Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#242
JOHN WILLIS ELLIS PAPERS
Summary
Ellis, John Willis, 1820-1861.
Papers, 1844-1958 (bulk 1844-1865).
600 items (1.5 linear ft.).
Salisbury, N.C., lawyer, Democratic Party leader, and governor of North
Carolina, 1858-1861.
Personal, professional, and official correspondence, diary, and other
papers of Ellis, including volumes, 1844-1861, containing manuscript notes
and clippings of materials used in Ellis's campaigns for the North Carolina
state legislature and for governor. Materials include political speeches
and official messages; notes and speeches on internal improvements;
official papers and correspondence, pertaining particularly to Secession
and the beginning of the Civil War; personal and political correspondence
including a series of letters, 1853-1858, from Philo White, U.S. minister
in Ecuador, discussing social life in Ecuador and diplomatic relations with
the United states; a brief personal diary, October 1860-February 1861; and
20th-century papers of his grandson, John Ellis Knowles of Connecticut,
concerning a biography of Ellis. A small part of the collection consists
of microfilm, photoprints, and manuscript copies of manuscripts in other
repositories, gathered by Noble J. Tolbert for "The Papers of John Willis
Ellis" (Raleigh, 1964).
Gifts 1932, 1959, 1964.
ONLINE CATALOG TERMS:
Diaries--North Carolina.
Ecuador--Social life and customs--19th century.
Electioneering--North Carolina.
Ellis, John Willis, 1820-1861.
Knowles, John Ellis, fl. 1922-1959.
Governors--North Carolina.
North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
Secession.
White, Philo, 1796-1883.
North Carolina--Politics and government--1861-1865.
United States--Foreign relations--Ecuador.
Ecuador--Foreign relations--United States.
Tolbert, Noble J.
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