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Box 4259.03

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

Mollie Kelly Autograph Album, 1861 - 1866

 Item — Box: 4259.03, Volume: 001
Scope and Contents Consists of an ornate bound "Forget Me Not Album" of Miss Mollie Kelly of Tuskegee, Alabama. The date April 20, 1866, is written inside the cover, but its entries are dated from 1861 – 1866. The book consists of poems and memories written to Mollie by her friends and family. The style of the prose is Victorian and very sentimental. Several entries are written by Confederate soldiers.
Dates: 1861 - 1866
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4259, Wade Hall Collection of Diaries and Scrapbooks