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Collection Number: 03129

Collection Title: University of North Carolina Miscellaneous Personal Papers, 1802-1976

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Size 3.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2200 items)
Abstract The University of North Carolina is the nation's oldest public institution of higher learning, chartered in 1789 and opened for instruction in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1795. The collection includes miscellaneous letters from students, student autograph albums, notes made by students of lectures by professors, other student notebooks, and other items relating to the University of North Carolina. There are about twelve letters, 1828-1882, dealing with student life and other matters. The ten albums, 1852-1862, sometimes include brief biographical information on students. The notes, chiefly for the 1890s, relate to engineering, chemistry, anatomy, philosophy, and other subjects, and include an apparently unauthorized "study aid," 1846. Other items include humorous and scatological poems; records, 1894-1898, of the University of North Carolina chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity; and about 2100 pieces of correspondence, 1924-1961, of members of the faculty of the University's Department of History, consisting chiefly of carbon copies of outgoing letters about academic matters. The correspondents include Wallace E. Caldwell, James L. Godfrey, Fletcher M. Green, Cecil S. Johnson, Hugh T. Lefler, Loren C. MacKinney, Carl H. Pegg, J. Carlyle Sitterson, and H. M. Wagstaff.
Curatorial Unit Southern Historical Collection
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the University of North Carolina Miscellaneous Personal Papers #3129, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Gifts, 1956-1993.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Staff, 1993

Encoded by: Peter Hymas, January 2005

Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the encoding of this finding aid.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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The University of North Carolina is the nation's oldest public institution of higher learning, chartered in 1789 and opened for instruction in Chapel Hill, N.C. in 1795.

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The collection includes miscellaneous letters from students, student autograph albums, notes made by students of lectures by professors, other student notebooks, and other items relating to the University of North Carolina. There are about twelve letters, 1828-1882, dealing with student life and other matters. The ten albums, 1852-1862, sometimes include brief biographical information on students. The notes, chiefly for the 1890s, relate to engineering, chemistry, anatomy, philosophy, and other subjects, and include an apparently unauthorized "study aid," 1846. Other items include humorous and scatological poems; records, 1894-1898, of the University of North Carolina chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity; and about 2100 pieces of correspondence, 1924-1961, of members of the faculty of the University of North Carolina Department of History, consisting chiefly of carbon copies of outgoing letters about academic matters. The correspondents include Wallace E. Caldwell, James L. Godfrey, Fletcher M. Green, Cecil S. Johnson, Hugh T. Lefler, Loren C. MacKinney, Carl H. Pegg, J. Carlyle Sitterson, and H. M. Wagstaff.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Student Papers and University of North Carolina Ephemera, 1802-1976.

About 50 items.

Single items, chiefly from the 19th century, related to the University of North Carolina, but not part of the University Archives, including students' letters, lecture notes, autograph albums, pictures, and other items.

Folder 1a-1c

Student notebooks, 1897-1899

Owned by University of North Carolina student Frances William Coker, containing notes on philosophy and psychology lectures given by Professor Horace Williams.

Folder 2

Programs and souvenirs from the installation of Queen Mother Elizabeth as Chancellor of the University of London, 24 November 1955

Folder 3

Letter and review, 1961

Letter from B. L. Ullman to A. N. L. Munby concerning Munby's review of the book Incunabula in the Hanes Collection of the Library of University of North Carolina and the typed review.

Folder 4

University of North Carolina commencement invitation, 1853

Folder 5

Student letters, poems, and essays, 1802-1948

Digital version: Letter from Samuel R. Blake to Thomas Blake, 23 September, 1831

Documenting the American South

Digital version: Letter from Joshua Perry to Jeremiah Perry, 18 May 1839

Documenting the American South

Digital version: Letter from Preston H. Sessoms to Penelope E. White, 27 September 1861

Documenting the American South

Folder 6

Chapel Hill Speaks on the Bicentennial pamphlet, 1976

Collection of addresses delivered at the University of North Carolina on the ocassion of its commemoration of the United States bicentennial.

Folder 7

Autograph album, 1860-1861

Owned by University of North Carolina student Samuel Wiley Gray, containing autographs, birthdays, club memberships, and vocational choices of classmates.

Folder 8

Autograph album, 1858

Owned by University of North Carolina student John Decatur Barry, containing autographs, birthdays, club memberships, and vocational choices of classmates.

Folder 9

Autograph album, 1859-1861

Owned by University of North Carolina student George P. Bass, containing autographs, birthdays, club memberships, and vocational choices of classmates.

Folder 10

Autograph album, 1860-1862

Owned by University of North Carolina student Daniel Henry March, containing autographs, birthdays, club memberships, and vocational choices of classmates.

Folder 11

Autograph album, 1859-1860

Owned by University of North Carolina student James McKimmon, containing autographs, birthdays, club memberships, and vocational choices of classmates.

Folder 12

Autograph album, 1859-1860

Owned by University of North Carolina student Joseph Trolinger Bason, containing autographs, birthdays, club memberships, and vocational choices of classmates.

Folder 13

Autograph album, 1861-1863

Owned by University of North Carolina student Stanley Morehead Riggsbee, containing autographs, birthdays, club memberships, and vocational choices of classmates.

Folder 14

Autograph album, 1852

Owned by University of North Carolina student Charles Shepard Bryan, containing autographs, birthdays, club memberships, and vocational choices of classmates.

Folder 15

Autograph album, 1859-1862

Owned by University of North Carolina student Thomas Badger, containing autographs, birthdays, club memberships, and vocational choices of classmates.

Folder 16

Autograph album, 1856-1861

Owned by University of North Carolina student John Martin Fleming, containing autographs, birthdays, club memberships, and vocational choices of classmates.

Folder 17

Student notebook, 1846

Titled "The Freshman's Friend: A Translation To Xenophon's Memorabilia," this notebook appears to be an unauthorized study aid for students facing examinations based on Xenophon's Greek text.

Folder 18

Student notebook, 1884

Contains notes on teaching methods and names of professors instructing at the Summer Normal School at Chapel Hill.

Folder 19

Student notebook, 1894

Owned by University of North Carolina student Eugene Denson, containing notes on 23 anatomy lectures.

Folder 20

Student notebook, 1906-1907

Owned by University of North Carolina student E. B. Jeffress, containing his field notes for land surveys on the University of North Carolina campus.

Folder 21

Autograph album, 1859

Owned by unknown University of North Carolina student, containing autographs, birthdays, club memberships, and vocational choices of classmates.

Folder 22

Student notebook, 1894-1898

Treasurer's ledger of the University of North Carolina fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, concerning fraternity member expenses.

Folder 23

Student notebook, 1894-1897

Minutes of the University of North Carolina fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, as recorded by the secretary.

Folder 24

Student notebook, [1896-1900?]

Owned by University of North Carolina student Claude Baker Denson, containing notes on chemistry lectures.

Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-3129/1

Class of 1888; Phi Gamma Delta group photo

Acquisitions Information: Received on deposit from W. E. Smith, Albebmarle, N.C., February 1957

Robert Lee Smith, class of 1888, was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.

Image Folder PF-3129/1

Class of 1888; Phi Gamma Delta group photo (reproductions)

Audiocassette C-3129/1

University of North Carolina, "Bicentennial Addresses"

Audiocassette

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About 2100 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Personal and professional correspondence of University of North Carolina history professors consisting chiefly of carbons of outgoing letters typed by departmental secretaries. Most of the letters concern civic activities, publications, and routine academic matters. Correspondents are chiefly colleagues at other colleges and universities.

Folder 25-61

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Folder 61

Caldwell, Wallace E., 1947-1959 and undated

Folder 62-63

Folder 62

Folder 63

Godfrey, James L., 1948-1950

Folder 64-92

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Green, Fletcher M., 1949-1961

Folder 93

Johnson, Cecil S., 1950-1961

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Folder 104

Lefler, Hugh T., 1949-1961 and undated

Folder 105

MacKinney, Loren C., 1955-1960 and undated

Folder 106-109

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Folder 109

Pegg, Carl H., 1952-1960

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Folder 111

Sitterson, J. Carlyle, 1950-1957

Folder 112-118

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Folder 118

Wagstaff, H. M., 1924-1945

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Photographs (PF-3129/1, OP-PF-3129/1)

Audiocassette (C-3129/1)

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