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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Habersham Family Papers, #1341-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. J. A. P. Crisfield of Savannah, Ga., August 1947.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

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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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• Families--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Habersham family.
• Habersham, Joseph, d. 1855.
• Harvard College (1780- )--History--18th century.
• Hot air balloons--Launching--Massachusetts--History--18th century.
• Wylly, Alexander, fl. 1790.
• Yellow fever--Georgia--History--19th century.

• Josephine C. Habersham Habersham Diary (#1264-z).

Members of the Habersham family of Savannah, Ga., include Joseph Clay Habersham (died 1855); his wife, Ann Wylly Habersham; and their daughter Mrs. William Neyle Habersham.

The collection includes scattered letters of the Habersham family, including one written by Alexander Wylly from Harvard College, 1790, mentioning the ascent of a hot-air balloon, and two from Joseph Clay Habersham, M.D., one of which discusses yellow fever in Savannah in 1854.