Inventory of the Papers Relating to L. L. Polk, 1937-1940

Collection Number 3738-z


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Noblin, Stuart.
Title
Papers Relating to L. L. Polk, 1937-1940.
Call Number
3738-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
51 items.
Abstract
Noblin (1913- ) was a professor of History, North Carolina State University, and author of Leonidas La Fayette Polk, Agrarian Crusader (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1949). Noblin's correspondence, 1937-1940, documenting his search for biographical material on L. L. Polk (1837-1892), North Carolina's first commissioner of agriculture, founder of the Progressive Farmer, and president of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union; and copies of some Polk papers, 1891-1892. Among the correspondents are Alex M. Arnett, Samuel A. Ashe, H. E. C. Bryant, P. A. Carter, Josephus Daniels, R. A. Doughton, Thomas Dixon, John D. Hicks, Francis Joyner, J. J. Lane, James C. Malin, W. F. Marshall, Thomas Bedford Moseley, Edward A. Oldham, Carl C. Taylor, R. T. Vann, William Allen White, and Peter Mitchell Wilson. The copies of Polk items include typed transcripts of seven items from the Donnelly Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society, consisting of four letters from Polk to Ignatius Donnelly, one letter from Polk to A. L. Stomberg, and two letters from H. E. Taubeneck to Ignatius Donnelly.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1966
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 Papers Relating to L. L. Polk, #3738-z, 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.

Arnett, Alex Mathews, b. 1888.
Ashe, Samuel A. (Samuel A'Court), 1840-1938.
Bryant, H. E. C. (Henry Edward Cowan), b. 1873.
Carter, Paul Allen, 1926-
Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.
Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946.
Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901.
Doughton, Rufus Alexander, 1857-1945.
Hicks, John Donald, 1890-
Historians--United States--Correspondence.
Joyner, Francis.
Lane, John J., b. 1833.
Malin, James Claude, 1893-
Marshall, William F. (William Forbes), 1888-1959.
Moseley, Thomas Bedford, 1855-1942.
Noblin, Stuart.
North Carolina--Biography.
Oldham, Edward A.
Polk, L. L. (Leonidas La Fayette), 1837-1892.
Stomberg, A. L.
Taubeneck, H. E.
Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland), 1884-1975.
Vann, Richard T.
White, William Allen, 1868-1944.
Wilson, Peter M.
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Related Material

Leonidas La Fayette Polk Papers (#3708), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Biographical Note

Noblin (1913- ) was a professor of History, North Carolina State University, and author of Leonidas La Fayette Polk, Agrarian Crusader (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1949).

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Collection Overview

Noblin's correspondence, 1937-1940, documenting his search for biographical material on L. L. Polk (1837-1892), North Carolina's first commissioner of agriculture, founder of the Progressive Farmer, and president of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union; and copies of some Polk papers, 1891-1892. Among the correspondents are Alex M. Arnett, Samuel A. Ashe, H. E. C. Bryant, P. A. Carter, Josephus Daniels, R. A. Doughton, Thomas Dixon, John D. Hicks, Francis Joyner, J. J. Lane, James C. Malin, W. F. Marshall, Thomas Bedford Moseley, Edward A. Oldham, Carl C. Taylor, R. T. Vann, William Allen White, and Peter Mitchell Wilson. The copies of Polk items include typed transcripts of seven items from the Donnelly Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society, consisting of four letters from Polk to Ignatius Donnelly, one letter from Polk to A. L. Stomberg, and two letters from H. E. Taubeneck to Ignatius Donnelly.