Lucy M. Cobb Papers, . 1928-1965

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Lucy M. Cobb Papers, ., 1928-1965

Lucy M. Cobb Papers, . 1928-1965

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Lucy Maria Cobb (1877-1969) was a teacher, professional genealogist, and free-lance writer of Raleigh, N.C. The collection includes personal and professional papers of Cobb including family and genealogical correspondence, genealogical notes, primary drafts of poems, plays, children's stories, and articles by her, and the libretto (by Cobb) and music for an unpublished operetta, Mary Louisa Cobb (1899-1976), Lucy Cobb's niece in Chapel Hill, N.C., was her most frequent family correspondent; her letters discuss family matters and report on people and events in Chapel Hill. Family correspondence also deals with Lucy's well-being as she ages, discussing dilemmas faced by an older, single woman in the late 1950s and 1960s. The Oates, Wyatt, Royster, and Whitfield families are prominent in the genealogical materials. The Pirate and the Governor's Daughter.

2,000; 3.0

eng,

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