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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Southern Texts Society Records #4716, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Various.

Received from Michael O'Brien of the Southern Texts Society.

Received from Michael O'Brien in January 1998.

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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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• American diaries--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Cocke, Elizabeth Ruffin, d. 1849.
• Diaries.
• Hardeman, Ann Lewis.
• Pettigrew, Jane Caroline North, 1828-1887.
• Single women--Southern States--Diaries.
• Single women--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Single women--Southern States--Social conditions.
• Southern States--History--19th century.
• Southern States--Study and teaching.
• Southern Texts Society.
• Women--Diaries--History--19th century.
• Women--Southern States--Social life and customs.

Southern Texts Society, an institution dedicated to the identification, editing, and publication of a series of book-length collections of manuscript or rare printed materials important to understanding the culture of the American South and its expressive life.

Typed transcriptions of women's diaries published in An Evening When Alone: Four Journals of Single Women in the South, 1827-67, edited by Michael O'Brien, published for the Southern Texts Society by the University Press of Virginia, 1993. Diaries were kept by Ann Lewis Hardeman, 1850-1866; Jane Caroline North [Pettigrew], 1851-1852 (original in Pettigrew Family Papers, #592, Southern Historical Collection); Elizabeth Ruffin [Cocke], 1827 (original in Harrison Henry Cocke Papers, #1587, Southern Historical Collection); and an anonymous woman in Selma [Ala.].

Materials relating to the founding and early years of the Southern Texts Society. This includes creation and operation materials which includes the society's mission statement, lists of founding board and fellows, bylaws, articles of incorporation, editorial guidelines, tax status forms lists of potential funding sources and agreements with University of Virginia Press for publication of manuscripts. There are also proposals which were submitted for consideration to be published by the society. The correspondence includes founding members discussions of non-profit status, prospective donors, board meeting plans, budget suggestions, suggestions of collections to be published, analysis of proposals, and discussions of logos and mission statement materials. Also in correspondence are letters from attorneys regarding deeds and incorporation papers, letters from other organizations of Southern history such as the Southern Intellectual History Circle and letters from non-affiliated scholars requesting information about the Text Society.