University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections Edward Everett Dale Collection Dale, Edward Everett (1879–1972). Papers, 1865–1948. 80 feet. Professor and historian. Correspondence (1902–1972), student papers (n.d.), theses and dissertations (1932–1933), and personal research materials (1832–1967) regarding the history of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Territory, and Indian Territory, the Indians of North America, and the American Southwest; teaching materials used by Dale at Harvard (1913– 1920) and the University of Oklahoma (1921–1952); administrative and other files (1936– 1941) of the Works Progress Administration’s Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma; U.S. government documents (1897–1957); and presidential papers of University of Oklahoma presidents James Shannon Buchanan (1911–1929) and Stratton D. Brooks (1915–1922). __________________ Notes on the Organization of the Edward Everett Dale Collection The Edward Everett Dale Manuscript Collection is comprised of a series of 254 document cases and six outsized boxes. Occupying 176 linear feet, the collection contains the works and materials of Dr. Dale's sixty years of academic experience, plus other facets of his life. In addition to the manuscript collection there exist as well photographic and map collections in the Manuscript Division and the E. E. Dale Library in the Library Division of the Western History Collections. The notes appended below-- subdivided into twenty-three sections--apply only to the organization of the manuscript collection. The sections are given general titles which refer to the major subject matter contained in each. One should be aware, however, that the same type of item, e. g., correspondence, may be found in more than one section. The "General Correspondence" files contain the majority of letters to and from Dr. Dale. Included are family correspondence, letters to friends, and professional correspondence with fellow historians. Part of the correspondence with publishing houses and their agents and most of the correspondence with the officers of the Oklahoma Historical Society are file here. Letters to and from colleges and other institutions are included, as are responses to the many queries which Dr. Dale received from all over the state and nation. Other correspondence is found in the booked, teaching, and other sections where it pertains to a particular subject. An example would be the correspondence with ranchers used by Dr. Dale in the preparation of The Range Cattle Industry. Within the "Biographical and Bibliographical" section are biographical articles and clippings. Programs and other mementos of his life are here, as are lists of friends and smaller-sized membership certificates. Various auto-biographical fragments and miscellaneous business papers--receipts, book sales, mortgages, etc.--are also included. The family papers include diaries of Dr. Dale's brother George and various deeds and tax receipts, mainly from late nineteenth-century Texas. Some older correspondence and material relating to Dr. Dale's ranching career are here, too. Materials on the clubs and organizations to which he belonged are arranged alphabetically by group. The "Published Works" include all the books and most of the articles and reviews written or edited by Dr. Dale alone or in collaboration. Both books and journal articles are arranged chronologically except where demands of space caused some of the smaller book materials to be placed together. The dictionary and encyclopedia articles and book reviews are filed alphabetically, the former under a general heading of the publication in which they appeared, the latter by author of book reviewed. Types of materials to be found in this section are handwritten and typewritten drafts, newspaper clippings used as sources or with publishers, other source materials, reviews, and a fairly complete publication history for each book and journal article. Most of the material on the Indian Survey of the Meriam Commission appears here; this includes field notes, correspondence, speeches, surveys, letters of Indian children, and information on reservations visited. The "Unpublished Manuscripts" include both article-length and book-length material. The shorter manuscripts are arranged alphabetically; both handwritten and typewritten manuscripts are included. The poetry section includes mainly that of Dr. Dale but some other poets' work, too; handwritten, typewritten, and printed materials are found here. The speeches are in outline, extended outline, or complete form. The complete speeches are arranged alphabetically in Box #164. Both Dr. Dale's and other persons' stories are included in this section; their form is similar to that of the materials above. The media scripts are mainly for radio; most were presented in the "Fifty Years Ago in Oklahoma: series on WNAD in 1939. (The unpublished works remain the property of the Dale family.) Included in the "Harvard Materials" are mainly Dr. Dale's lecture notes. These are from classes under Turner, Channing, et al., in handwritten form and arranged in monthly order. Here, too, are papers which Dr. Dale wrote for the various classes in which he was enrolled. The "OU Administration Materials" include programs, committee reports, course materials, reports, guides to staff members, thesis guidelines and lists, student and faculty directories, class schedules, Dr. Dale's course offerings, and a report by him on the Department of History. This section is divided into those materials relating to the Department of History in particular and those relating to other aspects of the University. The "OU Teaching Materials" include class cards, class rolls, course outlines, bibliographies, tests, and lecture notes of Dr. Dale. Where identified, these are arranged by class or subject. History, government, and education courses are included. Some materials relating to other schools are in this section, but most of theses are found under "Other Teaching Duties." In addition to the above-named types of materials, this latter section includes correspondence concerning summer teaching and lectures, a log of a trip in the summer of 1947, and lists of lectures and speeches. One box provides information on Dr. Dale's appointment as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Melbourne in Australia in 1953-54. Another related section is the "Student Papers." Theses are seminar papers collected over the years and arranged alphabetically by author. There is a wide variety of topics but somewhat of a plurality on Oklahoma and the Southwest. Also in this section are book reports, students maps, and some class notes. Of a similar nature also is the "Theses and Dissertations" section. In these boxes are parts or all of the manuscripts of Emma Estill-Harbour, ''The History of the Red River Country since 1803; "J. O. Murphy, "The Work of Judge Parker in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, 1875-1896; " J. S. Clark, "Boundaries of Oklahoma;" Alice Brown Dowling, "The Significance of the Destruction of the American Bison in the Southwest;" and B. B. Chapman, "Federal Management and Disposition of the Lands of Oklahoma Territory, 1866-1907." "Other OU Materials" is a varied category. The history exams and papers of a high school competition are here. Included, too, are expenditure records and indexes to the Frank Phillips Collection until the 1940s. Reports, correspondence, bank statements, etc., relating to the Mary E. Laing Scholarship Fund are here. Other materials are biographical sketches, eulogies, obituaries, etc., on various friends, fellow teachers, and students of Dr. Dale, and the service records of OU students in World War I, to be included in the Victory Sooner. The "WPA Materials" are chiefly manuscripts for the Indian- Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma; included are the forms for serial numbers 1001- 1233. Other materials are reports on the Blanket Research Project of the University of Oklahoma, correspondence on the Historic Sites Project, and a proposed Indian Handbook. (Some WPA materials were transferred from the collection to the general reference area.) The "Rockefeller Foundation Materials" are of a similar nature to those of the WPA. Part deals with project proposals and correspondence on the Huntington Library project. Minutes and correspondence of the Rockefeller Grant Committee of 1944-51 are also here, as are materials for the Conference on the Life and Culture of the Southwest. Under "Resource Materials" are found manuscripts on particular subjects for which there are numerous materials. Included are notes and correspondence on Alexander Posey and David Ross Boyd; for the latter there are the drafts of several articles by Dr. Dale. There is a fair selection of materials on the Harrison and Pike families, with genealogies on each and numerous items of correspondence; among the latter is a series of letters to Cadet Montgomery Pike Harrison at West Point in the 1840s. Manuscript copies of 'The Desert People" by Alice Joseph, Rosemund Spicer, and Jane Chesky; "Topsoil and Civilization" by Tom Dale and Vernon Gill Carter; and "Medical Biographies" by Phillip Marshall Dale are also here. For the last, reviews and correspondence are also found. There is also file here a somewhat organized manuscript by John Seger. The "Research Materials" are shorter manuscripts which relate essentially to non-Indian matters; those on Indians are in another category. Types of materials here are reminiscences, histories, newspaper excerpts, journals, an affidavit,