Frank Snowden Hopkins Notes (MS270)

Access and use

Location of collection:
Alexandria Library
Alexandria Library
Local History/Special Collections
717 Queen Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Patricia Walker, Branch Manager
Phone: (703) 746-1719
Phone: (703) 838-4577
Fax: (703) 706-3912
Preferred citation:

[Item identification], Frank Snowden Hopkins Notes, MS270, Alexandria Library, Local History/Special Collections, Alexandria, VA.

Summary

Extent:
.16 Linear Feet 1 box
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Item identification], Frank Snowden Hopkins Notes, MS270, Alexandria Library, Local History/Special Collections, Alexandria, VA.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains the family history research notes and manuscripts of Frank Snowden Hopkins. The focus is on his mother's (Selina Lloyd Hepburn Hopkins) family.

This folder contains a manuscript titled "The Ninety-Two Years of Selina L. Hopkins 1878-1970: A Family Memoir" as well as notes, letters, and receipts surrounding the writing of the memoir, collected and arranged by her children Nina, Sewell, Frank, and Rebecca.

This folder contains a manuscript of the genealogy of Powell and Lloyd families as told by Frank Snowden Hopkins, focusing on the genealogy of his mother, Selina Lloyd Hepburn Hopkins.

This folder contains a variety of notes on the genealogy of the Powell, Lloyd, Sewell, Maslin, and Harper families, as written by Frank Snowden Hopkins.

Biographical / historical:

Frank Snowden Hopkins (Journalist, author, and philosopher) was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, to Selina Lloyd Hepburn and Nicholas Snowden Hopkins in 1908. A Neiman Fellow at Harvard, Frank went on to become a reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Baltimore Sun. From 1945-1951, he served as the Deputy Director of the Foreign Service Institute. From 1951-1975, he worked as a foreign service agent. From 1975 to his death, he served as vice president of the World Future Society.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged by manuscript, to which there are 2, plus a single folder of miscellaneous notes by the author.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard