Inventory of the Peter Mallett Papers, 1785-1913
Collection Number 480
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 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
- Mallett, Peter, 1825-1906?
- Title
- Peter Mallett Papers, 1785-1913 (bulk 1850s-1880s).
- Call Number
- 480
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 1,260 items (4.5 linear feet).
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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 Peter Mallett Papers, #480, 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.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
- Diaries.
- French Americans--North Carolina--Biography.
- Mallett, Peter, 1744-1805.
- Mallett, Peter, 1825-1906?
- Merchants--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- New York (N.Y.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
- North Carolina--Commerce--History--19th century.
- Walker, Carleton, fl. 1785-1828.
- Weber, Margaret Walker.
- Women--Tennessee--Social life and customs.
Related Material
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Confederate Conscript Bureau Papers (#170); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Charles Beatty Mallett Papers (#3165); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Biographical Note
Peter Mallett (1825-1906?) was a merchant of Fayetteville, N.C., and New York City; and a Confederate Army officer and head of Confederate conscription in North Carolina.
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The collection includes business, military, and personal correspondence, chiefly 1850s to 1880s. Volumes include diaries, 1856, 1861, 1867-1881, and 1898; Civil War letters and lettercopy books from the conscription office in Raleigh, N.C.; a list of North Carolina merchants visited by Mallett, 1846-1849, with reports and credit ratings of each; and shipping accounts. Also included are thirteen family letters, 1785-1828, of Carleton Walker (the father of Mallett's son-in-law), an English immigrant to Wilmington, N.C.; and an autobiography (typed copy) of Peter Mallett (born 1744), immigrant from France to Wilmington, N.C., before the Revolution. Includes also the reminiscences of Margaret Isabella (Walker) Weber (born 1824), daughter of Carleton Walker (born circa 1777). and Caroline Mary (Mallett) Walker, who moved with her husband to Tennessee and later taught school in Nashville.