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[Identification of item], in the Quincy Sharpe Mills Papers #2345, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Mrs. Thomas Millard Mills of Statesville, N.C., in 1941.

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• Authors, American--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
• Evening sun (Newspaper : New York, N.Y.)
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Journalists--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
• Military training camps--New York (State--History--World War, 1914-1918.
• Mills, Quincy Sharpe, 1884-1918.
• New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
• Plattsburg (N.Y.) Training Camp.
• Statesville (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Sun (Newspaper : New York, N.Y.)
• United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces--Officers--Correspondence.
• United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. Rainbow Division. 168th Regiment.
• World War, 1914-1918--France.

• Hugh Harrison Mills Collection (#357), Special Collections, East Carolina University

Quincy Sharpe Mills was a journalist and author who worked on the New York Evening Sun newspapers for ten years; served as a lieutenant in the 168th Regiment, Rainbow Division, American Expeditionary Forces; and was killed in France.

Papers of journalist Quincy Sharpe Mills include letters to him, but chiefly letters from him to his parents in Statesville, N.C., concerning his life and work writing for the Evening Sun in New York City and his army experience at Plattsburg, N.Y., training camp and in France with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. Also included are clippings and manuscripts of articles, notes on war, army notebooks, and data concerning Mills and the publication of his work after his death.

• Pictures (P-2345/1-160)