Title: Arthur Lyon Cross Papers Creator: Cross, Arthur Lyon, 1873-1940 Dates: 1897-1940 Extent: 16 linear feet, 1 oversize folder Location: Offsite storage; prior notification required for access Abstract:
Professor of English history at University of Michigan. Correspondence with European and American historians, publishing houses, editors of learned journals, members of his family, and friends; also manuscripts of books and articles, lecture notes, student records, business papers, personal account books, diaries, 1938-1940, with comments on world events, and miscellaneous papers; and photographs.
Call number: 851024 Aa 2; Ac Language: The materials are in English. Repository: Bentley Historical Library
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Finding aid prepared by: Michigan Historical Collections staff
Access and Use
Acquisition Information:
The collection was the gift of Arthur Lyon Cross and his estate (donor no. 1203). The great bulk of the collection came to the library in 1940.
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Preferred Citation:
item, folder title, box no., Arthur Lyon Cross Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Biography
Arthur Lyon Cross was born November 14, 1873 in Portland, Maine. He graduated from Harvard College with an AB degree in 1895. While at Harvard, Cross worked with Edward Channing, continuing his studies, receiving his A.M. in 1896 and his Ph.D. in 1899. His thesis was later published as The Anglican Episcopate and the American Colonies.
Cross came to the University of Michigan in 1899 as an instructor. He was promoted to professor in 1911 and in 1916 he was appointed Richard Hudson Professor of English History. Cross was noted for his courses on English and constitutional history, and for his various writings, especially A history of England and Greater Britain and his history of St. Andrew's Church in Ann Arbor. Cross died June 21, 1940.
Collection Scope and Content Note
The Cross papers are divided into the following series: Correspondence; Miscellaneous and undated papers; Personal/Biographical; University of Michigan; Publications, articles, and related; Research and lecture materials, and Photographs.
Subject Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the finding aid database and catalog of The Bentley Historical Library/University of Michigan. Researchers desiring additional information about related topics should search the catalog using these headings.
Historians -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.
Rhodes Scholars.
Canoes.
Clothing and dress.
Costumes.
Dwellings.
Families.
Interiors.
Leland (Mich.)
Passengers.
Picnics.
Private libraries.
Tahiti.
Account books.
Albums.
Cliches-verre.
Diaries.
Photographs.
Arab Students Union (University of Michigan)
Barrett, Albert M. (Albert Moore), 1871-1936.
Cross, Arthur Lyon, 1873-1940.
Delta Upsilon Fraternity. University of Michigan Chapter.
Donaldson, Bruce McNaughton, 1891-1940.
Faculty Club (University of Michigan)
Katholepistemiad Club (University of Michigan)
Lawyers' Club (University of Michigan)
Lee, Alfred Oughton, 1873-1938.
Michigan Historical Collections.
Michigan Schoolmasters' Club.
Phi Beta Kappa. Alpha Chapter (University of Michigan)
Prismatic Club (Detroit, Mich.)
Sill, John Mahelm Berry, 1831-1901.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
University of Michigan. Dept. of History.
University of Michigan -- Examinations.
University of Michigan -- History.
University of Michigan. Research Club.
University of Michigan. Senate.
University of Michigan. Student Religious Association.
Ziwet, Alexander, 1853-1928.
Apostles Club (University of Michigan)
Cross, Arthur Lyon, 1873-1940.
Cross family.
University of Michigan -- Faculty.
Abbot, Waldo, 1888-
Adams, Randolph Greenfield, 1892-1951.
Aiton, Arthur Scott, 1894-1955.
Angell, James Burrill, 1829-1916.
Angell, Robert Cooley, 1899-1984.
Barbour, Levi L. (Levi Lewis), 1840-1925.
Bates, Henry Moore, 1869-1949.
Beal, Junius E. (Junius Emery), 1860-1942.
Bigelow, Samuel Lawrence, 1870-1947.
Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly, 1888-1962.
Bonner, Campbell, 1876-
Bromage, Arthur W. (Arthur Watson), 1904-1979.
Buck, Solon Justus, 1884-1962.
Burton, Marion Le Roy, 1874-1925.
Cabot, Hugh, 1872-1945.
Channing, Edward, 1856-1931.
Chapin, Roy D. (Roy Dikeman), 1880-1936.
Clements, William L. (William Lawrence), 1861-1934.
Cocker, Benjamin Clark.
Coffey, Hobart R., 1896-1969.
Coller, Frederick A.
Cooley, Mortimer E. (Mortimer Elwyn), 1855-1944.
Coulter, Glenn Monroe, 1894-
Couzens, James, 1872-1936.
Crane, Verner W., 1889-1974.
Curtis, Heber Doust, 1872-1942.
Curtiss, Ralph Hamilton, 1880-1929.
Cushny, Arthur R. (Arthur Robertson), 1866-1926.
Dean, Henry Stewart, 1830-1915.
Denison, Charles Simeon, 1849-1913.
Dow, Earle Wilbur, 1868-1946.
Dumond, Dwight Lowell, 1895-1976.
Eaton, John Wallace, 1886-1948.
Effinger, John Robert, 1869-1933.
Fairlie, John A. (John Archibald), 1872-1947.
Farrand, Max, 1869-1945.
Ford, Guy Stanton, 1873-1962.
Franklin, Kenneth J.
Frayer, William Alley.
Fuller, George N. (George Newman), 1873-1957.
Furstenberg, Albert Carl, 1890-1969.
Gale, Esson M. (Esson McDowell), 1884-1964.
Glaser, Otto Charles, 1880-
Goddard, Edwin C. (Edwin Charles), 1865-1942.
Gomberg, Moses, 1866-1947.
Hamilton, George L. (George Livingstone), 1874-1940.
Harris, Thomas L. (Thomas Le Grand), 1863-1941.
Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943.
Hinsdale, Mary L.
Hinsdale, Mildred, 1871-1971.
Hobbs, William Herbert, 1864-1952.
Hubbard, Lucius L. (Lucius Lee), 1849-1933.
Hudson, Richard, 1845-1915.
Hutchins, Harry B. (Harry Burns), 1847-1930.
Hyma, Albert, 1893-1978.
Jordan, Myra Beach, 1863-1946.
Kelsey, Francis W. (Francis Willey), 1858-
Khalaf, Johan I.
Kirchner, Otto, 1846-1920.
Koch, Theodore Wesley, 1871-1941.
Lincoln, Joseph Newhall, 1892-1945.
Little, Clarence C. (Clarence Cook), 1888-
Lloyd, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry), 1864-1927.
Lombard, Warren P. (Warren Plimpton), 1855-1939.
McCormick, John Newton, 1863-1939.
McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham, 1861-1947.
McLaughlin, Lois T. (Lois Thompson)
Michener, Earl C. (Earl Cory), 1876-1957.
Moore, Charles, 1855-1942.
Murfin, James Orin, 1875-1940.
Newkirk, Henry Wirt, 1854-1946.
Novy, Frederick George, 1864-1957.
Osborn, Chase S. (Chase Salmon), 1860-
Patterson, George W. (George Washington), 1864-1930.
Patterson, Merib Rowley.
Paxson, Frederic L. (Frederic Logan), 1877-1948.
Peirsol, Thomas Reardon.
Pillsbury, W. B. (Walter Bowers), 1872-1960.
Price, Hereward Thimbleby, 1880-1964.
Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959.
Reed, John Oren, 1856-1916.
Reeves, Jesse Siddall, 1872-1942.
Ruthven, Alexander Grant, 1882-1971.
Sadler, Herbert Charles, 1872-
Sawyer, Walter H. (Walter Hulme), 1861-1931.
Scott, S. Morley.
Shaw, Wilfred Byron, 1881-1959.
Sink, Charles A. (Charles Albert), 1879-1972.
Slosson, Preston W. (Preston William), 1892-1984.
Smith, Shirley Wheeler, 1875-1959.
Spaulding, Thomas M. (Thomas Marshall), 1882-
Stanley, Albert A. (Albert Augustus), 1851-1932.
Strohm, Adam Julius, 1870-
Tapping, Theodore Hawley, 1889-1969.
Tatlock, Henry, 1848-1942.
Tatlock, John S. P. (John Strong Perry), 1876-1948.
Turner, Edward Raymond, 1881-1929.
Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951.
Van Tyne, Claude Halstead, 1869-1930.
Warthin, Aldred Scott, 1866-1931.
Wenley, R. M. (Robert Mark), 1861-1929.
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
White, Lee A., 1886-
Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952.
Woolley, Joseph William.
Yost, Fielding Harris, 1871-1946.
Contents List
Request materials for use in the Bentley Library
Container / Location
Title
Correspondence [series]
Box 1
1897-1911
(86 folders)
Box 2
1912-1922
(83 folders)
Box 3
1923-1930
(75 folders)
Box 4
1931-1936
(66 folders)
Box 5
1937-May 1940
(40 folders)
Miscellaneous and undated papers [series]
Box 5
Professional and personal
(26 folders)
Personal/Biographical [series]
Box 15
Diaries, notebooks, account books
Box 6
Biographical and autobiographical material
(see also citations in oversize folder Ac)
Box 6
Membership cards
Box 6
Prismatic Club of Detroit 1917-1939
Box 6
Delta Upsilon Fraternity 1907-1939
Box 6
St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor 1918-1940
Box 6
Visas and Passports
University of Michigan [series]
Committee and departmental papers
Box 6
Official appointment notices from the University of Michigan 1902-1938
Box 6
History Department matters 1916-1940
(2 folders)
Box 6
Committee on Honorary Degrees 1922-1939
Box 6
Committee on Honors Convocations 1927-1931
Box 6
Committee on Scholarly Publications 1916-1940
Box 6
Rhodes Scholarship Committee 1927-1939
Box 6
Committee on Combined Curricula 1933-1938
Biographical sketches and memorials of university personages
Box 6
Dr. Albert Moore Barrett 1936
Box 6
Edward Channing (Reminiscence of) undated
Box 6
William Lawrence Clements 1934
Box 6
Ralph Hamilton Curtiss 1929
Box 6
Bruce McNaughton Donaldson 1940
Box 6
Earl W. Dow (Retirement of) undated
Box 6
Alfred Oughton Lee 1939
Box 6
George Washington Patterson undated
Box 6
Claude Halstead Van Tyne 1930
Box 6
Robert Mark Wenley undated
Box 6
Alexander Ziwet 1928
Box 6
English History Course undated
(4 folders)
Box 6
Miscellaneous University affairs
(20 folders)
Publications, articles, and related [series]
Box 6
Papers concerning publication of his books 1905-1921
Box 6
Correspondence concerning corrections for A History of England 1915-1921
Box 6
Book Reviews of A History of England 1914
Box 6
Book Reviews of the Anglican Episcopate 1902-1903
Box 7
Correspondence for the National Board for Historical Service 1917-1918
Box 7
Subscriptions to the National Bibliography of Modern British History 1909-1916
(4 folders)
Box 7
Manuscript of A History of St. Andrews, Church, Ann Arbor
(5 folders)
Box 7
Miscellaneous Short Articles and Speeches
(45 folders)
Box 8
Miscellaneous Short Articles and Speeches
(22 folders)
Box 8
Book Reviews
(33 folders)
Box 8
Speeches
(12 folders)
Research and lecture materials [series]
Box 9
Notes on Mortmain
(21 folders)
Box 9
Bibliography of British law
(16 folders)
Box 9
Research notes
(8 folders)
Box 10
Harvard student lecture notes 1892-1895
Box 11
Harvard student lecture notes 1892-1895
Box 12
Lecture notes on English Constitutional History and general
Box 12
English History
Box 13
Lecture notes on general English History
Box 13
Miscellaneous exams for history courses
Box 14
Miscellaneous exams for history courses
Box 14
Research notes
Visual Materials [series]
Box 16
Photographs
Box 16
Portraits and informal snapshots of Cross, family members and friends
(5 folders, 3 volumes)
Box 16
Photographs of travel to Tahiti and elsewhere 1920s
(2 folders, 1 volume)
Box 16
Miscellaneous snapshots (include Leland, Mich.)
Box 16
Two glass portraits
(stored with UAx images)
(cliches-verre)
Oversize Folder 1
Print from wood engraving of a Chinese warrior
(includes explanatory letter 1928)
Additional Descriptive Data
Selective Index to Correspondents
Abbot, Waldo, 1888-
April 2, 1928
Adams, Randolph Greenfield, 1892-1951.
Letters, Oct. 29, Dec. 22., 1925., Jan. 23, Feb. 16, June 13, 1932, March 8, Oct.8, 1934, July 23, 1935, Sept. 23, 1936, Sept. 29, 1937, Nov. 9, 1938, March 23, 1939; also letter Jan. 10, 1939, from Cross to D. R. Stuart, Princeton University, concerning Randolph G. Adams.
Aiton, Arthur Scott, 1894-1955.
Mar. 26, 1936
Angell, James Burrill, 1829-1916.
Letters, June 22, 1908; 1902, [n.d. placed at end of year]; Jan. 18, 1909; Jan. 13, 1911; May 1912; March 16, 1913, from James B. Angell; also official appointment notices from President Angell, May 22, 1902; May 16, 1904; June 21, 1907
Angell, Robert Cooley, 1899-
Jan. 23, 1933
Arab Student Union (University of Michigan)
March 3, 1930, of Johan I. Khalaf relating to the re-establishment of the Arab Students Union.
Barbour, Levi L. (Levi Lewis), 1840-1925.
Nov. 29, 1902; April 10, Nov. 30, 1903; March 24, 1904; Feb. 15.July 2, Dec. 19, 1906; Jan. 1, April 6, 1908; July 25, 1916; July 1, 1918
Barrett, Albert Moore, 1871-1936.
Memorial, 1936, to Barrett written by Cross
Bates, Henry Moore, 1869-1949.
April 11, 1928; Aug. 6, 1930; Nov. 22, 1933
Beal, Junius E. (Junius Emery), 1860-1942.
May 21, 1917; Dec. 4, 1928; Jan. 8, 1929; April 28, 1936
June 19, 1915, July 26, 1916, Sept. 15, 1916, May 30, 1917, July 12, 1928, Sept. 15, 1931, Nov. 22, 1931, May 1, 1932, Mar. 29, 1939.
Bonner, Campbell, b. 1876.
Aug. 12, 1919
Bromage, Arthur W. (Arthur Watson), 1904-1979.
March 23, 1932
Buck, Solon Justus, 1884-1962.
Mar. 31, 1926, Apr. 14, 1926, Apr. 16, 1926, Aug. 10, 1926, Nov. 24, 1926.
Burton, Marion Le Roy, 1874-1925.
Letters, April 7, Oct. 21, Oct. 22, Dec. 1, 1920; April 12, 1921; Nov. 3, 1923, March 12, 1924 [See also folder of official University correspondence.]
Dec. 22, 1930, letter, Feb. 22, 1937, from Michener to J. S. Reeves.
Michigan Historical Collections.
Oct. 21, 1932 (Alexander G. Ruthven to A. L. Cross, concerning the desirability of appointing a curator of University history.
Michigan Schoolmaster's Club.
Correspondence, 1932-1935, concerning the Michigan Schoolmaster's Club.
Moore, Charles, 1855-1942.
Feb. 21, 1923; letters, Dec, 11 and 19, 1929, of J. T. Jameson to Cross concerning Moore's life membership in the American Historical Association; letter, Dec. 27, 1929, of Jameson to Gross quoting letter, Dec. 23, 1929, of Moore.
April 2, June 8, Oct-13, 1910; Feb. 26, June 14, Oct. 31, 1911; Feb. 27, March 28, 1912; Jan. 10, Nov. 28, Dec. 17, 1915; April 15, 1916; Feb. 22, 1918; Dec. 7, 1919; April 9, 1922; Jan. 31, [1930]
Peirsol, Thomas Reardon.
May 18, Nov. 4, 1936; Aug .26, Oct. 19, 1937
Phi Beta Kappa. Alpha Chapter, University of Michigan.
Correspondence of Cross with Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 1923-1938
Pillsbury, W. B. (Walter Bowers), 1872-1960.
March 13, 1923
Price, Hereward Thimbleby, 1880-1964.
Sept. 28, 1937
Prismatic Club (Detroit, Mich.)
Correspondence, announcements of meetings, lists of speakers, 1917-1940.
Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959.
Jan. 9 and Jan. 29, 1907
Reed, John Oren, 1856-1916.
March 15 and May 6, 1910
Reeves, Jesse Siddall, 1872-
Nov. 27, 1931
Rhodes Scholars.
Correspondence, reports of the committee and information on candidates for Rhodes Scholarships, 1927-1939.
Ruthven, Alexander Grant, 1882-
Feb. 28, 1917; Sept. 23, 1930; Jan. 19, 1936; Feb. 21, 1938; May 10, 1939; also letter, Oct. 21, 1932, from Ruthven, concerning the desirability of appoint ing a curator of University history.
Sadler, Herbert Charles, 1872-
July 16, Aug. 29, 1907; Feb. 19, March 13, 1910; June 27, postcard, July 15, 1911; May 19, postcard, May 20, June 23, July 27, Aug. 11, Nov. 12, Dec. 29, postcard, Dec. 29, 1918; Aug. 3, 1919; July 25, 1936
St. Andrews Episcopal Church (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Form letters and correspondence, 1918-1940, relating to St. Andrews Episcopal Church.
Sawyer, Walter H. (Walter Hulme), 1861-1931.
Nov. 14, 1929
Scott, S. Morley.
Jan. 21, 22, 1926; May 25, 1938
Shaw, Wilfred Byron, 1881-1959.
Dec. 28, 1937
Sill, John Mahelm Berry, 1831-1901.
Feb.7, 1921 from Marion B. Rosenberry containing reference to John M. B. Sill as a contributor to the first St. Andrews Church, Ann Arbor.
Sink, Charles Albert, 1879-1972.
Sept. 30, 1932
Slosson, Preston W. (Preston William), 1892-
Feb. 8, 1933
Smith, Shirley Wheeler, 1875-1959.
Feb. 16, 1939
Spaulding, Thomas M. (Thomas Marshall), b. 1882.
July 31, Aug. 21, 1928; postcard, Sept. 26 [1929]
Stanley, Albert A. (Albert Augustus), 1851-1932.
July 30, 1911
Strohm, Adam Julius, 1870-
Feb. 23, 1926
Tapping, Theodore Hawley, 1889-1969.
Feb. 28, 1927; May 2, 1929; Jan. 16, 1930 [carbon]; letter to Edward D. Smith concerning the establishment by the Univ. of Mich. Alumni Club of Columbus, of a fellowship in the history department; also letters, Dec. 19, 1930; Dec. 23, 1931; June 18, 1935
Tatlock, Henry, 1848-1942.
April 22, 1902; April 26, 1915; March 17, 1917; Nov. 24, 1937; also letters, Nov. 4, 1936, and Aug. 26, 1937, from T. Reardon Peirsol to Cross concerning the presentation of portrait to Tatlock
Tatlock, John S. P. (John Strong Perry), 1876-1948.
March 26, 1910; March 31, July 21, 1911; July 6, 1916; [April 25, 1917]; Jan. 8, 1920; postcard, Nov. 22, 1923; May 25, 1931; Sept. 25, Dec. 7, Dec. 30, 1936; note, Sept. 15, 1937
Turner, Edward Raymond, 1881-1929.
April 28, July 31, 1911; Nov. 12, 1921; June 20, 1922; May 10, 1928; Dec. 4, 1929
University of Michigan--History
Manuscript, The University of Michigan In Ann Arbor, 1837-1937, by A.L.Cross.
University of Michigan. Research Club.
Eligibility rules for membership in the Research Club; membership list, Jan. 1, 1923; and correspondence, 1932-1939.
University of Michigan. Senate.
Reports and correspondence relating to various senate committees, 1926-1934; minutes of meetings of the Senate Council, April [1935], Feb. 1937; reports of various committees to the council.
University of Michigan. Student Religious Association.
Oct. 7, 1927, from Student Christian Association, [Wm. D. Brumbaugh, Jr.] concerning revision of charter and proposed new program; letter, April 9, 1928.
Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951.
Jan. 5, 1931
Van Tyne, Claude Halstead, 1869-1930.
March 17, 1910, re: the establishnent of the group system of electives at Michigan; Sept. 4, 1910; April 30, 1918; May 8, 1918; Dec.28, [1921]; Aug. 29, 1923; also memorial to Van Tyne by Cross, 1930.
Warthin, Aldred Scott, 1866-1931.
Sept. 14, 1908
Wenley, R. M. (Robert Mark), 1861-1929.
June 16, 1916; postcard; Dec. 8, 1918; Dec. 13, 1921; March 19, 1926, describing the death of Arthur R. Cushny; May 19, 1926, to H.B.Hutchins; June 18, 1926; June 1, 1928; from Robert M. Wenley; also biographical sketch of Wenley on occasion of his death
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
July 30, 1906, acknowledging a copy of Cross's History of St. Andrews Church.
White, Lee A., b. 1886.
March 29, 1918
Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952.
Jan. 8, 1902-June 2, 1924
Woolley, Joseph William.
Feb. 24, 28, 1908
Yost, Fielding Harris, 1871-1946.
May 27, 1918
Ziwet, Alexander, 1853-1928.
Biographical sketch of Alexander Ziwet by Cross on Ziwet's death.
