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Hinton Rowan Helper Collection

 Collection
Identifier: DC0233s
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a holograph copy of Helper's 1882 Last Will and Testament and a 1946 letter written by Hattie Thompson describing the Helper family.

Dates: 1882 - 1946

Houston Ballard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: DC0170s
Scope and Contents The collection consists of miscellanous manuscript items including: a slave pass signed by Thomas Allison (1859), a receipt from H. P. Helper (1873), a letter from Fannie Dobbins to Rev. W.W Wood concerning church membership (1871), and a warrant to the Sheriff of Rowan County for George Love, David Caldwell, and Samuel Love (1824). Additional materials relating to Thomas Allison, H. M. Mills, Julia Sloan and General D.H. Hill are located in the Houston Ballard Davidsoniana file. All of...
Dates: 1824 - 1873

Lacy Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: DC0147s
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence (1851-1859) primarily from Mrs. Mary Lacy to her stepdaugther Bess; an article on the letters (1980), and the manuscripts for seven of Dr. Lacy's sermons (1855-1860). - The collection consists of nine handwritten, double-sided correspondence letters (1851-1859) from Mrs. Mary Lacy to her stepdaughter Elizabeth 'Bess' Dewey, typed transcripts of the letters, copied pages of a ledger, reproductions of a Reverend Dr. Drury Lacy photograph...
Dates: 1851-1860, 1980

Lyman J. Parrigin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: DC0256s
Scope and Contents The collection contains an assortment of covers, postmarked envelopes, from 1839 to 1899, arranged chronologically. The bulk of the collection consists of 27 covers with various Davidson College, N.C. postmarks and includes 6 illuminated covers decorated with engravings of the Old Chambers Building. Three additional covers with Davidson College, N.C. postmarks are mounted individually on sheets with notes and were assembled by Paul Freeland (1925). One of these is one of the illuminated...
Dates: undated

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