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Lawrence Foushee London

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By Lawrence Foushee London

University of North Carolina Library.

London, Lawrence Foushee · 1952 · Duke University Press

Lawrence Foushee London's short account of the University of North Carolina Library, signed at the end with his name and his post at that library. Two pages detached from the South Atlantic Bulletin for May 1952 and printed by Duke University Press at Durham. Topics include academic libraries and library buildings in Chapel Hill.

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Lawrence Foushee London papers, 1740-2003.

London, Lawrence Foushee · 1740

Papers of Lawrence Foushee London, 1740 to 2003, about 5,400 items in 6.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4958. Includes correspondence, diaries and personal narratives. Subjects include several generations of Londons, among them John London, Henry Adolphus London and Frank Marsden London, and take in the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, the 32nd North Carolina Infantry and slavery in the state.

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A half century with rare books

London, Lawrence Foushee · 1991 · North Caroliniana Society, Inc. and North Carolina Collection

Lawrence Foushee London on his fifty years with rare books at the University of North Carolina library in Chapel Hill, published in 1991 together with the proceedings of the banquet at which he received the North Caroliniana Society Award. An interview with London by Roberta A. Engleman is included. Thirty four pages with portraits, in an edition limited to four hundred signed copies.

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Rebecca Drane Warren papers, 1967-2004.

Warren, Rebecca Drane · 1967

Four hundred items in one linear foot make up the Rebecca Drane Warren papers, 1967 to 2004, collection 5273 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Warren was a North Carolina genealogist and historian. The papers concern the Ackland Art Museum, the Chapel of the Cross, Cherry Hill and its historical foundation, and figures including Reynolds Price and the painter Francis Speight.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: London, Lawrence Foushee.

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George Stanley Dewey papers, 1848-1990.

Dewey, George Stanley, 1841-1865 · 1848

Correspondence and personal narratives from George Stanley Dewey (1841-1865), with material dated 1848 to 1990, about fifty items in half a linear foot, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4390. Topics include his service as a Confederate officer in the First North Carolina Cavalry, the campaigns of the Civil War, travel in Europe, family life in New Bern and Chapel Hill, and the university.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: London, Lawrence Foushee.

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Library Rare Book Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill records, 1928-2017.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Rare Book Collection · 1928

Rare Book Collection records from the library at Chapel Hill span 1928 to 2017, approximately 4,600 items in 4.5 linear feet, University Archives 40056. The files cover rare books and special collections in North Carolina libraries and the history of higher education in the state, with material on Lawrence Foushee London and the Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and Development of the Book.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: London, Lawrence Foushee.

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