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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.

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DigitalNC newspapers: 22 Orange County pages naming Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers

Collections and databases

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Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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