Inventory of the David McKendree Key Papers, 1839-1901
Collection Number 2261-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
- Key, David McKendree, 1824-1900.
- Title
- David McKendree Key Papers, 1839-1901
- Call Number
- 2261-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 15 items (3 folders).
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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 David McKendree Key Papers, #2261-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.
- Key, David McKendree, 1824-1900.
- Legislators--United States--History--19th century.
- Postal service--United States--Unclaimed mail--History--19th century.
- United States. Congress. Senate--History.
- United States. Post Office Dept.--Officials and employees--History--19th century.
Biographical Note
Lawyer, Confederate officer, United States Senator, United States Postmaster General, and judge of Chattanooga, Tenn.
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A volume titled "Specimens of Blind Reading by Clerks in the Dead Letter Office," containing envelopes with unusual and incorrect addresses; a volume containing handwritten versions of speeches by Key, apparently delivered in the Senate; and microfilm of political, military, and personal correspondence and of additional speeches by Key, originals of which are in the Chattanooga, Tenn., Public Library.