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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Elizabeth Henderson Cotten Papers, #1650, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Elizabeth Henderson Cotten and family of Chapel Hill, N.C., 1949-1963.

Transferred from the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1975.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 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.

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• Architecture--North Carolina--History.
• Cotten, Elizabeth Henderson.
• Dare, Virginia, b. 1587.
• Hillsborough (N.C.)--History.
• Historic buildings--North Carolina.
• Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792.
• Jones, Willie, circa 1741-1801.
• Nash and Kollock School (Hillsborough, N.C.)
• New Bern (N.C.)--History.
• Saint John's Church (Williamsboro, N.C.)--History.
• Schools--North Carolina--Hillsborough--History.
• Tryon Palace (New Bern, N.C.)
• Williamsboro (N.C.)--Church history.
• Women historians--North Carolina.

• See also Lyman A. Cotten papers (#182); John Steele Henderson papers (#327); Frank Nash papers (#539); Mrs. Charles A. Cannon papers (#2551); Sallie Southall Cotten papers (#3589); Archibald Henderson papers (#3650).

Elizabeth Henderson Cotten (1875-1975) worked in the Southern Historical Collection and was secretary of the Friends of the Library of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Before her husband's death in 1926, Mrs. Cotten lived for some time in Istanbul, Turkey, and Tokyo, Japan, and was active in Women's Clubs there. She was an advocate of women's rights, and was active in the Democratic Party, the Episcopal Church, Liberty Loan Drives of World War I, Red Cross relief in the influenza epidemic of 1918, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Colonial Dames.

A leader in the Tryon Palace Restoration, and involved in many other North Carolina preservation and restoration projects, she was co-editor of Old Homes and Gardens of North Carolina (1939) and author of The John Paul Jones-Willie Jones Tradition (1966).

The collection includes correspondence, reports, speeches, and clippings concerning various restoration or historical projects in North Carolina with which Elizabeth Henderson Cotten was involved. Projects covered include the publication of two volumes on early North Carolina homes and architecture; the restoration of Tryon Palace (New Bern, N.C.), the Nash-Kollock School (Hillsborough, N.C.), and St. John's Episcopal Church (Williamsboro, N.C.); research and speaking engagements on Virginia Dare; and the publication of a volume on the John Paul Jones-Willie Jones tradition.

• Photographs (PF-1650/1-2)
• Oversize papers (X-OPF-1650/1)