Box 631
Container
Contains 5 Collections and/or Records:
Letter
Item — Box: 631
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
A letter dated 6 May 1848 to Mssrs. Mason and Lawrence, Boston, regarding cotton sales.
Dates:
1848 May 6
Letter
Item — Box: 631
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
A letter dated 9 July 1862, to S. Price Edwards, Collector of Customs at Liverpool, regarding a gunboat (C.S.S. Alabama) being built in the yard of Mssrs. Laird. Holograph copy.
Dates:
1862 July 9
Letter
File — Box: 631
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a typescript copy of an informal letter written by C.W. Duke in Smith County, Texas, to Mr. D.W. Walkley, describing life in Texas. In the letter he tells how easy the land is to plow and hoe and that he averages about a bale of cotton for every two acres of land.
Dates:
1870 April 20
Letter
File — Box: 631
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a letter dated 22 March 1880 written by Grayson from Demopolis, Alabama, to Belmont Perry in Woodbury, New Jersey, enclosing the autograph (not extant) of Grayson's father, John Breckenridge Grayson.
Dates:
1880 March 22
Deed
File — Box: 631
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a conveyance of land, dated 30 August 1832, in Montgomery, Alabama, by Moses Green and Joseph D. Hopper to George Whitman.
Dates:
1832 August 30