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Collection
Identifier: MSS-4973
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a nine-page, large folio manuscript account, titled and docketed “Armement de Jean Marie – 2me Voyage,” dated 1786, detailing the outfitting and cargo of the French slave ship Jean Marie under Captain Noël Marchis. Neatly inscribed in ink and preserved in very good, legible condition, the document records extensive financial and logistical preparations for the vessel’s second slave-trading voyage.The manuscript includes a...
Dates:
1786-10-25 - 1787-11-25
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4965
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a one and a half page letter signed by Alexis de Tocqueville, dated March 21, 1844, and written in Paris, France, to Joseph-Louis-Elzéar Ortolan. It reveals Tocqueville’s continued interest in penal reform more than a decade after his American tour and includes references to contemporary developments in criminal law.Topics discussed in the letter include recent modifications to criminal law enacted by the Diet of Hungary, comparative reflections on...
Dates:
1844 March 21
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4990
Scope and Contents
This unpublished French diplomatic memorandum, titled "Considérations sur l’Amérique Espagnole," is dated January 28, 1819, and written in French by Durand de St. André, the Consul of France at Madrid. The manuscript offers a bold and detailed analysis of the Spanish American independence movements and proposes a sweeping strategy to preserve Spain’s influence in the Americas. The document evaluates Spain's declining colonial control and outlines a dramatic plan to transform Spanish America...
Dates:
1819 January 28
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4898
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a fourteen-page folio manuscript report detailing the French naval expedition off the coast of Brazil during the War of the First Coalition (1792–1797). The report, titled Rapport fait par François Riviere, Enseigne de vaisseau non entretenu, Commandant la Division de la Chevalle sur la Croisière à la Côte du Brésil, au Citoyen Ministre de la Marine & des Colonies à Paris, is a period copy written in brown ink on watermarked...
Dates:
undated
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4781
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a single printed French royal edict titled Édit du Roi, portant création d'un contrat d’un million deux cent mille livres de rente, au principal de trente millions, au profit de la Compagnie des Indes, published in Paris by P.G. Simon in 1770. The edict spans two disbound leaves (four pages) in quarto format.Issued in the wake of the dissolution of the Compagnie des Indes (Indies Company), the edict outlines the financial...
Dates:
1770
Collection
Identifier: MSS-5013
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a rare 1664 royal decree issued in Paris by King Louis XIV, establishing the French West India Company (Compagnie des Indes Occidentales). The document outlines the company's exclusive rights to conduct trade in French colonies across the Americas, including South America, the West Indies, and Canada. It grants the company a forty-year monopoly on commerce, including the transatlantic slave trade, and details its privileges, exemptions, and governance structure....
Dates:
1664-05-28
Collection
Identifier: MSS-5064
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Lettres Patentes du Roy pour la Liberté du Commerce sur les Côtes d'Afrique, a royal edict issued by Prince Regent Philippe II, duc d'Orléans, on behalf of Louis XV. Dated January 1716 and written in Paris, France, the four-page edict is written in French and printed with woodcuts and handwritten notes on the first page. Its content updates the terms of France's involvement in the slave trade, noting the role of the state-sponsored...
Dates:
1716-01
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4974
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises an eight-page royal ordinance issued in France on July 6, 1734, titled Ordonnance du Roy, qui regle des certificats de la Traitte des Negres aux Isles Francoises de l'Amerique. The document provides detailed legal regulations governing the transatlantic slave trade to the French Caribbean colonies, with particular emphasis on the documentation required for the shipment of enslaved Africans. It outlines the procedures for bartering...
Dates:
1734 July 6
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4977
Scope and Contents
This printed ordinance, issued by the French Crown on January 13, 1672, outlines economic incentives to support colonial provisioning and the transatlantic slave trade. It stipulates that French merchants will receive a subsidy of four livres for every barrel of salted beef produced in France and shipped to the French colonies in the Americas, beginning February 1st of that year. The funding was to be shared equally between the King and the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales. The document’s...
Dates:
1672 January 13
Collection
Identifier: 2012-004
Abstract
One photographic album of Dr. Herman W. and Mattie Hesse’s trip to Europe aboard the S.S. Berlin in June 1930. Album contains photographs and picture postcards of famous European landmarks in England, Western Europe, and Canada.
Dates:
1930-06
Collection
Identifier: MSS-5060
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a letter from French revolutionary Jacques Garnier to Charles Lallemand, the leader of a colony of French exiles living in the United States in the early nineteenth century. Sent in 1817 from Louisville, Kentucky, the letter expresses Garnier's resentment of Louis XVIII, whom he labels a "puppet king," and French ambassador Hyde de Neuville, whom he calls "le hideux (ugly) Neuville." Garnier describes...
Dates:
1817-05-20
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4845
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a single folded stampless letter dated November 15, 1802, sent from James (Santiago Pablo Francisco) Carrick in Spanish-controlled New Orleans to Charles and Olivier Durand, merchants in Bordeaux, France. Written in French, the letter discusses the settlement of a decade-old commercial debt and the shipment of indigo on the American frigate Mexican , captained by Patrick Walsh. Carrick requests that the Durands arrange maritime...
Dates:
1802
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0411
Abstract
Letters and unpublished speeches; photocopies of letters written by Joseph Lakanal, 1762-1845.
Dates:
1930
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4378
Collection
Identifier: MSS-5014
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a four-page, partially printed manuscript ship’s paper dated January 11, 1699, for the vessel Le Léopard de Bordeaux, captained by Leonard du Serot. The folio document includes detailed information on the ship’s specifications (100 tons), crew (nineteen sailors), and passengers (a tailor, a baker, and a merchant), with notes on three desertions and one death. The voyage originated in Bordeaux and was bound for the French Caribbean...
Dates:
1699-01-11
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4888
Scope and Contents
This collections consists of a letter written by General Adrian Woll from Veracruz, Mexico, to Vice-Admiral Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de la Graviere, commander of the French expeditionary forces. The letter is dated September 19, 1862, and informs de la Graviere that Woll has taken possession of the government and general command of the department of Veracruz. Also included in the collection is the letter's outer casing, a folder made of hard paper that contains military notations and...
Dates:
1862-09-19
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4782
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a letter from Les Bellinger to his father in Eagle Pass, Texas, dated September 5, 1865, and written from Monterrey, Mexico. In this two-page letter, Bellinger discusses the post-Civil War atmosphere in northern Mexico, noting the sluggish pace of local business. He expresses concerns among merchants and residents about the possibility of impending conflict between the United States and France, referencing the French occupation of Mexico and the installation of...
Dates:
1865 September 5
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0544
Abstract
A numbered series of letters to Lucile from an unknown man living in on Guadeloupe, an island in the Lesser Antilles, during the early nineteenth century. Alternating between verse and prose, they discuss the geography, geology, and agriculture of the island, as well as reveal details about local creole culture.
Dates:
after 1803 and before 1815
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0877
Abstract
Letters and papers reflecting the social, political and economic disorder in Santo Domingo, where the Comtesse was an important land owner, together with miscellaneous items pertaining to Duke Gaston Pierre Marc de Levis, as well as . The collection also includes references to Comtesse de Lostanges' father, the Marquis Laurent Francois Le Noir de Rouvray. In French.
Dates:
1775 - 1852
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0880
Abstract
A collection of personal correspondence of this native of France who emigrated to the United States and lived in Huntsville, Alabama. Also includes documents dealing with the history of France in the first half of the nineteenth century
Dates:
1803 - 1887
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4132
Abstract
Postcards and photographs documenting the travels of the Marshall and Reid families of Alabama.
Dates:
1900 - 1938
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4096
Abstract
The Robert Smith papers contain correspondence between Robert Smith and his family during his military training in 1942 and his deployment to England and France in 1944 during World War II.
Dates:
1942-1956
Collection
Identifier: 2016-003
Abstract
Photo album by unidentified man documents his trip from France to Asia.
Dates:
1932
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2926
Abstract
Letters from Roy Swindell and Sara Swindell to their family, who lived in Chattanooga, and later Nashville, Tennessee. The letters discuss missing home, traveling for work, and Bible verses. One letter is from Sara to their son James, an officer in the armed services during World War II.
Dates:
1918-1935
Collection — Box: 2009001.032
Identifier: 2009-150
Abstract
This collection consists of 213 photographs depicting scenes from various places, such as cities, farms, tourist attractions, and rivers in Ireland, Scotland, France, and New York.
Dates:
1900
Collection
Identifier: 2011-004
Abstract
Includes personal and family photographs, as well as photographs taken in association with Jones' professional endeavors as state geologist of Alabama and during his military service in World War I and World War II.
Dates:
1915 - 1950; 1890 - 1973
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2890
Abstract
Extensive scrapbook concerning the life and home of Annie Wheeler, daughter of "Fighting" Joe Wheeler.
Dates:
1950
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1552
Abstract
Index cards, in French, that contain the author and a description of the work including the date.
Dates:
1922-1938
