Scope and Content Note:

This collection comprises a scrapbook entitled "News Articles on Gulf Coast Property from April, 1925," containing clippings from New Orleans papers pertaining to the Mississippi Gulf Coast and covering the period from March 3, 1925, to October 7, 1926, and twenty-two manuscript items, which include:

  • Official returns of votes cast at a general election held on the 6th day of November, 1888, for the election of Electors for President and Vice-President, signed by Governor Robert Lowry, dated November 19, 1888
  • ALS Charles B. Galloway, Jackson, Mississippi, June 19, 1908
  • letters from Eaton J. Bowers, a Representative to Congress in the early 1900's, to his wife, Tallulah Gaines Bowers, organizer of the Gulf Coast Chapter, DAR
  • a brief history of the Grace Episcopal Church, Canton, Mississippi
  • a letter to Eaton J. Bowers from John Sharp Williams dated May 23, 1929
  • a letter to Mrs. Bowers from Juliet and Nolan B. Harmon of Vicksburg, dated October 30, 1930
  • a typewritten letter signed by Randolph Ray, Rector, Church of the Transfiguration, Little Church Around the Corner, 1 East 29th Street, New York, dated July 18, 1949
  • a typewritten letter signed by Turner Catledge, Managing Editor of the New York Times, dated February 11, 1952