Songs--United States--20th Century; Popular Music--United States
Cover: photo of James Barton, a Caucasian male in blackface; cartoon drawings satirizing ideas such as ""taxi drivers never cheat"" or ""landlords never raise the rent""
University of Mississippi -- Students; University of Mississippi -- History; Church attendance -- Mississippi -- Oxford; University of Mississippi -- Social life and customs;
Describes his "busy Sunday," in which he woke early to read and study, attended church, then "dined out with a club-mate" and went to the Y.M.C.A., among other activities. Mentions monetary gift from one of his cousins and that one of his...
This little book is not a treatise on book-keeping. It is less, and it is more. Far less, because it treats of but one of many thousand applications of that useful art; and more, because, beginning with the very simplest exposition of general...
Roberts writes about his camp outside of Atlanta, where there have been skirmishes with Union troops; he awaits a great battle. He also writes about furniture arrangements at home and asks about his son Charley, who he claims was given laudanum by...
Health; Secession; Homefront; Gerdine, Thomas Cobb; Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 1823-1862; Newspapers; Communication;
Roxana writes of the improvement in Lucy's health since her coming to Mississippi; talk of secession in surrounding areas; calling her son Tom Cobb ""a little black Republican"" the secession of Mississippi; her desire to read northern newspapers;...
Parent and child; Religion; Baptists; Tuition; Education; Women in education; Church attendance;
Matthew writes of the state of education in Richland and that of his children. Also discusses religion, attendance in his church. Finally, Matthew includes a note to Mr. Wear concerning Mary's tuition.
Bernard, Frederick Robert, 1850-1922; University of Mississippi -- Alumni and alumnae; University of Mississsippi -- History; Medical students; Families -- Louisiana