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This collection houses a copy (on CD) of Henry W. Kent's memoirs documenting his experience with the 86th Fighter Squadron (then assigned to the 79th Fighter Group) in North Africa during World War II. It contains detailed descriptions and photographs (many in color) of their service.

Transcription of Letter Nashville March the 20 1874My ever Dear Sister ElectaYou cannot think me very dear in not writing to you, but alas I cannot frame no excuse only negligence. I cannot rember the last letter I rec from you but I believe it was about the time Uncle Ben Davis died. I do not remember wheather I have answered it or not, with me time flies fast that is bearing me to my long home, but I do not wish to complain now wish my time long or short but hope to resigned to the will of...

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This collection houses invoices and sales contracts produced by the Hermitage Feed Mills (located in Nashville, Tennessee) documenting sales of animal feed to Frank William Taylor of Morristown, Tennessee in 1934, 1935, and 1940. Also included are advertising fliers from Hermitage Mills, including prices.

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This collection houses receipts and letters from the C. M. McClung & Co. hardware company, located in Knoxville, Tennessee, recording sales to Frank William Taylor of Morristown, Tennessee made between 1929 and 1941.

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This collection houses receipts from Security Mills of Knoxville, Tennessee recording sales of feed to Frank William Taylor and the Taylor Supply Company of Morristown, Tennessee from 1924 to 1941.

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This collection houses receipts recording sales to customers and purchases from suppliers by the Argus Hosiery Mills of Sevierville, Tennessee in 1941. Letters to customers are also included.

Transcription of Letter Nashville Feby. 18th 1805Sir,Judge McNairy shewed me a letter of Which the following is a copy. it relates to Joseph Moore now in Jail in Nashville for passing counterfit Bank notes, of whom I have heretofore written you a particular account.Rutherford County North Carolina18th Jany. 1804.May it Please your honor we are informed you have a certain Joseph Moore in Nashville Jail. we have had correspondence from Governor Page in...

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This collection houses receipts from the Whittaker-Holtsinger Hardware Co., located in Morristown, Tennessee, recording sales to Frank William Taylor and the Taylor Supply Company from 1924 to 1941.

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This collection houses a reel-to-reel audiotape of James Agee's The Quiet One. The documentary film, for which Agee wrote commentary, was released in 1948.

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This collection contains a black-and-white movie still from The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, a segment in the 1952 movie Face to Face.

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This collection houses prints from the June 8, 1872 edition of Vanity Fair magazine caricaturing Member of Parliament Thomas Hughes. They are accompanied by text describing him as an "overgrown teenager" and "ineffective liberal do-gooder."

Transcription of Letter Washington city 1st March 63My Dear SirSince the 3rd of last March now nearly one year I have been exiled from my home family and fireside, and its hard to tell how long it may be before I shall have it in my power to return. The enclosed slip will give you the last information I have had from my home they have taken my property and are using in freely at my expense. I got away at the dark hours of the night to avoid imprisonment. My family are still in the [?] of...

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This collection consists of a letter from G. W. Harral, written in a Confederate camp near Bristol, Tennessee on April 6, 1864, to his friend James Looke. Harral discusses high morale among the troops, speculates as to where they will go, and expresses his desire to remain in touch with his friends.

Transcription of Letter Shell MoundJune 13th 1865Dear HannahYour long lengthy and newsy letter of the 7th & 8th came this morning. I had been thinking for a few days of writing to Will so that when I got an answer to my letter I would know something about how the farm was running this spring. From the tone of your letter I am led to think that it is running at large mostly if not more. Haven’t you any potatoe patch, and if you have, where is it and what was...