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[Identification of item], in the McIntosh Family Letters, #1212-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Legislators--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• McIntosh, Alexander Campbell, fl. 1848-1849.
• McIntosh, Amanda, fl. 1848-1849.
• McIntosh, William Preston, fl. 1848-1849.
• Raleigh (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Taylorsville (N.C.)--Social life and customs.

Sixteen letters from Alexander Campbell McIntosh of Taylorsville, N.C., to his wife, Amanda, and son, William Preston McIntosh, while he was serving in the North Carolina legislature in Raleigh, and six letters during this period to McIntosh from his wife. The letters from McIntosh describe, in extraordinary detail, daily life in Raleigh, including sermons he had heard, ladies' fashions, the contrast between city and country crowds, funeral processions, and his arrangements for board and laundry. There is little mention of the transactions of the legislature.