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College Relations. Administrative Files
Sub-Group
Identifier: RG05-01
Scope and Contents
The files consist of correspondence and annual operating plans for Institutional Advancement. The correspondence concerns plans for a college magazine and a sample acknowledgement letter. The Operating Plans identify specific goals and objectives for each office and provide a detailed evaluation of the previous year's goals.
Dates:
2017
Found in:
College Archives
Common Ground oral history and interview collection
Sub-Group
Identifier: RG19-06
Scope and Contents
Common Ground was formed in August 1995. The purpose of this grass-roots organization is to promote communication and understanding and improve relations among people of all races in Davidson. The following interviews and meeting records chronicle the work of Common Ground and the challenges they worked to overcome. To learn more about Common Ground please review the maunscript collection, DC056: Common...
Dates:
1997 - 2000
Found in:
Oral Histories & Interviews (RG19)
Dorothy MacKay Quynn Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC042
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, research material, printed material, and photographs relevant to her research about Peter Stuart Ney. The correspondence includes letters about her research and publication thereof. There are two manuscripts, "The Two Graves of Marshal Ney" and "Ney's Attempt to Escape." The research material includes photostats and typescripts of original documents. The Printed Material- Articles contains the following published by Quynn: French Libraries...
Dates:
1931 - 1966
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Edward William Phifer Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC0224s
Scope and Contents
The collection contains no original material, only photocopies. There is a letter written in 1964 about the campaign for governor, three travel diaries, addresses on local history, reviews of his published works, and copies of his writing. Additional copies are on file in the Davidsoniana room.
Dates:
1964-1983 and n.d.
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
E.L. Baxter Davidson Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC044
Scope and Contents
The collection contains biographical and family information, correspondence, notebooks, printed material, business information, memorabilia, photographs, and information pertaining to Mr. Davidson's bequest to Davidson College. The biographical information includes a grade report from Finley High School in Lenoir, NC, biographies of Mr. Davidson, and information about his family history. The correspondence contains both personal and business information from family members, from Davidson...
Dates:
1874 - 1988
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
George Wilson McPhail Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC061
Scope and Contents
The files contain a copy of McPhail's Inaugural Address to the trustees of Davidson College upon receiving the office of presidency, handwritten copies of his lectures on religious topics, several miscellaneous papers, a handwritten copy of his prayer book with prayers for each hour of the day, and two folders full of handwritten copies of his sermons. McPhail had several of his sermons bound and put into volumes. His "Sermons on Important Topics" Volume I-II, VII-VIII, and X-XI were placed...
Dates:
Existence: 1815 - 1871
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Howard T. Wall, Jr. Memoir
Collection
Identifier: DC0292s
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a bound typescript of Wall's memoir "A Minister in the South During a Time of Social Change, 1959-2001."
Dates:
1959 - 2001
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
James Dickson McLean Biography
Collection
Identifier: DC0273s
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a printed biography of McLean written by James Dickson McLean, III. The biography is titled: James Dickson McLean, First Lieutenant Confederate States Army, Commanding tow guns of Starr's Battery Company B 13th Battalion, North Carolina Light Artillery.
Dates:
2017
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
James Edward Smoot Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC041
Scope and Contents
The collection contains both incoming and outgoing correspondence, original manuscripts and documentation for his book and the supplemental edition, information about cotton manufacturing in Cabarrus County, NC, research material and notes, printed material and newspaper articles, and photographs. The incoming correspondence is arranged alphabetically by writer, except for a few instances where it is arranged alphabetically by subject. The outgoing correspondence is arranged alphabetically...
Dates:
1926 - 1947
Found in:
Manuscript Collections
Jim Junot - Cornwell Collection
Collection
Identifier: DC064
Scope and Contents
The files contain information on the life of Patricia Cornwell from 1974 until the present. Most of the information is newspaper articles collected by Jim Junot. There also are copies of transcripts of talks and interviews by Patricia Cornwell and copies of her writings for the Charlotte Observer and while a student at Davidson College. The oversize materials include signed publicity posters for Postmortem and a bulletin board created by Cornwell for the Davidson College English Department...
Dates:
Existence: 1974 - 1998
Found in:
Manuscript Collections