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In this letter of March 20, 1927, Emily Weigle (Tompkins) writes to Dan Tompkins expressing her concern over his newspaper business and financial affairs. Ms. Weigle discusses the move to a new school, weather, and visits with friends.

In this letter of June 16, 1924, Emily Weigle (Tompkins) writes to Dan Tompkins about his political campaign loss and wishes he would write more often. Ms. Weigle describes the opening of High Hampton resort in Asheville and finishing her school year…

This copybook of 1761 and 1762 was created by William Twaddell when he was a student in Coleraine, Ulster, Northern Ireland under schoolmaster Mr. Connings. The copybook starts August 16, 1761 when Twaddell is fifteen years old and finishes March 26,…

This 1758 copybook was created by William Twaddell at the age of thirteen while he was studying under schoolmaster John Reed in Coleraine, Ulster, Northern Ireland. Subjects included in the copybook are dyalling, practical geometry, mensuration, the…

This is a sketch of a monumental gravestone with dimensions of each facing.

In a letter from September 15, 1934, Rev. W.E. (?) Griffith writes to Dan Tompkins, thanking him for an editorial that Tompkins wrote in response to national press coverage of an incident in which a Holiness preacher in Jackson County was bitten by a…

This photograph, most likely of Jessie Whitman, Walt Whitman's niece, was taken in 1873 and is stamped Scholten Cor. Fifth & Olive St. Louis, Mo.

This photograph of Walt Whitman born May 31, 1819 is signed and dated on the front "Walt Whitman Oct 1876" with an inscription on the back to "Jessie Whitman October 26th, 1876."

This two-sided page from the Whitman family bible lists births starting with Walter Whitman July 14, 1789 and marriages beginning with Walt's parents, Walter Whitman to Louisa Van Velsar on June 8, 1816.

This is an undated photograph of Louisa Van Velsor, Walt Whitman's mother.