WORK SHEET
NUMBER: P*C> 1602 _
NAME OF COLLECTION: Stoudemire. Mrs. Sterling. Collection
DATES:
1861, 1866, 1917, 1920
ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Gift of Mbs. Sterling Stoudemire ,
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Chapel Hill, N.C. in July of 1974, Accessioned July 29, 1976
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 4 items, letters
ADDITION: 1 bound volume .of collected piano music and songs
HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION:
Letter, Cary D. Batte, Harrison's Farm, December 24, 1861, to "My Friend
Miss Lucy" declining an invitation
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Letter, Benjamin 0. Wade, Louisville, Kentuty, October 30, 1866, to
"Miss Lucy". [[Probably Benjamin 0. Wade, ^private, of 2nd Cavalry,
N.C. Troops, who was captured on Robinson River, Virginia, November
11, 1863, and confined at Point Lookout, Maryland.] Letter concerns
the state of the South and is mainly, a thank-you to "Miss Lucy" for
her kindness while he was a prisoner of war.
Letter, A. W. S-— -field, Needham, Massachusetts, September 20, 1917,
to Brig. Gen. [C*S»A*] E. V. White, Norfolk, Virginia. Concerns "Love
of the South and the great principle of representative self-government
for which she stood." Typewritten. With envelope.
Letter, Laura Daniel, Warrenton, November 4, 1920, to "Cousin Sarah" [Mrs.
George Allez? Renn, Norfolk, Va.]. Concerns the Harris and Gary
family ancestry. With envelope, stamped.
ADDITION: '
Collection of popular antebellum music for piano and for voice, brought
together by Mrs. Stoudemire’s ancestor, Susan A.. Gary of Northampton County,
N.C., and bound for her by a Petersburg, Va., book bindery. Miss Gary, who
was bom about 1845 , formed the collection while a teenager living in the household
of her guardian,. Dr. William Edwards. The 'collection contains two compositions
by the celebrated blind, autistic, African-American prodigy, "Blind Tom": "The
Oliver Gallop", and "The Virginia Polka" i The same lithographic portrait of
Blind Tom as a ten-year old boy is the same on each piece of music.
