Burnett, Edmund Cody 1864-1949 creator mixed material monographic eng 21,550 63 25.2 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. Open to research. 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. Call, Arthur Deerin 1869-1941 Correspondence Connor, R. D. W. (Robert Digges Wimberly) 1878-1950 Correspondence Farrand, Max 1869-1945 Correspondence Funk, Charles Earle 1881-1957 Correspondence Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin) 1859-1937 Correspondence Leland, Waldo Gifford 1879-1966 Correspondence Malone, Dumas 1892-1986 Correspondence Paullin, Charles Oscar 1868 or 1869-1944 Correspondence Burnett family Cody family Lee family Lightfoot family McGarity family United States. Continental Congress. Carnegie Institution of Washington. Tennessee Valley Authority. Agriculture Economic aspects Agriculture Tennessee Agriculture and state Ciphers Virginia Genealogy Tennessee Nature New Deal, 1933-1939 Water resources development Tennessee Valley Tennessee History, Local Tennessee Social life and customs United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 United States History Confederation, 1783-1789 United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States Politics and government To 1775 United States Politics and government 1775-1783 United States Politics and government 1783-1789 Editors Educators Historians Burnett, Edmund Cody, 1864-1949 ed. mm 88014399 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009146 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009146.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009146 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009146.3 Open to research. DLC 880920 20260227111723.0 mm 88014399