Marshall Smelser Papers

Inventory.

Preferred Citation

Marshall Smelser Papers (SME), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556

Scope and Content

Correspondence with Eugene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, and others; diaries, financial records, legal documents, manuscripts, memoranda, research and writing notes, sheet music, teaching material, booklets, and clippings; concerning his career as a history professor, his travels, his political activities, his research, his advice to the administration of Cardinal Newman College, and his lifelong interest in baseball.

Also the manuscript of his book The Winning of Independence (1971); and index cards containing research notes for his courses and his books The Campaign for the Sugar Islands, 1759 (1955), The Congress Founds the Navy (1959), The Democratic Republic: 1801-1815 (1968), and The Life that Ruth Built: A Biography (1975).

Background

Historian, professor at the University of Notre Dame, and biographer of Babe Ruth.

Index :

 Smelser, Marshall. 
 Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948. 
 United States -- History. 
 United States. Navy 
 Cardinal Newman College. 
 McCarthy, Eugene, 1916- 
 The Winning of Independence.  Manuscript.

• CSME Marshall Smelser: Manuscripts
  • CSME 1-03 Series : Correspondence
    • CSME 1-02 Subseries : General Correspondence filed by year
      • CSME 1/01 Folder : Correspondence 1971
      • CSME 1/02 Folder : Correspondence 1971
      • CSME 1/03 Folder : Correspondence 1971
      • CSME 1/04 Folder : Correspondence 1971
      • CSME 1/05 Folder : Correspondence 1972
      • CSME 1/06 Folder : Correspondence 1972
      • CSME 1/07 Folder : Correspondence 1972
      • CSME 1/08 Folder : Correspondence 1972
      • CSME 1/09 Folder : Correspondence 1973
      • CSME 1/10 Folder : Correspondence 1973
      • CSME 1/11 Folder : Correspondence 1973
      • CSME 1/12 Folder : Correspondence 1973
      • CSME 1/13 Folder : Correspondence 1974
      • CSME 1/14 Folder : Correspondence 1974
      • CSME 1/15 Folder : Correspondence 1974
      • CSME 1/16 Folder : Correspondence 1974
      • CSME 1/17 Folder : Correspondence 1975
      • CSME 1/18 Folder : Correspondence 1975
      • CSME 1/19 Folder : Correspondence 1975
      • CSME 1/20 Folder : Correspondence 1975
      • CSME 1/21 Folder : Correspondence 1976
      • CSME 1/22 Folder : Correspondence 1976
      • CSME 1/23 Folder : Correspondence 1976
      • CSME 1/24 Folder : Correspondence 1976
      • CSME 1/25 Folder : Correspondence 1976
      • CSME 1/26 Folder : Correspondence 1977
      • CSME 1/27 Folder : Correspondence 1977
      • CSME 2/01 Folder : Correspondence 1977
    • CSME 2 Subseries : Correspondence filed by Correspondent
      • CSME 2/02 Folder : Correspondence with E. F. Aylward 1976
      • CSME 2/03 Folder : Correspondence with Mary Bruemmer 1976-1977
      • CSME 2/04 Folder : Correspondence with Helen Cripe 1967-1975
      • CSME 2/05 Folder : Correspondence with Helen Cripe 1974-1977