39/1/20 Guide to the Burt Powell's Semi-Centennial History Transcripts and Source Material Burt Powell's Semi-Centennial History Transcripts

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Guide to the Burt Powell's Semi-Centennial History Transcripts and Source Material 1914/1918 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Burt Powell's Semi-Centennial History Transcripts and Source Material 1914-18 39/1/20 Powell, Burt Eardley, 1867- 3.00 English University of Illinois Archives
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Genre/Form of Material: Papers Topical Term: Afghanistan -- Education Agriculture Classics Land Grant Universities Osage Orange Trustees, Board of
Administrative Information Accruals:

October 1963

Arrangement of Materials:

subject folders in no definite arrangement

Scope and Contents

Work files for Burt E. Powell's Semi-Centennial History of the University of Illinois including transcripts of letters and newspaper articles dealing with the work of Jonathan B. Turner, Bronson Murray and others, the passage of the Morrill Act and the founding of the University and primary source material. The transcripts include lists of material copied from the State Historical Library and indices to the Turner and Murray material. The source material includes some transcripts, reminiscences by C. Robinson Griggs (1914) and Adelia Potter Reynolds '74 (1915), biographical sketches of Matthias L. Dunlap, John M. Gregory and the first board of trustees, 34 letters from Murray to Turner (1853-55) and a transmittal from Murray to William L. Pillsbury (1890), Prof. Charles Moss' manuscript on the teaching of classics at the University, copies of material loaned by Mrs. Louis Gregory, notes of early days by Joseph O. Cunningham and related material.

For similar collected recollections and documents on the University's founding, see RS 35/3/125 "University of Illinois Early History Collection."