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Frank Snowden Hopkins papers, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.
Acc. No. 84-36; Gift: 25 items, July 1984.Acc. No. 86-15; Gift: 1 item, April 1986.Acc. No. 89-38; Gift: 1 item, September 1989.Acc. No. 89.55; Gift: 1 item, 29 November 1989.Acc. No. 1993.48; Gift: 1 item, 19 July 1993.Acc. No. 1994.64A; Gift: ca. 100 items, 22 August 1994.Acc. No. 2000.23; Gift: 1,376 items, 3 June 2000. Accession 2023.072 donated by Richard S. Hopkins.
Processed by Tom Scott in 1987.
Frank Snowden Hopkins was born 8 March 1908 in Gloucester County, Virginia, the son of Nicholas Snowden Hopkins and Selina Lloyd (Hepburn) Hopkins. He graduated with an B. A. from the College of William and Mary and received his M. A. from Columbia University. Hopkins worked for newspapers as a reporter, personnel and labor relations director and for the Maryland Drydock Company. Hopkins entered the U. S. State Department in 1945. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .
Written works, published and unpublished, of Frank Snowden Hopkins, journalist, diplomat, and vice-president of the World Future Society. The collection contains articles written about the Foreign Service, policy papers written for the United States State Department, articles written for the World Future Society, family histories and biographies, a reminiscence of the College of William and Mary in the 1920's, and an unpublished manuscript of a novel promoting the goals and principles of the World Future Society.
The Finding Aid/Inventory contains brief descriptions of each accession. The contents list is a folder by folder inventory of the first accession.
Organization: This collection is organized into eleven series. Series 1 contains family histories and biographies; Series 2 contains speeches by Hopkins; Series 3 contains essays prepared for U.S. State Department; Series 4 contains articles by Hopkins pertaining to the foreign service; Series 5 contains articles by Hopkings pertaining to the World Future Society; and Series 6-12 contain additions to the collection. Arrangement: The collection is organized by subject.
Collection formerly identified as Mss. 84 H77.
Accession 1984.36 Printed and mimeographed copies of family memoirs, State Department speeches and essays, and essays arising from his association with the World Future Society.
By Hopkins of his father's families, respectively.
A biographical sketch of their mother by Hopkins, his brother and two sisters.
A family history by Hopkins and others.
By Hopkins and others.
A memoir prepared by Hopkins and others of his classmate and friend.
A speech by Hopkins delivered.
A speech delivered by Hopkins while Consul-General at Melbourne, Australia (1960-1963).
A speech delivered by Hopkins on August 8, 1967.
An essay prepared by Hopkins for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. State Department.
An action plan written by Hopkins as a sequel to the essay in Folder 12.
An essay prepared by Hopkins for the U.S. State Department.
Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins', "How to Get Ahead in the Foreign Service," pages 24-26, 52.
Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins', "Individuality in the Foreign Service," 1960. pages 21-23.
Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins', "Planning for Foreign Policy Leadership," 1962. pages 21-26.
Foreign Service Journal,39 (November 1962), containing Hopkins' "Executive Ability in the Foreign Service,"pages 21-24; and "Looking Ahead to the Year 2001,"by Hopkins, a reprint from Foreign Service Journal,46 (January 1969), pages 32-33, 41, 1962-1969.
Four articles by Hopkins for the World Future Society and its communicative organs, the WFS Bulletin and The Futurist.
Memoir of N. Snowden Hopkins (1877-1937) by Frank Snowden Hopkins. Other: 1989.38 32, 2 pages with 8 pages of photographs. Typewritten manuscript.
33, A-23, 4 pages plus 13 pages of photographs. A family history of the maternal ancestors of his mother, Selina Lloyd Hepburn Hopkins, of Gloucester County, VA, a descendant of the Alexandria merchants Cuthbert Powell (1775-1849) and John Lloyd.
Frank Snowden Hopkins. Other: 1993.48. Tracing his career through education, journalism, diplomatic service, and two marriages.
Material contains speeches and essays.
Hopkins' personal account of a Byzantine History class he took at Harvard as a Nieman fellow in 1938.
A history of the family of Hopkins' father, Nicholas Snowden Hopkins (1877-1937), beginning with Hopkins' great-grandparents.
Text of a speech delivered by Hopkins at the University of Pittsburgh.
Text of a speech delivered by Hopkins at the Conference of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in Chicago.
Text of a speech delivered by Hopkins at Valparaiso University.
Text of a speech delivered by Hopkins at the Institute on World Affairs, San Diego, California.
Text of a speech delivered by Hopkins at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, May 26, 1968.
Text of a speech delivered by Hopkins at Saint Louis University.
Text of a speech delivered by Hopkins to the newspaper publishers of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Text of a speech delivered by Hopkins at the World Future Society's summer conference on Learning for Tomorrow: A Look at Education Futures,George Washington University.
Washington, D.C., 18 July 1989, delivered by Hopkins.
Manuscript of an article written for publication in which Hopkins lays out a methodology for planning an American foreign policy to cope with foreseeable international problems.
A discussion of global problems and the need for planning to confront such problems.
A discussion of the methodology of future study.
A review of Robert Jastrow's The Enchanted Loomand Morton Hunt's The Universe Within: A New Science Explores the Human Mind.
Hopkins outlines a vision for the role of UNESCO in the future.
A manuscript of review of Douglas Caddy's Exploring America's Future.The review was published in the British journal Futures .
An argument for human history as a process of everything growing closer together and a discussion of the ramifications of such a process.
Hopkins, Frank Snowden. A largely autobiographical memoir. Unpublished, typed manuscript; pp. 1-78.
Hopkins, Frank Snowden. A largely autobiographical memoir. Chapter 5 includes reminscences of William and Mary in the 1920s. Unpublished, typed manuscript; pp. 79-175.
Hopkins, Snowden Frank. A largely autobiographical memoir. Unpublished, typed manuscript; pp. 176-257.
Hopkins, Frank Snowden. A largely autobiographical memoir. Unpublished, typed manuscript; pp. 258-354.
Hopkins, Frank Snowden. Unpublished, typed manuscript, chapters I-IV.
Hopkins, Frank Snowden. Unpublished, typed manuscripts, chapters V-VI.
Hopkins, Frank Snowden, Unpublished, typed manuscript.
Hopkins, Frank Snowden. Unpublished, typed manuscript, chapters X-XII.
Hopkins, Frank Snowden. Unpublished, typed manuscript, chapters XIII-XV.
Hopkins, Frank Snowden. Unpublished, typed manuscript, chapters XVI-XVIII.
Hopkins, Frank Snowden. Unpublished, typed manuscript, chapters XIX-XX.
Reprinted from The American Sociologist, Vol. 2 No. 3, August 1967.
Hopkins, Frank Snowden. History and personal reminiscences of Hopkins's boyhood home in Gloucester County, Virginia. GeHardit Press, Gloucester, Virginia.
Hopkins, Frank Snowden. A biographic memoir of Hopkins's farther N. Snowden Hopkins (1877-1937) , typeset and bound, with reprinted photographs.
Hopkins, Frank Snowden. A family history of the maternal ancestors of Hopkins's mother, Selina Lloyd Hepburn Hopkins (1878-1970), typeset and bound, with reprinted photographs.
Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins "Stuart Chase Envisions the Most Probable World," a review of Chase's The Most Probable World, pp.82-83.
Scope and Contents Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins "Biologist would Penalize Parents & a review of Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb, p. 119.
Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins' "Technology vs Ethics: Must 'Can' Imply 'Ought'?" p. 13
Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins "Future Research: An International Effort," a review of Mankind 2000, a book of essays on future subjects, pp. 105-106.
Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins's review on John McHale's The Future of the Future, p. 128.
Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins "Eurish forsee Restructuring of College System," a review of Alvin Eurish's Reforming American Education.
Scope and Contents Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins "Courage Toward Utopia & a review of Georg Picht's Mut zur Utopie: die Grossen Zukunftsaufgaben, pp. 65-66.
Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins "The Rise of Technological Man," a review of Victor C Ferkiss's Technological Man: the Myth and the Reality, pp. 3-6.
Containing Frank S. Hopkins's "In Thirty Years," pp. 4-6.
Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins's review of Lester R. Brown's Seeds of Change: the Green Revolution and Development in the 1970s, pp. 103-104.
Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins's "Futurism, Robotism, or Destruction," a review of Ossip K. Flechtheim's Futurologie: Der Kampf um die Zukunft, pp. 23-24.
Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins's review of Stuart M. Speiser's How to End the Nuclear Nightmare, p.48.
Containing Frank Snowden Hopkins "Psychotherapy for Nations: An Alternative to the Arms Race," a review of Roger Walsh's Staying Alive: The Psychology of Human Survival, p. 44.
Box 1, Folders 1-87
Volume 26, number 6
Volume 26, number 7.
Volume 27, number 4
Volume 28, number 10.
A report on a project for Asian-American Understanding.
Volume 37, number 6.
Volume 39, number 3.
Volume 39, number 10
Volume 39, number 11. Includes draft and published version.
Includes outlines.
Box II, Folders 17-31
Box II, Folders 47-57
1955
Includes bibliographic notes and memos.
Volume IX, number 6.
Volume XV, number 6.
This collection contains an autobiography, a manuscript, essay, and memoir of Frank S. Hopkins, a journalist, diplomat, and vice-president of the World Future Society. The collection also includes manuscripts from Frank Snowden Hopkins' novel, "The Man Who Lived Twice." Type printed on legal sized paper.