Printed compilation of letters (20p) entitled “The Unjust and Unconstitutional Seizure of Land from Citizens of the Mingo Swamp Area in Southeast Missouri,” by Wagner to the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch protesting the establishment of the Mingo Wildlife Refuge. Printed by the Candor Press, Dexter, [Mo].

Typed letter (3p) from Wilson, Geologist, State of Missouri, Bureau of Geology and Mines, Rolla, [Mo], to Professor J. C. Logan, Missouri State Normal School, offering an explanation for the development of the Southeast Missouri lowlands.

An honors paper written by Southeast Missouri State College student Howard Emerson on the roadside demonstrations that occurred in January of 1939 protesting the living conditions of sharecroppers throughout southeast Missouri.

Documents from St. Avit family of Cape Girardeau, including warranty deed for lot on Spanish Street, power of attorney assignment between John Duffort and John St. Avit, birth certificate for Jeanne Dupont, personal letter from Auguste Dolenc to “Nephew” and survey of tract lying northwest of the city of Cape Girardeau in 782 Township 31 North Range 13 East. Newspaper article provides background on St. Avit family. *Oversized.

Two copies of typed manuscript (11p) entitled “The Founding of St. Mary’s Seminary: An Historical Sketch, 1818-1968.” Author is unknown.

Photocopied typescript (3p) entitled “The Civil War Forts in Cape Girardeau” by Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney and author Morley Swingle, briefly relating the history of Forts A, B, C, and D.

Primarily personal correspondence to and from members of a Cape Girardeau pioneer family, the most notable member of whom was Honorable William C. Ranney, who served on the Common Pleas Circuit Court from 1851 to circa 1861 and was elected State Senator in 1871.

Bound photocopied typescript (38p) by McDowell entitled “Toward a History of the Methodist Churches of Indian Creek Valley” [Mo] prepared for the bicentennial celebration of American Methodism in the valley. Provides information on Draby’s Chapel, McLain Chapel, Shilo Church, Rock Hill or Stewart’s Chapel, Pleasant Hill A. M. E., Oak Hill, Fairview, Fruitland, and the Wesley United Methodist Churches.

Printed minutes (25p) of the meeting of the Presbytery held at Kennett, [Mo], September 14-15, 1937. Contains committees’ reports, information on ministers and churches in attendance, meeting activities and business transactions.

Photocopied typescript (110p) of genealogical records relating to the Proffer family from 1758 to 1978, compiled and written by Alice Proffer Spillman. The Proffer family settled in Cape Girardeau in 1818.