Henry McGilbert Wagstaff papers, 1804-1831; 1915-1953 [manuscript].

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Henry McGilbert Wagstaff papers, 1804-1831; 1915-1953 [manuscript].

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Family and personal papers of Wagstaff, author, editor, and professor of history at the University of North Carolina, 1907-1945, consisting principally of correspondence, 1915-1945. Correspondence relates to Wagstaff's life and study in England, 1921-1923; his work for the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, 1928-1940; University of North Carolina affairs; and the management of his Person County, N.C., tobacco farms, which were leased to tenants. Also included are manuscripts and typed drafts of published and unpublished writings by Wagstaff, and material related to his incomplete history of the University of North Carolina. Volumes include fragmentary accounts for general merchandise, 1804-1831, and three ledgers of tobacco farm accounts, 1932- 1953.

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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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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...

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