Box 1
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Box 1: Folio of letters, sermons, tax receipts, etc., 1856-1889
Series — Box: 1
Scope and Contents
Letters of courtship, letters to wife and family, correspondence re: Methodist churches in central Texas. Pastor’s Pocket Record contains handwritten notes re: finances, church affairs and members. Daily life. San Marcos,Goliad, Indianola. Index to papers and collection notes with collection. Southwestern University: Small Collections.
Dates:
1856-1889
Six letters (4 to Fisher’s son, 1 to “My dear Mollie,”1 to Fisher from a nephew T. S. Garrett), 1 speech, 1 “Oath of Amnesty”, 1858
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Letters discuss: Methodist growth in California and Oregon, camp meetings in the Austin and Chappell Hill districts of Texas, discuss the questions of unity in the Methodist Church during/after the Civil War, discusses publication of his book, medical recipe for sore throat “lozenge,” worries about his daughter living in Houston, having his son collect money due him so the younger son and daughter can pay for their clothes and education; speech concerns the “approaching” Civil War and the...
Dates:
1858