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Collection Number: 03424

Collection Title: Alice Harper McFarland Papers, 1945-1947

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Size 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 24 items)
Abstract Typescript, 378 pp., of "The Master Race" or "Those Germans," an unpublished novel by Alice Harper McFarland; chapters from a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt of disputed authorship; and copies of correspondence, 1945-1947, concerning McFarland's will and Susie Young's claim that she was the author, and thus the owner, of the Roosevelt biography manuscript.
Creator McFarland, Alice Harper, 1886-1945.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
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 Alice Harper McFarland papers #3424, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Alice Hermina Harper Wesley of Charlotte, N.C., in August 1946.
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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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, February 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

Updated by Laura Smith, January 2022

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Typescript, 378 pp., of "The Master Race" or "Those Germans," an unpublished novel by Alice Harper McFarland; chapters from a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt of disputed authorship; and copies of correspondence, 1945-1947, concerning McFarland's will and Susie Young's claim that she was the author, and thus the owner, of the Roosevelt biography manuscript.

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