Inventory of the Alice Spencer Kerr Papers, 1872-1887

Collection Number 2248


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
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
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Kerr, Alice Spencer, 1858-1879.
Title
Alice Spencer Kerr Papers, 1872-1887.
Call Number
2248
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 350 items (0.5 linear feet).
Abstract
Teacher; daughter of geologist Washington Caruthers Kerr (1827- 1885), lecturer at the University of North Carolina. Personal letters, chiefly 1876-1879, received by Alice Kerr from friends and relatives while she was a student at the Peace Institute, Raleigh, N.C., and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and while she was a teacher at Winston Academy, 1877-1878, and the Peace Institute, 1878. Included are many letters written by Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908) during Kerr's illness in 1879, giving social news of Chapel Hill, N.C.; letters, after 1879, addressed to Kerr's sister Lizzie; and a notebook Alice Kerr kept while a student at the Peace Institute.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1940
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Alice Spencer Kerr Papers, #2248, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
College students--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
Kerr, Alice Spencer, 1858-1879.
Kerr, Lizzie.
Peace College (Raleigh, N.C.)--Faculty--Social life and customs.
Peace College (Raleigh, N.C.)--Students--Social life and customs.
School notebooks--History--19th century.
Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908.
Teachers--North Carolina--Social life and customs--19th century.
University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--Social life and customs.
Winston Academy (N.C.)--Faculty--Social life and customs.
Women college students--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
Women--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
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Biographical Note

Teacher; daughter of geologist Washington Caruthers Kerr (1827- 1885), lecturer at the University of North Carolina.

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Collection Overview

Personal letters, chiefly 1876-1879, received by Alice Kerr from friends and relatives while she was a student at the Peace Institute, Raleigh, N.C., and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and while she was a teacher at Winston Academy, 1877-1878, and the Peace Institute, 1878. Included are many letters written by Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908) during Kerr's illness in 1879, giving social news of Chapel Hill, N.C.; letters, after 1879, addressed to Kerr's sister Lizzie; and a notebook Alice Kerr kept while a student at the Peace Institute.