Inventory of the Robert Ewing Thomason Papers, 1931-1947

Collection Number 1377-z


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
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
Thomason, Robert Ewing, 1879-1973.
Title
Robert Ewing Thomason Papers, 1931-1947 (bulk 1940-1945).
Call Number
1377-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
117 items.
Abstract
Chiefly letters, 1940-1945, received by Thomason of El Paso, Tex., United States representative from Texas (1931-1947), from citizens and government officials regarding the interests of his constituents and the business of the House Military Affairs Committee, including a 1945 letter from Harry Emerson Fosdick objecting to proposals for peacetime conscription.


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Administrative Information

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 Robert Ewing Thomason Papers, #1377-z, 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.

Draft--United States--History--20th century.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 1878-1969.
Legislators--United States--Correspondence.
Texas--Politics and government--1865-1950.
Thomason, Robert Ewing, 1879-1973.
United States--Military policy--20th century.
United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
United States. Congress. House--History--20th century.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs.
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Collection Overview

Chiefly letters, 1940-1945, received by Thomason of El Paso, Tex., United States representative from Texas (1931-1947), from citizens and government officials regarding the interests of his constituents and the business of the House Military Affairs Committee, including a 1945 letter from Harry Emerson Fosdick objecting to proposals for peacetime conscription.