Restrictions to Access

RESTRICTED: Some materials only partially processed; staff assistance may be required for materials in original wrappers; use of audio or video materials may require production of listening or viewing copies.

This collection contains additional materials that are not processed and are currently not available to researchers. For information about access to these materials, contact Research and Instructional Services staff. Please be advised that preparing unprocessed materials for access can be a lengthy process.

Copyright Notice

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

Acquisitions Information

Received from John Ehle of Winston-Salem, N.C., in May 1990, October 1990, August 1994, and December 2010 (Acc. 101382).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• African Americans--Civil rights.
• Authors, American--20th century.
• Authors, American--North Carolina.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--History.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Race relations--Photographs.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Race relations.
• Civil rights movements--North Carolina.
• Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Civil rights workers--North Carolina.
• Civil rights--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Education--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Ehle family.
• Ehle, John, 1925-
• Families--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Ford Foundation.
• Harris, Rosemary.
• National Edowment for the Humanities.
• National Federation for the Arts and Humanities.
• North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.
• North Carolina School of the Arts.
• North Carolina--Politics and goverment--1951-
• North Carolina--Race relations.
• North Carolina. Governor (1961-1965 : Sanford)
• Novelists, American--20th century.
• Penland School of Crafts.
• Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998.
• Wallace, Jim (James H.)

This collection documents both the literary career and public service activities of John Ehle. The general files comprising Series 1, arranged in chronological order by year, largely contain correspondence, clippings, and financial items relating to Ehle's novels and other works, and materials relating to Ehle's family. Additional material pertaining to Ehle's books can be found in Series 2, which includes mostly notes, drafts, galleys, and correspondence. Additional family items, including the correspondence of Ehle's parents and items related to John Ihli, Sr.'s business and civic activities in Asheville, N.C., appear in Series 12. Subsequent series contain material relevant to Ehle's work with various public and private institutions, though some of these papers can be found among the general files of Series 1 as well. The "Other Materials" series includes miscellaneous subject files, clippings, recipes, appointment and address books, and other personal items accumulated by Ehle. Photographs and audio-visual materials appear in Series 13 and 14, respectively, and include family photographs and photographs by Ehle, Jim Wallace, and others of civil rights activists and protests in Chapel Hill, N.C., and other locations compiled for use in Ehle's book The Free Men, audiodisks of radio shows written, narrated, or acted in by Ehle, reel-to-reel tapes of interviews done for The Free Men, cassette-tapes of interviews conducted for his book Dr. Frank, filmstrips (mostly on N.C. history) Ehle either wrote or collaborated on, and microfiche of one of Ehle's novels.

The Addition of December 2010 is a journal with detailed entries, 1962-1964, about John Ehle's work as special assistant to North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, his writing career, the foundations and projects he supported, and his personal life.

• Photographs (PF-4555/1-20)
• Audiodiscs (D-4555/1-28)
• Film (F-4555/1-13)
• Audiocassettes (T-4555/1-58)
• Reel (R-4555/1)