Edmund Cody Burnett papers, 1765-1967 (bulk 1907-1936).

Open to research.

Correspondence, memoranda, drafts of writings, speeches, notes, research material, financial and legal papers, and a project file from Burnett's work for the Carnegie Institution of Washington as editor of the Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, published from 1921 to 1936. The project file includes editorial instructions, research material, draft of introduction, speech, and transcriptions, photostats, and printer's copies of letters and documents. The collection also reflects Burnett's interest in and writings on Tennessee local history, Burnett family history and genealogy, nature, and farming and agrarian issues, especially in relation to his family farm in Tennessee, the environmental impact of the Tennessee Valley Authority projects, and economic effects of New Deal government farm programs. Includes original and edited Civil War correspondence of the Burnett, Cody, Lightfoot, and McGarity families. Also includes Burnett's translation of ciphers used by the Lee family of Virginia. Burnett's correspondents include Arthur Deerin Call, R.D.W. Connor, Max Farrand, Charles Earle Funk, J. Franklin Jameson, Waldo Gifford Leland, Dumas Malone, and Charles Oscar Paullin.

In part, photostats. [S.l.].

Printed materials transferred to Library of Congress General Collections.

Historian, editor, and educator.

Collection material in English.

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

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009146

Cipher material concerning the Lee family of Virginia was transferred from the Ethel Armes Collection of Lee Family Papers in the Manuscript Division to these papers in 1998.