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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.
Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately About 300 items) |
Abstract | Lionel Dane Melvin (born 1907) of Pleasant Garden, N.C., was a horticulturist and active member of the North Carolina Wild Flower Preservation Society. The collection is chiefly personal and professional correspondence of Melvin including letters from Henry Roland Totten (1892-1974) and other faculty members of the Botany Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also included are scattered letters dealing with local and family history; reprints of articles by Melvin; photocopies of nine letters, 1953-1957 and 1967, from Immanuel Velikovsky (1895- ), Princeton, N.J., to Melvin about their shared interests in the formation of the Carolina bays; and photocopies of letters, 1969, from Frank Porter Graham (1886- ) to Melvin about family history. |
Creator | Melvin, Lionel Dane, 1907- |
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, January 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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Lionel Dane Melvin (born 1907) of Pleasant Garden, N.C., was a horticulturist and active member of the North Carolina Wild Flower Preservation Society.
Back to TopThe collection is chiefly personal and professional correspondence of Lionel Dane Melvin including letters from Henry Roland Totten (1892-1974) and other faculty members of the Botany Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also included are scattered letters dealing with local and family history; reprints of articles by Melvin; photocopies of nine letters, 1953-1957 and 1967, from Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979), Princeton, N.J., to Melvin about their shared interests in the formation of the Carolina bays; and photocopies of letters, 1969, from Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) to Melvin about family history.
Back to TopChiefly personal and professional correspondence of Lionel Dane Melvin including letters from Henry Roland Totten (1892-1974) and other faculty members of the Botany Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1929-1955 |
Folder 2 |
1956-1959 |
Folder 3 |
1960-1974 |
Personal and professional correspondence, 1945-1976, including copies of nine letters, 1953-1957, 1976, to Lionel Dane Melvin from Immanuel Velikovsky, Princeton, N.J., about Velikovsky's research interests. Also reprints of a few articles by Melvin.
Folder 4 |
Addition of June 1976 |
Personal and professional correspondence, 1942-1976, with slight, scattered correspondence on Lionel Dane Melvin family history including copies of letters, 1969, from Frank Porter Graham.
Folder 5-7
Folder 5Folder 6Folder 7 |
Addition of December 1976 |