Scope and Content Note Bound volume of 105 pages, containing: three essays written by Carnahan in 1858, while a student at Cane Hill College, Boonsboro, Arkansas; and 12 "Letters to friends at home during fifteen months absence in Texas for the recovery of my health which failed me entirely and drove me from College in March, 1859." Written between July 13, 1859 and April 25, 1860 and dated from Dallas County, Cedar Hill, Nolands River, and Ellis County, Texas, the letters describe stock cattle and...