[Letter from R. P. Sibley to T. N. Carswell - July 21, 1944 and correspondence from Byrdie Carswell to T. N. Carswell]
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A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from R. P. Sibley, Assistant Dean, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, dated July 21, 1944. Sibley acknowledges the receipt of Carswell's letters and agrees that probation was hardly the appropriate action but advises that Peggy must pass her registration in Latin to graduate at the end of the term. Handwritten at the bottom of the page and continued on the reverse side is correspondence to Daddy [T. N. Carswell] from Mother [Byrdie Carswell] requesting that Carswell return these copies as she intended for Don Sibley to clear the Cornell record …
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A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from R. P. Sibley, Assistant Dean, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, dated July 21, 1944. Sibley acknowledges the receipt of Carswell's letters and agrees that probation was hardly the appropriate action but advises that Peggy must pass her registration in Latin to graduate at the end of the term. Handwritten at the bottom of the page and continued on the reverse side is correspondence to Daddy [T. N. Carswell] from Mother [Byrdie Carswell] requesting that Carswell return these copies as she intended for Don Sibley to clear the Cornell record of that first term as he said "as if it had never been". She discusses Peggy's health, faults the advisor for having allowed Peggy's overload of hours and deems the term as worthless.
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T. N. Carswell Collection
This collection was assembled by Thomas Norwood Carswell (1887-1978) and contains correspondence throughout his life. His files hold letters signed by most of the major political leaders of Texas during the 1940s through the 1960s, as well as letters signed by Presidents Harry S Truman, Richard M. Nixon, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, and George Washington Carver. It also contains a scrapbook of his time at Simmons College.
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Sibley, R. P.[Letter from R. P. Sibley to T. N. Carswell - July 21, 1944 and correspondence from Byrdie Carswell to T. N. Carswell],
letter,
July 21, 1944;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1398053/:
accessed April 30, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.