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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Nisbet Family Papers, #548, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

1945

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• College students--Georgia--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Genealogy.
• Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900.
• Lawyers--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Macon (Ga.)--Social life and customs.
• Nesbitt family.
• Nisbet, Eugenius Aristides, 1803-1871.
• Nisbet, James Taylor, 1828-1894.
• Nisbet, Junius Wingfield, 1858-1933.
• Privateering--Confederate States of America.
• University of Georgia--History--19th century.
• Washington (D.C.)--History.

• John Nisbet papers (#943), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Eugenius Aristides Nisbet papers; Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections Library, Duke University Library, Durham, N.C.
• John McIntosh Kell papers; Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections Library, Duke University Library, Durham, N.C.

The collection includes correspondence and writings of Junius Wingfield Nisbet (1858-1933), lawyer and civic leader of Macon, Ga., with papers of, or pertaining to, his forebears and relatives. The collection consists mainly of genealogical and historical writings and correspondence of J. W. Nisbet, but it also includes family and business correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and three manuscript plays he wrote. Nisbet kept diaries and/or commonplace books at Macon, 1869 and 1875-1883; at the University of Georgia, 1873; and while in Washington, D.C., as clerk of a committee of the United States House of Representatives, 1884-1885. Also included is some correspondence, 1840s to 1890s, of J. W. Nisbet's father, James Taylor Nisbet (1828-1894), lawyer, and of his grandfather, Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (1803-1871), jurist and United States Representative, both of Macon, Ga., mostly relating to the practice of law. A scrapbook, correspondence, and other papers relate to John McIntosh Kell, officer of the Confederate privateer Alabama, and J. W. Nisbet's father-in-law.