Box 2498

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Letters to his wife, Ellen G. Sommerville, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia while Somerville was on two trips to Alabama and Mississippi, looking for a place to settle. The Somervilles eventually chose Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The letters contain comments on traveling companions, places seen, business conditions, and etc.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of two record books for the Maysville Circuit Methodist Conference. They contain meeting minutes and financial notes. The first book begins on April 10, 1880 and ends in 1884. Two pages, dated 22 July and 29 August 1891 have been inserted. The second book begins in 1885 and ends on December 9, 1889.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Records of the quarterly conference meetings of this Methodist Episcopal Church, South, circuit in Madison County, Alabama, including lists of new members, baptisms, and deaths.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Copies of Paine's 1874 report card and exams in Rhetoric, Logic, English Philology, and Composition for Intermediate, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes. Also includes a program for a June 30, 1874 presentation.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a letter dated 4 October 1864, from W.H.C. Price, Superintendent of the C.S.A. War Department, Nitre and Mining District 10, requesting that P.J. Weaver furnish the government with "the dirt under the houses on your plantation" for "the manufacture of Nitre" and also the wood and water needed to process it and five "negro men" and a wagon and team for sixty days. Price states that "the necessity" for Weaver's cooperation is "urgent."

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: Probate document, dated 26 November 1864.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a letter from Brandon, Governor of Mississippi, to Alabama Governor John Murphy regarding an unsettled financial transaction between the two states.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Contains two copies of a poem titled, "All American Bear" and "A New Beginning". As well as a letter written by Viosca (that should be in the gift file).