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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Patrick Livingston Murphy Papers, #535, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from James B. Murphy, William Alexander Murphy, and May Murphy, prior to 1940.

Additional materials received from May Murphy of Staunton, Va., February 1959.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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• Mentally ill--Care--North Carolina--History.
• Mentally ill--Care--United States--History.
• Morganton (N.C.)--History.
• Murphy, Patrick Livingston, 1848-1907.
• North Carolina Hospital for the Insane (Morganton, N.C.)
• Physicians--North Carolina--History.
• Slave bills of sale--Virginia.
• Slavery--Virginia.

Patrick Livingston Murphy (1848-1907) was a physician and superintendent of the North Carolina Hospital for the Insane at Morganton, N.C. He was married to Bettie W. Bumgardner.

The collection includes professional and personal correspondence, chiefly 1880-1907, of Patrick Livingston Murphy pertaining to his medical career. Also included are Murphy's fee book, Morganton, N.C., 1875-1876; two scrapbooks, 1882-1913, about the North Carolina Hospital for the Insane at Morganton; a genealogical items; addresses by Murphy on care for the mentally ill in the South; photographs of Murphy, his ancestors, and the hospital; bills of sale of slaves to John Bumgardner of Greenville, Va., 1824-1846; and other papers.

Notable correspondents include Richard Henry Battle, S. A. White, John Fulenwider Miller, J. M. Buchanan, J. P. Caldwell Josephus Daniels, Samuel A. Ashe, Joseph A. Waddell, Thomas Ruffin, Andrew W. Knox, Robert Broadnax Glenn, Julian S. Carr, Julian Meredith Baker, Benjamin Rice Lacy, J. G. Hall, Paul B. Barringer, and Richmond Pearson.

• Photographs (PF-535/1-3)