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Collection Number: 02412

Collection Title: Alexander Boyd Andrews Papers, 1678-1946 (bulk 1911-1946).

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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Size 8.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 6,400 items)
Abstract Alexdander Boyd Andrews (1873-1946) of Raleigh, N.C., was a lawyer; active in the North Carolina and American Bar associations; chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina; Grand Master of Masons of North Carolina; amateur statistician; active member of the Roanoke Colony Memorial Association; and trustee of the University of North Carolina, East Carolina Teachers College, and Oxford Orphanage. The collection includes correspondence, autograph letters, and other papers of Alexander Boyd Andrews. The correspondence, chiefly 1911-1946, is with lawyers, judges, government officials in the United States and abroad, members of the Episcopal Church, newspaper editors, school administrators, and legislators. Subjects include Andrews's writings; his concern with gathering and disseminating information and statistics on legal education; his work on the American Bar Association committee on judicial salaries; adult illiteracy; the training of college teachers, including African Americans, in North Carolina; the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of North Carolina; the restoration of Fort Raleigh and a proposed monument to the Roanoake Colony; and other subjects of public concern and North Carolina historical interest. Included are four letters from William Howard Taft, 1921, 1923, and 1928. Also included are a scrapbook of clippings, composition notebooks with notes and references to Masonic history in North Carolina, and autograph letters collected by Andrews. The Addition of 1992 includes yearly files of correspondence, financial records, and other papers chiefly related to the Episcopal Church and North Carolina history.
Creator Andrews, Alexander Boyd, 1873-1946.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Alexander Boyd Andrews Papers, #2412, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquistions Information
Received as a gift of the estate of Alexander Boyd Andrews of Raleigh, N.C., in 1941-1947 and in December 1952; Additions of July 1954 and May 1957 were received as transfers; Addition of August 1992 (Acc. 92126) is on deposit from the North Carolina Office of Archives and History.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by; Adam Fielding and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2011

Updated by: Laura Hart, May 2021

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Alexdander Boyd Andrews (1873-1946) of Raleigh, N.C., was a lawyer; active in the North Carolina and American Bar associations; chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina; Grand Master of Masons of North Carolina; amateur statistician; active member of the Roanoke Colony Memorial Association; and trustee of the University of North Carolina, East Carolina Teachers College, and Oxford Orphanage.

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The collection includes correspondence, autograph letters, and other papers of Alexander Boyd Andrews. The correspondence, chiefly 1911-1946, is with lawyers, judges, government officials in the United States and abroad, members of the Episcopal Church, newspaper editors, school administrators, and legislators. Subjects include Andrews's writings; his concern with gathering and disseminating information and statistics on legal education; his work on the American Bar Association committee on judicial salaries; adult illiteracy; the training of college teachers, including African Americans, in North Carolina; the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of North Carolina; the restoration of Fort Raleigh and a proposed monument to the Roanoake Colony; and other subjects of public concern and North Carolina historical interest. Included are four letters from William Howard Taft, 1921, 1923, and 1928. Also included are a scrapbook of clippings, composition notebooks with notes and references to Masonic history in North Carolina, and autograph letters collected by Andrews. The Addition of 1992 includes yearly files of correspondence, financial records, and other papers chiefly related to the Episcopal Church and North Carolina history.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Correspondence, 1899-1946 and undated.

Arrangement: chronological.

This series contains correspondence, chiefly 1911-1946, with lawyers, judges, government officials in the United States and abroad, members of the Episcopal Church, newspaper editors, school administrators, and legislators. Subjects include Andrews's writings; his concern with gathering and disseminating information and statistics on legal education; his work on the American Bar Association committee on judicial salaries; adult illiteracy; the training of college teachers, including African Americans, in North Carolina; the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of North Carolina; the restoration of Fort Raleigh and a proposed monument to the Roanoake Colony; and other subjects of public concern and North Carolina historical interest. Included are four letters from William Howard Taft, 1921, 1923, and 1928. Also included is a scrapbook of clippings and an address book.

Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1

1899; 1911-July 1912

Folder 2-9

Folder 2

Folder 3

Folder 4

Folder 5

Folder 6

Folder 7

Folder 8

Folder 9

1 August-December 1912

Folder 10

1913-22 August 1921

Folder 11-12

Folder 11

Folder 12

23 August-December 1921

Folder 13-34

Folder 13

Folder 14

Folder 15

Folder 16

Folder 17

Folder 18

Folder 19

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Folder 21

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Folder 23

Folder 24

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Folder 26

Folder 27

Folder 28

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Folder 32

Folder 33

Folder 34

27 January-Novemer 1922

Folder 35-36

Folder 35

Folder 36

January-November 1923

Folder 37-45

Folder 37

Folder 38

Folder 39

Folder 40

Folder 41

Folder 42

Folder 43

Folder 44

Folder 45

February-19 December 1924

Folder 46-54

Folder 46

Folder 47

Folder 48

Folder 49

Folder 50

Folder 51

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Folder 53

Folder 54

1925

Folder 55-77

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1926

Folder 78-98

Folder 78

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Folder 97

Folder 98

1927

Folder 99-126

Folder 99

Folder 100

Folder 101

Folder 102

Folder 103

Folder 104

Folder 105

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Folder 125

Folder 126

1928

Folder 127-155

Folder 127

Folder 128

Folder 129

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Folder 131

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Folder 133

Folder 134

Folder 135

Folder 136

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1929

Folder 156-224

Folder 156

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Folder 224

1930

Folder 225-267

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Folder 267

1931

Folder 268-288

Folder 268

Folder 269

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Folder 272

Folder 273

Folder 274

Folder 275

Folder 276

Folder 277

Folder 278

Folder 279

Folder 280

Folder 281

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Folder 288

1932

Folder 289-300

Folder 289

Folder 290

Folder 291

Folder 292

Folder 293

Folder 294

Folder 295

Folder 296

Folder 297

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Folder 299

Folder 300

1933

Folder 301-323

Folder 301

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Folder 323

1934

Folder 324-330

Folder 324

Folder 325

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1935

Folder 331-343

Folder 331

Folder 332

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Folder 334

Folder 335

Folder 336

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Folder 338

Folder 339

Folder 340

Folder 341

Folder 342

Folder 343

1936

Folder 344-345

Folder 344

Folder 345

1937

Folder 346

1938

Folder 347-369

Folder 347

Folder 348

Folder 349

Folder 350

Folder 351

Folder 352

Folder 353

Folder 354

Folder 355

Folder 356

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Folder 358

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Folder 360

Folder 361

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Folder 364

Folder 365

Folder 366

Folder 367

Folder 368

Folder 369

1939

Folder 370-373

Folder 370

Folder 371

Folder 372

Folder 373

1940

Folder 374-375

Folder 374

Folder 375

March-December 1941

Folder 376-380

Folder 376

Folder 377

Folder 378

Folder 379

Folder 380

April-December 1942

Folder 381-385

Folder 381

Folder 382

Folder 383

Folder 384

Folder 385

1943

Folder 386-389

Folder 386

Folder 387

Folder 388

Folder 389

February-December 1944

Folder 390-399

Folder 390

Folder 391

Folder 392

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Folder 394

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Folder 398

Folder 399

January-November 1945

Folder 400-405

Folder 400

Folder 401

Folder 402

Folder 403

Folder 404

Folder 405

January-November 1946

Folder 406-408

Folder 406

Folder 407

Folder 408

Undated

Folder 409

Volume 1: Scrapbook

Clippings.

Folder 410

Volume 2: Address book

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This series contains letters collected by Alexander Boyd Andrews for their autographs, correspondence between Andrews and various dealers regarding the purchase of autograph letters, and composition books with notes and references to Masonic history in North Carolina.

Box 17

Correspondence, 1931-1948; Autographs, 1802-1902 and undated

Autographs include Henry Dearborn, 16 August 1802; Zebulon Pike, 2 August 1811; Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, 7 May 1829; Leonidas Polk, 4 January 1841; Thomas H. Burton, 20 December 1853; Braxton Bragg, 27 January 1855; George Peabody, 17 May 1856; Thomas Sully, 20 August 1859; Brigadier General S. A. W. Wood, 3 April 1862; Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, 15 March 1869; Ferdinand DeLesseps, 1870, 1877; Henry Godman Potter, 5 December 1902; William Jermyn Florence, undated.

Autographs, 1678-1900

Autographs include George Baillie, 1725; Francis Baring, 15 April 1845; S. Gould Baring, 3 May 1884; William Blackledge, 15 June 1816; John Broun, 18 June 1806; Charles, Duke of Brunswick, 28 June 1769; Ambrose E. Burnside, April 1880; Thos. G. Clemson, 1835; John Singleton Copley (Lord Lyndhurst), November 1841; Henry Dearborn, 4 June 1801, 15 May 1805; J. C. Dobbin, 2 November 1853; Charlotte Elliott, 5 February 1864; David Dudley Field, 20 May 1862 and undated; W. J. Florence, 17 October 1887; John Harvey, 1767; Julia Ward Howe, 20 April 1900; L. Q. C. Lamar, 19 May 1874; H. Leavenworth, 14 January 1831; Reverend John Mason, 1 April 1783; T. Moore, undated; E. B. Pusey, 21 November 1844; Jacob Read, 8 March 1807; Edward Ting, 1678; United States Army cadets, Thos. Radland, Chas. R. Vining, Wilson M. C. Fairfax, Nathaniel Hall Loring, 1819; copy of Kings council order removing embargo from colliers, 1778; J. W. Hayne, Confederate States of America, undated; David Dudley Field, undated.

Volume 1: Composition book, 1841-1864

Volume 2: Composition book, 1865-1889

Volume 3: Composition book, 1890-1904

Volume 4: Composition book, undated

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Arrangement: chronological.

This addition chiefly contains correspondence and other materials relating to Andrews's career as a lawyer, amateur statistician, and philanthropist. Correspondence is organized in yearly files. Also included are financial records, papers relating to universities and colleges where Andrews worked or studied, other items chiefly related to the Episcopal Church and North Carolina history, and maps.

Box 18

Yearly files, 1895-1899

Box 19

Yearly files, 1899-1901

Box 20

Yearly files, 1901-1902

Box 21

Yearly files, 1902-1903

Box 22

Yearly files, 1903-1905

Box 23

Yearly files, 1905-1907

Box 24

Yearly files, 1908-1909

Box 25

Yearly files, 1909

Box 26

Yearly files, 1910-1911

Box 27

Yearly files, 1911-1912

Box 28

Yearly files, 1912-1913

Box 29

Yearly files, 1914-1915

Box 30

Yearly files, 1915-1916

Box 31

Yearly files, 1917-1918

Box 32

Yearly files, 1918-1919

Box 33

Yearly files, 1920-1921

Box 34

Yearly files, 1921-1922

Box 35

Yearly files, 1923-1924

Box 36

Yearly files, 1924-1925

Box 37

Yearly files, 1926-1927

Box 38

Yearly files, 1927-1928

Box 39

Yearly files, 1929-1930

Box 40

Yearly files, 1930-1931

Box 41

Yearly files, 1931; 1936

Box 42

Yearly files, 1937-1938

Box 43

Yearly files, 1938; check stubs, 1901-1940

Box 44

Financial records, circa 1900-1930s

Includes bills, receipts, and tax materials.

Box 45-46

Box 45

Box 46

Higher education files

Box 47-48

Box 47

Box 48

Other materials

Material chiefly relating to the Episcopal Church and North Carolina history.

Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-2412/1

Maps

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