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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Hope Bain Papers, #1380, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Colonel Edgar H. Bain of Goldsboro, N.C., 1947.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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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• Bain, Hope, b. 1795.
• Baltimore (Md.)--Religious life and customs.
• Burness, John C., fl. 1850.
• Clergy--Maryland--History--19th century.
• Clergy--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Diaries.
• Goldsboro (N.C.)--Religious life and customs.
• Goldsboro Rifles (Firm)
• Sermons--History--19th century.
• Southern States--Religion--19th century.
• Temperance--Maryland--History--19th century.
• United States. Army--History--War of 1898.
• United States. Army. North Carolina Regiment, 1st (1898)
• Universalist churches--Doctrines--History.
• Universalist churches--Sermons.
• Universalist churches--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Universalists--Maryland--History--19th century.
• Universalists--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Hope Bain (born 1795) was a Universalist minister who lived in Baltimore, Md., and in various towns in eastern North Carolina, finally settling in Goldsboro.

The collection includes correspondence, diaries, sermons, theological notes, and other papers of Hope Bain. Diaries, 1839-1868, with occasional gaps, contain brief daily records of weather and professional activities, with miscellaneous accounts and memoranda. Correspondence, 1827-1876, pertains to temperance activities in Baltimore and to Universalist matters in the South, and includes a series of letters from John C. Burness, a minister at Notasulga, Ala., in the 1850s. Papers of Bain's sons include a record book of the Goldsboro Rifles, 1877-1881, and a muster role for Company B, 1st North Carolina Regiment in the Spanish-American War.