M. Benjamin Katz, Fine Books & Manuscripts

Letter from nephew to uncle discussing the chances of various political candidates in the 1860 election

Detailed travel diary of a young man and his family traveling in Scotland and Europe in 1860.

Handwritten and typescript documents - correspondence, affidavits, etc. - relating to two southern clients of the New York lawyer Quinton Corwine, dealing with compensation due them for cotton seized by federal agents during the Reconstruction period

Letter with family news and talk of growing cotton in Alabama versus in South Carolina, as well as some genealogical information.

Diary for the year 1869 written by a young man in Rose Hill, Mississippi.

Letter from uncle in Mt. Vernon, Alabama, to niece in Brooklyn, New York, telling her about the yellow fever outbreak in Mobile.

Account ledger of R. Aaron Dean showing debits and credits charged to various individuals

Letters from Dragoo to his wife Lois and daughter Sandra Sue in Muncie, Indiana, telling of his arrival and attempts to find housing for the three of them at Fort McClellan Infantry Replacement Training Center in Alabama.

World War II diary detailing entry into Flight Training School twelve days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1942.

Letter from nephew Hildreth to his uncle with an unfavorable answer to a request for advice concerning a debt owed him by a former British vice consul to Mobile during the Civil War.

Travel journal of this Tacoma, Washington, doctor.

Journal of the daily activities of a machinist on board the Gulf Oil Tanker Gulfmaid, going into a great deal of detail including detailed drawings of some of the parts he makes or repairs.

Primitive diary of a young lady of Gainesville, Alabama.

Diary of a teenage girl in Jasper, Alabama, during January and February of 1911.

Diary of young woman in Depression-era Alabama.

Diary of Union soldier during the final year of the Civil War.

The correspondence, outgoing and incoming, of botanist and author Alice J. Norton of Bristol, Connecticut.

Mid-1930s diaries of a northeast Alabama woman

Typed diary of a northern women who moved to Alabama when her husband was relocated to an Army base there.

Papers (including a family history, a short story, and an essay) and daily logs of this engineer in the early days of the Alabama Highway Department.

This photographic album contains images depicting Sara Browne's Mediterranean and North African travels, winter 1930 - 1931.

Scrapbook documenting a young woman's enjoyment of her life and times as she moves from high school to college.

Journal, photograph, and service ribbons of a young sailor aboard the USS Alabama in the years preceding the United States' entry into World War I.

A small commonplace book filled with newspaper clippings and handwritten poems

Newsy letter from a woman in Montgomery, Alabama, to a friend in Tallahassee, Florida, where she used to live.

V-mail and letters to a World War II soldier from his wife back home in Florence, Alabama.

Two pocket ledgers listing the cases and clients from Memphis, to Mobile, to New Orleans, of this Pontotoc, Mississippi, lawyer, from 1839-1842

Diary of young woman in Cordova, Alabama, in 1918.

Letter from Alabama cotton grower to his cousin, a doctor in North Carolina