Indexed works
Works about or by Daniel Webster. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Willie Person Mangum papers,
Mangum, Willie Person,; Mangum, Arthur,; Mangum, Charity Alston Cain
Personal and political papers of Willie Person Mangum, the Whig senator from Orange County, together with papers of Arthur Mangum and Charity Alston Cain Mangum. Correspondents include Daniel Webster, William A. Graham, David L. Swain, John Chavis and Abraham Lincoln, and other topics include plantations at Hillsborough, the estate called Walnut Hill, state politics, agriculture and education.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 -- Correspondence.
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: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.
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Collections and databases
- NC LIVE: prepared search for Daniel Webster Library card Search NC LIVE for this subject and Orange County. You can change the search terms. Sign in through your North Carolina library to access the materials.
- 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
