Ser. 2. Personal correspondence
Scope and Contents
Arranged chronologically, and undated. Some are photocopies. Extracts of the early correspondence, 1894-1930, are published in Man of Chautauqua and his Caravans of Culture by Barbara Pearson Lange Godfrey (2001). The typed family correspondence (fragile carbons) March 1931- August 1935 in the form of a diary of Pearson's term of Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands were transcribed in 2011. A bound copy is available in the FHL book collection.
Paul M. Pearson was appointed Assistant U. S. Housing Director by Franklin D. Roosevelt in July 1935. By the fall of 1935, he was traveling extensively on the job, and he died of a stroke in March 1938 in California while working to allow public housing in the State.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
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