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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 Ludwic Summers's Arithmetic Books, #1375-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. W. M. Mitchell of Hillsboro, N.C., February 1950.

Transferred from the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 1952.

Received from Alvin Lohr of Conocochegue, Md., January 1956.

Purchased, January 1956.

Received from Jeanette Sessoms Shaw of Windsor, N.C., August 1956.

Received from Orton Cameron of Sanford, N.C., December 1956.

Received from Elizabeth Mullen Lewis of Lincolnton, N.C., May 1960.

Received from D. G. Whitfield of Charlotte, N.C., June 1963.

Received from James Sherwood of Greensboro, N.C., June 1963.

Received from Joel Pretlow of Garner, N.C., April 1973.

Received from W. T. Utley of Hampton, Conn., January 1983.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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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• Arithmetic--Study and teaching--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.--History--19th century.
• Summers, Ludwic, b. 1795.

Ludwic Summers (born 1795) presumably resided in North Carolina.

The collection includes two manuscript arithmetic exercise books. One is inscribed with the name of Ludwic Summers. Some children's drawings are included as are two personal bonds, 1808-1809, with no apparent relation to Ludwic Summers and a few other kinds of entries and enclosures.

Oversize volume (SV-1375/1).