Guide to the Marcia Rice Letter MSS.2607
Rice, Marcia Letter
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Finding aid prepared by Lydia Wommack
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
November 2009.
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Marcia Rice Letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.2607
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet 1 letter
- Dates:
1844 March 18
- Abstract:
Marcia Rice writes to parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Munn of Dummerston, Vermont, from St. Louis, Missouri while on a trip with her husband. They made a stop in New Orleans where she visited the site of the Battle of New Orleans.
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Processed by
Lydia Wommack, 2009.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Marcia Rice Letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2006.
Scope and Contents note
Marcia Rice writes to parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Munn of Dummerston, Vermont, from St. Louis, Missouri while on a trip with her husband. They made a stop in New Orleans where she visited the site of the Battle of New Orleans and traced General Jackson's footsteps. She also collected a musket ball from the battle grounds and saw the foundations of a monument to be erected in honor of the battle.
She will wait with friends in St. Louis for two months while her husband travels to Arkansas to attend to business.
Biographical/Historical note
Marcia Rice writes to parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Munn of Dummerston, Vermont from St. Louis, Missouri while on a trip with her husband. They made a stop in New Orleans where she visited the site of the Battle of New Orleans.
Marcia Rice Letter Box SC0029 Folder 2607.1