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[Identification of item], in the Eugene H. Storer Letters #5287-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Purchased from L and T Respess Books of Charlottesville, Va., in August 2006 (Acc. 100472).

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• Composers--North Carolina.
• Family--Massachusetts--Social life and customs.
• Music teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Musicians--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Salem Academy (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
• Storer family.
• Storer, Eugene H.
• Teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Winston-Salem (N.C.)--History.
• Winston-Salem (N.C.)--Social life and customs.

Eugene H. Storer was a music faculty member of Salem Academy, a school for girls in Winston-Salem, N.C. His parents and brother resided in Boston, Mass.

Letters from Eugene H. Storer, music teacher at Salem Academy in Winston-Salem, N.C., to his brother, Robert Storer, in Boston, Mass. Letters discuss Eugene's financial affairs, the success of his oratorio, antique shopping, travel plans, work affairs, and a smallpox outbreak at Salem. The later letters reveal his growing distaste for life in Winston-Salem, stating that he would be "glad to get away from these North Carolinians, the longer I stay the more I hate them." Also included are two letters from Eugene to his mother, Josephine Storer, and two to "Harry" regarding a grocery order. The collection also includes letters from Josephine Storer to Robert Storer and her husband while visiting Eugene in Winston-Salem. These letters mainly discuss the "delightful" spring weather, rides through the countryside, elegant dinners with other Salem Academy faculty, local fruits and vegetables, and the success of Eugene's oratorio.