William Starr Myers Papers, 1893-1947

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William Starr Myers Papers, 1893-1947

William Starr Myers Papers, 1893-1947

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William Starr Myers (1877-1956) was a journalist, author, and professor at Princeton University, 1906-1956. He received his A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1897. Papers of include letters and clippings sent to him, 1894-1895, while he was a student at the University of North Carolina by his parents, J. Norris Myers and Laura Virginia Starr Myers, in Asheville, N.C., concerning family, friends, and the Central Methodist Church. Most of these letters are accompanied by clippings from the on local subjects. Other letters include several from Archibald Henderson, May and December 1918 and 1924. Also included are diplomas from the Asheville, N.C., high school, 19 May 1893, from the University of North Carolina, 2 June 1897, and from John Hopkins University, 12 June 1900; a University of North Carolina class reunion certificate, 1947; a drawing book of Myers when he was a child; compiled while he was a student at the University of North Carolina and containing doggerel, college songs, a class poem, copies of poems, a list of classics read by Myers, and educational expense account; a manuscript music book of Myers when he was a child; and a picture of Myers's room at Gilman Country Day School in Baltimore, Md. Asheville Citizen The Book of William Starr Myers,

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection