Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Douglas Southall Freeman Letters, Accession 5220-b, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

These items were purchased on January 14, 1992.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This collection consists of seven letters, 1947 to 1953, between Douglas Southall Freeman (1886-1953), biographer and editor of the Richmond News Leader (1915-1949), to his friend Otis Fitchett , of Caldwell, New Jersey, who was an employee of the General Electric Company.

Different topics include Freeman's poor opinion of the book Firearms of the Confederacy by Fuller and Steuart (1947 Jan 20); thanks for an article about General George E. Pickett by Miss Whiting (1949 May 20); sending volumes three and four of George Washington (1951 Sep 3); thanks for postcards concerning Ticonderoga (1951 Sep 12); lack of knowledge concerning the exhumation and re-interment of Washington (1951 Oct 5); notification from Freeman's secretary that Freeman had autographed his books and thanks for the papers from Father Divine's "Heaven" (1953 Mar 18); and thanks for the recording of an organ performance by Mr. Cheshire at the Mosque in Richmond, Virginia (1953 Apr 20).