Inventory of the Henry Young Webb Diary and Letter, 1843-1861
Collection Number 759-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
- Webb, Henry Young, b. 1822.
- Title
- Henry Young Webb Diary and Letter, 1843-1861.
- Call Number
- 759-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 2 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 Henry Young Webb Diary and Letter, #759-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.
- College students--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Jefferson Medical College--Students--History--19th century.
- Medical students--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
- Richmond (Va.)--Description and travel.
- University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.
- Webb, Henry Young, b. 1822.
Biographical Note
Henry Young Webb (born 1822) was a student at the University of North Carolina, from 1841-1844; an M.D. student at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.; and practiced medicine in Eutaw, Ala.
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The diary of Webb contains an intermittent record of activities and thoughts while he was a student at the University of North Carolina and later, while he was studying medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, as well as one long entry from 1858. Also included is one letter from Webb in Richmond, Va., to his wife, 1861, reporting on his trip to Richmond.