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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Richard James Hooker Papers, #3670-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased 1964.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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.

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• Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Billups family.
• Bissell, William H. (William Henry), 1811-1860.
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.)
• Clocks and watches--Repairing--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Constitutional conventions--Georgia.
• Cotton trade--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Crime--Kentucky--History--19th century.
• Family--Southern States--Social life and customs.
• Fayetteville (N.C.)--Religious life and customs.
• Galveston (Tex.)--Social conditions.
• Georgia--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Kentucky--Social conditions.
• Maryland--Social life and customs.
• New Orleans (La.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Presbyterian Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Real property--Texas--History--19th century.
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Georgia.
• Southern States--Social life and customs.
• Tuscaloosa (Ala.)--Social life and customs.
• United States Naval Academy--Students--History--19th century.
• United States--Description and travel.

Richard James Hooker (born 1912) of Chicago, Ill., was a professor and collector of historical documents.

The collection includes unrelated family letters from all southern states, concerning real estate, health, weather, social activities, politics, travel, and business. There are no Civil War papers. Ten items relate to Maryland, including three about life at the United States Naval Academy, 1854-1855. There is also a letter each commenting on life in Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1826; a journey from Middlebury, Vt., to Natchez, Miss., 1827; watch repair work in Halifax, N.C., 1835; a Presbyterian congregation in Fayetteville, N.C., 1841; cotton trade in New Orleans, 1843; the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 1843; the Billups family of Lagrange, Ala., 1844; a trip from Rhode Island to North Carolina, 1846; land claims in Galveston, Tex., 1847; lawlessness in Kentucky, 1847; the career of William Harrison Bissell (1811-1860), United States representative from Illinois, 1855; and the Reconstruction convention in Georgia, 1868.