Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85033035
Found in 499 Collections and/or Records:
Edward Dorr Tracy correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1421
Abstract
Copies of correspondence between Tracy and Clement C. Clay, Tracy and his wife, and others. The originals are held by the Perkins Library, Duke University.
Dates:
1861-1863
Russell F. Trask letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1993
Abstract
Letters written mainly to Russell F. Trask, E.M. 1/c aboard the U.S.S. Apollo (A.S. 25) by his wife, LeElda “Lee” Trask of Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin. Some of the letters are written to Trask by his mother and other family member. Twenty-eight of the letters are written to Lee by Trask.
Dates:
1945
Albert J. Tully letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1425
Abstract
A series of typed letters sent to family and friends by this Mobile, Alabama, resident describing his and his immediate family's experiences during and following Hurricane Frederick, which hit Mobile September 12-13, 1979.
Dates:
1979-1980
Julia Strudwick Tutwiler papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1450
Abstract
Family correspondence, poetry, civic documents, family tree, minutes from board of trustees (Alabama Normal College).
Dates:
1807 - 1970
Union Parish records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1463
Overview
Contains records and letters of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Uniontown, Alabama form 1845-1900.
Dates:
1850-1955
United Confederate Veterans, Camp Wilcox, letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1468
Overview
Letter in memory of James Oscar Jefferies, who was a member of the organization
Dates:
1923 July 13
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Chapter, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1469
Abstract
Records of this Tuscaloosa chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, including meeting minutes; a 1942 scrapbook; newspaper articles; an essay titled "A Sketch of the Life of General Josiah Gorgas;" and correspondence concerning the chapter.
Dates:
1942-2010
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
Valentine's Day Card
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2634
Overview
Valentine Card that is both undated and unused. On it is a watercolor of a small boy accompanied by the words "I'm lonesome for my Valentine."
Dates:
1920
Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1493
Abstract
This collection contains plantation ledgers, law notes, and personal and business correspondence of Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff between 1882 and 1917. It also includes a scrapbook on Robert Van de Graaff's accelerator made in 1966 by Mrs. Welch's Fourth Grade class at Northington Elementary School, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1832 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1898 - 1917
Louise Vermilye papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3809
Overview
Letters between Louise and variousfriends and acquaintances as well as an application to the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Dates:
1862-1935
Victor Hugo Friedman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0545
Overview
Personal and official correspondence, photographs of a camp in the Alps, lieutenant's commission, Croce al Merito di Guerra, and various items issued by the military to this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, native.
Dates:
1918
Viscountess Astor letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0092
Abstract
A letter dated 5 November 1952, from Astor to Dr. John M. Gallalee, president of the University of Alabama, declining a speaking invitation.
Dates:
1952 November 5
Alonzo Van Vlack papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0166
Abstract
Typed transcripts and one handwritten letter from a Union soldier to his parents while he was a prisoner of war at Cahaba Prison in Dallas County, Alabama, and at a parole camp near Vicksburg, Mississippi. There are also typed transcriptions of manuscripts describing prison life and the explosion of the Steamer Sultana.
Dates:
1864-1865
W. G. Croft letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0377
Overview
Letter from W. G. Croft, dated 18 November (circa 1835) from Canebreak, Union Town, Alabama, to his brother, Randall Croft, at Beaufort, South Carolina, discussing cotton crop yields in the area.
Dates:
circa 1835
W. H. Taylor Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1430
Abstract
Letter to Champion T. Turner regarding money he received after Richard L. Turner's death.
Dates:
1863-07
L. M. Waddel Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4136
Overview
Newsy letter from a woman in Montgomery, Alabama, to a friend in Tallahassee, Florida, where she used to live.
Dates:
1850 February 27
Wade Hall Collection of Civil War Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4273
Overview
A variety of materials related to the United States Civil War
Dates:
1861 - 1932
Wade Hall Collection of Foreign Language Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4275
Overview
Letters in several foreign languages collected by Wade Hall
Dates:
1865 - 2000
Wade Hall Collection of World War II Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4253
Overview
Letters and documents to and from World War II soldiers and their families
Dates:
1940 - 1950
Wade Hall Collection on American Life
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4257
Overview
Letters and documents to and from friends, family, and business associates around the United States and the world, discussing ordinary life.
Dates:
1803 - 1946
Ann Waldron Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3098
Overview
Ann Waldron was born on December 14, 1924, in Birmingham, Alabama. She attended the University of Alabama, serving as editor of the Crimson White and earning a degree in journalism in 1945. She went on to work forThe Atlanta Constitution, where she met her husband Martin Waldron. The collection predominantly consists of correspondence between Ann Waldron and various individuals, as well as materials related to her work as an...
Dates:
1945 - 2010
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
Walter White letter [photocopy], 1863 August 16
File — Box WSC002: [1006241709], Folder: W0150.02
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a photocopy of a letter from Walter White, a Confederate soldier in General Braxton Bragg's Army of Mississippi (later known as the Army of Tennessee), to a young lady back home. He spends much of the letter asking her to write.
Dates:
1863 August 16
Carrie Watkins papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1531
Overview
Letters, recipes, and love poems, as well as her diary, written between 1857 and 1864 in Huntsville, Alabama, with her daily thoughts, favorite excerpts from literature and history, math problems, drawings of architecture, and problem solving.
Dates:
1857-1864
James White, Obadiah White, and Jesse A. Justice letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1547
Overview
A collection of letters written by James White to his mother and father, describing the fortifications at Tullahoma, Tennessee; others from White's son Obadiah White to his mother, relating clothing needs and rumors of troop movements; and from Jesse A. Justice to his wife, relating camp news, the incidence of sickness, and rumors of movement.
Dates:
1862-1863
Whitley and Handley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2286
Overview
Photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and church programs
Dates:
1930-1980
Ethel Gardiner Wiggins V-mail and Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4123
Overview
V-mail and letters to a World War II soldier from his wife back home in Florence, Alabama.
Dates:
1941-1944
Peyton Norvell Wiggins papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3706
Overview
Letters between Peyton Norvell Wiggins and his father and stepmother, Charles Ruben Wiggins Sr. and Elizabeth Toombs Wiggins.
Dates:
1942-1974; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1956
William A. Lyle Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4164
Overview
Letters written by William A. Lyle from 1943 to 1946, primarily to his mother in New York City, while he was serving in the United States Naval Reserves at the U.S. Naval bases in Maryland, California, and Hawaii, during World War II.
Dates:
1943 - 1945
William Brantley, Hugh Comer, and Thomas Martin correspondence on the Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Collection
Identifier: W-0060
Overview
Correspondence and other materials regarding the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and Creek Indian leader William Weatherford (Red Eagle)
Dates:
1948 - 1964
William Burnham Woods Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1575
Scope and Contents
A letter dated 14 January 1877, to Charles W. Hanler, asking that a brochure be sent to him. At the time Woods was a judge on the United States fifth district court, of which Alabama was a part.
Dates:
1877-01-14
William Crawford Gorgas Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0581
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material of this Alabama native who eradicated yellow fever from the Panama Canal Zone and served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
Dates:
1869-1920
William Gray Little Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0868
Abstract
A collection of family correspondence, financial and legal documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia relating to this Livingston, Alabama native who is credited with introducing football at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1837 - 1938
William March Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0266
Abstract
Correspondence, literary papers, clippings, criticism, photos, and memorabilia of this author.
Dates:
1897 - 1980
William Quayle correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1176
Abstract
Letters written from the First Frontier District of Texas, of which Quayle was commander, providing information on Confederate military dispositions, 1862-64. Quayle's correspondents included James Bourland, H. E. McCulloch, and James Webb Throckmorton.
Dates:
1862 - 1864
William R. Smith letter, 1879 February 12
File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W0129.15
Scope and Contents
This is a brief note of reintroduction, dated February 12, 1879, written by William Russell Smith, a Tuscaloosa lawyer and former representative for Alabama to the United States Congress and president of the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1879 February 12
William Stanley Hoole Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0699
Overview
Correspondence, writings, speeches, clippings, research materials, manuscripts of published monographs, and other materials written or collected by this historian and dean of the University of Alabama Libraries.
Dates:
1920 - 1989
William Strong Comstock papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0348
Overview
Business correspondence, account sheets, contracts, miscellaneous receipts, etc., of a Montgomery, Alabama, merchant, 1843-1867.
Dates:
1842-1867
William Winter Payne Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2057
Abstract
A letter written by William Winter Payne, dated February 10, 1847, to John G. Mason, Secretary of the Navy, recommending Alexander J. Simms to a lieutenancy in the United States Marine Corps.
Dates:
1847-02-10
William Wright Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2058
Abstract
A letter dated December 20, 1849, written by William Wright to Vincent Gravett. In the letter he discusses legislative matters and describes the burning of the capitol building earlier in the month.
Dates:
1849-12-20
WLW radio station records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2254
Overview
Records from WLW, the Cincinnati, Ohio, radio station
Dates:
circa 1930-circa 1940
World War II letters collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3688
Overview
Collection of letters to and from service men and women during World War II.
Dates:
1940-1945
Wright, Cotten, and Douglass Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1583
Abstract
This collection contains diaries, correspondence, and other materials related to four generations of this Tennessee/Alabama family.
Dates:
1798 - 1990
Frances Virginia McLin Wright Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4191
Overview
Papers of a Sheffield, Alabama, elementary school teacher, her family, and allied families.
Dates:
1879-1974
William S. Wright letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2210
Abstract
A letter from William S. Wright of Pittsford, Vermont, to Emerson R. Wright in Greenville, Alabama. The letter discusses education, family matters, and the evils of slavery.
Dates:
1840 February 24
Wynne Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3918
Overview
Letters and papers of this Hale County, Alabama, family. Also included are autographed copies of Alice Coleman Griffin three books: Laura's Letters, Laura's and Her Children's Letters, and Laura's Family's Letters.
Dates:
1804-2009
The Year of Secession, 1861 Civil War letter collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0305
Overview
Photocopies of sixteen letters written during the first year of the Civil War, and includes letters from William J. Hardee, Joseph E. Johnston, and Robert A. Toombs among others
Dates:
1861
J. W. Young Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4134
Overview
Letter from Alabama cotton grower to his cousin, a doctor in North Carolina
Dates:
1835 May 18