Inventory of the Larkin Newby Papers, 1796-1884

Collection Number 3247


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Related Material
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Newby, Larkin, 1781-1824.
Title
Larkin Newby Papers, 1796-1884.
Call Number
3247
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 100 items (0.5 linear feet).
Abstract
Merchant and state legislator of Fayetteville, N.C. Chiefly personal letters received by Newby from friends and relatives, some of whom were also merchants, discussing business, personal matters, and public affairs. Most correspondents were in Georgia, particularly Vienna, and other places in the South, but some were Newby's wife's relatives in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, among them her grandfather, Benjamin West (1730-1813), Revolutionary leader and astronomer, chiefly concerning family affairs. Also included are miscellaneous business papers; Newby's autobiography (3 pages) up to 1793; a religious notebook, 1816; a diary by Newby of a sojourn at various Virginia springs, 1823; anonymous reminiscences of school days in Fayetteville in the 1820s and 1830s; and family letters of Newby's children.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Purchase 1956
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
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 Larkin Newby Papers, #3247, 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.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Autobiographies--North Carolina.
Children--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
Diaries.
Family--New England--Social life and customs.
Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
Fayetteville (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
Fayetteville (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
Health resorts--Virginia--History--19th century.
Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
Newby family.
Newby, Larkin, 1781-1824.
North Carolina--Biography.
West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.
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Related Material

Larkin Newby papers, Manuscripts Department, Duke University Library, Durham, N.C.
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Biographical Note

Merchant and state legislator of Fayetteville, N.C.

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Collection Overview

Chiefly personal letters received by Newby from friends and relatives, some of whom were also merchants, discussing business, personal matters, and public affairs. Most correspondents were in Georgia, particularly Vienna, and other places in the South, but some were Newby's wife's relatives in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, among them her grandfather, Benjamin West (1730-1813), Revolutionary leader and astronomer, chiefly concerning family affairs. Also included are miscellaneous business papers; Newby's autobiography (3 pages) up to 1793; a religious notebook, 1816; a diary by Newby of a sojourn at various Virginia springs, 1823; anonymous reminiscences of school days in Fayetteville in the 1820s and 1830s; and family letters of Newby's children.