Sarah Morgan Dawson letter and photograph, 1899, undated.

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Sarah Morgan Dawson letter and photograph, 1899, undated.

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Letter from Sarah Morgan Dawson to a friend, offering the use of her library. This letter, which is signed with her full signature, is a rare item according to her son, Warrington Dawson. The photograph was taken on a holiday in North Carolina in August 1899.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Dawson, Sarah Morgan, 1842-1909

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Sarah Morgan Dawson was a white, Civil War diarist. She was born Sarah Ida Fowler Morgan, to Thomas Gibbs Morgan (1799-1861) and Sarah Hunt Fowler Morgan (1807-1874), in New Orleans, La. At the outbreak of the Civil War, she moved with her family to Baton Rouge, La., but was forced to return to New Orleans with her widowed mother after her father's death. She married Frank Warrington Dawson (1840-1889), editor of the Charleston, S.C. News and Courier. Her diary, written from the age ...