Inventory of the Mary Barnett Gilson Papers, 1909-1959

Collection Number 3855-z


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
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
Gilson, Mary Barnett.
Title
Mary Barnett Gilson Papers, 1909-1959.
Call Number
3855-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
14 items.
Abstract
Economist at the University of Chicago, 1931-1942, and specialist in industrial relations with various private companies and government agencies. Papers of Mary Barnett Gilson, including three diary-memorandum books, 1909, 1926, and 1959, from trips to Europe, which contain narrative entries, as well as notes on accommodations, engagements, and persons she met; and letters, 1937-1938, from Herbert G. Williams, Neville Chamberlain, and Henry L. Stimson, concerning British and American policy toward Japan in 1932, Chamberlain's lack of popularity in the United States, and other matters.


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Administrative Information

Alternate Form of Material
Diary-memorandum book for July-September 1909 available on microfilm.
Acquisitions Information
Gift 1968
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Mary Barnett Gilson Papers, #3855-z, 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.
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Online Catalog Headings

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

Chamberlain, Neville, 1869-1940.
Europe--Description and travel.
Gilson, Mary Barnett.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--1910-1936.
Japan--History--1912-1945.
Stimson, Henry Lewis, 1867-1950.
Travelers--Europe--Diaries.
United States--Foreign relations--1929-1933.
Williams, Herbert Geraint, b. 1884.
Women travelers--Europe--Diaries.
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Biographical Note

Economist at the University of Chicago, 1931-1942, and specialist in industrial relations with various private companies and government agencies.

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Collection Overview

Papers of Mary Barnett Gilson, including three diary-memorandum books, 1909, 1926, and 1959, from trips to Europe, which contain narrative entries, as well as notes on accommodations, engagements, and persons she met; and letters, 1937-1938, from Herbert G. Williams, Neville Chamberlain, and Henry L. Stimson, concerning British and American policy toward Japan in 1932, Chamberlain's lack of popularity in the United States, and other matters.