Eugenia Rawls and Donald Seawell theater collection, 1916- 1988.

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Eugenia Rawls and Donald Seawell theater collection, 1916- 1988.

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Papers and other materials of Rawls (1913- ), Broadway and television actress; and her husband Seawell, lawyer, army officer, and theatrical producer of Denver, Colo., and New York, N.Y. Series I contains the personal and professional correspondence of Rawls with her children, relatives, colleagues, and friends, 1916-1974. Series II, comprising Seawell's office files, 1947-1972, relates to his business and theatrical affairs and to the production of several plays in the 1960s. In addition, there is extensive correspondence between husband and wife during World War II, while Seawell was an army counterintelligence officer stationed in England and France. Series III consists of writings by Rawls and others, chiefly typescripts of radio plays, plus drafts of her one- woman shows on Fanny Kemble and Tallulah Bankhead. Also included are photographs; posters; video tapes; scrapbooks of clippings; notebooks of Rawls's activities as a drama student at University of North Carolina, 1932-1933; and a large number of radio, television, and theatrical scripts for productions in which she appeared.

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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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Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893

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Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre. In 1834, Kemble married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Mease Butler, grandson of U.S. Senator Pierce Butler, whom she had met on an American acting tour with her father in 1832....

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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...