Scope and Contents

This collection contains the original work sheet, galleys, and final proof sheets for A Dutch Fork Farm Boy. There are also specialist's drafts (William J. Barker; F.H.H. Calhoun; G.H. Collings; H.P. Cooper; J.B. Douthit; Thomas C. Peele; Gilbert C. Robinson; Hubert J. Webb), research notes, work sheets, drafts, galleys, and printer's copy for a book on conservation, Our Land Is Our Life.

Abstract

Robert Richardson Coker had a distinguished career as a leader in agriculture and business and served as a life trustee of Clemson University. The correspondence, memos, minutes, newspaper clippings and other materials relate to his participation as a member of the Board of Trustees and various matters that came to its attention.

Scope and Contents This series contains the presidential records of Samuel Broadus Earle, Acting President of Clemson College, 1924-1925. (For the six months in 1919 that Earle served as President in the absence of Walter M. Riggs, see the Riggs Presidential Records.) The series includes correspondence, departmental report and budgets, and annual report to the South Carolina General Assembly, partial lists of cadets, employment agreements, letters from parents and other individuals concerning the student...