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Mary Richards Papers

 Collection
Identifier: DC0266s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of notes on the town of Davidson, North Carolina during the first decade of the twentieth century. The notes include information about moving to Davidson, descriptions of the town and college.

Dates: 1973

Mary Scofield Clifford Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: DC0165s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of letters written by Clifford to Cornelia Shaw describing her memories of Davidson College. She describes a visit by Stonewall Jackson and her experiences being tutored by the Davidson faculty. See also DC0190s - the Scofield Family Collection, 1883-1962 and undated.

Dates: 1920

McKendree Robbins Long Letter

 Collection
Identifier: DC0158s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a letter written by Long to his family describing college life in 1906.

Dates: 1906

Mrs. Goudyloch Erwin Dyer Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: DC0142s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a typescript of a program presented to the Davidson Historical Society. The program was entitled,"Growing Up In Davidson and the typescript includes photographs of Davidson

Dates: 1992

Paul Whitlock Cobb Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: DC0164s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a letter describing college life in the years after World War II.

Dates: 1987

President. John Rennie Blake Records, 1870-1884

 Sub-Group
Identifier: RG02-06
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists primarily of Blake's letters to the Board of Trustees concerning relations between the college and the Presbyteries. It also includes Blake's letter of resignation in 1884. The notebooks contains descriptions of Davidson College during the Civil War and research notes on energy, the Holtz machine, and astronomy.

Dates: 1870-1884
Found in: College Archives

Robert Hall Morrison Collection

 folder
Identifier: DC0225s
Scope and Contents The collection contains correspondence, deeds, receipts, and certifcates. The correspondence is primarily related to family matters and includes letters from Morrison's granddaughter Julia Jackson. It also includes references to Davidson College and to Presbyterian churches in North Carolina. The deeds refer to lands in Lincoln County, NC and the receipts primarily concern railroad bonds and patents for land warrants. The certificates are housed in Oversize cases and include Morrison's...
Dates: 1819 - 1899

Shaw, Cornelia Rebekah Shaw Literary Files

 Collection
Identifier: DC071
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of two bound volumes of the drafts of Shaw's history of Davidson College. One version includes typescripts of sources attached to pages within the text.

Dates: 1920

Student Work. Collection

 Sub-Group
Identifier: RG10-1
Scope and Contents This collection consists of student papers given to the Archives by several academic departments. With the exception of two undated and unsigned papers from the earliest days of the school, these examples of student work are all from the 1970s forward. While most of the files are research papers, there are also examples of creative writing. The research papers address a wide range of topics including Davidson town history, housing in the town of Davidson, the black experience at Davidson...
Dates: 2017
Found in: College Archives

Thomas Perrin Harrison Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: DC0163s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of correspondence and literary materials. The correspondence includes a letter from Louis T. Wilds, a Davidson College graduate of 1906 and former student of Thomas P. Harrison, Sr and letters of Harrison, Jr. to Mary Beaty. The literary material is an article by Harrison, Jr. about his childhood in Davidson.

Dates: 1944 - 1982

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Names
Shaw, Cornelia Rebekah 5
Common Ground 2
Bailey, William S. 1
Baker, Heather L. (Class of 2000) 1
Chambers, Henry Alexander, 1841-1925 (Class of 1864) 1
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Chambers, Maxwell (1780-1855) 1
Clifford, Mary Scofield 1
Cobb, Paul Whitlock (Class of 1950) 1
Cumming, Elizabeth "Betty" 1
Davidson (NC) Newspaper 1
Davidson Senior Center 1
Douglas Family 1
Driesell, Charles "Lefty" 1
Dyer, Mrs. Goudyloch Erwin 1
Erwin, Edward Jones, 1885-1954 (Class of 1906) 1
Eumenean Society 1
Gilchrist, John William Stuart, 1894-1970 (Class of 1915) 1
Harrison, Thomas Perrin Jr., 1897- 1
Helper, Hanson Pinckney, 1825-1902 1
Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889 1
Jackson, Julia 1
Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall", 1824-1863 1
Justice, Zoro Knox 1
Kincaid, Randall, Jr., 1940-2023 1
Kirkpatrick Family 1
Kirkpatrick, John Lycan, 1813-1885 1
Kirkpatrick, Mary Elizabeth 1
Lacy Family 1
Lacy, Drury, 1802-1884. (Class of 1859) 1
Lacy, Mary Rice, 1816-1880 1
Long, McKendree Robbins, 1888-1976 (Class of 1910) 1
Martin, David Grier, 1910-1974 (Class of 1932) 1
McCombs, James Parks, 1836-1902 (Class of 1859) 1
McDowell, Franklin Brevard, 1849-1927 (1869) 1
McGeachy, Daniel Patrick, 1901-1970 (Class of 1922) 1
McKay, Wilson James, 1848-1921 (1870) 1
McKeown, Calvin Brice, 1854- (1874) 1
Morrison, Robert Hall, 1798-1889 1
Munroe, Colin Alexander, 1844-1919 (1872) 1
Norton, Kenneth (1928-2023) 1
President. Blake 1
Richards, Mary 1
Rockwell, Elijah Frink, 1809-1888 1
Rockwell, Elijah Frink, 1809-1888. 1
Rumple, Jethro, 1827-1906 (Class of 1850) 1
Russell, Lucy Phillips, 1862- 1
Sampson, Anne E. 1
Scott, Hugh Wilson, 1845- (Class of 1867) 1
Shearer, J. B. (John Bunyan), 1832-1919 1
Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 1
Smith, James C. (Class of 1997) 1
Smith, W. A. (William Alexander), 1843-1934 (Class of 1865) 1
Stephens, Mary Hamilton 1
Student Work 1
Tapia, Brenda Howard, 1949-2020 1
Thornbury, John W. (Class of 2000) 1
Wertheimer, Loretta C. 1
Wilds, Louis Trezevant, 1885- (Class of 1906) 1
YMCA - Reachout - Service Council 1
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