Elliott and Gonzales family papers, 1701-1898 [manuscript].

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Elliott and Gonzales family papers, 1701-1898 [manuscript].

Elliott and Gonzales family papers, 1701-1898 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22758316

The collection is chiefly correspondence, but also financial and legal papers, account books, maps and plats, a few writings of William Elliott and others, and a small amount of other material. The bulk of the material before the Civil War is correspondence of William Elliott Gonzales about South Carolina politics; sectional differences; his travels to Saratoga Springs and other health resorts, the northern states, and Europe; plantation management; rice and cotton crops; slaves; the education of children; summer at Flat Rock, N.C.; and various family matters. Only a few letters document William Elliott's career as a writer; four are from William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870). Correspondence during the Civi War years discusses the lives of civilians and soldiers in South Carolina and in western North Carolina. Post-Civil War correspondence reveals the Elliott's financial difficulties, their struggles to educate the Gonzales children, and their efforts to rebuild their plantations. It also documents the education and early professional lives of Ambrose and Narciso Gonzales. There are a few letters about the early years of their newspaper, "The State."

About 6000 items (8.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill