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Isaac R. Gifford daybook
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Gifford, Isaac R. |
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1818-1820 |
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The collection consists of a daybook of Isaac R. Gifford from 1818-1820. Entries include customer transactions from Gifford's
store in Savannah, Georgia, and commentaries regarding the weather, militia, day-to-day activities, and a trip to Charleston,
South Carolina. The daybook also includes information pertaining to Gifford's business interests in Massachusetts and New
York.
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ms143 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Anthony Porter letter to C. Durand
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Porter, Anthony |
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1841 January 3 |
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A letter dated "Savannah 3d January 1841" addressed to C. Durand, a merchant of New York and New Orleans. Generally social
in tone and thanking Durand for his kindnesses during a stay in Baltimore, Porter also discourses on the scene in Savannah
and particularly the difficulties with the cotton crop: "The cotton crop (Sea Island and upland in Georgia) will not exceed
more than a half crop." The letter is two pages long entirely in Porter's bold hand.
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ms1267 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Aaron Barlow letters to Daniel Barlow
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Barlow, Aaron, active 1803 |
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1803-1804 |
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The collection consists of letters Aaron Barlow wrote to his brother Daniel Barlow. He wrote of Savannah that it is "tolerable
in this season... disagreeable in summer" when a great many Yankees go northward. He comments that it is very seldom to see
a white man carry anything; they pay an African American to carry everything.
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ms3446 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Habersham family papers
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Habersham family |
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1812-1862 |
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The collection consists of correspondence between members of the Richard Wylly Habersham family of Savannah and Clarkesville,
Georgia, from 1812-1862. Correspondents include Barnard Elliott Habersham, Sarah Habersham, Catherine Habersham, Harriet E.
Mathewes, Alexander Wylly Habersham, Francis Barnard Habersham, and C. Elliot. Of particular interest are letters written
to Barnard Habersham from Richard Wylly Habersham regarding national affairs from 1840-1842. Correspondence also concerns
family affairs, epidemics of cholera and yellow fever in Savannah, Georgia, and travels to Barbados and South America.
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ms36 |
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Hargrett Library |
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John Phillips diary
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Phillips, John, active 1853 |
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1853 |
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The collection consists of a diary of John Phillips from January-December 1853. Entries describe Phillips' visits to Boston,
Massachusetts and New York, New York, trips back to Savannah, Georgia, daily activities at the brickyard, business transactions,
the weather, and social activities.
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Identifier: |
ms1463 |
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Hargrett Library |
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William Starr Basinger collection
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Basinger, William Starr, 1827-1910 |
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Dates: |
1889-1932 |
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The collection consists of four manuscript volumes titled Personal reminiscences, created by William Starr Basinger, dated
1889-1896. The four volumes of handwritten reminiscences include histories of the Basinger and Starr families; involvement
of William Elon Basinger in Dade's Battle of the 2nd Seminole War in Florida; going to college at the University of Georgia;
and the law profession. Volumes also contain details of Basinger's involvement in the Savannah Volunteer Guards (later the
8th Georgia Battalion) during the American Civil War. Basinger was stationed in Ft. Screven, Savannah, Ft. Boggs and Ft. Wagoner
in Charleston, and near Richmond, VA, where he was captured and sent to prison on Johnson's Island, OH. Basinger also discusses
his activities after the war including his move to Dahlonega, Georgia and his presidency at the North Georgia Agricultural
College. The fifth volume in the collections, Savannah Volunteer Guards, is a composite typescript, taken in part from Basinger's
Personal reminiscences.
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Identifier: |
ms138 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Edward Harden family papers
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Harden, Edward, 1784-1849 |
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Dates: |
1779-1928 |
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The collection consists of the papers of Edward Harden and other Harden and Jackson family members of Savannah and Athens,
Georgia from 1779-1928, including letters, receipts, autographs, commissions, deeds, diaries, scrapbooks.
Materials relating to Edward Harden, a planter and politician from Savannah and Athens, include indentures, receipts, account
books (1836-1842) for his law practice, and common place books (1805, 1830-1837) containing accounts for his plantations,
legal notes, and journal entries.
Also included are the diaries of Mary Ann Elizabeth Randolph, Mary Elizabeth Greenhill Harden, and Edward Harden Jr.'s children.
The diaries (1864-1928) of Harden's great-niece, Eveline Harden Jackson, describe her school days, social activities, the
Civil War, and news of family and friends.
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ms45 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. family papers
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Jones family |
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Dates: |
circa 1749-1930 |
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The collection consists of papers of the Rev. Charles Colcock Jones family of Liberty County, Georgia from ca. 1749-1909.
The early letters (1850-1861) are between Charles Colcock Jones and Mary Jones in Liberty County, Georgia and their son, Charles
Jr., while at school in Princeton and Harvard and later in Savannah (Ga.) where he set up his law practice. The letters discuss
social and family life, plantation life, politics and government, religious philosophies, and events leading up to the Civil
War. From 1861-1865, Charles Jr.'s letters chronicle his involvement as an officer in the Chatham Artillery stationed along
the Georgia coast near Savannah, then Charleston and James Island (S.C.), and Jacksonville (Fla.). After the war, the personal
correspondence is mainly between Charles Jr., his mother Mary Jones, his wife Eva Eve Jones, and his brother Joseph Jones.
There is also a smattering of correspondence regarding his law practice.
The collection also contains two volumes of letters Eva Eve Jones wrote to family describing her travels through Europe in
1879, manuscripts of Charles Jr.'s writings on Georgia history, Charles Jr.'s speeches including an 1861 speech to the Chatham
Artillery, and addresses (1886-1892) he gave before the Confederate Survivors Association. Also included is a copy of the
original manuscript for William Bartram's book Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians attributed to Ephraim G. Sqier
(1821-1888). The manuscript contains tracings of Bartram's drawing of prehistoric mounds, Creek towns, and Cherokee and Creek
structures not found in the published work.
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ms215 |
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Hargrett Library |
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