Henry M. Robert Papers

Résumé du livre

Papers chiefly consist of professional and biographical information collected by three researchers: 32 items, 1860-1925 and undated, compiled ca. 1941 by Presbyterian College professor Frank Dudley Jones, of Clinton, S.C., including letters from Robert family members; 98 items, 1867-1977 and undated, re photocopies and abstracts of Robert's papers in the Library of Congress, as used and annotated by Don Harrison Doyle for researching his 1980 book; and bibliography and partial biography, ca. 1989, compiled by Philip W. Ogilvie, including excerpts from Washington, D.C., newspapers, ca. 1890, re a controversy over the enforcement of liquor licensing laws in places of prostitution and District Engineer Commissioner Robert's charges of police corruption.