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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Charles Barrington Simrall Papers, #1665, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. V. G. Collis of Covington, Ky., November 1949.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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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• Camp Chase (Ohio)
• Canada--Description and travel.
• Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company--History.
• Citrus fruits--Florida--History--19th century.
• Citrus fruits--Florida--History--20th century.
• Corre family.
• Daughters College (Harrodsburg, Ky.)--Students--Social life and customs.
• Democratic Party (Ky.)--History--19th century.
• Downing family.
• Family--Kentucky--Social life and customs.
• Germany--Description and travel.
• Hotels--Florida--History--19th century.
• Hotels--Florida--History--20th century.
• Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Kentucky--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Lawyers--Kentucky--History--19th century.
• Ormond Beach (Fla.)--History.
• Price family.
• Railroads--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Simrall family.
• Simrall, Charles Barrington, 1843-1901.
• Simrall, Isabella Downing Price, fl. 1863-1901.
• Wellesley College--Students--Social life and customs.
• Women--Education (Higher)--History--19th century.

Charles Barrington Simrall (1843-1901) of Covington, Ky., was a lawyer for the Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railway Company and was active in Democratic politics.

The collection contains family correspondence, chiefly from Simrall to his wife, Isabella Downing Price Simrall (fl. 1863-1901). The bulk of the collection consists of his letters home on family, legal, and political subjects while he was traveling to Frankfort, Ky., New York City, Washington, D.C., and many other places on railroad business; and of letters received from Simrall, Downing, Price, and Corre relations who moved away from Kentucky and engaged in varied activities, including attendance at Daughter's College, Harrodsburg, Ky., 1854-1858, and at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., 1890-1893. Civil War correspondence reflects the life and opinions of Confederate sympathizers in Kentucky and includes letters from Simrall while he was imprisoned at Camp Chase, Ohio, and from Canada and Germany after his release. Also included is correspondence of earlier members of the family in the 1850s, later members in the 20th century, and letters, 1876-1910, from a relative concerning his citrus farm and resort hotel at Ormond, Volusia County, Fla.