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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Elizabeth Nisbet Furman Talley Papers, #1043, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Acquired 1945.

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Sensitive Materials Statement

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• Baptists--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Carter, Farish, 1780-1861.
• Furman family.
• Georgia--Genealogy.
• LeConte family.
• LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901.
• South Carolina--Genealogy.
• Talley, Elizabeth Nisbet Furman, b. 1874.

• Emma LeConte Diary (#420); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Chiefly Mrs. Talley's 20th-century correspondence and papers about the genealogy of the LeConte, Furman, and related families of Georgia and South Carolina. Also, scattered 19th century papers, consisting mainly of family correspondence, 1810-1872, of Farish Carter (1780-1861), Baptist minister of South Carolina; and of the scientific LeConte family of Georgia and California. Other items include the manuscript autobiography, circa 1900, and manuscript philosophical essays of the geologist Joseph LeConte (1823-1901), and recollections of and collected material about him.