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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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Start Over Repository Rare Book & Manuscript Library Creator Alexander, Peter Wellington, 1825-1886 Subjects Account books
Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Peter Wellington Alexander papers, 1835-1910

30 linear feet

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, and newspapers. These include over four hundred letters to Alexander, as well as miscellaneous letters and telegrams; some of his manuscripts and notes; business records of his law firm; military documents of the western divisions of the Confederate Army; copybooks and letter books; and complete and partial newspapers and clippings from the various Southern newspapers (in particular THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN, the DAILY DISPATCH of Richmond, and the ADVERTISER AND REGISTER of Mobile) which carried Alexander's dispatches.

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