Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

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 William Stanley Braithwaite papers #4215-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from M & S Rare Books of Weston, Mass., in 1971 and gift of M. H. Carpenter of Norfolk, Va., in April 1979.

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: Brooke Allan, November 1971; Anne von Storch, April 1986; Roslyn Holdzkom, October 1993

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

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.

• American periodicals.
• Anthology of magazine verse.
• Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.
• F. J. R. (Florrie Jean Richards), 1876-1953.
• Ghent, Kate Downing.
• Pearson, James Larkin, 1879-1981.
• Periodical editors--Massachusetts--History--20th century.
• Poets, American--Massachusetts--20th century.
• Poets, American--North Carolina--20th century.
• Vail, Ruth Newbold.
• Women poets, American--North Carolina--20th century.
• Young, Charlotte.

William Stanley Braithwaite of Arlington Heights, Mass., was a poet and the editor of the annual "Anthology of Magazine Verse." He also taught at Atlanta University.

Letters, 1923-1932, to Braithwaite, chiefly from North Carolina poets concerning publication of their work. Poets represented are Ruth Vail, Florrie Jean Lightfoot, Kate Downing Ghent, Charlotte Young, and James Larkin Pearson. Also included is a notebook, circa 1904, containing three pages written by Braithwaite discussing the difficulty of getting a volume of poems published without a financial guarantee and requesting advance subscriptions of $1.00 per copy for his "Lyrics of Life and Love" (1904). These pages are followed by six pages with subscribers' names.