson, Charles V.
2. Backhouse, John
3. Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour
4. Bandinel Family
5. Barrington, George William, Seventh Viscount Barrington
6. Beaufort, Sir Francis
7. Campbell, George Douglas, Eighth Duke of Argyll
8. Cheesment-Severn, John
9. Pane, John, Eleventh Earl of Westmorland
10. Fazakerley, John Nicholas
11. FitzRoy, Sir Almeric William
12. Gladstone, William Ewart
13. Godman, Miss
14. Gore, Charles Alexander
15. Grant, Sir William (1752-1832)
16. Hall, Townsend Monckton
17. Hart, Henry George
18. Jones, Lloyd
19. Labouchere, Henry, First Baron Taunton
20. Lyttelton, William Henry, First Baron Lyttelton
21. Napier, Sir Charles James
22. Napier, Henry Edward
23. Napier, Robert Cornelis, First Baron Napier of Magdala
24. Neilson, George
25. Noel-Buxton, Noel Edward, First Baron Noel Buxton
26. Parliamentary Directory Questionnaire Responses
27. Primrose, Sir Henry William
28. Schindler, Sir Albert Houtum-
29. Scrutton, Robert J.
30. Sidney, Henry Marlow
31. Smyth, Sir James Carmichael-, First Baronet
32. Snelling, Rowland
33. Talbot, Lady Margaret Jane (Stuart-Wortley)
34. Trafford, Lionel James
35. Wilson, James
36. Wingate, Sir Francis Reginald, First Baronet
37. Bisset, Robert
38. Paget, Henry William, First Marquis of Anglesey