Guide to the Cyrus Durley Letter MSS.3078
Durley, Cyrus
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by Lydia Wommack
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
October 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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Cyrus Durley Letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.3078
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet
- Dates:
1912 July 18
- Abstract:
A letter from Cyrus Durley of Kennebunkport, Maine to R. A. Murdock of Roxbury, Massachusetts about the season's crops.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Cyrus Durley 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
This collection contains a letter from Cyrus Durley of Kennebunkport, Maine to R. A. Murdock of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Durley writes about the season's crops. He also tells Murdock that he almost received a letter bordered in black ribbon rather than purple as lightning struck one of the chicken houses while he was working in it. Also included is a sample of "1912 Latch String."
Biographical/Historical note
In 1912, Cyrus Durley lived in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Letter Box SC0049 Folder 3078.1