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Clifford Lewis III Papers, Manuscript MS 2000.99, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Gift, 2000.
Clifford Lewis III, a native of Pennsylvania, was a stockbroker by occupation, a historian by avocation. He married twice, first to Mary Butler (d.1970). After her death, he married Virginia Gibson Bullitt (d.1979).
Research materials compiled by Clifford Lewis III (b.1904-d. 2000), including notebooks containing summaries of his research; publications which resulted from Lewis's research and correspondence concerning his publications; photographs and negatives of research sites and family members; materials regarding his research related affiliations; also, correspondence with researchers, libraries and booksellers, family members.
This collection has been organized into 7 series:
Series 1. Affiliations Series 2. Correspondence Series 3. Research Notebooks Series 4. Photographs and Negatives Series 5. Publications Series 6. Research Materials Series 7. Oversize MaterialsLewis's affiliation with the following organizations is documented in this series: Maryland Historic Trust (1974-1989), Maryland Historical Society (1933-35), St. Mary's County (Maryland) Historic Society (1975-1992), and The Society of Architectural Historians (1956-1975).
Includes correspondence, an annual report, a brochure, and newsletters.
Includes correspondence and a magazine.
Includes certificates and an invitation.
Includes a magazine and research information.
Includes a magazine and conference materials.
This series contains correspondence between Lewis and various researchers and research institutions, and family members. Primary correspondents included: Francis L. Berkeley, Jr. (1953-1954), Burford Butcher (1936-1937), Lucy Drucker (1937-1940), Margaret Franklin (1965-66), Peter Guilday and William Kelley, (1941-1960), Mary Hoss Headman (1933-1937), F.H.T. Jervoise (1939-1956), Walter J. Kaye (1934), Philip C. Plowden (1932-1969), and Hilda S. Reid (1935-36).
Arranged alphabetically by major correspondent with miscellanous correspondence and some financial records at the end.
Correspondence, notes concerning Beauchamp Plantagenet research.
Correspondence concerning Sir Edmund Plowden research.
Correspondence and notes concerning Sir Edmund Plowden research.
Correspondence and notes concerning Plowden family genealogy.
Correspondence and notes concerning Keller's dissertation on Sir Edmund Plowden.
Correspondence and notes concerning the New Albion settlement attempt.
Correspondence concerning Sir Thomas Jervoise.
Correspondence and notes concerning the New Albion settlement attempt.
Correspondence on various topics.
Correspondence and notes concerning Plowden family genealogy.
Correspondence concerning the New Albion settlement attempt.
Contains correspondence and receipts related to research efforts.
Contains items related to research interests, newspaper clippings, notes, and a 1989 Villanova University grade report.
These notebooks were used by Lewis to summarize or organize aspects of his research findings.
Research compilation and related notes and correspondence.
Research compilation and related manuscripts copies and notes.
This series contains photographs and negatives of manuscripts Lewis was researching, including A Direction for Adventurers and "The Finest Part of America." It also contains images of locations such as Plowden Hall and Middle Temple Hall in England, Bushwood and Resurrection manors in Maryland, and of individuals including Lewis himself, and "Patrick and Rachel," surname unidentified.
Photographed from a 1641 document.
1784 document.
Original letter dated 1656.
Several publications emerged from Lewis' research. Copies of the publications, related correspondence and notes for the following publications by Lewis: "Some Notes on Sir Edmund Plowden and his Province of New Albion" (c.1937); an entry for the Dictionary of American History titled "Plowden's New Albion" (1938); "Some Extracts Relating to Sir Edmund Plowden and Others from the Lost Minutes of the Virginia Council and General Court 1642-1645" in the William and Mary Historical Quarterly (January 1940); a talk to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society titled "Plowden's New Albion" (c.1956); "Sir Edmund Plowden and the New Albion Charter, 1632-1782" in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography" (April 1959).
Includes correspondence and advertisements for the Dictionary.
Draft copies.
Draft of the address.
Copy of offprint, drafts.
Contains correspondence and notes.
Reprints of publication, drafts.
Draft copy.
Correspondence and notes.
Research materials concern Sir Edmund Plowden (1590-1659), a member of the English aristocracy who was granted a charter in the seventeenth century to colonize present day Maryland, Delaware, and New York, an area Plowden called New Albion; also research covers colonial Maryland's history; the geography of the Middle Atlantic; the genealogy of the Plowdens and related families from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth century.
Correspondence, notes and a brochure.
Articles.
Correspondence, notes and library publications.
Finding aid and survey reports.
Correspondence, notes and articles.
Notes and articles.
Correspondence, notes, articles and photostats.
Correspondence: "Beauchamp Plantagenet's identity."
Correspondence: "English search."
Correspondence: "English search."
Correspondence: "Successful."
Correspondence: "Failures."
Correspondence: "Failures."
Photostat copy of Description and related articles and notes.
Correspondence and notes.
Correspondence, notes and articles.
Correspondence, reports and notes.
Article and notes.
Draft article by C.A. Weslager, correspondence and notes.
Correspondence and notes.
Court records.
Correspondence, maps, articles and notes.
Correspondence.
Maps, articles and notes.
Correspondence and articles.
Correspondence and notes.
Correspondence.
Correspondence, notes and articles.
Maps and brochures.
Articles and notes.
Draft article by C.A. Weslager, correspondence and notes.
Correspondence and notes.
Notes.
Articles.
Correspondence, notes and articles.
Correspondence, notes and articles.
Notes.
Notes.
Copies of articles, bible records, correspondence, notes, pedigree charts and reports.
Photocopies of articles.
Bible records.
Correspondence.
Notes.
Pedigree charts.
Reports.
Correspondence, notes and photocopies of manuscripts.
Reports.
Articles, correspondence, notes and reports.
Articles.
Correspondence.
Notes and reports.
Correspondence and articles.
Correspondence, articles and notes.
Brochures, maps, guides and correspondence.
Correspondence, notes and articles.
Graduate school term paper.
Articles and correspondence.
Correspondence and notes.
Correspondence, notes and a photocopy of a manuscript.
Correspondence, notes and articles.
Correspondence and notes.
Correspondence, notes and articles.
Correspondence, notes and articles.