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Collection Overview
| Size | 4 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 300 items) |
| Abstract | Letters circa 1909-1926 between Mary Norman Leland McKeithen and Edwin T. McKeithen of Aberdeen, N.C., written during their engagement and marriage as well as a small amount of scattered family correspondence and papers. The collection also contains digital transcriptions of the McKeithens's letters created by their granddaughter Anne McKeithen. |
| Creator | McKeithen (Family : Aberdeen, N.C.) |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processed by: Jackie Dean, April 2016
Encoded by: Jackie Dean, April 2016
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Biographical Information
Mary Norman Leland and Edwin T. McKeithen were married in 1911. They settled in Aberdeen, N.C., and had three sons.
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Scope and Content
The collection contains courtship letters circa 1909-1911 between Mary Norman Leland McKeithen, called Norman, and her fiance Edwin T. McKeithen written while Norman was a student at Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., and Edwin worked in Rockingham, N.C., in real estate and insurance as well as letters circa 1911-1926 written after their marriage while Mary Norman Leland McKeithen was visiting family in Johnson City, Tenn., and Clayton, Ala. There are also letters between Mary Norman Leland McKeithen and her parents on the occasion of her engagement and her honeymoon; a 1913 letter to Mary Norman Leland McKeithen's mother Effie Williams Leland from a family member relating his desertion to Canada during the Civil War; a letter, dated 1927, from Edwin T. McKeithen to his fifteen year-old son urging him to delay playing football; and other items.
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Series 1. Edwin T. McKeithen and Mary Norman Leland McKeithen Correspondence Before Marriage,
1909-1911.
Arrangement: Letters have been kept in the order in which they arrived at the repository.
Letters have been annotated with the number of the corresponding transcription found in Series 3.
Letters between Mary Norman Leland McKeithen, called Norman, and her fiance Edwin T. McKeithen written while Norman was a student at Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., and Edwin worked Rockingham, N.C., in real estate and insurance. Edwin traveled for work and his letters are often written from trains and hotels.
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Series 2. Edwin T. McKeithen and Mary Norman Leland McKeithen Correspondence After Marriage,
1911-1926.
Arrangement: Letters have been kept in the order in which they arrived at the repository.
Letters have been annotated with the number of the corresponding transcription found in Series 3.
Letters between Mary Norman Leland McKeithen, called Norman, and her husband Edwin T. McKeithen written while Mary Norman Leland McKeithen was visiting her parents in Johnson City, Tenn., and while visiting her grandparents in Clayton, Ala.
| Folder 15 |
Correspondence between Mary Norman Leland McKeithen and Edwin T. McKeithen, circa 1911-1926Letters corresponding to transcriptions A1-A13. |
| Folder 16 |
Correspondence between Mary Norman Leland McKeithen and Edwin T. McKeithen, circa 1911-1926Letters corresponding to transcriptions A14-A28. |
| Folder 17 |
Correspondence between Mary Norman Leland McKeithen and Edwin T. McKeithen, circa 1911-1926Letters corresponding to transcriptions A29-A34. Letter corresponding to transcription A-31 is missing. |
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Series 3. Digital Transcriptions of Mary Norman Leland McKeithen and Edwin T. McKeithen Correspondence,
circa 1909-1926.
Arrangement: The original numbering system has been retained. Transcriptions 1-114 correspond to letters written before the McKeithen's marriage found in Series 1, transcriptions A1-A39 correspond to letters written after their marriage found in Series 2.
Digital transcriptions of the letters between Mary Norman Leland McKeithen and Edwin T. McKeithen found in Series 1 and 2. The transcriptions were created by Anne McKeithen, granddaughter of Mary Norman Leland McKeithen and Edwin McKeithen.
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Series 4. Other Family Letters and Papers, 1910-1927.
Includes letters between Mary Norman Leland McKeithen and her parents written on the occasion of her engagement and her honeymoon; a 1913 letter to Mary Norman Leland McKeithen's mother Effie Williams Leland from a family member relating his desertion to Canada during the Civil War; a letter, dated 1927, from Edwin T. McKeithen to his fifteen year-old son urging him to delay playing football and other items.
| Folder 18 |
Family correspondence, 1910-1911Contains two letters dated 1910 to Mary Norman Leland McKeithen from her father Warren Allston Leland, one upon the occasion of her engagement; one letter dated 1911 from Mary Norman Leland McKeithen to her parents written while on her honeymoon in New York City, N.Y.; and one letter from Edwin T. McKeithen dated 1911 to his mother-in-law Effie Williams Leland written ten days after his marriage. |
| Folder 19 |
Family correspondence, 1913 and 1927Contains a letter dated 1913 to Effie Williams Leland from a family member in Eufaula, Ala., relating his experiences in the Confederate Army, his desertion to Canada, and his return home through Cuba. Also contains a letter dated 1927 from Edwin T. McKeithen to his 15 year-old son urging him to delay playing football. |
| Folder 20 |
Letters, circa 1800sContains a letter to Mary Norman Leland McKeithen's grandfather, who was a professor and minister at Columbia Bible College, and an unidentifed letter. |
| Folder 21 |
"Mack[?] Isom's few words of courtship-he was a colored man of Clayton, Ala."Handwritten passage on Edwin T. McKeithen's stationary. Note from collection donor received with the item: "A rendering of a soliloquy recited by an African-American man (in Charleston?) early 20th century." |
| Folder 22 |
Loose envelopes |