Josiah TItzell memorial collection on Savannah and Georgia history, 1817-1945.

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Josiah TItzell memorial collection on Savannah and Georgia history, 1817-1945.

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This collection consists of manuscripts, pamphlets, and maps that Josiah Titzell was collecting at the time of his death as research for a book he was writing on Savannah and Georgia, as well as a large amount of correspondence. The letters from Daniel Dodd to John Ward discuss engines for steamships; Dodd (1778-1823) made the machinery for the S.S. Savannah when she was converted from sail to steam. Israel Keech (I.K.) Tefft wrote to Robert Lemon concerning plans for copying historical documents in London for the Georgia Historical Society; Tefft was the corresponding secretary for the society and Lemon was the Chief Clerk of H.M. State Paper Office in London. The letters to W.B. Tinsley, a cashier for the Bank of Savannah in 1861, concern accounts, notes, etc. The Titzell-Silva letters cover such subjects as Titzell's gifts to the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, his and his wife's writings and the publication of his Galanty Show, a poem written by Silva, and a Christmas card from 1943, containing a verse by Titzell.

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Georgia Historical Society

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In the spring of 1839, three Savannahians—Episcopal divine William Bacon Stevens, renowned autograph collector Israel K. Tefft, and educator, scientist, and American Medical Association founder Dr. Richard D. Arnold—hatched the idea of an organization whose mission would be to “collect, preserve, and diffuse the history of the State of Georgia in particular, and of America generally.” In May of that year they held the first meeting of what was christened the Georgia Historical Society, the te...

Savannah (Steamship)

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Titzell, Josiah, 1905-1943.

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Josiah Titzell (1905-1943) was born in Savannah, Georgia. He was an author and a literary critic and editor of Author's Annual. Under the pseudonym of Frederick Lambeck, he published a novel, Best in the Greenwood (1936), and a book of verse, Galanty Show (1941). In 1938 he married the novelist Anne Parrish; she died in 1958. From the description of Josiah TItzell memorial collection on Savannah and Georgia history, 1817-1945. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 1445703...

Force, Peter, 1790-1868

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American historian and mayor general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Mayor's office, Washington, to James Greenleaf, esq., 1836 Aug. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270524419 Antiquarian, historian, and mayor of Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers and collection of Peter Force, 1170-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81049951 Archivist and historian. From the description of Receipt, 1853. (Historical Societ...

Tefft, I. K. (Israel Keech), 1794-1862

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Israel Keech Tefft (1794-1862) was born in Rhode Island and came to Savannah in 1816. He and James William Finn, noted actor and playwright, became joint editors and proprietors of the Savannah Georgian. He was associated with the Bank of the State of Georgia from 1822 until his death. He was one of the founders of the Georgia Historical Society in 1839 and was its Corresponding Secretary until his death. His interest in history and literature led him to establish a library in his home which bec...

Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences

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The Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences Architectural Records Committee was established in 1945 to prepared measured drawings of historic houses in Savannah, to obtain as many existing original plans or measured drawings of early houses as possible, and to collect as many photographs as possible of early houses. The Committee collected some original architectural plans, prepared measured drawings of others, and obtained copies of some of the measured drawing of Savannah buildings which had been...