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The correspondence series documents letters sent and received by Lyle Shelmidine related to his academic work, research interests, military service, and personal relationships.

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This folder contains letters from the Fisk Teachers Agency (Chicago), the College of Puget Sound, the College and Specialist Bureau, Alborz College of Tehran, and American University of Beirut regarding possible employment opportunities. It also contains a telegram from Herrick B. Young regarding interview advice.

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The correspondence series documents letters sent and received by Lyle Shelmidine related to his academic work, research interests, military service, and personal relationships.

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This folder contains materials regarding Mark Griggs, who seems to have been a young friend of Lyle Shelmidine's via a family with whom the professor was close. Griggs was a painter and winter sportsman. Shelmidine received a recommendation request from Groton School in Massachusetts regarding the acceptance of Griggs.

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This folder contains letters from Ron Sleight to Lyle Shelmidine between 1964 and 1965. Sleight seems to have been a very close friend of Shelmidine's, and lived in California. The letters are largely personal and recount dialy activities and travel plans. Sleight does reference Shelmidine's substance abuse and his desire to help Shelmidine towards recovery.

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This folder contains undated maps, presumably from Shelmidine's visits to Turkey. "Map Showing Trips of Summer 1948 with Robert G. Gardner, Boston and his Jeep" has annotations regarding travels throughout the country in August '48. There is also one "Map of Byzantine Constantinople" and three copies of "Map Prepared for U.S. Navy Personnel Visiting Istanbul, Turkey."

Scope and Contents This folder contains Shelmidine's chronological outlines and lecture papers regarding Ottoman history during his professorship at the University of Puget Sound. Notes are both handwritten and typed. Material from other authors is cited. Included is a photocopied map titled "Conquests of Murad & Bayezid in the Balkan Peninsula and of Bayezid in Asia Minor" with dates of conquest (1300s). Some notes are repetitive and appear to be different versions of the same history for different...

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This folder contains Shelmidine's lecture notes regarding Turkey between the mid 1800s and the late 1940s. It includes an article on Turkey from The Economist dated May 1954. There is a typed bibliography page at the end of the notes, and two hand-drawn maps outlining Turkish territories stretching between southern Europe and central Asia.

Scope and Contents This folder contains both research materials and lecture notes regarding the rise of the 2nd Turkish Republic. Research materials include: "The Gentle Revolution: A Summary of Major Events During the First Month of the Second Turkish Republic" from the Turkish Infomation Office in San Francisco; "Turkey's Foreign Policy 1958" from Turkey Today No. 7; "Turkey's Borrowed Boom" from The Manchester Guardian Weekly (1956); a library card labeled "Small Statistical Abstract of Turkey, 1942 -...

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This folders includes information on the "Eastern Question" of the nineteenth century which concerned the method of breaking up the Ottoman Empire as it disintegrated. There is one general essay, notes on Napoleon's relationship to the Eastern Question, notes on Russia's relationship to the Eastern Question, and Shelmidine's review of The United States and Turkey and Iran by Lewis V. Thomas and Richard N. Frye.