Harriet R. Holman Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0215
The papers consist of certificates, a diploma, photographs and copies of poems, prayers and speeches. The photocopies of poems and some of the photographs were used in the preparation of The Verse of Floride Clemson, edited by Holman and published by the University of South Carolina Press in 1965. The photocopies are of the "Prize Album", located at Fort Hill, which contains autographs from Floride's friends from 1857 and 1860-1861 and several of her poems from 1862. The photographs used in the book consist of four portraits of Floride Clemson, one of which was used as the frontispiece (there is also a galley proof of this photograph) and two photographs of a curtain that Mrs. John C. Calhoun (Floride Bonneau Colhoun) was knitting when she visited the Clemsons in 1859, one of which was used for the cover design. There are copies of a prayer and speech given at Holman's retirement party on April 29, 1978, as well as two color photographs of the event and a certificate naming her emeritus faculty of Clemson University. Also part of the papers are the June 7, 1904, diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and the June 6, 1904, Columbian Literary Society certificate of her father, Arthur Elliott Holman, who was a graduate of Clemson College.
Harriet R. Holman was born October 28, 1912, in Anderson, SC, the daughter of Arthur Elliott and Olive (Brownlee) Holman. She attended Hanna High School in Anderson and received her A.B. from Winthrop College in 1934, her M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1939 and her Ph.D. from Duke University in 1948. She taught in Anderson and Pendleton public schools from 1934-1941, was a member of the Winthrop College English department from 1942-1944. She went on to be a reference librarian at Duke University from 1945-1949 and at Winthrop College 1949-1952. She also taught English at Erskine College from 1942-1960 and was chair of the English Department there before coming to Clemson University in 1960. She became Clemson's first female English professor and retired in 1978.
14 item(s) (including eight photographs and two oversize certificates.)
English
Harriet R. Holman donated the materials in 1969, 1985 and 1986, accession numbers 69-4, 85-122 and 86-35.
Holman, Harriet R., ed. The verse of Floride Clemson. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 1965.
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository