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No restrictions. Open for research.

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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 Hope Summerell Chamberlain Papers #2545-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Hope Summerell Chamberlain, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in June 1945, May 1946, March 1954, and other dates.

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Processed by: Tim West, June 1981

Encoded by: Mara Dabrishus, October 2004

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, December 2021

Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the encoding of this finding aid.

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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• Chamberlain, Hope Summerell.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857.
• North Carolina--Biography.
• North Carolina--History, Local.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--19th century.
• Women authors, American--North Carolina.
• Women--Education--North Carolina--History.

• Hope Summerell Chamberlain Papers in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
• Typescripts of Hope Summerell Chamberlain's writings are in the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Hope Summerell Chamberlain of Raleigh, N.C., wife of Joseph Weddington Chamberlain, was a clubwoman and author of local history.

The collection includes scattered correspondence and other papers of Raleigh, N.C., author Hope Summerell Chamberlin. Included are letters from Chamberlain as a schoolgirl and letters relating to her grandfather, Elisha Mitchell, a professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C.; to North Carolina history; and to her book, Old Days in Chapel Hill (1926). There are also clippings, a biographical sketch, and nine original drawings used to illustrate the book.

Oversize pictures (XOP-PF-2545/1).