Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Charlton Moore Clark Collection (Z/0031).
Creator/Collector: Charlton Moore Clark; Micajah Clark; and others.
Date(s): 1847-1941.
Size: 1.00 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff, July 1943; Redescribed in August 1944.
Provenance: Gift of Elizabeth Clagett Clark of Washington, D.C., in 1943 and 1944.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Rights and Access:

Access restrictions: Collection is open for research.

Publication rights: Copyright assigned to the MDAH. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to Reference Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the MDAH as the owner of the physical items and as the owner of the copyright in items created by the donor. Although the copyright was transferred by the donor, the respective creator may still hold copyright in some items in the collection. For further information, contact Reference Services.

Copyright notice: This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred citation: Charlton Moore Clark Collection (Z/0031), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Biography:

Charlton Moore Clark

Biography to come. 

 
Scope and Content Note:

Historical papers and miscellaneous letters of Charlton Moore Clark (1867-1942). This collection includes many newspaper clippings of historical interest on Kosciusko, Attala County, Indians, the Natchez Trace, the Kosciusko press, travel in Europe, Washington news, and miscellaneous subjects, mostly by Charlton Clark. Also in the collection are two diaries kept by Micajah Clark in 1848 and 1861, and miscellaneous letters ranging in date from 1847 to 1941, including letters from Key Pittman, John Sharp Williams, Hernando D. Money, and other Washington notables of the period 1909-1934. 

Part of the collection includes the following pamphlets: "Chronicles of the Fire-eaters of the Tribe of Mississippi"; Thomas Percy Guyton, "The Old Natchez Trace"; a thesis, "Ancient Egypt, the Source of Government and Jurisprudence,"; and a typed manuscript and unbound draft of a work entitled "The Indians and the Revolution." 

This collection includes a genealogy of the Clark family, the "Genealogy of Charlton M. Clark," the autobiography of Charlton M. Clark, a sketch of Sophia Clagett Clark, and some family history.

 

Series Identification:

Series Identification to be completed at a later date.

 

Box List:

Box List to be completed at a later date.