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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Sarah Barnwell Elliott Letters #1004-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. F. E. Shoup in 1945.

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• Authors, American--19th century--Travel--Europe.
• Authors, American--19th century--Travel--Middle East.
• Egypt--Description and travel.
• Elliott, Charlotte Bull Barnwell, fl. 1848-1887.
• Elliott, Sarah Barnwell, 1848-1928.
• England--Description and travel.
• Episcopal Church--Bishops--History--19th century.
• France--Description and travel.
• Italy--Description and travel.
• Palestine--Description and travel.
• Shoup, Francis A. (Francis Asbury), 1834-1896.
• Suez Canal (Egypt)--Description and travel.
• Voyages and travels--History--19th century.
• Women authors, American--19th century.

• Stephen Elliott Letterbook (#241);
• Habersham Elliott Papers (#2510).

Sarah Barnwell Elliott, daughter of Charlotte Bull Barnwell and Stephen Elliott, was a novelist, playwright, and suffragist of Sewanee, Tenn.

The collection is 21 letters, 1886-1887, from Sarah Barnwell Elliott traveling in Europe, to her mother Charlotte Bull Barnwell Elliott, Sewanee, Tenn.; and two items relating to Elliott's brother-in-law, Bishop Francis Asbury Shoup (1834-1896). Elliott's letters give detailed descriptions of scenes and experiences in France, Italy, England, Egypt, the Suez Canal, and the Holy Land. The Shoup items are a handwritten article by him on the sacrament of confession and a tribute to him.