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[Identification of item], in the Edgar Wallace Knight Materials Relating to Education in the South Before 1860, #1662, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gifts 1949-1952, 1976, 1989

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• Barnard, Henry, 1811-1900.
• Bray, Thomas, 1658-1730.
• Davidson College--History.
• Education--Southern States--History.
• Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910.
• Knight, Edgar Wallace, 1885-1953.
• Lancaster, Joseph, 1778-1838.
• Mann, Horace, 1796-1859.
• Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain)
• South Carolina College--History.
• Texas Military Institute--History.
• Universities and colleges--Southern States--History.
• University of Alabama--History.
• University of Georgia--History.
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville--History.

• Edgar Wallace Knight Papers (#3904), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Teacher, author, editor, and University of North Carolina Kenan professor of educational history.

Source material from various repositories collected by Knight in preparation for "A Documentary History of Education in the South before 1860" (1949-1954). Papers include letters, wills, petitions; trustees' minutes of schools and colleges; personal diaries; and other selected materials concerning education and related cultural and social aspects of the antebellum South. Institutions represented include the University of Alabama, the University of Georgia, Davidson College, South Carolina College, the University of Tenneseee, and the Texas Military Institute. Persons and organizations represented include Henry Harrisse, Horace Mann, Henry Barnard, Joseph Lancaster, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and Dr. Thomas Bray's Associates.