This collection houses photocopies from American State Trials, the American Law Review, and the Tennessee Historical Quarterly documenting the crimes and trials of John W. Webster, Lizzie Borden, and Duncan and Robin Cooper respectively. All three of these cases are noted for attracting publicity and for involving complicated legal reasoning regarding the rules of evidence.

William Weber wrote this letter to his brother, Martin Weber, from camp at McMinnville, Tennessee on August 10, 1862. He reports that he and his company are well and tells of their recent victory against Confederate guerrillas. He also recounts an amusing story about their Major General (“Moniter”), who slept all day and got the company into trouble.

William Weber wrote this letter to his brother, Martin Weber, from camp at McMinnville, Tennessee on August 10, 1862. He reports that he and his company are well and tells of their recent victory against Confederate guerrillas. He also recounts an amusing story about their Major General (“Moniter”), who slept all day and got the company into trouble.

Earle Wright wrote these letters to his family in Cortland, New York in July and August of 1917. In them, he discusses his life at a training camp in Chattanooga, Tennessee during World War I. Most of the correspondence is addressed to E. R. Wright or Laura Wright but is meant for the entire family to read.

Earle Wright wrote these letters to his family in Cortland, New York in July and August of 1917. In them, he discusses his life at a training camp in Chattanooga, Tennessee during World War I. Most of the correspondence is addressed to E. R. Wright or Laura Wright but is meant for the entire family to read.

Earle Wright wrote these letters to his family in Cortland, New York in July and August of 1917. In them, he discusses his life at a training camp in Chattanooga, Tennessee during World War I. Most of the correspondence is addressed to E. R. Wright or Laura Wright but is meant for the entire family to read.

Earle Wright wrote these letters to his family in Cortland, New York in July and August of 1917. In them, he discusses his life at a training camp in Chattanooga, Tennessee during World War I. Most of the correspondence is addressed to E. R. Wright or Laura Wright but is meant for the entire family to read.

In this letter, Thomas Hughes asks his correspondent (who he addresses simply as “Sir”) if he would be willing to reschedule their meeting for the following Sunday, as his wife is ill and he does not wish to leave her alone. The collection also houses a postcard-sized print depicting Hughes.

William G. Brownlow writes this letter to his publisher, George W. Childs, in 1863. In it, Brownlow describes conditions in Tennessee following his recent visit and compliments Childs on his recently published National Almanac.

With this indenture, William Dickson sells John Maloney Jr. 0.5 acres of land in Greeneville, Tennessee for $600.00. The reverse of the document bears a notation indicating that the sale was formally recorded in the Greene County Register's Office the following day.

James Earl Ray wrote this letter to his wife, Anna (Sandhu) Ray, from Brushy Mountain State Prison on November 15, 1978. In it, he advises Anna on her attempts to get sympathetic articles published in Redbook and an unspecified German magazine and mentions his desire for a new trial.

Josiah Meigs, then acting as the United States Surveyor General, wrote this letter to the General Land Office of the State of Alabama on February 24, 1820. In it, Meigs instructs Alabama and Mississippi to continue surveying the boundary between their two states.

Laura (Tyler) Wright wrote this letter to David and Madeline McDowell in Rutherford, New York on May 27, 1955, shortly after the death of her son, James Agee. In it, Wright offers her condolences to the McDowells, who had been good friends of the Agee family.