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Scope and Content Note The collection includes three volumes created by Virginia between 1863 and 1872 while she lived in Princeton and Little Rock, Arkansas. The first volume, her diary, elucidates her experience living in Princeton from 1863 to 1866. The second dates to around 1863 and features her artwork, including pencil sketches, small paintings of flowers, as well as photographs of family and friends. The third tells the story of her son, Carl, which is entitled, "The Diverting History of Little Tarley...

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, journals, notebooks, poems, hymns, essays, obituaries, sketches, photographs and other materials created, received, or collected by teacher Arabella Lanktree Wilson, by her son, soldier, engineer, and businessman William H. D. Wilson [ see biographical sketches], or by other members of her family. Materials pertain, for the most part, to the personal, familial, religious, educational, military and other activities and interests of the Lanktree and Wilson families while...