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Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

(MCES) Agriculture, Forestry, and Veterinary Medicine

 Collection
Identifier: University Archives-A1980-16

(MCES) C.I. Smith

 Collection
Identifier: University Archives-A1988-21
Dates: 1988-21

McGeoy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-225
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1813, 1906, 1909

Hugh R. Miller Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-35
Scope and Contents

A small quantity of letters written to Judge Hugh R. Miller of Pontotoc, Mississippi, on a variety of topics, mostly about matters of real estate or probate. Notable pieces include two very long letters from a widow named Eliza Merritt detailing the harassment of herself, her family and her enslaved persons by a man named Green Merritt (possibly one of her in-laws) and his enslaved persons.

Dates: 1834 - 1879

Natchez Business Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-197
Scope and Contents

Copies of letters (5), 1801-1848. Concern settlement of A. Hunt's estate, terms of notes. Letters are from Natchez, Mississippi; Peoria, Illinois; Frankfort, Kentucky.

Dates: 1801 - 1848

Oswalt family collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-318
Scope and Content Collection of the Oswalt family of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, acquired from different sources. Includes Civil War letters between Henry Oswalt of the 27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company A (Oktibbeha Riflemen) and his wife Pamela (Permelia) A. Oswalt from Tennessee and Atlanta, Georgia, and Oktibbeha County, Mississippi (1861-1863). An 1863 letter of James W. Oswalt, brother of Henry and also of the 27th Mississippi Infantry Company A, from Warington, Florida, informs Permelia of...
Dates: 1856 - 1872

Mrs. Edmund Lewis Patty Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-240
Scope and Contents

Typed letters of Ben Ames Williams, 1948; one typed copy of letter, 1851; clippings about the B.A.W.I. program; clipping about Sara J. Ames; brochure concerning Macon, Mississippi. Also programs of the Liszt Society, 1911-12 and the Lyric Club, 1942-43, of Macon.

Dates: 1841 - 1953

Peyton Williams Collection

 Collection
Identifier: University Archives-A2015-144

R. W. Harned Collection

 Collection
Identifier: University Archives-A2010-17
Dates: 1907-1968

Mrs. Mary C. Rambo Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-256
Scope and Contents

Bill of sale for enslaved persons, 1 Civil War letter, permit for supplies and statement of purchases, 2 letters from Texas, 1 contract for share-cropping, letters concerning a War of 1812 pension which was cancelled because of sympathy with the Confederacy. Chiefly Tennessee.

Dates: 1843 - 1866