Guide to the Calvin R. Daggett Letter MSS.2686
Daggett, Calvin R.
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by Lydia Wommack
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
February 2010
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Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
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Calvin R. Daggett Letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.2686
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet
- Dates:
1850 April 11
- Abstract:
A letter from Calvin R. Daggett of Nashville, Tennessee, to Chandler Bradford of Turner, Maine, about his plans to travel west.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Lydia Wommack, 2010.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2006.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Calvin R. Daggett Letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
Biographical/Historical note
In 1850, Calvin R. Daggett was living in Nashville, Tennessee.
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains a letter from Calvin R. Daggett of Nashville, Tennessee, to Chandler Bradford of Turner, Maine. After receiving letters from his parents who have already gone west, Calvin decides to travel west, too. He mentions the profits to be had in land ownership in the west. He also tells Bradford to send him any "good, likely" girls that want to go to Wisconsin he would be happy to take them there and guaranteed they would be married in three weeks even "if I have to take one myself."
Letter Box SC0030 Folder 2686.1