Mena Webb Papers, 1860-1987

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Mena Webb Papers, 1860-1987

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Mena Fuller Webb is a writer and creative writing teacher of Durham, N.C. The collection includes chiefly correspondence, printed material, typescripts and proofs, and pictures collected or produced by Mena Webb in the course of writing (1987), a biography of Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845-1924), industrialist and philanthropist of Durham. Included are letters from members of the Carr family concerning recollections of Julian S. Carr, original letters from Carr to members of his family, photographs of Carr and of individuals and scenes associated with him, and the 1888 cornerstone box with contents from Carr's Durham home, Somerset Villa. Some items are photocopies with originals in private hands or at various repositories. The Addition of August 2002 contains transcripts of letters by Margaret Louise Cannon, a member of the Carr family, to her relatives in Concord, N.C., while she was on a trip to Europe in 1900. The Addition of January 2007 contains a scrapbook belonging to Lida M. Carr Flower, Julian Shakespeare Carr's daughter, containing genealogical materials pertaining to the Bickley, Borden, Carr, Norris, Parrish, and Ward families, as well as newspaper clippings pertaining to Lida Flower and her husband, banker Henry Corwin Flower, and excerpts of writings about Lida Flower by Mena Webb. Jule Carr: General without an Army

350 items (2.0 linear feet)

eng,

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6629555

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

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Carr, Julian Shakespeare

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Julian Shakespeare Carr was born October 12, 1845 to John W. Carr and Eliza P. Carr in North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served in the Confederate Army. After the war, Carr became a partner of W. T. Blackwell and Co., a tobacco manufacturing firm in Durham. His donation of land to Trinity College (Randolph County, N.C.), along with the financial support of Washington Duke, allowed the struggling school the opportunity to move to Durham. Carr served o...

Carr

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Webb, Mena

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Mena Fuller Webb is a writer and creative writing teacher of Durham, N.C. From the description of Mena Webb papers, ca. 1860-1986. WorldCat record id: 26243242 Mena Fuller Webb is a writer and creative writing teacher of Durham, N.C. Between 1975 and 1986, Mena Webb undertook the writing of a biography on Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845-1924). Carr, more than any other individual, was responsible for the striking growth experienced by the city of Durha...