Inventory of the Waddy Thompson Papers, 1823-1851
Collection Number 718-z
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
- Thompson, Waddy, 1798-1868.
- Title
- Waddy Thompson Papers, 1823-1851.
- Call Number
- 718-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 83 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 Waddy Thompson Papers, #718-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.
- 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.
Biographical Note
Waddy Thompson (1798-1868) was a South Carolina politician and United States minister to Mexico, 1842-1844.
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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.