Box SFC1 [F09.090.02.01]
Container
Contains 66 Collections and/or Records:
Sarah Young papers
Collection — Box: SFC1 [F09.090.02.01], Folder: 14
Identifier: MS0014
Overview
Papers of a Charlotte widow, includes a deed, an insurance policy, stocks and a land survey.
Dates:
1831 - 1861; 1847 - 1855
Susan Davis Nye Hutchison papers
Collection — Box: SFC1 [F09.090.02.01], Folder: 74
Identifier: MS0074
Overview
Abridged transcription of a diary of a native of Amenia, N.Y., who moved to Raleigh in 1815 to teach school. Describes her journey to Raleigh by sea and stagecoach, social events in Raleigh, and subsequent travels and teaching (1822-41) in Augusta, Ga., Amenia, Salisbury, N.C., and Charlotte. Also includes a biographical sketch by Robert S. Hutchison, her grandson, and clippings relating to him.
Dates:
1815 - 1975; 1826 - 1841
Letter from Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1922-06-25
File — Box: SFC1 [F09.090.02.01], Folder: 33
Scope and Contents
From New England poet Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) in Petersborough, N.H., to William Sherman Potts, a Greenwich Village artist who painted Robinson's portrait, in which Robinson expresses his surprise at receiving an honorary doctorate from Yale University.
Dates:
1922-06-25
Letter from James Boyd, 1926-02-16
File — Box: SFC1 [F09.090.02.01], Folder: 33
Scope and Contents
From James Boyd (1888-1944), North Carolina historical novelist, in Southern Pines, N.C., to Mr. Crockett, in which he thanks Crockett for his comments on Drums (1925), Boyd's novel about pre-Revolutionary eastern North Carolina. He also mentions the "colonial types" of people described therein, which the "'New South' will soon sweep...away.";
Dates:
1926-02-16
Bill of Sale for enslaved woman, 1835-09-20
File — Box: SFC1 [F09.090.02.01], Folder: 33
Scope and Contents
Issued to Demsey Casey in Pasquotank County, N.C., by William Sexton for the purchase of an enslaved womanve.
Dates:
1835-09-20
Papers -- Includes Bonds, Confederate money, Receipts, Phifer family genealogy and Spring term, 1917, issue of "In the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Fourteenth District", 1829, 1855-1866, 1884-1885, 1917, 1983-1987
File — Box: SFC1 [F09.090.02.01], Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
Includes document (10/30/1829) signed by William B. Alexander attesting to the descent of title to Robert Neely of a tract of land that originally belonged to Thomas Polk, a Revolutionary War hero and great-uncle of James K. Polk; shares of stock (1866) in the Rock Island Manufacturing Company, of which Wriston served as secretary; bills and receipts (1884-85) paid by the estate of Joseph Harvey Wilson (1810-84) to various Charlotte businesses, the First Presbyterian Church, and for taxes;...
Dates:
1829, 1855-1866, 1884-1885, 1917, 1983-1987
Charles Cecil Bernard papers
Collection — Box: SFC1 [F09.090.02.01], Folder: 22
Identifier: MS0022
Overview
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a memorial resolution by the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty following the death of the first director (1946-47) of the Charlotte Center of the University of North Carolina, forerunner to Charlotte College and UNC Charlotte.
Dates:
1946 - 1969
James Edward Smoot papers
Collection — Box: SFC1 [F09.090.02.01], Folder: 24
Identifier: MS0024
Overview
Letter and advertising brochures relating to Smoot's book, Marshal Ney Before and After Execution (Charlotte: Queen City Printing Co., 1929).
Dates:
1929 - 1931
Charlotte, Consort of George III, letter to son, William
Collection — Box: SFC1 [F09.090.02.01], Folder: 35
Identifier: MS0035
Overview
Letter from Queen Charlotte to her son William (later King William IV) admonishing him for his melancholia while at school in Germany.
Dates:
1784
Publications, 1959 - 1960
File — Box: SFC1 [F09.090.02.01], Folder: 39
Scope and Contents
Includes:
"Arbor Vitae" and "Unfoldment," two poems from The Path to Peace by Siegfried Sassoon, with rubricated initial (1959, 1960);
"Awaitment," poem by Siegfried Sassoon, with rubricated initial (1960);
"For a Wedding Anniversary," lines from a poem by George Wither, with burnished gold initial by Margaret Adams (1963);
"Lines Found on an Old Church Bell at Chester";
"Saint Aelred's Prayer," by Saint Aelred;
"Ten Rules for the Spiritual Life," Diadochus of Photike, translated by Sebastian...
Dates:
1959 - 1960