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Collection Number: 00588

Collection Title: B.F. Perry Papers, 1822-1933

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Size 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items)
Abstract B.F. Perry, of Greenville, S.C., was a lawyer and editor, and anti-secessionist, and governor of South Carolina during Reconstruction. The collection includes writings, correspondence, and other papers of B.F. Perry, including a full diary, 1832-1835; autobiographies written in 1849 and 1874; manuscript sketches, 1834-1835, of incidents in the Revolutionary War; scattered personal and political correspondence, chiefly 1850-1868; three scrapbooks of articles by and about Perry; and other items.
Creator Perry, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1805-1886.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
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 B.F. Perry Papers #588, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alternate Form of Material
Microfilm copy available.
  • Reels 1-5: Entire collection
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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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, March 1996

Encoded by: Eben Lehman, March 2006

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2021

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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B.F. Perry, of Greenville, S.C., was a lawyer and editor, and anti-secessionist, and governor of South Carolina during Reconstruction.

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The collection includes writings, correspondence, and other papers of lawyer and editor B.F. Perry of Greenville, S.C., including a full diary, 1832-1835; autobiographies written in 1849 and 1874; manuscript sketches, 1834-1835, of incidents in the Revolutionary War; scattered personal and political correspondence, chiefly 1850-1868; three scrapbooks of articles by and about B.F. Perry; and other items.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Writings and Correspondence, 1822-1960.

About 195 items.

Arrangement: chronologocal.

Sketches by Benjamin Franklin Perry on the American Revolution, a sketch of the Perry family, and scattered correspondence.

Folder 1

1822-1836

Folder 2

1850-1854

Folder 3

1855-1857

Folder 4

1858

Folder 5

1859

Folder 6

1860-1862

Folder 7

1863-1864

Folder 8

1865

Folder 9

1866-1872

Folder 10

Undated 19th century

Folder 11

1888-1924

Folder 12

1933

Folder 13

Perry family sketch

Folder 14-15

Folder 14

Folder 15

Revolutionary sketches

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5 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Volumes include diaries and scrapbooks of Benjamin Franklin Perry.

Folder 16

Volume 1: 1832-1838, 250 pp. Diary of Benjamin Franklin Perry.

Folder 17

Volume 2: 1839-1863, 200 pp. Diary of Benjamin Franklin Perry.

Folder 18

See SV-588/3

Oversize Volume SV-588/3

Volume 3: 1853-1875, 150 pp. Clippings.

Oversize Volume SV-588/4

Volume 4: 1875-undated, 300 pp. Clippings

Folder 19

Volume 5: Undated, 214 pp. "Cape Fear Sketches and Loafer Ramblings by the Author of the Wilmington Whistling Society" (ascribed erroneously to Perry).

Reel M-588/1-5

M-588/1

M-588/2

M-588/3

M-588/4

M-588/5

Microfilm

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Microfilm (M-588/1-5)

Oversize volumes (SV-588/3-4)

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