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Letter from Martin to Julia C. Glasscock
A letter dated 19 July 1866 to Miss Julia C. Glasscock of Tuscaloosa, Alabama from Martin. Mentions Selma, Philadelphia, and New York.
Letter from Matilda to Sallie
A letter written from "Cedar Hills," ca. 1864, to her sister, Sallie. It discusses their brother in the 17th Mississippi Regiment, crops, and her children.
Letters to Laura Pullen
Letters to Laura Pullen in Leighton, Alabama, from her husband R.B. Pullen in Tennessee and from Dora, a friend or family member. The letters discuss travel and family.
Levi Welbourne Lawler Letterbooks
Bound typescripts of two letterbooks containing copies of outgoing letters on politics and business, 1873-76. The pagination of these copies corresponds to that of the originals.
Lewis May Letter
November 1808 letter to Colonel Benjamin Hawkins, U.S. agent to the Creek Indians in Alabama and Georgia, regarding a claim for compensation for a stolen horse.
Lewis Parrish Letter
A letter dated 26 July 1850, to J. R. Koogler, which discusses the people, countryside, and business prospects of Livingston, Alabama.
Louis Lucet papers
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
Lucien Owen Letter
A letter dated 8 October 1857, from a student at the University of Alabama to his father, which dicusses student life.
M. Smith Letter
A letter from M. Smith in Autaga County, Alabama, to her aunt, Isabella McLauchlin, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The letter discusses current whereabouts and disposition of family members.
Macon and Miles Abernathy papers
This collection consists Abernathy family correspondence discussing the outbreak of the Civil War and the return of Macon, a University of Alabama student, to his hometown of Jacksonville, Alabama, to enlist in a local company. Also contains an 1878 obituary of Macon's father, Major Miles W. Abernathy.
Margaret Manigault Letter
A letter ca. 1814, from Mrs. Margaret Manigault of Philadelphia to an unknown recipient in Camden, South Carolina.
Maria B. Brooks Stafford Letter
A letter dated 22 February 1894, to Belle R. Harrison, Danville, Kentucky. Contains general news of self and children.
Mary Ann Starkey Letters
Handwritten letters from Mary Ann Starkey to her husband Horace Starkey in New York. She writes of family members, the Sabbath, church, and general well-being.
Mary Carlyle Aitken Letter
A letter dated 5 November 1873 to an unidentified recipient from Thomas Carlyle's niece, Mary Aitken, concerning an error in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus.
P. H. McBride Letter
An 1863 letter from Columbia, Tennessee, to his wife and children, while serving in an unnamed Confederate regiment under General N. B. Forrest.
Walter H. Powers letterbook
A single letterbook containing copies of Gurley, Alabama businessman Walter H. Powers's outgoing correspondence, March-October 1938
R. B. Smyer Letter
A letter dated 17 October 1895, acknowledging receipt of fee from W. C. Dantzler.
R. W. Withers Letter
May 1858 letter from a student at Green Springs School, Havana, Alabama, describing school life.
Ralph S. Bradley Manuscript and Letters
Collection contains a photocopied manuscript of Ralph Bradley’s Above Mortal: Novel in Three Parts and three letters of condolences to R. S. Bradley, Jr. after the death of Ralph S. Bradley, Sr.
Reverend James Young Letters
Two letters to Reverend James M. Young, in Cahaba, Dallas County, Alabama, both from friends. One thanking him for his kind letter after a death in the family and discusses her newborn son. The other discussing an upcoming trip and details about their life and the lives of friends.
Samuel D. Risley Papers
Papers documenting the military service of Samuel D. Risley and his brother John Risley in the 20th Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
R.M. Brumby Letters
Includes letters written to R.M. Brumby, a University of Alabama graduate, from his mother and son from the late 19th-century through the early 20th-century. It also includes an appointment letter from the University of Alabama.
Seth Whitcomb Letter
Letter to his wife discussing his daily activities
George Herman Simmons family papers
Correspondence written by and related to the Simmons family, primarily George Herman Simmons.
Jesse Smith Family Archive
This collection comprises documents related to Captain Jesse Smith, his son, and his grandson, both named Jesse Smith. Captain Jesse Smith had a long Revolutionary War service record. At the end of the war, he was a member of Washington's headquarters guard and escort. This collection contains his official Revolutionary War record and his obituary. Also, this collection comprises service records from his son and grandson's naval careers and original family letters.
St. John family papers
Legal papers related to property, as well as personal and business letters
J. F. Stewart letters
Lletters to various friends and family members
Charles Tait papers
Letter from Tait to his son about the acquisition of land within what would become Alabama
Hugh Taylor papers
Contains personal papers including civic organization materials, church material (Covenant Presbyterian Church, Tuscaloosa, Alabama), business records, personal correspondence, genealogical materials, and 22 photographs of this University of Alabama School of Education professor.
Thomas K. Jones Papers
This collection contains a miscellany of correspondence, financial papers, cotton sales records, Confederate bonds, and other items.
Thomas Maxwell Papers
Letters, texts of speeches about the importance of railroads for the economic development of the Birmingham-Tuscaloosa area (1855), and abstracts of the journal of this early Tuscaloosa businessman.
Virginia Tingle papers
The collection contains a letter written on May 22, 1953, from L. B. Gilbert, protestant Chaplain at the VA hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, as well as an Electrolux receipt froom 1954.
Mary Torrey papers
Two letters to Mary Torrey about her upcoming marriage
W. C. Revis Letter
A letter dated 8 February 1832 to Jonathan Rutherford. Discusses "our own Virginia," Revis's health, his views of the political situation, slavery and "Cousin Emily" (apparently Rutherford's wife).
W. L. Palfrey Letter
Letter dated 29 June 1865, from St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana to his brother, in an attempt to reconcile, they having parted over this issue of slavery. Addresses the war's effect on him and his family, his reduction to poverty, and his present circumstances.
Washington Daniel Miller Letter and Photograph
A letter dated 12 July 1883, to his sister, Caroline Miller, about examinations of students at Tuscaloosa Female Academy, the examination of the senior class at the University of Alabama, and his recent activities in Tuscaloosa. The collection also contains photograph of Miller copied from the original at the University of Texas Institute of Texas Culture
William H. Ely letters
Letters recounting an 1820-1821 journey to Alabama by William H. Ely, Commissioner of the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. The letters describe both the difficulties of his mission and the lifestyle of the early inhabitants of the state of Alabama.
William Joseph Mims Papers
Material on Mims' family history and materials relating to Weevilnip Company of Macon, Georgia. The collection includes correspondence with the U.S. Department of Agriculture relating to false labeling, as well as company advertising. The collection also contains two small notepads, one with notes on teaching and one with notes on history, boll weevils, and other subjects.
William Russell Smith Papers
This collection consists of letters to his wife and others written while serving in the Alabama secession convention, and a holograph manuscript book of poetry.
William Stokes Wyman Collection
This collection contains letters and notes about an 1848 trip to the Alabama coal fields; scrapbooks of newspaper articles about Indian languages, the early history of Tuscaloosa and Alabama; the University of Alabama's history, and copies of newspaper clippings from the Choctaw language paper "The Vindicator", published 1875 in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).
Willie T. White papers
Contains correspondence, photographs, financial records, and other materials, the majority of which are related to Willie T. White, who resided in Rockford, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Woodward Family Papers
An extensive collection, including business and personal correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other materials of this Birmingham, Alabama, family, which owned and operated the Woodward Iron Company.