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

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #4811-z
                     LEMUEL BANNISTER PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Lemuel Bannister was president of the Green Swamp
           Company, a lumber business based in Wilmington and
           Bolton, N.C.
               Twenty-seven letters from Lemuel Bannister to his
           fiancee, Frankie (Frances?) Kenyon of Cleveland, Ohio,
           written between June and November 1868, immediately
           after Bannister moved to Wilmington, N.C., to become
           president of the Green Swamp Company.  Some letters
           describe Bannister's impressions of southern culture,
           his African American employees, the Green Swamp, and
           the state legislature of North Carolina.  Those dated
           24 and 28 June are particularly interesting for
           Bannister's impressions of North Carolina and the
           South.  Most of the letters express his great love and
           longing for his fiancee.  Letters, November 1868, are
           full of preparations for their wedding in Fulton,
           N.Y., near the end of the month.  Also included is a
           small photograph in a copper frame, presumably of
           Lemuel Bannister.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Afro-Americans--North Carolina--Employment--History--19th
       century.
   Afro-Americans--North Carolina--Social life and customs
       --19th century.
   Bannister, Lemuel. 
   Bolton (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
   Cleveland (Ohio)--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Green Swamp (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
   Green Swamp Company.
   Kenyon, Frankie. 
   Love-letters--North Carolina--History--19th century.
   Lumber trade--North Carolina--History--19th century.
   North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
   Reconstruction--North Carolina. 
   Wilmington (N.C.)--Social life and customs--19th century.

Size:  27 items.

Provenance:    Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum, Dealer in Rare
               Manuscripts and Archives, of Watchung, N.J. in
               April 1996 (Acc. 96068).

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   Item separated:  P-4811/1.

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