Restrictions to Access

RESTRICTED: Materials received from Victor Dalmas are closed pending processing, except with permission from heirs.

No restrictions on access to addition of August 2002 (Acc. 99318).

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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Victor Dalmas Papers #4175, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Victor Dalmas of Fayetteville, N.C., in 1979 and 1982 and from Sanford J. Smoller of Miami, Fla., in August 2002 (Acc. 99318).

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• Authors, American--20th century.
• Caldwell, Erskine, 1903- .
• Dalmas, Victor.
• Editors--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Green, Paul, 1894-1981.
• Literature--Periodicals.
• Little magazines--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Pembroke magazine.
• Periodicals--Publishing--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Publishers and publishing--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Victor Dalmas was born in Kentucky and moved to Fayetteville, N.C., in 1954. He served in the Army in Korea and Vietnam, retiring in 1968. He received a degree in political science from the University of Maryland and studied English at Pembroke State University and North Carolina State University, 1974-1979. Dalmas served as associate editor of the literary quarterly, Pembroke Magazine, published at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He was also a freelance writer and publisher. Dalmas died on 23 April 2001.

Papers of author and editor  Victor Dalmas include correspondence relating to draft manuscripts and edited copy for issues of Pembroke Magazine during Dalmas's tenure as editor, 1974-1979, among which are issues on Paul Green and Erskine Caldwell. Also included are letters to and from various writers, especially from North Carolina, and materials relating to books edited and published by Dalmas through Dalmas/Ricour, Publishers. The addition of August 2002 contains letters, 1977-1994, from Dalmas to Sanford J. Smoller and typescript of a tribute to Dalmas by Smoller.