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State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Description","value":"This small collection is made up of what survives of the private papers of Charles Dewey Wildes (1872-1952), lawyer, son of Thomas and Rachel M. (Dewey) Wildes, and grandson of the banker, Charles Dewey (1798-1880). The 28 items, include correspondence, notebooks, type�scripts, and printed matter. In addition to his law career, Wildes seems to have had an inclination toward the performing and lit�erary arts Twenty-one pieces of correspondence in the collection relate to his efforts to book engagements for the troupe at theatres and opera houses in Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Idaho, and Colorado.    Wildes was born and educated in Raleigh. He read law under Samuel Fox Mordecai (1852-1927), and was admitted to the bar in 1894.(The collection includes an autographed copy of the published condensation of Mordecai's 1900 lectures on \"principal and agent\" and \"master and servant\" delivered to the Wake Forest College law class where Mordecai lectured from 1900 to 1904.) Wildes' practice appears never to have been sufficiently robust to compete successfully with other Raleigh lawyers, and he moved his practice from Raleigh to Troy, N.C., about 1914 where he remained until 1924. While in Troy, Wildes maintained a law notebook in which he made notes on various subjects and annotations as to how they were affected by case law through the year 1923 (mines and mining, timber rights, deeds, dower, tenants in common, and so forth). Returning to Raleigh, Wildes kept up his law practice from 1925 to 1934, after which his name no longer appears in the list of active Raleigh lawyers. He was a justice of the peace and a U.S. commissioner of affidavits from 1935 until the close of 1945 when he was admitted as a patient to Dorothea Dix Hospital, where he died in 1952.    Wildes was Republican in his politics. In addition to the Republican Congressional Committee's Republican Text-Book for the 1906 congressional campaign, and the Republican National Committee's Campaign Text-Book for the presidential election of 1916, his papers include a manuscript notebook recording party structure in Wake County in 1930. The notebook reports the membership of the county executive committee and the various precinct organiza�tions.    In 1902 he acted as manager to a local Raleigh troupe, the Brennan-Sale Company. As noted previously, twenty-one pieces of correspondence in the collection relate to his efforts to book engagements for the troupe at theatres and opera houses in Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Idaho, and Colorado. Subse�quently, while at Troy, Wildes kept a literary notebook containing notes relating to the various literary genres, good writing practices, character development, as well as extracts from George Allen England's The Art of Story Writing, the Literary Digest, C. Alphonso Smith's What Can Literature do for _Me?, and various other writers from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. While in Troy, Wildes made the acquaintaince of Frederick Bloomer (1854-1932), an Englishman, who also had literary tastes.    As a young man Bloomer had been a member of the London literary society called \"Sett of Odd Volumes\", and in 1882 contributed a biographical sketch of John Trotter Brockett (1788-1842) when the society privately printed an unpublished manuscript left by the antiquary. In 1895 Bloomer came to the United States with his wife and young son, Frederick Boaz Bloomer. For a while he was employed as a manager at one of the mines in Cabarrus County, but by 1910 he was managing a real estate office in Southern Pines, Moore County. By the time World War I came to an end, Bloomer, his wife having died earlier in the century and his son having gone to Canada during the war, took up residence in Troy, N.C. Here, between the years 1919 and 1924 Bloomer wrote a prohibition era novel, The Ninth of June; Being the History of One Day in a Mans Life. It is presumed that the carbon copy of the type�script of the novel found among Wildes' papers was a gift to him from Bloomer."},{"label":"Digital Characteristics","value":"2 pages"},{"label":"Format","value":["Finding aids"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers."},{"label":"Source Collections","value":["Charles Dewey Wildes Papers . Private Collections. 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