Preliminary Inventory of the Victor Dalmas Papers, 1974-2002

Collection Number 4175

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Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Collection Information
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block Administrative Information
block Online Catalog Headings
block Biographical Note
block Collection Overview
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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/
Processed by
Pamela Dean
Date Processed
July 1987
Encoded by
Roslyn Holdzkom
Date Encoded
August 2002
Revisions
Updated in March 2003 by Linda Sellars.
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
Southern Historical Collection
Creator
Dalmas, Victor.
Title
Victor Dalmas Papers, 1974-2002
Call Number
4175
Extent
About 11,000 items (14.0 linear feet)
Abstract
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. The collection includes 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.
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Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access
This collection has restrictions to access. Please see details below or contact the Manuscripts Department for more information.
Usage Restrictions
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).
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).
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Victor Dalmas Papers #4175, Southern Historical Collection, 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.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

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.
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Biographical Note

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.

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Collection Overview

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.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Papers, 1974-1982.
About 11,000 items.
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.
Box 1
Correspondence, draft articles, and other material relating to Pembroke Magazine, ca. 1973-1979
Box 2
Correspondence and copy for the Paul Green issue, Pembroke Magazine, Issue 10, 1978
Box 3
Correspondence with North Carolina writers and others, ca. 1970-1980
Box 4
Correspondence and copy for Erskine Caldwell issue, Pembroke Magazine, Issue 11, 1979
Box 5
Fiscal records; grant applications; Pembroke Magazine
Box 6
Correspondence with North Carolina writers and others
Box 7
Correspondence relating to and copy for books published by Dalmas
Box 8
Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers
Box 9
Miscellaneous correspondence, ca. 1975-1980; issues of small press publications and Pembroke Magazine

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Additions after 1982

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Addition of August 2002 (Acc. 99318).
About 75 items (0.5 linear ft.).
Arrangement: chronological.
Provenance
Received from Sanford J. Smoller of Miami, Fla., in August 2002 (Acc. 99318).
Restrictions to Access
No restrictions.
Letters from Victor Dalmas to Sanford Smoller and typescript of a tribute to Dalmas by Smoller. Entitled "Adieu, Victor," this article was published in Pembroke Magazine in 2003.
Box 10
Letters, 1977-1994, and article, 2002.

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