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Size | 2.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 600 items) |
Abstract | Henry McGilbert Wagstaff (1876-1945) was an author, editor, and professor of history at the University of North Carolina, 1907-1945. The collection includes family and personal papers of Wagstaff, consisting principally of correspondence, 1915-1945. Correspondence relates to Wagstaff's life and study in England, 1921-1923; his work for the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, 1928-1940; University of North Carolina affairs; and the management of his Person County, N.C., tobacco farms, which were leased to tenants. Also included are manuscripts and typed drafts of published and unpublished writings by Wagstaff, and material related to his incomplete history of the University of North Carolina. Volumes include fragmentary accounts for general merchandise, 1804-1831, and three ledgers of tobacco farm accounts, 1932-1953. |
Creator | Wagstaff, Henry McGilbert. |
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 Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, September 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.
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Henry McGilbert Wagstaff (1876-1945) was an author, editor, and professor of history at the University of North Carolina, 1907-1945. Wagstaff was born in Roxboro, N.C., and educated at the University of North Carolina and John Hopkins University. He specialized in English history but also had a special interest in Southern and North Carolina history and edited a number of the James Sprunt Historial Publications at the University of North Carolina.
His wife was Mary Jefferson Stephens Wagstaff.
Back to TopThe collection includes family and personal papers of Henry McGilbert Wagstaff, consisting principally of correspondence, 1915-1945. Correspondence relates to Wagstaff's life and study in England, 1921-1923; his work for the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, 1928-1940; University of North Carolina affairs; and the management of his Person County, N.C., tobacco farms, which were leased to tenants. Also included are manuscripts and typed drafts of published and unpublished writings by Wagstaff, and material related to his incomplete history of the University of North Carolina. Volumes include fragmentary accounts for general merchandise, 1804-1831, and three ledgers of tobacco farm accounts, 1932-1953.
Back to TopMainly Henry McGilbert Wagstaff's letters to and from his friends, particularly his scholarly colleagues, but also family and relatives, former students, friends in England, and his Chapel Hill, N.C., neighbors. The correspondence covers a wide range of subjects related to his writing and editing; to the the University of North Carolina affairs and his service on faculty committees (on Living Conditions, 1923; Executive Committee, 1924; on Honorary Degrees, 1939-1943); to his Person County, N.C., tobacco farms leased to tenants; to his life and study in England, 1921-1923; and to the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, 1928-1940, of which he was president in 1928. Among the correspondents are Louis Round Wilson, Harry W. Chase, Frank Porter Graham, Chester Penn Higby, Oliver Perry Chitwood, Livingstone Porter, John P. Hollis, Robert Digges Wimberly Connor, Guy E. Snavely, Charles Wood, and Louis Graves. The largest part of Wagstaff's family correspondence is with his brother Roscoe, and items concerning his nephew Guy J. Winstead who was killed in World War I.
Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1-4
Folder 1Folder 2Folder 3Folder 4 |
Louis Round Wilson letters, 1930-1940 |
Folder 5-29
Folder 5Folder 6Folder 7Folder 8Folder 9Folder 10Folder 11Folder 12Folder 13Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17Folder 18Folder 19Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29 |
General correspondence, 1915-1940 |
Folder 30-31
Folder 30Folder 31 |
General correspondence, 1941-1945 |
Folder 32 |
General correspondence, undated |
Folder 33 |
Clippings |
Includes manuscripts and typed drafts of published and unpublished writings by Wagstaff, and material related to his incomplete history of the University of North Carolina.
Folder 34 |
"Wiley Buck" |
Folder 35 |
"Concord Community: A Retrospect" |
Folder 36 |
"Our Two Captains " |
Folder 37 |
"Uncle Calvin" |
Folder 38 |
"This and That" |
Folder 39 |
"A Footnote to Social History" |
"Abimelech Matthew Jordan, Colporteur" |
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"A Quick-Witted Young Man" |
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Miscellaneous stories |
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Folder 40 |
"The Faculty of UNC in 1941" |
"Unfinished Sketches of University Administrators" |
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Folder 41 |
"Some Reflections on Anglo-American Relations" |
"Financial History of North Carolina, bibliography" |
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Short piece on A. A. Klutz and H. H. Patterson of Chapel Hill, N.C. |
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Folder 42 |
"Agricultural College" |
"Why we Fight" |
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"Confidence: of Two Kinds" |
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"A Few Facts about Chapel Hill and the University" |
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"British Contributions to Modern Civilization" |
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Miscellaneous notes and memoranda |
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Folder 43 |
Book review of Wiley Buck and Other Stories of the Concord Community |
"On Religion" |
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Folder 44-45
Folder 44Folder 45 |
"Davie and Federalism" |
Folder 46-48
Folder 46Folder 47Folder 48 |
History of the University of North Carolina |
Includes fragmentary accounts for general merchandise, 1804-1831, and three ledgers of tobacco farm accounts, 1932-1953. The tobacco farms were located in Person County, N.C., and owned variously by Henry McGilbert Wagstaff; Henry McGilbert Wagstaff and Mrs. Bradsher; Henry McGilbert Wagstaff estate; and Mrs. Henry McGilbert Wagstaff. Enclosures from tobacco farm accounts consist of bank deposit slips, sales slips from tobacco warehouses, and miscellaneous bills. Most of the farm business was conducted at Roxboro, N.C.
Folder 49-50
Folder 49Folder 50 |
Fragments of account books, 1804-1820 |
Folder 51 |
Volume 1: Tobacco farm account book, 1933-1944 |
Folder 52 |
Volume 2: Tobacco farm account book, 1934-1944 |
Folder 53 |
Volume 3: Tobacco farm account book, 1946-1953 |
Folder 54 |
Enclosures |