Poetry.

Scope and Content Note The Charles R. Allen Diary collection contains a diary transcribed by Charles R. Allen in 1902 from his orginial 1861-1864 Civil War diaries. In this volume, Allen has transcribed the roginial diaries but also added notes and essays on the coming of the Civil War, commentary on the events of the War, and notes about life after the War. The collection also contains numerous copies of Allen's original poems, many written about his wartime experiences. Finally, this collection contains the...

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Katherine Bellamann, Jackson, Mississippi, to Mr. Bullen, August 1, 1955, concerning the Mississippi Poetry Society.

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"Magnolia Blossoms and Sunflower Seeds - Poems from a Southern Gentleman and His Yankee Nephew." Handwritten manuscript.

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Poems of Lyle Johnson (photocopy).

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Includes correspondence, funeral notices, tax receipts, and poems pertaining to Levy, Holmes, Baptist, Carothers, Hull, and Roby families of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, and Virginia. Subjects include family affairs and the Civil War. Among the Civil War letters is a letter written at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1861.

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Originals and typescript of Julia Ellis poems.

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Good By, a poem. Written on the eve of her marriage. Photostat.

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Two 1862 letters between Sally and G. W. (George Whitfield) Simmons; undated notes; war poetry, undated; essays, 1862 and undated; receipt. Copies.

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Papers include family correspondence, chiefly during the 1850s from Maryland and Louisiana, relating, in part, to the Methodist Protestant Church and the yellow fever epidemic (1853) in New Orleans. Include religious writings by Stuart, clippings and a broadside.

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3 letters, including one V-mail letter, and one poem.