Collection: Walter H. Powers letterbook | Special Collections & Archives

Scope and Contents note

This collection consists of a single small notebook, into which Powers evidently copied some of his outgoing correspondence from March-October 1938. Among these are copies of letters to the American Agricultural Chemical Corp. of Montgomery, Alabama, and Kenneth Hodges of Woodville Alabama. The latter concerns a proposed baseball game between the "ball team of Hurricane" and their opposite number in Woodville.

Dates

1938

Biographical/Historical note

Gurley, Alabama businessman, 1938. There are two Gurleys in Alabama, one in Blount County, the other in Madison. Powers probably lived in the latter, as Woodville, referred to in one of the letters, is a few miles southeast of that Gurley.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet (1 letterbook)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

A single letterbook containing copies of Gurley, Alabama businessman Walter H. Powers's outgoing correspondence, March-October 1938

Provenance

Purchased from Cather & Brown Books, 1990

General

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