LeGette Blythe papers, 1852-1996.

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LeGette Blythe papers, 1852-1996.

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The collection includes correspondence and other materials relating to LeGette Blythe's literary and civic projects. Included are letters, promotional material, and photographs, as well as audio and video recordings relating to outdoor drama productions and to Blythe's biographies of Thomas Wolfe; Mary T. Martin Sloop of the Crossnore School, Avery County, N.C.; Lucy Morgan of the Penland School, Penland, N.C.; and Gaine Cannon of the Albert Schweitzer Memorial Hospital in Balsam Grove, N.C. Major correspondents include W. H. Belk, Elizabeth Boatwright Coker, William Friday, Louis Rubin, Terry Sanford, and Richard Walser. There are also two letters dated March 1934 from Maxwell Perkins of Charles Scribner's Sons. Also present are materials relating to the North Carolina Writers Conference, including photographs of the conference's first meeting in 1950 and the 1953 meeting in Boone. Manuscripts, galleys, and proofs of Blythe's works are included along with a small amount of materials and photographs collected by Blythe, including items, 1815-1861, relating to the Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Mecklenburg County. The Addition of May 2002 includes audio and video recordings collected by Blythe and photographs of Albert Schweitzer and his hospital from the 1960s; of the United States Army's 38th Evacuation Hospital during World War II; and of labor strikes in North Belmont, N.C., in the late 1920s. The Addition of 2006 includes audio recordings collected by Blythe as research for books, manuscripts and other projects. Interviewees include Fred and Mabel Wolfe, siblings of Thomas Wolfe; Mary T. Martin Sloop; James W. Davis, Gaine Cannon II, and Lucy Morgan. Other recordings relate to LeGette Blythe's works on I. D. Blumenthal, E. H. Little, Walter L. Lingle, and Alcoholics Anonymous. Also included are interviews with prominent North Carolinians, including Colonel Thomas W. Ferrebee, bombardier of the Enola Gay, and Senator Sam J. Ervin. The addition also contains an interview with LeGette Blythe, recordings of the outdoor drama "Voice in the Wilderness," and the soundtrack for "The Hornet's Nest."

About 1480 items (16.5 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7397099

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998

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Terry Sanford, born James Terry Sanford, August 20, 1917, in Laurinburg, N. C. He was the second son of Cecil L. and Elizabeth Martin Sanford. He received the A.B. degree in 1939 and the J.D. degree in 1946 from the University of North Carolina. He served as an FBI agent, 1941-1942, with the United States Army in Europe during World War II, and as assistant director of the Institute of Government, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1946-1948. Sanford practiced as an attorney in Fayetteville, N.C., from 1948 ...

Blumenthal, I. D.

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Crossnore School

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Belk, William Henry, 1862-1952

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Davis, James W. (James Wagner), 1886-1955.

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Morgan, Lucy, 1889-1981

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Rubin, Louis D., Jr. (Louis Decimus), 1923-2013

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Papers of Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr., of Chapel Hill, N.C., educator, literary critic, scholar, novelist, journalist, editor, and publisher. Rubin was professor of English at Hollins College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and founder of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. From the description of Louis Decimus Rubin papers, 1945- (Series 1.1.1 D-H) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 31069813 From the description of Louis Decimus Rubin papers, 1945- WorldCat reco...

Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947

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Editor at and vice-president of Charles Scribner's Sons. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1938-1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122629156 Maxwell Evarts Perkins was one of the most importnat editors in American literary history. Belinda Dobson Jelliffe, born in Asheville, N.C., became a friend of Thomas Wolfe in 1933. In 1935, Charles Scriber's Sons published her only book, a semi-autobiographical work titled Fo...

Little, E. H.

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Cannon, Gaine.

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North Carolina Writers Conference

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Schweitzer, Albert

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Alsatian medical missionary, theologian, musician and philosopher. From the description of Autograph letters in German signed (5) : Lambarene, Gabon, to Count Janos Hoyos, a physician in the U.S., 1958 Feb. 6-1960 June 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634614 Epithet: theologian philosopher and organist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x00015f Alsatian philosopher, theologian, or...

Ervin, Sam J. (Sam James), 1896-1985

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Ervin was a North Carolina member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. From the description of TLS, 1968 October 8, Washington, D.C. to Bishop Earl G. Hunt / Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 43052717 Samuel James Ervin, Jr., was a Burke County, N.C., attorney, North Carolina legislator, judge, U.S. senator, and long-time champion of civil liberties. Ervin was first appointed to the N.C. General Assembly in 1923, where he also served in 1925 an...

Enola Gay (Bomber)

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The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. Lewis during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused the destruction of about three quarters of the city. Enola Gay participated in the second nuclear attack as the wea...

Penland School of Crafts

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Friday, William C. (William Clyde)

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William Clyde Friday was born in 1920 in Raphine, Va., and grew up in Dallas, Gaston County, N.C. He graduated from the Law School of the University of North Carolina in 1948, after which he served as assistant dean of students and was named assistant to University President Gordon Gray in 1951. Friday was appointed secretary of the University in 1955, named acting president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina (North Carolina State College (Raleigh), the University of North Carolina...

Albert Schweitzer Memorial Hospital (Balsam Grove, N.C.)

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Blythe, LeGette, 1900-1993

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In 1921, William LeGette Blythe, native of Huntersville, N.C., graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he had been a member of the original Carolina Playmakers and a classmate of Thomas Wolfe. After graduation, Blythe became a reporter at the Charlotte News and later joined the staff of the Charlotte Observer . He authored several Biblical novels, biographies of prominent North Carolinians, and symphonic dramas based on Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, N.C. Blythe ...

Lingle, Walter L. (Walter Lee), 1868-1956

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Walter Lingle was the 11th president of Davidson College. A member of the Davidson class of 1892, he also attended Union Theological Seminary, graduating in 1896. He taught Hebrew and Greek at the seminary for two years before beginning a career in the ministry. Lingle served as pastor in Dalton, Ga.; Rock Hill, S.C.; and Atlanta, Ga. In 1913 he became a professor at Union Theological Seminary. From 1918 to 1921 he was president of the Presbyterian General Assembly's Training School. He resigned...

Ferrebee, Thomas W.

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Hopewell Presbyterian Church (Mecklenburg County, N.C.)

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Alcoholics Anonymous

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Walser, Richard, 1908-1988

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Richard Gaither Walser was born in Lexington, N.C., in 1908. He received an MA from the University of North Carolina in 1933. After returning from service with the United States Naval Reserve, he taught briefly at the University of North Carolina before joining the English faculty at North Carolina State University in 1946. Walser wrote or edited more than 30 books, most of them collections of works relating to various aspects of North Carolina life and literature. He also explored the work of s...

Coker, Elizabeth Boatwright

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Sloop, Mary T. Martin, 1873-1962

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Dr. Mary Martin Sloop moved to Avery County, N.C., in 1911 with her husband and spent the rest of her life building up the Crossnore School, a home and school for mountain children. From the description of Mary T. Martin Sloop letters, 1945-1946 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24931096 Dr. Mary Martin Sloop (1873-1962), daughter of a Davidson College professor, moved to Avery County, N.C., in 1911 with her husband, Eustace Henry Sloop, and spent the rest of her life buildi...

Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938

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Bernstein met Thomas Wolfe in 1925 on a voyage between Europe and New York. Wolfe and Bernstein, the wife of a prominent New York stock broker and 18 years older than Wolfe, became lovers in Oct. 1925 and remained so for the next five years. Wolfe's 1929 novel, Look Homeward Angel, was dedicated to Bernstein. From the description of [Account of a fire / Thomas Wolfe] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 492206991 Thomas Clayton Wolfe was born October 3, 1900 in Asheville, No...