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Collection consists of two series, Civil War Papers and Lee Family Papers, acquired and assembled by collectors Alfred and Elizabeth Brand. Materials relate to the Lee family, including Francis Lightfoot Lee, Henry Light Horse Harry Lee, Richard Henry Lee, and Robert E. Lee, as well as Civil War history, including battle reports, correspondence between Confederate and Union leaders and officers (such as Braxton Bragg, Jefferson Davis, William T. Sherman, and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson), presidential pardons and oaths of allegiance, and some printed materials.

Alfred Cumming was a Superintendent in the Office of Indian Affairs Central Superintendency, and later was appointed as Utah's second Territorial Governor, succeeding Brigham Young. This collection contains materials from the Cumming family dating back to the early 1800s, including the War of 1812; documentation from Alfred Cumming's role in negotiating a treaty on behalf of the US government with Indigenous tribes from the present-day Blackfeet Nation (Montana); and materials from Alfred and Elizabeth Cumming's harrowing experiences with the Utah Expedition in 1857-1858, including detailed descriptions by Elizabeth Cumming of their travels and encounters with wildlife, winter weather, white Mormon settlers, and Indigenous tribes. There are also materials documenting Cumming's Utah governorship, including letters from Brigham Young; reports about Mormon emigration and settlements; communications regarding federal appropriations, US Army movements, and "Indian farms;" petitions and letters to Cumming from families seeking information about missing people, presumed to be in Utah; and administrative records documenting the Western American frontier of the mid-1800s.

Businessman active in the lumber industry. Collection contains correspondence, legal and financial papers, printed materials, photographs, and other materials from lumber businesses beginning before 1910, especially in East Tennessee and in the Philippine Islands with headquarters in Philadelphia, Pa. The Insular Lumber Co., Negros Island, P.I., produced mahogany. Also present in the collection are personal and family papers, including numerous photographs.

Collection comprises a letter Alfred H. Love wrote to a Mr. Hacker (26 Jan. 1875) regarding his intention to take Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia for a peace meeting on 4 July 1876. Enclosures include Love's business card as a commission merchant and manufacturer's agent for woolens and yarns, along with an undated clipping regarding Love's being burned in effigy during a protest against the Universal Peace Union.

Planter, attorney, and postmaster of Charleston, S.C. Letters to Huger's friends and relatives expressing his anti-secession sentiments and his opinions on politics, political leaders, and events in his state. Topics include religion, duels, slavery and free blacks, epidemics, the banking crisis of 1857, military actions in the Charleston area, diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy, Confederate naval operations in Louisiana and off the Carolina coast, Confederate politics and government, and Confederate relations with Great Britain.

Resident of Raleigh, N.C.; lawyer, founder and president of Capitol Broadcasting Company; philanthropist and supporter of the arts, especially opera. Business records and personal papers of Alfred E. Fletcher span the years 1937-1968, and document Fletcher's entrepreneurial activities in the broadcasting business, and his philanthropic activities, particularly in support of the arts in North Carolina, especially opera. Business and philanthropic records, personal correspondence, and other papers are filed together in alphabetical order by topic or name.

Army engineer, Confederate officer, and architect, of Albemarle County, Virginia. Collection consists primarily of Rives' correspondence, relating to his attendance at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées, Paris; his military and civilian careers; family matters and social, political, and economic affairs in Virginia; and the Washington Peace Convention (1861). Includes a diary (1829-1831) of Rives' mother, Judith Page Walker Rives, concerning life in the diplomatic community in Paris, travels on the continent, French social life and customs, the Revolution of 1830, U.S. political developments, and other matters. Also contains three ledgers of Francis E. Rives, U.S. Representative. Correspondents include Francis E. Rives, Julia Page Rives, and Edouard Schwebelé.

ALS. Sends Mrs. Allen of Providence, an autograph collector, an autograph of financier Robert Morris. Writes of Morris' disastrous land speculations.

Alfred M. Foster (1817-1867) was a white farmer and merchant of Wilkes County, North Carolina. His son John A. Foster (1844-1920) was a white farmer of Wilkes County and fought in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. This collection dates from 1801-1919 and consists of the personal, legal, and financial papers of the Fosters, including records related to property in Wilkes and Ashe Counties, North Carolina, and Van Zandt County, Texas; and family correspondence describing life in Van Zandt County. The collection also contains writings related to John A. Foster's Civil War military service, including a diary, notes, and autobiographical manuscript describing military action at the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Courthouse, and Cold Harbor.

Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998), an advocate of Black Power and Pan Africanism, was a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panthers. With a background in radio/audio and electrical engineering, Alfred Newell Johnson (1915-1989) had an active career in public relations and grassroots activism. The collection contains four quarter-inch open-reel audio tapes collected (and possibly recorded) by Johnson. They include Carmichael's speeches at the Central Congregation Church in Detroit on September 27, 1966; the University of California, Berkeley, on October 29, 1966; and Whitewater State University (now University of Wisconsin-Whitewater) on February 6, 1967. The speeches, made during his tenure as chairman of SNCC, express Carmichael's views on Black Power. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.