Rebecca Drane Warren papers, 1967-2004.

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Rebecca Drane Warren papers, 1967-2004.

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correspondence of Rebecca Drane Warren with Claiborne T. Smith and Edgar Falcon Thorne. Correspondence, 1967-2000, between Smith and Warren includes references to Smith's research for William S. Powell's Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, antiques dealing, books, movies, history, and genealogy. The letters also contain information about family and friends, including artist Francis Speight and Lawrence Foushee London (also known as Lonnie London), former curator of the Rare Book Collection at UNC, and places such as Scotland Neck, N.C., Chapel Hill, N.C., and the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Correspondence, 1984-2004, between Thorne and Warren contains references to the Cherry Hill Historical Foundation, "Music at Cherry Hill" concerts, and friends and family, including Lonnie London, psychiatrist and philanthropist Assad Meymandi, and writer Reynolds Price. A chronological list by Warren of letters from Thorne to Warren, clippings, and a few "Music at Cherry Hill" programs are also included.

About 400 items (1.0 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Cherry Hill Historical Foundation (Warrenton, N.C.)

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London, Lawrence Foushee

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Lawrence Foushee London (1908- ) is a retired Curator of Rare Books at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an active member of Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and the Episcopal Church of North Carolina, and an avid family historian. London was blinded in a childhood accident. From the description of Lawrence Foushee London papers, 1740-2003. WorldCat record id: 56037110 Lawrence Foushee London was born 12 February 1908, in Pittsboro, N.C., to Ar...

Speight, Francis, 1896-1989

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Francis Speight was born in North Carolina, and fought in World War I. He was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and later taught at the Academy for many years. He made his name as a realist, painting gritty landscapes of suburban Philadelphia and the mill towns of Manayunk and Conshocken. He preferred to paint on location, and won several local and national awards for his work. Late in his career he moved to Greenville, North Carolina, to serve as artist-in-residence at East Car...

Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

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Chapel of the Cross is an Episcopal Parish in Chapel Hill, N.C. The congregation was formed in 1842 and a church was built which was consecrated in October 1848. This first church was designed by Thomas Ustick Walter (1804-1887), a builder and architect of Philadelphia, Pa. A new church and an enlargement of the parish house was designed and built by Hobart Brown Upjohn (1876-1949) of New York, N.Y., which was consecrated in 1925. Another parish house wing was added, 1957-1958, by the firm of S....

Ackland Art Museum.

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The University of North Carolina's first art museum, established in 1937, was located in Person Hall and known as the Person Hall Art Gallery. In 1958 a new building was completed with funds from the bequest of William Hayes Ackland. The museum then moved and was renamed the William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center; in 1979 its name changed again, to the Ackland Art Museum. The museum was part of the Dept. of Art, and the department chairman served as its Director, until 1974, when the museum b...

Warren, Rebecca Drane.

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Rebecca Drane Warren graduated from the University of North Carolina in the 1940s and was an active member of Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, N.C. Physician and genealogist Claiborne T. Smith (1924-2005), a native of Rocky Mount, N.C., practiced psychiatry in Philadelphia, Pa. He attended UNC and earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of UNC and art history student at Yale University, Edgar Falcon Thorne (d. 2004) established the Cherry Hill Historical Foun...

Smith, Claiborne T.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Meymandi, Assad.

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Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011

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By Source, Fair use, Link Reynolds Price was born Edward Reynolds Price, in Macon, North Carolina, on 1 February 1933. He earned his B.A. degree from Duke University (1955) while on a full scholarship. After graduating, Price won a Rhodes scholarship, which allowed him to attend Merton College, Oxford. In 1958, Price received his Bachelor of letters from Merton College. His thesis focused on the English poet John Milton. Upon his return from Oxford, Price secured a position in the English d...

Thorne, Edgar Falcon, d. 2004.

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