General Elliot Thorpe Collection (Mss. Gr. 154)

This collection is arranged in one series, a Subject File. It contains materials drawn from items given to or collected by Dr. Richard Vangermeersch, Professor of Accounting, University of Rhode Island in his research conducted over the summer of 2001 on General Thorpe's career. Dr. Vangermeerch contacted the General's relatives and was able to obtain a copy of a video tape of a 1989 BBC production of Sacrifice at Pearl Harbour in which Thorpe is interviewed and a book entitled Netherlands Seen by the Tourist presented to Gen. Thorpe (ca. 1947) when he served as military attaché in the Netherlands. In addition, William Thorpe, General Thorpe's grandson, provided Special Collections with facsimiles of photographs featuring his late father with General MacArthur. An exhibit presented in September 2001 by Special Collections at the University of Rhode Island Library on General Thorpe resulted from the materials gathered for this collection.

In 2005 materials initially donated in the 1980s by Thorpe to the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming were transferred by the Center to the University of Rhode Island and added to the Thorpe Collection.