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Collection Number: 00878

Collection Title: Hayne Davis Papers, 1900-1941.

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Size 940 items (3.0 linear feet).
Abstract The collection includes (in part, microfilm) writings, lectures, and some correspondence of Hayne Davis, a North Carolina native, New York lawyer, and writer active in promoting international political organizations. Papers pertain to Davis's interests in Christian Science, judicial reform, the World Narcotic Association, the Inter-parliamentary Union, and other international peace organizations, and to his activities as legal adviser to the Colombian legation in the United States, 1904-1912, and as founder of the American Peace and Arbitration League. Also included are directors' minutes of the Practical Peace League, 1908.
Creator Davis, Hayne, 1868-1942.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Hayne Davis Papers, #878, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
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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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Jodi Berkowitz, March 2021

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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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Hayne Davis (1868-1942) was a North Carolina native, New York lawyer, and writer active in promoting international political organizations. He was legal adviser to the Colombian legation in the United States, 1904-1912, and founder of the American Peace and Arbitration League.

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The collection includes (in part, microfilm) writings, lectures, and some correspondence of Hayne Davis. Papers pertain to Davis's interests in Christian Science, judicial reform, the World Narcotic Association, the Inter-parliamentary Union, and other international peace organizations, and to his activities as legal adviser to the Colombian legation in the United States, 1904-1912, and as founder of the American Peace and Arbitration League. Also included are directors' minutes of the Practical Peace League, 1908.

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Contents list

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About 940 items.
Box 1-6

Box 1

Box 2

Box 3

Box 4

Box 5

Box 6

Papers, 1900-1941

Reel 1

Microfilm copy of collection

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