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J. T. Sloan Correspondence and Other Materials
Collection
Identifier: MS-3514
Abstract
The first section of this collection houses letters written to J. T. Sloan regarding events at home. Although the majority of Sloan's correspondents lived in Nashville, he also received letters from friends and family in Murfreesboro (Tenn.), Birmingham (Ala.), Memphis (Tenn.), and Atlanta (Ga.). The second section houses letters that J. T. Sloan wrote describing his life in camp and in the field, reporting on family members and friends also serving in the Army, and expressing his desire...
Dates:
1914 December 25-1920 January 13, 1938 July 4-11
Laura Norvell Elliott Diary
Collection
Identifier: MS-2771
Abstract
This collection consists of the diary, dated 1917-1919, of Laura Elliott (later Simpson), a young woman from Nashville, Tenn. In her diary, which begins on the day that war was declared on Germany in 1917, she details her experience in the publishing business and her thoughts on the war.
Dates:
1917-1919