Cornelia Spencer Love Papers, 1898-1978.

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Summary

Creator:
Love, Cornelia Spencer, 1892-
Abstract:

Cornelia Spencer Love was a librarian at the University of North Carolina, 1917-1948; author of When Chapel Hill was a Village, 1976; and granddaughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908).

The collection includes writings, correspondence, a scrapbook, photographs, and a few other items of Love. Included are drafts of When Chapel Hill was a Village; letters about the book, including anecodotes about life in Chapel Hill; and letters, 1898-1946, to Love from relatives and friends concerning family and personal matters. These letters include many, 1914-1916, from Love's mother, June Spencer Love, and letters from the same period from James Spencer Love about his life as a Harvard undergraduate.

Extent:
235 items (1.0 linear feet)
Language:
Materials in English
Library Catalog Link:
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Background

Biographical / historical:

Cornelia Spencer Love (1892- ) was a librarian at the University of North Carolina, 1917-1948; author of When Chapel Hill was a Village, 1976; and granddaughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908).

Scope and content:

The collection includes writings, correspondence, a scrapbook, photographs, and a few other items of Cornelia Spencer Love, librarian at the University of North Carolina, 1917-1948; author of When Chapel Hill was a Village, 1976; and granddaughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908). Included are drafts of When Chapel Hill was a Village; letters about the book, including anecodotes about life in Chapel Hill; and letters, 1898-1946, to Love from relatives and friends concerning family and personal matters. These letters include many, 1914-1916, from Love's mother, June Spencer Love, letters from the same period from James Spencer Love about his life as a Harvard undergraduate, and four letters, 1898-1900 and undated, from Cornelia Phillips Spencer. There is also a notebook of correspondence related to the Alumni Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisition information:

Received from Caroline House (Mrs. William S.) Stewart of Chapel Hill, N.C., and the Chapel Hill Historical Society, June 1977.

Additions transferred from the Charles Phillips Russell Papers, #4004, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, July 1979, and received from Cornelia Spencer Love (niece) of Chapel Hill, N.C., October 1982, and Elizabeth M. Parker of Chapel Hill, N.C., March 1995 (Acc. 95042).

Processing information:

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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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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 Cornelia Spencer Love Papers, #4131, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu