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Medley, Mary Louise. [Scrapbook of North Carolina Society of County Historians]

Title: [Scrapbook of North Carolina Society of County Historians] [1951]

ArchivalResource: [40] leaves : ill., 25 photos., ports. ; 38 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/432314254 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

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/s/Stephenson,Shelby.html View

Paul Green Papers, 1880-1992

Title: Paul Green Papers, 1880-1992

Paul Eliot Green (1894-1981) of Chapel Hill, N.C., was an author, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, and humanitarian. This collection contains material documenting many facets of Green's life and work, material relating to the life and work of his wife, Elizabeth Lay Green, and numerous items relating to members of the Greens' immediate and extended family. Paul Green's work as a dramatist and writer is documented in his professional correspondence files (circa 34,400 items); by extensive files on his including background material, drafts, musical scores, and business records; and by drafts of poems, essays, and novels by Green. Also included are yearly diaries (1917-1980), photographs, tape recordings, and appointment books. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, James Boyd, Erskine Caldwell, William T. Couch, Jonathan Daniels, Donald Davidson, John Ehle, Caroline Gordon, Frank Porter Graham, John Howard Griffin, Tyrone Guthrie, Dubose Heyward, Noel Houston, Langston Hughes, Gerald W. Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Frederick Koch, Lotte Lenya, H. L. Mencken, Howard Odum, Clarence Poe, Carl Sandburg, Betty Smith, Lamar Stringfield, Allen Tate, Kurt Weil, Orson Welles, and Richard Wright, among many others. Green's associations with various theater, cultural, and humanitarian organizations in North Carolina and elsewhere are extensively documented. Correspondence and other materials show his opinions on such issues as lynching, capital punishment, nationalism, communism, race relations, religion, and the Vietnamese, Korean, and First and Second World Wars. Also included are a considerable number of photographs relating to Green's family and to his work, and financial records. symphonic dramas,

ArchivalResource: 195 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 111,500 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/03693/ View

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