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Overview Call Number: SC0088 Creator: Potter, David Morris Title: David Morris Potter papers Dates: 1942-1971 Physical Description: 33.25 Linear feet Summary: Professional papers. Language(s): The materials are in English. Repository: Department of Special Collections and University Archives Green Library 557 Escondido Mall Stanford, CA 94305-6064 Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu Phone: (650) 725-1022 URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc Gift of Catherine M. Potter, 1971; Richard S. Barnes, 1973; Oxford University Press, 1973; Don E. Fehrenbacher, 1977, 1978, and 1989; Otis Pease, 1979; and George Knoles, 1979. Information about Access The materials are open for research use. Ownership & Copyright All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html. Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes. Cite As David Morris Potter (SC0088). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Biographical/Historical Sketch Coe professor of history at Stanford (1961-1971); president of American Historical Association. Potter was born in 1910 and died in 1971. Description of the Collection Professional papers. Scope and Contents note Professional papers. Access Terms Fehrenbacher, Don Edward, 1920-1997. Potter, David Morris Stanford University. Department of History. Faculty. Stanford University. Department of History. Students. Stanford University. Department of History. Box 1 Professional correspondence, A-Z 1964-1968 Box 1A Restricted Correspondence Box 2, Folder 1 Potter - bibliography SC0088 2
Box 2, Folder 2 Placement correspondence Box 2, Folder 3 Reference letters for students -1969 Box 2, Folder 4 Rosters Box 2, Folder 5 Letters of reference - students 1969-1970 Box 2, Folder 6 Letters of reference - defaulted Box 2, Folder 7 Looking for positions Box 2, Folder 8 Letters of reference 1970-1971 Box 2, Folder 9 Letters of reference 1969-70, non-grad students 1969-1970 Box 2, Folder 10 Bird books - invoices, etc. Box 2, Folder 11 Potter - recent correspondence Box 2 Professional correspondence A-Z 1969-1970 Box 2 Unfiled correspondence Box 2A Restricted material from box 2 Box 3, Folder 1 Two folders of letters received while at Oxford University, with a few drafts of outgoing letters 1947-48 Box 3, Folder 2 Correspondence A-Z 1956-1961 (incoming and some outgoing carbons) 1956-1961 Box 3, Folder 3 Series of Potter's folders:stephen Kline Box 3, Folder 4 Series of Potter's folders: Correspondence: my teaching 1961-1962 Box 3, Folder 5 Series of Potter's folders: Letters answered 1960-1963 Box 3, Folder 6 Series of Potter's folders: University College, London 1961-1963 Box 3, Folder 7 Series of Potter's folders: Answered or not to be answered 1942-1964 Box 3, Folder 8 Series of Potter's folders: Items not requiring an answer 1966-1968 Box 3, Folder 9 Series of Potter's folders: Correspondence answered (to be filed) 1948-1963 Box 3, Folder 10 Series of Potter's folders: Correspondence 1952-1954 Box 3, Folder 11 Series of Potter's folders: Council, AHA 1968 Box 3, Folder 12 Series of Potter's folders: Humanities Foundation and Behavioral Center Box 3, Folder 13 Series of Potter's folders: Program on Culture, OAH 1970 Box 4, Folder 1 Accordion files of letters received A-Z 1947-1950 Box 4, Folder 2 Accordion files of letters received A-Z 1950-1956 Box 5 Correspondence Box 6, Folder 1 Correspondence A-Z for, mostly letters received with a few carbons of outgoing letters and a few drafts of letters. 1932-1947 Box 6, Folder 2 Letters received from his parents (mostly his mother) 1933-1948 Box 7, Folder 1 Correspondence, largely from family and friends 1927-1937 Box 7, Folder 2 Two folders of correspondence to be filed 1955-1960 Box 8 Teaching materials-yale Box 9 Teaching materials-stanford Box 10 Teaching materials-stanford Box 11 Teaching materials, lecture notes, grade books, appointment books Box 12 Teaching materials-stanford Box 13 Writings-Scott Foresman text Box 14 Research and bibliographical notes, letter record Box 15 Professional committees, etc Box 16, Folder 1 Album containing various articles Box 16, Folder 2 Potter - book reviews and notes Box 16, Folder 3 Saturday Review and the New Republic - assorted copies Box 16, Folder 4 Saturday Review Box 16, Folder 5 Saturday Review and Yale Review - assorted copies Box 16, Folder 6 Assorted publications Box 16, Folder 7 Miscellaneous lectures - notes and typescript Box 16, Folder 8 Lecture at Stanford - written draft and correspondence 1963 Box 16, Folder 9 Journalism conference at Stanford - program 1968 Box 16, Folder 10 American women - written and typed drafts Box 16, Folder 11 Paper for Committee on Historical Analysis - written and typed drafts; notes; and correspondence Box 16, Folder 12 Paper on Vice-Presidents - typescript Box 16, Folder 13 Paper on advertising; originally for the Sat. Rev. SC0088 3
Box 16, Folder 14 Paper for Barnes Riznik - written and typed draft; notes; and correspondence, 1961-63 1961-1963 Box 16, Folder 15 Article for Am. Hist. Review multiple versions Box 16, Folder 16 Paper on Nationalism - written and typed drafts Box 16, Folder 17 Article on Nationalism - typescript, correspondence Box 16, Folder 18 Lincoln and His Party" - written and typed drafts Box 17, Folder 1 Trail to California, Revision - correspondence, notes, text re preface by Potter, 1948, 1961 1948, 1961 Box 17, Folder 2 Hinton Helper - biographical note Box 17, Folder 3 Paper for Yale Review, 50th year - mss and typescript Box 17, Folder 4 Typed textbook script, chaps. 1-3 Box 17, Folder 5 typed textbook script, chaps. 4-7 Box 17, Folder 6 Quest for the National Character - written and typed script, correspondence re publication, 1959-62 1952-1962 Box 17, Folder 7 Phillips Introduction and Bibliography Box 17, Folder 8 Abolition Movement - article for Encyc. Britt. Box 17, Folder 9 Huey Pierce Long - article for Encyc. Britt. Box 17, Folder 10 for LS. U. Press Box 17, Folder 11 Richard Watson - correspondence 1959-1961 Box 17, Folder 12 The South - article and notes 1963 Box 17, Folder 13 Nathan Hale - notes, articles, and facsimile of Hale letter Box 17, Folder 14 Walgreen lectures - typed text Box 17, Folder 15 Walgreen lectures - notes Box 17, Folder 16 People of Plenty - typed article, and various publications re 1958 Box 17, Folder 17 American economics and agriculture Box 17, Folder 18 Problems book - revisions requested by Henry Holt 1958 Box 17, Folder 19 Problems - notes Box 17, Folder 20 Disputes in coal industry - typescript articles Box 17, Folder 21 M. Savary letter with historical analysis, notes Box 17, Folder 22 Undergraduate papers Box 17, Folder 23 Elmer Henry - photographs and papers by Henry Box 17, Folder 24 written by Potter in graduate school Box 17, Folder 25 Ralph Ross - article and Potter's response 1958 Box 17, Folder 26 John Brown - written manuscript Box 17, Folder 27 Herman Belz paper - Reconstruction of the Union Box 17, Folder 28 Division and the Stresses - Chap 1 typescript and critique of material Box 17, Folder 29 Division and the Stresses - Chap. 1-3 typescript Box 17, Folder 30 Division and the Stresses - Chaps. 1-4 typescript Box 17, Folder 31 Review of Pacific Circle - printed and typescript versions Box 17, Folder 32 Review of Catton - printed version, notes, and correspondence re publication 1969 Box 17, Folder 33 Potter, memo re Report of the History Panel Box 17, Folder 34 Review of Heard Round the World - typescript and correspondence 1969 Box 17, Folder 35 Critique of Stampp paper Box 17, Folder 36 Division and the Stresses - notes Box 17, Folder 37 Women's Magazines and Woman's Role in American life" - first draft, correspondence with Good Housekeeping, 1955 "And Nixon Makes Eight" and "Heirs to the Presidency" - typescript and correspondence re publication 1955 Box 17, Folder 38 "American Leisure as an American Force" - written draft and correspondence re publication 1963, 1968-1969 Box 18, Folder 1 L.S.U. - South and Sectional Conflict - correspondence with L.S.U. Press re his book, 1968-69 and correspondence 1963 with Alexander Riasanovsky re publication 1963, 1968-1969 Box 18, Folder 2 South and Sectional Conflict--reviews, publicity 1969-1970 Box 18, Folder 3 South and Sectional Conflict - corrections in mss for the galleys Box 18, Folder 4 Bobb-Merrill - correspondence and financial records 1969 Box 18, Folder 5 My writing - manuscripts, typescripts, reprints of articles, reviews, speeches with some clippings and letters 1952-1963 Box 18, Folder 6 Permissions - correspondence re use of Potter's work 1967-1970 SC0088 4
Box 18, Folder 7 United States Information Service lincoln Exhibition - catalog for traveling exhibit; texts selected by Potter Circa 1959 Box 18, Folder 8 ROTC - my address - text and correspondence re talk at commissioning ceremony 1970 Box 18, Folder 9 Review copy of The Progressive Historians by Richard Hofstadter; with Potter's comments [not foldered] Box 18, Folder 10 DMP-bibliography 1968 Box 18, Folder 11 list of Ph.D.'s completed with DMP Box 18, Folder 12 Bobbs-Merrill - correspondence, bibliography re Reprint Series in American History 1963-1966 Box 18, Folder 13 Kyoto - phone memo Box 18, Folder 14 Class Day Talk - text of talk on class day at Stanford 1967 Jun 17 Box 18, Folder 15 Genovese Paper - correspondence, text re Potter's comments on Eugene Genovese's paper on U.B. Phillips and its publication 1966-1977 Box 18, Folder 16 AHA Dec '68 Stampp Paper - correspondence re Potter as commentator 1968 Box 18, Folder 17 Reviews - correspondence, text 1965-1966, 1968 Box 18, Folder 18 Review of Status Politics - correspondence, text 1963 Box 18, Folder 19 Journalism Prog - background info on conference where Potter spoke 1968 Jun 26 Box 18, Folder 20 Essay for [C. Vann] Woodward on Civil War - broadcast lecture on Voice of America, correspondence and text, 1966 1966 Box 18, Folder 21 Conference Danforth Fellows - correspondence 1968 Feb 6-9 Box 18, Folder 22 Commission on Violence [National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence] - correspondence, text of comments, information 1968 Box 18, Folder 23 PCB meeting Aug. 1968 [Pacific Coast Branch of AHA] - correspondence, text of talks by others 1968 August Box 18, Folder 24 Planting Fields- correspondence, lists, bibliography, lecture notes from Potter's course at Institute for American History and Government at SUNY, Stony Brook 1966 Summer Box 18, Folder 25 Conf. on Political Parties-St. Louis - summary report Box 18, Folder 26 [Daniel J.] Boorstin Anthology - correspondence and text for Potter's entry to Boors tin 's American Primer, 1966 1966 Box 18, Folder 27 Canada-U.S. - correspondence and text for Potter's article in Canada Views the United States, 1966-67 1966-1967 Box 18, Folder 28 Janeway [Eliot] - correspondence and publications by Janeway 1967 Box 18, Folder 29 Paper at Duke - correspondence, galleys, text re participation in symposium and publication of paper, 1966-67 1966-1967 Box 18, Folder 30 Pickett papers - mss copies of historical sources Box 18, Folder 31 Civil Rights- clippings and articles 1966 Summer Box 18, Folder 32 Southern Sectionalism - research correspondence, notes, clippings 1940 Box 18, Folder 33 Senior Class Day - correspondence and text of talk 1964 Box 18, Folder 34 St. John - info re Isaac Munroe St. John at Yale University library, 1951 1951 Box 18, Folder 35 Symposium on People of Plenty at San Francisco - correspondence and text of comment 1966 Box 18, Folder 36 Civil War pictures - photographs and negatives of illustrations Box 18, Folder 37 Anderson at Sumter - notes from contemporary sources Box 18, Folder 38 Detweiler Paper - correspondence and text of review for Journal of Southern History, 1964 1964 Box 18, Folder 39 Mississippi: maps, legis. apportionment - research notes Box 18, Folder 40 Carbon copies-phillips notes - typescripts of historical sources of 1850s 1850s Box 18, Folder 41 Henry Adams and Boston Advertiser - typescript copies of sources; typescript article by Potter; manuscript notes Box 19, Folder 1 Reprints by others Box 19, Folder 2 Broadcasts at Texas - correspondence, notes re 1V lectures 1962-1963 Box 19, Folder 3 Misc. U.S. lectures - notes Box 19, Folder 4 Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in American History - correspondence, lists, catalog, 1966 1966 Box 19, Folder 5 Bobbs-Merrill - correspondence, catalogs, lists 1963-1964 SC0088 5
Box 19, Folder 6 Hexter manuscript - on historiography, with one page of comments by Potter, n.d. Box 19, Folder 7 Miscellaneous - clipping re students being ignorant of U.S. history 1943 Box 19, Folder 8 Yale Press-Janeway [Eliot] - correspondence of Potter, Janeway, George Pannly Day of Yale Press, and Arthur H. Brook re mss of Janeway's, 1950-51 1950-1951 Box 19, Folder 9 Comparative Civilization - seminar papers, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1958 1958 Box 19, Folder 10 Janeway - correspondence, 1950-59, with some clippings and reviews 1950-1959 Box 19, Folder 11 Ronald Press - correspondence re mss Potter reviewed with some notes 1944-1950 Box 19, Folder 12 Advertising - examples and notes for proposed article, and correspondence 1958 Box 19, Folder 13 Herzenberg [Leonard A.] - correspondence re rejection of Potter's daughter from summer program at Stanford Medical School 1965 Box 19, Folder 14 Program at SHA 1966 on Confederate leaders after the War - correspondence and one paper (Potter was chair of session) 1966 Box 19, Folder 15 untitled - articles on Civil Rights 1958-1963 Box 19, Folder 16 First Sumter Centennial - clippings 1961 Box 19, Folder 17 History of the South - bibliography, exam questions, assignments, clippings plus an 1895 brochure re lecture tour of Gen. John B. Gordon Box 19, Folder 18 Negro - one clipping 1967-1968 Box 19, Folder 19 History of South - clippings, articles, notes, bibliography 1947-1960 Box 19, Folder 20 South- clippings, notes, reprints, bibliography 1961-1964 Box 19, Folder 21 South - clippings re Democratic Convention 1948 Box 19, Folder 22 untitled - misc. clippings, bibliographies, sources Box 19, Folder 23 Segregation-Citizens' Council Material- publications and brochures by CC and newspapers from other segregationist organizations, 1959-63 1959-1963 Box 19, Folder 24 Oxford, Miss Riots 1966 - clippings 1966 Box 19, Folder 25 Potter, Memorandum on the Report of the History Panel, Behavioral and Social Sciences Survey, May 1969 (2 copies) Box 19, Folder 26 Potter, Historical Aspects of the Rejection of or Disaffiliation from the Prevaling American Society, n.d. (2 copies) Box 20, Folder 1 Typescript paper "The Virginia Council" by Leonard W. Labaree with extensive genealogy charts, n.d. Box 20, Folder 2 Note cards for lecture "Three Woodrow Wilsons" during Berkeley summer session 1965 Box 21, Folder 1 Professional correspondence A-H 1950s Box 22, Folder 1 Professional correspondence I-Z 1950s Box 23, Folder 1 Professional correspondence 1960s Box 24 [Chapter XIV; South and Sectional Conflict lectures; placement correspondence Sept. 69-70; Furness lectures - conflict/consensus; Dilys; loose notes; Fleming lectures;] 1969-1970 Box 25 [Southern history essays; loose papers; Committee on the Hoover; misc; OAH since Nov. 1970; OAH April 70 meeting; OAH committees] Since 1970 Box 26 [OAH since 4/70; placement 1970; Molly Minehan; OAH Committees before April 1970; Snyder; DP correspondence; Departmental; Bernstein; Bernstein-archive] Box 27, Folder 1 Letters of reference to be filed Box 27, Folder 2 Answer - personal Box 27, Folder 3 Later action Box 27, Folder 4 No title Box 27, Folder 5 Defer Box 27, Folder 6 No title - correspondence 1969 Box 27, Folder 7 No title - correspondence 1968-1970 Box 27, Folder 8 Correspondence to be filed Box 27, Folder 9 Misc. correspondence Box 27, Folder 10 Misc. notes Box 28 Manuscript copies of papers and lectures. Also, holograph MS of The South and the Concurrent Majority, published 1972; the Fleming lectures were delivered from this MS. 1972 Box 29 First draft, holograph, of Potter's 2-vol. book for Harpers on the Coming of the Civil War, chapters 1-9. SC0088 6
Box 30 First draft, holograph, of Potter's 2-vol. book for Harpers on the Coming of the Civil War, chapters 10-19 (incomplete). Box 31 Unfinished MSS of textbook on American history (1953-56). Chapters I-VI holograph with Potter's corrections; correspondence with the typist Katherine Barnes. Copy of John E. Cook's The Wearing of the Grey, with three letters from Cook. 1953-1956 Box 32 Annotated MSS of History and AmeriCan Society, chapters 1-16 and index Box 33 Galley proofs of History and American Society; reviews of The South and the Concurrent Majority Box 34 MSS of Freedom and Its Limitations on American Life; review of Craven's Historian and the Ciyil War Box 35 Publishers MSS of The Impending Crisis Box 36 Publishers MSS of The Impending Crisis Box 37 Paper by Walter Metzger and comments Circa 1960 Box 38 J.K. Galbraith's The Affluent Society, annotated by Potter for reviewing SC0088 7