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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 250 items) |
Abstract | Southern Texts Society, an institution dedicated to the identification, editing, and publication of a series of book-length collections of manuscript or rare printed materials important to understanding the culture of the American South and its expressive life. Materials relating to publications of the Southern Texts Society, grouped into units according to the publication they support, and organizational records of the Society, including its mission statement, bylaws, editorial guidelines, and some correspondence. Included are four typed transcriptions of women's diaries published in "An Evening When Alone: Four Journals of Single Women in the South," 1827-67, edited by Michael O'Brien, published for the Southern Texts Society by the University Press of Virginia, 1993. The diaries were kept by Ann Lewis Hardeman, 1850-1866; Jane Caroline North [Pettigrew], 1851-1852 (original in Pettigrew Family Papers, #592, Southern Historical Collection); Elizabeth Ruffin [Cocke], 1827 (original in Harrison Henry Cocke Papers, #1587, Southern Historical Collection); and an anonymous woman in Selma [Ala.]. |
Creator | Southern Texts Society. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, September 1994 with subsequent addition
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
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Southern Texts Society, an institution dedicated to the identification, editing, and publication of a series of book-length collections of manuscript or rare printed materials important to understanding the culture of the American South and its expressive life.
Back to TopTyped transcriptions of women's diaries published in An Evening When Alone: Four Journals of Single Women in the South, 1827-67, edited by Michael O'Brien, published for the Southern Texts Society by the University Press of Virginia, 1993. Diaries were kept by Ann Lewis Hardeman, 1850-1866; Jane Caroline North [Pettigrew], 1851-1852 (original in Pettigrew Family Papers, #592, Southern Historical Collection); Elizabeth Ruffin [Cocke], 1827 (original in Harrison Henry Cocke Papers, #1587, Southern Historical Collection); and an anonymous woman in Selma [Ala.].
Materials relating to the founding and early years of the Southern Texts Society. This includes creation and operation materials which includes the society's mission statement, lists of founding board and fellows, bylaws, articles of incorporation, editorial guidelines, tax status forms lists of potential funding sources and agreements with University of Virginia Press for publication of manuscripts. There are also proposals which were submitted for consideration to be published by the society. The correspondence includes founding members discussions of non-profit status, prospective donors, board meeting plans, budget suggestions, suggestions of collections to be published, analysis of proposals, and discussions of logos and mission statement materials. Also in correspondence are letters from attorneys regarding deeds and incorporation papers, letters from other organizations of Southern history such as the Southern Intellectual History Circle and letters from non-affiliated scholars requesting information about the Text Society.
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Folder 1-4
Folder 1Folder 2Folder 3Folder 4 |
Papers |
Folder 5 |
Creation and Organization of Society. |
Folder 6 |
Proposals. |
Folder 7 |
Proposals. |
Folder 8 |
Correspondence, 1989-1990. |
Folder 9 |
Correspondence, 1991. |
Folder 10 |
Correspondence, 1992-1995. |