Guide to the Paoli Ashe Smith Papers MSS.1294
Smith, Paoli Ashe
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
June 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Paoli Ashe Smith papers
- Unit ID:
MSS.1294
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.4 Linear feet (106 items)
- Dates:
1882-1970
- Abstract:
This collection consists mainly of personal correspondence from this jorunalist and Greensboro, Alabama, native to his mother during World War I, letters received from several of his cousins, financial and legal papers, and photographs. It also contains materials relating to other members of his family.
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists mainly of personal correspondence from Smith to his mother during World War I, letters received from several of his cousins, financial and legal papers, and photographs. It also contains miscellaneous items related to Smith’s father, legal papers of his mother, a letter written to Mrs. Smith from her sister Netta Tutwiler, and a small quantity of financial and legal papers of a cousin, Margaret Roberts Ellington. The papers are fragmentary, with a gap spanning a period of almost thirty-five years, from the 1930s through 1963. The strength of the collection lies in the World War I material, particularly in Paoli Smith's correspondence, which offers a wartime perspective on his own life, the lives of non-combatants, and the effects of war upon the countryside.
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Preferred Citation
Paoli Ashe Smith papers, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Netta Johnson Holley, 1979.
Biographical/Historical note
Smith was born in Greensboro, Alabama, in 1894, the only child of Paoli Ashe Smith and Gessner Harrison Tutwiler Smith. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1911, worked as a journalist for the Birmingham Ledger, 1911-15, leaving that job for the insurance business. From 1917 to 1919 he served as an intelligence officer in the American Expeditionary Force in Europe. Following the war he joined the Sparrow Advertising Agency in Birmingham, where he worked from 1921 to 1962, serving as president for much of that period. He died in Birmingham on 3 March 1972.
Smith Family Genealogy Box 2641 Folder 1
Outgoing Correspondence Box 2641 Folder 2
Letter from Lieutenant Paoli Ashe Smith, United States Armed Services, to "Mother," April 6, 1918 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20645
Letter from Lieutenant Paoli Ashe Smith, United States Armed Services, to "Mother," April 21, 1918 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20646
Letter from Lieutenant Paoli Ashe Smith, United States Armed Services, to "Mother," November 30, 1918 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20647
Letter from Lieutenant Paoli Ashe Smith, United States Armed Services, to "Mother," December 5, 1918 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20648
Letter from Lieutenant Paoli Ashe Smith, Trieste, Italy, to "Mother," April 8, 1919 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20649
Letter from Lieutenant Paoli Ashe Smith, Field Artillery School, to "Mother," September 1, 1918 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20650
Letter from Lieutenant Paoli Ashe Smith, Trieste, Italy, to "Mother," March 27, 1919 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20651
Incoming Correspondence Box 2641 Folder 3
Printed Material Box 2641 Folder 4
Certificate stating Paoli A. Smith, Associate Member, Alpha Delta Sigma, 1913 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20639
Photographs Box 2641 Folder 5
Financial Papers (1 of 2) Box 2641 Folder 6
Financial Papers (2 of 2) Box 2641 Folder 7
Legal Papers Box 2641 Folder 8
Miscellaneous Box 2641 Folder 9
Special Orders by Colonel Howe, American Expeditionary Forces, Paris, France, to Lieutenant Paoli A. Smith, June 19, 1919 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20640
Travel Order by Colonel Cooke, Headquarters Post of Brest, to Sergeant Dury K. Adams, June 21, 1919 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20641
Travel Order by Colonel Cooke, Headquarters Post of Brest, to Lieutenant Paoli A. Smith, June 21, 1919 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20642
Hotel receipt from Lausanne-Palace, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1919 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20643
Courier Bulletin from American Expeditionary Forces Postal Express Services, Instructions to Westbound Overseas Couriers, circa 1920 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20644
Paoli A. Smith (father) - Miscellaneous Box 2641 Folder 10
Gessner Tutwiler Smith - Incoming Correspondence Box 2641 Folder 11
Gessner Tutwiler Smith - Legal Papers Box 2641 Folder 12
Margaret Roberts Ellington Box 2641 Folder 13