John Donald Wade letter, 1921 October 22.

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John Donald Wade letter, 1921 October 22.

The collection consists of a letter, dated October 22, 1921, from Wade to Charles Edgeworth Jones regarding the project for which Wade is today best known, the biography of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. He inquires about Augusta history during the period of Longstreet's residence there and about related questions.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7306703

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University of Georgia. International Student Life Office

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The University of Georgia (UGA) is the largest institution of higher learning in the state of Georgia. Located in Athens, Georgia, approximately 70 miles northeast of Atlanta, it was the first state-chartered university in the United States. In 2005 U.S. News & World Report magazine ranked UGA 19th in its list of the top 50 public universities for a sixth year in a row. UGA also ranks 58th overall (public and private) in the nation. Today, it is the largest university of the University Syste...

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...

Jones, Charles Edgeworth

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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...