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This collection is made up of Gray Cemetery's original memorandum of interments covering the years 1851 to 1877. The back portion of the ledger includes a separate list of African Americans that were buried in the cemetery during the same time period.

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This collection includes one handwritten document signed by Cotton Mather.

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This collection includes manuscripts and galley proof material with handwritten edits and notes for Amazing Grace by Robert Drake. Amazing Grace is Drake's first published collection of short stories, published in 1965, and includes the short story "Amazing Grace" from which the collection's name is derived.

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This collection includes a hand drawn map from 1814 of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The map includes a drawing of the river along with battle positions. The back of the map includes "29th Rgt. Infantry The map of the horse [shoe] in the creek nation" among other notes and scribblings.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection includes 27 handwritten and typewritten letters sent to officers in the Tennessee Library Association (TLA) between 1958 and 1964. Several of the letters are written to TLA presidents Ruth Ringo and Dorothy Ryan in response to requests for appearances. Notable correspondents include authors Eudora Welty, Wilma Dykeman Stokely, and Bergen Evans. A photograph of Evans and newspaper clippings from Nashville papers on Evans' appearance at the 1959 TLA convention are also...

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This collection includes 11 handwritten and typed letters from 1937-1953. The earliest letters, from the 1930s, are addressed to Henry J. W. Milley and are in relation to his work on Wilkie Collins. The remaining letters are addressed to Robert W. Daniel about his work. Notable correspondents include authors Eudora Welty, Allen Tate, and John Crowe Ransom.