Joseph B. Cumming correspondence

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MSS-104

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Handwritten correspondence to friends, including Kirk Wood and L.W. Richardson. The letters are mostly pertaining to the publication of "A Northern Daughter and a Southern wife: The Civil War Reminiscences of Kathering A. Cumming, 1860-1865". Other authors include: Charles D. Saggus, Iree W. Pope, A. Ray Rowland, Edward J. Cashin, Bryan M. Halterman, and Sherman Drawdy. Date span: 1954-1983

Dates

Created: 1972-1984
Other: Date acquired: 09/10/1984

Creator

Cumming, Joseph B. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

No current access restrictions on this collection. Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Augusta University Special Collections & Institutional Archives is the owner of the physical collection and makes reproductions available for research purposes only. Materials within the collection are subject to the copyright law of the United States and item condition. Augusta University Special Collections & Institutional Archives may or may not own the rights to materials in the collection. It is the researcher's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and obtain permission from the copyright holder before publication, reproduction, or display of the materials beyond what is reasonable under copyright law. Researchers may quote selections from the collection under the fair use provision of copyright law.

Biographical or Historical Information

Joseph Bryan Cumming (1893-1983) was an attorney in Augusta, Georgia. He was born on August 10, 1893, the son of Bryan Cumming (1862-1943) and Mary Gairdner Smith (1866-1954). He married Virginia Neville Burum on November 15, 1922, and the couple had three children: Virginia Cumming, born 1924, Joseph B. Cumming, birn 1926, and Nancy B. Cumming, born 1931. Cumming died on April 11, 1983 in Augusta, GA.

Note written by Tammy Westafer after Mary Ann Cashin