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Family Records |
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Family Papers |
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Correspondence |
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1-01 |
1805-1819 |
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Presbyterian Church: 6/7/1806; 4/29/1811; 11/22/1819 |
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business 11/22/1819 |
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Person represented: James Smylie |
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1-02 |
1820-1829 |
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Smylie Family |
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Presbyterian Church |
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Person represented: James Smylie |
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1-03 |
1830-1836 |
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comments on Cherokees and nullification 7/2/1832 |
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Oakland College 5/14/1836 |
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Smylie Family |
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Person represented: Amelia Smylie; James Smylie |
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1-04 |
1837-1839 |
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Oakland College 12/14/1837 |
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Presbyterian Church 6/7/1838 |
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Persons represented: James A. Montgomery |
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1-05 |
1840s |
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Smylie Family |
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business |
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health |
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1-06 |
1853-1859 |
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yellow fever 1853 |
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case of killing of enslaved person 2/8/1854 |
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state politics 10/4/1855 |
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health |
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business |
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Persons represented: James W. Watson; James Cotton; Joseph A. Montgomery |
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1-07 |
1861-1865 |
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letter from Henry W. Allen (ALS 1/12/1865) |
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business |
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changes in slavery caused by war |
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Persons represented: James W. Watson; Clarissa Young; Amelia T. Montgomery |
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11-08 |
1866-1868 |
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Reconstruction |
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business: plantations; cotton market 5/12/1868 |
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Persons represented: Joseph A. Montgomery, James W. Watson; Clarissa Young |
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1-09 |
1869 |
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business |
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Montgomery Family (ancestral history through early 19th century) |
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Person represented: Clarissa Young |
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1-10 |
1872-1874 |
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Reconstruction |
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Presbyterian Church 10/23/1873 |
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Person represented: Joseph A. Montgomery |
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1-11 |
1876-1877 |
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Watson Family |
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State Republican Party 6/22/1876 |
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Clarissa Young, died 1877 |
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1-12 |
1878-1879 |
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Watson Family |
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yellow fever 10/8/1878 |
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1-13 |
1881-1887 |
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Watson Family |
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1-14 |
1893-1899 |
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Watson Family |
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Agriculture - Washington [State] 5/9/1899 |
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1-15 |
1907-1911 |
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reminiscences of Julia Richardson Booth of year 1863, (ca. 1910) |
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Vicksburg Campaign |
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Watson Family genealogy |
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1-16 |
1915-1926 |
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Watson Family genealogy |
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Alcorn A & M College |
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Port Gibson Methodist Church |
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Persons represented: A. T. Montgomery; Linda Watson Montgomery; J. T. McCaleb |
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1-17 |
1930 |
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Irwin Russel |
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genealogy - Buck Family |
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n.d. |
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genealogy - Flower Family |
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See also: letter of 5/23/1907 |
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genealogy - Carpenter Family, fragment |
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A. |
Family Records |
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1. |
Family Papers |
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b. |
Journal |
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1-19 |
Journal of Caroline Buck, 1875-1879, 65 pages, typescript |
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excursion to Virginia and north, 1876 |
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yellow fever epidemic, 1878 |
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A. |
Family Records |
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2. |
Photographs |
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1-20 |
Miscellaneous photographs of individuals, ca. 1870s-1920s |
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identified: Lucile MacCrellis (?) ca. 1870s; Kate Gunnis (See letter of 11/3/1873); Lucile -----, ca. 1910s; "Miss Linda Watson and Her Flock of Southdowns" (n.d.) |
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remainder unidentified |
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A. |
Family Records |
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3. |
Financial and Legal Records |
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1-21 |
1793-1810 |
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personal receipts; document of sale of enslaved person; tax payment receipts |
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mainly records of James Smylie |
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1-22 |
1811-1815 |
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personal and tax receipts; including certificate of baptism performed by Smylie |
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1-23 |
1818-1822 |
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receipts; doctor's bills; survey of land in Claiborne County; land deed (DS James Monroe) |
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1-24 |
1824-1829 |
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receipts and accounts |
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1-25 |
1830-1836 |
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will of Francis Murdock 6/8/1833 |
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receipts and accounts mainly of James Cotton |
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1-26 |
1837-1848 |
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receipts mainly of James Cotton; land survey |
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deed of land from Cotton to village of Port Gibson |
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1-27 |
1852-1858 |
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receipts of James Cotton |
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1-28 |
1858 |
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receipts of James Cotton including drug bill |
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1-29 |
1858-1860 |
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receipts and accounts of James Cotton |
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pew rental agreement between Port Gibson Presbyterian Church and J. A. Montgomery 12/17/1860 |
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1-30 |
1862-1874 |
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receipts of James W. Watson and others; 1 DS by John Taylor Moore; citation for delinquent taxes against estate of James Cotton 2/18/1874 |
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A. |
Family Records |
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4. |
Miscellaneous |
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a. |
Churches and Schools |
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2-01 |
Materials on religious and education institutions 1799-1900 |
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playbill for Last Judgment, 1799 |
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constitution of Franklin Society and Franklin Academy, Jefferson County, Mississippi Territory, 1805 |
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prospectus for The Western Monitor, 1818 |
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includes list of subscribers headed by James Smylie |
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congregational report for Church of Sharon in Simpson City, 1827 |
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prospectus for Jefferson College, Washington, Mississippi, 1829 |
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prospectus for The Mississippi Presbyterian, 1853 |
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prospectus for La Grange Synodical College, 1857 |
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program for ceremony at Chamberlain-Hunt Academy, 1900 |
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2-02 |
Oakland College Magazine |
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v. 1, # 1, 12/1855; v. 1, # 2, 7/1856; v. 2, # 1, 11/1856 |
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A. |
Family Records |
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4. |
Miscellaneous |
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b. |
Clippings |
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2-03 |
1867-1876: miscellaneous |
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includes: politics, race relations, and list of Confederate dead of Amite County |
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2-04 |
1878: yellow fever |
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A. |
Family Records |
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4. |
Miscellaneous |
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c. |
Miscellaneous |
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2-05 |
Miscellaneous |
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"Piece Book" of Amelia Smylie, 5/1825 |
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"Speech of Hon. O. P. Morton...on the Mississippi Election," 1876 |
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election ticket, ca. 1877-1879 |
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flyer for lecture by A. T. Montgomery on "The South," 1897 |
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B. |
James Waterman Watson Papers |
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West Point |
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2-06 |
Appointment (1876) and letter (1/17/1878) |
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B. |
James Waterman Watson Papers |
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Indians and the West |
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2-07 |
1881-1890 |
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description of medicine dance observed in Indian Territory, 8/13/1881 |
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report of activities during Apache War, 1890 |
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2-08 |
Crow Reservation Agency, Montana, 1903, n.d. |
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documents prepared in defense against case involving claims against Watson for violating penal statutes while agent on Crow Reservation, 1894-1897 |
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2-09 |
Accounts of travel in Mexico, 1901 |
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handwritten draft emphasizing climb of Colima Volcano |
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typed draft entitled "From Guadalajara to Tuxpan, Mexico," 4 pages |
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similar draft but many variations |
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Mexico - Description and Travel |
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Colima Volcano |
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2-10 |
Photographs (7 originals, 4 copies) |
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Apaches |
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cavalry officers and chief of scouts, Albert Seiber |
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drawing of Battle of Wounded Knee reproduced as albumin photograph |
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B. |
James Waterman Watson Papers |
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3. |
Cuba: Spanish-American War |
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2-11 |
Report, re assault on San Juan Hill and recommendations for citations for bravery resulting from assault on San Juan Hill and Battle of Las Guasimas |
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B. |
James Waterman Watson Papers |
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Cuba: Retirement |
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2-12 |
Correspondence and drafts of letters-to-the-editor denouncing German war effort, 1913-1915 |
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includes: letter from James B. Hughes about his military disciplinary case; letter to Mr. Douglass re: Cuban land; letter to George W. Goethals containing reminiscences about West Point and army experiences and personal news |
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2-13 |
Correspondence, 1916 |
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2-14 |
Correspondence and anti-German writings, 1917, n.d. |
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includes: letter to Naval Consulting Board with detailed suggestions concerning war effort, 6/1917 |
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2-15 |
Journal, February-May, 1917: 2 drafts |
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deals with Cuban Revolution and World War I news mainly |
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2-16 |
Journal, February-May, 1917: copy 2 (partial) |
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2-17 |
Correspondence and writings concerning Cuban land controversy, 1919-1920 |
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2-18 |
Miscellaneous |
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correspondence concerning posthumous citations for Major Watson, 9/4/1924 |
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fragments of correspondence; clippings |
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miscellaneous writings of J. W. Watson |
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poem in Spanish |
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Hubbard, Elbert, "How Lifted the Lid Off Hell?" n.p., 1914, anti-German booklet |
