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Descriptive Summary

Repository:

Western Carolina University Hunter Library Special Collections

Creator:

Descendants of Harriet Slagle Setser

Title:

George Washington Carver / Slagle Family Collection, 1924 - 1936

Language of Material:

Material in English

Location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Hunter Library Special Collections.

Abstract:

Primarily correspondence from George Washington Carver to Mrs. Jesse Henry (Margaret Gillispie) Slagle and Dr. Thomas Dickey (Dick) Slagle.

Correspondence, envelopes, clippings, and pamphlets.

Extent:

0.25 linear feet

Carver, George Washington, 1864-1943

Slagle family.

Slagle, Mrs. Jesse Henry (Margaret Gillispie).

Slagle, Thomas Dickey.

Deal, Rev.

Jackson County (N.C.)--History

Correspondence, 1924-1936

Geo. W. Carver to Mrs. H. Slagle, September 20, 1924
2 pp. on 1 sheet

Geo. W. Carver to Mrs. H. Slagle, September 21, 1924
2 pp. on 1 sheet

Geo. W. Carver to Mrs. J.H. Slagle, September 29, 1924 and "Later" (postscript)
5 pp. on 2.5 sheets

Geo. W. Carver to "My dear Mrs. Slagle," February 2, 1925
2 pp. on 0.5 sheet

Geo. W. Carver to Mrs. J. H. Slagle, April 2, 1925
5 pp. on 2.5 sheets

Geo. W. Carver to "My very dear friend Mrs. Slagle," July 25, 1925
4 pp. on 2 sheets

Geo. W. Carver to "My dearest boy 'Dick'," September 1, 1925
2 pp. on 2 sheets

Geo. W. Carver to "My esteemed friend Mrs. Slagle," April 14, 1926
6 pp. on 2.5 sheets\

Geo. W. Carver to "My dear friend Mrs. Slagle,"August 19, 1926
4 pp. on 2 sheets

Geo. W. Carver to "My esteemed friend Mrs. Slagle," October 15, 1926
4 pp. on 1.5 sheets

G.W. Carver to "My dearest boy 'Dick'," February 1, 1927
6 pp. on 2.5 sheets

Geo. W. Carver to "My dear friend Mrs. Slagle," January 8, 1928
4 pp. on 2 sheets

G.W. Carver to "My dear Mrs. Slagle," March 17, 1928
2 pp. on 0.5 sheet

G.W. Carver to "My very dear friend, Mrs. Slagle,"March 20, 1928
4 pp. on 1.5 sheets

G.W. Carver to "My dearest boy Dick," August 31, 1928
2 pp. on 1 sheet

G.W. Carver to "My very dear friend Mrs. Slagle," September 8, 1928
2 pp. on 1 sheet

G.W. Carver to "My esteemed friend, Mrs. Slagle," September 10, 1928
2 pp. on 1 sheet

G.W. Carver to "My very dear friend Mrs. Slagle," October 9, 1928
2 pp. on 0.5 sheet

G.W. Carver to "My very dear friend Mrs. Slagle," October 30, 1928
4 pp. on 1.5 sheets

G.W. Carver to [no name on heading], January 1, 1929
1 p. on 0.5 sheet

G.W. Carver to "My very, very dear friend Mrs. Slagle," February 23, 1929
2 pp. on 1 sheet

G.W. Carver to "My very, very dear friend Mrs. Slagle," December 29, 1929
3 pp. on 2 sheets

G.W. Carver to "My very dear friend Mrs. Slagle," May 15, 1931
2 pp. on 1 sheet

G.W. Carver to Mrs. Henry Slagle, June 15, 1936
1 p. on 1 sheet
[note: typed letter, signed by Dr. Carver]

Geo. W. Carver "To my dear boy 'Dick'," no date, Christmas Greetings
1 p. on 0.5 sheet

S.W. Siler "letter" about Rev. Deal, copied by Mrs. J.H. Slagle, February 19, 1924

Twenty-two (22) mail envelopes, 1924-1936

Clippings

"T.D. Slagle Dies at 66; Jackson County Surgeon"

"Consider the Sweet Potato," [1925]

Lawrence E. Wood, "Mountain Memories"

Pamphlets, 1924

"Studies with Phytosterols." New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, N.Y. Technical Bulletin No. 108, September 1924

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiments Stations, "Experiment Station Record." Vol. 51, no. 7., November 1924. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924.

Ezra Brainerd; introduction by G.P. Burns. "Some Natural Violet Hybrids of North America. Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station. Bulletin 239, July 1924.