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Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 279 items) |
Abstract | Scattered papers of John Blake White, Charleston, S.C., lawyer, painter, and dramatist; of his son, Octavius Augustus White (1826-1903), physician in Charleston, the Confederate army, and New York; and of O. A. White's son, John Blake White (1850-1935), New York physician. The collection consists largely of family land grants and deeds, estate accounts, and miscellaneous business papers. Also included are a small amount of widely scattered correspondence, medical writings and brief literary essays, and a scrapbook of writings and public health clippings pertaining to New York, 1870-1881 and 1891-1907. Correspondence includes letters, 1817-1822, describing slaves in an estate to be settled, and letters, 1899-1900, from Sen. Benjamin Ryan Tillman about paintings of John Blake White. |
Creator | White, John Blake, 1781-1859. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, July 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Scattered papers of John Blake White, Charleston, S.C., lawyer, painter, and dramatist; of his son, Octavius Augustus White (1826-1903), physician in Charleston, the Confederate army, and New York; and of O. A. White's son, John Blake White (1850-1935), New York physician. The collection consists largely of family land grants and deeds, estate accounts, and miscellaneous business papers. Also included are a small amount of widely scattered correspondence, medical writings and brief literary essays, and a scrapbook of writings and public health clippings pertaining to New York, 1870-1881 and 1891-1907. Correspondence includes letters, 1817-1822, describing slaves in an estate to be settled, and letters, 1899-1900, from Sen. Benjamin Ryan Tillman about paintings of John Blake White.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Primarily business papers of the White family including deeds, wills, Confederate certificates of indebtedness, receipts, and judgements. Business correspondence includes letters, 1817-1822, describing slaves in an estate to be settled and letters from Senator Benjamin R. Tillman pertaining to the donation by Octavius A. White of paintings by his father, John Blake White, to the Library of Congress in 1899, and others, 1900.
Also included are medical writings of Octavius A. White especially relating to yellow fever. There is one folder of newspaper clippings pertaining to medical and health issues in New York, especially dealing with Octavius A. White.
Folder 1 |
1732-1744 |
Folder 2 |
1769-1795 |
Folder 3 |
1800-1819 |
Folder 4 |
1820-1827 |
Folder 5 |
1832-1859 |
Folder 6 |
1860-1865 |
Folder 7 |
1866-1868 |
Folder 8 |
1874 |
Folder 9 |
1875-1883 |
Folder 10 |
1890-1898 |
Folder 11 |
1899 |
Folder 12 |
1900-1912 |
Folder 13 |
1918-1921 |
Folder 14-15
Folder 14Folder 15 |
Undated |
Folder 16 |
Clippings |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-773/1 |
Diplomas and medical certificates of John Blake White (1850-1935) and Octavius A. White, 1846-1900 |
Scrapbooks, school and business notebooks, John Blake White's thesis, and a family record of the White family.
Folder 17 |
Volume 1: 1867-1879, 300 pp. Scrapbook of John Blake White (1850-1935)Clippings, programs, certificates, valentines, receipts, broadsides, and a few materials relating to his schooling at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University, University Medical College, and College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. |
Folder 18 |
Volume 2: 1860-1882, 300 pp. Scrapbook of a member of the White familyClippings and other scraps of belles-lettres; items about family marriages and deaths; social, medical, and amusement items; references to John Bellinger White at Episcopal Academy of Connecticut, Phillips Academy, as editor of The Advocate at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, and as member of the committee for relief of yellow fever sufferers in the South, 1878. |
Oversize Volume SV-773/3 |
Scrapbook of John Blake White (1850-1935), 1890-1908, 400 pp.Clippings about his medical career and medical news, especially on tuberculosis; medical articles; pharmaceutical advertisements; and family obituaries. |
Folder 19 |
See SV-773/3 |
Folder 20 |
Volume 4: 1852-1859, 120 pp.Notebook containing a copy of the will of Eliza O'Driscoll of Charleston, S.C., and accounts of estate settlement. Octavius A. White was administrator. |
Folder 21 |
Volume 5: 1874, 72 pp.John Blake White's thesis for his M.D. degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University on prophylaxis. |
Folder 22 |
Volume 6: 1621-1850s, 156 pp.Copy of a White and Blake family record that includes information from the family Bible and other sources. |