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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William P. Graham Papers, #1118, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Mr. Henry Graves and Mrs. John B. Reeves of Georgia, 1944; Gift of Richard B. Harwell, of Richmond, Va., 1956

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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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• Blacksmiths--Accounting--History--19th century.
• Cahaba (Ala.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Clarke County (Ga.)--Economic conditions.
• Cotton trade--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Georgia Female College (Macon, Ga.)--Students--Social life and customs.
• Graham, Margaret, fl. 1842-1843.
• Graham, William P., d. ca. 1844.
• Medicine--Practice--Accounting--History--19th century.
• Newton County (Ga.)--Economic conditions.
• Pharmacists--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Physicians--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Plantations--Georgia.
• Saint Mary Parish (La.)--Social life and customs.
• Women college students--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Women--Education (Higher)--Georgia--History--19th century.

William P. Graham (died circa 1844) was a physician and planter of Clarke and Newton counties, Ga.

The collection consists mainly of orders and accounts with wholesale druggists, cotton buyers, and general merchants; business correspondence with creditors and debtors; accounts with patients; and miscellaneous financial and legal documents. Also included are family letters from Cahaba, Ala., and St. Mary Parish, La.; correspondence about medical questions; correspondence about selecting a school for Graham's daughter Margaret; letters written by Margaret Graham at Georgia Female College at Macon, Ga., 1842-1843; and business ledgers, 1827-1841.

• Volumes (SV-1118/2,15)