Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to Use

No usage restrictions.

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 Marcus Cicero Stephens Letters, #3402-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Typed transcriptions available.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Alice Noble of Chaple Hill, N.C., 1959.

Location of Originals

Originals owned by Mrs. L. M. Lively of Tallahasee, Fla., and Dr. Robert P. Noble of Raleigh, N.C.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

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.

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

• Agriculture--Florida--History--19th century.
• Florida--Social life and customs.
• Indians of North America--Florida--History--19th century.
• Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Stephens, Marcus Cicero.
• Women--Education--History--19th century.

• Alice Noble Papers (#3849).

Marcus Cicero Stephens (fl. 1835-1841) of North Carolina moved to Gadsden, Fla., in 1835.

The collection includes photocopies of three letters from Marcus Cicero Stephens in Gadsden, Fla., to two daughters, Sarah Graves Stephens and Mrs. Robert Primrose, and a granddaughter, Mary Ann Primrose, in North Carolina. Letters discuss moving to Florida, planting, Indian troubles in east Florida and General Winfield Scott, and the cost of provisions. The letter to his granddaughter includes his thoughts and advice on women's education. There is also a typed sketch of Stephens and his family.