Inventory of the John R. Reston Letters, 1854-1858
Collection Number 736-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
- Reston, John R., d. ca. 1858.
- Title
- John R. Reston Letters, 1854-1858.
- Call Number
- 736-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 5 items.
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Administrative Information
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the John R. Reston Letters, #736-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.
- Courtship--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Occasional verse--History--19th century.
- Reston, John R., d. ca. 1858.
- Single men--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Valentine's Day--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Wilmington (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
- Women--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
Collection Overview
The collection contains poems written on successive Saint Valentine's Days to John R. Reston, a Wilmington, N.C., bachelor, by an unidentified woman, "Mary Valentine."