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Record Group Number: 900000
Collection Number: M92- 1
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Collection/Series Title: Call family and Brevard family papers, 1788-1925.
Container: 00004
File Unit: 00004.00001
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Title: Notebook, ca. 1855-1860, inscribed on cover "T.W. Brevard," containing writings and speeches on government, politics, philosophy, law, and jurisprudence. Contains: "Is increase of Knowledge increase of happiness" (3 pp.); "Anniversary of the Birthday of Washington" (speech, 3 pp.); "That which was is, that which is will be" (6 pp.); "Speech delivered during the Canvass of 1856" (12 pp., incomplete); notes and thoughts on political parties and candidates (2 pp.); "Written in August 1860" (34 pp.); notes, names, and figures (6 pp.); "Political Data etc." (1 p.); "Political predjudice upon the Jury" and notes andthoughts on law and jurisprudence (15 pp.); "Collinson's Bill" (1 p.); thoughts on court appointment of receivers (2 pp.); notes for speech commemorating the Civil War (4 pp.); notes, mostly pencilled (for speech?), on the war, politics, and Horace Greeley (7 pp.); more notes and thoughts on law and jurisprudence (3 pp.); notes for a court case (1 p.); thoughts on post-war race relations in the South (3 pp.); "Thoughts," including quotes, on various topics (9 pp.); "Know Nothingism" (1 p.); more notes and figures (2 pp.); draft of contract "between T. W. Brevard and the undersigned labourers" (2 pp.); titles of readings (3 pp.); thoughts on politics (2 pp., unbound fragment); and thoughts on jurisprudence (1 p., unbound fragment).
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