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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:

Mystic Seven, Temple of the Wreath collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 92
Scope and Contents The Mystic Seven, Temple of the Wreath collection relates to a student organization at Centenary College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.). The collection includes meeting minutes as well as three histories about the organization. A facsimile of the "First Book of the Chronicles of the Mystic Seven, Temple of the Wreath" (1849-1861) includes meeting minutes and a membership list. Also included is a typescript containing excerpts from the 1849-1861 volume. One typescript history was published –...
Dates: 1849 - 1981

Richard Lloyd Pugh letter

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 527
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of digital facsimile printout of letter from Richard Lloyd Pugh to his mother, Elizabeth Catherine Foley Pugh. Includes request for his father to attend commencement at Centenary College of Louisiana. Also mentions news regarding family and friends.

Dates: 1852

Helen Marbury Raymond collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 5
Scope and Contents

The Helen Marbury Raymond papers consist of her research materials and articles about William Marbury Carpenter (1811-1848), his family, and his connection to John James Audubon. The research materials include typescript correspondence from Lucy Audubon in 1827 and 1869. Articles written by Raymond are: “My Grandmother Knew Mrs. Audubon,” Times-Picayune Sunday Magazine (New Orleans, La.), May 9, 1937, and “How Audubon Dismissed School,” St. Nicholas Magazine, October 1937.

Dates: 1827 - 1937

Richard Henderson Rivers correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 46
Scope and Contents Collection consists of letters addressed to Richard Henderson Rivers, who served as president of Centenary College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.) from 1849 to 1853. Letter dated 1851 from Daniel Martindale, Centenary faculty secretary, contains details about students suspended during the past year. Letter dated 1853 from Henry Tutwiler expresses thanks for being awarded an honorary degree. Letter dated 1854 from Thomas Coffee (with additional note from E.R. Porter) contains details...
Dates: 1851 - 1854

Saint James United Methodist Church (Hahnville, La.) records

 Collection
Identifier: LACUMC-2012-031
Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of Saint James United Methodist Church (Hahnville, La.). It includes membership records, administrative records, property records, committee records, and historical records.Membership records consist of church register books, certificates of baptism, Sunday school records, and member lists. The church registers include names of pastors, members, baptisms, marriages, and deaths.Administrative records include the congregation’s...
Dates: 1873 - 2014

David Olcott Shattuck correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 48
Scope and Contents Collection consists of letters addressed to David Olcott Shattuck, who served as president of Centenary College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.) from 1844 to 1848. Correspondence from J. L. Riddell and William Marbury Carpenter, both professors at the Medical College of Louisiana (New Orleans, La.), recommend Norman K. Leslie as a science professor at Centenary. Letter from W. H. Potter and John Caldwell Doremus relates to their employment operating Centenary College of Louisiana’s...
Dates: 1846

Robert Edward Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 24
Scope and Contents

Robert Edward Smith papers contain correspondence, speech material, pamphlets, and printed material about the Shreveport Local Option Election of 1952, temperance, and the Four Square Bible Class (1937-1954).

Dates: 1920 - 1964

William Angie Smith scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 101
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of one scrapbook and loose material detailing the ministry and life of William Angie Smith. It includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and printed items. The material primarily relates to Smith serving as acting president of Centenary College of Louisiana from August 1932 to June 1933.

Dates: 1931 - 1934

John Magruder Sullivan correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 52
Scope and Contents

Printed form letter on mourning stationery from Ida Saxton McKinley regarding death of her husband, United States President William McKinley. Envelope addressed to John Magruder Sullivan, Professor of Natural Science at Centenary College of Louisiana.

Dates: 1901

Jane Carr Chapman Thornton letter

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 53
Scope and Contents Typescript of letter about Centenary College (Brandon Springs, Mississippi). Thornton writes of travelling with her family from Virginia and arriving in Jackson, Mississippi, in November 1841. She describes Centenary College’s campus, dormitory, cottages, and a nearby medicinal spring. One of the college’s buildings is the home of her son, Thomas Chapman Thornton, who serves as the president of Centenary. She also mentions the people enslaved by her family who have traveled with the...
Dates: 1842