Lenoir family papers, 1763-1936, 1975 (Series 1.2) [manuscript].

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Lenoir family papers, 1763-1936, 1975 (Series 1.2) [manuscript].

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Political letters are chiefly to or from William Avery Lenoir, who was active in Whig Party politics in Alabama, or from Joseph Caldwell Norwood. Some of William Ballard Lenoir's letters to brother Thomas also contain political musings, as do letters from William Bingham of the Bingham School. Topics include family members' political ambitions; Whig Party politics; West Indian slave emancipation; funding for roads and railroads; and rumors of secession. Business correspondence centers on plantation management using slaves and North Carolina and Tennessee land speculation. Family letters document family activities, including the visits of several female family members to N.C. springs in search of cures for fatal ailments; education of males and females at the Bingham School, Salem Academy, U.N.C., and Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia; and the courtship and marriage of Walter Waightstill Lenoir and Cornelia Christian, including the death of their infant daughter and Cornelia's death in 1859.

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