Restrictions: This collection is open to all researchers.
Rights: The status of copyright for these materials is governed by Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. C.). Copyright restrictions may apply.
Acquisition Note: Source: Lenoir Chambers by donation. Lenoir Chambers donated the June 28, 1862 proclamation on February 1, 1965. He donated the manuscript Salt Water and Printer's Ink on August 21, 1969.
Related Materials:
Lenoir Chambers Papers #3827, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For more information please see https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/03827/.
Preferred Citation: Lenoir Chambers Papers, MSS 0000-009, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
Scope and Contents: The unabridged circa 1967 manuscript Salt Water and Printer's Ink, along with speeches, writings, and other materials written or compiled by Lenoir Chambers of Norfolk, Virginia. Subject matter of the writings include the South, Stonewall Jackson, local newspaper history, and desegregation of Norfolk's public schools. There are also separate files of materials on Norfolk Academy and Norfolk Public Library. The collection also includes clippings about Lenoir Chambers from 1940-1968 and clippings about the South, Civil War, and Stonewall Jackson from 1948-1963. There is also one original 1862 proclamation forbidding the assembly of people for purposes of political discussion pasted onto a sheet of paper.