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[Identification of item], in the Ben Dixon MacNeill papers #3617, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Dudley W. Bagley of Moyock, N.C., in 1963 and 1966.

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• Authors, American--North Carolina--20th century.
• Bagley, Dudley Warren, 1889-1964.
• Blair, John Fries, 1903-
• Bonner, Herbert Covington, 1891-1965.
• Cape Hatteras National Seashore (N.C.)
• Coasts--North Carolina.
• Hatteras, Cape (N.C.)
• Hodges, Luther Hartwell, 1898-1974.
• Journalists--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Knapp, Joseph Palmer, 1864-1951.
• MacNeill, Ben Dixon, 1889-1960.
• MacNeill, Ben Dixon, 1889-1960. Hatterasman.
• National parks and reserves--North Carolina--History.
• North Carolina--Maps.
• North Carolina--Photographs.
• Oregon Inlet (N.C.)
• Outer Banks (N.C.)
• Ross, George.
• Umstead, William Bradley, 1895-1954.
• Ward, Alvah H.
• Warren, Lindsay C. (Lindsay Carter), 1889-1976.

1899 Born in Laurinburg, Scotland County, N.C., son of Alexander Benjamin and Flora MacKinnon MacNeill

circa 1903 Attended Bingham School for Boys

circa 1907 Worked for Fayetteville Observer

circa 1910 Worked for Wilmington Morning Star

1919-1960 Worked for the Raleigh News and Observer

1937 Went to the Outer Banks as publicity director for the "Lost Colony"

1941-1945 Lt. Col., U.S. Army public information corps

1958 Won Mayflower Award for The Hatterasman

1960 Died at Buxton-on-Hatteras

The collection consists of personal correspondence, 1953-1960, of Ben Dixon MacNeill when he lived at Buxton-on-Hatteras. Letters include congratulations on winning the Mayflower Award in 1958 and concern about MacNeill's illness in 1959. Correspondents include Governor William B. Umstead; Huntington Cairns of the National Gallery of Art; Governor Luther H. Hodges; Senator W. Kerr Scott; Dr. James W. Patton, director of the Southern Historical Collection; Senator Roman L. Hruska of Nebraska; and Sam Ragan of the Raleigh News and Observer.

Other items include published and unpublished manuscripts; clippings of his newspaper articles; letters and clippings about his pet raccoon Minnie; letters and clippings about the anniversary celebration of the first flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C.; information of the Oregon Inlet; and maps, photographs and certificates.

• OP-3617/1-6
• P-3617/1-49