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RESTRICTED: Use of audio materials will require sufficient advance time for staff to prepare listening copies (if possible; tapes are somewhat deteriorated). Film cannot be made available at this time.

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Copyright Notice

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Lyman A. Cotten (1909-1991) Papers #04944, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Carol Melton in February (Acc. 98024) and October (Acc. 98226) 1998.

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• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Cotten, Elizabeth Henderson.
• Cotten, John Henderson, 1913-1982.
• Cotten, Lyman A. (Lyman Atkinson), 1909-1991.
• Greene, Kathleen Conyngham.
• Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--Description and travel.
• Japan--Description and travel.
• Lloyd-Jones, Richard, 1927-
• Order of Gimghoul (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--Social life and customs.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--Social life and customs.

Lyman A. Cotten (1909-1991) taught English literature at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., from 1940 to 1974. He received the A. B. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1936 and the Ph.D. from Yale University in 1941. He was the son of U.S. Navy Captain Lyman A. Cotten (1874-1926) and Elizabeth Brownrigg Henderson Cotten (1875-1975) and the husband of Patricia White Cotten.

Correspondence, guest lists and party plans, printed poetry by Kathleen Conyngham Greene and Richard Lloyd-Jones, a 1993 directory of the Order of the Gimghoul at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, notes on literature, and photographs belonging to Lyman A. Cotten (1909-1991). Included in the correspondence is a carbon copy of a long letter dated 23 March 1956 from Lyman Cotten's brother, John Henderson Cotten, to his mother, Elizabeth Henderson Cotten, describing his visit to a family in Takehara, Japan, including a stop at Hiroshima, Japan. The folder of pictures includes slides of gardens and purchased photographs of European buildings and figures from various cultures in traditional dress. Also included are a cassette tape, a film, and several audiotapes, some containing talks by others about various writers.

Items separated include P-4944, C-4944, F-4944, T-4944.