George Burton Adams papers

Collection

Call Number: MS 30

Scope and Contents: The George Burton Adams Papers consists of approcimately 6,000 items. Includes correspondence concerning English history, the Yale History Department, the relationship of graduate to undergraduate education at Yale and in general, the American Historical Association, and the American Historical Review. Includes correspondence with British and American historians.
Conditions Governing Access: The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use: Unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection are in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of George B. Adams and Ruth Adams, 1942.
Arrangement: The Papers of George Burton Adams are filed according to subjects provided by Adams and described in the inventory. The original arrangement provided by Adams has been retained. Because only a part of Adams' papers were given to the library, many of the numerical files are nonexistent. The original numbering has been preserved.