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[Identification of item], in the Rachel Lyons Heustis Papers, #1200-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• 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.

Rachel Lyons of Columbia, S.C., later married James Fountain Heustis.

The collection contains papers of Lyons, including five letters from Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909), Alabama novelist; two poems 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.