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Callaghan, J. E.

            Correspondence relating to the appointment of Capt. J. E. Callaghan, formerly of the 15th Maine Regiment., as Collector of Customs of the Port of Pensacola, 1889‑1902.

            5 items (photocopies).  Gift of Dr. Ernest F. Dibble.

            Accession M1968-11/53.

 

 

Campbell, John

            General, His Majesty's Forces in West Florida.

            Correspondence, 1779-1781.  Typescript transcripts from the Spanish Provincial Records of letters of the British commander of the troops stationed in West Florida.

            Microfilm, 1 reel.  Acquired from Mississippi Department of Archives and

History, Jackson.   Spanish Provincial Records, Record Group 26, Volume 16.

            Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection, Microfilm No. 58.

 

 

Campbell, McDonald

            Correspondence and photographs of Miss Campbell's family, Laurel Hill, Florida, 1894‑1929.  Includes letter, 1908, of her father, A. D. Campbell, to her mother's parents asking her hand in marriage; and photograph of young Effie McKinnon McDonald (1888‑1936), later a teacher in DeFuniak Springs, Fla.

            9 items.   Gift of Miss McDonald Campbell.

            Accession M1973-10.

 

 

Campbell Family

            Photocopies of genealogical charts of the descendants of Daniel Campbell and Jeanette Gillis, Walton County, Florida, prepared by Mark Curenton.

            5 items.            Gift of Mark Curenton.

            West Florida Collection No. 602.

 

 

Campbell Family Papers        

            Educational diplomas, 1899-1933, of Christian C. McDonald and Christian McDonald Campbell for attendance at Palmer College, at Florida State Normal School, and the Okaloosa County public schools in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.

            5 items.    Gift of Miss McDonald Campbell.

            Accession M1988-11.

 

 

Cantonment Rotary Club Records

            Records and papers, 1948-1991, including correspondence, bylaws, financial statements, minutes, and chapter newsletters.  Topics include Cantonment Little Major League and Ephemeral Hospital.

            3,526 items (3.15 c.f.).

            Accession M1984-18.

 

 

Carlson, Gladys

            Photocopies of published genealogical research on family lines written and compiled by Gladys Carlson, Pensacola Florida, including lineage charts, facsimiles of manuscript letters, and related documentation.  Family names include Alexander, Barber, Bilyeu, Bird, Brumley, Duckworth, McKnight, Montgomery, Peel, Robinson, Sample, Wallace, and Williams.  Places include Lancaster County, Virginia; Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; and Cannon County, Tennessee.

            7 items (.18 c.f.).  Gift of Gladys Carlson.

            Accession M1991-08.

 

 

Carpenter, Cornelia Brown

            Personal papers, 1840s-1920, including correspondence, newspaper clip-

pings, photographs, and other materials relating to the Brown, Wright, and Carpenter families; with business records of H. T. Wright, Blackwater and Bagdad, Florida, in the operation of Simpson & Company Lumber Mill at Bagdad; additional letters of Gertrude Wright, H. T. Wright, and of R. M. Bushnell, Saybrook, Connecticut.  Subjects include life in Pensacola, 1887-1920, and Knox Hill, Florida, 1840s.

            168 items (.68 c.f.).   Gift of Mrs. Cornelia Brown Carpenter.

            Accession M1979-03.    

 

 

Carswell, Elba Wilson

            Journalist; author; folklorist.

            Personal papers including research files, writings, genealogical material on the Carswell family, newspaper columns, and other materials.  Subjects include folklore, Falling Waters State Park; Washington County, Florida; and Chipley, Florida.

            Uncataloged.  (5.0 c.f., est.).   Gift of Judge E. W. Carswell.

            Accession M1982-33.

 

 

Carter, Dickson H.

            Pensacola Attorney

            Personal papers, 1896-1973, consisting of photographs, correspondence, speeches, and other writings.  Includes materials pertaining to Judge Francis B. Carter, including Masonic awards and writings.

            Dickson Carter's speeches include talks before the Pensacola Rotary Club, the Men's Bible Classes of the First Methodist Episcopal Church and the Florida State Bar Association.  Other topics include Blue Springs (Marianna, FL), the Milton Land and Investment Company, the Pensacola Commercial and Shorthand School, the astronomy libraries of F. B. and D. H. Carter, and the snowfall in Pensacola, December 1943.

            30 items (.23 c.f.).  Gift of Mrs. Francis B. Carter.

            Accession M1980-09.

 

 

Cary Family Papers

            Family correspondence and business papers of R. M. Cary & Co., later Cary & Co., Inc., coal and building supply merchants, 1898‑1955.  Includes financial records and papers of the Southport Lumber Company, 1909‑1920, and correspondence of George Archibald Cary (1908‑1959), Henry H. Cary (b. 1917), and other members of the family, 1920‑1961.

            Includes genealogical notes on the Cary and Whiting families of Virginia and Florida; papers relating to the estate of R. M. Cary; and letters relating to such local organizations as the Kiwanis Club, Rotary Club, Navy League, and Pensacola Yacht Club.  Also includes papers relating to the election campaign of U. S. Senator George Smathers, 1950.

            835 items (1.36 c.f.) and 82 bound volumes.  Gift of Mr. Henry H. Cary.

            Accession M1970-02.

 

 

Catholic Reading Rack Apostolate of Pensacola

            Records, 1962-1984, including correspondence, minutes, newsletters, financial records, and bylaws.  The Apostolate raised funds to purchase and maintain religious and inspirational literature in free reading racks throughout Pensacola.  Correspondents and key members include Dorothy Clemente, Jim Dowd, and Archbishop T. J. Toolen, Bishop of Mobile.

            365 items (.53 c.f.).  Gift of Eve Windsor.

            Accession M1985-13.

 

 

Catts, Sidney J. (1863-1936)

            Politician; Governor of Florida, 1917-1921.

            Personal papers, 1894-1967, of Sidney J. Catts, DeFuniak Springs, Florida, and other family members, including correspondence, publications, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, and related materials.  Much of the papers concern his term as Governor and activities in the Prohibition and Democratic Parties of Florida.

            Although he ran on an anti-Catholicism platform, his tenure as Governor was marked by progressive legislation including prison and mental health reform; Prohibition; inclusion of women in Government and support for Women's Suffrage.  He unsuccessfully ran for U. S. Senator in 1920, and again for Governor in 1924 and 1928.

            Special Collections also houses a portion of the Governor's Library, 126 books kept intact as part of the Association Books collection.

            4,900 items (4.08 c.f.).   Gift of the Catts Family.

            Accession M1979-11.

 

 

Cazenave, John B.

            Abstract, undated, of the Cazenave grant, Pensacola, transcribed and translated from "Spanish Plat Book," by Fernando Moreno.  With copies of two maps of the property.

            3 piece (photocopy).  Gift of Mr. James Polk.

            Accession M1968-11/43.

 

 

Census Records

            The Special Collections Department has Population Schedules on microfilm of United States Censuses for Florida, 1830-1920, as well as a number of other Southern states and adjacent parts of Alabama.  These schedules are arranged by year of the census, state, and county, and give details of people residing in these areas.  A complete list of holdings is available in the Department, as well as a number of published indexes to various states and years.  In addition, for West Florida, a number of early censuses of population prior to 1830 also exist.  See especially William S. Coker and C. Douglas Inglis' Spanish Censuses of Pensacola, 1784-1820 (1980) and Coker's "Religious Censuses of Pensacola, 1796-1801" in Florida Historical Quarterly (July 1982).

 

 

Chamarro, Edgar (1931-    )

            Nicaraguan Ambassador to the United Nations; Director, Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN); UWF Visiting Professor.

            Photocopies of research files and records, 1981-1987, concerning Nicaragua, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional), the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (Contras), La Prensa (newspaper), the Chamarro family, and the covert and disinformation activities of the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency in Nicaragua on behalf of the Reagan Administration.

            155 items (.9 c.f.).  

            Accession M1987-01.

 

 

Chamberlain, William

            Musician; singer.

            Papers, 1927, 1942-1959, including letters from John Frenkel, Sr., of WCOA radio, and programs of musical events in churches in which Mr. Chamberlain sang.

            25 items.   Gift of Mrs. William Chamberlain.

            Accession M1968-13/78.

 

 

Chapman, Alvan Wentworth (1809-1899)

            Botanist.

            Personal papers, 1859-1868, including his photocopy manuscript "Catalogue of Southern Plants" which was published in 1860, and correspondence concerning his appointment and work as Collector of Customs for the District of Apalachicola, 1866-1868.

            25 items (photocopies).   Originals owned by the New York Botanical Garden Library and  U. S. Treasury Records, National Archives.

            Accession M1974-18 SC.

 

 

Chase, William H.

            Engineer, Pensacola Forts.

            Letters, 1829-1836, sent to the Engineering Department by Captain William H. Chase, from Pensacola, Florida and New Orleans, concerning the construction of Fort Pickens, and similar Gulf Coast forts.

            Microfilm, 1 reel.            Originals in National Archives.

            Accession M1968-13/154.

 

 

Cherokee Nation

            Proclamation, "By the United States in Congress," forbidding all unwarranted intrusions onto Cherokee lands, September 1, 1788.

            1 piece (photocopy).  Original in possession of the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

            Accession M1968-11/105.

 

 

Chester, Peter

            Letter, May 28, 1778, to Bernardo de Galvez, Governor of Louisiana, seeking support and restitution for attacks by rebels made upon British ships and inhabitants of West Florida.

            Microfilm.  Original in British Museum, Add. 24,322.

            Panton, Leslie & Company Research Collection, Microfilm No. 25.

 

 

Chester, Peter

            D. S., November 5, 1776, Pensacola, Florida.  Partly printed order to survey a plantation of 600 acres "back and east of Thompson's Creek" for Robert Farmar, Pensacola, Florida, November 5, 1776.  Order given to Elias Durnford, Surveyor.  Signed by Peter Chester, Thomas Livingston.

            1 item.  Purchase.

            West Florida Collection No. 463.

 

 

Christ Church, Pensacola, FL

            Episcopal Church, Diocese of Florida.

            Records of the Church and Parish, 1832-1833, 1842-1964.  Includes Parish registers, 1842‑1964, with name index, 1824-1927, 1949-1957; baptisms, 1842-1849, 1851-1864, 1870-1889; registers of communicants and confirmations, 1842-1855, 1883-1889, 1957-1961; marriages, 1843-1890; 1928-1956; and funerals or burials, 1842-1889.  Also includes Vestry minutes, 1854-1926; and financial

accounts, alms received, offerings for the poor, and expenditures for church furnishings, 1842-1856.  Includes records of Rectors Reverend David D. Flowers, J. J. Scott, Charles Forte Peake, and of Reverend Francis Huges Rutledge, Bishop of Florida, and additional church publications and records,

1967-    .

            With minute books of Mollie Dorr Roberts Chapter, Daughters of the King, 1893-1921; Christ Church Service League, 1924-1934; the 4th District Episcopal Church Florida Women's Auxiliary minutes, 1931-1941.

            Also includes registers of St. Katherine's Church, Pensacola, 1904-1934,

and records of Christ Church operating in exile during the Civil War as Church

of the Holy Comforter, Montgomery, Alabama, 1862-1865.

            .7 c.f. and 2 microfilm reels. Originals in possession of Christ Church.

            Accession M1993-22.

 

 

Church Histories

            Special Collections maintains a comprehensive general collection for the filing of materials relating to West Florida churches and religious bodies.  These include bulletins, newsletters, programs, publications, church histories, microfilm of records which can include baptism, confirmation, marriage, and death records, minutes of associations and assemblies, annual reports, and similar records.   Files are maintained by denomination, city, and name of church.

            Occasionally if the files of a particular church become large enough, they are cataloged as an individual collection; examples of these are listed throughout this Guide.   Some church publications and serials such as published histories and annual reports of denominations such as the Pensacola Bay Baptist Association, may be located in the Rare Book Collection. 

            Users should check the collection inventory for this collection, as well as the index to this Guide, the Special Collections Card Catalog, and the Bibliography of West Florida under the names of denominations and the names of individual churches.

            6.0 c.f.

            Accession M1975-07.

 

 

City Directories

            A key source of information on people, businesses, street names, and addresses are city directories.  Published annually and biannually, these are invaluable sources of genealogical, historical, and social information as well as providing information on the growth of cities, economics, and business history.  Special Collections maintains a collection of city directories for all cities of West Florida for which directories have been published.  For example, city directories for Pensacola are available for 1886, 1892, and 1900 to the present.  A supplemental source are telephone books which are collected by the Department and kept by city and date.

 

 

Claiborne, John Francis Hamtrack (1809-1884)

            Historian, newspaper editor, U.S. Representative from Mississippi.

            Letterbook, Book E consisting of historical letters collected by Colonel Claiborne of the early Spanish and Mississippi territorial period, 1790s-1820.

Contents are described in an inventory at the front of the microfilm; subjects include the laws of the Mississippi Territory and Alexander McGillivray.

            Microfilm, 2 reels.   Originals in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson.

            Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection, Microfilm Nos. 79-80.

 

 

Clemente, Dorothy

            Personal papers consisting of her records as costume designer for the 1939 Pageant of Pensacola, and for the 1950 to 1972 Fiesta of Five Flags festivals, 1950-1972, in Pensacola, including sketches, designs, costume drawings with samples of material, photographs, newspaper clippings and related memorabilia.  Includes a scrapbook of WCOA radio program covers.

            624 items (.23 c.f.) and 23 portfolios/scrapbooks.   Gift of Mrs. Dorothy Clemente.

            Accession M1981-04.

 

 

Cleveland, Larkin (1873-1953)

            Journalist and Newspaper Editor

            Scrapbooks and papers, 1922-1953, including newspaper articles by and about him, collections of his "Uncle Cleve" columns, biographical material and other clippings from the DeFuniak Herald and Pensacola Journal, 1922-1953.

            Writing from his newspaper office (The Temple of Truth) in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, "Uncle Cleve" was known throughout the South for his wit and humor and long-running feuds with other newspapermen carried out through the editorial pages of numerous West Florida and Southern newspapers.

            14 items (8 scrapbooks & .68 c.f.).  Gift of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Moffett.

            Accession M1969-06.

 

 

Clubbs, Occie (1888-1971)

            Correspondence and research files relating to her unpublished biography of Stephen R. Mallory (1813‑1873), Secretary of the Navy, Confederate States of America; papers relating to the Florida Historical Society, 1939‑1940; printed works and papers relating to Miss Clubbs's work as a schoolteacher in Pensacola, ca. 1932‑1942; and papers relating to her father, A. V. Clubbs, 1893‑1930.  Includes letter of Franklin D. Roosevelt to H. Clay Armstrong (1870‑1950), 1932, and correspondence with Julien Yonge, Frank Cone, Millard Caldwell, Julian Boyd and Florence Palmer, relating primarily to Miss Clubbs's research on S. R. Mallory.

            Includes a table of commandants of the Pensacola Navy Yard, 1826-1911, and a chronology of events surrounding the Fort Pickens "truce," 1860-1861.

            1,600 items (3.4 c.f.).   Gift of the estate of Miss Occie Clubbs.

            Accession M1972-04.

 

 

Cobb, Edna

            Cobb family papers including newspaper clippings on Crestview and Pensacola High School Bands, 1962; grammar school, 1906, and Santa Rosa High School, 1927, diplomas for William Henry Cobb.

            8 items.   Gift of Mrs. Edna Cobb.

            Accession M1973-20 SC.

 

 

Cobb, Eli Sanford (1889-1977)

            Papers relating to Dr. Cobb, a Pensacola ophthalmologist and graduate of Meharry Medical College, with notes of his service in World War I and certificates of his medical studies at the University of Lyon, France.

            6 items (photocopies).  Originals in possession of the Cobb family.

            Accession M1968-13/97.

 

 

Cochrane, Alexander Forester Inglis, Sir (1758-1832)

            Admiral, His Majesty's Royal Navy.

            Correspondence, 1814-1815, primarily of letters between Sir Alexander and Spanish Governor Gonzalez Manrique of Pensacola, with English translations of Manrique's letters; with correspondence relating to British naval actions on the Potomac (1814); letters of other British officers; letters exchanged between Governor Manrique and Admiral Pulteney Malcolm, 1815; and a list of negro slaves of the John Forbes and Company.

            Microfilm, 1 reel.   Originals are part of the Cochrane Papers, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.

            Accession M1968-11/75.

 

 

Coker, William S.

            UWF Professor Emeritus, History

            Personal papers including book manuscripts of Indian Traders of the Spanish Border-lands (Panton, Leslie & Co.) and Our Family, Fact and Fancies (Moreno Family) and his M. A. thesis on Mississippi Senator Pat Harrison.

            5 items (.53 c.f.).   Gift of Dr. William S. Coker.

            Accession M1992-09.

 

 

Cole, John William Buchanan (1906-1968)

            Member, Florida House of Representatives; World War II Veteran.

            Papers, 1935-1945, including newspaper clippings, photographs, and other memorabilia concerning activities as a member of the Florida House of Representatives (1935), and as a sailor in the U. S. Navy during World War II. Many of the photographs were taken on Pulo Anna, a coral island in the Western Caroline Islands, roughly midway between Palau, site of a major Japanese naval base, and Halmahera, Western Pacific headquarters of the Japanese Air Army, and depict the American invasion of the islands in 1944 and 1945. 

            With letter from Joseph A. Pelter, 1935, written from Antarctica during the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition.

            117 items (.40 c.f.).   Gift of the estate of John W. B. Cole.

            Accession M1968-03.

 

 

Coleman, Rev. James

            Catholic priest, Pensacola, Florida

            Photocopy of the Probate docket, 1865-1869, with will, pleas, affidavits, bills, and related records concerning the settlement of his estate by Executor Rev. John Quinlan.

            29 items.

            West Florida Collection No. 8.

 

 

Collier Family Papers

            Correspondence, photographs and printed works reflecting the interests of Mrs. Daisy Adams (Mrs. C. H.) Collier (1876‑1968) in the Daughters of the American Revolution, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Pensacola Women's Club, and Christ Church, 1916‑1950.

            With papers relating to the Adams and Collier families of Tennessee and

Florida, and correspondence with Dr. Jack Fleming, Miss Lelia Abercrombie, and others, of Pensacola.

            443 items (1.3 c.f.).   Gift of Barry Bonifay.

            Accession M1969-02.



Collins, Lem.

          Letter, January 1, 1863, from Pensacola Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida, to wife discussing outfitting of Union ships with ballast, use of U.S.S. Potomac for mail service, and news of Burnside’s defeat. For background, Union General Ambrose Burnside was defeated at Fredericksburg in December 1862 and submitted his request to President Lincoln for relief of command. President Lincoln also issued the Emancipation Proclamation on this date which affected Pensacola.

          1 item (photocopy).

         West Florida Collection No. 640.

 

 

Colonial Dames XVIIth Century Fort San Carlos Chapter, Pensacola, Florida

            Records including scrapbooks of newspaper articles, programs, and photographs, 1964-.

            61 items.  Gift of Mrs. Blasingame.

            Accession M1986-03 SC.

 

 

Confederate States of America

            Records of and relating to the C.S.S. Florida, 1862-1864.  Reel 1: Smooth logs, September 17--December 31, 1863; May 1--October 3, 1864;  Reel 2:  Rough logs, August 18, 1862--January 22, 1863; Sept. 17, 1863--April 30, 1864.

            Microfilm, 4 reels.   From Record Group 76, Boundary and Claims Commissions and Arbitrations, U. S. National Archives.  Microcopy T-716.

            Microfilm No. 150.

 

 

Confederate States of America

            "Sick and wounded of the Army serving in W. Florida near Pensacola ... October, 1861." With entries relating to medical discharges and deaths following the Battle of Santa Rosa Island, photocopy.

            1 piece.  Original in possession of the Library of Congress.

            Accession M1968-13/21.

 

 

Cooper Family Papers

            Business records of Ewing Brothers Naval Stores, Holt, Florida, 1904-1918 including account books and ledgers; business papers of Cooper & Adams, Holt, Florida, 1923-1930; an account book for Holt Drug Store, Holt, Florida, 1933, 1949; records of a prison work farm at Holt, Florida, 1930-1933; and other Cooper family records and materials concerning Holt, Florida.

            71 items including 7 ledgers.   Gift of Max Cooper.

            Accession M1969-09.

 

 

Coronation Collection

            Booklets and newspapers concerning the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of England, 1952-1953 with materials on Blenheim Palace and the Tower of London.  With newspaper clipping announcing end of Korean War.

            23 items (.34 c.f.) 

            Accession M1987-09.

 

 

Cowley-McEvers Papers

            Business records, correspondence and photographs of the Rox Stationery Co., operated by Rox Cowley (1878‑1952), his wife, Eva May (McEvers) Cowley, and her sister, Miss Maude McEvers, 1915‑1952.  With papers relating to the Bronnum estate, the First Presbyterian Church, a travel diary (1931) to Montreat, North Carolina, Pensacola Yacht Club, and Pensacola organizations.

            428 items (1.02 c.f.).   Gift of Mrs. S. G. Kennedy.

            Accession M1975-19.

 

 

Crabtree, Ruth

            Scrapbook, 1944, compiled for a history class taught by Occie Clubbs, includes photographs, maps, and publications on Pensacola history from 1559 to 1944, with emphasis on 1940-1944 and Pensacola during World War II.  Includes articles on the snowfall of December 1943.

            1 item (40 pp.).   Gift of Ruth Crabtree.

            Accession M1968-11/68.

 

 

Crary, John Williamson (1814-1897)

            Inventor; Brickmaker; Newspaper Editor.

            Papers, 1834-1897, including correspondence, copies of patents, drafts of editorials, newspaper clippings, and family papers while in Pensacola and Bluff Springs, Florida.  With printing plate of cover of Scientific American, January 1861, featuring Crary's Brickmaking Machine.

            Uncataloged.  (.7 c.f., etc.).   

            Accession M1982-29.

 

 

Crawford, Webster T.

            "Once on the Rio Sabinas," typescript history of the Redbones Indians of Western Louisiana and the Sabine River Country (Texas/Louisiana border).

            1 item (80 leaves, photocopy).   Gift of E. W. Carswell.

            Accession M1968-11/27.

 

 

Creek Indian Project

            Records and Papers pertaining to the Creek Indians of Northwest Florida, collected by the University of West Florida faculty members, Jane Dysart and Lucius Ellsworth, as part of a grant project.  Records include research bibliographies and research publications dealing with the history of the Creek Indians from earliest settlement to 1980, census records, claims made to the federal government in 1906 and 1957, a newspaper index of materials about the Creeks in Northwest Florida (1950-1980), records about the efforts toward formal recognition, and oral histories of Creek Indians of Florida.

            A detailed inventory of the oral histories, narrators, and subjects is

available; narrators are listed in the index to this Guide.

            1,096 items (2.7 c.f.).   Gift of Drs. Jane Dysart and Lucius Ellsworth.

            Accession M1981-07.

 

 

Creek Nation

            "Treaty with the Creeks" August 7, 1790.  Treaty signed by Alexander McGillivray of Pensacola, and 26 Creek Indian chiefs with President George Washington pledging mutual peace and friendship.

            17 negative photostats from the National Archives, Washington, D.C.

            Accession M1968-11/35.

 

 

Crist, Anna Louise

            Reminiscences of a schoolteacher of Milton and Mulat, Santa Rosa County, ca. 1903, as published in various issues of the Milton Gazette, 1951-1952.

            14 items.   Gift of Mrs. Jassamine Shubert.

            Accession M1973-09.

 

 

Crosby, Harold Bryan

            Lawyer; President, University of West Florida; President, Florida International University; Regents Professor, UWF.

            Personal and professional papers, 1939-1993, reflecting his activities in the Army Air Corps (1942-1955), education at Converse College and the University of Florida Law School, as a member of the Pensacola law firm, Yonge, Beggs, and Lane (1950-1951), as a faculty member and dean at University of Florida (1953-1962), as President of the University of West Florida (1964- 1974), as President of Florida International University (1975-1977), law practice in Tallahassee and Pensacola (1977-1993), as Special Master in equal employment opportunity cases of Stallworth vs. Monsanto (1973-1980) and in a similar suit against Eglin Air Force Base (1981-1991), and as Regents Professor, University of West Florida,

1980-    .

            Correspondents include George Smathers, Adlai Stevenson, Leroy Collins, and Edmund Skellings.  Other major subjects include the Crosby Family, the R. B. Camp Estate, Lt. Col. William B. Maxwell, the Leroy Collins for Governor campaign (1954-1955), the Florida Endowment for the Humanities (1973-1976), Junior Achievement of Pensacola, United Way of Escambia County (1968-1970), the Pensacola Rotary Club, and the Escambia County Juvenile Court Board of Advisors (1952) which includes history of juvenile law in Florida, 1825-1952.

            Partly cataloged.  (25.0 c.f., est.).    Gift of Harold B. Crosby.

            Accessions M1980-02 and M1981-35.

 

 

Cumberland, Richard

            Journal, 1779-1781, with correspondence and related materials concerning his secret negotiations on behalf of Great Britain to Spain.

            Microfilm.   Original in British Museum, Add. 28,851.

            Panton, Leslie and Company Research Collection, Microfilm No. 26.

 

 

Curenton, Mark C.

            Personal papers, 1989-1990, including correspondence, draft plans, and maps of the downtown area of Port St. Joe, Florida in preparation of a Downtown Redevelopment Plan, as part of the Community Redevelopment Center, University of Florida.

            See also his history of the Sixth Florida Volunteer Infantry (West Florida Collection No. 615), a Confederate Civil War Regiment from Walton County.

            21 items.  Gift of Mark C. Curenton.

            Accession M1990-04 SC.

 

Currin, Reverend Beverly Madison.

          Papers, 1958-2002, of Reverend Currin, Rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Pensacola, Florida, consisting primarily of sermons, meditations, and related writings. Of special note are the “annual state of the parish” sermon given in January that highlights changes in the church (e.g. membership, building programs, finances, activities).

          1,220 items. 2.0 c.f. Gift of Rev. B. M. Currin, 2003.

          Accession M2002-07.