Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #3676-z
                    HERBERT C. PEABODY PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Herbert C. Peabody, cotton factor of Mobile, Ala.,
           father of Horace Mansfield and Emily Peabody (b.
           1844), and relative of George Peabody (1795-1869) of
           London.
               Chiefly letters, 1852-1859, of Peabody to Samuel
           St. John, Jr., of Charleston, N.H., and Bridgeport,
           Conn., who had previously lived in Mobile.  Letters
           discuss Peabody's business career, especially his
           attempts to promote Mobile as a port and his
           convictions on the importance of regulating trade and
           setting trade standards.  Peabody also discussed his
           personal affairs, including family news, his
           involvement with the Unitarian Church, and visits to
           George Peabody in London.  Also included are a
           document relating to Mobile real estate formerly owned
           by St. John, 12 September 1845; undated sheet music
           for a nonsense song; and an undated mock invoice for
           "strings of wampum."

Online Catalog Terms:
   Commission merchants--Alabama--History--19th century.
   Cotton trade--Alabama--History--19th century.
   Family--Alabama--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Mobile (Ala.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
   Peabody, George, 1795-1869.
   Peabody, Herbert C., fl. 1852-1859.
   St. John, Samuel, fl. 1845-1859.
   Trade regulation--United States--History--19th century.
   Unitarians--Alabama--History--19th century.

Size:          42 items.

Provenance:    Received from Richard J. Hooker in 1964.

Access:        No restrictions.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or 
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.