Foote is sitting on the end of his bed reading with a picture of Marcel Proust hanging on the wall behind him. Foote had become a passionate reader of Proust in his teen years at Will Percy's home. He remarked in the second volume of the Civil War…
Through a History Department Fellowship, Lauren Peterson ‘13 and Jordan Redmon ’13 worked with consulting librarian, Carol McCarley to organize Foote’s collection. They helped transfer the items to archival storage and to write the finding aid.
An August 24, 1948 Memphis Press-Scimitar article announced the creation of a
"museum of college antiquities” and asked alumni and college friends for contributions of any photograph, document, plaque, any object connected to the history of the…