Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

In this letter to his son, William Montgomery Anderson, J. Fain Anderson discusses the history of several schools (specifically Tusculum College and Washington College), warns against eating certain berries, gives his opinions on the Farmers' Convention, and relates family news (primarily about Henry Wheeler Anderson).

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection consists of correspondence between John Dunlap and David Henley. In a letter to Henley dated August 18, 1800, Dunlap mentions that he has not had any correspondence from Henley in some time and requests that Henley check on the status of a debt that the Governor of Tennessee (John Sevier) owes him. Henley replied (using the same sheet of paper) on September 17, 1800, saying that he has done as Dunlap requested but that the Governor remains recalcitrant. Henley goes on to...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

In this letter to an otherwise unidentified Simpson, Arthur Whyte discusses a multi-volume book that he has recently completed.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: John A. Hankins and Jessie J. Rankin created this handwritten newspaper, entitled The Owl, while studying at an unspecified school in Greeneville, Tennessee in 1875. It includes an introduction and editorial expressing the editors' hopes for their paper, miscellaneous stories and local items, letters to the editors, and articles about how to write well, ice skating, hunting, imagination, snow, Saturday nights, the ocean, Queen Elizabeth I, and moral subjects (including...