Title: Old days in Chapel Hill, being the life and letters of Cornelia Phillips Spencer,
Authors: Chamberlain, Hope Summerell; Chamberlain, Hope Summerell
Publisher: The University of North Carolina press;
Year: 1926
Subjects: Spencer, Cornelia (Phillips); University of North Carolina (1793-1962)
Contents: Beginnings -- Neighbors and their children -- An old-fashioned education -- A "young lady's" friends in Chapel Hill -- Cornelia Phillips' love story -- Widowhood -- The "surrender" -- Eleanor Swain's story, a romance of the surrender -- The writing of "The last ninety days of the war" -- Journals and letters of 1865-1866 -- The breaking up of the old regime -- After the dispersion -- Mrs. Spencer's fight for the university -- Continued hostilities -- The lean years, 1871 to 1875 -- The university bell rings again -- Pleasant places -- Writing about changes -- Mrs. Spencer's literary tastes and later writings -- Indian summer -- Going down the valley, one by one.