Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Fred A. Rosenstock Collection of Jefferson Davis Papers (Z/0043).
Creator/Collector: Jefferson Davis; Varina Davis; and others.
Date(s): 1847-1910.
Size: 0.40 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff, March 30, 1961.
Provenance: Purchased by the Mississippi State Building Commission in March 1959.
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: Fred A. Rosenstock Collection of Jefferson Davis Papers (Z/0043), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Biography:

Jefferson Davis, Varina Howell Davis, Mrs. Margaret Davis Hayes, and Lucy Hayes

Biography to come.

 

Scope and Content Note:

Correspondence of Jefferson Davis, Varina Howell Davis, Mrs. Margaret Davis Hayes, and Lucy Hayes, collected by Fred A. Rosenstock of Denver, Colorado. Included are:

Eight bonds with coupons issued by the Confederate States of America, dated April 12, 1862 - April 30, 1863.
Letters from former members of the Confederate cabinet (1873–1866), including C. G. Memminger.
Letter from Davis to Paul H. Hayne, January 25, 1885.
Letter from Davis to Z. T. Wood, May 26, 1886.

Letters to Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Hayes and Miss Hayes are as follows: 

Twenty-six items from 1890-1898, including letters from L. B. Northrop, Thomas Nelson Page, Alexander Stephens, J. B. Gordon, and Stephen D. Lee.
Twenty-eight items from 1899-1904, including letters from Charles Dudley Warner, Wade Hampton, S. D. Lee, Joseph Pulitzer, and Fitzhugh Lee.
Fifteen items from 1904-1910, including letters from James K. Vardaman, Stephen D. Lee, Ambrose Lee, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Jennings Bryan.

The volume is an autograph album containing autographs of the Confederate cabinet and of U.S. officials.

 

Series Identification:

Series 1: Series title. Dates.

Series Description text to come.

Box 1, Folder 1