Finding Aid for the Ina B. Forbus Manuscript, 1962
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Ina B. Forbus was a Scottish immigrant, UNC alumna, and author, who set many of her stories at a converted grist mill in North Carolina where she and her husband summered. This collection contains the rough draft and setting copy for Forbus' novel Melissa.
MSS 111
1 box, .4 linear feet
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Ina B. Forbus Manuscript (MSS 111), University Archives and Manuscripts, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Gift of the author.
Ina B. Forbus was born in Scotland and moved to the United States when she was a child. She became a citizen upon her marriage to Sample Forbus in 1931. Forbus attended the University of Rochester and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1935 she and her husband bought an old grist mill on Cane Creek and converted it into a summer home. Mrs. Forbus often used the grist mill as a setting for her stories.
One archival box containing typescripts of a rough draft and the setting copy for the author's novel Melissa, which was published by Viking in 1952.
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