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Walworth, Douglas, b. 1833. Walworth and Gordon family papers, 1806-1941 (bulk 1850-1881).

Title: Walworth and Gordon family papers, 1806-1941 (bulk 1850-1881).

Correspondence (1850-1868) includes letters from Douglas' parents while he was a student at Harvard University. Letters discuss contemporary politics, social and economic conditions in Mississippi, and household and family matters. Civil War papers (1862-1865) concern Confederate military administration. Diaries of Douglas Walworth (1850-1865, 1881) describe childhood activities in Natchez, study and student life at Harvard University, and Confederate military experiences. Gordon family papers include documents concerning the estates of James Gordon and his wife, Margaret Leslie, family correspondence, and the American naturalization certificate of Alexander Gordon (1833). A copy of the diary (Nov. 1806-Apr. 1811) of Mr. A<lexander> Gordon describes his voyage from Nassau to New Orleans (1806) detailing travel in the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, the Bahamas, and the mouth of the Mississippi River; sugar planting in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana; the city of New Orleans and its inhabitants, social life, commerce, and culture; the Spanish city of Pensacola, Florida; a journey from Nassau to Havana (1808); and a journey from Nassau to Amelia Island, Florida (1811), detailing cotton and tobacco growing in Georgia, commercial banking in the region, the landscape of the Georgia coast, and the city of Saint Augustine. The diary contains a copy of the Census of Louisiana, 1813. The collection contains miscellaneous cards, newspaper clippings and fragments (1857-1870), currency, a photograph, a sampler (1820), and pressed botanical specimens.

ArchivalResource: 189 items.10 ms. v.

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