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[Identification of item], in the Manly Wade Wellman Letters, #3948-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Manly Wade Wellman of Chapel Hill, N.C., June 1972.

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• Catholic Church--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Graves, Andrew V.
• Madison County (N.C.)--Religion.
• Wellman, Manly Wade, 1903-1986.

Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986) was an author best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains. He was born in Angola, where his father was a physician at a British medical outpost. He later moved to the United States and was educated at Wichita Municipal University (now Wichita State University) in Kansas and Columbia Univeristy. Wellman served as lieutenant in World War II, after which he moved to Pine Bluff, N.C. He relocated to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1951 and received the Edgar Allen Poe Award for nonfiction in 1955.

The collection includes letters, 1972, to Manly Wade Wellman from the Reverend Andrew V. Graves of Hot Springs, N.C., concerning the history of the Catholic Church in Madison County, N.C., in the 1920s and 1930s. The account mentions Bessie Rumbough Johnson Safford (1857-1929), owner of the Hot Springs property that was later deeded to the Jesuits for a house of study, and Father Lawrence L. Toups, who was resident missionary until 1937.