Box 2
Container
Contains 44 Results:
Marcellus Ovando Messer to family, 1865 October 6
File — Box: 2, Folder: 111
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-111
Dates:
1865 October 6
Marcellus Ovando Messer to family, 1865 October 13
File — Box: 2, Folder: 112
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-112
Dates:
1865 October 13
Marcellus Ovando Messer to family, 1865 October 23
File — Box: 2, Folder: 113
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-113
Scope and Contents
Messer's writes of his impending release from the Army and of a visit to San Antonio. He describes seeing the Alamo in a state of disrepair.
Dates:
1865 October 23
Marcellus Ovando Messer partial letters, undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 114
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-114
Dates:
undated
Envelopes for letters sent by Marcellus Ovando Messer, 1862
File — Box: 2, Folder: 115
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-115
Dates:
1862
Envelopes for letters sent by Marcellus Ovando Messer, 1863
File — Box: 2, Folder: 116
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-116
Dates:
1863
Envelopes for letters sent by Marcellus Ovando Messer, 1864
File — Box: 2, Folder: 117
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-117
Dates:
1864
Envelopes for letters sent by Marcellus Ovando Messer, 1865
File — Box: 2, Folder: 118
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-118
Dates:
1865
Envelopes for letters sent by Marcellus Ovando Messer, undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 119
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-119
Dates:
undated
Robert Dickey to Hannah Jane Sleeper, 1887 December 16–1888 August 22
File — Box: 2, Folder: 120
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-120
Dates:
1887 December 16–1888 August 22
Miscellaneous letters to Messer, Dickey, and Humphrey family members, 1853 December 18–1888 August 15
File — Box: 2, Folder: 121
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-121
Dates:
1853 December 18–1888 August 15
Letters of condolence to Fannie Messer, 1900
File — Box: 2, Folder: 122
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-122
Dates:
1900
Miscellaneous envelopes, 1870–1924
File — Box: 2, Folder: 123
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-123
Dates:
1870–1924
Sarah Humphrey letters to Hannah Jane Sleeper, 1888 May 19–December 29
File — Box: 2, Folder: 124
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-124
Scope and Contents
Letters describe Humphrey's travels in Tennessee and Michigan, as well as her work as a teacher providing vocational instruction to black students at Tougaloo University in Tougaloo, Mississippi. Humphrey describes the discrimination she perceives from white southerners in response to her occupation. She comments on the disposition of her students and on the range of vocations for which they were trained.
Dates:
1888 May 19–December 29