Papers, 1929-1973.

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Papers, 1929-1973.

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Letters, telegrams, clippings, a scrapbook, and other materials related to the career and death of William Robertson Perkins, legal counsel to the Duke family, and the death of his son, Thomas Lee Perkins. Correspondence chiefly consists of condolences. Scrapbook includes a telegram from Doris (Duke) Cromwell, and a June 24, 1945 program for a carillon recital by Anton Brees, dedicated to William Perkins, one of the two donors of the Duke University Chapel carillon. Also, an address by Charles Caldwell entitled "In Memoriam, William Robertson Perkins."

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke, Doris, 1912-1993

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Born on November 22, 1912, Doris Duke was the only child of James Buchanan (J.B.) Duke, a founder of the American Tobacco Company and Duke Energy Company and a benefactor of Duke University, and Nanaline Holt Duke. Inheriting a bulk of her father's estate in 1925, which included Duke Farms in New Jersey, Rough Point in Newport, R.I., and a mansion in New York City, Doris was soon dubbed by the press as "the richest girl in the world." Although Doris did her best to live a private life, she carri...

Caldwell, Charles, 1943-2003

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Perkins, Thomas L. (Thomas Lee), 1905-1973

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Son of William Robertson Perkins and resident of Rye, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1929-1973. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32520404 Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Thomas Lee Perkins : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481193 ...

Brees, Anton

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Perkins, William Robertson, 1875-1945

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Lawyer, of New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1903-1945. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20019508 ...