Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Copyright Notice

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 L. Hawks Papers, #1342-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, January 2011

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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.

• Bancroft, George, 1800-1891.
• Hall, Clement, d. 1759.
• Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866.
• Historians--United States--Correspondence.
• North Carolina--History--Sources.
• Spaight, Richard Dobbs, 1758-1802.
• Stanly, John, 1774-1833.
• Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868.

Francis L. Hawks was a clergyman, educator, and historian, of New York City and North Carolina.

The collection contains scattered items relating to Hawks's work in preparing his History of North Carolina, consisting primarily of microfilm copies of items at the Episcopal Church Historical Society, Austin, Tex. Included are extracts from court records, church records, legislative and council journals, correspondence and other papers. Significantly represented is the correspondence of Clement Hall and that of John Stanly (1774-1834) relating to his disagreement with Richard Dobbs Spaight. Also included are lists of additional Hawks material in Austin, and two original items: a letter, 12 April 1858, to Hawks from historian George Bancroft, and a letter, 10 February 1860, from Hawks to North Carolina governor David L. Swain regarding a catalog of Bancroft's manuscript collection.

• Microfilm (M-1342/1-2)