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Edwards family papers, 1851-1888.

Title: Edwards family papers, 1851-1888.

The collection consists of correspondence, programs and other printed material, receipts, newspaper clippings, and broadsides. The correspondence is mainly business letters to Leroy Summerfield Edwards about his work. Much of the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia correspondence concerns the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans and the request for aid by the Regiment of the Orlean Artillery. There are several family letters, some written to Edwards from his parents while he served in the Civil War (12th Virginia Infantry, Co. E), and one written by Edwards while he was a prisoner at Elmira (NY) Prison Camp. The other material in the collection relates to the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia, YMCA, Civil War, Randolph-Macon College, Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company, and politics. The collection was received as two letterbooks, one scrapbook, and loose items. The items were removed from the two letterbooks for preservation purposes.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/373889450 View

James W. Patton Papers (#1739), 1798-1923, 1999

Title: James W. Patton Papers (#1739) 1798-1923, 1999

Papers of a 19th-century Asheville, N.C., family and their relatives in South Carolina and Maryland. The collection consists chiefly of personal correspondence, including antebellum letters received by Asheville merchant James W. Patton (1803-1861) and his wife, Henrietta Kerr Patton, mostly from Kerr relatives in Charleston, S.C., about family matters; letters of their son, Thomas Walton Patton (1841-1907), politician and mayor of Asheville, while he was a captain in the 60th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War in Tennessee and Georgia, and while he was a volunteer officer in the Spanish-American War; and letters from Fannie Patton, a student at Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., 1862. There are also letters exchanged, 1798-1808, by James Calder (d. 1808), Maryland planter, and his son George Calder (1778-1809), United States Navy officer, relatives of Martha Turner Patton, wife of Thomas Walton Patton, concerning the Calders' Maryland plantation, naval affairs, yellow fever, and other matters. Also included are newspaper clippings of articles about members of the Patton, Turner, and Parker families; an account and notebook, 1892, of Thomas Walton Patton on a European trip; a memorial volume, 1918-1923, by the Asheville chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy; a photograph, ca. 1886, of the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity at the University of North Carolina, one of whose members was Haywood Parker, husband of Thomas Walton Patton's daughter Josie; and a videotape, . Thomas Walton Patton: Asheville's Citizen and Soldier

ArchivalResource: About 250 items (1.0 linear feet)

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/p/Patton,James_W.html 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

Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity. [Minor publications].

Title: [Minor publications].

ArchivalResource: v. 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701748997 View

Chapman, Russell Comstock, 1896-1984. Russell C. Chapman World War I collection, 1909-1928.

Title: Russell C. Chapman World War I collection, 1909-1928.

Russell Comstock Chapman, a native of Hartford, Connecticut, served in World War I as part of the Machine Gun Company, 23rd U.S. Infantry, A.E.F. Most of the papers are military correspondence and related items, such as maps of France, trench orders, and military appointments. There are also a few published pieces, including the Infantry Soldier's Handbook. Chapman's early life in Hartford is evidenced by the certificate appointing him Corporal (at age 13) of the Asylum Hill Cadets at the West District School. Later he worked for Travelers Insurance. Correspondence from that time is also within the collection. Other certificates include Chapman's membership in the University of Maine's Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity chapter. One item is labeled as an 1838 coin. A four leaf clover good luck charm that was sent to Chapman may also be found. Highly valuable to the collection is a note written by Chapman in 1976 explaining the circumstances surrounding some of the material.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear foot (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/535137411 View

Photograph of University of Virginia Students [manuscripts], ca. 1894-1896.

Title: Photograph of University of Virginia Students [manuscripts], ca. 1894-1896.

Fraternity photograph of eight University of Virginia students. The photograph is attached to a mount board. An interesting aspect of the photo is that one of the members is seated on floor holding an [actual] skull and cross-bones which are known symbols of this fraternity.

ArchivalResource: 1 photo. 28 x 33.2cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647924588 View