Inventory of the James Saxon Childers Papers, 1869-1941
Collection Number 3384
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Childers, James Saxon, 1899-
- Title
- James Saxon Childers Papers, 1869-1941.
- Call Number
- 3384
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 50 items (0.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the James Saxon Childers Papers, #3384, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888.
- Authors, American--Autographs.
- Authors, English--Autographs.
- Autographs--Collections.
- Childers, James Saxon, 1899-
- Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933.
- Harte, Bret, 1836-1902.
- Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.
- Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891.
- Masefield, John, 1878-1967.
- Rickman, John, 1771-1840.
- Rickman, Susannah Postlethwaite.
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894.
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
- Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
- Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941.
Biographical Note
Writer and editor of Alabama.
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Autograph letters from American and European literary figures, some written to Childers, others collected by him, and a few other items. Authors of letters include John Galsworthy (one letter), John Masefield (one), Matthew Arnold (one), Bret Harte (one), James Weldon Johnson (three), James Russell Lowell (one), Christina Rossetti (one), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (one), Robert Southey (fourteen), and Hugh Walpole (one). The Southey letters, 1822-1837 and undated, are addressed to John Rickman and Rickman's wife, Susannah Postlethwaite Rickman.