Record #:

16473

Author(s):

Anderson, John Q.

Abstract:

Courtship and marriage customs in North Carolina in the 1840s are humorously and vividly described by an unknown contributor in a series of three letters to the SPIRIT OF THE TIMES, the New York weekly which published popular humor in the middle decades of the 19th-century. These letters emphasize the significance in community life of birth, marriage, and death.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 2, Dec 1962, p1-8

Subject(s):

Marriage--Anecdotes