Box SC1800-1849.001

A letter dated 24 October 1835, from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa to the editor of the Weekly Globe requesting a six-month subscription to the newspaper.

The collection contains a letter, dated 24 February 1849, written from the University of Alabama to Sam Houston, advising him that he has been elected an honorary member of the Erosophic Society.

This collection consists of one letter, written by John A. Cuthbert from San Souci, Mobile Bay, Alabama, on 29 June 1848 to Governor Reuben Chapman of Alabama, urging the appointment of William R. King to fill a vacant seat in the United States Senate. In the letter he states that “there are great numbers of us, who long for an opportunity of repairing the seeming unkindness which Mr. King suffered from the legislature, at its late session.”

A letter dated 4 April 1831, to Captain Joseph L. Kuhn, late paymaster, Marine Corps, regarding accounts.

This collection consists of a letter, dated 8 October 1841, to John M. Read in Philadelphia, concerning the late Bank of the United States and the power of Congress to grant a charter for it.

A letter dated 16 August 1821, from Huntsville, Alabama to Haynie Hatchett, McFarland store, Lunenburg County, Virginia, concerning his recollection of a debt owed to Hatchett, news of family, friends and business. It notes the burning of the newly built theatre in town, the construction of a canal, and the state of local crops.

A letter dated 9 March 1838, introducing Frederick Augustus Porter Bernard to James Hogan of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

A letter dated 24 May 1845, written by Johnston in his capacity as administrator of the estate of Jabez Mitchell, to Dr. Basil Manly, certifying that Manly has notified him of claims against the estate.

A letter dated 26 May 1845, by a Mobile resident named Jones, to William M. Murphy of Greensboro, Alabama, regarding a note held by Murphy.

A copy of a letter dated 23 June 1848, from Pickens County, Alabama, to his uncle Matthew Biggert Kirk, Lancaster Court House, South Carolina in which he tells of setting up his medical practice and recounts family news.

A letter dated 8 September 1818, to James Penn, transmitting account against Mr. David Miller, “a merchant established at the falls of the Black Warrior” (i.e., Tuscaloosa, Alabama) regarding recovery of a debt owed by Miller.

A collection of three letters, 1823-36, one to Alabama Governor, Israel Pickens, seeking advice about resigning from the University of Alabama Board of Trustees, one to editor and politician Francis P. Blair, Sr., and one to Blair's newspaper, the Globe.

A letter dated 27 July 1846, from Gainsville, Alabama, to Price Williams, Livingston, Alabama, seeking information on the claims of Daniel Scott.

The collection contains a partial muster roll of the CSS Alabama, probably sometime after June 1863, as it indicates that Lieutenant John Low was transferred to command the Tuscaloosa, which the Alabama had captured on 20 June 1863.

The collection contains the fragment of an envelope sent to David Holmes, then governor of the Mississippi Territory (which included the state of Alabama), on 15 May 1817, by Sam Dale at Fort Claiborne, Alabama. A note written on the edge of the envelope states that the envelope contained Dale's recommendations "certain persons to be commissioned."

The collection contains one handwritten letter by Morrow from New Hope, Alabama, to William Mitchell in Philadelphia, discussing a quarrel between the two. The same page includes a typewritten tract by Morrow addressed to the Presbytery of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, outlining ten grievances he has against it.

The collection contains one notebook recording the names of members of Grant's Creek Baptist Church, located in Fosters, Alabama, the date they joined the church, were baptized, and, in some instances, when they were dismissed, excluded, restored, and died.

The collection contains one bound notebook that documents the financial and statistical makeup of the Common Schools in the Town of Orange, Rockland County, New York.

The collection consists of one bill of sale for four slaves, Spotswood, Eacly, and two children, William and Thomas, sold by J. H. Schraebel to James(?) A. Tait for $1,600.00. Schraebel warrants that all four are of "sound body and mind" and that their ages are "as follows, the man 28, the woman 22, Wm. 2, Tos [sic] 10 months old."

This collection consists of a single receipt dated March 6, 1811 and signed by Newland and Wilcox, acknowledging payment of $3 by Hugh Lemasster for taxes owed for 1809 on a farm of 100 acres of second-rate land, 2 tiths, 3 slaves, and 7 horses.

This collection consists of one letter of recommendation written on March 8, 1849 by James Abercrombie, then serving as Senator in the Alabama Senate, to the Honorable William B Preston, Secretary of the Navy under President Zachary Taylor, putting forward James Caswell as an applicant for the position of agent in Alabama to protect the public timber.

This collection consists of five letters written by John Bragg of Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama to the editor of the “Daily Globe” from November 1853 to December 1857 requesting subscriptions to the “globe” during the sessions of Congress. In a couple of the letters he mentions that there are several subscribers in the Mobile area and suggests that the papers for these subscribers be packaged together to prevent the individual papers from going astray in the mail.

This collection consists of two letters written by Samuel Williams Inge, one to the editors of the Congressional Globe, dated May 6th, 1848, requesting a copy of the Globe be sent to a constituent in Green County, Alabama. The second letter requests copies of a speech.

A letter from Tutwiler recommending a student for a teaching position at an unidentified school in Cahaba, Alabama

This collection consists of one letter written by Samuel W. Mardis of Montevallo, Shelby County, Alabama, on March 13, 1834, in reply to a letter published in the Charleston Mercury. The letter also desires F. P. Blair, editor of the Globe, to print it, calling “the attention of the Public to it.”

This collection consists of two printed commissions signed by Alabama Governor Joshua L. Martin commissioning Matthew W. Steele as Aide-de-Camp to the general and commander in chief of the State Militia.

This collection consists of two letters, dated February 15, 1827, and September 4, 1828, written by Alabama Governor John Murphy to Secretary of State James J. Thornton regarding the filling of judicial vacancies. The latter letter lists several possible candidates and gives the Secretary of State the approval to offer the position to the first one named and so on down the list until the position is filled.

This collection consists of one letter written by William Winter Payne, dated February 10, 1847, to John G. Mason, Secretary of the Navy, recommending Alexander J. Simms to a lieutenancy in the United States Marine Corps.

This collection consists of one letter from William S. Wright to his brother, Emerson R. Wright. William discusses his doubts about continuing his college education and his desire to carry out his duties. He responds to several topics in Emerson's previous letter, including finding Emerson a wife. In response to Emerson's claim that slavery is necessary to the southern economy, Wright gives an extended argument about the vile practice of slavery and its damage to the human spirit.

This collection consists of a legal contract in which J.J. Ricks and William Hines rent Martha Jones' plantation in Lawrence County, Alabama.

This collection consists of a summons from Jonathan Burford, Circuit Court clerk, to the sheriff of Lawrence County, Alabama, asking the sheriff to compel John P. Broadnax, William F. Broadnax, and William Faxhall to pay debts.

This collection consists of a contract between William Todd and John H. Bilks employing hands of William Todd's estate for the commencement of a cotton gin.

This collection consists of one letter written by M. Smith to her aunt, Isabella McLauchlin. The letter discusses the current whereabouts and disposition of various family and laments the absence the a local Presbyterian preacher since the death of the last one. Smith mentions that one of her brothers had recently entered land in the Chickasaw purchase.

The collection contains one wallet style, leather bound diary of an unidentified Presbyterian minister from Alabama recording his travel (including mileage, itinerary, and expenses) from north Alabama to New York to attend the Presbyterian Church's Assembly in Philadelphia in 1832. Entries date from April 18 to June 19, 1832 as well as later entries for a trip from Western New York to Chicago in 1851.

The collection contains a letter from Richard Delafulo of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John Hunt in Pensacola, Florida, about Hunt's request for a steam engine for a saw mill.

The collection contains two pocket ledgers listing cases and clients from Memphis, to Mobile, to New Orleans. Most of the entries are dated and have dollar amounts regarding settlements and fees.

The collection contains a letter from J. W. Young, an Alabama cotton grower, to his cousin in North Carolina. In the letter he discusses the price of cotton, the lack of Episcopalian churches, and possibly moving on to cheaper lands in Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and even Texas.