Inventory of the Gertrude Dixon Enfield Papers, 1744-1964
Collection Number 3696-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Enfield, Gertrude Dixon, d. 1969.
- Title
- Gertrude Dixon Enfield Papers, 1744-1964.
- Call Number
- 3696-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 12 items.
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Gertrude Dixon Enfield Papers, #3696-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.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Houston family.
- Houston, Christopher, 1744-1837.
- Iredell County (N.C.)--Biography.
- Life and letters of Christopher Houston.
- Maury County (Tenn.)--Biography.
- North Carolina--Genealogy.
- Statesville (N.C.)--Description and travel.
- Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1835-1914.
- Tennessee--Genealogy.
- Wilkes, Peter Singleton, fl. 1864-1888.
Related Material
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Mary Hunter Kennedy Papers (#3242), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Overview
"The life and letters of Christopher Houston," the manuscript of a biography (191 pages) of Christopher Houston (1744-1837) of Iredell County, N.C., Revolutionary soldier and early settler in Maury County, Tenn., by Gertrude Dixon Enfield, including transcriptions of about forty letters by Houston (originals in the Mary Hunter Kennedy Papers, Southern Historical Collection), and discussions of other members of the Houston family; transcriptions of related letters, including a long letter, 1876, from Adlai E. Stevenson (1835-1914) describing his visit to Statesville, N.C., hometown of his ancestors, and letters, 1864, 1865, and 1888, from Peter Singleton Wilkes about family history; and a few related photographs made in the 1950s.