Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#4716
SOUTHERN TEXTS SOCIETY RECORDS
Inventory
Abstract: Southern Texts Society, an institution dedicated
to the identification, editing, and publication of a
series of book-length collections of manuscript or
rare printed materials important to understanding the
culture of the American South and its expressive life.
Materials relating to publications of the
Southern Texts Society, grouped into units according
to the publication they support, and organizational
papers of the Society. Unit 2 contains organizational
records of the Society, including its mission
statement, bylaws, editorial guidelines, and some
correspondence.
Online Catalog Terms:
Southern States--Study and teaching.
Southern Texts Society.
Size: About 250 items (1.0 linear ft.).
Dates: 1989-1995.
Provenance: Various.
Access: No restrictions.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.
Table of Contents:
Unit Descriptions
UNIT 1
Addition of August 1994 (Acc. 94119)
Size: 4 items.
Dates: 1993.
Provenance: Received from Michael O'Brien of the Southern
Texts Society.
Access: No restrictions.
Description: Typed transcriptions of women's diaries
published in An Evening When Alone: Four Journals
of Single Women in the South, 1827-67, edited by
Michael O'Brien, published for the Southern Texts
Society by the University Press of Virginia, 1993.
Diaries were kept by Ann Lewis Hardeman, 1850-
1866; Jane Caroline North [Pettigrew], 1851-1852
(original in Pettigrew Family Papers, #592,
Southern Historical Collection); Elizabeth Ruffin
[Cocke], 1827 (original in Harrison Henry Cocke
Papers, #1587, Southern Historical Collection);
and an anonymous woman in Selma [Ala.].
Online Catalog Terms:
Cocke, Elizabeth Ruffin, fl. 1809-1849.
Diaries--Southern States--History--19th century.
Hardeman, Ann Lewis.
Pettigrew, Jane Caroline North, 1828-1887.
Single women--Southern States--Diaries.
Single women--Southern States--History--19th century.
Single women--Southern States--Social conditions.
Southern States--History--19th century.
Women--Diaries--History--19th century.
Women--Southern States--Social life and customs--19th century.
UNIT 2
Addition of January 1998 (Acc. 98004)
Size: About 250 items (0.5 linear feet).
Date Span: 1989-1995.
Provenance: Received from Michael O’Brien in January 1998.
Access: No restrictions.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.
Description
Materials relating to the founding and early years of the
Southern Texts Society. This includes creation and operation
materials which includes the society’s mission statement, lists
of founding board and fellows, bylaws, articles of incorporation,
editorial guidelines, tax status forms lists of potential funding
sources and agreements with University of Virginia Press for
publication of manuscripts. There are also proposals which were
submitted for consideration to be published by the society. The
correspondence includes founding members discussions of non-
profit status, prospective donors, board meeting plans, budget
suggestions, suggestions of collections to be published, analysis
of proposals, and discussions of logos and mission statement
materials. Also in correspondence are letters from attorneys
regarding deeds and incorporation papers, letters from other
organizations of Southern history such as the Southern
Intellectual History Circle and letters from non-affiliated
scholars requesting information about the Text Society.
Folder 5 Creation and Organization of Society.
Folder 6 Proposals.
Folder 7 Proposals.
Folder 8 Correspondence, 1989-1990.
Folder 9 Correspondence, 1991.
Folder 10 Correspondence, 1992-1995.