Small Manuscripts

MUM00400

Folder 2: Rev. N.G Augustus letters and Correspondence with librarian(s). (1 of 6) 

Folder 4: Rev. N.G Augustus letters and Correspondence with librarian(s). (3 of 6) 

Folder 6: Rev. N.G Augustus letters and Correspondence with librarian(s). (5 of 6) 

Folder 8: Rev. N.G Augustus pamphlets and newsclippings 

Folder 10: Rev. N.G Augustus Methodist Episcopal Church Correspondence 

Folder 12: G.W. Bachman "Biography in Memorial 

Folder 14: G.W. Bachman "Sketches and Incidents of Life" (2 of 4) 

Folder 16: G.W. Bachman "Sketches and Incidents of Life" (4 of 4) 

Folder 18: J.B. Barry Original Letter, Letter. James K Barry to Jesse B. Barry (18 March 1859) 

Folder 20: A.O. South Original Letter, Letter. A.O. South to his friend. (7 August 1861) 

Folder 22: A.L. Bondurant "Hopewell Church" and the history of the Presbyterian Church in Mississippi (2 of 8) 

Folder 24: A.L. Bondurant "Hopewell Church" and the history of the Presbyterian Church in Mississippi (4 of 8) 

Folder 26: A.L. Bondurant "Hopewell Church" and the history of the Presbyterian Church in Mississippi (6 of 8) 

Folder 28: A.L. Bondurant "Hopewell Church" and the history of the Presbyterian Church in Mississippi (8 of 8) 

Folder 30: A.L. Bondurant, Letter (with envelope). Dan I. Sultan to Mrs. A.L. Bondurant (14 September 1941) 

Folder 32: A.L. Bondurant Letter. Pat Harrison to Mrs. A.L. Bondurant (26 April 1935) 

Folder 34: A.L. Bondurant Letter. Helen Keller to Frances A. Means (20 August 1942) 

Folder 36: [No Folder] 

Folder 38: A.L. Bondurant. Letter. Arthur Brisbane to A.L. Bondurant (7 October 1931) 

Folder 40: A.L. Bondurant. Letter. G.G. Chiavari to A.L. Bondurant (31 March 1937) 

Folder 42: A.L. Bondurant. Letter. Unnamed to A.L. Bondurant (16 December 1933) 

Folder 44: A.L. Bondurant. Letter. Louis Johnson to Mrs. Bondurant (29 April 1933) 

Folder 2: Clark-Freeman. Papers Letters, photographs, and phila-telic collection, 1857, 1940s 

Folder 4: Craft-Fort. Papers. Papers, 1820-1878. Correspondence photocopies. (1 of 6) 

Folder 6: Craft-Fort. Papers. Papers, 1820-1878. Correspondence photocopies. (3 of 6) 

Folder 8: Craft-Fort. Papers. Papers, 1820-1878. Correspondence photocopies. (5 of 6) 

Folder 10: E.D. Clark. Memo for Vicksburg Bar Association Manuscript (Xerox copy). 

Folder 12: E.D. Clark. Play, "Joan of Arc," undated (PC) 

Folder 14: Kate W. Freeman. Journal entry: Holly Springs, 6 November 1860) 

Folder 16: Kate W. Freeman, Writings on the History of Christ Church in Holly Springs, MS. 

Folder 18: Kate W. Freeman, Letter. Robert Jossilyn to Kate W. Freeman (23 December 1846) 

Folder 20: Bobbie Gentry Clippings, music magazines, work-sheets, scores and correspondence (2 of 4) 

Folder 22: Bobbie Gentry Clippings, music magazines, work-sheets, scores and correspondence (4 of 4) 

Folder 2: William Sylvester Dillon. Typescript of Civil War Diary. 12 April 1861 - 25 June 1865 

Folder 4: J.A. Bigger. Partial diary in typescript. (Begins 30 May 1862, 30 April thru 12 May 1865, 22 February - afterward (MISSING)) 

Folder 6: J.A. Bigger. Diary in typescript. (30 April 1862 to 12 May 1865) 

Folder 8: A. Eugene Cox Papers, 1953-1968. Articles and booklets re: agricultural workers and labor systems in the United States and the South. 

Folder 10: A. Wigfall Green. Letter. James Street to Mr. Green (19 June 1940) 

Folder 12: A. Wigfall Green. Various letters that regard Mr. Theodore Bilbo. 

Folder 14: A. Wigfall Green. Thigpen articles. Letter. S.G. Thigpen, Senior, to Mr. Green (12 March 1964) 

Folder 16: Dr. Joseph Goldberger. Notes on medical history, especially nutrition and pellegra. Biography of Goldberger by his great granddaughter; Pellagra research at Mississippi State Prison (1914-1915) 

Folder 18: Luella Gray, probably of Union Female college. Correspondence regarding 1886 letters. 

Folder 20: Luella Gray, probably of Union Female college. Letter (with envelope). Mother to Luella Gray (14 March 1886)Gray's Mill, MS 

Folder 2: Holly Springs Female Academy, Papers, documents and board minutes of HS Female Academy (photocopies). Dated 1836 - 1901. (2 of 2) 

Folder 4: Rev. Joseph Ingraham. Biographical information and pages from Christ Church (Holly Springs) register (photocopied). 

Folder 6: Rev. Thaddeus McRae. Autobiography and original articles by McRae, 1831 - 1880 (Photocopies). (2 of 2) 

Folder 8: Russell Jones. Photocopies of Civil War letters, 1861-1862 

Folder 2: Photocopy handwritten letter signed from Lamar to Clark, re: suppress letter from appearing in the newspaper. Typescript available. 

Folder 4: Photocopy fragment of handwritten letter signed from Lamar to Clark, re: offering law partnership to Clark, Seymour & Blair nomination, General Walthall. Typescript available. 

Folder 6: Photocopy handwritten letter signed from Lamar to Clark, re: employment of Joshua Morris, Ames. Typescript available. 

Folder 8: Photocopy handwritten document entitled "Memo for settlement with Lamar & Clark, Oxford, Miss.", re: accounts of law firm. circa 1869 

Folder 10: Photocopy handwritten letter signed from Tillie Marshall to Clark, re: acceptance of invitation to go to the play. Typescript available. 

Folder 12: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar to Clark, re: Russell, Navy Engineers, armed services academies, Col. Phillips (Washington lawyer), General Walthall, friendship, politics, Lamar's health, Alcorn, Mississippi's gubernatorial contests, 13th-15th Amendments, Radical Republicans, president, African American voters. Typescript available. 14 October 1873 

Folder 14: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar in Washington, DC to Clark, re: introduction to R. Milton Speer of Pennsylvania with the Committee of Investigation in Vicksburg. Typescript available. 21 December 1874 

Folder 16: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar to Clark, re: Grant, Republican Party, war against South, Miller, Shannon, Governor Humphreys, McCardle, Vicksburg, Ames, Crosby, Cardoza, Davenport, Beck Randall, Yates & Linda, Iuka Gazette & other newspapers, McKee, existence of Southern Army. Typescript available. 23 December 1874 

Folder 18: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar to Clark, re: previous letter, Col. McCardle, Yates & Linda, Governor Humphreys, Iuka Herald,  Oxford Falcon, Calhoun newspapers,  Southern States,  Columbus Democrat, newspaper editors, McKee. Typescript available. 24 December 1874 

Folder 20: Photocopy handwritten letter dated from [Lamar] in Washington, DC to Clark, re: L.J. Randall letter (from Folder 16), Vicksburg investigation, Speer & O'Brien, Crosby bond, McCardle, Hurlburt, Grant. Typescript available. 26 December 1874 

Folder 22: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar in Washington, DC to Clark, re: Vicksburg. Typescript available. 11 January 1875 

Folder 24: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from L[amar] to Clark, re: Lamar's chairmanship of caucus, Kerr, Cox, Randall, L.Q Washington, Banks, Payne of Ohio, Adams, Crittenden, Lamar's chairmanship of the Committee on the Pacific Rail Road, Holman's Resolution, Vicksburg, Col. Basil Duke, Calhoun, Col. McCardle, New York Times, travel to Jackson, Lamar's election, Gibson, McCallum, Hicks, Bob Miller. Typescript available. 28 December 1875 

Folder 26: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar to Clark, re: Northern Democrats, distribution of federal patronage, Pease, Vicksburg appointment, Edwards, Marshall, South versus North, Republicans, Evarts McCrary, President Grant, Morton, Chamberlain, Hampton, African Americans, Reconstruction, Carl Schurz, Key, Alcorn, politics, Mexico, Cuba, Department of State, Hayes, Blaine, Morton, Nicholls, Lamar's health. Typescript available. 30 March 1877 

Folder 28: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from N.L. Lamar in Oxford, MS to Clark, re: article in Vicksburg Herald, Lamar, Parke, Mayes, Barr, "Sister Fannie," General Walthall, family news, Mrs. Freeman. Typescript available. 1 May 1878 

Folder 30: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar to Clark, re: Vicksburg Herald articles, Sheppard, relief of children in Mississippi made orphans by the yellow fever,  Sun,  New York Star, Jefferson Davis, Dana, Montgomery Blair, Polk, Calhoun, Hunter, Mason, Gibson, Hewitt, Captain McCarthy of Richmond, VA, Judge Black, Beck, Gordon, Thurman, Bayard, slander in newspapers, Douglass of Virginia, Wright, electoral count, Tilden, Democratic Party, Hendricks, Randall, Hancock, election, Lamar's upcoming political speech at medical college in New Orleans, Vicksburg, Senate committee chairmanships, appointment of a clerk. Typescript available. 3 February 1879 

Folder 32: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar to Clark, re: Wright, publishing Lamar's letters, private secretaries, reporters. Typescript available. 20 February 1879 

Folder 34: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar in Washington, DC to Clark, re: Mississippi River Commission bill, Brookhaven visit, Vicksburg, Lamar's family, Mississippi canvass, Wright, Lamar's health, General Walthall's election to Senate. Typescript available. 18 June 1879 

Folder 36: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar in Oxford, MS to Clark, re: report of Lamar's speech in Herald, Jefferson's Inaugural for second term, Lamar's depression. Typescript available. 3 October 1879 

Folder 38: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar in Grenada, MS to Clark, re: Lamar's sick son, Yates, article in Commercial, article of "Old Tyler" in Holly Springs South, views of candidates for U.S. Senate, Barksdale & Singleton, greenback money, national debt, National Democratic Party Platform, Resumption Act, instructions of state legislator, coinage of silver, General Walthall, Lamar's conduct, Helen Jones Whitaker. Typescript available. 26 December 1879 

Folder 40: Photocopy handwritten letter signed from Lamar in Grenada, MS to Clark, re: Lamar's presence in Jackson, General Walthall's election to senate. Typescript available. 

Folder 42: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar in Washington, DC to Clark, re: enclosed draft payment for Fleet Cooper, family weddings, Lamar's health, General [Walthall], Wright, Barksdale; envelope. Typescript available. 7 March 1880 

Folder 44: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from E.C. Walthall in Grenada, MS to Clark in Vicksburg, MS, re: Clark's trip to Cincinnati, Bob Taylor, Judge Shafford, Lamar, Bruce, Kellogg & Louisiana, newspapers, 3 June 1880 

Folder 46: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar in Grenada, MS to Clark, re: Lamar's health, General [Walthall], C[halmers] in Washington, Democrats in Washington, Garfield, Reagan, Blaine, General Woodford, Conger, Wright, National Republican Party, Ames, Lynch's speech, Filden campaign, differences between Lamar & Chalmers, defense of Jefferson Davis, Blair, Conkling, New York Herald interview,  Vicksburg Herald, 3-1/2 percent bond, taxation & public credit, 3 percent bill, General George, Clark's family. Typescript available. 15 July 1881 

Folder 48: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar in Oxford, MS to Clark in Vicksburg, MS, re: Clark's troubles, Lamar's public career, health of Lamar's wife, George's speech, the law & lawyers. Typescript available. 12 May 1882 

Folder 50: Photocopy telegram dated from Lamar in Washington, DC to Clark, re: authorization to make offer to Clark of Assistant Secretary of the Interior; envelope. 20 May 1884 

Folder 52: Photocopy handwritten letter dated from Clark in Jackson, MS to Carey Clark, re: Lamar's offer of Assistant Secretary of the Interior to Clark, appointment of Lamar's successor in Senate. 6 March 188[5] 

Folder 54: Photocopy telegram dated from Lamar in Washington, DC to G.M. Freeman, re: Clark's health; envelope. 18 March 188[5] 

Folder 56: Photocopy handwritten letter signed dated from Lamar in Washington, DC to Mary [Mayes] in Oxford, MS, re: family, Washington, game chickens & pheasants; envelope. 5 May 1881 

Folder 58: Photocopy handwritten letter signed from Tillie Marshall to Clark, re: attendance at event; envelope addressed to Cary A. Freeman in Holly Springs, MS. 

Folder 60: Newspaper clipping "Washington. The Debate on the Chandler Resolution in the Senate. The People of Mississippi Warmly Defended by Senators Walthall and George. The Whole Matter Regarded as a Conspiracy against Mr. Lamar. All Doubts of His Confirmation Removed." 

Folder 62: Newspaper clipping "Senator Lamar," re: Lamar's support of General Walthall in election. 

Folder 64: Newspaper clipping "The Clarion's Bottled Wrath against Lamar. The Nature and Quality of It. And the Extent of the Offence." Jackson, MS Comet (). 27 January 1880 

Folder 2: Christopher Longest. Dissertation from University of Chicago, 1914 on Robert Southey 

Folder 4: Oration, 1809 Photocopy of printed text. Speaker unknown. Auditors unknown. Possibly South Carolina 

Folder 6: Peter Patterson. 1844 Math ledger and biographical information (1 of 2) 

Folder 8: Eleanor Richmond. Newspapers, 1902-1911, with articles on Woodrow Wilson 

Folder 10: General Charles Nelms. Papers, 1849-1885. Photocopied from Holly Springs Historical Society. Bills of sale (slaves), accounts and letters 

Folder 12: Harriet S. Pegues. Daybook, 1848. Photocopied from Holly Springs Historical Society. 

Folder 14: [No Folder] 

Folder 16: Alfred H. Stone. Biographical information sheet 

Folder 18: Alfred H. Stone. Writings on African-Americans in the South. (1 of 5) 

Folder 20: Alfred H. Stone. Writings on African-Americans in the South. (3 of 5) 

Folder 22: Alfred H. Stone. Writings on African-Americans in the South. (5 of 5) 

Folder 24: Alfred H. Stone. Reprint of article entitled "Civil Rights, States Rights, and Reconstruction". 

Folder 26: Alfred H. Stone. Article entitled "A South Carolina Rice Plantation". 

Folder 28: Lt. Jesse Roderick Sparkman. Typescript Diary, 17 June 1861 - 31 May 1865. Typescript Jeff Davis Legion 

Folder 2: Belle Strickland. Diary, 1864-1869, 1871-1877. Photocopied from Holly Springs Historical Society (2 of 4) 

Folder 4: Belle Strickland. Diary, 1864-1869, 1871-1877. Photocopied from Holly Springs Historical Society (4 of 4) 

Folder 6: Alfred H. Stoner. Sheet of biographical information 

Folder 8: Alfred H. Stoner. Typed manuscript on Shakespeare. 

Folder 10: Alfred H. Stoner. Book review article from The Clarion Ledger, 24 July 1955. 

Folder 12: Gen. Absalom West. Papers, 1857 - 1870, photocopied from Holly Springs Historical Society. Letters, Civil War records, MS Central railroad papers (1 of 2) 

Folder 14: Charles Stubblefield. 1853-1856 and 1939-1943, Photocopies of Bilbo letters 

Folder 2: William H. Wilson. Typescript of article titled "Wagonyard," with references to Mississippi, [1960]. 

Folder 4: Yellow Fever epidemic, 1878 Photocopies of newspaper account of 1878 epidemic in Holly Springs. Newspaper accounts of epidemic in Jackson area, 1897 

Folder 2: Civil War Rosters (Reprints): Lafayette Guards, Lamar Rifles, University Greys 

Folder 4: R.A. McLemore. Galley of McLemore's History of Mississippi, Volume II, pp. 123-571 (2 of 4) 

Folder 6: R.A. McLemore. Galley of McLemore's History of Mississippi, Volume II, pp. 123-571 (4 of 4) 

Folder 8: Hunter Family. Genealogical material; second section - book-keeping, notes, papers 

Folder 10: Hunter Family. Genealogical material; fourth section - genealogy; Senatobia Centennial Program (photocopies) 

Folder 12: Hunter Family. Genealogical material; sixth section - Panola County Chancery Court documents (photocopies) 

Folder 14: Hunter Family. Genealogical material; eighth section - Pontotoc County Deed of Conveyance (photocopies) 

Folder 16: Hunter Family. Genealogical material; tenth section - Tate County, Indenture 1874, 1890 (photocopies) 

Folder 18: Hunter Family. New Additions - 7 June 1984 (photocopies) 

Folder 20: James Boyd Campbell. Newcomen Society speech "For the Public Good" and related papers, 1963-1964 

Folder 22: [No Folder] 

Folder 24: [No Folder] 

Folder 26: [No Folder] 

Folder 28: [No Folder] 

Folder 30: John Duncan. 1868 Diary (Jackson, MS) and letters in typescript (original) 

Folder 2: Betty Allen. Transcripts of notes of Dorothy Oldham re: to Betty Allen and property rights of married women in 1839 

Folder 4: David H. Bishop. Correspondence from 1908 (typescript and handwritten, envelopes, and Postmaster receipt). (2 of 7) 

Folder 6: David H. Bishop. Correspondence from 1908 (typescript and handwritten, envelopes, and Postmaster receipt). (4 of 7) 

Folder 8: David H. Bishop. Correspondence from 1908 (typescript and handwritten, envelopes, and Postmaster receipt). (6 of 7) 

Folder 10: David H. Bishop. Essay on Wordsworth's "Tintern Alley" (typescript) [1953?] 

Folder 12: Rufus Breland. Two letters to Breland, 1906 from Wiggins, MS. Family letters (originals) 

Folder 14: Dr. W.H. Anderson. Correspondence and photocopied text for "When Old Tucker Made History" 

Folder 16: Fred Zollicoffer Browne. Typescripts of "Heroic Death in Battle of Confederate General Felix Kirk Zollicoffer", "Segregation or Integration - which?" and "The University Greys". Also, photocopied biographical information 

Folder 18: Maude Morrow Brown. Handwritten manuscript of "Shakespeare's Art in the Use of Dialects" (bound booklet) 

Folder 20: Maude Morrow Brown. Typescript of "Longstreet and Womenfolks" 

Folder 22: [No Folder] 

Folder 24: John C. Hall. "You Are Drafted - Period" (typescript). History of WWII Draftee, copyright 1948 

Folder 26: Charlie Kendrick. Typescript of Civil War letter, 1863 (camp on Rapidan two miles below Racoon Ford) 

Folder 28: MS State Teachers Association. Proceedings, 1877. Delegates listed 

Folder 30: Robert Muldoon. 1870, Letter from Muldoon to his wife, Oxford. (original & photocopy) with envelope. 

Folder 32: W.L. Kennon. "A Tribute to the Womanhood of the Confederacy" speech (typescript) 

Folder 34: William Wordsworth. Typed copy of letter from Wordsworth to S.S. Prentiss, 23 March 1843 

Folder 2: Lillian Fort Meeks. Autograph copies of poetry 

Folder 4: Charles Seidenglory. Promise of payment, bill of sale and check, 1884-1891 

Folder 6: M.D.L. Stephens. Photocopied information on Col. Stephens of the 31st Mississippi Regiment and the Battle of Franklin, 1864 

Folder 8: E. Strickland. Manuscript of "Power of Emotion" (typescript) 

Folder 10: "Steamboat Bill". Words as sung by Mrs. John Pearson, Jr. of Rosedale, MS. 

Folder 13: J.D Whitney. #3 of a set. Original letter from Whitney dated 1849 (Boston, MA) 

Folder 15: E.R. Beadle. Original letter dated 10 February 1849. 

Folder 17: Frederick Sullens, editor of Jackson Daily News. Autograph. 

Folder 19: J.H. Fox. "A Plea for Feeble Minded Children" photocopied booklet. Biographical info on Fox. 

Folder 2: 1890 Constitutional Convention of Mississippi. Autograph book with signatures of delegates (original) 

Folder 7: Pearl S. Buck. Correspondence and article in which Buck discusses her relatives in Mississippi, 1972 (typescript and photocopy) 

Folder 9: [No Folder] 

Folder 11: Confederate Half Dollar. Typescript historical notes on coin. 

Folder 13: Alice M. DeBiere donations. Newspaper clippings and envelopes. (Originals) 

Folder 17: John H. Petrea. Civil War Letter, 20 September 1862. 

Folder 19: Red Springs Mineral Water broadside. 1912 typescript advertising the medicinal / health benefits of the water from springs near Stewart, MS 

Folder 21: Alonzo Phelps. Information and poem about "The Rob Roy of MS". Phelps was shot and killed by sheriff in 1834 

Folder 23: Phil Stone. First grade poetry exercises (typescript) 

Folder 25: C.L. Marquette. Maps by John Faulkner with American History I instructions on reverse. 

Folder 27: Confederate Money. Facsimile of $500 note. 

Folder 29: French armband and postcards (originals). Undated. 

Folder 31: H.A. McGusty. Photocopy of Sketches on My Plantation published in MS, 1915 

Folder 2: Sanders Taylor. Real estate deed, Marshall County c. 1840. 

Folder 4: Union Female College. Programs from various exercises, UFC, Oxford, MS 1877-1880 

Folder 6: Ray Fulton. Publications and materials regarding history of Kemper County, MS. (1 of 6) 

Folder 8: Ray Fulton. Publications and materials regarding history of Kemper County, MS. (3 of 6) 

Folder 10: Ray Fulton. Publications and materials regarding history of Kemper County, MS. (5 of 6) 

Folder 12: Jefferson Davis. Photocopied materials related to affairs after the war, 1866-1867. 

Folder 14: French Essay. Handwritten essay in French concerning Catholic schools in the 19th century 

Folder 16: [No Folder] 

Folder 18: German Ledger, Unidentified, Undated 

Folder 2: Ed King. Manuscript on Civil Rights movement in MS and related materials (2 of 13) 

Folder 4: Ed King. Manuscript on Civil Rights movement in MS and related materials (4 of 13) 

Folder 6: Ed King. Manuscript on Civil Rights movement in MS and related materials (6 of 13) 

Folder 8: Ed King. Manuscript on Civil Rights movement in MS and related materials (8 of 13) 

Folder 10: Ed King. Manuscript on Civil Rights movement in MS and related materials (10 of 13) 

Folder 12: Ed King. Manuscript on Civil Rights movement in MS and related materials (12 of 13) 

Folder 2: Walter Wilson Murphy. Family papers of Smith-Jarratt and Allied families. (2 of 2) 

Folder 2: Robert Augustus Moore. Diary. Volume I 

General note

Digitized in the Civil War Archive

Folder 4: Robert Augustus Moore. Diary. Volume III 

General note

Digitized in the Civil War Archive

Folder 6: Marvel Ramey Sisk. Typed essay "Crime Drama in Oxford" by Sisk c. 1971 (photocopy). 

Folder 8: Judge and Mrs. J.W. Clapp. Account of travels in Cuba and Holly Springs, MS. 

Folder 10: Judge and Mrs. J.W. Clapp. Address to Franklin Female College, 1873. Photocopies. 

Folder 2: W.J. Cunningham and the Galloway Church, "Agony at Galloway". Documents related to inventory and donation. 

Folder 4: W.J. Cunningham and the Galloway Church, "Agony at Galloway". Clippings related to Cunningham and the Galloway Church & Civil Rights movement. 

Folder 6: D.H. Miller. Xeroxes of letters. 

Folder 8: D.H. Miller. Original letter from Miller to a friend in Indiana from Camp Vicksburg, 14 August 1863. 

Folder 10: J. Thompson. Photocopy of typed letter from Thompson to Walter Goodman and Richard Bolton dated 5 February 1838. 

Folder 12: Groucho Marx. Letter to Mrs. John Williford of Oxford, 7 March 1968. Laminated original with envelope. 

Folder 14: Oscar F. Bledsoe. Typed letter, October 1951, concerning segregation. 

Folder 16: W.R. Burris. Civil war letters written by his father (original) and photocopies of biographical information and letters, 1865. 

Folder 18: Hill's Southern Almanac. Original booklet. Dated 1919. 

Folder 20: U.S.S. Mississippi. 1909 Itinerary (original booklet) 

Folder 22: J.V. Harris. Civil War telegram, 1863 (facsimile) 

Folder 24: William Heath. Revolutionary War letter dated 26 December 1781. Typed transcript. 

Folder 26: Henry Daggett Boch. "An Essay on the Use and Advantages of the Fine Arts". Original. 

Folder 28: Walter Malone. "Opportunity," a poem by Mr. Malone. Original. 

Folder 30: Civil War Letter. Notifiying Union occupation of Mississippi, 1865. Special Orders #127. 

Folder 32: Civil War notice. General Orders No. 123 - Release of all Confederate Prisoners of War, 1863. 

Folder 2: Duncan McCall. Copy of document appointing McCall Associate Justice, 1824. 

Folder 4: S.H. Clark, Attalaville, MS planter. Miscellaneous business papers. Dated 1855-1873. Originals. (1 of 4) 

Folder 6: S.H. Clark, Attalaville, MS planter. Miscellaneous business papers. Dated 1855-1873. Originals. (3 of 4) 

Folder 8: Mississippi / Oxford Women's Book Club booklet, 1921-1923. 

General note

Two items have been removed for cataloging. Remaining item is: Year Book. Progressive Study Club. Ensley, Alabama, 1921-1922

Folder 10: Southern Business Educator. Pamphlet, 1911. Original. 

Folder 12: Rebel States Envelopes. For MS, AL, FL, and SC. 

Folder 14: M.P. Lowery Brown Scrapbook photocopies (original housed in 1978.4) 

Folder 16: F.B. Furr. Business ledger. "F. & H.", 1893. Original. 

Folder 2: "Meet Barry Goldwater" from the 1960 Presidential Informational campaign newspaper published by The Republican National Campaign Committee to elected Barry Goldwater and Bill Miller. The publication contains photos, articles, interviews, and advertisements for Barry Goldwater's campaign 

Folder 4: Senator Kennedy's 1976 Re-Election Petition Re-nomination petition for Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic Party candidate for U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. The document contains signatures and addresses of Massachusetts residents in 1976 (2 of 8) 

Folder 6: Senator Kennedy's 1976 Re-Election Petition Re-nomination petition for Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic Party candidate for U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. The document contains signatures and addresses of Massachusetts residents in 1976 (4 of 8) 

Folder 8: Senator Kennedy's 1976 Re-Election Petition Re-nomination petition for Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic Party candidate for U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. The document contains signatures and addresses of Massachusetts residents in 1976 (6 of 8) 

Folder 10: Senator Kennedy's 1976 Re-Election Petition Re-nomination petition for Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic Party candidate for U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. The document contains signatures and addresses of Massachusetts residents in 1976 (8 of 8) 

Folder 2: Aaron Burr. Character sketch of Burr, by Judge George Adams, Undated (original and Photocopy) (2 of 2) 

Folder 4: Lectures notes, unidentified, 1924. (2 of 2) 

Folder 6: Louis Cochran Papers - Correspondence 1931. Collection removed from Small Manuscripts, available: http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00950/ 

Folder 8: Goodloe Warren Buford. Diary, of Buford, from NE MS, 1850 (photocopied typescript). (2 of 4) 

Folder 10: Goodloe Warren Buford. Diary, of Buford, from NE MS, 1850 (photocopied typescript). (4 of 4) 

Folder 12: Prize Poems. Original newspaper clippings related to prizes. Fifteen total clippings. Dated 1910s and 1920s. 

Folder 14: Exercise Books, unidentified, 1854 and 1856 (2 of 2) 

Folder 16: I.M. Partridge. Correspondence and writings, 1850s (2 of 4) 

IFolder 18: .M. Partridge. Correspondence and writings, 1850s (4 of 4) 

Folder 20: Daniel Brent. Daniel Brent / Thomas Braidwood letters, 1818 (2 of 2) 

Folder 2: [Empty Folder] 

Folder 4: Military Annals of Mississippi. Typescript of pages from annals (1 of 3) 

Folder 6: Military Annals of Mississippi. Typescript of pages from annals (3 of 3) 

Folder 8: Lafayette County, Mississippi. Carbon copy of "Some Early History of Lafayette County," compiled by the David Reese, D.A.R. Chapter, 1944 (2 of 3) 

Folder 10: John Dollard. Miscellaneous clippings, letters and documents. 

Folder 12: Vachez Lindsay. "American Billboards to the Sky" poetry collection. 

Folder 2: Minnie Holt. Typed manuscript and photocopies of Holt, "History of Oxford and Lafayette County" (2 of 8) 

Folder 4: Minnie Holt. Typed manuscript and photocopies of Holt, "History of Oxford and Lafayette County" (4 of 8) 

Folder 6: Minnie Holt. Typed manuscript and photocopies of Holt, "History of Oxford and Lafayette County" (6 of 8) 

Folder 8: Minnie Holt. Typed manuscript and photocopies of Holt, "History of Oxford and Lafayette County" (8 of 8) 

Folder 10: W.J.B. Lonsdale, Asst. Commissioner of Immigration. ALS. W.J.B. Lonsdale, ca. 1875. 

Folder 12: Varina Howell Davis. A.L.S. Davis to Mrs. Gregory, 16 January 1893 (original and transcription). 1 folder. 

Folder 14: Charles A. Lindbergh. "Program from Complimentary Dinner to Captain Charles A. Lindbergh", London, 1927. 

Folder 16: Homestead Exemption. Application for Homestead exemption filed by Fulton Abney, Toccopola, MS, 1942. 

Folder 18: Book of Presidents. Scrapbook kept by [Nellie] O'Callaghan, 1889 with clippings regarding U.S. Presidents. 

Folder 2: "My Pauline". drawings by William Preachen 

General note

Removed for cataloging : Pauline Francis Stephens. "The Blow Off," poem by Stephens, 1973

Folder 4: Franklin Square Library. Newspaper, 1888. 

Folder 6: J.D. Henderson, Justice of the Peace. Miscellaneous documents, 1895-1926 (1 of 3) 

Folder 8: J.D. Henderson, Justice of the Peace. Miscellaneous documents, 1895-1926 (3 of 3) 

Folder 10: Notice of Sale of Land & Negroes. Photocopy (1 page) Notice of sale of 1383 acres of land, 25 people, seven mules, farming utensils, stock hogs, corn, fodder, etc. on April 17 and 18, 1837, "at the Clark Plantation, on Woodson's Ridge, six miles north-east of Oxford.". 

Folder 12: Investigation by the Senate of the State of Printed booklet. 501 pages. "It is the subject of notorious Mississippi of the Charges of Bribery in the rumor that Senator (Theo. G.) Bilbo has stated that he Election of a United States Senator, Session received from L. C. Dulaney a sum of money as a bribe for his vote in the recent Senatorial caucus of 1910. 

Folder 2: New York Herald (Paris edition), November 12, 1918, November 26, 1918, December 14, 1918, December 15, 1918, February 20, 1919, May 2, 1919, May 30, 1919, and June 24, 1919 

Folder 4: Chicago Tribune (Paris edition), November 14, 1918, June 24, 1919, and July 15, 1919 

Folder 2: Muster Roll of the 27th Mississippi Infantry Contains a short history of the company along with an original muster roll. (1) History of the "27th Miss. Vols." (2) The muster roll reads " Muster Roll of Colonel ? A. Campbell from the 30th day of April 1863, when last mustered, to the 30th day of June, 1863; Company 6 of the 27th Regiment of Miss. Vols." 

Folder 4: Platform of Charles Scott Two copies of "Platform of Charles Scott; Regards Governorship the highest honor, and when his term shall expire, will devote remainder of his life to agriculture. Will give Practical Business and Non-fac-tional Administration. He Belongs to No Man or Set of Men, and Will Favor Liberal Appropriations for the Education of the White Boys and Girls of the State." 

Folder 6: Seventeenth and eighteenth century printing examples 

Scope and Contents note

Various printing examples. (1) Display #1, original leaf dated 1765 A.D. "In Modum Catecheseos." pages 329 and 330. (2) Display #2, original leaf dated 1768 A.D. "Siebendes Buch. Liber II. Macbabeorum." Pages 421-422. (3) Display #3, original leaf date unknown. "An Account of the final Destruction of Jerusalem." Pages 673-674. (4) Display #4, original leaf dated 1702 A.D. "Elymas the Sorcerer Struck Blind Acts Ch 13th" plate 64 no. 33. (5) Display #5, Journals of the House of Lords, "Journals of the House of Lords" pages 437 and 438. (6) Photocopy of Latin document dated 1707, transcribed into English at the bottom of the page. (7) Broadsides where the previously listed documents were originally housed.

Folder 8: Catholic Action of the South. Issue of theCatholic Action of the South dated October 14, 1937. Publication includes articles, advertisements and announcements concerning the Catholic faith in the South 

Folder 2: Document signed by John Pettus, Gov. appointing Thomas A. Burgin to 1st Lt. Oktibbeha Minute Men, 1862. Certificate from the State of Mississippi recognizing the election of Thomas A. Burgin to the office of 1st Lieutenant of the Oktibbeha Minutemen and Infantry company of Mississippi Militia. (elected August 6, 1862; signed by Governor Pettus October 1, 1862) 

Folder 4: Robert Holt Hindman. tombstone rubbing. Tombstone rubbing from the grave of Robert Holt Hindman from the Hindman Cemetary, Ripley, MS, rubbing by Tommy Covington, 1976 

Folder 6: Series of sketches published in newspapers during the American Civil War 

"Scene in Front of Washington Hotel, Vicksburg, Mississippi." [no other information given] 

"Siege of Charleston-Attack on Fort Wagner by the Union Troops Under General Gillmorf, July 24th and 25th" by 'our special artist' and "Opening of the Mississippi-Occupation of Natchez, Miss, July 13, by Brig. Gen. Ransom, of M'Pherson's Corps" by Fred B. Schell, in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 15, 1863 

"Railroad Depot," "Rebel Armory" and "Holly Springs, Mississippi" from sketches by Mr. A. Simplot, in the January 10, 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly 

"The Civil War in America: Train with Reinforcements for General Johnston Running Off The Track in the Forests of Mississippi," from a sketch by 'our special artist' and "The Civil War in America: Re-Occupation of Jackson, Mississippi, by the Confederates" from a sketch by 'our special artist' in the August 8, 1863 issue of The Illustrated London News 

Folder 8: Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America.Certificate of Membership Charter into the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America for the Oxford, Mississippi, Chapter. April 1, 1951 

Published announcement of Secession by Power & Cadwallader, Jackson, Miss 

Folder 10: Public land sale documents 

Certification that Wiley C. Person of Sumpter (?), Alabama, has purchased land from the land office in Columbus, February 27, 1841, signed by President Martin Van Buren 

Certification that Joseph Slocum Sr. of Madison County, Mississippi, has purchased land from the land office in Mount Salus, Mississippi, December 1, 1830, signed by President Andrew Jackson 

Folder 12: "Opportunity" by Walter Malone. Copy of Walter Malone's poem, "Opportunity." 

Folder 14: Charles G. Bell. Delta Return Corrected forward to Charles G. Bell's. Delta Return, Santa Fe, N. M. 1986 

Diploma from Washington College. Virginia granting Somerville the title of "Proficient in Chemistry", June 23, 1870 

Folder 16: Edward VII, King of England. (3 Posters) 1910 

(2) "The Last Sleep of the Guardian of England's Welfare" published as a supplement to "The Illustrated London News," May 28, 1910. The original drawing was created by Mr. Albert Bruce-Joy. 

Folder 2: Poll Tax Receipt. Bolivar County. Printed form, filled in by hand. 1 page. December 16, 1878 

Folder 4: No. 27. January 7th, 1811. House of Printed document. 3 pages. "A Bill for the Relief of Representatives. Richard Tervin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, Joseph Wilson, and the Baptist Church, at Salem Meeting House, in the Mississippi Territory." 

Folder 6: ALS. Irvin S. Cobb. New York, NY, 20 December (2 pages) 

Scope and Contents note

Cobb gives permission for the inclusion 1922, to Dr. Blauche Collin Williams. (sp?) of his story "Snake Doctor" in the "proposed volume for 1922 of the O. Henry Memorial Award Commission." (labeled Folder #7)

"Landon Cabell Garland Letters. Typewritten transcriptions of 17 letters written by Landon concerning Vanderbilt University." Landon Cabell Garland between 22 October 1873 and 15 October 1874 regarding the founding of Vanderbilt University 

Folder 1: "Thomas Wolfe: His People and His Printed document. 6 pages. An index and description Homeland," by Richard Reed, Associate Professor of 34 color slides. (slides missing) of Literature, University of North Carolina at Asheville 

Folder 3: Holland Collection. TLS. from Gerald Walton, English Department, University of Mississippi.   4 folders

Folder 5: Holland Collection. Typescript 

Folder 7: A.M. Clayton, Confederate Judge in Mississippi. ALS. in which Clayton states that he "drew up letter to Lida Perry, October 25, 1887. the Bill for the organization of the Judicial system of the Confederate States." 

Folder 9: Josiah A.P. Campbell, Confederate legislator. ALS. dated January 9, 1890. 

Folder 11: William T.S. Barry, Confederate. ALS. from Barry dated October 13, 1858 

Folder 13: William L. Harris, Confederate Commissioner. ALS. from Harris to Mr. O. L. Keeler dated October 3, 1855. from Mississippi. 

Folder 15: Jack N. Stewart, Sr. 3 June 1983. Typewritten letter. The letter discusses a number of contemporary political contests, including the race for a US Senate seat and the governorship 

Folder 2: Minutes of the Commonwealth Drilling and Oil Photocopied documents, hand- and typewritten. Company, Natchez, MS, 1915. (labeled Folder #5) 

Folder 4: "From the Russian Ghetto to the Mississippi Delta," by A. Isaacson. Typewritten manuscript, parts I and II, 2-165 and 1-84. Copy 2 

Folder 6: Letter. Eudora Welty to Charles H. Ford, Photocopies of typewritten letters. 16 January 1943; from C. H. Ford to Joseph Cornell, January 31, 1943 

Folder 8: New York Times Book Review, April 14, 1946. Photocopies. "A Fine Novel of the Deep South," re: Welty's Delta Wedding 

Folder 10: Article by Welty, "Literature and the Lens" (photocopies), includes Welty snapshots 

Folder 12: The memoirs of Olivia Smith. Photocopies of typewritten manuscript and handwritten letters. (1 of 2) 

Folder 14: The Civil War Diary of J. M. Love. Photocopies. 5-16 March 1862. Wirt Adams Cavalry Regiment, Company G. (photocopy of typescript) 

Folder 2: Dr. Nollie Wade Hickman. interview. Transcript of an interview with Hickman, conducted by Murella Hebert Powell and Charles Sullivan on May 18, 1984 at Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College, Perkinston, MS 

Thomas G. Clark Letters are housed with the rest of the Clark Family Letters, available: http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00074/ 

Irwin Russell Collection photographs moved to Collection Photographs 

Folder 2: Oxford Boys School. "Class Book For Recording Scholarship And Attendance In Oxford Male School," 1875-1877 

Folder 4: William R. Benet. Article about Louis Untermeyer. Typescript. Also, photocopies of pp. 425-426 of Contemporary Authors, the Louis Untermeyer entry 

Folder 6: Ben Johnson. Photocopies of letters, Stamped & Dated 

Folder 8: Ben Johnson. Photocopies of letters, 1880 

Folder 10: Ben Johnson. Photocopies of letters, 1890 

Folder 12: Ben Johnson. Photocopies of letters, 1900 

Folder 14: Arion Press Articles. Promotional literature re: Arion Press, "deluxe, limited editions." 

Folder 16: Ishmael Reed. ALS. to Amiri Baraka and TLS. 1975 

George H. Ethridge. ALS. from Ethridge to the Mississippi Law Review requesting a one-year subscription. March 30, 1922 

Louis M. Jiggitts. TLS. from Jiggitts to Howorth re: Dr. Holdsworth, his tutor, and a possible submission to the Review. St. John's College, Oxford, letterhead. 1922 

T.C. Kimbrough. ALS. from Kimbrough to Howorth re: Kimbrough's comments on an article Howorth wrote for the Mississippi Law Review. March 2, 1923 

William Alexander Percy. TLS. from Percy to "The Mississippi Law Review" declining to contribute an article to the review on the grounds that he didn't have enough time to compose a quality article. December 14, 1922 

Sydney Smith. TLS. from Smith to Howorth declining to submit an article to the Mississippi Law Review due to the demands of his "official duties." November 17, 1922 

Folder 2: "A History of the Randle Family Typed document 

Folder 4: George Burns. TLS. concerning his inclusion in a tribute to George and Ira Gerschwin, 27 December 1977, & autographed 8x10 photograph 

General note

Photograph removed to Cold Storage for preservation.

Folder 2: Gillespie Family. Reminiscences. Photocopy of typed letter of 14 March 1988 from Mary A. Kuhn to Bill Ferris and photocopy of a letter written by Mrs. John Bitting. Photocopy of typed transcription of that letter. Typewritten document: "Recollections of Letitia Dabney Miller, Chicago, begun in August, 1926." 

Folder 4: Thomas Park. Typed document, "Recollections of Ocean Springs, 1911-1919." 

Folder 6: ALS. Elliot [B?] to Mr. Zecheriah Howes dated 26 August 1823 

Scope and Contents note

Establishment of mission schools for Choctaws in the Mississippi territory. Transcription included

Folder 8: Alice Walker. Typewritten document. "Looking for Zora." 

Folder 2: G.M.L. Johnson, Col. 13th, Ind. Cavalry. Printed document (1 page). General Orders, No. 1, assuming command of the subdistrict of North East Mississippi, 18 June 1865 

Tillman L. Martin. Typed document (27 pages). "Mississippi in Fact and Fiction: A Bibliography of Works by Out-of-State Authors." 

Tillman L. Martin. Typed document. "The Mississippi Avent*Garde [sic]," 1955. (not in folder) 

Tillman L. Martin. Typed document (6 pages). "Paperback Mississippiana," a bibliography. (not in folder) 

Tillman L. Martin. TLS. Two letter from Martin to J. S. Hartin, Director of Libraries at the University of Mississippi, July 11, 1957 and March 7,1957. (not in folder) 

Tillman L. Martin. Typed document (2 pages). "Out-of-State Authors Who Have Written About Mississippi." (not in folder) 

Folder 3: School Desegregation 

Folder 5: National Education Association Task Force on Desegregation 

Folder 7: Tom McCown. "The Heart of Dixie, Screenplay by Tom McCown from the novel Heartbreak Hotel by Anne Rivers Siddons, First Draft - Revisions Draft, 18 February 1988." (2 of 3) 

Folder 9: Tom McCown. "The Heart of Dixie, Screenplay by Tom McCown from the novel Heartbreak Hotel by Anne Rivers Siddons, First Draft - Revisions Draft, 5 March 1988." (2 of 3) 

Folder 11: Tom McCown. "The Heart of Dixie, Screenplay by Tom McCown from the novel Heartbreak Hotel by Anne Rivers Siddons, First Draft - Revisions Draft, 5 March 1988." (2 of 3) 

Folder 2: Lawrence A. Jones. Photocopies of newspaper articles and typewitten comments on Jones's art 

Folder 4: Otis W. Coan. "Okie Boy," 

Folder 6: Otis W. Coan. "The Regions Are Visible," 

Folder 8: Otis W. Coan. "Four Bucks" & one copy of The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, February 1950, in which appears an article Coan authored 

Byron Gayle Faust. TMs. "Songs, Lyrics, and Music by Byron Gayle Faust, 1916- 1988." 

Folder 2: Amtrak. Route Guide to City of New Orleans. This pamphlet lists the towns and cities from Chicago to New Orleans served by Amtrak's "City of New Orleans" train. (1994) 

Folder 4: "The Writer in Mississippi" A photocopy of Dr. Louis E. Dollarhide's article published in the December 1963 edition of Mississippi College Bulletin 

Folder 6: Mississippi Social Security. Mississippi Municipal News Vol. 2, Nos. 3-5, May 1, 1952 thru July 1, 1952. TMs. entitled, "Answers to Most Questions That Come Up About Social Security." 

Folder 8: Childcraft autograph book. A small bound notebook with some handwritten notes on books. (Undated) 

Folder 10: "Life's Little Tragedies". This 1909 cartoon broadside depicts a romance gone awry 

Folder 12: Robert Finch. "Demands to Secretary of Health, Educationand Welfare" TMs. prepared by "the Mississippi Coalition to save Headstart. This coalition was formed on Feb. 27 [no year given] at a meeting of the Mississippi Council on Human Relations. . ." 

Folder 14: "A Bibliography of Mississippi Folklore," 1967 T. Ms., compiled by Abu Saeed Zahurul Haque and prepared in behalf of the Mississippi Folklore Society 

Folder 16: "The Witch of Oxford," 15 July 1958 TMs. of a press release by Marvin Black of the University of Mississippi's Department of Public Relations re: Dr. Allen Cabaniss's (U. of MS professor of history) article on the Witch of Oxford, which appeared in the Southern Folklore Quarterly 

Folder 18: Mississippi-Miscellaneous Facts (Undated) TMs 

Folder 20: Ripley Rebel. Program, 2-3 July 1971 Two printed programs from the drama "Ripley Rebel," written by Raymond Hagood, words and music by Kay Graves 

Folder 22: Program, "Visit the Jefferson Davis Casemate at Fort Monroe on (Undated) Old Point Comfort, Virginia." 

Folder 24: Pamphlet. "The History of the Descendants of the Jersey Settlers, Adams County, Mississippi". Printed pamphlet and advertisement for "this extensive work sponsored by the Descendants of the Jersey Settlers (Undated) as its United States bicentennial project. . ." 

Folder 26: Sources of Information on Mississippi. T.Ms. An outline listing various organizations that may October, 1963 serve as sources of information on various aspects of the state of Mississippi, including agriculture, natural resources, and industries 

Folder 28: William Howard Taft. Banquet invitation, 1909. Handsome embossed invitation to a banquet in honor of President William Howard Taft by the citizens of Jackson 

Folder 2: J.H. Baxter. Oath of Allegiance, 1865. J. H. Baxter's Oath of Allegiance to the United States signed by him July 28, 1865 and witnessed by the Probate Judge of Panola County, MS 

Folder 4: ALS. E.M. Riley (Camp of the 39th Mississippi). Soldier writes to his sister of the Regiment, Enterprise, MS to Mrs. E. B. Riley, cold (the letter is in pencil because his ink froze overnight), 19 December, 1863. of Christmas, of a recaptured deserter, of a romance, and of a letter he has from a "yankee lady" that he wishes to send to her. (transcription available) 

Folder 6: "The Battle of Brice's Crossroads" TMs. by Howard Duvall, Jr. "A Term Paper in Mississippi History, The University of Mississippi, march 1958." 

Folder 8: Broadside advertising land for sale along the "Mississippi and Yazoo River Cotton Lands, for Sale," Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers Dawson's Bayou and Grannicus Land, apply to W. H. Paxton, 74 Camp Street New Orleans or A. M. Paxton, Vicksburg. Dated January 1, 1860 

Folder 10: Article from the Memphis Daily Appeal re: Photocopy from the 26 December 1862 edition of the Daily Grant's Army Appeal, "From General Grant's Army. The University of Mississippi The Oath of Allegiance Required Intensely Hostile Feeling of the People Probability of a Battle at Jackson." 

Folder 12: Mississippi Verse order form from UNC Press, This broadside announces the publication of Mississippi (Undated) Verse, "and anthology edited by Alice James; with Introduction by Arthur Palmer Hudson," including poems by William Faulkner, Stark Young, William Alexander Percy, and Many others 

Folder 14: Copper engraving plate, 1921. The engraving plate was made for printing invitations to a wedding 

Folder 16: Honorable T. V. Sisson. Notes for speech on the South (Undated). Handwritten notes on the back of an envelope advocating the South. The front of the envelope is printed with "Speech of Hon. T. U. Sisson, of Mississippi, in the House of Representatives, Monday, March 29, 1909." 

Folder 18: Oxford Wholesale Grocery, Inc. Preferred Stock. The ledger contains stock certificates from 1951 and 1952 

Folder 20: Acid Rain Photocopies of articles on acid rain from the Research and Development department of the Environmental Protection Agency, Engineering Bulletin, the Acid Rain Foundation, Inc., and the Electric Power Research Institute Journal 

Folder 2: Family Friend handbill, c. 1850s Advertises the new Southern literary publication, the Family Friend 

Folder 4: Genealogy The Story of One of the Sloan Families, compiled by Lyra Schroeder of Roanoke, VA, 1977. Photocopy of a kinship chart of the Thorowgood family of Princess Anne County, VA compiled by John Harrie Creecy, 1971 (includes ANS. from Creecy). T. Ms., "Joshua Stephens Descendents with D. A. R. Lineage Connections through Bramletts (Mrs. A. C.)-(Ella Stephens Troutman)-Lineage Chart of Bramletts." 

Folder 6: U.S.S. Mississippi. T. D., "USS Mississippi (BB-23)." A brief description of the the three U. S. S. that bore the title "USS Mississippi." 

Folder 8: MS Awards Day Speech by Dr. Thomas F. Jones, 1965. Photocopy of a TMs. of Jones's speech in which he ruminates on the contemporary South by considering Arnold J. Toynbee's A Study of History 

Folder 10: Civil War Commemorative Stamp set A collection of five stamps commemorating Fort Sumter, Shiloh, Appomatox, Gettysburg, and "the wilderness." 

Folder 12: Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Partial transcript from Our Land Too, a film about the STFU. A photocopy of a letter from H. L. Mitchell to Anne Mary Batey regarding Mitchell's book Roll the Union On: A Pictorial History of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union A photocopy of a review of Mitchell's book 

Folder 14: Stories of the Modern South proof cover, no A proof cover of this anthology of short stories by such notable date Southern authors as Alice Walker, James Agee, William Faulkner, and Jayne Anne Phillips 

Folder 16: Governor Sam Jones (LA). Speech, 1946. Jones delivered the speech before the National Farm Loan Association assembled at Edgewater Gulf Hotel-Biloxi on September 12, 1946. The speech addresses the subject of the South's abject poverty, and how it might be overcome 

Folder 18: Mississippi Folk Music / Folklore. T. D., "Mississippi Folk Music and Folklore in the Recorded Collections of the Archive of Folk Culture," Library of Congress 

Folder 20: City Grocery. Newsletter Summer 1995. City Grocery's invitation to present a "Crawfish Festival" at the James Beard Foundation in New York 

Folder 2: Mississippi Prohibition, 1950s. TL. from the "Executive Committee of Mississippi Baptist Association Wilkinson and Amite Counties," to State Representative John L. Kennedy in opposition to "local option of liquor" (Undated). T. D. from E. M. Sharp, Secretary of North Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Church resolving that legislation be enacted in the State Legislature in 1958 repealing the "'Black Market' tax" on liquor sold in the state of Mississippi with a Federal Liquor Stamp, thereby "the status of a dry state be assured to the people of Mississippi." Pamphlet: "Beware of Repeal, Get the Facts (Inside): Vote the Bottom Line AGAINST Legal Whiskey on August 26th," postmarked 9 August 1952 

Folder 4: Mississippi Electric Power Associations. March of Progress: Mississippi and the South, published by Mississippi Power Company: The Southern Company, Southern Services, Inc. (Undated). Helping Build Mississippi, Published by Mississippi Power & Light Company; editions from February-March 1950, August 1956, June-July 1962, Winter 1974-1975. Broadside: "A Shirt-Sleeved Democracy," by Lonnie Sweatt, Chairman of the Board of the Mississippi Power Company (1958) 

Folder 6: David E. Guyton. Poems.The Mississippi Woman's Magazine Vol. 17, No. 2 (March-April, 1942), featuring several of Guyton's poems. Guyton was Professor of History and Economics at Blue Mountain College and President of the Blue Mountain Bank at the time of this publication 

General note

Magazine removed to HQ1871 .M5

Folder 8: Mississippi Highways. Printed advertisement and schedule: "The University of Mississippi Announces the Fourth Annual Mississippi Highway Conference, February 20-21, 1958." 

Folder 10: J.C. Zeller. Zeller was a scholar and minister. This native of Illinois spoke to an a crowd at the Yazoo County Courthouse on July 20, 1924 as part of his campaign for Congressman of that district. The folder includes a press kit on Zeller, reprints from the Yazoo County News re: his Congressional campaign, three issues of the Pacific Christian Advocate (1909- 1913) printed during Zeller's career as President of the University of Puget Sound, and one copy of The Maroon published in Tacoma, WA by the student body of the University Puget Sound (1910) 

General note

The Maroon &  Yazoo County News prints moved to Oversize

Folder 12: The Michigan Railfan Vol. 32, No. 7 (July 1972) published by the Michigan Railroad Club. This issue's cover story is about Col. W. C. Falkner's Ripley, Ship Island and Kentucky Railroad. Also included are photocopies of newspaper articles re: Chancey Joseph Rogers, the sculptor who crafted Col. W. C. Falkner's likeness for his tomb (1938, 1959); an article on the dramatic performance of "Ripley Rebel," a historical pageant (1971); a photocopy of a TLS. from Murry C. Falkner (1970); and a photocopy of an ALS. from Col. W. C. Falkner (1887) 

Folder 14: Col. William P. Rogers. A printed pamphlet: "COL. Wm. P. Rogers by Eugene Lanier Sykes, President, First National Bank, Aberdeen, Mississippi May 12, 1954." This is a short biography of Rogers, "whose name is the only one on the Confederate Monument in the Corinth Courthouse square." 

Folder 16: Polish-American Heritage Day. Pamphlets and a souvenir coin from Polish-American Heritage Day in Kosciusko, January 17, 1981. On this Day the town celebrated the heritage of its founder, Thaddeus Kosciusko 

Folder 18: Reverend R.G. Porter. Eulogy TMs. N. G. Augustus, "Rev. R. G. Porter." 

Folder 20: Meridian Female College. Photocopy of pages 14 and 15 from a printed brochure about the Meridian Female College. (c. 1870s-1890s) It stresses that in the aftermath of the Civil War, "If uneducated, they [our daughters] will in too may cases be compelled to occupy the place of menials to a degree unknown hitherto in the South." 

Folder 22: Mississippi Civil War History. Newsletter from The Civil War Round Table of Mississippi (1965); TMs. re: bibliographic essay on the federal ironclad Cairo by Mary W. Wynn (1974); humorous broadsides, "Hotel De Vicksburg Bill of Fare," three pages of menu items all consisting mainly of mule; General Orders No. 9 from Maj. Gen. E. Van Dorn, Vicksburg, 4 July 1862 (photocopy); "Circular to Sheriffs," Macon, MS 16 November 1864 from Charles Clark, Governor of MS (photocopy); TMs. "Civil War Activities- Yazoo County;" pamphlet entitled "What the Historians Say of The Claiborne Letter Books," re: the papers of Gov. William C. C. Claiborne 

Folder 24: Thomas Garner James. TMs. "Relating the Social Sciences in a Study of Mississippi," and "Mississippi and Her Resources." 

Folder 26: LePoint Smith. Several Letters and documents regarding education in Mississippi, particularly responses to the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision 

Folder 28: Tillatoba Note, 1837 "One Dollar" currency for Holly Springs, Mitchell's Bluff, Coffeeville or Tillatoba 

Folder 30: Blue Line Drug Store. Non-legal tender 

Scope and Contents note

This item is a twenty-five cent profit sharing certificate from the Blue Line Drug Store of Tunica, Mississippi.

Folder 32: J.N. Merrill. Personal diary transcription 

Folder 2: Mississippi Poets (2 of 2). Photocopied "Data Sheet" and "Bibliography of Poems" re: Winifred H. Farrar (late 1960s). Pamphlet re: Charles Lamar Nelson, "Poet of Oxford" (c. 1970s). Strophes Vol. 13 No. 1 (August 1976), published by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Inc 

Folder 4: Constitutional Convention, 1868. Printed document from the Constitutional Convention of 1868: "Report of Committee on County Boundaries Number 46." 

Folder 6: Mississippi climate. U.S. Department of Commerce, Weather Bureau, Climatological Summary from the Biloxi Station, Means and extremes for the period 1931-1960 

Folder 2: Various drawings of military uniforms 

Scope and Contents note

(1) "The Gay Adventures of the Old South Guards," produced by Southern Comfort Corp. Includes copies of "Charleston Light Dragoons," "Norfolk Troop of Horse," "Lexington Light Infantry," and "Native American Battalion." (2 copies of each) (2) "Military Uniforms in America" produced by the Company of Military Collectors and Historians. Includes copies of "Glengary Light Infantry Regiment (1812-1816)," "Boarding Party, U.S. Navy, 1815, Naval War with Algiers," and "The 113th and 114th Polish Demi-Brigades in Santo Domingo, 1803." (3) Drawings of various types of military uniforms, Produced by J.H. Magruder, Maj. USMCR

Folder 4: This is Newton County Supplement to the >Meridian Star and The Newton Star, February 27, 1975. This publication contains articles on the history, people and economy of Newton County, Mississippi 

Folder 6: Collection of Colonial American Documents Photocopies of various documents written during Colonial America 

Folder 8: Jefferson Davis print Print of Robert P. McHugh's "Jefferson Davis: An American Patriot," and Three printed sheets appealing to add Jefferson Davis to the roster of the National Hall of Fame   1 tube. Oversized material

"Mississippi highway patrol chalks up excellent record" 

"Mississippi TB sanatorium considered tops in nation" 

"Popular Mississippi coast coming back bigger, better" 

"Biloxi will hold 250th birthday party in April" 

"Tourist Dollars Can Mean Big Business" 

"Legislature Helps State's Bid for Industrial Gains" 

"Communities Seeking Industry Must First Know Their Assets" 

"Prairie Training Institute is Supplying Industrial Need" 

"Prizes Offered Communities In Tourist Programs Contest" 

"State Launches its Biggest Program to Attract Tourists" 

"Columbia is Example of BAWI in Action" 

"State Parks Expected to Draw Half-A-Million Visitors in '46" 

"Ship, Paint, New Factory Feature Last Month of '47" 

"Record Year Being Chalked Up For Agriculture and Industry" 

"Mississippi on the March, Board's Report Indicates" 

"Much of State's Progress Due To Good Transportation" 

"State Program Attract Tourists Gets Good Results" 

"Hospitality Month Plan Calls for 'Host' Schools" 

"Mississippi's First Travel Exhibit Proves Successful" 

Yazoo County News. "The Fourth in Yazoo City" 7 July 1924 

The Maroon (Tacoma, Wash.) Vol 1 no 5 

Folder 2: Chronology for Second Text 

Folder 4: Second Text (2 of 4) 

Folder 6: Second Text (4 of 4) 

Folder 8: Third Text (2 of 4) 

Folder 10: Third Text (4 of 4) 

Folder 12: Final Text (1 of 2) 

Folder 14: Notes (1 of 3) 

Folder 16: Notes (3 of 3) 

Folder 17: Lt. Lloyd L. Le Clair. Postcard from Le Clair to Dean Guest dated 1 September 1944. Le Clair and Guest were both University of Mississippi students who left school to enlist. Le Clair was a Prisoner of War in Germany when the card was sent 

Folder 19: Martha Lacy Hall. Louisiana State University Press. Book News re: Hall's 1990 release of The Apple-Green Triumph and Other Stories 

Folder 21: Edgar Wiggins Waugh. T.D., "My Experiences as Editor of the Mississippian, 1922-23 by Edgar Wiggins Waugh, Professor Emeritus, Political Science Eastern Michigan University." TLS. from Waugh to Dr. Gerald W. Walton, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, U. of MS, January 25, 1991. T. D. S. entitled "The Holy Jo Incident At Ole Miss-Fall of 1918." TLS. from Dr. Gerald W. Walton to Dr. Thomas Verich re: E. W. Waugh's experiences 

Folder 23: Augusta Word Cole. T. D. A brief biography of Augusta Word Cole, a New Albany native, and comments on seven of her paintings 

Folder 25: Rick Bass. Press kit, 11 July 1989. In support of his release Oil Notes 

Folder 27: The Yuppies of Mississippi. Photocopy of a Clarion Ledger article (December 6, 1984 vol. 148, no. 240, pp. 1) entitled "Court fires Faulkner at deer spotlighters," in which journalist Tom Brennan writes of the State Supreme Court decision affirming the conviction of Milton V. Pharr on six misdemeanor violations of state game laws. Included are photocopies of "In the Supreme Court of Mississippi No. 55,015, Milton V. Pharr v. State of Mississippi," Justice James Robertson writing the majority opinion for the court, and Justice Hawkins opining in dissent 

Folder 29:William P. Gould. Transcription of a letter written 14 February 1821 from "Choctaw Agency" to Eden Brashears in Port Gibson, re: an annuity to be administered by Gould to Choctaws. Included are brief biographies of the men mentioned in the letter 

Folder 31: Bill of Sale for a Slave. ADS. Written by L. John McThompson (sp?) conveying "a negro boy named Robert about twenty or two years old" to James Davenport for "the sum of five hundred dollars." Dated May 26, 1826 

Folder 33: Blanton Theobald. (1833-1886) Manuscript of the early history of Greenville (typed transcriptions) 

Folder 35: Harriet Blanton Theobald. (1833-1886) Printed obituary notice for Theobald outlining her history and the gifts given to the city. 

Folder 37: Morris Dees. Steve Fiffer. TMs. "A Season for Justice." (422 pages) 

Folder 2: David E. Galloway. Typed letter from Galloway to William Ferris dated 19 December 1990. (Two photocopies) The letter refers to a "parchment deed" given to Ferris and an excerpt from Galloway's memoirs that refer to the deed. 

Folder 2: Rabb / Ferris Family. Typescripts and Correspondence, April 2, 1851-January 7, 1854. "My Family," by E. B. Ferris, including a genealogy linking Ferris to the Plantagenets. "My Travels Over a Long Span of Years," also by E.B. Ferris. "Records of the Past, January-1884," written by Ann Tompkins Minor Trueheart. Correspondence, 1 July 1826 - 12 June 1882 (1 of 2) 

Folder 4: William Atwood Reconstruction documents. ALS., 26 November 1869. Printed documents: General Orders & Special Orders No. 234 (Covington County), 236, 254, and 234 (Davis County) 

Folder 6: Petition to Pass Federal Anti-Lynch Law. The petition was to be returned to the National Negro Council in Washington, D. C. Also reads, "Keep Bilbo Out of the Senate!" 

Folder 8: The Oxford Chick "Oxford, Mississippi, Published when necessary, Necessary: January 1992 Second Issue." Re: Conservative viewpoints on cable television for the elderly and censorship 

Folder 10: Dubose Heyward. ANS. Christmas card, December 1929 

Folder 12: Know Your State scrapbook. A scrapbook containing a series of Jackson Daily News articles that ran from January 1963 through May 1963. Each article gives a quick review of information for an individual county 

Folder 14: Edmund Richardson. "A Lease of the Mississippi State Penetentiary [sic] to Edmund Richardson of Jackson, Mississippi: Jackson, Mississippi 1868." A. D. S 

Folder 8: "Meeting Our Mississippi Neighbors" Collection of newspaper articles, "Meeting Our Mississippi Neighbors" from 1955-1975 

Folder 2: Glen Gordon Recreations by T.S. Hardee. "Glen Gordon, On the Tangipahoa-Chatawa, Miss. 92 miles from New Orleans." by T.S. Hardee, Philip Werlein, New Orleans, 135 Canal Street 

Folder 4: Autographed manuscript "Young America" This autographed manuscript, "Young America", was written in 1856 as a prospectus for a Know-Nothing Party newspaper in Vicksburg, MS 

Folder 2: Petition of the South Oxford Congregational. ADS. Petition dated 14 December 1986 protesting Methodist Church "the recent actions of the American Civil Liberties Union against the State of Mississippi," "the recent actions of U. S. Dist. Judge William H. Barbour, Jr.," and favoring "the initial action of Gov. Bill Allain who ordered that the appropriate offices of the Water Sillers State Office Building be lighted in order to form a cross" during the Christmas season 

Folder 4: David Reese Chapter, D.A.R. Photocopies of "Some Early History of Lafayette County Mississippi compiled by David Reese Chapter, D.A.R., begun in October 1922." (Original is Housed in Daughters of the American Revolution (David Reese Chapter, Oxford, MS) Collection, Box 12) 

Folder 6: Henry Minor Faser, of the Lamar Life Insurance Company, Home Office, Jackson, Mississippi. TLS. on The Lamar Life Insurance Company letterhead. From Faser to Henry Minor Faser, Jr., sending him "the dollar bill which was given you many years ago at the A. & M. College, now Mississippi State." Dated June 21, 1946. (Includes the 1917 dollar bill) 

Folder 8: Southern Literary Festival. (1 of 4) 

Scope and Contents note

Printed programs from 1938 (hosted by Blue Mountain College) 1955 (hosted by Delta State College), and 1960 (hosted by Baylor University). Various newspaper clippings, 1960

Folder 10: Southern Literary Festival. (3 of 4) 

Scope and Contents note

Printed programs from 1938 (hosted by Blue Mountain College) 1955 (hosted by Delta State College), and 1960 (hosted by Baylor University). Various newspaper clippings, 1960

Folder 13: Ford Family Collection. Photocopy of J. Ebenezer Ford's will, 17 September 1859. Photocopied correspondence and newspaper articles re: Ebb J. Ford's winning of Mississippi's first Rhodes scholarship. 

Folder 15: Key Brothers Collection Photocopies. Documents concerning the Key Brothers's record setting 653 hour endurance flight in 1935, including aircraft and engine logs 

Folder 17: Mamie Lee Ratliff Finger. TMs. "Growing up Southern in the Mississippi Delta, 1918-1935." 

Folder 19: Joseph Jeffer. ADS. A contract for the indentured servitude/apprenticeship of Joseph Jeffer of the County of N. London to Edward Mott, to be served in Connecticut colony, 20 November 1769 

Folder 21: Robb Farm. Journal (all photocopies) AN., "ledgers of Bill Ferris's ancestors." Photocopies of scraps of paper with handwritten recipes on them. Photocopies of ledger entries recording the weight of cotton picked by individual slaves on individual days, 1839-1840. A variety of other ledger notes on produce, purchases, and activities through 1865 (2 of 4) 

Folder 23: Robb Farm. Journal (all photocopies) AN., "ledgers of Bill Ferris's ancestors." Photocopies of scraps of paper with handwritten recipes on them. Photocopies of ledger entries recording the weight of cotton picked by individual slaves on individual days, 1839-1840. A variety of other ledger notes on produce, purchases, and activities through 1865 (4 of 4) 

Folder 26: Mamie Lee Ratliff Finger. Promotional material from the Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, in which Mrs. Finger is noted as a distinguished alumnus 

Folder 28: Lou H. Randle. TD. Provenance for Lou H. Randle's diary/photo album 

"View of Springfield Landing, Below Port Hudson, LA A Depot of Supplies for Bank's Army" from a drawing by Mr. J. H. Hamilton, "The Siege of Port Hudson-General Paine's Head-quarters at Chambers's Sugar-House" and "The Siege of Port Hudson-Head-quarters of General Banks at Riley's Plantation." 

"Grand Assault of General Augur's Division of the Fortifications of Port Hudson, 27th May, 1863-sketched by Mr. J. R. Hamilton" 

"The Bombardment of Port Hudson-A Mortar Schooner at Work-Sketched by a Naval Officer" and "Scene of General Painps 

"Opening of the Mississippi- View of the Rebel Batteries at Port Hudson-From a Sketch by our special artist Fred B. Schell" and "Opening of the Mississippi-Ovation of the Inhabitants to the Sallie List, Descending the Mississippi. From a sketch by our special artist, Fred B. Schell" 

"Port Hudson From the Opposite Bank of the River" and " The Union Forces Entering the Breast-Works to Take Possession of Port Hudson, July 9, 1863-From A Sketch by Mr. J. R. Hamilton" 

"Saluting the Old Flag at Port Hudson, July 8,1863-Drawn by Mr. J.R. Hamilton" and "The Formal Surrender of Port Hudson-Drawn by Mr. J. R. Hamilton" 

Folder 2: Reproduction of The Religious Remembrancer Reproduction of The Religious Remembrancer (1818) and later known as the Christian Observer 

Folder 4: Oxford Training School July 8, 1994 issue of the OTS Reunion Contains articles about the Oxford training school." 

Folder 2: WPA Federal Writers's Project. TL. from the UM librarian to Miss Eri Douglas, Director, "WPA Federal Writers [sic] Project," dated May 26, 1938. TMs., press release re: the Writers's Project publication, "Mississippi: A Guide to the Magnolia State." 

Folder 4: Paul Harvey. Excerpts from Newscast. 26 January 1961 (Greenwood, Miss.) 

Folder 6: "Thru Young Eyes: Historic Oxford 1994 "This calendar was created and designed by Oxford Middle Calendar" School 7th grade enrichment class." The calendar includes a Collection of drawings depicting numerous historic buildings in town 

Folder 8: Jack Cook. TMs., "The Spirit of Red River," 1992. "A journalistic analysis of the famous legend of the 'Bell Witch' of Adams, Tennessee taken from four years of research concentrating on existant [sic] historical records and family papers from the eras of 1750 up to the present." 

Folder 10: Union ironclad gunboat, city class, U.S.S. Cairo. Correspondence and photocopies of photograph concerning raising the U.S.S. Cairo from the bottom of the Yazoo River. 

Conditions Governing Access note

Photographs removed to Cold Storage for preservation

Folder 12: WWII Weekend, April 8-9, 1994 A printed program from the World War II Weekend Retreat Ceremony, April 9, 1994, 3:00 p.m. The event was sponsored by the University of Mississippi, City of Oxford, Ole Miss Alumni Assoc., Oxford Tourism Council, Combined ROTC Units, and the Class of 1944 

Folder 14: Montgomery Ward & Company. 1 April 1894 issue of Montgomery Ward & co.'s Price List of Groceries No. 384 

Folder 16: C. Bruno & Son, 356 Broadway, New York. Printed advertisements for the sale of musical instruments and sheet music for the autoharp and the Gem Roller Organ. c. 1930s 

Folder 18: Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis R. R. Two printed circulars. One advertises fares to the Southern Baptist Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham R. R. Convention, Dallas, Texas, May 11-15, 1894. The second advertises local round-trip fares (May 3, 1894) 

Folder 20: Walter P. Lewisohn. Correspondence between Lewisohn and R. Philip Hanes seeking the assistance of the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina in founding a craft school in the Virgin Islands. (1970) 

Folder 22: Jefferson Davis Material. "Jefferson Davis: The Wisconsin Years," in Wisconsin Then and Now 19:5 (December 1972) published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Program from "Dedication, Jefferson Davis Statue, Confederate Park," October 4, 1964, in Memphis. Program from "Unveiling of Monument of Jefferson Davis Presented by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to the State of Alabama," in Montgomery, 13 November 1940 

Folder 24: Mississippi State Fair. TLS. to "All Members of Mississippi State Legislature" from N. S. Hand, Executive Secretary. September 29, 1958. An invitation to the legislature to attend the Fair 

Folder 26: Mary Louise Newton. Poems Privately printed editions of Newton's poems-seven slim volumes, 1923-1930, and a printed card with a Christmas poem on it 

Folder 28: Mississippi Military Helping Build Mississippi, Spring 1969. This issue of the magazine is devoted to Mississippi's military heritage and future 

Folder 30: L.Q.C. Lamar. Two photocopied letters regarding a baby's christening dress sewn by Mrs. L. Q. C. Lamar. "L. Q. C. Lamar-Law Office," a single page TMs. by Robert A. Linder re: his attempt to identify the location of Lamar's law office, 1974. "L. Q. C. Lamar: A Great Mississippian and a Great American," in The Staple Cotton Review, "Official Organ of the Staple Cotton Cooperative Association, Published at Greenwood Mississippi," Vol. 25, No. 3 (March 1947). Pamphlet, "Historic Old Oxford, Georgia." 

Folder 32: "Manufacturing Development During the Civil Written by Victor S. Clark and "Reprinted from the The War" Military Historian and Economist, Vol. 3, No.2, (April 1918) 

Folder 34: Hurricane Camille. "Hurrincane Camille...One Year Later!" a supplement to The Commercial Appeal Suday, August 16, 1970. "Timber Losses form Hurricane Camille," photocopied from Forest Farmer 

Folder 36: Southern Telephone News April 1958 edition, "The Mississippi Story," by Ed Jackson 

Folder 2: Oxford Annual Volunteer Award Luncheon. Printed program from the event, 1987-88 (?) 

Folder 4: "Food Stamp Crisis" TMs., distributed by the Mississippi Hunger Coalition based in Jackson and Directed by Willeva D. Lindsey. Includes a petition to help prevent the following: "President Ford wants to cut one-half of our people off of food stamps." 

Folder 6: Charles C. Flint, Jr. Diary. USE COPY 

Folder 8: "Cultural Aspects of Mississippi: The Magnolia State." TMs. is a kind of public relations publication with chapters on education; religion; organizations, libraries, and literature; art and music; and social and recreational aspects of the state written by individual female authors. The manuscript reflects the racism of the mid-1950s in un-calculated, Matter-of-fact language 

Folder 10: James Nathaniel Flowers. Program: "Unveiling of Portrait Honoring James Nathaniel Flowers, March 1965," a prominent attorney. 1870-1952 

Folder 12: Mississippi Archives. Photocopies. William D. McCain, "History and Program of the Mississippi State Department of Archives and History," in The American Archivist, Vol. 1 (January 1950), 27-34. Ernst Posner, American State Archives (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1964), 20-21, 159-164. Dunbar Rowland, ed., Encyclopedia of Mississippi History, v. 2 (Madison, WI: S. A. Brandt, 1907), 578-79. Robert R. Simpson, "The Origin of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History," in The Journal of Mississippi History (1972), 2-13. William H. Weathersby, "The Preservation of Mississippi History," in The North Carolina Historical Review Vol. 5, No. 2 (April 1928), 141-50 

Folder 14: Samuel B. Jones, Jr., "Mississippi Flora. V. The Mint Family," reprinted from Castanea 41: 41-58, 1976 

Folder 16: Mississippi Poets. "My Rose of Calvary," by Martha Moss Johnson; "O God of Wisdom," by Ada Neill Clark and Elta Garnette Williams (hymn); "Symbolism," by Anne Wilson Frye (A. Ms. S. along with a ALS. to Mrs. Thompson in the Mississippi Room of the Library); broadside Entitled "America Circa 1974-1976," by Sarah Peugh 

Facsimile of The Holy Bible, Containing The OLD Teftament and The NEW: with Annotations, printed by Edinburgh: Alexander Donaldson and John Reid 

Pages removed from facsimile: Bierte Dredig pages 453 and 454 

Facsimile of portion of the Hebrew Bible, written in Arabic 

Facsimile of The Works of the Reverend and Learned John Lightfoot D.D. printed by W.R. for Robert Scot in  Little Britain, Thomas Baffet in  Fleet-Street, Richard Chiswell in  St. Paul's Churchyard and John Wight on  Ludgate-Hill 

Facsimile of El Sharkaway Aly El Tahrir's God Bless Him in His Tomb 

Facsimile of The Bible: That is Holy Scriptures 

Facsimile of La S. Bibla 

Facsimile of Biblia Sacra Vvlgate ae Editionis: Sixti Qvinti 

Facsimile of Summa Jurisprudentiae Sacrae Universae, 

Facsimile of the Koran 

Facsimile of La Sainte Bible 

Folder 4: Ledger book assessing lands in Leflore Co., 1889. Leather bound ledger; "District No. 5" on the front cover. Includes drawings of land boundaries, names of land owners, and divisions of the sections etc 

Folder 6: Poster 20th Anniversary Spring Festival Poster commemorating the 20th Anniversary Spring Festival, Saturday, April 20, 1996, Proceeds benefiting the Hoka 

Folder 2: "Broke" TMs. Poem, "Broke", written by Langston Hughes for Rollin Greene 

Folder 4: Jefferson Davis Memorial Ribbon. Correspondence between J.C. Hathorn and Dorothy Oldham. Also included are newspaper articles concerning the discovery of a Jefferson Davis obituary ribbon 

Folder 6: Elizabeth Christie Brown. Diary. Original hand-written 

Folder 8: John M. Anderson. Pocket Diary, 1854-1868 

Folder 10: John M. Anderson. Genealogical Notebook, 1847-1848 

Folder 2: Norma Miller French.Letters to and from various individuals. Dates include March 26, 1856, March 30, 1860, March 4, 1862, April 9, 1862, June 8, 1862, January 16, 1863, October 1, 1864, and September 10, 1865. Also included is an enlistment certificate from Charlotte, North Carolina, May 3, 1865, a newspaper clipping circa 1895, and a petition to join the Association of Confederate Soldiers, Tennessee Division 

Folder 4: "Ghosts of Mississippi" Various documents from the Jackson, MS, premier of "Ghosts of Mississippi" starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods. (December 12, 1996) 

Folder 6: R.F. Crenshaw.Typescript letter from R. F. Crenshaw of Pontotoc, MS, to Miss Ella Austin of Elkton, Tenn. (December 13, 1860). The letter concludes that Mississippians are set on Secession, and the state will soon be out of the Union 

Folder 8: Confederate Postcard. Portrait style postcard of Major Thomas G. Jones, C.S.A. Major Jones was the bearer of Lee's flag of truce to Grant. He was also Governor of Alabama from 1890-1894 

Folder 10: Charlotte Capers. "A Requiem Eucharist" at The Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew in Jackson, Mississippi, for the burial of Charlotte Capers (June 28, 1913- December 23, 1996) 

Folder 12: Utica Normal and Industrial School. Letter from Wm. H. Holtzclaw, Principal of the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute for the Training of Colored Young Men and Women, to Miss. C. C. Ward (April 28, 1923) concerning the report for the Principal and Treasure 

Folder 14: 52nd Presidential Inaugural. Program. Program "The 52nd Presidential Inaugural: An American Reunion: New Beginnings, Renewed Hope." Photographs and short biographical sketches of Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Al Gore and Tipper Gore. Presidential inaugural schedule of events ( Sunday, January 17, 1993-Thursday, January 21, 1993) 

Folder 16: Church Women United. Manuscript. Typescript copy of "Struggling for Justice": Church women United, Oxford, Mississippi, 1962-1991 by Lisa K. Speer. The document details the creation and activities of women's mission groups in Oxford, Mississippi. Typed transcription of Lisa K. Speer's interview with Susie Marshall (October 29, 1991) 

Folder 18: The Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940 Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina (Control #97-73) 

Folder 20: Report of Colonel Theophilus L. Dickey. Detailed report of the fighting between Confederate and Union soldiers in and around Oxford (December 1-3, 1862), Water Valley (December 4, 1862) and Coffeeville (December 5, 1862) Mississippi 

Folder 22: B-Laws of Lafayette County Grange. Handwritten by-laws of Lafayette County Grange no. 10 c. 1874 

Folder 2: Oxford Mercury, 3/14/1861 (Photocopy). Photocopy of an Oxford, Mississippi, newspaper. The newspaper includes articles, advertisements and announcements. The topics discussed in this publication mainly pertain to the Confederate States of America and the Civil War 

Folder 4: All-Negro Comics. Letter, 1947 T.L.S. from President of the All-Negro Comics Inc., Orrin C. Evans, to the principal of Shady Grove School, Mattie Boyd. The letter is an attempt to encourage support for the first comic book written by African-Americans. The letter includes N.A.A.C.P. member Roy Wilkens and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as supporters of the publication. Also included is an order-form for the magazine. (Dated October 31, 1947) 

Folder 6: "Private" John Allen Letter (circa 1911) Published document. "Private John" Allen Writes Open Letter to James K. Vardaman: Offers to Donate $1,500.00 to Charity if Vardaman Will Answer Questions Suggested by the records." Vardaman is asked to respond to several issues: "The Secret Caucus", "The Merger Bill", the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, a free pass on the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad, and "the hero battleship fund." Printed by Hederman Bros., Jackson, Miss 

Folder 8: Misc. Business Records, 1870's-1880's 

Scope and Contents note

6 letters aND.1/or receipts for various materials. (1) Letterhead: Meyer- Bain M'f'g Co., St. Louis, April 5, 1881. Company is a food supplier. (2) Letterhead: Chatfield & Woods, Cincinnati, February 26, 1876. Company is a wholesale paper dealer. (3) Letterhead: Carneau, Hillard & Co., St. Louis, March 24, 1875. Company is a cracker manufacturer. (4)Bill of sale receipt from the White, Biship & Co., August 13, 1871. Company is a tea merchant. (5)Bill of sale receipt from James Burnside, October 6, 1877. Company is an importer and manufacturer of corks. (6)Bill of sale receipt from the Missouri Pacific Railway Co, January 23, 1891. Company deals in cotton sales and transportation.

Folder 10: North Mississippi / North Alabama Fair Fan, 1925 Fan from the North Miss. / North Alabama Fair. The fair was held in Tupelo, Mississippi, on October. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 1925. Also printed on the fan are sponsors from the fair 

Folder 12: Misc. ANS. 1922, Poetry and Clippings (1920's) 

Scope and Contents note

Various newspaper clippings, original poetry, and letters from the 1920's. (1) pages 191-192 from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang Includes "Our History Lesson," "A Woman's Prayer," and "Another Famous Saying: 'When in Rum do as the Rummies do'" (2) A letter size envelope with the return address: Spring Contests, Literary and Athletic, April 28 and 29, University, Mississippi. (3) A.L.S from Liz to Miss Mary George Kinconnon, University, Miss. Also included is a newspaper clipping detailing a dance given for young girls preparing to leave for school. (4) A poem written to accompany a potato-masher given at a kitchen shower.

Folder 14: Choctaw Heritage Press. Pamphlet produced by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians 

Scope and Contents note

Document contains background information on the Choctaw Heritage Press, The Choctaw Department of Education and opportunities to purchase educational videos, cassette tapes, and books published by the Choctaw Heritage Press. (2 copies)

Folder 16: "The Crossroads": North Mississippi Regional Center Special anniversary issue of "The Crossroads." 

Scope and Contents note

Issue contains Newsletter; Summer 1998 articles, maps and a timeline celebrating The North Mississippi Regional Center's 25 years of service.

Folder 18: Arion Press. Broadsides, Fall 1998 

Scope and Contents note

Various documents concerning the publications of The Arion Press of Re: The Bible and  Kora In Hell San Francisco, California. (1) T.L. from The Arion Press to Mr. Thomas Verich, September 8, 1998. (2) Broadside announcing the The publication of a lectern addition of  The Holy Bible (3) Broadside announcing the publication of  Kora In Hell by William Carlos Williams, introduction by Lawrence Kart, with twenty-one prints in the book and three extra woodblock prints by Mel Kendrick.

Folder 20: Broadside for With The Night Mail by Rudyard Kipling, Broadside of With The Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. by Rudyard Kipling, Introduction by Thomas Pinney, Illustrations by Vincent Perez, and Published by The Arion Press, 1998 

Folder 22: Broadside for Tim Dine's Ape & Cat and Henry James' Broadside announcing the publication of Ape & Cat and The The Madonna of the Future / published by Arion Press Madonna of the Future Also included is a T.L from Andrew Hoyem to "Customer", August 11, 1997 and an order form for the two publications 

Folder 2: Photocopies of General W. S. Rosecrans' papers from the UCLA Library 

Scope and Contents note

These papers deal mainly with his operations at Corinth, MS, in the fall of 1862.

Items are reproduced from originals held at UCLA. Items are organized by UCLA box and folder numbers.

TD[photocopy] by WSR  The Battle of Corinth, 22 pages. Published in  Century Magazine, 1886 and also in their "Battle and Leaders of the Civil War." (Box 81, Folder 23).

TD[photocopy] by Clinton Parkhurst, 2 pages Typescript poem. (Box 82, Folder 17).

TD[photocopy] by Clinton Parkhurst, 2 pages Typescript poem. (Box 82, Folder 17).

HD[photocopy] by General WSR, 1 page. Recollection of General WSR. Re: the 64th Ohio After the Battle of Corinth. (Box 82, Folder 22).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col Chetlain, 1 page, October 2, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Order for intelligent officers and the construction of stockades. (Box 44, Folder 104).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. Thomas A Davies, 1 page, October 2, 1982, Corinth, Miss. Holograph signed and written by Byron Kirby, 2nd Lt. Concerning the movement of troops. (Box 44, Folder 105).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brigadier-General Jefferson C. Davis, 1 page, October 2, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding road conditions. (Box 44, Folder 106).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Ulysses S. Grant, 1 page, October 2, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Proposal for crossing Hatchie to attack enemy. (Box 44, Folder 107).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. Ulysses S. Grant, 1 page, October 2, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Report of rebel force in the vicinity of Bethel. (Box 44, Folder 108).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. Ulysses S. Grant, 1 page, October 2, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Report of prisoners taken. (Box 44, Folder 109).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. Charles Smith Hamilton, 1 page, October 2, 1862, Bethel, Tenn. Concerning the movement and deployment of troops. (Box 44, folder 110).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. Isham N. Haymie, 1 page, October 2, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Instructions to construct a redoubt. (Box 44, Folder 111).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. John M. Oliver, 1 page, October 2, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding dispatches sent and received. (Box 44, Folder 112).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. David S. Stanley, 1 page, October 2, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Order to occupy Kossuth, Miss. (Box 44, Folder 113).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. David S. Stanly, 1 page, October 2, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding the movement and deployment of troops. (Box 44, Folder 114).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Gen'l. Thomas A. Davies and Gen'l. Hamilton, 1 page, October 3, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding the disposition of troops pending a possible attack on Corinth. (Box 44, Folder 113).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to General Jefferson C. Davis, 1 page, October 3, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Orders to destroy bridges at Danville. (Box 44, Folder 116).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. U.S. Grant, 1 page, October 3, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Dispatch reporting disposition of troops. (Box 44, Folder 117).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. U.S. Grant, 2 pages, October 3, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding attack of rebel forces. (Box 44, Folder 118).

TD from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. Charles Smith Hamilton, 1 page, Army of the Miss. Orders for the disposition of Hamilton's troops for an attack on the enemy's left flank. (Box 44, Folder 119).

ALS[photocopy] from C. Goddard, AG to Brig. Gen'l. Charles Smith Hamilton, 1 page, October 3, 1862. Concerning the deployment of troops. (Box 44, Folder 120).

ALS[photocopy] from C. Goddard to Brig. Gen'l. Thomas J. McKean, 1 page, October 3, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding possible activity on McKean's front. (Box 44, Folder 121).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. David S. Stanley, 1 page, October 3, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Instructions for Stanley to move up in position. (Box 44, Folder 122).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. David S. Stanley, 1 page, October 3, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Order for the deployment of troops. (Box 44, Folder 123).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. U.S. Grant, 3 pages, October 4, 1862. Corinth, Miss. Report of the Battle of Corinth. (Box 44, Folder 124).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'ls. Thomas S. McKean, Thomas A. Davies, Charles Smith, Hamilton, and David S. Stanley, 1 page, October 4, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Concerning the supply and movement of troops. (Box 44, Folder 125).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. U.S. Grant, 1 page, October 5, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding the burial of Confederate dead. (Box 44, Folder 126).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. U.S. Grant, 1 page, October 5, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding the burial of Confederate dead; and question of aid to help push enemy. (Box 44, Folder 127).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. U.S. Grant, 1 page, October 5, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding dispatches of Ord's engagement. (Box 44, Folder 127).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Ulysses Grant, 1 page, October 5, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Reporting the arrival of leading divisions at Chewalla, Miss.; and enemy's rear-guard overtaken beyond Chewalla road. (Box 44, Folder 130).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR (written and signed by C. Goddard, AG) to Col. I.N. Haynie, 1 page, October 5, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Notice of safely received dispatch. (Box 44, Folder 131).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. H.W. Haynie, 1 page, October 5, 1862. HQ, Army of the Miss. Regarding Haynie's movement from Bethel. (Box 44, Folder 132).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. Isham N. Haynie, 1 page, October 5, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Concerning a guard for a construction train. (Box 44, Folder 133).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. Isham N. Haynie, 1 page, October 5, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding the pursuit of the enemy. (Box 44, Folder 134).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. John McArthur, 1 page, October 5, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding movements of division. (Box 44, Folder 135).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'ls. Thomas J. McKean, Thomas A. Davies, David S. Stanley, Hamilton, and James B. McPherson, 1 page, October 5, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding the delay in progress of movements. (Box 44, Folder 136).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR (written and signed by C. Goddard, AG) to Thomas S. McKean, Brig. Gen'l., 1 page, October 5, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Order to move to Corinth to take command. (Box 44, Folder 137).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. Ulysses S. Grant, 2 pages, October 7, 1862, Jonesboro, Miss. Regarding the defeat of the enemy after Corinth, advance made, and positions captured. (Box 44, Folder 138).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. Ulysses S. Grant, 1 page, October 9, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding forage for animals. (Box 44, Folder 140).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. Ulysses S. Grant, 1 page, October 9, 1862, Ripley, Miss. Report of rebel dispositions, and measures taken. (Box 44, Folder 141).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to his wife, 4 pages, October 15, 1862. Description of the battle of Corinth (Oct. 3-4, 1862). Mention of George W. Cullon and Ulysses G. Grant; comment on the illness of his wife Ann Eliza Rosecrans. (Box 55, Folder 58).

ALS[photocopy] from Ann Eliza Rosecrans to her husband, WSR, 4 pages, September 6, 1875, San Ranfael, California Comment on various phases of the Civil War including the battle of Iuka and Corinth and a book by William T. Shermand on his war experiences. (Box 56, Folder 35).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to his wife, 2 pages, June 11, 1875, Egan, Nevada. Comment on a letter from General Francis Darr with news of the attitude of William T. Sherman about Rosecrans conduct in the battles of Iuka and Corinth. Mention of Whitelaw Reid, and the activities of Adrian Louis Rosecrans. (Box 62, Folder 35).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to his wife, 2 pages, June 11, 1875, Egan, Nevada. Comment on a letter from General Francis Darr with news of the attitude of William T. Sherman about Rosecrans conduct in the battles of Iuka and Corinth. Mention of Whitelaw Reid, and the activities of Adrian Louis Rosecrans. (Box 62, Folder 35).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to his wife, 3 pages, October 22, 1862. Comment on the illness of his wife, Ann Eliza Rosecrans; mention of the opinion held of him by Confederate and Union officers; description of a truce Mission sent to General Earl Van Dorn and his replacement by General John C. Pemberton. (Box 68, Folder 59).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to his wife, Ann Eliza Rosecrans, 6 pages, June 14, 1862, Camp Big Spring, Tishamingo, Co., Miss. Description of the activities during the Battle of Corinth and evacuation; comments on pursuit of the rebels and his camp as of June 14, 1862. Mention of Generals: Henry W. Halleck, John Pope, don Carlos Buell, Andrew Jackson Smith, (William Tecumseh) Sherman. (Box 69, Folder 39).

ALS[photocopy] from John C. Hatcher to William S. Rosecrans, 2 pages, Aug. 18, 1856, New York. Requesting information regarding the financial condition of the Coal River Navigation Company. Numbered 334.

ALS[photocopy] from James Birdseye Mc Pherson, 1828-1864, 1 page, October 11, 1862. Reporting on his operations. (Box 7, Folder 133).

ALS[photocopy] from William M. Willis to W.S. Rosecrans, 1 page, October 25, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Reporting number of prisoners taken and number of enemy officers killed at the Battle of Corinth. (Box 7, Folder 136).

ALS[photocopy] from George Washington Cullum, 1809-1892, 2 pages, June 25, 1868, New York. Explanation of facts relating to the command at the Battles of Iuka and Corinth as set down in the personal history of General U.S. Grant In the  Register of Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy (Box 11, Folder 127).

ALS[photocopy] from Roberto R. Symon to William S. Rosecrans, 4 pages, July 7, 1878, Paris, France. Discusses efforts in the East to interest businessmen in the Sonora railroad project; mentions Blair Concession in Mexico; progress of railroad development in Mexico; efforts to obtain investment in railroad enterprise abroad. (Box 34, Folder 34).

ALS[photocopy] from Arthur C. Ducat to William S. Rosecrans, 3 pages, December 29, 1880, Chicago, Ill. Asking for information on details of Civil War battle of Iuka and Corinth, needed for presentation of a paper before the Loyal Legion; discusses role of Grant, Sherman, Ord, and other in the battles. (Box 40, Folder 113).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. Robert Allen, 1 page, September 29, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding forage for stock. (Box ?, Folder 40).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR (by H.G. Kennett, Chief of Staff) to Col. Crocker (in Iuka), 1 page, September 29, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Order to search house of one De Wody for secreted flag of one of the Rebel regiments. (Box 44, Folder 41).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. Ulysses S. Grant, 1 page, September 29, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Concerning the mustering in of Miss. and Alabamians. (Box 44, Folder 42).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. Ulysses S. Grant, 1 page, September 29, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Request to retain name of Army of the Miss. (Box 44, Folder 43).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. Ulysses S. Grant, 1 page, September 29, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding the disposition of forces around Ripley River and Rienza. (Box 44, Folder 44).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. Charles S. Hamilton, 1 page, September 29, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Concerning the use of Hamilton's regiment. (Box 44, Folder 45). ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. John A. Rawlins, 1 page, September 29, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding the resignation of Lt. Col. Rinkhaus. (Box 44, Folder 46).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. John A. Rawlins, 1 page, September 29, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Concerning reports of defeats at Pocahontas. (Box 44, Folder 47).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR (by Calvin Goddard, Adjutant) to Eugene Shine, 1 page, September 29, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Removed from: Dispatches relating to Virginia, 1862. (Box 44, Folder 48).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. David S. Stanley, 1 page, September 29, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Concerning action at Baldwin and Pocahontas. (Box 44, Folder 49).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. Augustus L. Chetlain, 1 page, September 29, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Orders for Col. Chetlain to prepare to come in. (Box 44, Folder 50).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. Augustus L. Chetlain, 1 page, September 29, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Request for news. (Box 44, Folder 51).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. Augustus L. Chetlain, 1 page, September 29, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Orders to hold at Burnsville. (Box 44, Folder 52).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR (written and signed by Byron Kirby) to Col. Chetlain, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Order to have 50 men guard a train going to Iuka. (Box 44, Folder 53).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. Marcellus M. Crocker, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Orders to return to Corinth. (Box 44, Folder 54).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR (written and signed by Bryon Kirby) to Col. M.M. Crocker, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Asking for information about area between Ripley road and Hatchie River. (Box 44, Folder 55).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR (written and signed by Byron Kirby) to Col. M.M. Crocker, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Notification of train leaving for Iuka. (Box 44, Folder 56).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. M.M. Crocker, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Concerning amount of Quarter Masters stores available. (Box 44, Folder 57).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR (signed and sent by C. Goddard, AG) to Col. M.M. Crocker, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Asking for information concerning the country and roads leading to Holly Springs and Memphis. (Box 44, Folder 58).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR (signed and sent by C. Goddard, AG) to Capt. W. P. Darst, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Headquarters, Army of the Miss. Order to find a citizen clerk to replace Mr. Law. (Box 44, Folder 59).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. John V. Dubois, 1 page, September 29, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Orders to move to Danville. (Box 94, Folder 60).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR (written and signed by C. Goddard, AG) to Col. Dubois, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Stating that the Post of Danville, Miss., will be commanded by Brig. Gen'l. Davies. (Box 44, Folder 61).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR (by Temple Clark, Adjutant) to Major Gilmore, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Desiring to know the name of a clerk who he can detail Army Headquarters. (Box 44, Folder 62).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. Ulysses S. Grant, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Report of rebel movements and counter measures taken. (Box 44, Folder 63).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. Ulysses S. Grant, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Request for information. (Box 44, Folder 64).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. Ulysses S. Grant, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Request for maps of N. West area of operation. (Box 44, Folder 65).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Maj. Gen'l. Ulysses S. Grant, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Report regarding information and news of the enemy. (Box 44, Folder 66).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR. To Maj. Gen'l. Ulysses S. Grant, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Report of officers and vacant commissions. (Box 44, Folder 67).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to George Greenwood, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding the disposition of deceased aide's effects. (Box 44, Folder 68).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. Charles Smith Hamilton, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Request for news from Hamilton's front. (Box 44, Folder 69).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. Hamilton, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Orders to move division to camp of Clear Creek. (Box 44, Folder 70).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. Hamilton, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Describing location to current headquarters. (Box 44, Folder 71).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR (written and signed by Byron Kirby) to Brig. Gen'l. Charles Smith Hamilton, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Order to obtain two additional days rations. (Box 44, Folder 72).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. Isham N. Haynie, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Concerning troop movements down to Bethel. (Box 44, Folder 73).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to I.N. Haynie, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth Miss. Requesting a map of the southern tier of counties of Tenn. (Box 44, Folder 74).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR (by T. Scott Belden, Adjutant) to Albert L. Lee, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Instructions concerning recruits who have arrived for 7th Illinois Calvary. (Box 44, Folder 75).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR (by Temple Clark, Adjutant) to Joseph Anthony Mower, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Detailing John Parkins to Army Headquarters as Clerk. (Box 44, Folder 76).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. David S. Stanley, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth Miss. Dispatch regarding operations around Kossuth, Miss. (Box 44, Folder77).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. David S. Stanley, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth Miss. Orders to move forces to Kossuth. (Box 44, Folder 78).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. David S. Stanley, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Directions to seek out Price's force. (Box 44, Folder 79).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Brig. Gen'l. David S. Stanley, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth Miss. Request for news from Stanley's area. (Box 44, Folder 80).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. Pitcairn Morrison, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding activity around Bethel. (Box 44, Folder 101).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. Augustus L. Chetlain, 1 page, September 30, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Instructions for moving troops. (Box 44, Folder 102).

ALS[photocopy] from WSR to Col. Chetlain, 1 page, October 2, 1862, Corinth, Miss. Regarding the deployment of troops. (Box 44, Folder 103).

Folder 2: Jill Conner Browne. Reviews, letters, broadsheets, and newspaper articles discussing Jill Conner Browne's The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love Conner Browne's book provides a humorous look into the lives of southern women. Published by Three Rivers Press, New York, New York, 1999 

Folder 4: Burke's Book Store. Announcement of Peter Guralnick's signing The Unmaking of Elvis Presley: Careless Love 

Scope and Contents note

Announcement celebrating the publication of the second volume of Peter Guralnick's biography of Elvis Presley. The signing is set for Wednesday, January 20, 1999, at Burke's Book Store in Memphis, TN.

Folder 6: Patrick Smith. Assorted clippings. Re: 1999 induction to Florida Artists Hall of Fame 

Scope and Contents note

Various documents, clippings and letters describing the induction of Patrick Smith into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 1999. (1) T.D. reviewing Patrick D. Smith's life and artistic accomplishments. (2) Photocopy of newspaper article. "Saluting Patrick Smith", Florida Today, Wednesday, December 23, 1998. (3) Photocopy of newspaper article. "Smith Selected for Artists Hall of Fame",  Press, Thursday, December 17, 1998. (4) Newspaper article. "Author, 71, named to Artists Hall of Fame",  Florida Today, Monday, December 21, 1998. (5) Photocopy of journal article. "Confederation Creates Literary Award in Honor of Patrick Smith",  Florida Historical Society, August 1997.

Folder 8: AM. "The Chinaberry Tree" "The Chinaberry Tree" and Other Stories About Life in Mississippi in the Twenties and Thirties and Early Forties by Jean Burnham Morgenthaler 

Scope and Contents note

A collection of short stories about life in Mississippi from the 1920's to the early 1940's.

Folder 10: Mattie Pegues Wood. Biographical Sketch. Handwritten document tracing the genealogy of Sallie Watkins Wood Millsap, Eugene Temple Millsap Jr., Eugene Temple Millsap III, George Mark Wood Jr., Barnett Meriwether Wood Moody, Mattie Maxwell Pegues Wood, Alexander Hamilton Pegues Jr., Elizabeth Hamlin Lumpkin, Rebecca Ann Pegues McCullough and Alexander Hamilton Pegues III. (dated May 25, 1996) 

Folder 12: Invitation to Randall Kenan discussion and book-signing at Burke's Bookstore 

Scope and Contents note

Postcard announcing a discussion and signing of Randall Kenan's Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the 21  st   Century, Tuesday, March 16, at Burke's Book Store in Memphis, TN.

Folder 14: Publication Announcement for the work "For the Good of the Bleeding Land" / Timothy Hawley Books 

Scope and Contents note

Broadside announcing the publication of a new book from The Contre Coup Press; "For the Good of the Bleeding Land" Being the Text of a Letter from James Phelan to Confederate President Jefferson Davis dated January 21, 1865 The letter describes the plea of James Phelan to replace General Hood with General Johnston as commander of the Army of Tennessee.

Handwritten letter. (Camp) April 1864, "Dear Pa," and Camp Walthall's Brig [25?] April, Near Dalton GA, "Dear Ma," from "Your affectionate son." (typed transcription available) 

Handwritten letter. (Camped at Atlanta GA) 22 August 1863, "Dear Ma" from "Your son B.F. Gentry." (typed transcription available) 

Envelope addressed to Ms. W.R. Gentry. 

Folder 2: B.F. Gentry. Ephemera, Geneological Material and pages from Gentry Bible 

Folder 4: The Southern Quest for A Suitable Past: Historiography and Social Control, 1890-2000 by Fred Arthur Bailey 

Scope and Contents note

Document written by Fred Arthur Bailey of Abilene Christian University describing Southerners' search for a "true history of the Old South."

Folder 6: "Standing Tall" 

Scope and Contents note

Postcard announcing the documentary by Donald Blank, "StandingTall: Black Mississippi Delta Women take on White Catfish Farmers...Trying To Create a Union...and win." The front of the card is a photo of Rose Turner, daughter of a sharecropper and the UFCW's head Mississippi organizer.

Folder 8: Printed Subscription Information for Alecto Historical Editions facsimile printing of Catesby's The National History of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands 

Scope and Contents note

Color copies of Mark Catesby (1682-1749). Copies of "The Balsam Tree," "Bison Americanus," "The Yellow and Black Pye," and "The Red Curlew."

Folder 10: March / April 2000 Edition of Humanities National Endowment For the Humanities. Re: Article on C. Vann Woodward 

Scope and Contents note

McPherson on the cover. The issue contains articles and photographs about "The War That Never Goes Away," "Touring the Battlefields," "Excerpts," "Celebrating American Poetry," "Songs of the Sephardim," "Racism and Redemption," "Fifth National Black Writer Conference," "Troubling Questions About Universality," "A Dakar Journal," "State by State," and "The Glory of Russia."

Folder 12: Fork in the Road Press- Will Grow Under Beeches Broadside announcing the publication of Gardener James Sherwood's Will Grow Under Beeches by Fork in the Road Press. Announcement includes letterforms, dimensions, and price of the book 

Folder 14: James Burrell. Sketch by Martha Ann Brooks Copy of Martha Ann Brooks' drawing of Mr. James Burrell, folk. Also included is a copy of the letter sent by Martha Ann Brooks to Mr. Tom Verich, University Archivist, describing the work. Brooks suggests that the drawing is an interpretation of Mr. Bill Ferris' photograph of Mr. James Burrell 

Folder 2: John M. Lyles Civil War Letter (original 1861) Handwritten letter from John M. Lyles (Confederate Officer) at Manassas Junction, Prince William Co., Virginia, to Judge Parris, July 13, 1861. Original letter and typed transcript available 

Folder 4: Exhibitor's campaign book from MGM's Gone With the Wind starring Clark Gable, Viven Leigh, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland 

Folder 6: John Black land deed in Mississippi (1837) Hinds County (?) land deed signed by John Black, February 1, 1839 

Folder 2: Typescript of Charles M. Terry's Journal. Typescript of the journal of Charles M. Terry of Tippah County, Ms. for the years 1856-1860. Gift of Hugh Corrigan IV 

Folder 2: Mimeograph of Typed Manuscript. "The 17th Mississippi" brief description and maps of the Civil War battles the 17th Mississippi regiment fought (n.d.) 

Folder 4: The Lafayette Alarm (August 2001, Vol. 3) alternative newsletter for Lafayette County, MS "promoting community activism and awareness." 

Folder 6: Howard Finster. Letter. ALS. February 11, 1983. Howard Finster to [Bill] Ferris. Found within Howard Finster's Vision of 1982: Vision of 2.00 Light Years Away, Space Born of Three Generations from Earth to the Heaven of Heavens (Summerville, GA: Howard Finster, 1982) [cataloged in Special Collections] 

Folder 8: Colonel Erasmus Ford Potts Papers. Xerox of approximately 90 handwritten pages concerning Potts' land holdings, Holly Springs, and the Hickory Flat Turnpike (1850s) 

Folder 10: Gone With the Wind notepaper (#2001-90) Writing paper incorporating Gone With the Wind script and photographs (2 images, 6 sheets for each) 

Folder 12: 8 photo postcards of Pickwick Dam, TN; and 1 color photo postcard of Bellingrath Gardens in Mobile, AL 

Folder 14: Button. 2001 Political button in favor of the new Mississippi state flag design 

Folder 16: TD. 4 January 1963. Statement of Governor Ross Barnett, Governor of the State of Mississippi, Before the Governor's Conference on the National Guard, January 4, 1963 in Washington, D.C 

Folder 18: Telegram. August 28, 1917. G.T. Roach to "All Passenger conductors." The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. Re: Requesting that B.L. Cliner ride with the conductors to learn the duties of a railroad flagman 

Folder 20: Postcards of 1912 Mississippi River Flood Three black-and-white photo postcards of 1912 Mississippi River Flood by photographer Rossele of Rosedale, MS: "Fill the Basin Riverton, 4/12/12"; "Convicts Jacking Levee, Riverton, Miss. 4/13/12"; "Looking North. Benoit, Miss." 

Folder 22: Adam Shemper. Postcard. Postcard promoting Adam Shemper's exhibition "New Photographs from the Sardis Lake Series at the Driskel Gallery in Provincetown, MA 

Folder 24: Arthur Palmer Hudson. "Arthur Palmer Hudson: The Founder of Mississippi Folklore Collecting"/ Bonnie Krause. Mid America Folklore Vol. 28: 1 and2 

Folder 26: TMs. of history of Holly Springs, Mississippi "Holly Springs: A Portrait 1837-1878"/ Charles A. Mills 

Folder 28: Typed list of Lafayette County Petitioners for pardons Typed list of names of petitioners for Presidential pardons after the Civil War by Lafayette County, Mississippi residents 

Folder 30: Photocopied letter and oath of AB Longstreet. Photocopied letter from AB Longstreet to President Andrew Johnson requesting pardon. Also includes photocopy of his loyalty oath 

Folder 2: July 21, 1848 speech by J. Thompson "Speech of Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, on the Civil and Diplomatic Bill, and the Presidential Election." Photocopy. 

Folder 4: ALS. J. Thompson, Department of Interior, to August 19, 1857. Photocopy. "My Dear Sir" 

Folder 6: ALS. J. Thompson in Toronto to Jefferson Davis September 12, 1864. Photocopy from Harvard University holding. 

Folder 8: AL. Jacob Thompson in Memphis, TN to October 10, 1870. Photocopy and transcripts. J[eremiah] S. Black. 

Folder 10: ALS. J. Thompson in Memphis, TN to J.F.H. February 23, 1881. Photocopy. Claiborne 

Folder 12: AM. "The Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Memphis." Author unknown, undated. Photocopy from the Museum of the Confederacy. 

Folder 14: ALS. C.C. Clay in Huntsville, AL to Jeremiah January 9, 1867. Photocopy from Library of S. Black Congress. 

Folder 16: Dealer description of three Jacob Thompson letters dated October 9, 1865; September 21, 1877; letters to Jeremiah S. Black & November 27, 1879. 

Folder 18: Commission of Home Missions to Colored pp. 1-4 of August, 1871 issue with article "A Committee People of the Convention of the Diocese on the Colored School At Memphis having presented their report the Hon. Jacob Thompson spoke as follows..." 

Folder 19: Natchez Jewish Homecoming Program. "The Natchez Jewish Homecoming! 1994" (2 copies); Program. "Service in Commemoration of the Natchez Jewish Homecoming Temple B'nai Israel and The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience" (4 copies) 

Folder 21: Great Migration Articles [1916-1918] 

Scope and Contents note

Newspaper articles: (a) New York Evening Post, June 22, 1918, "Why Negroes Are Leaving the South." (b)  New York Evening Post, May 26, 1917, "The Negro Exodus From the South." Journal:  The Immigration Journal, October, 1916

Folder 23: Interview with Rev. James Bevel, "Wild Man" of the Civil Rights Movement, 29 January 2002. Conducted by Jacquie Lewis. Transcript only 

Folder 25: John Farmer Gotthelf Journal, 1915 

Scope and Contents note

Concerns the Biblical story of David, school questions, and daily events

Folder 2: Photocopy. "Message of Gov. Adelbert Ames to the Legislature of Mississippi, in Extra Session Assembled, Thursday, December 17, 1874." (Jackson, MS: Pilot Publishing Company, 1874). 8 pages. (Control No. 2003-30) 

Folder 4: Inventory. Photocopy and transcription of Lecie Gant Autograph Album 1862-1866 Oxford, Mississippi. Original owned by the University Museum. (Control No. 2003-3) 

Folder 6: Broadside. "Excursion to Ship Island Every Sunday Via The Cavalier..." Mid-20th century. 2 copies (one pink and one yellow). (Control No. 2003-29) 

Folder 8: Broadsheet. "J.B. Glenn, Real Estate Agent for the Sale of Improved and Unimproved Lands, in Clay and Adjoining Counties. West Point, Miss., October 18, 1886." Extensive discussion boosting Clay County real estate. 12 x 6. (Control No. 2003-36) 

Folder 10: Invitation. Graduation of Class 44-F from Columbus Army Flying School on June 27, 1944 in Columbus, MS. (Control No.2003-38) 

Folder 12: Cotton Record Books kept for The Bend Plantation at Swan Lake, MS. 6 separate ledgers with crop records dated 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, and 1965 (2). Books "compliments of Union Compress & Warehouse Co., Greenwood, Miss." 

Folder 14: TLS. 24 February 1934. Daniel Whitehead Hicky to Mrs. Deupree. Letter of the Atlanta, GA Poet located inside Main Library's copy of his book Bright Harbor (1932) with several newspaper and magazine clippings. 

Folder 16: "Soldiers Individual Pay Record Book" with entries by Joseph W. Seymour (soldier's no. 3872776) based in Gulfport, MS and dated October 31, 1918 through June 31, 1919. (Control No. 2003-54) 

Broadside. "McMahon's Detective Agency, Licensed and Bonded to City of New Orleans for $10,000..." Contents include "We handled the Night Riders case with success for the Governor of Mississippi; also captured the negro who cut Capt. Gray, of Bay St. Louis, and delivered him to the authorities at the Bay, 24 hours after the crime; and he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in the Pen." Circa early-20th century. 

Folder 18: Fernwood, Columbia & Gulf Railroad (Blotter) 

Folder 2: Pamphlet. Undated. "L.Q.C. Lamar" by Clayton Rand. Printed for MS Power & Light. 4pp 

Folder 4: John Crews' research on Jefferson Davis.Control # 2005-39 

Folder 6: Reformed Theological materials.Control # 2005-41 

Folder 8: Probate documents for the estate of John Calvin Jones, Harrison Co., Mississippi, August - October 1857.Control # 2005-45 

Folder 10: Seven letters regarding bank notes to Holly Springs, MS, residents from H.W. Conner & Co., September - November 1860.Control # 2005-47 

Folder 12: War Ration Book Four, United States Office of Price Administration, 1943. Control # 2005-49 

Folder 14: ALS: Irene B. Clur of Taylor, MS, to her sister Carrie, May 1914.Control # 2005-50 

Folder 16: ALS: Mary E. Cain of Holly Springs, MS, to her mother, Mrs. Eliza J. Lynch, of Waterford, Marshall Co., Mississippi, March 1, [1841].Control # 2005-52 

Folder 18: S. Martinus de Porres - patron saint of the diocese of Biloxi, MS. One card. Control # 2005-54 

Folder 20: TLS: Letter regarding cattle classes at the Mississippi State Fair on Mississippi State Fair letterhead, August 26, 1914.Control # 2005-56 

Folder 22: Bookmark promoting "Mississippi: An Illustrated History".Control # 2005-58 

Folder 24: Confederate pension application of Mrs. Matilda Long of Jasper County, MS, August 17, 1915.Control # 2005-60 

Folder 26: American Folklore Films & Videotapes - An Index, promotional information, two copies, along with several fliers of various films, etc.Control # 2005-63 

Folder 28: Men's Digest, February 1966, with an article on "Murder in Mississippi", a sexy Civil Rights film, pp. 7-10.Control # 2005-66 

Folder 30: 15 letters from Neville Buck of Greenville, MS, to his father C.C. Buck of Rayville, LA, regarding Neville Buck's work for The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, dated January 1915-August 1916. Control # 2005-69 

Folder 32: ALS. June 14, 1888. Letter signed "Jefferson Davis" but written by Varina Davis to Maj N[orman] Walker. 3pp. Re: Life at Beauvoir House, "in a very isolated home on the coast of Mexico."Control # 2005-83 

Folder 34: ALS. September 8, 1862. William and Sally Egger to Charles P. Egger (Co. D, 24th MS Infantry). Lowndes County, MS. 2pp. Envelope. Re: Conscription and sickness of family 

Folder 2: (copy) Handwritten manuscript "A Sunday in the South" by Lt. William White (90th Illinois Volunteers, Co. F) Description of walk to Holly Springs, Mississippi, meeting General Grant as well as other officers, and dining with a regimental doctor in an occupied home. (copy) photograph of Lt. William White, ca. 1863 (Control #2006-9) 

Folder 4: Civil War Confederate Currency and Bonds $10-Third issue, 2 September 1861; B. Duncan, printer; Francis Marion offering 2 sweet potatoes to Sir Banastre Tarlton $10-Seventh issue, 17 February 1864 $10-Seventh issue, 17 February 1864 $10-Issued 6 April, 1963 $10-Fifth issue, 2 December 1862 $10-Seventh issue, 17 February 1864 $20-Seventh issue, 17 February 1864 $20-Seventh issue, 17 February 1864 $50-Seventh issue, 17 February 1864 $100-Seventh issue, 17 February 1864 

Folder 6: TLA (copy) Lt. Col. Bruce to PFC Barrett re: commendation of service during Meredith integration. October 1962 

Folder 8: "Life of Will Mathis" (copy) Memoir of Will Mathis, the last man publicly hung in Oxford, Mississippi in 1902 

Folder 10: Scrapbook "Miscellaneous Political Greenback Statistics made in 1874 and 1876 in Salt Lake, Utah by Edward G. Fuller" (Control #2006-1) 

Folder 2: Engraving. General John Clifford Pendleton (Control No. 2006-18) 

Folder 2: ALS to Jennie & Susie & Will in Beaumont, Kansas, from J.W. Lowman, dated October 18, 1885. Includes envelope postmarked October 18, 1885, from Huntington, Bolivar County, Mississippi 

Folder 4: ALS to Jennie and Susie from J.W. Lowman, dated August 30, 1885 

Folder 6: ALS to My Dear Willie from Jennie, dated April 30, 1888, from Huntington, Mississippi 

Folder 8: ALS to My Darling from your loving wife, dated May 10, 1888, from Huntington, Mississippi, and on reverse ALS to My dear dear darling Papa from your daughter Susie J 

Folder 9: Petition of Mrs. J. Sanderson to Messers. Metcalf, Snodgrass, Hinds, Cage, and Gordon on the subject of female education. Photocopy and transcription 

Folder 12: Clipping from Nashville Banner, review “Civil War vividly recreated” by William Boozer of “The Civil War: An Illustrated History,” by Geoffrey Ward with Ken and Ric Burns. 

Folder 2: Scrapbook: Dr. Willis Walley, M.D., newspaper clippings 

Folder 4: Walley Hospital - Jackson, Miss. Magazine insurance advertisement 

Folder 6: Emory University yearbook and alumni publication clippings 

Scope and Contents note

Two pictures of Dr. Willis Walley

Folder 8: Letter from Henry MacDonald to Dr. Willis Walley, 10 May 1914 

Scope and Contents note

Re: Henry MacDonald thanking Dr. Walley for helping the family of John MacDonald

Folder 10: Note from Rose [Dr. William Walley's Sister ?] to Dr. William Walley regarding obtaining recruits for military service in World War I 

Scope and Contents note

Includes newspaper clipping dated 28 August 1918

Folder 12: Dr. Willis Walley's Receipts and Souvenirs from trip to Mexico, September 1940 

Folder 14: Miscellaneous Items: 

1939 Pocket Calendar 

Official Pinochle Poker Rules 

Business card. Albert Langeluttig-Attorney, Chicago, Illinois 

Folder 2: Proclamation. The City of Oxford, Mississippi. Jacob Thompson Day. Proclaimed on Jacob Thompson’s 200th Birthday,10 May 2010. Signed by Mayor George G. Patterson. 

Folder 2: Yellow Fever: The Last Epidemic in North Mississippi by Robert A. Herring, MD 

Folder 4: WWI Related Correspondence, 1921 

Folder 2: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese menu 

Folder 2: Clipping and cartoon on Dwight Ball 

Folder 4: Lynn Sykes Oral History Interview DVD 

Folder 6: Willie Tankersley audio Interview DVD January 2007 

Folder 2: Etching of Oxford Depot by Alice Lancaster; numbered 3 of 125 (1973). 

Folder 4: Land grant to Willis Mackswell of Madison County, Mississippi, signed by secretary for President Martin Van Buren (10 February 1840). Gift of Francis Wolfe in memory of Wiley Wolfe Jr. 

Folder 6: Front page of The High School Editor, newspaper of Oxford, Mississippi (25 January 1930). 

Folder 8: Exhibit poster “We’ll Never Turn Back” on civil rights movement photographs at the Smithsonian National Museum of History and Technology (1980). 

Folder 10: Broadside “Soldier’s Memorial German-American War 1917” (New Orleans: National Publishing Co., circa 1917), re: Company C, Second Regiment Mississippi Infantry, U.S. National Guard, known as “Lamar Rifles” of Oxford, Mississippi. 

Folder 12: Poster “Tupelo, Mississippi, Tornado of 1936” (Sparks Printing & Graphics, circa 1997). 

Folder 14: Print “The Storyteller: Spirit of Mississippi Collection, Artist: Mary Bertoli SNJM” (1996). Signed by artist. 

Folder 16: Broadside “Piety and Poverty at Port Gibson,” re: NAACP boycott of local businesses and subsequent law suit (Jackson Clarion Ledger, 8 November 1976). 

Folder 2: Oxford material: poster “Living South Production Presents…Inherit the Wind”; print “Oxford, Mississippi” by Adranne DeYoung Penny, signed and dated 1988; poster “Folklife Festival ’84 on the Square, Oxford, Mississippi,” 3 copies; broadside “Oxford Folklife Festival” (1981); poster “Oxford Folklife Festival ‘82”; poster “Oxford Folklife Festival on the Square” (1983); poster “The Living South Festival, Oxford, Mississippi, June 15, 1991.” 

Folder 4: Handcolored engraved print of Jefferson Davis (New York: J.C. Buttre). 

Folder 6: Poster “The Time Has Come” (Greenville, MS: 1982). Mentions participation by various Mississippi authors, artists, and musicians. 

Folder 8: Poster “Premier Exhibit of the Janet S. Redmont Gallery: Wood, Ivory and Bone…February 20-March 10, 1982, at the Chimneyville School of Crafts and Design on the Millsaps College Campus.” 

Folder 10: Poster “Archives Month, October 2008, Explore Mississippi History.” 

Folder 12: Architectural drawings and layouts of interior of Oxford, Mississippi courthouse by S. Bowling. 7 sheets. 

Folder 14: Portrait of unidentified man. 

Folder 16: Poster “Sunday Afternoon Film Festival” (Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, undated). 

Box 2 

Folder 2. Photocopies of poems by Valerie Boyd Howell with annotated remarks. 

Folder 4. Broadside "Please...Turn off the Heat when Room is Too Hot...," re: wartime conservation (194-). 

Folder 2: "Pinky" 1949 Color lobby card from "Pinky" starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters and William Lundigan 

Folder 4: "Tap Roots" lobby card 

Folder 6: "Home from the Hill" (1) 11" X 14" color lobby card Color lobby card from "Home from the Hill." 

Folder 8: "Band of Angles" (8) 11" X 14" color lobby cards 8 different color lobby cards from "Band of Angels" starring Clark Gable 

Folder 10: "So Red the Rose" (1) 11" X 14" color lobby card Color lobby card from Stark Young's "So Red the Rose" starring Margaret Sullavan, Walter Connolly, Randolph Scott Elizabeth Patterson and Janet Beecher 

Folder 12: "Mississippi Rhythm" lobby card Color lobby card from "Mississippi Rhythm" starring Jimmie Davis 

Folder 14: Play Bill featuring: "Biloxi Blues", 1985 Play Bill from the opening night of "Biloxi Blues" in the Neil Simon Theatre, March 28, 1985, starring Matthew Broderick, Bill Sadler, Barry Miller, Randall Edwards, Matt Mullhern, Geoffrey Sharp, Penelope Ann Miller, Alan Ruck and Brian Tarantina 

Folder 12: 8" X 10" Black and white photograph of Kim Hunter Black and white photograph inscribed "To Charles-With all good wishes, Kim Hunter." 

Folder 16: (1) 8" X 10" black and white still from "Tap Roots" Black and white still from Universal Pictures, Inc. "Tap Roots." 

Folder 2: Kelly Miller. Broadside. Broadside with photograph of Kelly Miller, A.M., LL. D., Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University, Washington, D.C 

Folder 4: Broadsheet, "Child of the River" Broadsheet announcing the production of a "reader's theatre adaptation" Carroll Case of Carroll Case's "Child of the River" by the Pike County Arts Council 

Folder 6: Broadside. "Friends of Frank E. Smith want to ask Jamie Whitten some Questions" 

Folder 8: Broadside, "To the Conservative Republicans of Iowa", 19th-century 

Folder 10: Johnson & the Constitution. Lists candidates for various positions 

Folder 12: Broadside, Lynch & Debar Minstrels, Program from the May 27 production of 'Music & Mirth.' c. 1851-1852 Broadside printed in Holly Springs, Mississippi 

Folder 14: "From Yalobusha County" 1997 Autographed broadside "From Yalobusha County" by Athena Kildegaard. Published by the Jefferson City Broadside Society 

Folder 16: "Two are Four" by Turner Cassity Postcard; inscribed with Turner Cassity's poem, "Two are Four." 

Folder 18: Broadside announcing the production of "Oxtales: Stories from Oxford"-- Highlights from "The Oxford Lesson" by Nayo Watkins 

Folder 20: "Mississippian Extra" concerning Mexican War Enlistment, 1846 

Folder 22: Crimean War Broadside. Original and photocopy of broadside: "Battle with Russians at Russians at Kamshatcha-1854." 

Folder 24: Broadside. Ellen Douglas. "Can't Quit You, Baby" 

Folder 26: Grenada, MS, Fiddlers' Contest Broadside announcing "A Grand Old-Time Fiddler' Contest, Grenada, Thursday, August 2, 1900, for the Fifteenth Regiment Monumental Fund." 

Folder 28: "Lumbermen's Excursion to Jackson, Miss. via the Illinois Central Railroad", 20 December 1883 

Folder 30: Broadside, Southern Baptist Broadside announcing the 1894 Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas, Convention, May 9th, 1894 TX 

Folder 32: Confederate Role of Honor Certificates. 

Folder 2: Ross Barnett bumpersticker Bumpersticker that reads "Barnett for Governor" 

Folder 4: Bull Dozer Bumpersticker Bumpersticker that reads "Look Out for The Bull Dozer!!" 

Folder 6: "Fighting for Finch" Bumpersticker that reads "I'm Fighting for Finch: Finch is in the fight PRESIDENT Committee, Inc." 

Poster “Whispering Pines, Birney Imes, University Press of Mississippi”; signed by artist. 

Poster “Mississippi Craftsmen” (Craftsmen Guild of Mississippi, undated). 

Engraved portrait of John Alexander Klein. Gift of James T. Hughes. 

Movie poster “Biloxi Blues” (1987). 

Movie poster “Forrest Gump” (1994). 

Movie poster “The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag” (1992). 

Eldridge Cleaver posters. Photograph of Cleaver (New York: Personality Posters Mtg. Co., 1969); and FBI wanted flyer 447 for Leroy Elridge Cleaver (13 December 1968). 

Tube 2: Original drawing. “U.S.S. Pennsylvania” by Charles McClure (1932). Inscribed on verso: “To Admiral Richard H. Leigh, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Navy.” 

Framed Item #503. Drawing of Dr. William T. Balfour. Gift of James T. Hughes. 

Framed Item #115. Oil painting of flowers in vase by George Biddle (1968). Presented by the artist in honor of Mississippi author David Cohn. 

Framed Item #204. Movie poster “Crossroads” (1986). 

Framed Item #82. Painting “Pegasus Rising” by Stephanie Nadolski (1978). 

Framed Item #202. Movie poster “Natchez Trace” (1959). 

Framed Item #506. Movie poster “Mississippi Masala.”