Papers relating to education and missions in Liberia, 1925-1929.

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Papers relating to education and missions in Liberia, 1925-1929.

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Papers include: Correspondence, 1925-1929, mostly reporting on Sibley's travels in Liberia and including a copy of a letter Sibley to Frederick Cheever Shattuck, 1926 Dec. 20, and Shattuck's reply, and a copy of a letter from Nathaniel H.B. Carroll, President of Liberia College to George G. Wolkins, Secretary of Trustees of Donations for Education in Liberia, 1929 March 11; a detailed report based on his extensive travels, 1926, "Education and Missions in Liberia" (120 p.), illustrated with approx. 80 snapshots, with maps; and Sibley's annual report, 1927 (9 p.), to the Advisory Committee on Education in Liberia. With holograph letter, 1854 February 18, Sinoe Co., from Seaborn Evans to Josiah Sibley, Augusta, Georgia, describing his life in Liberia.

ca. 36 items, in box.

Boston Athenaeum

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United States. American Advisory Committee on Education.

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Wolkins, George G.

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Sibley, James L., 1882 or 3-1929.

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Educational advisor for the American Advisory Committee on Education in Liberia. Author of "Liberia, Old and New" (1928). Evans was presumably a freed slave from Hamburg, South Carolina. From the description of Papers relating to education and missions in Liberia, 1925-1929. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41416078 ...

Carroll, Nathaniel

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Nathaniel Carroll was a resident of Camden, Maine. From the description of Account book, 1853-1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 54843365 ...

Shattuck, Frederick Cheever, 1847-1929

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Shattuck (Harvard, M.D. 1873) was Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard until 1912, overseer of Harvard University from 1913 to 1919, and consulting physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. His professional concerns were tropical medicine, typhoid fever, and industrial medicine. His interest in education led to administrative activities. From 1898 to 1909 he served on the medical school's faculty committee to revise curricula, during which time clinical rotations at Boston hospit...

Sibley, Josiah.

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Sibley was the son of A. Sibley. He lived in Augusta, Ga., 1824-1867. He had at least one brother, George H., and two sisters, Martha and Mary. From the description of Letters, 1824-1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122547618 ...

Evans, Seaborn.

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