Manuscripts

Date: 1912.

Letters written to Charles E. Hooker by Champ Clark, Mrs. S. E. F. Rose, Margaret Huck, Charles D. Hilles, Charles Scott, William H. Taft, and John Sharp Williams, and presented by him to F. H. Walthall.

Date: 1796 - 1825.

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Letters, certificates, and commissions of David Holmes, governor of the Mississippi Territory and the state of Mississippi and United States senator from Mississippi. The certificates of appointment, commissions and other papers pertaining to appointments are as follows:

Dates: 1834 - 1850.

Business papers of John Henderson of Woodville, a United States Senator from Mississippi.

Dates: 1863 - 1894.

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Picture, commissions, and papers of Captain Albert Hedberg, 15th Infantry Regiment, U. S. A., who was murdered at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, on October 30, 1893.

Dates: 1936-1938.

Correspondence concerning the efforts of Charles F. Heartman, New Orleans, Louisiana, to establish a cooperative colony on a farm in Forrest County on which he later lived. Most of the correspondence resulted from advertisements in the Saturday Review of Literature. Included are two mimeographed letters from Sherwood Eddy (April 16 and May 15, 1936) concerning "The Delta Cooperative Farm" at Hillhouse.

Dates: 1837 - 1846.

Business correspondence of R. G. Hazard, merchant of Peacedale, Rhode Island, containing orders from planters and commission merchants of Raymond, Panola County, and Natchez for clothing for slaves.

Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: George C. Harris Papers (Z/0452).
Creator/Collector: George C. Harris; and others.
Date(s): 1863-1864.
Size: 0.30 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff; Allyson Hartling, 2024.
Provenance: Gift of unknown donor; prior to 1961.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Whitfield Harrington Manuscript (Z/0451).
Creator/Collector: Whitfield Harrington.
Date(s):  1861.
Size: 0.30 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff, March 22, 1961; Redescribed by William Smith, 2024.
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Orrin Swayze, of Jackson, Mississippi, on March 22, 1961.

Reference photocopy must be used.

Dates: 1876.

An account of the War between the States and Reconstruction written in October 1876 by Annie E. Harper for her daughter Lurline N. Harper. The volume is 19 x 30 cm. and contains 79 pages.

Dates: n.d.

Notebook in French of Hattie Hardenstein, Jackson. The volume is 12 x 17.5 cm. in size and contains 40 pages.