From the Herbert S. Zim Papers.; A two-page letter from Herbert Zim to "Mr. Franklin" dated January 9, 1962. In the letter, Zim responds to criticism of his book, The Universe; 8 1/2 x 11
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 2 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15.5 x 10 cm.) To Mr. [Edward] Bok from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead dated 21 December 1894. On mourning stationery. [This letter was written to Edward Bok, publisher...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This letter to the Editor of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press by Drew Pearson answers a letter by Rabbi Joseph Jasin. Jasin's letter was critical of Pearson's previous letter to the Editor, which...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter with a handwritten postscript, dated Friday [June 26, 1964], from Joe Ellin to "Diane and Susan." The letter was written after approximately one week of Freedom Summer training in Oxford, Ohio. Joe describes his...
Photocopy of a one-page typed letter, dated June 28, [1964], from Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad." The letter was written a couple of days after leaving the training session in Oxford, Ohio. It contains information about Hattiesburg, and descriptions of...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "S and D," [Susan and Diane] written on Wednesday, July 8, 1964. The letter speaks of the teaching experiences of the Ellins in the Freedom Schools in Hattiesburg and the neighboring...
Photocopy of two typed letters on one page. They are dated August 7, 1964 and written by Nancy and Joe Ellin to "Friends, Family, and What Not," and to Susan. The first letter details the plans for unseating the regular Democratic Party delegation...
From the Paul B. Johnson Family Papers. Letter from Erle Johnston, Jr., to Frank D. Barber, dated 4 February 1964. Letter regarding an anti-communism institute for teachers.
From the Davis (Jefferson) Letters collection. A letter from Colonel H.K. Craig, Chief of Ordnance, to Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War, dated 28 September 1853. Craig informs Davis about the death of Captain J.M. Morgan, commanding officer of the...
Letter from E.D. Walcott of Walnut Hills, Mississippi,to his "brother" Hugh White of Allentown, Pennsylvania, containing family and economic news along with political comments about Andrew Jackson, dated 3 September 1828.
Letter from George Bomford of the United States Army Ordnance Department to Mississippi Congressman William Haile of Wilkinson County on the question of arms for each state's militia. Bomford explains how arms for each state's militia are...
From the Lovell (Mansfield) Letters. Letter from Mansfield Lovell to his wife Emily, dated 22 September 1861, was written from Bowling Green, Kentucky, where Lovell was awaiting orders following his attachment to the Confederate Army. Lovell...
Letter from Lieutenant Andrew J. Locke to Mrs. Jennie A. Dansuns (?), dated 21 May 1862. Locke, Provost Marshall in Grenada, Mississippi, informs Mrs. Dansuns that according to General Ruggles she is free to travel behind Confederate military lines.
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Mrs. F.A. Barnett to her daughter Virginia Barnett, who is visiting relatives. In this letter written from Ripley, Mississippi, and dated 25 June 1858, Mrs. Barnett writes about family matters and news...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett, dated 11 March 1863, written from camp near the 34th MS Regiment. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and...
A letter, dated 20 January 1883, from Ralph North in Natchez, Mississippi, to Sergent Prentiss Nutt concerning information on a Federal seizure of coal boats belonging to the Nutts in 1863. Information about the incident was sought for use in the...
A letter from Milton W. Shaw, a corporal with the 5th Iowa Volunteers, to his friend Alf Giague in Birmingham, Iowa. Shaw was on board the naval transport Von Phul with Grant's troops who, in early 1863, entered the Yazoo Pass and attempted to...
Letter from James Whitfield in New York to W. H. (Henry) Buchannon in Columbus, Mississippi, dated 19 October 1838, concerning Whitfield's buying trip to New York and Philadelphia. Mentioned are prices, vendors, shipment procedures, debt...
Letter from John Anthony Quitman, governor of Mississippi to the governor of Connecticut, Thomas Hart Seymour (unnamed in the document), dated 10 June 1850. Two copies of the laws passed in the last Mississippi legislative session were being...
