Wallace Buttrick, 2002 - 2005
Scope and Contents note
Collins timeline on Buttrick; American National Biography entry on Buttrick; Description of Buttrick papers at Rockefeller; letter from Colgate Rochester Divinty about Buttrick papers (they have none); letter from American Baptist HistoricalSociety about Buttrick (they had no unpublished papers); World Biographical Index entries for Buttrick; copy of section in Dabney's book Universal Education in the South about Buttrick and Wickliffe Rose; copy of James' thesis "Wallace Buttrick--the Educational Statesman of the General education Board; "What is Education" by Buttrick, Peabody Journal of Education, Nov, 1925; Editorial about Buttrick in The Southern Workman, 1926; Geneology of Buttrick's with the section on Wallace Buttrick; etter JK to Buttrick Oct 22, 1909 about Peabody campus; letter JK to Buttrick June 28, 1912 about job offer at University of Arkansas; Letter Buttrick to Mrs. Kirkland Jan 21, 1924 about having skin grafting (see picture in Cullen's biography) and about missing Elizabeth Kirkland's wedding; various Acorn citations used Obituary in NYT of Mrs. Wallace Buttrick dated Aug 22, 1935 Letters between Chancellor Gee and Collins July-August, 2005 about inscription in refurbished Buttrick Hall. This exchange is significant because the point of Ahmic Lake was the importance of maintaining institutional memory. Yet one year after publication, the building honoring Wallace Buttrick now bears an inscription that has no relevance to him.
Dates
- Creation: 2002 - 2005
Creator
- From the Collection: Collins, Robert D., M.D. (Person)
Notes about Access to this Collection
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Full Extent
From the Collection: 12.94 Cubic Feet (24 Hollinger boxes, 1 half Hollinger box, and 3 Paige boxes.)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Location:
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Repository Details
Part of the History of Medicine Manuscripts Collection Repository
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232
historyofmedicine@vanderbilt.edu
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