Josephus, Jr., and Evelina Foster McCauley Daniels papers, 1828-1968.

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Josephus, Jr., and Evelina Foster McCauley Daniels papers, 1828-1968.

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Family correspondence (1912-1948) includes courtship correspondence between Daniels and Evelina Foster McCauley (later Mrs. Daniels) and correspondence between Josephus and Evelina Daniels and his parents, Ambassador and Mrs. Josephus Daniels, in Mexico City, Mexico. Military correspondence (1925-1941) and World War II miscellaneous papers relate to the military career of Daniels in the Marine Corps as a reserve officer and active duty recruiting officer and is official in nature, while war materials are chiefly publicity materials relating to overseas relief; together with some materials concerning the passage of transient soldiers through Raleigh, N.C., in 1940. Newspaper correspondence (1923-1942) is fragmentary and relates to Daniels duties as advertising manager and business manager of the family newspaper, The News and Observer, and to the Carolinas Advertising Executives Association (1939-1942), with a smattering of papers concerning the North Carolina Press Association and the Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association. Correspondence with organizations (1922-1968) reflects the various civic and charitable interest of Mr. and Mrs. Daniels (chiefly pre-dating 1943) and includes substantial files relating to his involvement with the American Legion while only a trace for many of the other organizations with which they were involved. Unofficial diplomatic diaries and papers of Josephus Daniels, Sr. (1933-1941) includes a private, unofficial diary meant for the eyes of his children relating his life as ambassador to Mexico; together with a few dispatches, partial file of speeches, some White House correspondence of a personal nature, and newspaper clippings and Mexican newspapers. Business papers (1920-1942) include notes payable and stocks in various corporations including Boylan Pearce Co., Capital Construction Company, Herb Juice Medicine Co., Industrial Bank, and Raleigh Building and Loan Association; partial files concerning the estates of Belle Worth Bagley (1939), David Worth Bagley (1960), Ethel Bagley (1939), and Josephus Daniels, Jr. (1964); and papers relating to real property and insurance. Miscellaneous papers include correspondence and papers relating to the 1926 wedding of Josephus Daniels and Evelina Foster McCauley and to the funerals of her aunt, Evelina Foster (1929), father-in-law, Josephus Daniels, Sr. (1948), and husband, Josephus Daniels (1964); together with various greeting cards. Foster family papers (1828-1924) are basically the papers (1828-1864) of Evelina Daniels' grandfather, Robert C. Foster, of Nashville, Tenn., as a child, a young man, and an officer during the Mexican War, and include letters to Foster from his father, Sen. Ephraim Hubbard Foster, and some from Mrs. Cornelia G. Littlefield (daughter of Gen. Nathanael Greene); letters (1874-1924) addressed to Martha E. Bradford Foster, her daughter Evelina Foster, and her grandaughter Evelina Foster McCauley; and a Mexican War pay roll and Mexican War bounty land papers for Tennessee soldiers. Also includes tintypes and photographs of the Foster and Daniels families and diplomas of Evelina Foster McCauley Daniels.

9 cubic ft. (23 letter boxes and 5 flat boxes)

North Carolina Division of Archives & Hist

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North Carolina Division of Archives & Hist

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