Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones Papers, 1951/1981

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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Phone: (757) 221-3090
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To be used only with the permission of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarian. Thereafter, before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Manuscripts and Rare Books Librarian, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, William & Mary.

Summary

Extent:
4.75 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, William & Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers, 1951-1976, of Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones concerning the state-commissioned elementary school textbook, "Virginia: History, Government, Geography" (New York: Scribner, 1957), which Hunnicutt Jones co-authored. Used in 7th-grade instruction, this textbook aided in the dissemination of the pro-Confederacy "Lost Cause" ideology.

Includes correspondence with Earl Gregg Swem, Francis Butler Simkins and others, as well as typescripts, revisions and galley proofs.

Addition 1997.28A consists of the correspondence of Jones with Ludwell Lee Montague; and papers relating to the history of Gloucester County, Virginia, especially the correspondence of the Gloucester County Bicentennial Celebration Committee and a manuscript by Jones about Harriotte Lee Taliaferro Montague.

Papers of Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones concerning elementary school textbook, "Virginia: History, Government, Geography" (New York: Scribner, 1957). Includes correspondence with Earl Gregg Swem and Francis Butler Simkins as well as typescripts, revisions and galley proofs.

1954 July 9- 1955 August 18. 9 items.

1955 October 14 - 1960 January 9. Also letters from F.J. Barnes II (October 14 1955 and undated) and Ray E. Reid, Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction (undated) concerning "Virginia: History, Geography and Government- Suggested Outline- Grade 7." 9 items.

1960 April 5 - 1962 December 3 . 7 items.

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1957 May 31, 1960 November 18, and undated 3 items.

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69 items. Also miscellany concerning Virginia: History, Government, and Geography.

27 items.

1961 December 21 - 1962 December 13 15 items.

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1961 August 1- 1972 January 31; 1964 November 28 - 1972 September 21. 131 items.

1 item.

1961 November 30 - 1962 May 18. 8 items.

8 items.

1968 March 15 - May 6 2 items.

1951 July 8 - 1953 November 28 and undated 18 items.

7 items.

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1957 September 7 - 1967 May 29 30 items.

1947 March 11 - 1954 May 7 21 items.

1 item.

1961 November 23 - 1962 January 18 4 items. Also includes pronunciation key for Native American tribal names.

1 item.

1959 May 12- 1963 March 12 1 item.

13 items.

1974 August 22- 1974 September 17 8 items. Also three newspaper clippings, undated about schoolbook policy change and Nelson Bond, a Roanoke author

1 item.

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11 items.

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7 items.

2 items.

Also Appendix I, II, III and Index.

Also activities for chapter 1.

Correspondence of Jones with Ludwell Lee Montague; and papers relating to the history of Gloucester County, Virginia, especially the correspondence of the Gloucester County Bicentennial Celebration Committee and a manuscript by Jones about Harriotte Lee Taliaferro Montague. Folder list on pdf inventory.

1970 January-May

1970 June-December

1971 January- June

1971 July- December

1989 (3 copies) William M. Field to Editor, Gazette-Journal re. an archeological investigation at Old Ware Church site.

Research report by Ludwell Lee Montague

Biographical / historical:

Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones (1925-2006) received her B.A. from Farmville Teacher's College (now Longwood University), and her M.A. from William & Mary. She was a teacher at Smithfield High School, Mathew Whaley School and James Blair High School in Williamsburg, and served as an adminstrator at the Gloucester County Day School (now Ware Academy). She was active in the APVA and a member of the Susan Constant Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Jones, with Francis Butler Simkins, Professor of History at Longwood College and Sidman P. Poole of the Univerity of Virginia co-authored a textbook which was adopted for the use of Virginia seventh grade students. The textbook was Virginia: History, Government, Geography. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .

Acquisition information:
Gifts in 1980 and 1997.