Inventory of the James Benson Sellers Papers, 1845-1886
Collection Number 654-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
- Sellers, James Benson, 1898-1964, collector.
- Title
- James Benson Sellers Papers, 1845-1886.
- Call Number
- 654-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 20 items.
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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 James Benson Sellers Papers, #654-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.
- Agriculture--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Alabama--Social life and customs.
- College students--Tennessee--History--19th century.
- Leftwich, John William, 1826-1870.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Tennessee.
- Sellers, James Benson, 1898-1964.
- Tennessee--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Tennessee--Social life and customs.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction and pillage.
- Virginia--Economic conditions.
Collection Overview
The collection includes scattered letters, writings, and business papers collected by James Benson Sellers, pertaining chiefly to antebellum Tennessee and Alabama. Included are a description of college life in Nashville, Tenn., 1850; an essay written during the Civil War about the destruction of war; an antebellum essay on farming prospects and procedures in southside Virginia; a letter from United States Representative John William Leftwich (1826-1870) on the redemption of Tennessee, 1866; and other items.