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Library of the University of North Carolina
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SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

#3589
COTTEN FAMILY PAPERS
Summary

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Cotten family.
Papers, 1892-1958.
1,000 items (2.0 linear feet).

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 U.S. Navy.

Gifts, 1960-1962.

SEE ALSO: Lyman Atkinson Cotten Papers (#182); Elizabeth Henderson Cotten Papers (#1650);
Sallie Southall Cotten Papers (#2613) in the Southern Historical Collection, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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

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