Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Lafayette Pitt Reynolds Papers (Z/0032).
Creator/Collector: Lafayette Pitt Reynolds; and others.
Date(s): 1847-1913.
Size: 1.00 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff, September 1942.
Provenance: Gift of unknown donor, circa November 1941.
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: Lafayette Pitt Reynolds Papers (Z/0032), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Biography:

Lafayette Pitt (L.P.) Reynolds

Biography to come.

 

Scope and Content Note:

Business and legal papers and correspondence of Lafayette Pitt Reynolds, a lawyer of Jacinto, who served as probate clerk in Tishomingo County in 1865, who served in the House of Representatives from Alcorn County in 1876 and 1877, and who served as a delegate from Alcorn County to the Constitutional Convention of 1890. Jacinto was in Tishomingo County until the formation of Alcorn County by an act of the Legislature approved on April 15, 1870. Reynolds had property and practiced law in Alcorn, Prentiss, and Tishomingo counties.

Some of the papers pertain to the affairs of Arthur E. Reynolds (colonel of the Twenty-sixth Regiment of Mississippi Infantry, CSA), J. R. Reynolds, C. L. Reynolds, J. B. Reynolds, G. C. Reynolds, H. D. Reynolds, Mary J. Reynolds, and Mattie J. Reynolds. Others pertain to the affairs of the firms of Barrett and Reynolds, Reynolds and Boyd, Reynolds and Irvin, Reynolds and Reynolds, Reynolds, (B. B.) Boone, and Reynolds, and Lafayette Pitt Reynolds, "Dealer in Pine, Oak, Poplar and Hickory Lumber." 

Four letters of interest are as follows:

  • J. H. Baker, commissioner, Pension Office, Department of Interior, to L. Q. C. Lamar, February 19, 1875
  • William Oliver, secretary and treasurer, Mississippi Mills, Wesson, to L. P. Reynolds, April 24, 1882
  • R. A. Hill, Oxford, to L. P. Reynolds, July 27, 1893
  • James Z. George to L. P. Reynolds, [month unknown] 26, 1893.

One interesting item is an uncashed money order for fifty dollars issued on April 20, 1876, by the postmaster at Corinth on the postmaster at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The collection contains only three pieces dated before 1850, and the others are distributed as follows:

  • undated, 86 pieces
  • Constitutional Convention of 1890, 34 pieces
  • 18501859, 142 pieces
  • 18601869, 292 pieces
  • 18701879, 237 pieces
  • 18801889, 145 pieces
  • 18901899, 58 pieces
  • 19001909, 80 pieces

  • 19101913, 23 pieces

     

Series Identification:

Series Identification to be completed at a later date.

 

Box List:

Box 1

Box List to be completed at a later date.