Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #4445-z
                        FRANK KELL PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Chiefly business letters to Frank Kell (fl. 1882-
           1894), sawmill owner in Northampton County, N.C.  The
           letters chiefly concern equipment for Kell's mill and
           orders for milled wood.  

Online Catalog Terms:
   Kell, Frank, fl. 1882-1894.
   Lumber trade--North Carolina--History.
   Northampton County (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
   Sawmills--North Carolina--Equipment and supplies--History.

Size:  About 175 items (4 folders).

Provenance:    Purchased from Louis Ginsberg of Petersburg, Va.,
               in May 1986.

Access:  No restrictions

Copyright:  Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
            their descendants, as stipulated by United States
            copyright law.

Table of Contents:  
           Description

                           DESCRIPTION

   This collection consists primarily of letters to Frank Kell
(fl. 1882-1894) while a sawmill owner in Northampton County, N.C.

The letters are primarily from businesses making supply orders
and payments.  The majority of the supply orders relate to mill
equipment.  Kell was also superintendent of the Gumsberry and
Jackson Railroad Company, 1892.  Kell received a large portion of
his supplies from Richmond, Va.

  Folder  1.   1882-1889
          2.   1890
          3.   1891
          4.   1892-1894, 1903, and undated