Ernest Hunter Wright Collection, 1892-1968. [Bulk Dates: 1924-1968]

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Ernest Hunter Wright Collection, 1892-1968. [Bulk Dates: 1924-1968]

The Ernest Hunter Wright Collection contains the unpublished manuscripts, and correspondence of Ernest Hunter Wright, a professor of English beginning in 1910 and the head of the Department of English from 1933 to 1947, the collection also contains his wife Mary Heritage Wright's diaries and manuscripts.

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