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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Salisbury Book Club Records, #4054, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Edward Norvell of Chapel Hill, N.C., January 1975.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2009

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• Literature--North Carolina--Societies, etc.--History--20th century.
• Salisbury (N.C.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Salisbury Book Club (Salisbury, N.C.)
• United States. Council of National Defense. Women's Committee. North Carolina Division. Salisbury and Rowan County Committee.
• Women--Books and reading--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Women--North Carolina--Societies and clubs--History--20th century.

The Salisbury Book Club, of Salisbury, N.C., held its first meeting on 1 March 1891. The membership of the club usually included 14 ladies from Salisbury and nearby, who generally met once a month. Some members and visitors included Mrs. Walter S. Blackmer, Mrs. William C. Blackmer, Mrs. A. H. Boyden, Mrs. Robert Vance Brawley, Mrs. Edward W. Burt, Mrs. Hayden Clement, Mrs. S. S. Cole, Mrs. Archibald C. Cree, Miss Dresser, Mrs. James F. Griffith, Mrs. Irwin, Mrs. Clarence Klutz, Miss Jeanie Klutz, Mrs. Theodore F. Klutz, Mrs. Murrell Land, Mrs. E. D. McCall, Mrs. Francis Johnston Murdoch, Mrs. Edwin R. Overman, Mrs. Pierson, Mrs. M. C. Quinn, Mrs. W. H. Ragland, Mrs. James Hill Ramsay, Mrs. Robert B. Scales, Mrs. Fletcher F. Smith, Mrs. Bayard Taylor, Mrs. F. C. Tiernan, Mrs. Warren W. Way, Mrs. White, Mrs. John Whitehead, Miss Anne Wiley, Mrs. Marion Easton Wiley, and Mrs. W. M. Wiley.

The collection includes descriptive and detailed minutes of monthly meetings of the Salisbury Book Club for thirty-three years, with only a few gaps, including book lists, accounts of programs, notes on discussions of cultural interest and on social matters, and indications of the spirit and atmosphere of the meetings, the charm of the hostesses' arrangements, and other matters. Also included is a record book for the Salisbury and Rowan County Committee of the North Carolina Division, Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense, 1917.