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The Calvin Morgan McClung historical collection is a meticulously compiled reference work assembled by librarians Laura Luttrell and Mary U. Rothrock for the Lawson McGhee Library. Its opening pages explain that the catalogue is organized alphabetically by author, or by keyword when an author is unknown, covering a broad spectrum of material: books, pamphlets, autographs, pictures, maps, and newspapers. The introductory biographical sketch of Calvin Morgan McClung, a Knoxville native and scholar who lived from 1855 to 1919, frames the collection as the product of his lifelong devotion to documenting Tennessee and the wider South. The entry list that follows, ranging from early American Indian histories to 19th‑century speeches and genealogical sketches, illustrates the breadth of the holdings and the scholarly care evident in marginal notes and annotations throughout.
The work reflects the formal, documentary style of early‑20th‑century library scholarship, with a tone that is descriptive rather than narrative. Its language is straightforward, employing the conventions of bibliographic entries and brief historical summaries. Readers with an interest in regional history, genealogy, or the development of American historiography, particularly those researching Tennessee, the Appalachian frontier, or Southern bibliographies, will find the collection’s exhaustive listings and primary‑source excerpts especially valuable.
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Calvin Morgan MᶜClung, son of Franklin Henry and Eliza Ann (Mills) McClung, was born May 12, 1855. In 1874 he received from East Tennessee University the degree of A. B., in 1876 from Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University that of Ph. B. and in 1877 from East Tennessee University that of A. M. He married first Annie, daughter of Col. Charles McClung McGhee, founder of Lawson McGhee Library; second Barbara, daughter of Mr. Augustus Dixon Adair, of Atlanta. He died March 12, 1919.
The collection of historical material relating to his own state and city was the absorbing interest of his later life. Accuracy and thoroughness characterized his efforts, both as student and collector. Evidence of his painstaking exactness may be seen in the marginal annotations, the clippings and letters to be found in almost every volume of his library.
ABORIGINES OF AMERICA, Board for the emigration, preservation, and improvement of the. Documents and proceedings relating to the formation and progress of a Board in the city of New York, for the emigration, preservation, and improvement, of the aborigines of America. July 22, 1829. N. Y., Vanderpool & Cole, 1829. 48 p.
ADAIR, JAMES. History of the American Indians; particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: ... with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. Lond., E. & C. Dilly, 1775. 464 p. map.
ADAMS, Mrs. ABIGAIL (SMITH). Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams with introductory memoir by her grandson, Charles Francis Adams. 2d ed. Bost., Little, 1840. 2 v.
ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS. Lee’s centennial, an address delivered at Lexington, Virginia, Jan. 19, 1907. Bost., Houghton, 1907. 76 p.
ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS. Sifted grain and the grain sifters. Address at the dedication of the building of the State historical society of Wisconsin at Madison. Cambridge, 1900. 67 p.
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Oration on the life and character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette. Wash., D. C., Gales & Seaton, 1835. 34 p.
ADDRESS to the citizens of the state of Tennessee. Knoxville, Tenn., Heiskell & Brown, 1823. 22 p. (Signed: A citizen south of French Broad and Holston).
AIKMAN, Mrs. LOUISA SUSANNAH (WELLS). Journal of a voyage from Charleston, S. C., to London, undertaken during the American revolution by a daughter of an eminent American loyalist in the year 1778, and written from memory only in 1779. N. Y., N. Y. historical soc., 1906. 121 p. illus.
ALABAMA. Horseshoe Bend battle commission. Memorial of Horseshoe Bend battle commission ... created by the state of Alabama, praying Congress to establish a military park on the Horseshoe Bend battlefield. Wash., Govt. print. off., 1909. 18 p.
ALABAMA. UNIVERSITY. Register of the officers and students of the University of Alabama; 1831-1901. Comp. by Thomas Waverly Palmer. Tuscaloosa, Ala., University, 1901. 505 p.
ALDERMAN, EDWIN ANDERSON. Growing South, an address delivered before the Civic forum in Carnegie Hall, New York city, March 22, 1908. N. Y., Civic forum, 1908. 24 p. port.
ALDERMAN, EDWIN ANDERSON. J. L. M. Curry; a biography, by E. A. Alderman and Armistead Churchill Gordon. N. Y., Macmillan, 1911. 468 p. port.
ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD. Biographical sketches of the founder, and principal alumni of the Log College; together with an account of the revivals of religion under their ministry. Princeton, N. J., Robinson, 1845. 369 p.
ALEXANDER, FREDERICK WARREN. Stratford hall and the Lees connected with its history; biographical, genealogical and historical. Oak Grove, Va., F. W. Alexander, 1912. 332 p. illus.
ALEXANDER, JAMES WADDELL. Life of Archibald Alexander. N. Y., Scribner, 1856. 563 p. port.
ALEXANDER, J. B. Biographical sketches of the early settlers of the Hopewell section and reminiscences of the pioneers and their descendants by families. Charlotte, N. C., Observer print. & pub. house, 1897. 104 p. port.
ALEXANDER, JOHN BREVARD. History of Mecklenburg County from 1740 to 1900. Charlotte, N. C., Observer print. house, 1902. 431 p. illus.
ALEXANDER, SAMUEL DAVIES. Princeton college during the eighteenth century. N. Y., Randolph, 1872. 326 p.
ALLABEN, FRANK. Concerning genealogies; being suggestions of value for all interested in family history. N. Y., Grafton press, 1904. 71 p.
ALLEN, JAMES LANE. Blue grass region of Kentucky and other Kentucky articles. N. Y., Harper, 1907. 300 p. illus.
ALLEN, WILLIAM CICERO. History of Halifax County. Bost., Cornhill co., c 1918. 235 p. illus.
ALLEN, WILLIAM CICERO. North Carolina history stories. Richmond, B. F. Johnson pub. co., 1901. 5 pts.
ALLISON, JOHN. Address ... on East Tennessee a hundred years ago; first free and independent government in America; first church; first institution of learning; first newspaper west of the Alleghanies. Delivered at seventeenth annual meeting Tennessee press association at Cloudland, N. C. July 14-16, 1887. Nashville, Tenn., Hasslock & Ambrose, 1887. 15 p.
ALLISON, JOHN. Dropped stitches in Tennessee history. Nashville, Tenn., Marshall & Bruce co., 1897. 152 p. illus.
ALVORD, CLARENCE WALWORTH. County of Illinois. Springfield, Ill. state historical library, 1907. n. p.
ALVORD, CLARENCE WALWORTH. First explorations of the trans-Allegheny region by the Virginians, 1650-1674, by C. W. Alvord & Lee Bidgood. Cleveland, A. H. Clark co., 1912. 275 p. illus.
ALVORD, CLARENCE WALWORTH. Mississippi Valley in British politics; a study of the trade, land speculation, and experiments in imperialism culminating in the American revolution. Cleveland, A. H. Clark co., 1917. 2 v. maps.
AMERICAN ACADEMY of arts and sciences. Memorial of Asa Gray. Cambridge, Univ. press, 1888. 45 p.
AMERICAN ANCESTRY: giving the name and descent, in the male line, of Americans whose ancestors settled in the United States previous to the Declaration of independence, A. D. 1776. Albany, Munsell, 1889. v. 4.
AMERICAN BOARD of commissioners for foreign missions. History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time. Worcester, Mass., Spooner & Howland, 1840. 726 p. illus.
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. Annual report. Wash., Govt. print. off. illus. Library has, 1894-1895; 1896, v. 1; 1899-1915.
AMERICAN HISTORICAL MAGAZINE and Tennessee historical society quarterly. Nashville, Tenn., 1896-1904. 9 v. illus.
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW. Lancaster, Pa., Macmillan. Library has v. 15-23. 1909-1918.
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Proceedings. Phila., pub. for the soc., 1889. v. 26, Jan.-July, 1889. 376 p. (Contains Portions of the Journal of Andre Michaux).
AMERICAN SOCIETY for promoting the civilization and general improvement of the Indian tribes within the United States. New society, for the benefit of Indians, organized at the city of Washington, February, 1822. Wash., D. C., Davis & Force. 12 p.
AMORY, Mrs. MARTHA (BABCOCK). Domestic and artistic life of John Singleton Copley, R. A. With notices of his works, and reminiscences of his son, Lord Lyndhurst, lord high chancellor of Great Britain. By his granddaughters. Bost., Houghton, 1882. 478 p. port.
[ANBURY, THOMAS.] Journal d’un voyage fait dans l’interieur de l’Amerique Septentrionale. Ouvrage dans lequel on donne des details precieux sur l’insurrection des Anglo-Americains, et sur la chute desastreuse de leur papier-monnoie. Tr. de l’Anglois et enrichi de notes par M. Noel.... Paris, La Villette, 1793. 2 v. illus.
ANDERSON, DICE ROBINS. William Branch Giles: a study in the politics of Virginia and the nation from 1790 to 1830. Menasha, Wis., Banta, 1914. 271 p. ports.
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