Indexed works
Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.
Miscellaneous letters, 1786-1982
1786
Single letters dated 1786 to 1982, brought together under one number, with many items described more fully in paper finding aids kept with their units. Topics include southern plantations and slavery, the Civil War and the siege of Fort Fisher, commerce and migration, and writers and public figures from Washington Irving and Daniel Webster to Margaret Mitchell. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 516.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Converse, Sherman, 1790-1873.
Research sources
Resources picked for this person, each with a note on what it holds.
Collections and databases
- NC LIVE: prepared search for Sherman Converse Library card An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
- Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries
