Samuel Phillips Verner papers, 1880-1985 (bulk, 1880-1943)

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Samuel Phillips Verner papers, 1880-1985 (bulk, 1880-1943)

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Correspondence; business papers; newspaper clippings; published articles and pamphlets; photographs of Africa and Panama and elsewhere; manuscript drafts of articles, stories, and novels. As an amateur anthropologist and linguist, many of Verner's files and essays discuss people, language, religion, animals, plants and other aspects of life in Panama, Africa, and the United States. Papers documenting all phases of his life including certain business ventures in the African Congo and conditions in Panama during construction of the Canal and World War I; early papers include reports, essays, diplomas and articles written for The Carolinian magazine that document Verner's college years at University of South Carolina, ca. 1888-1892. Correspondence and publications re Verner's missionary work and business ventures in the Congo; conditions in Panama, 1909-1919, where he served as a Sanitary Inspector; a scientific expedition to Africa, 1904-1905; a school established in Brevard, N.C., by Verner and his wife, Harriet Dunlap Bradshaw Verner; and family business affairs. Correspondence with the U.S. Department of Agriculture reveals Verner's efforts to introduce to American farmers and promote cultivation of a species of African rubber plant that he had discovered. Family correspondence, business papers, some of which relfect Verner's efforts to sell insurance and promote real estate developments, letters from various publishing houses and lecture bureaus reflect a period of financial difficulties and efforts to get articles and books published, including letters of Walter H. Page, William Page, William Jennings Bryan, Willa Cather, and others. Published volumes include: Le Congo (1883); Tropical Africa (1889); The Congo Conference: Report of the Secretary of State... (1886); Cape Colony for the Settler (1903); and Travels in the interior Districts of Africa... (1800). Papers on microfilm (850 items - R.248) consist chiefly of newspaper clippings, 1895-1935, reporting Verner's activities in Africa, Panama, and in the United States.

5.0 linear ft. (ca. 2901 items)

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8097085

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

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Verner, Samuel Phillips.

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