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

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the King Family Papers, #399, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Nina King of New Orleans, La., prior to 1940.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Europe--Description and travel.
• Family--Louisiana--Social life and customs.
• Gayarre, Charles, Mrs.
• King family.
• King, Annie Ragan.
• King, Grace Elizabeth, 1852-1932.
• King, Nina.
• Louisiana--Social life and customs.
• New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs.

• Grace King Papers (#1111), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Members of the King family of New Orleans, La., included Nina King, Annie Ragan King, and author Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932).

The collection contains miscellaneous papers of the King family of New Orleans, La., including letters from Nina King, 1906-1908, while traveling in Europe, to Mrs. Charles Gayarre; a typescript of a story, "The Past Meets the Present," by Annie Ragan King; and a scrapbook of author Grace Elizabeth King, containing clippings on New Orleans, the Civil War, and other historical topics, 1836-1930. There are also eleven volumes of household accounts, 1885-1922, and a mimeographed 1932 report related to a potential restoration of the grist mill owned by George Washington in Mount Vernon, Va.