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Glick, Nathan H. (Nathan Harold), 1912-. Pen and ink drawings, [199--]-[1993].

Title: Pen and ink drawings, [199--]-[1993].

This collection contains 143 pen and ink drawings, roughly measuring 8 x 10. The subjects depicted include prominent Alabamians such as Braxton Bragg Comer, William J. Samford, and Dr. Peter Bryce, and important historical events such as the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, the running of the first electric street car and the founding of various societies. The drawings run the gamut of Ala. history, beginning with prehistory and coming up to modern times.

ArchivalResource: .33 cubic ft. (1 oversized archives box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122380824 View

Morgan, John Tyler, 1824-1907. Letter to John Reuben Thompson [manuscript], 1860 April 20.

Title: Letter to John Reuben Thompson [manuscript], 1860 April 20.

Shortridge is delighted to learn of Thompson's book on Southern poets and offers to help as he knows most of the Alabama poets, including [Alexander Beaufort?] Meek. He encloses three dollars for a copy of "The Southern Literary Messenger" for John T. Morgan, like him, a lawyer who writes in his spare time.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647993418 View

Meek, A. B. Meek, A. B., letter, 1845.

Title: Meek, A. B., letter, 1845.

Letter to W. Gilmore Simms of Charleston, South Carolina, in regards to an invitation to stay with Simms on his way to Alabama and about Simms' new book, "The Cabin and the Wigwam".

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/75960863 View

Meek, A. B. (Alexander Beaufort), 1814-1865. Papers, 1834-1865.

Title: Papers, 1834-1865.

Correspondence, diaries (1834, 1836, 1851-1855), scrapbook, literary manuscript, and other papers, of Meek and of his brother, Samuel Mills Meek, lawyer, of Columbus, Miss. A.B. Meek's papers include diaries describing social life, his law studies and reading, a debating society, a moot court, the Florida expedition against the Seminole Indians (1836), and other matters; and manuscript of "To Egeria" and "The Nuptual Fête," published in "Songs and Poems of the South" and "The Red Eagle." The papers of S.M. Meek include a diary (1851-1855) concerning travels, weddings and social events in Mississippi, political rallies, organizations, current reading, and other matters, and a scrapbook concerning national politics at the close of the Civil War. Correspondents and persons and firms mentioned include Duncan L. Clinch, Henry Stuart Foote, James S. Hamm, Julia A. Mildred Harris, John M. Robinson, Winfield Scott, and Pfister's Book Store, Tuscaloosa, Ala.

ArchivalResource: 47 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20019083 View