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Richard Henry Wilde

1789–1847 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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George Bancroft letters

Bancroft, George · 1845

Letters of the historian George Bancroft, 1845 to 1885, 22 items. Fifteen are transcripts of letters addressed to UNC president David L. Swain about the state's history: the Regulators, the Loyalists, the Mecklenburg Declaration, Tryon and Martin as governors, and Edmund Fanning and Hermon Husbands, both central to the Regulator troubles in Hillsborough.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Wilde, Richard Henry, 1789-1847.

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