Alice Spencer Kerr papers, 1872-1887 [manuscript].

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Alice Spencer Kerr papers, 1872-1887 [manuscript].

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Personal letters, chiefly 1876-1879, received by Alice Kerr from friends and relatives while she was a student at the Peace Institute, Raleigh, N.C., and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and while she was a teacher at Winston Academy, 1877-1878, and the Peace Institute, 1878. Included are many letters written by Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908) during Kerr's illness in 1879, giving social news of Chapel Hill, N.C.; letters, after 1879, addressed to Kerr's sister Lizzie; and a notebook Alice Kerr kept while a student at the Peace Institute.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908

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Cornelia Phillips Spencer, writer and community leader of Chapel Hill, N.C., was the daughter of University of North Carolina mathematics professor James Phillips (1792-1867) and Judith Vermeule Phillips (1796-1881), wife of lawyer James Monroe Spencer (1827-1861), and mother of Julia Spencer Love (b. 1859), who married Harvard University mathematician James Lee Love (1860-1950). From the description of Cornelia Phillips Spencer papers, 1833-1975 (bulk 1839-1942). WorldCat record id:...

Kerr, Lizzie.

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Winston Academy (N.C.)

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Peace College (Raleigh, N.C.)

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Kerr, Alice Spencer, 1858-1879.

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Teacher; daughter of geologist Washington Caruthers Kerr (1827- 1885), lecturer at the University of North Carolina. From the description of Alice Spencer Kerr papers, 1872-1887 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24095860 Alice Spencer Kerr (1858-1879), a teacher, was the daughter of Washington Caruthers Kerr (1827-1885), state geologist and lecturer at the University of North Carolina. Alice Kerr was educated at the Peace Institute in Raleigh, N.C., and the University of Nor...