Additional Papers of Dumas Malone 1913-1986

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

The papers are unrestricted except for Box 26, which contains recommendations written by Dumas Malone on behalf of students and colleagues.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

Additional Papers of Dumas Malone, Accession #12712-b, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Additional Papers of Dumas Malone, Accession #12712-b, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This addition to the professional papers of Dumas Malone (1892-1986) consists of ca. 25,300 items (66 Hollinger boxes, ca. 35 linear feet), 1913-1986, chiefly concerning his work as a professor of history, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, and biographer (of Thomas Jefferson) in residence at the University of Virginia.

Topical files and research and related materials for Jefferson and His Timeform the bulk of the collection. Correspondence files were kept by Malone as part of his topical series, and can be found alphabetically under broad headings such as "personal correspondence," "miscellaneous correspondence," "professional correspondence," and "student correspondence."

Prominent correspondents in the topical files, listed with the folder heading in which they appear, include; John Lloyd Newcomb and Nicholas Murray Butler (Alderman Biography); Samuel Eliot Morison (American Historical Association); Allan Nevins (Columbia University); Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (Correspondence re Thomas Jefferson); Carl Van Doren, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Allan Nevins, Arthur Schlesinger, Allen Johnson, J. Franklin Jameson, and Charles Scribner ( Dictionary of American Biography); Daniel Boorstin, George Billias, Harry F. Byrd, Jr., John Chancellor, Francis P. Miller, A. Willis Robertson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Harry S. Truman (Names and Addresses); Robert Penn Warren (National Endowment for the Humanities); Justice Felix Frankfurter, Charles S. Robb, Warren Chappell, Charles F. Baldwin, Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., John H. Finley, Linwood Holton, President Jimmy Carter, and Mills E. Godwin, Jr. (Personal Correspondence); and George Bush and Admiral Hyman George Rickover (Presidental Medal of Freedom).

Other notables include: John F. Kennedy, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Nathaniel W. Stephanson, Allen Johnson, George McGovern, Julian P. Boyd, Allan Nevins, C. Vann Woodward, Harry Ammon, Max Lerner, Daniel Boorstin, Louis S. Auchincloss, Fawn Brodie, George F. Will, J. Harry Michael, Jr., Barbara Tuchman, and Walker Cowen (Professional Correspondence); Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Hardy C. Dillard, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Linwood Holton (Pulitzer Prize) and Colgate Darden, Jr. (University of Virginia).

Also present are history book reviews, speeches, and articles by Malone; interviews with Malone (two on video cassette recordings); research files, research notecards, cassette tape recordings (148 tapes), and miscellaneous materials generated by Malone while writing his six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson.

re Fawn Bodie reviews

re Thomas Jefferson

re Thomas Jefferson

re Dumas Malone

re Thomas Jefferson

re The Story of the Declaration of Independence(Oxford University Press)

re Thomas Jefferson as Political Leader

Statements, Actions & Beliefs re Political Matters

re Thomas Jefferson

re Malone's Progress

re Patrick Henry

re the University of Virginia

re the Architecture of the University

of Thomas Jefferson's Portraits, Houdon's Bust of Jefferson, Jefferson's Tombstone, Library at Monticello, Views of Monticello, Poplar Forest, Virginia State Capitol Building, and Secretary's Ford

Richmond Recorderarticles re the Callender Scandals; the Joshua Fry-Peter Jefferson Map of Virginia & Maryland (1751); Embargo article (1807); and the United States Congress Proclamation (1784)

Acquisition information:
This collection was given to the Library on March 18, 1987, by Mrs. Dumas Malone of Charlottesville, Virginia, through the agency of Mr. Gifford Malone of McLean, Virginia.
Arrangement:
Arrangement

Individual files are generally in reverse chronological order and Mr. Malone's orginal order has been preserved whenever possible.

Individual files are generally in reverse chronological order and Mr. Malone's orginal order has been preserved whenever possible.

Organization

This collection is arranged in seven series: I. Topical Files (boxes 1-34); II. Miscellaneous Articles, Interviews, Reviews, and Speeches (boxes 35-41); III. Research Files for Jefferson and His Time(boxes 42-58); IV. Miscellaneous Materials re Jefferson and His Time(boxes 59-63); V. Video & Cassette Recordings, and Microfilm (boxes 64-66); VI. Research Notecards and VII. Oversize.

This collection is arranged in seven series: I. Topical Files (boxes 1-34); II. Miscellaneous Articles, Interviews, Reviews, and Speeches (boxes 35-41); III. Research Files for Jefferson and His Time(boxes 42-58); IV. Miscellaneous Materials re Jefferson and His Time(boxes 59-63); V. Video & Cassette Recordings, and Microfilm (boxes 64-66); VI. Research Notecards and VII. Oversize.

Physical description:
This collection consists of ca. 25,300 items (66 Hollinger boxes, ca. 35 linear feet).