Abstract: |
The Rush Hawkins collection
(1750-1951(bulk 1830-1917)) contains personal, family, financial, and military
correspondence and documents; photographs; and a variety of museum objects ranging from
dinnerware and household items to clothing and personal accessories belonging to the Hawkins
and Brown families. Most of the collection reflects the life and interests of Hawkins
himself, with some items related to his wife Annmary Brown Hawkins and her family. Included
in the papers are two significant sub-collections of correspondence: a collection of
antebellum historical letters and documents from earlier generations of the Brown family, as
well as individual letters from Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Greene, Edgar Allan Poe, and
Napoleon I; and a collection of Civil War-related correspondence and documents that contains
records of Hawkins' Zouaves and much Confederate material, including a subseries of
Jefferson Davis's communications to the Senate of the Confederate States. |