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 James Merrill Williams Papers #2252, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from W. T. Chichester of Arlington, Va., in October 1949.

Sensitive Materials Statement

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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, September 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, January 2010

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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.

• Americans--Germany--History--19th century.
• College orations--Dickinson College--History--19th century.
• College students--Germany--Social life and customs--19th century.
• College students--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
• College teachers--New England--History--19th century.
• Commonplace-books.
• Dickinson College--History--19th century.
• Europe--Description and travel.
• Maryland--Social life and customs.
• Slavery--Maryland.
• Williams, James Merrill, 1842-1894.

James Merrill Williams:

Reminiscences relating epecially to slavery on the eastern shore of Maryland when Williams was a boy, and to Williams's European travels and student life in Germany, 1869-1871; speeches while a student at Dickinson College, Pa., 1864-1865, and while he was teaching in New England, 1880- 1889; historical articles; a commonplace book; and other items.

• Images (P-2252/1-2)