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	Letter from James Southgate to Richard Harvey Wright, June 11, 1886 James Southgate asks Richard Harvey Wright for his support of Prohibition in Durham, North Carolina.
	Southern business guide, Section of the 1883-84 Southern Business Guide containing the personal names, business names, and street addresses of the leading merchants, manufacturers, and businessmen of Durham, North Carolina. Also provides a summary of Durham's history and railroad lines. The guide lists 71 businesses and their locations.
	Letter from James Haywood Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, November 20, 1881 James Haywood Southgate writes his sister Mattie Logan Southgate with news from home and advice for her studies at Wesleyan Female Institute James commends Mattie on the progress she made in her report card grades and counsels his sister on how to build a "superior intellectual edifice." He advises that she use her letter writing to "improve her mode of expression" and suggests that she abandon her habitual practice of underlining. James thanks for Mattie for sending a photograph. He details the foods that the Southgate family has brought to their Durham home in order to host visitors for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South's North Carolina Annual Conference. He describes his plans to travel to Atlanta for the Exhibition and notes that he may visit his Uncle Thomas Wynne and his family in Columbus, Georgia. He closes by inquiring after a parcel he sent Mattie. James writes his letter on stationery from the Office of James Southgate, General, Fire, Insurance and Commission Agent.
	Letter from James Southgate to Delia H. Southgate, Annie Moore Southgate, Mattie Logan Southgate, Celestia Muse Southgate, and Sallie Raboteau, September 07, 1883 James Southgate, together with his son James H. Southgate, sends news to his Durham household from Richmond, Virginia where the elder Southgate seeks medical care for his ailments. James describes the visits with friends, and the medical treatment he is receiving from his physician. James H. Southgate closes the letter with a postscript that describes the "Retreat for the Sick" and its costs. This letter was written on J. Southgate and Son, General Life, Fire, and Accident Insurance Agents stationery.
	Letter from James Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, December 03, 1881 James Southgate sends his daughter, Mattie Logan Southgate spending money so that she can pay her bills and purchase winter flannel. He plans to have C. B. Green and G. E. Webb forward Durham's main newspapers--the Daily Tobacco Plant and Durham Recorder-- so that she might read about the proceedings of the North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South's Annual Conference . The Southgate family hosts a number of Conference attendees who travel to Durham for the event. This letter is written on stationery from the Office of James Southgate, General, Fire, Insurance an Commission Agent.
	Life insurance policy for Thomas D. Wright, 1887 Copy of life insurance policy application submitted by Thomas D. Wright to James Southgate in 1887. The form provides information about the health of Thomas and his siblings and his parents.
	Life insurance policy for Richard Harvey Wright, 1877 Copy of life insurance policy application submitted by Richard H. Wright to James Southgate in 1877. The form provides information about the health of Richard, his siblings and his parents.

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