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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 James Dawkins Papers, #3090-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Originals lent for copying by Wallace H. Waldrop of Greenville, S.C., February 1955.

Location of Originals

Originals returned to private owner in 1987.

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.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Commission merchants--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Cotton trade--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Dawkins, James, fl. 1837-1843.
• Dawkins, Thomas E., fl. 1861-1862.
• Diaries.
• Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Mississippi--Social life and customs.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Diaries.
• South Carolina--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Texas--Social life and customs.
• Union District (S.C.)--Economic conditions.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.

James Dawkins (fl. 1837-1843) was a cotton planter of Wilkinsville, Union District, S.C.

The collection includes photocopies of letters and miscellaneous items, 1837-1843, of James Dawkins; earlier family deeds; and a partially legible, slight diary and memorandum book of Thomas E. Dawkins, a Confederate soldier in Virginia, 1861-1862. Included are a letter from a relative in Texas and one from Dawkins's brother in Mississippi about life in those places and letters from commission merchants in Columbia and Charleston, S.C., about sales of cotton.