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Box 1563.0001

 Container

Contains 7 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence - Outgoing - J. L. M. Curry, 1862-1864 (Photocopies)

 File — Box: 1563.0001, Folder: 01
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings and one manuscript of the 19th-century author Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, Alabama. Her personal correspondence contains original letters and photocopies, the majority written to Rachel Lyons Heustis and J. L. M. Curry, discussing life during the Civil War and Mrs. Wilson's novels. Other prominent correspondents include Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard; educator, Congressman, and Baptist minister, J.L.M....
Dates: 1859-1909

Correspondence - Outgoing - J. L. M. Curry, 1865-1890? (Photocopies)

 File — Box: 1563.0001, Folder: 02
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings and one manuscript of the 19th-century author Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, Alabama. Her personal correspondence contains original letters and photocopies, the majority written to Rachel Lyons Heustis and J. L. M. Curry, discussing life during the Civil War and Mrs. Wilson's novels. Other prominent correspondents include Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard; educator, Congressman, and Baptist minister, J.L.M....
Dates: 1859-1909

Correspondence - Outgoing - Rachel Lyons Heustis, 1859-circa 1894

 File — Box: 1563.0001, Folder: 03
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings and one manuscript of the 19th-century author Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, Alabama. Her personal correspondence contains original letters and photocopies, the majority written to Rachel Lyons Heustis and J. L. M. Curry, discussing life during the Civil War and Mrs. Wilson's novels. Other prominent correspondents include Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard; educator, Congressman, and Baptist minister, J.L.M....
Dates: 1859-1909

Correspondence - Outgoing - Miscellaneous

 File — Box: 1563.0001, Folder: 04
Scope and Contents Correspondents include General P.G.T. Beauregard (1862), Colonel Seaver (1867 - Photocopy), and U.S. Consul, Leeds, England, Norfleet Harris (1894].
Dates: 1859-1909

Notebook of Quotations

 File — Box: 1563.0001, Folder: 05
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings and one manuscript of the 19th-century author Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, Alabama. Her personal correspondence contains original letters and photocopies, the majority written to Rachel Lyons Heustis and J. L. M. Curry, discussing life during the Civil War and Mrs. Wilson's novels. Other prominent correspondents include Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard; educator, Congressman, and Baptist minister, J.L.M....
Dates: 1859-1909

Newspaper Clippings

 File — Box: 1563.0001, Folder: 06
Scope and Contents Clippings include two appeals to build a monumnet to the Confederate dead at Mobile; the essay "The Mutilation of the Hermae," (9 November 1862); a eulogy on the death of her 22-month old niece and namesake, Augusta Vivian Evans; a several Sunday magazine spreads on the various homes she lived in (Atlanta Journal, 7 February 1926; Birmingham News, 7 February 1926; Birmingham News, 17 October 1937; (Mobile?) Ledger-Inquirer, 9 March 1941 and 16 March 1941; and Mobile Press 4 March 1966).
Dates: 1859-1909

Miscellaneous Documents

 File — Box: 1563.0001, Folder: 07
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings and one manuscript of the 19th-century author Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, Alabama. Her personal correspondence contains original letters and photocopies, the majority written to Rachel Lyons Heustis and J. L. M. Curry, discussing life during the Civil War and Mrs. Wilson's novels. Other prominent correspondents include Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard; educator, Congressman, and Baptist minister, J.L.M....
Dates: 1859-1909