Harry Seymour Logan Papers

1930-1936
Manuscript Collection #111
Creator(s)
Logan, Harry Seymour, 1883-1957
Physical description
0.073 Cubic Feet, 17 items , correspondence.
Preferred Citation
Harry Seymour Logan Papers (#111), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Repository
ECU Manuscript Collection
Access
No restrictions

Papers (1930-1936) including correspondence, letters, information concerning personal matters, reference to experiments in a new treatment for cancer, hardship of great depression.


Biographical/historical information

The collection consists of personal correspondence written by Harry Seymour Logan (1883-1957) to his half-sister, Mrs. H. C. (Murdena Susan Logan) Kennerly of Pinehurst, N.C.


Scope and arrangement

The letters are written from San Francisco and Sacramento, California, and most of the information concerns personal matters. Also included are references to experiments in a new treatment for cancer, the hardships of the Great Depression (1930-1931), and Depression-related actions of President Herbert C. Hoover (1931).


Administrative information
Custodial History

January 28, 1970, 17 items; Letters, 1930-1936. Gift of Dr. Ralph Hardee Rives, Greenville, N.C.

Source of acquisition

Gift of Dr. Ralph Hardee Rives

Processing information

Processed by A. Sabrosky, February 1970

Encoded by Apex Data Services

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.


Key terms
Personal Names
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Kennerly, Murdena Susan Logan--Correspondence
Logan, Harry Seymour, 1883-1957--Correspondence
Topical
Cancer--Treatment
Depressions--1929--United States
Places
United States--Politics and government--1929-1933