A Guide to the Richard Thompson Archer Family Papers, 1790-1919
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Creator |
Archer, Richard Thompson, 1797-1867. |
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Title |
Richard Thompson Archer Family Papers |
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Dates: |
1790-1919 |
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Abstract |
Starting in 1837 Richard Thompson Archer owned the Anchuca Plantation in Claiborne County, Mississippi. His family papers relate to Southern plantation economy and agriculture, slavery, family and social life in Mississippi and Virginia. |
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Extent |
5 ft., 4 in. |
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Language |
English. |
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Repository |
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin |
Archer, born in Virginia in 1797, came to Mississippi in 1824, married Ann Barnes (in 1833?), and settled on Anchuca Plantation near Port Gibson, Claiborne County, in 1837 and became a wealthy planter and slave-owner.
Correspondence, financial and legal documents, printed and pictorial material relate to Archer, his relatives, friends, and business associates and contain information on plantation life and economy, agricultural affairs, slaves and slavery in Mississippi and Virginia, and social life and customs in both states. Women's correspondence relates to children, clothing, education, mental and physical health, medical practices, and household affairs. Other material relates to associates in Mississippi, Virginia, and Texas, including Branch Tanner Archer (elder), William Segar Archer, the Anderson, Barnes, Cocke, Eggleston, Hobson, Johnson, and Willis families, Elijah Steele Drake, William P. Grayson, Felix Huston, and L. Masters.
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Arrangement |
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Arranged primarily chronologically under document type or under alphabetical name classifications. |
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Forms part of Natchez Trace Collection. |
Unrestricted.
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Subjects |
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Agriculture--Mississippi. |
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Commission merchants--Louisiana--New Orleans. |
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Cookery, American--Mississippi. |
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Freedmen. |
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Lumber mills--Mississippi. |
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Medicine--Practice--Mississippi--19th century. |
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Plantations--Mississippi. |
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Railroads--Texas. |
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Slaves--Mississippi. |
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Slaves--Virginia. |
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State rights. |
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Places |
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Amelia County (Va.)--History--Sources. |
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Anchuca Plantation (Miss.) |
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Claiborne County (Miss.)--History--Sources. |
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Holmes County (Miss.)--History--Sources. |
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Mississippi--Social conditions. |
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Port Gibson (Miss.)--History--Sources. |
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Richmond (Va.)--History--Sources. |
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Virginia--Social conditions. |
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Other Authors |
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Archer, Branch Tanner, 1790-1856. |
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Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855. |
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Archer family. |
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Barnes family. |
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Cocke family. |
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Eggleston family. |
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Huston, Felix, 1800-1857. |
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Irving family. |
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Masters, L. |
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Percy family. |
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Willis family. |
Richard Thompson Archer Family Papers, 1790-1919, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Inventory |
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| 2E646 |
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Richard Thompson Archer papers: |
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Letters written: |
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1831-1867 and undated |
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| 2.325/V36 |
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(oversize) 1841, 1856-1859 |
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| 2E646 |
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Letters received: |
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1824-1847 |
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| 2E647 |
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1848-1868 and undated |
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| 2.325/V36 |
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(oversize) 1837-1860 |
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| 2E647 |
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Literary productions, speeches, public notices, petitions: |
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Politics, slavery, states' rights, secession: |
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1830, 1859, and undated |
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| 2.325/V36 |
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(oversize) Undated |
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| 2E647 |
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Miscellaneous: |
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1851 and undated |
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| 2.325/V36 |
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(oversize) Undated |
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| 2E647 |
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Financial records: |
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1827-1840 |
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Lumber mill book, 1836-1838 |
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| 2E648 |
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1841-1867 and undated |
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| 2.325/V36 |
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(oversize) 1838-1865 |
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| 2E648 |
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Immediate family: |
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Archer family ledger book, 1824-1845 |
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| 2E649 |
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Ann Barnes Archer papers: |
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Letters written: |
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| 3B49 |
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Transcriptions, letters to family members, 1834-1890 |
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| 2E649 |
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1834-1868, 1878, 1889-1890, and undated |
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| 2.325/V38 |
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(oversize) 1842 |
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| 2E649 |
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Letters received: |
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1847-1890 and undated |
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| 2.325/V38 |
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(oversize) 1868-1869 |
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| 2E649 |
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Financial records: |
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1860-1892 and undated |
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| 2.325/V38 |
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(oversize) 1867-1872 |
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| 2E649 |
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Abram Barnes Archer and family papers: |
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1848-1857 |
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| 2E650 |
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1858-1897, 1910, and undated |
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| 2.325/V38 |
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(oversize) 1848, 1858-1868 |
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| 2E650 |
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Mary Catherine [Chastain?] ("[Marie?]") Archer papers, 1848-1863, and undated |
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Jane R. ("Jennie") Archer papers, 1850-1891 and undated |
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| 2E651 |
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Ann Maria ("Tap") Archer Irving and family papers: |
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1848-1898, 1907, 1919, and undated |
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| 2.325/V38 |
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(oversize) 1858 |
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| 2E652 |
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Elizabeth Barnes ("Lizzie") Archer Percy and family papers |
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1855-1900, 1912-1915, and undated |
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| 2.325/V38 |
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(oversize) 1877-1878 |
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| 2E652 |
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Branch T. Archer (younger), Esther Bell ("Essie") Archer, and Richard T. Archer (younger) papers, 1855-1858, 1866-1910, and undated |
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Stephen Cocke Archer (elder), Catherine C. Voss Barnes Archer, and Mary [Chestain?] Cocke Archer papers: |
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1822, 1831-1845 |
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| 2.325/V38 |
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(oversize) 1843-1845 |
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| 2E652 |
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Edward Stephen ("Ned") Archer papers: |
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1850-1865 and undated |
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| 2.325/V38 |
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(oversize) 1856, 1862 |
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| 2E652 |
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Relatives and business associates: |
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Jane S. Archer Anderson and Joseph B. Anderson letters, 1840-1860 |
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Branch Tanner Archer (elder) letters, 1850-1855 |
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Fanny T. Archer letters, 1840-1866 |
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| 2E653 |
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William Segar Archer letters, 1830-1855? and undated |
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Miscellaneous Archer correspondence, 1790, 1839-1866 |
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Monro Banister, W. J. Barksdale, and Thomas Giles letters, 1842-1854, 1865 |
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Barnes family papers: |
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1812-1835, 1848-1867 |
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| 2.325/V38 |
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(oversize) 1840 |
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| 2E653 |
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William Burke and C. G. Burke letters, 1846-1848 |
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A. T. Burnley, R. Triplett, and Philip Triplett letters: |
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1824-1831, 1855 |
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| 2.325/V38 |
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(oversize) 1843-1844 |
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| 2E653 |
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Cocke family papers, 1794, 1827-1854, and undated |
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Davis family letters, 1839-1867 |
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| 2E654 |
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Downing family correspondence 1822, 1834, 1853-1865?, 1879, and undated |
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Elijah Steele Drake papers, 1870, 1886-1898 |
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J. M. Dyer letters, 1851-1867 |
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Alfred O. Eggleston family and Robert J. Townes family letters, 1843-1859 and undated |
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Everard M. Eggleston and Harriet B. Sayer Eggleston family letters, [1837?], 1845, 1856-1868, 1881, 1884 |
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Stephen A. Eggleston letters, 1848-1854 and undated |
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Stephen R. Eggleston letters: |
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1851-1859 |
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| 2.325/V38 |
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(oversize) 1859 |
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| 2E654 |
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William T. Eggleston and Fanny P. Eggleston papers: |
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1828-1853, 1867, and undated |
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| 2.325/V38 |
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(oversize) 1841-1842, 1847 |
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| 2E654 |
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Miscellaneous Eggleston correspondence: |
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1830, 1848-1866, 1882-1886 |
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(oversize) 1853-1855 |
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| 2E654 |
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William Saint John Elliot letters, 1832-1849 |
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George England and Maria England letters, 1852-1854 |
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[S.?] C. Farrar letters, 1845-1861 |
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Richard W. Flournoy and John C. Smith letters, 1840-1843 |
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Thomas W. Flowers letters, 1856-1857 |
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Christopher Ford and Edward Ford letters, 1839-1848 |
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| 2E655 |
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Samantha M. ("Mantha") Gilson Bowman and Horatio C. Gilson letters, 1850-1867, 1889, and undated |
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William P. Grayson and E. F. Grayson papers: |
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1861-1866 |
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(oversize) 1861 and undated |
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| 2E655 |
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Gunnis-Winter family letters, 1844, 1866-1886, and undated |
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John B. Harvie letters, 1842-1846 and undated |
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H. J. Henington letters, 1857-1860 and undated |
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Hobson family letters, 1837-1865 |
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William H. Holcombe letters, 1860-1862, 1879 |
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Felix Huston family correspondence, 1843-1857, 1866, 1884 |
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Johnson famly letters, 1850-1858, 1886 |
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Henry K. Jones and James Alfred Jones papers, 1845-1848 and undated |
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John M. McDougall and Dan M. McDougall letters, 1866-1870 and undated |
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Mason family letters, [1861-1865?] and undated |
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L. Masters letters, 1848-1854 and undated |
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Maury family letters, 1866-1869, 1885-1886 |
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James Marynard letters, 1843-1852 and undated |
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Jeremiah Morton letters, 1839-1854 |
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John W. Powell letters: |
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1859-1867 |
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(oversize) 1866 |
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| 2E655 |
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Randolph family letters, 1839-1862 |
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| 2E656 |
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George William Shelton papers, 1850, 1863-1866, and undated |
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F. R. [Southmayd?] letters, 1865-1867 and undated |
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William R. Stuart letters: |
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1866 and undated |
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(oversize) 1866 |
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| 2E656 |
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William G. Thompson letters, 1848-1849 |
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Vertner family letters, 1839, 1870, 1877, and undated |
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Wharton family letters, 1853-1873, [1880-1889?] |
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Willis family papers: |
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1796-1828, 1842-1854, 1868, 1899, and undated |
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(oversize) 1812 |
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Charles Wise letters, 1852 |
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Miscellaneous family letters, 1806-1869, 1880-1899, and undated |
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Unidentified and fragmentary letters, 1854-1865, 1886, and undated |
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Prominent cotton factors' and commission merchants' papers: |
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1837-1869 |
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1870-1883 |
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(oversize) 1844-1873 |
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| 2E657 |
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Legal documents: |
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1792, [1825?]-1886, and undated |
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(oversize) 1847 and undated |
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| 2E657 |
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Recipes, directions, and prescriptions, undated |
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Slaves and freedmen, 1828, 1844-[1851?], 1867-1871, 1889, and undated |
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Railroads: |
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1855-1866 and undated |
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(oversize) 1855, 1859 |
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| 2E657 |
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Printed material: |
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1866, 1871, and undated |
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(oversize) 1848-1860, 1878-1881 |
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| 2E657 |
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Miscellaneous: |
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1859-1871 and undated |
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(oversize) 1857 and undated |
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| 3Y90 |
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Photocopies of pictorial letterheads |
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Richard Thompson Archer Family Ephemera Collection |
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