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[Identification of item], in the Thomas Perrin Harrison Papers #1588, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Lodwick Hartley of Raleigh, N.C., in April 1949, Lewis Wardlaw Harrison of Asheville, N.C., in 1949, and Thomas Perrin Harrison, Jr., of Austin, Tex., in 1974.

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• Banks and banking--New York (State)--History--20th century.
• Bryn Mawr College--Students--Social life and customs.
• College students--United States--History--20th century.
• College teachers--United States--History--20th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Regiment of Rifles, 1st.
• Cornell University--History--20th century.
• Dunlop, Florence Harrison.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Family--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Harrison, Francis Eugene, fl. 1861-1865
• Harrison, James Leftwich, b. 1895.
• Harrison, Lewis Wardlaw.
• Harrison, Thomas Perrin, 1864-1949.
• Harrison, Thomas Perrin, 1897-
• Literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--Southern States--History.
• Madeira School (Washington, D.C.)--Students--Social life and customs.
• North Carolina State University--Faculty--History.
• North Carolina State University. Dept. of English--History.
• Perrin family.
• South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Universities and colleges--United States--History.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--Social life and customs.
• University of Texas--Faculty--History.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Women college students--Pennsylvania--Social life and customs.
• Women--Education--United States--History--20th century.

Thomas Perrin Harrison (1864-1949) was born in Abbeville and raised in Andersonville, S.C., son of Francis Eugene and Mary Eunice Perrin Harrison. He attended Abbeville Academy and the Citadel, and earned his Ph.D. in English at Johns Hopkins University in 1891. He taught English at the Citadel, 1886-1888; at Clemson College, 1891-1896; at Davidson College, 1896-1909; and was professor of English at North Carolina State College from 1909 to 1939. From 1910 to 1939, he was dean of the College and head of the English Department at North Carolina State College, except for a leave of absence during World War I, when he was a YMCA educational officer with the American Expeditionary Forces.

Harrison wrote articles on many literary topics, including Shakespearean etymology and interpretation. He was active as a Presbyterian layman and noted as a public speaker. Harrison married Adelia Lake Leftwich (d. 1944) of Baltimore in 1894. Their four children were: James Leftwich (b. 1895), Thomas Perrin, Jr. (b. 1897), Florence, and Lewis Wardlaw.

The collection contains chiefly professional correspondence about literary scholarship and administering the English Department at North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N.C., and letters received by Harrison from his children, James Leftwich Harrison (b. 1895), New York banker, about his work, family matters, and public events; Thomas Perrin Harrison, Jr. (b. 1897), student and instructor at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and professor of English at the University of Texas, about his work as a literary scholar and academic; Florence Harrison Dunlop, student at Bryn Mawr College and resident of Washington, D.C., about her experiences at Miss Madeira's School, Washington, D.C., 1917-1919, and at Bryn Mawr, 1919-1923, and life in Washington, D.C., in the 1920s and the 1930s; and Lewis Wardlaw Harrison, about life as a student at the University of North Carolina, 1922-1925. Also included are thirty Civil War letters exchanged between Harrison's parents, Col. Francis Eugene Harrison, serving with the 1st South Carolina Rifles in Virginia, and Mary Eunice Perrin Harrison, and her Perrin relatives in Anderson and Abbeville Districts, S.C.

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