(HISTORY) Archive of historian William Roscoe Thayers manusc

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(HISTORY.) Archive of historian William Roscoe Thayer's manuscripts, notes and correspondence. 2 large boxes of manuscript, typed, and printed material (3 linear feet); various sizes and conditions. Various places, circa 1885-1922

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Prolific historian and poet William Roscoe Thayer (1859-1923) was an 1881 graduate of Harvard, and remained affiliated with the school for most of his life. This archive represents a broad cross-section of Thayer's work as an historian, including manuscripts on George Washington, "The Great Repudiation" (on Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations), Dante, the Italian unification leader Cavour, and more, some unpublished; ephemera on Cavour and his contemporaries including Real Photo postcards, prints, and clippings; a scrapbook; and approximately 140 letters addressed to Thayer, mostly relating to his Italian research circa 1906-1915, some in original envelopes.