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[Identification of item], in the James Perrin Quarles Jr. Memorial Collection, #985, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Alabama--History--1819-1950.
• Chickasaw Indians--Land tenure--History--19th century.
• Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.
• Dowd, William Frank, 1832-1910.
• Gilleylen, Houston S., 1852-1931.
• Lawyers--Mississippi--History--19th century.
• Mississippi--History.
• Monroe County (Miss.)--History.
• North Carolina--History--1775-1865.
• South Carolina--History--1775-1865.

The collection includes papers, collected by Mrs. Perrin Quarles, on varied subjects and from varied locations, chiefly legal and personal correspondence, 1869-1913, of Houston S. Gilleylen (1852-1913), lawyer of Aberdeen, Monroe County, Miss., and his father-in-law, William Frank Dowd (1832-1910), lawyer and Confederate colonel. Also included are papers relating to lands ceded by the Chickasaw Indians; two letters from Jefferson Davis, 1849 and 1857; and a variety of scattered papers relating to antebellum North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi.