| Physical medium | Paper handwritten. |
| Organization of material | Arranged chronologically. |
| Abstract |
Correspondence written from Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana by members of Margaret Bogey's family. The letters concern family matters such as illness and death. Also mentioned are crop failures in Mississippi, soil productivity, adverse weather, and inflated prices of goods, land, slaves, and steamboat transportation. Other topics discussed are immigration from North Carolina to Mississippi and Alabama, dissatisfaction with the lack of social life, and religious fervor created in Lenoir County, N.C., by a traveling preacher. |
| General note | Correspondence restricted from active use for conservation purposes; photocopies of correspondence available in the collection for patron use. |
| Cite as |
Marcus Cicero Bogey Papers, #110, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, East Carolina University. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- 8 items; Mrs. G.T. Richardson; New Bern, N.C.; deposit; Jan. 20, 1970. |
| Biographical note | Marcus Cicero Bogey of New Bern, N.C., married Margaret Fleetwood. |
