C. Clay Dillard Papers (#5077-z) 1856-1863 and undated

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C. Clay Dillard Papers (#5077-z), 1856-1863 and undated

C. Clay Dillard Papers (#5077-z) 1856-1863 and undated

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C. Clay Dillard was born in Lynchburg, Va., in 1839 and died in Leaksville, N.C., in 1863. She was graduated from the Edgeworth Female Seminary, Greensboro, N.C., in 1856, after which she traveled around the South, often visiting the plantation of her sister May and brother-in-law, General Thomas Rivers, in Somerville, Tenn. The collection consists chiefly of Dillard's journal entries detailing her personal life, 1856-1863. Dillard started the journal during her last year at Edgeworth. In that year, she discussed her classes, friends, and teachers. After graduation, she chronicled her travels throughout the South, including stops in Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Saint Louis, Mo., and visits to her sister and brother-in-law's plantation. Throughout the journal, Dillard discussed the tragedies of her life in terms of her Christian beliefs. The main focus of the journal is Dillard's romance with William Lafayette Scott, her teacher at Edgeworth. She often wrote of her feelings towards him even after the relationship was terminated by family members who considered him to be of inferior social status. Also included are a letter from William L. Scott to one of his cousins discussing the romance; a picture of the plantation Dillard's father bought in Tennessee; a printed poem attributed to Dillard, and a newspaper clipping about one of Dillard's relatives during the Spanish American War in Cuba.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection