Scattered personal letters of Kizziah Ann Harding of Huntsville, Yadkin County, N.C., from friends and relatives in North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Missouri, containing personal and family information, crop reports and local news. A letter, July 1856, from W. D. Harding of Oak Grove, Mo., discusses political affairs in Kansas and Missouri.

See also Volume 1 (Folder 18).

Scattered business correspondence, receipts, and other papers, many related to insurance, of Pleasant R. Lazenby, a merchant of Harmony, Iredell County, N.C. Includes an insurance policy and letters from E. R. Lazenby of Fayette County, Tenn., and Lenora Lazenby which contain personal, farm, and family news.

See also Volumes 2-7 (Folders 19-23).

Scattered personal correspondence received by John and Eliza Lloyd of Lincolnton, N.C., and their daughter Anna. Included are a letters, 1892, to Anna from J. Dell Carson describing life in a Colorado mining camp, and two letters, 1910 and 1911, from Mollie Stegner, Dearborn, Mo., giving information on her family and their activities, her crops and farm problems, and neighborhood affairs. The item dated 1852 is a letter of recommendation for John W. Lloyd by J. S. Tindal.

Scattered business papers of P. A. Thompson of Denver, Lincoln County, N.C., primarily letters, 1910-1915, from F. S. Kids, Fort Smith, Ark., and Sulpher Springs, Tex., about the sale of Kids' land in Lincoln County. There is also a letter, 21 August 1900, from W. R. Wase of Shelby, N.C., about rumors of misconduct by "Bro. Gales" and the need for a [Methodist] church investigation.

Papers consist of receipts, paid accounts, and scattered legal papers of N. D. Tomlin of Rocky Creek, Iredell County, N.C. Some are connected with Tomlin's administration of the estate of John Thomas of Iredell County, N.C. There are also two business letters, one from A. W. Montgomery, 4 September 1863, discussing his relief after hiring a substitute for military service.

See also Volumes 8-10 (Folders 24-26).

Letters before 1900 are primarily family correspondence of George M. Wilkinson, a teacher, and George Dayton Wilkinson who seems to have been the son of George M. Wilkinson, both of Catawba County, N.C. Sometime after 1900 George Dayton Wilkinson became a merchant and the material thereafter is primarily his business correspondence.

Included are about 40 letters, 1861-1865, to George M. Wilkinson from his brothers, John, J. M., and Rufus A.; his cousins, W. H. and H. H. Caldwell and James H. Linebarger; and friends in Confederate service in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina. These writers, who appear to have been enlisted men, give personal news, brief descriptions of camp life and military activity, and occasional comments about their feelings about the war and the enemy. One letter, October 1864, is from J. M. Wilkinson while a prisoner at Point Lookout, Md.

A few letters, 1857-1858, from J. B. Lantz of Veal's Station, Tex., describes westward travel and life in Texas. There is also a letter, 1885, from A. C. Lantz of Weatherford, Tex., giving personal news and opinions on national politics.

There is scattered personal correspondence of George M. Wilkinson, 1871-1889, and George Dayton Wilkinson, 1890-1911. These are personal letters telling of the health, life, and activities of the writers; local and family news; state of the crops; and social, religious, and educational events. Among George Dayton Wilkinson's correspondents are his cousins Anna Wilkinson and A. H. Louthian. After 1900 there are a few letters to George D. Wilkinson from his brother J. W. in Sanford, Fla., describing his environment, and from his brother J. C., a salesman in western North Carolina, describing his business trips.

In 1903 the store operated by George Dayton Wilkinson in Newton, N.C., was burned by arsonists and the correspondence after that date consists primarily of letters to him from wholesalers in North Carolina and Virginia, especially Augustus Wright Company, about payments for merchandise lost in the fire. In 1905 George Dayton Wilkinson moved to Maiden, N.C., where he tried to reestablish his mercantile business.

Among the undated material are letters and writings including examinations in physiology, geography, North Carolina history, and English grammar.

This series consists of letters, bills, receipts, deeds and broadsides collected by Samuel Hilton Steelman from various sources. Scattered items may have some relationship to one another, but the group as a whole is unconnected. Many of the items are related in some way to Lincoln County, N.C., and other surrounding counties.

The early papers, 1810-1859, are primarily unrelated bills, receipts, deeds, and business correspondence with some slight, scattered unrelated personal correspondence. One letter, 1854, from H. P. Clingman of Independence, Ark., gives local and personal news.

Civil War correspondence, 1862-1865, consists mainly of letters to Adeline Pruett from her brothers in Confederate service at Camp Carolina, Va., and Weldon, N.C., and her husband, W. C. Pruett, in hospitals in Richmond, Va., and Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C., and camp at Brandy Station and Franklin, Va. W. C. Pruett's letters describe his health, treatment in hospitals, local news and fear of federal attack, and include detailed advice to his wife about farming and child-rearing.

There are other scattered personal letters to and from Lincoln County, N.C., residents including two letters, 1863, from Ocala, Fla., giving detailed description of the region and federal troop movements there, and a letter from Lamar, Tex., 1867, comparing North Carolina and Texas and reporting on Lincoln residents there. There is also a letter, 10 Decemeber 1867, from W. B. Sears at Saginaw, Mich., to Fred Giddings, Toronto, Canada, giving business news and detailed speculation about the suicide of Col. L. W. P. Little, a banker of Saginaw.

The series also includes scattered social correspondence between friends and relatives giving local, personal, and family news including occasional comments on religion, crops, and medical problems predominates among the 1870s material. Papers, 1880-1922, are bills, receipts, deeds, labor contracts, and similar business materials. There is one letter, 1894, from the Iredell Democratic Executive Committee, soliciting contributions and a letter, 1910, from William C. Hammer, a Democratic candidate for solicitor of Asheboro, N.C., seeking votes.

Among the undated papers are ten social letters and fragments thereof similar to the 1870s correspondence; romantic poems, land surveys, bills and receipts, broadsides, and a photograph of unidentified street construction.

See also Volumes 11-15 (Folders 27-31).