A Guide to the Douglas Southall Freeman Letters #5220-c

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

Processed by: Special Collections Department Staff

Repository

University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA

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-c, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

These letters were purchased by the Library on April 13, 1993.

Funding Note

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

Scope and Content

This collection consists of two letters, February 24 and March 27, 1947, from Douglas Southall Freeman , American historian and editor, on his personal stationery, Richmond, Virginia, to Mrs. Robert G. Sproul , wife of the president of the University of California, Berkeley, thanking her for her hospitality and dinner on the evening of the 21st during his recent visit to the University to celebrate Charter Day. He had declined her request to be her houseguest choosing to stay with Anne Hawkes , the Dean of Students at Mills College, Oakland, and her niece.