II. Correspondence,, 1945-2001, bulk 1949-1992
Dates
- 1945-2001, bulk 1949-1992
Scope and Contents
Summary: The correspondence in the following three subseries contains material of a professional as well as personal nature.
The "General Correspondence" subseries contains correspondence related to McCormick's professional relationships and activities both inside and outside Rutgers. Some correspondence of note is found in the folder "December 1960-June 1961," which contains letters from Rutgers professors Warren Susman, Henry Winkler, and L. Ethan Ellis, written to McCormick while he was at Cambridge on a Fulbright award, during 1960 and 1961. The subject of the letters pertain to bureaucratic shuffling and related complaints and concerns of the professors in the History Department. Other important correspondents include Roy F. Nichols, Clifford Lord, and Rutgers President Mason W. Gross, among others.
Included in the early folders of the "General Correspondence: Personal" folders is material related to the beginning of McCormick's teaching career at Rutgers, including letters to and from McCormick and Roy Nichols, William Ellis, Rutgers President Robert Clothier and others.
The "College Correspondence" folders include departmental memoranda, interdepartmental communications, and committee minutes from the department of history, as well as letters between McCormick and members of the department and the university at large, including Dean Alfred Meder. Examples of committee communications include those of the Greens Committee—whose concern was the operation and management of the Rutgers University golf course—and of the Graduate Committee.
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arrangement: This series is divided into three subseries as filed by McCormick: A. General Correspondence, B. General Correspondence: Personal, and C. College Correspondence. The series are arranged chronologically. The separation of subseries into General Correspondence, General Correspondence—Personal, and College Correspondence was taken from McCormick's own filing system, however, at times, it seems as though items not of a personal nature were misfiled. This can be seen in the gaps in dates between the General Correspondence and General Correspondence: Personal folders, and the seeming lack of General Correspondence between 1974 and 1982. In terms of arrangement, the General Correspondence subseries mostly has the correspondents' letters located after, but not clipped to, McCormick's responses to those letters, as they were originally found.
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