Correspondence

Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, legal documents, and signatures from various political contemporaries from the 19th century. The letters and documents in this collection range from personal correspondences to matters of business. This collection has five series consisting of U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents, members of President Lincoln's Cabinet from both terms, politicians within the Union, and politicians within the Confederacy.

Scope and Contents This collection contains legal documents, correspondence, and other papers from Abraham Lincoln and members of the Lincoln family.It spans from his life as a lawyer to his presidency, and continues after his death in 1865 with other written items from his family. The collection is split into five series. Series 1 contains legal documents from Abraham Lincoln's time practicing law, and Series 2 are some of his correspondence from 1852-1865. Series 3 and series 4 contain materials...

Scope and Contents Contents include legal documents, correspondence, and ephemera from the 18th to 19th century. This collection is split into four series. Series 1 contains legal documents, Series 2 contains correspondence, and Series 3 contains ephemera items. The legal documents span from the 18th to 19th centuries, and cover various types of legal cases from over the county. Within the correspondence series, there are letters from individuals who lived during the 19th century. There are a few...

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This manuscripts collection contains items from the 20th-21st centuries exclusively. The contents of the first series include correspondence between citizens along with letters from past Presidents Hoover, Eisenhower, Reagan, Bush Sr., Bush Jr., and Clinton. Additionally, within the second series, there are ephemera items consisting of poems, an invoice, and a ticket to the dedication of President Lincoln's tomb.

Content Description

Records of the Society of Mississippi Archivists kept by Mattie Sink who served as the Society's President from 1991 to 1992.

Scope and Contents

Letter of John S. West from Iuka, Mississippi, to his brother and sister, February 22, 1862. West, a 16-year old soldier, was killed 10 days later.