LeGette Blythe Papers (#4852) 1852-1996

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LeGette Blythe Papers (#4852) 1852-1996

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William LeGette Blythe (1900-1993), native of Huntersville, N.C., was the author of several Biblical novels, award-winning biographies of prominent North Carolinians, and symphonic (outdoor) dramas based on the history of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, N.C. Blythe graduated in 1921 from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the original Carolina Playmakers and a classmate of Thomas Wolfe. He died in Huntersville in 1993. The collection includes correspondence and other materials relating to LeGette Blythe's literary and civic projects. Included are letters, promotional material, and photographs, as well as audio and video recordings relating to outdoor drama productions and to Blythe's biographies of Thomas Wolfe; Mary T. Martin Sloop of the Crossnore School, Avery County, N.C.; Lucy Morgan of the Penland School, Penland, N.C.; and Gaine Cannon of the Albert Schweitzer Memorial Hospital in Balsam Grove, N.C. Major correspondents include W. H. Belk, Elizabeth Boatwright Coker, William Friday, Louis Rubin, Terry Sanford, and Richard Walser. There are also two letters dated March 1934 from Maxwell Perkins of Charles Scribner's Sons. Also present are materials relating to the North Carolina Writers Conference, including photographs of the conference's first meeting in 1950 and the 1953 meeting in Boone. Manuscripts, galleys, and proofs of Blythe's works are included along with a small amount of materials and photographs collected by Blythe, including items, 1815-1861, relating to the Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Mecklenburg County. The Addition of May 2002 includes audio and video recordings collected by Blythe and photographs of Albert Schweitzer and his hospital from the 1960s; of the United States Army's 38th Evacuation Hospital during World War II; and of labor strikes in North Belmont, N.C., in the late 1920s. The Addition of 2006 includes audio recordings collected by Blythe as research for books, manuscripts and other projects. Interviewees include Fred and Mabel Wolfe, siblings of Thomas Wolfe; Mary T. Martin Sloop; James W. Davis, Gaine Cannon II, and Lucy Morgan. Other recordings relate to LeGette Blythe's works on I. D. Blumenthal, E. H. Little, Walter L. Lingle, and Alcoholics Anonymous. Also included are interviews with prominent North Carolinians, including Colonel Thomas W. Ferrebee, bombardier of the , and Senator Sam J. Ervin. The addition also contains an interview with LeGette Blythe, recordings of the outdoor drama , and the soundtrack for . Enola Gay Voice in the Wilderness The Hornet's Nest

About 1480 items (16.5 linear feet)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6625679

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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