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Collection Number: 00828

Collection Title: H. E. C. Bryant Papers, 1737-1945.

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This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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Size 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 400 items)
Abstract Journalist in Charlotte, N.C., Missoula, Mont., and Washington, D.C. Correspondence with prominent persons and scrapbook of Henry Edward Cowan ("Red Buck") Bryant, correspondent of the New York "World" and other newspapers, resident of Washington, D.C., 1908-1944. Topics represented include national politics, family matters, and the Craighead family history in Pennsylvania and North Carolina in the 18th century.
Creator Bryant, H. E. C. (Henry Edward Cowan), b. 1873.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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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 H. E. C. Bryant Papers #828, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Henry E. C. Bryant in 1944 and 1946.
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.
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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, March 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

This collection was processed with support from Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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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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Journalist in Charlotte, N.C., Missoula, Mont., and Washington, D.C.

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Correspondence with prominent persons and scrapbook of Henry Edward Cowan (Red Buck) Bryant, correspondent of the New York World and other newspapers, who lived in Washington, D.C., 1908-1944. Topics include national politics, family matters, and Craighead family history in Pennsylvania and North Carolina in the 18th century.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Correspondence, 1737-1945.

400 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Letters of Henry Edward Cowan Bryant and his wife, Eva Sumner Bryant.

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300 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Letters mainly pertaining to the newspaper business, politics, and genealogy. Also included is one folder of letters pasted into a scrapbook by Bryant.

Folder 1

1737-1899

Folder 2

1900-1905

Folder 3

1907-1909

Folder 4

1910

Folder 5

1911-1914

Folder 6

1915-1917

Folder 7

1918-1919

Folder 8

1920-1921

Folder 9

1922-1924

Folder 10

1925

Folder 11

1926-1927

Folder 12

1928-1930

Folder 13

1931-1933

Folder 14

1934-1935

Folder 15

1936-1938

Folder 16

1939-1940

Folder 17

1941

Folder 18

1942-1945

Folder 19-20

Folder 19

Folder 20

Undated

Folder 21

Scrapbook pages

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100 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence about family matters from her husband and relatives and personal letters of Eva Bryant.

Folder 22

1896-1914

Folder 23

1915-1924

Folder 24

1952-1928

Folder 25

1929-1942

Folder 26

Undated

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