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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Sarah Baker Austin Joyner letter

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 28
Scope and Contents

Letter corrects errors published in William Hamilton Nelson’s A Burning Torch and a Flaming Fire: The Story of Centenary College of Louisiana (Nashville: Methodist Publishing House, 1931). Corrections relate to Centenary College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.) and concern the Keener and Holcombe families as well as the college’s library book collection.

Dates: circa 1960

Keener family papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 50
Scope and Contents The Keener family papers consist of approximately 100 letters, dating from 1825 to 1861, addressed to John Christian Keener or to his wife, Mary Anna Spencer Keener, by members of Mrs. Keener's family. Mrs. Keener's parents, Anna Baker and Richard Spencer, had moved from Maryland, settled first in Georgia, and later Alabama. At the time of the early letters, the Spencers were farming a plantation in Dallas County, Alabama, called Davenport Place. They raised cotton, corn, peaches, and...
Dates: 1825 - 1861