Louise Phelps Kellogg Papers, 1911-1941

Contents List

Container Title
General Correspondence
Scope and Content Note: This consists of her personal and professional correspondence, exclusive of the purely research correspondence of the Society, described below, and small groups of letters that have been left with the special articles or groups of records to which they pertain. The general correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Box   1
A-Bq
Box   2
Br-D
Box   3
E-H
Box   4
I-Le
Box   5
Li-N
Box   6
O-Sca
Box   7
Scb-Z
Box   8
Autobiographical and genealogical notes and correspondence
Box   9-10
Diaries, 1911-1939, 1941
Physical Description: 30 vols. 
Box   11
Record of speeches, 1913-1942
Physical Description: On 3 x 5 cards 
Box   11
Record of Research, 1921-1942
Physical Description: On 3 x 5 cards 
Box   12
Notes on search for manuscripts in other institutions
Box   13
Notes on Draper Series, arranged alphabetically
Box   14
Notes on Wisconsin Historical Society Collections, arranged alphabetically
Box   14
List of manuscript collections at the Wisconsin Historical Society, 1921
Box   15
“American Colonial Charter” Manuscript and notes
Box   16
French Regime, Typewritten copy, correspondence, and notes
British Regime
Box   17
Manuscript and correspondence
Box   18
Typed copy
Box   19
Mississippi Valley Historical Association, correspondence and committee reports
Box   20
“Wisconsin,” Unpublished manuscript copies 1 & 2, and correspondence regarding proposed publication
Box   21
Highway Markers and Landmarks
Box   22
Dictionary of American Biography, Dictionary of American History, and Atlas of American History: Sketches, notes, and correspondence
Box   23
American Historical Association: correspondence and committee reports
Box   24
Articles, addresses, radio talks, records of interviews, pageants
Box   25-29
Subject File
Scope and Content Note: These are miscellaneous notes made by Miss Kellogg on many subjects, some on 3 x 5 cards: some on small sheets; and a few in the form of written sketches to which are appended her notes on which the sketches are based. They are all filed alphabetically by subject, and are included in the index to the Research Correspondence, in which they are designated as “Subject Files.” The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name of the correspondents.
Box   30-37
Research Correspondence
Scope and Content Note: This consists almost entirely of Miss Kellogg's replies in longhand to requests for information on historical subjects, addressed to her or to the Society. Typewritten duplicates of many of these are undoubtedly on file in the main office of the Society. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically.
Box   38-39
Index
Scope and Content Note: Miss Kellogg kept a card index for nearly 30 years of the subjects of her research; from these cards a subject index to her research correspondence has seen prepared, as a finding aid to the use of these letters.
Box   40-42
Notes and transcriptions of items in the Draper collection and in United States Indian Office files pertaining to Indian treaties, 1794-1836
Box   42
Transcriptions and translations of items in the Grignon, Lawe and Porlier Papers, the Green Bay and Prairie du Chien Papers, the George Boyd Papers, and occasionally from the Draper collection, all pertaining to social and military Wisconsin, 1805-1848
Box   43
Editorial comments and transcriptions of items in the Draper collection pertaining to the American Revolution