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Liberty C. Abbott Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1
Scope and Contents
The Liberty C. Abbott family papers contain the records of the Abbott family, including a large amount of correspondence, much of it with family and friends but there are political and business letters also. In addition, there are records of Liberty Abbott’s business activities, including Clifton Plantation, Abbott and Howard, Holmes County, as well as Thompson and McClure of Schlater, Leflore County. There are also some legal documents, diaries, memorabilia, newspaper clippings,...
Dates:
1859 - 1930; Majority of material found within 1883 - 1926
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Gardner (James H.) Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-38
Scope and Content Note
The James H. Gardner Collection contains business records from various Mississippians. Masonic Letters from the New Hope Lodge. Personal correspondences between several Gardners’. As well as a Civil War letter and a miscellaneous collection of papers, prescriptions, political advertisements and election materials-hand bills. The content is in the form of paper and Photostat.
Dates:
1846 - 1948; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1890
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Manuscripts
Lillian Neilson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-419
Scope and Content
Journals, financial records, correspondence, photographs, family history, and miscellany, mostly pertaining to James C. Neilson, a Lowndes County, Mississippi, farmer, Mississippi state legislator, and Grange member. Among the topics in his journals are freedmen's accounts, race relations, church, the Grange, the legislature, an arson trial, and his family. Also included are the 1962 journal of Sarah Neilson, which mentions the riots at the University of Mississippi; a history of the Boykin...
Dates:
1829 - 1976
Found in:
Manuscripts
James S. Saggus Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-117
Scope and Contents
Series of 49 articles written in 1965 for Jackson, Mississippi, newspaper, concerning the effects of the Civil War on government and life in Mississippi and concerning Mississippi's leaders during and after the war.
Dates:
1965
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