Box 2447
Container
Contains 10 Collections and/or Records:
Letter and photograph
File — Box: 2447, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a letter from Hayslette in Conde, France, dated 6 January 1919, enclosing a photograph, to "My Dear Mother," thanking her for a Christmas parcel and expressing longings for home.
Dates:
1919-01-06
Journal, 1829-01 - 1829-06
File — Box: 2447, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a section of a New York commission agent's journal covering January 1 to June 30, 1829. The last pages of the journal contain sample accounting entries and algebra problems.
Dates:
1829-01 - 1829-06
Papers, 1854 - 1893
File — Box: 2447
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains financial papers and a presidential pardon.
Dates:
1854 - 1893
Decorum order of business, 1850-1865
File — Box: 2447
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
A single record book containing church articles, decorum for the order of business, and minutes for church meetings 1850-1865 of this Henry County, Alabama, Baptist church. The collection also contains a program for the inauguration of James Huey Edmondson as president of Judson College, 1967.
Dates:
1850 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1865
Speech, 1981-04-12
File — Box: 2447
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Handwritten original draft of a speech written en route to Tuscaloosa and delivered by James on the occasion of the University of Alabama's 150th anniversary celebration.
Dates:
1981-04-12
Papers, 1889 - 1922
File — Box: 2447
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains the text of a speech delivered to the Alabama Press Association in 1898, a 1922 letter from Carl L. Larmer (?) to Thomas McCorvey, copies of Johnston's works "What the University of Alabama Has Meant to My Life," and "A Book for General Lee," and an advertisement for an 1889 British production of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.
Dates:
1889 - 1922
Letter
File — Box: 2447
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The collection contains a letter written by Bird in Lower Salem, Sumter District, South Carolina, dated 5 May 1822, to her son John Goodson Falls of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Bird asked that he visit her and that she might join him in Tuscaloosa. The letter also includes news of family and friends.
Dates:
1822 May 5
Papers
File — Box: 2447
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a thank you letter, postmarked 22 February 1941, written to Miss Harriet D. Mitchell, as well as a newspaper clipping from 19 April 1963.
Dates:
1941; 1963
Letter
File — Box: 2447
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
A letter dated 20 March 1973, from Louisville, Barbour County, Alabama, to Joyce Lamont, acquisitions librarian at the University of Alabama Library, asking for prepayment for his forthcoming book, "Alabama Politics--Tell It Like It Is".
Dates:
1973 March 20
Organizational papers, 1879-1979
File — Box: 2447
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains records of conference meetings of Methodist Women in Missions, North Alabama Conference, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This collection consists of five papers: “Charter Member of United Methodist Women” written in 1973; Centennial Celebration to the UMW; “Some Firsts of the First Century in Mission, 1879 – 1979”; the script of the slide presentations at the Centennial Celebration; and “Memories...Dreams” written in 1979.
Dates:
1873-1979