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Size | About 14 items |
Abstract | Maude Minish Sutton of Caldwell County, N.C., was a teacher, writer, and folklorist. She taught in Chapel Hill, China Grove, Avery County, and Lenoir, N.C. Sutton was also a contributor to North Carolina newspapers and on the staff of the Lenoir News-Topic. She married Dennis Howard Sutton. The collection is a variety of Sutton's writings and papers. It contains a typed copy of A Very Great Lady, a short story by Sutton about collecting family papers to solve a mystery, and a number of folklore materials including notes on folk games, ballads of Avery County Sutton collected in 1917 and 1918, notes on cotton baron Simpson Bobo Tanner, and a list of charter members of the North Carolina Folklore Society. Three notebooks are available on microfilm which contain details of a 1921 hiking trip, Sutton's poetry, and newspaper clippings. |
Creator | Sutton, Maude Minish, d. 1936. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Jordan, March 2011
This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.
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Maude Minish Sutton of Caldwell County, N.C., was a teacher, writer, and folklorist. She taught in Chapel Hill, China Grove, Avery County, and Lenoir, N.C. Sutton was also a contributor to North Carolina newspapers and on the staff of the Lenoir News-Topic. She married Dennis Howard Sutton.
Back to TopThe collection is a variety of Maude Minish Sutton's writings and papers. It contains a typed copy of A Very Great Lady, a short story by Sutton about collecting family papers to solve a mystery, and a number of folklore materials including notes on folk games, ballads of Avery County Sutton collected in 1917 and 1918, notes on cotton baron Simpson Bobo Tanner, and a list of charter members of the North Carolina Folklore Society.
Three notebooks are available on microfilm: a record of a hiking trip Sutton took in 1921 with four other women in the North Carolina mountains; a notebook containing poems Sutton wrote in 1921-1922 and a few collected song lyrics; and a scrapbook with newspaper articles Sutton wrote between 1927 and 1935, including her 1935 series called "Folk Songs of the Blue Ridge."
Back to TopFolder 1 |
Original finding aid |
Short story, "A Very Great Lady," undated |
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Folder 2 |
Notes on folk games, undated |
Folder 3 |
Ballads collected in Avery County, N.C., 1917-1918 |
Folder 4 |
Papers, undated |
Reel M-2681/1 |
Two manuscript notebooks and one unbound scrapbook, 1921-1935 |