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Ruffin Wirt Tomlinson

1817–1844 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By Ruffin Wirt Tomlinson

The journal of Ruffin Wirt Tomlinson, the University of North Carolina, 1841-1842

Tomlinson, Ruffin Wirt, 1817-1844 · 1953

The diary Ruffin Wirt Tomlinson kept as a student at the University of North Carolina in 1841 and 1842, edited and printed in a journal in 1953 in two installments with a map. Tomlinson lived from 1817 to 1844, and his entries give a first hand account of Chapel Hill student life in the antebellum years.

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