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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Emily Morrison Bondurant Papers #2430, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Lula Bondurant Harrison in 1942 and Trueheart Bondurant Elliot in 1964.

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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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• Agriculture--Virginia--Societies, etc.--History.
• Autobiographies--Virginia.
• Bondurant, Alexander Joseph, 1836-1910.
• Bondurant, Emily Morrison, 1837-1926.
• Buckingham County (Va.)--Social life and customs.
• Children--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Families--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Rockbridge County (Va.)--Social life and customs.
• Virginia--Biography.
• Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Women--Virginia--Social life and customs.

Nine manuscript volumes of recollections written, 1916-1925, by Bondurant, daughter of Rev. James Morrison, Presbyterian minister, describing her childhood in Rockbridge County, Va., and her life as wife and mother in Buckingham County, Va., after her marriage in 1859. Also included is a 24-page manuscript by her husband, Alexander Joseph Bondurant (1836-1910) about his family background and childhood in Virginia, written in 1897, and five miscellaneous Papers, 1864-1919, including the by-laws of Buckingham County agricultural societies.