Abstract This folder contains a list of accounts payable from June to October 1801 to East Tennessee publisher George Wilson of George Wilson Publishing. Wilson, as partner to George Raulston, was the publisher of the Knoxville Gazette. After the partnership dissolved, Wilson moved to Jonesborough to start his own newspaper, The Washington Newspaper and Advertiser, which was established in 1803. Items on the list include: whiskey and workmen, gate and...

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This collection contains a letter from Henry N. Dodge, a prominent dentist and author of Morristown, N.J., to Reverend Joseph F. Folsom in Newark, N.J., dated Feb. 14, 1926. The letter regards an article in the Historical Society Quarterly and a request for more copies. There is also an article on the death of Dr. Dodge in 1937.

Abstract In this Circular to the People of Tennessee, the Historical Society of Tennessee appeals to the citizens of the state to donate materials, especially items documenting the Native American peoples who originally inhabited the area and materials showing early white settlement, to the Society. It also encourages Tennesseeans to become historians and to form historical societies on the county level. The circular is dated June 16, 1874 and is signed by J. G. M. Ramsey, R. C. Foster, and John M....

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This collection consists of a manuscript for a book entitled History of the Cherokee Indians, written in 1935 by Penelope Johnson Allen. It documents the history of the Cherokee Indians in the Southeastern United States and their dealings with white settlers from the 1770s until their removal to Indian Territory in the late 1830s.

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This mounted professional portrait depicts Horace Maynard. The back of the image reads Col. Horace Maynard USA Union Son married Florence Vanuxem.

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This collection consists of letters from Hugh Lawson McClung to his children and wife spanning from 1840-1858.

Abstract Series I of this collection contains photographs, correspondence, sketches, postcards, clippings, publications, and other materials documenting Paul J. Adams. Many of these items discuss Adams' beloved dog, Cumberland Jack II. Of particular interest is a typewritten manuscript for Adams' unpublished "Cumberland Jack." Series II houses photographs, notes, publications, and other materials showing Tennessee historian Paul M. Fink. Series III houses materials unrelated to Adams and Fink,...

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This collection consists of a letter from Martha of Columbia, Tennessee to her friend Jane Ellen Foster in Nashville on June 8, 1839. Martha describes her trip from Nashville, personal news, friends, and heartbreak.

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This collection, dated 1893-1941, primarily consists of correspondence between Jefferson McCarn, Attorney General for the State of Tennessee and the Chief Prosecutor during the Cooper-Sharp Trial in 1909, and his associates. Both private and professional correspondence can be found in the collection. Some legal materials are also included.

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This collection houses an incomplete handwritten manuscript of John Haywood's Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee (1823). This version includes pages 25-37; 147-190; 370-387; and 446-465.

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John Robb wrote this letter to Horace Maynard on June 20, 1860. In it, Robb explains why Mr. Lewis' pension benefits have been suspended and indicates that these benefits can be reinstated if sufficient evidence that Lewis was suspended unjustly can be produced.

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Written December 23, 1869 from Nashville, John Ruhm's letter to General George H. Thomas describes the state of affairs in Tennessee after the Democrats regained control of the general assembly. Ruhm argues that the current Legislature is only working to undo the work of the Reconstruction-era Republicans.

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This collection consists of a typescript of a diary of John Sevier, spanning from 1790-1815.

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This collection houses a single handwritten letter from John Sevier to an Honorable [M] Smith in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1792 regarding the region's escalating hostilities with the Creek and Cherokee nations.

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This collection includes eight handwritten letters from John Sevier to Colonels David Henley and Return J. Meigs dating from 1782-1809.

Abstract In this letter to Andrew Jackson (then practicing law in the Mero District), John Stone reports that General Winchester will deliver Colonel Martin Armstrong's obligations for "two thousand five hundred acres of Land, If he will make good titles to good Land in or near the Settlement on Station Camp Bledsoes or Goose Creek." Stone requests two 640-acre tracts for himself, provided the titles are made without delay and without any further trouble. On the verso, Jackson has noted "John Stones...

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This collection contains letters written by John Trotwood Moore to Col. Samuel L. King with dates ranging from July 13, 1916 to October 13, 1922. The letters are predominantly social, discussing politics, children, and other current affairs.

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This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, and other materials documenting the life and works of Tennessee author Lawrence Edwards.

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This collection houses 81 volumes documenting the activities of the Lenoir Manufacturing Company between 1873 and 1898.

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This memoir contains Lera Knox's brief family history (from Colonial period) and memories from Columbia, Tennessee (1896-1933), as well as Lera's travelogue as written for the Nashville Banner. The memoir was edited by Margaret Knox Morgan.