George Nicholas Thompson of Leasburg, N.C., was a lawyer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1853 and was a UNC trustee, 1889-1891. The collection consists of a daily diary, 1851, kept by Thompson while he was a student at the University of North Carolina, and brief diary entries and lecture notes of his daughter Lucretia (Luly) Thompson (1861-1880), which she made while she attended summer normal school classes at the University, 1876 and 1878. Also included are three albums containing about letters, as well as a poem, diary entries, financial and legal documents and photogrpahs, 1839-1899.
