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Box	Folder	Description
10	1	Broadside, "To The People of Florida," April 17, 1833, 3 pp., in which Richard K. Call defends his character "from the foul aspersions with which it has been assailed." [Separated from Box 1, File Folder 18; see Separation Sheet]
10	3	Print, "General Grant's Funeral--The Procession Passing Up Fifth Avenue," Supplement to Harper's Weekly, August 15, 1885. [Separated from Box 7, File Folder 15; see Separation Sheet]
10	7	Letter, August 10, 1837, George M. Boyd, Boston, to Governor Richard K. Call, Tallahassee, 4 pp.: "Many years [have passed since] you and I passed near the waters of Mobile bay. I have . . . always heard with pleasure of your prosperity and honorable advancement in life. I have several times been at the point of addressing you [but] the idea that I might be encroaching upon your more valuable time has deterred me . . ." Requests Call's help in securing "the free admission of foreigners to the full enjoyment. . . of the privileges of citizens" and mentions seeing Sam Houston in New Orleans. On verso, Call writes, "G. M. Boyd, a gallant soldier and true friend." [Extremely fragile. Two lower corners detached. Two upper corners missing: text lost.] [Separated from Box 1, File Folder 3; see Separation Sheet]
10	8	Letters written by Richard K. Call, 1839-1840
10	9	Letter, June 29, 1841, Richard K. Call, Tallahassee, to Mrs. Ellen Kirkman, New Orleans, 3 pp., regarding business and family matters, including a suit against him which he would pay "to get rid of the scoundrels, if the times were not so hard. I want to see my dear little Mary very much, but I know she has every possible care and attention . . . and I must content myself until I can pay you a visit either at New Orleans or Nashville. . . [I am] anxious to know something about your future arrangements. Nashville . . . is too cold for you and New Orleans is too unhealthy. Port Leon I think is the very place for you to come and live with me and my daughters. . . It is improving more rapidly than any little place I have ever seen, and will become the largest, and most business place in Florida. . ." [Multiple holes and tears: text lost] [Separated from Box 1, File Folder 4; see Separation Sheet]
10	10	Letter, December, 10 1842, Richard K. Call, Tallahassee, to Mrs. Ellen Kirkman, New Orleans, 1 p., reporting "that I am greatly recovered, and that I hope soon to be entirely restored [to health]" and thanking her for allowing his children to visit. [Large hole in lower center: text lost] [Separated from Box 1, File Folder 4; see Separation Sheet]
10	11	Letter [date missing], Richard K. Call, to Mrs. Ellen Kirkman, New Orleans, 2 pp.: "I am preparing to leave for Washington tomorrow morning. I understand some efforts were made to defeat my nomination in the Senate, and I am anxious to be present when it is acted on. . . I should have gone some time since but the illness of my brothers family has prevented me from doing so. . . I shall spend but a few days in Washington, and shall then go to see Ellen. . . Tallahassee is still very unhealthy. I have never known it so much so at this season of the year. There have been many deaths . . ." [Tears: text lost] [Separated from Box 1, File Folder 17; see Separation Sheet]
10	12	Jane Brevard Darby scrapbook: Circular, July 4, 1863, 1 p. (entire top half missing), a reprint of the last "Wallpaper Edition" of the Vicksburg Daily Citizen of that date, regarding recent developments in the war: "This paper is at present in duress and edited by a pink-nosed, slab-sided, toad-eating Yankee . . . It is reported in Washington today that two members of Hooker's staff were gobbled up by guerillas last night in the vicinity of Fairfax. . . the city of Darien, Georgia, was burned by the Federals on the 11th inst. and is now one plain of ashes and blackened chimneys. . . The banner of the Union floats over Vicksburg. Gen. Grant has . . . dined in Vicksburg, and . . . The 'Citizen' lives to see it. For the last time it appears on 'Wall Paper.' No more will it eulogize the luxury of mule meat and fricasseed kitten -- urge Southern warriors to such diet nevermore. This is the last wall-paper Citizen, and . . . will be valuable hereafter as a curiosity." [Separated from Box 3, File Folder 35; see Separation Sheet]

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