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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items) |
Abstract | Family and business correspondence, legal and political documents, reminiscences, and family history of the De Caradeuc family of France, Haiti, and South Carolina. Early letters and legal documents, 1771-1783 (in French), include a grant of land and titles by Louis XV, and a letter from Calonne. Business letters, beginning 1786, refer to the exportation of sugar from the De Caradeuc plantation on Hispaniola and the insurrections there. Letters from the De Caradeuc family in France to the family in the United States refer to the conflict between church and state in the early days of the Third Republic. Correspondence is chiefly 18th-century and written in French, but papers from 1878 to 1893 are in English. Twentieth- century papers are invitations and other family material. Also included are a Civil War and Reconstruction diary, 1863-1865, of James Achille de Caradeuc (1816-1895) of Aiken and Charleston, S.C., chiefly consisting of reflections on current events, a memoir by James A. de Caradeuc, family records, and a fragment of an unascribed novel dealing with a northern naturalist in South Carolina just before the Civil War. |
Creator | De Caradeuc (Family : De Caradeuc, James Achille, 1816-1895) |
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, February 2010
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Family and business correspondence, legal and political documents, reminiscences, and family history of the De Caradeuc family of France, Haiti, and South Carolina. Early letters and legal documents, 1771-1783 (in French), include a grant of land and titles by Louis XV, and a letter from Calonne. Business letters, beginning 1786, refer to the exportation of sugar from the De Caradeuc plantation on Hispaniola and the insurrections there. Letters from the De Caradeuc family in France to the family in the United States refer to the conflict between church and state in the early days of the Third Republic. Correspondence is chiefly 18th-century and written in French, but papers from 1878 to 1893 are in English. Twentieth- century papers are invitations and other family material. Also included are a Civil War and Reconstruction diary, 1863-1865, of James Achille de Caradeuc (1816-1895) of Aiken and Charleston, S.C., chiefly consisting of reflections on current events, a memoir by James A. de Caradeuc, family records, and a fragment of an unascribed novel dealing with a northern naturalist in South Carolina just before the Civil War.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid and inventory of papers |
Folder 1 |
1771-1782 |
Folder 2 |
1783-1791 |
Folder 3 |
1792-1805 |
Folder 4 |
1806-1811 |
Folder 5 |
1813-1822 |
Folder 6 |
1826-1831 |
Folder 7 |
1841-1896 |
Folder 8 |
1897-1945 |
Folder 9 |
Undated |
Folder 10 |
Genealogy and family records |
Oversize Paper OP-1497/1 |
Map of the de Caradeuc plantation, San Domingo, 1783 |
Folder 11 |
Two plans for reserves of water, San Domingo, 1789 |
Folder 12 |
Broadsides, 1790-1792 and undated |
Folder 13 |
Volume 1: Diary of James Achille de Caradeuc, 20 December 1863-November 1865Contains long, irregularly-kept entries, most of them reflections on war news and current events. Includes typed copy. |
Folder 14 |
Volume 2: Family records, 1751-1893Contains records (in French) of the de Caradeuc family of Brittany, San Domingo, and South Carolina, with vital statistics of the South Carolina branch of the family on page 53. Records of events (births, deaths, marriages, etc.) in the lives of the South Carolina family members are in English. Also included are copies of letters from relatives in France, 1751-1877. |
Folder 15 |
Volume 3: Unascribed novel fragment, undatedFragment of a novel about a northern naturalist in South Carolina just before the Civil War. |
Folder 16 |
Volume 4: Loose pages from other volumes |
Folder 17 |
Volume 5: "Memoirs of the de Caradeuc Family," by James Achille de CaradeucForty-seven page booklet containing the memoirs of James Achille de Caradeuc, printed for distribution among his and his wife's descendants, "as a loving tribute to their memory" (from the Foreword by Maude Heyward). |
Folder 18 |
Typescript copy of Volume 1 |
Folder 19 |
Photostat copy of Volume 2 |
Reel M-1497/1-3
M-1497/1M-1497/2M-1497/3 |
Microfilm |