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5501 Title:   Louis-Matthieu Molé letter to Paul-Pierre Thomasson  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Molé, Louis-Mathieu, comte, 1781-1855  
  Dates:   1830 September 1  
  Contents:  
The collection consists of one letter dated Paris, September 1, 1830, "Monsieur [Mr. Thomasson]", vice consul in Savannah, signed Molé, requesting that the vice consul comply with Louis Philippe's new law requiring all public officials to swear allegiance to the new regime and the new constitution and its laws. A note in the upper left margin indicates that the Savannah diplomat received and replied to the document.
  
  Identifier:   ms949  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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5502 Title:   Joseph E. Brown papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Brown, Joseph E., (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894  
  Dates:   1823-1895  
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The collection consists of papers of Joseph E. Brown from 1823-1895 and includes correspondence, letter books, tax returns, speeches, and diaries. It contains official correspondence and letterbooks (1858-1863) as Governor of Georgia which are particularly strong in information regarding Georgia's secession and involvement in the Civil War and includes such correspondents as Howell Cobb, Alexander H. Stephens, and other Confederate government officials. Also included are an 1864 speech of Howell Cobb, a speech (1868) made by Brown regarding Reconstruction politics, and a manuscript copy (1864) of Brown's pamphlet concerning Benjamin H. Hill's notes on Reconstruction. The collection also contains diaries of Franklin P. Brown (1868), Joseph Mackey Brown (1867, 1874, 1876), and Elijah A. Brown (1882, Jan. only). Much of this collection is transcribed with full transcripts in boxes 7-10.
  
  Identifier:   ms95  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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5503 Title:   Robert Frost memorabilia collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Frost, Robert, 1874-1963  
  Dates:   circa 1924, 1974  
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The collection consists of miscellaneous Robert Frost items: one of 175 copies of An Old Man's Winter Night autographed by the poet; four Robert Frost commemorative postage stamps; two picture post cards; a University of Massachusetts Press catalog; one Library of Congress Information Bulletin, dated April 5, 1974, with a write-up of the Robert Frost Commemorative celebration.
  
  Identifier:   ms950  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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5504 Title:   Maury A. Bromsen papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Bromsen, Maury A.  
  Dates:   1973-1974  
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The collection consists of correspondence between John Bonner, Head of Special Collections at the University of Georgia, and Maury Bromsen. Bonner and Bromsen discuss manuscripts University of Georgia purchased (and received) from Bromsen (including Lanman's Congressional manuscripts and the Alfred Burton Greenwood manuscript). The collection also consists of clippings regarding the annual Bromsen Lectures in Humanistic Bibliography at the Boston Public Library.
  
  Identifier:   ms951  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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5505 Title:   James Oglethorpe letter to Sir John Philipps  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Oglethorpe, James Edward, 1696-1785  
  Dates:   1734 January 16  
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The collection consists of one letter: dated Isles of Wight, January 16, 1734, Sir [John Philipps], signed James Oglethorpe. Oglethorpe describes the settling of the Salzburgers in Georgia, and tells of bringing Tomochichi, an Indian chief, and an Indian child the chief claims as his heir, back to England.
  
  Identifier:   ms952  
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5506 Title:   James Monroe Smith papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Smith, James Monroe, 1839-1915  
  Dates:   1895-19171  
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The collection consists of some business papers and legal records of James Monroe Smith. The papers are concened mostly with a lawsuit against Cowan, Usry & Co., of Worth County, Georgia, and a suit contesting the disposition of the estate of Smith, who died intestate. The business papers include statements, receipts, and ledger sheets regarding "hiring convicts." The legal papers include copies of injuctions, contracts, depositions, petitions and promisory notes. The letters to and from lawyers refer to a case heard before the state court of appeals after Smith's death.
  
  Identifier:   ms953  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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5507 Title:   Freeman collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1802-1920  
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The collection documents the business transactions of the Union City Realty & Trust Co., and Consolidated Trust Co., its owners and major investors: John A. Phillips, J. H. Harris, Ida Harris, Mrs. M. E. Phillips; their creditors, partners, and many legal transactions. It proves an interesting perspective on the founding of Union City by land speculators complete with ad campaign promotions and possibly exploitations. The collection is comprised of correspondence, affidavits, depositions, land grant copies, land surveys, bonds, deeds, abstracts of titles, mortgages, court summons, petitions, settlements, judgements, FiFa's, promissory notes, accounts, receipts, stock certificates, news clippings, business cards, a will and a broadside. The greatest concentration of material is within the 1870-1911 period.
  
  Identifier:   ms954  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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5508 Title:   Graduale - Illuminated Spanish manuscript  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1507  
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The collection consists of an illuminated 16th century parchment Spanish manuscript of the Gradual of the Roman Catholic liturgy. The manuscript is richly illuminated throughout the text with particular emphasis on the first capital letter which is executed in gold and pastel colors. Many of the remaining capital letters of the manuscript are of a red and blue Moorish design while the verse letters are black with yellow trim. A portion of the Kyriale and Sanctorale sections are palimpsest, that is erased and reused, with some of the old notation still visible. The manuscript is bound in tooled leather fastened to wooden boards with ornamental brass plates and knobs on back and front covers.
  
  Identifier:   ms955  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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5509 Title:   United States presidential letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hargrett Library  
  Dates:   1780-1991  
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The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, and documents signed by presidents of the United States from 1780-1991. Documents include appointments, bank notes, indentures, and pardons. Presidents include John Quincy Adams, James Buchanan, George H. W. Bush, Calvin Coolidge, Millard Fillmore, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, William McKinley, James Monroe, Richard Nixon, Franklin Pierce, James K. Polk, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Zachary Taylor, Harry Truman, John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, George Washington, and Woodrow Wilson.
  
  Identifier:   ms956  
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5510 Title:   British theatrical autograph album  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   circa 1900  
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The collection consists of an album containing twenty-seven signatures, some with good wishes or other inscriptions, of leading figures on the British stage in 1904 and later. Names included are Olga Nethersole, Ellen Terry, Fred Terry, Gertie Millar, Lena Ashwell, Lily Brayton, William Gillette, Constance Collier, Evelyn Millard, Martin Harvey, Marie Tempest, Julie Neilson, Junius Booth, Vesta Tilley, Marie Lloyd, Marie Loftus, George Hackenschmidt, Edward Compton, Annie Hughes and others.
  
  Identifier:   ms958  
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5511 Title:   John Wereat letter  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Wereat, John, approximately 1733-1799  
  Dates:   1797 January 13  
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The collection consists of one letter: dated Hardwick, January 13, 1797, "Dear sir," signed "John Wereat," regarding an order for rice and 150 bushels of corn. The other side of the letter contains an unsigned letter (rough draft) to "George Washington, President of the U. S. of A.," regarding appointment to office.
  
  Identifier:   ms959  
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5512 Title:   Scrapbooks commemorating Henry W. Grady  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Grady, Anne E. Gartrell  
  Dates:   after 1878  
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The collection consists of two scrapbooks: created by Mrs. Anne E. Gartrell, containing newspaper articles regarding Henry Grady's death, and tributes to his life (circa 1889); "presented to Mrs. Mattie N. Grady," containing miscellaneous newspaper clippings, including articles about and by Henry W. Grady, and articles by and concerning the death of Mrs. Estelle Leyden Moody (1878-1879).
  
  Identifier:   ms96  
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5513 Title:   Mrs. Sarah Sims Way collection of formal invitations  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Vickers, R. H., Mrs.  
  Dates:   1870, 1872  
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The collection consists of two invitations: addressed to "Mr. M. G. Robert" and "Mrs. Robert," Mrs. R. H. Vickers is honoring Sallie Vickers and J. Wilkes Sanders, December 22, 1870; addressed to "Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Sims, Washington, Georgia," concerning S. Annie Maxwell and George Palmer at the Presbyterian Church, Augusta, Georgia, November 6, 1872.
  
  Identifier:   ms961  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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5514 Title:   Robert White Linker manuscript  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Linker, Robert White  
  Dates:   1974  
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The collection consists of the bound and corrected typescript of Dr. Linker's Cancionero de Roma 231-270, copyright 1974.
  
  Identifier:   ms962  
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5515 Title:   Georgia mercantile record book  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1870-1883  
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The collection consists of one record book. Handwritten entries (1870-1833) concern sales and prices; and list names of men in Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama towns who owned stores, owed money, and had paid accounts. Items sold included cotton, corn, wheat, rice, oats, potatoes, chickens, eggs, and butter; dried and uncured animal hides.
  
  Identifier:   ms963  
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5516 Title:   Harry Tate papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Tate, Harry, 1872-1940  
  Dates:   1901-1913  
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The collection consists of accounts and materials related to the threat of a law suits by Harry Tate against his brother, William S. Hutchison. The matter was settled by a mutual release dated December 9, 1913. Most of the letters are to Hutchison, either from Tate or his legal representative, asking for the release to Tate of all "vouchers, accounts, statements, documents and papers," as well as an insurance policy of Tate's which Hutchison held. The accounts show the receipts and sources of income on the part of Harry Tate, including both an Australian tour and an American tour.
  
  Identifier:   ms964  
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5517 Title:   Bicentennial ephemera  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Parker, R.  
  Dates:   circa 1976  
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The collection consists of two items relating to the bicentennial year: The U. S. A.-- The Land of the Free, a typed poem by Reverend R. Parker of Philadelphia; a greeting card from the USSR Academy of Science Library.
  
  Identifier:   ms966  
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5518 Title:   Cornelius C. Platter Civil War diary  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Platter, Cornelius C.  
  Dates:   1864-1865  
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The collection consists of a Civil War diary of Lt. (later Capt.) Cornelius C. Platter from November 1864-April 1865. Platter's diary details Sherman's march through Georgia from Rome to Savannah and the march north through the Carolinas. He gives dates, times, and lengths of marches; describes the weather, locale, scenery, and food as well as orders, rumors, positions, troop moral, and administrative duties. The diary includes a description of the burning of Columbia, South Carolina, the news of the Confederate surrender, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
  
  Identifier:   ms967  
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5519 Title:   United States Army Signal Corps telegram  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928  
  Dates:   1918 October 14  
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The collection consists of one telegram: dated Washington, October 14, 1918, making public a note from the Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, to "charge D'Affaires of Switzerland as interim in charge of German interests in the United States."
  
  Identifier:   ms968  
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5520 Title:   Aurelius W. Gibson letter to Andrew Johnson  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Gibson, Aurelius W.  
  Dates:   1865 June 17  
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The collection consists of one letter: dated United States Military Prison, Fort Delaware, Delaware, June 17, 1865, "To His Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States," signed "Aurelius W. Gibson, Major 45th Georgia Regiment and Prisoner of War." In the letter, Gibson takes the oath of allegiance to the United States, and requests a pardon. Attached to the letters is a completed form for the oath.
  
  Identifier:   ms969  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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