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Collection material in English and French
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.
The papers of Abel Doysié, genealogical researcher, historian, and translator, were purchased by the Library of Congress in 1967. In 1971 Doysié presented his research notes as a gift via Mrs. Paul H. Bonnel of Paris, France.
The papers of Abel Doysié were arranged and described in 1968. The collection was expanded and revised in 1985. The finding aid was revised in 2010.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Abel Doysié is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Abel Doysié 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.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Abel Doysié Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Abel Doysié (1886-1973) span the years 1910-1967, with the bulk of the material dating between 1920 and 1962. The papers deal almost exclusively with his professional life as a researcher and translator and are arranged into the following series: General Correspondence and Addition .
The General Correspondence contains the bulk of the papers and consists largely of Doysié's correspondence and research notes with scholars, universities, libraries, and institutions here and abroad for whom Doysié did historical and genealogical research after his work for the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Library of Congress ended in 1936. There is also a small amount of printed material such as articles, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets dealing with the activities and organizations of his various correspondents enclosed with incoming letters. Included also is a small group of miscellaneous family material which includes a photograph of Doysié, a song of his composition, and several early letters from relatives.
Abel Doysié began his long association with American scholarship in 1908 when he was hired by Waldo Gifford Leland, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's representative in Paris as his research assistant. He continued to work for the Carnegie Institution, listing and describing documents for the preparation of a guide to French materials relating to American history in Parisian libraries and archives until his services were terminated in 1922. Volume I of the
Correspondents include James Truslow Adams, Henry Putney Beers, Whitfield J. Bell, Samuel Flagg Bemis, Julian P. Boyd, William L. Clements, Worthington Chauncey Ford, J. Franklin Jameson, Charles Coleman Sellers, Lothrop Stoddard, James Benjamin Wilbur, and Carter Godwin Woodson. Institutions represented in the correspondence include the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library in Wilmington, Delaware, the Illinois Historical Survey of the University of Illinois, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the universities of Pennsylvania and Michigan.
It was in the field of American colonial history that Doysié's research was concentrated. Indeed, he developed such familiarity with French source materials that in 1938 he was invited to give a series of lectures in New York on the American War of Independence. He later arranged the historical section of the French exhibit at the New York World's Fair (1939-1940), and upon his return to Paris prepared a George Washington exhibit at the Bibliothèque Nationale.
The Addition is comprised largely of research notes with a small amount of correspondence.
This collection is arranged in two series:
Correspondence and research notes.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, institution, or topic.
Correspondence, articles, and notes.
Arranged by topic or type of material.