Thomas Perrin Harrison, Jr., was a graduate student and English instructor at Cornell University, 1919-1924, and professor of English at the University of Texas beginning in 1924. Like his father, he wrote scholarly works on English literature. His letters chiefly discuss books and ideas, teaching problems, and academic life in general. Md. For a short time, she worked in the office of Senator Peter G. Gerry of Rhode Island, and she wrote to her father about this work and about her stay in Warwick, R.I., in 1927. After 1925, he continued to write while working in New York and on a conservation project on the Colorado River in Texas.
Professional correspondence is of several types.
Beginning around 1913, Harrison, as dean at North Carolina State College, carried on an extensive correspondence, especially 1913-1920, with traveling lecturers, concert artists, and theatrical groups, arranging performances at the college. There are also many letters dealing with routine administrative matters and with Harrison's interest in teacher education. In 1918, there is an interesting series of letters about how many English courses North Carolina State should require its students to take. As chair of the English Department, Harrison was also concerned with hiring teachers for the Department and placing its graduates in teaching positions. Other correspondence relates to Harrison's making speeches, arranging extension courses, publishing books, and discussing educational problems with professors at other institutions.