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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 Cotten Family Papers, #3589, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Sallie Dromgoole Cotten (Mrs. Russell B.) Wiggin of Winchester, Mass., and Mrs. Lyman Cotten of Chapel Hill, N.C., August 1962. Additions received from Patsy White Cotten of Chapel Hill, N.C., February 1995 (Acc. 95020) and transferred from the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 1995 (Acc. 95120).

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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, July 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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• Cotten family.
• Cotten, Lyman A. (Lyman Atkinson), 1874-1926.
• Cotten, Robert Randolph, 1839-1928.
• Cotten, Sallie Southall.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Pitt County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Scrapbooks.
• United States. Navy--Officers--Correspondence.
• Virginia Dare Memorial Association.
• Women in politics--United States--History--20th century.
• Women's rights--United States--History--20th century.
• Women--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• World War, 1914-1918--Women.

• Lyman Atkinson Cotten Papers (#182).

Members of the Cotten family of North Carolina include Robert Randolph Cotten of Pitt County, N.C.; his wife, Sallie Southall Cotten (1846-1929), their children and grandchildren.

The collection includes family correspondence of Robert Randolph Cotten, Sallie Southall Cotten, and their children and grandchildren. Sallie Southall Cotten's papers concern women's rights, state and national women's organizations, women's war work, 1916-1918, the Virginia Dare Memorial Association, and her many other interests and activities, as well as family and social matters. Also included are her scrapbooks, 1892-1929, writings, speeches, and personal memoranda, and letters from her son, Lyman A. (Lyman Atkinson) Cotten (1874-1926), as a captain in the United States Navy. The Addition of February 1995 includes family papers, chiefly relating to Lyman Atkinson Cotten, Elizabeth Henderson Cotten, their sons John Henderson Cotten and Lyman A. Cotten, and Lyman A. Cotten's wife, Patsy White Cotten. Included are many letters John Henderson Cotten wrote to his mother while he served in the Navy, and many items generated by Lyman A. Cotten during his tenure as professor of English at the University of North Carolina, 1940-1974. The Addition of September 1995 consists of letters and other items chiefly relating to Lyman Cotten Junior.

• Photographs (PF-3589/1-5)
• Oversize papers (OPF-3589/1b, X-OPF-3589/1a)