Edwin Anderson Alderman papers [manuscript], 1881-1950.

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Edwin Anderson Alderman papers [manuscript], 1881-1950.

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The papers consist of personal and official correspondence, drafts of speeches, scrapbooks, photograph albums, pictures, clippings, memorabilia, and other papers. The correspondence relates to Mr. Alderman's education and early associations; his work in the public schools and at the Woman's College at Greensboro, N.C.; his presidency of the University of North Carolina, Tulane University, and the University of Virginia; his activities with the Southern Education Board, the Association of American Universities, and other organizations; and other matters. Includes drafts of most of his noted orations; a bibliography of his writings, correspondence and scrapbooks of his wife, Bessie Green Hearn Alderman; and notes and draft of his biography by Dumas Malone (1940). Correspondents and persons mentioned include Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams, Felix Adler, Robert I. Aitken, James Rowland Angell, Viscountess Astor, Charles B. Aycock, Karl Bitter, Nicholas Murray Butler, Richard E. Byrd, Grover Cleveland, Calvin Coolidge, J.L.M. Curry, Frank B. Dancy, Josephus Daniels, Westmoreland Davis, Charles W. Eliot, Alfred William Erickson, John H. Finley, Thomas Staples Fuller, Williamson Whitehead Fuller, and Carter Glass. Also, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, William Dean Howells, Robert Hutchins, and Jean Jusserand, Franklin K. Lane, the Marquess of Lothian, Hamilton W. Mabie, Charles D. McIver, A. T. Mahan, John S. Mosby, Edward P. Moses, M.C.S. Noble, Thomas Nelson Page, Walter Hines Page, George F. Peabody, John J. Raskob, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, William Howard Taft, AmeĢlie Rives Troubetzkoy, Oswald Garrison Villard, Booker T. Washington, Joseph R. Wilson, and Woodrow Wilson.

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