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Copyright Notice

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

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the B. L. Blackford Letters, #1804-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Walter L. Reed of Washington, D.C., December 1950.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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• Blackford family.
• Blackford, B. L. (Benjamin Lewis)
• Blackford, Charles Minor, 1833-1903.
• Blackford, Launcelot Minor, 1837-1914.
• College students--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• University of Virginia--Buildings--History--19th century.
• University of Virginia--Students--Social life and customs.

• Blackford Family Papers (#1912); Southern Historical Collection.
• Launcelot Minor Blackford School record book, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

Benjamin Lewis Blackford worked for a time at an insurance company in Washington, D.C. His brothers were Charles Minor Blackford (1833-1903) and Launcelot Minor Blackford (1837-1914).

The collection includes family correspondence of B. L. Blackford, his mother, and his brothers, Charles Minor and Launcelot Minor Blackford, including an 1853 letter from Charles Minor Blackford, a student at the University of Virginia, describing student life and including two diagrams of his room.