Inventory of the Rennie Family Papers, 1831-1890; 1925
Collection Number 1165
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 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
- Rennie family.
- Title
- Rennie Family Papers, 1831-1890; 1925.
- Call Number
- 1165
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 147 items (0.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- 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 Rennie Family Papers, #1165, 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.
- Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
- Nursery dealers--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Nursery growers--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Nursery stock--Marketing--History--19th century.
- Rennie family.
- Rennie, Joseph.
- Richmond (Va.)--Social life and customs.
- Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
- Virginia--Commerce--History--19th century.
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Women--Virginia--Social life and customs.
Related Material
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See also Joseph Rennie Papers (#843), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Overview
Papers of Joseph Rennie, seedsman and florist, of Spring Grange, Richmond, Va., and his family. Business and financial papers, 1861-1864, are those of Joseph Rennie and include bills and receipts; nursery and seed catalogs; and letters from various nurserymen discussing the cultivation of trees, vegetables, flowers, and bulbs, shipping and purchases, and requests for seeds and plants. Personal papers of the Rennie family include correspondence, particularly of Rennie's daughters, concerning family news, daily life, social and church events, and religious sentiments, and include a July 1861 letter from Rennie's son, a Confederate soldier, describing maneuvers and skirmishes in Virginia.