Inventory of the Rachel Lyons Heustis Papers, 1859-1864
Collection Number 1200-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- 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
- Heustis, Rachel Lyons, fl. 1859-1865.
- Title
- Rachel Lyons Heustis Papers, 1859-1864.
- Call Number
- 1200-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 26 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 Rachel Lyons Heustis Papers, #1200-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.
- American poetry--19th century.
- Authors, American--19th century.
- Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane), 1835-1909.
- Heustis, Rachel Lyons, fl. 1859-1865.
- Love-letters--History--19th century.
- Novelists, American--Alabama--19th century.
- Poets, American--19th century.
- Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
- Southern States--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Timrod, Henry, 1828-1867.
- Women authors, American--19th century.
Collection Overview
Papers of Rachel Lyons of Columbia, S.C., later Mrs. James Fountain Heustis, including five letters from Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909), Alabama novelist; two poems (on microfilm) from Henry Timrod (1828-1867); and love letters from Confederate soldiers. One of the Timrod poems is titled "Rachel;" it is signed and dated 19 January 1862. The other is headed "To Rachel," and is unsigned and undated.