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Box 129

 Container

Contains 3 Collections and/or Records:

Jefferson Davis Writings

 Item — Box: 129, 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: 1823 - 1889

First draft of “Prefatory Introduction” to The Rise and Fall of the Confederate States., undated

 Item — Box: 129, 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: undated

“Scotland & the Scottish People.”, 1875 November 30

 Item — Box: 129, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents An address delivered in the city of Memphis, Tennessee on St. Andrew’s Day, 1875.
Dates: 1875 November 30