Baptist Correspondence of Amanda Bellamy Smart

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        <titleproper>Baptist Correspondence of Amanda Bellamy Smart
                    <num>MS894</num>
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        <subtitle>1831-1844, 0.21 linear feet</subtitle>
        <author>Finding aid prepared by Processed by Madison Eggers</author>
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      <publicationstmt>
        <publisher>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</publisher>
        <address>
          <addressline>PO Box 7777</addressline>
          <addressline>Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27109</addressline>
          <addressline>336 758-5755</addressline>
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        <date>2018 October 12</date>
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      <creation>This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit
                <date>2019-01-09T15:52-0500</date>
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      <unittitle>Baptist Correspondence of Amanda Bellamy Smart</unittitle>
      <unitid>MS894</unitid>
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        <corpname>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</corpname>
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        <language langcode="eng"/>
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      <physdesc>
        <extent>0.21 linear feet</extent>
        <extent>1 half-document box</extent>
      </physdesc>
      <unitdate normal="1831/1844" type="inclusive">1831-1844</unitdate>
      <abstract id="ref11" label="Abstract">Amanda Bellamy Smart was born to a wealthy, plantation-owning family in Virginia in the early 1800s. Her collection includes correspondences with friends and family from 1831-1844.</abstract>
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    <bioghist id="ref8">
      <head>Biographical Note</head>
      <p>Amanda Bellamy Smart was born in Richmond, Virginia, around 1810. Her father was John Bellamy, a wealthy plantation owner in the Virginia Beach area. She later moved to Warrenton, North Carolina, where she lived on a tobacco and cotton plantation. Smart died in 1845 from heart complications, and was buried with her child in Petersburg, Virginia.</p>
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    <prefercite id="ref14">
      <head>Preferred Citation</head>
      <p>Baptist Correspondence of Amanda Bellamy Smart (MS 894), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.</p>
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    <userestrict id="ref13">
      <head>Copyright Notice</head>
      <p>The nature of the WFU Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The Archives and Special Collections of ZSR Library claims only physical ownership of most materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to the U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.</p>
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      <head>Access Restrictions</head>
      <p>Collection is open for researchers.</p>
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    <scopecontent id="ref9">
      <head>Collection Overview</head>
      <p>This collection contains ten letters to Amanda Bellamy Smart from family and close friends. Letters are organized in folders, ordered chronologically. Correspondents include her cousins, Emily and Jacob "Paine" Smart, sister Eliza Mann, aunt Elizabeth Clarke, and family friend Orillor Vreelan. There is also one disorganized letter without the writer's signature. Topics of the letters include familial conversations, politics, and references to illness.</p>
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    <relatedmaterial id="ref15">
      <head>Related Materials</head>
      <p>Related materials can be found at the University of Notre Dame: Bellamy-Smart Family Papers, MSN/EA 5041, Department of Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame, 102 Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame, IN 46556.</p>
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          <unittitle>Elizabeth Clarke to Smart</unittitle>
          <container id="cid2207003" type="Box" label="Text">1</container>
          <container parent="cid2207003" type="Folder">3</container>
          <unitdate normal="1831/1836" type="inclusive">1831-1836</unitdate>
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          <unittitle>Letter to Smart, unidentified writer</unittitle>
          <container id="cid2207001" type="Box" label="Text">1</container>
          <container parent="cid2207001" type="Folder">1</container>
          <unitdate normal="1833/1833">1833</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
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          <unittitle>Emma to Smart</unittitle>
          <container id="cid2207005" type="Box" label="Text">1</container>
          <container parent="cid2207005" type="Folder">5</container>
          <unitdate normal="1834/1834">1834</unitdate>
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          <unittitle>Paine Smith to Smart</unittitle>
          <container id="cid2207007" type="Box" label="Text">1</container>
          <container parent="cid2207007" type="Folder">7</container>
          <unitdate normal="1834/1834">1834</unitdate>
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      <c id="ref16" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>"What Saith the Scripture?" card from Baptist Church, Petersburg, Virginia</unittitle>
          <container id="cid2321001" type="Box" label="Text">1</container>
          <container parent="cid2321001" type="Folder">8</container>
          <unitdate normal="1834/1834">circa 1834 April</unitdate>
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          <unittitle>Eliza Mann to Smart</unittitle>
          <container id="cid2207002" type="Box" label="Text">1</container>
          <container parent="cid2207002" type="Folder">2</container>
          <unitdate normal="1840/1840">1840</unitdate>
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          <unittitle>Orillor Vreelan to Smart</unittitle>
          <container id="cid2207006" type="Box" label="Text">1</container>
          <container parent="cid2207006" type="Folder">6</container>
          <unitdate normal="1844/1844">1844</unitdate>
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          <unittitle>Emily Smith to Smart</unittitle>
          <container id="cid2207004" type="Box" label="Text">1</container>
          <container parent="cid2207004" type="Folder">4</container>
          <unitdate>undated</unitdate>
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