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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 Lionel Dane Melvin Papers, #4076, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Lionel Dane Melvin of Pleasant Garden, N.C., 1975-1976.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 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.

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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• Botanists--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Geology--North Carolina.
• Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972.
• Horticulturists--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Melvin, Lionel Dane, 1907-
• North Carolina Wild Flower Preservation Society.
• North Carolina--Genealogy.
• Plant conservation--North Carolina--Societies, etc.
• Totten, H. R. (Henry Roland), 1892-1974.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dept. of Botany.
• Velikovsky, Immanuel, 1895-1979.
• Wild flowers--North Carolina--Societies, etc.

Lionel Dane Melvin (born 1907) of Pleasant Garden, N.C., was a horticulturist and active member of the North Carolina Wild Flower Preservation Society.

The collection is chiefly personal and professional correspondence of Lionel Dane Melvin including letters from Henry Roland Totten (1892-1974) and other faculty members of the Botany Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also included are scattered letters dealing with local and family history; reprints of articles by Melvin; photocopies of nine letters, 1953-1957 and 1967, from Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979), Princeton, N.J., to Melvin about their shared interests in the formation of the Carolina bays; and photocopies of letters, 1969, from Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) to Melvin about family history.