Guide to the Hugh Lawson Clay letter MSS.0311
Clay, Hugh Lawson
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
February 2008
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Hugh Lawson Clay letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.0311
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.05 Linear feet (1 item)
- Dates:
1864
- Abstract:
Letter written by Clay from Richmond, Virginia, to an unidentified person in response to a request for help in locating Mr. Mayhew, a mutual friend.
- creator
Clay, Hugh Lawson, 1823-1890
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains a letter written by Clay from Richmond, Virginia, to an unidentified person in response to a request for help in locating Mr. Mayhew, a mutual friend. Clay indicates that he doesn't know where Mayhew's whereaboouts, he did say he had passed the inquiry on others.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Paul Musselman and Donnelly Lancaster Walton, 2006; updated by Martha Bace, 2012
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Hugh Lawson Clay letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Purchased from Cather & Brown Books, 1992
Biographical/Historical note
Hugh Lawson Clay, third son of Clement Comer and Susanna Claiborne Withers, was born on 16 January 1822. He attended the University of Virginia, and was a lawyer in Huntsville, Alabama. He served as a captain during the Mexican-American War and then as adjutant general on the staff of General E. Kirby Smith, C.S.A., during the Civil War.
On 13 May 1855, he married Harriet Celestia "Celeste" Comer, daughter of Major Anderson and Mary Louise Sanders Comer of Macon, Georgia. They had at least one son, Comer. Hugh Lawson Clay died on 28 December 1890 in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Conditions Governing Access note
None
- Usage Restrictions:
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Source(s)
Correspondence (aat)
Daily Life and Family (localbroad)
Richmond (Va.) (lcsh)
Letter Box 4050