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Time Period: 1850-1859

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- Incomplete letter discussing artwork and books probably belonging to the estate of naturalist John Audubon.
- 2010-07-15
- Volume 4 of the Zillah Haynie Brandon diaries, including pages pages 320 through 387.
- 1862-01-11
- Diary entries are chronological but irregular (sometimes months apart, sometimes years). Topics discussed include family matters and health; religion; homes in northwest Georgia (near a settlement of Cherokee Indians) and Gaylesville in Cherokee...
- 2011-09-12
- Telegram from O. S. Jewett in Montgomery, Alabama, to Dr. George F. Pollard in Mobile, Alabama.
- In the message Jewett asks Pollard to inform Henry Semple that "his infant is very sick with cholera infantum." A note written on the back in pencil reads "Emily V. Semples [sic] little baby, Margaret Harris who died."
- 2011-06-01
- Bill of sale for three slaves bought by H. M. Weedon from H. G. Wright.
- Weedon purchased the slaves, a thirty-five-year-old woman and her two children, for $1200 in Key West, Florida.
- 2011-09-22
- "In Memoriam" written honoring the recently deceased William H. Troy, who had been a student at Greene Springs School in Hale County, Alabama.
- 2011-11-16
- Letter from Edmund Pettus in Livingston, Alabama, to his wife, Mary, in Carrollton, Alabama.
- A transcript is included.
- 2012-10-18
- Letter from Howell Rose in Coosa County, Alabama, to Bolling Hall.
- 1850
- In the letter Rose discusses a disturbance among the slaves on his plantation, and he asks Hall to investigate the matter: "I must...ask you to ride over to my plantation and ascertain...the fact of the assembling of white men there on the Sabbath,...
- 2012-01-27
- "Female Education in California."
- 1850-01-01
- The article mentions that Mrs. M. E. Tulloss, the former principal of the Young Ladies' Seminary in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is going to California to teach: "It is an interesting fact, that she is the first female teacher and missionary that goes to...
- 2009-08-24
- Letter from William Rufus King in Washington, D.C., to G. W. Gayle.
- 1850-01-15
- In the letter King discusses sectional division over slavery and expresses his hope that compromise will settle the issue and maintain unity: "The slavery question is the all absorbing subject here; and how it is to terminate God only knows...but I...
- 2009-06-25
- Letter from E. W. Dockney in Montgomery, Alabama, to Mary C. Ramage in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1850-03-02
- In the letter Dockney give news of acquaintances and family members; discusses the school she oversees; and mentions that the legislature has appropriated money to rebuild the state capitol, which had burned down the year before. She also describes...
- 2009-09-04
- Letter from Bolling Hall in Baltimore, Maryland, to his son, James.
- 1850-05-11
- 2011-10-06
- Letter from William Hunter in Cahaba, Alabama, to his brother, Thomas.
- 1850-05-13
- A transcript is included.
- 2011-11-16
- Two letters to Bolling Hall, one from his oldest son, Bolling, and the other from his wife, Mary Louisa.
- 1850-06-02
- In the letters, Hall's son and wife discuss family illness, weather, crops, livestock, and slaves on their plantation. Mary also mentions her husband's possible attendance at the convention of delegates from proslavery states in Nashville,...
- 2009-06-25
- Letter from James H. Fisher, near Selma, Alabama, to Benjamin Hale, at Geneva College in New York.
- 1850-07-29
- In this letter Fisher discusses his A.M. degree from Geneva College, his recent appointment to teach at a church school in Tuscaloosa, his current job of tutoring the sons of the planter C. H. Cleveland, sickness at the plantation, and worms that...
- 2009-06-25
- Letter from William Hunter in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to his brother, Charles, in Cahaba, Alabama.
- 1850-09-01
- A transcript is included.
- 2011-11-16
- Letter from Andrew Barry Moore in Marion, Alabama, to Bolling Hall in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1850-11-15
- In the letter Moore discusses public sentiment over states' rights violations by the United States Congress: "I trust that public meetings throughout the state, will be held, for the purpose of enlightening the masses, and causing them to...
- 2009-06-25
- Letter from William Hunter in Northampton, Massachusetts, to his brother, Thomas, in Sacramento, California.
- 1850-11-17
- A transcript is included.
- 2011-11-16
- Letter from William Rufus King to his brother, Thomas.
- 1850-11-21
- In the letter King discusses his business and the settlement of his father's estate, and he gives his views on the activities of the "fire eaters": "I addressed the people at Cahawba last week, and I think I succeeded in opening the eyes of many...
- 2009-06-25
- Introduction to PUBLIC ACTS PASSED DURING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS, COMMONLY CALLED THE COMPROMISE BILLS.
- 1851
- The introduction briefly discusses the terms of the "compromise bills" and encourages support for the decisions of the federal government: "There appears no objection from any Southern man to the Fugitive Slave Bill. After the Wilmot Proviso has...
- 2009-06-25
- Excerpts from the reminiscences of James Wilson Shores, a circuit preacher for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in central Alabama.
- 1851-00-00
- The excerpts, from 1851 and 1853, include lists of slaves preached to; lists of "promiscuous places preached at" (Shores uses "promiscuous" to mean "irregular"; that is, locations not on his regular circuit); and annual summaries of his work. When...
- 2009-06-25