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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79031179
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Willie Person Mangum, jurist and U.S. senator and representative from North Carolina, were received by gift and purchase from various sources, including Mrs. Stephen B. Weeks and other heirs of Mangum, 1919-1982.
The papers of Willie Person Mangum were arranged and described in 1985. The finding aid was revised in 2012.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Willie Person Mangum is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Willie Person Mangum are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Willie Person Mangum Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Willie Person Mangum (1792-1861) span the years 1771-1906, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1771-1868. The collection contains correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, legal papers, genealogical material, financial papers, and printed matter concerning local, southern, and national politics, the Whig Party in the South, economic and social conditions in North Carolina, the Mangum plantation, and education of the Mangum children. The collection is organized into two series: Family Papers and Personal Papers.
Included are business papers of Arthur Mangum, Willie Person Mangum's grandfather; Priestly Hinton Mangum, (1795-1850), Willie Mangum's brother; Priestly Hinton Mangum, Jr. (born 1829), agriculturist of North Carolina; and Willie Person Mangum (1827-1881), Mangum's nephew and consul to China and Japan. Also in the collection is correspondence of Willie Mangum's wife, Charity Alston Cain Mangum, with her husband and other members of the Mangum and Cain families, and genealogical and biographical material compiled by Stephen Beauregard Weeks. The Miscellany subseries of the Financial Papers includes an 1849 letter of Abraham Lincoln to Willie Person Mangum.
Other correspondents include George Edmund Badger, James Brown, John Anson Burlingame, H. G. Burton, Wm. Cain, Paul Carrington Cameron, John Chavis, Weston R. Gales, William Gaston, Robert B. Gilliam, William A. Graham, William H. Haywood, Charles L. Hinton, James Iredell, Reverdy Johnson Frederick Nash, Romulus Mitchell Saunders, George F. Seward, William Henry Seward, Robert Wilson Shufeldt, Samuel L. Southard, Edward Stanly, David L. Swain, Hugh Waddell, J. Watson Webb, Daniel Wesbster, Thurlow Weed, Lewis Williams.
This collection is arranged in two series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79031179
Family correspondence, mostly of a social nature.
Arranged chronologically.
Diary of Martha Person Mangum.
Miscellaneous items including a letter from Abraham Lincoln, bills and receipts, biographical and genealogical notes, short writings, printed matter and clippings.
Arranged by type of material.
Letterbooks of mainly professional correspondence.
Arranged chronologically.