Papers of Mary Elinor Lazenby, 1933-1955.

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Papers of Mary Elinor Lazenby, 1933-1955.

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This collection documents Lazenby's research for her 1940 book, Herman Husband: A Story of His Life, and media response to its publication. The collection contains photostats of Herman Husband's sermons and the Regulator Papers , and a typewritten transcription of a 1770 letter from James Hunter to Maurice Moore (the original letter is not in this collection). Also included are letters from archivists, librarians, and city and state records managers to Lazenby regarding her requests for information during her research into the life of Herman Husband. Lazenby also communicated with descendents of Herman Husband, including Singleton Husband Kimmel and Charles M. Husband. Clippings and a scrapbook document the media response to her book. Many of the clippings are descriptions of the book published in local newspapers; others are reviews in the academic literature. Not all of the response to Lazenby's book was positive. For example, Lazenby dismissed the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography's response to her book, claiming the review was "replete with virulence and untruth." A connection between Lazenby's book and Husband's descendant Admiral Husband E. Kimmel is demonstrated by clippings in the scrapbook. Also present are two small publications about Herman Husband. The copy of Herman Husband's Continuation of the Imperial Relation is inscribed as a gift to Lazenby from its author, Archibald Henderson.

0.25 linear ft. ( 1 box)

University of Pittsburgh

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University of Pittsburgh

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Lazenby, Mary Elinor, 1875-

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Mary Elinor Lazenby was originally from Iredell County, North Carolina, and spent many years in Washington, D.C. In 1940, Lazenby published her three part work, Herman Husband: A Story of His Life, on the Revolutionary War era Quaker. Lazenby was not an academic historian, and her work was not well received by professional historians. However, Lazenby's book garnered some attention at the time of its publication because of the controversy surrounding Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, one of Husband's d...

Husbands, Hermon, 1724-1795

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