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[Identification of item], in the Egbert Lynch Haywood Papers #05034, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Margaret Davis Haywood of Durham, N.C., in July 2000 (Acc. 98687).

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• Durham (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs--20th century.
• Haywood, Egbert Lynch, 1911-1988.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• United States. Navy--History--World War, 1939-1945.
• United States. Navy--Military life.
• United States. Navy--Officers--Correspondence--History--World War, 1939-1945.
• World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States.

Egbert Lynch Haywood was born in Durham, N.C., in 1911. He attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, graduating in 1931. He received a law degree from Harvard in 1934 and subsequently returned to Durham to practice. Haywood served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Naval Reserve and was called into regular service during World War II, 1942-1945. He was assigned to basic training in Ithaca, N.Y., during which he broke his leg. He later continued his training in Charleston, S.C., and at Coronado, Calif., before shipping out to the Philippines in 1944. During his tour of duty, he also visited Japan, Saipan, Guam, and Hawaii. He returned from duty in November 1945.

Haywood later served as assistant city attorney for Durham, a post that he held until 1956. He spent the remainder of his life in private practice, also serving occasionally with various professional and civic bodies. He retired in 1984 and died in Durham in 1988.

The papers of Durham, N.C., lawyer Egbert Lynch Haywood consist primarily of correspondence between Haywood and his wife, Margaret Haywood. Most letters date from Egbert Haywood's tour of active service, 1944-1945, with the United States Navy during World War II. The letters discuss military life both in California, where he did some of his basic training, and in the Philippine Islands, where he was eventually stationed. The letters also discuss a visit by Margaret Haywood to her husband while he was stationed in California and details of Egbert Haywood's journey back to Durham, N.C., via Hawaii at the conclusion of the war. There are also letters to both Egbert and Margaret Haywood from various acquaintances, as well as several letters from Egbert Haywood to their son, Egbert Haywood, Jr. Many of the letters appear to have pages missing. Also included are several graded assignments from Egbert Haywood's naval training in Charleston, S.C., and other documents relating to his military service; restaurant menus and hotel bills; and a fragment of an account of the Haywoods' experiences during and just after the war, apparently composed by Margaret Haywood some years later.