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[Identification of item], in the Henry Lee Canfield Papers, #2456, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1942

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• Blind--Services for--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Canfield, Henry Lee, 1860-1942.
• Capital punishment--United States--History--20th century.
• Clergy--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972.
• Greensboro (N.C.)--Religion--20th century.
• Kinston (N.C.)--Religion--20th century.
• Laws, Lewis E.
• Libby, Frederick Joseph, 1874-
• North Carolina--Social conditions.
• Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954.
• Pou, George Ross.
• Prison reformers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Sermons, American--North Carolina.
• Social reformers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Sternberger, Myers, Mrs.
• United States--Race relations--20th century.
• Universalist churches--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Weil, Gertrude, 1879-1971.

Universalist minister in Greensboro and Kinston, N.C., 1922-1936; native of Ohio.

Correspondence, sermons, speeches, and articles by Canfield, concerning Universalist church matters, and Canfield's interests in race relations, capital punishment, prison reform, the blind, and other matters. Correspondents include Frank P. Graham, Lewis E. Laws, Frederick J. Libby, Howard W. Odum, George Ross Pou, Mrs. Myers Sternberger, and Gertrude Weil.