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Chafer, Lewis Sperry, 1871-1952

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Chafer, Lewis Sperry

 File — Box 6, Folder: 029-06-104
Identifier: 029-06-104
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the Allis Collection relates to his work as a teacher, writer, and an editor. One noteworthy feature of the collection is the amount of correspondence. Allis was not only a prolific letter-writer; he was also an early adopter of the typewriter and kept carbon copies of many of the letters he sent. Interested researchers will be able, in many cases, to reconstruct the “conversation” between Allis and his correspondents. The subject matter of the correspondence ranges from the...
Dates: 1813 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1970