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Photocopy of letter of Lem Collins, Pensacola Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida, January 1, 1863, to wife, discussing outfitting of Union ships with ballast, use of U.S.S. Potomac as mail ship and news of General Burnside's defeat. Note: Burnside was defeated at Fredericksburg, Virginia in December 1862 and submitted his request to President Lincoln to resign. Date of letter coincidentally is date of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which affected Pensacola but was not yet known by the troops in Pensacola.

Records of the Daniel and Pollard families of Butler and Crenshaw Counties, Alabama, 1830-1927 including bills of sale for goods purchased in Montgomery and Greenville, Alabama; receipts for sale of cotton and payment of taxes, court summonses, church records, and related materials.

Personal papers, 1939-1975, primarily of personal correspondence and records as a member of the City of Pensacola Human Relations Committee, 1966-1971, and a scrapbook of congratulatory letters upon his appointment as editor in 1939 and letters of appreciation and editorials that he wrote.

Manuscript letter, April 1, 1861, written aboard the U.S.S. Brooklyn, off Santa Rosa Island (Fort Pickens) noting the Brooklyn's return from Key West, and placement of troops on the U.S.S. Sabine.