Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: In this letter to Moses White, Felix Zollicoffer responds to rumors regarding Granville Searcy that Moses White mentioned in an earlier communication. According to "these whisperings, Searcy is an unusually profane man, a whore-house bully, a notorious drunkard, has left an insane wife at home ... at the point of death, and attended a negro ball." Zollicoffer concedes that he has "seen Searcy drink and heard him swear (although neither to excess)," but denies the rest of the accusations,...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection consists of two letters written by Lyon Gardiner Tyler dated December 21, 1881, and March 10, 1882. The former letter is addressed to Colonel John S. Cunningham in which Tyler expresses his desire to collect his father's most important speeches and letters. The second letter again expresses Tyler’s pursuit to collect his father's works. In the message he conveys his continued interest in ascertaining dates of address or publication of, contextual information of, and copies of...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection consists of a handwritten, satirical pamphlet dated 1866 entitled "'My Policy' or The New Gospel of Peace According to St. Andy the Apostate." The document criticizes Andrew Johnson's vetoes of the Freedmen's Bureau Act and Civil Rights Act of 1866. Throughout the pamphlet, the author mocks Johnson's stances on Reconstruction and Civil Rights, satirizing Johnson as eager to break up the Union and quick to strike down Republican legislation he doesn't agree with. The pamphlet...

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This collection consists of a single draft letter written by Wallace McClure. The letter was written to a former professor and concerns McClure's future. In the letter, he discusses his career goals and future education, noting that he "did not intend to make the law my life work; to do so has never in fact been my intention."

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This collection consists of one letter written by William G. Campbell of Abingdon, Virginia to Moses White of Knoxville, Tennessee on January 16, 1848. In the letter, Campbell speaks of how he met his sweetheart, Susan Wallace of Knoxville, and wondered if Moses had found his sweetheart. Campbell asks him not to disclose any of the information about his sweetheart in the letter to others.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: Written in 1983 for the National Conference on Public Administration in New York, Stephen Rechichar and Michael Fitzgerald's paper, "The Big Dam and the Little Fish: TVA's Tellico Dream in an Era of Intragovernmental Regulation," outlines the controversial construction of Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River between 1936 and 1979 by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Sources are taken from the Tennessee Valley Authority, local people and local officials, state and federal documents....

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This legal document, written by James H. Stone in October 1871, outlines the legitimization of claim to land for the Educational Home for Boys. The document cites chronological wills from the initial purchase of the land on April 8, 1738 by John Bartram, noted American botanist. His will, dated January 7 1772, left his land to his son, James Bartram. The James Bartram will, dated January 19, 1797, leaves the land to his son, James Bartram II and annuities to be paid to his daughters. James...

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This collection consists of book reviews by John C. Hodges.

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This collection consists of two letters to William W. Lowry, from the Post Office Department and the Bureau of Pensions, notifying him of his appointment to Postmaster for McMinn County in Tennessee.

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This July 25, 1794 bail bond is for William Henry, written by Henry Breazeale, to be served by Sheriff Robert Houston of Knox County, Tennessee. The bond is set at $1,000 for alleged trespassing and damages of $500 to James Stinson. The bond summons William Henry to appear at Knox Courthouse, verified by a signed note on the reverse by Robert Houston, dated August 2, 1794.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: A single letter written on March 22, 1844, by Spencer Jarnagin in Washington City to W. H. Thompson, Esq. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The letter details the account of Jarnagin receiving a letter from Thompson requiring a payment. Jarnagin then proceeds to pay by check, a sum that may be retrieved at North American Bank in Philadelphia. The end of the letter also informs Thompson that his old acquaintances, General Jacobs and Hugh S. McClung, are in town and may be leaving for Philadelphia...

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This collection consists of a single note and a photograph sketch of John McPherson Berrien, dated July 7, 1848 from Washington. The note states that Berrien complied with a request made and signed his name.

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This collection contains a piece of correspondence from William Walker to John Player and a table of contents. In the correspondence, Walker asks Player several questions about botany including ferns growing in specific geographic regions.

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These materials, spanning 1895 to 1940, are from Walter Woodburn Hyde, noted academic, historian and archaeologist from New York. The items include newspaper clippings, a personal notebook, notes, photos, a letter, menu, pages from a book, index card, and bulletins and postcards from the travels of Hyde around United States and European universities and historical sites.

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This collection consists of the original dust-cover draft of Winston Folk's summary of the book Full Many A Name by Mabel Goode Frantz (1961) which appeared on the publication.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: These letters contain the correspondence between Andrew Jackson Donelson, addressed to or written by, and various family members, largely his father and second wife, Elizabeth. Most are concerned with traveling information, such as where to forward a letter whilst traveling, or to whose care a letter may be addressed that it might be received. A generous portion of each letter is devoted to asking after the well-being and current status or whereabouts of various family members and the...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: These letters contain the correspondence between Andrew Jackson Donelson, addressed to or written by, and various family members, largely his father and second wife, Elizabeth. Most are concerned with traveling information, such as where to forward a letter whilst traveling, or to whose care a letter may be addressed that it might be received. A generous portion of each letter is devoted to asking after the well-being and current status or whereabouts of various family members and the...