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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Bullitt Family Papers, #3549, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Available on Microfilm:

Volumes 1, 2, and 3

53 items from the Agatha Bullitt Grabisch correspondence

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, April 2011

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Berlin (Germany)--Social life and customs.
• Bullitt family.
• Centre College (Danville, Ky.)--Students--History--19th century.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Christian family.
• College students--United States--Social life and customs.
• Danville (Ky.)--Social life and customs.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Europe--Description and travel.
• Fry family.
• Germany--Politics and government--1918-1933.
• Law--Study and teaching--United States--History--19th century.
• Lawyers--United States--History--19th century.
• Logan family.
• Medical education--United States--History--20th century.
• Oxford (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
• Oxmoor Plantation (Louisville, Ky.)
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs.
• Plantations--Kentucky--Louisville.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• University of Mississippi--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of Virginia. School of Medicine--Students--History--20th century.
• Washington and Lee University--Students--History--19th century.
• World War, 1914-1918--Medical care--France.

• See also William Marshall Bullitt Genealogical Papers and Scrapbook (microfilm), University of Kentucky.
• See also Bullitt Family papers, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Ky.

In part, microfilm. The majority of the collection is correspondence. Included are letters to Mildred Ann (Fry) Bullitt at Oxmoor Plantation, Louisville, Ky., from friends and relatives, and a few from Virginia, Missouri, Alabama, Ohio, New Mexico, and England. The letters relate principally to family and community news. Many of the Civil War-era letters are from Confederate prisoners of war. Other letters relate to Morgan's raid of July 1862 and efforts to get aid to Confederate prisoners. Most late 19th-century letters were written by Thomas Walker Bullitt to his wife while he travelled on business for his law firm. He wrote from New York, Canada, and London, among other places. Letters in the late 1890s and early 1900s are from James Bell Bullitt to his parents while he was a student at Washington and Lee University and in medical school at the University of Virginia. Letters for the period 1903-1920 are principally of James B. Bullitt and his family in Oxford, Miss., and Chapel Hill, N.C., where he was teaching in the medical schools. During World War I he was stationed at a military hospital in France and wrote of his daily life. Letters from the period 1920-1945 are from James B. Bullitt's sister, Agatha Bullitt Grabisch, from Berlin, Germany, where she was a journalist and teacher. She wrote about economic and political conditions as well as about visitors and family affairs. Volumes include three diaries, 1857-1864, of T. W. Bullitt during his time as a student at Centre College, Danville, Ky.; while studying law in Philadelphia; and during the Civil War. John Bell Bullitt's diary, 1928-1929, describes his travels in western Europe. Materials on microfilm are items from the genealogical files of William Marshall Bullitt (1873-1957). Families represented include the Bullitts, Christians, Logans, and Frys.

The collection also includes writings by members of the Bullitt family and others; miscellaneous financial and legal materials; diaries of Thomas Walker Bullitt and James Bell Bullitt; and miscellaneous other materials.

• Photographs (PF-3549/1)
• Microfilm (M-3549/1-14, 17)