]> Finding Aid for the Nellie Ashburn Bond Papers, 1893 - 1967 Processed by: Archives Staff; machine-readable finding aid created by: Jason Alston University Libraries, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro 2009 Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: ; Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS Finding Aid for the Nellie Ashburn Bond Papers, 1893 - 1967 University of North Carolina at Greensboro Descriptive Summary Nellie Ashburn Bond was a member of the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG) class of 1897, and later worked as an assistant in the English department. The Nellie Ashburn Bond Papers date from 1893 to 1967 and contain correspondence, speeches, diary, notebooks, and the typescript of an article for Alumni News. Nellie Ashburn Bond Papers, 1893 - 1967 Mss023 Bond, Nellie Ashburn 0.209 Linear Feet, 1 Box University Archives and Manuscripts English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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 Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Nellie Ashburn Bond Papers, University Archives and Manuscripts, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA.

 Acquisition Information

Gift of Mrs. John W. Bond in 1967

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Encoded by Jason Alston, July 2009;

Biographical Note

Nellie Ashburn Bond was a member of the State Normal and Industrial School (now University of North Carolina at Greensboro) class of 1897. After graduation, she taught school in Laurel Bluff, North Carolina and Statesville, North Carolina. Bond returned to the State Normal and Industrial College in 1900 as an assistant in the English department. In 1902, she attended summer school at Columbia University in New York City. Bond was married to Edward S. Askew of her hometown of Windsor in 1909.

Collection Overview

The Nellie Ashburn Bond Papers date from 1893 to 1967 and contain correspondence, speeches, diary, notebooks, and the typescript of an article for Alumni News.

Most of the sixteen letters are concerned with family and personal matters. Eleven of them were written from New York while Bond was at Columbia and include descriptions of New York and Philadelphia. In a letter written from the Normal in 1902 she mentions J.Y. Joyner leaving to become Superintendent of Public Instruction. The correspondence includes a letter to Bond from Virginia Brown Douglas, which mentions their European trip accompanied by Miss Petty and Miss Fort of the State Normal and Industrial College. The diary describes this trip to Europe in 1905.

Collection Arrangement

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Detailed Description of the Collection Notebooks, Diary and Typescript Correspondence, 1893-1905 Correspondence (March-May 1967), Typescript of Article Related Material

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