MUM00464
Finding Aid for the Watson Family Collection
(MUM00464)
Finding Aid for the Watson Family Collection
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Descriptive Summary |
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Administrative Information |
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Subject Terms |
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Biographical Note |
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Scope and Content Note |
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User Information |
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Related Material |
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Container List |
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Administrative Information
Processing Information
Collection processed by Archives and Special Collections staff. Finding aid encoded
by Kathryn Michaelis, June 2012.
Additions
No further additions are expected to this collection.
Subject Terms
Formats
Biographical Note
John Watson was apparently a Texas businessman. His son fought in or near Mississippi
during the Civil War.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains copies of John Watson’s correspondences, 1843-1912, discussing,
among other things, Texas Real Estate & Collecting Agency land leasing, corn deals,
people on the land, fences, surveying, Mexican land grants declared void by Supreme
Court. Some letters discuss Watson’s son’s Civil War service. Much of the collection
discusses business and life in Texas.
User Information
Preferred Citation
Watson Family Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library,
The
University of Mississippi
Access Restrictions
The Watson Family Collection is open for research.
Copyright Restrictions
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the
making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under
certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized
to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions
is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other
than private study, scholarship or research.” If a user makes a request for,
or
later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,”
that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Related Material
Resources at the University of Mississippi
For more collections related to the Civil War, please see the Archives’ Civil War Subject Guide.
Container List
| 1.1 | Copies of correspondence, 1843-1912 | ||||||||||||||||||
