Inventory of the Henry Haywood Glassie Papers, 1873-1937
Collection Number 2749
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 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
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Glassie, Henry Haywood, 1871-1938.
- Title
- Henry Haywood Glassie Papers, 1873-1937.
- Call Number
- 2749
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 475 items (2.0 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- 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 Henry Haywood Glassie Papers, #2749, 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.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Caffery, Donelson, 1835-1906.
- Democratic Party (U.S.)--History.
- Glassie, Henry Haywood, 1871-1938.
- Latin America--Commerce--History--19th century.
- Lawyers--Washington (D.C.)
- Louisiana--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Manoa Company.
- Practice of law--Washington (D.C.)--History.
- Shipping--Latin America--History--19th century.
- United States Tariff Commission--History.
- United States--Politics and government--1913-1921.
- United States. Attorney-General--History.
- World War, 1914-1918--United States.
Biographical Note
Native of Tennessee, lawyer in Washington, D.C., special assistant to the United States attorney general, and member of the United States Tariff Commission.
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Chiefly papers concerning the practice of law, including Glassie's service in the United States attorney general's office and with the United States Tariff Commission, but also including papers about personal and cultural matters, politics, and domestic and tactical matters during World War I. Among Glassie's correspondents were politicians of both parties, particularly in the 1914-1917 period, including his father-in-law, Donelson Caffery, United States senator from Louisiana. Also included are legal lettercopy books, 1873-1874 and 1912-1913, from Glassie's law practice in Washington, D.C.; notebooks; memoranda concerning his trip to Europe for the Tariff Commission, 1925; and lettercopy books, 1884-1886, of the Manoa Company of New York, concerning shipping business in Latin America.