Z 0182.000
BROWN (MRS. CALVIN S.) PAPERS


These papers consist of typescript copies (with some written emendations) of letters (gathered by Mrs. Calvin S. (Maud Morrow) Brown, Oxford, Mississippi) of the Civil War period, of diaries and reminiscences, of speeches and of unpublished histories of Lafayette County.

Box One

  • Letters
    • Folder l: Copies of 31 letters written to Mrs. Margery B. Rogers Clark by T. G. Clark, her husband, and Jonathan & A. H(enry) Clark, and her sons, December 7, 1861–June 13, 1863, 61 pp.
    • Folder 2: Copies of six letters written by William E. Duncan, Company G, Eleventh Regiment of Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A., July 10, 186l–June 27, 1862, 17 pp.
    • Folder 3: Copy of a letter by John M. Lyles, Manassas Junction, Virginia, July 13, 1861; 2 pp.
  • Diaries and Reminiscences
    • Folder 4: "The Diary, Letters and Reminiscences of Two of Forrest's Cavalry Men, C.S.A., R.O.B. Morrow of Co. L, 5th Ala. Cavalry, 1846–1918, and William Decatur Howell of Co. I, 3rd Miss. Cav., 1846–1864. Collected and arranged by Maude Morrow, 1932". 64 pp.
    • Folder 5: "Recollections of the Civil War in Lafayette Co." by Miss Ella F. Pegues, Route 2, Box 27, Oxford, n.d., 8 pp.
  • Speeches
    • Folder 6: "Seventy-Five Years Ago", an address delivered on Memorial Day 1935 by Mrs. Brown, 16 pp.
    • Folder 7: "They Acted like Men", an address delivered to the 1938 Mississippi state convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Vicksburg, by Mrs. Brown, 16 pp.
  • Unpublished Histories
    • Folder 8: "Nancy K. Merriam Howell, My Grandmother", by Mrs. Brown, n.d, 4 pp.
    • Folder 9: "A Preliminary Report on the History of the First Presbyterian Church of Oxford of the Synod of Mississippi, July 1837–January 1936, by (Mrs. Calvin S. Brown) Maud Morrow Brown," 136 pp.

Box Two

  • Unpublished Histories (continued)
    • Volume. l: "Some Pioneer Women of Mississippi". Compiled by Mrs. Calvin S. Brown, Historian of Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution, 1922–1926, xi, 110 pp.
    • Volume 2: "Some Early History of Lafayette County, Mississippi, compiled by David Reese Chapter, D.A.R. Begun in 1922". 122 pp.