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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Jonathan William Harpine Letter to Unknown Newspaper Editor

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0659
Content Description An undated typescript copy of a two page letter written by Reverend Jonathan W. Harpine to the editor of an unknown newpaper, perhaps the Lexington (Va.) News Gazette, opposing the proposed plan to rebuild the Lee Chapel on the campus of Washington and Lee University. The letter likely dates to 1920s during the tenure of Washington and Lee University president Henry Louis Smith who, along with the national chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), was a proponent of the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1920 - 1929