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Box 129

 Container

Contains 12 Collections and/or Records:

Jefferson Davis Letters, undated

 File — Box: 129, 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: 1823 - 1889

(Jefferson Davis) to unknown. One incomplete letter., undated

 Item — Box: 129, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents Description of cell in prison, his health, clothes and how he is guarded.
Dates: undated

(Jefferson Davis) Concerns General Wool, approximately 1857

 Item — Box: 129, 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: approximately 1857

Jefferson Davis to Wife. The Royal Hotel, Edinburgh., Monday

 Item — Box: 129, 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: Monday

Husband to Wife., Monday night

 Item — Box: 129, 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: Monday night

Husband to Wife., Saturday evening

 Item — Box: 129, 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: Saturday evening

Jefferson Davis to Joseph and Varina., undated

 Item — Box: 129, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents To Varina when she went to school in Philadelphia?

Dates: undated

Jefferson Davis. Fragment of a speech or a letter., undated

 Item — Box: 129, 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: undated

Husband to Wife., Monday

 Item — Box: 129, 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: Monday

(Jefferson Davis) to Varina. Executive Mansion, Jefferson City., September 12

 Item — Box: 129, 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: September 12

Ida to Uncle Jeff (Florida A. Davis McCaleb to Davis) . Diamond Place., approximately 1830s October 15

 Item — Box: 129, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents (See vol. 1 of Davis Papers, p. 477) – information supplied by Rice University
Dates: approximately 1830s October 15

Card with poem. Greenbrier C. to President Davis. Lewisburg., March 1

 Item — Box: 129, 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: March 1