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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85033035

Found in 505 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas Haughey letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0648
Abstract

Letter written by Thomas Haughey of Alabama, dated December 28, 1868 and written from Washington, DC, to Ben Perley Poone providing a short biographical sketch. Mentions having to live in the north during the Civil War due to his anti-secessionist ideals.

Dates: 1868 December 28

Thomas S. Jordan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0791
Abstract

Papers of this Birmingham, Alabama, dentist and his family.

Dates: 1884 - 1928

Henrietta Thompson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1403
Abstract

This collection contains the papers and correspondence of an University of Alabama Home Economics professor.

Dates: 1910-1966

Jeanie Thompson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2511

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

Letters in several foreign languages collected by Wade Hall

Dates: 1865 - 2000

Wade Hall Collection of World War II Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4253
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract 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...
Dates: 1945 - 2010

Wallace Marshall manuscripts and research material

 Collection
Identifier: W-0003
Abstract

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: [Barcode: 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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

Photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and church programs

Dates: 1930-1980

Ethel Gardiner Wiggins V-mail and Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4123
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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 Insco Buchanan Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4725
Scope and Contents This collection consists of two historically significant journal/scrapbooks documenting the diplomatic career of William Insco Buchanan, particularly his involvement in Pan-American conferences and international arbitration. These scrapbooks contain a wealth of original documents, telegrams, printed materials, and newspaper clippings that provide insight into Buchanan’s role in shaping U.S. foreign policy in Latin America during the early twentieth century.The first scrapbook...
Dates: 1901 - 1908

William March Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0266
Abstract

Correspondence, literary papers, clippings, criticism, photos, and memorabilia of this author.

Dates: 1897 - 1980

William Molineaux Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4740
Scope and Contents This collection comprises a group of four letters related to the business transactions of Boston merchant and Revolutionary figure William Molineaux and Northport, Rhode Island merchant and slave trader Samuel Vernon, dating from 1742 to 1749. The letters document their commercial activities, including participation in the Triangle Trade.The collection includes three letters signed by Molineaux to Vernon, as well as a letter from Boston merchant Isaac Winslow to Vernon, which...
Dates: 1742 - 1749

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: [Barcode: 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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

Records from WLW, the Cincinnati, Ohio, radio station

Dates: circa 1930-circa 1940

World War II letters collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3688
Abstract

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