Collections : [University of Michigan William L. Clements Library]

Comments on colleagues, love, camp meetings.Local fatigue with discussing the possibility of war with Mexico.Accounts of a Peruvian brigadier general in Charleston and his tall tales of Mexico and Egypt.Soldiers from Fort Moultrie sent to Texas.Local suicide by poison.

Mrs. Nash desires that Stribling send her a letter via Watkins, informing her as to the condition of her son Daniel--as well as views on the probability of him being restored to "soundness of mind."

Arnold J. Stall received 30 bushels of corn and 1,000 bundles of oats from John Duncan for the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry.

Sending a photograph of himself. "I am very proud to have you want my photograph, and I am still prouder of the fact that I have won your friendship. You know that you have won mine. You won it in the early days of the struggle that I went through in 1917." Signs the letter "Why do people lie about me-I ask nothing-I want nothing."

1b. Erasmus Garitz to W. Porter, commissary. Muster Roll of . . . Anhalt Zerbst Recruits sent over from Jevern in . . . 1780 as muster'd . . . at Fort Brooklyn on Long Island, July 20, 1781. Signed by Erasmi Garitz and commissary W. Porter.