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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John Blake White Papers #773, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from John Blake White of New York before 1940.

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• Artists--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Charleston (S.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Estates (Law)--South Carolina.
• Land grants--South Carolina.
• Physicians--New York (State)--New York--History.
• Physicians--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Slavery--South Carolina.
• Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan), 1847-1918.
• White family.
• White, John Blake, 1781-1859.
• White, John Blake, 1850-1935.
• White, Octavius A. (Octavius Augustus), 1826-1903.

Scattered papers of John Blake White, Charleston, S.C., lawyer, painter, and dramatist; of his son, Octavius Augustus White (1826-1903), physician in Charleston, the Confederate army, and New York; and of O. A. White's son, John Blake White (1850-1935), New York physician. The collection consists largely of family land grants and deeds, estate accounts, and miscellaneous business papers. Also included are a small amount of widely scattered correspondence, medical writings and brief literary essays, and a scrapbook of writings and public health clippings pertaining to New York, 1870-1881 and 1891-1907. Correspondence includes letters, 1817-1822, describing slaves in an estate to be settled, and letters, 1899-1900, from Sen. Benjamin Ryan Tillman about paintings of John Blake White.

• V-773/S-3
• OP-773/1-4