Box 2447

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: An 1867 announcement containing information for students of this Dayton, Alabama girls school overseen by the Rev. J.F. Tarrant and his wife.

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: Typescript copy of Dearman's history of Gaston, an abandoned town in Sumter County, Alabama.

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: A letter dated 15 February 1848, written from Mexico City to his sister, Miss A. W. Dodson, Telaga Spring, Chatooga County, Georgia.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a letter dated 1 September 1864 appointing S. W. Eddins of Tuscaloosa, Alabama to the University of Alabama's Alabama Corps of Cadets.

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: The collection contains printed maps of Georgia with additions showing routes taken for "botanical tours." The earliest, 1895, has the note "collecting propagating material of indigenous, woody plants for Biltmore Estate. -- F. E. Boynton." The ten maps, 1896-1902, show C. L. Boynton's "botanical tours," while two, 1899 and 1902, show the routes taken by C. L. Boynton and C. D. Beadle.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a small miscellany of materials including Bryce's appointment as medical officer of the ship "Yorkshire," clippings about Bryce, among them his obituary, and copy of his "Moral and Criminal Responsibility," 1888.

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: Condensation of a 1954 term paper titled "LaGrange College: A Historical Sketch."