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This collection is comprised of correspondence, photographs, a journal, and other biographical materials documenting the experience of Ariel Idella "Della" Hottel during her residence in Fredericksted, St. Croix, Danish West Indies, while serving as a governess to the children of United States Consul William F. Moore.

Scope and Content Note Letters, reports, speech, broadside, program, clippings, and other material pertaining to Thomas Andrew Futrall's professional career as an educator in Arkansas, to the Marianna (Arkansas) Male and Female Institute, and to the scholastic record and professional career, 1888 to 1891, of his son, future University of Arkansas president John Clinton Futrall. Correspondents include Oliver Crosby Gray, Milton Wylie Humphreys, John W. Mallet, Edward Hunter Murfee, William Ewell Peters, William M....

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, ledgers, journals, daybooks, receipts, invoices, statements of account, certificates and other records, 1897-1959, created or received by cotton planter Thomas Hottel Gist; by planter, realtor, and merchant John Petty Moore; by attorney Jesse Boomer Daggett; or by attorney Charles Ebenezer Daggett, and pertaining to: various aspects of the operation and management of Gist's plantation in Phillips County (1921-1937) and in Lee County, Arkansas (1937-1959), especially as...

Scope and Content Note The records consist of daily cash journals and individual account journals, as well as miscellaneous business records. Daily cash journals record daily business transactions from 1916 to 1962 and embody volumes 1-7. Individual account journals record the expenses of W. S. McClintock and Sons, as well as the accounts of individual customers from 1908 to 1963. Most of these journals are in alphabetical order by customer and embody volumes 8-14. Volume 10 contains real estate records....