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Copyright Notice

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

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Daniel Allen Penick Papers, #2641-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

The letters from Penick to Lacy and the 1821-1822 diary are also available on microfilm.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Albert P. Bauman of Washington, D.C., December 1943.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• College and school drama, American--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Davidson College--Presidents.
• Diaries.
• Hampden-Sydney College--Students--History--19th century.
• Lacy, Drury, 1802-1884.
• Middle Atlantic States--Description and travel.
• New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel.
• Penick, Agnes Tinsley, fl. 1824.
• Penick, Daniel Allen, 1797-1870.
• Travelers--United States--Diaries.
• Women travelers--United States--Diaries.

Daniel Allen Penick (1797-1870) of North Carolina was a Presbyterian minister. He studied at Hampden-Sydney College, Va., and Princeton Theological Seminary. He later married Agnes A. Tinsley of Virginia.

The collection contains the papers of Daniel Allen Penick, including a play, "The Broke Merchant," written by him as a student at Hampden-Sydney College, Va., 1821; part of his diary, 1821-1822, of an ocean trip from Virginia to New York City and then to Princeton Theological Seminary; and the diary, 1824, of Agnes Tinsley on a trip from Virginia to New York and back and a stay in New York. Letters, 1854-1857, are from Penick to Drury Lacy (1802-1884) about Lacy's becoming president of Davidson College.