Inventory of the Gertrude Williamson Baker Barton Papers, 1858-1951

Gertrude Williamson Baker Barton Papers, 1858-1951

Barton, Gertrude Williamson Baker

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472 Items

Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

English.

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[Identification of item], Gertrude Williamson Baker Barton Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library received the collection as a gift in 1969.

Processed by Allison Gluvna

Completed February 1999

Encoded by Lisa Stark

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

The collection contains correspondence and other papers relating to Mrs. Barton's activities in the Protestant Episcopal Church in her home town of Winchester, Va., and on the state level. There are also letters from her husband, Robert Thomas Barton, lawyer and state politician, discussing political matters in Virginia, the stationing of troops along the Mexican border during Woodrow Wilson's first administration, and Wilson's election campaign of 1916. Other correspondents include Philip Alexander Bruce, Lucian Carr, Robert Atkinson Gibson, and Marie Elizabeth Jeffries Hobart.

An unprocessed addition to the collection contains more correspondence between Gertrude Barton's family members and friends.; and household bills.