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• Author/Creator:Abbott, Wilbur Cortez, 1869-1947.
  
• Title:Wilbur Cortez Abbott collection of World War I letters, 1914-1918.
  
• Physical Description:0.21 linear feet (1 box)
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: GEN MSS 1916
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes: Former call number: Z44 039
    

   
• Notes:In English.
  Gift of Professor William C. Abbott, 1920.
  
• Organization:Arranged chronologically.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research.
• Biographical / Historical note:Wilbur Cortez Abbott (1869-1947), historian and educator, began working at Yale University in 1908. In 1917, he published The Expansion of Europe: A History of the Foundations of the Modern World (New York : H. Holt and Company, 1918).
  
• Summary:Circa 15 manuscript and typescript letters collected by Wilbur Cortez Abbott and pertaining to World War I, 1914-1918. Letters are written primarily by students or soldiers in Syria, France, England, and unidentified locations. Some letters are copies. Included are seven photographs of “German royalty taken by a member of the U.S. Secret Service with a small camera [???] a watch.”
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Wilbur Cortez Abbott Collection of World War I Letters. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Abbott, Wilbur Cortez, 1869-1947.
  William II, German Emperor, 1859-1914--Portraits.
  Soldiers--Germany--Pictorial works.
  World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives.
  Germany--Pictorial works.
  
• Genre/Form:Photographs.