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Alabama. Secession Convention (1861). Secession Constitution, 1861.

Title: Secession Constitution, 1861.

The Secession Constitution, dated 1861 Jan. 7, is written on eleven pages of parchment, each page glued to the one below it. The Constitution of 1861 is divided into the Preamble, six articles, and two explanatory provisions. The Preamble states "We, the people of the State of Alabama, having separated ourselves from the government known as the United States of America..." The Articles are divided into descriptions of the Declaration of Rights; Distribution of Powers; Legislative Dept.; Executive Dept. and Militia; Judicial Dept. and Impeachment; General Provisions; Education; Banking; and Slavery. The first explanatory provision describes the change from the territorial to the state form of government. The second explanatory provision describes the secession of the State of Alabama from the government of the U.S. and the mode of amending and revising the Constitution. The document is twenty feet and eight inches in length. When rolled, it is one foot and eleven and three-quarters inches in length and approximately two and three quarters inches in diameter. The document has been placed in an acid-free roll storage box. An eighth of an inch of polyethylene has been rolled around the Constitution to add some cushion and support to the document within the container. It was filed in the office of the Secretary of State.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (one oversized roll storage box).

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Mr. Dace's visit to Tenby, 1869.

Title: Mr. Dace's visit to Tenby, 1869.

Manuscript story, original and unpublished, accompanied by 24 small illustrations, all in pen and ink. The story's title page incorporates the words of the title into an illustration of Tenby Castle. There follows a leaf with an illustration of the coast at Tenby, and then 23 leaves bearing the text and illustrations of the story. The story relates a comic tale of an inept Decimus Dace, who embarks on a holiday to Tenby and endures a series of absurd accidents and confusions. The illustrations depict each stage of his journey, including the train trip to Tenby, the cluster of tourists at Castle Hill, and Dace's wanderings (and near drowning) along the rocky coast. The volume is prefaced by a letter, dated Bank: Manchester, Feb. 17th, 1869, addressed to William Cunliffe Brooks, Esq. (1819-1900). Brooks was a wealthy Manchester banker, who in 1869 acquired the Deeside Estates of Glen Muick, Glen Tanar, and Dinnet. The author writes to Brooks: "Dear Sir, Your being at Tenby has revived the pleasant impressions which I retain of the place, so that I have found myself irresistibly led to amuse myself at intervals, after hard labour on the place, with sketching a few of the incidents of Mr. Dace's visit to Tenby ...". The letter is signed by the author, but illegible.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ([26] leaves) : ill. ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702185530 View