Box 128

Series Description From the Series: This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...

Scope and Contents A letter written as Mr. Davis and Mrs. Davis were sailing for Liverpool.

Series Description From the Series: This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...

Series Description From the Series: This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...

Scope and Contents Letter is concerned mostly with business.

Scope and Contents Business regarding their property (legal proceedings). He also mentions that the Mississippi Valley Society wished to send him to London.

Scope and Contents Concerning Mumford’s invention for postage stamps.

Scope and Contents Writes of Mrs. Davis’s health and their grief in her departure.

Scope and Contents Plans for visiting Paris and an early departure for London.

Scope and Contents Describes his trip to Chantilly, speaks of his visit with Mr. Mann and makes rather indefinite plans for returning to London.

Series Description From the Series: This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...

Scope and Contents Writes of his visit to Winnie and his plans for returning to London.

Scope and Contents Says that he is nearing his destination on his return to the U.S. Will visit the children in Memphis before going to Vicksburg.

Scope and Contents Show concern over business affairs and mentions friends that he has seen.

Scope and Contents Writes of his sadness in being so far from Mrs. Davis at the Christmas season. He also mentions the family and their many friends and business matters. He tells of his desire to have a permanent home – preferably on the Gulf coast.

Series Description From the Series: This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...