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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Anna R. McIver Papers, #978-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, January 2011

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Athens (Greece)--Social life and customs.
• College of St. James--Students--History--19th century.
• College students--Maryland--Social life and customs.
• College students--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Courtship--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Education--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Families--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• LaCoste, Harriet F.
• McIver family.
• McIver, A. M.
• McIver, Anna R., b. 1828.
• McIver, Anne.
• McIver, Carrie.
• McIver, Frank.
• McIver, Henry.
• Perdicaris, Gregory A.
• Perdicaris, Margaret H.
• South Carolina College--Students--History--19th century.
• South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Trenton (N.J.)--Social life and customs.
• Women--South Carolina--Social life and customs.

• See also Lucy E. McIver Papers (#3984-z), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Anna R. McIver was born in 1828 and was a resident of Cheraw, S.C. Her father was A. M. McIver, a solicitor.

The bulk of this collection is available on microfilm only. The collection contains personal and family correspondence, chiefly between 1840 and 1853, addressed to Anna R. McIver of Cheraw, S.C., from family members and friends. The majority of the letters written before 1853 concern the life and activities of people in their twenties. Subjects include the social life of universities in South Carolina and Maryland, military education, attitudes towards politics and religion, parties, courtships, and family news. After 1853, there are two letters, dated 1866 and 1880. Correspondents include Harriet F. LaCoste, who wrote from school in Charleston, 1842, and who later became Mrs. George McIver; Anna's brother, Henry, who was at South Carolina College in 1843-44, and was admitted to the bar in 1848; brother Frank, who wrote from the College of St. James, Md., from 1853 to 1856; cousin Anne McIver, who wrote from South Carolina and Alabama; cousin Carrie McIver, who wrote from Society Hill, S.C.; and Margaret H. Perdicaris, who wrote from Athens, Greece, and later from Trenton, N.J., was the wife of the hellenophile Gregory A. Perdicaris and was probably the aunt of Anna McIver.

• Microfilm (Reel M-978/1)