George Nicholas Thompson Papers, circa 1839-1960s

Collection Number: 02367

Collection Title: George Nicholas Thompson Papers, circa 1839-1960s

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Size	.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 35 items)
Abstract	The collection of white lawyer George Nicholas Thompson (1832-1891) of Leasburg, N.C., contains a daily diary, 1851, kept by Thompson while he was a student at the University of North Carolina, and brief diary entries and lecture notes of his daughter Lucretia (Luly) Thompson (1861-1880), which she made while she attended summer normal school classes at the University from 1876 to 1878. Additions to this collection contain genealogical materials and family papers including letters, albums, notebooks, photographs, and financial and legal documents related to the Thompson family and Graves family of Caswell County, N.C.
Creator	Thompson, George Nicholas, 1832-1891.
Curatorial Unit	Southern Historical Collection
Language	English

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Restrictions to Access: No restrictions. Open for research.

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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 George Nicholas Thompson Papers #2367, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material: Typed transcription of diary/notebook is included.

Acquisitions Information: Received from Bessie Thompson of Leasburg, N.C,. in September 1941. Additions received in October 2011 (Acc. 101510), February 2012 (Acc. 101558), and February 2014 (Acc. 102001).

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Processed by: Staff, 1992

Encoded by: Peter Hymas, December 2004

Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the encoding of this finding aid.

Updated: November 2018 and May 2019

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George Nicholas Thompson of Leasburg, N.C., was a lawyer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1853 and was a UNC trustee, 1889-1891.

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The collection consists of a daily diary, 1851, kept by George Nicholas Thompson while he was a student at the University of North Carolina, and brief diary entries and lecture notes of his daughter Lucretia (Luly) Thompson (1861-1880), which she made while she attended summer normal school classes at the University from 1876 to 1878. In addition, the collection contains a bound, typed transcription of the diary (101 pages).

Additions to this collection contain genealogical materials and family papers including letters, albums, notebooks, photographs, and financial and legal documents related to the Thompson family and Graves family of Caswell County, N.C.

Contents list

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1. Diary and Notebook, 1851, 1876, 1878.
2. Additions
2.1. Family Papers, circa 1850s-1918 (Addition of October 2011)
2.2. Family Albums, 1839-1899 (Additions of February 2012)
2.3. Family Albums, Photographs, Genealogy, and Papers, circa 1840s-1960s (Addition of February 2014)

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2 items.

Box 1

Folder 1

Diary/notebook

Digital version: Excerpts from the Diary of George N. Thompson, 26 January, 14 February, and 15 February 1851

Box 1

Folder 2

Typed transcription

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Additions to George Nicholas Thompson Papers are composed chiefly of genealogical materials and family papers including letters, albums, notebooks, photographs, and financial and legal documents related to the Thompson family and Graves family of Caswell County, N.C.

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Acquisitions Information: Accessions 101510.

Box 1 Folder 3	Autograph book of Luly Thompson, 1878 With messages sent from summer school at UNC.
Box 1 Folder 4	Volumes, undated Ella Graves's book of poems and commonplace book of H.J. Phillips[?].
Box 1 Folder 5	World War I "war map," circa 1918
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-2367/1	Diplomas of George Nicholas Thompson, 1850s

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Acquisitions Information: Accessions 101557 and 101558.

Oversize Volume SV-2367/1	Thompson-Graves, 1839-1884
Oversize Volume SV-2367/2	Thompson-Graves, 1885-1887
Oversize Volume SV-2367/3	Thompson-Graves, 1888-1899
Framed Item FR-2367/1	Framed pressed-flower picture This item is housed in the North Carolina Collection Gallery.
Box 1 Folder 6	Original notes about the pressed flower picture

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Acquisitions Information: Accession 102001.

Oversize Volume SV-2367/4-6 SV-2367/4 SV-2367/5 SV-2367/6	Thompson family genealogy
Oversize Volume SV-2367/7	Thompson-Graves family genealogy
Oversize Volume SV-2367/8	"Azariah Graves Thompson and Lula Belle Stephens Thompson’s Children"
Image Folder PF-2367/1	Azariah Graves, II Daguerreotype.
Image Folder PF-2367/2	Bettie Johnston Thompson Daguerreotype.
Image Folder PF-2367/3	Isabella Howard Graves and Elizabeth Neal Graves Daguerreotypes.
Image Folder PF-2367/4	Ella Graves Daguerreotype.
	Jacob Thompson Brooch.
Image Folder PF-2367/5	Lucretia Van Hook Daguerreotype. Lucretia Van Hook was born in 1788. She was Nicholas Thompson's spouse and George Nicholas Thompson's mother.
Photograph Album PA-2367/1-2 PA-2367/1 PA-2367/2	Albums with captioned pages Images were removed prior to donation to the Library.
Box 1 Folder 7	Ella W. Thompson’s high school class autograph book, circa 1931
Box 1 Folder 8	Notebooks, circa 1910s-1960s
Box 1 Folder 9	Genealogy

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Framed Item: FR-2367/1 was housed by the NCC Gallery.

Image Folders: PF-2367/1-5

Oversize Volumes: SV-2367/1-8

Photograph Albums: PA-2367/1-2

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Collection Number: 02367 Collection Title: George Nicholas Thompson Papers, circa 1839-1960s