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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Waddy Thompson Papers, #718-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Prior to 1940

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• Cotton growing--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Diplomatic and consular service, American--History--19th century.
• Epidemics--Mexico--History--19th century.
• Great Britain--Foreign relations--1837-1901.
• Mexico--Foreign relations--1821-1861.
• Mexico--Social conditions--19th century.
• Slave trade--Alabama.
• Slave trade--South Carolina.
• Sugar growing--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846.
• Thompson, Emmala Butler, fl. 1842-1843.
• Thompson, Waddy, 1798-1868.
• United States--Foreign relations--1841-1845.

Waddy Thompson (1798-1868) was a South Carolina politician and United States minister to Mexico, 1842-1844.

The collection contains chiefly correspondence of Thompson while he was United States minister to Mexico, 1842-1844, including letters to his wife, Emmala Butler Thompson, and letters received from American political friends in the United States, the Republic of Texas, and Mexico, concerning yellow fever epidemics and general living and working conditions in Mexico, and diplomatic relations among Mexico, Great Britain, and the United States. Also included are some business papers related to sugar and cotton planting and the slave trade in Alabama and South Carolina.