Biographical/historical information

Half of the collection focuses on letter sent back and forth to Robert Leslie Towe, a cashier at the First National Bank and his wife Sallie J. Winslow, a student at the East Carolina Teachers Training School. The other half is about the Winslow family and Towe family genealogy. The Winslow family was from Winfall, North Carolina and the Towe family was from Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.

Scope and arrangement

This collection is separated into 4 series, (1) correspondence, (2) photographic prints, (3) scrapbooks & genealogical research material, (4) printed material. The bulk of the collection are letters from Miss Sallie Winslow and Robert Towe.

Administrative information

Custodial History

September 9, 2008, 167 items, 1.0 cubic feet; Papers (1886–2003, undated) of the Winslow family of Winfall, North Carolina and the Towe family of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., including correspondence, photographic prints, scrapbook and genealogical research materials, and printed materials. Also includes correspondence of Sallie J. Winslow while a student at East Carolina Teachers Training School, Greenville, N.C., with her future husband, Robert Leslie Towe, an assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Roanoke Rapids, ca. 1915–1918. See preliminary inventory attached. Note: Papers were found in the home of Mrs. George (Sara Crawford) Wood; they were inherited by the donor, who is Mrs. Wood's daughter, following her death in 2007; and they were received through the courtesy of the donor's cousin, Dr. Dan Winslow and Mrs. Winslow, in Townsville, N.C. Donor: Mrs. Millicent Nash

Source of acquisition

Gift of Mrs. Millicent Nash

Processing information

Encoded by Jonathan Dembo, September 09, 2008

Processed by Ashlyn Racine, August 2023

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

Metadata Rights Declaration

Key terms

Personal Names

Coltrane, E. J.--Correspondence
MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908
MacDowell, Marian, 1857-1956
Towe, Robert Leslie--Correspondence
Winslow, Sallie J.--Correspondence

Family Names

Towe family
Winslow family

Corporate Names

Perquimans County Historical Society--Periodicals

Topical

School superintendents--North Carolina--Roanoke Rapids

Places

Roanoke Rapids (N.C.)--History

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