ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS

George Davis Budd, 1843 - 1874,
Papers, 1858 - 1862

UPT 50 B927

0.2 Cubic ft.
Prepared by Joseph-James Ahern
2010

Access to collections is granted in accordance with the Protocols for the University Archives and Records Center.

PROVENANCE

Acquired by the University Archives before 1972.

ARRANGEMENT

The George Davis Budd Papers are organized by Biographical material, Zelosophic Society correspondence, and Four Years at the University of Pennsylvania: A History of the Class of 1862.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

George Davis Budd, born in Philadelphia on November 29, 1843, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1862. He also earned an A.M. (1865) and LL.B. (1865) degrees from Penn. Budd served as Assistant City Solicitor for Philadelphia in 1872. He died in Santa Barbara, California, on February 14, 1874.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The collection chiefly consists of a fascinating history of the University's Class of 1862, of which George Davis Budd was a member.  Composed during the Civil War, in September of 1862, the history was published in The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle, in Volume 31, Number 3, 1929.  Based on the content of the introduction, it is probable that it was edited by Charles C. Harrison.  The history is in the published, expurgated version of the "diary" and a typewritten copy of the original with the expurgated sections crossed out.

The collection is rounded out by biographical material on Budd and by correspondence of the Zelosophic Society regarding the formation of a League among the literary societies at the major colleges of the United States in 1862.

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