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Size | 4.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2,400 items) |
Abstract | Samuel Henry Lockett (1837-1891) was an engineering officer in the United States, Confederate, and Egyptian armies, and a professor at Louisiana State University and University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He married Cornelia C. Clark in 1859 and with her had six children. The collection documents Samuel Henry Lockett's family life and his careers as a military officer, engineer, and teacher. Correspondence, chiefly with Cornelia Clark Lockett, documents their marriage, household matters, and family life, as well as the nature of the work that kept Lockett away from his family. There is some correspondence with their children, other Lockett and Clark family members, and with military and professional associates. Other materials, including writings, reports, notebooks, photographs, and maps, relate chiefly to Lockett's professional careers: he served as a colonel in the Confederate Army and chief engineer for the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, preparing Confederate defenses at Vicksburg, Miss., Mobile, Ala., Pensacola, Fla., and other points along the Mississippi River and Gulf Coast; he served as colonel of engineers in the Egyptian Army (1875-1877) in Egypt and Abyssinia; he taught at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (1867-1873), University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and at private schools in Alabama (1877-1873); and he was involved in construction work on the Statue of Liberty, New York City (1883-1884), waterworks projects in Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and Kansas (1883-1889), and railroad engineering projects in Chile and Colombia (1883-1891). Also included are materials relating to the odograph, a survey instrument invented by Lockett; extensive notes for a topographical survey of Louisiana; several volumes documenting family travel and life abroad, including Cornelia Clark Lockett's journal in Egypt and a partial newspaper copy of an article based on the journal she kept while she was in Colombia in 1890; lectures and writings on scientific and mathematical subjects as well as education and the arts, Egypt, Panama, Peru, Chile, and Colombia; a retrospective account of the defense of Vicksburg; a book of poetry; and a recipe book. Some items are in Spanish. |
Creator | Lockett, Samuel Henry, 1837-1891. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Susan Ballinger, Roslyn Holdzkom, Linda Sellars, and other SHC staff, 1976-1999
This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.
Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, February 2005
Funding from the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc., supported the encoding of this finding aid and microfilming of this collection.
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Samuel Henry Lockett was born 6 July 1837 in Mecklenburg County, Va., to Napoleon Bonaparte Lockett (1813-1867) and Mary Clay Lockett (1814-1885). Soon after his birth his family moved to Marion, Ala. He graduated from Howard College in Alabama and in 1854 was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in 1859 as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. He then served briefly as an assistant professor at the Academy. On 21 December 1859 he and Cornelia C. Clark (1841-1912), daughter of William H. Clark and Jane Emslie Clark of West Point, N.Y., were married in the Academy Chapel.
In 1860 Lockett became assistant to Colonel W. H. C. Whiting and returned south to do engineering work in the Eighth Lighthouse District. He was in charge of constructing a fort near Pensacola, Fla., when the South seceded. He then joined the Confederate Army and eventually became colonel and chief engineer for the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana.
After the war, Lockett taught mathematics, engineering, and related subjects first at Judson Institute in Marion, Ala., and then at Louisiana State Seminary (later Louisiana State University). He went to Louisiana State in 1867, when the campus was still located at Alexandria. In 1869, when the Alexandria campus burned and the University moved to Baton Rouge, he moved also, remaining on the faculty until 1873. During the summers of 1869, 1870, and 1872 he traveled throughout Louisiana gathering data for a topographical survey of the state. Later he was in charge of two private schools, Calhoun College in Jacksonville, Ala. (1873-1874) and Hamner Hall in Montgomery, Ala. (1874-1875). He left Montgomery in mid 1875 to accept a post as colonel of engineers in the Egyptian Army. He served in Egypt and Abyssinia until mid 1877, when he returned to the United States to teach at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Lockett left the University of Tennessee in 1883 to work with various engineering contractors constructing waterworks in various cities, including Belleville, Ill.; Shelbyville, Ill.; Circleville, Ohio; Paducah, Ky.; and Lawrence, Kan. By 1885 he was chief engineer for the firm of Comegys and Lewis, Contractors, New York City, N.Y. From 1888 until his death he was involved with other firms and businessmen in work on engineering projects in Chile and Colombia. In 1888 he and two associates went to Santiago, Chile, to negotiate details of a contract for building a railroad. The following year he went to Cartagena, Colombia, to advance another railroad project and also to assist in improvements on the Dique Canal. In 1890 he returned to Colombia to examine coal deposits near Rio Hacha. In 1891 he went to Bogota, Colombia, to construct waterworks. He died there on 12 October 1891.
Lockett had six children: Cornelia Lockett, who died young; Jean (1862-1951), who married Eugene F. Fuller; Edith (fl. 1865-1940), who married Joseph E. Lopez; Henry Watkins (fl. 1868-1950), who married May Keeler; Samuel Hobart (1870-1915), who married Addie McMichael; and Ettie Boyd (1873-1920), who married George Morgan.
Back to TopThe collection documents Samuel Henry Lockett's family life and his careers as a military officer, engineer, and teacher. Correspondence, chiefly with his wife, Cornelia Clark Lockett, documents their marriage, household matters, and family life, as well as the nature of the work that kept Lockett away from his family. There is some correspondence with their children, other Lockett and Clark family members, and with military and professional associates. Other materials, including writings, reports, notebooks, photographs, and maps, relate chiefly to Lockett's professional careers: he served in the Confederate Army as a colonel and chief engineer for the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, where he prepared Confederate defenses at Vicksburg, Miss., Mobile, Ala., Pensacola, Fla., and other points along the Mississippi River and Gulf Coast; he was colonel of engineers in the Egyptian Army in Egypt and Abyssinia (1875-1877); he taught at Louisiana State University (1867-1873) in Alexandria and Baton Rouge, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (1877-1883), and at private schools in Alabama (1877-1878); and he worked as an engineer on the construction of the Statue of Liberty, New York City, N.Y. (1883-1884), on waterworks projects in Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and Kansas (1883-1889), and on railroad projects in Chile and Colombia (1883-1891). Also included are materials relating to the odograph, a survey instrument invented by Lockett; extensive notes for a topographical survey of Louisiana; several volumes documenting family travel and life abroad, including Cornelia Clark Lockett's journal in Egypt and a partial newspaper copy of an article based on the journal she kept while she was in Colombia in 1890; lectures and writings on scientific and mathematical subjects as well as education and the arts, Egypt, Panama, Peru, Chile, and Colombia; and a retrospective account of the defense of Vicksburg. Other materials include miscellaneous legal and business papers, newspaper clippings, a book of poetry, and a recipe book. Some items are in Spanish.
This collection originally was arranged and described in two series, A and B. Series A contained the original deposit and additions of 1971 and March 1975. Series B was created to accommodate a large addition made in June 1975. Subsequent additions were made to both series: additions of March and December 1976, and April 1977, were integrated into Series A; an addition of February 1976 was integrated, and additions of October 1980, April 1983, March 1984, and October 1998 were maintained separately, all in Series B. Though this arrangement results in considerable overlap of subject and date in the two series, the arrangement has been maintained in order to preserve the usefulness of extensive and in some cases item level description provided in earlier finding aids (now filed in folder 1). Series titles, however, have changed and subseries have been created to reflect the provenance of the collection. Series A is now Series 1. Original Deposit and Additions of 1971, March 1975, March and December 1976, and April 1977. Series B is now Series 2. Separately Maintained Additions after 1974, with the additions of June 1975-February 1976, October 1980, April 1983, March 1984, and October 1998 constituting the five subseries.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
This series, formerly "Series A," includes the original deposit and the additions of 1971, March 1975, March and December 1976, and April 1977, all of which have been integrated. The original finding aid with extensive and in some cases item level description is filed in folder 1.
This series documents Samuel Henry Lockett's family life and his careers as a military officer, engineer, and teacher. Correspondence, chiefly with his wife, Cornelia Clark Lockett, documents their marriage, household matters, and family life, as well as the nature of the work that kept Lockett away from his family. There is some correspondence with their children, other Lockett and Clark family members, and with military and professional associates. Other materials, including writings, reports, notebooks, photographs, and maps, relate chiefly to Lockett's professional careers: he served in the Confederate Army as a colonel and chief engineer for the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, where he prepared Confederate defenses at Vicksburg, Miss., Mobile, Ala., Pensacola, Fla., and other points along the Mississippi River and Gulf Coast; he was colonel of engineers in the Egyptian Army in Egypt and Abyssinia; he taught at Louisiana State University at Alexandria and Baton Rouge (1867-1873), the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (1877-1883), and at private schools in Alabama (1877-1878); and he worked as an engineer on construction of the Statue of Liberty, New York City, N.Y. (1883-1884), on waterworks projects in Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and Kansas (1883-1889), and on railroad projects in Chile and Colombia (1883-1891). Also included are materials relating to the odograph, a survey instrument invented by Lockett; extensive notes for a topographical survey of Louisiana; several volumes documenting family travel and life abroad, including Cornelia Clark Lockett's journal in Egypt and a partial newspaper copy of an article based on the journal she kept while she was in Colombia in 1890; and lectures and writings on scientific and mathematical subjects as well as education and the arts, Egypt, Panama, Peru, Chile, and Colombia; a retrospective account of the defense of Vicksburg; miscellaneous legal and business papers; newspaper clippings; a book of poetry; and a recipe book.
Folder 1 |
Original finding aids |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-432/1 |
No. 8 H Map of Louisiana representing the several land districts, 1859Prepared to accompany the Surveyor General's annual report, Senate Executive Document No. 2 (1st session, 36th Congress). |
Folder 2 |
1820-1859, and undated 1850s |
Folder 3 |
1861: January-March |
Folder 4 |
1861: April-June |
Folder 5 |
1861: July-December, and undated 1861 |
Folder 6 |
1862: January-April |
Folder 7 |
1862: May-July |
Folder 8 |
1862: August-December, and undated 1862 |
Folder 9 |
Accounts of the defense of Vicksburg, Miss., 1862-1863 |
Folder 10 |
1863 |
Folder 11 |
1864: January-June |
Folder 12 |
1864: July-December, and undated 1864 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-432/2 |
Map of the defenses of the City of Mobile, Ala., circa 1864 by S. H. Lockett |
Folder 13 |
1865 |
Folder 14 |
1861-1865: undated |
Folder 15 |
1866-1867 |
Folder 16 |
1868-1869 |
Folder 17 |
1870: January-June |
Folder 18 |
1870: July-October, and undated 1870 |
Folder 19 |
1871 |
Folder 20 |
1872-1873 |
Folder 21 |
1874 |
Folder 22 |
1874: undated |
Folder 23 |
1875 |
Folder 24 |
1876 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-432/3 |
Drawing of "Odograph Invented and Designed by Colonel S.H. Lockett, Corps of Engineers, Egyptian Army," 1876 |
Folder 25 |
1877 |
Folder 26 |
1878 |
Folder 27 |
1879 and undated |
Folder 28 |
1880-1881 |
Folder 29 |
1882-1883 |
Folder 30 |
1884: January-August |
Folder 31 |
1884: September-December |
Folder 32 |
1885: January-March |
Folder 33 |
1885: April-August |
Folder 34 |
1885: September-December, and undated 1885 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-432/4 |
Map of Egypt, Nubia, and Sudan, 1885 |
Folder 35 |
1886 |
Folder 36 |
1887 |
Folder 37 |
1888: January-August |
Folder 38 |
1888: September-December, and undated 1888 |
Folder 39 |
1889: January-June |
Folder 40 |
1889: July-December |
Oversize Paper OP-432/5 |
Map of city and harbor of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, showing positions of contending forces, 28 July 1889 |
Folder 41 |
1890 |
Folder 42 |
1891-1892 |
Folder 43 |
1896-1897, 1899 |
Folder 44 |
1900-1972 |
Folder 45 |
Undated letters |
Folder 46 |
Poems |
Folder 47 |
Engineering estimates and specifications |
Folder 48 |
Speeches and other writings: Civil War reminiscences |
Folder 49 |
Speeches and other writings: Louisiana |
Folder 50-51
Folder 50Folder 51 |
Speeches and other writings: Scientific subjects |
Folder 52 |
Speeches and other writings: Education and the arts |
Folder 53 |
Speeches and other writings: Egypt, Abyssinia: Geographical and topical |
Folder 54 |
Speeches and other writings: Egypt, Abyssinia: Military and political |
Folder 55-57
Folder 55Folder 56Folder 57 |
Speeches and other writings: Egypt, Abyssinia: Social and cultural |
Folder 58 |
Speeches and other writings: Panama and Peru |
Folder 59 |
Speeches and other writings: Chile and Colombia |
Folder 60 |
Speeches and other writings: Miscellaneous |
Folder 61 |
Miscellaneous |
Folder 62-64b |
Printed material and clippings, 1873-1961 and undatedChiefly concerning Samuel Henry Lockett, Egypt, and Civil War and Confederacy remembrances. |
Folder 64c |
ScrapbookChiefly newspaper clippings about Samuel Henry Lockett's professional life. Also included is a hand drawn map and poetry. |
Folder 65 |
PicturesChiefly portraits of Samuel Henry Lockett. |
Folder 121 |
Volume 1: Poetry book, 1853-1859, 1875Poems by Samuel Henry Lockett. |
Folder 122a-122b |
Volume 2: Recipe book and enclosures, 1855-1895Recipe book containing handwritten and newspaper clipping recipes for food and home remedies and household hints. |
Folder 123 |
Volume 3: Pocket notebook, 1861Notes made on an inspection tour of Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan in February 1861, and a draft of a report on their condition made to General George Goldthwaite; also notes on the Pensacola District and a report on Fort Pickens, Fort McRee, and Fort Barrancas made to Leroy Pope Walker, Confederate Secretary of War, in March 1861. |
Folder 124 |
Volume 4: Letter book, 1863Copies of official reports made by officers of the Confederate Corps of Engineers to Major Samuel Henry Lockett, Chief Engineer, during and after the siege of Vicksburg, Miss., 26 May 1863-23 July 1863. |
Folder 125 |
Volume 5: Notebook, 1869-1879Lectures, notes, and examinations by Samuel Henry Lockett, recorded in an 1868 daily diary; also a speech probably written for a Civil War anniversary. |
Folder 126 |
Volume 6: Pocket notebook, July 1869-August 1869Notes taken by Samuel Henry Lockett for a topographical survey of Louisiana. |
Folder 127 |
Volume 7: Pocket notebook, July 1870-October 1870Notes taken by Samuel Henry Lockett for a topographical survey of Louisiana. |
Folder 128 |
Volume 8: Pocket notebook, July 1872-September 1872Notes taken by Samuel Henry Lockett for a topographical survey of Louisiana. |
Folder 129 |
Volume 9: Notebook, 1874Lectures by Samuel Henry Lockett, one on air and water and another on the five gaseous elements, the latter given at Mrs. Chilton's Female College in Montgomery, Ala. |
Folder 130 |
Volume 10: Notebook, 1874Lecture by Samuel Henry Lockett on earth and fire and a commencement address, both given at Calhoun College in Jacksonville, Ala. |
Folder 131 |
Volume 11: Notebook, 1875-1876Notes on the Abyssinian campaign of the Egyptian Army, kept while Samuel Henry Lockett was colonel of engineers in Egypt; also, a portion of Lockett's description of his trip from Adi Russo to Kayah Khor in March 1876. |
Folder 132 |
Volume 12: Photo album, 1865-1875See PA-432/1 below. |
Folder 133 |
Volume 13: Printed material, 1877-1878Copy of the General Report on the Kordofan (1877) by Major H. G. Prout. |
Folder 134 |
Volume 14: Pocket notebook, 1878Notes and specifications by Samuel Henry Lockett for various waterworks projects; also notes on an eclipse at Fort Worth, Tex., on 29 July 1878. |
Image Folder PF-432/1 |
Portraits, circa 1860-1915Samuel Henry Lockett, Alexander McComb Mason, Andrew Moore, Napoleon Bonaparte Lockett, Mary Clay Lockett, and Cornelia Clark Lockett. |
Image Folder PF-432/2 |
Egyptian and Confederate soldiers, circa 1865-1875Chiefly unidentified Egyptian soldiers; also a group portrait of approximately 130 Confederate soldiers. |
Image Folder PF-432/3-4
PF-432/3PF-432/4 |
Views of Latin America, circa 1888-1891Images of railroads, seascapes, towns and villages. |
Image Folder PF-432/5-7
PF-432/5PF-432/6PF-432/7 |
Views of North America, circa 1883-1888Images of waterways, work crews, and other scenes, presumably taken in connection with Samuel Henry Lockett's work as an engineering contractor. |
Image Folder PF-432/8 |
Miscellaneous, circa 1867-1910Images of a New Jersey street scene; seminary building at Alexandria, La.; and paintings and drawings by Samuel Henry Lockett. |
Image Folder PF-432/9 |
Confederate preparations for battle in the vicinity of Pensacola Bay, Fla., 1861Images of steamers, cannons, sand battery, and soldiers at work, including the Louisiana "Tiger" Zouaves drilling, at Fort Barrancas. |
Photograph Album PA-432/1 |
Views of Egypt, circa 1865-187534 images of Cairo streets, the Nile, mosques, tombs, and other sites. |
Arrangement: chronological.
This series, formerly "Series B," includes separately maintained additions of June 1975-February 1976, October 1980, April 1983, March 1984, and October 1998. The original finding aid with extensive and in some cases item level description is filed in folder 1.
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence, journals, reports, maps, and other materials related to Samuel Henry Lockett's family life and his work as an engineer in the Egyptian Army in Egypt and Abyssinia and as a contract engineer in Colombia and Chile. Family life is documented in correspondence between Samuel Henry Lockett and Cornelia Clark Lockett, their children, and extended families, and in several volumes describing family travel and life in Egypt. Other materials relating to Lockett's years in Egypt include some correspondence with former officers of the Egyptian Army, a volume of observations on Egyptian society, and printed material. Lockett's other writings include speeches and articles published in The Nation and the Evening Post. There is considerable material relating to engineering ventures, including construction of waterworks, railroads, and an electric and steam plant in Colombia. Also included is a description of the odograph, a survey instrument invented by Samuel Henry Lockett. Some items are in Spanish.
Folder 66 |
1875 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-432/6 |
Map of region between Massawa and Halai, 1875 |
Folder 67 |
1876-1877 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-432/7 |
Map of Planes de Haala and Oma, 1876 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-432/8 |
Map of the route of El Obeiyad to Facher, 1876 |
Oversize Paper OP-432/9 |
Map of Baaraza drawn for the Special Expedition commanded by Lockett, 1876 |
Oversize Paper OP-432/10 |
Map of Battle of Yagui, 2-5 October 1877 |
Oversize Paper OP-432/11 |
Map of Plewna with Turkish entrenchments at positions occupied by the Russions, 1877 |
Oversize Paper OP-432/14 |
Map of country between Annesley Bay and Senafe, circa 1877 |
Oversize Paper OP-432/15 |
Sketch of "Massanha" circa 1877 |
Oversize Paper OP-432/16 |
Map of Massawah from survey by S.H. Lockett, circa 1877 |
Oversize Paper OP-432/17 |
Diagram of elevations in Egypt, circa 1877 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-432/18 |
Map of the region south of Massawah, Abyssinia, circa 1877 |
Folder 68 |
1878-1879, 1881 |
Folder 69 |
1882-1887 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-432/12 |
Contract for construction in Cartagena, Colombia, 1882 |
Folder 70 |
1888 |
Folder 71 |
1889: February-13 August |
Folder 72 |
1889: 16 August-September |
Folder 73 |
1889: October |
Folder 74 |
1889: November-December and undated |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-432/13 |
Blueprint plan of Electric Light Station by Taylor Manufacturing Company of Chambersburg, Pa., 1889 |
Folder 75 |
1890: January-June |
Folder 76 |
1890: July-December and undated |
Folder 77 |
1891: January-18 June |
Folder 78 |
1891: 24 June-September |
Folder 79 |
1891: October-December and undated |
Folder 80 |
1892-1950 and undated |
Folder 81 |
Calling cards |
Folder 82 |
Writings, undated |
Folder 83 |
Engineering specifications and contracts, undated |
Folder 84a |
PicturePhotograph of a drawing of a watering place for transport animals in the British expedition to Abyssinia. |
Folder 84b-84c |
Printed materialReports (1870s-1880s) of governance, topography, and geography of Egypt and Abyssinia, including The Topography and Geography of the Country Between the Coast of the Red Sea and the Abyssinia Plateau (1878), by Samuel Henry Lockett; some items in French and Arabic. |
Folder 135 |
Volume 15: Journal, 1875Jean Lockett's journal of family travel from Montgomery, Ala., to Egypt. |
Folder 136 |
Volume 16: Notebook, circa 1875Observations on Egyptian society. |
Folder 137 |
Volume 17: Journal, 1875, 1877Cornelia Clark Lockett's journal of travel to Egypt, her early experiences there, and the return trip to the United States. |
Folder 138 |
Volume 18: Notebook, 1888, 1890Notes by Samuel Henry Lockett on his travels in Latin America, including trips up the Panama Canal, in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Colombia; also, notes on the Rio Hacha water supply and the Oraya Railroad in Colombia. |
Folder 139 |
Volume 19: Notebook, 1888, 1890Notes by Samuel Henry Lockett on his work in Chile and Colombia, including a draft of "Report to Mr. Chas. H. Green of the examination of certain Haciendas; Coal Lands; a line of railroad from Rio Hacha to the Rio Hacha coal basin; the different harbors of the Coast at and near Rio Hacha and of the country generally..." |
Folder 140 |
Volume 20: Pocket notebook, 1889Notes and cost estimates for wharf project in Cartagena, Colombia; also, notes on a trip to Magdalena and a preliminary estimate for a railway from Cartagena to the Magdalena River. |
Folder 141 |
Volume 21: Pocket notebook, 1890Notes and a draft of a report on waterworks and flood control to Jose M. Goenaga, Governor, Department of Bolivar, on the Sinu River and the city of Cerete. |
Folder 142 |
Volume 22: Pocket notebook, circa 1890Notes on various aspects of engineering work in Colombia, including a cost estimate for one mile of railroad at Santa Marta; notes on the topography of the land around Rio Hacha; estimates for a railroad from Rio Hacha to Valle Dupar; extensive notes on the coastline of South America; also contains illustrations of apparatus related to the American Meter Company. |
Folder 143 |
Volume 23: Diary, 1891Brief daily entries of work, travel, and weather. |
Arrangement: chronological.
Chiefly family correspondence of the extended Lockett family. Included are many letters of Samuel Henry Lockett; his wife, Cornelia Clark Lockett; and their children. Other family letters are of Edith Lockett Lopez; her husband, Joseph Lopez; her father-in-law, Jose C. Lopez. There are a few letters to Joseph Lopez from David Hunt Ludlow, apparently a professor of engineering at the University of Virginia. There are letters from friends, Charles P. Stone and Jeannie Stone, to the Locketts. The remainder are business or professional letters of Samuel Henry Lockett, 1866-1885. A few of these latter items relate to Lockett's tenure at Louisiana State University, and his connection with a school at Jacksonville, Ala., 1866-1873; the bulk relate to affairs in Egypt, 1874-1880, and were written by friends or officials in Egypt. Also included are a map of Musawwah Harbour, a travel journal (Egypt, 1876), pictures, clippings, pamphlets and other printed material related to the Lockett family.
Folder 85 |
1862 |
Folder 86 |
1863-1865 |
Folder 87 |
1866-1867 |
Folder 88 |
1868-1869 |
Folder 89 |
1871-1872 |
Folder 90 |
1873 |
Folder 91 |
1874 |
Folder 92 |
1875 |
Folder 93 |
1876 |
Folder 94 |
1877 |
Folder 95 |
1876-1877Letters from Jeannie Stone. |
Folder 96 |
1876-1877Letters from C. P. Stone. |
Folder 97 |
1878 |
Folder 98 |
1879 |
Folder 99 |
1880 |
Folder 100 |
1881-1882 |
Folder 101 |
1884 |
Folder 102 |
1885 |
Folder 103 |
1886 |
Folder 104 |
1887 |
Folder 105 |
1888-1889 |
Folder 106 |
1890 |
Folder 107 |
1891 |
Folder 108 |
1892-1900 |
Folder 109 |
1912-1929 |
Folder 110-111
Folder 110Folder 111 |
Undated |
Folder 112 |
Jameson Clark |
Folder 113 |
Henry Watkins Lockett |
Folder 114 |
Jeannie Lockett diary, 1876 |
Folder 115 |
PicturesIncluded are a portrait and photographs of a painting, gravestone, and war memorial. |
Folder 116-118
Folder 116Folder 117Folder 118 |
Printed materialPamphlets and catalogs related to West Point Military Academy, Louisiana State University, Civil War battles, and tourism in Vicksburg, Miss. |
Folder 119 |
Miscellaneous |
Arrangement: chronological
Chiefly letters from Samuel H. Lockett and his wife, Cornelia Clark Lockett, to their daughter, Jean Lockett Fuller (m. Robert F. Fuller). Letters concern Jean's education; household matters in Knoxville, Tenn., and Cartagena, Colombia; Lockett's death in October 1891; and arrangements for Cornelia to return to the United States. Also included is a copy of A National Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina (1927), by J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton.
Folder 120 |
1876-1892, 1927 |
Photographs include portraits and scenes from Egypt, where Samuel Henry Lockett served as colonel of engineers in the Egyptian army from 1875 to 1877, and in Colombia and Belize, where he worked as an engineering contractor during the 1880s.
Image Folder PF-432/10 |
Portraits and scenes, 1880sChiefly albumen prints from Colombia and Belize (British Honduras). |
Image Folder PF-432/11 |
Portraits, 1870s-1880sChiefly albumen prints from Egypt; included are portraits of Samuel Henry Lockett, officers in the Egyptian army, and others. |
Image Folder PF-432/12-13
PF-432/12PF-432/13 |
Scenes of Egypt, 1870sAlbumen prints. |
Partial newspaper copy of an article published in the Newark Evening News, 28 July 1900, based on the journal kept by Cornelia Clark Lockett of East Orange, N.J., while she was in Colombia in 1890. Also included is a typescript of the article.
Folder 144 |
Newspaper clipping and typescript |