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Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 800 items) |
Abstract | Ruth Dixon Dunn was born in 1888 in Colquitt, Miller County, Ga., where she lived until her death in 1911. She had several siblings, including Walter A. Dixon of Tampa, Fla. Dunn married local banker William Pearl Dunn in 1907, and they had a child, William Pearl Dunn Jr., in 1908. Ruth Dixon Dunn died in July 1911 of unknown causes. The collection is chiefly letters written to Ruth Dixon Dunn from friends and relatives in southern Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, including her brother Walter A. Dixon and female friends attending Monroe Female College in Forsyth, Ga. The letters generally concern the family and social life of an adolescent girl and young married woman. There are a few letters from Ruth Dixon Dunn to her husband William Pearl Dunn, as well as letters to William Pearl Dunn from family, friends, and business associates. There are also a few letters to other recipients, postcards, calling cards, wedding and graduation invitations, birth announcements, clippings, Ruth Dixon Dunn's school report cards, brochures, legal and financial documents, transcribed poems, and other items. |
Creator | Dunn, Ruth Dixon, 1888-1911. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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Ruth Dixon Dunn was born in 1888 in Colquitt, Miller County, Ga., where she lived until her death in 1911. She had several siblings, but only one brother appears in the correspondence, Walter A. Dixon of Tampa, Fla. Ruth Dixon Dunn married local banker William Pearl Dunn in 1907, and they had a child, William Pearl Dunn Jr., in 1908. Ruth Dixon Dunn died suddenly in July 1911 of unknown causes.
Back to TopThe collection is chiefly letters written to Ruth Dixon Dunn from friends and relatives in southern Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, including her brother, Walter A. Dixon of Tampa, Fla., and female friends attending Monroe Female College in Forsyth, Ga. The letters generally concern the family and social life of an adolescent girl and young married woman. There are a few letters from Ruth Dixon Dunn to her husband William Pearl Dunn, as well as letters to William Pearl Dunn from family, friends, and business associates. There are also a few letters to other recipients, postcards, calling cards, wedding and graduation invitations, birth announcements, clippings, Ruth Dixon Dunn's school report cards, brochures, legal and financial documents, transcribed poems, and other items.
Back to TopArrangement: Chronological.
Folder 1-18
Folder 1Folder 2Folder 3Folder 4Folder 5Folder 6Folder 7Folder 8Folder 9Folder 10Folder 11Folder 12Folder 13Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17Folder 18 |
Correspondence, 1903-1911 |
Folder 19 |
Correspondence, undated |
Folder 20-23
Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23 |
Other papers, 1903-1911Includes postcards, calling cards, wedding and graduation invitations, birth announcements, clippings, Ruth Dixon Dunn's school report cards, brochures, legal and financial documents, transcribed poems, and other items. |