Bertram Whittier Wells papers, 1849, 1901-2004 [manuscript]

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Bertram Whittier Wells papers, 1849, 1901-2004 [manuscript]

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These papers represent B. W. (Bertram Whittier) Wells's research interests, publications, and honors as well as Wells's personal life and pursuits, his first wife, Edna Metz Wells, his second wife, Maude Barnes Wells, and his household at Rockcliff Farm, a property on the Neuse River in North Carolina that Wells acquired before his retirement in 1954. In writing his biography of Wells, Prof. James R. Troyer amassed the majority of the materials comprising series 1 of these papers. Series 2 is composed of papers left behind by B. W. and Maude Barnes Wells at Rockcliff Farm, now part of the Falls Lake State Recreation Area in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

15 archival storage boxes ( 6.25 linear feet)

North Carolina State University, NCSU Libraries

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North Carolina State University, NCSU Libraries

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