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Aurora Pryor McClellan commonplace and autograph book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0015
Abstract

Sketches, quotations, brief journal entries, and several letters.

Dates: 1861-1903

Commonplace book on Christianity and slavery

 Collection
Identifier: W-0032
Abstract

Commonplace book with entries addressing a number of topics, including church politics, theological concerns, childrearing practices, and slavery.

Dates: between 1840 and 1851

Gaillard and Hurtel families papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0090
Abstract

Commonplace book, letters, and other documents and items collected by these Mobile and Claiborne, Alabama, families.

Dates: 1838-1885

Henry Tutwiler papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0081
Abstract

Contains three notebooks: an account book recording tuition payments at Greensboro Academy; a second account book documenting Henry Tutwiler's personal expenses; and a commonplace book containing book reviews, weather reports, and very brief entries about the Civil War.

Dates: 1862 - 1884

Lavinia Hetherling Leinau commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0124
Abstract

Tennessee resident Lavinia Heatherling Leinau's commonplace book, containing poetry and notes from friends

Dates: 1831 - 1879; Majority of material found within 1831 - 1836

Mary C. Kelly scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0036
Abstract

Originally used by R. G. Betsill, a physician in Pike County, Alabama, as a record of his patients' treatments and accounts in 1855, the volume was used by Mary C. Kelly as a scrapbook in 1866.

Dates: 1855 - 1866

Sarah Shorter Hunter commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0019
Abstract

Commonplace book of Eufaula, Alabama, resident containing handwritten recipes, poems, quotations, and notes. In addition, the book includes a small number of newspaper clippings.

Dates: approximately 1835-1894