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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Gayle and Crawford Family Papers, #2777, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of Originals

Originals returned to private owner in 1943.

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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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• Canada--Description and travel.
• Crawford family.
• Crawford, Sarah Ann Gayle, 1824-1895.
• Crawford, William B., d. 1854.
• England--Description and travel.
• Family--Alabama--Social life and customs.
• France--Description and travel.
• Gayle family.
• Italy--Description and travel.
• New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel.
• New York (State)--Description and travel.
• Presidents--United States--Inauguration--History--19th century.
• Schools--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
• South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Southern States--Description and travel.
• Spain--Description and travel.
• Switzerland--Description and travel.
• Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850--Inauguration, 1849.
• Travelers--Europe--Diaries.
• Travelers--United States--Diaries.
• Vermont--Description and travel.
• Voyages and travels--History--19th century.
• Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Women--Education--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
• Women--United States--Diaries.

• Bayne and Gayle Family Papers (#1101), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford Papers, Manuscripts Department, Duke University Library, Durham, N.C.

MICROFILM ONLY. The collection includes travel diaries, 1839-1854, and about 20 family letters, 1826-1895, of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford (1824-1895), daughter of John Gayle. Sarah Crawford's diaries describe traveling from Alabama to New York and attending school there, 1839-1840; visiting in South Carolina; attending President Zachary Taylor's inaugural ball; traveling in Vermont and Canada, 1849; and travels in the South, New York, England, France, and Spain, and returning to Mobile, Ala., 1853-1854. Also included is William Crawford's diary, 1852, kept while he was traveling in Switzerland and Italy.