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A single album belonging to Lucinda Cowan which contains notes and sketches from Cowan's friends.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: In this notebook, with covers of inlaid wood, Eleanora Armistead recorded her lineage from over twenty ancestors in order to prove her qualifications to join various colonial societies. Each lineage begins with a brief description of the initial ancestor and ends with a list of the references she used. Several include additional information such as the family motto or a description of their coat of arms.Family names include Rodes, Harris, Claiborne, Crawford, Holland, Kinchin,...

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This speech, full of praise for Andrew Jackson, lists several of his achievements and ends with a four-stanza poem about him.

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This small cash book from 1858-1859 lists cash received on the left-hand pages and cash paid out on the right-hand pages. Each entry includes the name of the other party, and many include the reason for the transaction. Butter, flour, and goods feature prominently in both columns.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This notebook, from Foster and Webb, was used as the Financial Secretary's Cash Book for Bivouac No 2 of the Association of Confederate Soldiers, T. D. [Tennessee Division]. Its entries consist primarily of lists of members with records of their dues payments, with occasional notes such as transferred, suspended, exempt, life member, etc. There are several runs of these lists, separated by many blank pages. There is also a list for subscriptions to furnish soldiers' room and home. Later...

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This elaborately embossed journal is a Philopaena Album filled with poems of friendship from many of Phebe Havely's friends. Some were written from Endor Cottage, Tennessee, and others from Morristown, Tennessee. In the back, Havely's daughters Katie and Hattie have also signed the book.

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This autograph album has many pages filled with poems from friends, mostly at the Madisonville Female Academy in Tennessee, though there are some from Sweetwater, Athens, Philadelphia, and Cleveland. There are two obituaries, for Mary Francina Varnell and Jane Ann Isabella Davis, tucked between the pages as well as a small card with a poem on it. Lucina also recorded some poems herself within the album.

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This autograph album, with Leaves of Affection embossed on its cover, opens with a dedicatory poem by the owner, Emma Clayton. It includes poems of friendship from friends, siblings, and a group of strangers who made a short sojourn with Clayton. Some poems are addressed to "Emma" while others to "Mrs. Clayton." Mollie Thomson wrote her sentiments in the various spaces of a sketched quilt block. Many of the signatures include locations in the "C.S.A."