Manuscript Group 843, George Perry Morris (1864 – 1921), Journalist Papers, 1843-1918
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Manuscript Group 843, George Perry Morris (1864-1921), Journalist
Papers, 1843-1918, 4 linear feet
Call Number: MG 843
Letters addressed to Morris; letters to Morris and others associated with the Twentieth Century Club in Boston; autograph letters, verse, quotations collected by Morris; letters, 1885-90, sent to Edwin Dudley of the Citizens Law and Order League of the United States; letters, 1892-93, to Frederick Perry Noble as secretary of the Committee on an African Ethnological Congress, which met at the Chicago Columbian Exposition in August, 1893; twenty scrapbooks, 1884-1916, including notes on interviews conducted, lectures and sermons heard by Morris. A journalist and writer born in Montclair, Morris served on the editorial staff of the New York Mail and Express and was associate editor of The Congregationalist in Boston, 1891-1907. In addition, he was on the staff of the Boston Herald, 1907-11, and of the Christian Science Monitor. Among the writers, journalists, public officials, educators, reformers, and Congregationalist leaders whose letters are included in the George Perry Morris Papers are the following:
| Lyman Abbott | Louisa Imogen Guiney | Thomas Nelson Page |
| Henry Burton Adams | Edward Everett Hale | Francis Peabody |
| Ray Stannard Baker | E.W.S. Hammond | Edward L. Pierce |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Albert Bushnell Hart | Roscoe Pound |
| Henry W. Blair | John Hay | Josiah Quincy |
| Benjamin H. Brewster | George T. Hoar | Jeanette Rankin |
| Viscount James Bryce | Mark Hopkins | Clinton Scollard |
| George Washington Cable | William Dean Howells | Harriet E.P. Spofford |
| Schuyler Colfax | Charles Evans Hughes | James Tanner |
| Amos J. Cummings | Annie F. Johnston | Frank W. Taussig |
| George William Curtis | Helen Keller | Albion W. Tourgee |
| John Eaton | Philander Chase Knox | Henry I. Van Dyke, Jr. |
| Charles W. Eliot | Fritz Kreisler | John Charles Van Dyke |
| James H. Fairchild | Lucy Larcom | John H. Vincent |
| William Herbert Perry Faunce | Robert Todd Lincoln | Lewis (Lew) Wallace |
| Edgar Fawcett | Walter Lippmann | Booker T. Washington |
| Hamilton Fish (1808-1893) | Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) | Francis Wayland |
| John Fiske | John D. Long | Everett O. Wheeler |
| Horace Fletcher | Amy lowell | John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Felix Frankfurter | Edwin D. Mead | Albert E. Winship |
| Hamlin Garland | Dwight L. Moody | Robert E. Winthrop |
| Richard Watson Gilder | Levi P. Morton | Frank G. Woodworth |
| Washington Gladden | Thomas Thornton Munger |
Manuscript Group 472, George Perry Morris (1864-1921) Journal
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