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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items) |
Abstract | B.F. Perry, of Greenville, S.C., was a lawyer and editor, and anti-secessionist, and governor of South Carolina during Reconstruction. The collection includes writings, correspondence, and other papers of B.F. Perry, including a full diary, 1832-1835; autobiographies written in 1849 and 1874; manuscript sketches, 1834-1835, of incidents in the Revolutionary War; scattered personal and political correspondence, chiefly 1850-1868; three scrapbooks of articles by and about Perry; and other items. |
Creator | Perry, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1805-1886. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, March 1996
Encoded by: Eben Lehman, March 2006
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2021
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B.F. Perry, of Greenville, S.C., was a lawyer and editor, and anti-secessionist, and governor of South Carolina during Reconstruction.
Back to TopThe collection includes writings, correspondence, and other papers of lawyer and editor B.F. Perry of Greenville, S.C., including a full diary, 1832-1835; autobiographies written in 1849 and 1874; manuscript sketches, 1834-1835, of incidents in the Revolutionary War; scattered personal and political correspondence, chiefly 1850-1868; three scrapbooks of articles by and about B.F. Perry; and other items.
Back to TopArrangement: chronologocal.
Sketches by Benjamin Franklin Perry on the American Revolution, a sketch of the Perry family, and scattered correspondence.
Folder 1 |
1822-1836 |
Folder 2 |
1850-1854 |
Folder 3 |
1855-1857 |
Folder 4 |
1858 |
Folder 5 |
1859 |
Folder 6 |
1860-1862 |
Folder 7 |
1863-1864 |
Folder 8 |
1865 |
Folder 9 |
1866-1872 |
Folder 10 |
Undated 19th century |
Folder 11 |
1888-1924 |
Folder 12 |
1933 |
Folder 13 |
Perry family sketch |
Folder 14-15
Folder 14Folder 15 |
Revolutionary sketches |
Arrangement: chronological.
Volumes include diaries and scrapbooks of Benjamin Franklin Perry.
Folder 16 |
Volume 1: 1832-1838, 250 pp. Diary of Benjamin Franklin Perry. |
Folder 17 |
Volume 2: 1839-1863, 200 pp. Diary of Benjamin Franklin Perry. |
Folder 18 |
See SV-588/3 |
Oversize Volume SV-588/3 |
Volume 3: 1853-1875, 150 pp. Clippings. |
Oversize Volume SV-588/4 |
Volume 4: 1875-undated, 300 pp. Clippings |
Folder 19 |
Volume 5: Undated, 214 pp. "Cape Fear Sketches and Loafer Ramblings by the Author of the Wilmington Whistling Society" (ascribed erroneously to Perry). |
Reel M-588/1-5
M-588/1M-588/2M-588/3M-588/4M-588/5 |
Microfilm |