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Stephen B. Weeks

Stephen Beauregard Weeks graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1886, took a master's degree there the next year and in 1888 the first doctorate given by its Department of English. After his death in 1918 the university bought his collection of about 9,000 books and pamphlets, which became the nucleus of its North Carolina Collection.

Source: NCpedia: Weeks, Stephen Beauregard (H. G. Jones, 1996)

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Lane and White, the governors of Roanoke

Weeks, Stephen B. (Stephen Beauregard), 1865-1918 · 1890 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

Stephen B. Weeks on Ralph Lane and John White, the two men who governed the Roanoke colony for Sir Walter Raleigh in the 1580s. Published by the students of the University at Chapel Hill in 1890.

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Blackbeard, the corsair of Carolina : a paper read before the North Carolina Historical Society at Chapel Hill, September 19, 1888

Weeks, Stephen B. (Stephen Beauregard), 1865-1918 · 1889 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

A paper Stephen B. Weeks read to the North Carolina Historical Society at Chapel Hill on 19 September 1888, on the pirate Blackbeard, who died in 1718. The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies printed it the following year from the North Carolina University Magazine.

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The North Carolina Historical Society

Weeks, Stephen B. (Stephen Beauregard), 1865-1918 · 1887 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

An account of the North Carolina Historical Society, attributed to Stephen B. Weeks and detached from the University Magazine of December 1887. The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies printed it at Chapel Hill, where the historical society was based.

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The Weeks collection of Caroliniana

Weeks, Stephen B. (Stephen Beauregard), 1865-1918 · 1907 · E.M. Uzzell & Co., Printers

Stephen B. Weeks describes the Caroliniana library he assembled, a bibliography of North Carolina books and imprints printed at Raleigh in 1907 by E.M. Uzzell and Company. The Weeks collection passed to the university's North Carolina Collection in 1918, so the pamphlet also is a checklist of what that collection took in.

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The acquisition of the Stephen B. Weeks Collection of Caroliniana

Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979 · 1965

Louis Round Wilson's account of how the University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill acquired the Stephen B. Weeks collection of Caroliniana, the private library gathered by the historian Stephen Beauregard Weeks, 1865 to 1918. Dated 1965, it concerns Weeks and the library's North Carolina Collection.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Weeks, Stephen B. (Stephen Beauregard), 1865-1918.

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  • Wider context · NC 027.575 WEE Libraries and Literature in North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century Weeks, Stephen Beauregard · 1896

    First printed in the American Historical Association's annual report for 1895, Stephen B. Weeks's study of libraries and writing in eighteenth-century North Carolina fills pages 171 to 267 of that report and was issued separately by the Government Printing Office in 1896. It ends with a bibliography.

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  1. Stephen B. Weeks teaches as the university's instructor in English For the 1887-88 session the university made Stephen B. Weeks, who had just taken his master's degree, its instructor in English, while Claudius Dockery became instructor in Latin.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 399
  2. Stephen B. Weeks receives the university's first doctorate in English At the 1888 commencement Weeks was the one candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy, with a thesis on 'The Maid of France and Schiller Versus Shakespeare.' It was the first doctorate given in English at the university.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 396
  3. The University Magazine issues its Golden Jubilee number In 1894 the University Magazine marked fifty years since its first issue with a Golden Jubilee number, prepared largely by faculty editor Collier Cobb and filled with articles on the university's history. People: Collier Cobb, Kemp Plummer Battle, George Tayloe Winston, Stephen B. WeeksSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 739
  4. Stephen B. Weeks speaks on the university in the Civil War at its centennial At the centennial anniversary exercises Weeks gave a long prepared address, 'The University of North Carolina in the Civil War,' in Memorial Hall on the evening of June 5, after Henry A. London; Alfred Moore Waddell and Adolphus H. Eller had reviewed earlier periods of the university's history that morning. People: Alfred Moore Waddell, Henry Armand LondonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 518
  5. The university buys Stephen B. Weeks's North Carolina library After Weeks died in May 1918, the university bought his collection of about 9,000 books and pamphlets on North Carolina. The purchase roughly doubled the North Carolina Collection's book holdings and became its nucleus.Search the index · NCpedia: Historical Collections

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