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[Identification of item], in the Ruth Dixon Dunn Papers #5520, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Purchased from Michael Brown Rare Books in Philadelphia, Pa., in 2012 (Acc. 101587).

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• Colquitt (Ga.)--History.
• Colquitt (Ga.)--Social life and customs.
• Dixon, Walter A.
• Dunn, Ruth Dixon, 1888-1911.
• Dunn, William Pearl.
• Families--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Families--Southern States--Social life and customs.
• Monroe Female College (Forsyth, Ga.)
• Women--Education--Georgia.
• Women--Georgia--History--20th century.
• Women--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Young women--Georgia--Social life and customs.

Ruth Dixon Dunn was born in 1888 in Colquitt, Miller County, Ga., where she lived until her death in 1911. She had several siblings, but only one brother appears in the correspondence, Walter A. Dixon of Tampa, Fla. Ruth Dixon Dunn married local banker William Pearl Dunn in 1907, and they had a child, William Pearl Dunn Jr., in 1908. Ruth Dixon Dunn died suddenly in July 1911 of unknown causes.

The collection is chiefly letters written to Ruth Dixon Dunn from friends and relatives in southern Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, including her brother, Walter A. Dixon of Tampa, Fla., and female friends attending Monroe Female College in Forsyth, Ga. The letters generally concern the family and social life of an adolescent girl and young married woman. There are a few letters from Ruth Dixon Dunn to her husband William Pearl Dunn, as well as letters to William Pearl Dunn from family, friends, and business associates. There are also a few letters to other recipients, postcards, calling cards, wedding and graduation invitations, birth announcements, clippings, Ruth Dixon Dunn's school report cards, brochures, legal and financial documents, transcribed poems, and other items.