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No restrictions. Open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Arthur Palmer Hudson Papers, #4026, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1965

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• Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.
• College teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
• Folklore--Study and teaching (Higher)--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Hudson, Arthur Palmer, 1892-1978,
• Hudson, Arthur Palmer, 1892-1978.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Curriculum in Folklore.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of English.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.

• North Carolina Folklore Society Records (#4388), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Frank Clyde Brown Papers, Duke University Library, Durham, N.C.

Correspondence, editorial papers from "The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore," and other material of Arthur Palmer Hudson (1892-1978), professor of English, 1930-1953, and executive secretary of the Curriculum in Folklore, 1950-1963, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Correspondence and other papers relating to Hudson's editorship of the "Brown Collection" form the bulk of this collection. There is also significant correspondence relating to folklife in North Carolina and to many aspects of the discipline of folklore. Among the letters are one, 1933, from Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938); one, 1933, from Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941); and one, 1945, from William Faulkner (1897- 1962).