Harold H. Martin papers, 1837-1977.

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Harold H. Martin papers, 1837-1977.

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The collection contains the personal and professional papers of Harold H. Martin. The papers include correspondence, articles, photographs, clippings, notes, scrapbooks, sound recordings, manuscript drafts, a diary, and memorbillia. Martin's correspondence is personal or relates to his writing (1965-1969); other correspondence (1969-1971), sound recordings, notes, photographs, drafts, and reviews relate mainly to Martin's books STARLIFTER (1972), THREE STRONG PILLARS, STORY OF THE TRUST COMPANY OF GEORGIA (1974), RALPH MCGILL, REPORTER (1973), WILLIAM BERRY HARTSFIELD (1978), and GEORGIA, A BICENTENNIAL HISTORY (1977) and to unpublished biographies of Robert W. Woodruff and Charles Palmer. Articles were written by Martin for the SATURDAY EVENING POST. There is also correspondence of the Martin family, of Martin's wife, Boyce Lokey Martin, and of the Hamilton and Lokey families. Scrapbooks containing correspondence, photographs, and clippings were compiled by Boyce Martin's aunts, Marian Hamilton and Nancy H. Ogden, and document their service with the American Red Cross Mission to Palestine (1918-1919). Manuscripts are of Ogden's poems, short stories, and lectures; transcripts are of her diary and letters written to her husband, Montgomery Ogden, from Hong Kong and the Philippines (1925-1927).

20.75 linear ft. : (54 boxes, 1 oversized paper (OP), and 1 oversized bound v. (OBV))

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