Inventory of the Edwin Alexander Anderson Papers, 1878-1939

Collection Number 3387


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Related Material
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Anderson, Edwin Alexander, 1860-1933.
Title
Edwin Alexander Anderson Papers, 1878-1939.
Call Number
3387
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 800 items (2.0 linear feet).
Abstract
United States Navy admiral from Wilmington, N.C., who retired in 1924. Personal correspondence, chiefly 1883-1903, and official naval papers, 1878-1939, of Anderson. Letters to his mother and to his wife, Mertie Lorain Anderson, discuss navy life and describe foreign ports in four continents. Official papers concern promotions, orders, recommendations, travel permits, and assignments, and include military writing and travelogues. Also included are Anderson's social record and log as commander of the Asiatic Fleet, 1922-1923. There are few World War I items and no items dated 1903-1911.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1958
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Edwin Alexander Anderson Papers, #3387, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Anderson, Edwin Alexander, 1860-1933.
Anderson, Mertie Lorain.
United States. Navy--Officers--Correspondence.
United States. Navy--Officers--Social life and customs.
United States. Navy--Sea life.
United States. Navy. Asiatic Fleet.
Voyages and travels--History.
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Related Material

Edwin Alexander Anderson papers, Duke University Library, Durham, N.C.
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Biographical Note

United States Navy admiral from Wilmington, N.C., who retired in 1924.

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Collection Overview

Personal correspondence, chiefly 1883-1903, and official naval papers, 1878-1939, of Anderson. Letters to his mother and to his wife, Mertie Lorain Anderson, discuss navy life and describe foreign ports in four continents. Official papers concern promotions, orders, recommendations, travel permits, and assignments, and include military writing and travelogues. Also included are Anderson's social record and log as commander of the Asiatic Fleet, 1922-1923. There are few World War I items and no items dated 1903-1911.