Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #M-1697
                JAMES AND CHARLES B. ALLEN PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Personal, family, and business correspondence of
           James Allen, planter of Warren County, Miss., and of
           his son, Charles B. Allen, including European
           correspondence in the 1850s, mostly from Paris and the
           Hague, where James was apparently conducting business,
           and from European schools Charles attended; Civil War
           letters from Charles while a Confederate soldier in
           Mississippi and Alabama and from James in Richmond,
           Mobile, and other places, while he was invovled in a
           variety of enterprises, including salt manufacture;
           James's official correspondence as provost marshall of
           freedmen in Warren County, 1865-1866; and some post-
           war plantation papers, mainly concerning land
           transactions and the sale of cotton.  Also included is
           a notebook, 1788-1796, of Garret Rapalje of Alabama,
           containing accounts, records of Indian words, etc.
           (incomplete typed transcription of an original
           manuscript at the Mississippi Department of Archives
           and History).

Online Catalog Terms:
   Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
   Allen, Charles B., fl. 1850-1869.
   Allen, James, fl. 1856-1866.
   Cotton trade--Mississippi--History--19th century.
   Europe--Description and travel--1800-1918.
   Freedmen--Mississippi.
   Indians of North America--Alabama--History--18th century.
   Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1860-1865.
   Plantation owners--Mississippi.
   Plantations--Mississippi--Warren County.
   Rapalje, Garret, fl. 1788-1796.
   Salt mines and mining--Confederate States of America.
   Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.

Size:  About 300 items (1 reel of microfilm).

Provenance:    Lent for filming from Mrs. Ralph Haxton of
               Greenville, Miss., in April 1950. 

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.  

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.