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Russell graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1904 and returned to Chapel Hill in 1931 to teach creative writing for twenty-five years, first in English and then in the School of Journalism. He wrote the columns The Literary Lantern and Carolina Calendar and edited the Chapel Hill News Leader.
Source: NCpedia: Russell, Charles Phillips
1884–1974 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
8 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 4 works by Phillips Russell.
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Fifteen leaves of sketches about Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina by Phillips Russell, with related correspondence, dated 1967. The pieces are different versions of stories that appeared in his book These old stone walls. The papers were damaged by water in the fire at the Intimate Bookshop, the Chapel Hill store run by the Kuralt family, and salvaged afterward.
Creative writing by the students in Phillips Russell's English class at the University of North Carolina, printed by the class at Chapel Hill in 1953. The piece deals with students' periodicals and with American literature in Chapel Hill. The contents are described as class experiments rather than finished work.
Letters of 1952 between Phillips Russell, the Chapel Hill author and teacher, and Roland F. Beasley, a Monroe editor who had been state commissioner of public welfare, on how Henry George's 'Progress and Poverty' shaped progressive leaders in North Carolina and beyond. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.898.
Phillips Russell (1884-1974) taught journalism at the University of North Carolina and wrote biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Paul Jones. His papers, 7,800 items in fourteen linear feet covering 1861 to 1974, are part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4004. Topics include his publishers, his teaching, the writer Lucy Phillips Russell, and colleagues such as Henry Horace Williams and John Ehle.
Second 1974 cassette of an interview with P. H. Phillips Russell, the writer and UNC professor, recorded for the Chapel Hill Historical Society. No notes on its contents survive. Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.
Why this is here: Its title names this person.
Writer and UNC professor Phillips Russell, interviewed at his home in 1974 for one of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's first oral histories. Cassette, Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.
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Pencil map of the Chapel Hill business district as it stood in 1892, drawn by Ralph McCoy Trimble around 1966 from a Phillips Russell sketch that Julia Graves directed. On two sheets it marks streets, stores, shops, lots, houses and churches, with notes beside each business on later owners or uses. From the Images of North Carolina collection.
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Photograph of a Chapel Hill newspaper's staff in 1954: Phillips Russell as editor, Edwin J. Hamlin running the business side, L.M. Pollander in charge of advertising and Roland Giduz as news director. The paper's name is uncertain, News Leader or possibly Ledger.
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Hand-drawn map of downtown Chapel Hill as it stood in 1892, covering Franklin, Henderson, Columbia and Church streets and part of the campus. It locates Pickard's Hotel, the Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist churches, the H. H. Patterson store and other businesses and owners. Julia Hooper Graves and the writer Phillips Russell are both connected with it.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Russell, Phillips, 1884-1974.
Papers connected with Charles Phillips (1822-1889), a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina, spanning 1807 to 1968, about nine hundred items in 3.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 2462. The papers follow the family into later generations, naming Laura Battle Phillips, Lucy Phillips Russell and Phillips Russell, and concern schools and women's higher education in New Jersey and social life in Chapel Hill.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Russell, Phillips, 1884-1974.
Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
Charles Phillips Russell's These Old Stone Walls, a history of Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina, including biographical sketches and campus miscellany. Issued by the Chapel Hill Historical Society in 1972 as an illustrated typescript of 147 pages with manuscript corrections. Part of the Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection.
North Carolina's part in the American Revolution, told by Phillips Russell and printed by Heritage Printers of Charlotte in 1965; 323 pages with illustrations, portraits, a facsimile and a map on the lining papers, with source notes at the back.
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