Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection consists of several letters and photographs and a genealogy of the Seymour family of Madisonville, Kentucky and East Tennessee. The correspondence dates between December 27, 1861 and April 23, 1914. The letters are written primarily by Charles Seymour to his grandchildren, especially his grandson Charles M. Seymour. Most of these letters are written from Madisonville, Kentucky or from Knoxville, Tennessee. Other letters are written by Emily Seymour of Yorkshire, England....

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection consists of several letters and photographs and a genealogy of the Seymour family of Madisonville, Kentucky and East Tennessee. The correspondence dates between December 27, 1861 and April 23, 1914. The letters are written primarily by Charles Seymour to his grandchildren, especially his grandson Charles M. Seymour. Most of these letters are written from Madisonville, Kentucky or from Knoxville, Tennessee. Other letters are written by Emily Seymour of Yorkshire, England....

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection consists of an envelope and four pages of correspondence, written by George Whittington, from Base hospital #7 in France to Eddie A. Snow of Boston, Massachusetts. The letter was written on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918 and is on American Expeditionary Force letterhead. Whittington writes of the celebrations he experienced while visiting the city of Tours, noting that it was more crowded than Washington at Christmastime. He also writes of the French people's extreme...

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This collection features three letters from Robert S. Hartman to Michael and Daphne Fraenkel, written between December 22, 1941 and January 26, 1942. The letters were written from Hartman's office in New York concerning a magazine called Synthesis that he planned to assemble, asking for the Fraenkels' advice and offering Michael co-editorship of the publication.

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This collection consists of a letter written by Aaron Eley to his father, dated April 20, 1863. The letter describes Eley's unit's camp at the depot at Murfreesboro, Tennessee and the fortification of Vicksburg, Mississippi by the Confederate forces. The letter also describes the town of Murfreesboro, particularly the number of refugees and deserters from the Confederate Army and the relatively large African-American population of the town.

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This collection consists of a letter written by Corporal Carl Nelson Mozingo to his father. The letter is sent from France, where Mozingo served as a member of the American Expeditionary Force, and is dated November 24, 1918, shortly after the Armistice. The letter describes Mozingo's experiences in the final days of the war, serving on several fronts in France including Argonne and Verdun.

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This collection consists of a letter by Confederate soldier Walter Ryall to his father Thomas C. Ryall in Shelbyville, Tennessee. The letter is written from the Tennessee State Penitentiary and is dated July 4, 1863. The letter discusses life in the penitentiary and how Ryall anticipates being moved to Camp Morton shortly after.

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This collection features three newspaper clippings about Lieutenant Charles O. Rainwater's crash landing in April of 1943 in Central America during World War II. The collection also houses a map of France sent to Rainwater's father with an accompanying letter, dated May 19, 1943, and several undated photographs of Rainwater, his plane, and the plane wreckage.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection consists of several letters written to William A. Haskins in regards to his research for his masters thesis at Colorado State University. His thesis was a rhetorical analysis comparing the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. The letters are from Alex Haley, Coretta Scott King, an editor at Pathfinder Press, the assistant director of the Chicago Urban League, and the program development director of the Afro American Cultural Development Foundation. They are...

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This collection consists of an original copy of the script of the 1962 film All the Way Home, based on Tad Mosel's stage play of the same name and James Agee's novel A Death in the Family. The screenplay was written by Philip Reisman, Jr., and the film was produced by Paramount Pictures. This copy is dated September 5, 1962 and contains handwritten annotations, possibly by a member of the production crew.

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This collection consists of a letter from the Union League of America, dated September 23, 1865 and signed by secretary Martin Thatcher. The letter discusses the League's support of Abraham Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, expresses gratitude to the soldiers that have fought in the war, and reminds that the South must pay the war debt in full. The letter was sent from the League's headquarters in New York.

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This collection consists of a letter written by John Sevier to Kentucky governor Isaac Shelby, dated November 23, 1812 from Washington. The letter mentions two men with influence in North Carolina politics, John Steele and Robert Williams, and also celebrates the apparently imminent reelection of President James Monroe.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection features a number of papers and photographs regarding French scientist Raymond Latarjet. The collection houses a few letters to and from Latarjet, including one to the University of Tennessee Provost, George W. Wheeler. The collection contains one undated photographic portrait of Latarjet. It also houses an address given by Latarjet entitled L'amarante et le vert as well as several programs and articles celebrating Latarjet after his death in 1998. Most of the programs,...

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This collection consists of a letter written by James K. Polk and dated December 7, 1832. The letter is written during Polk's tenure as a Congressman in the United States House of Representatives. Polk is writing about the recommendation of Colonel Kincarmen to fill a vacant position and how he will write further recommendations on behalf of Kincarmen to President Andrew Jackson.