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- Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. A collection of 10 pamphlets bound in three-quarter brown calf & marbled boards. The rubbed & scuffed covers are detached and the spine has perished and is thus lacking. Approximately 379 pages in all. The original title page to the first work is lacking. A manuscript title page for the overall volume, signed by Saunders, has been bound in. There is offsetting to the endpapers and pastedowns. A few pages are creased and there is some some soiling and scattered foxing throughout with some particularly heavy foxing to the pages of a few of the pamphlets. Staining and a hole to the last page with some loss to the first 4 lines of text on that page. The pagination of each pamphlet, listing corrections and manuscript annotations by Saunders, is contained in the list of the pamphlets which follows.The contents are as follows: 1. [Catalogue of the Trustees, Faculty and Students of the University of North Carolina. Raleigh, NC: Seaton Gales, 1851]. The title page for this catalog is lacking. Pages [3]-31, [1]. On page 15 of this catalog, Saunders has partially clipped out from the freshman class list three names that most likely were incorrectly entered. He has written the corrections in pencil below.2). Catalogue of the Trustees, Faculty and Students of the University of North Carolina. 1851-'2. Raleigh, NC: Seaton Gales, 1852. Pages [1]-32.3). Catalogue of the Trustees, Faculty and Students of the University of North Carolina. 1852-'3. Raleigh, NC: Seaton Gales, 1853. Pages [1]-32. On page 16 of this catalog Saunders has partially clipped a name from the freshman class list and corrected it in pencil below. The corrected name is William J. Saunders.4). Catalogue of the Trustees, Faculty and Students of the University of North Carolina. 1853-'4. Raleigh, NC: Seaton Gales, 1854. Pages [1]-39, [1]. In the list of the Senior class of which he is a member Saunders notes on March 31, 1889 that 35 members of the class have died.5). Catalogus Senatus Academici et Eorum Qui Munera et Officio Academica Gesserunt, Quique Aliquovis Gradu Exornati Sunt, in Universitate Carolinae-Borealis. Ralegae: Gulielmus-Dewey Cooke, Typographo, 1852. Pages [1-5]-43, [1].6). Catalogue of the Philanthropic Society, Instituted in the University of North Carolina, August 1st, 1795. Raleigh: Printed at the Office of the "Weekly Post",1852. Pages [1]-47, [1].7). Catalogue of the Members of the Dialectic Society, Instituted in the University of North Carolina, June 3rd, 1795. Raleigh: Printed at the Office of the "Weekly Post"., 1852. Pages [1]-61, [1].8). William Waigstill Avery: Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina, June 4, 1851. Published by order of the Dialectic Society. Raleigh: Printed by William W. Holden, 1851. Pages [1]-23, [1].Here William Saunders inserts the following handwritten note: "1852. The address before the two Societies in the year 1852 was delivered by Hon Thomas S Ashe but at his request was not published."9). Hon. Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson of Tennessee: Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina, June 1, 1853. Raleigh: Printed by W. W. Holden, "Standard" Office, 1853. Pages [1]-31, [1]. The subject of this address is the influence and responsibility of a lawyer.10). Hon. Aaron V. Brown: Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina, May 31st, 1854. Raleigh, N.C.: Published by William C. Doub, 1854. Pages [1]-27, [1]. There is a hole in the last page of this pamphlet with some loss of text. A collection assembled by the chief organizer of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina William L. Saunders (1835-1891). The collection is signed by him on the front pastedown, titled in his hand and signed by him on an inserted leaf and occasionally annotated by him. Saunders graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1854. He was a colonel in the Confederate Sta. Seller Inventory # 97274
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