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[Identification of item], in the Robert Boone Outland papers #4820, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Robert B. Outland III of Baton Rouge, La., on 29 July 1996 (Acc. 96114).

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• College students--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Medical students--Pennsylvania--Social life and customs--20th century.
• Outland, Robert Boone, 1907-
• Physicians--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Residents (Medicine)--Washington (D.C.)--History--20th century.
• University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine--Students--Social life and customs--20th century.
• Wake Forest University--Students--Social life and customs--20th century.

Robert Boone Outland (1907- ), North Carolina physician.

Robert Boone Outland Sr., 1907- , a physician, was originally from Rich Square, N.C. He attended Wake Forest University, 1925-1930, and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, 1930-1934. He did his residency at Municipal Hospital and Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and worked in Elm City, N.C.

This collection consists of letters from Outland to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Outland of Rich Square, N.C. The collection spans the years during Outland's undergraduate studies at Wake Forest University, his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and his residency and early work as a doctor in Washington, D.C., and Elm City, N.C. Most of the letters discuss Outland's academic life, his personal life, and the activities of family and friends. There are some references to economic and social conditions during the Depression and to the difficulty of living as a Southerner in a Northern city.