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Craft, Fort, and Thorne family papers, 1850-1864.

Title: Craft, Fort, and Thorne family papers, 1850-1864.

Correspondence and other items of Hugh, Mary E. Pitts Craft, Henry Craft; and Martha and James Fort. There are also letters from Confederate soldier Edward Alston Thorne to his wife Alice about military movements and camp life. Many items are family letters, 1820-1826, 1840-1876, to Hugh or Mary Craft or to Martha Craft Fort discussing illnesses, trips, and various activities of family members in Holly Springs, Miss., Memphis, Tenn., and Clinton and other locations in Georgia. There also are letters from Henry Craft telling of his life as a student at Princeton, 1847-1848; a detailed diary kept by Henry at Princeton, 1848-1849, with his impressions of people and events and reflections on politics, love, philosophy, etc.; and a two-volume diary of Henry Craft, 1859-1860, 1863-1864, focusing chiefly on family life in Memphis.

ArchivalResource: About 119 items.

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Craft, Henry. Craft, Henry, papers, 1873.

Title: Craft, Henry, papers, 1873.

Business correspondence of Craft, an attorney for the Memphis law firm of Kortrecht, Craft and Scales.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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