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EDWIN ALEXANDER ANDERSON PAPERS, #3387, 1878-1939

Personal correspondence, chiefly 1883-1903, of Anderson of Wilmington, North Carolina, an admiral in the U.S. Navy. Letters pertaining to a visit to Liberia describe his meeting with slave- owning Africans and with former American slaves (1886) and discuss the native populace and religious customs of inhabitants of the Gabon River and Congo River Basin areas (1887). Note: Portions of Anderson's papers are also available at Duke University.