Notes

Collection: George R. Fairbanks Collection

User	Note	Page	Work	Collection	Time
keyunker	Writing at right angles to writing on page 1. All but name of maker (Col. G. Williamson) in pencil.	2	Fairbanks Papers Box 2 Document 13	George R. Fairbanks Collection	almost 6 years ago
keyunker	Writing is at right angle to writing on page 1.	2	Fairbanks Papers Box 2 Document 12	George R. Fairbanks Collection	almost 6 years ago
keyunker	Pages 3 and 4 of Fairbanks Papers Box 2 Document 10 are clearly dated 1859; page 3 specifically refers to this instrument, and bears a signing date of November 5, 1859.	2	Fairbanks Papers Box 2 Document 10	George R. Fairbanks Collection	almost 6 years ago
keyunker	Lines at right angle to the text on the other side of the page.	4	Fairbanks Papers Box 2 Document 10	George R. Fairbanks Collection	almost 6 years ago
keyunker	The reference at the end of page 1 to a period of 21 years after the grantor's death (during which time, if the University dissolved, the funds were to be given to an alternative grantee) was to save the grant from invalidation by the Rule against Perpetu	1	Fairbanks Papers Box 2 Document 10	George R. Fairbanks Collection	almost 6 years ago
keyunker	Page is the reverse side of page 2, with significant bleed through of the ink on page 2. All is in pencil, with the exception of three lines of notation in the upper right.	3	Fairbanks Paper Box 2 Document 18	George R. Fairbanks Collection	almost 6 years ago
keyunker	The total (6450) in ink at the bottom is only $50 too much IF the only amount with a checkmark (1000, from Lynch) is not included. The subtraction of 1000 is arithmetically correct, but the subtraction then of 200 appears to be incorrect (the number in t	2	Fairbanks Paper Box 2 Document 18	George R. Fairbanks Collection	almost 6 years ago
keyunker	The marks to the left of the dollar amounts (one check mark, the others, Xs) are in pencil, as are the subtraction calculations at the bottom.	2	Fairbanks Paper Box 2 Document 18	George R. Fairbanks Collection	almost 6 years ago
901CiCi	Presidential Pardon of Geo. R. Fairbanks by Andrew Johnson with conditions	1	Fairbanks Papers Box 3 Document 2	George R. Fairbanks Collection	almost 6 years ago
keyunker	"Paid" notation for the (struck-through) WG. Farley 1861 note appears to be in pencil.	3	Fairbanks Papers Box 2 Document 1	George R. Fairbanks Collection	almost 6 years ago
keyunker	In the subscription amount column, below the .300 entry for Conley, a fainter (in pencil?) entry has been made -- 39.066 2/3 -- of the total that appears in the next row.	2	Fairbanks Papers Box 2 Document 1	George R. Fairbanks Collection	almost 6 years ago
keyunker	At the bottom center of the page, there is a "totaling line," and an indication that a total of the 7 donor amount is shown _-- but which has been cut off.	1	Fairbanks Papers Box 2 Document 1	George R. Fairbanks Collection	almost 6 years ago
901CiCi	"original endowment" written in pencil and appears to be in a different handwriting. Perhaps a later addition.	2	Fairbanks Papers Box 2 Document 19	George R. Fairbanks Collection	almost 6 years ago
ameoba	See http://www.dumfriesandgalloway.hss.ed.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Scottish-Handwriting-A-Concise-Guide.pdf pages 41-42 and 58 for possibilities on first character.	1	Fairbanks Paper Box 2 Document 18	George R. Fairbanks Collection	over 6 years ago
Pam	Shreveport April 12 1859 On the 12th day of April 1863 I promise to pay to the order of Lay Trustees and Treasrurer of The University of the South from the Diocese of Louisiana one Thousand dollars payable at the Citizens Bank in the City of New O	1	Fairbanks Papers Box 2 Document 13	George R. Fairbanks Collection	almost 7 years ago