>>> Item number 817, dated 94/09/19 15:31:16 -- ALL

Date:         Mon, 19 Sep 1994 15:31:16 -0500
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From:         Chris Waldrep <cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
Subject:      Attorney General Devens

I am looking for sources (primary or secondary) on Attorney General Charles Devens (served late 1870s). Does anyone know if his papers are intact or exist anywhere?

I am really interested in Luke Lea, US Attorney for Southern Mississippi. In National Archives M-970 (Letters received by the D of J from Mississippi Source Chronological file) I have Lea acknowledging receipt via telegram of a letter firing him. Lea promises to respond by letter which does not appear on the microfilm. It must have been some letter because Lea keeps his job. I am very interested in anything I can find on Luke Lea, but this missing letter is particularly intriguing.

Chris Waldrep
cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu

>>> Item number 823, dated 94/09/22 17:11:12 -- ALL

Date:         Thu, 22 Sep 1994 17:11:12 -0500
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From:         Chris Waldrep <cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
Subject:      Re: Attorney General Devens

           Chris,

           Secondary:  Wm S. McFeely, "Amos T. Akerman:  The Lawyer and
           Racial Justice," in J. Morgan Kousser and James M.
           McPherson, RELIGION, RACE, AND RECONSTRUCTION:  ESSAYS IN
           HONOR OF C. VANN WOODWARD (NY, 1982).

           There is a letterbook with Akerman's letters while A-G at
           the Univ. of Va. library.

           Les Benedict

>>> Item number 833, dated 94/09/23 09:20:15 -- ALL

Date:         Fri, 23 Sep 1994 09:20:15 -0500
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From:         Chris Waldrep <cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
Subject:      Re: Attorney General Devens

There is a single Akerman letter in the Samuel L. Southard Papers at Princeton. --Ben Primer, University Archivist