Carter, Clarence Edwin, 1881-1961.

Clarence Edwin Carter papers, 1761-1961 (bulk 1925-1956). - 10,550 items. 41 2 containers plus oversize. 16.4 linear feet. - Arranged in 6 series. Series 1: General Correspondence and Other Papers, 1811-1955; Series 2: Territorial Papers of the United States, 1929-1955; Series 3: Correspondence of General Thomas Gage, 1763-1953; Series 4: Miscellany, 1905-1956; Series 5: Addition, circa 1761-1961; and Series 6: Oversize, 1936-1955.

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

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Alvord, Clarence Walworth, 1868-1928. 1920. Illinois country, 1673-1818.
Carter, Anna Rogers--Correspondence.
Carter, Clarence Edwin, 1881-1961, ed. 1969. Correspondence of General Thomas Gage.
Carter, Clarence Edwin, 1881-1961, ed. Illinois historical collections.
Carter, Clarence Edwin, 1881-1961, ed. 1934- Territorial papers of the United States.
Carter, Fred Armstrong--Correspondence.
Carter, Harold E.--Correspondence.
Carter, Lillie--Correspondence.
Carter, Wilfrid--Correspondence.
Gage, Thomas, 1721-1787.
Gage, Thomas, 1721-1787 --Correspondence.
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932 --Correspondence.
Carter family.
Robertson family.


Historiography.
Soldiers--Correspondence.
Spanish-American War, 1898.
World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1939-1945.


Illinois--History.
United States--History.
United States--History--British forces.--Revolution, 1775-1783
United States--Territorial expansion.
United States--Territories and possessions.


Authors.
Editors.
Educators.