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Collection Number: 05582

Collection Title: Bess Hines Harkins Papers, 1945-1958

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Size 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 500 items)
Abstract The collection of poet Bess Hines Harkins (1912-1986) of Highlands, N.C., contains approximately 330 poems, including multiple drafts and copies of individual poems; 50 essays, including multiple drafts and copies of individual essays; some family correspondence and photographs; and other miscellaneous items. Also included are letters from magazines and book publishers, and clippings of acceptances in newspapers.
Creator Harkins, Bess Hines, 1912-1986.
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.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
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 Bess Hines Harkins Papers #5582, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Elliott Mittler in March 2013 (Acc. 101895).
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: May 2019

Encoded by: Amanda Loeb, July 2015

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Bess Hines Harkins (1912-1986), was originally from Highlands, N.C., but moved to Oxnard, Calif., and Ventura, Calif., after getting married in the 1940s. She wrote about nature her entire life and has been called the poet laureate of Highlands for her colorful poems of the Appalachians in western North Carolina.

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The collection contains approximately 330 poems, including multiple drafts and copies of individual poems; 50 essays, including multiple drafts and copies of individual essays; some family correspondence and photographs; and other miscellaneous items. Also included are letters from magazines and book publishers, and clippings of acceptances in newspapers.

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Contents list

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Box 1

Poems, correspondence, and other papers

Image Folder PF-5582/1-2

PF-5582/1

PF-5582/2

Photographs

Image Folder PF-5582/3-5

PF-5582/3

PF-5582/4

PF-5582/5

Black-and-white 120mm roll film

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