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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the James Atkins Papers, #32, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mr. and Mrs. James Atkins, Jr., of Waynesville, N.C., 1938.

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, May 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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• Asheville Female College (Asheville, N.C.)
• Atkins, James, 1850-1923.
• Atkins, James.
• Clergy--North Carolina--History.
• Diaries.
• Emory and Henry College.
• Haywood County (N.C.)--History.
• Methodist Episcopal Church, South--History.
• Methodist Episcopal Church, South--Missions--History.
• Methodist Episcopal Church, South--North Carolina--History.
• Methodists--Southern States--History.
• North Carolina--Religion.
• Real estate business--North Carolina--Waynesville--History.
• Schools--North Carolina--Haywood County.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History.
• Universities and colleges--Virginia--History.
• Waynesville (N.C.)--Social conditions.
• Women--Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.

• Love and Gilmer Family Papers (#435).

James Atkins (1850-1923) was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; the bishop of North Carolina; the president of Asheville Female College, 1879-1889; and the president of Emory and Henry College, 1893-1896. He was married to Ella Maria Branner and they had a son, James Atkins, Jr., a real estate broker of Waynesville, N.C.

The collection includes family and professional correspondence of James Atkins; and family and business papers, 1920-1931, of James Atkins, Jr. Correspondence of James Atkins is primarily concerned with family and religious affairs, with some descriptions of travels abroad and within the United States. Among the correspondents are B. B. Comer, F. M. Simmons, and Edwin Mouzon. Some items are related to educational institutions with which Atkins was affiliated including Haywood County, N.C., schools; Asheville Female College; Emory and Henry College; Vanderbilt University; and Southern Methodist University at Dallas, Tex. There are also items related to Methodism, its doctrine, growth in the South, and missionary work. Volumes include miscellaneous records of the Asheville Female College and Emory and Henry College and brief diaries, 1891, 1895, and undated. Among the miscellaneous and undated items are sermon notes, articles for publication, and scripture quotations.

• Oversize papers (X-OPF-32/1)