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Collection Number: 00596

Collection Title: Phillips and Myers Family Papers, 1804-1928 (bulk 1862-1900)

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Size 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1,400 items)
Abstract Individuals represented in the collection include Philip Phillips (1807-1884), South Carolina and Alabama state legislator and United States Representative from Alabama; his wife, Eugenia (Levy) Phillips (1819-1901); their sons, William Hallett Phillips (1853-1897) and P. Lee Phillips (1857-1924); and related members of the Levy and Myers families of Savannah, Ga., and Washington, D.C. The collection includes business papers of Philip Phillips; correspondence and a journal dealing with Mrs. Phillips's imprisonment for abetting the southern cause, by order of General Benjamin F. Butler, at Ship Island in the Gulf of Mexico in 1862; correspondence of William H. Phillips regarding the Yellowstone National Park; journals, including one of Fanny Cohen Taylor about Sherman's occupation of Savannah; and a scrapbook. Correspondents include George Kennan (1845-1924), Siberian traveler and writer; Tati Salmon, planter, government official, and chief of a Tahitian clan, describing the customs and politics of Tahiti; and prominent jurists who wrote concerning the legal writings of P. Lee Phillips and William H. Phillips. Also included is correspondence of P. Lee Phillips concerning maps, mapping, and geographical questions related to the map collection at the Library of Congress.
Creator Myers (Family : Myers, Caroline Phillips, 1841-1929)



Phillips (Family : Phillips, P. (Philip), 1807-1884)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
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 Phillips and Myers Family Papers, #596, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alternate Form of Material
The journal of Fanny Cohen Taylor was edited by Spencer B. King, Jr., and published as "Fanny Cohen's Journal of Sherman's occupation of Savannah," in Georgia Historical Quarterly, XLI (December, 1957), p. 407-416.
Acquisitions Information
1940, 1944, and 1946
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.
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.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2011; Nancy Kaiser, May 2021

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The Phillips family includes Philip Phillips (1807-1884), South Carolina and Alabama State legislator and United States Representative from Alabama; his wife, Eugenia (Levy) Phillips (1819-1901); their sons, William Hallett Phillips (1853-1897) and P. Lee Phillips (1857-1924); and related members of the Levy and Myers families of Savannah, Ga., and Washington, D. C.

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The collection includes business papers of Philip Phillips; correspondence and a journal dealing with Mrs. Phillips's imprisonment for abetting the Southern cause, by order of General Benjamin F. Butler, at Ship Island in the Gulf of Mexico in 1862; correspondence of William H. Phillips regarding the Yellowstone National Park; journals, including one of Fanny Cohen Taylor about Sherman's occupation of Savannah; and a scrapbook. Correspondents include George Kennan (1845-1924), Siberian traveler and writer; Tati Salmon, planter, government official, and chief of a Tahitian clan, describing the customs and politics of Tahiti; and prominent jurists who wrote concerning the legal writings of P. Lee Phillips and William H. Phillips. Also, correspondence of P. Lee Phillips concerning maps, mapping, and geographical questions related to the map collection at the Library of Congress.

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Contents list

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About 1,400 items.
Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1

Introduction; biographical information; clippings

Folder 2

1804-1862

Folder 3

1863-1871

Contains a 24 March 1868 letter which discusses free people of color in Savannah, Ga.

Folder 4

1872-1875

Folder 5

1876

Folder 6

1877-1879

Folder 7

1880-1881

Folder 8

1882

Folder 9

1883-1884

Folder 10

1885

Folder 11

1886-May 1887

Folder 12

June-December 1887

Folder 13

1888-1889

Folder 14

George Kennan correspondence, 1886-1889

Folder 15

George Kennan correspondence, 1890

Folder 16

George Kennan correspondence, 1891-1892

Folder 17

George Kennan correspondence, 1893-1895

Folder 18

1890-1892

Folder 19

1893-1894

Folder 20

Tati Salmon correspondence, 1892-1894

Folder 21

Tati Salmon correspondence, 1895-1897

Folder 22

1895-February 1896

Folder 23

March-November 1896

Folder 24

1897-1899

Folder 25

Miscellaneous, 1902-1927

Folder 26

1900-1916

Folder 27

1917

Folder 28

1918

Folder 29

1919

Folder 30

1920

Folder 31

1921

Folder 32

1922-1923

Folder 33

Miscellaneous undated

Folder 34

Family letters, undated

Folder 35

Miscellaneous letters, undated

Folder 36

Miscellaneous undated

Folder 37

Caroline Phillips Myers reminiscences

Folder 38

Letters, undated

Folder 39

Map of Venezuela/Guiana, undated

Image Folder PF-596/1

Photographs of Phillips family members

Extra Oversize Image Folder XOP-PF-596/1

Oversize photographs of Phillips family members

Folder 40

Volume 1: 1830-1818

Accounts, a few lettercopies, and other records of Jacob Myers   Co., Merchants, Georgetown, S.C.

Folder 41

Volume 2: 28 August-7 September 1861

Journal of Eugenia Phillips during her imprisonment in Washington with her sister Martha Levy and her daughters Fannie and Lina.

Folder 42

Volume 3: 7-18 September 1861

Journal of Eugenia Phillips, continued

Folder 43

Volume 4: Copy of Volume 2, with addendum probably written by Lina Myers

Folder 44

Volume 5: August-September 1861

The story of the Washington imprisonment, including the journal and an acocunt of subsequent events.

Folder 45

Volume 6: 4 July-6 August 1862

Diary of Eugenia Phillips during her imprisonment at Ship Island.

Folder 46

Volume 7: 21 December 1864-2 January 1865

Journal of Fanny Cohen Taylor, describing Northern occupation of Savannah, Ga.

Folder 47

Volume 8: 1889

Manuscript volume, written by Eugenia Phillips, describing her imprisonment experiences.

Folder 48

Volume 9: 1876

"A Summary of the Principal Events of My Life" by Philip Phillips

Folder 49

Volume 10: 1897

William Hallett Phillips memorial scrapbook

Folder 50

Volume 11: 15 July 1899-28 May 1903

Memoirs written by Caroline Phillips Myers for her grandchildren, 1899, with entries added approximately monthly thereafter.

Folder 51

Volume 12: 18 July 1903-15 November 1917

Caroline Phillips Myers diary, continued

Folder 52

Volume 13: 27 November 1918-23 April 1928

Caroline Phillips Myers diary, continued

Reel M-596/1-2

M-596/1

M-596/2

Microfilm

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