Guide to the Troy D. Savage Letter MSS.3083
Savage, Troy D.
- 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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Troy D. Savage Letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.3083
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet
- Dates:
1940 July 17
- Abstract:
A letter from Troy D. Savage of Lexington, Kentucky to Charles Shanks in Honolulu, Hawaii about Mrs. Shanks' suit for divorce.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Troy D. Savage 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 Troy D. Savage, an attorney of Lexington, Kentucky, to Charles Shanks, a U.S. Army soldier stationed in Honolulu, Hawaii. Savage, representing Mrs. Shanks in her suit for divorce, requesting the payment of certain bills directly to her in lieu of any alimony. If Shanks declines to do this, Savage warns him that, because he made a fraudulent claim that he was single at the time of his enlistment, he could be "kicked out of the Army or forced to make your wife a substantial allotment from your [Army] salary."
Biographical/Historical note
In 1940, Troy D. Savage was an attorney in Lexington, Kentucky.
Letter Box SC0049 Folder 3083.1