John Moffat Mecklin papers

The papers of John Moffatt Mecklin document Mecklin's education, academic career, and relationship with his children. The collection contains professional and personal correspondence, material related to Mecklin's writings, including a typescript of his autobiography, "My Quest for Freedom," and some teaching-related material, including documentation of the controversy that led to his resignation from Lafayette College. The collection also contains a book on Mecklin written by his daughter, Mary Mecklin Jenkins. Of note are study notes in German; correspondence with E.D. Warfield of Lafayette College, A.P. Camphor, president of the Central Alabama Institute, and E.M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth College (including an autobiographical letter from Hopkins); and a written reaction to Mecklin's book, "Democracy and Race Friction," by a Liberian missionary and educator.