Lander family. Lander family papers, 1808-1962.
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Lander family papers, 1808-1962.
Consisting of correspondence, land records, broadsides, and family and business papers generated and/or collected by descendants of the Rev. Samuel Lander (1833-1904), in particular the family of Ernest McPherson Lander, Sr. (1877-1962); correspondence and land and business papers re family of Benjamin Franklin Jones (1850-1934) and Eva Caroline Hinds Jones (1860-1948), of Georgetown, whose daughter, Kizzie Ezelle Jones, married E.M. Lander; business correspondence and papers of Landers as secretary and assistant treasurer of Calhoun Mills, Calhoun Falls, S.C., 1908-1944, including correspondence with James P. Gossett and Benjamin B. Gossett, presidents of Calhoun Mills; papers re E.M. Lander's role in the Methodist church, leadership as a trustee of Calhoun Falls public schools, and interest in Lander College affairs; and correspondence, 1923-1924, with John McKee Nickles re Calhoun Highway Association and proposed construction of a bridge across the Savannah River. Also includes land papers, 1808-1855, of Samuel Lander in Lincoln County, N.C.; letters, 1851-1855, to Elias Sinclair Jones, Bentonville, N.C., from family and friends in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee; business letters and financial statements, 1860-1861, from Charleston commission merchants George E. Pritchett and Shingler & Hale to Messrs. [W.] Nichols & [E.S.] Jones re production of turpentine and other naval stores; photographic advertisements, 1859, "The Photographers Friend," and undated, "Tucker & Perkins, Photographic Artists, Augusta, Ga."; manuscript, 1 June 1926, E.M. Lander's address at the unveiling of memorial to the Rev. Samuel Lander at Williamston High School; program, 30 Jan. [1928], from piano recital of Ignace Jan Paderwski at Textile Hall, Greenville. Other correspondents include Paul Brown James Francis Byrnes, Fred H. Dominick, Butler B. Hare, Burnet B. Maybank, Thomas G. McLeod, John McKee Nickles, John Marvin Rast, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry Nelson Snyder, Ransome J. Williams, and John O. Willson. Journal, July 1855 - Apr. 1864, of Samuel Lander; places represented in this volume include Lincolnton, N.C., and "the New Institute" in Olin (Iredell County, N.C.) that was later known as Olin High School (in box of unprocessed additions). Letter, 23 Sept. 1945, from Rev. John G. Magee (1884-1953), of St. John's Church (Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.), and sent to Mrs. [John O.] Wil[l]son, Anderson, in which Magee recalls his introduction to Mrs. Willson's brother, the Rev. John McPherson Lander, and his wife in Brazil during the summer of 1908 just as he was "about to enter the theological school in preparation for going to China as a missionary," where he spent 28 years, beginning in 1912. He then goes on to tell of the birth and early life of his son John Magee (1922-1941), the fighter pilot whose poem "High Flight" became one of the most celebrated literary pieces of the Second World War and whose life was chronicled by biographer Hermann Hagedorn in the 1942 book, Sunward I've Climbed, The Story of John Magee, Poet and Soldier, 1922-1941. Born in Shanghai, pilot Magee studied in England at the Rugby School, where he won the poetry prize awarded to Rupert Brooke before the First World War. "It[']s interesting," the letter notes, "that he won this prize as he has been associated with Brooke in the minds of many people." Magee left England in the summer of 1939 to visit relatives in the United States but was not permitted to return by the State Department. Turning down a scholarship at Yale so that he could join the Royal Canadian Air Force, Magee "won his wings as a Fighter Pilot in June 1941 & went abroad in July. He had to undergo about six weeks further training to get used to a Spitfire & also to become used to high altitudes, before entering combat. It was during this period of training, on Sept. 3, 1941, while at an altitude of 30,000 feet, that he began the poem that has made him famous. He finished it soon after grounding the plane and then put the sonnet on the back page of his regular letter to us not knowing that he had done anything great." By the end of the war, the letter concludes, "High Flight" had been published in both German and Spanish language publications.
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