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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Cotten Family Papers, #3589, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gifts 1960-1962

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• Cotten family.
• Cotten, Lyman Atkinson, 1874-1926.
• Cotten, Robert Randolph.
• Cotten, Sallie Southall.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Pitt County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Scrapbooks.
• United States. Navy--Officers--Correspondence.
• Virginia Dare Memorial Association.
• Women in politics--United States--History--20th century.
• Women's rights--United States--History--20th century.
• Women--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• World War, 1914-1918--Women.

• Lyman Atkinson Cotten Papers (#182); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Family correspondence of Robert Randolph Cotten, Pitt County, N.C., of his wife, Sallie (Southall) Cotten (1846-1929), and of their children and grandchildren. Sallie (Southall) Cotten's papers concern women's rights, state and national women's organizations, women's war work, 1916-1918, the Virginia Dare Memorial Association, and her many other interests and activities, as well as family and social matters. Also included are her scrapbooks, 1892-1929, writings, speeches, and personal memoranda, and letters from her son, Lyman Atkinson Cotten (1874-1926), as a captain in the United States Navy.