Copeland, Walter S. (Walter Scott), 1856-1928. Walter Scott Copeland papers [manuscript], 1880-1954.
Title:
Walter Scott Copeland papers [manuscript], 1880-1954.
The collection consists chiefly of letters to Copeland, editor and publisher of the Newport News Daily Press and Times-Herald. The correspondents discuss Virginia political issues and Newport News civic issues, particularly regarding the shipyards. Many letters request endorsement or thank him for favorable editorial comment. Some letters deal with the financial and business aspects of the newspaper publication, and one, n.d., gives a lengthy analysis of Daily Press operations. Major topics include the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate elections, a National Editorial Association trip to New England, race relations, particularly an incident at Hampton College, 1925, and a campaign to repeal the 14th, 15th, and 18th amendments, merchant marine legislation, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, and an alleged interview that discredited Carter Glass. The collection also contains letters and telegrams to Grace Beale Copeland on his death, speeches and addresses on civic, patriotic, and press topics, clippings, photographs, and scrap-books. The latter contain poetry and clippings assembled by Copeland and his first wife Mary A. Copeland, views of Newport News, and scenes of the NEA trip to Virginia. Major correspondents include Harry Flood Byrd, John Stewart Bryan, Josephus Daniels, Carter Glass, William Hodges Mann, Thomas Staples Martin, John Garland Pollard, S.L. Slover, Henry Carter Stuart, Claude Augustus Swanson, and Elbert Lee Trinkle. Other correspondents include Edward Anderson Alderman, James Branch Cabell, Addie Worth Bagley Daniels, Adelbert Cronkhite, Douglas Southall Freeman, Arthur Kyle Davis, Joseph Thomas Deal, Stuart G. Gibboney, Ellen Glasgow, Meta Glass, Louis Isaac Jaffe, Mary Johnston, Helen Adams Keller, the Ku Klux Klan Newport News Chapter, Stuart McGuire, Robert Wolton Moore, George Campbell Peery, Albert Cabell Ritchie, Henry St.Tucker, Leonora Speyer, and Lyon Gardiner Tyler.
ArchivalResource:
900 items.
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