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Matthew Page Andrews, Editor and Author, Letters

0.8 Linear Feet Summary: 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)
The correspondence of a Baltimore editor and author of prominence as a Southern historian during the inter-war years. Matthew Page Andrews (1879-1947) was born in Shepherdstown, being the nephew of the famous southern writer, Thomas Nelson Page. He was the author of Women in the South in War Time, The Tercentenary History of Maryland, Virginia, The Old Dominion, A History of the United States and The American's Creed and Its Meaning. He was editorial advisor to the Yale University Press film series, Chronicles of America. These Letters reflect Andrews as a correspondent and confidant with members of the Gibson-Packette-Todd family, in particular Frances Packette Todd. Andrews portrays his attitudes in these letters on history and current events in a more open and candid manner than he would have professionally. He was staunch defender of aristocratic Southern white opinion being opposed, for example, to Republicans, prohibitionists, abolitionists and fellow Baltimorean, H.L. Menchen. He played a principal role in the 1931 Heyward Shepard Memorial controversy at Harpers Ferry.
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Matthew Page Andrews, Editor and Author, Letters 0.8 Linear Feet Summary: 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)

Andrews, Matthew Page, 1879-1947
The correspondence of a Baltimore editor and author of prominence as a Southern historian during the inter-war years. Matthew Page Andrews (1879-1947) was born in Shepherdstown, being the nephew of the famous southern writer, Thomas Nelson Page. He was the author of Women in the South in War Time, The Tercentenary History of Maryland, Virginia, The Old Dominion, A History of the United States and The American's Creed and Its Meaning. He was editorial advisor to the Yale University Press film series, Chronicles of America. These Letters reflect Andrews as a correspondent and confidant with members of the Gibson-Packette-Todd family, in particular Frances Packette Todd. Andrews portrays his attitudes in these letters on history and current events in a more open and candid manner than he would have professionally. He was staunch defender of aristocratic Southern white opinion being opposed, for example, to Republicans, prohibitionists, abolitionists and fellow Baltimorean, H.L. Menchen. He played a principal role in the 1931 Heyward Shepard Memorial controversy at Harpers Ferry.

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