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- Creator
- McElroy, Robert McNutt, 1872-1959
- Call number
- MssCol 4309
- Physical description
- .1 linear feet (1 folder)
- Preferred Citation
- Robert McElroy collection of Jefferson Davis material, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was an American statesman and President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865. Robert McNutt McElroy (1872-1959) was a professor of history at Princeton University, and author of the 1937 biography Jefferson Davis: The Unreal and the Real. The collection consists of a small quantity of material by and about Jefferson Davis, including several autograph letters; letters to biographer Robert McElroy relating to his research on Davis and his searches for Davis's letters and papers; genealogical research, autographs, and commemorative ephemera
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Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328