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John J. Henry Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-33
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, including letters relating to the John J. Henry-Theodore G. Bilbo 1911 affair and other letters from prominent Mississippians. The bulk of the correspondence documents the response of friends, business associates, and prominent politicians to Henry's public physical assault of Bilbo, after Bilbo spoke about Henry's family in slanderous terms. The responses document a broad and general dislike of Bilbo, and support for Henry.Also includes broadside, newspaper...
Dates:
1904 - 1968
Found in:
Manuscripts