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[Identification of item], in the Wirt Family Papers, #1704, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gifts 1950, 1962

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• Autobiographies--Southern States.
• Baker, James McCutcheon, 1837-1900.
• Confederate States of America. Navy--Officers--Correspondence.
• Fathers and sons.
• Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes, 1805-1877.
• Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799.
• United States. Navy--Officers--Correspondence.
• Wirt family.
• Wirt, William Cabell, b. 1815.
• Wirt, William, 1772-1834.
• Women teachers--Florida--History--19th century.
• Women--Southern States--Social life and customs.

• Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough Papers; Duke University Library, Durham, N.C.

Personal and family correspondence of William Wirt (1772-1834), of Virginia and Maryland, lawyer, author, and United States attorney general, and of his descendants, including letters, 1802-1822, concerning Wirt's biography of Patrick Henry and his other writings and business and financial affairs; family correspondence, 1824-1832, chiefly between Wirt and his son, William Cabbell Wirt, at school in Massachusetts; letters of condolence at Wirt's death; family letters from the Wirt children to their mother and to each other; family and naval correspondence, 1838-1867, of Wirt's son-in-law, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough (1805-1877), serving with the United States Navy in Brazil, Europe, and Washington, D.C.; and papers, 1861- 1919, of James McCutcheon Baker (1837-1900), of Florida, who married Wirt's granddaughter, concerning his Confederate naval career and postwar sea voyages, chiefly letters to his family in New Orleans. Papers after 1900 are of Baker's wife and children. Volumes include William Wirt's reminiscences of his early years, written in 1825 and 1833; Mrs. Wirt's lettercopy books, 1834-1841; and a lettercopy book, 1848-1849, of a woman relative teaching school in Pensacola, Fla. Also included are fragments of William Wirt's manuscript on Patrick Henry.