Elizabeth Eloise Wilkes papers 1895-1917

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Elizabeth Eloise Wilkes papers 1895-1917

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191735380

This collection primarily contains letters to and from Elizabeth Eloise Wilkins and her family. Included are letters from Charles O. Parker, a suitor, Juanita Bennett, a friend, and one letter from Mississippi representative John Sharp Williams. Additionally this collection includes a diary, some pamphlets, and two unidentified photographs.

4 boxes (2 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6958815

Georgia Historical Society

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Wilkes, Elizabeth M.

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Elizabeth Eloise Wilkes, Eloise to her family and friends, was born in Durant, Mississippi, the daughter of Benjamin B. and Elvira (nicknamed Dump) Heffner Wilkes. Eloise attended Ward-Belmont School for Girls and Young Women in Nashville, Tennessee, and Shorter College in Rome, Georgia where she graduated circa 1915. At Shorter she was president of the Polymnian Literary Society. From the description of Elizabeth Eloise Wilkes papers 1895-1917 (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat ...

Williams, John Sharp, 1854-1932

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John Sharp Williams of Mississippi was a congressman 1893-1907 and a senator 1911-1923. At the time of the writing of this letter he was chairman of the Senate Committee on the Library. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1917. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 191100814 Born in Memphis, Tenn., but raised in Yazoo City, Miss., John Sharp Williams practiced law and dabbled in cotton planting before being elected in 1893 as a Democrat to ...