[0747] Charles Benedict Davenport Papers, 1874-1946, Mss.B.D27
Location: Library, American Philosophical Society, 105 S 5th St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3386
Description: The Charles B. Davenport Papers contains the professional correspondence of one of America's best known eugenicists during the period 1915 to 1935. Documenting all phases of Davenport's life and career, the collection is an invaluable resource for study of the history of the eugenics movement in America, the history of genetics, biometrics, and evolutionary thought during the early 20th century, and the history of the Biological Laboratory, the Carnegie Institution Department of Genetics, and the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor. Correspondents include American Eugenics Society, Clarence Gordon Campbell, Edwin Grant Conklin, Eugenics Record Office, Irving Fisher, Henry H. Goddard, C. M. Goethe, Madison Grant, Harry Hamilton Laughlin, Herman Lundborg, Jon Alfred Mjøen, Frederick Henry Osborn, Ernst Rüdin, Leon Whitney, and Albert Edward Wiggam.
Finding aids:
http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.D27-ead.xml
http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.D27-ead.xml
[0748] John A. Davenport papers, 1919-1987, Coll. 99018
Location: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010
Description: Davenport (1904-1987) was an economist, author, and journalist. Writings, correspondence, notes, memoranda, and printed matter, relating to economic conditions in the United States, laissez-faire and conservative political thought, right-to-work issues, and political conditions in southern Africa, especially Zimbabwe and South Africa. The Mont Pèlerin Society file consists of materials on meetings, newsletters, and Davenport's speeches and writings as a member of the Society. The National Right to Work Committee and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Committee files consist of materials relating to the labor question in the United States and reflect Davenport's contribution to both organizations. The series Correspondence, 1919-1986, contains correspondence with American Economic Foundation, Brent Bozell, William F. Buckley, James Buckley, Economists National Committee on Monetary Policy, James V. Forrestal, Foundation for Economic Education, Foundation for Free Enterprise, Milton Friedman, Paul Gottfried, Friedrich A. von Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Jesse Helms, Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College, Center for Constructive Alternatives, Human Events, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Intercollegiate Review, Jack Kemp, Henry Luce, Felix Morley, National Review, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Henry Regnery, and Stephen Tonsor. The series Writings by Others, 1961-1980, contains writings by Whittaker Chambers, Milton Friedman, Friedrich A. von Hayek, Will Herberg, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Irving Kristol, Henry R. Luce, Fritz Machlup, Sylvester Petro, Henry Regnery, Wilhelm Roepke, Ernest Van den Haag, and Ludwig von Mises.
Reference:
Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (New York: Viking, 2017).
Finding aid:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0s20098j/
[0749] Russell Wheeler Davenport Papers, 1899-1980 (bulk 1930-1954), MSS61549
Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Room LM 101, James Madison Memorial Bldg, Washington, D.C. 20540-4680
Description: Russell Wheeler Davenport (1899-1954) was an author, editor, and political activist. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, writings, speeches, research material, political files, biographical material, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Davenport's career as a writer and editor with Fortune and Life magazines, his involvement with the Republican Party, his work with the Institute for Creative Research, New York, N.Y., his writings including The Dignity of Man (1955), his service in World War I and II, and his personal life. Series II. General Correspondence, 1919-1956, contains files on William Benton, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Henry Cabot Lodge, Clare Boothe Luce, Henry R. Luce, Thruston B. Morton, Edgar M. Queeny, and Dorothy Thompson. Series III. Political File, 1934-1955, contains files on America First Committee; American Destiny Party meeting, 1941; Correspondence (Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Henry R. Luce, and Thruston Morton); Dwight D. Eisenhower; Fund for the Republic; Union Now; Wendell Willkie campaign; and Adolph Hitler. Series IV. Subject File, 1903-1972, contains files on American Mercury; Communist activity; Charles E. Coughlin; Everett Dirksen; Dumbarton Oaks; Anti-Semitism; Correspondence (William Benton, Clare Boothe Luce, Henry R. Luce, and Amos Pinchot); Freedoms Foundation, Inc., awards; Taft-Hartley Bill; Lease-Lend bill; Charles A. Lindbergh; Douglas MacArthur; Gerald P. Nye; America First; and World government.
Websites with information:
http://findingaids.loc.gov/browse/collections/d
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html
Finding aids:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003047
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003047.3
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2003/ms003047.pdf
[0750] Donald Grady Davidson Papers, 1906-1968 (bulk 1920's–1960's)
Location: Special Collections, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, 419 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203
Description: Davidson (1893-1968) was a U.S. poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author. He was an opponent of the New Deal and one of its projects, the Tennessee Valley Authority. The papers include correspondence and writings by Davidson as well as reviews, research materials, publications materials, publicity for books, legal and financial documents, family records, newspaper clippings and photographs, segregation materials, and manuscripts of writings by others. Box 41, Segregation Materials, includes folders on South, The News Magazine of Dixie, 1956-1957; Allen-Bradley Co.; American Legion; American Opinion; American Progress Foundation; Americans for Constitutional Action; American Progress; Major L. L. B. Angas; The John Birch Society; Christian Economics; Common Sense: The Nation's Anti-Communist Newspaper; and Citizens' Councils (1956 -1960). Box 42, Segregation Materials, includes issues of or folders on The Citizen Council (Citizens' Councils) between 1955 and 1961; The Cross and the Flag; Donald Davidson, A Comment on James Jackson Kilpatrick's The Sovereign States"; Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties (1955-1960); and East Tennessee Reporter (April 26, 1957-May 22, 1958). Box 43, Segregation Materials, contains issues of or folders on The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.; The Solid South; Free Men Speak; Harry Pollard Gamble; Grass Roots League, Inc.; J. Evetts Haley; Human Events; The Independent American; The Independent American - Interim Committee for Independent Political Action; Russell Kirk; Meador Publishing Co.; Herbert S. Phillips; Putnam Letters Committee; The Dan Smoot Report; Southern States Industrial Council; and States Rights Council of Georgia. Box 44, Segregation Materials, contains copies of or folders on Three Races Under God, by Grady Fowler (1956); Tennessee Federation for Constitutional Government; Tennessee Society to Maintain Segregation; The Virginian; The Wanderer (St. Paul, Minnesota); Richard Weaver; John Belding Wirt; Newspaper/Magazine Articles on Segregation (copies); Civil Rights Legislation; Miscellaneous Clippings on Segregation; Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi; The Citizens' Report; and Audrey M. Shuey, "The Testing of Negro Intelligence" (carbon copy). Box 48. Subject Files, contains files on TVA.
References:
Edward S. Shapiro, "Donald Davidson and the Tennessee Valley Authority: The Response or a Southern Conservative," Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter 1974), pp. 436-451; Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (New York: Viking, 2017).
Finding aids:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130603164718/http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/davidsond.shtml
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/findingaids/davidsond.pdf