Guide to the Ellen Nilson Letter MSS.2844
Nilson, Ellen
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by Lydia Wommack
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
September 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Ellen Nilson Letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.2844
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet
- Dates:
1858 October 23
- Abstract:
A letter from Ellen Nilson of Berlin, Wisconsin, to her aunt about the death of her grandmother and the funeral.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Ellen Nilson Letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2006.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Lydia Wommack, 2010.
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains a letter from Ellen Nilson of Berlin, Wisconsin, to her aunt about the death of her grandmother. She said that her grandmother had a "shock of paralysis" during the night and died. She also described the funeral.
Biographical/Historical note
In 1858 Ellen Nilson was a resident of Berlin, Wisconsin.
Letter Box SC0035 Folder 2844.1
Letter from Ellen Nilson, Berlin, Wisconsin, to Aunt, October 23, 1858 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/35509