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Box 1

 Container

Contains 10 Results:

Family correspondence

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1791-2006

Letter from J. W. Shelton to his wife Sarah Alice Cary re: traveling; and typed transcription, 2/5/1860

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 2/5/1860

Postcard from Sara Alice Shelton to daughter Mary Flewellen Shelton, 1879

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1879

Letter from “Grandma” Sara Alice Cary Shelton to Grandma Landers re: family; and typed transcription, 4/11/1879

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 4/11/1879

Letter from Mary Shelton to Mrs. J. H. Landers, 4/26/1884

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 4/26/1884

Receipt from J. M. Robins to Sarah Alice Cary Shelton for rent, 5/30/1889

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 5/30/1889

Letter from Sarah Alice Cary Shelton to Malcolm and Doug re: family and smallpox, 3/21/1904

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 3/21/1904

Letter from Sarah Alice Cary Shelton to Doug and Malcolm Landers re: family, 5/7/1904

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 5/7/1904

Letter from Sarah Alice Cary Shelton, 3/9/1905

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 3/9/1905

Letter from Sarah Alice Cary Shelton to her grandson Malcolm Landers, 10/22/1905

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 10/22/1905