Lyman A. Cotten papers, 1927-1995.

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Lyman A. Cotten papers, 1927-1995.

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04944/

Correspondence, guest lists and party plans, printed poetry by Kathleen Conyngham Greene and Richard Lloyd-Jones, a directory of the Order of the Gimghoul, notes on literature, and photographs belonging to Lyman A. Cotten (1909-1991). Included in the correspondence is a carbon copy of a long letter dated 23 March 1956 from Lyman Cotten's brother John Henderson Cotten to his mother Elizabeth Henderson Cotten (1875-1975) describing his visit to a family in Takehara, Japan, including a stop at Hiroshima, Japan. Also included are a cassette tape, a film, and several audiotapes, some containing talks by others about various writers.

About 110 items.

eng, Latn

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7417371

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Cotten, Elizabeth Henderson, 1875-1975

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Elizabeth Brownrigg (Henderson) Cotten (1875-1975) worked in the Southern Historical Collection and was secretary of the Friends of the Library of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Before her husband's death in 1926, Mrs. Cotten lived for some time in Istanbul, Turkey, and Tokyo, Japan, and was active in Women's Clubs there. She was an advocate of women's rights, and was active in the Democratic Party, the Episcopal Church, Liberty Loan Drives of World War I, Red Cros...

Cotten, Lyman A., 1909-1991

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Lyman Atkinson Cotten (1909-1990) graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1936 and from Yale University in 1941. He taught English at the University of North Carolina for 34 years, retiring in 1974. Cotten was a trustee of the Order of the Gimghouls, a secret society at the University, from 1952 until his death. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Society of the Cincinnati, and the Modern Language Association. From the description of Lyman A. Cotten photographic an...

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...

Cotten, John Henderson, 1913-1982

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John Henderson Cotten was a United States Naval Academy graduate and career naval officer. He commanded a destroyer in the Pacific in World War II and taught at various naval schools in the 1950s. From the description of John Henderson Cotten papers, 1928-1968 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23848780 Elizabeth Brownrigg Henderson was born in Salisbury, N.C., on 4 August 1875, the daughter of John Steele and Elizabeth Cain Henderson. She spent her childhood in ...

Order of Gimghoul (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Greene, Kathleen Conyngham

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Lloyd-Jones, Richard, 1927-

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