Guide to the Elias Zeller Envelope MSS.2667
Zeller, Elias
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by Lydia Wommack
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
February 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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English
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Elias Zeller Envelope
- Unit ID:
MSS.2667
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet
- Dates:
1898 August 18
- Abstract:
An empty envelope with a poem written on the outside by the "Oxford Citizen" of Oxford, Butler County, Ohio.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Lydia Wommack, 2010.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2006.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Elias Zeller Envelope, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
Biographical/Historical note
From the poem, one could infer that Elias Zeller was a resident of Locust Grove, Adams County, Ohio in 1898.
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains a poem written on the outside of an empty envelope. The envelope is from the "Oxford Citizen" of Oxford, Ohio, cryptically addressed to Elias Zeller, care of the Post Master. The poem begins to the Post Master saying that the "letter is for a 'feller,' Well known at home, Elias Zeller." The envelope also has a Locust Grove postmark and a three cent stamp.
Envelope Box SC0030 Folder 2667.1