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[Identification of item], in the Ella Noland MacKenzie Papers, #3667, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Purchase 1964

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• Baltimore (Md.)--Social life and customs.
• Family--United States--Social life and customs.
• Gibson family.
• Gibson, William, 1788-1868.
• Glen Ora (Loudon County, Va.)
• Leesburg (Va.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• MacKenzie, Ella Noland.
• MacKenzie, John Carrerre, d. 1866.
• MacKenzie, John Noland, 1853-1925.
• Mackenzie family.
• Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Noland family.
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs.
• Physicians--Maryland--History--19th century.
• Plantation life--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Slave insurrections--Virginia.
• Women--Education--Maryland--History--19th century.
• Women--Education--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Women--Southern States--Social life and customs.

Family and personal correspondence of Ella (Noland) MacKenzie, daughter of Lloyd and Elizabeth Noland of Glen Ora, near Leesburg, Va., while she was in school in Virginia and Baltimore, Md.; visiting her aunt, Sara (Hollingsworth) Gibson, wife of Dr. William Gibson (1877-1868), in Philadelphia, Pa.; and after her marriage in 1852 to John Carrerre MacKenzie (died 1866), a Baltimore physician. Included are letters from the Nolands and other relatives in Virginia and from members of the MacKenzie family and friends in Baltimore, pertaining chiefly to plantation life, social conditions, and women's activities. Incidents of particular note include a slave uprising, 1856, near Glen Ora; the departure in 1864 of one branch of the family for Europe in voluntary or involuntary exile; and the arrest of John C. MacKenzie as a Confederate sympathizer. Postwar items are scattered, with only slight information on John and Ella's son, Dr. John Noland MacKenzie (1853-1925), a noted throat specialist.