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James Monroe Spencer

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Cornelia Phillips Spencer papers, 1833-1975 (bulk 1839-1942).

Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908 · 1839

Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908), the Chapel Hill writer, is the subject of papers running 1833 to 1975 with the bulk from 1839 to 1942, about 6,700 items in ten linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 683. Diaries and albums are named among the material. Topics include James and Judith Vermeule Phillips, Julia Spencer Love and James Lee Love, mothers and daughters, Reconstruction in North Carolina, and American women authors of the nineteenth century.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Spencer, James Monroe, 1827-1861.

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Read contemporary evidence: State Archives catalog: 7 collections naming James Monroe Spencer State Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for James Monroe Spencer NC LIVE 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
Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) 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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