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Guide to the Harry Shaw Perris Papers, 1907-1926
M0782
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Title: Perris, Harry Shaw
Date (inclusive): 1907-1926
Collection number: M0782
Creator:
Perris, Harry Shaw
Extent:
1 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Abstract: Includes papers about the Centenary of the Treaty of Ghent, 1814-1914, publications by Harry Shaw Perris and George Herbert
Perris, manuscripts by H.S. Perris, and papers and speeches by other writers.
Language:
English.
None.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights
reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To
obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Purchased, 1995.
Harry Shaw Perris Papers. M0782. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Purchased, 1995.
English author and academic who wrote and lectured on Anglo-American relations, U.S. history, and issues of war and peace
in Europe.
As secretary of the British Peace Centenary Committee, Perris was one of the British delegates invited to the United States
to assist in the organization of the celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of Peace Among English-speaking Peoples,
24 December 1814- 24 December 1914. The U.S. National Committee was organized in New York in February, 1910, with the aim
of honoring the Treaty of Ghent and celebrating the century of peace between America and the British Empire. Invitations were
extended to many other European countries with the purpose of cultivating world-wide good will. It was less a commemmoration
of the past than a covenant of a continuation for the future of present amity and good will. The Honorary Chairman was Theodore
Roosevelt but the committee had no governmental nor diplomatic functions.
Includes papers about the Centenary of the Treaty of Ghent, 1814-1914, publications by Harry Shaw Perris and George Herbert
Perris, manuscripts by H.S. Perris, and papers and speeches by other writers.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Perris, George Herbert.
The Peace Centenary Committee.
Peace.