diaries

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This collection contains a 5-year diary from a young woman living in Old Hickory, Tennessee at the outset of WWII (1939-1943) detailing her daily life with some breaks in between entries.

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The collection consists of Nellie Burns' diaries which contain business transactions, social interactions, and her daily activities.

Scope and Contents This notebook contains travel writings from December 23, 1886 to January 18, 1887 by an unidentified writer. The writer [presumably male] traveled in Cuba with a friend named Charlie Starbuck. He mentions visiting a bullfight by Luis Mazzantini, a holiday celebration, a balloon ascension by Captain Infanti, and seeing Sarah Bernhardt, a French actress.The last half of the notebook is filled with spelling practice, recipes, and brief day notes from the year 1916, in different...

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This collection contains one diary of J. S. Davis from 1914, sparsely noted. It includes general information regarding matriculation at Vanderbilt and, relative to monies received and what was paid.

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The Landon Cabell Garland Papers (1830-1958) includes correspondence, diaries, speeches, sermons, a report to the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, and personal and biographical materials. These are personal papers of Chancellor Garland and are not to be confused with his university papers. This collection is a small snapshot of Chancellor Garland's personal life, with the family correspondence providing the main interest.

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The Mrs. Shelton Griffin Diary contains a diary written by a woman working on a cotton and peanut farm in south Alabama at the beginning of the Great Depression in 1931, detailing daily farming life in rural Alabama.

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This collection contains a handwritten daily diary dated 1915-1916 by Ranson Griffin. Griffin is 74 year old woman that details her life, family, and friends in rural Alabama.

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This collection contains one handwritten diary describing experiences while assigned to a hospital group from Camp Funston during World War I. There are some sketches in the notebook. The entries are dated June 4, 1918 travelling France to July 2, 1919 back to New York.

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This small collection of two Hollinger boxes (.84 linear feet) contains correspondence and personal and biographical materials relating to Andrew Jacob Haun and Mattie Francis Oliver Haun, aunt and uncle of the southern writer Mildred E. Haun, whose papers are also held by Special Collections in the Vanderbilt University Library

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This collection contains three diaries of T.M.N. Jones, describing his service in the Cavalry of the Confederate Army from September 24, 1863 to May 23, 1865. There is a typed transcript of the same. The collection is in two file folders.

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This small collection contains one handwritten diary from the Civil War, a typescript of the diary, and a book from 1895.

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This collection contains three items, listed and described below:

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The Nettie Hale Rand Collection, 1480-1941, consists of early printings and rare editions collected by philanthropist Nettie Hale Rand, 1881-1942, and the diary she kept while traveling in Europe in the 1934.

Abstract The Papers of Louis Thurston Nicholas, which cover the years 1894-2006, consist of 208 linear feet of material and are concerned with Nicholas’s personal and professional life. Major series in the papers include Personal and Professional Correspondence; material relating to his activities in the National Association of the Teachers of Singing (NATS); Personal and Biographical papers; his Musical and Academic Career and programs from the George Peabody College Concert Series; ...

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This collection includes correspondence, diaries, journals where articles were published, etc. Series I contains incoming correspondence that is arranged alphabetically, then by date in the folders. A few pieces of correspondence are written in French and Spanish. Series II contains publications.

Books received with the collection were removed and catalogued.

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The George Marion O'Donnell Papers, 1870-1983, consist of the writings, correspondence, and other materials of writer George Marion O'Donnell, 1914-1962.