Augustus Baldwin Longstreet papers, 1844-1860.

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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet papers, 1844-1860.

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The collection consists of the papers of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet from 1844-1860. The papers consist of a notebook and microfilm copy, correspondence, printed material, photocopied reports, a photograph, and a rubbing. The notebook contains writings by Longstreet on various subjects with Biblical references; printed materials include his Emory College inaugural address, another address about him, and articles about him or his book, Georgia Scenes. One letter is from John D. Wade concerning the notebook, others are from Longstreet to Julia P. Mann; reports are Longstreet's as president of South Carolina College; the rubbing is of Longstreet's tombstone; a color photograph is of Longstreet's home in Oxford, Mississippi.

.25 linear ft. (1 box and 1 oversized paper (OP))1 microfilm reel (MF)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Mann, Julia Pierce.

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South Carolina College

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Emory College

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Emory College was founded in 1836 by the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Early faculty members included Alexander Means, Gustavus John Orr, Osborne L. Smith, and George W. W. Stone. From the description of Emory College faculty records, 1847-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 761669346 Emory College was chartered in 1836 to the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The first librarian noted in Emory College records, in 1840, was George...

Wade, John Donald, 1892-1963

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A noted biographer, essayist, and literary-review editor, John Donald Wade is best remembered for his participation in the Vanderbilt Agrarian movement of the 1930s and especially his contribution to the symposium that was to become that movement's manifesto, I'll take my stand: the South and the Agrarian Tradition (1930). From the description of Wade, John Donald letter, 1963. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 276231234 John Donald Wade (1892-1963), educator, aut...

Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 1790-1870

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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, lawyer, author, and college president, was born 22 September 1790, in Augusta, Georgia, and died 9 July 1870, in Oxford, Mississippi. His sketches of late eighteenth century Georgia life, GEORGIA SCENES, appeared in Georgia newspapers (1833-1836), but later writings were more political or religious. He was ordained a Methodist minister (1838) and became president of four Southern colleges: Emory College (1839-1848), Centenary College in Jackson, La. (1849), the Unive...