A Guide to the J. Harry Bennett Papers, 1935-1966

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A Guide to the J. Harry Bennett Papers, 1935-1966


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	Creator:	Bennett, J. Harry.
	Title:	Bennett, J. Harry, Papers
	Dates:	1935-1966
	Abstract:	The papers of J. Harry Bennett (1919-1966) document his life and academic career as a UT history professor and specialist in eighteenth-century British history.
	Accession No.:	66-94
	OCLC No.:	824798842
	Extent:	18 ft., 4 in.
	Language:	Materials are written in English.
	Repository:	Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Note

J. Harry Bennett was born in Oelwein, Iowa on September 29, 1919 and grew up in California. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in history at the University of California at Los Angeles. Upon receiving his Ph.D. in September 1948, Bennett was hired as a professor of eighteenth-century British history for the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he continued to teach until his death on April 25, 1966.

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"In Memoriam - J. Harry Bennett." Index of Memorial Resolutions and Biographical Sketches, Office of the General Faculty, UT. Accessed January 17, 2013. http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000-2001/memorials/SCANNED/bennett.pdf.

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Scope and Contents

The papers of J. Harry Bennett (1919-1966) document his life and academic career as a UT history professor and specialist in eighteenth-century British history. Included are personal and professional correspondence, student materials, course lecture notes, and research materials concerning the British West Indies (particularly slavery in Barbados and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, a British missionary organization). The papers also include materials related to Bennett's service on University committees and to the History Department, as well as scrapbooks, maps, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

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	Subjects (Persons)
		Bennett, J. Harry. -- Archives.
	Subjects (Organizations)
		University of Texas at Austin. Dept. of History
	Subjects
		British--West Indies--History--18th century.
		College teaching--United States.
		Missionaries.
		Molasses industry
		Plantations--Barbados--History.
		Plantations--West Indies, British--History.
		Sugarcane.
	Places
		Barbados.
	Photographic Subjects
		Bennett, J. Harry.
		Earthquakes--California.

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	See also the UT Department of History Records, 1877- .

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J. Harry Bennett Papers, 1935-1966, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

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Detailed Description of the Papers

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3B74

Personal correspondence:

Abernathy - Frank

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3B75

Frantz - Manning

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3B76

Milne - Woodward

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3B77

General correspondence:

1935-1955

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3B78

1955-1963

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3B79

1964-1966, undated

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3B80-3B81

Professional correspondence:

With students and faculty in an official capacity

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3B82

Family correspondence:

1945-1966, undated

Personal materials

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3B83

Educational and professional papers:

As a student

As a professor (lecture notes):

1. 604b

2. 334k

3. 337j

4. 374l

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3B85

1. 334j, 334k

2. 604

3. 374k

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3B86

1. 3741

2. 384k, 384l

3. 3941

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3B87

1. 334j, 334k

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3B88

1. 334j

2. 604a

3. 374k, 3741

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3B89

1. 334k

2. 374k

3. 384k

Research notes

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3B90

Literary productions:

Codrington studies

Hay materials

Williamson materials

Papers concerning Codrington College

Barbados papers

Fulham manuscript

Barbados Committee book (papers)

Society for the Propogation of the Gospel (SPG) Papers

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3B91

SPG manuscript, letters, journals

Fulham palace manuscript

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3B92

SPG manuscript

SPG Barbados journal

Codrington Plantation accounts

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3B93

Cholmandeley correspondence

British Museum Add. manuscript

Hardwick Papers

Newcastle Papers

Chatsworth Papers

Greenville letter books

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3B94

SPG manuscript, journals, letters

Barbados Committee books

West Indian notes: Transcript and summaries of books

West Indian notes: Transcript and summaries of books and articles

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3B95

SPG journals and letters

SPG Archives:

Indexes

Transcripts

Letters from the archivist

Fulham manuscript

Lowther manuscript

Lambeth manuscript

Codrington manuscript

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3B96

Fulham manuscript

P. R. O., C. O. 28/15

Privy Council Col.

Colonial Cal. St. P., Am.

SPG manuscript

SPG miscellany (West Indies, 1712-1850)

Barbados Committee book, 1741-1744

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3B97

Fulham manuscript

Cal. of St. papers, colonial series

SPG manuscript

Materials concerning Codrington Negroes

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3B98

Helyar manuscript

Cal. State papers, Colonial American and West Indies, 1661-1674

Lonsdale manuscript

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3B99

Book chapters and notes for a book

Codrington manuscript

Codrington correspondence

Literary articles:

William Dampier

William Whaley

The English Caribbes in the Period of the Civil War, 1642-1646

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3B100

William Dampier

English Bishops and Imperial Jurisdiction

The SPG and Barbadian Politics, 1710-1720

Cary Helyar

Book reviews and bibliography

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3B101

Business papers:

Subject classified

Income tax papers, 1954, 1955, 1957-1964

City, County, State, and Poll tax papers

Papers concerning stocks

Insurance and hospital papers, and hospital receipts

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3B102

General:

1942-1959

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3B103

1960-1961

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3B104

1962-1963

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3B105

1964-1965, undated

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3B106

Printed material:

Maps

Reprints of Scottish documents

Sketches

Certificates and diploma

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3B107

Booklets and pamphlets

Yearbooks, as a teacher, 1943-1946

Book reviews of J. H. Bennett's book, Bondsmen and Bishops

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3Y91

Photographs

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3B108

Photographs

Scrapbooks and newspaper clippings

Miscellaneous

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Seminar papers:

History 334L: Norris, John M., Jr., The Economic Geography of Barbados, A Point of View Summary

History 374K (Eighteenth Century England: The Later Stuarts and Early Hanovarians, 1689-1763):

Abernathy, "Clarendon and the Declaration of Indulgence"

Allen, Milford, "Newcastle and Colonial Patronage"

Baxter, Thomas R, "Circumstances of the Establishment of the Bishoprics of Jamaica and of Barbados and the Leeward Islands"

Bellot, Leland J., "Preliminary Report of the Life of William Knox (1732-1810)"

Brown, Lawrence L., "A Survey of the Problems Involved in a Study of the Roots of the British Humanitarian Movement"

Campbell, William B., "Argyll and the 'Fifteen'"

Craddock, Emmie, "Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, and the Establishment of His Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in the English Plantations"

French, Richard, "Sir Richard Temple"

Hale, D. D., Jr., "Joseph Ewart and the Failure of the Triple Alliance, 1790-1792"

Hand, Clyde C., "The S. P. G. Missionaries and the American Revolution"

King, Betty Ruth, "The Dispute Over Bishop Gibson's Ecclesiastical Jursdiction in the Southern Colonies and Barbados"

Lamar, Lillie B., "Lloyd's Evening Post and British Chronicle, 1758-1763"

Lang, Herbert H., "The Peace of the Utrecht as it Affected the West Indies"

McKenzie, John P. G., "The Life and Affairs of Sir Bevil Granville, Governor of the Barbadoes, 1702-1706"

Mills, Hubert F., "The Georgia Apprenticeship of John Wesley"

Montague, Gene B., "Late Victorian Historians and the Eighteenth Century"

Green, Stanhope, "Burton and Lecky"

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Neighbours, Kenneth F., "The Reaction of a Colonial Governor to the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Bishop of London"

Orman, Elizabeth, "Francis Atterbury and the Convocation Controversy to 1702"

Potter, Marguerite, "Pressure Groups and Their Responsibilities for the War of Jenkin's Ear"

Rich, G. B., "The John Wesley Mission to Georgia"

Ruth, Thomas G., "The Paper Money Act and the Land Bank Crisis in Barbados in 1706 and After"

Sims, John L., "Robert Lowther, Governor of Barbados, 1711-1720"

Sledge, Robert W., "The Associates of the Late Dr. Bray, the First Fifty Years"

Walker, William A., Jr., "Henry Worsley, Governor of Barbadoes"

Walz, Robert B., "Political Alliance of Church and State in Eighteenth Century England"

Wilson, W. W., "Sir Thomas Lynch, Governor of Jamaica"

Wooster, Ralph, "The West Indian Interest in Parliament, 1730-1764"

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History 374L (Eighteenth Century England: George III and William Pitt, 1760-1806):

Abernathy, "Richard Baxter and the Cromwellian Church"

Bludworth, R., "Observations by Anglican Missionaries in America on the American Revolution"

Connor, S. V., "The Land Bank of Barbados, 1706-1708"

Copeland, K. B., "Bibliography of Eighteenth Century British History, Rare Book Library, the University of Texas"

Deming, E. L., Jr., "An Inquiry into British Propaganda and the Threatened Invasion of England at the Time of Napolean"

Dwyer, A. L., "Wild Goose Chase: A Study in Futility"

James, F. H., "The Reverend Edward Marson and Carolina Politics"

James, F. H., "A Study in the Eighteenth-Century Anglican Clergy: Biographical Sketches of the Reverends Charles Porter and Richard Marsden"

Lang, H. H., "The Value of the Camden Society Publications for the Study of Eighteenth Century British History"

Neiheisel, R. G., "Church and State Relations in Jamaica, 1682-1748"

Norris, J. M., Jr., "Methodism as a Counterrevolutionary Force in Eighteenth Century England"

Paul, C. L., "The Sacheverell Trial"

Paul, Carl Lofstrom, "A Reading Report on the Influence of the French Revolution in English Politics"

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History 374K:

Ronan, C. E., S. J., "Mitford Crowe: Some Aspects of His Term as Governor of Barbados, 1706-1710"

Shafer, M. E., "The Significance of Colonial Experience with Councils of Revision and Apellate Review and Disallowance in Shaping American Constitutional Development"

Wooster, R., "The French Revolution: An Integral Danger to England? A Study of the Views of Seven Historians"

History 374M:

Sutton, W. A., "The Chartists, 1836-1848"

History 348K (A Seminar in British History, 1688-1760):

Baxter, T. R., "The First Caribbean Bishops"

Bellot, L. J., "A Select Bibliography of British History, 1660-1760"

Biles, R., "James Alexander Williamson"

Brubaker, G. A., "The First Administration of Robert Lowther, Governor of Barbados"

Calvert, R. A., "Readings from British Histories"

Campbell, William B., "William Gordon"

Chenery, F. L., "The Convocation Controversy, 1701-1717"

Gallaway, Benny P., "British Efforts to Secure Control of the Windward Islands, 1713-1730"

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Heyck, T. W., "Reports and Bibliographic Essay"

McComb, D. G., "Reading Reports and Bibliography"

McComb, D. G., "British History 1885-1964, Reading Reports and Bibliography"

McDonald, J., "A Guide to the Irish Problem in English History of the Eighteenth Century as Found in the Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission"

Pohl, J. W., "Reading Reports"

Smith, J. W., "The Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753"

History 384L (A Research Seminar in British History, 1760-1806):

Bellot, L. J., "The Religious Views of William Knox, an Eighteenth Century Layman of the Church of England"

Campbell, W. B., "The Irish Rebellion of 1798 as Revealed by the Charlemont Manuscripts and Correspondence"

Carter, "The S. P. G. Sermons and Annual Proceedings, 1760-1800"

Combs, J., "Women's Suffrage in England"

Copeland, K. B., "Winston Spencer Churchill vs. Thomas Babington Macauly"

Crouch, T. W., "Negro Slavery and Barbados in the Seventeenth Century"

Day, J. M., "Edward Cardwell and British Army Reforms, 1868-1874"

Gray, R. A., "The Carlisle Peace Commission; A Study of the Causes for it's [sic] Ineffectiveness"

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Harrell, R., "The French Treatment of Prisoners of War as Propaganda in the Anti-Jacobin"

Helmer, W. J., "Tommyguns and the I. R. A."

Johnston, D. E., "Edward Cardwell and Army Reform, 1868-1874"

Lipscomb, P. C., III, "British Government Publications: A Bibliographic Essay"

McCorkle, W. L., "Problems of British Radio During the Early Years"

McElroy, M. D., "George Bubb and His Uncle Dodington"

Mahaffey, K., "The Theatre Liscensing Act of 1737"

Moses, N. H., "The British Navy in the Carribbean, 1689-1697"

Nall, G. L., "Sir George Otto Trevelyan: Historian"

Nesmith, F. J., "A Study of the Relation of Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America to the Definition and Development of the Idea of Responsible Government"

Nolen, C. H., "Reading Report: The English Reform Movement, 1789-1799"

Oates, S. B., "Toward a More Perfect Society: British Public Reaction to the American Slavery Crisis, 1860-1865"

Pickens, D. K., "The Socialism of G. D. H. Cole"

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Reeves, G. H., "Slaves, Storms and Shipwrecks: A Study of Barbuda, 1745-1845"

Rhodes, L., "The Development of Anglo-French Reparation Policy: The SPA Conference (July 1920)"

Simpson, P., "Public Opinion of Foreign Policy in England, 1649-1660; Expressed in Ballads and Parliamentary Debates"

Sumerlin, O. W., "The Religious and Humanitarian Situation in Barbados During the Eighteenth Century"

Thornton, C. W., "William Dampier"

Waldrip, L., "Charles Dickens: Imaginative or Investigative?"

Ward, F. E., "The Carlisle Peace Commission of 1778"

Wortham, J. D., "British Explorers and Travelers in the Interior of Africa: 1760-1796"

Zimdars, B. F., "British Guiana and Amelioration: 1803-1831"

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History 379K:

Armstrong, T. A., "Bishop John Robinson, Statesman and Diplomat"

History 392K:

Hogland, J. D., "Haldane and Army Reform, 1906-1908"

History 400:

Heyck, T. W., "The Philosophy of History in the Encyclopedie"

Theses and Dissertations:

Ayres, V. H., Narrative of Lt. Colonel Alexander C. Dewar's Life in India, 1825-1857

Baxter, T. W., Carribbean Bishops: The Establishment of the Bishoprics of Jamaica and of Barbados and the Leeward Islands, 1824-1843

Cooper, D. B., The Early Church in the Leeward Islands

Davis, O. K., The Squadrone Volante, 1704-1714

Findling, J. E., Robert Lowther, Governor of Barbados, 1710-1720

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3H220

Funk, M. A. N., A History of the County of Somerset and the City of Bristol Between 1774 and 1783

Forsyth, J. S., The Life of William Gordon

Heyck, T. W., (Rice University), Studies in Late Victorian Imperialism

Joudah, A. H., British Interests in Kuwait to 1939

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Lipscomb, P. C., William Pitt and the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Masson, M. E., The Establishment of the Irish Free State, 1922

Paul, C., Reform Act 1832(Incomplete)

Sutton, W. A., The British Labor Party and Rearmament and European Collective Security, 1931-1939

Tuttle, C. B., The Public Career of Samuel Cox

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