Merritt M. Shilg memorial collection papers, 1840-1900

Correspondence and business papers of Eli J. Capell of Pleasant Hill Plantation of Amite County, Mississippi, and of members of his family of Centreville, Mississippi. Letters, 1840-1860, from cotton factors, principally from the New Orleans firm of Carroll and Pritchard and its successors; letters 1867-1880, pertaining to the management of the Rose Hill Store and bills for drygoods, drugs, hardware and other items including an inventory, 1879, of stock. Correspondence includes letters, 1860, from students at LaGrange Synodical College, and 1869, from Silliman Female Collegiate Institute. Letters immediately after the Civil War are from friends and relatives. After 1880, the correspondence consists principally of letters from A.C. Crawford, division superintendent of the Wrought Iron Range Company from towns in Missouri, Texas, Colorado, Utah, and Montana ....