Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MC 1835

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Scope and Content Note

Materials include 156 letters to Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel from friends and family between January 16, 1868 and June 1, 1949, although 49 of these are undated. Folder 6 contains 14 letters, written between December 10, 1857 and March 6, 1867, mainly to and from Samuel Venable Daniel, brother of Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel’s husband, Nathaniel Beverly Daniel. A map that highlights Person, Granville and Warren counties of North Carolina is included in Folder 6 with the Samuel V. Daniel correspondence.

Dates

1857-1949

Creator

Daniel, Harriet Bailey Bullock (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

Restrictions Apply: Researchers must obtain permission from Duke University Library to use materials in publications.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel was born in 1849 to Charles Lewis Bullock, a landowner and enslaver originally from Warren County (now Vance County), North Carolina, and Sara Jane Shapard. She was born in Manchester Township in then Dallas County, Arkansas, but by the time she left in 1872 Manchester Township had been re-annexed by Clark County. She married Nathaniel Beverly Daniel in 1872 and moved with him to his family plantation “Tranquility” near Oxford, North Carolina. Harriet and Nathaniel had at least one child, Alice Goodridge Daniel. Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel died in 1934.

Extent

.4 Linear Feet (1 box)

Additional Description

Arrangement of the Papers

Materials are arranged chronologically.

Acquisition Information

The Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel Correspondence was donated to the Special Collections Department in 2009 by Margaret Jones Bolsterli of Fayetteville, Arkansas.

This collection was originally sent to Margaret Jones Bolsterli by Dr. Bailey Webb for research for her book, A Remembrance of Eden.

Processing Information

Processed by William J. Bludworth; completed in October 2009. Finding aid language was updated by Katrina Windon in September 2023 as part of a project to update outdated or harmful description related to slavery or to enslaved persons.