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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Gunter and Poellnitz Family Papers, #2488, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of Originals

Originals returned to private owner in 1942.

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• American Confederate voluntary exiles--Brazil.
• Brazil--Description and travel.
• Gunter family.
• Gunter, C. G. (Charles Grandison), 1806-1883.
• Gunter, William A. (William Adams), 1834-1927.
• Lake steamers--Canada--History--19th century.
• Montreal (Quebec)--Description and travel.
• Poellnitz family.
• Poellnitz, Charles A., fl. 1853.
• Voyages and travels--History--19th century.

MICROFILM ONLY. Chiefly letters, 1865-1866, from C. G. Gunter describing Rio de Janeiro, the country of Brazil and its government, and his plans to settle there, and letters to Gunter from his children. Also included are an 1853 letter from Charles A. Poellnitz to his wife about his trip from Niagara to Montreal, Canada, on a lake steamer, describing the scenery along the way and the city of Montreal; and an 1881 letter, written from Paris, to William A. Gunter about the education of his daughter.