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Box Short Collection 18

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

W. Plummer Burgett Papers

 Collection — Box: Short Collection 18
Identifier: 0821
Scope and Contents

This collection contains five letters written by W. Plummer Burgett to William Yuille during Burgett's time in Auburn.

Dates: 1888-02-02 - 1889-06-26

James Tarpley Bolding Jr. Papers

 Collection — Box: Short Collection 18
Identifier: 0860
Scope and Contents

Photographs, documents and correspondence relating to the Bolding Farm and family, including a typescript of a letter (1863) from I. J. Rogers to his parents, written from the camp of the 27th Alabama Infantry.

Dates: 1999

Pister Miller Bishop, M.D. Diary

 Collection — Box: Short Collection 18
Identifier: 0955
Scope and Contents

Diary contains daily diary entries from 1943, comments on current events, updates on WWII, and descriptions of medical duties. Collection also includes a letter from the granddaughter of Bidhop to her son describing Bishop and his family, a brief genealogy of P.M. Bishop's family and a copy if an article that appeared in the Memphis Press Schimitar on 11 and 12 November 1941 titled "Strolling with Eldon Roark, A Day in the Life of Mrs. Bishop."

Dates: 1943; 1942-11

James Simpson Alexander Papers

 Collection — Box: Short Collection 18
Identifier: 0926
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photocopied legal papers and correspondence of the James S. Alexander family, including nine Civil War letters from Alexander to his wife, Frances Jane Alexander (1863-1864). Alexander, a South Carolina farmer, served in the 22nd infantry division. Also includes genealogical information.

Dates: 1805-1947; Majority of material found within 1863-64