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Size | 54 items |
Abstract | The collection includes correspondence, financial materials, and other papers relating to the Dorman family of Mobile and Claiborne, Ala., and their friends. Letters, 1847-1854 and undated, give news of family and neighborhood activities. Those from 1862 are to Thomas T. Dorman from family and friends while he served with the 21st Alabama Regiment at Corinth, Miss. Letters, 1867-1868, include two from Thomas W. Dorman to his son, Thomas T., when the elder was vacationing at Healing Springs, Va. Beginning in 1871, there are a few routine business letters relating to various family members. Financial materials consist of scattered bills and receipts. Also included are a handwritten transcription of the 1853 commencement speech from Centenary Institute, a women's school in Sommerfield, Ala., and eight undated school exercises, including compositions and French translation by various female family members. |
Creator | Dorman (Family : Mobile, Ala.) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, April 1991
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.
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The collection includes correspondence, financial materials, and other papers relating to the Dorman family of Mobile and Claiborne, Ala., and their friends. Letters, 1847-1854 and undated, give news of family and neighborhood activities. Those from 1862 are to Thomas T. Dorman from family and friends while he served with the 21st Alabama Regiment at Corinth, Miss. Letters, 1867-1868, include two from Thomas W. Dorman to his son, Thomas T., when the elder was vacationing at Healing Springs, Va. Beginning in 1871, there are a few routine business letters relating to various family members. Financial materials consist of scattered bills and receipts. Also included are a handwritten transcription of the 1853 commencement speech from Centenary Institute, a women's school in Sommerfield, Ala., and eight undated school exercises, including compositions and French translation by various female family members.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Letters to and from Dorman family members and friends in Mobile and Claiborne, Alabama, and Columbus, Mississippi. Letters 1847 to 1854 chiefly give news of family and neighborhood activities. Those from 1862 are to Thomas T. Dorman, son of Thomas W. Dorman, from family and friends while he served with the 21st Alabama Regiment at Corinth, Mississippi. Letters 1867 to 1868 include two from Thomas W. Dorman to son Thomas when the elder Dorman was vacationing at Healing Springs, Virginia. Beginning in 1871, there are a few routine business letters relating to various family members. Undated letters chiefly convey routine family news.
Folder 1 |
Correspondence, 1847-1892 and undated |
Arrangement: chronological.
Scattered bills and receipts of various Dorman family members relating to purchases of goods and services.
Folder 2 |
Financial Materials |
Handwritten poem entitled "The Shipwreck," dated 1838; handwritten copy of commencement speech delivered by William Lipscomb at the Centenary Institute, a women's school in Sommerfield, Alabama, 6 July 1853; a program from the "Sixth Anniversary of Infant Mystics" pageant, location unknown, 9 February 1875; program cover from the "Order of Myths" production, Mobile, Alabama, 1 March 1881; and eight undated school exercises, including compositions and French translations by various female family members.
Folder 3 |
Other Papers |