Postlethwaite family papers, ca. 1778-1938 (bulk 1806-1838).

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Postlethwaite family papers, ca. 1778-1938 (bulk 1806-1838).

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Correspondence and papers of the Postlethwaite family, chiefly letters to William Dunbar Postlethwaite from his friends and family in Mississippi, Lousiana, and Kentucky, including 27 letters from his father. The correspondence deals primarily with family affairs and social life in plantation society. Included are other scattered papers of Samuel Postlethwaite, including a "cotton book" registering slave assignments (1806-1807), the journals of his travels to Lousiana in 1810, 1811, and 1813, and two political articles on the Mississippi and Louisiana boundaries (1817). Also included are genealogical notes on the Dunbar and Postlethewaite families, by Ellen Shields (1938), and an eighteenth century copy of the poem entitled "L'ame de Voltaire", addressed to "Monsieur De Voltaire dans son chateau a Geneve." The poem was given in 1924 by Monsieur Mortet, a justice of the city Blerencourt, France to Miss Helen Holcombe Greene as a token of appreciation for her work as a director of Anne Morgan's center of the American Committee for Devastated France.

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