Guide to the Andrew Lipscomb Letter MSS.1818
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Finding aid prepared by John McIlwain
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
2007
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Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
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archives@bama.ua.edu
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Andrew Lipscomb letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.1818
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.4 Linear feet
- Dates:
18 March 1861
- Abstract:
Includes one letter written by Andrew A. Lipscomb, president of the University of Georgia, to Benson J. Lossing and contains overt references to the contemporary political divisions between the North and South.
Scope and Contents note
In this letter, Andrew A. Lipscomb replies to the 19th-century historian, Benson J. Lossing, after Lossing presumably requested research assistance from Lipscomb. The letter was written shortly after Lipscomb became Chancellor of the University of Georgia and contains overt references to the contemporary political divisions between the North and South.
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John McIlwain, 2007
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Andrew Lipscomb letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
purchase, 2006
Biographical/Historical note
Andrew Lipscomb was born in Georgetown, District of Columbia, in 1816. He became a minister in the Methodist Protestant Church. In 1849 he founded Metropolitan Institute for Young Ladies in Montgomery, Alabama, and in 1856, became President of Tuskegee Female College. He accepted President's post at the University of Georgia in 1860. After leaving the University, he taught briefly at Vanderbilt and returned to Athens where he wrote and lectured until his death in 1890.