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Copyright Notice

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 Thomas Pearson Papers, #4051, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Hayne D. Boyden of Asheville, N.C., November 1974.

Two items transferred from the Richmond Pearson Papers, #3647, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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, May 2009; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021

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.

• Dominican Republic--Description and travel.
• Dominican Republic--Economic policy.
• Haiti--Description and travel.
• Haiti--Economic policy.
• Iran--Description and travel.
• Iran--Economic policy--20th century.
• Pearson, Thomas, 1893-1963.
• Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961.

The collection includes selected items documenting Thomas Pearson's career, including letters of commendation, appointments and commissions, and typed versions of miscellaneous articles, travel essays, and poems by him, relating to his service in Persia, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. There are also a few items related to Pearson's service with the United States Army, Expeditionary Forces, and some communications with government officials of the United States, Dominican Republic, and Haiti. Included is a letter in Spanish, 23 November 1938, from Rafael L. Trujillo Molina. Other correspondents include M. de J. Tronosco de la Concha, Joseph E. Davies, Cordell Hull, and Gaston Margron. There are also 15 photoportraits, informal photographs and snapshots, and group pictures of Thomas Pearson or related to his life. Among them is one picture of the North Carolina Supreme Court Justices, 1957 (published picture, autographed by J. Wallace Winborne to his former pupil). Nine of the pictures relate to Pearson's work in Persia.

Photographs (PF-4051/1-2).