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Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
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Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5).
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Custodial History
Addition 1989.12 contains a brief sketch of Lester J. Cappon by Walter C. Holzbog for his autobiography. Concentrates on
Cappon as his College roommate.
Addition 2008.203 contains photographs, possibly of Lester Cappon's daughter (none of photographs are identified) and members
of the Institute. Letter from "JCW" about a note on a 1939 "The Collegian" about a new publication "The Virginia Lyceum."
Two copies of a reprint from the October 1951 "The American Archivist" entitled "Comprehensive Historical Indexing: The Virginia
Gazette Index" by Stella Duff Neiman and Lester J. Cappon are filed in Box 13, Folder 14.
The following additions have been added to Box 13 as folders 17, 18 and 19: Minutes for Colonial Williamsburg - Interpretation
(Presentation) Division, 1961-1969, Colonial Williamsburg - Presentation Division Minutes,1964-1969 and Library of Congress
reports on the National Union Catalog of Mss Collections.
The following addition has been added to Box 17 as folder 33: Reprint of "The Royal Society of London: Retailer in Experimental
Philosophy" as a gift of the author, Raymond P. Stearns; pamphlets for "Archives of University of Wyoming" 1946, "University
Archives and Western Historical Collections, University of Wyoming" 1948, "Radcliffe Women's Archives" 1953, "The Women's
Archive at Radcliffe College" 1954, 1958, 1960 and undated and "Publications of the National Archives and Records Service"
1966; report of the Ad Hoc Committee of Manuscripts of the American Historical Association in 1951; brochure "The Print Collector"
from Kenneth Nebenazahl, Inc. of Chicago; Library of Congress "News from the Center: No. 2, Fall 1967; "Library Journal",
October 15, 1965 and two American Philosophical Society publications, "Dr. Rush to Governor Henry on the Declaration of Independence
and the Virginia Constitution" as a gift of the author, Lyman H. Butterfield and "Franklin and the 'Wagon Affair,' 1755 by
Whitfield J. Bell and Leonard J. Labaree.
Preferred Citation
Lester J. Cappon Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Estate and will bequest of Lester J. Cappon, Walter Holzbog and John Haskell. Gifts in 1981 and 1982.
1989.12 Gift of Walter C. Holzbog through Thad Tate.
Materials relating to the career of Lester Jesse Cappon (September 18, 1900-August 24, 1981), historian and formerly the Archivist
for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, Director of the Institute of Early American History and
Culture, and Senior Research Fellow at the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.
Professional papers (1909-1981) include primary source material, typescripts, notes, drafts of articles, critiques, maps,
and historical journals. Topics researched cover the Southern iron industry, the journals and writings of Jared Sparks, Benjamin
Franklin, Henry Howe, and early American maps [material used in the Atlas of Early American History, 1976].
Papers showing Cappon's activities with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Institute of early American History and
Culture, the Society of American Archivists, the Archival Institute [associated with Radcliffe College], The Papers of John
Marshall, the National Archives, the National Historical Publications Commission, the Newberry Library, the University of
Virginia, and the College of William and Mary. Papers and articles showing Cappon's involvement with archival procedures and
principles are also included.
Correspondence (1923-1982) includes individuals associated with professional organizations, other historians, such as Arthur
M. Schlesinger, personal friends, and family members. Personal papers outline Cappon's affairs and interests. Cappon's diaries
(1954-1981) are also included in the collection. (They were closed to the public until August 24, 2006.)
News clippings, magazines, maps, certificates, and photographs complete his papers.
Letters are to and from daughter Mary Beth (Mary Elizabeth) Cappon Curtis Yarbrough, her first husband Jack Curtis and their
two sons Ralph and Bruce Curtis; Cappon's son Stanley Bernet Cappon and his wife, Judi; and Alexander P. Cappon (an uncle?),
who works at the University of Kansas City, April 27, 1958-October 16, 1970. Includes typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Copy of Typewritten Letter Signed.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 2
Correspondence concerning the death of Mary Elizabeth (Cappon Curtis) Yarbrough, and her estate
1970 June-1971 May 12English
Scope and Contents
Includes typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 3
Letter to Mr. Holzbog from Frederick Jackson Turner
1923 November 2English
Scope and Contents
Content concerns Cappon's reading lists on American history.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 4
Correspondence of Thomas J. Holzbog
1954 October 30-1968 April 1English
Scope and Contents
Includes typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 5
Correspondence of Walter and Charles Holzbog
1945 November 9-1970 January 30English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters, Xerox copies, and newspaper clippings.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 6
Correspondence of Thomas J. Holzbog and Walter C. Holzbog
1921 June 27-1981 July 3English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten copies, card, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 7
Correspondence of Alfred A. Knopf
1954 May 13-1970 October 26English
Scope and Contents
Includes a card, typewritten letters, and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 8
Correspondence of Ernest H. Priest
1950-1957 December 26English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 9
Letters to and from Cappon from friends, C-K.
1947 January 1-1970 April 24English
Scope and Contents
Includes cards, typewritten letters, and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 10
Letters to and from Cappon from friends, L-Y
1948 August 31-1970 May 4English
Scope and Contents
Some typewritten letters, Xerox copies, and cards. Includes unnamed personal letters.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 11
Correspondence of Robert N. Rapoport
1945 December 13-1970 May 19English
Scope and Contents
Includes some typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 12
Correspondence of Armin H. Rappaport
1946 January 1-1958 December 1English
Scope and Contents
Includes some typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 13
Correspondence of Arthur M. and Elizabeth Schlesinger
1941 June 10-1970 July 15English
Scope and Contents
Includes some typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 14
Correspondence of Stephen DeWitt Stephens
1949 January 21-1970 January 29English
Scope and Contents
Includes Xerox copies of typewritten letters, printed material, and cards.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 15
Correspondence of T. I. A. A. (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America)
1970 October 1-1974 January 25English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters, including document, 1970. Insurance policy.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 16
Correspondence of Van Beckum
1945 June 22-1979 August 20English
Scope and Contents
Includes a typewritten letter, copy, and card.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 17
Correspondence of Virginia National Bank Trust
1971 December 7-1981 July 13English
Scope and Contents
Letter, Xerox copy, document, draft, and typewritten letter.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 18
Correspondence on boating and camping expeditions
1971 April 12-1979 DecemberEnglish
Scope and Contents
Contents include letter, card, photograph, typewritten copy, printed material, and newspaper.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 19
Grants
1958 November 28-1959 September 21English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, manuscript, card, and document.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 20
Insurance policy values (Jack A. Curtis and Stanley B. Cappon)
circa 1959English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter, printed material, and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 21
Insurance policies of Lester J. Cappon
1970 December 9-1980 August 14English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten letter, and n, Typewritten Letter Signed, and Newspaper.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 22
Real Estate involving Lester J. Cappon
1976 April 5-1979 February 14English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, typewritten letter, and drawing.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 23
Material regarding Social Security, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and Medicare policies
1970 April-1976 June 30English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 24
Tax returns and information regarding Cappon estate
1970-1980 MarchEnglish
Scope and Contents
Documents, Xerox copies, and typewritten letters.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 25
Material for Capon's 80th birthday celebration, organized by Lawrence Towner
1980English
Scope and Contents
Includes typepwritten manuscripts, typewritten letters, and cards.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 26
"Beethoven and Bourbon: A Celebration of Life"
1981 September 18English
Scope and Contents
Tribute to Lester J. Cappon, written by associate and friend Lawrence W. Towner. Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 27
Reports detailing financial records of Van Beckum
1971 January 15-1975 January 10English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 28
Last will and testament of Lester J. Cappon
1976 June 16English
Scope and Contents
Three copies. Documents signed.
Mixed Materials Box: 4
Personal papers and correspondence pertaining to Cappon's travel arrangements.
English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1
Travel - Alaska
1967 May-1970 February 17English
Scope and Contents
Includes newspaper, typewritten copy, printed material, typewritten letter, and fabric.
Oversize file for maps: Canada's Artic, NW Territories; Canada Highway maps, Eastern and Western sheet; Canada and Northern
U.S.; and Canadian Topographical maps.
Oversize file for article, "Racing a Raging River," Boston Sunday Globe, August 25, 1968 and "Bouncing Down the White Water,"
Boston Sunday Globe, August 18, 1968. Manuscript, Xerox copy, and letter.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 6
Travel - Europe
1964 June 2-1970 October 6English
Scope and Contents
Contents include printed material, letters, card, and notes.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 7
Travel - European trip made by Lester J. Cappon
1977 June 16-1977 July 23English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter, copy, and newspaper.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 8
Travel - Sierra Nevada
1967 March 21-1966 August 29English
Scope and Contents
(See Medium oversize file for map; Sequoia and Kings Canyon, [National Park Service]). Letters, printed material, and fabric.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 9
Maps of Canada and other places where Cappon traveled
circa 1971English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 10
Maps and magazines of British Columbia and other places where Cappon traveled
circa 1971-1973English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 11
Correspondence - A.
1966 December 24-1981 May 28English
Scope and Contents
Contains telegram, newspaper clipping, letters, typewritten copy, and card.
See oversize folder for 1970 Certificate from American Forestry Association.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 12
Adams-Jefferson letters
1959 October 12-1981 June 1English
Scope and Contents
Contents include newspaper clipping, letters, typewritten letters and copies, photograph, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 13
Correspondence - John Adams (1763) and Thomas Jefferson (1804)
1978 February-1967 DecemberEnglish
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 14
Correspondence - Albemarie Co., Va. Historical Society
1945 November 4-1965English
Scope and Contents
Contents include printed material, newspaper clippings, typewritten letters, manuscript, and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 15
Correspondence - Albemarie County, Va.
1981 August 22-1970 December 30English
Scope and Contents
Document, Xerox copy, typewritten copy, and card.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 16
Correspondence - American Antiquarian Society.
1970 December 30-1981 June 11English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, card, Xerox copy, and typewritten card.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 17
Correspondence - American Antiquarian Society
1952 April 16-1970 July 10English
Scope and Contents
Card, printed material, typewritten letter, Xerox copy, and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 18
Correspondence - American Archivist
1957 December 9-1975 June 28English
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy, typewritten letter, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 19
Correspondence - American Archivists, Society of
1950 July 28-1955 April 5English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 20
Correspondence - Society of American Archivists
1957 November 11-1969 July 14English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 21
Correspondence - Society of American Archivists
1969 October-1970 July 1English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters, Xerox copies, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 22
Correspondence - Society of American Archivists: Awards Committee
1964 June 3-1968 December 5English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 23
Correspondence - Society of American Archivists: Professional Standards
1951 October 18-1970 August 3English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 24
Correspondence - Society of American Archivists
1969 October 20-1981 July 13English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, typewritten letter, newspaper, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 25
Correspondence - American Association for State and Local History
1944 January 24-1957 October 4English
Scope and Contents
Card, typewritten letter, printed material, and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 26
Correspondence - American Historical Association (AHA) Committee on American Revolution Bicentenial
1969 November 9-1970 April 27English
Scope and Contents
Letter, typewritten letter, Xerox copy, and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 27
American Historical Review
1972 June 19-circa 1979 September English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters, Xerox copies, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 28
American Institute - University of Oslo
1962 April 5-1963 July 11English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter, Xerox copy, and card.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 29
Correspondence - Antecedents of Rolls Series
1970 June 16-1972 November 5English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter, card, manuscript, and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 30
Correspondence - APVA Jamestown Committee
1962 October 9-1970 September 24English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, Xerox copy, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 5
Professional Correspondence: Archival Institute (Radcliffe College) through B.
English
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 1
Correspondence - Archival Institute, Radcliffe College
1956 June 12-1960 May 31English
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, typewritten letters, and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 2
Correspondence - Archival Institute, Radcliffe College
1958 November 28-1963 July 5English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters, Xerox copies, card, and letter.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 3
Correspondence - Archival Management
1949 July-1967 JanuaryEnglish
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten copy, and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 4
Archives - forgeries
1945 November 17English
Scope and Contents
Printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 5
Correspondence - National Archives
1956 September- 1970 JulyEnglish
Scope and Contents
Letter, typewritten letter, card, newspaper, manuscript, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 6
Correspondence - State and Local Archives
1938-1961 February 13English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, printed material, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 7
Correspondence regarding The American Archives
1981 July 20-1981 August 21English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 8
Correspondence - The Archivist as Collector (an article by L. J. Cappon)
1976 May 25-1977 March 3English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, Xerox copy, and typewritten letter.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 9
Correspondence - Society of American Archivists and American Association for State and Local History
1951 January 8-1955 September 20English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter, Xerox copy, draft, card, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 10
Correspondence - Association for Documentary Editing
1977-1981 July 13English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten letter, Xerox copy, and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 11
Correspondence - Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) Committees
1979-1980, 1977 September-1981 January 12English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper, typewritten copy, manuscript, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 12
Correspondence - ADE Program
1979 November, 1979 April 12- 1979 November 11English
Scope and Contents
Letter, Xerox copy, and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 13
Correspondence - ADE Committee on Planning Manual for Documentary Editing
1979 November 18-1981 January 22English
Scope and Contents
Draft, manuscript, typewritten copy, and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 14
Correspondence - ADE - Publications
1979 February 12-1981 FebruaryEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, Xerox copy, manuscript and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 15
Correspondence - ADE, Secretary
1978 July-1981 May 22English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, printed material, and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 16
Atlas of Early American History
1976 May 26-1978 December 13English
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 17
An Atlas in the Making
1978 August 3-31English
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 18
Correspondence - A-B, Miscellaneous
1945 March 16-1970 May 29English
Scope and Contents
Letter, typewritten letter, card, newspaper clipping, manuscript, and photograph.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 19
Correspondence - B.
1970 November 15-1981 May 5English
Scope and Contents
Card, typewritten letter, newspaper clipping, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 6
Professional correspondence: Bast, Homer and Robert through Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
English
Mixed Materials Box: 6 folder: 1
Correspondence - Bast, Homer and Robert
1947 January 9-1968 December 17English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, Xerox copy, typewritten letter, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 folder: 2
Correspondence - Benjamin, Walter R., and autograph trade
1966 February 1-1967 December 11English
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, typewritten letter, and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 folder: 3
Correspondence - Berea College
1975 August 5-1981 July 10English
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy, typewritten letter, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 folder: 4
Correspondence - Berkeley, Francis L., Jr.
1946 March 5-1981 July 15English
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter, Xerox copy, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 folder: 5
Correspondence - Berkman, Gordon and Brenda
1971 December 27-1981 January 4English
Scope and Contents
Card, letter, photographs, and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 folder: 6
Correspondence - Bernet, Edwin J. and family
1949 August 29-1981 June 24English
Scope and Contents
Card, letter, newspaper clipping, and typewritten letter.
Correspondence regarding a position at the University of California at Riverside
1974 November 8-1976 May 12English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 folder: 21
Correspondence - Carolina, North - Colonial Records Project
1963 April 25-1968 November 13English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten letter, card, Xerox copy, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 folder: 22
Correspondence - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
1971 February 11-1981 June 27English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter, printed material, Xerox copy, and card.
Mixed Materials Box: 7
Professional correspondence: Chorley, Kenneth through Illinois, University of.
English
Mixed Materials Box: 7 folder: 1
Chorley, Kenneth
1945 May 2-1967 August 16English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter and photostat.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 folder: 2
Clemons, Harry
1946 February 20-1967 January 5English
Scope and Contents
Letter, typewritten copy, card, telegram and printed material.
See oversize folder for: article "Library's Harry Clemons Has Made 'Lasting Contribution' to U. Virginia," The Cavalian Daily,
U. V. A., May 11, 1950; article "Harry Clemons Noted Librarian of U. Va., Retired," The Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 2, 1950.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 folder: 3
Correspondence - "Collector's and keepers in the England of Elizabeth and James."
1970 April 29-1981 April 30 English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 folder: 4
Correspondence - Copyright and Literary Rights
1963 August-1968 JulyEnglish
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten letter, Xerox copy, newspaper, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 folder: 5
Correspondence - Cornell University, Regional Collection of MSS
1941 October 31-1951 April 2English
Scope and Contents
Printed material and manuscript. (See oversize file for 1941 issue of College Topics - article on a Cappon lecture.)
Correspondence - Institute of Early American History and Culture
1969 January 12-1970 June 8English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 4
Correspondence - Institute of Early American History and Culture
1970 December 14-1981 May 25English
Scope and Contents
Letter, typewritten letter, Xerox copy, typewritten copy, photograph, and draft.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 5
Correspondence - Institute of Early American History and Culture
1975 January 21-1981 July 27English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten copy, card, newspaper clipping, and photograph.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 6
Journal of American History
1972 April 5-1972 April 10English
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy of typewritten letter and card.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 7
Correspondence - I-K.
1960 August 19-1981 May 2English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, Xerox copy, letters, card, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 8
Correspondence - L.
1971 April 16-1981 July 17English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, letter, card, and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 9
Correspondence - Map - Lattre (?)
1973 January 11-October 10English
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 10
Lewis and Clark Expedition
1961 October 24-1962 November 14English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 11
Correspondence - Library Company of Philadelphia
1971 May 24-1981 August 10English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, letter, typewritten copy, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 12
Correspondence - M.
1971 October 26-1981 June 25English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten document, letter, Xerox copy, newspaper clipping, and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 13
Correspondence - Marshall, John, Papers of
1971 October 26-1981 June 25English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, printed material, and newspaper clipping.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 14
Correspondence - Massachusetts Historical Society
1957 January 10-1981 SummerEnglish
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten copy, Xerox copy, card, and letter.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 15
Correspondence - Canadian River Expeditions, John Mikes
1972 November 28-1978 September 15English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, card, printed material, typewritten letter, and photograph.
See oversize file for: map of North Western British Columbia, page from The Vancouver Sun, August 19, 1971, and magazine,
Beautiful British Columbia, spring issue, 1973 [2 copies].
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 16
Correspondence - National Archives and Records Service
1976 July 15-1980 June 12English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten and Xerox copies, printed material, photograph, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 17
Correspondence - National Historical Publications and Records Commission
1970 March 26-1975 June 6English
Scope and Contents
Material from Commission also included. Letters, typewritten copies of typewritten letters, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 18
Correspondence - National Historical Publications Committee
1951 May 4-1967 AprilEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 folder: 19
Correspondence - National Union Catalog of Ms. Colls.
1957 March 4-1969 April 29English
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy, draft, manuscript and typewritten letter.
Mixed Materials Box: 9
Professional correspondence: Newberry Library through Spottswood, Alexander.
English
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 1
Correspondence - Newberry Library
1969 January 20-1981 August 17English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 2
Correspondence regarding Cappon's article in local newspapers
1948 August 30-1948 September 10English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 3
Correspondence - N-O
1971 March 7-1981 May 8English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 4
Correspondence - Oral Documentation - Jared Sparks article
1981 May 18-1981 June 18English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 5
Correspondence - Oral History, National Colloquium on
1966 January 9-1972 October English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter, Xerox copy, manuscript, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 6
Correspondence - Posner, Ernest
1945 June 11-1967 April 12English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten letter, Xerox copy, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 7
Correspondence - Posner, Ernest (Dean, Graduate School, American University)
1946 June 5-1970 July 5English
Scope and Contents
Letters, typewritten letters, Xerox copies, and typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 8
Correspondence - P-Q
1970 October 27-1981 July 9English
Scope and Contents
Card, letter, Xerox copy, newspaper clipping, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 9
Correspondence - R
1981 August 17-1970 November 9English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, letter, telegram, card, newspaper clipping, and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 10
Correspondence - Rhode Island Historical Society
1981 June 15-August 22English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 11
Correspondence - Rutland, Robert A.
1970 November 16-1980 May 28English
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, typewritten copy, Xerox copy, and letter.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 12
Correspondence - S
1957 March 6-1981 July 9English
Scope and Contents
Letter, typewritten letter and copy, newspaper clipping, card, manuscript, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 13
Correspondence - Savelle, Max
1975 February 6-1980 June 1English
Scope and Contents
Letter, newspaper clipping, typewritten copy, card, and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 14
Correspondence - Sheehan, Bernard W.
1971 April 26-1981 January 16English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, letter, card, printed material, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 15
Correspondence - Smith
1971 January 11-1981 August 11English
Scope and Contents
Letter, typewritten letter and copy, card, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 15a
Correspondence - Society of American Archivists
1947 June 24-1951 November 5English
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 16
Correspondence - Society for the History of Discoveries
1967 April 6-1980English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 17
Correspondence - Sparks, Jared
1969 February 21-1980 July 11English
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy, typewritten letter and copy, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 folder: 18
Correspondence - Spotswood, Alexander
1945 October 6-1952 October 4English
Scope and Contents
Card, letter, typewritten copy, newspaper, typewritten letter, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 10
Professional Correspondence: Stoner, Patrick and Joyce through Miscellaneous Professional Correspondence.
English
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 1
Correspondence - Stoner, Patrick and John (Hill)
1971 January 29-1979 December 17English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clipping, card, and photograph.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 2
Susquehannah Company Papers
1966 July 21-1970 October 20English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 3
Correspondence - Towner, Lawrence W. (Bill)
1956 June 19-1970 July 24English
Scope and Contents
Letter, typewritten letters, and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 4
Correspondence - T-U
1956 February 3-1981 January 23English
Scope and Contents
Letter, newspaper clipping, printed material, and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 5
Correspondence - V
1970 October 27-1981 July 14English
Scope and Contents
Letter, card, printed material, and Xerox Copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 6
Correspondence - Virginia Historical Society
1948 January 9-1981 August 24English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters, Xerox copies, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 7
Correspondence - Virginia, Ironworks of
1953 August 1-1954 January 31English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 8
Correspondence - Virginia Newspapers 1821-1935
1970 June 22-1970 October 19English
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy, typewritten letter and copy, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 9
Correspondence - Virginia, University Press of
1961 June 16-1970 October 24English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters, Xerox copies, and printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 10
Correspondence concerning Cappon's research on Washington County, Va.
1938-1952English
Scope and Contents
Letters, typewritten letter, and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 11
Correspondence - Virginia World War II History Commission
1945 November 27-1950 November 22English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 12
Correspondence - Washburn, Wilcomb E.
1972 April 12-1981 March 19English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clipping, typewritten letter, letter, and manuscript.
Printed material, Xerox copy, and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 14
Correspondence - Wiberley, Stephen E., Jr.
1975 November 20-1981 July 25English
Scope and Contents
Letter, card, typewritten copy, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 15
Correspondence - William and Mary, College of
1969 June 12-1981 April 9English
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy, printed material, typewritten letter, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 16
Correspondence - William and Mary Quarterly
1972 July 18-1981 March 16English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 17
Correspondence - Williams, A. D. [Williamsburg, VA. M. D.]
1971 January 7-1980 August 22English
Scope and Contents
Letter, typewritten letter, and typewritten document.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 18
Correspondence - Wisconsin, State Historical Society of
1966 August 9-September 19English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 19
Correspondence - Wisconsin, University of
1977 August 5-10English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 20
Correspondence - Woolfolk, Viola (Headmistress, St. Margaret's School, Tappahannock, Va.)
1977 February 18-1981 June 25English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter and copy, and card.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 21
Correspondence - W-Z
1969-1981 August 11English
Scope and Contents
Letter, printed material, card, typewritten letter and copy, newspaper clipping, and photograph.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 22
Correspondence - Miscellaneous
1957 October 11-1980 November 14English
Scope and Contents
Letter, typewritten letters, card, and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 23
Miscellaneous letters, C-E, to Cappon while at the Institute and Newberry Library
1946 April 1-1972 July 10English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies. (See Medium oversize file for May 21, 1968 "Colonial Williamsburg News.")
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 24
Miscellaneous letters, F-G, to Cappon while at the Institute
1944 December 26-1970 October 23English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letters and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 25
Miscellaneous letters, H-J, to Cappon while at the Institute
1946 January 1-1981 August 12English
Scope and Contents
Letters, typewritten letters, and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 26
Miscellaneous letters, K-L, to Cappon while at the Institute
1943 June 30-1970 April 24English
Scope and Contents
Letters, typewritten letters, and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 27
Miscellaneous letters, M, to Cappon while at the Insitute
1945 December 7-1967 December 18English
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 28
Miscellaneous letters, N-R, to Cappon while at the Institute and Newsberry Library
1944 February 23-1977 July 18English
Scope and Contents
Letters, typewritten letters, and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 29
Miscellaneous letters, S-T, to Cappon while at the Institute and the Newberry Library
1946 September 4-1970 January 23English
Scope and Contents
Letters, typewritten letters, and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 folder: 30
Miscellaneous letters, U-Z, to Cappon while at the Institute and the Newberry Library
1946 May 14-1976 August 5English
Mixed Materials Box: 11
Professional Papers: American Archivist, The Society of, through Institute of Early American History and Culture, Stylesheets
English
Scope and Contents
Newsletters, resolution, articles, etc., of different organizations to which Cappon belonged: American Archivist, The Society
of, through Institute of Early American History and Culture, Stylesheets. Microfilm on Institute on Historical and Archival
Management.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 1
American Archvists, The Society Of - Nominations for Council members
1970English
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts and typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 2
American Archivists, Society of - Professional standards
1957-1969English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials and typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 3
American Archivists, Society of - Presidential Address
1957English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials and typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 4
American Archivists, Society of - Pamphlets, budget proposals, applications of new member for Council approval and annual
reports
1950 October 9-1964English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials and typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 5
American University - schedules, pamphlets and questionnaires regarding archival program
1947-1950 DecemberEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten manuscripts and printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 6
Archives, International Council on
1967 April 10English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten document, and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 7
Archives, University
1942-1947English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials and typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 8
Archival Institute, Radcliffe College - Papers
1943-1960English
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, typewritten manuscripts, printed materials, and newspaper clippings.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 9
Association for Documentary Editing - Program for convention
1980English
Scope and Contents
Printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 10
Brown University - Alumni Magazine and list of books from Austin Book Shop
1968English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 11
California, University at Riverside - Papers associated with Cappon's position
1975-1981English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials, newspaper clipping, and document.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 12
Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Papers
1974-1979English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 13
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
1955 November 22-1955 December 1English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter and copy, and document.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 14
Colonial Williamsburg - Records and reports
1946 August 24-1963 MarchEnglish
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy, printed material, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 15
Eastern Nennonite College - Grant M. Stoltzfus
1959 January 15-1967 February 8English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter and copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 16
Glossary of American Historical MS Terms
1965 MayEnglish
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 17
Marshall Papers Advisory Board
1968 April-1969 May 28English
Scope and Contents
Xerox letter and copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 18
Illinois, Northern Regional History Center - Papers
1976 January 11-1981 July 27English
Scope and Contents
Letter, typewritten letter and copy, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 19
Institute of Early American history and Culture (IEAHC) - Newsletters
1975 May 15-1981 May 25English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 11 folder: 20
Institute of Early American History and Culture - Style sheet for authors
1968English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 12
Professional papers: Institute of Early American History and Culture, Annual Reports through Newberry, Newsletters
English
Mixed Materials Box: 12 folder: 1
Institute of Early American History and Culture - Annual Report
1968-1969, 1980-1981English
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 12 folder: 2
Institute of Early American History and Culture - Newsletters
1952 September 22-1960 September 23English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 12 folder: 3
Institute of Early American History and Culture - Newsletters
1961 February 24-1970 April 3English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 12 folder: 4
Libraries, Special - Associtions's Bulletin, Geography and Map Division
1973 December English
Scope and Contents
Contains L. J. Cappon's article on "...The Atlas...as a Case Study" - p. 9). Typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 12 folder: 5
Marshall, the papers of John - monthly and annual reports
1973-1981English
Mixed Materials Box: 12 folder: 6
Massachusetts Historical Society - Papers
1961 September 22-1969 April 24English
Mixed Materials Box: 12 folder: 7
National Archives and Record Service
1956 September-1980English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 12 folder: 8
National Archives - Publications
1941 October-1959 NovemberEnglish
Scope and Contents
Printed material, manuscript, and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 12 folder: 9
National Archives - Publications
1977English
Scope and Contents
Printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 12 folder: 10
National Archives - Staff, information, papers and circulars
1938 December-1955 MarchEnglish
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 12 folder: 11
Proposal of National Endowment for the Humanities entitled "The Promised Land."
1976 December 6English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy of typewritten manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 12 folder: 12
National Historical Publications Commission
1951-1967English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 12 folder: 13
Newberry Library
1966 April 1-1981 March 20English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter and copy, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 12 folder: 14
Newberry Library - ANA, newsletter
1973 September-1981 June 23English
Scope and Contents
Printed material and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 13
Professional papers: Newberry Library, Academic Council Awards Committee through Wisconsin Alumni Magazine.
English
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 1
Newberry Library Academic Council Awards Committee - Papers
1973 January 4-1981 August 1English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten copy, and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 2
Illinois, Northern Univeristy - Papers
1980English
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 3
Institute of Early American History and Culture annual and mid-annual reports of the Director and Council
1955 April 28, 1956 May-NovemberEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 4
Institute of Early American History and Culture annual and mid-annual reports of the Director and the Council
1957 April 23-1958English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 5
Institute of Early American History and Culture annual and mid-annual reports of the Director and the Council
1959 April 17-1961English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 6
Institute of Early American History and Culture annual and mid-annual reports of the Director and the Council
1962-1964English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 7
Institute of Early American History and Culture annual and mid-annual reports of the Director and the Council
1964 April 16-1966English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 8
Institute of Early American History and Culture annual and mid-annual reports of the Director and the Council
1967 April 21-1968English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 9
Institute of Early American History and Culture annual and mid-annual reports of the Director and the Council
1969 April 18-1970English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 10
Oral history - Papers
1957 January-1971 October 8English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, manuscript, newspaper, Xerox copy, and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 11
Oral History Association - Publications and papers
1966 July-1970 November 13English
Scope and Contents
Printed material and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 12
Oral History, Second National Colloqium on - Papers
1967 July 28-November 20English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials, including typewritten manuscripts, 1966, First National Colloqium on Oral History.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 13
University of Virginia Alumni News
1950 MayEnglish
Scope and Contents
Printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 14
Virginia Gazette Index - Lease between the Institute of Early American History and Culture and The Virginia Gazette Index
1950 February 1-2English
Scope and Contents
Document and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 15
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
1977 OctoberEnglish
Scope and Contents
Printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 13 folder: 16
The Wisconsin Alumni Magazine
1928 DecemberEnglish
Scope and Contents
Printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 14
Historical Research Materials
English
Scope and Contents
Some primary sources, as well as Cappon's own notes and writings on historical topics [i.e. iron industry in the South (his
dissertation), English County Records; "Ben Franklin, the Reluctant Revolutionary"]. Also includes gradebooks and test booklets
from UVA.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 1
Court of Appeals at Lewisburg
1846English
Scope and Contents
Appellee's Notes, Jordan Davis and Co., vs. Wm. Weaver, Richmond, Va. Three items with index. Printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 2
Warrantee deeds of Henry Korrmann, Perry Country, Indiana
1809-1819English
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 3
Note of Appellants' Counsel, Jordan, Davis & Co. vs. Weaver, Circuit Court of Rockbridge, Va.
1835 June 1English
Scope and Contents
Printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 4
Draper Campbell - Correspondence
1846 April 10-1949 May 28English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter and copy, notes, manuscript, printed material, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 5
Channing & Hart (typescript) - Correspondence
1893 February 16-1896 December 8English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, note, typewritten copy, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 6
Research materials on Washington County, Va.
1850-1860, 1944-1965English
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, typewritten manuscripts, and printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 7
Justin Winsor - Letter
circa 1895 April 9 English
Scope and Contents
Card and letter.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 8
Iron Industry in Alabama
1866-1939English
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, typewritten manuscripts, and typewritten letters.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 9
Article on the iron industry in The Bessemer Weekly, Bessemer, Ala.
1901 May 18English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy of printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 10
Notes and materials on the iron industry in Georgia and Kentucky
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, typewritten manuscripts, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 11
Notes on iron industry in North Carolina
1795-1890English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten copies of manuscripts, and typewritten letter.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 12
Notes taken from Brevard Papers, Volume I
1778 March 3-1869 February 4English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copies of manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 13
North Carolina - excerpts from Minute Books of the counties of Ashe, Chatham, Rutherford (Court Minutes) and Stokes
1775 August 15-1809 May 8English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copies of manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 14
North Carolina - excerpts from wills in Lincoln County, N.C.
1826 August 4-1905 December 6English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy of document.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 15
North Carolina - Lincoln County, N. C. County Records
1791 October-1805 OctoberEnglish
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 16
North Carolina - List from an Account Book, Journal of a Forge
1810-1814English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 17
North Carolina iron industry
1900-1926English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 18
North Carolina - Report on Ore Hill Iron Mines by F. H. Smith, geologist
1890English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy of manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 19
Southern Iron Industry - Civil War
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, manuscript, and newspaper.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 20
Southern Iron Industry
1973 January 31-1940 October 3English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper, newspaper clipping and manuscript. (See oversize file: article "A Bit of Cullman's History by the Late Col. eo.
H. Pareer," The Cullman Tribune, April 18, 1929, article - "University of Virginia's Unique Orchestra Starts New Session Today,"
The Washington Post, February 26, 1939.)
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 21
Tennessee Iron Industry
1820-1927English
Scope and Contents
Letter, manuscripts, and typewritten copies of manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 22
Notes and article on Tennessee Iron Industry
1907-1911English
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 23
Materials on southern iron industry
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Printed materials, photographs, manuscripts, typewritten copies of manuscripts, and maps.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 24
Maps and data used by Cappon for dissertation on iron industry in the South
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Printed materials and manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 25
Curiosa
1781 May 15-1956 April 11English
Scope and Contents
Card and typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 26
English County Records
1960 February 25-1961English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, manuscript, newspaper, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 27
English County records (2)
1957 April 1-1959 SeptemberEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, typewritten copies of typewritten manuscripts, newspaper and printed material.
See oversize file for article "Cumbrian Pioneers in America" from Whitehaven [England] News, August 1, 1959.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 28
Benjamin Franklin, Reluctant Revolutionary by L. J. Cappon
1976 February 10-February 14English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clipping, typewritten copy, manuscript, printed material, and newspaper.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 29
Draft, with notes in margins, of Benjamin Franklin, Reluctant Revolutionary
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 30
Germanna Colonies in Virginia
1956 March 14-1964 July 19English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, Xerox copy, typewritten letter and copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 31
Henry Howe
1953 November 2-1967 February 161845 February 5-1885 November 9English
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, Xerox copy, typewritten letter and copy, newspaper, printed material, and card.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 31a
Henry Howe - Historical Collections of Virginia
1844 November 23-1954 December 16English
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy, manuscript, and newspaper.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 32
William Hunter and Benjamin Franklin
1757 April 22-1958 May 5English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, photograph, typewritten copy, manuscript, newspaper, and printed volume.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 33
Lewis & Clark Expedition
1954 February 21-1962 November 14English
Scope and Contents
Photograph, note, newspaper clipping, manuscript, printed material, and typewritten letter and copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 34
Notes and article on Lattre, map of U. S.
circa 1973, 1784English
Scope and Contents
Letter, Xerox copy, newspaper, and manuscript.
See oversize file for publisher's booklet promoting Cappon's The First French map of the U. S.
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 35
Printing in Williamsburg, Va.
circa 1954 English
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, Xerox copy and note. (See oversize file - article - "Archivist Society Sets 18th Meeting Monday, Tuesday." The
Virginia Gazette, 10 September 10, 1954.)
Mixed Materials Box: 14 folder: 36
Student composition book and grade sheets for Cappon's history classes at the University of Virginia
1936-1937English
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 15
Historical Research Materials
English
Scope and Contents
Papers from the Virginia World War II History commission: notes and drafts of article "Historical Manuscripts as Archives"
(submitted to The American Archivist).
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 1
"As You Were," published by the Pre-Meteorological Students of the 71st Army Air Forces at the University of Virginia
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 2
Notes, syllabi, class rosters and tests from Cappon's classes at William and Mary
1953 February 4-1962English
Scope and Contents
Letter, manuscript, and typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 3
Notes, syllabi, and tests from Cappon's classes at William and Mary
1962 September 20-1969English
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 4
Notes and materials regarding The Flat Hat and other publications of the College of William and Mary
1957-1962English
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, Xerox copies of typewritten letters, printed materials, and newspaper clipping.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 5
Virginia World War II History Commission
1945 April-1950 October 25English
Scope and Contents
Printed material and Xerox copies of typewritten manuscripts. (See oversize files for article, "The War History of Virginia"
by L. J. Cappon, University of Virginia News Letter, March 15, 1945.)
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 6
Articles relating to Cappon's roels at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
1951-1955English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten manuscripts and newspaper clippings.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 7
Notes and materials on "American Archivists Historical Manuscripts," Chapter 4
1944 October 30-1971English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, newspaper clipping, typewritten copy and manuscript.
See oversize file for article, "Manuscripts in Virginia 1930-1950," University of Virginia News Letter, 1951 May 1.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 8
Notes and drafts, Chapter 4, of "Historical Manuscripts as Archives," published in The American Archivist, April 1956.
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 9
Notes and drafts of Chapter 5, of "Historical Manuscripts as Archives," The American Archivist, April 1956.
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, including printed material and newspaper clipping, June 21, 1970-1976.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 10
Notes and drafts for Chapters 6-7 of "Historical Manuscripts as Archives," The American Archivist, April 1956.
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 11
Drafts, chapters 9-11, of "Historical Manuscripts as Archives," published in The American Archivist
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy of typewritten manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 12
Notes and drafts for Chapters 1 and 2 of "Historical Manuscripts as Archives," The American Archivist, April 1956
1956 April-1959English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials and typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 13
Draft of Chapter 3 of "Historical Manuscripts as Archives."
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 14
Drafts of Chapter 3-11 of "Historical Manuscripts as Archives," The American Archivist, April 1956
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 15
"What, Then, Is There to Theorize About?" submitted to The American Archivist
1981English
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 16
Antecedents of the "Rolls Series": Issues in Historical Editing - by Lester J. Cappon
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 17
Archives (an article by L. J. Cappon)
1978 January 10English
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy of typewritten manuscript and Xerox copy of printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 18
Articles by Lester J. Cappon
1958-1979English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials and manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 19
Material relating to publication of Cappon's Atlas of Early American History
1776 June 14-1980 November 14English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, printed material, and newspaper clipping. (See Medium oversize file for: articles on the Atlas.. from New
York Times Book Review, September 19, 1976, from Journal of Historical Geography, IV, July 3, 1978, and from The American
Cartographer, Volume 5, No. 1, April 1978.)
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 20
Materials for The Atlas of Early American History and An Atlas in the Making
1975 September 9-1977 August 3English
Scope and Contents
Newspapers and typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 21
Publication material and reviews of "The Atlas of Early American History"
1976 February 14-1980 January 31English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, note, and printed material. (See oversize file for: article - "Early America in a Milestone in Scholarship,"
Book Week, Sunday Sun-Times, July 4, 1976, article - "New Atlas Maps America's Road to nationhood," Chicago Tribune, June
12, 1976, article - "An Overview of a Revolution," Wall Street Journal, August 27, 1976, article - "Atlas of Early American
History," The New York Times Book Review, September 19, 1976, article - "Wills Picks the Bicentennial's Best," Capital Times, Madison,
Wisconson, December 29, 1976, article - "Objects of review," Wassaja, March 1977, article - "Our Writers, a Lonely but Lively
Lot," Chicago Daily News, December 18-19, 1976.)
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 22
Responses to reviews of Atlas of Early American History
1977 June 1-7English
Scope and Contents
Letter and typewritten copy and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 23
Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History
1977 March 10-1978 December 31English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper, typewritten copy, Xerox copy, and note.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 24
Bibliography - Libraries
1966 November 3English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, printed material, and newspaper.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 25
"Collectors and Keepers in the England of Elizabeth and James" - Notes and draft
1970 April 29-1981 April 30English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper, typewritten copy, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 26
Colorado River - "Down the Canyon," by Lester J. Cappon
1968English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 27
"'The Historian's Day' - From Archives to History" and "In Memoriam, Waldo Gifford Leland 1879-1966."
1966-1967English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials and typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 28
"Historical Map in American Atlases."
1976 March-1979 DecemberEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, typewritten letter and copy, and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 29
Materials, notes, and article referring to American maps and atlases
1943-1978 December 5English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials, Xerox copies, and typewritten materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 30
Articles on iron making in Virginia
circa 1957English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten manuscripts and printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 15 folder: 31
Iron-Making, A Forgotten Industry of North Carolina by Lester J. Cappon
English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 16
Historical journals and critiques
English
Scope and Contents
Articles by Cappon as well as by other historians; and book reviews.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 1
The Provincial South (Manuscript by L. J. Cappon with notes and outline, etc.)
1949English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 2
"The Soldier's Creed."
1954 October 15-1955 November 1English
Scope and Contents
Letter, newspaper, typewritten letter, manuscript, and printed volume.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 3
"Two Decades of Historical Activity in Virginia" and "The Need for Renewed Interest in Early Southern History"
1940 May-1948 FebruaryEnglish
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 4
Cappon - Book reviews
1947-1958 August 27English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter and copy, card, printed material, manuscript and newspaper clipping.
See oversize file for article "Oswalt Saw the Folly of Invading Virginia," Richmond News (Easter, April 30, 1954).
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 5
Book reviews - Critiques 1959-1964
1959 January-1970 AprilEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter and copy, printed material, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 6
Book reviews - Critiques, 1965
1964-1969 June 25English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter and copy, printed material, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 7
Book reviews
1972 April-1981 June 10English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten letter and copy, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 8
Article, "The American Pioneer" from American Pioneer, Volume 1, No. 1
1842 January English
Scope and Contents
Photostat of printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 9
Historical journals and articles contributed to by Cappon's colleagues
1922-1941English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 10
Historical journals and articles contributed to by Cappon's colleagues
1943 April-1951English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 11
Historical journals and articles contributed to by Cappo's colleagues
1953 August-1963English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 12
Historical journals and articles contributed to by Cappon's colleagues
1964-1971English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 13
Articles from historical journals, given to Cappon by his colleagues
1958-1979English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 14
Articles from historical journals, given to Cappon by his colleagues
1952 August-1980English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 16 folder: 15
Scholarly articles and magazines, contributed by Cappon's colleagues
1943-1956English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 17
Geneology and Archival Materials
English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 1
Scholarly articles and magazines, contributed by Cappon's colleagues
1962-1973English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 2
Articles by and about Frederick Jackson Turner
1892 November 4-1934English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials, photograph of printed material, and newspaper clipping.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 3
Articles about Frederick Jackson Turner
1945 January-1947 December English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 4
Webster Genealogy
1876English
Scope and Contents
Printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 5
Articles - Genealogy
1955 October-1967 December English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, printed volume, and printed material. (See oversize file for article "..on the Historical Horizon" from
issue of Minnesota History (n.d.)
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 6
Historiography and sources
1934-1967English
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts and printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 7
Historical method
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts and printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 8
Lecture notes on American colonial history
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 9
Cappon's articles: "The Archival Profession and the Society of American Archivists;" "Tardy Scholars Among the Archivists;"
and "Archival Good Works for Theologians"
1952 July-1959 July English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 10
Articles and notes genealogy and history
1954 January-1968 September 28English
Scope and Contents
Printed material and manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 11
Archives and disposition of manuscripts
1950-1964 JanuaryEnglish
Scope and Contents
Printed materials and manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 12
Archives, collection and presentation of manuscripts
1944 April-1966English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten copy, newspaper, Xerox copy, and manuscript. (See Medium oversize file for article on "Manuscripts
in Virginia," University of Virginia News Letter, 1 May 1, 1951.)
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 13
Archives - Historical editing
1951 July-1972 April English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper, Xerox copy, printed material, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 14
Archives - Historical editing
1966 January-1973 August 9 English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper, printed materials, and manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 15
Materials refering to historical editing, including 2 April 1969 article by Haskell Monroe, reprinted from The American Archivist
1969 April-1970 November 12English
Scope and Contents
Printed material and manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 16
Archives - Historical editing before Sparks
1962 June-1973 JulyEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten manuscripts and Xerox copies of printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 17
Archives - "Historical Manuscripts as Archives"
1956 April-1976English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clipping, newspaper, printed material, Xerox copy and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 18
Archives - "Historical Manuscripts as Archives"
1959-1964 June 9English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper, printed material and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 19
Archives - Historical Manuscripts
1954 July-1974 July 22English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, typewritten letter, Xerox copy, and manuscript. (See Medium oversize file for: article on "Manuscripts in
Virginia," in University of Virginia News Letter, May 1, 1951 and article in New York Times, June 19, 1956 on Lafayette Papers.)
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 20
Historical Records Survey of Virginia
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 21
Archival Management
1950 June 5-1966English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, newspaper clipping, printed material, Xerox copy, and fabric.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 22
Archives and Manuscripts in Re Historical Research
1934-1974English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clipping, newspaper, Xerox copy and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 23
Archives - Principles
1958 June 25English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper, Xerox copy, typewritten copy, printed material, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 24
Articles published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin on processing collections
1968English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 25
Archives - Public Records
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Newspaper, newspaper clipping, and Xerox copy. (See also Medium oversize file The Washington Post, September 2, 1969.)
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 26
Cappon's articles: "A Plan for the Collection and Preservation of World War II Records", "The Collection of World War I Materials
in the States", and "War Records Projects in the States, 1941-1943"
1942 October-1944 MarchEnglish
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 27
Letters to Lawrence Towner, with article "The Records of Public Officials," by Norman A. Graebner
1975 March 14-April 5English
Scope and Contents
Printed material and typewritten letter.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 28
Archives - Retention and disposal
1946-1950English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials and typewritten manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 29
Archives - Virginia, preservation
1948-1951English
Scope and Contents
Printed material and newspaper clipping.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 30
Records management
1942-1968English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 31
Records Management (bulletins)
1949-1964English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 17 folder: 32
Public documents, Nixon tapes, and Presidential Libraries
1974 February 4-1977 June 29English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clipping, typewritten letter and copy, card, newspaper, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 18
Jared Sparks
English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 1
Oral documentation - Sparks by L. J. Cappon, including critique (and letter) by Bill (Lawrence Towner)
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter and copy, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 2
Oral documentation - J. Sparks by L. J. Cappon, drafts and notes
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, note, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 3
Notes and drafts of "Jared Sparks: The Preparation of an Editor."
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Printed material and typewritten manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 4
Drafts of "Jared Sparkers: The Preparation of an Editor"
1978English
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 5
Copy of Sparks' "Diary... 1823-1826 (i.e. 1827)"
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy of manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 6
Copy of "Journal of a town, commenced September 18th, 1826," and typescript of the same
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy of manuscript and Xerox copy.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 7
Copy of "Journal of a Southern Tour, 1826"
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy of manuscript. Including Xerox copy of manuscript, undated, "Summer Tour to the Springs 1819 and Southern Tour
to Charleston," with Cappon's Notes.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 8
Corrected draft of "Journal of a Southern Tour, 1826"
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 9
Final draft of typescript for "Journal of a Southern Tour, 1826"
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy of manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 10
Drafts of "Journal of a Tour Commenced September 18th, 1826"
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copies of manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 11
Drafts of "Journal of a Southern Tour, 1828"
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 12
Copy and typescript of "Journal of a Southern Tour, 1829"
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy of manuscript and typewritten copy of manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 13
Copy of "European Journal 1828-1829"
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy of manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 14
Copy and transcript of "Tour for Historical Research, 1830"
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy of manuscript and typewritten copy of manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 15
Incomplete copies of "Tour for Historical Research, 1830"
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy of manuscripts and typewritten copy of manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 16
Research notes for Cappon's articles on Jared Sparks
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, Xerox copies, and typewritten letter.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 17
Research notes and call slips for Cappon's article on Jared Sparks
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 18
Miscelleaneous notes and materials, some pertaining to Jared Sparks
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 folder: 19
Letter to Lawrence Towner with critiques of Cappon's "Oral Documentation of the Revolutionary Generation: Jared Sparks as
Recorder"
1982English
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and typewritten letter.
Mixed Materials Box: 19
Miscellaneous
English
Scope and Contents
Miscelleaneous articles, newsclippings, maps, and papers. Research notes and call slips and index of articles are tied together,
but not in much order.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 1
Presidential Libraries
1975-1979 March 20English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clipping, printed material, Xerox copy, typewritten letter, and manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 2
Dartmouth medal
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Photograph and card.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 3
Books on Thomas Jefferson
1962-1963English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 4
Manuscript - no title (Brahms) anonymous
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 5
Material on British archives lent Cappon
1966 March 10-1968 February 23English
Scope and Contents
Photograph, typewritten copy, and newspaper.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 6
Princeton University Press catalogue
1977 Fall-1978 Fall English
Scope and Contents
Printed material.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 7
John E. Pomfret Festschrift
1965 October 17-1967 January 3English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clipping, typewritten copy, typewritten manuscript, and typewritten letter. (See oversize file for Galleys "The
Historian's Day - From Archives to History" by Lester J. Cappon, July 27, 1966.)
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 8
Illustrations, front matter
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 9
Kentucky History
1972 July 21English
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy, manuscript, and newspaper.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 10
Waldo Gifford Leland - Papers
1955 March-1966 October 27English
Scope and Contents
Printed material, newspaper copy, letter, and newspaper.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 11
Lester J. Cappon - Notes
UndatedEnglish
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 12
Waverly K. Winfree - Capter 1 of master's thesis
1959 MayEnglish
Scope and Contents
Xerox copy of typewritten manuscript.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 13
Miscellaneous papers
1952-1975English
Scope and Contents
Printed materials.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 14
Maps and print of the "Lewis and Clark track," 1804, the "decollation of John Baptist," an outline of New France by Vincenzo
Maria Coronelli
1977-1979 December English
Scope and Contents
Included is a miscellaneous picure of unidentified people. Printed materials and photograph.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 15
Newsclippings about Capon's publication and positions
1929 April 18-1966 July 27English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: 16
Newsclippings about Cappon's travels and his work on the Atlas of Early American History
1971-1976English
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings and Xerox copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: A1
Book (and Manuscripts) collection and dealers in Britain
English
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: A2
Notes on historical editing
English
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: A3
Notes on archival methods and materials
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: A4
Cappon's notes on Jared Sparks
English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: A5
Articles arranged by date
1929-1976English
Scope and Contents
Three packages.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: A6
Bibliographic cards
English
Scope and Contents
Nine packages.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 folder: A7
Lecture notes (?)
English
Scope and Contents
Seven packages.
Mixed Materials Box: 20
Dissertation notes, boxed
English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 21
"Lester J. Cappon: The First Eighty Years."
English
Scope and Contents
Three volumes of letters and cards celebrating Cappon's birthday. "Reminiscences of Lester J. Cappon in College" by Walter
Holzbog (Acc. no. 1989-12). Card catalogue, possibly to Cappon's private library included. Two sets of bibliographic cards
each going from A to Z by author's last name. One package that is unsorted. Three packages.
Mixed Materials Box: 22
Photographs of Cappon and colleagues at annual meetings of the Council of Historians of the Institute of Early American History
and Culture
English
Scope and Contents
Photographs primarily of Cappon and colleagues at annual meetings of the Council of Historians of the Institute of Early American
History and Culture. 81 items.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P1
Photographic print
1946 May 10English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon with "The Council of Historians" of the Institute
of Early American History and Culture. Cappon is second from the left, back row.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P2
Photographic print
1947 AprilEnglish
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (right) seated with Carl Bridenbaugh, former
Director of the Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P3
Photographic print
1947 May 3English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (far right, front row) with "the Council of Historians"
of the Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P4
Photographic print
1947 JuneEnglish
Scope and Contents
3 1/2" X 15", black and white print, side view of brick house with front and back porches showing; called "the Piedmont" by
Mr. George S. Wallace, Huntington, WV, who sent picture to Cappon.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P5
Photographic print
1951 August 24English
Scope and Contents
3 1/2" X 2 1/2", black and white print, full length, front view of Margaret Kinard, Peggy Madsen and Alice Rice, seated outside,
applying makeup. 4 items. (P5-P8) Photos not there.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P6
Photographic print
1951 August 24English
Scope and Contents
3 1/2" X 2 1/2", black and white print, full length, front view of Margaret Kinard, Peggy Madsen and Alice Rice, seated outside,
applying makeup. 4 items. (P5-P8) Photos not there.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P7
Photographic print
1951 August 24English
Scope and Contents
3 1/2" X 2 1/2", black and white print, full length, front view of Margaret Kinard, Peggy Madsen and Alice Rice, seated outside,
applying makeup. 4 items. (P5-P8) Photos not there.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P8
Photographic print
1951 August 24English
Scope and Contents
3 1/2" X 2 1/2", black and white print, full length, front view of Margaret Kinard, Peggy Madsen and Alice Rice, seated outside,
applying makeup. 4 items. (P5-P8) Photos not there.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P9
Photographic print
1951 September English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, head and shoulders, front view of Lyman H. Butterfield, Director of the Institute of Early
American History and Culture.
10" X 15 1/2", black and white print, full length, side views of the Society of American Archivists, seated for dinner at
their fifteenth annual meeting. See oversize file.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P11
Photographic print
circa 1952English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, full length, front view of members of the Institute of Early American History and Culture,
standing with two nuns and two priests; Cappon is not shown.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P12
Photographic print
1952 May 9-10English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, waist length, front view of "the Council of the Institute of Early American History and Culture,
seated and standing around a table. Cappon is third from the right, back row. 1 item.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P13
Photographic print
1954 May 8English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon [center, back row] with members of the Institute
of Early American History and Culture at Monticello (Charlottesville, VA.)
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P14
Photographic print
1955 May 7English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, waist length, side view of Lester J. Cappon [right] with three men, presenting a certificate.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P15
Photographic print
1955 November 1English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, waist length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (center) with Carlisle Humelsine and Richard
L. Morton.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P16
Photographic print
1956English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon [far left], seated outside with other members
of the audience.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P17
Photographic print
1956 May 4English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (third row, center) with "the Council" of the
Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P18
Photographic print
1956 May 4English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white, waist length, side view of Walter Whitehall (right), chairman of the Institute of Early American
History and Culture, and Professor Alan Simpson; exchanging certificate.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P19
Photographic print
1957 May 3English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (front, second from right) with "the Council" of the
Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P20
Photographic print
1957 April 8-12English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (front, second from right) with members of the Institute
of Early American History and Culture at a Symposium on 17th Century Colonial History.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P21
Photographic print
1957 October 4English
Scope and Contents
9 1/2" X 3 1/2", black and white print, of Lester J. Cappon (second from right) with the officers of The Society of American
Archivists
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P22
Photographic print
1957 December English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, front view of Wilcomb E. Washburn, Fellow of the Institute.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P23
Photographic print
1958 May 2English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (front, third row from right) with Council and
staff of the Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P24
Photographic print
1958 May 3English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, waist length, side view of Walter M. Whitehall, Chairman of the Institute of Early American
History and Culture's Council (right) and Lawrence H. Leder, exchanging certificate.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P25
Photographic print
1958 May 3English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, waist length, side view of Lester J. Cappon (left) with Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Chorley.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P26
Photographic print
1958 September 24English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, waist length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (center) seated with Frederick A. Hetzel and
James M. Smith (right).
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P27
Photographic print
1959English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, waist length, front view of Lester J. Cappon, seated at desk, holding papers and eyeglasses.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P28
Photographic print
circa 1959English
Scope and Contents
5" X 5", black and white print, head and shoulders view of Lester J. Cappon, in suit and tie with book cases in background.
3 items. (P28-P30)
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P29
Photographic print
circa 1959English
Scope and Contents
5" X 5", black and white print, head and shoulders view of Lester J. Cappon, in suit and tie with book cases in background.
3 items. (P28-P30)
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P30
Photographic print
circa 1959English
Scope and Contents
5" X 5", black and white print, head and shoulders view of Lester J. Cappon, in suit and tie with book cases in background.
3 items. (P28-P30)
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P31
Photographic print
circa 1959English
Scope and Contents
5" X 7", black and white print, head and shoulders, front view of Lester J. Cappon. Taken at Foster Studio.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P32
Photographic print
1959English
Scope and Contents
5" X 7", black and white print, head and shoulders, front view of Lester J. Cappon. Taken at Foster Studio.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P33
Photographic print
1959 May 1English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, full length, front view of the Council of the Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Cappon is front, center.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P34
Photographic print
1960 May 6English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, full length, front view of the Council of the Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Cappon is front, fourth from the left.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P35
Photographic print
1960 July 28English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, full length, front view of the Class of 1960, The Archival Institute of Radcliffe College
at Plimoth Plantation. Cappon is front, right.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P36
Photographic print
5 May 1961English
Scope and Contents
8" X 10", black and white print, full length, front view of the Institute of Early American History and Culture's Council;
Cappon is front, third from right.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P37
Photographic print
English
Scope and Contents
5" X 7", black and white print, waist length, side view of Lester J. Cappon (seated to left of podium) at the annual dinner
of The Society of the American Archivists.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P38
Photographic print
1961 October 6English
Scope and Contents
5" by 7", black and white print, waist length, side view of Lester J. Cappon (seated to left of podium) at the annueal dinner
of The Society of the American Archivists.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P39
Photographic print
1962English
Scope and Contents
3 1/2" x 2 1/2 ", color print, full length, rear view of Korean men and women, seated, in traditional dress, eating. Taken
by Robert Kilgore.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P40
Photographic print
1962English
Scope and Contents
3 1/2" x 2 1/2", color print, front view of a portion of a painting at Chondung-sa, a Buddhist temple in Korea. Taken by Robert
Kilgore.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P41
Photographic print
1962 May 4English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, full length, front view of members of the Institute of Early American History and Culture;
Lester J. Cappon is far left in the back row.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P42
Photographic print
1962 May 19English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon [right] and others, holding wineglasses for a
toast.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P43
Print
1963 November English
Scope and Contents
4" x 5", black and white print, front view of Pabut Theater and Blatz Hotel. Sent by Walter Holzbog.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P44
Print
1962 November English
Scope and Contents
4" x 5", black and white print, front view of Milwaukee Post Office Tower. Sent by Walter Holzbog.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P45
Photographic print
1963 May 4English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, waist length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (seated) and Lewis A. McMurran (left) and Emery
Battis.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P46
Photographic print
1963 May 4English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P47
Photographic print
1964 May 8English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P48
Photographic print
1965English
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P49
Photographic print
1965 April 30English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (back row, far left) with the Institute of Early
American History and Culture's Council of Historians.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P50
Photographic print
1965 December 22English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, wait length, side view of Lester J. Cappon (right)] with Carlisle Humelsine, President of
Colonial Williamsburg.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P51
Photographic print
1965 August English
Scope and Contents
3 1/2" x 3 1/2", black and white print, side view of brick home. Sent by Walter Holzbog.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P52
Photographic print
1965 August English
Scope and Contents
3 1/2" x 3 1/2", black and white print, side view of brick home and patio, overlooking water. Sent by Walter Holzbog.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P53
Photographic print
1966 May 6English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, full length, front view of the Institute of Early American History and Culture's Council
of Historians. Lester J. Cappon is in the second row, third from the left.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P54
Photographic print
1966 June 6English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, waist length, side view of Lester J. Cappon (right)] with Mills Brown and James M. Smith.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P55
Photographic print
1966 May 23English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, waist length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (seated, second to the right of the podium),
listening to Chief Justice Warren.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P56
Photographic print
1966 May 23English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, full length, side view of Dr. Robert H. Hamer at podium. Lester J. Cappon is second to the
right of Bahmer.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P57
Photographic print
1966 May 23English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, waist length, side view of Lester J. Cappon, speaking at podium, announcing the plan for
the publication of the papers of John Marshall; at the National Archives, Washington, D. C. (P57-P60)
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P58
Photographic print
1966 May 23English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, waist length, side view of Lester J. Cappon, speaking at podium, announcing the plan for
the publication of the papers of John Marshall; at the National Archives, Washington, D. C. (P57-P60)
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P59
Photographic print
1966 May 23English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, waist length, side view of Lester J. Cappon, speaking at podium, announcing the plan for
the publication of the papers of John Marshall; at the National Archives, Washington, D. C. (P57-P60)
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P60
Photographic print
1966 May 23English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, waist length, side view of Lester J. Cappon, speaking at podium, announcing the plan for
the publication of the papers of John Marshall; at the National Archives, Washington, D. C. (P57-P60)
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P61
Photographic print
1967 February English
Scope and Contents
3" x 5", black and white print, waist length, side view of Ralph Curtis (Lester J. Cappon's grandson)], lying in bed, drinking
through a straw.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P62
Photographic print
1967 February English
Scope and Contents
3" x 5", black and white print, full length, side view of Ralph Curtis, lying on his bed, revealing cast on left leg which
extends up to his waist.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P67
Photographic print
1967 May 5English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, full length, front view of the Institute of Early American History and Culture's Council;
Lester J. Cappon is in the front row.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P68
Photographic print
1968 May 3English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, full length, front view of the Institute of Early American History and Culture's Counil;
Lester J. Cappon is in the front row, second from the right.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P69
Photographic print
1968 May 4English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (second from left), presenting the Jamestown
Foundation Award to John O. Waters, Jr., who is shown with his wife, Marril L. Peterson (far left) and Lewis A. McMurran,
Jr. (far right).
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P70
Photographic print
1968 May 4English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, full length, front view of the Thad W. Tate, and Richard L. Morton, currint cake in celebration
of the 25th Anniversary of the William and Mary Quarterly.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P71
Photographic print
1969 May 31English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (second from right) with Davis Y. Paschall, Dean
Joseph Curtis, Marion D. Reeder, Vernon Nunn, Grace M. Smith, and Walter G. Mason.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P72
Photographic print
1969 May 2English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (front, left) with the Institute of Early American
History and Culture's Council.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P73
Photographic print
1970 May 1English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, full length, front view of Lester J. Cappon (front, second from right) with the Institute
of Early American History and Culture's Council of Historians.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P74
Photographic print
circa 1970-1971English
Scope and Contents
5" x 7", black and white print, three quarters length, side view of unidentified woman holding cloak; man behind tuxedo looking
at the portrait of Lester J. Cappon.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P75
Photographic print
circa 1970-1971English
Scope and Contents
8" x 10", black and white print, head and shoulders, front view of Lester J. Cappon speaking at podium, by his portrait.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P76
Photographic print
1976 April English
Scope and Contents
5" x 7", black and white print, head and shoulders, front view of Lester J. Cappon, holding right hand by face.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P77
Photographic print
1976 DecemberEnglish
Scope and Contents
5" x 7", black and white print, waist length, view of Lester J. Cappon, seated at desk.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P78
Photographic print
1978 February English
Scope and Contents
3 1/2" x 3 1/2", black and white print, full length, front iew of the Peter Force Monument at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington,
D. C. Sent by Robin S. Roberts.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P79
Photographic print
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
4" x 2 1/2", black and white print, waist length, front view of Carl Bridenbaugh, former Director of the Institute of Early
American History and Culture. 2 items. (P79-80)
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P80
Photographic print
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
4" x 2 1/2", black and white print, waist length, front view of Carl Bridenbaugh, former Director of the Institute of Early
American History and Culture. 2 items. (P79-P80)
Mixed Materials Box: 22 object: P81
Photographic print
UndatedEnglish
Scope and Contents
1 1/2" x 2", black and white, head and shoulders, front view of Lester J. Cappon, with eyes closed. This is a government "Personal
Identification" card, issued by the office of Civilian Defense, Richmond, (Va.). Has Lester J. Cappon's fingerprints and home
address.
Oversize maps: Canada's Artic, NW Territories; Canada Highway maps, Eastern and Western sheet; Canada and Northern U.S.; and
Canadian Topographical maps. Typewritten Copy.
Oversize maps: Teton National Forest, Wyoming and map of the Rogue River Canyon, Oregon.
Oversize article: "Racing a Raging River," Boston Sunday Globe, 25 August 1968 and "Bouncing Down the White Water," Boston
Sunday Globe, 18 August 1968.
Oversize map: Sequoia and Kings Canyon, National Park Service.
Oversize: 1970 Certificate from American Forestry Association.
Oversize articles: "Library's Harry Clemons Has Made 'Lasting Contribution' to U. Virginia," The Cavalian Daily, U. V. A.,
11 May 1950; article "Harry Clemons Noted Librarian of U. Va., Retired," The Richmond Times-Dispatch, 2 July 1950.
Oversize map: North Western British Columbia, page from The Vancouver Sun, 19 August 1971, and magazine, Beautiful British
Columbia, spring issue, 1973 [2 copies].
Oversize article: 21 May 1968 "Colonial Williamsburg News."
Oversize article: "Cumbrian Pioneers in America" from Whitehaven [England] News, 1 August 1959.
Oversize material: publisher's booklet promoting Cappon's The First French map of the U. S.
Oversize article: "Manuscripts in Virginia 1930-1950," University of Virginia News Letter, 1 May 1951.)
Oversize articles: the Atlas from New York Times Book Review, September 19, 1976, from Journal of Historical Geography, IV,
3 July 1978, and from The American Cartographer, Volume 5, No. 1, April 1978.
Oversize article: "Oswalt Saw the Folly of Invading Virginia," Richmond News (Easter, 30 April 1954).]
Oversize article: "Manuscripts in Virginia," University of Virginia News Letter, 1 May 1951.
Oversize article: "Manuscripts in Virginia," in University of Virginia News Letter, 1 May 1951 and article in New York Times,
19 June 1956 on Lafayette Papers.
Oversize newspaper clipping: The Washington Post, 2 September 1969.
Photographic print, 10" X 15 1/2", black and white, full length, side views of the Society of American Archivists, seated
for dinner at their fifteenth annual meeting. (p10)
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