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LEWIS PERRY - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED - HFSID 272961

The leader of Phillips Exeter Academy for over 30 years who saw the high school grow into a world-class institution signed this note paper Autograph Sentiment Signed: "Your friend/Lewis Perry". One page. 5½x8½, affixed to 7¼x10½ sheet.

Price: $90.00

Condition: Lightly creased, Lightly soiled, otherwise fine condition
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LEWIS PERRY
The leader of Phillips Exeter Academy for over 30 years who saw the high school grow into a world-class institution signed this note paper
Autograph Sentiment Signed: "Your friend/Lewis Perry". One page. 5½x8½, affixed to 7¼x10½ sheet. Page imprinted with: “The Phillips Exeter Academy”. Lewis Perry (1877-1970), a former English professor at Williams College, became the eighth Principal of the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1914, serving until his retirement in 1946. When Perry arrived in his new position, the school was $250,000 in debt; at the end of his tenure, the school had a $10 million endowment (thanks to Perry's fund-raising abilities), 33 new buildings and triple the faculty. Perry also abolished fraternities. The younger brother of Bliss Perry (1860-1954), a Princeton and Harvard professor, author and one-time editor of the "Atlantic Monthly",Lewis lived to see the Lewis Perry Music Building dedicated in 1960. His contributions to education were also commemorated in a biography, Lewis Perry of Exeter, A Gently Memoir, by William G. Saltonstall (1980). Signature sheet is lightly creased with folds, horizontal fold underlines signature. Lightly soiled. Mounting sheet is irregularly cut. Chipped at upper and lower edge and lower right edge. Otherwise, fine condition.

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