Papers, 1823-1887; (bulk 1850-1879).

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Papers, 1823-1887; (bulk 1850-1879).

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Business and personal letters mentioning crops; commodity prices; salt works; land sales; social life and customs; schools and teachers; religion and preachers; national politics; personal debts; politics and government in Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas; marriage prospects for young ladies in San Francisco; a slave insurrection; newspapers and gossip; life and hardships in the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction; battles in Virginia; slave behavior during the war; and freedmen after the war. Writers include Cornelia Boaz; Richard C. Glenn; William E. Glenn; members of the Harris family; and Stanley Reynolds.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6966510

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Harris, Henry St. George.

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Resident of Diana Mills (Buckingham Co.), Va. From the description of Papers, 1823-1887; (bulk 1850-1879). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19657456 ...

Glenn, Richard C.

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Harris family.

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Boaz, Cornelia.

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Reynolds, Stanley

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Glenn, William E.

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