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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Theodore Davidson Morrison Papers, #2603-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Theodore Davidson Morrison of Asheville, N.C., May 1943.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, October 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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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.

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• Autobiographies--Southern States.
• Brown family.
• Brown, John Evans, 1827-1895.
• Brown, William John, fl. 1861-1865.
• Buncombe County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Davidson family.
• Davidson, John Mitchell, 1829-1917.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Haywood County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Migration, Internal--United States--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• North Carolina--Social conditions.
• Prohibition--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Southern States--Biography.
• Texas--Social life and customs.
• United States--Description and travel.
• Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894.

Theodore Davidson Morrison was an attorney of Asheville, N.C. Members of his extended family and ancestry include Theodore F. Davidson, William Mitchell Davidson, John Mitchell Davidson (born 1829), A. T. Davidson, and Hugh H. Davidson.

The collection includes scattered papers of and about the Davidsons and other families of Buncombe and Haywood counties, N.C. Among other items are a narrative, written in 1898, by John Mitchell Davidson of the the years 1843-1847 during which his family emigrated from North Carolina to Texas by way of Illinois, describing in detail the journey and life and society in widely scattered areas of Texas; two letters, 1881, from Senator Zebulon B. Vance about the possibility of Prohibition and other political matters; and five letters (typed transcriptions), 1861-1865, from family members in Buncombe County to John Evans Brown in Australia and New Zealand where he apparently had gone seeking gold. The letters to John E. Brown are from his father, William John Brown, his brother, and his step-mother; they are extremely long, colorfully written discussions of family, community, and public life, including reflections on the sadness and difficulties brought on by the Civil War.