Andrew Lipscomb Letter
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Scope and Contents note
In this letter, Andrew A. Lipscomb replies to the 19th-century historian, Benson J. Lossing, after Lossing presumably requested research assistance from Lipscomb. The letter was written shortly after Lipscomb became president of the University of Georgia and contains overt references to the contemporary political divisions between the North and South.
Dates
- Creation: 1861 March 18
Biographical/Historical note
Andrew Lipscomb was born in Georgetown, District of Columbia, in 1816. He became a minister in the Methodist Protestant Church. In 1849 he founded Metropolitan Institute for Young Ladies in Montgomery, Alabama, and in 1856, became president of Tuskegee Female College. He accepted the position of president post at the University of Georgia in 1860. After leaving the University, he taught briefly at Vanderbilt and returned to Athens where he wrote and lectured until his death in 1890.
Extent
0.05 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Includes one letter written by Andrew A. Lipscomb, president of the University of Georgia, to Benson J. Lossing and contains overt references to the contemporary political divisions between the North and South.
Provenance
purchase, 2006
Processed by
John McIlwain, 2007
- Title
- Guide to the Andrew Lipscomb Letter
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- John McIlwain
- Date
- March 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository