Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one 6-page speech given at the laying of the cornerstone for the Confederate Monument by James M. Mosby, Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge of Georgia in 1879.

Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of the library (621 volumes) of Absalom Harris Chappell. This library reflects the varied legal and literary (classical and contemporary) interests of a scholarly antebellum attorney. Almost all of them were published before 1860, including a biography of Louis IX from 1668 and an edition of Diogenes from 1562. The collection also contains pamphlets (38, 7 written by A.H. Chappell) dealing with state and national politics, and family correspondence (14...