Columbia Manuscript Collections

Papers of a St. Louis lawyer who was a Democratic delegate-at-large to the Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1943-1944. He was elected president of the convention and played an active role in the campaign for the adoption of the constitution drawn up by that body. See also collection 17.

Papers of the president of the University of Missouri, 1935-1954, and member of Commission on Financing of Higher Education, Navy Civilian Advisory Board, board of visitors of naval academy and National Science Board. Correspondence, press releases, memoranda, reports, articles, pamphlets and newspaper articles.

The civic, professional, and social organization papers of Doris Crump Bradshaw include material pertaining to the League of Women Voters, Missouri Library Association, Fortnightly Club, Columbia Garden Club, and Daughters of the American Revolution. Active in the American Association of University Women, Bradshaw served as state legislative chairman, 1945-1949, and state social studies chairman, 1950-1951.

State, national and interfraternity correspondence of a national organization founded in 1905 in Columbia, Missouri, regarding establishment, development and expansion of FarmHouse Fraternity; chapter information including charter petitions; invoices; organization manuals; pledging handbooks and initiation procedures; miscellaneous materials.

The records of the Rural Sociological Society of America contain presidential and committee correspondence and include accounts of how some of the first rural sociologists became interested in the profession. Microfilm is available for Rural Sociology, the official quarterly.

Land grants, deeds, wills, and mortgages recorded in Boone County. Arranged chronologically by decade, alphabetically by seller within each decade.

Administrative, interdepartmental, and personal correspondence; minutes of meetings; administrative records; graduate files; applications for positions; federal relief programs; military training programs; university committees; Alpha Pi Zeta; Social Studies Council; and the semicentennial dinner.

Correspondence, printed brochures, pamphlets, periodicals, journals, and books of the Missouri East Conference, United Methodist Church, including papers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Evangelical United Brethren Church.

Correspondence, reports and pamphlets relevant to Governor's Task Force on Role of Private Higher Education in Missouri. Spencer was appointed to the Task Force by Governor Warren E. Hearnes in 1970.

Autobiographical writings covering author's childhood, adolescence, and adult life, but centering on World War I experiences in the Canadian Army. Preface, foreword, and completed manuscript, as well as preliminary drafts of some chapters.

Root, an educator, lawyer, and minister, lived in New York before moving to Columbia, MO, to become professor of English at the University. During his ten-year residence in Missouri, Root served in several capacities as educator and minister.

Sermon sketches, personal writings, speeches and newspaper clippings.

Printed materials concerning 1969 free speech controversy at the University of Missouri-Columbia, as well as supportive role of Lincoln University. Other material on student rights' march, Students for Democratic Society summer workshop and incidents at Lincoln University leading to issuing of temporary restraining order.

Tentative version of policy statement by the president of the University of Missouri regarding the University's future, role of each campus, and scope of individual campus programs. Includes ACE Roose-Anderson Report (1969) rating of graduate departments at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Questionnaire regarding age, status in school, sexual/medical needs, and personal concerns.

Two children's pamphlets by Pente; one brochure from Paper Products Manufacturing Company.

Tax receipt, post card, letter, and photographs.

To Penelope, from Columbia, MO, June 26, 1905.

Letter discusses local news and neighborhood events.

Report to the faculty on the problem of communication within the University, ways of improving communication and reasons for doing so. Compiled by ad hoc faculty committee.

Copies of eight letters from Clarence Cannon to Mr. And Mrs. Bradford Brett regarding political views as well as attempting to secure Bradford Brett a job with Yellowstone Park Company; letter to M.R. Holloran about political career. Letter to W.H. Thompson from J. Edgar Hoover.

Brief biography of the Reverend William Murphy, immigrant from Ireland to Virginia; family establishment in Farmington, MO; genealogical notes with details on Sarah Barton Murphy and her role in organizing the first church west of the Mississippi River; short history of Farmington and Ste. Genevieve, MO; and local events.

Genealogy of the Colonel Joseph Crockett family beginning in France in the 1600s when the family name was DeCrocketagni, and continuing into post-Revolutionary War period in America. Several sketches of individual family members.

To Harriet Brown, [Columbia], MO, from Hanover, [NH], 1971. Comments on manuscript collection; reactions to abolitionist John Brown; description of roommate in hospital where Riegel was undergoing therapy for arm and shoulder muscles; and reminiscence of Missouri summers.

Personal letters mentioning deaths, marriages, religious conversions, slave auctions, and events of local interest. Letters originate in Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, or Missouri.

Photographs of Vietnamese villages, Marine artillery and water buffalo.

Pamphlets and newspapers gathered during student strike and anti-war moratorium at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 15 October 1969. Materials present various views and positions regarding U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia and student attitudes toward this involvement.

Notes on Air Force experiences. Cross-country trip to Seattle and description of voyage from Seattle to Iwo Jima and situation at Iwo Jima.

Brief history of how the group was formed, its members, officers and projects, and the creation of an offspring chapter.

College of Arts and Science faculty newsletter resulting from concern over communications breakdown within University of Missouri-Columbia. Newsletter ceased publication when UMC-NEA chapter was organized and began publishing FAMILY PERSPECTIVES.

Three types of reports: 1) reports listing expenditures, number of faculty and students, value of property/equipment, and library holdings; 2) scholastic reports giving breakdown of students into various fields, kinds of degrees offered, and University's income; and 3) supplementary statistical reports. Reports for University and School of Mines.

Notes and writings on the Department of Dairy Husbandry at the University of Missouri Listings of chairmen/staff and teaching/research programs. Research projects, dairy extension project, and dairy production data for Missouri and the U.S.

Correspondence, program outlines and essays on benefits of home demonstration service, as well as early records of homemakers' clubs and home extension services in Missouri.

Mayor Cervantes' refutation of an article in LIFE magazine (May 29, 1970) attacking St. Louis and himself. Includes copies of telegrams, lawsuit filed, excerpts from article, profiles of those whom article attacks, and editorials by St. Louis news media.

Copy of address delivered by professor of history at the University of Missouri-Columbia on occasion of Jefferson birthday observance on April 13, 1971.

Pamphlet on proposed faculty club for the University of Missouri which gives building plans, building facilities and membership information.

Lists sermon topics for Sunday services and gives brief statements pertaining to them.

Minutes of Permanent Alumnae Rush Committee meetings. Topics discussed include organization and function of Committee, plans for computer rush, procedure for bid matching and rush schedule.

Miscellaneous papers, including post office receipts, estate administration deed, bills, numerical computations, a song, and recipe for ink.

Faculty committee report of attempts to reconcile student committee, faculty committee and administration regarding student demands. Also included is list of original student demands.

Two copies of engraving of campus in 1910. Done by W.T. Littig and Company, New York.

Account book of H. Naumann of Gray's Summit, of general merchandise sold each year. Also included are records of oats and wheat thrashed by Ernest Walters.

A paid political advertisement, "The True Davis Story" aimed at informing Missourians about Davis' background, experience, and political reputation during his 1968 campaign for Democratic nomination for U.S. senator from Missouri. The paper also gives Davis' views of the major campaign issues.

Records of a literary magazine published by the Department of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia for the purpose of printing poetry, fiction, and essays of general literary interest with a contemporary approach.

The collection contains honorary degree citations presented to Tennessee Williams, Frank Ackerman, and Walter Cronkite.

Peden, an English professor and fiction writer, gives views on various literary forms and comments on current short story market. Discussion of literary potential of Missouri environment. Concludes with major literary influences upon Peden.

Correspondence, manuscript poetry, and miscellaneous material of Earl L. Bradsher, professor of English and American literature at Louisiana State University. Among topics treated are nature, philosophy, literature and geographical areas. Poetry includes traditional verse, dialectal poetry, limericks and riddles.

Correspondence of the University of Missouri Speech Department, Delta Sigma Rho, Athenaean Literary Society, and Missouri High School Speech Association. Also includes debate data, newspaper clippings, photographs, and three forensic activities scrapbooks.

Papers of a University of Missouri professor, economist, and arbitrator. Arbitration cases and labor agreements, 1929-1971; U.S. Employment Service papers, 1935-1939; U.S. National War Labor Board, Wage Stabilization, 1942-1952; speeches and articles, 1932-1943; and miscellaneous materials.

Personal and political papers of a Democratic congressman from the 6th District of Missouri, who served in the 84th through 92nd Congresses.

Originals of scrapbooks were returned to Hull after filming. Originals of other papers are in possession of William Jewell and Park Colleges.

Correspondence, leases, maps, and miscellaneous material regarding the sale and leasing of land owned by the Department of Forestry at the time the Department was part of the College of Agriculture.

Correspondence, transcriptions of speeches, and pamphlets about newspaper libraries; correspondence and news coverage about publication of THE PRESIDENT'S WORDS; microfilm reports, copies of SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION FOR CLIPPING AND PICTURE FILES by Shoemaker; and office and World War II photographs.

Limited correspondence, invoices, cancelled checks, bank deposit slips, sales receipt books, time books, cash books, order books, day books, and ledgers of the Anchor Milling Company, Tuscumbia, MO.

The collection contains a record book from the Lexington Presbyterian Church listing original and new members; elders; births; deaths; baptisms, records of meetings; investigations, dismissals' division of church; and other church affiliations.

The papers of O.T. Coleman contain clippings; World War I envelopes with censor stamp; biography; reports on limestone grinding, soil, work for farmers on relief; letters about book reviews, articles, Missouri State Extension Service, nomination as fellow of American Society of Agronomy, awards; letters of commendation; appointment as extension professor emeritus.

Minutes of graduate committees, 1911-1967, and correspondence of the dean of the Graduate School with administrators, graduate faculty, graduate students, government officials, foundation officers, and alumni, 1930-1967.

Papers of a freelance writer. Collaboration with Vic Obeck in writing volume on isometric exercises; compilation and publication of THE HUMOR OF J.F.K., a collection of Kennedy quotations; and Military Air Transport Service material used in writing OVER THE HUMP with William H. Tunner.

Papers of a St. Louis journalist and organizer of the 1904 World's Fair. First section includes items from Reeves' early journalistic career. Bulk of papers in second section concerns Louisiana Purchase Exposition, related materials, and photographs.

Personal letters of William Maclaren Trenholme son of Louise Trenholme Stephens; U.S. naval officer, 1946-1947 and 1951-1953; physicist with General Electric Company, 1948 and 1954-1961; and nuclear physicist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961-1963.

As educator and administrator at the University of Missouri, English served as director of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, dean of the College of Arts and Science, and professor of history. Papers include personal correspondence and topical materials.

Primarily correspondence, retained in original filing system of six major sections: Extension, Forestry School Administration, Personnel, Research, Teaching, and University Administration.

Correspondence and minutes of the University of Missouri German Club and Modern Languages Division, some in English, some in German, partially translated, including programs, menus, elections, degree requirements, clippings, visitors, songs, photographs and five woodcuts for German Christmas cards.

Correspondence and clippings regarding Jesse James, Cole Younger, and Homer Croy. Also minute books and histories of churches in Jackson County, and a three-volume history of the George family.

Correspondence and financial records, including correspondence about the election of and personal histories of members of the chapter.

The collection contains reminiscences of Lieutenant Young, C.S.A., of Paris, KY, recounting the battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Dalton, Dallas, Atlanta and Jonesboro.

The collection contains church record book dating from 1824 to 1868. The records include the rules of decorum, the covenant, a list of members, reports of the monthly meetings, description of the welcoming of new members, raising money by subscription to build a church, decisions on church membership, and a typed index done by the donor.

Plat, description, and letters regarding land claims in New Madrid County entered by Henry Masters, George Ruddle, and Joseph Gravier.

The collection contains a statistical table, by county, of all churches in Missouri, giving the number of schools, teachers, and pupils for each county and denomination.

The collection contains recollections of Williams' Civil War experiences. A sergeant in an Ohio division, he enlisted at age 18 after teaching school in Elizabethtown, OH.

The collection contains a diploma from Hardin College, Mexico, MO.

The collection contains measured drawings (blueprints) by the Historic American Buildings Survey of Franklin School and Mount Vernon Church including plans, elevations, sections, and details.

The collection contains a blank form for applying for a Missouri ferry license in the 1870s.

The collection papers of the Ellsworth-Kilmer family contain deeds, letters, and receipts of two Stoddard County, MO, families.

The collection contains an account book of money collected by Bacon Chapel church subscription and kept by William O. Lowman. The subscription was for a new building.

The collection contains a cash book of the domestic money order office at the Rockview, MO, post office, July 1914 to August 1915; two pages from the record of money orders issued giving the remitter and payee, the amount of the order, and the date issued.

The collection contains letters between Attebery and the commanders of the U.S.S. ST. CLAIR COUNTY. A photograph of the ship is located in the editorial office of the State Historical Society of Missouri.

Civil War discharge of an African American private in the 3rd Regiment of the U.S. Colored Artillery.

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, mostly of a philosophical nature, kept by a resident of Kansas City, MO.

History of church compiled for its 100th anniversary by Alma Bridget; fragment of copy of letter from F.F. Audsley to his wife.

Letter from Simon Carson to William Carson regarding genealogy of the Carson family. Biographical sketch of Alethea Carson, wife of William Carson and daughter-in-law of Simon Carson.

Grant for 40 acres of land in Pulaski County, MO.

Act amendatory to an act entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Alexandria, Canton, Lagrange, and West Quincy Railroad," approved 18 February 1865.

Affidavit signed by John Miller concerning presidential election returns, November 1828, from Chariton and Howard Counties.

Defense warrants issued by the State of Missouri for five, ten, twenty and fifty dollars.

Appointment as honorary member of the Board of Centennial Managers, 1875, by Governor Hardin of Missouri. Notice of package received from St. Louis to William O. Mead, with charges of 30 cents due Adams Express Company.

Two letters containing historical information about the Battle of Spoonville, AR, and one contemporary letter describing it.

Article on the George Family cemetery near Oak Grove, MO, where four members of the George family who served under Quantrill are buried.

Bulletins and circulars of the Agricultural Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station on agricultural, horticultural, and home economics topics. Annual reports, announcements, and short course and Farmers' Week materials.

Organization and daily business of the University of Missouri's commercially operated television station. KOMU-TV was established in 1953 as an affiliate of the American Broadcasting Company and National Broadcasting Company.

The collection of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools contains University of Missouri school inspector's reports, annual accreditation reports to North Central Association, and miscellaneous materials.

Personal and political papers of a surgeon and Republican representative from the 7th Congressional District of Missouri, 1960-1972. Primarily constituent correspondence.

Original papers are at Drury College, Springfield, MO.

The papers of the Missouri Supreme Court Justice, 1942-1966, relate to his activities in the American Bar Association, Conference of Chief Justices, and MissouriBar Association, and in promulgating the Missouri Court plan, Missouri Constitution of 1945, and the Missouri Code. The collection also contains limited Hyde family papers and genealogical materials.

Card file compiled by Sarah Guitar, reference librarian of the State Historical Society of Missouri, as a guide to county boundaries of Missouri, 1812-1929; Missouri congressional district boundaries, 1845-1933; Missouri senatorial districts, 1820-1931; and Missouri judicial circuits, 1815-1915.

Annual reports for Missouri private schools including information on curriculum, teachers, requirements, and texts used, pamphlets, and related correspondence.

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, clippings, student papers, and articles of a professor of English at the University of Missouri. She taught classes on Mark Twain and Missouri literature and wrote several books and articles.

Applications for graduate studies of students who never attended. Collection incomplete: only includes names between Houdyshell and Samarrea.

Tapes and transcription of interview with the editor of the JOPLIN GLOBE and JOPLIN NEWS HERALD. Topics discussed include Rogers' background, role of news editors, contemporary issues in Missouri and America, civil rights, American political parties and the conflict between Missouri's urban and non-urban areas.

Tape and transcription of interview with editor of CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS. Topics include Dale's background, role of news, editor, government role in news media, civil rights, and contemporary issues in U.S. and Missouri.

Tape and transcripts of an interview with the editor of the Washington Missourian.

Audio and transcripts of an interview with the editor of Missouri's Mexico Ledger.

Diaries of student days at the University of Missouri, 1907-1908, and as a member of the Wednesday Club, Cape Girardeau, MO, 1911-1918; journal of a trip to a family reunion in West Virginia, 1961; two collections of poetry; and novelette about life in Illinois and Missouri in the 19th century.

Correspondence, minutes of meetings, resolutions, reports, membership lists. Material on tenure, vested retirement plans, academic freedom, students' rights, economic status of profession, faculty participation in political affairs and in university government, national and state annual meetings.