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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 Rebecca Drane Warren Papers #5273, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Rebecca Drane Warren of Chapel Hill, N.C., in April 2006 (Acc. 100384) and in June 2007 (Acc. 101319).

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: Nathalie Wheaton, May 2006

Encoded by: Nathalie Wheaton, May 2006

Updated because of addition, November 2018

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.

• Ackland Art Museum.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--History.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Cherry Hill (Inez, N.C.)
• Cherry Hill Historical Foundation (Warrenton, N.C.)
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Genealogists--North Carolina.
• Historians--North Carolina.
• Inez (N.C.)--History.
• London, Lawrence Foushee.
• Meymandi, Assad.
• North Carolina--History--Study and teaching.
• Plantations--North Carolina.
• Price, Reynolds, 1933-
• Scotland Neck (N.C.)--History.
• Smith, Claiborne T., Jr., 1924-2005.
• Speight, Francis, 1896-
• Thorne, Edgar Falcon, d. 2004.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History--20th century.
• Warren, Rebecca Drane.

• Claiborne T. Smith Papers (#3088)

Rebecca Drane Warren graduated from the University of North Carolina in the 1940s and was an active member of Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, N.C. Physician and genealogist Claiborne Thweatt Smith Jr. (1924-2005), a native of Rocky Mount, N.C., practiced psychiatry in Philadelphia, Pa. He attended UNC and earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of UNC and art history student at Yale University, Edgar Falcon Thorne (d. 2004) established the Cherry Hill Historical Foundation in Warrenton, N.C., for his ante-bellum plantation home, Cherry Hill, in Inez, N.C.

The collection includes correspondence of Rebecca Drane Warren with Claiborne T. Smith and Edgar Falcon Thorne. Correspondence, 1967-2000, between Smith and Warren includes references to Smith's research for William S. Powell's Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, antiques dealing, books, movies, history, and genealogy. The letters also contain information about family and friends, including artist Francis Speight and Lawrence Foushee London (also known as Lonnie London), former curator of the Rare Book Collection at UNC, and places such as Scotland Neck, N.C., Chapel Hill, N.C., and the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Correspondence, 1984-2004, between Thorne and Warren contains references to the Cherry Hill Historical Foundation, "Music at Cherry Hill" concerts, and friends and family, including Lonnie London, psychiatrist and philanthropist Assad Meymandi, and writer Reynolds Price. A chronological list by Warren of letters from Thorne to Warren, clippings, and a few "Music at Cherry Hill" programs are also included.

Note that many clippings to which Smith referred in letters in this collection were not received with the collection. Note also that letters from Warren to Smith are included in the Claiborne T. Smith papers.