Street (James) letter [manuscript]
By: Street, James H. (James Howell)
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Material type: 
Mixed materialsDescription: 0.10.Subject(s): Dale, Sam, 1772-1841 | Claiborne, J. F. H. (John Francis Hamtramck), 1809-1884 | Authors, American -- Archival resources | Novelists, American -- Mississippi -- Archival resources | Mississippi -- Authors -- Archival resources | Mississippi authorsGenre/Form: Correspondence.Online resources: Collection description Summary: Letter (typescript) written by James Street, The Barricades, Old Lyme, Connecticut, to Purser Hewitt, managing editor, THE CLARION LEDGER, Jackson, Mississippi, dated February 12, 1940. The letter refutes a Eupora, Mississippi, newspaper article which stated that Street had written a biography of General Sam Dale and that Street was currently living in Vermont. The letter also discusses Street's forthcoming novel, "Oh, Promised Land," whose main character, Big Sam Dabney, was loosely based on the life of General Sam Dale.
| Item type | Current location | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Archive Request | Mississippi Department of Archives and History | Manuscript Collections | Archival Reading Room | Z/1809.000/F | Available | B40331 |
Letter (typescript) written by James Street, The Barricades, Old Lyme, Connecticut, to Purser Hewitt, managing editor, THE CLARION LEDGER, Jackson, Mississippi, dated February 12, 1940. The letter refutes a Eupora, Mississippi, newspaper article which stated that Street had written a biography of General Sam Dale and that Street was currently living in Vermont. The letter also discusses Street's forthcoming novel, "Oh, Promised Land," whose main character, Big Sam Dabney, was loosely based on the life of General Sam Dale.
Cite as: Z/1809.000: Street (James) Letter.
Gift of Charles G. Smith, Clinton, Mississippi, April 26, 1985.
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