Inventory of the Daniel Allen Penick Papers, 1821-1857
Collection Number 2641-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Penick, Daniel Allen, 1797-1870.
- Title
- Daniel Allen Penick Papers, 1821-1857.
- Call Number
- 2641-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 9 items.
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Administrative Information
- Alternate Form of Material
- The letters from Penick to Lacy and the 1821-1822 diary are also available on microfilm.
- 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 Daniel Allen Penick Papers, #2641-z, 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.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- 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.
Collection Overview
Papers of Penick, Presbyterian minister of North Carolina, 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 (later Penick's wife) 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.