Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

The papers are unrestricted except for Box 26, which contains recommendations written by Dumas Malone on behalf of students and colleagues.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Additional Papers of Dumas Malone, Accession #12712-b, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was given to the Library on March 18, 1987, by Mrs. Dumas Malone of Charlottesville, Virginia, through the agency of Mr. Gifford Malone of McLean, Virginia.

Scope and Content Information

This addition to the professional papers of Dumas Malone (1892-1986) consists of ca. 25,300 items (66 Hollinger boxes, ca. 35 linear feet), 1913-1986, chiefly concerning his work as a professor of history, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography , and biographer (of Thomas Jefferson) in residence at the University of Virginia.

Topical files and research and related materials for Jefferson and His Time form the bulk of the collection. Correspondence files were kept by Malone as part of his topical series, and can be found alphabetically under broad headings such as "personal correspondence," "miscellaneous correspondence," "professional correspondence," and "student correspondence."

Prominent correspondents in the topical files, listed with the folder heading in which they appear, include; John Lloyd Newcomb and Nicholas Murray Butler (Alderman Biography); Samuel Eliot Morison (American Historical Association); Allan Nevins (Columbia University); Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (Correspondence re Thomas Jefferson); Carl Van Doren, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Allan Nevins, Arthur Schlesinger, Allen Johnson, J. Franklin Jameson, and Charles Scribner ( Dictionary of American Biography ); Daniel Boorstin, George Billias, Harry F. Byrd, Jr., John Chancellor, Francis P. Miller, A. Willis Robertson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Harry S. Truman (Names and Addresses); Robert Penn Warren (National Endowment for the Humanities); Justice Felix Frankfurter, Charles S. Robb, Warren Chappell, Charles F. Baldwin, Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., John H. Finley, Linwood Holton, President Jimmy Carter, and Mills E. Godwin, Jr. (Personal Correspondence); and George Bush and Admiral Hyman George Rickover (Presidental Medal of Freedom).

Other notables include: John F. Kennedy, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Nathaniel W. Stephanson, Allen Johnson, George McGovern, Julian P. Boyd, Allan Nevins, C. Vann Woodward, Harry Ammon, Max Lerner, Daniel Boorstin, Louis S. Auchincloss, Fawn Brodie, George F. Will, J. Harry Michael, Jr., Barbara Tuchman, and Walker Cowen (Professional Correspondence); Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Hardy C. Dillard, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Linwood Holton (Pulitzer Prize) and Colgate Darden, Jr. (University of Virginia).

Also present are history book reviews, speeches, and articles by Malone; interviews with Malone (two on video cassette recordings); research files, research notecards, cassette tape recordings (148 tapes), and miscellaneous materials generated by Malone while writing his six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson.

Arrangement

Individual files are generally in reverse chronological order and Mr. Malone's orginal order has been preserved whenever possible.

This collection is arranged in seven series: I. Topical Files (boxes 1-34); II. Miscellaneous Articles, Interviews, Reviews, and Speeches (boxes 35-41); III. Research Files for Jefferson and His Time (boxes 42-58); IV. Miscellaneous Materials re Jefferson and His Time (boxes 59-63); V. Video & Cassette Recordings, and Microfilm (boxes 64-66); VI. Research Notecards and VII. Oversize.