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Papers. 1866-1910.

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Assistant professor of drawing at U.S. Military Academy, 1876-1911. 17 letters to his family, 1866-1867, describing cadet life, 14 originals and 3 typed transcripts; pencil diagram of Larned's cadet room with site plan of U.S. Military Academy buildings on the verso; typed transcripts of 21 letters to his mother, 1873, written during the preliminary stages of the Stanley expedition; photocopy and typed transcript of diary kept during the Stanley expedition, describing camp life with frequent references to George A. Custer; correspondence, 1899-1910; correspondence with Edward L. Amory and others, regarding choice of professor to head the Department of History and English at the U.S. Military Academy, 1907-1910; correspondence with John Chester Adams discussing his appointment as chair of the U.S. Military Academy, Department of History and English, 1908 and 1910; correspondence with Edward Singleton Holden discussing publication of USMA centennial volume; pamphlet entitled "The Genius of West Point", 4 August 1904, by Charles W. Larned.

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United States Military Academy, USMA Library

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United States Military Academy

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Amory, Edward L.

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Holden, Edward S. (Edward Singleton), 1846-1914

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Adams, John Chester

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Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876

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Custer's paternal ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, came to the North American English colonies around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatines whose passage was arranged by the English government to gain settlers in New York and Pennsylvania. According to family letters, Custer was named after George Armstrong, a minister, in his devout mother's hope that her son might join the clergy. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, to Emanuel Henry Custer (1806...

Larned, C. W. (Charles William), 1850-1911

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