Inventory to the Samuel Huntington Hobbs Papers, Mss. He was chair of the University s Department of Rural Social Economics from 1933 until it merged with the Department of Sociology in 1939. Correspondence includes Hobbs s professional and personal correspondence with colleagues, people with an interest in agriculture, students, and friends.
Writings consist chiefly of lectures and speeches.
The collection also contains material pertaining to Hobbs s study of part-time farming in North Carolina, documents relating to Hobbs s work with the North Carolina Rural Electrification Project, and a genealogy of the Hobbs family. Hobbs, Samuel Huntington, 1895-1969. Rural Electrification Authority. Dept. of Rural Social Economics. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.