Compare Constellations

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

Hood, James Boyce, 1859-1933. Papers, 1895-1933.

Title: Papers, 1895-1933.

Primarily letters (1895-98) written by this Mecklenburg County native and Associate Reformed Presbyterian minister during his long-distance courtship of his future wife, Eva Lee Hickman. He describes his studies at Erskine Theological Seminary (S.C.), her attendance at State College for Women (Va.), their growing affection for each other, his early days as a minister in Florida and South Carolina, and his expectations as to the proper role of a minister's wife. Also includes his account book (1929-31), postcards of Matthews, N.C. (ca. 1920s), and material (1990) relating to My Dear Miss Eva, Mary Norton Kratt's book based on Hood's letters.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear feet (76 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47759595 View

Esten B. Mason collection, 1914-1929.

Title: Esten B. Mason collection, 1914-1929.

Photographs of scenes of the Myers Park neighborhood and downtown Charlotte used in Legacy: The Myers Park Story (1986) by Mary Norton Kratt and Thomas W. Hanchett.

ArchivalResource: 10 items (photographs)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46931731 View

Myers Park Homeowners Association (Charlotte, N.C.). Photographs, 1915-1984 (bulk 1915-1941).

Title: Photographs, 1915-1984 (bulk 1915-1941).

Photographs collected by the association for its book, Legacy: the Myers Park Story (1986), written by Mary Norton Kratt and Thomas W. Hanchett.

ArchivalResource: 36 items (photographs)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47219888 View

Kratt, Mary Norton. Papers, 1952-1991 (bulk 1979-1991).

Title: Papers, 1952-1991 (bulk 1979-1991).

Items created and collected by a Charlotte historian and author. Includes manuscripts and other material relating to Kratt's published writings; articles of incorporation (1949) of the Charlotte Post, a weekly African-American newspaper; and material concerning historic preservation, the Rev. Carlyle Marney (1916-78), and the Charlotte Transit Mall. Also includes photographs used in Legacy: the Myers Park Story (1986) by Kratt and Thomas W. Hanchett.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear feet (ca. 900 items, including 64 photographs)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46832986 View

Carolina Wren Press Records, and undated, 1940-1994

Title: Carolina Wren Press Records, and undated 1940-1994

ArchivalResource: 80 Linear Feet; 117,750 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/cawren/ View

Kaufman, Debra. [North Carolina authors literary ephemera : K].

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

ArchivalResource: Items in box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48382945 View