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Correspondence is in alphabetical\n                order and can be found by surname and by the institute that the individual was\n                associated. Confidential material is placed alphabetically by topic at the end of\n                the collection.","William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.","The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["12805"],"normalized_title_ssm":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_ssim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was a gift to the University of Virginia Library from William W. 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Confidential material is placed alphabetically by topic at the end of\n                the collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is arranged alphabetically by topic. Correspondence is in alphabetical\n                order and can be found by surname and by the institute that the individual was\n                associated. Confidential material is placed alphabetically by topic at the end of\n                the collection."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review,\u003c/title\u003e was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are applications for grant proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records for conference and research related expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitations to various historical and personal celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 202 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on events leading up to the American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScores of new and resident students\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for candidates to hire\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. 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Abbot Papers","ca. 8150 items","Access restrictions apply to personally identifiable student records under the terms of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (F.E.R.P.A.).","The collection is arranged alphabetically by topic. Correspondence is in alphabetical\n                order and can be found by surname and by the institute that the individual was\n                associated. Confidential material is placed alphabetically by topic at the end of\n                the collection.","William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.","The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["12805"],"normalized_title_ssm":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_ssim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was a gift to the University of Virginia Library from William W. 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His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review,\u003c/title\u003e was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are applications for grant proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records for conference and research related expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitations to various historical and personal celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 202 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on events leading up to the American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScores of new and resident students\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for candidates to hire\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. 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His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.","The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["12805"],"normalized_title_ssm":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_ssim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was a gift to the University of Virginia Library from William W. 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His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review,\u003c/title\u003e was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are applications for grant proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records for conference and research related expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitations to various historical and personal celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 202 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on events leading up to the American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScores of new and resident students\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for candidates to hire\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. 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Correspondence is in alphabetical\n                order and can be found by surname and by the institute that the individual was\n                associated. Confidential material is placed alphabetically by topic at the end of\n                the collection.","William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.","The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["12805"],"normalized_title_ssm":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_ssim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was a gift to the University of Virginia Library from William W. 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His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review,\u003c/title\u003e was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are applications for grant proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records for conference and research related expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitations to various historical and personal celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 202 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on events leading up to the American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScores of new and resident students\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for candidates to hire\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. 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Abbot Papers","ca. 8150 items","Access restrictions apply to personally identifiable student records under the terms of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (F.E.R.P.A.).","The collection is arranged alphabetically by topic. Correspondence is in alphabetical\n                order and can be found by surname and by the institute that the individual was\n                associated. Confidential material is placed alphabetically by topic at the end of\n                the collection.","William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.","The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["12805"],"normalized_title_ssm":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_ssim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was a gift to the University of Virginia Library from William W. 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His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review,\u003c/title\u003e was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are applications for grant proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records for conference and research related expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitations to various historical and personal celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 202 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on events leading up to the American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScores of new and resident students\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for candidates to hire\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. 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Abbot Papers","ca. 8150 items","Access restrictions apply to personally identifiable student records under the terms of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (F.E.R.P.A.).","The collection is arranged alphabetically by topic. Correspondence is in alphabetical\n                order and can be found by surname and by the institute that the individual was\n                associated. Confidential material is placed alphabetically by topic at the end of\n                the collection.","William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.","The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["12805"],"normalized_title_ssm":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_ssim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was a gift to the University of Virginia Library from William W. 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His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review,\u003c/title\u003e was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are applications for grant proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records for conference and research related expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitations to various historical and personal celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 202 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on events leading up to the American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScores of new and resident students\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for candidates to hire\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. 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His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.","The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["12805"],"normalized_title_ssm":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_ssim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was a gift to the University of Virginia Library from William W. 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His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. 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He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are applications for grant proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records for conference and research related expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitations to various historical and personal celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 202 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on events leading up to the American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScores of new and resident students\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for candidates to hire\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. 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Correspondence is in alphabetical\n                order and can be found by surname and by the institute that the individual was\n                associated. Confidential material is placed alphabetically by topic at the end of\n                the collection.","William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.","The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["12805"],"normalized_title_ssm":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_ssim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was a gift to the University of Virginia Library from William W. 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His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review,\u003c/title\u003e was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are applications for grant proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records for conference and research related expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitations to various historical and personal celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 202 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on events leading up to the American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScores of new and resident students\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for candidates to hire\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. 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Correspondence is in alphabetical\n                order and can be found by surname and by the institute that the individual was\n                associated. Confidential material is placed alphabetically by topic at the end of\n                the collection.","William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.","The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["12805"],"normalized_title_ssm":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_ssim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was a gift to the University of Virginia Library from William W. 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His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review,\u003c/title\u003e was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are applications for grant proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records for conference and research related expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitations to various historical and personal celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 202 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on events leading up to the American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScores of new and resident students\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for candidates to hire\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. 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Correspondence is in alphabetical\n                order and can be found by surname and by the institute that the individual was\n                associated. Confidential material is placed alphabetically by topic at the end of\n                the collection.","William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.","The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["12805"],"normalized_title_ssm":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"collection_ssim":["William W. Abbot Papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was a gift to the University of Virginia Library from William W. 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His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review,\u003c/title\u003e was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["William W. Abbot (1922-2009) a native of Louisville, Georgia and a long time\n                resident of Virginia was an admired and world famous historian, professor, scholar,\n                administrator, and editor. His career spanned nearly fifty years and he was\n                described as a \"man of letters,\" and an editor of great skill, knowledge, and tact.\n                Colleagues also described him as possessing \"gentlemanly good humor and decent human\n                concern, much valued during his stints as chairman.\" He was also known for his \"acts\n                of personal and professional generosity.\" He changed many lives by offering his\n                support to graduate students, working in their best interests to improve their\n                writing and find respectable history positions for them throughout the country.","He was the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington and an expert in early\n                American History. He attended Davidson College and graduated from the University of\n                Georgia in 1943, whereupon he entered the United States Navy. Using the G. I. Bill,\n                he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Duke University in 1953.\n                He taught at William and Mary from 1953 to 1962; Northwestern University\n                1958-1959; Rice University 1962 and returned to William and Mary from 1963 to\n                1966. He edited the William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to 1966 and the Journal of\n                Southern History from 1960 to 1961. He was among the founders of the Association for\n                Documentary Editing. In 1966 he was recruited by the University of Virginia to be\n                the James Madison Professor of History. In addition to teaching and editing, he\n                served twice as the chairman of the Corcoran Department of History at the University\n                of Virginia.","He retired from the University of Virginia in 1992, although he continued to edit\n                individual volumes of the Washington Papers until 1998, when nearly fifty volumes\n                were in print. He was the author of two books, \"The Royal Governors of Georgia,\n                1754-1775,\" and \"The Colonial Origins of the United States,\n                1607-1763,\" and a number of articles.","He was president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, served on the councils of\n                the Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Southern Historical\n                Association. For twenty years, he was on the board of editors of  The Virginia Quarterly Review,  was a member of the\n                Gridiron Club at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia's honorary\n                Raven Society.","The College of William and Mary awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1998,\n                and the Virginia Historical Society made him a life member. He was best known for\n                his work as chief editor of The Papers of George Washington (1977-1992).\n                According to his son, Abbot believed that \"his chief contribution as a teacher and\n                historian came from the attentive reading and detailed responses that he gave over\n                the years to the writing of his students and fellow historians.\" The personal and\n                professional correspondence in this collection does indeed confirm that he spent\n                much of his time reading and offering helpful advice to thousands of writers."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["William W. Abbot Papers, Accession #12805, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are applications for grant proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records for conference and research related expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitations to various historical and personal celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 202 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes for History 201 lecture course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on events leading up to the American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScores of new and resident students\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommendations for candidates to hire\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enrolled students and their grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. Hereford is also\n                                a correspondent\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection contains the professional, academic and personal papers of William W.\n                Abbot, James Madison Professor of History and Editor of the Papers of George\n                Washington at the University of Virginia. The collection is from 1953 to 1996 and is\n                about 8,150 items, 26 hollinger boxes, and 10 linear feet. It consists of department\n                and personal correspondence with historians, university colleagues, students,\n                friends and academic organizations throughout the United States and around the\n                world. There are also financial papers, lecture notes, reviews, speeches,\n                organization records associated with Abbot's activities while at William and Mary\n                and the University of Virginia, a typescript of his writing, \"The Colonial\n                Beginnings of the United States 1607-1763,\" and communications with\n                publishers relating to books and articles he authored.","Correspondents include University of Virginia Presidents Edgar F. Shannon, Frank L.\n                Hereford, Robert O'Neil, and John Casteen. Other University of Virginia\n                correspondents include Melvin Leffler, David A.Shannon, Merrill D. Peterson, Francis\n                L. Berkeley, Jr., Robert D. Cross, Fredson Bowers, and William Kelso.","There are also papers and correspondence of numerous organizations including the\n                American Council of Learned Societies, Institute of Early American History and\n                Culture, American Historical Association, American Studies Program at the University\n                of Virginia, Atlas of Early American History, Association for Documentary Editing,\n                Society of the Cincinnati, Conference on the Northwest Ordinance, fraternities,\n                Georgia Historical Society, Journal of Southern History, Library of Virginia,\n                Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Annual Stratford Hall Seminar, National\n                Endowment for the Humanities, City University of New York, New-York Historical\n                Society, Organization of American Historians, Potomac River Basin Consortium, Social\n                Studies yearbook, the Southern Historical Association, the University of Virginia\n                including the Faculty Senate, the Corcoran Department of History, the graduate\n                committee, Arts and Sciences, the Public Occasions Committee, the University Press\n                of Virginia, the Papers of George Washington, the Papers James Monroe, and the\n                Papers of George Mason; the United States Navy, Virginia Historic Landmarks\n                Commission, and information about other universities.","There are numerous materials that are confidential including recommendation letters,\n                selection committee papers, information about promotions and salaries, the\n                sesquicentennial committee, student papers, grades, and roll books.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, James\n                                Morton Smith, Gordon S.Wood, Susan Lee Foard, Thad W. Tate, Stephen\n                                G. Kurtz, Richard \"Dick\" Maxwell Brown, James H. Hutson, Norman S.\n                                Fiering, and Michael McGiffert. There are also minutes from the\n                                annual meeting.","Correspondents include Norman S. Fiering, Alfred F.Young, Mary Maples\n                                Dunn, Thad W. Tate, and Sydney V. James. There are letters from the\n                                Newberry Library. Included are book reviews from William and Mary\n                                and minutes from the Executive Meeting of the Council.","Thad W. Tate, Philip Greven, Sydney V. James, Alfred F.Young. There\n                                is information about the procedures for a Nominating Committee and a\n                                proposed budget report.","Correspondents include Lester J. Cappon, Elizabeth Suttell, Andrew\n                                Forest Muir, William H. Masterson, William H. \"Bill\" Nelson, and S.\n                                W. Higginbotham. There are also annual reports for the journal.","Correspondents include Samuel P. Hays and William H. Masterson","Included are handwritten notes by Bill Abbot","Correspondents include Richard L. Watson, Jr., and William H.\n                                Cartwright who were editing a book that Mr. Abbot was writing about\n                                American History. Included are typescripts from the book","Included are applications for grant proposals","There is correspondence from Milo V. Stewart about the Society and\n                                conferences it sponsored","Correspondents include Thomas D. Clark, R. Nicholas Olsberg, Jack P.\n                                Greene, about papers being submitted for conferences. Included is a\n                                paper by Richard Ryerson : The Institutional Response to Crisis\n                                Politics\"","There is correspondence from Bennett H. Wall, John J. Rumbarger,\n                                Michael McGiffert, Richard S. Kirkendall, Richard G. Hewlett, Edward\n                                Pessen, Carl Parrini, and Thomas C. Holt about the Charles Thomson\n                                Prize Contest","Correspondents include David A. Shannon, Frank L. Hereford, Gilbert\n                                Gude, U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, Jr., Harvey H. Jackson, Edwin E.\n                                Floyd, Robert H. Hartman, and Paul C. Nagel","Correspondents include Martin Havran, Clifford Lewis, John Sanderson\n                                du Mont, H. Bartholomew Cox, Thad W. Tate, and Richard H. Beeman","Correspondence from Clarence A. Bacote, Alonzo T. Stephens, Charles\n                                H. Wesley about which papers would be presented at the SHA\n                                Conference","There is correspondence from Gerald E. Critoph who was organizing the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Correspondence of Charles F. Delzell who was the organizer of the\n                                sessions at the SHA Conference","Included is the correspondence of SHA Conference organizer Charles\n                                Dew and Richard B. Sherman","Correspondence of David H. Donald who organized an SHA Conference","Correspondence of Joe B. Frantz, chairman of joint conference with\n                                the American Association for State and Local History and the\n                                Southern Historical Association in 1968","Included is the correspondence of Stephen G. Kurtz, one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Arthur S. Link, president of the SHA and one of the\n                                organizers of the SHA Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of James McPherson, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of David Shannon, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Jack TePaske, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Correspondence of Bennett H. Wall, Secretary-Treasurer of the\n                                Southern Historical Association","Correspondence of C. Vann Woodward, one of the organizers of the SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans in 1968","Included is general correspondence about the 1968 SHA Conference in\n                                New Orleans and the 1971 SHA Conference in Houston. There is an SHA\n                                Annual Report (1970-1971) and the SHA's Fiftieth Anniversary\n                                Program in 1984. There are also scholarly papers by Martin H. Quitt\n                                (\"From Elite to Aristocracy\" and Warren M. Billings, \"The\n                                Development of Political Institutions in Virginia,\n                                1634-1676)","Included are Professor Abbot's request to serve on the Executive\n                                Council for the SHA, reports for the November 1978 Executive Council\n                                meetings, and minutes for the December 3, 1980, January 20, 1981,\n                                and December 7, 1981 Executive Council meetings.","Included is a progress report for new members in 1976 and\n                                correspondence concerning increasing SHA's membership.","Abstracts of papers to be discussed in sessions at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans","Correspondence and planning for the SHA Conference in New Orleans in\n                                November 1977 are included. Also contains the proposal selection\n                                process for the Conference sessions to be held","Included are requests for corrections to the memorandum for the 1968\n                                SHA Conference in New Orleans.","Contains a paper and edits summarizing what happened at the 1968 SHA\n                                Conference in New Orleans.","There is a program of the sessions held, report of the Program\n                                Committee, memorandum, expenses, and general correspondence\n                                concerning the 1968 SHA Conference in New Orleans. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Sanford Higginbotham, Bennett Wall, Dumas\n                                Malone, and Neva Armstrong.","Notes relating to Abbot's session for which he presided at the 1982\n                                SHA Conference in Memphis","Brief reports of the sessions at the 1968 SHA Conference held in New\n                                Orleans","There is correspondence on the new Committee on the Status of Women\n                                Historians in the Southern Historical Association. Also included is\n                                correspondence from Charles P. Roland, Carol Bleser, Jimmie\n                                Franklin, Paul Nagel, and Joseph Tregle.","Included is an an Honorable Discharge Certificate, Annual\n                                Qualifications Questionnaires, Officer's Qualification Reports, and\n                                an Appointment Acknowledgement to the permanent rank of\n                                Lieutenant.","Included is Abbot's appointment to associate professor at Rice\n                                University and correspondence relating to editing various reports\n                                and volumes for The Journal of Southern History.","Included is correspondence regarding the move back to Williamsburg,\n                                research project in South Carolina, and career switch to editor of\n                                the William and Mary Quarterly.","Included is a letter thanking Professor Abbot for editing a paper by\n                                Harvey H. Jackson.","Included is correspondence of the evaluation committee for the\n                                University of New Hampshire's proposed Ph.D. program in History and\n                                the written proposal.","Includes an article about Abbot's \"Summer on the Lawn\" speech","Includes a report on admissions for the 1965-1966 academic\n                                year, a list of new faculty members in 1966, correspondence relating\n                                to the various committees in which Abbot was involved including the\n                                Committee on Educational Policy and the Budget and the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Included are correspondence, notes, and a proposal for the founding\n                                of the Center. Also contains correspondence about searching for a\n                                director","Included are notes about meetings and a report of the Committee on\n                                Educational Policy and the Budget. There are letters of gratitude\n                                from Weldon Cooper and Joseph H. McConnell for the committee's help\n                                on the nomination of Frank L. Hereford as the next President of the\n                                University.","Includes the Report of Committee on student representatives at\n                                Faculty Meetings and notes relating to chairing and the meetings of\n                                this committee","Includes meeting minutes, nominations to Senate committees, the\n                                revised and proposed grievance procedures; new Senate Committee on\n                                Faculty Relations, the Report of a Special Committee on the\n                                University Senate, and proposals for programs in General\n                                Linguistics, Religious Studies, Accounting, and Biomedical\n                                Engineering.","Includes notes from the committee investigating the process for\n                                awarding degrees in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences,\n                                notes on a Center of Editorial and Textual Study, and meeting\n                                minutes of the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate. Also of note\n                                are papers concerning the Nomination Committee of the next\n                                University President, including a letter informing Abbot of his\n                                election to this committee.","There are notes for Faculty Senate meetings. Of note are\n                                correspondence about Nominations for the Board of Visitors and a\n                                list of Administrative Committees, and notes about a proposed\n                                interdisciplinary University major.","Includes notes on courses relating to the Center for Textual and\n                                Editorial Studies, a revised report of the Graduate Program:\n                                Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures, a report of the Graduate\n                                Curriculum Revision Committee, notes regarding fellowships, a list\n                                of applicants for teaching positions in the history department, and\n                                a list of courses offered for history graduate students for the Fall\n                                1973 semester.","Contains a Report on Student Representation, graduate courses offered\n                                in 1972-1973, requirements for history majors, notes on\n                                course registration, applicants and notes on teaching positions,\n                                papers on curriculum revision, and notes for Committee on M.A.\n                                Requirements and Related Matters.","Includes papers about Professor Abbot becoming Chairman of the\n                                department, history courses offered 1968-1969, report of The\n                                College Honors Program at the University of Virginia in 1968, report\n                                of The Graduate Program: Requirements, Regulations, and Procedures,\n                                and an Evaluation of the Corcoran History Department","Includes Professor Abbot's report on his observations of the\n                                University of South Carolina's history department, the history\n                                department 1977 newsletter, correspondence about the search for a\n                                new associate professor, a proposal of a course evaluation system,\n                                and a request for Professor Abbot to continue to be on the Thomas\n                                Jefferson Fellows Committee.","Includes correspondence relating to book orders and research needs of\n                                the history department, departmental library funds allocations, and\n                                a report of the Library Committee on recommendations for improvement\n                                and the library's current state.","Includes reports about the library to the Board of Visitors, reports\n                                of the University Library Committee, 1970-1971 Annual Report\n                                for the University Library, a Library Space Proposal for expanding\n                                the library facilities, and a report of the Need for a\n                                Science-Technology Library and Information Center.","Includes information and a proposal for the 1967 Summer NDEA\n                                Institute in US History.","Includes minutes of the meeting of the Administrative Board for the\n                                Papers of George Mason and the 1966 Annual Report.","Contains the 1977 Annual Report, proposal for a comprehensive edition\n                                of the Papers of George Washington and the report from the\n                                University committee about it, recommendations from various editors\n                                of similar papers (including Julian P. Boyd of the Thomas Jefferson\n                                Papers and L.H. Butterfield of the Adams Papers), the progress\n                                reports of these respective papers, and an article from the\n                                Washington Post about editing the George Washington Papers.","Includes a proposed budget for the Washington Papers, recommendations\n                                from editors of similar papers, correspondence with the Mount Vernon\n                                Ladies Association of the Union concerning their grant for the\n                                editing of the Washington Papers, and notes on the conference\n                                \"George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry\" in 1989.","Includes notes on the James Monroe Papers Conference, a paper on the\n                                James Monroe Materials by the National Historical Publications\n                                Commission, and a suvery of the James Monroe Papers by William\n                                Ray.","Includes reports for 1966, 1967, and 1968, meeting minutes of the\n                                Board of Directors, and reviews of books and manuscripts.","Includes a report for 1969, meeting minutes of the Board of\n                                Directors, a report ( the University Press Since 1962,) and notes on\n                                books and manuscripts.","Includes reviews of manuscripts, the text of Pat H. Butler's\n                                manuscript This World and the Next in Old Deerfield, and a proposal\n                                for the Writing of a History of Virginia Since 1865.","Includes meeting minutes and notes on Founder's Day and Finals for\n                                1973-1984.","Includes the 1970 and 1972-1974 Annual Reports, notes on the\n                                Emily Clark Balch Contest, and correspondence about searching for a\n                                new editor in 1973-1974.","Includes notes on the Emily Clark Balch Contest, the 1976, 1977,\n                                1979, 1981, and 1982 Annual Reports, and the Board of the VQR\n                                meeting notes.","Includes notes from the Visiting Scholars Subcommittee on their\n                                program and notes from the Sesquicentennial Associate Selection\n                                Committee for the Associateship Program.","Includes notes from the Sesquicentennial Associateships Program for\n                                1974-1975 and 1975-1976.","Includes nominations for visiting scholars, notes about proposed\n                                minor changes to the program, and comments on possible scholars.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Virginia\n                                Research Center for Historical Archaeology, a report of the\n                                Archaeology Program at the College of William and Mary, a resolution\n                                to protect the site of the remains of a Revolutionary War shipwreck\n                                and a related Survey Report, and a bill proposal about underwater\n                                historic preservation.","Includes a report on the Organization and Methods Study of the\n                                Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, meeting minutes of the\n                                Advisory Committee, VCRA 1980 and 1982 Newsletters, a report on the\n                                Virginia Research Center for Archaeology in the 1980's, and a report\n                                of Evaluation: Historic Landmarks Commission Proposal to Reorganize\n                                its Survey and Planning Function.","Includes meeting minutes of the Advisory Committee, a bill proposal\n                                about underwater historic preservation, a report from the Council of\n                                Virginia Archaeologists, newspaper articles about excavation sites\n                                around Virginia (including a shipwreck in the York River,) a\n                                progress report for a Gloucester County site, and forms to register\n                                sites as National Historic Places.","Includes a report on the State of the Virginia Research Center for\n                                Archaeology 1976-1977 and meeting minutes from the Advisory\n                                Committee.","Includes plans and notes on the 1978-1984 Virginia Society of\n                                History Teachers conferences.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's volume on Colonial\n                                America for the American Republic series.","Correspondence about the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture\n                                Conference in October 1969.","Includes a proposal and report for a PhD History program at the\n                                College of William and Mary and notes about the history course The\n                                Literature of Recent American History.","Correspondence and notes about Professor Abbot's article \"Low Country\n                                Back Country.\" Also includes the text of this article.","Financial records for conference and research related expenses.","Financial records relating to travel for work, salary, and personal\n                                expenses.","Professor Abbot's reviews of papers and evaluations of grant\n                                proposals. Several grant proposals are also included.","Invitations to various historical and personal celebrations.","Notes for Constitutional History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for Virginia History lecture course in 1960.","Notes for American Revolution lecture course in 1959.","Notes for History 202 lecture course.","Included are assorted notes on early Virginia history for the\n                                Revolutionary War History lecture courses","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes for History 201 lecture course.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution.","Notes on various lecture topics, including events leading up to the\n                                American Revolution and how historians view the Revolution now.","Notes on events leading up to the American Revolution.","Legal documents including a publishing agreement for Professor Abbot\n                                to be Editor-in-Chief of the George Washington Encyclopedia, a\n                                letter from the White House about the newly established American\n                                Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and a letter offering Professor\n                                Abbot the position of James Madison Professor of American History at\n                                UVA.","Typescript of the manuscript\" My Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson\" by\n                                Dumas Malone.","Typescript of William Abbot's manuscript \"The Colonial Beginnings of\n                                the United States, 1607-1763.\"","Correspondence about publishing Professor Abbot's manuscripts.","Correspondence about revisions and publishing Professor Abbot's\n                                manuscript.","Correspondence about Paul Taylor's manuscript \"Georgia Plan:\n                                1732-1752\"","Included are newspaper clippings about Professor Abbot and his\n                                colleagues.","Papers titled, \"Religion and the Republic: The Search for Religious\n                                Liberty in a Christian Commonwealth, 1776-1854\" by W. G.\n                                McLoughlin and \"The Legitimizing of Violence in the Revolutionary\n                                Era: The American Revolution and American Violence\" by Richard\n                                Maxwell Brown (including comments from Professor Abbot).","Includes papers by Jack P. Greene, Richard Maxwell Brown, and William\n                                Abbot.","Includes papers by Charlyn Ryll, Patricia Molen, Gary Lord, Robert A.\n                                Murdock, James L. Anderson, James E. Chrismer, and E.D.\n                                Robertson.","Includes papers by William B. Bedford, Donald S. Spencer, Steven H.\n                                Hochman, Richard E. Ellis, Charlyn Ryll, Judy Wellman, Carl S.\n                                Matthews, and John B. Boles.","Documents relating to Professor Abbot's retirement. Includes a letter\n                                from the Board of Visitors electing Professor Abbot to Professor\n                                Emeritus.","Appraisal requests for manuscripts and Professor Abbot's\n                                recommendations.","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor's Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals","Professor Abbot's reviews of articles, papers, books, and project\n                                proposals.","Includes correspondence about up-coming speeches and typed and\n                                handwritten scripts for speeches about the George Washington Papers,\n                                the article \"Lowcountry, Backcountry: Georgia in the American\n                                Revolution,\" and Professor Abbot's views on the study of\n                                history.","Professor Abbot's vitas and project proposal for researching\n                                post-American Revolutionary South Carolina, dating from his time at\n                                Rice University.","Correspondence and report relating to the search for a new Dean of\n                                Afro-American Affairs and Assistant Provost.","Report on Nomination of a President, meeting minutes of the Faculty\n                                Senate, correspondence between members of the Nominating Committee,\n                                and notes and views about the duties and requirements of the next\n                                President.","Reports from the Faculty Senate Committee and the Student Committee\n                                on Nomination of a President, report on the nominees for President\n                                from the Special Committee of the Faculty Senate, and the formal\n                                nomination of Frank Hereford, Jr. for President.","Correspondence and reports relating to issues of conflict within the\n                                Faculty and Annual Reports of the Senate Committee on Faculty\n                                Relations for 1981-1983.","Reports relating to the proposal to allow student representation at\n                                Faculty meetings","Grades of students in Professor Abbot's history courses","Correspondence between students and Professor Abbot about grades and\n                                requests to continue to the doctorate level of study in history","Correspondence regarding an accusation of racial prejudice in the\n                                George Washington Papers","Reports and correspondence relating to the promotion to tenured\n                                associate professor of history department faculty members","Scores of new and resident students","Recommendations for candidates to hire","Correspondence and reports relating to the promotion of Dorothy Ross\n                                to professor of history","Correspondence regarding the nomination of the History Department\n                                chair and recommendations for promotions to full professorship of\n                                History Department faculty members.","Correspondence between Professor Abbot and the administration at the\n                                Library of Virginia recommending that the Library keep its archives\n                                with the Library instead of separating them","Correspondence regarding promotions in the History Department and in\n                                the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole","Requests from institutions for recommendations to fill positions.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","List of enrolled students and their grades.","Professor Abbot's salary for NDEA History Institute","Professor Abbot's salary at the College of William and Mary","Report of salaries at the Institute of Early American History and\n                                Culture","Correspondence amongst the Selection Committee for the faculty awards\n                                for 1971-1973.","Correspondence relating to the Sesquicentennial faculty awards for\n                                1972-1973.","Correspondence of the committee charged with finding the successor to\n                                Edwin E. Floyd, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee\n                                members include William W. Abbot, Jeanne C. Biggar, Hugh M.\n                                Davidson, Robert H. Kretsinger, and Richard T. Selden, Willard W.\n                                Harrison, and Audrey D. Jordan. President Frank L. 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