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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 400 items) |
Abstract | Rebecca Drane Warren graduated from the University of North Carolina in the 1940s and was an active member of Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, N.C. Physician and genealogist Claiborne T. Smith (1924-2005), a native of Rocky Mount, N.C., practiced psychiatry in Philadelphia, Pa. He attended UNC and earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of UNC and art history student at Yale University, Edgar Falcon Thorne (d. 2004) established the Cherry Hill Historical Foundation in Warrenton, N.C., for his ante-bellum plantation home, Cherry Hill, in Inez, N.C. The collection includes correspondence of Rebecca Drane Warren with Claiborne T. Smith and Edgar Falcon Thorne. Correspondence, 1967-2000, between Smith and Warren includes references to Smith's research for William S. Powell's Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, antiques dealing, books, movies, history, and genealogy. The letters also contain information about family and friends, including artist Francis Speight and Lawrence Foushee London (also known as Lonnie London), former curator of the Rare Book Collection at UNC, and places such as Scotland Neck, N.C., Chapel Hill, N.C., and the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Correspondence, 1984-2004, between Thorne and Warren contains references to the Cherry Hill Historical Foundation, "Music at Cherry Hill" concerts, and friends and family, including Lonnie London, psychiatrist and philanthropist Assad Meymandi, and writer Reynolds Price. A chronological list by Warren of letters from Thorne to Warren, clippings, and a few "Music at Cherry Hill" programs are also included. |
Creator | Warren, Rebecca Drane. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Nathalie Wheaton, May 2006
Encoded by: Nathalie Wheaton, May 2006
Updated because of addition, November 2018
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Rebecca Drane Warren graduated from the University of North Carolina in the 1940s and was an active member of Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, N.C. Physician and genealogist Claiborne Thweatt Smith Jr. (1924-2005), a native of Rocky Mount, N.C., practiced psychiatry in Philadelphia, Pa. He attended UNC and earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of UNC and art history student at Yale University, Edgar Falcon Thorne (d. 2004) established the Cherry Hill Historical Foundation in Warrenton, N.C., for his ante-bellum plantation home, Cherry Hill, in Inez, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection includes correspondence of Rebecca Drane Warren with Claiborne T. Smith and Edgar Falcon Thorne. Correspondence, 1967-2000, between Smith and Warren includes references to Smith's research for William S. Powell's Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, antiques dealing, books, movies, history, and genealogy. The letters also contain information about family and friends, including artist Francis Speight and Lawrence Foushee London (also known as Lonnie London), former curator of the Rare Book Collection at UNC, and places such as Scotland Neck, N.C., Chapel Hill, N.C., and the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Correspondence, 1984-2004, between Thorne and Warren contains references to the Cherry Hill Historical Foundation, "Music at Cherry Hill" concerts, and friends and family, including Lonnie London, psychiatrist and philanthropist Assad Meymandi, and writer Reynolds Price. A chronological list by Warren of letters from Thorne to Warren, clippings, and a few "Music at Cherry Hill" programs are also included.
Note that many clippings to which Smith referred in letters in this collection were not received with the collection. Note also that letters from Warren to Smith are included in the Claiborne T. Smith papers.
Back to TopAcquisitions Information: Acc. 101319.
Box 2 |
Letters of Edgar F. Thorne, circa 1984-2004 |