Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85033035
Found in 499 Collections and/or Records:
A. B. Hanson records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0623
Overview
Letterbook from 12 March to 15 May 1888, other correspondence and cases, a ledger labeled "pleadings" between 18 July 1888 to 26 February 1891 containing general correspondence and cases, and other miscellaneous material from 1888.
Dates:
1888-1891
Jere Haralson letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0625
Overview
Letter written in 1876 by African American member of Congress from Alabama to the United States Centennial Commission in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, requesting an additional invitation for his wife to attend the opening of the Centennial International Exhibition of Industry.
Dates:
1876 April 27
Hardee family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3815
Overview
Financial documents, letters, and genealogical documents
Dates:
1852-1889
Florence (Daisy) Jaffray Harriman letter and clippings
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0634
Overview
A letter written by Harriman to Miss Harriet D. Mitchell, thanking her for a gesture of kindness, as well as a newspaper clipping from 19 April 1963.
Dates:
1941; 1963
Harris family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0640
Overview
Includes typewritten copies of letters written between James William and Robert Harris, both serving in the Confederate States Army, and their family in Marengo County, Alabama.
Dates:
1861
Sampson W. Harris letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0642
Overview
Letters from Senator Sampson W. Harris of Alabama, dating from 1848 to 1857, written from Washington, DC, to the Congressional Globe and to the Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable J.C. Dobbin.
Dates:
1848-1857
Jephta Harrison letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0646
Overview
Letters to Harrison's father and brother.
Dates:
1822-1847
Ralph Murray Havens papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0650
Overview
Diaries, letters, and other papers related to Havens's service in the European Theater of Operations, 1944-1945.
Dates:
1943-1946
William C. Hayne letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0652
Overview
Letter from William C. Hayne of Charleston, South Carolina, to Lewis Bristol of New Haven, Connecticut, discussing immigrating to Alabama.
Dates:
1837 February 3
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
Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr., papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0314
Overview
The majority of this collection contains incoming and outgoing correspondence. It also contains speeches, newspaper clippings, legal documents, personal letters, and a scrapbook related to Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr's death.
Dates:
1887-1952
Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0313
Abstract
The personal, legal, military, and administrative papers, of this Alabama politician, Confederate general, and University of Alabama president.
Dates:
1840-1925
Henry E. Shepherd letter, 1906 December 17
File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W0129.20
Scope and Contents
In a letter, dated December 17, 1906, from Henry E. Shepherd, author of The Life of Robert Edward Lee, to Colonel Thomas S. Kenan of Raleigh, North Carolina, Shepherd assures Kenan that five additional copies of The Life of Lee will be sent from the publisher soon. Shepherd also describes a letter from a critic who "expresses an implied contempt for my book as well as for myself and any literary work that might appear...
Dates:
1906 December 17
Henry Peter Loding Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0872
Abstract
A collection containing correspondence, photographs, newspaper articles, and writings.
Dates:
1888 - 1947
Hestor L. Stevens Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4237
Overview
The collection consists of twelve letters written by Hestor L. Stevens (1803-1864), a representative from Michigan, detailing his law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War.
Dates:
1860 - 1861
Hildreth Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4117
Overview
Letter from nephew Hildreth to his uncle with an unfavorable answer to a request for advice concerning a debt owed him by a former British vice consul to Mobile during the Civil War.
Dates:
1864 February 4
Hill Ferguson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0511
Overview
Correspondence, clippings, and reports about The University of Alabama collected by this alumnus and trustee of the institution.
Dates:
1892-1964
Henry Washington Hilliard correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0674
Abstract
Contains photocopies of correspondence of Henry Washington Hilliard with others, regarding his various diplomatic appointments, as Foreign Minister to Belgium and Berlin.
Dates:
1841-1887
James Hogan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0687
Overview
This collection contains letters of correspondence and bills pertaining to duties and tasks of the business; primarily with the distribution of cotton.
Dates:
Unknown
Hosea Holcombe papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0689
Overview
Letter written by Holcombe asking a bookseller in Pennsylvania to send him two books by a Dr. Gills.
Dates:
1824
Admiral Samuel Hood collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0697
Abstract
Includes a letter written from British Admiral Hood to Earl Cornwallis as a letter of introduction for a Mr. Bayard Including an engraving of Joshua Reynolds portrait of Hood, printed in 1831 and a clipping from newspaper with brief biography of Hood, circa 1900.
Dates:
1788-circa 1900
Johnson Jones Hooper papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0701
Overview
This collection contains letters of correspondence in regards to the placing a marker on Hooper's gravestone, for he was, apparently, buried without one. The collection also contains letters to and from William Stanley Hoole.
Dates:
unknown
William Hoskins letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0647
Overview
Letter dated 31 March 1796, from Hoskins in Bordeaux, France, to James Swan in America, addressing potential business prospects.
Dates:
1796 March 31
Sam Houston letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0706
Overview
Letters from Huntsville, Texas to "My Dear Miller" and "My Dear Smith."
Dates:
1853-1857
Ronald and Elizabeth Howard collection of George Corley Wallace materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1631
Overview
Campaign materials and other memorabilia of George Corley Wallace's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns.
Dates:
Unknown
Howell F. Hayslette Letter and Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0654
Overview
Letter and photograph, from Hayslette in Conde, France, to "My Dear Mother," thanking her for a Christmas parcel and expressing longings for home.
Dates:
1919-01-06
Allen Howison papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2321
Overview
Letters, business records, and bank receipts from the late 1800s to the early 1900s
Dates:
1900s
Sarah Huey, United Daughters of the Confederacy Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4072
Overview
Sheet music, programs, and letters from various individuals with the UDC
Dates:
1930-1950
Hughes family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3748
Overview
Letters written by brothers Arley and Eli Hughes while serving in the Army during World War I and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artifacts of this large, rural Alabama family.
Dates:
1885-1919
Ira W. and Flora Peabody Letters, 1901 - 1907
File — Box 4257.002: [1006214227], Folder: 29
Scope and Contents
A collection of letters sent to Ira W. and Flora Peabody of Lebanon, New Hampshire, from friends, family, and others from 1890 to 1907, dealing mainly with the lives of the writers and mutual aquaintances.
Dates:
1901 - 1907
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
J. C. Tyson III Stamp Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1455
Abstract
This collection consists chiefly of three stamp albums plus first issue commemorative envelopes. It also contains some correspondence.
Dates:
1938 - 1977
J. P. McQueen Letterbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0969
Abstract
A letterbook containing copies of the correspondence of attorney J. P. McQueen to legal clients and others.
Dates:
1887 - 1888
J. R. John Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0756
Abstract
Typescript copies of 1863 letters, written from Selma to Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter, concerning John's efforts to stop cadets from leaving the University to fight in the Civil War, and on preparations for the defense of Tuscaloosa.
Dates:
1863
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
Jefferson Franklin Jackson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0736
Overview
This collection contains the letters of correspondence, financial papers, and a Phi Beta Kappa invitation.
Dates:
1847 - 1921
Thomas K. Jackson letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3814
Overview
Letters written during his career in the Confederate Army as well as a letter of amnesty on his behalf from J. Longstreet to Ulysses S. Grant
Dates:
1844-1865
Jacob Frederic Goossen papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0579
Overview
Correspondence, writings, teaching materials, and musical compositions of this former faculty member of the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1940-1995
James Abercrombie Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2005
Abstract
Letter of recommendation written on March 8, 1849 by James Abercrombie, then serving as Senator in the Alabama Senate, to the Honorable William B Preston, Secretary of the Navy under President Zachary Taylor.
Dates:
1849-10-08
James Bowron papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0193
Abstract
A substantial collection of papers and materials relating to James Bowron, one of the nineteenth century iron and mining pioneers in the Deep South. It includes Bowron's 1632-page, unpublished autobiography, as well as his daily journals, letters, and pictures.
Dates:
1861-1928
James Boykin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0196
Abstract
Papers of an important Dallas County, Alabama, planter family, including correspondence, household and plantation records, materials regarding James Boykin’s cavalry unit during the Civil War, and papers of Boykin's descendants down to the mid-twentieth century.
Dates:
1833-1967; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1870
James Chamberlin letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0294
Overview
Letters written to his mother and brother while serving with the 52nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Peninsular Campaign and the Charleston Expedition
Dates:
1861-1898; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1863
James Gee Oakley Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1065
Abstract
Correspondence pertaining chiefly to cock fighting and gamecocks.
Dates:
1845 - 1901; Majority of material found within 1892 - 1901
James Hillhouse Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0673
Abstract
A letter from the minister of the Greensboro Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, Alabama, to an unidentified recipient discussing Hillhouse's wishes for the Presbyterians to reform the Catholic Church.
Dates:
1835-04
Perry B. James papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0743
Overview
Collection includes a letter from James, president of Athens College, Athens, Alabama, to William Stanley Hoole, head of the University of Alabama Libraries, about a paper James had written, "The Counties North of the Tennessee River," and a manuscript of the paper.
Dates:
1959
James Strother Caller Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0263
Overview
Letter written by Caller, dated 2 August 1852, from Gosport, Clarke County, Alabama, to Messrs. Jno. A. Winston &c, commission merchants of Mobile, Alabama, asking for a correction on the account of W. McConnell
Dates:
1852-08-02
James Taylor Jones Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2021
Abstract
Four letters written by James Taylor Jones of Demopolis, Alabama, dated from 1877 to 1884, while he was serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives, concerning his biographical entries in the Congressional Directory.
Dates:
1877 - 1884
James Thomas Heflin Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0659
Abstract
Correspondence, speeches, press releases, biographical notes, campaign literature, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia of this member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senator from Alabama.
Dates:
1895 - 1951
James Thomas Murfee Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1031
Abstract
Letters to L. C. Garland, President of the University of Alabama, and to Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter, dealing with requisitions, fortifying the University campus, and cadets during the Civil War.
Dates:
1863 - 1864
Jeremiah Clemens letter, 1848 September 3
File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W0129.17
Scope and Contents
Jeremiah Clemens writes on September 3, 1848, to the Adjutant General of the Army in Washington, D.C., thanking him for sending his commission as a lieutenant colonel in the Ninth Infantry.
Dates:
1848 September 3