2W. Garnett Chisholm--"Notes on Charles Fenton Mercer," New York.
MS. January 21, 1934. W. Garnett Chisholm, according to the secretary
of the Virginia Historical Society, is the person best posted on the life
of Charles Fenton Mercer--Ro. McLean Whittet, Richmond, Virginia,
August 5, 1933, to N. Ethie Eagleton. (Ro. McLean Whittet of the firm
Whittet and Shepperson, publishers of Garnett, Biographical
Sketch
of
Charles
Fenton
Mercer,
1911). Upon the request of the author of this thesis,
Dr. Clyde Eagleton, New York University, New York, personally interviewed
Mr. Chisholm relative to Mercer's youth, his connection with the abolition
movement, and his European contacts. Mr. Chisholm very kindly pre-
pared some notes for use in this thesis, based on a manuscript sketch
Mercer had written of his own life and some of his letters which are in
Mr. Chisholm's possession. Subsequent references to this paper will be
given as Chisholm, "Notes on Charles Fenton Mercer."
