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No restrictions. Open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Moore Family Papers, #2568, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1943

Additional Descriptive Resources

Original finding aid is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

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• Businessmen--Washington (D.C.)--History.
• Charities--Washington (D.C.)--History.
• Children's Hospital (Washington, D.C.)--History.
• Diaries.
• Families--Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Moore family.
• Moore, Christine Virginia Campbell, fl. 1883-1922.
• Moore, Frederick Lawrence, 1835-1922.
• North Carolina--Genealogy.
• Philanthropists--Washington (D.C.)--History.
• Southern States--Description and travel.
• Travelers--Southern States--Diaries.
• Women travelers--Southern States--Diaries.

The collection contains papers of the Moore family, originally of Chatham and Person counties, N.C. Contents are chiefly genealogical materials, but also included is business and family correspondence, 1855-1922, of Frederick Lawrence Moore (1835-1922) of Washington, D.C. Moore's correspondence relates to his activities as a philanthropist, businessman, organizer of the Y.M.C.A. in Washington, and director of various charitable organizations. Volumes include Moore's diaries, 1860, 1868, and 1895; the diary, 1883, of his wife, Christine Virginia Campbell Moore, on a trip from Washington, D.C., to Florida; and a scrapbook, 1902-1922, of reports of the Washington, D.C., Children's hospital written in verse by Christine Moore.

• Oversize paper (OP-2568/1)