Title:: Harry Newman Papers 1930-1932

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Harry Newman Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
0.05
Creator:
Newman, Harry Newman, A.L. Pinckney, V.H. arrangement
Language:
The papers are in: English Hindi
Preferred citation:

Harry Newman Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers of Harry Newman containing the diary of his voyage as a cadet on the MS Crown City/South African Dispatch Line from San Francisco on route to Africa in 1930, letters to and from family members mostly relating to Harry's travels, a letter from the president of the dispatch line, V. H. Pinckney, with an update on the ship's progress, as well as several black and white photographs, some of which also relate to the MS Crown City trip. There is also one letter from Jeypore, India, written in Hindi. Harry's diary entries run from July 18, 1930 to October 8, 1930. The last entries describe Port Elizabeth in South Africa and Lourenço Marques (Maputo Bay), in what was then Portuguese Mozambique.

Biographical / historical:

Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Harry Newman">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Harry Newman</a>.

Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 07/27/2009.
Processing information:

Accessioned and processed by Ute Schechter, Warren E. Burger Archivist, in August 2009. Photographs sleeved by Alex Dodd, SCRC Staff, in September 2009.