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Collection Number: 01503

Collection Title: Francis Butler Simkins Papers, circa 1940s.

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Size 9.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 4600 items)
Abstract Francis Butler Simkins (1897-1966), native of Edgefield, S.C., was a historian. The collection includes Simkins's research notes for his biography of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1913), South Carolina political leader; and manuscripts (typescripts with holograph corrections) of "History of the Seaboard South" (unpublished) by Simkins and Ottis Clark Skipper (born 1898), with related correspondence.
Creator Simkins, Francis Butler, 1897-1966.
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.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
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 Francis Butler Simkins Papers, #1503, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Francis Butler Simkins of Farmville, Va., July 1948. Additional material received from Allen J. Going of Tuscaloosa, Ala., November 1986 (Acc. 86147), and Mrs. Ottis C. Skipper of Concord, N.C., January 1988 (Acc. 88010).
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.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 2010

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.

Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.

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Francis Butler Simkins (1897-1966), native of Edgefield, S.C., was a historian. He was educated at the University of South Carolina and at Columbia University. He was a professor of history at Longwood College, Farmville, Va. His published works include South Carolina During Reconstruction (1931) with Robert Woody; The Women of the Confederacy, (1936) with James Patton; Pitchfork Ben Tillman: South Carolina (1944), a biography of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1913), South Carolina governor and United States senator; and The South Old and New (1947), later revised and retitled A History of the South (1957); among others.

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The collection includes research notes of historian Francis Butler Simkins for his biography, published 1944, of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1913), South Carolina political leader; and manuscripts (typescripts with holograph corrections) of "History of the Seaboard South" (unpublished) by Simkins and Ottis Clark Skipper, with related correspondence.

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Contents list

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About 15 items.

Arrangement: Material remains arranged as received.

Includes two manuscript versions of "History of the Seaboard South," by Francis Butler Simkins, one apparently revised by Ottis Clark Skipper; related correspondence; and manuscript fragments.

Folder 38

Version A: Chapters I-III

Folder 39

Version A: Chapters IV-VI

Folder 40

Version A: Chapters VII-IX

Folder 41

Version A: Chapters X-XI

Folder 42

Version A: Chapters XII-XIII

Folder 43

Version A: Chapters XIV-XV

Folder 44

Version A: Chapters XVI-XVII

Folder 45

Version A: Chapters XVIII-XIX

Folder 46

Version A: Chapters XX-XXII

Folder 47

Version A: Chapters XXIII-XXIV

Folder 48

Version A: Chapters XXV-XXVI

Folder 49

Version A: Chapter XXVII and Bibliography

Folder 50

Version B: Part 1, Chapters 1-3

Folder 51

Version B: Part 1, Chapters 4-6

Folder 52

Version B: Part 1, Chapters 7-8

Folder 53

Version B: Part 1, Chapters 9 and 11

Folder 54

Version B: Part 1, Chapters 12-13

Folder 55

Version B: Part 2, Chapters 14-15

Folder 56

Version B: Part 2, Chapters 16-18

Folder 57

Version B: Part 2, Chapters 19-20

Folder 58

Version B: Part 2, Chapters 21-22

Folder 59

Version B: Part 2, Chapters 23-24

Folder 60

Version B: Part 2, Chapter 25 and Bibliography

Folder 61

Pertinent letters and other material

Folder 62

Miscellaneous material

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1 item.

Arrangement: Material remains arranged as received.

Includes an early typescript draft with corrections of "History of the Seaboard South," by Francis Butler Simkins and Ottis Clark Skipper.

Folder 63

Rough draft "History of Seaboard South"

Folder 64

Chapter 1, Preface and Chapter 12

Folder 65

Chapter II

Folder 66

Chapter III

Folder 67

Chapter IV

Folder 68

Chapter V

Folder 69

Chapter VI

Folder 70

Chapter VII

Folder 71

Chapter VIII

Folder 72

Chapter IX

Folder 73

Chapter X

Folder 74

Chapter XI

Folder 75

Corrections, Chapter XI, XII, XIII

Folder 76

Chapter XIII

Folder 77

Chapter XIV

Folder 78

Chapter XV

Folder 79

Chapter XVI

Folder 80

Chapter XVII

Folder 81

Chapter XVIII

Folder 82

Chapter XIX

Folder 83

Chapter XX

Folder 84

Chapter XXI

Folder 85

Chapter XXIV

Folder 86

Chapter XXV

Folder 87

Chapter XXVI

Folder 88

Bibliography

Folder 89

Bibliography

Folder 90

Chapter XVI

Folder 91

Chapter XVIII

Folder 92

Chapters XVIII and XIX

Folder 93

Chapters XIX and XX (Survival of farm life)

Folder 94

Chapters XIX and XX

Folder 95

Chapters XX and XXI

Folder 96

Chapter XX (was XIX)

Folder 97

Chapter XXII

Folder 98

Chapter XXII

Folder 99

Chapter XIV (Separation and War)

Folder 100

Chapter XV (The Iron Ring)

Folder 101

Chapter XIV (Old copy)

Folder 102

Chapter XV (Old copy)

Folder 103

Chapter XVI (Peace Comes)

Folder 104

Chapter XVI (Old copy)

Folder 105

Chapter XXIII

Folder 106

Chapter XVIII

Folder 107

Chapter XVII (Old copy)

Folder 108

Chapter XXIII

Folder 109

Notes on "Seaboard South"

Folder 110

Chapter XXI (Old copy)

Folder 111

Chapter XXIV

Folder 112

Chapter XXV

Folder 113

Chapter XXV (Old copy)

Folder 114

Chapter XIII (Old copy)

Folder 115

Chapter XIII

Folder 116

Chapter XII (Old copy)

Folder 117

Chapter XII

Folder 118

Chapter XI (Old copy)

Folder 119

Chapter X (Old copy)

Folder 120

Chapters X and XI

Folder 121

Chapterx IX and X

Folder 122

Chapter IX

Folder 123

Chapter IX

Folder 124

Chapter VII (Old copy)

Folder 125

Chapters VII and VIII

Folder 126

Chapter XXIII

Folder 127

Chapter XXIV

Folder 128

Chapter XXV

Folder 129

Chapter XVII

Folder 130

Chapter XXVII

Folder 131

Old Preface

Folder 132

Chapter II

Folder 133

Chapter I

Folder 134

Chapter II (Old copy)

Folder 135

Chapter III

Folder 136

Chapter IV

Folder 137

Chapters I and II

Folder 138

Chapter IV

Folder 139

Chapter IV

Folder 140

Chapter V

Folder 141

Chapter V (Old copy)

Folder 142

Chapter VI

Folder 143

Chapters VI and VII

Folder 144

Chapter VII (Old copy)

Folder 145

Chapter VII

Folder 146

Chapter XXII

Folder 147

Chapter XXI

Folder 148

Chapter XX

Folder 149

Chapter XIX

Folder 150

Chapter XVIII

Folder 151

Chapter XVI

Folder 152

Chapter XV

Folder 153

Chapter XV

Folder 154

Chapter XIV (Old copy)

Folder 155

Chapter XIV (Old copy)

Folder 156

Chapter XIII

Folder 157

Chapter XIII

Folder 158

Chapter XI

Folder 159

Chapter XI

Folder 160

Chapter X

Folder 161

Chapter IX

Folder 162

Chapter IX

Folder 163

Chapter VIII

Folder 164

Chapter VIII

Folder 165

Chapter VII

Folder 166

Chapter VI

Folder 167

Chapter VI

Folder 168

Chapter V

Folder 169

Chapter IV

Folder 170

Chapter IV

Folder 171

Chapter IV

Folder 172

Chapter III

Folder 173

Chapter III

Folder 174

Chapter V

Folder 175

Chapter III

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