Summers, Festus P.

Overview Correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and book manuscripts. Included are WVU adviser records of Dr. Charles Henry Ambler, WVU History Department. The material also comprises WVU Faculty Senate minutes and Library Committee reports. The book manuscripts cover the Cabinet Diary of William L. Wilson; The Democracy of Tariff Reform; Johnson Newlon Camden: A Study in Individualism. There is a partial set of the galley proofs for West Virginia The Mountain State, by Ambler and...

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This collection consists of two typescript copies of books written by Dr. Summers, as sent to the printers: "William L. Wilson and Tariff Reform, a biography, (1953)"; and the Cabinet Diary of William L. Wilson, 1896-1897." (1957).

Overview Research papers compiled by Dr. Summers for a biography regarding William Lyne Wilson (1843-1900), a Virginian born in Charles Town who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and as President of both West Virginia University (1882-1883) and Washington and Lee University (1897-1900), among other positions. The collection includes notes, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and photographs arranged loosely by chapter. The notes include typescript and handwritten copies of letters,...

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One folder of correspondence, June 25, 1945- July 14, 1949, concerning the will of Burr Smith for the Establishment of an historical park by the W. Va. Historical County, near West Milford, W. Va. The property was later created into the Watters Smith State Park. Correspondents include Charles H. Wachburn, Festus P. Summers, Charles McCamic, and L. J. Priestly.

Scope and Contents Records of Festus P. Summers regarding his activities as chairman of the West Virginia War History Commission. Contains a speech, newsletter, war records collecting manuals, lists of Office of Civilian Defense directors, lists of potential and confirmed war records collectors, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and a traveling expense account.Items within this collection include: drafts for a speech entitled "Let History Arm the Mind". The some pages are handwritten, others are...