Rives-Dalton Family Papers, 1846-1883
(Manuscript Collection #136)
Descriptive Summary
| Title: | Rives-Dalton Family Papers |
| Creators: |
Dalton family
Rives family |
| Repository: | ECU Manuscript Collection |
| Languages: | English |
| Abstract: | Papers (1846-1883) consisting of correspondence with personal matters, comments, slaves, letters, report, etc. |
| Extent: | 0.073 Cubic feet, 24 items , consisting of correspondence |
Administrative Information
Accessions Information
August 17, 1970, 24 items; Correspondence. Loaned for copying by Mrs. C. J. Lambe and Miss Nan E. Jones, Walnut Cove, N.C.
Access Restrictions
No restrictions
Copyright Notice
Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
Preferred Citation
Rives-Dalton Family Papers (#136), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Acquisition Information
- Loaned by Mrs. C. J. Lambe and Miss Nan E. Jones
Processing Information
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Processed by M. Griffin, April 1971
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Encoded by Apex Data Services
Description
Correspondence is primarily concerned with routine family and personal matters, such as illnesses, births, deaths, and marriages of relatives and neighbors.
One complete letter is devoted to a detailed description of a case of smallpox suffered by the writer's child (1856). Of interest are comments on current prices for various crops and goods during the period, including corn, pork, flour, cotton, tobacco, salt, sole leather, wagons, horses and mules. Particular note is made of the harsh winter of 1855-1856, the purchase of dresses (1850), the breaking up of slave families (1850), the difficulty of buying slaves (1852), religious revivals (1851), the position of the Know-Nothing (American) Party as the heir to Whig Party support (1856), scarcity of money (1857-1858), and inflationary prices during the early months of the Civil War (1861). Several letters (1857-1860, 1883) were written from South Carolina and Georgia and describe efforts to sell tobacco on a glutted market. Typical of this was his report from Macon, Georgia (1858), that there were already sixteen wagons of tobacco in the yard when he arrived.
Subject Headings
Personal/Family names
Corporate name
Topical terms
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