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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Arnold and Appleton Family Papers, #25, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Mrs. Mary Appleton Myers, Savannah, Ga., in May, 1940

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2010; Nancy Kaiser, August 2020

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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• Appleton family.
• Appleton, George Lyman, 1841-1904.
• Appleton, Louisa Caroline Arnold, 1849-1895.
• Arnold family.
• Arnold, Mary Ellen Lyman Appleton, 1819-1875.
• Diaries.
• Europe--Description and travel.
• Family--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Family--Massachusetts--Social life and customs.
• Family--Rhode Island--Social life and customs.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Blockades.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.

• See also Arnold and Screven Family Papers, 1779-1901 Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Lyman and Appleton families were of Waltham, Mass., and Savannah, Ga. and the Arnold family was of Providence, R.I., and White Hall plantation, Bryan County, Ga. Central figures include Mary Ellen Lyman who married first J. Amory Appleton and second Charles S. Arnold; George Lyman Appleton (born 1841); and George's wife, Louisa Caroline Arnold, daughter of Samuel Green and Louisa Arnold.

The collection includes correspondence, chiefly 1864-1870, of George Lyman Appleton while in Europe during the Civil War, and of his wife, Louisa; papers pertaining to the Lyman, Appleton, and Arnold families; diary, probably kept by Mrs. George W. Lyman during a trip to England in 1822; diary (1864-1869) kept by Mrs. Mary Ellen (Lyman) Appleton Arnold, telling of running the blockade from Wilmington, N.C., to Nassau, and life in Europe; personal diary (1864-1869) of Louisa Arnold; record (1842) of ships and cargoes of William Appleton and Company, Boston; and other miscellaneous family items.

• Photographs (PF-25/1)