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This collection includes letters of appreciation from fans, correspondence with publishers, newspaper clippings and announcements, and papers related to Nancy Siler's two books, The Peculiar Miss Pickett and Miss Pickett's Secrets. The collection also contains works on the East Tennessee Baptist Hospital and a history of the First Baptist Church of Knoxville.

Abstract This collection contains a letter from Sir Samuel Baker to his publisher, Mr. Macmillan. In the letter, Baker addresses Macmillan’s negotiations with Hachette for French translations of two of his books, and selects The Albert N’Yanza Great Basin of the Nile; And Exploration of the Nile Sources (1866), to be sent first to the Emperor. The collection also includes a letter from Florence Baker, Baker’s wife, detailing her nearing departure from London to Constantinople...