Receipts (financial records)

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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.

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...

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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.

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

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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.

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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.