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Box 128

 Container

Contains 138 Collections and/or Records:

Jefferson Davis Letters, 1881

 File — Box: 128, Folder: 8
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...
Dates: 1881

An agreement between Mrs. M.E. Hamer and Joseph D. Mitchell parties of the first part and Jefferson Davis for Himself concerning the mortgage upon Brierfield and Hurricane plantations., 1881 January 18

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents An agreement between Mrs. M. E. Hamer and Joseph D. Mitchell parties of the first part and Jefferson Davis for himself and his children of the second part witnesseth. That Joseph E. Davis deceased hold a mortgage upon Brierfield and Hurricane Plantations.
Dates: 1881 January 18

Christina Rossetti to Jefferson Davis. London., 1881 February 12

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 8
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...
Dates: 1881 February 12

Your Husband to My dear Wife. Montreal., 1881 May 27

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents Writes of business concerning book and of seeing numerous friends and acquaintances.
Dates: 1881 May 27

Your Husband to My dear Wife. Montreal., 1881 May 29

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 8
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...
Dates: 1881 May 29

Your Husband to My dear Wife. Montreal., 1881 June 4

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents Note to the effect that he has completed his work in Montreal and is returning home.
Dates: 1881 June 4

Jefferson Davis to B.M. Blackburn. Beauvoir, Harrison Co., Miss., 1881 July 4

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 8
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...
Dates: 1881 July 4

Jefferson Davis to My dear Sir (B.M. Blackburn). Beauvoir, Harrison Co., Miss., 1881 August 14

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 8
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...
Dates: 1881 August 14

Your Husband to My dear Wife. Chantilly, France., 1881 September 13

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents Note saying that he had arrived safely in Chantilly.
Dates: 1881 September 13

Husband to My dear Wife., 1881 September 16

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 8
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...
Dates: 1881 September 16

Your Husband to My dear, dear Wife. Chantilly, France., 1881 September 22

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 8
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...
Dates: 1881 September 22

Your Husband to My dear Wife. Chantilly, France., 1881 November 4

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 8
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...
Dates: 1881 November 4

Jefferson Davis to My dear Wife. , approximately 1881

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents A note telling of his plans to go to her.
Dates: approximately 1881

Your Husband to My dear Wife., approximately 1881

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents Writes mostly of his health.
Dates: approximately 1881

Jefferson Davis Letters, 1882 January-August

 File — Box: 128, Folder: 9
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...
Dates: 1882 January-August

Husband to My dear Wife. Beauvoir, Harrison Co., Miss., 1882 January 23

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 9
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...
Dates: 1882 January 23

Your Husband to My dear Wife. New Orleans., 1882 January 30

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 9
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...
Dates: 1882 January 30

Jefferson Davis to Dear Addison (Hayes). New Orleans., 1882 February 23

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Apprehension for the fate of Brierfield because of high water and insufficient levees.
Dates: 1882 February 23

Jefferson Davis to My dear Mr. Blackburn. Beauvoir, Harrison Co., Miss., 1882 February 28

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 9
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...
Dates: 1882 February 28

Jefferson Davis to Dear Addison (Hayes). Beauvoir, Harrison Co., Miss., 1882 March 4

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Mostly concerns business pertaining to the plantation.
Dates: 1882 March 4

Jefferson Davis to Dear Addison (Hayes). Vicksburg., 1882 April 20

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Writes of business concerning note and plans to go to Brierfield.
Dates: 1882 April 20

W.N. Pendleton to My dear and honored Friend (Jefferson). Lexington, Va., 1882 July 14

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents A letter thanking Jefferson Davis for his promise to deliver the Lee Memorial address at the inauguration of Gen. Lee’s mausoleum.
Dates: 1882 July 14

Your Husband to Dear Wife. At Home., 1882 July 14

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 9
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...
Dates: 1882 July 14

Devoted Husband to My dear Wife. Beauvoir, Harrison Co., Miss., 1882 July 22

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Writes of his anxiety over Pollie and mentions plantation affairs.
Dates: 1882 July 22

Jefferson Davis to Dear Addison (Hayes). Beauvoir, Harrison Co., Miss., 1882 July 28

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Says that he is intensely solicitous about Maggie. That he is as well as usual.
Dates: 1882 July 28

Jefferson Davis to My darling La Pollie. Beauvoir, Harrison Co., Miss., 1882 August 7

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Expresses his happiness in hearing that her health is much improved and that she and the children are coming to Beauvoir for a visit.
Dates: 1882 August 7

Jefferson Davis Letters, 1882 September-October

 File — Box: 128, Folder: 10
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...
Dates: 1882 September-October

Jefferson Davis to Dear Addison (Hayes). Beauvoir, Harrison Co., Miss., 1882 September 4

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents Writes of his ideas of having some levees built in order to control the water at flood stage at the plantation.
Dates: 1882 September 4

Husband to Wife. New Orleans., 1882 September 12

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents An appeal for an answer to his letter sent two months earlier.
Dates: 1882 September 12

Your Father to Pollie. Beauvoir, Harrison Co., Miss., 1882 October 12

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents Writes of his loneliness after her departure.
Dates: 1882 October 12

Jefferson Davis to Sir (General A.C. Dodge) Beauvoir., 1882 October 26

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 10
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...
Dates: 1882 October 26

Jefferson Davis Letters, 1882 November-December

 File — Box: 128, Folder: 11
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...
Dates: 1882 November-December

Husband to Wife. New Orleans., 1882 November 13

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 11
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...
Dates: 1882 November 13

Jefferson Davis to Addison (Hayes). Beauvoir, Miss., 1882 December 31

 Item — Box: 128, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents Pertains to business concerning the plantations.
Dates: 1882 December 31