This letter is addressed to John R. Brinkley II. Brinkley, a self-proclaimed doctor, was born July 8, 1885. He is best known for his practice of xenotransplantation of goat testicles in an attempt to cure issues related to the...
This document is a letter from John Brinkley II to his son, John Brinkley III, who is referred to as Johnnie Boy. The letter is meant to wish John Brinkley III well on his eighth birthday. John Brinkley III was the youngest of...
On October 27, 1941 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his Navy Day Address across public radio. In his speech, President Roosevelt informed United States citizens that Hitler had attacked areas near the Americas and that...
This is a simple postcard, addressed to “Mrs. James Y. Paris,” in the care of Dan Tompkins, written by someone named “Hallie.” The identity of Hallie is unknown, but she listed her return address as a postbox at Duke...
The transcribed letter was sent by Henry Marshall Misemer to his wife Martha Jane Misemer. The letter is dated April 14th, 1865, when the Union soldier H. M. Misemer, is imprisoned. H. M. Misemer (spelling variant: Misener)...
The transcribed manuscript is a letter from Henry Marshall Misemer to his wife Martha Jane Misemer. The letter is dated March 28th, 1865, when the Union soldier H. M. Misemer, is imprisoned. H. M. Misemer (spelling variant:...
William Williams Stringfield was born on May 7, 1837 in Nashville, TN. He served as a captain with the Thomas Legion in the south during the Civil War. After the war, Stringfield built his home in Haywood County, NC (Western...
This edition is created from the manuscript of Marc Woodmansee’s letter to Horace Kephart on January 26, 1919. Within this letter, Marc Woodmansee discusses a few of Kephart’s articles that he was reading at the time. In...
This manuscript is a letter written from Martha Jane Misemer to Philip Misemer, the brother of her late husband, Henry Marshall “Marsh” Misemer. Marsh was one of the passengers of the steamboat Sultana who perished following...
This edition was created from the manuscript of the Memoirs of Ruth Hooper, as well as images from the accompanying materials contained on Western Carolina University’s Digital Collections website. As a whole manuscript, Ruth...
