Philip Harvey Davis memoirs of a small town boy, 1984 [manuscript]

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Philip Harvey Davis memoirs of a small town boy, 1984 [manuscript]

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"Memoirs of a Small Town Boy" is the unpublished reminiscences of Philip Harvey Davis, a professor of English at the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University). The 1984 manuscript covers his childhood in Coshocton, Ohio; undergraduate and graduate life at Miami University in Ohio, Harvard University, and the University of North Carolina in the 1920s and 1930s; work history and social life in the Depression; service in the United States Navy during World War II; social and family life in Raleigh, North Carolina, from the 1940s to the 1960s; and bird watching and nature lore in North Carolina during the same time.

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North Carolina State University, NCSU Libraries

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North Carolina State University, NCSU Libraries

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