Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Elizabeth Nisbet Furman Talley Papers, #1043, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Volume 2 is available on microfilm.

Acquisitions Information

Acquired 1945.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, February 2011

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Baptists--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Carter, Farish, 1780-1861.
• Furman family.
• Georgia--Genealogy.
• LeConte family.
• LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901.
• South Carolina--Genealogy.
• Talley, Elizabeth Nisbet Furman, b. 1874.

• Emma LeConte Diary (#420); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The collection chiefly consists of Mrs. Talley's 20th-century correspondence and papers about the genealogy of the LeConte, Furman, and related families of Georgia and South Carolina. Also, scattered 19th century papers, consisting mainly of family correspondence, 1810-1872, of Farish Carter (1780-1861), Baptist minister of South Carolina; and of the scientific LeConte family of Georgia and California. Other items include the manuscript autobiography, circa 1900, and manuscript philosophical essays of the geologist Joseph LeConte (1823-1901), and recollections of and collected material about him.

• Oversize papers (XOPF-1043/1)