Guide to the F. A. Davis Letter MSS.2690
Davis, F. A.
- 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
- Creation:
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- Language Usage:
English
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F. A. Davis Letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.2690
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet
- Dates:
1865 January 29
- Abstract:
A letter from F. A. Davis to his brother and sister about friends at home and panning for gold in Oregon.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Lydia Wommack, 2010.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2006.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
F. A. Davis Letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
Biographical/Historical note
IN 1865, F. A. Davis was panning for gold in Josephine, Oregon.
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains a letter from F. A. Davis who is panning for gold in Josephine, Oregon, to his brother and sister. Davis mentions that he is ground sluicing - and will continue to for another month or so - before knowing how his claim will pay. He tells them that he had been ill two years before, but that he is much better now. He also says that he receives the war news weekly from the newspapers and that he is sending them two copies of a new photograph he had taken in Jacksonville.
Letter Box SC0030 Folder 2690.1