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The collection consists of one letter: dated Athens, July 27, 1879, to "My dear Elijah," signed "Eustace W. Speer," regarding Speer's having received Brown's speech. Brown's speech, True Manliness, is also included in the collection.

The collection consists of one indenture: dated April 5, 1834, Middleton Pope of Oglethorpe County paid Elijah Clark of Newton County three hundred dollars for 160 acres of land in Cherokee County, Georgia (lot number 201, fifth district, 4th section). The reverse side of the indenture is signed two more times: dated December 2, 1837, Oglethorpe County, Georgia; dated March 3, 1838, the deed was "recorded in Book C, page 181" in Floyd County, Georgia.

The collection consists of a letter from Elijah Clarke, Hickory Grove, (Ga.) to Col. Benjamin Cleavland, Franklin County (Ga.), dated June 24, 1787. Clarke has just returned from seeing the Governor in Augusta and discusses the Governor's assurance that a treaty with the Creek Indians is imminent, mentions Alexander McGillvrary, and talks about a misunderstanding between the Indians and the Indian Commissioners.

The collection consists of business correspondence between Elijah Crane, Savannah, Georgia and C.A. & A. Southworth of Stoughton, Massachusetts from 1847-1853. Correspondences discuss buying and selling cotton, the cotton market, and the status of crops grown near Savannah.

This collection contains the will of Eli Rushing, which was written March 15, 1839 in Crawford County, Georgia. The will provides an inventory of Rushing's assets, including an enslaved person

The collection consists of two copies of a typescript titled The Story of Wilkes County by Eliza A. Bowen. Typescript c. 1 contains a title page indicating it is to be published serially in the Washington Chronicle of 1889 ... W.P.A. Project no. 5993."

This collection contains a class paper by Elizabeth C. Clark on the photographer William E. Wilson, who worked in the Savannah area in the late 1800s.

This collection consists of material that dates from 1911 to 2010. It includes photographs, newsclippings and articles plus a remembrance written by Elizabeth "Ma" Hale's great-niece.

The collection consists of three items: photograph of Elizabeth Talbot Belt; Memorial to Mrs. Elizabeth Talbot Belt; typewritten copy of Wreck of the Pulaski, published in the Macon Daily Telegraph, Sunday, May 8, 1857.

The collection consists of one handwritten paid receipt from M. Desabaye to Elizabeth W. Smith (undated) for various pieces of sheet music purchased from his publishing house. The receipt lists titles and prices, and has been removed from a fragmentary volume of printed sheet music.