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Dated 187?. On the letterhead of the Read House. One abusive paragraph on the character and generalship of Braxton Bragg.

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One and a quarter pages on the character of Abraham Lincoln.

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Five pages of appreciation of the character of General Grant. Probably by John Bell Brownlow.

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On the same sheet of paper: 1. a poem on death; 2. a poem, possibly on the Parson on his death; 3. a short note on the material and social status of an unnamed person's ancestors; 4. ALS; March 20, 1878. From W. W. Mahon. On the letterhead of the Treasury Department, First Auditor's Office. Refers to J. W. and John Walker. Says that Gough has been turned out of office.

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Seven page speech on the state of the parties and their origins.

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Seven page examination of the Rules, Regulations, Principles of the K. G. C., an apparently Masonic derived organization headed by General Bickley. Circa 1865.

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Apparently published in the New York Evening Post, the August 2, 1875 edition.

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One page of abuse on the character of unnamed individual from Chattanooga. (He talks and sputters till his jaws are reeking with froth. He has a perpetual diarrhea of words (in this we hit him as to the matter as well as manner) but he is as devoid of thought as the child to be born one hundred years hence.) Note on the back, came here to the October Court 1866.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: Series I: William G. Brownlow Correspondence, 1848 December 18-1878 March 20 consists primarily of letters documenting Brownlow's service as Governor of Tennessee and showing the problems that Tennessee faced during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Among the correspondents represented are John Bell, O. P. Temple, Vice President Schuyler Colfax, Tennessee Secretary of State A. J. Fletcher, General George H. Thomas, Horace Maynard, Ephraim Foster, James O. Shackelford, Clinton B. Fisk,...

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One paragraph on a battle in France involving the Black Prince.

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One sheet: 1. memorial type reflections upon the character of an unnamed person; 2. reflections on the constitution and liberty.

Scope and Contents Note Three sheets of obituary type reflections on the character of an unnamed person. (He represents the anomaly of the presence of very high and very base thoughts in one and the same soul which Hugo tried to explain in comparing the souls of certain men to the muddy pool in whose depths heaven is reflected and reptiles crawl through the ooze.) All three are on the backs of fragments of blank Postal forms, one of which is dated 188_. Written on the back of one is the word ...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: Series I: William G. Brownlow Correspondence, 1848 December 18-1878 March 20 consists primarily of letters documenting Brownlow's service as Governor of Tennessee and showing the problems that Tennessee faced during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Among the correspondents represented are John Bell, O. P. Temple, Vice President Schuyler Colfax, Tennessee Secretary of State A. J. Fletcher, General George H. Thomas, Horace Maynard, Ephraim Foster, James O. Shackelford, Clinton B. Fisk,...