Collection Summary
Charles McLean Andrews
Collection Concerning Colonial History
1623-1800
1623-1800
MSS75765
Andrews, Charles McLean, 1863-1943
1,200
items
3 containers
1 linear foot
English
Collection material in
English
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Historian, educator,
and author. Chiefly transcripts of manuscripts in various repositories in
England. The material relates to admiralty courts and cases as well as trade
and political matters.
Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
People
Andrews, Charles McLean, 1863-1943.
Subjects
Admiralty--Great Britain--Colonies.
Admiralty--United States.
Commercial law--Great Britain--Colonies.
Commercial law--United States.
Courts--Great Britain--Colonies.
Courts--United States.
Maritime law--Great Britain--Colonies.
Maritime law--United States.
Places
Great Britain--Colonies--Administration.
Great Britain--Colonies--Commerce.
Great Britain--Commerce--United States.
United States--Commerce--Great Britain.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States--Politics and government--To 1775.
Occupations
Authors.
Educators.
Historians.
Provenance
The Charles McLean Andrews Collection Concerning Colonial History was
given to the Library of Congress by Evangeline Walker Andrews in 1944.
Processing History
The papers of Charles McLean Andrews were arranged and described in
1944. The finding aid was revised in 2009.
Additional Guides
Card indexes of the Andrews Collection are available in the Manuscript
Division Reading Room. Consult the reference staff for additional
information.
Related Material
The Andrews Collection complements the Manuscript Division's foreign
copying collection of manuscripts and records relating to American history in
British archives.
Copyright Status
It is the researcher's responsibility to determine requirements of
domestic copyright laws and international treaties and conventions.
Access and Restrictions
The papers of Charles McLean Andrews are open to research. Researchers
are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many
collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these
items for research use.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the
following information: Container number, Charles McLean Andrews Collection
Concerning Colonial History, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
Biographical Note
Date
Event
1863, Feb. 23
Born, Wethersfield, Conn.
1884
A.B., Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.
1889
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
1889
1907
Professor, Bryn Mawr College, Hartford, Conn.
1895
Married Evangeline Holcombe Walker (1869-1962)
1904
Published
Colonial Self-Government, 1652-1689
. New York, London: Harper & Brothers
1907
1910
Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
1908
Published
Guide to the Manuscript Materials for the History of the United States to 1783 in the British Museum and Other Depositories
. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington
1910
1931
Professor, American History, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1924
Published
The Colonial Background of the American Revolution
. Haven: Yale University Press
1925
President, American Historical Association, Washington, D.C.
1935
Pulitzer Prize in history,
The Colonial Period of American History
. New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University
Press
1937
Awarded gold medal for history and biography, National Institute of Arts and
Letters, New York, N.Y.
1943, Sept. 9
Died, New Haven, Conn.
Scope and Content Note
The Charles McLean Andrews Collection Concerning Colonial History
consists of transcripts of manuscripts in various repositories in England and
spans the years 1623-1800. The materials were accumulated by Andrews for use in
his writings on American colonial history and cover admiralty courts and cases,
trade, and political matters. Andrews authored
Lists of Transcript from the British Museum and the Bodleian Library . . .
(Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington,
1908) that lists the transcripts acquired by the Library of Congress.
Arrangement of the Papers
This collection is arranged by source of material.
Catalog Record: [https://lccn.loc.gov/mm80075765]
Container List
Container
Contents
1
British Museum
1
Egerton manuscripts 2395, 2543,
and 2670, selected folios
(2
folders)
1
Lansdowne manuscripts 1032, folio
128
1
Additional manuscripts 11411,
32695, and 3288, and selected folios and pages
(3
folders)
1
Oxford University All Souls College
Library, Oxford, England
1
Information on Captain Henry
Wilkinson
1
Public Record Office
1
Admiralty 1, 2, and 7, selections
from various volumes
(3
folders)
1
Admiralty Courts jurisdiction,
cases, related matter, and memoranda and extracts from various volumes
1
Admiralty jurisdiction in the
colonies, selections from various volumes
1
Admiralty Office, Library
manuscript 30
1
Chancery 54, selections
1
Colonial Office 1 and 5, selections
from various volumes
(3
folders)
2
Colonial Office, selections from
various colonial offices and volumes
(2
folders)
2
Foreign Office, miscellaneous 2
2
Gifts and deposits 8, vol. 95,
Chatham manuscripts 95
2
Gifts and deposits 24,
Shaftesbury papers
1
High Court of Admiralty, libel files,
136, no. 210; 137, vol. 118
2
State papers, vols. 29 and 330,
miscellaneous
2
Treasury, selections from various
treasury volumes
3
Miscellaneous
3
Altham, Emanuel, and John Bridge,
letters, 1623-1624
3
Banister, John v. Brown, John,
1743
3
Boston News-Letter
, May-Aug., 1721, extracts
3
Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations, 1735
3
"Connecticut," Mr. Dudley's
papers on the governments of New England and New York, [1693]
3
Correspondence regarding laws of
Connecticut, 1728-1733, 1740, 1752
3
Dartmouth, Lord manuscripts,
1778-1783
3
Diary of journey from Wilmington,
Del., to New York and New England, June-Nov. 1800
3
Halton, Robert, will and
administrative bond, 1748-1749
3
Headings of book showing the
general customs establishment in America prior to 1767, Sept.
3
Laurens, Henry, letterbook,
1767-1771 selections
3
London Chronicle
, vol. 26, no. 2031, extracts,
1769
3
Miscellaneous trade statistics,
vol. 7
3
North, Lord, establishment of a
plantation office, [1734]
3
Reference to the fees in prize
cases
3
Robinson, Thomas, complaint to
General Court, 1681 or 1682
3
Russell, Judge Chambers, letter,
1743 (?)
3
A short view of the smuggling
trade. . . and Representation of the Board of Trade. . . 1733-1734
3
Sylvester, Joshua,
Tobacco. . .
, a poem, 1672
3
Warren, Joseph, letter, 1775,
Apr.