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                         RECORDS OF THE
                    ACADEMIC AFFAIRS LIBRARY
                      RARE BOOK COLLECTION

                             in the

             University Archives and Records Service
           University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
                    Wilson Library, CB# 3926
                   Chapel Hill, North Carolina
                           27514-8890


                             Revised
                              02/85
                              08/86

     The Rare Book Collection of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill has its origins in the Hanes family's 1929 gift of
a significant collection of incunabula.  At the time of the gift
Frederic M. Hanes announced that he and other members of his
family would continue to support the growth of a collection that
would include examples of the origin and development of the book. 
Hanes also said he thought the University should provide an
appropriate setting for such a collection.  The Great Depression
and World War II intervened, however, and it was not until the
completion in 1952 of an addition to the Library that the
University was able to establish its Rare Book Room, now called
the Rare Book Collection.

     When the Rare Book Room opened in 1952, it was one of the 
administrative responsibilities of the Associate Librarian, who
administered it with the assistance of a part-time librarian and
a research assistant.  The first full-time Curator was appointed
in 1959.  The names of the Curators of the Collection and their
tenures are listed below.

     Lawrence Foushee London          1959-1975
     Paul S. Koda                     1975-1984
     Roberta Engleman, Acting         1984-1985
     Charles McNamara                 1986-

     The Records of the Rare Book Collection contain corres-
pondence, memoranda, gift records, and clippings.  Most of the
correspondence and memoranda deal with acquisitions for the
Collection.  There is considerable correspondence with the Hanes
family, William Henry Hoyt, William Asbury Whitaker, and other
donors to the Collection.

     Additional information on the Collection will be found in
the Records of the Office of the University Librarian in the
University Archives.

Box 1:
     Administrative Memoranda, Inter-office Correspondence, and
          News Releases, 1952-1961; undated
     Book Auctions, 1929-1930
     Bookplates (samples), undated
     Bryan Collection, 1925; 1933-1935; 1941-1942; 1956-1957
     Childers, James Saxon, 1946-1948; 1951-1952
     Correspondence, 1929-1930; 1936; 1938-1972

Box 2:
     Correspondence, 1973-1979
     Donors, Biographical Sketches of, undated
     Emmett, Burton:
          Collection, 1950-1954
          Graphic Arts Collection, 1954
     Furnishings, 1951-1961
     Gift Books (lists; arranged by donor), 1935-1936; 1959;
          1972-1974; undated
     Gift Slips (arranged by donor), 1946-1957
          (See also specific donors listed individually)
     Hanes Family Gifts:
               (See also Hunter Incunabula)
          Bookplate, 1929-1930; undated
          Correspondence, General, 1928-1979; undated
          Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and
               Development of the Book, 1928-1978
          Printed Material, 1957; undated
     Harrisse, Henry, Collection, 1959
     Hayne Collection, 1926-1928; 1944; 1976
     Henderson, Archibald:
          American Drama Collection, 1929-1939; undated
          Shaw, George Bernard, Collection:
               Correspondence, 1946-1956; 1959-1964; 1975-1976; 
                    undated
               Gift Slips and Records, 1946-1959
               Henderson Lecture on Shaw (Nov. 15, 1956),
                    1956-1957 (includes related correspondence
                    and other material)
               Tax Statements, 1955-1960

Box 3:
     History of the Book, WUNC-TV, 1946-1947?
     Holt, Roland, Collection on American Theater, 1936
     Hoyt, William Henry:
          Bequest, 1957-1960
          Correspondence, 1944; 1952-1957
          Gift Slips, 1953-1955
          Photos, undated
          Printed Material and Memoranda, 1954-1957; 1977;
               undated
     Hunter Incunabula:
               (See also Hanes Family Gifts)
          Correspondence, 1927-1938
          Inventories, undated
     Incunabula in the Hanes Collection, 1940-1947
     Martinus Nijhoff, 1929-1930; 1933
     Paine, Gregory L., 1952-1953; undated
     Papyri, 1930-1931
     Poliphilus, 1930
     Publicity and News Releases, 1929-1952; 1980; undated
     The Shedd Collection of Aphorisms, 1942-1957
     Special Collections Plans and Goals, 1962; 1971; 1973
     Tannenbaum Shakespeare Collection:
          General, 1947-1951; 1953
          Dorothy R. Tannenbaum, 1950-1956
     Want List, 1962; 1973; undated
     Weil Family Gifts:
          General, 1949-1979 (scattered dates)
          Abram Weil, 1957-1958
          Mrs. Leslie Weil, 1950-1954
          Mrs. Lionel Weil, 1949
          Lionel Weil, 1927-1949
          Ruth Weil Memorial, [1947]
          Weil Lectures, 1949-1957
     Whitaker, William A.:
          Correspondence, 1946-1960
          Dickens Collection, 1949-1955; 1958
          Foundation Library Fund, 1960-1977
          Gift Slips, 1946-1956
          Johnson-Boswell Collection, 1948-1952; 1956
          Legal Documents (including will), 1957; 1959-1961;
               undated
          Shakespeare Collection, 1947; 1950
               (See also Tannenbaum Shakespeare Collection,
               above)
          Tannenbaum Collection, 1948-1949
     Wilmer Collection of Civil War Fiction, 1945-1949; 1953;
          1957
     Yale University Babylonian Collection, 1929-1930