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Manuscripts and other materials relating to the Confederate army service of the brothers Henry, Martin, Robert, and Joseph Leonard, of Iredell County, North Carolina, including records of Co. C, 48th North Carolina Infantry.

Scope and Contents Of the 127 letters in the collection, 115 were written by Leonard Williams to his wife Anna Laval Williams during the Civil War. These letters range in date from 18-19 July 1861 to 11 February 1865, and provide a literate, lengthy, and relatively continuous epistolary narrative of Williams's wartime experiences. The letters also stand as one side of an ongoing dialogue with Anna on managing the Greenville household and farm, including the slaves. (During the war the mercantile store was...

Content Description The Leslie Pollard Letters consists of four letters pertaining to Leslie Pollard, African American athlete, football player, football coach, and journalist. Pollard wrote three of the letters to his wife Eleanor Pitts Pollard while serving as the Head Coach of the Lincoln University football team in the fall of 1914. Pollard addressed the letters with various nicknames for his wife and discussed several topics including the 1914 Lincoln University football season, events at the ...

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A letter from Amedeo Tara regarding the new academy in the city.

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Letter from Bernard, Bishop of Nimes, to Louis, archdeacon of Aix-en-Provence, concerning the administration of ecclesiastic offices. Includes seal.

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Personal letter from Carolo Santus in Ivrea to his brother the Count Sanctus in Torino.

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Letter from Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, granting brothers Giovanni Matteo and Giuliano a part of his feudal lands whose former owner (vassal Alexander Ostero) had recently died.

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Letter from Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, nominating Giovanni Matteo Santo to a position in the recently vacated Abbey of San Ponzo.

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Letter from Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, giving the land of a recently deceased widow with no successors (Antonia Ossella) to D. Giovanni Matteo Santo.

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A letter from Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy, to Signor Conte Maurizio Santi requesting the release of several captured thieves.

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Letter from Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, to Count Maurizio Santus, describing the maltreatment of Giovanni Giacomo Ceva and notifying the count that Ceva has been placed under the duke’s protection and should therefore no longer be troubled.

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Letter from Charles Emanuel III, Duke of Savoy, to Count Santus, current Governor of Mortara and the province of Lumellina, reminding him that later that month he must return to Torino and give his governorship over to the captain of the guards.

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Letter of Charles III, Duke of Savoy, with an attached sheet in a different hand discussing the granting of jurisdiction of lands to Johannes de Siluescho.

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Letter from the secretary of the Magistrate of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus to Count Cesare Vittorio Valperga di Cuorgné, requesting some change in the regulations regarding the uniforms of the various divisions of the Order.

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Letter from Filippo d’Este, Marquis, and General Lieutenant, promoting a certain Ettore Valperga to Capitan and Castellano of the Castle of Cherasco.

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Letter from Minister General of the Franciscans, Fr. Paulus de Soncino, to the Lord Lancino de Lancinis and Lady Marguerite his wife, conferring assistance and spiritual care.

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Letter describing the conditions of the troops after they were sent to a location outside of Pinerolo (Italy).

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Letter of recommendation from Charles Emannuel I (Duke of Savoy) to the canons at the cathedral at Carmagnola that they accept Giulio Cesare Zoello as their new provost

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Letter to Jacobus Nasuus, of the Pro Chancellor's office (Rome), from his father. Includes seal.

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Letter of King Louis XIV of France to the Cours de Comptes, Aix-en-Provence. Includes seal.

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Letter from Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, promoting Cavalier Pallavicino to the position of Major and Commander of the Citadel of Torino.

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Letter from Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy, discussing property with his vassal Horatio Silvesco.

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Letter from Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, expressing thanks for the loyal service of the Conte Santus

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 127 pieces of fan mail written to baseball player Joe “Shoeless Joe” Jackson in the years after his retirement. The correspondence was in the form of letters and postal cards and nearly all of the letters include the original mailing envelopes. Most of the letters are fan requests for autographs. Some of the autograph requests reference an article about Jackson that appeared in the October 1949 issue of Sport magazine, titled "This Is...

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The collection consists of personal letters (1974-1980) from L.F. Konson to his cousin, Maya Konson (b. 1931) and her family, who had immigrated to Israel in 1974.

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Correspondence and ephemera relating to Brendan Behan.

Scope and Contents The Lonore Kent Collection on the Bonus Army March, 1932, 1976, comprises two folders of materials relating to the Bonus Army March of 1932. This collection focuses on Lonore Kent Van Swearingen and Ruth Sarles Benedict's eye witness accounts of President Herbert Hoover’s attempted eviction of the Bonus Army from Washington D.C. on July 28, 1932.Included in the collection are New Bonus Army March flyers inviting "paint and varnish veterans" to attend a march on June 17, 1932, a...

Abstract The Loome Catholic Modernism Collection consists mainly of research on Catholic Modernism that Thomas Loome gathered for his doctoral dissertation ca. 1968-1974. It is a compilation of thousands of pages of correspondence, publications, and personal papers by and about Catholic Modernists ca. 1890-1925, especially George Tyrrell and Friedrich von Hügel. The items are mainly photocopies of manuscript and printed materials, but originals, microfilms, and photographs are also included. The...

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This collection consists of ten letters sent from Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany to a Mrs. Wieland, largely concerning advice and critiques of her poetry. Additionally discusses Dunsany’s opinions on the publishing world.

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This small collection consists of one letter written by Louisa May Alcott, one letter written on her behalf by her London publisher, one inscribed photographic portrait, and one page from the manuscript of the novel, Jack and Jill: a Village Story.