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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Margaret Anne Ulmer Papers #733-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Typed transcription and microfilm copy of typed transcription of diary available.

Additional microfilm: All or part of this collection is also available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of Southern women and their families in the 19th century, Series A.

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Received from Mrs. Hatton B. Rogers of Washington, D.C.

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This collection was rehoused under the sponsorhship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

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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• Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Indian Territory--Description and travel.
• Oklahoma--History.
• Texas--Description and travel.
• Tuskegee Female Academy (Ala.)--Students.
• Ulmer, Margaret Anne, fl. 1857-1858.
• Women--Alabama--Diaries.
• Women--Education--Alabama--History--19th century.

Diary, 102 pp., 24 February-5 June 1858, of Margaret Anne Ulmer of Grove Hill, Ala., kept while she was attending Tuskegee Female Academy, and a typed transcription of a detailed letter, 1857, written from Jonesville, and Lamar and Harrison counties, Tex., from "T.B.A." to his sister. In her diary, Ulmer described daily events at school, her lessons, the health of her friends and teachers, and a revival at the Baptist Church. A typed transcription of the diary is also included. The letter describes a horseback journey in northeast Texas and the adjacent Indian Territory.