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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Joseph Piper Jones papers #3985, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Joseph P. Jones of Chapel Hill, N.C., and Berryville, Va., in January 1974, November 1985, and March, August and October 1986.

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• Authors, American--North Carolina--20th century.
• Children--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Jones, Joseph Piper, 1906-
• Journalists--Southern States--History.
• Newspaper editors--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Smith, Betty, 1896-1972.
• Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
• United States. Army--History--World War, 1939-1945.
• Women authors, American--Biography.

• Betty Smith Papers (#3837).

Professional and personal correspondence and papers of Jones of Chapel Hill, N.C., writer, journalist, associate editor of the "Chapel Hill Weekly," and husband, 1943-1951, of author Betty Smith (1896-1972). Letters relate to his service in the U.S. Army, 1944-1945, to his work as a writer and journalist, and to his personal life. Included is a five-page autobiographical sketch of his boyhood in Berryville, Va. Also included are miscellaneous rough drafts and other versions of various short stories. Letters to Jones from Betty Smith are in the Betty Smith Papers.

• P-3985/1-30