Inventory of the William Mercer Green Papers, 1843-1887
Collection Number 1120-z
Manuscripts Department, 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
- Southern Historical Collection
- Creator
- Green, William Mercer, 1798-1887.
- Title
- William Mercer Green Papers, 1843-1887
- Call Number
- 1120-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
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- Items: 10
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Administrative Information
- Acquisitions Information
- Received from Mary Cotton and Mrs. E. T. Douglass in 1947-1951 and from Mrs. Robert F. Wilson in 1980.
- Processing Information
- Processed by: Manuscripts Department Staff, June 1946
- Encoded by: Mara Dabrishus, January 2005
- Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the encoding of this finding aid.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the William Mercer Green Papers #1120-z, Southern Historical Collection, 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.
- Baltimore (Md.)--Description and travel.
- Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Church history--19th century.
- Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
- Diaries.
- Episcopal Church--Bishops--History--19th century.
- Green, William Mercer, 1798-1887.
- North Carolina--Description and travel.
- Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889.
- Sheppard, Mary, fl. 1822.
- Tennessee--Dscription and travel.
- Travelers--United States--Diaries.
- United States--Description and travel.
- University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--19th century.
- Washington (D.C.)--Description and travel.
- Women travelers--Diaries.
Related Collections
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Wright and Green Family Papers (#1885)
Biographical Note
William Mercer Green (1798-1887) was born in Wilmington, N.C.; graduated from the University of North Carolina; and in 1837 became Episcopal chaplain and professor of belles-lettres at his alma mater. He became the first Episcopal bishop of Mississippi in 1849. He was also instrumental in the founding of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., and became its chancellor in 1867.
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The collection includes diary entries Episcopal bishop and professor William Mercer Green made on a trip in 1818 from Wilmington, N.C., to Wilmington, Del., with especially detailed comments on sites in Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C.; diary entries made by Mary Sheppard on a trip from Warren County, N.C., to Bedford County, Tenn., in 1822; a record, 1843, of subscribers for the erection of a church at Chapel Hill, N.C.; a memorandum book Green kept while he was a professor at the University of North Carolina, 1848-1849; two letters to Green from Charles Phillips in Chapel Hill, 1887, reminiscing and giving news of Chapel Hill; and articles about Green.
Note that some materials are typed transcriptions.
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Detailed Description of the Collection
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