Wilson L. Newman correspondence with George Washington Carver, 1926-1943 [manuscript].

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Wilson L. Newman correspondence with George Washington Carver, 1926-1943 [manuscript].

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Correspondence between George Washington Carver and Wilson L. Newman, beginning in 1926, when Newman asked Carver to tour Southern colleges in support of interracial communication. An instant rapport developed between the two men, who corresponded frequently until Carver's death in 1943. Letters, chiefly from Carver to Newman, are personal in nature, reflecting Newman's membership in Carver's "family," which was made up of young men who were expected to keep in touch with Carver by mail and to visit him periodically. Among these men were Howard Kester and Paul Newman Guthrie. Although most letters are filled with news of "family" members and with Carver's unbridled praise of Newman's mental and physical attributes, some letters address questions of race relations, Carver's work in agricultural experimentation, activities at Tuskegee, and the pleasures of music and painting that Carver and Newman shared. Also included are clippings, 1927-1943, chiefly 1943 obituaries and appreciations of Carver, but also earlier announcements of speeches and lay reviews of his work; six small landscapes and floral paintings, 1928-1932 and undated, apparently painted by Carver and sent to Newman as Christmas greetings; and miscellaneous printed materials relating to Carver, including a few brochures on agricultural topics and advertisements for books by him and for penol tonic, a "Tissue Builder and Germ Arrester" derived from peanuts and marketed by the Carver Penol Company.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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