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Collection Number: 02345

Collection Title: Quincy Sharpe Mills Papers, 1905-1929

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This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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Size 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 750 items)
Abstract Quincy Sharpe Mills was a journalist and author who worked on the New York Evening Sun newspapers for ten years; served as a lieutenant in the 168th Regiment, Rainbow Division, American Expeditionary Forces; and was killed in France. Papers of Mills include letters to him, but chiefly letters from him to his parents in Statesville, N.C., concerning his life and work writing for the Evening Sun in New York City and his army experience at Plattsburg, N.Y., training camp and in France during World War I. Also included are clippings and manuscripts of articles, notes on war, army notebooks, and data concerning Mills and the publication of his work after his death.
Creator Mills, Quincy Sharpe, 1884-1918.
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 Quincy Sharpe Mills Papers #2345, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Mrs. Thomas Millard Mills of Statesville, N.C., in 1941.
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: Suzanne Ruffing, March 1996

Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, November 2006

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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Quincy Sharpe Mills was a journalist and author who worked on the New York Evening Sun newspapers for ten years; served as a lieutenant in the 168th Regiment, Rainbow Division, American Expeditionary Forces; and was killed in France.

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Papers of journalist Quincy Sharpe Mills include letters to him, but chiefly letters from him to his parents in Statesville, N.C., concerning his life and work writing for the Evening Sun in New York City and his army experience at Plattsburg, N.Y., training camp and in France with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. Also included are clippings and manuscripts of articles, notes on war, army notebooks, and data concerning Mills and the publication of his work after his death.

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Contents list

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About 450 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Primarily letters from Mills to his mother until August 1918, when the letters deal mainly with his death and remembrances of him.

Folder 1

1905-October 1907

Folder 2

November-December 1907

Folder 3-6

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Folder 6

1908

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1909-1910

Folder 8

August 1913-April 1914

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Folder 10

May 1914-1915

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1916

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1917

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1918

Folder 29

1919

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1920-1922

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Folder 31

Folder 32

1923

Folder 33

1924-1929

Folder 34

1930-1939

Folder 35

Undated

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About 125 items.

Army handbooks and magazines in the possession of Mills at his death, and newspaper clippings sent to Mills by his mother during the war.

Folder 36

Army papers

Folder 37

Magazine articles

Folder 38-39

Folder 38

Folder 39

Newspaper clippings

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6 items.

Primarily books concerning United States Army regulations and proceduresand notebooks from training classes.

Folder 40

V-2345/1: 1918, 108 pages

Mills's notebook from military training school in France

Folder 41

V-2345/2: 1917, 90 pages

Mills's notebook from military training school in Plattsburg, N.Y.

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V-2345/3: 1918, 300 pages

Mills's field message book

Folder 43

V-2345/4: 1914, 224 pages

United States Army field service regulations book

Folder 44

V-2345/5: 1915, 170 pages

Roster of the First Training Regiment containing a list of Mills's company

Folder 45

V-2345/6: 1917, 112 pages

Officers and members list of a Freemason Lodge in New York state

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Photographs (with negatives) and postcards from Plattsburg, N.Y., of military life. Also, one photograph of the memorial plaque placed in the office of the Evening Sun in memory of Mills and other employees who lost their lives in the World War, 10 July 1919.

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