Box 129

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 His hope of settling the affairs of Brierfield before a new man is put in charge.

Scope and Contents His recollection of the division of Brierfield and Hurricane plantations as one of the commissioners.

Scope and Contents Gift of Mr. Clyde A. Needham, June 1961.

Scope and Contents Enclosed deed to church to keep and also asked for a suitable inscription for tablet in church. Returns the deed to the Bethel Baptist Church – the trustees having had the deed duly recorded would like Jefferson Davis to keep the deed.

Scope and Contents Extract of a letter upholding Davis’s actions before the Civil War and during that period.

Scope and Contents Correcting a mistake in which Jefferson Davis and others had thought he had met with an accident.

Scope and Contents Their loneliness in her absence while she is on a visit to Richmond.

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 note stating that he expects to reach home the next day.

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...