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Thomas Miles Garrett

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By Thomas Miles Garrett

Thomas Miles Garrett diary, 1849-1850.

Garrett, Thomas Miles, 1830-1864 · 1849

Four items centered on the diary Thomas Miles Garrett (1830-1864) kept in 1849 and 1850, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 1171-z. The papers cover the social and religious life of college students in Chapel Hill, temperance societies in nineteenth century North Carolina, and the university's Philanthropic Society, with material on Cornelia Phillips Spencer, John W. Moore and Joseph Alonzo Manning.

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