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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Chalmers Gaston Davidson Papers, #1646, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Chalmers G. Davidson, Davidson College, Davidson, N.C., 1949-1979 and transferred from the North Carolina Collection, 2002 (Acc. 099326).

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2009

Updated by: Jodi Berkowitz, December 2017

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Authors, American--20th century.
• Davidson College--Faculty--History--20th century.
• Davidson, Chalmers G. (Chalmers Gaston), 1907-1994.
• Historians--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Chalmers Gaston Davidson (1907-1994) was an author and professor of history at Davidson College in Mecklenburg County, N.C. Among his published works are Cloud Over Catawba (1949) and Piedmont Partisan (1952). He was married to Alice Gage Davidson and regularly attended the annual North Carolina Writers' Conference beginning in 1950.

The collection includes personal and professional correspondence of Chalmers Gaston Davidson chiefly with other North Carolina writers. Topics include his historical works and research, the North Carolina Writers' Conference, the 1952 presidential campaign of Adlai Stevenson, the Mecklenburg Declaration, family matters and genealogy, and North Carolina literary events and social ties. Prominent correspondents include Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, Thad Stem Jr., Adlai Stevenson, Archibald Henderson, Archibald Rutledge, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Melvin Purvis, Samuel Eliot Morison, Thomas Grey Wicker, Inglis Fletcher, Mebane Holoman Burgwyn, LeGette Blythe, Ovid W. Pierce, Harnett Thomas Kane, Charles L. Van Noppen, Adelaide Fries, and V. V. McNitt. In addition to the correspondence, there is also a small group of clippings and a typescript related to Augusta Evans Wilson and the historic "St. Elmo" home in Columbus, Ga.

The Addition of 2002 contains scattered personal letters of and invitations received by Chalmers Gaston Davidson and his wife, Alice Gage Davidson, primarily concerning the Blowing Rock Country Club, 1953-1982.