Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

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EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN PAPERS
Inventory

Abstract:          Edwin Anderson Alderman (1861-1931), president
           of University of North Carolina, 1896-1900; president
           of Tulane University, 1900-1904; and president of
           University of Virginia, 1904-1931.
                   Notebook kept by Alderman on Francis
           William Simonds’s lectures on health and physiology at
           the University of North Carolina, 1880; a letter, 12
           June 1887, from Grover Cleveland to Alderman regarding
           the North Carolina Teachers’ Assembly; and two other
           items.

Online Catalog Terms:
       Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931.
       Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908.
       North Carolina Teachers’ Assembly.
       Physiology—Study and teaching (Higher)—North
Carolina—History—19th century.
       School notebooks—North Carolina—History—19th century.
       Simonds, Francis William.
       University of North Carolina (1793-1962)—Students—History—19th
         century.

Size:      4 items.

Date Span: 1880-1893.

Provenance:    Received from Albert W. Cowper of Kinston, N.C.,
               1951, and the North Carolina Collection, 1952.

Access:        No restrictions.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.

Table of Contents:
   Description

                          DESCRIPTION

   Letter, 12 June 1887, from Grover Cleveland to Edwin A.
Alderman, regretting that he cannot be present at the convention
of the North Carolina Teachers Assembly and praising its aims; a
pass to admit E. A. Alderman and his wife to the Senate gallery,
signed by Sen. Z. B. Vance, 22 August 1892; and a note from E. A.
Alderman, president’s office, The University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, to W. S. Myers, Baltimore, Maryland, 18 June 1897.

Folder 1.      Papers, 1887-1897.

   Edwin A. Alderman’s college manuscript notebook recording
Prof. F. W. Simonds’ lectures on physiology and hygiene during
the 1880 spring session, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill.  Philip H. Crawford received this volume from his
grandmother when he was a boy (a letter to Phil Crawford, Jr.
from his “Granny” is enclosed in the front of this notebook) and
gave it to his law partner, Albert W. Cowper in 1951.

Folder 2.      Volume, 1880.