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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.

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Contains two photocopied letters written by William C. Alexander -- from Newton, Illinois -- to a friend, E.S. Brown, in Kentucky. The letters are dated September 18, 1865 and October 9, 1865. Also included is one photocopied letter from Mammie Plummer to Miss Mary Rutland dated December 8, 1882.

The letters discuss daily activities and mention family and friends in Kentucky and Illinois.

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This collection contains photocopies and transcriptions of letters to and from Allen and family, printed emails, photographs, and documents from his service in World War II.

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This collection consists of seven letters written and sent to Doten's parents in Cooper, Maine, from Fort Lincoln, Maryland, Falmouth, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

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This collection contains letters that span several decades from "Ted" Theodore C. Hoepfner to "Sunny" Opal Virgina Combs Fields. Also included are poems by George Marion O'Donnell, Richard Croom Beatty, and poems and essays written and/or edited by Hoepfner, who occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Anton Kobold.

Scope and Contents This collection contains eighty-five letters sent to James Thomas "Cotton Tom" Heflin between the years 1932-1938. The bulk of the letters discuss his illness and the Alabama Special Democratic Primary election on January 4, 1938. Other items include Harrington Phillips Heflin’s certificate of law from 1887, three photographs, a U.S government...

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This collection contains correspondence from Carl Holbrook (twenty-nine letters, four postcards, and seven empty envelopes). Two of the letters are copies while the rest are originals. The letters were written to Holbrook's parents, Alline Hollbrook and C. E. Holbrook, in Fort Payne, Alabama.

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This collection contains a letter written by Alexander B. Meek (1814-1865) during the American Civil War explaining the war in Mobile, Alabama, with mentions of Dauphin Island, his journey home, and potentially staying put where he was.

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This collection contains four letters and three envelopes. The majority of the letters are addressed to E. B. Jennings, who is the New London, Connecticut based client and friend. One letter is to Mrs. C. M. Jennings from A. [Agnes] Paine, Sidney's wife.

Scope and Contents The core of this collection is a set of forty-six letters written by various members of the Pearson and Johnson families to each other during the Civil War years and the years immediately before and after the war. Included are love letters between Jefferson Lafayette Pearson and Mary Abigail Johnson, letters from the soldiers in the family to their brothers and sisters and in-laws, and letters between the women in the two families on the home front during the war. Topics covered include...