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Collection Number: 00725-z

Collection Title: Isaac Tompkins Letters, 1831-1834.

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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Size 8 items
Abstract Isaac Tompkins was a reading clerk of the United States House of Representatives who operated a stage line between Savannah, Ga., and New York City. The collection contains letters from Tompkins of Binghamton, N.Y., to his wife, Helen Charlotte Backus Tompkins, written while he was traveling in North Carolina and other places. Tompkins discussed Nullification, Willie P. Mangum, agricultural conditions especially in North Carolina, and political events in Washington, D.C., including the tariff debate of 1833.
Creator Tompkins, Isaac, fl. 1831-1834.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Isaac Tompkins Letters, #725-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Loan from Mrs. Harry Dixon of Charlotte, N.C., January 1939.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Isaac Tompkins (fl. 1831-1834) was a reading clerk of the United States House of Representatives who owned and operated the first stage line between Savannah, Ga., and New York City.

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The collection contains letters from Isaac Tompkins of Binghamton, N.Y., to his wife, Helen Charlotte Backus Tompkins, written while he was traveling in North Carolina, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Tompkins discussed Nullification, Willie Person Mangum, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Isaac Erwin Avery, Andrew Jackson, agricultural conditions especially in North Carolina, and political events in Washington, D.C., including the tariff debate of 1833.

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Processing Information

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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