Wirt Family Papers, 1802-1925.

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Wirt Family Papers, 1802-1925.

1802-1925

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/01704/

Members of the Wirt family of Virginia, Maryland, and Florida include William Wirt (1772-1834); his wife Elizabeth Gamble Wirt and their children; Wirt's son-in-law Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough (1805-1877) of Florida; and James McCutcheon Baker (1837-1900) of Pensacola, Fla., who married Wirt's granddaughter. The collection contains personal and family correspondence of William Wirt (1772-1834), of Virginia and Maryland, lawyer, author, and United States attorney general, and of his descendants, including letters, 1802-1822, concerning Wirt's biography of Patrick Henry and his other writings and business and financial affairs; family correspondence, 1824-1832, chiefly between Wirt and his son, William Cabbell Wirt, at school in Massachusetts; letters of condolence at Wirt's death; family letters from the Wirt children to their mother and to each other; family and naval correspondence, 1838-1867, of Wirt's son-in-law, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough (1805-1877), serving with the United States Navy in Brazil, Europe, and Washington, D.C.; and papers, 1861-1919, of James McCutcheon Baker (1837-1900), of Florida, who married Wirt's granddaughter, concerning his Confederate naval career and postwar sea voyages, chiefly letters to his family in New Orleans. Papers after 1900 are of Baker's wife and children. Volumes include William Wirt's reminiscences of his early years, written in 1825 and 1833; Mrs. Wirt's lettercopy books, 1834-1841; and a lettercopy book, 1848-1849, of a female relative teaching school in Pensacola, Fla. Also included are fragments of William Wirt's manuscript on Patrick Henry.

1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 460 items)

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6629738

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

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