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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William Gerard Chapman Papers, #3476-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased 1960.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Chapman, William Gerard, 1877-1945.
• Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.
• International Press Bureau (Chicago, Ill.)
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
• United States. Navy--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.

William Gerard Chapman (1877-1945), native of New York, was the president of the International Press Bureau of Chicago.

The collection includes the correspondence between William Gerard Chapman and Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, chiefly concerning Chapman's proposal that the Navy finance a book and article, "Making Good, or Frank Allen's Adventures on Land and Sea" and "The Navy as a Career," by Victor Rousseau, that he believed would aid recruiting. There is also one letter regarding this proposal from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Acting Secretary of the Navy. There are carbon copies of the nine letters from Chapman to Daniels and four letters in reply from Daniels.