Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#4814
ELIE MAYNARD ADAMS PAPERS
Inventory
Abstract: Elie Maynard Adams (1919- ), philosopher;
assistant professor-Kenan Professor of Philosophy,
1948-1979; and chair of the faculty, 1976-1979, at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Correspondence, writings, interviews, and
other material of E. Maynard Adams, chiefly
documenting his professional life as a philosopher and
faculty member at the University of North Carolina,
but also including letters from Adams to his parents,
1937-1983. The collection contains Adams’s
professional correspondence and drafts of his writings
as well as interviews with Adams by professors and
students, films, and photographs of Adams. The
interviews are primarily about Adams's ideas about
important philosophical issues. Included are
discussions of humanism, naturalism, metaphysics,
logic, language, religion, morality, ethics, and
Adams's criticisms of the economic system and ideas
about structuring a humanistic economic system. Some
interviews also discuss his life and the history of
the University of North Carolina and its Department of
Philosophy. Also inlcuded are 90 audiocassettes of
philosophy classes taught by Adams.
Online Catalog Terms:
Adams, E. M. (Elie Maynard), 1919- .
College teachers—North Carolina—History—20th century.
Family—North Carolina—Social life and customs—20th century.
Philosophers—United States—History—20th century.
Philosophy—Study and teaching—North Carolina.
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill—Faculty—History—20th century.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dept. of
Philosophy—History.
Size: About 15,000 items (25.0 linear ft.).
Dates: 1937-1997.
Provenance:Received from Claire Miller of Chapel Hill, N.C., in
May 1996 (Acc. 96074); E. Maynard Adams in March
1997 (Acc. 97037) and July 1997 (Acc. 97095); and Seth Holtzman
in August 1997 (Acc 97106) and December 1997 (Acc. 98001).
Access: No restrictions on use of papers.
Use of audiovisual material requires production of
listening or viewing copies.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Series Descriptions
Series 1. Professional Correspondence
Series 2. Writings
Series 3. Interviews
Series 4. Film
Series 5. Family Correspondence
Series 6. Biographical Material
Series 7. Pictures
Additions
INTRODUCTION
Biographical Note
Personal:
Born 29 December 1919, Clarkton, Va.
Parents: Wade Hampton and Bessie Calloway Adams.
Married Phyllis Margaret Stevenson, 22 December 1942.
Two children.
Education:
B.A., 1941, M.A., 1944, University of Richmond, Richmond, Va.
B.D., 1944, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, N.Y.
M.A., 1947, Ph.D., 1948, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Career:
Ohio University
1947-1948 Assistant professor of philosophy
University of North Carolina
1948-1953 Assistant professor of philosophy
1951-1952 Director, Free World Institute
1953-1958 Associate professor of philosophy
1958-1971 Professor of philosophy
1960-1965 Chair, Dept. of Philosophy
1966 (summer) Visiting professor of
philosophy, University of Southern California
1970-1972 Director, Curriculum in Peace,
War, and Defense
1971 (summer) Visiting professor of
philosophy, State University of New York at
Albany
1971-1990 Kenan professor of philosophy
1976-1979 Chair of the Faculty
1977 (summer) Visiting professor of
philosophy, University of Calgary, Alberta,
Canada
1990- Kenan professor of philosophy emeritus
1994-1995 Nelson Ferebee Taylor professor of philosophy
Books:
Fundamentals of General Logic, 1954
Logic Problems, 1954
Language of Value (with others), 1957
Ethical Naturalism and the Modern World View, 1960
Categorical Analysis: Selected Essays of Everett W. Hall, ed.
Common Sense Realism: Critical Essays on the Philosophy of
Everett W. Hall, ed., Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 4
(fall), 1966
Philosophy and the Modern Mind, 1975
The Idea of America (with others), 1977
The Metaphysics of Self and World: Toward a Humanistic
Philosophy, 1991
Religion and Cultural Freedom, 1993
A Society Fit for Human Beings, 1997
Collection Overview:
Correspondence, writings, interviews, and other material of E.
Maynard Adams, chiefly documenting his professional life as a
philosopher and faculty member at the University of North
Carolina, but also including letters from Adams to his parents,
1937-1983. The collection contains Adams’s professional
correspondence and drafts of his writings as well as interviews
with Adams by professors and students, films, and photographs of
Adams. The interviews are primarily about Adams's ideas about
important philosophical issues. Included are discussions of
humanism, naturalism, metaphysics, logic, language, religion,
morality, ethics, and Adams's criticisms of the economic system
and ideas about structuring a humanistic economic system. Some
interviews also discuss his life and the history of the
University of North Carolina and its Department of Philosophy. The
additions of 1997 and 1998 contain audiotapes of some of Adams's class
lectures on value theory and metaphysics, 1983-1989.
The collection is arranged as follows:
Series 1. Professional Correspondence
Series 1.1. Alphabetical
Series 1.2. Topical
Series 1.3. Chronological
Series 2. Writings
Series 2.1. Books
Series 2.2. Papers
Series 2.3. Collected Papers
Series 3. Interviews
Series 4. Film
Series 5. Family Correspondence
Series 6. Biographical Material
Series 7. Pictures
Additions
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series 1. Professional Correspondence and Related Material
1942-1997. About 10,000 items.
Correspondence and other material documenting Adams’s
activities as philosopher and professor at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Papers have been placed in new
folders, but the original order and folder titles have been
retained. Similar materials are found in each of the three
subseries. For some subjects, researchers will need to consult
more than one subseries. For example, correspondence about the
Executive Seminars in the Humanities are filed under “E” in
Subseries 1.1 and under “Executive Seminars in the Humanities” in
Subseries 1.2.
Series 1.1. Alphabetical
1965-1996. About 4000 items.
Professional correspondence includes letters about publication
of books and papers, attendance and presentations at conferences,
classes taught, requests for recommendations for students and
former students, and other correspondence with colleagues and
friends.
Folder 1-4 A
5-12 B
13-17 C
18-19 D
20-22 E
23-24 F
25-28 G
29-39 H
40-41 J
42-44 K
45-47 L
48-50 M
51 N
52-53 O
54-56 P
57 Q
58-60 R
61-67 S
68-72 T
73 U
74-75 V
76-79 W
80 X
81 Y
82 Z
Series 1.2. Topical
1951-1997. About 5000 items.
Folder 83 Admissions Issue
84 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
85 Elderhostel
86-87 American Philosophical Association
88-89 Blue Ridge Correspondence, 1962
90 Blue Ridge Correspondence, 1968
91 Chancellor’s Search Committee
92-94 Community Action Correspondence
95-98 Department of Philosophy UNC-Chapel Hill
99 Educational Reform at UNC-Chapel Hill
100-102 Executive Seminars in the Humanities
103 Faculty Council Review
104-109 Free-World Workshop
110-111 Georgia State University
112 Goddard College Program
113-114 Hall, Everett W.
115 Aesthetic Notes
116 Memorial Resolution
117 Hill, Ivan
118 Humanities Committee
119 Humanities Group at UNC
120-130 Humanities and Human Values
131-134 The Humanities Institute
Humanities Program
135-136 1982
137 1982-1983
138 1986-1987
139-140 Idea of America Fellows
141 Thomas Jefferson Award
142 Lepley, Ray—The Language of Value
143-144 Lewis, C. I.
145 Mental Causality
146 Morale and Morality in America
147-148 National Endowment for the Humanities
149 National Humanities Center
150 New Rain
151 Nolan, Rita
North Carolina Humanities Committee
152-154 1976/77
155-158 1977/78
159 1980s-1990s
160 New Mission
161 Volunteers
162 North Carolina Philosophical Society
163 North Carolina Seminar on Human Experience
164 North Carolina School of Science and Math
165 Peace, War, and Defense
166-167 Philosophy 205
168-169 Philosophy and Mental Health
170 Population Control
171 Presuppositions and Implications
172-175 Research Proposals
176 Conference on Research Universities at Pinehurst
177 Scientific and Humanistic Images of Man-In-The-
World
178 Sitterson Resolution
179 Southern Humanities Conference
180 The Southern Journal of Philosophy
181-188 Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
189 Sullivan, John
190 Summer Seminar
191-198 Tanglewood
Tanglewood Center for the Study of Human Values
199 Action without Meeting of the Board of Directors
200 Articles of Amendment
201 Articles of Dissolution
202-204 Correspondence through 1973
205-209 Correspondence, 1974-1979
210 Taxes and Tax Exemption
211 Taylor, Crawford—Center for Philosophy and
Cultural Criticism
212 Technology, Human Values, and Public Policy
213 Value Judgments and Action
214 Value Theory
215 Virginia University Lectures
216 What, If Anything, Can We Expect From Philosophy
Today?
217-220 H. Williams Memorial Fund
221 YMCA
222 YMCA Board
223 Miscellaneous
Series 1.3. Chronological
1942-1961. About 1000 items.
Folder 224 1942-47
225 1948-1949
226-227 1950
228-229 1951
230-231 1952
232-234 1953
235-236 1954
237-238 1955
239-240 1956
241-242 1957
243-245 1958
246-249 1959
250-252 1960
253 1961
Series 2. Writings
1947-1997. About 90 items.
Series 2.1. Books
1954-1997. About 30 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Typescripts, some with marginal comments, of Adams’s books.
Also included are correspondence with publishers about some books
and reviews of some books.
Folder 254 Abstracts
255 An Analysis of Scientific Explanation
256-258 The Antinomy of the Mental
259-260 Categorical Analysis
Categorical Analysis-Published Copy
261 pp. 1-103
262 pp. 104-232
263 pp. 233-347
264-265 Common Sense Realism
Common Sense Realism-Published Copy
266 pp. 1-50
267 pp. 51-91
268-270 Ethical Naturalism and the Modern World View
Ethical Naturalism...-Completed Copy
271 pp. 1-78
272 pp. 79-157
273 pp. 158-235
274 pp. 236-312
275-276 Fundamentals of General Logic
Fundamentals of General Logic-Completed Copy
277 pp. 1-147
278 pp. 148-263
279 pp. 263-435
280-288 Idea of America
289 Idea of America Projects
Idea of America-Revised Edition
290 Intro to pp. 82
291 pp. 83-177
292 pp. 178-262
293 pp. 263-355
294 Chapter 3-5, revised
295 The Logico-Mathematical Philosophy of B. Russell
296-298 The Metaphysics of Self and World
The Metaphysics of Self and World-MSS
299 pp. 1-97
300 pp. 98-185
301 pp. 186-292
302 pp. 293-398
303 pp. 399-511
304 pp. 512-22 of index
305-310 Philosophy of the Modern Mind
311 Philosophy of the Modern Mind-Bound
312-313 Philosophy of the Modern Mind for USIA
314-317 Religion and Cultural Freedom
Religion and Cultural Freedom-MSS
318 pp. 1-65
319 pp. 66-135
320 pp. 135-220
321 pp. 221-339
A Society Fit For Human Beings
322 pp. 1-83
323 pp. 84-146
324 pp. 147-205
325 pp. 206-269
326 pp. 270-352
327 What Can We Expect of Philosophy Today?
Series 2.2. Papers
1940s-1990s. About 50 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical
Short writings by E. M. Adams, including drafts of and
correspondence about scholarly papers, op. ed. pieces, reports on
departments and programs in UNC and other institutions, speeches,
and other items.
Folder 328 The American Experiment
329-331 The American Philosophical Quarterly
332 Course Outlines, Study Questions, and Exams
333-341 Editorials
342 Faculty Seminar, 1983/84
343-344 Papers
345-346 Peace, War, and Defense
347 Philosophical Approach to God
348-350 Reports
351 Research University and Its Environments
352 ROTC
353-357 Science, Technology, and Human Values
358-361 Speaking Engagements
362 Spectator Magazine
363-366 Speeches
367 Tenure
368-369 The Theoretical and the Practical
370 Miscellaneous Articles and Writings
Series 2.3. Collected Papers
1947-1997. 8 items.
Copies of Adams’s scholarly papers, which were bound together
in eight volumes.
Volume I. Early Papers (1947-1955)
Folder 371 pp. 1-69
372 pp. 70-170
373 pp. 171-284
374 pp. 285-389
375 pp. 390-541
Volume II. Value Theory, Ethics, and Religion
376 pp. 1-107
377 pp. 108-201
378 pp. 202-304
379 pp. 305-375
Volume III. Social and Political Issues
380 pp. 1-115
381 pp. 116-213
Volume IV. Epistemology and Metaphysics
382 pp. 1-99
383 pp. 100-205
384 pp. 206-326
385 pp. 326-432
386 pp. 433-486
Volume V. Philosophy, the Humanities, and
Cultural Criticism
387 pp. 1-99
388 pp. 100-189
389 pp. 190-255
390 pp. 256-333
Volume VI. Education
391 pp. 1-62
392 pp. 63-149
393 pp. 150-229
Volume VII. Later Papers (1992-1997)
394 pp. 1-75
395 pp. 76-151
396 pp. 152-226
397 pp. 227-302
398 Volume VIII. The Role of the
University and Religion in a Humanistic Cultural
Reformation.
Series 3. Interviews
1995-1996. 40 audiocassettes and 2 videocassettes.
Arrangement: chronological.
Nineteen interviews with E. M. Adams by philosophers and
students, most of whom were employed by or studying at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most of the
interviews are about Adams's ideas about philosophy. Some also
discuss his life and the history of the University of North
Carolina and the Department of Philosophy.
T-4814/1-2 6/18/95 with James Coley, graduate student,
Dept. of Philosophy, UNC-Chapel Hill. Adams's
metaphilosophy; linguistic analysis; value realism
and its ontological implications; the relevance of
philosophy, especially value realism, for the
culture, society, and the individual; religion and
criticism of fundamentalism; the role of emotion
in the perception of moral truth; self-
development; the failure of capitalism and how a
new humanistic economic order might be structured.
T-4814/3 6/20/95 with Ed Thompson, Assistant Professor
of Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan at
Saskatoon. Philosophical education; the
destructive effects of naturalism in the culture;
criticisms of the economic system; humanistic
reconception of the economic system; religion as a
humanistic institution; religion as empirical,
open to criticism, and webbed into culture.
T-4814/4-5 6/23/95 with Seth Holtzman, graduate student,
Dept. of Philosophy, UNC-Chapel Hill. How philosophy
arises; philosophical history; philosophy
different from science; early medieval philosophy
and science; philosophy as a categorical
discipline; humanism and science.
T-4814/6-7 6/26/95 with Seth Holtzman. Religion; the
philosophical grounding of religion; meaning and
truth in religious claims and stories; conflict
between the individual and the community with
regard to religious understanding; Judaism,
Christianity, and universality in religion.
T-4814/8-9 6/28/95 with Robert Mann, Professor of
Mathematics Emeritus, UNC-Chapel Hill. Tension between
being a Southerner and an intellectual; history of
Adams's ancestors in Virginia; early felt problems
in Southern culture: tobacco and racism/religion;
later felt problem: science and liberalism of
thought versus religion and authoritarianism of
thought; interest in improving the South;
University life in the late 1940s and the 1950s;
cultural criticism and yet optimism; our self-
corrective powers; the modern rejection of values
and freedom from norms; the normative constitution
of selfhood as the ground of ethical norms;
objective truth, values, and freedom; students,
curricula, and ethics; value knowledge.
T-4814/10-11 7/07/95 with Seth Holtzman. Logic and ethics as
twins; reason and feeling in logic; logical and
metaphysical necessity; the nature of possibility;
logic and naturalism; logic education; reason and
feeling in ethics.
T-4814/12-13 7/11/95 with Seth Holtzman. Nature of grammar;
the ground of grammar; nature of language; logical
grammar; languages can be better or worse; purpose
of language; nature of linguistic expression:
talking and writing as thinking; the structure of
language and the structure of the world; language
acquisition; teaching language; naturalism and
nominalism; conceptualization and the world;
consciousness and intentional content;
naturalistic approach to mind and language.
T-4814/14-15 7/17/95 with Seth Holtzman. Epistemology of
meaning: analogies and disanalogies to sensory
perception and value experience; comparison with
causality; rational insight; perceptual activity;
perception and conceptualization; our semantic
environment; activity in value experience;
interpretation in perception; logical form and
meaning; ethics and the self; character formation
and good habits; ethical standards; moral
education; our normative self-concept; criticism
of this self-concept and comparison to scientific
understanding and criticism; moral character,
judgement, and action; marks of knowledge of the
morally good person; successful living; our
governing human imperative; rights and
responsibilities; personhood; morality grounded in
our inner constitution; moral philosophy and the
ethical enterprise.
T-4814/16 7/19/95 with Robert Mann. Value realism,
moral realism, and natural law ethics; moral laws;
capitalism and morality; humanistic thought and
humanistic values; the rise of materialistic
values and a naturalistic civilization; the clash
of knowledge and wisdom; living a life and gaining
wisdom; knowledge and wisdom as one in pre-modern
thought; Adams's approach to the philosophical
problems of modern thought; the need to preserve
what's good in modern thought.
T-4814/17 7/23/95 with Seth Holtzman. Conceptual
analysis as philosophical method; C. I. Lewis's
view of conceptual analysis; pragmatic vs.
realistic accounts of the a priori; metaphysics as
informative of the world; the philosophical
enterprise; philosophy and culture; philosophy as
cultural criticism; Adams vs. Kant on getting an
integrated culture and a coherent world view; the
possibility of realistic metaphysics; conceptual
analysis and realism; categorical analysis of
sensory experience; philosophical errors generate
skepticism; categorical analysis in general;
categorical implications of lived experience; our
conception of pain and its implications for value;
the conception of happiness; philosophy as
practical and vitally important.
T-4814/18-19 7/30/95 with Seth Holtzman. Meaning,
interpretation, and truth; the authority of self-
knowledge; art and multiple correct
interpretations; the context for determining
meaning; integration as a criterion in
interpretation; art and the artist; meaning and
cultural understanding; assessing interpretations;
judicial and theological interpretation; coherence
and objectivity; the context of assumptions and
presuppositions; decision using judgment not
rules; juries and decisions; escape from systems;
moral degeneracy in the larger culture; the rise
of materialistic values; capitalism and the
private sector; reconception of economic services
and institutions; reconception of a legislator;
civic humanism; historical interpretation; the
civilizational context; modern Western
civilization.
T-4814/20 8/01/95 with Charles "Kit" Crittendon,
professor of philosophy, California State
University at Northridge. Adams's early
philosophical development in UNC's philosophy
department; Martin Lean and Bill Poteat; cross-
disciplinary faculty discussion groups; Adams's
proposal about democracy; Everett Hall; joint
projects between UNC and Duke philosophy
departments; C. I. Lewis; value metaphysics; value
epistemology.
T-4814/21 10/13/95 with Geoff Sayre McCord, Gillian T.
Cell Professor of Philosophy, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Connection between doing
philosophy and leading a meaningful life; self-
concept and culture; need to master oneself;
liberal education and philosophy; self-criticism;
need to place our lives in the world as we
understand it; philosophy needed to define a
world and a self; need for reflection in our
lives; felt problems spur reflection; need for
disciplined ways of reflection to resolve
problems.
T-4814/22 10/25/95 with Bill Lycan, William Rand Kenan,
Jr., Professor of Philosophy, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lycan's naturalistic
philosophy of mind; Lycan versus Adams on the
nature of intentional; reducibility or non-
reducibility of the semantic; the semantic as
categorically unique and not a property; semantic
states and acts are not properties; to treat them
as properties betrays prior metaphysical
commitments; nor are the emergent properties;
mental causality; causality and metaphysics;
naturalistic metaphysical commitments in
philosophy; modern naturalism versus humanism
arising from different human needs; metaphysical
and epistemological implications of the humanistic
perspective; is there a need for naturalistic
reduction of humanistic phenomena?; the power of
science to produce consensus; scientific
explanation presupposes a world view that is
dominant; we need a humanistic conception of
ourselves; the nature of metaphysics; conflicting
metaphysical accounts of ourselves; metaphysical
compatibilism.
T-4814/23 11/17/95 with Warren Nord, lecturer in the
Department of Philosophy and Director of the
Program in the Humanities and Human Values,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Oral
history from 1947-1950s: Adams's desire to teach
at a Southern university; one-year job at Ohio
University; hired at UNC; involvement in the life
of the university; Frank Porter Graham; race at
UNC; communism at UNC; the Free World Institute;
other issues at the university; UNC
administrators; Paul Green.
T-4814/24-25 11/22/95 with Warren Nord. Oral history from
1950s to 1960s: the department in 1948 and
through the 1950s; Everett Hall; Louis Katsoff;
Adams as Chairman of the department; Richard
Smyth; hiring new members; Adams's vision of the
department; Adams's conception of philosophical
education; race in the 1960s; anti-war activism;
the counter-culture and its philosophy; the
Vietnam War; the curriculum in Peace, War, and
Defense.
T-4814/26 12/02/95 with Art Romano, undergraduate,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. What
led Adams into teaching; discovery that problems
he felt were cultural; his attempts to resolve
those problems; the task of humanistic research
centers; basic presuppositions of modern Western
civilization.
T-4814/27 12/10/95 with Eric Rush, undergraduate,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Adams's early concern to make sense of value
knowledge; contra emotivism and existentialism;
value objectivity needed for freedom and
democracy; rejection of naturalistic attempts;
value experience as epistemic and
intentionalistic; correcting our naturalistic
culture; the role of philosophy in cultural
correction—e.g., religion, morality, and
knowledge; need to reconstruct the epistemological
and metaphysical assumptions in the culture; our
modern world view leads to ecological disaster;
culture and society directed toward human growth;
how individuals can help shift the culture;
Adams's felt obligation to teach; other centers of
humanistic studies; Adams's conception of a center
for humanistic study; Adams's personal meditation.
T-4814/28-29 4/13/96 with Bill Lycan. Epistemology; areas of
agreement; empiricism too restricted if limited to
factual data, and semantic nature of objects of
knowledge; Adams's theory of knowledge;
inferential knowledge and probability; methodology
in epistemology; coherence; foundations:
categorical commitments and epistemic encounters;
the occurrence of thoughts and their etiology;
inference and creativity; holism in mental
causality; responses to skepticism: basic
presuppositions; skepticism rests on philosophical
mistakes: skepticism about external physical
objects and about values; broader conception of
causality; modern scientific framework of thought
and its limits; need for a humanistic framework of
thought; reconstruction of modern thought;
knowledge of other minds; philosophy of mind;
perceptual understanding.
T-4814/30-37 Idea of America seminars, 1976:
30. Monday, Peter Gay
31. Tuesday, Frederick Olafson
32. Wednesday, Kariel
33. Thursday, Lipset
34. Friday, Bloomfield
35. Saturday
36. Saturday, 1st hour
37. Saturday, 2nd hour
T-4814/38 Interview with E. M. Adams on WCHL, about
Religion and Cultural Freedom (1993)
T-4814/39-40 Telephone conversations of a reporter for the
Bradenton Herald (Fla.), 1974?.
VT-4814/1 1992-1993. Interviews with E. M Adams by Bill
Friday and Warren Nord and interviews with former
students of Adams.
VT-4814/2 9 April 1988. Panel discussion: “Founding
and Early History of the Southern Regional
Education Board’s Committee on Statistics.”
Virginia Commonwealth University. Adams is NOT on
the panel.
Series 4. Films
1960s?-1990s?. 8 items.
F-4814/1 Poole Feature-NCTW
F-4814/2 UNC Philosophy Titles
F-4814/3 WUNC-TV Ekta Original Heads "Campus Scenes"
F-4814/4 UNC Philosophy Symposium #3; Dept. of
Philosophy-Chisholm
F-4814/5 UNC Philosophy Symposium #3; "Reason and
Conduct"-Henry Aiken, Harvard University
F-4814/6 Titles Original Philosophy Symposia
F-4814/7 Philosophy Symposium #8; Turbayne Original
F-4814/8 Philosophy Symposium #9; "Conceptual Thinking"-
Korner
Series 5. Family Correspondence
1937-1982. About 1,000 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Letters from Adams to his mother, 1937-1941; to mother and
dad, 1942-1963; to mother, 1963-1982; and to and from his
daughter, 1983-1993.
Folder 399 1937
400 1938
401-402 1939
403-404 1940
405-406 1941
407 1942
408 1943
409 1944
410-411 1945
412-413 1946
414 1947
415-416 1948
417 1949
418 1950
419 1951
420 1952
421 1953
422 1955
423 1956
424 1957
425 1958
426 1959
427 1960
428 1961
429 1962
430 1963
431 1964
432 1965
433 1966
434 1967
435 1968
436 1969
437 1970
438 1971
439 1972
440 1973
441 1974
442 1975
443 1976
444 1977
445 1978
446 1979
447 1980
448-449 1981
450 1982
451 1983-1993
Series 6. Biographical Material
1941-1997. About 400 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Folder 452 Blackburn, Glenn: Biographer
453-454 Clippings and Letters about Professional
Activities
455 Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
456 Curriculum Vitae
457 Grades
458 Harvard University
459 High School Diploma
460-461 Honors and Awards
462-464 Letters and Testimonials
Series 7. Pictures
2 items. 1990 and undated.
P-4814/1-2 Photographs of E. Maynard Adams, 1990 and undated.
ADDITIONS
Addition of July 1997 (Acc.97095)
Size: About 20 items.
Dates: 1938-1997.
Provenance: Received from E. Maynard Adams of Chapel Hill, N. C. on 18
July 1997.
Access: No restrictions.
Description: Personal letters of Adams to family and friends
recounting daily life and social relations. This also
includes letters discussing public lectures, letters to
politicians discussing the role of the University of North
Carolina, and letters and articles about the proposed
philosophy center to be headed by Adams. In addition, there
is a report of the faculty committee on the future of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill given to the
faculty council in November 1969. Adams wrote the central
committee report and resolutions for this report.
Box 50 Folder 465 Addition, July 1997 - Correspondence
Folder 466 Addition, July 1997 - Faculty report
Additions of August and December 1997 (Acc. 97106 and 98001)
Size: 90 audiocassettes.
Dates: 1983-1989.
Provenance: Received from Seth Holtzman in August 1997 (Acc. 97106) and
December 1997 (Acc. 98001).
Access: No restrictions.
Description: Audio tapes of Adams’s lectures. Tapes are numbered as
follows:
Philosophy 96
T-4814/41 - 23 March 1983 and 30 March 1983 part 1
T-4814/42 - 30 March 1983 part 2 and 11 April Soundings (Linguistics)
T-4814/43 - 6 April 1983 part 1
T-4814/44 - 6 April 1983 part 2 and Marxism continued
T-4814/45 - 13 April 1983 part 1
T-4814/46 - 13 April 1983 part 2
T-4814/47 - 20 April 1983 part 1
T-4814/48 - 20 April 1983 part 2
T-4814/49 - 27 April 1983 part 1
T-4814/50 - 27 April 1983 part 2
T-4814/51 - 5 September 1983
Philosophy 205 - Value Theory
T-4814/52 - 29 August 1985 part 1
T-4814/53 - 29 August 1985 part 2
T-4814/54 -5 September 1985
T-4814/55 - 12 September 1985 part 1
T-4814/56 - 12 September 1985 part 2
T-4814/57 - 19 September 1985 part 1
T-4814/58 -19 September 1985 part 2
T-4814/59 - 26 September 1985 part 1
T-4814/60 - 26 September 1985 part 2
T-4814/61 - 3 October 1985 part 1
T-4814/62 - 3 October 1985 part 2
T-4814/63 - 10 October 1985 part 1
T-4814/64 - 10 October 1985 part 2
T-4814/65 - 17 October 1985 part 1
T-4814/66 - 17 October 1985 part 2
T-4814/67 - 24 October 1985 part 1
T-4814/68 - 24 October 1985 part 2
T-4814/69 - 31 October 1985 part 1
T-4814/70 - 31 October 1985 part 2
T-4814/71 - 7 November 1985 part 1
T-4814/72 - 7 November 1985 part 2
T-4814/73 - 14 November 1985 part 1
T-4814/74 - 14 November 1985 part 2
T-4814/75 - 21 November1985 part 1
T-4814/76 - 21 November 1985 part 2
T-4814/77 - 5 December 1985
Philosophy 203 - Metaphysics
T-4814/78 - 21 August 1986 part 1
T-4814/79 - 21 August 1986 part 2
T-4814/80 - 28 August 1986 part 1
T-4814/81 - 28 August 1986 part 2
T-4814/82 - 4 September 1986
T-4814/83 - 11 September 1986
T-4814/84 - 18 September 1986
T-4814/85 - 2 October 1986 part 1
T-4814/86 - 2 October 1986 part 2
T-4814/87 - 9 October 1986 part 1
T-4814/88 - 9 October 1986 part 2
T-4814/89 - 16 October 1986 part 1
T-4814/90 - 16 October 1986 part 2
T-4814/91 - 25 September 1986
T-4814/92 - 30 October 1986 part 1
T-4814/93 - 30 October 1986 part 2
T-4814/94 - 6 November 1986 part 1
T-4814/95 - 6 November 1986 part 2
T-4814/96 - 13 November 1986 part 1
T-4814/97 - 13 November 1986 part 2
T-4814/98 - 20 November 1986 part 1
T-4814/99 - 20 November 1986 part 2
T-4814/100 - 4 December 1986 part 1
T-4814/101 - 4 December 1986 part 2
Philosophy 205 - Value Theory
T-4814/102 - 18 January 1989 part 1
T-4814/103 - 18 January 1989 part 2
T-4814/104 - 25 January 1989 part 1
T-4814/105 - 25 January 1989 part 2
T-4814/106 - 1 February 1989 part 1
T-4814/107 - 1 February 1989 part 2
T-4814/108 - 8 February 1989 part 1
T-4814/109 - 8 February 1989 part 2
T-4814/110 - 15 February 1989 part 1
T-4814/111 - 15 February 1989 part 2
T-4814/112 - 22 February 1989 part 1
T-4814/113 - 22 February 1989 part 2
T-4814/114 - 1 March 1989 part 1
T-4814/115 - 1 March 1989 part 2
T-4814/116 - 22 March 1989 part 1
T-4814/117 - 22 March 1989 part 2
T-4814/118 - 29 March 1989 part 1
T-4814/119 - 29 March 1989 part 2
T-4814/120 - 2 April 1989 part 1
T-4814/121 - 2 April 1989 part 2
T-4814/122 - 5 April 1989 part 1
T-4814/123 - 5 April 1989 part 2
T-4814/124 - 12 April 1989 part 1
T-4814/125 - 12 April 1989 part 2
T-4814/126 - 26 April 1989 part 1
T-4814/127 - 26 April 1989 part 2
Untitled tapes
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