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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Lucy Plummer Battle Papers, #4155, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Nancy Cobb Lilly of Raleigh, N.C., March 1977.

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.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 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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• Battle, Lucy Plummer, 1861-1905.
• Betrothal--North Carolina.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Cobb, Collier, b. 1862.
• College students--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• College teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Courtship--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Geology.

• Cobb Family Papers (#4008).

Lucy Plummer Battle (1861-1905), native of Wadesboro, N.C., was the daughter of Richard Henry Battle (1835-1912) and Annie Ruffin Ashe Battle (1838-1883). She was educated at St. Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., and married Collier Cobb in 1904.

Collier Cobb (1862-1934) was a native of Wayne County, N.C., a graduate of Harvard University, and a professor of geology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1892-1933. His first marriage was to Mary Lindsey Battle (1864-1900) with whom he had three children, William (born 1891), Collier Junior (born 1893), and Mary (born 1899).

The collection includes letters to Lucy Plummer Battle from Collier Cobb prior to their marriage. The letters contain professions of love, news of family and friends, and accounts of Cobb's domestic life and work, including descriptions of his students and classes.