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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Francis Butler Simkins Papers, #1503, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Francis Butler Simkins of Farmville, Va., July 1948. Additional material received from Allen J. Going of Tuscaloosa, Ala., November 1986 (Acc. 86147), and Mrs. Ottis C. Skipper of Concord, N.C., January 1988 (Acc. 88010).

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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• Historians--United States--History--20th century.
• Politicians--South Carolina--Biography.
• Simkins, Francis Butler, 1897-1966.
• Skipper, Ottis Clark, b. 1898.
• South Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Southern States--History.
• Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan), 1847-1918.

Francis Butler Simkins (1897-1966), native of Edgefield, S.C., was a historian. He was educated at the University of South Carolina and at Columbia University. He was a professor of history at Longwood College, Farmville, Va. His published works include South Carolina During Reconstruction (1931) with Robert Woody; The Women of the Confederacy, (1936) with James Patton; Pitchfork Ben Tillman: South Carolina (1944), a biography of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1913), South Carolina governor and United States senator; and The South Old and New (1947), later revised and retitled A History of the South (1957); among others.

The collection includes research notes of historian Francis Butler Simkins for his biography, published 1944, of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1913), South Carolina political leader; and manuscripts (typescripts with holograph corrections) of "History of the Seaboard South" (unpublished) by Simkins and Ottis Clark Skipper, with related correspondence.