Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85033035
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
A. S. Williams III Americana Collection's Alabama authors collection
Collection
Identifier: W-0064
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, signed book pages, publication announcements, catalogs, and newspaper clippings related to the careers of several Alabama authors as well as the Alabama Writers Conclave and the Birmingham Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.
Dates:
1868-1989
Ethel Armes letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0146
Overview
Letter to Robert Jemison Jr. of Birmingham, Alabama, about uncredited copying of material from her book, The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama, and a letter to her brother about a promotion.
Dates:
1921-1944
George O. Baker and Joseph M. Baker papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0066
Overview
Correspondence, ledgers, and other papers of Selma, Alabama, businessmen, George O. Baker, his son, Joseph M. Baker, and their various companies and businesses.
Dates:
1886-1898
J. D. Barron research material on Native Americans
Collection
Identifier: W-0088
Overview
Research notes and correspondence related to J. D. Barron's research on native American place names in Alabama.
Dates:
1887-1906
Battle family papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0010
Overview
Letters, calling cards, scripture cards, and a small journal of this Tuskegee, Alabama, family.
Dates:
1855-1871
Peter Brannon papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0009
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.
Dates:
1900-1966
O. T. Brown letter
Collection
Identifier: W-0154
Overview
Letter from O. T. Brown to the president of the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy describing his experiences as a soldier during the Civil War.
Dates:
1898 May 26
Letters to Elizabeth J. Coman
Collection
Identifier: W-0047
Overview
Letters to Elizabeth J. Coman of Athens, Alabama, from her husband and sisters between 1834 and 1843.
Dates:
1834-1843
C. I. B. DeLage letter
Collection
Identifier: W-0156
Overview
A letter from C. I. B. DeLage, a Mobile, Alabama, commission agent, to Carl G. Schneider detailing the financial history of Mobile during the Civil War.
Dates:
after 1865
Ephraim Madison Henry papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0114
Overview
Correspondence, concert programs, and other documents from this Tuskegee Institute graduate
Dates:
1930-1947
Gaillard and Hurtel families papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0090
Overview
Commonplace book, letters, and other documents and items collected by these Mobile and Claiborne, Alabama, families.
Dates:
1838-1885
Garner family letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0030
Overview
Typed transcripts of correspondence written by the extended Garner family between 1832 and 1886.
Dates:
1832-1886
George Woodard and Gene Smith letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0112
Overview
Letters between Union soldier George Woodard, Company D, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, and his fiancee Gene Smith, of Burnett, Wisconsin. Woodard served at the battle of Corinth and the Vicksburg Campaign. He died at a Memphis hospital in 1864.
Dates:
1861-1865
Collection of Alabama governors materials
Collection
Identifier: W-0054
Overview
Correspondence, certificates, programs, and other documents signed by twenty-six Alabama governors serving between 1820 and 1970.
Dates:
1820-1970
John Temple Graves II papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0109
Overview
Manuscripts, correspondence, and newspaper clippings written by and related to Birmingham newspaper columnist John Temple Graves II.
Dates:
1910-1967
Joseph Zebulon Hearst letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0123
Overview
Typescript transcriptions of twenty-one letters written by Confederate soldier Joseph Zebulon Hearst between May 1862 and December 1864.
Dates:
1931
Townsend Heaton letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0091
Overview
Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War
Dates:
1861-1864
Jack D. L. Holmes papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0001
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and maps of this professor and Alabama author.
Dates:
1963-1988
R. Landesberger letter and music
Collection
Identifier: W-0121
Overview
Handwritten letter and sheet of music from Geneva (Switzerland) professor Dr. R. Landesberger to President Woodrow Wilson, dated January 7, 1919. A typed transcript of the letter is also included.
Dates:
1919 January 7
Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Alison Johansen papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0058
Overview
Correspondence, research notes, typescripts, and galley proofs of sisters and Alabama authors Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Allison Johnson.
Dates:
1917-1959
Wallace Marshall manuscripts and research material
Collection
Identifier: W-0003
Overview
Correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts related to "Tensas Doctor" and "Noise of Great Waters" by Marshall Wallace
Dates:
1947 - 1948
Early Huntsville, Alabama, letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0100
Overview
Two unrelated letters, dated from 1822 and 1831, containing information about Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates:
1822, 1831
Mobile, Alabama, business correspondence
Collection
Identifier: W-0098
Overview
Letters, dated between 1821 and 1838, describing business conditions in Mobile, Alabama, written by Mobile lawyers to northern merchants Enoch Silsby and William R. Bowers, updating them on the status of legal cases they had filed in Mobile and updates on the sale and production of cotton.
Dates:
1821-1838
J. A. Montgomery business records
Collection
Identifier: W-0068
Overview
Correspondence, time book, and ledger of Birmingham, Alabama, industrialist J. A. Montgomery.
Dates:
1889-1898
John Tyler Morgan letter
Collection
Identifier: W-0131
Overview
An undated letter from Senator John Tyler Morgan to Alabama governor Joseph F. Johnston regarding the transfer of Major Barnard Goldsmith West from the Birmingham state troops to the staff of General Wheeler.
Dates:
circa 1896-1900
Morris E. Boss letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0078
Overview
Thirteen letters written by Morris E. Boss and members of the Boss family of Binghamton, New York.
Dates:
1861-1865
Thomas McAdory Owen correspondence on A Bibliography of Mississippi
Collection
Identifier: W-0093
Overview
Contains correspondence between Thomas McAdory Owen and Mississippi authors and scholars regarding Owen's A Bibliography of Mississippi.
Dates:
1896-1909
Alfred Parmenter papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0153
Overview
Letters written by Alfred A. Parmenter, a member of the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Infantry, describing battles and camp life in the South to his parents
Dates:
1861-1862
C. S. Phillips letter
Collection
Identifier: W-0155
Overview
Letter detailing the movement of Union forces following the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, in April 1865.
Dates:
1865 April 18
Richard Holmes Powell papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0079
Overview
Correspondence, essays, and speeches written by and to Richard Holmes Powell of Union Springs,Alabama, and includes the essay "On the Management of Slaves."
Dates:
1833-1905
A. S. Williams III Presidential Collection
Collection
Identifier: W-0165
Overview
The collection includes letters, ephemeral, and other non-published materials created by or for all forty-four presidents of the United States.
Dates:
circa 1780 - 2014
Charles Robinson papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0161
Overview
Letters concerning Robinson's request for a commission in the "colored service" of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
Dates:
1864-1865
Shelby Iron Company correspondence during the Civil War
Collection
Identifier: W-0071
Overview
Correspondence, contracts, and receipts related to the production of iron at the Shelby Iron Works from 1863-1865.
Dates:
1863-1865
Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0002
Overview
Letters of this Chicago, Illinois, based company to their agents in Montgomery, Alabama, concerning land development projects in southern Alabama in the late nineteenth century.
Dates:
1897
Emma Gelders Sterne papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0099
Overview
Contracts and business correspondence related to the publication of books written by Alabama author Emma Gelders Sterne.
Dates:
1934-1953
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arkansas Division, Confederate veterans' documents
Collection
Identifier: W-0034
Overview
Typescript copies of legal and financial documents filed in Arkansas between 1848 and 1873, as well as typescript copies of letters, diaries, and military service accounts written primarily by Confederate soldiers. The legal documents are mainly deeds of conveyance, tax records, and deeds for swampland.
Dates:
1848-1941
A. L. Willoughby receipt and letter book
Collection
Identifier: W-0006
Overview
Receipts from grocers, clothing sellers, and other Mobile, Alabama, merchants detailing personal expenditures; also includes seventy-six letters, mostly relating family news.
Dates:
1861-1869