David E. Whisnant Papers, 1893-1967

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David E. Whisnant Papers, 1893-1967

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Correspondence of David E. Whisnant, University of North Carolina professor of English, relating to his biography of James Boyd (1888-1944), editor and novelist, and correspondence, writings, a tape recording, and other materials relating to Susan Chester [Mrs. A. Hunt Lyman] (1868- 1917?), founder of the Log Cabin Settlement, a pioneering social service center near Asheville, N.C.

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

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

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Whisnant, David E., 1938-

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David Whisnant is an author and professor in the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He gathered the material in this collection in the course of his research on James Boyd and Susan Chester. James Boyd (1888-1944), author, was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but spent much of his life in Southern Pines, North Carolina. Three of his five novels, Drums (1925), Marching On (1927), and Long Hunt (1930), are set in North Carolina. Boyd ow...