MSS. 190. 1850-1853, 1955. 0.33 cubic feet. Letters of Lowndes County, Mississippi, pioneer Stephen A. Brown and his father-in-law, Richardson Owen, from Alabama and Arkansas, 1851, 1853; two undated letters to "Dear Lucy ...

MSS. 325. 1836-1982. 1 cubic foot. Papers and photographs concerning the antebellum plantation Waverley, which was built in Clay County, Mississippi, in the 1850s by George Hampton Young.

MSS. 101. 1886-1982. 104.33 cubic feet and 53 volumes. Correspondence, annual reports, minutes, financial records, maps, oral history interviews, publications and other records documenting the history of the Delta and Pine ...

MSS. 585. 1792-2001 (Bulk Dates: 1850-1930). 8.5 cubic feet. Plantation records and family papers (1792, 1820-1963), of the extended family of William T. Lenoir (1811-1960) and Mary E. Blanchard Lenoir (1810-1894), of ...

MSS. 164. 1883-1886. 0.33 cubic feet. Records of the C.D. Benton & Company plantation store at Burnett, Louisiana include letter book, 1883-1886, with copies of correspondence relating to supplies and cotton sales; ledger ...

MSS. 507. 1881-1980 (Bulk Dates: 1887-1906). 1 cubic foot. The papers comprise primarily correspondence of the family of William A. Dockery (1865-1936), owner of the Dockery plantation in Mississippi.

MSS. 252. 1850-1853. 0.08 cubic feet. Plantation on Lake St. Peter across river from Natchez, Mississippi. Refers to plantation life of the period: slaves, crops, levees and floods, diseases, prescriptions, taxes, road ...

MSS. 162. 1888-1912. 0.16 cubic feet. Clippings and articles from Okolona, Mississippi, newspapers including the Chickasaw Messenger concerning Frank Burkitt, editor and Populist Party candidate.

MSS. 1. 1883-1926 (Bulk Dates: 1859-1930). 5.75 cubic feet. The collection includes the papers of Liberty C. Abbott (1836-1894), an official and plantation owner of Howard, Mississippi, his wife Maria Abbott (1830-1912), ...

MSS. 274. 1848-1851. 0.04 cubic feet. The diary of James Knox (1786-1864), which begins in March 1848 and ends in February 1851, records the weather and the daily operations of his plantation in Pickens County, Alabama, ...