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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Eli West Hall Papers #2443-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Jack London of Birmingham, Ala., in March 1942.

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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996

Encoded by: Mara Dabrishus, September 2004

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• College orations--University of North Carolina (1793-1962).
• College prose, American--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• College students--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Hall family.
• Hall, Eli W. (Eli West), 1827-
• Hall, Margaret Dawson, fl. 1856-1858.
• Hall, William, fl. 1856-1858.
• Hillsborough (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Law students--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Legislators--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
• North Carolina. General Assembly. Senate--History--19th century.
• Practice of law--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• School prose, American--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Slavery--North Carolina.
• Students--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--Social life and customs.

Eli West Hall (1827-1865?) was a lawyer and North Carolina state senator of Wilmington, N.C.

The collection includes papers of lawyer and North Carolina legislator Eli West Hall consisting of compositions and speeches written by him in Fayetteville, N.C., where he was a student in the early 1840s and at Chapel Hill, N.C., where he received his A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1847, and letters from him while he was studying law in Hillsborough, N.C.; letters, 1856-1868, from Hall and his wife, Margaret Dawson Hall, from Wilmington, N.C., where he was a lawyer, to his brother William, who was studying medicine in New York; a few letters, 1860-1861, from Hall while he was a state senator; and some civilian letters during the Civil War from members of the Hall family. Topics discussed include family matters, slavery, local and national politics, the University of North Carolina in 1853, and practicing law. Postwar items consist of a few scattered family letters.