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SEWANEE REFERENCES IN THE REVEREND MOSLEY ASHLEY CURTIS CORRESPONDENCE
2 July 1857: Curtis to Mary (his wife) from Augusta, Ga. Bishop Davis and Brother Gregg at Kingsville.
3 July 1857: Same to same from Lookout Mt: Reached city at 5:30 and other delegates already on mountain and carriages waiting for them. Bishop, too, tired but he and Gregg went, most of it on foot. Cool and glad of thick coat. Hotels larger and better than in city.
4 July 1857: Same to same: Stand and seats in woods with beautiful view. Procession led by band. Prayers, scripture, etc., hymns, Bishop Elliott's wife at melodeon. Declaration of Independence read, remarks on flag, Star Spangled Banner. Bishop Otey's long oration. Meetings in p.m.
5 July 1857: Same to same: Clergy and bishops dined at private Chattanooga house this Sunday. Bishop Rutledge preached and Curtis read service. Curtis preached in afternoon at the Presbyterian church, the Episcopal church being closed for lack of patronage.
6 November 1857: Same to same: Going to Nashville with Gregg tomorrow (having been given free tickets). Convention to meet in Montgomery 20 November. (All Curtis' letters to his wife are in the Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).
28 January 1860: Curtis to Asa Gray (Arnold Arboretum) Has been sick but recuperating. Will leave for Wilmington tomorrow & from there go to New Orleans if well enough where the board of trustees meets. Mary & several young ladies will go along.
13 March 1860: Same to same: Saw Ridell in New Orleans, missed Dr. Nott at Montgomery. Health much improved and a gay time. Board meeting lasted 6 days. Another 6 days spent sightseeing... went 160 miles upriver. "Wickedness & vice, however, are more open & unblushing than I have ever seen them elsewhere."
6 December 1866: Same to same: Had gone to Sewanee in October by way of South Carolina, & Georgia, returning via Knoxville, Lynchburg, 697 m. either way. Cornerstone of Tennessee marble of 6 tons destroyed... all houses burned & coins and documents stolen... one of them being the Constitution of the U.S. Bonds and title deeds safe...
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42 Centerbury Road, Bellair Charlottesville, Virginia December 15, 1980 22901
Mrs. Arnold Mignery Archives Supervisor The University of the South Sewanee, Tennessee 37375
Dear Mrs. Mignery,
Thank you for your letter of December 11th. You are generous to permit us to send our copies of your Curtis letters to the Southern Historical Collection. Mrs. Berkeley and I appreciate it, and Mrs. Wallace, at Chapel Hill, will also. She has told us that she would like very much to have any that the owners would permit her to have.
I am sorry that we can't send you a copy of the manuscript, as we have sent both the original and our only carbon copy to Mrs. Wallace. Mrs. Berkeley has put together from our notes some of the references to Sewanee in Curtis letters which we promised you in 1976 and unfortunately forgot to send. Unfortunately the copies of the letters have already gone back to Chapel Hill. I am sure that Mrs. Wallace would be glad to send you copies of any of them which interest you particularly. You are probably familiar with her, but just in case you are not, she is Mrs. Carolyn A. Wallace, Director, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514.
We were not familiar with your newspaper, and it was good of you to send a copy. We enjoyed it, as we always do the alumni news which we do get. At this time of year we always hope for additional news on Christmas cards. We usually exchange with Mac, Harry and Pete Ware. Pete's are always the high light of our card collection. If you have never seen one of his you have missed something!
Dorothy joins me in all best wishes for Christmas and the coming year to you and yours.
Cordially yours,