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Size | 2.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 800 items) |
Abstract | W. G. (Walter Gilman) Curtis was a native of Massachusetts, and a physician of Smithville, N.C., (now Southport) and Wilmington, N.C. The collection includes family correspondence and other records. The bulk, 1875-1913, consists of correspondence of Curtis and his third wife, Margaret Coit Curtis, including letters from her relatives in New Jersey and California; and letters from their children, including Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis (b. 1881), New Orleans architect. Other correspondence is that of the Johnson family of New Jersey, Margaret Coit Curtis's mother's family, 1813-1827; letters to Curtis from his first wife, Sarah Pratt Curtis, from Massachusetts, 1854-1860; letters from his second wife, Sarah Weeks Curtis, in New York, 1865-1866; and papers of Benjamin Billings Coit (1801-1866), New York City and San Francisco, Ca., physician. Volumes include scattered accounts and memoranda of W. G. Curtis and B. B. Coit; Curtis's notes of medical lectures at Harvard Medical School, 1849-1853; diary of Sarah Weeks Curtis, 1858-1860; records of a Smithville baseball club, 1867; records, 1871-1882, of Kendal and Lilliput, rice plantations in Brunswick County, N.C.; records of Curtis as state quarantine officer for the port of Wilmington, 1868-1895; and vestry records of St. Phillip's Episcopal Church, Smithville, 1876-1904. |
Creator | Curtis, W. G. (Walter Gilman), 1826-1908. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 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.
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W. G. (Walter Gilman) Curtis (died 1909) was a native of Massachusetts, and a physician of Smithville, N.C., (now Southport) and Wilmington, N.C. Curtis was educated at Dartmouth College and was married three times, first to Sarah C. Pratt, then Sarah T. Weeks, and finally in 1878 to Margaret J. Coit.
Back to TopThe collection includes family correspondence and other records. The bulk, 1875-1913, consists of correspondence of W. G. Curtis and his third wife, Margaret Coit Curtis, including letters from her relatives in New Jersey and California; and letters from their children, including Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis (b. 1881), New Orleans architect. Other correspondence is that of the Johnson family of New Jersey, Margaret Coit Curtis's mother's family, 1813-1827; letters to Curtis from his first wife, Sarah Pratt Curtis, from Massachusetts, 1854-1860; letters from his second wife, Sarah Weeks Curtis, in New York, 1865-1866; and papers of Benjamin Billings Coit (1801-1866), New York City and San Francisco, Ca., physician. Volumes include scattered accounts and memoranda of W. G. Curtis and B. B. Coit; Curtis's notes of medical lectures at Harvard Medical School, 1849-1853; diary of Sarah Weeks Curtis, 1858-1860; records of a Smithville baseball club, 1867; records, 1871-1882, of Kendal and Lilliput, rice plantations in Brunswick County, N.C.; records of Curtis as state quarantine officer for the port of Wilmington, 1868-1895; and vestry records of St. Phillip's Episcopal Church, Smithville, 1876-1904.
Back to TopFamily letters to William Johnson of New York, John Johnson of Newton, N.J., and Adelaide Johnson in Hunterdon County, N.J.
Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1813-1827 |
Includes letters of Sarah C. Pratt to W. G. Curtis before their marriage and afterward during periods of seperation.
Folder 2 |
1854-1860 and undated |
Includes letters from Sarah T. Weeks to W. G. Curtis before and after their marriage.
Folder 3 |
1865-1866 |
Papers of the family of Margaret Johnson Coit before her marriage to Walter G. Curtis. These papers deal with the affairs of Benjamin Billings Coit and his son, Benjamin Howard Coit, in California and include scattered letters from Benjamin B. Coit to his wife in the East and other family letters. The business papers of Benjamin H. Coit relate to mining interests, at least partly in Arizona. They include letters from R. L. M. Camden in Philadelphia, Pa.; Joseph Roberts; James P. Bull; and R. H. Vance.
Folder 4 |
1849-1866 |
Folder 5 |
1867-1868 |
Series includes papers of W. G. Curtis and Margaret Coit before and after their marriage. Chiefly letters from W. G. Curtis to Margaret Coit Curtis during periods of seperation, letters from their children, and from various other relatives. There are also some scattered business, political, and civic papers of W. G. Curtis.
Folder 6-7
Folder 6Folder 7 |
1875-1877 |
Folder 8-9
Folder 8Folder 9 |
1878-1879 |
Folder 10 |
1880 |
Folder 11 |
1881-1884 |
Folder 12 |
1885 |
Folder 13 |
1886-1889 |
Folder 14 |
1890-1892, 1894-1899 |
Folder 15 |
1900-1909, 1913 |
Folder 16-17
Folder 16Folder 17 |
Undated |
Folder 18 |
Photograph of an unidentified man |
Volumes include scattered accounts and memoranda of W. G. Curtis and B. B. Coit; Curtis's notes of medical lectures at Harvard Medical School, 1849-1853; diary of Sarah Weeks Curtis, 1858-1860; records of a Smithville baseball club, 1867; records, 1871-1882, of Kendal and Lilliput, rice plantations in Brunswick County, N.C.; records of Curtis as state quarantine officer for the port of Wilmington, 1868-1895; and vestry records of St. Phillip's Episcopal Church, Smithville, 1876-1904.