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Bernice Kelly Harris Papers, 1913-1973, 1996-1997

Title: Bernice Kelly Harris Papers, 1913-1973, 1996-1997

Bernice Kelly Harris (1891-1973) was an author and playwright, largely on southern topics, and leader in civic, cultural, and religious organizations of Seaboard, N.C. She participated in the W.P.A. Federal Writers' Project, collecting of ordinary people in the South. life histories The collection includes correspondence and writings of Bernice Kelly (Mrs. H. K.) Harris including letters from editors, publishers, other writers, and friends; fan mail; and writings. Correspondents include J. O. Bailey, W. T. Couch, Jonathan Daniels, Inglis Fletcher, L. H. Fountain, Harry Golden, Bernadette Hoyle, Sam Ragan, Thad Stem, Gilbert Thomas Stephenson, and Richard Gaither Walser. Also included are seventeen interviews conducted by Valerie Yow in 1996 and 1997 with relatives and friends of Bernice Kelly Harris.

ArchivalResource: 8,000; 11.0

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Photographic Services. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Photographic Services photographs, 1976-2003.

Title: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Photographic Services photographs, 1976-2003.

The collection dates from 1976 to 2003 and consists of still images taken by Photographic Services employees, primarily documenting Library-related events and functions. Events depicted include conferences, meetings, North Caroliniana Society dinners, meetings of the North Carolina Writers Conference, awards banquets, visitors, staff retirement parties, and student protests. Many of the images include persons of national or local significance, especially authors. Some studio portraits of individuals (students and faculty) are also included.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2500 items.

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Bayes, Ronald H., 1932-. Ronald H. Bayes papers, 1909-1999 (bulk 1969-1998) [manuscript].

Title: Ronald H. Bayes papers, 1909-1999 (bulk 1969-1998) [manuscript].

Correspondence, writings, and other materials, chiefly documenting Ronald H. Bayes's career as writer, editor, and college teacher. Cochran family correspondence includes letters exchanged by Cochran and Nessly family members, some in Oregon, chiefly about family news. There are also letters, mostly 1969-1972, from poets, Bayes's former students, editors, publishers, professors, friends, and politicians. Several of the letters have poems attached or included in the text. Correspondents include Carolyn Kizer, Dick Bakken, James Laughlin, Sam Ragan, Jo Slatton, Bill Butler, and Fred Parrott. Writings by Bayes, 1948-1999, are poetry chapbook manuscripts, single poems, book reviews, and a few plays and short stories. There are also writings edited by Bayes and writings by others, including poems submitted to Bayes for publication, a play by Romulus Linney, and short stories by Bill Butler. Collected publications include published anthologies and journals, most with contributions from Bayes; a few books, including several relating to Erza Pound; and a few newsletters. Also included are materials relating to the "St. Andrews Review," the St. Andrews Press, the St. Andrews Writers Forum, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, and other topics; printed promotional materials, most relating to Bayes's career; clippings, some containing Bayes's writings; photographs; and a few audiotapes of Bayes at various speaking engagements.

ArchivalResource: 6,000 items (9.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44528173 View

Paul Jones Papers (#4787) 1978-2000s

Title: Paul Jones Papers (#4787) 1978-2000s

Paul Jones was born in Hickory, N.C., on 5 February 1950. He received his M.F.A in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1993. Since high school, Jones has followed a dual career path in computers and poetry. From 1977 to 1996, Jones worked for the Office of Information Technology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1992, he was instrumental in creating SunSITE, a major Internet server and digital library. One of Jones's special interests has been establishing the Internet Poetry Archive. In 1996, Jones moved to the University of Virginia. Jones was director of the Poets Exchange at the ArtSchool in Carrboro, N.C.; on the founding board for the North Carolina Writers' Network; and, in 1990, Jones won the Harperprints Poetry Chapbook competition award from the North Carolina Writers' Network for his chapbook The collection contains correspondence and related materials, ca. 1980-1994, including letters to and from poets and other literary figures. Some of the letters include copies of correspondents' writings. Writings by Jones are chiefly poems, including several drafts of Also included are a few essays, some written for graduate school classes at Warren Wilson College. There are also letters and writings of others who were Jones's classmates at Warren Wilson. ArtSchool materials relate to Jones's position as director of the Poetry Exchange. These include newspaper articles, publicity posters, and correspondence from poets who participated in ArtSchool readings over the course of Jones's tenure and audio tapes of poetry readings. North Carolina Writers' Network materials deal with the founding of the Network and Jones's tenure as president. SunSITE materials include items relating to the introduction of SunSITE and to the Internet Poetry Archive. Also included are poems by members of a poetry group and materials relating to writers' conferences Jones attended. What the Welsh and Chinese Have in Common. What the Welsh and Chinese Have In Common.

ArchivalResource: About 1300 items (18.0 linear feet)

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Buckner, Sally. Sally Buckner papers, 1963-2004.

Title: Sally Buckner papers, 1963-2004.

Correspondence, materials relating to Buckner's editorial work, writings, materials documenting teaching and other literary activities, and other items. Correspondence is primarily with writers--among them Betty Adcock, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Ruth Moose, Sam Ragan, and Shelby Stephenson--but there are also letters from editors, educators, friends, and political figures. Editorial files relate to the anthologies "Words and Witness: 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry" (1995) and "Our Words, Our Ways: Reading and Writing in North Carolina" (1999). Also included are published and unpublished writings; teaching materials relating to creative writing courses for college, high school, and middle school students; materials documenting her work with the North Carolina Poetry Society, the International Poetry Festival, and the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame; photographs of Buckner and her family; and other items.

ArchivalResource: About 8000 items (10.0 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70581910 View

Yoder, Edwin M. (Edwin Milton), 1934-. Edwin M. Yoder papers, 1945-1998.

Title: Edwin M. Yoder papers, 1945-1998.

Correspondence, columns, and other materials of Edwin Yoder. Professional correspondence consists of letters from readers, colleagues, and others. Personal correspondence is primarily of friends he made while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Correspondents include Eve Auchincloss, William F. Buckley, Jr., Virginius Dabney, Jonathan Daniels, John Ehle, Joel L. Fleishman, William Frankel, William C. Friday, Charles Kuralt, Tony Lewis, Willie Morris, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Sam Ragan, John Shelton Reed, James Reston, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Tom Wicker, George Will, Louis Round Wilson, and C. Vann Woodward. Writings include speeches, articles and essays, book manuscripts, book reviews, diaries, journals, columns, and editorials. Most are columns and editorials were written for the Washington Post Writers Group, 1982-1996. Topics include social conditions in the South, judicial power, and 20th-century journalism. There are also writings by others, including reviews of Yoder's books; notes and newspaper clippings in subject files; conference and professional association materials; items from Yoder's teaching career before Washington and Lee University; college materials; biographical and genealogical information; financial and other items relating to the Washington Post Writers Group; personal financial records; drawings by Yoder; photographs of Yoder and others; and videocassettes of television programs in which Yoder appeared.

ArchivalResource: About 20,000 items (33.0 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44430383 View

Wilder, Roy. Roy Wilder papers, 1944-2006.

Title: Roy Wilder papers, 1944-2006.

The collection contains subject files, correspondence, and other items relating to Roy Wilder Jr. The subject files were compiled by Wilder and address a wide range of topics, including southern food and jokes, moonshine, Joseph Mitchell, author Glen Rounds, and wartime reporting. Correspondence is chiefly with Wilder's family, friends, and acquaintances, including Burke Davis, John Dos Passos, John Ehle, Larry Lesueur, Sam Ragan, Terry Sanford, and Robert Walter Scott. Also included are photographs of Wilder and friends, an audiocassette of a 1996 tribute to Joseph Mitchell, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: About 5000 items (16.0 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/316805559 View

Moose, Ruth. Ruth Moose papers, 1960s-2000 [manuscript].

Title: Ruth Moose papers, 1960s-2000 [manuscript].

Materials include drafts and published versions of poems, short stories, book reviews, and essays; correspondence; clippings; professional activities files; and collected material. Writings comprise the bulk of the collection. Correspondents include Charles Edward Eaton, Jean Burden, Doris Betts, John Nichols, John Ciardi, Clyde Edgerton, Marianne Gingher, Fred Chappell, Donald Hall, Sam Ragan, Maxine Kumin, and Susan Ludvigson. Clippings are chiefly reviews of Moose's work and interviews with her. Professional activities files contain materials relating to her education, grant applications, workshops and conferences, readings, and book signings. Collected material includes copies and reviews of fellow writers' works. There are also miscellaneous materials relating to Talmadge Moose.

ArchivalResource: 4,500 items (18.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40911132 View

George P. Garrett Papers, 1929-2008, (bulk 1960-2000)

Title: George P. Garrett Papers, 1929-2008 (bulk 1960-2000)

George P. Garrett (1929-2008) was a poet, editor, author, and professor of English. The papers of George P. Garrett span the years 1929 to 2000 with the bulk of the material being dated between 1960 and 1990. The papers were initially collected and assembled by author, bibliographer, and publisher Stuart T. Wright. Wright published a number of Garrett's works at his Palaemon Press and also assembled the Stuart Wright Bibliographic Collection of George Garrett (see related materials held by the Rubenstein Library). Additional materials were received by the Library directly from George Garrett. The papers document Garrett's literary career as an author of novels, short stories, poetry, and dramatic works (including filmscripts) and the tremendous influence he had as an English professor and an editor on an entire generation of writers, particularly in the South. Correspondence with numerous authors, publishers, and educators offers much information about the history of 20th-century Southern literature, publishing, and literary education. The collection is divided into the Writings Series (with subseries of Writings by Garrett, Writings Edited by Garrett, Writings by Others, and Proofs); the Correspondence Series (with 5 subseries of alphabetically and chronologically arranged correspondence); the Audiovisual Material Series; and the Miscellaneous Papers Series.

ArchivalResource: 268 Linear Feet; 177,929 Items

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Will Inman Papers, 1910-2009

Title: Will Inman Papers, 1910-2009

ArchivalResource: 69.5 Linear Feet; 42,754 Items

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Powell, Dannye Romine. Dannye Romine Powell papers, 1975-1999.

Title: Dannye Romine Powell papers, 1975-1999.

Correspondence, legal documents, clippings, and other materials relating to Dannye Romine Powell's tenure as book editor and columnist at the "Charlotte Observer," as well as her work as an author and poet. Much of the correspondence is from North Carolina writers. Correspondents include novelists Doris Betts, Lee Smith, Gail Godwin, Kaye Gibbons, Reynolds Price, Simmons Jones, Josephine Humphreys, Fred Chappell, Lawrence Naumoff, Sue Ellen Bridgers, Louise Shivers, Jonellen Heckler, Mignon Ballard, and Shelby Hearon; poets Ruth Moose, Charles Edward Eaton, Sam Ragan, Mary Kratt, and Harriet Doar; and "Charlotte Observer" editors. Other letters are from readers commenting on Powell's "Charlotte Observer" articles or are from "Charlotte Observer" book reviewers. Also included are letters and other papers relating to Powell's 5 July 1987 "Charlotte Observer" article about adult children of alcoholics and to her 26 June 1999 "Parade" magazine article about Kay Smith, AKA Pamela Rodgers, who escaped from a Columbia, S.C., prison in 1978 and started a new life in Maryland before being recaptured in 1988.

ArchivalResource: About 2200 items (4.5 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58565228 View

Reeves, Jay. [North Carolina authors literary ephemera : R].

Title: [North Carolina authors literary ephemera : R].

ArchivalResource: Items in box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48382949 View

Shelby Stephenson Papers, 1965-2007

Title: Shelby Stephenson Papers, 1965-2007

Shelby Stephenson (1938- ) is a poet; professor of literature and creative writing at Campbell College (now University), Buies Creek, N.C., 1974-1978, and at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (formerly Pembroke State University) after 1978; and editor of beginning in 1979. Pembroke Magazine The collection includes personal and professional correspondence of Shelby Stephenson; files relating to " , North Carolina arts organizations, and Stephenson's academic career; and many writings by Stephenson, both poetry and prose. Included is correspondence with local, national, and international poets, novelists, editors, and publishers, including A. R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, Norman Macleod, Guy Owen, and Paul Green. There is also some correspondence with friends and relatives. materials include correspondence with contributors and issue files. Also included are files relating to North Carolina arts organizations with which Stephenson was involved, including the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, the North Carolina Writers Network, the North Carolina Poetry Society, and the Friends of Weymouth. There is also some material relating to Stephenson's academic career, especially at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (formerly Pembroke State University). Included are teaching materials and other items. Stephenson's writings include many drafts of poems, manuscripts of several books of poetry, and essays and book reviews. There are also biographical materials and bibliographies of Stephenson's writings. Pembroke Magazine Pembroke Magazine

ArchivalResource: 120,050; 196

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Gilbert, Marie. Marie Gilbert papers, 1944-2009.

Title: Marie Gilbert papers, 1944-2009.

The collection contains correspondence, writings, and other materials related to Marie Gilbert's family life and to her career as a poet. The bulk of the correspondence is between Gilbert and her husband Richard A. Gilbert while he was stationed overseas during the Korean War. There are also letters relating to other Gilbert family members. Also included are drafts of Gilbert's books, poems, and essays as well as reviews and promotional materials related to Gilbert's published works. Other items include teaching materials, information on workshops taught and attended by Gilbert and her academic residency at Saint Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, N.C., audiocassette recordings featuring Marie Gilbert, and research notes. There are also some records of the North Carolina Poetry Society, including meeting notes, newspaper clippings, program brochures, and promotional material for the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series. Some scattered materials relate to other poets, including Sam Ragan, Fred Chappell, and Ronald Bayes.

ArchivalResource: About 850 items (6.0 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/707103710 View

Morgan, S. L. (Samuel Lewis), 1871-1972. S.L. Morgan papers, 1895-1970 [manuscript].

Title: S.L. Morgan papers, 1895-1970 [manuscript].

The collection includes correspondence and writings of Samuel Lewis Morgan. The correspondence consists chiefly of copies of Morgan's letters to friends, family members, Baptist ministers, editors, and readers of his writings, written during the 1950s and 1960s when Morgan was in his eighties and nineties. Most letters are of a personal nature, relating to Morgan's family, his ministerial activities, and his reading and writings. Scattered letters to businessmen, senators, and presidents concern requests for information, reponses to published articles, and calls for action on various social issues from "immoral movie houses" in the 1920s to civil rights in the 1960s. Major correspondents include William Louis Poteat, John Morgan, James I. Miller, William W. Finlator, Edwin McNeill Poteat, Jr., Willis Richard Cullom, John W. Kincheloe, Charles E. Maddry, J. Marse Grant, Samuel Talmadge Ragan, Charles Bennett Deane, Thomas J. Lassiter, Jr., Eugene Norfleet Gardner, Hubert P. Warden, Rexford Squires, and LaReine Warden Clayton. Most of the remaining papers are writings of some type, including a fifty-year, twenty-five-hundred-page "journalistic" diary, nearly two thousand clippings of articles, several hundred sermons and other addresses, and other items. The topics of Morgan's writings include pastoral ministry, Scripture, Baptist doctrine, women's roles, death and dying, stories of inspiration, and men and women whom Morgan had known and admired.

ArchivalResource: About 15700 items (14.0 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25723823 View

Stem, Thad. Thad Stem papers, 1939-1984.

Title: Thad Stem papers, 1939-1984.

Correspondence and literary materials of Thad Stem. There is substantial correspondence with Jonathan Daniels, Paul Green, Bernice Kelly Harris, Hiram Haydn, and Sam Ragan as well as letters from family members, friends, fans, and editors. Writings include typescript drafts and proofs of Stem's books; drafts of editorials, short stories, poems, and other shorter writing by Stem; and drafts of an unpublished novel. Scrapbooks contain letters to Stem, photographs, clippings, and other memorabilia. Also included are notes, printed materials, and photographs of Stem.

ArchivalResource: About 11200 items (14.0 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71203526 View

America's Four Hundredth Anniversary photographs and related materials, 1984-1987 (bulk 1987).

Title: America's Four Hundredth Anniversary photographs and related materials, 1984-1987 (bulk 1987).

The collection contains photographs and printed material documenting the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the late-16th-century English voyages to Roanoke Island, N.C. Photographs document events at the Fort Raleigh and Elizabeth II state historic sites in Dare County, N.C., as well as a ceremony in Plymouth, England. People appearing in the photographs include journalists Sam Ragan, North Carolina governors James B. Hunt and James G. Martin, and Princess Anne of Great Britain.

ArchivalResource: 223 items (0.25 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43034510 View

Guy Owen Papers (#4287), 1951-1981

Title: Guy Owen Papers (#4287) 1951-1981

Guy Owen (1925- ), novelist, poet, literary critic, editor, and professor of English at North Carolina State University. The collection includes writings, research material, correspondence, subject files, and other papers. More than half of the collection consists of material produced Owen during writing projects, including handwritten or typed drafts of novels, short stories, poems, and articles. Many of the drafts were never published. Correspondence, chiefly professional in nature, subject files, news clippings about Owen and his work, photographs, audiotapes comprise the rest of the collection.

ArchivalResource: About 3400 items (15.0 linear feet)

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Norval Neil Luxon Papers, circa 1930-1989

Title: Norval Neil Luxon Papers, circa 1930-1989

Norval Neil Luxon (1899-1989) was a journalist, professor of journalism, and Dean of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1953-1964. Born in London, Ohio, he served in the Navy, 1917-1919, before earning a B.S. in journalism (1923) and M.A. in history (1931) from Ohio State University and Ph.D. in history (1940) from UCLA. Luxon held a variety of editorial posts on several newspapers and taught journalism and served in administrative capacities at Ohio State until 1953, when he was appointed Dean of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina. As a member of several national journalism organizations, Luxon wrote and spoke widely on the importance of maintaining high standards in journalism education and of a solid background in the humanities to practicing journalists. Luxon was married to Ermina Munn in 1928, and the couple had one son, Norval Neil Luxon Jr. Luxon died in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1989. The collection includes correspondence chiefly between Norval Neil Luxon and other journalists, newspaper editors, deans of journalism schools, and faculty and administrators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also included are speeches and lectures given by Luxon; teaching and other materials from Luxon's tenure at Ohio State and the University of North Carolina; clippings; materials related to Luxon's graduate work at UCLA and his dissertation on the history of the ; books and other publications related to journalism and journalism education; correspondence and other materials belonging to his wife, Ermina Luxon, that document life in Chapel Hill, N.C., and the Munn family of Ohio; story boards and other materials related to television advertising for the ice cream division of the Walter M. Lowney Company (relation of these materials to other materials in the collection is unclear); and other items. Correspondents include Edward W. Barrett, Herbert Brucker, Chilton Rowlette Bush, Ralph D. Casey, Clifton Daniel, Earl English, Mark F. Ethridge, William C. Friday, Gail Godwin, Gordon Gray, Gerald W. Johnson, Bernard Kilgore, W. M. Kiplinger, A. H. Kirchhofer, Holt McPherson, Frank Luther Mott, Ralph O. Nafzinger, Sam Ragan, James Reston, Vermont Royster, and J. Carlyle Sitterson, among many others. Niles' Weekly Register

ArchivalResource: 15.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 12,800 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04585/ View

Ragan, Sam, 1915-1996. Sam Ragan papers, 1950-1996.

Title: Sam Ragan papers, 1950-1996.

Papers document Sam Ragan's career as a journalist and his role as patron of the arts in North Carolina. Correspondence files include materials relating to newspaper organizations, the North Carolina Arts Council, North Carolina Writers' Conference, North Carolina Writers' Network, and the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities. Subject files include information about the Freedom of Information Act and on the Free Press-Fair Trial confrontation of 1968, along with correspondence from various North Carolina writers. Writings include materials regarding Ragan's "The Tree in the Far Pasture" (Blair, 1964), typescripts of commentaries from "Sam Ragan Reports," which aired on WTVD television in Durham, and drafts of works by other writers. There are also materials relating to Ragan's tenure at the "News and Observer," typescripts of the columns, and letters to the editor used on the editorial page of "The Pilot." Financial information chiefly relates to the "The Pilot." Also included are photographs of Sam Ragan alone and with others and recordings of North Carolina Writers' Conference banquet dinners. Selected correspondents are listed in this record.

ArchivalResource: About 32600 items (51.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31069844 View

Fred Chappell papers, 1944-2013 and undated

Title: Fred Chappell papers, 1944-2013 and undated

ArchivalResource: 141.4 Linear Feet; 102,625 Items

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Paul Jones Papers (#4787) 1978-2000s

Title: Paul Jones Papers (#4787) 1978-2000s

Paul Jones was born in Hickory, N.C., on 5 February 1950. He received his M.F.A in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1993. Since high school, Jones has followed a dual career path in computers and poetry. From 1977 to 1996, Jones worked for the Office of Information Technology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1992, he was instrumental in creating SunSITE, a major Internet server and digital library. One of Jones's special interests has been establishing the Internet Poetry Archive. In 1996, Jones moved to the University of Virginia. Jones was director of the Poets Exchange at the ArtSchool in Carrboro, N.C.; on the founding board for the North Carolina Writers' Network; and, in 1990, Jones won the Harperprints Poetry Chapbook competition award from the North Carolina Writers' Network for his chapbook The collection contains correspondence and related materials, ca. 1980-1994, including letters to and from poets and other literary figures. Some of the letters include copies of correspondents' writings. Writings by Jones are chiefly poems, including several drafts of Also included are a few essays, some written for graduate school classes at Warren Wilson College. There are also letters and writings of others who were Jones's classmates at Warren Wilson. ArtSchool materials relate to Jones's position as director of the Poetry Exchange. These include newspaper articles, publicity posters, and correspondence from poets who participated in ArtSchool readings over the course of Jones's tenure and audio tapes of poetry readings. North Carolina Writers' Network materials deal with the founding of the Network and Jones's tenure as president. SunSITE materials include items relating to the introduction of SunSITE and to the Internet Poetry Archive. Also included are poems by members of a poetry group and materials relating to writers' conferences Jones attended. What the Welsh and Chinese Have in Common. What the Welsh and Chinese Have In Common.

ArchivalResource: About 1300 items (18.0 linear feet)

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Hugh Morton Photographs and Films, late 1920s-2006, (bulk 1940s-1990s)

Title: Hugh Morton Photographs and Films, late 1920s-2006 (bulk1940s-1990s)

Hugh MacRae Morton (1921-2006) was aprominent North Carolina businessman, political figure, tourism booster,conservationist, environmental activist, sports fan, and prolificimage-maker. The still images and motion pictures in the collectioncover Morton's career of eight decades, 1930s-2000s, and document his variedinvolvements as a photojournalist; a soldier in the Pacific Theater during World WarII; the owner and operator of the Grandfather Mountain tourist attraction inLinville, N.C.; a promoter of travel and tourism in North Carolina and the SmokyMountains region; a well-known figure in state government and friend of many NorthCarolina politicians, entertainers, and media; a student, booster, and frequentsports-event attendee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and anardent admirer of nature.

ArchivalResource: 100.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 250,000 items)

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Richard Gaither Walser Papers, 1918-1988

Title: Richard Gaither Walser Papers, 1918-1988

Richard Gaither Walser (1908-1988) was a professor of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and author of numerous works, chiefly relating to North Carolina's literary heritage. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other materials chiefly relating to North Carolina' literary heritage. Files on individual authors and literary subjects dominate, with special emphasis on the life and works of Thomas Wolfe. Other authors represented in the collection include Doris Betts, Helen Bevington, James Boyd, Richard Chase, Jonathan Daniels, Wilma Dykeman, Charles Edward Eaton, John Ehle, Paul Green, Bernice Kelly Harris, George Moses Horton, Gerald W. Johnson, Frederick H. Koch, Guy Owen, Robert C. Ruark, Wilbur D. Steele, Hardin E. Taliaferro, and Jonathan Williams. There is also material on North Carolina folklore and other topics not directly connected to literature. A small number of items relate to Walser's life as a student at the University of North Carolina and to his service with the United States Naval Reserve during World War II.

ArchivalResource: About 27,800 items (32.5 linear feet)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04168/ View

Harris, Bernice Kelly, 1892-1973. Bernice Kelly Harris papers, 1913-1973, 1996-1997.

Title: Bernice Kelly Harris papers, 1913-1973, 1996-1997.

Correspondence and writings of Bernice Kelly (Mrs. H. K.) Harris, including letters from editors, publishers, other writers, and friends; fan mail; and writings. Correspondents include J. O. Bailey, W. T. Couch, Jonathan Daniels, Inglis Fletcher, L. H. Fountain, Harry Golden, Bernadette Hoyle, Sam Ragan, Thad Stem, Gilbert Thomas Stephenson, and Richard Gaither Walser. Also included are 17 interviews conducted by Valerie Yow in 1996 and 1997 with relatives and friends of Bernice Kelly Harris.

ArchivalResource: About 8000 items (11.0 lnear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25507472 View