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| Size | 4.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3600 items) |
| Abstract | Sarah Rebecca Cameron of Hillsborough, N.C., daughter of William Cameron (1816-1893) and Emma S. (Moore) Cameron, was a novelist under the pseudonym of H. M. Legrange, and author of articles and poems for children's and religious magazines. She was an active supporter of the Confederate cause. In the 1870s and 1880s she was employed by the U.S. Treasury Department. Correspondence, writings, financial and legal material, volumes, and other materials belonging to Sarah Rebecca Cameron and members of her family. Correspondence is mostly personal and relates primarily to family matters. Also included is a large amount of correspondence among other family members, including copies of letters, circa 1827-1834, between Sarah's grandmother, Anne Call Cameron (1794-1856), and her great- grandfather, Judge Daniel Call; and correspondence, circa 1900-1915, between Sarah's brother, Allan Jones Cameron, and his children, William (1893-1910) and Anne. Also included are letters from publishers of periodicals to which Sarah made contributions, and fan mail. Volumes consist of family diaries, including one kept during the Civil War, and those of Sarah's sisters Anna Alexander Cameron and Emma Moore Cameron, as well as several composition books belonging to Sarah's nephew William Cameron. |
| Creator | Cameron, Rebecca. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, July 2010
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Biographical Information
Sarah Rebecca Cameron was born on 26 April 1845. She was the first or second child (evidence is conflicting) of Dr. William and Emma Moore Cameron of Hillsboro, North Carolina. She was educated at the Nash-Kollock School for Girls in Hillsboro. During the Civil War, she was an active supporter of the Confederate cause. In the 1870s and 1880s Cameron worked for the United States Treasury in Washington, DC, and as a secretary in New York and New Orleans.
In 1872 Cameron published her only novel, Salted With Fire , under the pseudonym of H. M. LeGrange. During this period she also co-edited the Randolph Abbott Shotwell Papers with J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton. She also wrote articles and poems for periodicals, and during the 1880s wrote a column for the children's page of the Episcopal Church's Church Messenger . Sarah Cameron died in 1936.
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Correspondence, writings, financial and legal material, volumes, and other materials belonging to Sarah Rebecca Cameron and members of her family. Correspondence is mostly personal and relates primarily to family matters. Also included is a large amount of correspondence among other family members, including copies of letters, circa 1827-1834, between Sarah's grandmother, Anne Call Cameron (1794-1856), and her great- grandfather, Judge Daniel Call; and correspondence, circa 1900-1915, between Sarah's brother, Allan Jones Cameron, and his children, William (1893-1910) and Anne. Also included are letters from publishers of periodicals to which Sarah made contributions, and fan mail. Volumes consist of family diaries, including one kept during the Civil War, and those of Sarah's sisters Anna Alexander Cameron and Emma Moore Cameron, as well as several composition books belonging to Sarah's nephew William Cameron.
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Series 1. Correspondence, 1827-1940.
Primarily personal correspondence between Sarah Rebecca Cameron and friends and relatives concerning family matters. Also included is a large amount of correspondence among other members of the Cameron family including copies of letters (circa 1827-1834) between her grandmother, Anne Call Cameron, and her grandfather, Judge Daniel Call; and correspondence (circa 1900-1915) between Sarah Cameron's brother, Alan Cameron, and his children, William and Annie Cameron.
Correspondence also includes Sarah Cameron's professional communications, ranging from letters from publishers of various periodicals to which she made contributions in the form of poems and articles, to letters from readers of the Church Messenger of the Episcopal Church, in which she wrote a column for the children's page under the name "Aunt Becky."
There is also correspondence relating to Cameron's involvement in the North Carolina Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy, in which she served as president and historian.
Also addressed to Sarah Cameron were letters concerning the shipment of goods purchased by mail, specifically clothing and home remedies.
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Series 2. Financial and Legal Materials, 1815-1917.
Primarily receipts for food, clothing, and medication, as well as receipts for tuition and school supplies for Annie Cameron at St. Mary's School in Raleigh. Also included is a receipt (dated 2 May 1816) to John Cameron, Sarah's uncle, for taxes on Cameron property in Luninburg County, Virginia.
| Folder 68 |
Financial and legal material, 1815-1917 |
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Series 3. Writings, Undated.
Creative writings from several members of the Cameron family. The principal author is Sarah Rebecca Cameron, although there are also a few other writers. The majority of the material, however, is unsigned.
| Folder 69 |
A. Cameron-E. Cameron |
| Folder 70 |
Sarah Rebecca Cameron |
| Folder 71 |
D-Z |
Folder 72-75
Folder 72Folder 73Folder 74Folder 75 |
Unsigned Writings |
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Series 4. Volumes, circa
1870-1920.
Volumes include several diaries written by Anna and Emma Cameron, sisters of Sarah Rebecca Cameron; a volume of addresses with a list of letters written and received by Cameron from 1887-1888; a volume containing a list of employees, with hours worked and amounts paid to each; and composition books used by Sarah's nephew William Cameron. There is also an oversize volume which appears to have been used for several purposes. This volume, belonging to Sarah's father William Cameron, was used as an acount book from 1810 through the 1840s, but also includes a list of pupils of Lockhill School and a list of boarders and their accounts. The book was given to Sarah Cameron on 18 May 1861, and was used as a journal by her and possibly other family members until 1865. This volume was further used to record letters written and received from July 1868 - April 1871.
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Series 5. Other Papers.
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Subseries 5.1. Printed Material, circa
1860-1910.
These materials include newspaper clippings (primarily poems), broadsides, religious materials, and material pertaining to the United Daughters of the Confederacy which includes national and regional constitution and by-laws.
| Folder 86 |
Newspaper clippings |
| Folder 87 |
Broadsides |
| Folder 88 |
Religious material |
| Folder 89 |
United Daughters of the Confederacy |
| Folder 90 |
Other printed material |
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Subseries 5.2. Miscellaneous, circa 1860-1970.
School materials belonging to Annie and William Cameron, drawings and patterns, certificates, and miscellaneous materials.
| Folder 91 |
William and Annie Cameron: school materials |
| Folder 92 |
Drawings and patterns |
| Folder 93 |
Certificates |
| Folder 94 |
Miscellaneous |
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Series 6. Pictures.
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