Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85033035
Found in 432 Collections and/or Records:
Lister Hill papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0670
Abstract
Subject files, correspondence, reports, and other materials by, to, and about this Alabama senator who served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1923- 1938 and the U. S. Senate from 1938-1969.
Dates:
1921-1968
Little Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0863
Abstract
A collection of papers of a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, family, including some correspondence, financial papers, clippings, and sketches.
Dates:
1857 - 1950
S. D. Logan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0873
Overview
A handmade book celebrating the 25th wedding anniversary of S. D. Logan and his wife Ivey and a Centreville, Alabama, newspaper from 1936
Dates:
1898-1936
Marguerite Le Noir De Rouvray, Comtesse de Lostanges Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0877
Overview
Letters and papers reflecting the social, political and economic disorder in Santo Domingo, where the Comtesse was an important land owner, together with miscellaneous items pertaining to Duke Gaston Pierre Marc de Levis, as well as . The collection also includes references to Comtesse de Lostanges' father, the Marquis Laurent Francois Le Noir de Rouvray. In French.
Dates:
1775 - 1852
Cabot Lull papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0884
Abstract
Correspondence, financial records, legal documents and to a lesser extent newspaper clippings, photographs and various miscellaneous material relating to personal, business, political, and official matters of this former blockade runner and Elmore County merchant and probate judge.
Dates:
1816-1935; Majority of material found within 1852 - 1912
Grace Lykens correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3243
Overview
Courtship letters between Ira Keagy and Grace Lykens of Pennsylvania. There are also letters to Grace from several other pen pals.
Dates:
1905-1945; 1908-1913
Joseph C. Manning letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3818
Overview
Letters showing Manning's efforts to stop the disenfranchisement of African American voters in Alabama in early twentieth century.
Dates:
1902 - 1912; Majority of material found within 1902 - 1906
Letter from Maria to Martha
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0462
Overview
Letter dated 25 December 1885, from Maria in Wentworth, New Hampshire, to her cousin Martha in Laconia, New Hampshire.
Dates:
1885 December 25
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
Emmett N. McCall papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0943
Abstract
Financial records and ledgers of McCall's Dixonville Racket Store, a general store in the Brewton, Escambia County, Alabama, area. Also includes correspondence, Mormon church records, mortgage deeds, and cotton acreage allotments.
Dates:
1874-1944
McCorvey and Tutwiler families papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0947
Overview
A collection of correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs created by these families.
Dates:
1830 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950
Edward F. McCrossin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0950
Overview
Contains personal papers and company records.
Dates:
Unknown
John Rankin McLure papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0964
Overview
Contains records created by this University of Alabama College of Education dean
Dates:
Unknown
Alexander Beaufort Meek papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0973
Overview
Legal papers and correspondence, as well as photocopies of Meek's AB from the University of Alabama, and a commission as an attorney of the United States for Southern District of Alabama from James K. Polk (1846)
Dates:
1833-1866
Jennie Miller letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2459
Overview
Letters to Jennie Miller (Mrs. Earl Adams) of Shelby, Ohio, and Angola, Indiana, from friends and family
Dates:
1905-1924
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
Frank M. Moody papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2322
Overview
Poster with family Christmas cards and a scrapbook about Frank M. Moody
Dates:
1954-1968
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
Morgan Smith Gilmer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0571
Overview
Correspondence, as well as photocopy and typescript copies of a booklet by Gilmer, containing the last roll and brief history of "Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry," a Civil War unit formed by University of Alabama students Branscom Shockley and Henry Burt in March 1864.
Dates:
1954
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
Roy L. Nolen correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1051
Abstract
Correspondence between Montgomery, Alabama, postmaster and Democratic Party activist Roy L. Nolen and U.S. Senator Lister Hill as well as a few other persons. The letters address appointments, elections, political campaigns, the war effort, and etc, 1928-1944.
Dates:
1925-1944
Northington Hospital papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2425
Overview
Photos, letters, blueprints, newspapers. and a scrapbook from the Northington Naval Reserve located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, during and after World War II.
Dates:
1940-2001
Alice J. Norton letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0166
Overview
The correspondence, outgoing and incoming, of botanist and author Alice J. Norton of Bristol, Connecticut.
Dates:
1864-1899
Oak Hill Memorial Association papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2964
Overview
Correspondence and documents from the Oak Hill Memorial Association, caretakers of Oak Hill Cemetery in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dates:
1913-1953
Ogletree family letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3621
Overview
Letters from family members
Dates:
1895 and 1922
Mary Pickens Opie papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1073
Overview
Letters from family and friends, recipes, sheet music and handwritten compositions, including "Diary of a Private" - 1914 autobiography of __ Hubbard, private in the 6th Tennessee Cavalry during the U.S. Civil War.
Dates:
1887-1946
Oscar W. Underwood papers, 1898-1924
File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W 0129.18
Scope and Contents
Twenty letters written by and about 1924 Democratic presidential nominee Oscar Wilder Underwood.
Dates:
1898-1924
Doris Turner Osten letter from Dr. George Denny
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4092
Overview
Small handwritten Christmas card from Dr. George Denny
Dates:
1952 December 22
Erik Per Overbey Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3973
Overview
Overbey's collection of correspondence with and clippings of several University of Alabama alumni
Dates:
1947-1989
Fred M. Owen letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3004
Overview
A letter to Joshua P. Eyre from his friend, Fred M. Owen in Chester, Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1868 August 6
George W. Owen letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1083
Abstract
A collection of three letters, 1823-36, one to Israel Pickens, seeking advice about resigning from the University of Alabama Board of Trustees, one to politician Francis P. Blair, and one to the Globe newspaper.
Dates:
1823-1836
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
George David Palmer Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1096
Abstract
Correspondence and papers of a University of Alabama faculty member in the School of Chemistry (1927-1968) who was instrumental in the establishment of the Southern Research Institute and the Southern Association of Science and Industry.
Dates:
1921-1964
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
William Dempsey Partlow papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1109
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, an autobiography, a short biography, addresses, copies of Partlow's publications, and newspaper clippings. His correspondents included Alabama industrialist and U.S. Congressman Frank W. Boykin, and University of Alabama President and Chancellor George H. Denny.
Dates:
1907-1950
Abner E. Patton Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4056
Overview
Letters from a Confederate soldier in the Eleventh Alabama Infantry to his family.
Dates:
1861-1953
Perry County, Alabama, papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0139
Abstract
Letters and other documents donated by a source in Perry County, Alabama. The collection consists of eight letters to Elias Benson. There is also one summons order included in the Elias Benson series. Another series contains the will of Philip Smith of South Carolina. The Thomas and Mary Jones series contains three statements of debt made to John E. Cook, along with an indenture statement and draft. The final series includes miscellaneous documents including deed certification, court records,...
Dates:
1796 - 1898
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
Betsy Plank collection on Helen Keller
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2397
Overview
Materials about Helen Keller and her companions, Annie Sullivan Macy and Polly Thomson. Much of the correspondence is written by Polly Thomson to Adelyn Hood.
Dates:
after 1928
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
Quaker Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1174
Abstract
Minutes, yearbooks, members' correspondence, newspaper clippings, photos, event programs, and scrapbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, young women's civic organization.
Dates:
1897-1970
R. Henry Hudson letter, after 1800
File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W 0129.02
Scope and Contents
This draft of a letter from R. Henry Hudson to an unknown party discusses a dispute around an unpaid bill. There is no indication where or when this draft was written.
Dates:
after 1800
John Ramsey papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3799
Overview
Correspondence, financial records, and bank statements
Dates:
unknown
Reade family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3674
Overview
Materials from three generations of the Reade family
Dates:
1917-1982
Redden-Lancaster Families World War II Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4163
Overview
Letters from Lloyd D. (Don) and Sergeant Glen C. Redden, and Robert Lancaster to the Redden's sister and brother-in-law and Lancaster's brother and sister-in-law, Barbara and James Lancaster. The letters illustrate the similar and differing experiences the men had during the war and depict a soldier's life from basic training to deployment.
Dates:
1941 - 1945
Warfield Creath Richardson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1194
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of Richardson's literary output, dating from 1842 to 1914. Included are poems, short stories, essays, plays, and lectures in handwritten and printed drafts, proof sheets, pamphlets, and clippings. There is also a small collection of letters. It contains a letter from Henry Wordsworth Longfellow and two from Thomas M. Owen.
Dates:
1842-1937
Robert A. Patterson Civil War Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4334
Scope and Contents
This collection of six letters to family members was written by Robert A. Patterson, who was traveling with Company F of the 57th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry through Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama between 1862-1864. The letters describe the unit's actions and movements, interactions with locals, and encounters with enslaved persons escaping slaveholders.
Dates:
1862 - 1865