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William E. Lunt Papers, 1918-1926 (bulk 1918-19)
1.25
linear feet.
Catalog Number:
M115
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Agency History / Biographical Note:
William Edward Lunt, a Lisbon, Maine, native, was born January 13, 1882,
to the town's postmaster and his wife, Edward Henry and Katherine
Garcelon Lunt. He was a Bowdoin graduate (1904) who received his Ph.D.
at Harvard in 1908. At Bowdoin he was Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of
History and Political Science (1911-12) and a member of the Board of
Overseers (1939-56). Lunt also taught history at the University of
Wisconsin (1908-10), English history at Cornell University (1912-17) and
the University of Pennsylvania (1944-45), and was the Walter D. and
Edith M.L. Scull Professor of English and Constitutional History at
Haverford College (1917-52). He was the author of many works on
medieval England. After the First World War, Lunt served in Paris as
Chief of the Italian Division for the American Commission to Negotiate
Peace (1918-19). This commission was responsible for the American
position on the post-war borders of Italy. As such Lunt was one of
President Woodrow Wilson's many non-military and non-political advisors
at the Paris peace talks. Lunt married Elizabeth Atkinson in 1910.
They had two sons, William and Robert, the latter a member of Bowdoin's
class of 1942. Lunt died November 10, 1956, in Haverford, Pennsylvania.
Scope and Content:
Letters (1918-19 and undated), and documents, reports, maps, original or
photocopied statistical charts, clippings, etc. (1918-26 and undated),
all concerning the American Commission to Negotiate Peace (Paris,
France, 1918-19). Much of the material concerns issues relating to what
is now the Italian-Yugoslav border or to the general negotiations of the
Peace Commission. The letters include several from Lunt and other
negotiators on the team, many addressed to President Wilson.
Cite as:
William E. Lunt Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library.
Access Restrictions:
None.
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