Letter from Mrs. W. C. N. Merchant to Madge Burney

Title

Letter from Mrs. W. C. N. Merchant to Madge Burney

Creator

Mrs. W. C. N. Merchant

Source

Madge Burney Papers, Box 1, Folder 1, Historical Manuscripts, Special Collection, the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries.

Date

1929-05-15

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Copyright Not Evlauated

Language

En.

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Text

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Typed Letter

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Typed letter on United Daughters of the Confederacy Letterhead from W. C. N Merchant to Madge Burney. <br /> <br /> 1st Vice President-General <br /> Mrs. Oscar McKenzie<br /> Montezuma, Georgia<br /> <br /> 2nd Vice-President General<br /> Mrs. Rudolph Frederick Blankenburg<br /> 3685 Eights Street<br /> San Diego, Cal. <br /> <br /> 3rd Vice President-General<br /> Mrs. J.T. Burney<br /> Box 86, Waynesboro, Miss.<br /> <br /> Recording Secretary-General<br /> Mrs. L. M. Bashinsky<br /> Troy, ALa.<br /> <br /> Corresponding Secretary-General<br /> Miss Mary Lou Gordon White<br /> 21 Granada Apartment, Nashville, Tenn.<br /> <br /> Treasurer-General Mrs. B. A. Blenner<br /> Box 556, Richmond, VA.<br /> <br /> Historian-General<br /> Miss Marion Salley<br /> Orangeburn, S. C.<br /> <br /> Registrar-General<br /> Mrs. Fred C. Kolman<br /> 4620 S. Derbigney St. <br /> New Orleans, LA.<br /> <br /> Custodian of Crosses and Honor and Service<br /> Mrs. James Edwin Woodard<br /> Woodard Circle, Wilson, N. C.<br /> <br /> Custodian of Flags and Pennants<br /> Mrs. Jackson Brandt<br /> The Albion Hotel, Baltimore, MD.<br /> <br /> United Daughters of the Confederacy<br /> President-General<br /> Mrs. W. C. N. Merchant<br /> Drawer 99 Chatham, VA.<br /> May 15th, 1929<br /> <br /> My dear Mrs. Burney, <br /> <br /> You have the card I wrote the other day suggesting that the next work of the Children be the Winnie Davis Memorial Scholarship, honoring the "Child of the Confederacy" for she was born in the Executive Mansion, during the War Between the States. <br /> <br /> Meeting at Biloxi, so near Beauvoir, where every association is that of the Davis family, it appears a peculiarly appropriate time for the inauguration of this special memorial, In suggesting that the next united work of the Children be education I am actuated as I told you in Mobile, by a desire to have the C of C familiar with, and interested in every department of the U.D.C. Their first work was very appropriately memorial, the first work of the U.D.C. was monument building; but their present work is largely educational, and the future will be entirely educational and historical. After the completion of the scholarship I think they the children should take up some special historical enterprise, but that is to be considered later. <br /> <br /> I suggest therefore, the recommendation as a part of your report, of the Winnie Davis Memorial Scholarship. I suggest that it be 1, 000.00 I believe the Children can stand that amount, and as you know I am opposed to giving them so large a sum as to discourage them. That it be loaned that it be not an endowed but a straight scholarship, that it be administered by the Committee on Education in like manner as the U.D.C. Scholarships, and that it become operative as soon as soon as there is as much

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Mrs. W. C. N. Merchant, “Letter from Mrs. W. C. N. Merchant to Madge Burney,” Online Exhibits at Southern Miss, accessed April 18, 2024, https://usmspecialcollections.omeka.net/items/show/202.

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