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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Anne Jackson Williams Papers, #3308, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Sarah Briggs Trentman of Raleigh, N.C., 1957- 1958.

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.

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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• Agricultural journalists--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Ansley, Arlette, fl. 1880-1919.
• Family--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Jackson family.
• Journalists--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Poe, Clarence Hamilton, 1881-
• Raleigh (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Williams, Anne Jackson.
• Women journalists--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Anne Jackson Williams was a newspaper feature writer and secretary to agricultural reformer and editor of The Progressive Farmer, Clarence Poe (1881-1964). Williams was born in Forsyth, Ga., and settled in Raleigh, N.C., in 1920. She married Thomas Lacy Williams in 1923.

The collection includes letters, 1920-1949, from Anne Jackson Williams to her mother and sister in Forsyth, Ga., letters from them to her, and letters to members of the Jackson family from other widespread relatives. The letters from Williams chiefly concern her daily life and work as a newspaper writer and as secretary to Clarence Poe. They include comments on social life and other events in Raleigh, N.C. Also included is family and personal correspondence, 1880-1919, of Arlette Ansley, Forsyth, Ga.