Doy Longest Collection
Scope and Content
Speeches, research notes and materials, copies of Longest's thesis "English Sisters of Henry III" and dissertation "Anne Stuart: Lady in Waiting," and other papers related to the history of Mississippi and the Confederacy, including historic homes in Oktibbeha County.
Also included are four framed limited edition Conrad Wise Chapman prints from the Museum of the Confederacy: "White Point Battery, Charleston,” December 24, 1863; "Charleston Bay and City," undated; "Battery Rutledge," 1863; "Evening Gun, Fort Sumter," undated.
Digital collection: Slides taken to accompany a Doy Longest lecture based on her book Historic Homes and Buildings of Oktibbeha County (1977).
Longest also contributed a book collection, which has been separated and cataloged for the print collection.
Dates
- 1954 - 1977
Biographical Note
Doy Payne Longest daughter of John Quincy Adams Payne and Maybel Franklin Payne, was born in 1923 in Gulfport, MS. She earned her undergraduate degree from Millsaps College in 1944, and later completed a PhD in History at Mississippi State University in 1991. She was married to Dr. John C. Longest, college physician at Mississippi State University from 1947-1988, with whom she had five daughters. She died in 2009 in Tupelo, MS.
Extent
7 Cubic Feet (7 record cartons, 1 OS MS box, and 4 framed images)
Language of Materials
English
Processing Note
This finding aid is currently in progress. Please contact sp_coll@library.msstate.edu for more information.
- Title
- Doy Longest Collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Shell by Carrie P. Mastley January 2022; updated by Jennifer McGillan October 2023
- Date
- October 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscripts Repository