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4921 Title:   De Renne Historic Georgia Manuscripts collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   De Renne, Wymberley Jones, 1853-1916  
  Dates:   1746-1918  
  Contents:  
The collection consists of miscellaneous correspondences, notes, and documents collected by the De Renne family pertaining almost wholly to historical figures important in the development of Georgia as a colony and state.
  
  Identifier:   ms1136  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4922 Title:   Augusta Jane Evans Wilson letter  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane), 1835-1909  
  Dates:   1866 October 23  
  Contents:  
The collection consists of a handwritten letter that was removed from a special edition of St. Elmo A novel, by Augusta J. Evans for preservation purposes. The letter is dated Mobile, October 23, 1866, "My dear kind friend," signed "A. J. Evans," and regards Evans' views toward the recently concluded Civil War and her own literary efforts. St. Elmo A novel by Augusta J. Evans is located in Special Collections Hargrett Rare Books (RBV), call number PS3332.S137 1867b.
  
  Identifier:   ms1162  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4923 Title:   Robert Toombs letter to General Gustavus W. Smith  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885  
  Dates:   1865 March 25  
  Contents:  
The collection consists of one letter: dated Washington, Georgia, March 25, 1865, "Dear General," signed "R. Toombs," regarding a militia bill, Union operations and strategies, a march to capture Savannah while Sherman is operating outside the state, and the ousting of President Jefferson Davis to save the Confederacy.
  
  Identifier:   ms1163  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4924 Title:   Conrad Aiken poem  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973  
  Dates:   before 1973  
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The collection consists of a one-page typescript of Conrad Aiken's poem "Maya" signed by the author.
  
  Identifier:   ms1164  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4925 Title:   James Wright answer to the Lords of the Committee for Trade  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Wright, James, Sir, 1716-1785  
  Dates:   1762 February 15  
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The collection consists of a twenty-nine page folio containing Georgia Colonial Governor Sir James Wright's answers to questions posed by the Lords of the Committee for Trade of Great Britain's Privy Council dated Savannah, Georgia, February 15, 1762. Divided into 17 sections, the document contains information on Georgia's geography, boundaries, location of rivers and towns, as well as French or Spanish settlements; trade with Great Britain; imported goods of British manufacture; trade with foreign countries; produce of Georgia; population and growth in the colony; the militia; forts and defenses; trade, treaties, population, and location of the Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaws, and Cherokee Indians; duties; civil officers including name, title of office, pay, and when appointed; and the court system.
  
  Identifier:   ms1039  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4926 Title:   Henry Rootes Jackson letter to Charles Colcock Jones, Jr.  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Jackson, Henry R. (Henry Rootes), 1820-1898  
  Dates:   1868 April 2  
  Contents:  
The collection consists of one letter: dated Savannah, April 2, 1868, to "My dear Col.," signed "H. R. Jackson," concerning photography and chirography.
  
  Identifier:   ms1224  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4927 Title:   Prosper J. Berckmans orchard notebook  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Berckmans, Prosper Jules Alphonse  
  Dates:   circa 1857  
  Contents:  
The collection consists of a notebook kept by Prosper J. Berckmans. The notebook contains sketches and descriptions of various species of fruits and vegetables, including gooseberries, apples, pumpkins, and pears.
  
  Identifier:   ms1261  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4928 Title:   John Brown Gordon correspondence with Henry Faison Emery  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Gordon, John Brown, 1832-1904  
  Dates:   1901-1903  
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The collection primarily consists of correspondence from John Brown Gordon to Henry Faison Emery of Atlanta, Georgia from 1901-1903. The letters discuss Atlanta taxes, land in Georgia, Florida land speculation, and business interests. The collection also contains one letter from Emery to Gordon discussing taxes Gordon owed on property in Georgia.
  
  Identifier:   ms1270  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4929 Title:   Henry Rootes Jackson scrapbook  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Jackson, Henry R. (Henry Rootes), 1820-1898  
  Dates:   circa 1860  
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One scrapbook containing a number of pamphlets and clippings such as: Biographical Sketches of Hon. John C. Breckinbridge and General Joseph Lane (1860); Address of Hon. John C. Breckinridge preceding the Removal of the Senate from the old to the new chamber, January 4, 1859 (1860); Remarks of Hon. Joseph Lane, Dec. 19, 1859; The dividing line between federal and local authority (1859); Observations of territorial sovereignty (1860); Speech of Hon. J. P. Benjamin, May 22, 1860; Reply of Hon. Jefferson Davis to the speech of Senator Douglas, May 16-17, 1860 (1860); Speech of Hon. Robt. Toombs of Georgia, May 21, 1860; Speech of President Buchanan on the evening of Monday, July 9, 1860; Speech of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, July 18, 1860; Speech of Hon. B. F. Hallett, June 25, 1860; Minority report of Mr. Stephen (1860).
  
  Identifier:   ms1313  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4930 Title:   Sidney Lanier poem "The Power of Prayer"  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881  
  Dates:   undated  
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The collection consists of the manuscript copy of Sidney Lanier's dialect poem, "The Power of Prayer (Or The First Steamboat Up the Alabama)". The manuscript is signed on page 5 "Sidney and Clifford Lanier" but is actually in the autograph of neither. An address, "195 Dean St. Brooklyn, N. Y.", is given in the upper left hand corner of page 1. The five-page poem is mounted on 10 inch x 12 inch sheets and bound in maroon cloth-covered boards. Also bound in is a contemporary engraving of Sidney Lanier.
  
  Identifier:   ms1320  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4931 Title:   Benjamin W. Hunt letter to T. F. Sellers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hunt, Benjamin W. (Benjamin Weeks), 1847-1934  
  Dates:   circa 1900  
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A letter from Benjamin W. Hunt to T.F. Sellers in circa 1900. The letter describes Hunt's battle with rabies, the procedures necessary to cure the disease, and the introduction of the Pasteur Institute's methods in the United States.
  
  Identifier:   ms1401  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4932 Title:   Benjamin Harvey Hill letter to J. H. Scott  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hill, Benjamin H. (Benjamin Harvey), 1823-1882  
  Dates:   1862 December 24  
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A letter written by Benjamin Harvey Hill to J. H. Scott on 24 December 1862 from his home in LaGrange, Georgia. Hill describes the settling of the estate of N. Tompkins and other financial arrangements noting that "I should like to pay it by or before 1st Jany as by the 8 of that month I leave for Richmond."
  
  Identifier:   ms1405  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4933 Title:   George W. Crawford letter to Charles Jones Jenkins  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Crawford, George Washington, 1798-1872  
  Dates:   1845 February 15  
  Contents:  
One letter: dated Milledgeville, Georgia, February 15, 1845, to Charles J. Jenkins, signed "G. W. Crawford," concerning policies, beliefs, political theories, and the future of the Whig party.
  
  Identifier:   ms1416  
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4934 Title:   Sidney Lanier poem  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881  
  Dates:   circa 1880  
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One note card containing handwritten verses from Sunrise, the first segment of Hymns of the Marshes, signed by Sidney Lanier. The present manuscript differs slightly in both wording and punctuation from the published version in Poems of Sidney Lanier edited by Mary Day Lanier.
  
  Identifier:   ms1425  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4935 Title:   Mark A. Cooper letters to Emily Branham  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Cooper, Mark A. (Mark Anthony), 1800-1885  
  Dates:   1854-1855  
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The collection consists of three letters and one envelope from Mark A. Cooper (1800-1885) of Etowah, Georgia, to his sister Mrs. Emily Branham of Eatonton, Georgia. The letters, dated December 27, 1854, March 3, 1855, and July 18, 1855, discuss family matters, problems, and business transactions as Cooper seeks to straighten out some family difficulties. The envelope bears a fine embossment advertising Cooper's manufactory.
  
  Identifier:   ms1446  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4936 Title:   Yazoo Land Fraud document  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813  
  Dates:   1795 March 3, 1795 July 28  
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The collection consists of two documents related to the Yazoo Land Fraud. The first piece, dated March 3, 1795, is the enrolled copy of the congressional resolution authorizing "that the President of the United States be, and hereby is requested to give directions to the Attorney General, to collect, digest, report to the next Congress, the Charters, treaties and other documents relative to, and explanatory of the title to the land situate in the south-western parts of the United States, and claimed by certain companies, under a law of the State of Georgia...". Accompanying it is a manuscript circular letter dated July 28, 1795, signed by Edmund Randolph as Secretary of State to Thomas Pinckney, Minister Plenipotentiary in London discussing the resolution.
  
  Identifier:   ms1457  
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4937 Title:   Clement Anselm Evans letters to Charles Edgeworth Jones  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Evans, Clement A. (Clement Anselm), 1833-1911  
  Dates:   after 1893  
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The collection consists of four letters signed "Clement A. Evans": dated Atlanta, Georgia, October 3, 1893, "Mr. Charles Edgeworth Jones," regarding Confederate history in Georgia; dated Atlanta, Georgia, May 6, 1908, "My dear Edgeworth," regarding "the annual report as the Historian of Camp 435," and the importance of Edgeworth's services; dated Atlanta, Georgia, July 16, "My dear Edgeworth," regarding the full length portrait; dated Atlanta, November 1, "My dear friend," regarding "colonial and Confederate records."
  
  Identifier:   ms1466  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4938 Title:   Charles Jones Jenkins letters to Charles Colcock Jones, Jr.  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Jenkins, Charles Jones, 1805-1883  
  Dates:   1874 July 10, 1880 November 3  
  Contents:  
The collection consists of two letters: dated Augusta, July 10, 1874, "Col. C. C. Jones," signed "C. J. Jenkins," regarding Thomas Norwood'ss speech, Dr. Lipscomb, and other business matters; dated Summerville (or, Summersville), November 3, 1880, "My dear Col.," signed "C. J. Jenkins," regarding legislative matters.
  
  Identifier:   ms1467  
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4939 Title:   William J. Northen letter to Charles Edgeworth Jones  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Northen, William J. (William Jonathan), 1835-1913  
  Dates:   1890 May 5  
  Contents:  
The collection consists of one letter: dated Sparta, Georgia, May 5, 1890, "Mr. Charles Edgeworth Jones," signed "W. J. Northen," regarding Northen's thoughts concerning his gubernatorial candidacy.
  
  Identifier:   ms1470  
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4940 Title:   John Donald Wade letter to Charles Edgeworth Jones  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Wade, John Donald, 1892-1963  
  Dates:   1921 October 22  
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The collection consists of one letter written on University of Georgia, School of English letterhead: dated October 22, 1921, "My dear Mr. Jones," signed "John D. Wade," regarding Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, and the history of Augusta, Georgia during the period of Longstreet's residence there.
  
  Identifier:   ms1472  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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