Inventory of the Burke Davis Papers, 1920-1987
Collection Number 4569
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Collection Information
- 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
- Davis, Burke.
- Title
- Burke Davis Papers, 1920-1987
- Call Number
- 4569
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
-
- Items: About 1900
- Linear Feet: 70.5
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Administrative Information
- Acquisitions Information
- Received from Burke Davis of Meadows of Dan, Va., in August 1990 and transferred from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in October 1990 (Acc. 91018).
- Processing Information
- Processed by: Manuscripts Department Staff, March 1990
- Encoded by: Danielle Weber and Jackie Dean, March 2007
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Additional Descriptive Resources
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Burke Davis Papers #4569, 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.
- Authors and publishers--United States--History--20th century.
- Biographers.
- Charlotte news (Charlotte, N.C.).
- Davis, Burke.
- Journalists--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Novelists, American--History--20th century.
- Sportswriters--North Carolina--History--20th century.
Biographical Note
Burke Davis (1913- ) is a journalist, novelist, historian, and biographer from Durham, N.C.
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Papers of Durham, N.C., journalist, novelist, historian, and biographer Burke Davis include correspondence, drafts of books and articles, notes, scrapbooks, and other items. There are materials relating to all of Davis's major works, as well as scrapbooks of newspaper columns Davis wrote when he was sports editor for the Charlotte News
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Detailed Description of the Collection
Papers, 1920-1987.
About 1900 items.
Folder
1aFinding aid for materials in folders 1-740 compiled by the Manuscripts Department at the College of William and Mary.
Folder
1General correspondence
Correspondence regarding Civil War and Civil War Roundtable, Gettysburg, The Ragged Ones, and 1812.
Articles by Davis, articles on Davis, source material for an unknown work.
Folder
3Articles and correspondence of and with Harry Golden and the Carolina Israelite.
Folder
3a-3kBiographical material
Includes correspondence, 1952-1971; certificates; correspondence and other materials related to the Mayflower Cup Award; and
other items.
Ragged Ones
Folder
3n-3qWhisper My Name
Folder
4-26Yorktown
Folder
27-39They Called Him Stonewall
Oversize Paper Folder
OP-4569/1They Called Him Stonewall: Maps
Folder
40-52Robert E. Lee and the Civil War
Folder
53-57Roberta E. Lee
Folder
57a-71JEB Stuart: The last Cavalier
Folder
72-102To Appomattox
Oversize Paper Folder
OP-4569/2To Appomattox: Maps, book layout art work
Folder
103-105I Rode with JEB Stuart by H. B. McClellan, edited by Burke Davis
Folder
106-118aOur Incredible Civil War
Folder
119America's First Army
Folder
119a-119cMexican War
Folder
120-150Marine
Folder
151-197The Summer Land
Folder
197a-197cRebel Raider: A Biography of Admiral Semmes
Folder
198-283The Billy Mitchell Affair
Folder
284-307A Williamsburg Galaxy
Folder
308-326The World of Currier and Ives
Folder
327-340The Billy Mitchell Story
Folder
341-392Get Yamamoto
Folder
393-408Yorktown: The Winning of American Independence
Folder
409-450The Campaign That Won America
Folder
451-452Getting to Know Jamestown
Folder
453-454Getting to Know Thomas Jefferson's Virginia
Folder
455-470Heroes of the American Revolution
Folder
471-476Amelia Earhart
Folder
477Biography of a Leak
Folder
478-478aBiography of a King Snake
Folder
479-488Three for Revolution
Folder
489-526George Washington and the American Revolution
Folder
527-529bBlack Heroes of the American Revolution
Folder
530Runaway Balloon: The Last Flight of Confederate Air Force One
Folder
531-532Newer and Better Organic Gardening
Folder
533U.S. News and World Report
Folder
534Appomattox
Folder
535Biography of a Fish Hawk
Folder
536-539Ford Times articles
Folder
539aThe Ironworker article
Folder
540King Christopher Crow
Folder
541Burke Davis Publicity
Newspaper clippings by and about Burke Davis.
Old Hickory: A Life of Andrew Jackson
Folder
605-607The Summer Land
Folder
608-711Sherman's March
Folder
712-72050 Year Book
Folder
721-739Old Hickory: A Life of Andrew Jackson
Folder
740Sherman's March
Box
44Correspondence and other materials
Items relating to other writers, including William Styron, Harry Golden, Mac Hyman; awards received by Davis; items about
his service on the Pulitzer Prize jury and the Pullern libel suit, which resulted in the publication of Marine; correspondence with readers, agents (Hal Matson, Joan Fulton), and publishers.
War Bird: The Life and Times of Elliott White Springs
Box
47The Long Surrender
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