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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 McBryde Family Papers, #2236, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gifts of John M. McBryde, Jr., of New Orleans, La., 1940; and Charles N. McBryde, 1941.

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: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, October 2010

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Abbeville (S.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Agricultural education--Southern States--History.
• Agriculture--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Agriculturists--Southern States--History.
• College presidents--South Carolina--History.
• College presidents--Virginia--History.
• College teachers--Southern States.
• Education, Higher--Southern States.
• Farm life--Virginia--History--19th century.
• McBryde family.
• McBryde, John McLaren, 1841-1923.
• McBryde, John McLaren, 1870-1956.
• Sewanee review.
• South Carolina College--Presidents.
• Students--South Carolina--Diaries.
• Sweet Briar College--History.
• Universities and colleges--Southern States--History.
• University of South Carolina--History.
• University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus)--Faculty--History--19th century.
• University of the South--History.
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute--Presidents.

John McLaren McBryde (1841-1923) was a professor of agriculture at the University of Tennessee, professor and president at South Carolina College, and president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute. His son, John McLaren McBryde Junior (1870-1956) was an English professor at Hollins Institute, University of North Carolina, Sweet Briar College, University of the South, and Tulane University.

The collection includes papers, chiefly correspondence 1882-1920, of John McLaren McBryde (1841-1923), professor of agriculture, and his son, John McLaren McBryde Junior (1870-1956), English professor. Papers relate to the father's teaching at the University of Tennessee, his presidency of South Carolina College, and his work at Virginia Polytechnic Institute; and to the son's career at Sweet Briar College and the University of the South, where he edited the Sewanee Review, 1909-1919. Papers after 1919, while McBryde Junior, was at Tulane University, relate chiefly to aspects of his father's career. Volumes include McBryde Senior's diary as a schoolboy in Abbeville, S.C., 1856, and his journals documenting his farming near Charlottesville, Va., 1868-1869.