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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Charles Wesley Bain Papers, #2739, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Charles W. Bain and Elizabeth T. Bain, April 1958.

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A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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• Alexander, Eben, 1851-1910.
• Bain, Charles Wesley, 1864-1915.
• Bocock, Willis H.
• Classical education--History.
• Classicists--Southern States--History.
• Educators--Southern States--History.
• Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau), 1831-1924.
• McCabe, W. Gordon (William Gordon), 1841-1920.
• University School (Petersburg, Va.)
• University School (Richmond, Va.)
• University of Georgia--Faculty--History.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History.
• University of South Carolina--Faculty--History.
• University of Virginia--History.

Charles Wesley Bain (1864-1915) was the son of George McK. and Willie Frances Cherry Bain of Norfolk, Va. He was educated at Colonel William Gordon McCabe's school in Virginia, was graduated from the University of Virginia, and received an M.A. from the University of the South in 1895. He taught school at Savannah, Ga.; was joint headmaster at Rugby School in Louisville, Ky.; classical master at McCabe's School in Petersburg, Va.; and headmaster at Sewannee Grammar School. He was married in 1891 to Isabel de R. Plumer of Petersburg, Va., and they had two children. Bain was later professor of Greek at the University of South Carolina, 1898-1910, and at the University of North Carolina, 1910-1915. He was the author of several textbooks in his field, and edited and published classical texts.

The collection includes correspondence, notes, and writings of Charles Wesley Bain, chiefly letters from southern classical scholars and other southern educators. Correspondents include Colonel William Gordon McCabe (1841-1920), founder and headmaster of the University School at Petersburg and Richmond, Va., and rector of the University of Virginia; Willis H. Bocock, professor of Greek at the University of Georgia; Eben Alexander; and Basil L. Gildersleeve (1831-1924).