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Box W0090.01

 Container

Contains 2 Collections and/or Records:

Commonplace book

 Item — Box: W0090.01
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains a commonplace book, letters, and other items compiled by the extended Gaillard and Hurtel families of Claiborne and Mobile, Alabama. The commonplace book, written by Alphonse Hurtel, contains images and approximately thirty-five pages of handwritten quotations. Two obituaries are handwritten on pages 220 to 226: a biography of John Hurtel written by members of Mobile's Get-Away Club and an obituary for Thomas Noel. The collection contains...
Dates: 1838-1885

Gaillard family letters

 File — Box: W0090.01, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains a commonplace book, letters, and other items compiled by the extended Gaillard and Hurtel families of Claiborne and Mobile, Alabama. The commonplace book, written by Alphonse Hurtel, contains images and approximately thirty-five pages of handwritten quotations. Two obituaries are handwritten on pages 220 to 226: a biography of John Hurtel written by members of Mobile's Get-Away Club and an obituary for Thomas Noel. The collection contains...
Dates: 1838-1885