University of Virginia Library

575. ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH PAPERS

ca. 4,000 items, 1820-95
Correspondence, diaries, literary manuscripts, essays, and newspaper columns of this nineteenth-century literary figure who was born in Maine and lived in South Carolina and New York. A diary she kept during the Civil War contains a lengthy description of the New York draft riot in 1863.
(Acc. 38-707)