Robert M. McElroy papers ca. 1930s

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Robert M. McElroy papers ca. 1930s

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1940

Robert McNutt McElroy (1872-1959), an historian, taught at Princeton University and various universities in Great Britain and China. After teaching history at Princeton from 1898 to 1916, he became the first American exchange professor to China, lecturing on government and education from 1916 to 1917. During the 1920s and 1930s he taught in Great Britain at Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester, and Leeds. His publications included works on Grover Cleveland and Jefferson Davis. Collection consists of McElroy's notes and manuscript of his biography of Jefferson Davis and galley proofs for critical bibliography on Davis.

2 linear feet (2 boxes)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6312219

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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