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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 |
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.
Back to TopThe 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.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
Introduction; biographical information; clippings |
Folder 2 |
1804-1862 |
Folder 3 |
1863-1871Contains 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: 1830-1818Accounts, a few lettercopies, and other records of Jacob Myers Co., Merchants, Georgetown, S.C. |
Folder 41 |
Volume 2: 28 August-7 September 1861Journal 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 1861Journal 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 1861The story of the Washington imprisonment, including the journal and an acocunt of subsequent events. |
Folder 45 |
Volume 6: 4 July-6 August 1862Diary of Eugenia Phillips during her imprisonment at Ship Island. |
Folder 46 |
Volume 7: 21 December 1864-2 January 1865Journal of Fanny Cohen Taylor, describing Northern occupation of Savannah, Ga. |
Folder 47 |
Volume 8: 1889Manuscript 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: 1897William Hallett Phillips memorial scrapbook |
Folder 50 |
Volume 11: 15 July 1899-28 May 1903Memoirs written by Caroline Phillips Myers for her grandchildren, 1899, with entries added approximately monthly thereafter. |
Folder 51 |
Volume 12: 18 July 1903-15 November 1917Caroline Phillips Myers diary, continued |
Folder 52 |
Volume 13: 27 November 1918-23 April 1928Caroline Phillips Myers diary, continued |
Reel M-596/1-2
M-596/1M-596/2 |
Microfilm |