Guide to the Henry Timrod Papers MSS.1411

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Timrod, Henry

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W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama

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Henry Timrod papers

Unit ID:: MSS.1411

Repository:: W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama

Quantity:: 0.2 Linear feet (45 items)

Dates:: 1854-1940

Abstract:: This collection contains letters, some of them Civil War related, and poems to Rachel Lyons, of Columbia, South Carolina, primarily from the period 1861-1863.

creator: Timrod, Henry, 1828-1867

Scope and Contents note

This collection contains letters, some of them Civil War related, and poems to Rachel Lyons, of Columbia, South Carolina, primarily from the period 1861-1863.

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Ann Ulmer, 2000; revised and updated by Martha Bace, 2009

Preferred Citation:

Preferred Citation

Henry Timrod papers, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.

Acquisition Information:

Provenance

Gift of Mrs. W.B. Patterson

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Biographical/Historical note

Henry Timrod was born on 8 December 1828 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was educated at Franklin College (now the University of Georgia) from 1845 to 1847, when poverty and ill health forced him to leave school. After receiving private training, he sought a professorship, but was unable to obtain one. He then worked as a tutor in various households of South Carolina planters. In 1860, he published a collection of poems, which received favorable reviews. He served briefly as a war correspondent in the West, but ill health forced him to return home. He married Kate Goodwin in 1864, and died on 6 October 1867.

Rachel Lyons Heustis of Columbia, South Carolina was a friend of Henry Timrod, and the recipient of letters and poems by him. She later married Dr. J.F. Heustis of Mobile, Alabama.

Note: The information given is taken from Henry Timrod: A Biographical Sketch, by William P. Fidler, published in the Southern Literary Messenger, October, November, and December 1940.

Source(s)

Literature and Authors (local)

United States |x History |y Civil War, 1861-1865 (lcsh)

Correspondence, Outgoing - 1854-1863 Box 295 Folder 1

Letter from Henry Timrod, Baltimore, Maryland, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, September 16, 1854 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32073

Letter from Henry Timrod, Hardeeville, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, May 29, 1861 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32074

Letter from Henry Timrod, Hardeeville, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, June 9, 1861 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32075

Letter from Henry Timrod, Hardeeville, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, July 7, 1861 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32076

Letter from Henry Timrod, Hardeeville, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, August 20, 1861 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32077

Letter from Henry Timrod, Hardeeville, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, September 6, 1861 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32078

Letter from Henry Timrod, Charleston, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, December 10, 1861 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32079

Letter from Henry Timrod, Charleston, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, December 25, 1861 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32080

Letter from Henry Timrod, Charleston, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, January 20, 1862 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32081

Letter from Henry Timrod, Charleston, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, February 3, 1862 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32082

Letter from Henry Timrod, Charleston, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, February 6, 1862 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32083

Letter from Henry Timrod, Charleston, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, February 21, 1862 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32084

Letter from Henry Timrod to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, February 26, 1862 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32085

Letter from Henry Timrod, Charleston, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, April 8, 1862 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32086

Letter from Henry Timrod, Charleston, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, April 15, 1862 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32087

Letter from Henry Timrod, Charleston, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, July 25, 1862 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32088

Letter from Henry Timrod, Charleston, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, October 28, 1862 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32089

Letter from Henry Timrod, Charleston, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, June 21, 1863 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32090

Letter from Henry Timrod, Charleston, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, July 23, 1863 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32091

Letter from Henry Timrod, Charleston, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, August 12, 1863 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32092

Letter from Henry Timrod, Charleston, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, September 30, 1863 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32093

Letter from Henry Timrod, Columbia, South Carolina, to Rachel Timrod http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32094

Correspondence, Outgoing - 1854-1863 (photocopies) Box 295 Folder 2

Booklet, Henry Timrod: A Biographical Sketch by William P. Fidler, 1940 Box 295 Folder 3

Letter from Patty H. Paterson, Mobile, Alabama, to William P. Fidler, March 5 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32095

Booklet entitled, Henry Timrod: A Biographical Sketch by William P. Fidler, University of Alabama, October 1940 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32096