Thomas Perrin Harrison papers, 1861-1939 [manuscript].

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Thomas Perrin Harrison papers, 1861-1939 [manuscript].

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Papers of Thomas Perrin Harrison, dean and professor of English at North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N.C., chiefly professional correspondence about literary scholarship and administering the English Department, and letters received by Harrison from his children, James Leftwich Harrison (b. 1895), New York banker, about his work, family matters, and public events; Thomas Perrin Harrison, Jr. (b. 1897), student and instructor at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and professor of English at the University of Texas, about his work as a literary scholar and academic; Florence Harrison Dunlop, student at Bryn Mawr College and resident of Washington, D.C., about her experiences at Miss Madeira's School, Washington, D.C., 1917-1919, and at Bryn Mawr, 1919-1923, and life in Washington, D.C., in the 1920s and the 1930s; and Lewis Wardlaw Harrison, about life as a student at the University of North Carolina, 1922-1925. Also included are thirty Civil War letters exchanged between Harrison's parents, Col. Francis Eugene Harrison, serving with the 1st South Carolina Rifles in Virginia, and Mary Eunice Perrin Harrison, and her Perrin relatives in Anderson and Abbeville Districts, S.C.

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