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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Matthias Murray Marshall Papers #489, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received before 1936 and from Susan Marshall, Raleigh, N.C., in July 1982 (Acc. 82082).

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Processed by: Staff, 1936-1982

Encoded by: Peter Hymas, November 2004

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• Badger, George Edmund, 1795-1866.
• Battle, Kemp P. (Kemp Plummer), 1831-1919.
• Cameron, Paul C., 1808-1932.
• Cameron, Sallie Mayo, 1865-1932.
• Cheshire, Joseph Blount, 1850-1932.
• Christ Church (Raleigh, N.C.)--History.
• College students--United States--Social life and customs.
• Episcopal Church--Clergy--North Carolina.
• Episcopal Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Episcopal Church--North Carolina--Records and correspondence.
• Kenan, T. S. (Thomas Stephen), 1838-1911.
• Manly, Charles, 1795-1871.
• Marshall, Matthias Murray, 1841-1912.
• Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857.
• Osborne, Edwin Augustus, 1837-1926.
• Raleigh (N.C.)--History.
• Raleigh (N.C.)--Religious life and customs.
• Ravenscroft, John Stark, 1772-1830.
• San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--Religious life.
• Voyages and travels.
• Worth, Jonathan, 1802-1869.

• Elisha Mitchell Papers (#518), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Matthias Murray Marshall was a Confederate Army lieutenant and chaplain during the Civil War; a graduate of the University of North Carolina; and an Episcopal clergyman in Raleigh, N.C.

The collection includes personal, religious, and business correspondence and other papers of the Reverend Matthias Murray Marshall, chiefly while he was rector of Christ Church (Episcopal) in Raleigh, N.C., but also during his attendance at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. Included are records, 1876-1879 and 1885-1892, of visits to parishioners; scrapbooks; and memorandum books, mainly relating to Christ Church. The early letters, 1824-1825, relate to a controversy between Professor Elisha Mitchell of UNC and Bishop John Stark Ravenscroft about religious doctrines and denominational influence at UNC. Other correspondents include Kemp Plummer Battle, Charles Manly, George E. Badger, Paul C. Cameron, Joseph Blount Cheshire, Jr., Sallie M. Cameron, the Reverend E. A. Osborne, Thomas S. Kenan, and Jonathan Worth. Volumes include an 1861 daily diary that Marshall kept as a student at Trinity and at UNC and notes on a voyage from Baltimore, Md., to San Francisco, Calif., in 1883.

Oversize volume (SV-489/10)