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BOX 1-4 Minutes of Meetings, 1875-1967
Minutes of society meetings and executive committee meetings and reports and abstracts of papers read at society meetings.
Arranged in two sets and chronologically therein.
BOX 1 Set I
BOX 1 Vol.1, 1875-1889
BOX 1 Vol. 2, 1889-1905
BOX 1 Vol. 3, 1905-1916
BOX 2 Vol. 4, 1916-1922
BOX 2 Vol. 5, 1922-1926
BOX 2 Set II
BOX 2 Jan. 1874-1882
BOX 2 Feb. 1882-May 1905
BOX 2 Dec. 1905-1921
BOX 3 Jan. 1925-Dec. 1930
BOX 3 Jan. 1935-Dec. 1956
(5 folders)
BOX 4 Jan. 1957-Dec. 1967
(2 folders)
BOX 4-6 Correspondence, 1873-1965
Letters received and copies of letters sent and miscellaneous attachments.
Arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically therein.
BOX 5 1873-1924
(30 folders)
BOX 5 1925-1965
(30 folders)
BOX 6 Undated
BOX 6 Unidentified
BOX 6-11 Speeches and Writings File, 1881-1976
Handwritten and typewritten drafts, typescripts, handwritten copies, carbon copies, photocopies, printed copies, and notes of papers read by society members. Also contains miscellaneous and unidentified writings as well as eulogies to society members.
Arranged alphabetically by name of author.
BOX 6 Eulogies
(2 folders)
BOX 6 Papers read at society meetings
BOX 6 Amory, Robert, Jr.
BOX 6 “General MacArthur: A Preliminary Trial Balance,” 16 Oct. 1965
BOX 6 “A Subjective/Objective Account,” 15 Mar. 1975
BOX 6 “Zenobia, Queen of the East,” 17 Oct. 1970
BOX 6 Atwood, Albert W.
BOX 6 “Adventures of a Writer,” 20 Oct. 1973
BOX 6 “De Senectute,” 15 Jan. 1966
BOX 6 “Sixteenth Street and M,” 20 Dec. 1947
BOX 6 Biddle, Mrs. Francis, “Why Poetry,” 5 Dec. 1970
BOX 6 Boothe, Armistead L.
BOX 6 “Country Lawyer,” 14 Dec. 1974
BOX 6 “Verboten,” 13 Feb. 1971
BOX 6 “What Makes a Golden Age,” 13 Mar. 1965
BOX 6 Bowerman, George F., “Some Aspects of Book Reviewing,” 26 Jan. 1924
BOX 6 Buck, Solon J., “Let’s Look at the Records,” 9 Dec. 1944
BOX 6 Burnett, Swan M.
BOX 6 “The Modern Apotheosis of Nature,” 5 Mar. 1892
BOX 6 “The Over Mountain Men,” 24 Feb. 1894
BOX 6 Bush-Brown, Henry K., untitled, 21 Dec. 1920
BOX 6 Calkins, Robert D.
BOX 6 “The National University,” 13 Nov. 1965
BOX 7 “The Philanthropoid,” 18 Feb. 1956
BOX 7 “The Restoration,” 11 Feb. 1961
BOX 7 Carmichael, Leonard
BOX 7 “Animal Infancy,” 11 Dec. 1965
BOX 7 “The Beehive Revisited,” 17 Apr. 1971
BOX 7 Carroll, Mitchell, “The Impressions of Brazil,” 24 Feb. 1923
BOX 7 Clarke, I. Edwards, “The Conditions of Literature in Washington at the Time of the Founding of This Society,” 21 Jan. 1899
BOX 7 Connor, R. D. W., “History: Its Use and Abuse,” undated
BOX 7 Cooley, James
BOX 7 “Joint Operation,” Jan. 1973
BOX 7 “Kyushu,” 6 Jan. 1968
BOX 7 “Zoe Mou Sas Agapo,” Feb. 1963
BOX 7 Deller, Mrs., “Words and Music: The Great Collaboration in Opera,” 18 Mar. 1967
BOX 7 Dimick, John, “The Embalming House of the Apis Bulls,” Oct. 1972
BOX 7 Douglas, William A., “Early New England and Hempsteads Diary,” undated
BOX 7 Elstad, Leonard M.
BOX 7 “Growing Old with Youth,” 9 Mar. 1968
BOX 7 Untitled, Feb. 1973
BOX 7 Faulkner, Waldron
BOX 7 “The Crystal Ball,” 10 May 1975
BOX 7 “Our Town,” 13 Feb. 1965
BOX 7 “The Purple Cow,” Jan. 1970
BOX 7 Flanders, Helen Hartness
BOX 7 “A Folk Legacy of History from a Sovereign State, Vermont,” 10 Feb. 1962
BOX 7 “The Unexpected in Folk Music Collecting,” 22 Apr. 1967
BOX 7 Ford, Guy Stanton, “Teacher and Taught,” 5 Nov. 1958
BOX 7 Gallaudet, Edward Miner, untitled and undated
BOX 7 Garfield, Stanton
BOX 7 “A Journey into Time,” 9 Dec. 1967
BOX 7 “Manganga and Magic,” Dec. 1972
BOX 7 “Town Meeting,” 17 Nov. 1962
BOX 7 Gleason, S. Everett
BOX 7 “Exporting American Culture,” 15 Dec. 1962
BOX 7 “F.D.R. and the Coming of the War,” 7 Dec. 1968
BOX 8 Goff, Frederick R.
BOX 8 “Bibliosleuthing,” Mar. 1970
BOX 8 “T.I.,” 12 Apr. 1975
BOX 8 Green, Mrs. Donald R., “Urbanity and Illusion,” 12 Feb. 1972
BOX 8 Green, Joseph C., “Here Comes One with a Paper,” 15 Nov. 1975
BOX 8 Grosvenor, Gilbert H., “Some Experiences in the Hawaiian Islands,” 10 Apr. 1926
BOX 8 Grosvenor, Melville Bell
BOX 8 “Hawaiian Islands Revisited,” 12 Jan. 1963
BOX 8 “Life with Grandfather,” 10 Feb. 1968
BOX 8 “Life with Grandfather II,” 8 Dec. 1973
BOX 8 Haskins, Caryl P.
BOX 8 “Magic Casements,” undated
BOX 8 “Of Amateurs and Companies,” 15 Feb. 1975
BOX 8 “Staircase Through Earth’s Loveliness,” May 1969
BOX 8 Hauck, Arthur A., “Down to Earth,” 6 Apr. 1963
BOX 8 Hill, David Jayne, “History as a Science,” 3 Apr. 1920
BOX 8 Hoffman, Charles W., “Historical Sketch of the Literary Society,” 10 Dec. 1881
BOX 8 Howland
BOX 8 “Collecting American Furniture of the Past,” Mar. 1969
BOX 8 “The Future of Our Past,” Dec. 1963
BOX 8 Hume, Paul, “Paderawski, Wilson, and the Thirteenth Point,” 16 Jan. 1971
BOX 8 Hummel, Arthur W.
BOX 8 “The Art of Social Relations in China,” 13 Dec. 1959
BOX 8 “The Far East Revisited,” 14 Feb. 1953
BOX 8 “The Glimpses of Indian Wisdom,” 26 Oct. 1963
BOX 8 “The Old Silk Road,” Oct. 1968
BOX 8 Huntington, Frances Carpenter
BOX 8 “Books and Children,” 1959
BOX 8 “The Heiress of Washington City,” 18 Apr. 1970
BOX 8 “Ladies of the Literary,” 9 Jan. 1964
BOX 8 Johnson, Nelson Trusler
BOX 8 “Chinese Authoritarianism,” 7 Nov. 1954
BOX 8 “Whence Cometh My Help,” 30 Jan. 1954
BOX 8 Keck, Andrew S.
BOX 8 “Laus Deo,” 16 Mar. 1974
BOX 9 “A Toast to the Union,” Feb. 1969
BOX 9 Landon, Margaret
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