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Abstract | Correspondence, notes, drafts, photographs, slides, and other items relating to "Sallie Southall Cotten: A Woman's Life in North Carolina" (Pamlico Press: Greenville, N.C., 1987) by William Stephenson, professor of English at East Carolina University, and other writings by Stephenson, chiefly about Cotten and the Cotten and Southall families. Sallie Swepson Sims Southall Cotten (1846-1929) of Pitt County, N.C., was a writer and campaigner for women's rights. Also included is information about Stephenson's establishing the Pamlico Press to publish the book. |
Creator | Stephenson, William, 1930- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Correspondence, notes, drafts, photographs, slides, and other items relating to "Sallie Southall Cotten: A Woman's Life in North Carolina" (Pamlico Press: Greenville, N.C., 1987) by William Stephenson, professor of English at East Carolina University, and other writings by Stephenson, chiefly about Cotten and the Cotten and Southall families. Sallie Swepson Sims Southall Cotten (1846-1929) of Pitt County, N.C., was a writer and campaigner for women's rights. Also included is information about Stephenson's establishing the Pamlico Press to publish the book.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological and subject.
Articles and related material about Cotten that Stephenson collected in the course of his research, articles Stephenson published about Cotten, and correspondence about Cotten.
Folder 1 |
"Part Way from Pedestal to Politics: Greenville's End of the Century Club" (1978) |
Folder 2 |
Correspondence and papers for "Part Way.." |
Folder 3 |
Pitt County Historical Society Talk (1978) |
Folder 4 |
"The Davises, the Southalls, and Wesleyan Female College" (1980) |
Folder 5 |
Correspondence and papers for "The Davises.." |
Folder 6 |
"How Sallie Southall Cotten Brought North Carolina to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893" (1981) |
Folder 7 |
Correspondence and papers for "How Sallie.." |
Folder 8 |
Review of the book The Fair Women |
Folder 9 |
Sallie Southall Cotten (1987) Manuscript |
Folder 10 |
Notecards |
Folder 11 |
Research Material |
Folder 12 |
Reviews of Sallie Southall Cotten |
Folder 13 |
Sallie Southall Cotten Slide Talk (1988) |
Folder 14-15
Folder 14Folder 15 |
Correspondence: to and from Cotten's relatives |
Folder 16 |
Correspondence: to and from libraries and archives about research on Cotten |
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Folder 17 |
Biographical information on Morrison |
Folder 18-19
Folder 18Folder 19 |
Clippings |
Folder 20 |
Correspondence--miscellaneous |
Folder 21 |
Cotten Dress Donation to North Carolina State History Museum |
Folder 22 |
Editing Class/English 3870 |
Folder 23 |
Historical Marker to Cotten |
Folder 24 |
North Carolina Historical Award |
Folder 25 |
Marguerite E. Schumann Award |
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Correspondence and other material pertaining to the publication of Sallie Southall Cotten and Stephenson's establishing Pamlico Press to publish it.
Folder 26 |
Advance and Review Copies |
Folder 27 |
Correspondence to Publishers |
Folder 28 |
Home Occupation Documents |
Folder 29 |
Invoices for the book |
Folder 30 |
Layouts |
Folder 31 |
Library of Congress/ISBN Documents |
Folder 32 |
Marketing, Sales and Publishing |
Folder 33 |
North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs |
Folder 34 |
Photograph information for the book |
Folder 35 |
Publisher's Book Exhibit |
Folder 36 |
Television Documents |
Folder 37 |
Westview Press Documents |
Notebooks containing the Stephenson's manuscript on Cotten and notes from libraries and archives dealing with Cotten.
Most of these pictures are reproduced in Stephenson's book, Sallie Southall Cotten, and have more complete descriptions in his Slide Talk (see folder 13).
Image P-4804/1 |
Photograph of William Stephenson, 1980s. |
Image P-4804/2 |
Photograph of William Stephenson, Michael Hill, Barbara Hall, and Gladys Boroughs at the dedication of a historical marker to Cotten in September, 1987. |
Image P-4804/3-5
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Photographs of Sallie Southall Cotten, 1900s-1920s. |
Image P-4804/6 |
Photograph of Cotten, Mariah Smith, Sue Hart, Sallie Powell, and Rhetta Cooper, 1860s. |
Image P-4804/7 |
Photograph of Susan Sims Southall, 1860s. |
Image P-4804/8 |
Photograph of Thomas James Southall, 1860s. |
Image P-4804/9 |
Photograph of John Richard Southall, 1860s. |
Image P-4804/10-11
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Photographs of two unidentified people, 1860s, sent to Stephenson from Cotten Newick. |
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Photographs of buildings and landscapes of North Carolina in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
Image P-4804/22-25
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Postcards of the World's Fair in Chicago, 1893. |
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52 slides from Stephenson's Cotten Slide Talk. Description of images located in folder 13. |