Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. letters, 1868-1893.

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Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. letters, 1868-1893.

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The papers in this collection are letters written by Charles Colcock Jones, Jr., with two enclosures written by others. The letters in the first two folders, 1870-1893, were taken from the correspondence of the Georgia Historical Society. They are letters to William Grayson Mann, William S. Bogart, Henry R. Jackson, Dr. William M. Charters, William Harden, Dr. James J. Waring, and Robert Falligant, all officers of the Georgia Historical Society. They concern Jones' addresses before the Society and the publication of them: Casimir Pulaski: Address Delivered Before the Georgia Historical Society, February 13, 1871 (published in Collections of the Georgia Historical Society, III, 385-410 (1873); Sergeant William Jasper: An Address Delivered Before the Georgia Historical Society...on the 3rd of January, 1876 (Albany, N.Y., 1876); The Life and Services of the Hon. Major-General Samuel Elbert of Georgia: An Address Delivered Before the Georgia Historical Society...6th of December, 1886 (Cambridge, Mass., 1887); The Georgia Historical Society: Its Founders, Patrons and Friends: Anniversary Address...14th of February, 1881 (Savannah, 1881); Indians, Particularly of the Georgia Tribes (N.Y., 1873); The Siege of Savannah in 1779, as Described in Two Contemporaneous Journals of French Officers in the Fleet of Count E'Estaing from Georgia to the Continental Congress (N.Y., 1891). Some Society business and officers are mentioned. The two enclosures mentioned above are: a copy of the resolution of the Society conveying thanks for Jones' address on Gen. Ebert, with the letter of May 19, 1879, and a letter from William Cumming Wilde of New Orleans, November 18, 1885. All letters are ALSs.

3 folders (.10 cubic feet)

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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...

Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893

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"Known as the "Macaulay of the South," Charles C. Jones Jr. was the foremost Georgia historian of the nineteenth century. Also a noted autograph and manuscript collector and an accomplished amateur archaeologist, Jones in later years became a prominent memorialist of the Lost Cause and critic of the New South." - "Charles C. Jones Jr." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved August 21, 2008) From the description of Charles Colcock Jones letters, 1866-1...