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Adams Family papers (Ms. 90.21)

Brown University Library

Box A, John Hay Library
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
Fax: 401-863-2093
E-mail: hay@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Family papers and genealogical background

Container Description Date
Codex C1x Genealogical papers: Album with chart of family tree and narrative description by George Madison Adams. Shows relationship of Adams family to Stokes, Lippincott, Woolman, Root, Chapin, Maltby, and Spiller families
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Box 1, Folder 1:1-10 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 1 and foldered separately.
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Box 1xx, Folder 1xx:11 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 1 and foldered separately.
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Codex C2x Papers of Josephine Lippincott Stokes: Letters and documents
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Box 1x, Folder 1x:12 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from Codex 2 and foldered separately.
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Box 1, Folder 1:13-14 Lida Stokes Adams: Correspondence
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Box 1x, Folder 1x:15 Lida Stokes Adams: Correspondence
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Box 1, Folder 1:16-21 Lida Stokes Adams: Correspondence
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Codex C3x Scrapbook of material relating to Lida Stokes Adams
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Codex C4x Letters of the Root and Chapin families
1830-1930
Box 1, Folder 1:22-24 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 4 and foldered separately.
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Codex C5x Letters and papers of John Stokes Adams, father of Randolph Greenfield Adams
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Series 2. Papers of Randolph Greenfield Adams (1892-1951)
While this section focuses on material by and relating to RGA, it includes letters, memorabilia, and printed items of and about his family and friends.

Container Description Date
Codex C6x Letters of Randoph Greenfield Adams
1898-1929
Box 1, Folder 1:25 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 6 and foldered separately.
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Codex C7x War Letters, Vol. 1 of 3
Contents Note: Letters mostly to Heloise Z. Adams.
1918-1919
Codex C8x War Letters, Vol. 2 of 3
1918-1919
Box 1, Folder 1:26 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 8 and foldered separately.
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Codex C9x War Letters, vol. 3 of 3
1918-1919
Box 1, Folder 1:27 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 9 and foldered separately.
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Box 1, Folder 1:28,29 Randolph G. Adams, His Book Index to General Orders and Headquarters Bulletins and Circulars
Contents Note: W.D. and A.E.F. pertaining to Q.M.C.
1881-1919
Codex C10x Letters
Contents Note: Correspondence exchanged within the Adams family, with some letters and other related material of Randolph G. Adams.
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Box 1, Folder 1:30-35 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from Codex 11 and foldered separately.
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Codex C12x Autographs
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Box 1, Folder 2:1-3 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 12 and foldered separately.
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Codex C13x Second-Hand Wisdom: Commonplace-book of Randolph G. Adams
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Box 1, Folder 2:4-7 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 13 and foldered separately.
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Box 1, Folder 2:8-15 Notes on the Itinerary of Randolph G. Adams
Contents Note: (With pages removed from original binder).
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Box 1, Folder 3:1-2 Randolph G. Adams Memoirs (3 volumes)
Contents Note: (With pages removed from original binders)
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Box 1, Folder 3:4-5 Original binders for volumes 1-2 of above
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Box 1, Folder 4:1 Original binder for volume 3 of the above
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Codex C14x Bio-Bibliography: A Few Notes About Books
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Box 1, Folder 4:2-5 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items fromved from codex 14 and filed separately.
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Codex C15x Prints
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Box 1, Folder 4:6-13 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items fromved from codex 15 and filed separately.
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Box 1x, Folder 4:14x Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 15 and filed separately.
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Codex C16x Prints and Pictures
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Box 1, Folder 4:15-19 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 16 and filed separately.
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Codex C17x A lytle boke of thynges which reveal, without too great discourse what mayhap is upon ye mind of ye artist and those which examine his works.
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Box 1, Folder 4:20 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose item removed from codex 17 and foldered separately.
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Codex C18x Scrapbook of cartoons, etc. (with mostly blank pages)
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Box 2, Folder 5:1 Randolph G. Adams and John Stokes Adams and Helen Spiller Adams
1914-1953
Box 2, Folder 5:2 Randolph G. Adams
1947
Box 2, Folder 5:3 Randolph G. Adams
1948
Box 2, Folder 5:4 Randolph G. Adams
1949
Box 2, Folder 6:1 Randolph G. Adams
1950
Box 2, Folder 6:2 Randolph G. Adams -- John Stokes Adams, Jr.
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Box 2, Folder 6:3 Randolph G. Adams estate, etc.
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Box 2, Folder 6:4-6 Randolph G. Adams Writings
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Box 2, Folder 6:7 Supplement to the Courant
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Box 2, Folder 6:8 Stray Note
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Box 2, Folder 6:9 Memorial to Randolph G. Adams in AB
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Box 2, Folder 6:10 Randolph G. Adams letter to his mother
1932
Box 2, Folder 7:1-3-8:1-3 We Four Go Abroad. A Letter Diary by Helen and Randolph Adams
1929 Summer
Box 3, Folder 9:1 History Book Club (confidential) portfolio
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Box 3, Folder 9:2-6 Broadcast reports of death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent from Detroit New to Randolph G. Adams (UPI/AP/WJR radio, Detroit, etc.)
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Box 3, Folder 9:7-8 Correspondence with Jack Powell
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Box 3, Folder 9:9 File of miscellaneous correspondence, etc.
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Box 3, Folder 9:10 File marked, "Unpublished Papers, Randolph G. Adams"
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Box 1x, Folder 10:1x File pocket marked, "Experiments Under Way"
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Box 3, Folder 10:2 File marked, "Adams: Randolph G.: Memoirs"
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Box 3, Folder 10:3 File Marked, "Pearls before..."
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Box 3, Folder 10:4 U of M graduation of Richard Adams
Contents Note: File Marked, "John Carter Brown Library"
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Box 3, Folder 10:5 Installment of Thomas Randolph Adams at John Carter Brown; memorabilia with related correspondence and clippings
Contents Note: File Marked, "JCB Library"
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Box 3, Folder 10:6-8 Letters from son Tom and daughter-in-law Po, to Helen Spiller Adams
Contents Note: File Marked, "JCB Library"
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Box 3, Folder 10:9-12 Letters/drawings of grandchildren (Jody, Ginny, Eliza)
Contents Note: File Marked, "JCB Library"
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Box 3, Folder 11:1 Correspondence with Francis Edward
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
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Box 3, Folder 11:2 Correspondence with Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
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Box 3, Folder 11:3 Correspondence with Huntington Library
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
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Box 3, Folder 11:4 Correspondence with J.F. Bell
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
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Box 3, Folder 11:5 Correspondence with New York Public Library
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
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Box 3, Folder 11:6 Correspondence with Newberry Library
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
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Box 3, Folder 11:7 Empty folder marked "D"
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
1950
Box 3, Folder 11:8 Correspondence
Contents Note: Includes: Library of Congress, Bodleian, John Ryland, Quaritch, Society of Antiquaries, Harvard, Harmsworth, White, Elkins, Prowse, American Art Anderson, Ganong.

Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
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Box 3, Folder 11:9 Doodling
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
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Box 3, Folder 11:10 Tentative lists (with carbons)
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
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Box 3, Folder 11:11 General relating to Bigges and Boazio
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
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Box 3, Folder 11:12 Miscellaneous notes relating to Francis Drake material
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
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Box 3, Folder 11:13 Bigges' Narrative of Drake's Voyage to the West Indies in 1585-86 and Boazio's Mapes related to--Ann Arbor.
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
1935
Box 3, Folder 11:14 Original folder for notes
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
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Box 3, Folder 11:15 Correspondence (Thomas Randolph Adams) after John Nicholas Brown event
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
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Box 3, Folder 12A:1-7 Continuation from above
Contents Note: Material from flip-top record box (mixed Randolph G. Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams business): Miscellaneous drafts, reports, correspondence, memorabilia, articles, etc., relating to Bigges and Boazio and to birthday party for John Nicholas Brown.
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Box 3, Folder 12A:8-13 re: Franklin Delano Roosevelt--radio broadcast announcements of his death
1945
Box 3, Folder 12B:1-14 Correspondence between Randolph G. Adams and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (and White House staff) relating to Roosevelt Library and other matters; includes seven items from Roosevelt himself.
1930-1948
Box 4, Folder 13:1 Garden (notebook); Berwyn (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania; with correspondence addressed to Anna R. Richter
1903-1917
Box 4, Folder 13:2 Men of Rome From Romulus to Augustus by C.F.S.
Contents Note: Translations from the Latin by Lida S. Adams. With Les Aventures Incomparables d'un certain Hans Pfaal. Par E. A. Poe. In leatherbound notebook.
1878 Jun
Box 4, Folder 13:3,4 Loose pages
Contents Note: Loose pages removed from 13:2 and foldered separately.
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Codex C19 Cop, Lottie L.: Friendship Album: St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, NJ
1856
Box 4, Folder 13:5-14 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 19 and foldered separately. Includes handwritten poems and clippings.
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Codex C20-25 Notes on various subjects by unidentified complier
Contents Note: In leatherbound volumes.
ca. 1828-1910
Codex C20 Syllabus of Art Lectures
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Box 4, Folder 13:15-17 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 20 and foldered separately.
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Codex C21 A Memory
1910 Jul 9
Box 4, Folder 13:18 Loose item
Contents Note: Loose item (letter to Margaret from Randolph G. Adams) removed from codex 21 and foldered separately.
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Codex C22 German Notes
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Box 4, Folder 13:19 Clipping
Contents Note: Clipping removed from codex 22 and foldered separately.
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Codex C23 The Crusades
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Box 4, Folder 13:20,21 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 23 and foldered separately.
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Codex C24 Notes on House of Austria
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Box 4, Folder 13:22 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 24 and foldered separately.
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Codex C25 Index of names of famous persons
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Box 4, Folder 13:23 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 25 and foldered separately.
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Codex C26 Root, Eunice, Friendship album, Ludlow, MA
1829 Apr
Box 4, Folder 14:1 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 26 and foldered separately.
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Codex C27 Root, Charlotte, Friendship album
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Codex C28 Chapin, Charlotte, Friendship album, Springfield, MA
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Box 4, Folder 14:2,3 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 28 and foldered separately.
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Codex C29 Friendship album (unidentified compiler)
ca. 1880
Box 4, Folder 14:4 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 29 and foldered separately.
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Codex C30 Stokes, John W., Album of memorabilia
1874
Box 4, Folder 14:5,6 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 30 and foldered separately.
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Codex C31 Philomathean Record [annotated by Rudolph G. Adams]
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Box 4, Folder 14:7 Loose item
Contents Note: Loose item removed from codex 31 and foldered separately
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Codex C32 Constitution of the U S of A..., Washington: James B. Steedman, printer
Contents Note: On leatherbound front cover is inscribed, "Green Adams."
1859
Box 4, Folder 14:8,9 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 32 and foldered separately.
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Box C33 Yanks. A book of A.E.F. verse. France: The Stars and Stripes, the Offical Newspaper of the American Expeditionary Forces. First Edition
Contents Note: Randolph G. Adams's copy; inscribed.
1918
Box 4, Folder 14:10,11 Loose items
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 33 and foldered separately.
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Codex C34 The Journal of Major George Washington, 1754. With an introduction by Randolph G. Adams, New York.
Contents Note: From Randolph G. Adams with a note to John Stokes Adams on brown wrappers.
1940
Box 4, Folder 14:12 Extracts from the Minute Book of the Barbourville (Kentucky) Debating Society, 1837-1839. Typescript copy annotated by Randolph G. Adams
Contents Note: Includes data on Judge Samuel F. Miller and Judge Green Adams.
1934 Jan 4
Box 4, Folder 14:13 Removed from Gaylord binder, with related photos pasted inside back cover.
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Box 4, Folder 14:14 Miscellaneous correspondence, data, relating to Adams family
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Box 4, Folder 14:15 Typescript
Contents Note: Material found in Gaylord binder marked "Adams bookplates and Arms"
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Box 4, Folder 14:16 Enclosure
Contents Note: Material found in Gaylord binder marked "Adams bookplates and Arms"
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Box 4, Folder 14:17 Binder
Contents Note: Material found in Gaylord binder marked "Adams bookplates and Arms"
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Codex C35 Speech of Green Adams, of Kentucky on The Oregon Bill. Delivered in the House of Representatives, 1848 Jul 27. Washington: printed by John T. Towers
1848
Codex C36 Chapin Family Association Publications. Life of Deacon Samuel Chapin of Springfield.
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Box 4, Folder 14:18 Loose items: Chapin, Howard Millar. Providence: Snow and Farnham, Co., Printers
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 36 and foldered separately.
1908
Box 4, Folder 15:1-3 Typescript notes taken for Biography of Abel P. Upshur, by Randolph G. Adams
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Box 4, Folder 15:4 With box
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Codex C37,38 Printed articles by Randolph G. Adams; in pamphlet form, bound in two volumes.
C37, 38
Box 4, Folder 15:5 Correspondence relating to above removed from volume two.
Contents Note: Items removed from codex 38.
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Codex C39 Reprints from "Notes and Queries" in The Colophon by Randolph G. Adams.
Contents Note: In spiral leatherbound notebook.
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Codex C40 Randolph G. Adams. Iconography of Old Detroit. Reprinted from Studies in History and Culture.
1942 Feb
Box 4, Folder 15:6 Tribute to Randolph G. Adams
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Codex C41 Tribute to Randolph G. Adams in: Bokvannen/Nr 2 Argang 4/Mars
1949
codex C42 The University Record
Contents Note: Published by the graduating class of the University of Pennsylvania. Commencement Day.
1884 Jun 13
Box 4, Folder 15:7 Five copies of The Mascot
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Box 4, Folder 15:8 With manuscript enclosure: childhood letter of Helen Spiller.
Contents Note: Removed from folder 15:7 and foldered separately.
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Codex C43 Michigan Alumnus. Quarterly Review
1951 Summer
Box 4, Folder 15:9 3 copies of The Woman's Club, Durham, NC
1923-1927
Box 4, Folder 15:10 Cliipping
Contents Note: Clipping removed from folder 15:9 and foldered separately.
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Series 3. Papers of Helen Spiller Adams

Container Description Date
Box 5, Folder 16:1-5 Adams, Helen Spiller, Bible Stories
Contents Note: Includes a section marked, "Walter and Tani."
1930, 1931, 1932, 1960
Box 4, Folder 16:6 Printed invintations to various library events
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Box 4, Folder 16:7 Miscellaneous correspondence (mostly to her), with some printed invitations, etc.
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Box 4, Folder 16:8 Typescript of Randolph G. Adams Memorial Lecture, by John Powell
Contents Note: "The National Scourge" -- cholera in 1832.
1955 Oct 6
Box 4, Folder 16:9 Clipping
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Series 4. Papers of Thomas Randolph Adams
While this section focuses on material by and relating to TRA, it includes letters, memoravilia, and printed items of and about his family and friends (including his wife Virginia M. Adams, known as "Po").

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 17:1 Travel diary (in small ring binder)
1936-1937
Codex C44x Papers (including to his mother, Helen Spiller Adams) and memos pasted into album/scrapbook
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Box 4, Folder 17:2-10 Loose items: letters, memorabilia, certificates, diplomas, etc.
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 44 and foldered separately.
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Codex C45x Album with many letters to his parents.
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Codex C46x Album (includes many letters from his father)
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Box 4, Folder 17:11-23 Loose items: Photo, clippings, etc.
Contents Note: Loose items removed from codex 46 and foldered separately. In folder marked, "Thomas R. Adams--War Letters"
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Box 4, Folder 17:24-28 Papers
Contents Note: Consists of miscellaneous correspondence with various articles by him.
1962-1981
Box 5, Folder 18:1-4 Miscellaneous notes
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Box 5, Folder 18:5-7 Correspondence
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Box 5, Folder 18:8 Speech
1981
Codex C47 The Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen
1956
Box 5, Folder 19:1-2 Thomas Randolph Adams correspondence
Contents Note: File marked, "TRA/BSA Talk, Jan 25, 80"
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Box 5, Folder 19:3 Thomas Randolph Adams notes
Contents Note: File marked, "TRA/BSA Talk, Jan 25, 80"
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Box 5, Folder 19:4 Randolph G. Adams, correspondence (in photocopy)
Contents Note: File marked, "TRA/BSA Talk, Jan 25, 80"
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Box 5, Folder 19:5 Confidential Report to the Members of the Committee of Management of the William L. Clements Library
Contents Note: File marked, "TRA/BSA Talk, Jan 25, 80"
1929 Sep 19
Box 5, Folder 19:6-7 Correspondence (in photocopy) with William L. Clements
Contents Note: File marked, "TRA/BSA Talk, Jan 25, 80"
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Box 5, Folder 20:1-11 Grolier Trip material
Contents Note: Includes memorabilia (book collections; museum guides; menus; announcements, etc.
1967
Box 1x, Folder 1x:12 Grolier Trip material
Contents Note: Includes memorabilia (book collections; museum guides; menus; announcements, etc.
1967
Box 5, Folder 21:1 Strahan Papers
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:2 Hirsch American REV
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:4 Newspaper Notes to be Sorted
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:4 Pamphlets from REA
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:5 Notes on London Book Trade
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:6 Boucher and Pamphlets
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:7 Poetry in Am Cont.
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:8 To be Seen in London
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:9 Annual Catalogue American 1701-1702/3. BF Stevens Introduction
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:10 Gent's Mag
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:11 London Magazine
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:12 Monthly Review Americana not in John Carter Brown
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:13 Lists & People
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:14 Location of Missing Pamphlets
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:15 Notes on Pares Reading
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:16 Writers Etc.
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:17 Points to Keep in Mind
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:18 Notes on research into Contemporary Writings
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:19 Ready Notes on Pamphlets
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:20 Booksellers 1774
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 5, Folder 21:21 Hollis Diary All in Notes
Contents Note: American Controversy Notes
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Box 6, Folder 22:1 Lyman's Notes
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:2 London Trade
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:3 Shebbeare
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:4 Additions Mayted
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:5 Allen
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:6 Almon, John
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:7 Baldwin, Henry
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:8 Balfe, Richard
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:9 Beardmore, Arthur
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:10 LBingley, William
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:11 Bladon, Samuel
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:12 Cadell, T.
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:13 Coate, John
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:14 DeBerdt, Dennis
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:15 Dixwell
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:16 Dilly, Edward and Charles
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:17 Dodsley
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:18 Evans, Thomas
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:19 Johnson, Joseph
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:20 Kearsley, George
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:21 Lackington, James
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:22 Longman
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:23 Meres, John
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:24 Millar, Andrew
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:25 Miller, John
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:26 Murray, John
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:27 Newbery, John
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:28 Nichols, John
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:29 Payne
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:30 Pridden, John
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:31 Richardson, [William?]
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:32 Robinson, George
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:33 Robson, James
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:34 Rivington
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:35 Say, Charles
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:36 Strahan, William
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:37 Wilkie, John
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:38 Williams, John
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:39 Wilson & Fell
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:40 Woodfall, Henry Sampson
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 22:41 Thomas Randolph Adams / SS
Contents Note: Bibliography--Spin-Offs
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Box 6, Folder 23:1-10 Statistical Studies
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Box 6, Folder 23:11 Monthly Review Study
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Box 6, Folder 23:12 Constitutional Society
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Box 6, Folder 24:1 Untitled folder
Contents Note: Magazine and Newspaper Study
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Box 6, Folder 24:2-4 Booksellers Publications--1764; Monthly Review
Contents Note: Magazine and Newspaper Study
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Box 6, Folder 24:5-12 Booksellers Publications--1975; Monthly Review
Contents Note: Magazine and Newspaper Study
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Box 6, Folder 25:1-20 Biography-- miscellaneous pamphlets and reprints
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Box 7, Folder 26:1-16 Cartography-- Benjamin Franklin reprints;: miscellaneous pamphlets, printed, memorabilia
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Box 7, Folder 27:1-16 Grolier Trip-- miscellaneous pamphlets, printed, memorabilia
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Box 7, Folder 28:1-24 American History-- miscellaneous pamphlets, printed, memorabilia
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Series 5. Papers of Richard Newbold Adams

Container Description Date
Box 7, Folder 29:1-28 Correspondence, notes, clippings, and memorabilia
Contents Note: Includes letters to his wife, Betty Virginia Hannstein written between 1934-1958.
1934-1958

Series 6. Supplement
Gift presented in January 1991--A91-2.

Container Description Date
Box 8, Folder 30:1 Baby Book of Randolph G. Adams
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Box 8, Folder 30:2 Letters of Josephine L. Adams, Lida Adams, Thomas Randolph Adams; Poem by unidentified author; Certificate of Confirmation of Randolph G. Adams; Childhood drawing of solderies in battle (by ?)
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from baby book of Randolph G. Adams.
1897, 1896-1897, 1931, undated
Box 8, Folder 30:3 Adams, Thomas Randolph letter to his parents
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from baby book of Randolph G. Adams.
1948
Box 8, Folder 30:4 Bapitsmal solemnization of Helen Newbold Spiller Adams; slide of Helen Newbold Spiller Adams's birthplace in Vienna; miscellaneous notes, envelopes (some annotated), cards, postcards; watercolor drawing (by ?)
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from baby book of Randolph G. Adams.
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Box 8, Folder 30:5 Childhood writing of Randolph G. Adams (at 5 years and 6 months old)
Contents Note: Encolures removed from baby book of Randolph G. Adams.
1898
Box 8, Folder 30:6 Adams, John Stokes letter
1932
Box 8, Folder 30:7 Adams, Randolph G. letter to his mother
Contents Note: Includes carbon copy with note to Henry Clay Adams.
1926
Box 8, Folder 30:8 Diary of the Trip to Europe, Summer of 1913, by Helen Newbold Spiller
1913
Box 8, Folder 31:1 Family passport (port.)
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from "Diary of the Trip to Europe."
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Box 8, Folder 31:2 Small photo of Randolph G. Adams
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from "Diary of the Trip to Europe."
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Box 8, Folder 31:3 Descriptive pamphlet of Grindelwald
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from "Diary of the Trip to Europe."
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Box 8, Folder 31:4-9 Art postcards from various European museums; scenic/souvenir postcards (some annotated) from various sites in Europe, etc.; other pictures
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from "Diary of the Trip to Europe."
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Box 8, Folder 31:10 Address Book of Beta Iota Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from "Diary of the Trip to Europe."
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Box 8, Folder 31:11 Wedding gifts book from marriage of Randolph G. Adams and Helen Newbold Spiller Adams
1917
Box 8, Folder 31:12 Wedding bouquet (dried as souvenir) of Helen Newbold Spiller Adams
Contents Note: Enclosure removed from the wedding gifts book.
1917
Box 8, Folder 32:1 Book of Marriage Service, from wedding of Randolph G. Adams and Helen Newbold Spiller Adams
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Box 8, Folder 32:2 The Mascot
Contents Note: Robert Ernest Spiller (scholar of American Literature and brother of Helen Newbold Spiller Adams) was business magnager of this journal, a youthful enterprise of the Robert and Helen.
1912 Feb, 1912 Mar
Box 8, Folder 32:3 Volume of memorabilia relating to John Stokes Adams
Contents Note: Includes the following tipped-in items: marriage certificate and other documents, letter, printed oration by James B. Nicholson, "In Memoriam."
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Box 8, Folder 32:4 Visiting Cards, admission ticket
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Box 8, Folder 32:5 Bound volume of lecture notes (in French) of Lida Stokes Adams (?), with genealogical notes on the Adams family
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Box 8, Folder 32:6 Baby book of Thomas Randolph Adams
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Box 8, Folder 32:7 Baptismal and Confirmation certificates; lock of hair
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from baby book of Thomas Randolph Adams.
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Box 8, Folder 32:8 Correspondence relating to Baptism; birth announcement; card printed on Thomas Randolph Adams's printing press (by Richard Newbold Adams and Francis Faust)
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from baby book of Thomas Randolph Adams.
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Box 8, Folder 32:9 Lock of hair; announcements for Richard Newbold Adams
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from baby book of Thomas Randolph Adams.
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Box 8, Folder 33:1 Baptismal record of Thomas Randolph Adams
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from baby book of Thomas Randolph Adams.
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Box 8, Folder 33:2 5 copies of broadsheet printed on Thomas Randolph Adams's printing press at Ann Arbor (one is annotated)
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from baby book of Thomas Randolph Adams.
1931 May
Box 8, Folder 33:3 Miscellaneous: programs, postcard, note, birthday party invitation
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from baby book of Thomas Randolph Adams.
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Box 8, Folder 33:4 Adams, Mrs. John Stokes letter to son, Randolph G. Adams; drawing by Richard Newbold Adams
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from baby book of Thomas Randolph Adams.
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Box 8, Folder 33:5 Thomas Randolph Adams's Confirmation certificate; record of childhood diseases; immunization record; miscellaneous notes on the family; clippings; commemorative programs.
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from baby book of Thomas Randolph Adams.
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Box 8, Folder 33:6 Clippings
Contents Note: Enclosures removed from baby book of Thomas Randolph Adams.
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Box 8, Folder 33:7 Trip of One Thomas Randolph Adams on the schonner yacht Liria out of Gloucester: log-diary of TRA on boat Liria
1938
Box 8, Folder 33:8 Thomas Randolph Adams's Journal of the cruise of the sloop 'Dauntless' June 2- June 8, 1974 and the attending troubles
1974 Jun 2-1974 Jun 8
Box 8, Folder 33:9 Adams. Richard Newbold letters from Guatemala to various family members
1951
Box 8, Folder 33:10 Jottings on a 'who done it?': narrative (annotated)
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Box 8, Folder 33:11 Adams, Helen Newbold Spiller two letters to Thomas Randolph Adams from Guatemala
1951
Box 8, Folder 33:12 Account of Guatemala, by Helen Newbold Spiller Adams
1951