Finding Aid for Personal Correspondence, 1876-1919 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: Personal Correspondence, 1876-1919

ID: 2/5/1

Primary Creator: James, Edmund J.

Extent: 10.2 cubic feet

Arrangement: Chronologically and alphabetically thereunder

Subjects: Extension Education, Family Life, Genealogy, Germany - Education, Northwestern University, Religion, Sermons, University Administration, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Private correspondence of President J. James, including Family correspondence with sons Herman G. and Anthony J. James, daughter Helen James Frazer, wife Margaret L. James, brothers George F., Benjamin B. and John N. James and other relatives; private correspondence with educators, economists, politicians and others on university affairs, family business, politics, economics, education and other subjects. Correspondents include Simon N. Patten, Norman Waite Harris, Johannes Conrad, Leonard Wood, Theodore Roosevelt, Hamlin Garland, Lorado Taft, Graham Taylor, Julia Lathrop and Charles DeGarmo; the out-going correspondence for 1904-1906 in two letterbooks. Only a few scrapbooks, diaries and letters pre-date 1904.

Extension Education
Family Life
Genealogy
Germany - Education
Northwestern University
Religion
Sermons
University Administration
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 9/63

Other Note: 11 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/0205001.pdf

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