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

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Francis Harper Papers, #3638-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Francis Harper of Chapel Hill, N.C., June 1963. Additional material received from H. E. Lehman of Zoology Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 1968; and transferred from the Rare Book Room.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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.

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• Georgia--Description and travel.
• Harper, Francis, 1886-1972.
• Okefenokee Swamp (Ga. and Fla.)
• Swamps--Georgia.
• Thompson, Maurice, 1844-1901.
• Thompson, Will Henry, 1846-1918.
• Zoologists--United States--History--20th century.

• Francis Harper Collection, Department of Special Collections, MS 245, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.

Francis Harper (1886-1972), native of Massachusetts, was a zoologist and author affiliated with many universities. He was the author of Mammals of the Okefinokee Swamp Region of Georgia (1927). He retired in Chapel Hill, N.C.

The collection includes "An Exchange of Letters, 1913-1915, with Will Henry Thompson," typescript, 16 pages, including transcriptions of four letters and Francis Harper's extensive notes on Thompson, Thompson's brother, Maurice, and Okefenokee Swamp, Ga. Also included is an original letter, 1913, from Will Henry Thompson to Harper, drafts of four letters from Harper to Thompson, a typed draft of "Deep in the Okefinokee with Bow and Arrow," by Will Henry Thompson, several photograph relating to Thompson, and other correspondence of Harper.

• Photographs (PF-3638/1)