| 1061 |
Title: |
Thomas Smith family papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Smith, Thomas, 1745-1809 |
|
| |
Dates: |
1767-1912 |
|
| |
Contents: |
This collection includes legal documents related to Letitia Vandexen (sic) Smith, Thomas Smith and Frances Sophia Smith. The
Thomas Smith letterbook mainly consists of correspondence between members of the Thomas Smith family from 1767-1841. The earliest
letters (1767 and 1784) are from Smith to his mother Elizabeth Lawrence in Aberdeenshire, England. A group of 21 letters between
Smith and his cousin Dr. Peter Smith of Aberdeenshire discuss the American lifestyle, medical schools and practices, and the
judicial system. Another group of letters to Judge Jasper Yeates and Governor Thomas Mifflin refer to legal decisions and
court procedures. Other correspondents include Dr. Philip Physick and Smith's brother Charles of London, England. Also included
in the letterbook are two proclamations awarding judgeships to Smith, legal documents pertaining to the settlement of Smith's
estate (1816), and documents relating to land sales or mortgaged property (1826 and 1841). Series 2 contains typescripts of
letters between Thomas Smith and soon-to-be U.S. President George Washington in 1785-1786, in which Smith was acting as Washington's
attorney for some land suits in Philadelphia. The typescripts were made by Burton Alva Konkle in 1902. Finally, Series 3.
contains letters between Thomas Smith scholar Burton Alva Konkle and Wymberly Jones De Renne regarding the Thomas Smith collection.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms1055 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1062 |
Title: |
U. Harrold Davenport papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Davenport, Uriah Harrold, 1878-1963 |
|
| |
Dates: |
1860s-1960s |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of the financial records of Uriah Harrold Davenport, his wife Sallie Fleming and his sister, Mary
C. Davenport. A large portion of the collection deals with the estate of his wife, who had considerable land holdings in Athens,
particularly in African American neighborhoods.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms1375 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1063 |
Title: |
Steadman Vincent Sanford papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Sanford, Steadman Vincent, 1871-1945 |
|
| |
Dates: |
1865-1970 |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of correspondence dealing with University of Georgia business, texts of speeches and writings, photographs
and approximately 75 scrapbooks dealing with the University, education, and Sanford himself. A portion of the correspondence
deals with the events surrounding the October 12, 1929 Yale-Georgia stadium dedication game. Also included is a letter from
then governor of New York Franklin Roosevelt declining an invitation to the November 9, 1929 UGA-NYU game in New York. The
Phi Kappa Literary Society Minutes 1897-1909 are also included. A box inventory is located in a folder at the beginning of
Box No. 1.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms1578 |
|
| |
Repository: |
University of Georgia Archives |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1064 |
Title: |
Donald Windham and Sandy Campbell papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Windham, Donald |
|
| |
Dates: |
1934-1996, bulk 1940-1986 |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of manuscripts, shorter printed works, photographs, and ephemera relating to Donald Windham. In addition,
materials relating to Tennessee Williams and Sandy Campbell, two of Windham's close friends, are available.
Included in the collection are drafts of the novels Tanaquil and The Hero Continues, proofs for Tennessee Williams' letters
to Donald Windham, and scripts for You Touched Me. Also in the collection are printed editions of Windham's short stories,
including those which appeared in the New Yorker. Those stories were later combined to form Windham's autobiography of his
childhood home in Atlanta, Emblems of Conduct.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms1709 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1065 |
Title: |
Lucy O. Woodall Nicholson papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Nicholson, Lucy O. Woodall |
|
| |
Dates: |
1862-1968 |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of correspondence, ledgers, photographs, recipes, legal documents, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings,
etc, related to Lucy Nicholson. Part of the correspondence is from the Sibley family. Other documents relate to the Sibley
family, Madison G. Nicholson, and the Ladies Garden Club of Athens. An unidentified account of the Civil War is also included.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms1892 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1066 |
Title: |
Charles W. Hubner papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Hubner, Charles W. (Charles William), 1835-1929 |
|
| |
Dates: |
1835-1929 |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of correspondence, writings, and other information pertaining to Charles W. Hubner. Hubner's correspondents
in this collection include Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Alexander Stephens.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms1985 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1067 |
Title: |
Cadle family papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Cadle family |
|
| |
Dates: |
1880-1970 |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photos, UGA class notebooks, clippings and printed materials relating
to the Cadle family of Emanuel County, Georgia. Genealogical information is included on the Everett, Burke, Brinson, Foy,
Dasher, and Anderson families of Effingham, Screven, Richmond, Jefferson, Emanuel, and Houston counties. Varied papers and
pictures are included concerning the Overstreet and Scott families of Emanuel County, and the Braun family of Cleveland, Ohio
and Daytona Beach, Florida. Included are a letter and telegram from Ernest Neal, poet laureate of Georgia in the 1920s and
1930s. The collection also contains several metric survey plats, a metric deed and correspondence relating to them.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms2354 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1068 |
Title: |
Robert Scott Davis collection
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Davis, Robert Scott, 1954- |
|
| |
Dates: |
1844-2009 |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of mostly photocopied articles from various historical agencies, some original correspondence, maps,
photographs, and newspaper articles relating to subjects Mr. Davis has written about. Included are materials about Georgia's
participation in the Texas Revolution; Charles Cole Hind and Aetna Insurance; and miscellaneous Georgia material (especially
historic Georgia houses). The first deposit relates to Georgia's participation in the Texas Revolution. There is general soldier
information, rosters, maps, flags, and photographs, plus specific information on James W. Fannin and William A. Ward. The
Charles Cole Hind and Aetna Insurance material concerns Georgia and Alabama. Mrs. Hind, as the insurance representative, made
pre-Civil War building insurance surveys in the two states; xeroxes of the surveys are in this collection. There is also a
copy of the book of instruction for agents & a bound copy of The 100 Years of Fire Insurance..., the history of Aetna from
1819-1919. Finally, selections from the miscellaneous Georgia material include: information about the Harris-Pearson-Walker
House in Augusta, Carter's Quarters (National Register house) in Murray County, gold mining in Georgia, and materials gathered
on the history of Clinton and other places in Georgia.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms2549 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1069 |
Title: |
Jordan-Burnett papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Burnett, Eugene Paul |
|
| |
Dates: |
1860-1950 |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of letters, cartes-de-visite (most unidentified), biographical information on Rachel Gunby Jordan
and Eugene P. Burnett, printed material, Confederate money, clippings, and locks of hair. The main portion of the collection
consists of letters written to Delia D. Jordan in Sparta, Georgia, from her fiance Eugene Paul Burnett during the Civil War.
His letters describe daily camp life, his duties as Inspector General, and details of battles as he moved through South Carolina,
Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina. There are also letters from Delia's brothers, William Franklin Jordan, Robert Pierpont
Jordan, and George Gunby Jordan.
Also in the collection is a photograph of General Robert E. Lee and an Augusta newspaper, Daily Constitutionalist, from July
3, 1862. The newspaper contains descriptions of the current battles and lists of wounded men, including W.F. Jordan.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms2937 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1070 |
Title: |
John Donald Wade papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Wade, John Donald, 1892-1963 |
|
| |
Dates: |
1946-1950 |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of the papers of John Donald Wade during the years 1946-1950. The major part of the collection is
correspondence - letters from Wade soliciting manuscripts for the Georgia review, response letters from authors (including
Flannery O'Connor, Robert Penn Warren, Sinclair Lewis, and others), letters relating to Wade's horticultural interests, and
some personal letters. Also included are clippings, printed material, writings by Wade, and thesis research by Anne Wade
Rittenberry.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms2945 |
|
| |
Repository: |
University of Georgia Archives |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1071 |
Title: |
Allan Sloane papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Sloan, Allan |
|
| |
Dates: |
1937-1992 |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of scripts, clippings, correspondence and some photographs and tapes. Included with most scripts are
explanatory notes typed by Sloane. Some of the script titles and their content are: The big story (newspapermen); Duty bound
(draft evasion); Eleven Memory Street (displaced persons); Emily, Emily (Down syndrome); And James was a very small snail
(autism); Kids like these (Down syndrome); Man behind the gun (WWII); Martin Luther (religious biography); Navy log (stories
of Navy history); Radio readers digest (dramatization of war stories); Sit down, shut up or get out (exceptional children);
This is my son (Down syndrome); Time to remember (folktale documentary); To all my friends on shore (sickle cell anemia);
and Transatlantic call (international exchange documentary).
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms2959 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1072 |
Title: |
Bunnie Cox family scrapbooks
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Cox, Bunnie Vernon Porter (Belle Vernon Porter), 1911-1968 |
|
| |
Dates: |
1892-1968 |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of a family record album, and two family scrapbooks. The family record album contains genealogy of
the family names Porter, King, Strobhar and Habersham. The album held numerous loose papers consisting of clipping, photographs,
correspondence, printed material and genealogy information. Ancestors of Bunnie Cox include Roswell King (founder of Roswell,
Georgia) and Revolutionary War Major John Habersham. The two family scrapbooks are an engagement and wedding scrapbook of
Flora Middlebrooks Cox and a child's picture scrapbook made by LaNette Hillsman Middlebrooks.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms2987 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1073 |
Title: |
John M. Phillips family papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Phillips family |
|
| |
Dates: |
1857-1949 |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of photographs, correspondence, financial papers, diaries, deeds, genealogies, certificates, and other
materials related to John M. Phillips, the Phillips family, the Acree family, and the Isbell family.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms3178 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1074 |
Title: |
Emma Lewis Lipps papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Lipps, Emma Lewis |
|
| |
Dates: |
1899-1979 |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of Emma Lewis Lipps' correspondence from 1899-1970s, as well as documents belonging to her collected
over the course of a career. Also included are family photographs, including many of the Truslow family.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms3247 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1075 |
Title: |
Gone with the Wind literary estate papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Dates: |
1910-1988 |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of the literary estate papers from two filing cabinets of the offices of the Gone with the Wind Literary
Rights, arranged and labeled as they were. One cabinet contained papers dealing with the foreign translations of the book,
a Japanese musical production of Gone with the wind, plagiarism accusations from Susan Lawrence Davis, David Selznick musical
rights, local museums and Margaret Mitchell namesakes, and fan mail. The 2nd cabinet dealt mainly with a Stephens Mitchell
lawsuit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over sequel rights and includes court documents and correspondence. There are also papers
relating to his lawsuit against Showcase Atlanta for a stage production titled "Scarlett Fever." Also included are printed
material, phonograph records, videotapes, and cassette tapes. Of special interest are letters from Gone With the Wind movie
actors, post-World War II letters from translators of Gone With the Wind in France and Czechoslovakia, a journal of Wilbur
Kurtz written while he was advisor for the filming of the movie, and gossipy letters to Margaret Mitchell from his wife Annie
Laurie Kurtz as she watched the filming.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms3366 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1076 |
Title: |
John Paul Cooper family papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Cooper, John Paul, 1858-1927 |
|
| |
Dates: |
1780-1970 |
|
| |
Contents: |
Collection consists of correspondence, documents, and writings all pertaining to life, career, and family of John Paul Cooper.
Materials mainly range from late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. Notable items include the poetry of John P.
Cooper, family photographs, and eleven oversized copy books containing John P. Cooper's business correspondence from 1890-1912.
In addition to extensive family correspondence, Cooper also corresponded regularly with other businessman, such as Benjamin
D. Riegel, who owned the Trion Company in Trion, Georgia
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms4083 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1077 |
Title: |
Boyd family papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Mattox, Mary E. Turner, 1828-1903 |
|
| |
Dates: |
1810-1986 |
|
| |
Contents: |
This collection contains Anne Boyd's genealogical notes on the Boyd family as well as letters, postcards, deeds, receipts,
and photographs of related families in Georgia during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The bulk of this collection contains the papers of Minnie Branham Stonestreet, a writer for the Works Progress Administration's
Federal Writers' Project during the Great Depression. It includes her notes and drafts for a guidebook of Washington, Georgia;
oral histories; and some notes on her work as a genealogist. Also of note are the papers of Luke and Eliza Turner, parents
of Mary Mattox. Luke Turner served as a state representative of Wilkes County from 1838-1839.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms4296 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1078 |
Title: |
Fountain family papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Fountain family |
|
| |
Dates: |
1820-1955 |
|
| |
Contents: |
This collection contains the papers of the Fountain and McCants families of Georgia. A large portion of the collection is
comprised of the correspondence and financial records of Jonathan Jackson "Jack" McCants, Sr. (1845-1920) of Butler, Georgia.
Also included are land deeds, titles, surveys, recipts, insurance policies, tax information, and printed material from the
Fountain and McCants families, as well as a few letters from the McCrary family.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms4315 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1079 |
Title: |
Don Gillespie archive
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Gillespie, Don Chance, 1936-2019 |
|
| |
Dates: |
1890-2014 |
|
| |
Contents: |
Collection includes Don Gillespie's research, correspondence, concert programs, and photographs on 20th century composers.
Also included is Gillespie's notes and research on Thomas F. Ward for his book "The Search for Thomas F. Ward, Teacher of
Frederick Delius".
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
ms4448 |
|
| |
Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
| 1080 |
Title: |
Abraham Baldwin papers
|
Requires cookie* |
| |
Creator: |
Baldwin, Abraham, 1754-1807 |
|
| |
Dates: |
1770-1808 |
|
| |
Contents: |
The collection consists of correspondence, remarks about and copies of legislation, financial documents, and writings by Abraham
Baldwin.
|
|
| |
Identifier: |
UA97-092 |
|
| |
Repository: |
University of Georgia Archives |
|
| |
Similar Items: |
Find |
|
