Clarence Edwin Carter papers, 1761-1961 (bulk 1925-1956).

Open to research.

Correspondence, transcripts, reports, book reviews, financial papers, clippings, and other papers relating chiefly to Carter's editorial career. Includes materials from his work as editor of the Illinois Historical Collections, The Territorial Papers of the United States (1934- ), and The Correspondence of General Thomas Gage (1969), including transcripts of Gage's correspondence. Also includes material relating to Clarence Walworth Alvord's The Illinois Country, 1673-1818 (1920); and early family correspondence, genealogical material, and a manuscript history of the Carter-Robinson and associated families. Correspondents include Carter's mother, Anna Rogers Carter; his wife, Lillie Carter; his sons, Harold E. Carter and Wilfrid Carter; his brother, Fred Armstrong Carter; Frederick Jackson Turner; and servicemen during the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II.

Editor, author, and professor of history.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012055