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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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

Financial documents, letters, and genealogical documents

Dates: 1852-1889

Florence (Daisy) Jaffray Harriman letter and clippings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0634
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

Letters to Harrison's father and brother.

Dates: 1822-1847

Ralph Murray Havens papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0650
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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: [Barcode: 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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

Sheet music, programs, and letters from various individuals with the UDC

Dates: 1930-1950

Hughes family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3748
Abstract

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: [Barcode: 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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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
Abstract

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: [Barcode: 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