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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: N2017- 76
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Title, Dates: Transcribed letters and family histories, [ca. mid 1900s],
Amount: 1 folders
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Summary:     This collection includes two typed transcriptions of letters from Roderick Shaw and James Shaw while they were serving as Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Both letters were addressed to their sister, Jesse Shaw Smith of Quincy, Florida.

    Also included in this collection are two typed transcripts of family histories. The first is of "the history and military connections of the family of Ghospero Sweet as dictated by William Charles Sweet, his son, in 1899, to his grandson, Eugene M. Mitchell who was the father of the Margaret Mitchell who wrote "Gone with the Wind". The second is the "historical brief of the early Wyatts taken from 'The Virginia Magazine' of July 1923". The creator and provenance of these materials are unknown.
Finding Aids: Box listing available.
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Associated Materials: The original copies of the transcribed Shaw family letters can be found in Collection M87-6: Roderick Gospero Shaw Letters, 1861-1864.
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Ownership/Custodial History: The creator and provenance of these materials are unknown.
Publication Note:
General Note: Previously State Library of Florida Manuscripts Collection MS83.
Electronic Records Access:
Subject Access Fields: Shaw, Roderick Gospero, d. 1864
Shaw, James Kirkpatrick.
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