Frank Lawrence Owsley Papers
File Listing: Boxes 1-10

Box 1:

Correspondence, Outgoing

• 17 November 1916 - 16 March 1935
• 19 November 1935 - 12 October 1940
• 7 January 1941 - 20 May 1953
• 26 May 1953 - 14 January 1954
• 20 January 1954 - 3 November 1954
• 8 February 1955 - 23 April 1956
• 27 April 1956 - 30 October 1956
  

Correspondence, Incoming

• Abernethy, T. P. - Agar, Herbert
• Agar, Herbert - Alexander, Tom
• Alexander, Tom
• Alexander, Tom
• Allen, John - Avant, W. L.
• Bagby, Muriel M. - Bailey, Thomas G.
• Bankhead, J. W.
• Barnes, Barbara S. - Barnes, J. Ward
• Barnhart, John O. - Bethea, Barron
• Betterworth, John K. - Bird, Susan M.
• Black, Hugo - Bragg, James W.
• Bramlett, F. - Branscomb, L. C.
• Breedlove, J. P. - Bromley, E. W.
• Brooks, Cleanth - Burgess, E. W.
• Caldwell, Betty - Carey, L. J.
• Carmichael, O. C. - Carter, Thomas H.
  

Box 2:

Correspondence, Incoming (continued):

• Caskey, William - Cayton, Horace
• Chambers, D. L. - Cheney, Brainard
• University of Chicago Press
• Chitwood, O. P., 1940 -1942
• Chitwood, O. P. ,1943 -1946
• Chitwood, O. P., 1947 - 1951
• Chitwood, O. P., 1952 - 1956
• Church, W. - Clark, Thomas
• Cochran, P. - Coles, H.
• Collins, Seward - Conover, F.
• Cooper, J. - Cotton, Thomas
• Coulter, E. M. - Crane, Verner
• Craven, A. C. - Cresap, B.
• Crittenden, C. C. - Daniels, J.
• Davenport, G.
• Davidson, Donald
• Davidson, John - Davidson, Philip
• Davis, Charles - Dawson, Ed
• Denbo, Bruce - Denson, N. D.
• Deschamps, M. - Dewitt, Mrs. John
• Dickerson, O. M. - Dorris, J. T.
• Doster, James F. - Dunning, William A.
• D. Van Nostrand (Brown, Harold - Gum, W. L. )
• D. Van Nostrand (Heany, A. G. - Vietor, O. A.)
• D. Van Nostrand (Crane, E. M. )
  

Box 3:

Correspondence, Incoming (continued):

• Dyer, J. P. - Dykes, R. O.
• Eades, William - Evans, Edward H.
• Fain, Tyree - Flanders, Ralph
• Fleming, Walter L. - Fletcher, John G.
• Ford, Guy Stanton - Fulton, R. E.
• Gachel, D. - Going, Allen
• Govan, Tom - Green, Fletcher
• Greene, J. N. - Hall, Martin
• Hamilton, Mrs. Henry C. - Harper, R. M.
• Harrell, C. J. - Hill, Walter
• Hingers, Edward J. - Holt, W. S.
• Holton, Holland - Howard, G. H.
• Howell, Isabel
• Howell, Isabel
• Howell, Morton B. - Huff, A. L.
• Ingram, I. S. - Jones, Millard Van
• Jordan, Holman - Jordan, Weymouth T.
• Karl, Barry - Kiger, Joe
• Kilby, T. - Kuhlman, A. F.
• Landrith, Harold F. - Latimer, John F.
• Lazenby, C. - Little, Brown and Company
• Lloyd, Arthur Young - Locket, Mary
• Lord, Clifford - Lynch, William O.
• Lytle, Andrew N.
• McCann, Thomas - McIntosh, J. W.
  

Box 4:

Correspondence, Incoming (continued)

• McLaughlin, A. - MacPherson, Joseph
• Manning, John - Martin, Thomas
• Meacham, Boyd - Mississippi Valley Historical Association
• Moe, Henry Allen - Moffitt, James W.
• Mooney, Chase
• Moore, A. B.
• Moore, A. B.
• Moore, A. B.
• Moore, A. B.
• Moore, Charles - Morris, Richard B.
• Morton, Richard L.
• Nettels, Curtis - Nichols, Roy F.
• Nixon, Herman C.
• Odum, Howard - Ownbey, Richard L.
• Palmer, Gordon D. - Peel, Roy V.
• Pentecost, Percy - Pipkin, C.
• Pomfret, John E. - Ramsdell, Charles
• Ramsey, John - Rich, Celia
• Richardson, Patrick - Roberts, Francis
• Robinson, Janie Grace - Schlesinger, A. M.
• Schmidt, L. B. - Silver, Jim
• Simms, Henry - Simpson, Robert
• Skipper, O. C.
  

Box 5:

Correspondence, Incoming (continued)

• Smith, C. E. - Snyder, Louis
• Social Science Research Council
• South, Percy - Staples, T. S.
• Stephenson, W. H. - Sterkx, Gene
• Stevens, George - Stone, Geoffrey
• Strode, Hudson - Summersell, Charles
• Swint, Henry Lee
• Swint, Henry Lee
• Sydnor, Charles - Tansill, Charles
• Tate, Allen
• Tate, Allen - Tate, Caroline G.
• ten Hoor, Marten - Thach, Harry
• Thistlewaite, Frank - Thrasher, James D.
• Tidwell, R. E. - Vance, Rupert B.
• Vandiver, Frank - Venable, Austin
• Vipond, Herbert E. - Volwiler, A. T.
• Wade, John Donald
• Walker, "Doc" - Walser, Zeb V.
• Walters, Bennett
• Walters, Bennett
• Warren, Robert Penn
• Warren, Robert Penn
• Warren, Robert Penn
• Watson, Elliott
  

Box 6:

Correspondence, Incoming (continued)

• Weaver, Blanche Henry
• Weaver, Blanche Henry
• Weaver, Blanche Henry
• Weaver, Blanche Henry
• Weaver, Herbert
• Weber, Bernard - Wiley, Bill
• Wilkerson, M. M. - Williams, Charlotte
• Williams, Clanton
• Williams, Clanton
• Williams, C. E. - Wuorinen, John
• Yale Review - Yeatman, Mary W.
• Young, Francis - Younger, Edward
  

Writings, Book Manuscripts

• Index (29 pages)
• Bibliography
• Plain Folk of the Old South, "Southern Folkways," delivered as lectures at Louisiana State
  University.
• Plain Folk of the Old South, "To the Promised Land," chapters delivered as lectures at LSU.
• Plain Folk of the Old South, "Some Characteristics and Influences," chapters delivered as
  lectures at LSU
• Plain Folk of the Old South, "Statistical Analysis of Land and Slave Holdings in Sample
  Counties."
• Plain Folk of the Old South, "Some Observations of the Population of the South, 1840 - 1860,"
• Chapter III "By the Sweat of Their Brows," Chapter IV "The Role of the Plain Folk."
  

Box 7:

• King Cotton Diplomacy (1959 Revision) includes memorial Foreword by William C. Binkley
• King Cotton Diplomacy (1959 Revision)-Bibliography
• King Cotton Diplomacy (1959 Revision)---Bibliography
• King Cotton Diplomacy (1959 Revision)---Bibliography
• King Cotton Diplomacy-published copy. Revised and corrected by Owsley for the 2nd edition. Part 1.
• King Cotton Diplomacy-published copy. Revised and corrected by Owsley for the 2nd edition. Part 2.
• Selected Essays of Frank Lawrence Owsley-Introductory material, chronology, Foreword by Andrew Lytle.
• Selected Essays, "The Pattern of Migration and Settlement on the Southern Frontier"
• Selected Essays, "The Plain Folk and their Role in Southern History"
• Selected Essays, "The Fundamental Cause of the Civil War: Egocentric Sectionalism"
• Selected Essays, "Local Defence and the Overthrow of the Confederacy: A Study in State Rights"
• Selected Essays, "Defeatism in the Confederacy"
• Selected Essays, "Why Europe Did Not Intervene"
• Selected Essays, "America and the Freedom of the Seas, 1861 - 1865"
• Selected Essays, "The Pillars of Agrarianism"
• Selected Essays, "Democracy Unlimited"
• Selected Essays, "The Making of Andrew Jackson"
• Selected Essays, "Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar"
• Selected Essays, "A Rebel War Clerk and His Diary"
• Selected Essays, "A Southerner's View of Abraham Lincoln (1958) (original draft of speech)
• Selected Essays, "A Southerner's View of Abraham Lincoln"
• Selected Essays, "The Soldier Who Walked with God"

Box 8:

Unpublished Book Manuscripts

• Mexico, Chapter I (revised)
• Mexico, "The Confederacy and Mexico: John T. Pickett, Swashbuckler"
• Mexico, Chapter III, " The Troubled Waters of Mexico" (typed)
• Mexico, Chapter III, " The Troubled Waters of Mexico" (early draft)
• Mexico, "Juan A. Quinterro's Mission to the Border States"

Articles, Essays, and Speeches

• "The Confederacy and King Cotton" (1929)
• "The Economic Basis of Society in the Late Ante-Bellum South"
• "The Education of a Southern Frontier Girl, Mary Jane Walker"
• "The Education of a Southern Frontier Girl" (revision) (1953-1954)
• "John Williams Walker" (1956)
• " Origin of the American Civil War" (1940)
• "World is Seen as Drifting into Another War"
• "The Writing of Local History" (1954)

Unpublished Articles, Essays, and Speeches

• "The Art of Boot Licking"
• "The Chief Stakes of the South in World Affairs Today"
• "The Confederacy and King Cotton: A Study in Economic Coercion"
• "Ed Taylor, Tenant Farmer"
• "The Foundations of History"
• Fulbright Lecture, St. John's College, Cambridge, England 1956 (Rough draft)
• "General Henry Delamar Clayton"
• "How Communism Wins the Support of the Masses"
• "The Making of George Washington"
• "My Impressions of England" (xerox of Ms)
• "Presentation of Essays in Honor of William E. Dodd"
• "Problems that Determined the Radical Policy of Reconstruction"
• "Whither the White Councils? Letter to the Editor of the Tuscaloosa News"
• "Wills, etc."

Book Reviews

• The Blue and the Gray
• Confederate Georgia by T. Conn Bryan (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1953)
• The Disruption of American Democracy. By Roy Franklin Nichols. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1948).
• French Opinion on the United States and Mexico, 1860 - 1867. By Lynn M. Case
• The Growth of Southern Nationalism 1848 -1861. By Avery O. Craven. Vol. VI, A History of the South. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1953).
• Jefferson in Power: The Death Struggleof the Federalists. By Claude G. Bowers, 1936 (Houghton
  Mifflin Co.)
• The Memoirs of Lieutenant Henry Timberlake, 1756 - 1765. Edited by Samuel Cole Williams
  (Johnson City, Tennessee: the Watauga Press)
• The Secession Movement in Virginia, 1847 - 1861. By Henry T. Shanks (Garrett and Massie)

Box 9:

Personal and Biographic materials

• Photocopy of Frank Owsley's memoir (44 pages)
• Owsley's offer to H. T. Vance Company to purchase Real Estate (1937)
• Newspaper Articles
• Newspaper Articles
• Remembrances of Frank L. Owsley
• Warranty deed, Hotel reservation, Lotus Club (NYC) privileges, Who's Who in America
• World War I-discharge from draft, Transportation request, Order of induction into military service of the U.S., Local board for the county of Elmore, State of Alabama, Honorable discharge
• European Trip-Menus, receipts, tourbook, postcard
• Letters of Recommendation/Introduction
• Photograph
• Condolences to Harriet C. Owsley
• Condolences to Harriet C. Owsley

Agrarians and Fugitives

• Collecting Papers of Agrarians/Fugitives-Correspondence
• Fugitive Reunion, 1956 -Programs
• Newspaper Articles-Who Owns America?
• Newspaper Articles-The South
• Newspaper Articles

Publication Materials

• Reviews of State Rights in the Confederacy
• Reviews of State Rights in the Confederacy
• Reviews of King Cotton Diplomacy
• King Cotton Diplomacy-Copyright
• Reviews of A Short History of the American People
• A Short History of the American People, Textbook Adoption Lists, 1948 - 1955
• Reviews of Plain Folk of the Old South
• Plain Folk of the Old South-Contract
• List of Articles by Frank Lawrence Owsley

Professional Activities

Organizations

• Alabama Historical Association-Programs
• American Historical Association
• Mississippi Valley Historical Association-Programs
• Southern Historical Association-Records, minutes, and list of members
• Southern Historical Association-Programs 1937, 1938, 1940, 1948, 1950
• Southern Illinois Historical Society-Programs
• Tennessee Historical Commission

Events

• Fleming Lectures, Louisiana State University, 1948 - Newspaper articles
• Fleming Lectures, Louisiana State University-Programs - 4 lectures given by Owsley April 12,
  13, and 14, 1948 "Southern Society-A Reinterpretation" "To the Promised Land: Migration and
  Settlement of the Plain Folk" "Southern Folkways" and "The Role of the Plain Folk"
• University of Kentucky-Blazer Lectures - "Self-Imposed Restraints
  and the Survival of American Democracy" given by Owsley April 5, 1955
• University of Mississippi---Lectures-Program November 1948 "Role of the Plain Folk
  in Ante-Bellum Southern History" and "Southern Folkways" given by Owsley
• Vanderbilt University- Program--George Washington Lecture by William E. Dodd, February 22-24, 1932

Box 10:

Academic Career

• Appointment and Salary letters
• Newspaper Articles
• Course syllabi, Exams, Bibliographies, etc.
• Committee work, Oath of affirmation at Columbia University, Retirement Fund Receipt, Gift card from History Graduate students
• University of Chicago-Transcript
• Lecture notes, class notes
• Lecture notes, class notes
• Lecture notes, class notes
• Lecture notes, class notes
• Vanderbilt University-Grade books
• University of Alabama-Grade books
• University of Alabama-Budget requests 1953 - 1954
• Student papers-Larry M. Baker, "Civil War and Reconstruction"
• Student papers-Claude Bradshaw, "Civil War and Reconstruction:
• Student papers-Mary Joyce Ponder, "Civil War and Reconstruction"
• Student papers-Thomas Stricklin, "The United States and Neutral Rights, 1854 - 1856

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