Papers, 1795-1891; (bulk 1828-1873).

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Papers, 1795-1891; (bulk 1828-1873).

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Family and business correspondence of T.W. Harriss, including letters to members of the family in Tennessee and Mississippi, and correspondence, 1870-1891, of Harriss' son, Thomas. The collection includes accounts giving prices of cotton, tobacco, and various small commodities; and letters concerning the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), commission merchants in North Carolina and Virginia, treatment of slaves in Mississippi, temperance, Randolph-Macon College, and Harriss' nomination for office in the North Carolina legislature. Among the correspondents are Lawrence O'B. Branch, I. Harriss, and Thomas W. Harriss, William H. Harriss, and Edmund Ruffin.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6966414

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Harriss, William H.

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Harriss, Thomas Whitmel, 1795-1870.

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Tobacco planter, Littleton (Halifax Co.), N.C. From the description of Papers, 1795-1891; (bulk 1828-1873). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19647216 ...

Randolph-Macon College

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Harriss, Thomas, Jr.

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Harriss family.

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Branch, Lawrence O'B. (Lawrence O'Bryan), 1820-1862

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Confederate general. From the description of Signature on the register of Brown's Hotel, Washington, 1856 Nov. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270135795 ...

Harriss, I.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Ruffin, Edmund, 1794-1865

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Agriculturalist and prominent Secessionist. From the description of Papers of Edmund Ruffin [manuscript], 1861. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647855369 Edmund Ruffin was a noted agriculturalist and publisher of Prince George and Hanover counties, Va. He was a strong defender of slavery and a secessionist. From the description of Edmund Ruffin papers, 1784-1893. WorldCat record id: 32040042 Edmund Ruffin was an agricultural experimenter an...