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Letter to Edgar F. Smith, 1927.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 21 Folder 24
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Comfort, William Wistar, 1874-1955.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Manuscripts, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf)
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 21 Folder 24
- Place of Publication:
- 1927.
- Biography/History:
- Comfort was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Haverford College and received his Ph. D. from Harvard University. He was a scholar of French literature, taught at Haverford College and Cornell University, and later served as president of Haverford College from 1917 to 1940. Comfort was a prolific writer and speaker on Quaker topics.
- Summary:
- One typed thank you letter dated 26 May 1927 to Edgar F. Smith signed W. W. Comfort regarding Smith's paper on James Blythe Rogers (1803-1852).
- OCLC:
- 899991653
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