Correspondence of the Chesser and other Okefenokee families with Francis Harper 1931-1941. 1931-1941.

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Correspondence of the Chesser and other Okefenokee families with Francis Harper 1931-1941. 1931-1941.

32 items. Letters from Chesser family members such as Aunt Rhoda, Iva, Mattie, Ben and Shirley, and Wade, and others such as Annie Dinkins and Margaret Carey, to naturalist Dr. Francis Harper (1886-1972) and his wife Jean. Also includes typescript of seven poems by Jean Sherwood Harper.

1 envelope.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7008562

Georgia Southern University

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Harper, Jean Sherwood.

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Harper, Francis, 1886-1972

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Francis Harper, native of Massachusetts, was a zoologist and author affiliated with many universities. He was the author of Mammals of the Okefinokee Swamp Region of Georgia (1927). He retired in Chapel Hill, N.C. From the guide to the Francis Harper Papers, ., 1902-1968, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Henry Weed Fowler was an ichthyologist. From the guide to the Reminiscences on old naturalists, 1959, (Ame...