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William Gilmore Simms

1806–1870 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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C. Hugh Holman papers, 1930s-1980s.

Holman, C. Hugh (Clarence Hugh), 1914-1981 · 1959

Papers of C. Hugh Holman, who lived from 1914 to 1981, spanning the 1930s to the 1980s, 26,000 items in twenty six linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4537. Topics include southern American literature and the writers Holman studied, among them Ellen Glasgow, William Gilmore Simms and Thomas Wolfe, along with American radio plays, the National Humanities Center and his work as a college administrator.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870.

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