Correspondence, 1863-1911
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The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1883 to 1887, when Heitman was Acting President of Trinity College, Randolph County. Issues include fund-raising and support of the college. Major correspondents include Julian S. Carr and J. W. Alspaugh, members of the committee of management that helped Heitman run the college from 1884 to 1887. As Trinity was one of the schools that contracted with the U.S. Government to educate Cherokee Indian youths, this series also contains correspondence between Heitman and the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Department of the Treasury. Other correspondence is from applicants for positions and applicants for admissions to Trinity, correspondence regarding room and board, and letters from parents and prospective students.
Other correspondence includes letters written during Heitman's Civil War days; correspondence concerning advertising, printing, and publicizing the North Carolina Educational Journal, as well as correspondence from subscribers, authors, and publishers; correspondence regarding Trinity High School, and a few family letters. Heitman's correspondence ends in 1894, but the collection contains one letter from 1911, from Heitman's wife to one of his daughters.
The correspondence is arranged chronologically.
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