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Annie Blount diary
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Blount, Annie |
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1873-1894 |
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The collection consists of a diary kept by Annie Blount from 1873-1894. The diary contains newspaper clippings and sporadic
entries regarding family life, sermons, and religious thoughts.
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ms1549 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Wilcox family papers
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Wilcox family |
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1836-1893 |
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The collection consists of correspondence between Wilcox family members from 1836-1893. Correspondents include Daniel, Elisa,
and Jonathan S. Wilcox in Augusta, Georgia. They write to each other, and also to Colonel Jonathan S. and Chloe Wilcox in
Madison, Connecticut. Correspondence regards family health, activities and business, life in Augusta, Georgia, and effects
of the war. Also included are an indenture, deed, account for the sale of hay, and a tax list.
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ms2924 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Joseph Rucker and Clarinda Pendleton Lamar papers
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Lamar, Clarinda Pendleton, 1856-1943 |
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1792-1936 |
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This collection consists of the papers of Joseph Rucker and Clarinda Pendleton Lamar from 1792-1936 and includes correspondence,
scrapbooks, certificates, engagement books, invitations, speeches, and telegrams pertaining to Joseph Lamar's service on the
Georgia and U.S. Supreme Courts; Clarinda Lamar's involvement with the Colonial Dames of America; and the Lamars' personal
and public life in Augusta, Georgia and Washington, D.C.
Correspondents of Justice Lamar, many of whom also continued to correspond with Mrs. Lamar after his death, included Augusta
friends W. H. Barrett, J. C. C. Black, E. H. Callaway, Ed. B. Hook and Andrew J. Cobb of Athens. Other notables included Woodrow
Wilson, William H. Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James A. Garfield, William Jennings Bryan, and Octave
Thanet (pseudonym of author Alice French). Mrs. Lamar also corresponded with Helen Taft, Mary Custis Lee, Edith Bolling Wilson,
Martha Berry, Daisy Low (Juliette Gordon), and Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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ms22 |
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Hargrett Library |
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