- keyword(s): * Years: 1500 to 1900
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Knox-Jones Family Collection
In the first letter, W. B. Knox congratulates his sister, Sarah "Sallie" Jones on her decision to remarry. He encourages her to send her daughter Julia for a visit. In the second letter, Jones' daughter Mary A. Jones writes to her sister Julia A. Jones, who is visiting the Knox family in Albany.
Alfred William Douglass Diary
This collection contains one handwritten, penciled, notebook which represents class notes taken by Alfred William Douglass while a student at University of Nashville, dated November 20, 1841. The notebook contains 118 numbered pages of history, theology, and poetry notes.
Brainard Bartwell Cheney and Frances Neel Cheney Papers
Cuban Slave Documents
A collection of several documents spanning six leaves that shows the persistent nature of slavery in Cuba during the later half of the 19th century. Though Cuba ended its participation in the slave trade in 1867, it was not until 1886 that slavery was finally abolished by royal decree.
John David Wheat Collection
Contains articles about Jean Lafitte, General Santander, and the history of Texas.
Holland Nimmons McTyeire Sermons
Humphrey Howell Bate Biographical File
Biographical file on Dr. Bate, including newspaper clippings, certificates, receipts, correspondence, class tickets and notes from the University of Nashville.
Mary Ella Calhoun Foote Estate Papers
This collection contains the papers of Mary Ella Calhoun Foote. Upon her death in 1918, she left her entire estate to Vanderbilt University to erect a building in memory of her father, William Henry Calhoun, a Nashville jeweler. The bulk of this collection contains correspondence, with other miscellaneous estate papers at the end.
1845 Diary of a Southern Educator
This collection contains a daily, handwritten diary from 1845 of a unidentified Southern educator who taught in Nashville and later, during the inaugural year of the Natchez Institute, the first public school in Mississippi.
John Kimmel Collection
This collection contains 15 items. The letters are addressed primarily to John Kimmel from friends, during the Civil War. One letter is addressed to Lucy Ingham, who became his wife. There is one unidentified daguerreotype photograph included in the collection, and one poem by John Kimmel.
Cuban Slave Manuscripts
Sydney Dalton/Stephen Foster Collection
John Metzger Family Papers
Delta Kappa Epsilon
The Delta Kappa Epsilon collection, 1847-2009, consists of correspondence, minutes, and promotional materials related to the Gamma Chapter of the fraternity.
Persian Manuscripts Collection
The Persian Manuscripts Collection, 1478-1848, consists of manuscript leaves written in the Persian alphabet.
Thomas Jennings, M.D. Biographical File
Biographical file includes a medical mailing concerning 'congenital inversion of the bladder.'
William Turner Lawsuit Collection
The William Turner Lawsuit Collection is a small collection comprised of original, handwritten legal documents from an 1848-1852 dispute over the sale of a fourteen-year old enslaved girl, Phebe. 17 folders contain original letters; the other 10 are transcriptions created in 2017.
Thomas S. Jones and John R. Jones Family Papers
This collection contains the accounting records of a plantation in Charleston, Mississippi; the correspondence of two brothers, Thomas S. Jones [who was in charge of the plantation] and John R. Jones [who was practicing medicine in Marshall County, Tennessee]; and speech. Buleah Davis donated this collection in 1939.
Hutchinson Family Papers
Harry H. and George Suttle Papers
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