A Guide to the Papers of Thomas A. Mason
A Collection in
Special Collections
The University of Virginia Library
Accession number 14859
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Preferred Citation
Papers of Thomas A. Mason, #14859, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisitions Information
These papers were given to Special Collections by Thomas A. Mason, Indianapolis, Indiana, on October 9, 2009.
Biographical/Historical Information
Thomas A. Mason was a Michigan native, who received his bachelor's degree in history from Kenyon College and his master's degree and doctorate from the University of Virginia. Formerly acting director and associate editor of The Papers of James Madison at the University of Virginia, he also was an assistant professor of history at Pembroke State University. He is currently project director of The Papers of Lew and Susan Wallace and an adjunct faculty member at Indiana University.
Scope and Content
This collection chiefly consists of the correspondence files of Thomas A. Mason, formerly one of the editors of The Papers of James Madison at the University of Virginia, 1958-2009, ca. 1,952 items (4 Hollinger boxes; 1.5 linear feet). Sometimes the correspondence files also contain additional materials about the correspondent, such as magazine and news clippings, obituaries, newsletters, and brochures.
Arrangement
The original alphabetical order by name of correspondent of the collection has been maintained.
Contents List
Box-folder 1:1
1979-2009 Correspondence-Ab-Ad,
including: William Wright Abbot, University of Virginia History
Professor; Henry Abraham, University of Virginia Professor of Government
and Foreign Affairs; and Winthrop Lindsay Adams, University of Utah
History Professor.
Box-folder 1:2
1976-2005 Correspondence-Al-As,
including: C. Knight Aldrich, University of Virginia professor of
Medicine; Michael Van Cleave Alexander, Virginia Tech History Professor;
Harry Lee Arnest III, graduate of the University of Virginia
Architecture School and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; and Robert
Ashton, University of East Anglia School of English and American Studies
Professor.
Box-folder 1:3
1977-2006 Correspondence-Ba,
including: Lance G. Banning, University of Kentucky History Professor;
Madeleine Barry, English medical editor; Juxon Barton, English historian
and correspondent; and Joan Baxter, former Secretary of University of
Virginia Architecture School.
Box-folder 1:4
1971-2003 Correspondence-Be,
including: Sarah Beth Bearss, Editor at the Virginia Historical Society
and Library of Virginia in Richmond; Francis Lewis Berkeley, Jr.,
Professor Emeritus at University of Virginia and University Archivist;
Ronald Stanley Berman, Professor of English at Kenyon College and
Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities; and Mary Hall
Betts, Hostess of the Rotunda at University of Virginia.
Box-folder 1:5
1976-1998 Correspondence-Bl-Bu,
including: Mary Scott Parker Blake, Director of the Martha Jefferson
House in Charlottesville; Joseph Norwood Bosserman, Dean of the School
of Architecture at University of Virginia; Robin Bredin, teacher at
Woodberry Forest School; Hugh J. Brent, 1974 University of Virginia
Alumnus; Mildred Conrey Brown, Resident of Scottsville; and Frank Gerard
Burke, Acting Archivist of the United States.
Box-folder 1:6
1979-1999 Correspondence-(Dominic)
Nghiep Cong Bui, Pembroke State University Assistant
Librarian.
Box-folder 1:7
1976-2006 Correspondence-C,
including: Adelaine Callery, Michigan correspondent; John Canaday,
University of Virginia Assistant Professor of Art and art critic for the
New York Times ; Charles Carlton,
North Carolina State University History Professor; Robert Girard
Carroon, Historiographer for Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut; Philander
D. Chase, Editor of the University of Virginia Papers of George
Washington; Douglas E. Clanin, Editor for the Indiana Historical
Society; Sandra Sangeser Clark, Director of the Michigan Historical
Center; Charles Frederick Williams Coker, Head of Reference and Reader
Service Section in the Manuscripts Division at the Library of Congress;
John Crisp Coleman, Assistant Professor of English at University of
Virginia; Elizabeth Collier, English correspondent; Dennis M. Conrad,
Editor of the Papers of Nathanael Greene and Editor at the Naval
Historical Center; Lawrence D. Cress, associate Dean of Arts and
Sciences at Willamette University; and Robert Dougherty Cross,
University of Virginia Dean of the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences.
Box-folder 1:8
1979-2008 Correspondence-D,
including: Cullom Davis, Editor of the Legal Papers of Abraham Lincoln;
Edgar Glenn Davis, Vice President 
of Eli Lilly and Company in
Indianapolis; Harry James Dell, History Professor at University of
Virginia; Mary Sudman Donovan, Adjunct Professor of History at Hunter
College; Ruth E. Dorrel, Editor for the Indiana Historical Society;
Lindsay Gordon Dorrier, Commonwealth's Attorney; William S. Dudley,
Editor at the Naval Historical Center and James Raynor Dunton,
Washington Publisher.
of Eli Lilly and Company in
Indianapolis; Harry James Dell, History Professor at University of
Virginia; Mary Sudman Donovan, Adjunct Professor of History at Hunter
College; Ruth E. Dorrel, Editor for the Indiana Historical Society;
Lindsay Gordon Dorrier, Commonwealth's Attorney; William S. Dudley,
Editor at the Naval Historical Center and James Raynor Dunton,
Washington Publisher.
Box-folder 1:9
1980-2008 Correspondence-E-F,
including: David K. Eliades, History professor at the University of
North Carolina at Pembroke; John Leslie Finucane, Employee at the Naval
Air Warfare Center; Florence Fleischman, Staff Liaison for Congressmen
J. Kenneth Robinson and D. French Slaughter; Gerald P. Fogarty,
Professor of the History of Christianity at University of Virginia;
Emmett Brown Ford, Employee at the Office of Sponsored Programs at
University of Virginia; and Anne Freudenberg, Curator of the Barrett
Collection.
Box-folder 1:10
1978-1988 Correspondence and Papers
Related to-John Francis Flynn, Artist and Professor at Pembroke State
University.
Box-folder 2:1
1979-2004 Correspondence and Papers
Related to-Peter M. Foley, Lawyer.
Box-folder 2:2
1977-1995 Friday Club, Student Dining
Club at University of Virginia.
Box-folder 2:3
1977-2008 Correspondence-G,
including: Muriel Kemp Ganser, Librarian at Lehigh University, Iowa
State University, Bennington College, and more; James Gilreath, American
History Specialist at the Library of Congress; Renée Gonse,
English correspondent; and John Henry Greller, Vice 
President for
Development at Northwestern College.
President for
Development at Northwestern College.
Box-folder 2:4
1977-1999 Correspondence-Ha,
including: Hattie P. Hall, correspondent; Charles Louis Hamilton,
Assistant Professor of History at Kenyon College and Administrator at
Simon Fraser University; William Henry Harbaugh, Professor of American
History at University of Virginia; Charles Montreville Harris, Professor
at Duquesne University and Editor of the Papers of William Thornton; and
John Hattendorf, Kenyon College graduate and American Naval
Historian.
Box-folder 2:5
1972-1995 Correspondence-Martin
Joseph Havran, Professor of History at University of
Virginia.
Box-folder 2:6
1996-2002 Correspondence-Martin
Joseph Havran, Professor of History at University of
Virginia.
Box-folder 2:7
1977-2001 Correspondence-Ho,
including: Eugene Pendleton Hogan, Author of fiction and nonfiction and
resident of Charlottesville; David Holmes, Professor of Religious
Studies and the College of William and Mary; Davyd Foard Hood,
University of Virginia Architecture graduate; Alan Hornstein,
Proffesseur at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications in Paris, France; and Hampton P.
Howell, Jr, stockbroker and resident of Charlottesville.
Box-folder 2:8
1974-2005 Correspondence-I-Ll,
including: Alfonso Lynn Ivey III, Richmond correspondent,; David
Jackson, Delta airlines employee and resident of Isle of Palms, South
Carolina; Bernice Jones, Bermuda correspondent; Mary Veronica Kuebel,
PhD History; Charles Latham, teacher at the Episcopal Academy in
Philadelphia; Emma Lents, Employee at Indiana Historical Society;
Alexander Lind, Banker and Historian; Janet Linde, Archivist at
University of Virginia and in New York; Samuel Thames Lloyd III,
clergyman and Dean of Washington National Cathedral; and Marguerite
Lloyd, University of Virginia graduate.
Box-folder 3:1
1972-2003 Correspondence-Lo-Lu,
including: Roger W. Lockyer, English Historian; Sir Gilbert Longden,
English Member of Parliament; and Sister Julien Hill Lucy, French
nun.
Box-folder 3:2
1980-2002 Correspondence-Ma,
including: Dumas Malone, American author of biography on Thomas
Jefferson; Sally D. Mason, Editor of the Omohundro Institute of Early
American History and Culture; Eleanor G. May, Professor of Business
Administration at University of Virginia; and Margaret McClure MacLeod
Mayo, Professor of History at University of Virginia and a resident of
Charlottesville.
Box-folder 3:3
1980-2002 Madison, Papers of James -
History of the Project
Box-folder 3:4
1986 The Madisons of Montpelier - Manuscript
Exhibition, Captions and keepsake
Box-folder 3:5
1981-1987 Madison, James- Dictionary of American Biography
article
Box-folder 3:6
1962-2005 Correspondence-Mc-Me,
including: J. Borden McCloskey, Proprietor of the Alcoholic Beverage
Commission in Red Springs, north Carolina; Shirley Ann Snyder McCord,
Editor at the Indiana Historical Society; Frances McCoughtry, Resident
of Attica, Indiana and Ypsilanti, Michigan; James Sears McGee, Professor
of the University of California, Santa Barbara; Judith Quintas McMullen,
Editor at the Indiana Historical Society; John M. McNeary, Proprietor of
a tree service company in Charlotte, North Carolina; Ernest C. Mead,
Professor of Music at University of Virginia; Kenneth Meisel-Weisskopf,
Swiss correspondent; and Arthur Mejia, San Francisco
correspondent.
Box-folder 3:7
1973- 1997 Correspondence-Mi- No,
including: Joseph C. T. Miller, Professor of History at University of
Virginia; William Lee Miller, Scholar in Ethics and Institutions at the
Miller Center of Public Affairs at University of Virginia; Samuel Holt
Monk, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota; Walter
Bedford Moore, Assistant Professor of Humanities at University of
Virginia; Peter Myles, English clergyman and correspondent; Louis John
Nigro, U.S. Ambassador to Chad; and Elizabeth Copeland Norfleet,
Author.
Box-folder 3:8
1970- 2002 Correspondence-O-P, including:
David Olyphant, Executive Director of the English-Speaking Union in New
York; Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden; William Brown Patterson,
Professor of History at the University of the South; Elizabeth Pigg,
Federal computer expert; James Playfair, English physician; and Patricia
Power, Australian teacher.
Box-folder 3:9
1975-1998 Correspondence-R-Ro,
including: Michael Ramos, Lawyer; W. Ramsey Richardson, Clergyman;
Andrew Richmond, Editor of Papers of Philander Chase; Jefferson D.
Robinson III, Alumni Director at Kenyon College; Marie-Louise Roget,
visiting Professor of French at University of Virginia; and Henry G.
Roseveare, Professor of History at King's College in London.
Box-folder 4:1
1996-2002 Correspondence-Robert
Allen Rutland, Editor of Papers of James Madison at University of
Virginia.
Box-folder 4:2
1983-1995 Correspondence-Robert
Allen Rutland, Editor of Papers of James Madison at University of
Virginia.
Box-folder 4:3
1984-2009 Correspondence-S-Sc,
including: Thomas R. Sant, Lawyer and Kenyon College graduate; Hans
Schmitt, Professor of History at University of Virginia; and William
Remsen Schultz.
Box-folder 4:4
1974-2003 Correspondence-Se-Sha,
including: Edward Carl Wolfram von Selzam, German Diplomat; David A.
Shannon, Provost at University of Virginia; and Ronald Sharp, Professor
of English at Kenyon College.
Box-folder 4:5
1983-2008 Correspondence-She-So,
including: Chester Price Shelly, Michigan Accountant and godfather of
Thomas Mason; Charlotte J. Shelton, Charlottesville stockbroker; Joan
Shivel, Williamsburg, Virginia correspondent; Edward F. Shotter, English
clergyman and correspondent; Richard Stuart Simons, Indiana Historian;
Jerry N. Showalter, bookseller; Susan Slade, Indianapolis architectural
historian; Lewis M. Slater, Lawyer in Detroit; and Earl Phillip
Sourwine, Indianapolis banker.
Box-folder 4:6
1975-2004 Correspondence-St-Ti,
including: Victor Andrew Stock, English clergyman and correspondent;
Anton J. Streiff, Administrator at Carnegie Mellon University; Peter
Taylor, J. Garland Teasley, Clergyman and correspondent; Edward Riggs
Telling III, Lawyer in Rockford, Illinois; Alexander C. von Thelen,
Harriet Gayle Thornbrough, Executive Secretary of the Indiana Historical
Society; and Marie Leslie Shackelford Tise, librarian in
Delaware.
Box-folder 4:7
1982-2005 Correspondence-Tu-V,
including: Eve Turnball, Hostess of the Rotunda at University of
Virginia; Dory Twitchell (see also Montpelier), Administer at
Montpelier; Nicholas Tyacke, Professor of History at the University
College, London; Irene Ashworth Valentine, Charlottesville resident and
correspondent; and John Stanley Vishneski, Chicago Lawyer.
Box-folder 4:8
1958, 1972-2003 Correspondence-W,
including: Joseph Addison Warren; Michigan Lawyer; James B. Watson,
London small-press printer; William Stone Weedon, Chairman of the
Philosophy Department at University of Virginia; Minor Tompkins
Weisiger, librarian at the Library of Virginia; Herman B. Wells,
Chancellor at Indiana University; Michael L. Westfall, Hospital
Administrator and Board member of Historical Organizations in Indiana;
Sir. John Wheeler-Bennett, Historical Adviser for the Royal Archives;
and Michael Cunningham Williams, Washington Lawyer.