Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Albert G. Sanders Papers (Z/0045).
Creator/Collector:  Albert G. Sanders; and others.
Date(s): 1926-1932.
Size:  0.50 cubic feet.
Language(s): English; French.
Processed by: MDAH staff, 1932.
Provenance: Gift of Albert G. Sanders, of Jackson, MS, in 1932.
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: Albert G. Sanders Papers (Z/0045), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Biography:

Albert G. Sanders

Biography to come.

 

Scope and Content Note:

Correspondence, memoranda, and copies of French documents accumulated by Albert G. Sanders, of Jackson, Mississippi, while doing the translation of documents published in Dunbar Rowland and Albert G. Sanders (eds.), Mississippi Provincial Archives: French Dominion, 1701-1743 (Jackson, 1927-1932, 3 vols.). Most of the correspondence is with Abel Doysie and Mrs. L. DeSorments, Paris, France, and pertains to translations and copying of documents. Two letters (February 17, 1930, and January 2, 1932) are from John R. Swanton, Washington, D.C., and two (July 3 and 12, 1928) are from John R. Fordyce, Hot Springs, Arkansas. 

The volumes are as follows:

Copy (typewritten, in French) of the "Journal of Travel of Sieur Regis du Roullet among the Choctaws and Chickasaws, 1729," pp. 140

"Mississippi Provincial Archives: French Dominion, 1729-1740, Documents Copied for the Use of Albert G. Sanders," (typewritten, in French), pp. 661

 

Series Identification:

Series 1: Series title. Dates.

Series Description text to come.

Box 1, Folder 1