William Mason Turner Papers (Ms.77.1)

The collection consists of personal letters written to William Mason Turner (1835-1877), along with family and carte-de-visite photographs, legal documents, poetry, a sketchbook, and newspaper clippings of Turner's verse, family obituaries and other items of interest. Of particular note are the remnants of a sketchbook with fine pencil sketches of various Civil War sites as well as numerous Union and Confederate gunboats.