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Donation Of The William Lindsey Mcdonald Papers To Collier Library Archives, Dec. 2005, William L. Mcdonald, G. Garry Warren

Correspondence

Correspondence between William L. McDonald and Dr. Garry Warren, Dean of Information Technologies at the University of North Alabama, discussing the donation of the William Lindsey McDonald Collection, an expansive body of "rare books, magazines, wills, deeds, diaries, notes of interviews, and a wealth of early photographs," to the Collier Library Archives.

William L. Mcdonald's Theological Training, Correspondence From Pres. E.B. Norton To Col. John C. Lawrence, 5.22.1951, E. B. Norton

Correspondence

Correspondence from E. B. Norton, President of Florence State Teachers College, regarding the then Second Lieutenant William Lindsey McDonald to Colonel John O. Lawrence, Commanding Officer of the Alabama Military District.

Within the letter, Norton details McDonald's service as a pastor of the Margerum Charge of the Methodist Church in Florence, Alabama and his intentions of enrolling in Emory University's Theological Seminary the next fall. He then requests McDonald's release from active duty to pursue seminar education.

Pilgrimage To Oslo’S Holmenkollen Ski Hill And Museum: T Orbjorn Yggeseth Stars For Norway And The University Of Washington, John Lundin

Works by Local Authors

Author describes his visit to the Holmenkollen Ski Hill and Museum and describes Torbjorn Yggeseth's competition in the northwest.

Edward O'Neal Home Cistern Correspondence To Steve Blevins, 11.12.1993, William L. Mcdonald

Correspondence

Correspondence from William Lindsey McDonald to Steve Blevins concerning an archaeological project to cover the cistern at the Edward O'Neal home in Florence, Alabama. The historical marker for the site can be accessed here.

Church (Town) Springs Correspondence To Mr. David Craig, 1.20.2000, William L. Mcdonald

Correspondence

William Lindsey McDonald's correspondence to Mr. David Craig of Knoxville, Tennessee concerning the historic Church Springs district, also known as Town Spring. The area is located between Pine and Court Streets and was the earliest source of water for Florence, Alabama when it was established in 1818.

Church Spring was the site of the first African American church in Florence, the Greater Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, which was established in 1895, and the first African American school in the area.

The historical marker for Church Spring and School can be accessed here.

Beethoven, Caspar Peucer’S Commentarius, And Enchanted Nature, Nicholas Chong

The Beethoven Journal

The posthumous inventory of Beethoven’s library includes a late Renaissance treatise by Caspar Peucer (1525–1602) entitled Commentarius de præcipuis generibus divinationum (Commentary on the main types of divination). Peucer’s text is concerned mainly with methods of predicting the future through such practices as magic, astrology, and the reading of oracles. Neither Peucer nor his treatise is mentioned in any other source associated with Beethoven. The composer also had a limited knowledge of Latin and his copy of Peucer’s text was more than two centuries old.

Previous scholarship has not explored Beethoven’s ownership of this book in any detail, except to …

Muscle Shoals: A Plan For The Use Of The United States Properties On The Tennessee Power By Private Industry For Of "The Manufacture Of Fertilizers And Other Useful Products", Muscle Shoals Commission, United States Government Printing Office, Washington: 1931

Documents

A plan created by the Muscle Shoals commission for instituting a series of fertilizer production operations in the Tennessee Valley area. In addition to written analysis, the document contains multiple images, illustrations, charts, graphs, and maps of the area to illustrate the reasoning of the plan.

Although the plan was never fully brought to fruition, it represents a crucial piece of agricultural and infrastructural history in the Shoals, Alabama alongside existent history on the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and the development of the nitrate plants.

Brigade Orders-Huntsville (6---1814) From John Coffee, Brig. General Of Tennessee Volunteer, John Coffee

Letters and Manuscripts

Transcription and brigade orders from Brigadier General John Coffee to the West Tennessee and Madison County Mounted Volunteers delivered from Huntsville, Alabama instructing them in a line of march that crossed the Tennessee River.

Brigade Orders-Huntsville (Dec. 7th, 1813) John Coffee, Brig. General Of Cavalry & Mounted Riflemen, John Coffee

Letters and Manuscripts

Transcript and brigade orders from Brigadier General John Coffee delivered from Huntsville, Alabama during illness in which he encourages the volunteer cavalry to continue with the hopes of an eventual honorable discharge from service.

A Diasporic Mythography: Myth, Legend And Memory In The Literature Of The Indian Diaspora By P.M. Biswas, G. Connor Salter

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Scholarship continues to explore how postcolonial Indian authors use speculative fiction to explore their country's identity, but book-length studies on the diasporic Indian experience are hard to find. Poet, novelist and scholar Pooja Mittal Biswas examines noted fantasy books by four acclaimed Indian authors born during the first two generations of the Republic of India: Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor, Suniti Namjoshi, and Vikram Chandra. Each author offers a different vision of Indianness, drawing on their complicated experiences as Indians living outside their country of origin, shaped by and responding to colonialism's past, offering different views of how diasporic Indians should …

Science And Religion In The Imagination Of C.S. Lewis: The Quest For The Best Mental Model Of The Universe By Alister E. Mcgrath, Martina Juričková

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

This is a book review of Science and Religion in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis: The Quest for the Best Mental Model of the Universe by Alister E. McGrath

J.R.R. Tolkien And G.B. Smith: With Wind In Our Ears, Edited By Guiseppe Pezzini, Mercury Natis

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

No abstract provided.

Oxford At War: “Leaf By Niggle” As A Wartime Work, Part 1, Josh B. Long

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

J. R. R. Tolkien suggested that "Leaf by Niggle" was written around 1938-1939; however, Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull argue that it was actually composed in 1942. This corrected date changes how one reads the story: often viewed as an autobiographical allegory of art and faith, “Leaf by Niggle” falls into place as a wartime work, informed and transformed by the World War II pressures of Tolkien’s Oxford—the city and the University. This article situates the story within WWII and analyzes how that context influenced the imagery, characterization, symbols, and motifs of "Leaf."

Dreaming Of Bag End: The Hobbit And Medieval Dream-Poetry, Samuel A. Masters

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Medieval dream-poetry has had a profound impact upon the structure, character development and escapism effect in Tolkien's The Hobbit. As a professor of medieval literature, Tolkien was highly knowledgeable on such dream-poems and the late-antique dream theory of Macrobius. Imitating the structure behind the dream-poems of Chaucer, Dante and Langland, Tolkien presents Bilbo's adventure as comparable to a dream (although is careful not to present it as an actual dream). Within his journey, Bilbo also has several symbolic actual dreams. Through both the dream-like structure and the episodic actual dreams, Tolkien both foregrounds Bilbo's character change as his Tookish …

Coffee Correspondence Index, Una Archives & Special Collections

Transcripts

Index of the people, places, and significant events mentioned in the General John Coffee Collection correspondences.

Letter From John Coffee, Brig. General To “Dear Sir” {His Excellency Willie Blount}, Oct. 4th, 1814, John Coffee

Letters and Manuscripts

Transcript and correspondence from Brigadier General John Coffee addressed to “Dear Sir," His Excellency Willie Blount. The correspondence mentions crossing the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals and the addition of new troops to the volunteer cavalry from East Tennessee.

Letter From John Coffee, Brig. General To Major General Andrew Jackson (Oct. 4th, 1814), John Coffee

Letters and Manuscripts

Transcript and correspondence from Brigadier General John Coffee to Major General Andrew Jackson that addresses a line of march that crossed the Tennessee River at the Muscle Shoals.

Letter From John Coffee, Brig. General To Col. Robert H. Dyer (Oct. 1st, 1814), John Coffee

Letters and Manuscripts

Transcription and correspondence from Brigadier General John Coffee to Col. Robert H. Dyer, Inspector General. The letter addresses various companies of the Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry and their movement along the Tennessee River.

Letter From John Coffee, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry & Mounted Riflemen To "Sir" (Major Genl. Andrew Jackson) & Note From Andrew Jackson, John Coffee, Andrew Jackson

Letters and Manuscripts

Transcription, correspondence, and note from Brigadier General John Coffee and Major General Andrew Jackson pertaining to the arrest of Colonel Nicholas J. Perkins commander of the West Tennessee Mounted Volunteer Cavalry.

Letter From John Coffee, C.C. To ''Dear General'' (4.4.1818), John Coffee

Letters and Manuscripts

Transcription and correspondence from Colonel Commanding John Coffee to Major General Andrew Jackson regarding militant movements near the Tennessee River and the wellbeing of the cavalry's horses.

Letter From John Coffee, U.S. Command M To "Sir" {The Hon. James Monroe-Secretary Of State} (March 15th, 1816), John Coffee

Letters and Manuscripts

Transcript and correspondence from John Coffee, U.S. Command M, to "Sir" (The Hon. James Monroe-Secretary of State) pertaining to the boundary line contemplated by the Treaty of Fort Jackson.

“To The Patriotic Sons Of West-Tennessee” From John Coffee At Camp Brahan (Nov. 22, 1813), John Coffee

Letters and Manuscripts

Transcription and correspondence from John Coffee at Camp Brahan, near Huntsville, Alabama, addressed to the "Patriotic Sons of West-Tennessee" concerning General Andrew Jackson's orders for militant advancement upon the Creek Nation.

Letter From John Coffee, C.C. To General Jackson (10.22.1813), John Coffee

Letters and Manuscripts

Transcript and correspondence from John Coffee to Major General Andrew Jackson that mentions crossing the Tennessee River at the upper Shoals.

Letter From John Coffee, Col. Volunteer Co. & M. Rifleman To General Jackson (10.6.1813), John Coffee

Letters and Manuscripts

Transcription and correspondence from Colonel Commanding John Coffee to Major General Andrew Jackson regarding crossing the Tennessee River at the Shoals.

Letter From John Coffee, C.C. To General Jackson (10.4.1813), John Coffee

Letters and Manuscripts

Transcription and correspondence from Colonel Commanding John Coffee to Major General Andrew Jackson concerning a march to Dittoes Landing across the Tennessee River near Colbert's Ferry.

Report Of The Effective Men In Genl. Coffee’S Brigade For The 31st Of October 1814, S. D. Hampson

Letters and Manuscripts

Transcript and report of the effective men in General Coffee’s Brigade for the 31st of October 1814.

Envelope 1 Transcript (Files Not In Original Finding Aid), John Coffee

Transcripts

The dated letters in this document range from 1813-1814 and are concerned with the daily activities of Brigadier General John Coffee and the Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry and Mounted Gunmen during the War of 1812. The document is an indexed transcription of the letters and report in envelope one of the physical collection that were not included in the original finding aid.

Transcription Note

All grammatical and spelling errors appeared in the original text and were retained to preserve the text’s original content. Illegible text from the original document is indicated by “[illegible]” or “[?].” Minor editorial clarifications not present in …

General Coffee Papers, William Lindsey Mcdonald

Transcripts

Article by William Lindsey McDonald about the history and acquisition of the General John Coffee Papers at the University of North Alabama Archives and Special Collections.

Coffee Papers Donated, Shelly Haskins

Transcripts

Copy of an article from the Times Daily about the Collier Library Archives and Special Collections' acquisition of the General John Coffee Collection.

Envelope 2 Transcript, John Coffee

Transcripts

The collection letters range from 1803-1817 and are concerned with the daily activities of Brigadier General John Coffee and the Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry and Mounted Gunmen during the War of 1812. The document is an indexed transcription of all letters in envelope two of the physical archival collection.

Transcription Note

All grammatical and spelling errors appeared in the original text and were retained to preserve the text’s original content. A dash typically indicates places where John Coffee wrote dashes within the original letters, while a string of successive dashes indicates illegible characters (the amount of dashes roughly corresponds to …