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Lena Simmons Clark collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-18
Scope and Contents

Papers of the Travis Clark family including: farm accounts, receipts, other financial statements, cotton sale records and other farm records from Grenada County, Mississippi; material relating to the education of children (1865-1887), almanacs, scrapbook of clippings, postcards, invitations, and other papers.

Dates: 1856 - 1912
Found in: Manuscripts

Oliver Clifton and Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MPC-CLIF
Scope and Content The Mayor Oliver Clifton and Family Papers arrived in subpar conditions. Most of the documents were in a brown paper bag that was wrapped in a dust-covered garbage bag. The majority of the papers in this collection are letters addressed to either Oliver Clifton (1847-1905) or other members of his family. The letters were stacked together in various piles and tied together by shoe strings. There did not appear to be any arrangement to the materials. Along with the letters that were tied...
Dates: 1870 - 1911; Majority of material found within 1896 - 1906

Mrs. Mary Hutchinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-301
Scope and Contents

Roll of Capt. J. C. Curtright' s Company (Civil War); clipping, "Chivalrous Capt. Curtright;" letter to Mrs. Curtright from J. N. Lennard, Oct. 27, 1862, telling of Curtright's wound and death; tax receipts.

Dates: 1847 - 1861
Found in: Manuscripts

Leake County (Mississippi) Justice of the Peace records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-220
Scope and Contents

Records of Justice of the Peace W. P. White of Leake County, Mississippi, including receipts, correspondence regarding debts, summons, and advertising items. 60 items.

Dates: 1896 - 1902
Found in: Manuscripts

McGeoy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-225
Scope and Contents

Letter from Margaret Hayes to Kimbroughs, regarding her mother's (Mrs. Jefferson Davis) death; sympathy acknowledgement from McLaurins; tax receipts, Harrison County, Mississippi. Also includes assorted papers dealing with Mrs. A. McC. Kimbrough and U.D.C. activities regarding Beauvoir and copy of August 21(?), 1813, New York Spectator.

Dates: 1813, 1906, 1909
Found in: Manuscripts

McReynolds family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-54
Scope and Contents

Papers of McReynolds family of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, include statements of accounts, tax receipts, exemptions, pieces relating to tanning business, loyalty oath, military pass, teacher's agreement, report card. Photocopies.

Dates: 1859 - 1916
Found in: Manuscripts