Robert Preston Brooks papers of the Georgia Historical Association, 1917-1922

Summary

Creator:

Brooks, Robert Preston, 1881-1961

Date:

1917-1922

Extent:

0.5 Linear Feet 1 box

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Robert Preston Brooks papers of the Georgia Historical Association, ms38, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of papers of Robert Preston Brooks, mainly in association with the Georgia Historical Association and Georgia Historical Society. Correspondence chiefly concerns the merger of the Georgia Historical Association with the Georgia Historical Society, and Georgia Historical Quarterly. Correspondents include A. R. Lawton, Andrew J. Cobb, Otis Ashmore, Charles Edgeworth Jones, Alfred Newell, Percy Flippin, Lucien Lamar Knight, and E. Merton Coulter.

The collection also contains the Georgia Historical Association and Georgia Historical Society merger agreement, financial statements and ledgers of Robert Preston Brooks and the Georgia Historical Association, meeting minutes, and lists of members of the Georgia Historical Society.

Biographical / historical:

Robert Preston Brooks was an educator, historian, head of the Institute of Public Affairs, and Dean of the School of Economics at the University of Georgia, and resided in Athens, Georgia.

Related

Other descriptive data:

Papers donated by the Georgia Historical Association in 1953. Minute book transferred from Georgia Room to collection in 2008.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Financial records.
Business letters.
Correspondence

Names:

Georgia Historical Association
Georgia Historical Society

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Robert Preston Brooks papers of the Georgia Historical Association, ms38, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.