Inventory of the John Y. Bassett Papers, 1822-1871

Collection Number 1527-z


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
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CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Bassett, John Y., 1805-1851.
Title
John Y. Bassett Papers, 1822-1871.
Call Number
1527-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
153 items.
Abstract
John Young Bassett was a physician of Huntsville, Ala. The collection contains letters relating to medical, financial, and family matters of John Young Bassett and family correspondence of his wife, Isaphoene (Thompson) Bassett. The correspondence includes letters from editors Theodore Parker and William Gilmore Simms, 1849-1850, criticizing Bassett's article on race ethnology. After her husband's death in 1852, there are letters to Mrs. Bassett from her children, including sons Watkins and Henry William (d. 1862). Watkins wrote from Waco, Tex., where he was living with his uncle. Henry joined the Confederate Army and wrote from camps in Mississippi until his death at Shiloh.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1948
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the John Y. Bassett Papers, #1527-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Ethnology--Study and teaching--United States--History--19th century.
Family--Alabama--Social life and customs.
Physicians--Alabama--History--19th century.
Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
Bassett family.
Bassett, Isaphoene Thompson, d. 1871.
Bassett, John Y., 1805-1851.
Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860.
Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870.
Huntsville (Ala.)--History.
Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Waco (Tex.)--History.
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Collection Overview

Letters relating to medical, financial, and family matters of Dr. John Young Bassett, physician of Huntsville, Ala., and family correspondence of his wife, Isaphoene (Thompson) Bassett. The correspondence includes letters from editors Theodore Parker and William Gilmore Simms, 1849-1850, criticizing Bassett's article on race ethnology. After her husband's death in 1852, there are letters to Mrs. Bassett from her children, including sons Watkins and Henry William (d. 1862). Watkins wrote from Waco, Tex., where he was living with his uncle. Henry joined the Confederate Army and wrote from camps in Mississippi until his death at Shiloh.