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Allen Morris Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1966-187
Scope and Contents
The Allen Morris Papers consist of personal and professional records and research materials accumulated by Mr. Morris over a period of about forty-one years. The papers consist of correspondence; biographical sketches of Florida officials and other famous Floridians; photographs, programs, and other materials related to the Allen Morris Legislative Awards; historical data concerning place names, historical houses, rivers and river boats.
Also included is a complete file of "Cracker Politics," the column that Allen Morris was responsible for writing for so many years, as well as notes and materials compiled and used in the creation of the Florida Handbook. A large portion...
Dates:
1861-1970
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Bank of Florida Letter
Collection — Box: 515
Identifier: MSS 0-13
Scope and Contents
The three page letter, signed by E.G. Booth, secretary to D.S. Kennedy, Esq. of New York, gives a list of drafts drawn on several individuals and then the details of a bill of lading covering 41 bales of cotton, all being sent for discount. The postscript refers to the financial difficulties then existing in Florida banking circles.
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 04/01/1952; 1844
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Clement Acton Griscom Papers
Collection — Box: 516
Identifier: MSS 1988-009
Scope and Contents
These papers include a letter from Clement Acton Griscom to his son Lloyd, who served as a foreign diplomat to Japan in the early 1900s. Also included is a small Christmas gift card signed "From Bronson Winthrop," and a small envelope addressed to Col. Lloyd Griscom, care of Miss Griscom, Water Oak Plantation, Tallahassee, Florida. The fourth item in the collection is a letter from G. Leslie Isaac to "Col. Griscom" at Luna Plantation, Tallahassee, concerning a trip to a fair and a car purchase. Includes MSS 0-304.
Dates:
Created: 1904, 1940
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Doak S. Campbell Papers, 1935-1972
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-044
Abstract
This collection contains materials related to the life and career of Doak Sheridan Campbell. It includes biographical sketches of Dr. Campbell, newspaper clippings about Campbell and Florida State University, speeches, personal correspondence, some of which relate information about the Campbell family history. Other persons and topics mentioned in the collection include: Florida Governors LeRoy Collins and Claude Kirk, Campbell's book, A University in Transition, educational materials including projects, programs and correspondence related to various educational institutions, boards and commissions in Florida and Georgia, the Georgia Peabody College for...
Dates:
Created: 1935 - 1972
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Dr. Edward Bradford Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1964-028
Scope and Contents
Contains personal and business correspondence, documents, bills, receipts, etc., of Dr. Edward Bradford, general merchant and plantation owner. Collection also includes a letter of introduction of James E. Broome, Tallahassee, Fla., to Hon. Jacob Thompson, Washington City, and a long handwritten letter of Governor Bragg, Raleigh, N.C., and other important papers show that Dr. Bradford was a well-known and prominent citizen.
For the period before 1840 there are only a few scattering bills, receipts, and notes, but from 1840 to 1866 records of the plantation, commission merchants, forwarding agents, and New York cotton brokers evidence that a prosperous business was transacted....
Dates:
Created: 1830-1871
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Dr. F. A. Byrd Papers
Collection — Box: 516
Identifier: MSS 1968-042
Scope and Contents
Personal, family, and business correspondence, land deeds, letter of testamentary, papers of the administrator of the estate of Dr. F.A. Byrd. Business and personal papers, certificates of membership, licenses to practice as Physician and Surgeon, 13 early envelopes (some with stamps attached); business correspondence, statements, invoices, and one bound account book.
Orders and invoices for marble slabs and headstones for family graves (with names, etc.); declaration of taxable property, tax receipts, note payable to Harrison Reed, Governor of Florida; certificate of "Amnesty Oath;" codicil to a Last Will, letter testamentary. Sales of land, land deeds, bill of sale,...
Dates:
Created: 1819-1892; Other: Date acquired: 03/22/1968
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Fallschase Development Reference Files
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2009-006
Scope and Contents
The Fallschase Development Reference Files includes newspaper articles which documented the Fallschase development process; agreements and other legal materials; minutes from public meetings held in 2005 and 2006; Fallschase development proposals, maps/surveys of the land of the proposed Fallschase community; memorandums to and from the Board of County Commissions; correspondence to and from Robert Rackleff and other Leon County commissioners.
Dates:
Created: 1974-2007; Other: Majority of material found in 2004-2007
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Florence Gregory Walker Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: HP 2009-030
Scope and Contents
Personal items of Florida State College for Women student Florence Gregory (B.A. Sociology, 1940) and Florida State University (M.S., Social Work, 1962). Items includes photographs, scrapbooks, and other ephemera related to her years as a student at FSCW/FSU.
Online Copies Available Select materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library as part of a larger photograph collection.
Online Copies Available Select materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library as part of a larger photograph collection.
Dates:
Created: 1931-1962; Other: Majority of material found in 1931-1947; Other: Date acquired: 07/01/2009
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Herman Kurz Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: HP 2007-087
Scope and Contents
The items in this collection include photographs from Dr. Herman Kurz botany field research. There are also photographs from the Florida State College for Women Faculty-Senior Baseball Game in the early 1920s.
Online Copies Available Select materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library as part of a larger photograph collection.
Online Copies Available Select materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library as part of a larger photograph collection.
Dates:
Created: 1923-1948
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Mary Bates Letters
Collection — Box: 137
Identifier: MSS 0-16
Scope and Contents
Two letters written by Mary Bates of Tallahassee, Florida. Transcriptions are included with each original letter. One letter is written from Dudley, Massachusetts. Both letters are addressed to a Charles Dana, Jr. of Woodstock, Vermont.
In one letter, dated April 11, 1845, Bates gives a vivid description of a sea voyage from New York via Nassau to Florida. According to the letter, during the course of the voyage a leak was discovered in the ship and at the same time hay (a large portion of the cargo) caught fire, so for some days all aboard were in serious peril. This letter also gives a good description of what she called "Warchulla" Springs (Wakulla Springs) in...
Dates:
Created: 1845
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Red Hills of Florida Collection
Collection — Container: OS Box 1
Identifier: MSS 1994-002
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of the background files, notes, correspondence, permission, maps, manuscripts, and other materials that were collected or created by Clifton Paisley during the writing of his work, Red Hills of Florida. Included among these items are biographical sources, census data, maps and surveys of the Red Hills region, letters to and from local organizations and persons, newspapers, and interviews. The majority of the collection consists of those materials which actually played a part in the publication of the book. These items include notes, manuscripts, galley proofs, camera ready copies, and photographs mainly dating from the 1970s and...
Dates:
Created: 1820-1994
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Sydney V. Coxetter Agriculture Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1986-30
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence, financial records, and legal papers related to the seed, agricultural produce, and livestock businesses of Sydney V. Coxetter, and legal papers pertaining to the real estate holdings of Coxetter and his wife Winnifred (Dennis) Coxetter, and those of George Elliot Dennis and his wife Ida H. Dennis in Lloyd and Tallahassee, Florida.
Dates:
Created: 1872-1947; Other: Majority of material found in 1910-1930
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
The Martin Dyckman Leroy Collins Research Collection
Collection — Container: 15 Boxes
Identifier: MSS 2008-011
Scope and Contents
This collection contains research materials used by Martin Dyckman for his 2006 book about former Governor Leroy Collins titled Floridian of His Century. Research materials include speeches from Leroy Collins before he became governor; an interview transcript with Premier Khrushchev during Collins' trip to the Soviet Union; newspaper columns written by Collins for the St. Peterburg Times and transcripts and audio recordings of interviews conducted by Dyckman.
Dates:
Created: 1909-2005; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1970; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2005
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Thomas Brown Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1950-037
Scope and Contents
One letter dated Washington, July 15, 1881 is addressed to "My Dearest Mother," and signed "Your loving son." The other items aside from this personal letter are one envelope and an item that appears to be an official document appointing Governor Brown as "My Proxy to vote in my stead in the general meeting of the..." The handwriting is difficult to read, but voting was to take place on "the 8th April 1852."
Includes manuscript letter by Governor Thomas Brown, Executive Department of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida, January 31, 1853, to Captain Wm. B. Cone.
Also includes a photocopy of Thomas Brown's missing diary of his trip to...
Dates:
Created: 1852-1881
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
Weymouth Tyree Jordan Papers
Collection — Box: 857
Identifier: MSS 79-7
Abstract
This collection contains a wide variety of materials realted to Weymouth Tyree Jordan, his life and his career. Includes biographical materials, correspondence, articles, photographs, writings, research materials, announcements, books, and related materials.
Dates:
Created: 1822-1970
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
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