Z 0123.001
WILSON (EDGAR S.) COLLECTION, ACCRETION


Untitled, unpublished typescript memoir of Edgar S. Wilson. The work focuses strongly on Mississippi politics in the late 19th century following the Reconstruction period and also on Wilson's association with Theodore Roosevelt. (Wilson, although a Democrat, served as a patronage advisor to Roosevelt on Mississippi appointments).

The memoir is a later and more complete version of the original copy in Z 0123.000.

Series Identification:

  • Box 1—Chapters 1–48 (chapter 49 missing).
  • Box 2—Chapters 50–88.