Love, James Spencer, 1896-1962. James Spencer Love papers, 1851-1980 (bulk 1906-1965).
Title:
James Spencer Love papers, 1851-1980 (bulk 1906-1965).
Family and personal letters, subject files relating to civic activities, clippings and other printed material, legal and financial papers, photographs, and other items of James Spencer Love and his wife, Martha Eskridge Love. Correspondence, chiefly 1917-1960, discusses family and household news, business conditions, politics, personal finances, and matters relating to Burlington Mills, Inc. Subject files document James Spencer Love's membership on boards and committees of the University of North Carolina, Harvard University, and Davidson College, and Martha Eskridge Love's involvement with the University of North Carolina, the North Carolina Heart Association, and other organizations. Also included are diaries kept by James Spencer Love as a boy; a series of scrapbooks pertaining to Burlington Mills; a large number of photographs of Love family, friends, and associates, and textile mills; and speeches by James Spencer Love and Martha Eskridge Love. Some materials, including a narrative by Love, relate to James Spencer Love's World War I experiences with the 78th Army Infantry Division; other materials relate to Martha Eskridge Love's service in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in World War II. The addition of 1982 is chiefly photographs, but also includes a diploma and University of North Carolina Dialectic Society certificate, both 1853. The addition of 1994 includes a thesis, 1958, on Burlington Industries, Inc., and a scrapbook, 1948-1949, documenting the activities of the Anglo-American Council on Productivity. The addition of 1997 is comprised of four e.e. cummings letters, 1908-1910, written to James Spencer Love from cummings's boyhood home of Joy Farm, Silver Lake, N.H. The letter of 17 July 1908 contains several ink drawings by Cummings, including a self-portrait. The letter of 23 July 1908 is addressed to several family members--James Spencer, his mother Julia Spencer Love, and his sister Cornelia--with ink drawings of an elephant and deer. The letter of 14 July 1909 contains an acrostic "James Spencer Love" with several drawings, including a small picture of Cummings's study. The 16 August 1910 letter sends greetings and closes with a humorous self-portrait. The addition also includes two sketch books, 1872 and 1874, by Julia Spencer (Love), mother of James Spencer Love and daughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer. The June 1872 book was created for Julia Spencer's uncle, Samuel Field Phillips.
ArchivalResource:
ca. 12000 items (17.0 linear ft.)
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25723897 View
View in SNAC
