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Lewis, NELL BATTLE, PAPERS (1893-1956) Raleigh,·North Carolina P.C 255.1 - 255.53 Collection: LEwiS, NELL BATTLE, PAPERS (1893-1956) Raleigh,·North Carolina 1862; 1920-1956 Physical Description: Letters, magazines, books, pamphlets, reprints, brochures, newspaper and magazine clippings, invitations, bills, receipts, will, settlement of estate, pictures,_ advertisements, quizoontests, cards, genealogy, book, thesis, and novel MSS. 53 boxes, Acquisition: On loan fr\,m the North Carolina State Library, Raleigh. 1962, June Description: Nell Battle Lewis, only daughter of public health pioneer Dr. Richard H. Lewis· and Mary Long Gordon Lewis of Albernarle County, Virginia, was born in Raleigh, May 28, 1893. · Miss Lewis 1 ancestory included George Durant, one of the earliest holders of land from the British Crown in eastern North Carolina, as well as l<iinifred Wiggins, secretary of the Edenton Tea Party. Her maternal grandfather was Judge Joseph John Daniel of the State Supreme Court. Another maternal ancestor, Nary Long Daniel Gordon, was one of the original thirteen students enrolled at St. Mary's College when it opened in 1842. She attended the public schools before graduating from St. J~ary' s College, Raleigh and Smith College, Northampton, Massa­ chusetts. After YMCA canteen s.ervice in France with the AEF in 1918 and 1919, she returned to Raleigh and began work with the News and Observer in 1921. For 35 years, interrupted only by a period'Of illness and five months as an associate editor of the Raleigh Times, Miss Lewis served. progressively as society reporter, general reporter, society editor, feature writer, and columnist. During this time she was also director of publicity for the State Board of Charities and Public 1velfare (1922-1924) · in the early administration of Commissioner Kate Burr Johnson, and later compiled and edited the first study of capital punishment in North Carolina. Having studied law under Assistant Attorney General Walter Siler, she practiced briefly before illness ended this phase of her career. Miss Lewis'defense of the girls involved ..... - LEHIS, NELL BATTLE, PAPERS (1893-1956) P.C. 255.1 - 255.53 Raleigh, North Carolina . _;: 1862;1920-1956 in the Samarcand Arson Trial was her principal case and her exposition of conditions at that institution subsequently 1ed to a refonn of conditions there. Other areas of social welfare engaged her time and talents over the years - the labor movement, condition of women in industry, penal system, public library campaign, etc. Her cultural anl. political interests are· reflected in membership and official connection with such organizations and institutions as ~he North Carolina Historical Commission (State Department of Archives and History), the State Literary and Historical Association, ·the State Folklore Society, the Wake County and the North Carolina Leaguesof Woinen Voters, the State Federation of Women's Clubs, and· the Olivia Raney and Richard B. Harrison libraries. Miss Lewis was an unsuccessful candidate for the North Carolina Legislature in 1928. For a number of years· she taught English and Bible at her alma mater, St. Mary's College. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of her column "Incidentally, n Nell Battle Lewis paused to sum up her philosophfon several subjects. An editorial in the News and Observer, following her death, described her beginning the column as a 11 gay and light11 report on the currant scene. The passing years, however, reflected her change in viewpoint as she became seriously interested in liberal causes, orily to bec<l1!e increasingly conservative later. But, as the editorialist observed, the column was always marked with "sprightliness and Vigor" and was "widely read and usually debated sharply •" \ (. ) • LNIIIS, NELL BATTLE, PAPERS P.c; 255.1 - 255.53 -~ Raleigh, North Carolina ) - 3 1862J 1920-1956 Correspondence - 1862, 1926-1956 P.C. 255.1 Correspondence 1926-1930 P.C. 255.2 Correspondence 1931-1939 P.C, 255.3 Correspondence 1940-1942 p .c. 255.4 Correspondence 1943-1945 P.C. 255.5 Correspondence 1946-1947 P.C, 255.6 Correspondence 1948-1950 p .c. 255.7 Correspondence 1951-1953' P.C. 255.8 Correspondence 1954 P.C. 255.9 Correspondence 1955-1956) Un~ated P.C. 255.10 Correspondence (Personal) 1926-1955 ' I ' -- ' Newspaper Columns and Editorials - 1926-1956 P.C. 255.11 "A C9rner for the Kiddies" 1920-1921 (News and Observer) "Incidentally" Duplicates 1921-1955 (News and Observer) P.C. 255.12 "Incidentally" Duplicates 1928-1939 P .C. 255.13 "Incidentally" Duplicates 1940-1944 P.C. 255.14 ''Incidentally" Duplicates 1945-1950 P.C. 255.15 "Incidentally" Duplicates 1951-1953 P.C. 255.16 "Incidentally" Duplicates 1954-1956 P.C. 255.17 Raleigh Times Editorials June 16-30 J JulyJ August 1948 P.C. 255.18 Raleigh Times Editorials .. - September; October l-5J November () 2-13 1948 \ / ·; . 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LEWIS, NELL BATTLE, PAPERS P.c. 255.1- 255,53 Raleigh, North Carolina -4 1862J 1920-1956 P.C. 255.19 Scrapbook P.C. 255.20 Scrapbook P.C. 255.21 .Scrapbook P.C. 255.22 Scrapbook P.C. 255.23 Scrapbook Material ±'or "Incidentall.y" P.C. 255.24 Raleigh (1900-1937) North Carolina (1862-1953) P.C. 255.25 North Carolina (1862-1953) P.C. 255.26 The South (1923~1953) The Negro (1931-1948) p .c. 255.27 Women (1922-1940) No~th Carolina Women P.C. 255.28 Social Welfare (1922-1938) Penal System Board of Public Welfare Capital Punishment and Criminal Justice Psychiatry, Crime, and Mental Hygiene P.C. 255.29 Social Welfare (1922-1938) Samarcand Arson Case p .c. 255.30 Labor and Industry (1925-1935) Child Labor Women in Industry Southern School for Industrial Workers Henderson Strike Gastonia Strike Marion Strike Burlington Dynamite Plot P.C. 255.31 Miscellan~Jous Alfred Smith Campaign (1928) Public Library Campaign (1935-1937) School Textbook Controversy (1940-1941) Martin Luther Film (1953-1954) . Great Books Foundation · LDIIS, NELL BATTLE, PAPERS P.C. 255.1- 255.53 Raleigh, North Carolina _5 P.C. 255.32 Great Britain (1939-1954) Newspapers P.C. 255.33 Great·Britain (1939-1954) Newspapers P,C. 255.34 Great Britain (1939-1954) Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II P.G. 255.35 Great Britain (1939-1954) Commonwealth Tour of Queen Elizabeth II P.C. 255.36 Peace MOvement (1927-1935) World War II (1941-1945) Post-1Nrar Planning and the United Nations (1941~1945) P.C. 255.37 Russia (1945-1948) Communism (1930-1948) Communism in North Carolina (1945-1955) P.C. 255.38 World Federation (1947-1953) P.C. 255.39 Interposition and Segregation (1951-1956) P.C. 255.40 Segregation - North Carolina (l898J 1950-1956) P.C. 255.41 Religion and Psychic phenomena (1923-1954) P.C. 255.'42 Magazines P.C. 255.43 Miscellaneous Material P .G. 255.44. Miscellaneous Typescripts Speeches Lectures Articles Biographical Sketches P.C. 255.45 Miscellaneous Material Pictures P.C. 255.46 Miscellaneous Material Newspaper clippings and articles by and about Nell Battle Lewis LJMIS, NELL BATTLE, PAPERS P.C. 255.1- 255.53 Raleigh, North Carolina - {. 1862J 1920--1956 P.C. 255.47 The Wayt The Works and Words of Jesus of Nazareth Manuscript of book compiled and annotated by Nell Battle Lewis P.C. 255.48 St. Mary's College Records P.C. 255.49 Advertisements and Quiz Contests P.C. 255.50 Cards, Genealogy, Invitations, etc. P.C. 255.51 Miscellanequs Personal Papers P.C. 255.52 Miscellaneous Personal Papers P.C. 255.53 Johnson novel MSS. Covington MSS. I LE\US, l·!ELL BATTLE, PAPERS PC 2S5.l - 25).53 Raleigh, North Carolina ~-7 186:!; 1920-1956 . General Correspondence ( lil65-l955) Nell Battle LeHiS 1 correspondence folloHS, more or less chronologically, the issues - local, national, and ~rorld-Hide - that engase her attention personally and as author of the Ne<rs and Observer columri "Incidentally ,II 11 Inc:i.dentally11 fans 1·1rote on many subjects, acknmrledging recognition in the column, offering suggestions, reqw;sting information, agreeine; and disagr-::eing with op].nions expressed, and sending poems, slcetches, incidents, publications, etc. These letters· are from all sections of the state and rnany parts of the nation, A fe\·1 of her correspondents 1-irote fairly frequently. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Havy, Ambassador to Nexico, and her employer as publisher of the Neus and Observer, H-rote fran Mexico and later from Raleigh (1937-1944), 1·ecalling her father, requesting a poem fqr Eleanor Roosevelt and later telling Hrs, Roosevelt• s reaction, seeking information, commenting on topics appearing in the column, praising her crusades, -and advising her against deserting liberalism. Phillips Russell, Chapel Hill author, urote encouraging her to continue "to stir up the lethargic,'' giving suggestions for syndicating 11 Incidentally, 11 and advising on hm< and <There to apply for ~rriting fellolfships from national publishing firms. Paul Green•~ letters (1937-1942) refer frequently to her _writing and to his own. He suggests she commend Governor Hoey for doing someth]_ng about the -"capital punishment· tragedy" in North Carolina, urges her to expose the "Brenau fakers" in the Dare .Stones investigation, approves her airing of the school textbook controversy, and declares the State and the South owe much to her and her column 11 one of the bright spots in No-rth Carolina letters." Green also asks for suggestions for improving his "Lost Colony" and explains his purposes. Several letters from Dr. Hubert Royster, pioneer Raleigh surgeon, relate reminiscences of his father. and his philosophy. On the subject of psychic phenomena, Dr. J. B. Rhine of the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory 1uote from time to time (1937-1954) thariking her for references to his work and revie1·1s of his books, for reading his manuscript, expressing an interest in her collection on the subject and promising to send more m3.terial, and acknouledging her a real friend to all that they have done at Duke University; u;,ns, NELT.
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