Robert March Hanes Papers Inventory (#4534)

Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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

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Processed by

Roslyn Holdzkom and Winifred Fordham

Date Completed

February 1993

Encoded by

Roslyn Holdzkom

Descriptive Summary Including Abstract

Title

Robert March Hanes Papers (#4534) 1908-1919

Creator

Hanes, Robert March, 1890-1959.

Extent

About 340 items (2.0 linear feet)

Repository

Southern Historical Collection

Abstract

Robert March Hanes (1890-1959) was a North Carolina banker, legislator, government official, and business and civic leader. The collection consists chiefly of letters from Robert March Hanes to his wife, Mildred Borden Hanes, before and after their marriage in 1917. Letters, 1917-1919, are largely from Robert March Hanes during his service as an officer with the first and second armies during World War I; they provide detailed descriptions of military life. Early letters describe Hanes's relationships with other officers and with his orderly, including remarks on conditions in the trenches and the quality of army food. Later letters (after August 1918) discuss actual fighting conditions along the French front and (after October 1918) mopping up activities as the American army advanced and the German army fell back. Also included are a short diary documenting Hanes's activities at the front; a Verdun commemorative coin; a considerable number of letters, 1908-1914, to Mildred Borden Hanes from friends and relatives, some of whom described student life at the University of North Carolina, 1908-1909, and at Yale University, 1913-1914; and Robert March Hanes's travel diary documenting a 1912 European trip.

Administrative Information

Access

No restrictions.

Usage Restrictions

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

Provenance

Received from Frank Borden Hanes of Winston-Salem, N.C., in November 1989 (Acc. 89127), January 1990 (Acc. 90008), January (Acc. 92022) and April (Acc. 92055), and December 1992 (Acc. 93039), and from Mrs. Meade H. Willis, Jr., of Winston-Salem in July 1992 (Acc. 92087).

Online Catalog Terms

Europe--Description and travel.

Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.

Hanes family.

Hanes, Mildred Borden.

Hanes, Robert March, 1890-1959.

Travelers--Diaries--History--20th century.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--Social life and customs.

United States. Army--Military life.

United States. Army--Officers--Correspondence.

United States. Army--Officers--Diaries--History--World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--France.

Yale University--Students.

Biographical Note

Robert March Hanes (1890-1959) was a North Carolina banker, legislator, government official, and business and civic leader. For biographical information, see T. Harry Gatton's essay on Robert March Hanes in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, volume 3, 1988, pp. 27-28.

Collection Overview

Chiefly letters from Robert March Hanes to his wife, Mildred Borden Hanes, before and after their marriage in 1917. Letters, 1917-1919, are largely from Robert March Hanes during his service as an officer with the first and second armies during World War I; they provide detailed descriptions of military life. Early letters describe Hanes's relationships with other officers and with his orderly, including remarks on conditions in the trenches and the quality of army food. Later letters (after August 1918) discuss actual fighting conditions along the front in France and (after October 1918) mopping up activities as the American army advanced and the German army fell back. Also included are a short diary documenting Hanes's activities at the front; a Verdun commemorative coin; a considerable number of letters, 1908-1914, to Mildred Borden Hanes from friends and relatives, some of whom described student life at the University of North Carolina, 1908-1909, and at Yale University, 1913-1914; and Robert March Hanes's travel diary documenting a 1912 European trip.

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