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Also includes a diary, December 1867-April 1869, kept by Scurlock on his journey to Mexico.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00020#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viw_viw00020","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00020","_root_":"viw_viw00020","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00020","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00020.xml","title_ssm":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"title_tesim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 81 Scu4"],"text":["Mss. 81 Scu4","Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888.","Reconstruction.","116 items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","Arrangement The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.","The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.","The collection is primarily composed of letters received by\n         Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock (1828-1887), a graduate of\n         Tulane University and a resident of Texas and Mexico,\n         1855-1888, from family members in Alabama and Texas, and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. The letters\n         reflect the restlessness of the pre-Civil War years, and the\n         difficulties and disillusionment felt by many people during\n         Reconstruction. Diary included was kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico, December 1867-April 1869, in which he gives\n         his impressions of the people he encountered as well as the\n         natural history of the regions he passed through.","Glad to have received letter but worried about\n                     health; reports brother Dan had left for Irving\n                     [College]; money hard to come by and price for\n                     cotton very low; refers to pending lawsuit; other\n                     family news.","Worries about health and relates deaths of\n                     various towns people; money hard to come by and\n                     business bad; other family and town related\n                     news.","Crops doing well; received letter from a most\n                     \"dangerous woman,\" claiming son hadn't paid a\n                     debt; advises him to stay away from this \"awful\n                     woman\"; mentions pending lawsuit referred to as\n                     \"hooke suit\" (?); other family and town news.","Refers to a favor which \"came to hand\"; talks\n                     about crops and prices; refers to the burning of a\n                     foundry in Montgomery [Alabama]; many suffering\n                     from scarlet fever; mentions the Hook's lawsuit\n                     being taken to Supreme Court; other family and\n                     town news.","Complains about mail system; has not received\n                     any letters from son; crops doing very well,\n                     especially corn; discusses Hook's lawsuit; relates\n                     town \"anicdote\"; other family news.","Glad to receive letter after \"too months\";\n                     crops doing very well; Scarlet fever still \"going\n                     through neighbourhood\"; other family news.","Speaks of fine crops and many deaths from\n                     Scarlet fever; Hook suit not yet decided; advises\n                     to stay away from the \"slandering living old\n                     devil\" who claims he hasn't paid debt; other\n                     family news.","Worried that lawyers want evidence from him for\n                     Hook's case; advises not to give any at all;\n                     reports crops are good except cotton and all are\n                     well.","Reports a retrial for \"Hooke's\" case and\n                     advises that he give no evidence; advises to stay\n                     away from \"Tom the big baby\"; asks him not to\n                     mention case in any letters except to her, Mit or\n                     Will; other family news.","Replies to question about health and crops;\n                     gives long account about political opinions\n                     relating to the \"American party\", break up of the\n                     Whigs and strengthening of Democrats; relates\n                     local arrests; business interests shifting; other\n                     news about common friends.","Disease going around caused by snakes, many\n                     deaths; defines Hook's case as divorce case;\n                     advises to not give any evidence; case has been\n                     given a retrial; worried about Mary's [sister]\n                     health; not receiving Texas paper; other family\n                     news.","Received letter; has severe cold, health at\n                     Irving generally good; plans on staying two years;\n                     has not rained lately and is very warm; Had sent\n                     catalogue, will send another.","Requests help in getting into business as an\n                     \"averseer.\"","Inflicted with typhoid, hopes to be well soon;\n                     asks that Scurlock take care of some business\n                     dealings; received letter from William Harrison\n                     giving news of many deaths in Montgomery, County\n                     [Alabama]; provides arrangements for moving [to\n                     Texas]; family news.","Times dull as session ending; has sprained\n                     ankle; has received letter from Ma which\n                     criticizes his spelling; will try again to send\n                     catalogue.","Sends papers on Freeman Divorce case; refers to\n                     a petition and preparation of legal papers; other\n                     family news.","Relates how letter had been detoured to\n                     mother's house, was \"read at home\" then sent on to\n                     Irving; advises T.J. to settle down and get\n                     married; also advises to not travel until decision\n                     to make Kansas a state is made; advises to go to\n                     Kansas if it becomes a slave state; mentions a\n                     planned act of violence by Negroes near\n                     Clarksville [Tennessee] on the Cumberlan[d] River;\n                     planned to knock us all in the head\" and \"make\n                     themselves free Ladies and Gentleman.\"; other\n                     family news.","Glad to hear that he is happy, expected him to\n                     be \"Alabama-sick\" [homesick]; has begun farming,\n                     finds its hard work; all in good health except\n                     mother who has \"posey \"; other news.","Complains in great length that Josh did not\n                     stop to visit on his way to Texas; glad to hear\n                     his health has improved with the \"Minreul wutter\";\n                     inquires about a Negro, John, who held freedman's\n                     status; other family news.","Relates the marriage of two couples of the\n                     area; reports the results of the elections for\n                     probate and circuit judge and refers them to their\n                     respective parties; have had long dry spell,\n                     hasn't been good for the \"God of Macon...King\n                     cotton\"; reports other deaths and gives some\n                     family news.","Bill has gotten married, spends great deal of\n                     time telling why he shouldn't have \"don[e] the\n                     deed\"; begs son not to go to Central America\n                     because climate not good for health; crops are\n                     doing well except cotton; inquires about \"Ben's\n                     wife\" who was lost on a boat which was sunk on 20\n                     April 1856; has hired new help who is young and\n                     \"don't know much\"; other family news.","Gives long philosophical and metaphorical\n                     arguments about the importance of good health;\n                     compares the \"excruciating pain\" of the invalid to\n                     the \"vast freedom\" of the healthy; will remain at\n                     College for 6 week break in isolation as few\n                     students have remained.","Refers to a debt owed by Mr. Scurlock and to\n                     Mr. Scurlock's absence at this time; mentions a\n                     hired black man in the employ of Mr. Scurlock.","Has not heard or seen [Theodoicus Joshua]\n                     Scurlock nor has he been in [Texas]; Has not the\n                     funds to pay the debt but will soon; refers to a\n                     boy [slave] who \"has plenty to eat but nothing to\n                     do.\"","Pleads with brother to stop his traveling, to\n                     buy a home and settle down; claims that hundreds\n                     of tears have been shed, thinking he was dead;\n                     begs [T.J.] to meet brother Billy in Marshall\n                     [Texas] and stay with him.","Glad to receive letter and that he [T.J.]\n                     hasn't gone to Nicaragua; sorry to learn he has\n                     been \"lying on the bed of affliction\"; encourages\n                     him to go to Marshall [County, Texas] to meet\n                     [brother] Bill who has just married; sister has\n                     been married; sent 2 letters to different\n                     addresses; other family news.","Rejects Scurlock's proposition to buy his land\n                     in Nepsher County; would like $3 an acre; doesn't\n                     believe land in that area is selling for less.","Hopes business better for Scurlock than\n                     himself; selling out and moving to New Orleans;\n                     enjoyed traveling from his town.","Has returned to \"this city\" and plans to say;\n                     is pleased by the business prospects; believes\n                     could make good profit on investments; likes the\n                     amusements of the city.","Has not received word in 3 months; very cold\n                     weather and is affecting the crops; very little\n                     corn; money is tight; has bought \"a negro\"; had\n                     poor crop last year; other family news.","Has had a \"very cold and backward spring\"; 200\n                     deaths since Xmas from measles; brother is talking\n                     about joining U.S. Army; Democrats have full\n                     ticket for legislature and County offices; many\n                     old whigs have gone Democrat; Democrats only party\n                     \"able to beat back abolitionists and save our\n                     country from ruin\"; reports Freeman and Williams\n                     lawsuit decided in favor of Williams; other family\n                     and town news.","Relates family is well, brother Dan is home\n                     from Tennessee, brother William had measles; will\n                     try to visit [T.J.] and that part of country; a\n                     few deaths have occurred caused by measles; other\n                     town news.","Glad to have received letter; sorry Josh didn't\n                     come to visit; crops doing badly because of cold\n                     spring but should make profit in cotton; voted for\n                     Buchanan in election as did Josh.","In good health; has been trying to find a job;\n                     reading law now; married an unnamed woman; crops\n                     okay except cotton for which it has been too\n                     cold.","Glad to receive letter and all in good health;\n                     American Party has won full representation in both\n                     Houses of Congress; describes political antics of\n                     both parties concerning \"burying\" the opponent;\n                     crops doing well except cotton because of cold;\n                     relationship between Jones family and Scurlocks\n                     not on firm ground as a result of daughter Mit's\n                     husband; other town news.","Has not been well but glad to receive letter;\n                     crops not very good, cotton getting a high price,\n                     about 15 cents; Wishes he could come to visit\n                     before she dies; discourages [Josh] to go to\n                     Central America as there will be \"fighting enuf\n                     [sic] to do in your own native land.\"; other\n                     family news.","Has a slight cold; have been several weddings;\n                     thinking about going to law school in Tennessee;\n                     would like to set up practice in Texas or \"other\n                     new country,\"; other family news.","Has the \"clap\", likes T.J.'s proposition, would\n                     like to be doing something; hard times coming on;\n                     other family news.","Just returned home; has a cold; expenses for\n                     trip amounted to $60, Did not need money advanced\n                     by T.J.","Has on hand $150 belonging to T.J. received\n                     through money order; Mr. Barker has paid nothing\n                     on debt; sister sends word T.J. must get\n                     married.","Misses Josh very much, encourages him to come\n                     and visit several times; family is well; has been\n                     married; other family news.","Has received no word since February; refers\n                     sarcastically to Cupid and Social Life; reading\n                     [law] at home; intends to come to Texas following\n                     winter; other family news.","Describes the fashions of LaPlace and the young\n                     ladies; crops doing well, plenty of food;\n                     convention meeting in Montgomery [Alabama] to\n                     discuss dissolving of nation; court system\n                     inefficient and overloaded; other family and town\n                     news.","Surprised to hear he is studying medicine\n                     although thinks he's too old; married a 45 year\n                     old man to his first wife, thought that was\n                     strange; has been very ill with chills and fever;\n                     crops not very good, winter was too wet.","Describes in detail the \"examinations\" which\n                     were attended by all the music lovers; loves young\n                     America; still plans to go to Texas to live, would\n                     like to practice law there; sister is living in\n                     unfortunate situation; encourages him to study\n                     medicine; other family news.","Requests to have bond signed, money given and\n                     note returned, in reference to Hart Conyer.","Has received signed note; rejects offer to sell\n                     piece of land to a friend because terms are too\n                     long for the low price offered.","Has been ill for 10 days; advises him to not go\n                     to New Orleans too early because of Yellow fever;\n                     encourages him to write to brother [Dan] to go to\n                     law school in Montgomery; other family news.","All in good health; have been a few cases of\n                     Typhoid fever; crops very good; has been reading\n                     [law], feels this year has been a waste, will go\n                     back to read [with another lawyer] as before;\n                     other family news.","Ma has decided to move to Polk County Texas;\n                  requests a small house; this has foiled plans for\n                  school, will maybe farm in Texas if can't find a\n                  school.","Receipt for $287.50 included; speaks of terms\n                     of payment; refers to an unknown lawsuit; has a\n                     jug of whiskey and no one to drink it with.","Has made business contacts requested; the due\n                     bill has come up in court but they cannot collect\n                     on it; and other family news.","Land sold to Day and Thompson for $3 an acre;\n                     brother William left for Alabama; corn looks good\n                     but cotton is small, haven't had rain since 16 of\n                     April; other town news.","Discusses recent emigration to Texas of family\n                     and friends from Macon County Alabama; presents\n                     some prejudices toward northwesterners; refers to\n                     a note coming due; crops good but need rain;\n                     refers to the \"railroad sensation\" in Jefferson\n                     which will take some time to settle; other family\n                     news.","Speaks of crops and lack of rain; reports\n                     problems with child slave Scurlock left [to his\n                     brother]; other family news.","Making preparations from 4th of July\n                     Celebration; have had little rain and temperatures\n                     have been up to 98 [F.]; has heard of yellow fever\n                     in T.J.'s city, advises him to take care of\n                     himself; refers to the drinking habits of\n                     friends.","Instructions referring to Scurlock moving out\n                     of the house he is living in and what the owner\n                     expects will be done by Scurlock in upkeep.","Family all well; had intended to move to Texas\n                     but crops failed, will have to buy corn this year;\n                     anxious to see Josh, wants to know why he hasn't\n                     married.","Weather has been very hot, have had no rain,\n                     crops are burning, cotton failing, wonders if\n                     Texas is \"a fit place for civilized men to live\",\n                     many Western town and private homes have been\n                     burned because of the abolition movement, \"The\n                     people are aroused to a sense of their [the\n                     abolitionist's] danger\", compares it to Harper's\n                     Ferry; refers to T.J.'s thesis, suggests the topic\n                     of Tetanus, mentions a case of murder Dan is\n                     defending; centering on a Negro who contacted\n                     tetanus after a severe whipping.","Inquires about a note for several hundred\n                     dollars that he has heard nothing about, would\n                     like to know what happened to it; shows his\n                     discontent with Texas, describes it as \"this land\n                     of contention where belzebub seems to be prime\n                     ruler.\"","Sorry to hear [Scurlock's] mother is\n                     dissatisfied with her move to Texas, but has heard\n                     many are; the drought continues, has traveled to\n                     Alabama and 200 miles up Alabama River and found\n                     the drought reaches further; friends wanted to\n                     look him up in New Orleans; encourages him to come\n                     visit; other family and town news.","All in good health, crops are turning out\n                     better than expected; has traded land in Tennessee\n                     for land in Texas; reports murder of old man by\n                     child in Sumpter [South Carolina], in jail waiting\n                     trial; coal is scarce, other family and area\n                     news.","Received letter with thesis, contained\n                     information they already had, refers to the\n                     lawsuit thesis was needed for; finally received\n                     rain which rejuvenated crops; health of area has\n                     been good, \"too much so for the good of the\n                     Doctors\", refers to murder committed by Jack\n                     Taliaferro, includes other town news.","Begs \"Dosh\" to come and visit him, outlines how\n                     to get to Philadelphia; all are well, has heard\n                     from Scurlock's mother who hates Texas and wants\n                     to return to Alabama.","Promises to pay what he owes in few weeks.","Corn crop better than expected; relates robbery\n                     charges against men from Polk County and other\n                     town news.","Describes details of common friend's death,\n                     also refers vaguely to various other [medical]\n                     cases \"town is improving, have built a female\n                     college and have a Methodist preacher who will\n                     convert...the negroes and dogs before they stop\",\n                     other town news.","Gives lengthy opinion of upcoming Presidential\n                     election between Douglas and Lincoln and also\n                     projection and hopes for house and Senate\n                     elections; other family news.","\"Bad crops, low water and high prices\"; will be\n                     traveling back to Polk County before Christmas;\n                     gives results of Presidential elections; other\n                     family news.","All well; friend has stopped drinking; this\n                     friend wants to fight when war begins; [Brother]\n                     Dan \"fixing n to go see Mother; other news.","Hasn't heard from him; corn crops good, leaf\n                     worm has injured cotton crops; has decided to\n                     study medicine; hopes girlfriend hasn't decided to\n                     marry someone else, encourages Scurlock to marry;\n                     relates town affairs.","Asks advice on collecting lawyers in Upshur\n                  County, has not gotten judgement on claims of\n                  Scurlock's; Frank Bensen has eloped with Darby's\n                  wife; cotton crops poor.","Expresses his opinion about national politics,\n                     predicts a military governor for Texas judging by\n                     the acts of the \"Vandal Congress,\" has no faith in\n                     \"Andrew Johnson the chief of drunkards of the\n                     Vandal states.\" Advises to sue, D.J. Kimball for\n                     money he owes; has not heard from Pittsburg and\n                     will write a \"cuss lettr\" if they \"do not\n                     respond\".","Has had to harvest his own cotton because he\n                     has no laborers; hired no freedmen because of some\n                     fights the previous year; will give up farming and\n                     maybe sell rugs with Dr. Hendricks; money is hard\n                     to come by; [Brother] Bill just recovering from\n                     serious illness; other family news.","Shows very little faith in the \"Vandal n\n                     government; questions whether Dan has received the\n                     horse he sent; business not very good, advises\n                     that one should run business on a cash system;\n                     relates he has lost about $200 on a credit based\n                     system; had had difficulty with superintendent of\n                     Lunatic Asylum, told him what he thought of him\n                     and challenged him to a fight, all stemmed from\n                     disagreement on treatment of patients; will be\n                     leaving soon.","Will begin selling rugs, have ordered supply\n                     from New Orleans; hopes doing better in city than\n                     would have at Asylum; other family news.","Has not heard from brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] since March; would like any information\n                     on him as had heard rumor that he had been killed;\n                     selling goods with Dr. Hendricks in \"six full\n                     stores in Mt. Pleasant\".","Relates rumors that T.J. is dead and how this\n                     rumor came about; Long guilt speech about the\n                     death of his mother; never received the horse sent\n                     to him; other family news.","Discusses different medical cases and dental\n                     cases; relates deaths of acquaintances; has been\n                     very ill.","Mentions Scurlock has left Austin but not where\n                     he's gone; war has ruined him; crops have been\n                     good; at home at time of surrender; has begun\n                     preaching and serving his God.","Have been in city 5 days, very different from\n                     Austin; many sick town supporting 10-12 Doctors\n                     and many drug stores; has met a gay widow with\n                     whom he keeps company.","Enquires of a Claiborne Herbert in Columbus,\n                     Colorado County; has opened a school but is doing\n                     poorly, would appreciate any help Scurlock could\n                     give; gives update on doctors [from Austin Lunatic\n                     Asylum]; will be leaving Austin soon.","Has been in poor health; crops have been very\n                     poor; war has destroyed the South and the\n                     \"Southern devils have a hard hand of it after we\n                     get through a war in which we lose everything\";\n                     will continue in business if can.","Jobs hard to get in Austin; Doctors from\n                     Lunatic Asylum did not do well in private\n                     practice, have gone to Georgetown; negro notary\n                     has been appointed in Austin, other town news.","Did not make as much in business here as in\n                     Bastrop; encourages Sky to join him and \"Dock\" in\n                     Austin; Dock will pay his passage to Austin; 2\n                     deaths from yellow fever; enjoying company of \"The\n                     widow\".","Austin dull place; Gen. [Joseph Jones] Reynolds\n                     has arrived to take over department; Boon has\n                     located office, not doing well; City covered with\n                     grasshoppers; describes as \"damb poor country\";\n                     \"Better be in Hell without claws\".","Describes his plans to get in touch with brother;\n                  feels government is in bad condition, \"Texas will\n                  soon pass through to fiery ordeal of what is\n                  denominated reconstruction.\", expresses his\n                  prejudices toward Blacks; begs brother to come back\n                  to Texas.","Expresses opinion of government: \"I hope it\n                     [government] will sink to the latter most pits of\n                     Hell.\"; has been able to collect some relates town\n                     news.","Waited until Texas was accepted back into the\n                     Union; considers this a good gained from\n                     reconstruction; claims Negroes will remain in\n                     place they should, inferior position; wants to\n                     know about Mexico: politics, commercial facilities\n                     and social events; encourages him to come back to\n                     the U.S.; other town news.","Relates local political happenings through\n                     reconstruction; and some very strong opinions;\n                     thanks for the description of Mexico; sends\n                     regards of many people and relates other family\n                     and town news.","Relates his preconception of Mexico; \"hopes to\n                     see all Democrats elected\" in upcoming elections;\n                     other town news.","Does not agree that Democrats have never changed,\n                  has been in poor health; is doing well in profession;\n                  explains his problems at the Asylum; eating in Mexico\n                  is cheap; is studying man; [contains several passages\n                  with no meaning].","Hasn't heard from him in 2 months; encourages him\n                  to come visit Mt. Pleasant; claims it will be one of\n                  the most important small towns when the railroad is\n                  built from St. Louis through Texarkana; is now\n                  assessing taxes for the county; other family news;\n                  includes envelope.","Wife not well with ovarian tumor; has become\n                  partner in goods firm; still county tax assessor;\n                  receives 6500 for this job; Mt. Pleasant included on\n                  Railroad which begins in St. Louis and will go to the\n                  Rio Grande to connect with Mexican rail encourages\n                  him to come and visit.","Received account against Jose Gamundi for $73.88;\n                  has placed credit in his name for $73.88.","Refers to securing claims on oil wells and coal\n                     mines; expects that there will be a boom in oil\n                     lands after [Mexican] Presidential election; hopes\n                     to do some speculating; hopes to settle himself\n                     financially for life.","Sickness is increasing; has received \"Charge of\n                     the Vice-consulate property.\" refers to a matter\n                     concerning archives [records of the consulate?],\n                     other town news.","Is now working at a bank as a cashier and\n                     continues to assess taxes; is living comfortably\n                     but still must pay off some debts from\n                     Merchandising; family is well and being educated\n                     as he would like; refers to the Democratic Victory\n                     for Presidency and remarks \"that the south is\n                     again at the Head of National affairs;\" other\n                     family news.","Introduces herself by reminding him of when she\n                     was a child; makes a plea for money which she\n                     needs; begs him not to pass judgement on her for\n                     asking for money.","Gives description of himself: gives family\n                     news; describes Mt. Pleasant; asks many questions\n                     about Mexico and whether a Doctor could do well\n                     there; hopes to study medicine.","Gives town news; crops look good, had a hail\n                     storm nearby; has chosen medicine as a prospective\n                     occupation; town working hard to raise money for\n                     railroad to town; includes lineage of Scurlock\n                     family.","Acknowledges \"carta\"[?] and list of goods sent\n                     to him; will do all in his power as executor of\n                     his will to deliver property safely.","Questions why he hasn't come to visit; gives\n                  description of herself; relates father's [Dan\n                  Scurlock] poor health; gives some town news.","Questions will of Dr. Theodocius [Joshua]\n                     Scurlock; inquires whether estate was left to\n                     brothers individually and was it lawful under\n                     Mexican laws; others are trying to come in on\n                     will.","Not acquainted with Mexican laws but believes\n                     the brother [William and Dan] are only\n                     benefactors.","Remits trunks and a box containing possession\n                     of brother [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock]; has sold\n                     amputating instruments for $20 to local hospital;\n                     will send due cash as soon a possible.","Assures him possessions have been sent;\n                     explains that his brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] did not have a great estate when he\n                     died; advises him to contact two friends who knew\n                     him; requests a receipt sent to him from\n                     [Scurlock's] papers.","Inquiring about possessions of deceased brother\n                     [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock] which he has not yet\n                     received; requests that he make some enquires;\n                     refers to his brother's assassination.","Informs him goods have arrived, will pay duties\n                     and willship as soon as possible.","Discusses the advantages of living outside of the\n                  U.S.; shows his bitterness toward U.S. politics,\n                  racial problems and how the government is taking care\n                  of them; defends Mexico as a better place to live;\n                  discourages any immigration.","Pages 1 and 2 missing.","Relates Bill Moore's crime of forgery for 50 bales\n                  of cotton and his arrest.","Begs brother to return to Marshall to comfort\n                  Mother and rest of family; relates [sister] 'Mit' has\n                  married; also \"Beany [?]\" was shot dead previous\n                  morning.","Diary of Theodocius Joshua Scurlock containing\n               details of Dr. Scurlock's journey from Texas to Tulango,\n               Mexico; his impressions of the lifestyles of the people\n               he encountered as he traveled south and the novelties he\n               sees and learns about for the first time; and a table of\n               distances traveled, detailed weather reports, and\n               descriptions of the locations and names of towns stayed\n               in. It gives an insight to the questioning nature of Dr.\n               Scurlock and his ability to describe some of the methods\n               of technique he viewed (e.g., medical and spinning). It\n               also contains lists of edible birds and animals, trees\n               for lumber and various fruit trees and vegetables.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.","Letters, 1855-1888, received by or\n         concerning Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock while a resident of\n         Texas and Mexico from family members in Alabama and Texas and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Also includes a\n         diary, December 1867-April 1869, kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico.","Theodocius Josha Scurlock.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 81 Scu4"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"collection_title_tesim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"collection_ssim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"creator_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"creator_persname_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"creators_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift \n             04/00/1981."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Reconstruction."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Reconstruction."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["116 items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Restrictions on Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Organization","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","Arrangement The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.","The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eTheodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, Manuscripts and Rare\n            Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n            Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, Manuscripts and Rare\n            Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n            Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is primarily composed of letters received by\n         Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock (1828-1887), a graduate of\n         Tulane University and a resident of Texas and Mexico,\n         1855-1888, from family members in Alabama and Texas, and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. The letters\n         reflect the restlessness of the pre-Civil War years, and the\n         difficulties and disillusionment felt by many people during\n         Reconstruction. Diary included was kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico, December 1867-April 1869, in which he gives\n         his impressions of the people he encountered as well as the\n         natural history of the regions he passed through.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to have received letter but worried about\n                     health; reports brother Dan had left for Irving\n                     [College]; money hard to come by and price for\n                     cotton very low; refers to pending lawsuit; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWorries about health and relates deaths of\n                     various towns people; money hard to come by and\n                     business bad; other family and town related\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrops doing well; received letter from a most\n                     \"dangerous woman,\" claiming son hadn't paid a\n                     debt; advises him to stay away from this \"awful\n                     woman\"; mentions pending lawsuit referred to as\n                     \"hooke suit\" (?); other family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to a favor which \"came to hand\"; talks\n                     about crops and prices; refers to the burning of a\n                     foundry in Montgomery [Alabama]; many suffering\n                     from scarlet fever; mentions the Hook's lawsuit\n                     being taken to Supreme Court; other family and\n                     town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains about mail system; has not received\n                     any letters from son; crops doing very well,\n                     especially corn; discusses Hook's lawsuit; relates\n                     town \"anicdote\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to receive letter after \"too months\";\n                     crops doing very well; Scarlet fever still \"going\n                     through neighbourhood\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of fine crops and many deaths from\n                     Scarlet fever; Hook suit not yet decided; advises\n                     to stay away from the \"slandering living old\n                     devil\" who claims he hasn't paid debt; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWorried that lawyers want evidence from him for\n                     Hook's case; advises not to give any at all;\n                     reports crops are good except cotton and all are\n                     well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports a retrial for \"Hooke's\" case and\n                     advises that he give no evidence; advises to stay\n                     away from \"Tom the big baby\"; asks him not to\n                     mention case in any letters except to her, Mit or\n                     Will; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReplies to question about health and crops;\n                     gives long account about political opinions\n                     relating to the \"American party\", break up of the\n                     Whigs and strengthening of Democrats; relates\n                     local arrests; business interests shifting; other\n                     news about common friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisease going around caused by snakes, many\n                     deaths; defines Hook's case as divorce case;\n                     advises to not give any evidence; case has been\n                     given a retrial; worried about Mary's [sister]\n                     health; not receiving Texas paper; other family\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived letter; has severe cold, health at\n                     Irving generally good; plans on staying two years;\n                     has not rained lately and is very warm; Had sent\n                     catalogue, will send another.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests help in getting into business as an\n                     \"averseer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInflicted with typhoid, hopes to be well soon;\n                     asks that Scurlock take care of some business\n                     dealings; received letter from William Harrison\n                     giving news of many deaths in Montgomery, County\n                     [Alabama]; provides arrangements for moving [to\n                     Texas]; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTimes dull as session ending; has sprained\n                     ankle; has received letter from Ma which\n                     criticizes his spelling; will try again to send\n                     catalogue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends papers on Freeman Divorce case; refers to\n                     a petition and preparation of legal papers; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates how letter had been detoured to\n                     mother's house, was \"read at home\" then sent on to\n                     Irving; advises T.J. to settle down and get\n                     married; also advises to not travel until decision\n                     to make Kansas a state is made; advises to go to\n                     Kansas if it becomes a slave state; mentions a\n                     planned act of violence by Negroes near\n                     Clarksville [Tennessee] on the Cumberlan[d] River;\n                     planned to knock us all in the head\" and \"make\n                     themselves free Ladies and Gentleman.\"; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to hear that he is happy, expected him to\n                     be \"Alabama-sick\" [homesick]; has begun farming,\n                     finds its hard work; all in good health except\n                     mother who has \"posey \"; other news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains in great length that Josh did not\n                     stop to visit on his way to Texas; glad to hear\n                     his health has improved with the \"Minreul wutter\";\n                     inquires about a Negro, John, who held freedman's\n                     status; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates the marriage of two couples of the\n                     area; reports the results of the elections for\n                     probate and circuit judge and refers them to their\n                     respective parties; have had long dry spell,\n                     hasn't been good for the \"God of Macon...King\n                     cotton\"; reports other deaths and gives some\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill has gotten married, spends great deal of\n                     time telling why he shouldn't have \"don[e] the\n                     deed\"; begs son not to go to Central America\n                     because climate not good for health; crops are\n                     doing well except cotton; inquires about \"Ben's\n                     wife\" who was lost on a boat which was sunk on 20\n                     April 1856; has hired new help who is young and\n                     \"don't know much\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives long philosophical and metaphorical\n                     arguments about the importance of good health;\n                     compares the \"excruciating pain\" of the invalid to\n                     the \"vast freedom\" of the healthy; will remain at\n                     College for 6 week break in isolation as few\n                     students have remained.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to a debt owed by Mr. Scurlock and to\n                     Mr. Scurlock's absence at this time; mentions a\n                     hired black man in the employ of Mr. Scurlock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not heard or seen [Theodoicus Joshua]\n                     Scurlock nor has he been in [Texas]; Has not the\n                     funds to pay the debt but will soon; refers to a\n                     boy [slave] who \"has plenty to eat but nothing to\n                     do.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePleads with brother to stop his traveling, to\n                     buy a home and settle down; claims that hundreds\n                     of tears have been shed, thinking he was dead;\n                     begs [T.J.] to meet brother Billy in Marshall\n                     [Texas] and stay with him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to receive letter and that he [T.J.]\n                     hasn't gone to Nicaragua; sorry to learn he has\n                     been \"lying on the bed of affliction\"; encourages\n                     him to go to Marshall [County, Texas] to meet\n                     [brother] Bill who has just married; sister has\n                     been married; sent 2 letters to different\n                     addresses; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRejects Scurlock's proposition to buy his land\n                     in Nepsher County; would like $3 an acre; doesn't\n                     believe land in that area is selling for less.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes business better for Scurlock than\n                     himself; selling out and moving to New Orleans;\n                     enjoyed traveling from his town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas returned to \"this city\" and plans to say;\n                     is pleased by the business prospects; believes\n                     could make good profit on investments; likes the\n                     amusements of the city.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not received word in 3 months; very cold\n                     weather and is affecting the crops; very little\n                     corn; money is tight; has bought \"a negro\"; had\n                     poor crop last year; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had a \"very cold and backward spring\"; 200\n                     deaths since Xmas from measles; brother is talking\n                     about joining U.S. Army; Democrats have full\n                     ticket for legislature and County offices; many\n                     old whigs have gone Democrat; Democrats only party\n                     \"able to beat back abolitionists and save our\n                     country from ruin\"; reports Freeman and Williams\n                     lawsuit decided in favor of Williams; other family\n                     and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates family is well, brother Dan is home\n                     from Tennessee, brother William had measles; will\n                     try to visit [T.J.] and that part of country; a\n                     few deaths have occurred caused by measles; other\n                     town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to have received letter; sorry Josh didn't\n                     come to visit; crops doing badly because of cold\n                     spring but should make profit in cotton; voted for\n                     Buchanan in election as did Josh.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn good health; has been trying to find a job;\n                     reading law now; married an unnamed woman; crops\n                     okay except cotton for which it has been too\n                     cold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to receive letter and all in good health;\n                     American Party has won full representation in both\n                     Houses of Congress; describes political antics of\n                     both parties concerning \"burying\" the opponent;\n                     crops doing well except cotton because of cold;\n                     relationship between Jones family and Scurlocks\n                     not on firm ground as a result of daughter Mit's\n                     husband; other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not been well but glad to receive letter;\n                     crops not very good, cotton getting a high price,\n                     about 15 cents; Wishes he could come to visit\n                     before she dies; discourages [Josh] to go to\n                     Central America as there will be \"fighting enuf\n                     [sic] to do in your own native land.\"; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas a slight cold; have been several weddings;\n                     thinking about going to law school in Tennessee;\n                     would like to set up practice in Texas or \"other\n                     new country,\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas the \"clap\", likes T.J.'s proposition, would\n                     like to be doing something; hard times coming on;\n                     other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJust returned home; has a cold; expenses for\n                     trip amounted to $60, Did not need money advanced\n                     by T.J.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas on hand $150 belonging to T.J. received\n                     through money order; Mr. Barker has paid nothing\n                     on debt; sister sends word T.J. must get\n                     married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMisses Josh very much, encourages him to come\n                     and visit several times; family is well; has been\n                     married; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received no word since February; refers\n                     sarcastically to Cupid and Social Life; reading\n                     [law] at home; intends to come to Texas following\n                     winter; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the fashions of LaPlace and the young\n                     ladies; crops doing well, plenty of food;\n                     convention meeting in Montgomery [Alabama] to\n                     discuss dissolving of nation; court system\n                     inefficient and overloaded; other family and town\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurprised to hear he is studying medicine\n                     although thinks he's too old; married a 45 year\n                     old man to his first wife, thought that was\n                     strange; has been very ill with chills and fever;\n                     crops not very good, winter was too wet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes in detail the \"examinations\" which\n                     were attended by all the music lovers; loves young\n                     America; still plans to go to Texas to live, would\n                     like to practice law there; sister is living in\n                     unfortunate situation; encourages him to study\n                     medicine; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests to have bond signed, money given and\n                     note returned, in reference to Hart Conyer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received signed note; rejects offer to sell\n                     piece of land to a friend because terms are too\n                     long for the low price offered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been ill for 10 days; advises him to not go\n                     to New Orleans too early because of Yellow fever;\n                     encourages him to write to brother [Dan] to go to\n                     law school in Montgomery; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll in good health; have been a few cases of\n                     Typhoid fever; crops very good; has been reading\n                     [law], feels this year has been a waste, will go\n                     back to read [with another lawyer] as before;\n                     other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMa has decided to move to Polk County Texas;\n                  requests a small house; this has foiled plans for\n                  school, will maybe farm in Texas if can't find a\n                  school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for $287.50 included; speaks of terms\n                     of payment; refers to an unknown lawsuit; has a\n                     jug of whiskey and no one to drink it with.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas made business contacts requested; the due\n                     bill has come up in court but they cannot collect\n                     on it; and other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand sold to Day and Thompson for $3 an acre;\n                     brother William left for Alabama; corn looks good\n                     but cotton is small, haven't had rain since 16 of\n                     April; other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses recent emigration to Texas of family\n                     and friends from Macon County Alabama; presents\n                     some prejudices toward northwesterners; refers to\n                     a note coming due; crops good but need rain;\n                     refers to the \"railroad sensation\" in Jefferson\n                     which will take some time to settle; other family\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of crops and lack of rain; reports\n                     problems with child slave Scurlock left [to his\n                     brother]; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaking preparations from 4th of July\n                     Celebration; have had little rain and temperatures\n                     have been up to 98 [F.]; has heard of yellow fever\n                     in T.J.'s city, advises him to take care of\n                     himself; refers to the drinking habits of\n                     friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions referring to Scurlock moving out\n                     of the house he is living in and what the owner\n                     expects will be done by Scurlock in upkeep.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily all well; had intended to move to Texas\n                     but crops failed, will have to buy corn this year;\n                     anxious to see Josh, wants to know why he hasn't\n                     married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeather has been very hot, have had no rain,\n                     crops are burning, cotton failing, wonders if\n                     Texas is \"a fit place for civilized men to live\",\n                     many Western town and private homes have been\n                     burned because of the abolition movement, \"The\n                     people are aroused to a sense of their [the\n                     abolitionist's] danger\", compares it to Harper's\n                     Ferry; refers to T.J.'s thesis, suggests the topic\n                     of Tetanus, mentions a case of murder Dan is\n                     defending; centering on a Negro who contacted\n                     tetanus after a severe whipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about a note for several hundred\n                     dollars that he has heard nothing about, would\n                     like to know what happened to it; shows his\n                     discontent with Texas, describes it as \"this land\n                     of contention where belzebub seems to be prime\n                     ruler.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry to hear [Scurlock's] mother is\n                     dissatisfied with her move to Texas, but has heard\n                     many are; the drought continues, has traveled to\n                     Alabama and 200 miles up Alabama River and found\n                     the drought reaches further; friends wanted to\n                     look him up in New Orleans; encourages him to come\n                     visit; other family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll in good health, crops are turning out\n                     better than expected; has traded land in Tennessee\n                     for land in Texas; reports murder of old man by\n                     child in Sumpter [South Carolina], in jail waiting\n                     trial; coal is scarce, other family and area\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived letter with thesis, contained\n                     information they already had, refers to the\n                     lawsuit thesis was needed for; finally received\n                     rain which rejuvenated crops; health of area has\n                     been good, \"too much so for the good of the\n                     Doctors\", refers to murder committed by Jack\n                     Taliaferro, includes other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegs \"Dosh\" to come and visit him, outlines how\n                     to get to Philadelphia; all are well, has heard\n                     from Scurlock's mother who hates Texas and wants\n                     to return to Alabama.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromises to pay what he owes in few weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorn crop better than expected; relates robbery\n                     charges against men from Polk County and other\n                     town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes details of common friend's death,\n                     also refers vaguely to various other [medical]\n                     cases \"town is improving, have built a female\n                     college and have a Methodist preacher who will\n                     convert...the negroes and dogs before they stop\",\n                     other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives lengthy opinion of upcoming Presidential\n                     election between Douglas and Lincoln and also\n                     projection and hopes for house and Senate\n                     elections; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Bad crops, low water and high prices\"; will be\n                     traveling back to Polk County before Christmas;\n                     gives results of Presidential elections; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll well; friend has stopped drinking; this\n                     friend wants to fight when war begins; [Brother]\n                     Dan \"fixing n to go see Mother; other news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHasn't heard from him; corn crops good, leaf\n                     worm has injured cotton crops; has decided to\n                     study medicine; hopes girlfriend hasn't decided to\n                     marry someone else, encourages Scurlock to marry;\n                     relates town affairs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks advice on collecting lawyers in Upshur\n                  County, has not gotten judgement on claims of\n                  Scurlock's; Frank Bensen has eloped with Darby's\n                  wife; cotton crops poor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses his opinion about national politics,\n                     predicts a military governor for Texas judging by\n                     the acts of the \"Vandal Congress,\" has no faith in\n                     \"Andrew Johnson the chief of drunkards of the\n                     Vandal states.\" Advises to sue, D.J. Kimball for\n                     money he owes; has not heard from Pittsburg and\n                     will write a \"cuss lettr\" if they \"do not\n                     respond\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had to harvest his own cotton because he\n                     has no laborers; hired no freedmen because of some\n                     fights the previous year; will give up farming and\n                     maybe sell rugs with Dr. Hendricks; money is hard\n                     to come by; [Brother] Bill just recovering from\n                     serious illness; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShows very little faith in the \"Vandal n\n                     government; questions whether Dan has received the\n                     horse he sent; business not very good, advises\n                     that one should run business on a cash system;\n                     relates he has lost about $200 on a credit based\n                     system; had had difficulty with superintendent of\n                     Lunatic Asylum, told him what he thought of him\n                     and challenged him to a fight, all stemmed from\n                     disagreement on treatment of patients; will be\n                     leaving soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill begin selling rugs, have ordered supply\n                     from New Orleans; hopes doing better in city than\n                     would have at Asylum; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not heard from brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] since March; would like any information\n                     on him as had heard rumor that he had been killed;\n                     selling goods with Dr. Hendricks in \"six full\n                     stores in Mt. Pleasant\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates rumors that T.J. is dead and how this\n                     rumor came about; Long guilt speech about the\n                     death of his mother; never received the horse sent\n                     to him; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses different medical cases and dental\n                     cases; relates deaths of acquaintances; has been\n                     very ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions Scurlock has left Austin but not where\n                     he's gone; war has ruined him; crops have been\n                     good; at home at time of surrender; has begun\n                     preaching and serving his God.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave been in city 5 days, very different from\n                     Austin; many sick town supporting 10-12 Doctors\n                     and many drug stores; has met a gay widow with\n                     whom he keeps company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnquires of a Claiborne Herbert in Columbus,\n                     Colorado County; has opened a school but is doing\n                     poorly, would appreciate any help Scurlock could\n                     give; gives update on doctors [from Austin Lunatic\n                     Asylum]; will be leaving Austin soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been in poor health; crops have been very\n                     poor; war has destroyed the South and the\n                     \"Southern devils have a hard hand of it after we\n                     get through a war in which we lose everything\";\n                     will continue in business if can.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJobs hard to get in Austin; Doctors from\n                     Lunatic Asylum did not do well in private\n                     practice, have gone to Georgetown; negro notary\n                     has been appointed in Austin, other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDid not make as much in business here as in\n                     Bastrop; encourages Sky to join him and \"Dock\" in\n                     Austin; Dock will pay his passage to Austin; 2\n                     deaths from yellow fever; enjoying company of \"The\n                     widow\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAustin dull place; Gen. [Joseph Jones] Reynolds\n                     has arrived to take over department; Boon has\n                     located office, not doing well; City covered with\n                     grasshoppers; describes as \"damb poor country\";\n                     \"Better be in Hell without claws\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his plans to get in touch with brother;\n                  feels government is in bad condition, \"Texas will\n                  soon pass through to fiery ordeal of what is\n                  denominated reconstruction.\", expresses his\n                  prejudices toward Blacks; begs brother to come back\n                  to Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses opinion of government: \"I hope it\n                     [government] will sink to the latter most pits of\n                     Hell.\"; has been able to collect some relates town\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWaited until Texas was accepted back into the\n                     Union; considers this a good gained from\n                     reconstruction; claims Negroes will remain in\n                     place they should, inferior position; wants to\n                     know about Mexico: politics, commercial facilities\n                     and social events; encourages him to come back to\n                     the U.S.; other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates local political happenings through\n                     reconstruction; and some very strong opinions;\n                     thanks for the description of Mexico; sends\n                     regards of many people and relates other family\n                     and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates his preconception of Mexico; \"hopes to\n                     see all Democrats elected\" in upcoming elections;\n                     other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoes not agree that Democrats have never changed,\n                  has been in poor health; is doing well in profession;\n                  explains his problems at the Asylum; eating in Mexico\n                  is cheap; is studying man; [contains several passages\n                  with no meaning].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHasn't heard from him in 2 months; encourages him\n                  to come visit Mt. Pleasant; claims it will be one of\n                  the most important small towns when the railroad is\n                  built from St. Louis through Texarkana; is now\n                  assessing taxes for the county; other family news;\n                  includes envelope.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWife not well with ovarian tumor; has become\n                  partner in goods firm; still county tax assessor;\n                  receives 6500 for this job; Mt. Pleasant included on\n                  Railroad which begins in St. Louis and will go to the\n                  Rio Grande to connect with Mexican rail encourages\n                  him to come and visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived account against Jose Gamundi for $73.88;\n                  has placed credit in his name for $73.88.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to securing claims on oil wells and coal\n                     mines; expects that there will be a boom in oil\n                     lands after [Mexican] Presidential election; hopes\n                     to do some speculating; hopes to settle himself\n                     financially for life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSickness is increasing; has received \"Charge of\n                     the Vice-consulate property.\" refers to a matter\n                     concerning archives [records of the consulate?],\n                     other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs now working at a bank as a cashier and\n                     continues to assess taxes; is living comfortably\n                     but still must pay off some debts from\n                     Merchandising; family is well and being educated\n                     as he would like; refers to the Democratic Victory\n                     for Presidency and remarks \"that the south is\n                     again at the Head of National affairs;\" other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroduces herself by reminding him of when she\n                     was a child; makes a plea for money which she\n                     needs; begs him not to pass judgement on her for\n                     asking for money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives description of himself: gives family\n                     news; describes Mt. Pleasant; asks many questions\n                     about Mexico and whether a Doctor could do well\n                     there; hopes to study medicine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives town news; crops look good, had a hail\n                     storm nearby; has chosen medicine as a prospective\n                     occupation; town working hard to raise money for\n                     railroad to town; includes lineage of Scurlock\n                     family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges \"carta\"[?] and list of goods sent\n                     to him; will do all in his power as executor of\n                     his will to deliver property safely.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuestions why he hasn't come to visit; gives\n                  description of herself; relates father's [Dan\n                  Scurlock] poor health; gives some town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuestions will of Dr. Theodocius [Joshua]\n                     Scurlock; inquires whether estate was left to\n                     brothers individually and was it lawful under\n                     Mexican laws; others are trying to come in on\n                     will.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNot acquainted with Mexican laws but believes\n                     the brother [William and Dan] are only\n                     benefactors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRemits trunks and a box containing possession\n                     of brother [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock]; has sold\n                     amputating instruments for $20 to local hospital;\n                     will send due cash as soon a possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAssures him possessions have been sent;\n                     explains that his brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] did not have a great estate when he\n                     died; advises him to contact two friends who knew\n                     him; requests a receipt sent to him from\n                     [Scurlock's] papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquiring about possessions of deceased brother\n                     [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock] which he has not yet\n                     received; requests that he make some enquires;\n                     refers to his brother's assassination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms him goods have arrived, will pay duties\n                     and willship as soon as possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the advantages of living outside of the\n                  U.S.; shows his bitterness toward U.S. politics,\n                  racial problems and how the government is taking care\n                  of them; defends Mexico as a better place to live;\n                  discourages any immigration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePages 1 and 2 missing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates Bill Moore's crime of forgery for 50 bales\n                  of cotton and his arrest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegs brother to return to Marshall to comfort\n                  Mother and rest of family; relates [sister] 'Mit' has\n                  married; also \"Beany [?]\" was shot dead previous\n                  morning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary of Theodocius Joshua Scurlock containing\n               details of Dr. Scurlock's journey from Texas to Tulango,\n               Mexico; his impressions of the lifestyles of the people\n               he encountered as he traveled south and the novelties he\n               sees and learns about for the first time; and a table of\n               distances traveled, detailed weather reports, and\n               descriptions of the locations and names of towns stayed\n               in. It gives an insight to the questioning nature of Dr.\n               Scurlock and his ability to describe some of the methods\n               of technique he viewed (e.g., medical and spinning). It\n               also contains lists of edible birds and animals, trees\n               for lumber and various fruit trees and vegetables.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection is primarily composed of letters received by\n         Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock (1828-1887), a graduate of\n         Tulane University and a resident of Texas and Mexico,\n         1855-1888, from family members in Alabama and Texas, and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. The letters\n         reflect the restlessness of the pre-Civil War years, and the\n         difficulties and disillusionment felt by many people during\n         Reconstruction. Diary included was kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico, December 1867-April 1869, in which he gives\n         his impressions of the people he encountered as well as the\n         natural history of the regions he passed through.","Glad to have received letter but worried about\n                     health; reports brother Dan had left for Irving\n                     [College]; money hard to come by and price for\n                     cotton very low; refers to pending lawsuit; other\n                     family news.","Worries about health and relates deaths of\n                     various towns people; money hard to come by and\n                     business bad; other family and town related\n                     news.","Crops doing well; received letter from a most\n                     \"dangerous woman,\" claiming son hadn't paid a\n                     debt; advises him to stay away from this \"awful\n                     woman\"; mentions pending lawsuit referred to as\n                     \"hooke suit\" (?); other family and town news.","Refers to a favor which \"came to hand\"; talks\n                     about crops and prices; refers to the burning of a\n                     foundry in Montgomery [Alabama]; many suffering\n                     from scarlet fever; mentions the Hook's lawsuit\n                     being taken to Supreme Court; other family and\n                     town news.","Complains about mail system; has not received\n                     any letters from son; crops doing very well,\n                     especially corn; discusses Hook's lawsuit; relates\n                     town \"anicdote\"; other family news.","Glad to receive letter after \"too months\";\n                     crops doing very well; Scarlet fever still \"going\n                     through neighbourhood\"; other family news.","Speaks of fine crops and many deaths from\n                     Scarlet fever; Hook suit not yet decided; advises\n                     to stay away from the \"slandering living old\n                     devil\" who claims he hasn't paid debt; other\n                     family news.","Worried that lawyers want evidence from him for\n                     Hook's case; advises not to give any at all;\n                     reports crops are good except cotton and all are\n                     well.","Reports a retrial for \"Hooke's\" case and\n                     advises that he give no evidence; advises to stay\n                     away from \"Tom the big baby\"; asks him not to\n                     mention case in any letters except to her, Mit or\n                     Will; other family news.","Replies to question about health and crops;\n                     gives long account about political opinions\n                     relating to the \"American party\", break up of the\n                     Whigs and strengthening of Democrats; relates\n                     local arrests; business interests shifting; other\n                     news about common friends.","Disease going around caused by snakes, many\n                     deaths; defines Hook's case as divorce case;\n                     advises to not give any evidence; case has been\n                     given a retrial; worried about Mary's [sister]\n                     health; not receiving Texas paper; other family\n                     news.","Received letter; has severe cold, health at\n                     Irving generally good; plans on staying two years;\n                     has not rained lately and is very warm; Had sent\n                     catalogue, will send another.","Requests help in getting into business as an\n                     \"averseer.\"","Inflicted with typhoid, hopes to be well soon;\n                     asks that Scurlock take care of some business\n                     dealings; received letter from William Harrison\n                     giving news of many deaths in Montgomery, County\n                     [Alabama]; provides arrangements for moving [to\n                     Texas]; family news.","Times dull as session ending; has sprained\n                     ankle; has received letter from Ma which\n                     criticizes his spelling; will try again to send\n                     catalogue.","Sends papers on Freeman Divorce case; refers to\n                     a petition and preparation of legal papers; other\n                     family news.","Relates how letter had been detoured to\n                     mother's house, was \"read at home\" then sent on to\n                     Irving; advises T.J. to settle down and get\n                     married; also advises to not travel until decision\n                     to make Kansas a state is made; advises to go to\n                     Kansas if it becomes a slave state; mentions a\n                     planned act of violence by Negroes near\n                     Clarksville [Tennessee] on the Cumberlan[d] River;\n                     planned to knock us all in the head\" and \"make\n                     themselves free Ladies and Gentleman.\"; other\n                     family news.","Glad to hear that he is happy, expected him to\n                     be \"Alabama-sick\" [homesick]; has begun farming,\n                     finds its hard work; all in good health except\n                     mother who has \"posey \"; other news.","Complains in great length that Josh did not\n                     stop to visit on his way to Texas; glad to hear\n                     his health has improved with the \"Minreul wutter\";\n                     inquires about a Negro, John, who held freedman's\n                     status; other family news.","Relates the marriage of two couples of the\n                     area; reports the results of the elections for\n                     probate and circuit judge and refers them to their\n                     respective parties; have had long dry spell,\n                     hasn't been good for the \"God of Macon...King\n                     cotton\"; reports other deaths and gives some\n                     family news.","Bill has gotten married, spends great deal of\n                     time telling why he shouldn't have \"don[e] the\n                     deed\"; begs son not to go to Central America\n                     because climate not good for health; crops are\n                     doing well except cotton; inquires about \"Ben's\n                     wife\" who was lost on a boat which was sunk on 20\n                     April 1856; has hired new help who is young and\n                     \"don't know much\"; other family news.","Gives long philosophical and metaphorical\n                     arguments about the importance of good health;\n                     compares the \"excruciating pain\" of the invalid to\n                     the \"vast freedom\" of the healthy; will remain at\n                     College for 6 week break in isolation as few\n                     students have remained.","Refers to a debt owed by Mr. Scurlock and to\n                     Mr. Scurlock's absence at this time; mentions a\n                     hired black man in the employ of Mr. Scurlock.","Has not heard or seen [Theodoicus Joshua]\n                     Scurlock nor has he been in [Texas]; Has not the\n                     funds to pay the debt but will soon; refers to a\n                     boy [slave] who \"has plenty to eat but nothing to\n                     do.\"","Pleads with brother to stop his traveling, to\n                     buy a home and settle down; claims that hundreds\n                     of tears have been shed, thinking he was dead;\n                     begs [T.J.] to meet brother Billy in Marshall\n                     [Texas] and stay with him.","Glad to receive letter and that he [T.J.]\n                     hasn't gone to Nicaragua; sorry to learn he has\n                     been \"lying on the bed of affliction\"; encourages\n                     him to go to Marshall [County, Texas] to meet\n                     [brother] Bill who has just married; sister has\n                     been married; sent 2 letters to different\n                     addresses; other family news.","Rejects Scurlock's proposition to buy his land\n                     in Nepsher County; would like $3 an acre; doesn't\n                     believe land in that area is selling for less.","Hopes business better for Scurlock than\n                     himself; selling out and moving to New Orleans;\n                     enjoyed traveling from his town.","Has returned to \"this city\" and plans to say;\n                     is pleased by the business prospects; believes\n                     could make good profit on investments; likes the\n                     amusements of the city.","Has not received word in 3 months; very cold\n                     weather and is affecting the crops; very little\n                     corn; money is tight; has bought \"a negro\"; had\n                     poor crop last year; other family news.","Has had a \"very cold and backward spring\"; 200\n                     deaths since Xmas from measles; brother is talking\n                     about joining U.S. Army; Democrats have full\n                     ticket for legislature and County offices; many\n                     old whigs have gone Democrat; Democrats only party\n                     \"able to beat back abolitionists and save our\n                     country from ruin\"; reports Freeman and Williams\n                     lawsuit decided in favor of Williams; other family\n                     and town news.","Relates family is well, brother Dan is home\n                     from Tennessee, brother William had measles; will\n                     try to visit [T.J.] and that part of country; a\n                     few deaths have occurred caused by measles; other\n                     town news.","Glad to have received letter; sorry Josh didn't\n                     come to visit; crops doing badly because of cold\n                     spring but should make profit in cotton; voted for\n                     Buchanan in election as did Josh.","In good health; has been trying to find a job;\n                     reading law now; married an unnamed woman; crops\n                     okay except cotton for which it has been too\n                     cold.","Glad to receive letter and all in good health;\n                     American Party has won full representation in both\n                     Houses of Congress; describes political antics of\n                     both parties concerning \"burying\" the opponent;\n                     crops doing well except cotton because of cold;\n                     relationship between Jones family and Scurlocks\n                     not on firm ground as a result of daughter Mit's\n                     husband; other town news.","Has not been well but glad to receive letter;\n                     crops not very good, cotton getting a high price,\n                     about 15 cents; Wishes he could come to visit\n                     before she dies; discourages [Josh] to go to\n                     Central America as there will be \"fighting enuf\n                     [sic] to do in your own native land.\"; other\n                     family news.","Has a slight cold; have been several weddings;\n                     thinking about going to law school in Tennessee;\n                     would like to set up practice in Texas or \"other\n                     new country,\"; other family news.","Has the \"clap\", likes T.J.'s proposition, would\n                     like to be doing something; hard times coming on;\n                     other family news.","Just returned home; has a cold; expenses for\n                     trip amounted to $60, Did not need money advanced\n                     by T.J.","Has on hand $150 belonging to T.J. received\n                     through money order; Mr. Barker has paid nothing\n                     on debt; sister sends word T.J. must get\n                     married.","Misses Josh very much, encourages him to come\n                     and visit several times; family is well; has been\n                     married; other family news.","Has received no word since February; refers\n                     sarcastically to Cupid and Social Life; reading\n                     [law] at home; intends to come to Texas following\n                     winter; other family news.","Describes the fashions of LaPlace and the young\n                     ladies; crops doing well, plenty of food;\n                     convention meeting in Montgomery [Alabama] to\n                     discuss dissolving of nation; court system\n                     inefficient and overloaded; other family and town\n                     news.","Surprised to hear he is studying medicine\n                     although thinks he's too old; married a 45 year\n                     old man to his first wife, thought that was\n                     strange; has been very ill with chills and fever;\n                     crops not very good, winter was too wet.","Describes in detail the \"examinations\" which\n                     were attended by all the music lovers; loves young\n                     America; still plans to go to Texas to live, would\n                     like to practice law there; sister is living in\n                     unfortunate situation; encourages him to study\n                     medicine; other family news.","Requests to have bond signed, money given and\n                     note returned, in reference to Hart Conyer.","Has received signed note; rejects offer to sell\n                     piece of land to a friend because terms are too\n                     long for the low price offered.","Has been ill for 10 days; advises him to not go\n                     to New Orleans too early because of Yellow fever;\n                     encourages him to write to brother [Dan] to go to\n                     law school in Montgomery; other family news.","All in good health; have been a few cases of\n                     Typhoid fever; crops very good; has been reading\n                     [law], feels this year has been a waste, will go\n                     back to read [with another lawyer] as before;\n                     other family news.","Ma has decided to move to Polk County Texas;\n                  requests a small house; this has foiled plans for\n                  school, will maybe farm in Texas if can't find a\n                  school.","Receipt for $287.50 included; speaks of terms\n                     of payment; refers to an unknown lawsuit; has a\n                     jug of whiskey and no one to drink it with.","Has made business contacts requested; the due\n                     bill has come up in court but they cannot collect\n                     on it; and other family news.","Land sold to Day and Thompson for $3 an acre;\n                     brother William left for Alabama; corn looks good\n                     but cotton is small, haven't had rain since 16 of\n                     April; other town news.","Discusses recent emigration to Texas of family\n                     and friends from Macon County Alabama; presents\n                     some prejudices toward northwesterners; refers to\n                     a note coming due; crops good but need rain;\n                     refers to the \"railroad sensation\" in Jefferson\n                     which will take some time to settle; other family\n                     news.","Speaks of crops and lack of rain; reports\n                     problems with child slave Scurlock left [to his\n                     brother]; other family news.","Making preparations from 4th of July\n                     Celebration; have had little rain and temperatures\n                     have been up to 98 [F.]; has heard of yellow fever\n                     in T.J.'s city, advises him to take care of\n                     himself; refers to the drinking habits of\n                     friends.","Instructions referring to Scurlock moving out\n                     of the house he is living in and what the owner\n                     expects will be done by Scurlock in upkeep.","Family all well; had intended to move to Texas\n                     but crops failed, will have to buy corn this year;\n                     anxious to see Josh, wants to know why he hasn't\n                     married.","Weather has been very hot, have had no rain,\n                     crops are burning, cotton failing, wonders if\n                     Texas is \"a fit place for civilized men to live\",\n                     many Western town and private homes have been\n                     burned because of the abolition movement, \"The\n                     people are aroused to a sense of their [the\n                     abolitionist's] danger\", compares it to Harper's\n                     Ferry; refers to T.J.'s thesis, suggests the topic\n                     of Tetanus, mentions a case of murder Dan is\n                     defending; centering on a Negro who contacted\n                     tetanus after a severe whipping.","Inquires about a note for several hundred\n                     dollars that he has heard nothing about, would\n                     like to know what happened to it; shows his\n                     discontent with Texas, describes it as \"this land\n                     of contention where belzebub seems to be prime\n                     ruler.\"","Sorry to hear [Scurlock's] mother is\n                     dissatisfied with her move to Texas, but has heard\n                     many are; the drought continues, has traveled to\n                     Alabama and 200 miles up Alabama River and found\n                     the drought reaches further; friends wanted to\n                     look him up in New Orleans; encourages him to come\n                     visit; other family and town news.","All in good health, crops are turning out\n                     better than expected; has traded land in Tennessee\n                     for land in Texas; reports murder of old man by\n                     child in Sumpter [South Carolina], in jail waiting\n                     trial; coal is scarce, other family and area\n                     news.","Received letter with thesis, contained\n                     information they already had, refers to the\n                     lawsuit thesis was needed for; finally received\n                     rain which rejuvenated crops; health of area has\n                     been good, \"too much so for the good of the\n                     Doctors\", refers to murder committed by Jack\n                     Taliaferro, includes other town news.","Begs \"Dosh\" to come and visit him, outlines how\n                     to get to Philadelphia; all are well, has heard\n                     from Scurlock's mother who hates Texas and wants\n                     to return to Alabama.","Promises to pay what he owes in few weeks.","Corn crop better than expected; relates robbery\n                     charges against men from Polk County and other\n                     town news.","Describes details of common friend's death,\n                     also refers vaguely to various other [medical]\n                     cases \"town is improving, have built a female\n                     college and have a Methodist preacher who will\n                     convert...the negroes and dogs before they stop\",\n                     other town news.","Gives lengthy opinion of upcoming Presidential\n                     election between Douglas and Lincoln and also\n                     projection and hopes for house and Senate\n                     elections; other family news.","\"Bad crops, low water and high prices\"; will be\n                     traveling back to Polk County before Christmas;\n                     gives results of Presidential elections; other\n                     family news.","All well; friend has stopped drinking; this\n                     friend wants to fight when war begins; [Brother]\n                     Dan \"fixing n to go see Mother; other news.","Hasn't heard from him; corn crops good, leaf\n                     worm has injured cotton crops; has decided to\n                     study medicine; hopes girlfriend hasn't decided to\n                     marry someone else, encourages Scurlock to marry;\n                     relates town affairs.","Asks advice on collecting lawyers in Upshur\n                  County, has not gotten judgement on claims of\n                  Scurlock's; Frank Bensen has eloped with Darby's\n                  wife; cotton crops poor.","Expresses his opinion about national politics,\n                     predicts a military governor for Texas judging by\n                     the acts of the \"Vandal Congress,\" has no faith in\n                     \"Andrew Johnson the chief of drunkards of the\n                     Vandal states.\" Advises to sue, D.J. Kimball for\n                     money he owes; has not heard from Pittsburg and\n                     will write a \"cuss lettr\" if they \"do not\n                     respond\".","Has had to harvest his own cotton because he\n                     has no laborers; hired no freedmen because of some\n                     fights the previous year; will give up farming and\n                     maybe sell rugs with Dr. Hendricks; money is hard\n                     to come by; [Brother] Bill just recovering from\n                     serious illness; other family news.","Shows very little faith in the \"Vandal n\n                     government; questions whether Dan has received the\n                     horse he sent; business not very good, advises\n                     that one should run business on a cash system;\n                     relates he has lost about $200 on a credit based\n                     system; had had difficulty with superintendent of\n                     Lunatic Asylum, told him what he thought of him\n                     and challenged him to a fight, all stemmed from\n                     disagreement on treatment of patients; will be\n                     leaving soon.","Will begin selling rugs, have ordered supply\n                     from New Orleans; hopes doing better in city than\n                     would have at Asylum; other family news.","Has not heard from brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] since March; would like any information\n                     on him as had heard rumor that he had been killed;\n                     selling goods with Dr. Hendricks in \"six full\n                     stores in Mt. Pleasant\".","Relates rumors that T.J. is dead and how this\n                     rumor came about; Long guilt speech about the\n                     death of his mother; never received the horse sent\n                     to him; other family news.","Discusses different medical cases and dental\n                     cases; relates deaths of acquaintances; has been\n                     very ill.","Mentions Scurlock has left Austin but not where\n                     he's gone; war has ruined him; crops have been\n                     good; at home at time of surrender; has begun\n                     preaching and serving his God.","Have been in city 5 days, very different from\n                     Austin; many sick town supporting 10-12 Doctors\n                     and many drug stores; has met a gay widow with\n                     whom he keeps company.","Enquires of a Claiborne Herbert in Columbus,\n                     Colorado County; has opened a school but is doing\n                     poorly, would appreciate any help Scurlock could\n                     give; gives update on doctors [from Austin Lunatic\n                     Asylum]; will be leaving Austin soon.","Has been in poor health; crops have been very\n                     poor; war has destroyed the South and the\n                     \"Southern devils have a hard hand of it after we\n                     get through a war in which we lose everything\";\n                     will continue in business if can.","Jobs hard to get in Austin; Doctors from\n                     Lunatic Asylum did not do well in private\n                     practice, have gone to Georgetown; negro notary\n                     has been appointed in Austin, other town news.","Did not make as much in business here as in\n                     Bastrop; encourages Sky to join him and \"Dock\" in\n                     Austin; Dock will pay his passage to Austin; 2\n                     deaths from yellow fever; enjoying company of \"The\n                     widow\".","Austin dull place; Gen. [Joseph Jones] Reynolds\n                     has arrived to take over department; Boon has\n                     located office, not doing well; City covered with\n                     grasshoppers; describes as \"damb poor country\";\n                     \"Better be in Hell without claws\".","Describes his plans to get in touch with brother;\n                  feels government is in bad condition, \"Texas will\n                  soon pass through to fiery ordeal of what is\n                  denominated reconstruction.\", expresses his\n                  prejudices toward Blacks; begs brother to come back\n                  to Texas.","Expresses opinion of government: \"I hope it\n                     [government] will sink to the latter most pits of\n                     Hell.\"; has been able to collect some relates town\n                     news.","Waited until Texas was accepted back into the\n                     Union; considers this a good gained from\n                     reconstruction; claims Negroes will remain in\n                     place they should, inferior position; wants to\n                     know about Mexico: politics, commercial facilities\n                     and social events; encourages him to come back to\n                     the U.S.; other town news.","Relates local political happenings through\n                     reconstruction; and some very strong opinions;\n                     thanks for the description of Mexico; sends\n                     regards of many people and relates other family\n                     and town news.","Relates his preconception of Mexico; \"hopes to\n                     see all Democrats elected\" in upcoming elections;\n                     other town news.","Does not agree that Democrats have never changed,\n                  has been in poor health; is doing well in profession;\n                  explains his problems at the Asylum; eating in Mexico\n                  is cheap; is studying man; [contains several passages\n                  with no meaning].","Hasn't heard from him in 2 months; encourages him\n                  to come visit Mt. Pleasant; claims it will be one of\n                  the most important small towns when the railroad is\n                  built from St. Louis through Texarkana; is now\n                  assessing taxes for the county; other family news;\n                  includes envelope.","Wife not well with ovarian tumor; has become\n                  partner in goods firm; still county tax assessor;\n                  receives 6500 for this job; Mt. Pleasant included on\n                  Railroad which begins in St. Louis and will go to the\n                  Rio Grande to connect with Mexican rail encourages\n                  him to come and visit.","Received account against Jose Gamundi for $73.88;\n                  has placed credit in his name for $73.88.","Refers to securing claims on oil wells and coal\n                     mines; expects that there will be a boom in oil\n                     lands after [Mexican] Presidential election; hopes\n                     to do some speculating; hopes to settle himself\n                     financially for life.","Sickness is increasing; has received \"Charge of\n                     the Vice-consulate property.\" refers to a matter\n                     concerning archives [records of the consulate?],\n                     other town news.","Is now working at a bank as a cashier and\n                     continues to assess taxes; is living comfortably\n                     but still must pay off some debts from\n                     Merchandising; family is well and being educated\n                     as he would like; refers to the Democratic Victory\n                     for Presidency and remarks \"that the south is\n                     again at the Head of National affairs;\" other\n                     family news.","Introduces herself by reminding him of when she\n                     was a child; makes a plea for money which she\n                     needs; begs him not to pass judgement on her for\n                     asking for money.","Gives description of himself: gives family\n                     news; describes Mt. Pleasant; asks many questions\n                     about Mexico and whether a Doctor could do well\n                     there; hopes to study medicine.","Gives town news; crops look good, had a hail\n                     storm nearby; has chosen medicine as a prospective\n                     occupation; town working hard to raise money for\n                     railroad to town; includes lineage of Scurlock\n                     family.","Acknowledges \"carta\"[?] and list of goods sent\n                     to him; will do all in his power as executor of\n                     his will to deliver property safely.","Questions why he hasn't come to visit; gives\n                  description of herself; relates father's [Dan\n                  Scurlock] poor health; gives some town news.","Questions will of Dr. Theodocius [Joshua]\n                     Scurlock; inquires whether estate was left to\n                     brothers individually and was it lawful under\n                     Mexican laws; others are trying to come in on\n                     will.","Not acquainted with Mexican laws but believes\n                     the brother [William and Dan] are only\n                     benefactors.","Remits trunks and a box containing possession\n                     of brother [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock]; has sold\n                     amputating instruments for $20 to local hospital;\n                     will send due cash as soon a possible.","Assures him possessions have been sent;\n                     explains that his brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] did not have a great estate when he\n                     died; advises him to contact two friends who knew\n                     him; requests a receipt sent to him from\n                     [Scurlock's] papers.","Inquiring about possessions of deceased brother\n                     [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock] which he has not yet\n                     received; requests that he make some enquires;\n                     refers to his brother's assassination.","Informs him goods have arrived, will pay duties\n                     and willship as soon as possible.","Discusses the advantages of living outside of the\n                  U.S.; shows his bitterness toward U.S. politics,\n                  racial problems and how the government is taking care\n                  of them; defends Mexico as a better place to live;\n                  discourages any immigration.","Pages 1 and 2 missing.","Relates Bill Moore's crime of forgery for 50 bales\n                  of cotton and his arrest.","Begs brother to return to Marshall to comfort\n                  Mother and rest of family; relates [sister] 'Mit' has\n                  married; also \"Beany [?]\" was shot dead previous\n                  morning.","Diary of Theodocius Joshua Scurlock containing\n               details of Dr. Scurlock's journey from Texas to Tulango,\n               Mexico; his impressions of the lifestyles of the people\n               he encountered as he traveled south and the novelties he\n               sees and learns about for the first time; and a table of\n               distances traveled, detailed weather reports, and\n               descriptions of the locations and names of towns stayed\n               in. It gives an insight to the questioning nature of Dr.\n               Scurlock and his ability to describe some of the methods\n               of technique he viewed (e.g., medical and spinning). It\n               also contains lists of edible birds and animals, trees\n               for lumber and various fruit trees and vegetables."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/ Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eLetters, 1855-1888, received by or\n         concerning Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock while a resident of\n         Texas and Mexico from family members in Alabama and Texas and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Also includes a\n         diary, December 1867-April 1869, kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Letters, 1855-1888, received by or\n         concerning Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock while a resident of\n         Texas and Mexico from family members in Alabama and Texas and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Also includes a\n         diary, December 1867-April 1869, kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico."],"names_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"persname_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":130,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T15:09:05.010Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_viw00020","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00020","_root_":"viw_viw00020","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00020","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00020.xml","title_ssm":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"title_tesim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 81 Scu4"],"text":["Mss. 81 Scu4","Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888.","Reconstruction.","116 items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","Arrangement The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.","The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.","The collection is primarily composed of letters received by\n         Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock (1828-1887), a graduate of\n         Tulane University and a resident of Texas and Mexico,\n         1855-1888, from family members in Alabama and Texas, and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. The letters\n         reflect the restlessness of the pre-Civil War years, and the\n         difficulties and disillusionment felt by many people during\n         Reconstruction. Diary included was kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico, December 1867-April 1869, in which he gives\n         his impressions of the people he encountered as well as the\n         natural history of the regions he passed through.","Glad to have received letter but worried about\n                     health; reports brother Dan had left for Irving\n                     [College]; money hard to come by and price for\n                     cotton very low; refers to pending lawsuit; other\n                     family news.","Worries about health and relates deaths of\n                     various towns people; money hard to come by and\n                     business bad; other family and town related\n                     news.","Crops doing well; received letter from a most\n                     \"dangerous woman,\" claiming son hadn't paid a\n                     debt; advises him to stay away from this \"awful\n                     woman\"; mentions pending lawsuit referred to as\n                     \"hooke suit\" (?); other family and town news.","Refers to a favor which \"came to hand\"; talks\n                     about crops and prices; refers to the burning of a\n                     foundry in Montgomery [Alabama]; many suffering\n                     from scarlet fever; mentions the Hook's lawsuit\n                     being taken to Supreme Court; other family and\n                     town news.","Complains about mail system; has not received\n                     any letters from son; crops doing very well,\n                     especially corn; discusses Hook's lawsuit; relates\n                     town \"anicdote\"; other family news.","Glad to receive letter after \"too months\";\n                     crops doing very well; Scarlet fever still \"going\n                     through neighbourhood\"; other family news.","Speaks of fine crops and many deaths from\n                     Scarlet fever; Hook suit not yet decided; advises\n                     to stay away from the \"slandering living old\n                     devil\" who claims he hasn't paid debt; other\n                     family news.","Worried that lawyers want evidence from him for\n                     Hook's case; advises not to give any at all;\n                     reports crops are good except cotton and all are\n                     well.","Reports a retrial for \"Hooke's\" case and\n                     advises that he give no evidence; advises to stay\n                     away from \"Tom the big baby\"; asks him not to\n                     mention case in any letters except to her, Mit or\n                     Will; other family news.","Replies to question about health and crops;\n                     gives long account about political opinions\n                     relating to the \"American party\", break up of the\n                     Whigs and strengthening of Democrats; relates\n                     local arrests; business interests shifting; other\n                     news about common friends.","Disease going around caused by snakes, many\n                     deaths; defines Hook's case as divorce case;\n                     advises to not give any evidence; case has been\n                     given a retrial; worried about Mary's [sister]\n                     health; not receiving Texas paper; other family\n                     news.","Received letter; has severe cold, health at\n                     Irving generally good; plans on staying two years;\n                     has not rained lately and is very warm; Had sent\n                     catalogue, will send another.","Requests help in getting into business as an\n                     \"averseer.\"","Inflicted with typhoid, hopes to be well soon;\n                     asks that Scurlock take care of some business\n                     dealings; received letter from William Harrison\n                     giving news of many deaths in Montgomery, County\n                     [Alabama]; provides arrangements for moving [to\n                     Texas]; family news.","Times dull as session ending; has sprained\n                     ankle; has received letter from Ma which\n                     criticizes his spelling; will try again to send\n                     catalogue.","Sends papers on Freeman Divorce case; refers to\n                     a petition and preparation of legal papers; other\n                     family news.","Relates how letter had been detoured to\n                     mother's house, was \"read at home\" then sent on to\n                     Irving; advises T.J. to settle down and get\n                     married; also advises to not travel until decision\n                     to make Kansas a state is made; advises to go to\n                     Kansas if it becomes a slave state; mentions a\n                     planned act of violence by Negroes near\n                     Clarksville [Tennessee] on the Cumberlan[d] River;\n                     planned to knock us all in the head\" and \"make\n                     themselves free Ladies and Gentleman.\"; other\n                     family news.","Glad to hear that he is happy, expected him to\n                     be \"Alabama-sick\" [homesick]; has begun farming,\n                     finds its hard work; all in good health except\n                     mother who has \"posey \"; other news.","Complains in great length that Josh did not\n                     stop to visit on his way to Texas; glad to hear\n                     his health has improved with the \"Minreul wutter\";\n                     inquires about a Negro, John, who held freedman's\n                     status; other family news.","Relates the marriage of two couples of the\n                     area; reports the results of the elections for\n                     probate and circuit judge and refers them to their\n                     respective parties; have had long dry spell,\n                     hasn't been good for the \"God of Macon...King\n                     cotton\"; reports other deaths and gives some\n                     family news.","Bill has gotten married, spends great deal of\n                     time telling why he shouldn't have \"don[e] the\n                     deed\"; begs son not to go to Central America\n                     because climate not good for health; crops are\n                     doing well except cotton; inquires about \"Ben's\n                     wife\" who was lost on a boat which was sunk on 20\n                     April 1856; has hired new help who is young and\n                     \"don't know much\"; other family news.","Gives long philosophical and metaphorical\n                     arguments about the importance of good health;\n                     compares the \"excruciating pain\" of the invalid to\n                     the \"vast freedom\" of the healthy; will remain at\n                     College for 6 week break in isolation as few\n                     students have remained.","Refers to a debt owed by Mr. Scurlock and to\n                     Mr. Scurlock's absence at this time; mentions a\n                     hired black man in the employ of Mr. Scurlock.","Has not heard or seen [Theodoicus Joshua]\n                     Scurlock nor has he been in [Texas]; Has not the\n                     funds to pay the debt but will soon; refers to a\n                     boy [slave] who \"has plenty to eat but nothing to\n                     do.\"","Pleads with brother to stop his traveling, to\n                     buy a home and settle down; claims that hundreds\n                     of tears have been shed, thinking he was dead;\n                     begs [T.J.] to meet brother Billy in Marshall\n                     [Texas] and stay with him.","Glad to receive letter and that he [T.J.]\n                     hasn't gone to Nicaragua; sorry to learn he has\n                     been \"lying on the bed of affliction\"; encourages\n                     him to go to Marshall [County, Texas] to meet\n                     [brother] Bill who has just married; sister has\n                     been married; sent 2 letters to different\n                     addresses; other family news.","Rejects Scurlock's proposition to buy his land\n                     in Nepsher County; would like $3 an acre; doesn't\n                     believe land in that area is selling for less.","Hopes business better for Scurlock than\n                     himself; selling out and moving to New Orleans;\n                     enjoyed traveling from his town.","Has returned to \"this city\" and plans to say;\n                     is pleased by the business prospects; believes\n                     could make good profit on investments; likes the\n                     amusements of the city.","Has not received word in 3 months; very cold\n                     weather and is affecting the crops; very little\n                     corn; money is tight; has bought \"a negro\"; had\n                     poor crop last year; other family news.","Has had a \"very cold and backward spring\"; 200\n                     deaths since Xmas from measles; brother is talking\n                     about joining U.S. Army; Democrats have full\n                     ticket for legislature and County offices; many\n                     old whigs have gone Democrat; Democrats only party\n                     \"able to beat back abolitionists and save our\n                     country from ruin\"; reports Freeman and Williams\n                     lawsuit decided in favor of Williams; other family\n                     and town news.","Relates family is well, brother Dan is home\n                     from Tennessee, brother William had measles; will\n                     try to visit [T.J.] and that part of country; a\n                     few deaths have occurred caused by measles; other\n                     town news.","Glad to have received letter; sorry Josh didn't\n                     come to visit; crops doing badly because of cold\n                     spring but should make profit in cotton; voted for\n                     Buchanan in election as did Josh.","In good health; has been trying to find a job;\n                     reading law now; married an unnamed woman; crops\n                     okay except cotton for which it has been too\n                     cold.","Glad to receive letter and all in good health;\n                     American Party has won full representation in both\n                     Houses of Congress; describes political antics of\n                     both parties concerning \"burying\" the opponent;\n                     crops doing well except cotton because of cold;\n                     relationship between Jones family and Scurlocks\n                     not on firm ground as a result of daughter Mit's\n                     husband; other town news.","Has not been well but glad to receive letter;\n                     crops not very good, cotton getting a high price,\n                     about 15 cents; Wishes he could come to visit\n                     before she dies; discourages [Josh] to go to\n                     Central America as there will be \"fighting enuf\n                     [sic] to do in your own native land.\"; other\n                     family news.","Has a slight cold; have been several weddings;\n                     thinking about going to law school in Tennessee;\n                     would like to set up practice in Texas or \"other\n                     new country,\"; other family news.","Has the \"clap\", likes T.J.'s proposition, would\n                     like to be doing something; hard times coming on;\n                     other family news.","Just returned home; has a cold; expenses for\n                     trip amounted to $60, Did not need money advanced\n                     by T.J.","Has on hand $150 belonging to T.J. received\n                     through money order; Mr. Barker has paid nothing\n                     on debt; sister sends word T.J. must get\n                     married.","Misses Josh very much, encourages him to come\n                     and visit several times; family is well; has been\n                     married; other family news.","Has received no word since February; refers\n                     sarcastically to Cupid and Social Life; reading\n                     [law] at home; intends to come to Texas following\n                     winter; other family news.","Describes the fashions of LaPlace and the young\n                     ladies; crops doing well, plenty of food;\n                     convention meeting in Montgomery [Alabama] to\n                     discuss dissolving of nation; court system\n                     inefficient and overloaded; other family and town\n                     news.","Surprised to hear he is studying medicine\n                     although thinks he's too old; married a 45 year\n                     old man to his first wife, thought that was\n                     strange; has been very ill with chills and fever;\n                     crops not very good, winter was too wet.","Describes in detail the \"examinations\" which\n                     were attended by all the music lovers; loves young\n                     America; still plans to go to Texas to live, would\n                     like to practice law there; sister is living in\n                     unfortunate situation; encourages him to study\n                     medicine; other family news.","Requests to have bond signed, money given and\n                     note returned, in reference to Hart Conyer.","Has received signed note; rejects offer to sell\n                     piece of land to a friend because terms are too\n                     long for the low price offered.","Has been ill for 10 days; advises him to not go\n                     to New Orleans too early because of Yellow fever;\n                     encourages him to write to brother [Dan] to go to\n                     law school in Montgomery; other family news.","All in good health; have been a few cases of\n                     Typhoid fever; crops very good; has been reading\n                     [law], feels this year has been a waste, will go\n                     back to read [with another lawyer] as before;\n                     other family news.","Ma has decided to move to Polk County Texas;\n                  requests a small house; this has foiled plans for\n                  school, will maybe farm in Texas if can't find a\n                  school.","Receipt for $287.50 included; speaks of terms\n                     of payment; refers to an unknown lawsuit; has a\n                     jug of whiskey and no one to drink it with.","Has made business contacts requested; the due\n                     bill has come up in court but they cannot collect\n                     on it; and other family news.","Land sold to Day and Thompson for $3 an acre;\n                     brother William left for Alabama; corn looks good\n                     but cotton is small, haven't had rain since 16 of\n                     April; other town news.","Discusses recent emigration to Texas of family\n                     and friends from Macon County Alabama; presents\n                     some prejudices toward northwesterners; refers to\n                     a note coming due; crops good but need rain;\n                     refers to the \"railroad sensation\" in Jefferson\n                     which will take some time to settle; other family\n                     news.","Speaks of crops and lack of rain; reports\n                     problems with child slave Scurlock left [to his\n                     brother]; other family news.","Making preparations from 4th of July\n                     Celebration; have had little rain and temperatures\n                     have been up to 98 [F.]; has heard of yellow fever\n                     in T.J.'s city, advises him to take care of\n                     himself; refers to the drinking habits of\n                     friends.","Instructions referring to Scurlock moving out\n                     of the house he is living in and what the owner\n                     expects will be done by Scurlock in upkeep.","Family all well; had intended to move to Texas\n                     but crops failed, will have to buy corn this year;\n                     anxious to see Josh, wants to know why he hasn't\n                     married.","Weather has been very hot, have had no rain,\n                     crops are burning, cotton failing, wonders if\n                     Texas is \"a fit place for civilized men to live\",\n                     many Western town and private homes have been\n                     burned because of the abolition movement, \"The\n                     people are aroused to a sense of their [the\n                     abolitionist's] danger\", compares it to Harper's\n                     Ferry; refers to T.J.'s thesis, suggests the topic\n                     of Tetanus, mentions a case of murder Dan is\n                     defending; centering on a Negro who contacted\n                     tetanus after a severe whipping.","Inquires about a note for several hundred\n                     dollars that he has heard nothing about, would\n                     like to know what happened to it; shows his\n                     discontent with Texas, describes it as \"this land\n                     of contention where belzebub seems to be prime\n                     ruler.\"","Sorry to hear [Scurlock's] mother is\n                     dissatisfied with her move to Texas, but has heard\n                     many are; the drought continues, has traveled to\n                     Alabama and 200 miles up Alabama River and found\n                     the drought reaches further; friends wanted to\n                     look him up in New Orleans; encourages him to come\n                     visit; other family and town news.","All in good health, crops are turning out\n                     better than expected; has traded land in Tennessee\n                     for land in Texas; reports murder of old man by\n                     child in Sumpter [South Carolina], in jail waiting\n                     trial; coal is scarce, other family and area\n                     news.","Received letter with thesis, contained\n                     information they already had, refers to the\n                     lawsuit thesis was needed for; finally received\n                     rain which rejuvenated crops; health of area has\n                     been good, \"too much so for the good of the\n                     Doctors\", refers to murder committed by Jack\n                     Taliaferro, includes other town news.","Begs \"Dosh\" to come and visit him, outlines how\n                     to get to Philadelphia; all are well, has heard\n                     from Scurlock's mother who hates Texas and wants\n                     to return to Alabama.","Promises to pay what he owes in few weeks.","Corn crop better than expected; relates robbery\n                     charges against men from Polk County and other\n                     town news.","Describes details of common friend's death,\n                     also refers vaguely to various other [medical]\n                     cases \"town is improving, have built a female\n                     college and have a Methodist preacher who will\n                     convert...the negroes and dogs before they stop\",\n                     other town news.","Gives lengthy opinion of upcoming Presidential\n                     election between Douglas and Lincoln and also\n                     projection and hopes for house and Senate\n                     elections; other family news.","\"Bad crops, low water and high prices\"; will be\n                     traveling back to Polk County before Christmas;\n                     gives results of Presidential elections; other\n                     family news.","All well; friend has stopped drinking; this\n                     friend wants to fight when war begins; [Brother]\n                     Dan \"fixing n to go see Mother; other news.","Hasn't heard from him; corn crops good, leaf\n                     worm has injured cotton crops; has decided to\n                     study medicine; hopes girlfriend hasn't decided to\n                     marry someone else, encourages Scurlock to marry;\n                     relates town affairs.","Asks advice on collecting lawyers in Upshur\n                  County, has not gotten judgement on claims of\n                  Scurlock's; Frank Bensen has eloped with Darby's\n                  wife; cotton crops poor.","Expresses his opinion about national politics,\n                     predicts a military governor for Texas judging by\n                     the acts of the \"Vandal Congress,\" has no faith in\n                     \"Andrew Johnson the chief of drunkards of the\n                     Vandal states.\" Advises to sue, D.J. Kimball for\n                     money he owes; has not heard from Pittsburg and\n                     will write a \"cuss lettr\" if they \"do not\n                     respond\".","Has had to harvest his own cotton because he\n                     has no laborers; hired no freedmen because of some\n                     fights the previous year; will give up farming and\n                     maybe sell rugs with Dr. Hendricks; money is hard\n                     to come by; [Brother] Bill just recovering from\n                     serious illness; other family news.","Shows very little faith in the \"Vandal n\n                     government; questions whether Dan has received the\n                     horse he sent; business not very good, advises\n                     that one should run business on a cash system;\n                     relates he has lost about $200 on a credit based\n                     system; had had difficulty with superintendent of\n                     Lunatic Asylum, told him what he thought of him\n                     and challenged him to a fight, all stemmed from\n                     disagreement on treatment of patients; will be\n                     leaving soon.","Will begin selling rugs, have ordered supply\n                     from New Orleans; hopes doing better in city than\n                     would have at Asylum; other family news.","Has not heard from brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] since March; would like any information\n                     on him as had heard rumor that he had been killed;\n                     selling goods with Dr. Hendricks in \"six full\n                     stores in Mt. Pleasant\".","Relates rumors that T.J. is dead and how this\n                     rumor came about; Long guilt speech about the\n                     death of his mother; never received the horse sent\n                     to him; other family news.","Discusses different medical cases and dental\n                     cases; relates deaths of acquaintances; has been\n                     very ill.","Mentions Scurlock has left Austin but not where\n                     he's gone; war has ruined him; crops have been\n                     good; at home at time of surrender; has begun\n                     preaching and serving his God.","Have been in city 5 days, very different from\n                     Austin; many sick town supporting 10-12 Doctors\n                     and many drug stores; has met a gay widow with\n                     whom he keeps company.","Enquires of a Claiborne Herbert in Columbus,\n                     Colorado County; has opened a school but is doing\n                     poorly, would appreciate any help Scurlock could\n                     give; gives update on doctors [from Austin Lunatic\n                     Asylum]; will be leaving Austin soon.","Has been in poor health; crops have been very\n                     poor; war has destroyed the South and the\n                     \"Southern devils have a hard hand of it after we\n                     get through a war in which we lose everything\";\n                     will continue in business if can.","Jobs hard to get in Austin; Doctors from\n                     Lunatic Asylum did not do well in private\n                     practice, have gone to Georgetown; negro notary\n                     has been appointed in Austin, other town news.","Did not make as much in business here as in\n                     Bastrop; encourages Sky to join him and \"Dock\" in\n                     Austin; Dock will pay his passage to Austin; 2\n                     deaths from yellow fever; enjoying company of \"The\n                     widow\".","Austin dull place; Gen. [Joseph Jones] Reynolds\n                     has arrived to take over department; Boon has\n                     located office, not doing well; City covered with\n                     grasshoppers; describes as \"damb poor country\";\n                     \"Better be in Hell without claws\".","Describes his plans to get in touch with brother;\n                  feels government is in bad condition, \"Texas will\n                  soon pass through to fiery ordeal of what is\n                  denominated reconstruction.\", expresses his\n                  prejudices toward Blacks; begs brother to come back\n                  to Texas.","Expresses opinion of government: \"I hope it\n                     [government] will sink to the latter most pits of\n                     Hell.\"; has been able to collect some relates town\n                     news.","Waited until Texas was accepted back into the\n                     Union; considers this a good gained from\n                     reconstruction; claims Negroes will remain in\n                     place they should, inferior position; wants to\n                     know about Mexico: politics, commercial facilities\n                     and social events; encourages him to come back to\n                     the U.S.; other town news.","Relates local political happenings through\n                     reconstruction; and some very strong opinions;\n                     thanks for the description of Mexico; sends\n                     regards of many people and relates other family\n                     and town news.","Relates his preconception of Mexico; \"hopes to\n                     see all Democrats elected\" in upcoming elections;\n                     other town news.","Does not agree that Democrats have never changed,\n                  has been in poor health; is doing well in profession;\n                  explains his problems at the Asylum; eating in Mexico\n                  is cheap; is studying man; [contains several passages\n                  with no meaning].","Hasn't heard from him in 2 months; encourages him\n                  to come visit Mt. Pleasant; claims it will be one of\n                  the most important small towns when the railroad is\n                  built from St. Louis through Texarkana; is now\n                  assessing taxes for the county; other family news;\n                  includes envelope.","Wife not well with ovarian tumor; has become\n                  partner in goods firm; still county tax assessor;\n                  receives 6500 for this job; Mt. Pleasant included on\n                  Railroad which begins in St. Louis and will go to the\n                  Rio Grande to connect with Mexican rail encourages\n                  him to come and visit.","Received account against Jose Gamundi for $73.88;\n                  has placed credit in his name for $73.88.","Refers to securing claims on oil wells and coal\n                     mines; expects that there will be a boom in oil\n                     lands after [Mexican] Presidential election; hopes\n                     to do some speculating; hopes to settle himself\n                     financially for life.","Sickness is increasing; has received \"Charge of\n                     the Vice-consulate property.\" refers to a matter\n                     concerning archives [records of the consulate?],\n                     other town news.","Is now working at a bank as a cashier and\n                     continues to assess taxes; is living comfortably\n                     but still must pay off some debts from\n                     Merchandising; family is well and being educated\n                     as he would like; refers to the Democratic Victory\n                     for Presidency and remarks \"that the south is\n                     again at the Head of National affairs;\" other\n                     family news.","Introduces herself by reminding him of when she\n                     was a child; makes a plea for money which she\n                     needs; begs him not to pass judgement on her for\n                     asking for money.","Gives description of himself: gives family\n                     news; describes Mt. Pleasant; asks many questions\n                     about Mexico and whether a Doctor could do well\n                     there; hopes to study medicine.","Gives town news; crops look good, had a hail\n                     storm nearby; has chosen medicine as a prospective\n                     occupation; town working hard to raise money for\n                     railroad to town; includes lineage of Scurlock\n                     family.","Acknowledges \"carta\"[?] and list of goods sent\n                     to him; will do all in his power as executor of\n                     his will to deliver property safely.","Questions why he hasn't come to visit; gives\n                  description of herself; relates father's [Dan\n                  Scurlock] poor health; gives some town news.","Questions will of Dr. Theodocius [Joshua]\n                     Scurlock; inquires whether estate was left to\n                     brothers individually and was it lawful under\n                     Mexican laws; others are trying to come in on\n                     will.","Not acquainted with Mexican laws but believes\n                     the brother [William and Dan] are only\n                     benefactors.","Remits trunks and a box containing possession\n                     of brother [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock]; has sold\n                     amputating instruments for $20 to local hospital;\n                     will send due cash as soon a possible.","Assures him possessions have been sent;\n                     explains that his brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] did not have a great estate when he\n                     died; advises him to contact two friends who knew\n                     him; requests a receipt sent to him from\n                     [Scurlock's] papers.","Inquiring about possessions of deceased brother\n                     [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock] which he has not yet\n                     received; requests that he make some enquires;\n                     refers to his brother's assassination.","Informs him goods have arrived, will pay duties\n                     and willship as soon as possible.","Discusses the advantages of living outside of the\n                  U.S.; shows his bitterness toward U.S. politics,\n                  racial problems and how the government is taking care\n                  of them; defends Mexico as a better place to live;\n                  discourages any immigration.","Pages 1 and 2 missing.","Relates Bill Moore's crime of forgery for 50 bales\n                  of cotton and his arrest.","Begs brother to return to Marshall to comfort\n                  Mother and rest of family; relates [sister] 'Mit' has\n                  married; also \"Beany [?]\" was shot dead previous\n                  morning.","Diary of Theodocius Joshua Scurlock containing\n               details of Dr. Scurlock's journey from Texas to Tulango,\n               Mexico; his impressions of the lifestyles of the people\n               he encountered as he traveled south and the novelties he\n               sees and learns about for the first time; and a table of\n               distances traveled, detailed weather reports, and\n               descriptions of the locations and names of towns stayed\n               in. It gives an insight to the questioning nature of Dr.\n               Scurlock and his ability to describe some of the methods\n               of technique he viewed (e.g., medical and spinning). It\n               also contains lists of edible birds and animals, trees\n               for lumber and various fruit trees and vegetables.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.","Letters, 1855-1888, received by or\n         concerning Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock while a resident of\n         Texas and Mexico from family members in Alabama and Texas and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Also includes a\n         diary, December 1867-April 1869, kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico.","Theodocius Josha Scurlock.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 81 Scu4"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"collection_title_tesim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"collection_ssim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"creator_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"creator_persname_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"creators_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift \n             04/00/1981."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Reconstruction."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Reconstruction."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["116 items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Restrictions on Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Organization","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","Arrangement The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.","The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eTheodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, Manuscripts and Rare\n            Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n            Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, Manuscripts and Rare\n            Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n            Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is primarily composed of letters received by\n         Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock (1828-1887), a graduate of\n         Tulane University and a resident of Texas and Mexico,\n         1855-1888, from family members in Alabama and Texas, and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. The letters\n         reflect the restlessness of the pre-Civil War years, and the\n         difficulties and disillusionment felt by many people during\n         Reconstruction. Diary included was kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico, December 1867-April 1869, in which he gives\n         his impressions of the people he encountered as well as the\n         natural history of the regions he passed through.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to have received letter but worried about\n                     health; reports brother Dan had left for Irving\n                     [College]; money hard to come by and price for\n                     cotton very low; refers to pending lawsuit; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWorries about health and relates deaths of\n                     various towns people; money hard to come by and\n                     business bad; other family and town related\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrops doing well; received letter from a most\n                     \"dangerous woman,\" claiming son hadn't paid a\n                     debt; advises him to stay away from this \"awful\n                     woman\"; mentions pending lawsuit referred to as\n                     \"hooke suit\" (?); other family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to a favor which \"came to hand\"; talks\n                     about crops and prices; refers to the burning of a\n                     foundry in Montgomery [Alabama]; many suffering\n                     from scarlet fever; mentions the Hook's lawsuit\n                     being taken to Supreme Court; other family and\n                     town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains about mail system; has not received\n                     any letters from son; crops doing very well,\n                     especially corn; discusses Hook's lawsuit; relates\n                     town \"anicdote\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to receive letter after \"too months\";\n                     crops doing very well; Scarlet fever still \"going\n                     through neighbourhood\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of fine crops and many deaths from\n                     Scarlet fever; Hook suit not yet decided; advises\n                     to stay away from the \"slandering living old\n                     devil\" who claims he hasn't paid debt; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWorried that lawyers want evidence from him for\n                     Hook's case; advises not to give any at all;\n                     reports crops are good except cotton and all are\n                     well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports a retrial for \"Hooke's\" case and\n                     advises that he give no evidence; advises to stay\n                     away from \"Tom the big baby\"; asks him not to\n                     mention case in any letters except to her, Mit or\n                     Will; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReplies to question about health and crops;\n                     gives long account about political opinions\n                     relating to the \"American party\", break up of the\n                     Whigs and strengthening of Democrats; relates\n                     local arrests; business interests shifting; other\n                     news about common friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisease going around caused by snakes, many\n                     deaths; defines Hook's case as divorce case;\n                     advises to not give any evidence; case has been\n                     given a retrial; worried about Mary's [sister]\n                     health; not receiving Texas paper; other family\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived letter; has severe cold, health at\n                     Irving generally good; plans on staying two years;\n                     has not rained lately and is very warm; Had sent\n                     catalogue, will send another.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests help in getting into business as an\n                     \"averseer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInflicted with typhoid, hopes to be well soon;\n                     asks that Scurlock take care of some business\n                     dealings; received letter from William Harrison\n                     giving news of many deaths in Montgomery, County\n                     [Alabama]; provides arrangements for moving [to\n                     Texas]; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTimes dull as session ending; has sprained\n                     ankle; has received letter from Ma which\n                     criticizes his spelling; will try again to send\n                     catalogue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends papers on Freeman Divorce case; refers to\n                     a petition and preparation of legal papers; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates how letter had been detoured to\n                     mother's house, was \"read at home\" then sent on to\n                     Irving; advises T.J. to settle down and get\n                     married; also advises to not travel until decision\n                     to make Kansas a state is made; advises to go to\n                     Kansas if it becomes a slave state; mentions a\n                     planned act of violence by Negroes near\n                     Clarksville [Tennessee] on the Cumberlan[d] River;\n                     planned to knock us all in the head\" and \"make\n                     themselves free Ladies and Gentleman.\"; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to hear that he is happy, expected him to\n                     be \"Alabama-sick\" [homesick]; has begun farming,\n                     finds its hard work; all in good health except\n                     mother who has \"posey \"; other news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains in great length that Josh did not\n                     stop to visit on his way to Texas; glad to hear\n                     his health has improved with the \"Minreul wutter\";\n                     inquires about a Negro, John, who held freedman's\n                     status; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates the marriage of two couples of the\n                     area; reports the results of the elections for\n                     probate and circuit judge and refers them to their\n                     respective parties; have had long dry spell,\n                     hasn't been good for the \"God of Macon...King\n                     cotton\"; reports other deaths and gives some\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill has gotten married, spends great deal of\n                     time telling why he shouldn't have \"don[e] the\n                     deed\"; begs son not to go to Central America\n                     because climate not good for health; crops are\n                     doing well except cotton; inquires about \"Ben's\n                     wife\" who was lost on a boat which was sunk on 20\n                     April 1856; has hired new help who is young and\n                     \"don't know much\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives long philosophical and metaphorical\n                     arguments about the importance of good health;\n                     compares the \"excruciating pain\" of the invalid to\n                     the \"vast freedom\" of the healthy; will remain at\n                     College for 6 week break in isolation as few\n                     students have remained.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to a debt owed by Mr. Scurlock and to\n                     Mr. Scurlock's absence at this time; mentions a\n                     hired black man in the employ of Mr. Scurlock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not heard or seen [Theodoicus Joshua]\n                     Scurlock nor has he been in [Texas]; Has not the\n                     funds to pay the debt but will soon; refers to a\n                     boy [slave] who \"has plenty to eat but nothing to\n                     do.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePleads with brother to stop his traveling, to\n                     buy a home and settle down; claims that hundreds\n                     of tears have been shed, thinking he was dead;\n                     begs [T.J.] to meet brother Billy in Marshall\n                     [Texas] and stay with him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to receive letter and that he [T.J.]\n                     hasn't gone to Nicaragua; sorry to learn he has\n                     been \"lying on the bed of affliction\"; encourages\n                     him to go to Marshall [County, Texas] to meet\n                     [brother] Bill who has just married; sister has\n                     been married; sent 2 letters to different\n                     addresses; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRejects Scurlock's proposition to buy his land\n                     in Nepsher County; would like $3 an acre; doesn't\n                     believe land in that area is selling for less.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes business better for Scurlock than\n                     himself; selling out and moving to New Orleans;\n                     enjoyed traveling from his town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas returned to \"this city\" and plans to say;\n                     is pleased by the business prospects; believes\n                     could make good profit on investments; likes the\n                     amusements of the city.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not received word in 3 months; very cold\n                     weather and is affecting the crops; very little\n                     corn; money is tight; has bought \"a negro\"; had\n                     poor crop last year; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had a \"very cold and backward spring\"; 200\n                     deaths since Xmas from measles; brother is talking\n                     about joining U.S. Army; Democrats have full\n                     ticket for legislature and County offices; many\n                     old whigs have gone Democrat; Democrats only party\n                     \"able to beat back abolitionists and save our\n                     country from ruin\"; reports Freeman and Williams\n                     lawsuit decided in favor of Williams; other family\n                     and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates family is well, brother Dan is home\n                     from Tennessee, brother William had measles; will\n                     try to visit [T.J.] and that part of country; a\n                     few deaths have occurred caused by measles; other\n                     town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to have received letter; sorry Josh didn't\n                     come to visit; crops doing badly because of cold\n                     spring but should make profit in cotton; voted for\n                     Buchanan in election as did Josh.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn good health; has been trying to find a job;\n                     reading law now; married an unnamed woman; crops\n                     okay except cotton for which it has been too\n                     cold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to receive letter and all in good health;\n                     American Party has won full representation in both\n                     Houses of Congress; describes political antics of\n                     both parties concerning \"burying\" the opponent;\n                     crops doing well except cotton because of cold;\n                     relationship between Jones family and Scurlocks\n                     not on firm ground as a result of daughter Mit's\n                     husband; other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not been well but glad to receive letter;\n                     crops not very good, cotton getting a high price,\n                     about 15 cents; Wishes he could come to visit\n                     before she dies; discourages [Josh] to go to\n                     Central America as there will be \"fighting enuf\n                     [sic] to do in your own native land.\"; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas a slight cold; have been several weddings;\n                     thinking about going to law school in Tennessee;\n                     would like to set up practice in Texas or \"other\n                     new country,\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas the \"clap\", likes T.J.'s proposition, would\n                     like to be doing something; hard times coming on;\n                     other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJust returned home; has a cold; expenses for\n                     trip amounted to $60, Did not need money advanced\n                     by T.J.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas on hand $150 belonging to T.J. received\n                     through money order; Mr. Barker has paid nothing\n                     on debt; sister sends word T.J. must get\n                     married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMisses Josh very much, encourages him to come\n                     and visit several times; family is well; has been\n                     married; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received no word since February; refers\n                     sarcastically to Cupid and Social Life; reading\n                     [law] at home; intends to come to Texas following\n                     winter; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the fashions of LaPlace and the young\n                     ladies; crops doing well, plenty of food;\n                     convention meeting in Montgomery [Alabama] to\n                     discuss dissolving of nation; court system\n                     inefficient and overloaded; other family and town\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurprised to hear he is studying medicine\n                     although thinks he's too old; married a 45 year\n                     old man to his first wife, thought that was\n                     strange; has been very ill with chills and fever;\n                     crops not very good, winter was too wet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes in detail the \"examinations\" which\n                     were attended by all the music lovers; loves young\n                     America; still plans to go to Texas to live, would\n                     like to practice law there; sister is living in\n                     unfortunate situation; encourages him to study\n                     medicine; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests to have bond signed, money given and\n                     note returned, in reference to Hart Conyer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received signed note; rejects offer to sell\n                     piece of land to a friend because terms are too\n                     long for the low price offered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been ill for 10 days; advises him to not go\n                     to New Orleans too early because of Yellow fever;\n                     encourages him to write to brother [Dan] to go to\n                     law school in Montgomery; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll in good health; have been a few cases of\n                     Typhoid fever; crops very good; has been reading\n                     [law], feels this year has been a waste, will go\n                     back to read [with another lawyer] as before;\n                     other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMa has decided to move to Polk County Texas;\n                  requests a small house; this has foiled plans for\n                  school, will maybe farm in Texas if can't find a\n                  school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for $287.50 included; speaks of terms\n                     of payment; refers to an unknown lawsuit; has a\n                     jug of whiskey and no one to drink it with.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas made business contacts requested; the due\n                     bill has come up in court but they cannot collect\n                     on it; and other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand sold to Day and Thompson for $3 an acre;\n                     brother William left for Alabama; corn looks good\n                     but cotton is small, haven't had rain since 16 of\n                     April; other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses recent emigration to Texas of family\n                     and friends from Macon County Alabama; presents\n                     some prejudices toward northwesterners; refers to\n                     a note coming due; crops good but need rain;\n                     refers to the \"railroad sensation\" in Jefferson\n                     which will take some time to settle; other family\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of crops and lack of rain; reports\n                     problems with child slave Scurlock left [to his\n                     brother]; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaking preparations from 4th of July\n                     Celebration; have had little rain and temperatures\n                     have been up to 98 [F.]; has heard of yellow fever\n                     in T.J.'s city, advises him to take care of\n                     himself; refers to the drinking habits of\n                     friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions referring to Scurlock moving out\n                     of the house he is living in and what the owner\n                     expects will be done by Scurlock in upkeep.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily all well; had intended to move to Texas\n                     but crops failed, will have to buy corn this year;\n                     anxious to see Josh, wants to know why he hasn't\n                     married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeather has been very hot, have had no rain,\n                     crops are burning, cotton failing, wonders if\n                     Texas is \"a fit place for civilized men to live\",\n                     many Western town and private homes have been\n                     burned because of the abolition movement, \"The\n                     people are aroused to a sense of their [the\n                     abolitionist's] danger\", compares it to Harper's\n                     Ferry; refers to T.J.'s thesis, suggests the topic\n                     of Tetanus, mentions a case of murder Dan is\n                     defending; centering on a Negro who contacted\n                     tetanus after a severe whipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about a note for several hundred\n                     dollars that he has heard nothing about, would\n                     like to know what happened to it; shows his\n                     discontent with Texas, describes it as \"this land\n                     of contention where belzebub seems to be prime\n                     ruler.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry to hear [Scurlock's] mother is\n                     dissatisfied with her move to Texas, but has heard\n                     many are; the drought continues, has traveled to\n                     Alabama and 200 miles up Alabama River and found\n                     the drought reaches further; friends wanted to\n                     look him up in New Orleans; encourages him to come\n                     visit; other family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll in good health, crops are turning out\n                     better than expected; has traded land in Tennessee\n                     for land in Texas; reports murder of old man by\n                     child in Sumpter [South Carolina], in jail waiting\n                     trial; coal is scarce, other family and area\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived letter with thesis, contained\n                     information they already had, refers to the\n                     lawsuit thesis was needed for; finally received\n                     rain which rejuvenated crops; health of area has\n                     been good, \"too much so for the good of the\n                     Doctors\", refers to murder committed by Jack\n                     Taliaferro, includes other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegs \"Dosh\" to come and visit him, outlines how\n                     to get to Philadelphia; all are well, has heard\n                     from Scurlock's mother who hates Texas and wants\n                     to return to Alabama.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromises to pay what he owes in few weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorn crop better than expected; relates robbery\n                     charges against men from Polk County and other\n                     town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes details of common friend's death,\n                     also refers vaguely to various other [medical]\n                     cases \"town is improving, have built a female\n                     college and have a Methodist preacher who will\n                     convert...the negroes and dogs before they stop\",\n                     other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives lengthy opinion of upcoming Presidential\n                     election between Douglas and Lincoln and also\n                     projection and hopes for house and Senate\n                     elections; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Bad crops, low water and high prices\"; will be\n                     traveling back to Polk County before Christmas;\n                     gives results of Presidential elections; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll well; friend has stopped drinking; this\n                     friend wants to fight when war begins; [Brother]\n                     Dan \"fixing n to go see Mother; other news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHasn't heard from him; corn crops good, leaf\n                     worm has injured cotton crops; has decided to\n                     study medicine; hopes girlfriend hasn't decided to\n                     marry someone else, encourages Scurlock to marry;\n                     relates town affairs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks advice on collecting lawyers in Upshur\n                  County, has not gotten judgement on claims of\n                  Scurlock's; Frank Bensen has eloped with Darby's\n                  wife; cotton crops poor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses his opinion about national politics,\n                     predicts a military governor for Texas judging by\n                     the acts of the \"Vandal Congress,\" has no faith in\n                     \"Andrew Johnson the chief of drunkards of the\n                     Vandal states.\" Advises to sue, D.J. Kimball for\n                     money he owes; has not heard from Pittsburg and\n                     will write a \"cuss lettr\" if they \"do not\n                     respond\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had to harvest his own cotton because he\n                     has no laborers; hired no freedmen because of some\n                     fights the previous year; will give up farming and\n                     maybe sell rugs with Dr. Hendricks; money is hard\n                     to come by; [Brother] Bill just recovering from\n                     serious illness; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShows very little faith in the \"Vandal n\n                     government; questions whether Dan has received the\n                     horse he sent; business not very good, advises\n                     that one should run business on a cash system;\n                     relates he has lost about $200 on a credit based\n                     system; had had difficulty with superintendent of\n                     Lunatic Asylum, told him what he thought of him\n                     and challenged him to a fight, all stemmed from\n                     disagreement on treatment of patients; will be\n                     leaving soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill begin selling rugs, have ordered supply\n                     from New Orleans; hopes doing better in city than\n                     would have at Asylum; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not heard from brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] since March; would like any information\n                     on him as had heard rumor that he had been killed;\n                     selling goods with Dr. Hendricks in \"six full\n                     stores in Mt. Pleasant\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates rumors that T.J. is dead and how this\n                     rumor came about; Long guilt speech about the\n                     death of his mother; never received the horse sent\n                     to him; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses different medical cases and dental\n                     cases; relates deaths of acquaintances; has been\n                     very ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions Scurlock has left Austin but not where\n                     he's gone; war has ruined him; crops have been\n                     good; at home at time of surrender; has begun\n                     preaching and serving his God.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave been in city 5 days, very different from\n                     Austin; many sick town supporting 10-12 Doctors\n                     and many drug stores; has met a gay widow with\n                     whom he keeps company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnquires of a Claiborne Herbert in Columbus,\n                     Colorado County; has opened a school but is doing\n                     poorly, would appreciate any help Scurlock could\n                     give; gives update on doctors [from Austin Lunatic\n                     Asylum]; will be leaving Austin soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been in poor health; crops have been very\n                     poor; war has destroyed the South and the\n                     \"Southern devils have a hard hand of it after we\n                     get through a war in which we lose everything\";\n                     will continue in business if can.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJobs hard to get in Austin; Doctors from\n                     Lunatic Asylum did not do well in private\n                     practice, have gone to Georgetown; negro notary\n                     has been appointed in Austin, other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDid not make as much in business here as in\n                     Bastrop; encourages Sky to join him and \"Dock\" in\n                     Austin; Dock will pay his passage to Austin; 2\n                     deaths from yellow fever; enjoying company of \"The\n                     widow\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAustin dull place; Gen. [Joseph Jones] Reynolds\n                     has arrived to take over department; Boon has\n                     located office, not doing well; City covered with\n                     grasshoppers; describes as \"damb poor country\";\n                     \"Better be in Hell without claws\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his plans to get in touch with brother;\n                  feels government is in bad condition, \"Texas will\n                  soon pass through to fiery ordeal of what is\n                  denominated reconstruction.\", expresses his\n                  prejudices toward Blacks; begs brother to come back\n                  to Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses opinion of government: \"I hope it\n                     [government] will sink to the latter most pits of\n                     Hell.\"; has been able to collect some relates town\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWaited until Texas was accepted back into the\n                     Union; considers this a good gained from\n                     reconstruction; claims Negroes will remain in\n                     place they should, inferior position; wants to\n                     know about Mexico: politics, commercial facilities\n                     and social events; encourages him to come back to\n                     the U.S.; other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates local political happenings through\n                     reconstruction; and some very strong opinions;\n                     thanks for the description of Mexico; sends\n                     regards of many people and relates other family\n                     and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates his preconception of Mexico; \"hopes to\n                     see all Democrats elected\" in upcoming elections;\n                     other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoes not agree that Democrats have never changed,\n                  has been in poor health; is doing well in profession;\n                  explains his problems at the Asylum; eating in Mexico\n                  is cheap; is studying man; [contains several passages\n                  with no meaning].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHasn't heard from him in 2 months; encourages him\n                  to come visit Mt. Pleasant; claims it will be one of\n                  the most important small towns when the railroad is\n                  built from St. Louis through Texarkana; is now\n                  assessing taxes for the county; other family news;\n                  includes envelope.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWife not well with ovarian tumor; has become\n                  partner in goods firm; still county tax assessor;\n                  receives 6500 for this job; Mt. Pleasant included on\n                  Railroad which begins in St. Louis and will go to the\n                  Rio Grande to connect with Mexican rail encourages\n                  him to come and visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived account against Jose Gamundi for $73.88;\n                  has placed credit in his name for $73.88.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to securing claims on oil wells and coal\n                     mines; expects that there will be a boom in oil\n                     lands after [Mexican] Presidential election; hopes\n                     to do some speculating; hopes to settle himself\n                     financially for life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSickness is increasing; has received \"Charge of\n                     the Vice-consulate property.\" refers to a matter\n                     concerning archives [records of the consulate?],\n                     other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs now working at a bank as a cashier and\n                     continues to assess taxes; is living comfortably\n                     but still must pay off some debts from\n                     Merchandising; family is well and being educated\n                     as he would like; refers to the Democratic Victory\n                     for Presidency and remarks \"that the south is\n                     again at the Head of National affairs;\" other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroduces herself by reminding him of when she\n                     was a child; makes a plea for money which she\n                     needs; begs him not to pass judgement on her for\n                     asking for money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives description of himself: gives family\n                     news; describes Mt. Pleasant; asks many questions\n                     about Mexico and whether a Doctor could do well\n                     there; hopes to study medicine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives town news; crops look good, had a hail\n                     storm nearby; has chosen medicine as a prospective\n                     occupation; town working hard to raise money for\n                     railroad to town; includes lineage of Scurlock\n                     family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges \"carta\"[?] and list of goods sent\n                     to him; will do all in his power as executor of\n                     his will to deliver property safely.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuestions why he hasn't come to visit; gives\n                  description of herself; relates father's [Dan\n                  Scurlock] poor health; gives some town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuestions will of Dr. Theodocius [Joshua]\n                     Scurlock; inquires whether estate was left to\n                     brothers individually and was it lawful under\n                     Mexican laws; others are trying to come in on\n                     will.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNot acquainted with Mexican laws but believes\n                     the brother [William and Dan] are only\n                     benefactors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRemits trunks and a box containing possession\n                     of brother [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock]; has sold\n                     amputating instruments for $20 to local hospital;\n                     will send due cash as soon a possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAssures him possessions have been sent;\n                     explains that his brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] did not have a great estate when he\n                     died; advises him to contact two friends who knew\n                     him; requests a receipt sent to him from\n                     [Scurlock's] papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquiring about possessions of deceased brother\n                     [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock] which he has not yet\n                     received; requests that he make some enquires;\n                     refers to his brother's assassination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms him goods have arrived, will pay duties\n                     and willship as soon as possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the advantages of living outside of the\n                  U.S.; shows his bitterness toward U.S. politics,\n                  racial problems and how the government is taking care\n                  of them; defends Mexico as a better place to live;\n                  discourages any immigration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePages 1 and 2 missing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates Bill Moore's crime of forgery for 50 bales\n                  of cotton and his arrest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegs brother to return to Marshall to comfort\n                  Mother and rest of family; relates [sister] 'Mit' has\n                  married; also \"Beany [?]\" was shot dead previous\n                  morning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary of Theodocius Joshua Scurlock containing\n               details of Dr. Scurlock's journey from Texas to Tulango,\n               Mexico; his impressions of the lifestyles of the people\n               he encountered as he traveled south and the novelties he\n               sees and learns about for the first time; and a table of\n               distances traveled, detailed weather reports, and\n               descriptions of the locations and names of towns stayed\n               in. It gives an insight to the questioning nature of Dr.\n               Scurlock and his ability to describe some of the methods\n               of technique he viewed (e.g., medical and spinning). It\n               also contains lists of edible birds and animals, trees\n               for lumber and various fruit trees and vegetables.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection is primarily composed of letters received by\n         Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock (1828-1887), a graduate of\n         Tulane University and a resident of Texas and Mexico,\n         1855-1888, from family members in Alabama and Texas, and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. The letters\n         reflect the restlessness of the pre-Civil War years, and the\n         difficulties and disillusionment felt by many people during\n         Reconstruction. Diary included was kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico, December 1867-April 1869, in which he gives\n         his impressions of the people he encountered as well as the\n         natural history of the regions he passed through.","Glad to have received letter but worried about\n                     health; reports brother Dan had left for Irving\n                     [College]; money hard to come by and price for\n                     cotton very low; refers to pending lawsuit; other\n                     family news.","Worries about health and relates deaths of\n                     various towns people; money hard to come by and\n                     business bad; other family and town related\n                     news.","Crops doing well; received letter from a most\n                     \"dangerous woman,\" claiming son hadn't paid a\n                     debt; advises him to stay away from this \"awful\n                     woman\"; mentions pending lawsuit referred to as\n                     \"hooke suit\" (?); other family and town news.","Refers to a favor which \"came to hand\"; talks\n                     about crops and prices; refers to the burning of a\n                     foundry in Montgomery [Alabama]; many suffering\n                     from scarlet fever; mentions the Hook's lawsuit\n                     being taken to Supreme Court; other family and\n                     town news.","Complains about mail system; has not received\n                     any letters from son; crops doing very well,\n                     especially corn; discusses Hook's lawsuit; relates\n                     town \"anicdote\"; other family news.","Glad to receive letter after \"too months\";\n                     crops doing very well; Scarlet fever still \"going\n                     through neighbourhood\"; other family news.","Speaks of fine crops and many deaths from\n                     Scarlet fever; Hook suit not yet decided; advises\n                     to stay away from the \"slandering living old\n                     devil\" who claims he hasn't paid debt; other\n                     family news.","Worried that lawyers want evidence from him for\n                     Hook's case; advises not to give any at all;\n                     reports crops are good except cotton and all are\n                     well.","Reports a retrial for \"Hooke's\" case and\n                     advises that he give no evidence; advises to stay\n                     away from \"Tom the big baby\"; asks him not to\n                     mention case in any letters except to her, Mit or\n                     Will; other family news.","Replies to question about health and crops;\n                     gives long account about political opinions\n                     relating to the \"American party\", break up of the\n                     Whigs and strengthening of Democrats; relates\n                     local arrests; business interests shifting; other\n                     news about common friends.","Disease going around caused by snakes, many\n                     deaths; defines Hook's case as divorce case;\n                     advises to not give any evidence; case has been\n                     given a retrial; worried about Mary's [sister]\n                     health; not receiving Texas paper; other family\n                     news.","Received letter; has severe cold, health at\n                     Irving generally good; plans on staying two years;\n                     has not rained lately and is very warm; Had sent\n                     catalogue, will send another.","Requests help in getting into business as an\n                     \"averseer.\"","Inflicted with typhoid, hopes to be well soon;\n                     asks that Scurlock take care of some business\n                     dealings; received letter from William Harrison\n                     giving news of many deaths in Montgomery, County\n                     [Alabama]; provides arrangements for moving [to\n                     Texas]; family news.","Times dull as session ending; has sprained\n                     ankle; has received letter from Ma which\n                     criticizes his spelling; will try again to send\n                     catalogue.","Sends papers on Freeman Divorce case; refers to\n                     a petition and preparation of legal papers; other\n                     family news.","Relates how letter had been detoured to\n                     mother's house, was \"read at home\" then sent on to\n                     Irving; advises T.J. to settle down and get\n                     married; also advises to not travel until decision\n                     to make Kansas a state is made; advises to go to\n                     Kansas if it becomes a slave state; mentions a\n                     planned act of violence by Negroes near\n                     Clarksville [Tennessee] on the Cumberlan[d] River;\n                     planned to knock us all in the head\" and \"make\n                     themselves free Ladies and Gentleman.\"; other\n                     family news.","Glad to hear that he is happy, expected him to\n                     be \"Alabama-sick\" [homesick]; has begun farming,\n                     finds its hard work; all in good health except\n                     mother who has \"posey \"; other news.","Complains in great length that Josh did not\n                     stop to visit on his way to Texas; glad to hear\n                     his health has improved with the \"Minreul wutter\";\n                     inquires about a Negro, John, who held freedman's\n                     status; other family news.","Relates the marriage of two couples of the\n                     area; reports the results of the elections for\n                     probate and circuit judge and refers them to their\n                     respective parties; have had long dry spell,\n                     hasn't been good for the \"God of Macon...King\n                     cotton\"; reports other deaths and gives some\n                     family news.","Bill has gotten married, spends great deal of\n                     time telling why he shouldn't have \"don[e] the\n                     deed\"; begs son not to go to Central America\n                     because climate not good for health; crops are\n                     doing well except cotton; inquires about \"Ben's\n                     wife\" who was lost on a boat which was sunk on 20\n                     April 1856; has hired new help who is young and\n                     \"don't know much\"; other family news.","Gives long philosophical and metaphorical\n                     arguments about the importance of good health;\n                     compares the \"excruciating pain\" of the invalid to\n                     the \"vast freedom\" of the healthy; will remain at\n                     College for 6 week break in isolation as few\n                     students have remained.","Refers to a debt owed by Mr. Scurlock and to\n                     Mr. Scurlock's absence at this time; mentions a\n                     hired black man in the employ of Mr. Scurlock.","Has not heard or seen [Theodoicus Joshua]\n                     Scurlock nor has he been in [Texas]; Has not the\n                     funds to pay the debt but will soon; refers to a\n                     boy [slave] who \"has plenty to eat but nothing to\n                     do.\"","Pleads with brother to stop his traveling, to\n                     buy a home and settle down; claims that hundreds\n                     of tears have been shed, thinking he was dead;\n                     begs [T.J.] to meet brother Billy in Marshall\n                     [Texas] and stay with him.","Glad to receive letter and that he [T.J.]\n                     hasn't gone to Nicaragua; sorry to learn he has\n                     been \"lying on the bed of affliction\"; encourages\n                     him to go to Marshall [County, Texas] to meet\n                     [brother] Bill who has just married; sister has\n                     been married; sent 2 letters to different\n                     addresses; other family news.","Rejects Scurlock's proposition to buy his land\n                     in Nepsher County; would like $3 an acre; doesn't\n                     believe land in that area is selling for less.","Hopes business better for Scurlock than\n                     himself; selling out and moving to New Orleans;\n                     enjoyed traveling from his town.","Has returned to \"this city\" and plans to say;\n                     is pleased by the business prospects; believes\n                     could make good profit on investments; likes the\n                     amusements of the city.","Has not received word in 3 months; very cold\n                     weather and is affecting the crops; very little\n                     corn; money is tight; has bought \"a negro\"; had\n                     poor crop last year; other family news.","Has had a \"very cold and backward spring\"; 200\n                     deaths since Xmas from measles; brother is talking\n                     about joining U.S. Army; Democrats have full\n                     ticket for legislature and County offices; many\n                     old whigs have gone Democrat; Democrats only party\n                     \"able to beat back abolitionists and save our\n                     country from ruin\"; reports Freeman and Williams\n                     lawsuit decided in favor of Williams; other family\n                     and town news.","Relates family is well, brother Dan is home\n                     from Tennessee, brother William had measles; will\n                     try to visit [T.J.] and that part of country; a\n                     few deaths have occurred caused by measles; other\n                     town news.","Glad to have received letter; sorry Josh didn't\n                     come to visit; crops doing badly because of cold\n                     spring but should make profit in cotton; voted for\n                     Buchanan in election as did Josh.","In good health; has been trying to find a job;\n                     reading law now; married an unnamed woman; crops\n                     okay except cotton for which it has been too\n                     cold.","Glad to receive letter and all in good health;\n                     American Party has won full representation in both\n                     Houses of Congress; describes political antics of\n                     both parties concerning \"burying\" the opponent;\n                     crops doing well except cotton because of cold;\n                     relationship between Jones family and Scurlocks\n                     not on firm ground as a result of daughter Mit's\n                     husband; other town news.","Has not been well but glad to receive letter;\n                     crops not very good, cotton getting a high price,\n                     about 15 cents; Wishes he could come to visit\n                     before she dies; discourages [Josh] to go to\n                     Central America as there will be \"fighting enuf\n                     [sic] to do in your own native land.\"; other\n                     family news.","Has a slight cold; have been several weddings;\n                     thinking about going to law school in Tennessee;\n                     would like to set up practice in Texas or \"other\n                     new country,\"; other family news.","Has the \"clap\", likes T.J.'s proposition, would\n                     like to be doing something; hard times coming on;\n                     other family news.","Just returned home; has a cold; expenses for\n                     trip amounted to $60, Did not need money advanced\n                     by T.J.","Has on hand $150 belonging to T.J. received\n                     through money order; Mr. Barker has paid nothing\n                     on debt; sister sends word T.J. must get\n                     married.","Misses Josh very much, encourages him to come\n                     and visit several times; family is well; has been\n                     married; other family news.","Has received no word since February; refers\n                     sarcastically to Cupid and Social Life; reading\n                     [law] at home; intends to come to Texas following\n                     winter; other family news.","Describes the fashions of LaPlace and the young\n                     ladies; crops doing well, plenty of food;\n                     convention meeting in Montgomery [Alabama] to\n                     discuss dissolving of nation; court system\n                     inefficient and overloaded; other family and town\n                     news.","Surprised to hear he is studying medicine\n                     although thinks he's too old; married a 45 year\n                     old man to his first wife, thought that was\n                     strange; has been very ill with chills and fever;\n                     crops not very good, winter was too wet.","Describes in detail the \"examinations\" which\n                     were attended by all the music lovers; loves young\n                     America; still plans to go to Texas to live, would\n                     like to practice law there; sister is living in\n                     unfortunate situation; encourages him to study\n                     medicine; other family news.","Requests to have bond signed, money given and\n                     note returned, in reference to Hart Conyer.","Has received signed note; rejects offer to sell\n                     piece of land to a friend because terms are too\n                     long for the low price offered.","Has been ill for 10 days; advises him to not go\n                     to New Orleans too early because of Yellow fever;\n                     encourages him to write to brother [Dan] to go to\n                     law school in Montgomery; other family news.","All in good health; have been a few cases of\n                     Typhoid fever; crops very good; has been reading\n                     [law], feels this year has been a waste, will go\n                     back to read [with another lawyer] as before;\n                     other family news.","Ma has decided to move to Polk County Texas;\n                  requests a small house; this has foiled plans for\n                  school, will maybe farm in Texas if can't find a\n                  school.","Receipt for $287.50 included; speaks of terms\n                     of payment; refers to an unknown lawsuit; has a\n                     jug of whiskey and no one to drink it with.","Has made business contacts requested; the due\n                     bill has come up in court but they cannot collect\n                     on it; and other family news.","Land sold to Day and Thompson for $3 an acre;\n                     brother William left for Alabama; corn looks good\n                     but cotton is small, haven't had rain since 16 of\n                     April; other town news.","Discusses recent emigration to Texas of family\n                     and friends from Macon County Alabama; presents\n                     some prejudices toward northwesterners; refers to\n                     a note coming due; crops good but need rain;\n                     refers to the \"railroad sensation\" in Jefferson\n                     which will take some time to settle; other family\n                     news.","Speaks of crops and lack of rain; reports\n                     problems with child slave Scurlock left [to his\n                     brother]; other family news.","Making preparations from 4th of July\n                     Celebration; have had little rain and temperatures\n                     have been up to 98 [F.]; has heard of yellow fever\n                     in T.J.'s city, advises him to take care of\n                     himself; refers to the drinking habits of\n                     friends.","Instructions referring to Scurlock moving out\n                     of the house he is living in and what the owner\n                     expects will be done by Scurlock in upkeep.","Family all well; had intended to move to Texas\n                     but crops failed, will have to buy corn this year;\n                     anxious to see Josh, wants to know why he hasn't\n                     married.","Weather has been very hot, have had no rain,\n                     crops are burning, cotton failing, wonders if\n                     Texas is \"a fit place for civilized men to live\",\n                     many Western town and private homes have been\n                     burned because of the abolition movement, \"The\n                     people are aroused to a sense of their [the\n                     abolitionist's] danger\", compares it to Harper's\n                     Ferry; refers to T.J.'s thesis, suggests the topic\n                     of Tetanus, mentions a case of murder Dan is\n                     defending; centering on a Negro who contacted\n                     tetanus after a severe whipping.","Inquires about a note for several hundred\n                     dollars that he has heard nothing about, would\n                     like to know what happened to it; shows his\n                     discontent with Texas, describes it as \"this land\n                     of contention where belzebub seems to be prime\n                     ruler.\"","Sorry to hear [Scurlock's] mother is\n                     dissatisfied with her move to Texas, but has heard\n                     many are; the drought continues, has traveled to\n                     Alabama and 200 miles up Alabama River and found\n                     the drought reaches further; friends wanted to\n                     look him up in New Orleans; encourages him to come\n                     visit; other family and town news.","All in good health, crops are turning out\n                     better than expected; has traded land in Tennessee\n                     for land in Texas; reports murder of old man by\n                     child in Sumpter [South Carolina], in jail waiting\n                     trial; coal is scarce, other family and area\n                     news.","Received letter with thesis, contained\n                     information they already had, refers to the\n                     lawsuit thesis was needed for; finally received\n                     rain which rejuvenated crops; health of area has\n                     been good, \"too much so for the good of the\n                     Doctors\", refers to murder committed by Jack\n                     Taliaferro, includes other town news.","Begs \"Dosh\" to come and visit him, outlines how\n                     to get to Philadelphia; all are well, has heard\n                     from Scurlock's mother who hates Texas and wants\n                     to return to Alabama.","Promises to pay what he owes in few weeks.","Corn crop better than expected; relates robbery\n                     charges against men from Polk County and other\n                     town news.","Describes details of common friend's death,\n                     also refers vaguely to various other [medical]\n                     cases \"town is improving, have built a female\n                     college and have a Methodist preacher who will\n                     convert...the negroes and dogs before they stop\",\n                     other town news.","Gives lengthy opinion of upcoming Presidential\n                     election between Douglas and Lincoln and also\n                     projection and hopes for house and Senate\n                     elections; other family news.","\"Bad crops, low water and high prices\"; will be\n                     traveling back to Polk County before Christmas;\n                     gives results of Presidential elections; other\n                     family news.","All well; friend has stopped drinking; this\n                     friend wants to fight when war begins; [Brother]\n                     Dan \"fixing n to go see Mother; other news.","Hasn't heard from him; corn crops good, leaf\n                     worm has injured cotton crops; has decided to\n                     study medicine; hopes girlfriend hasn't decided to\n                     marry someone else, encourages Scurlock to marry;\n                     relates town affairs.","Asks advice on collecting lawyers in Upshur\n                  County, has not gotten judgement on claims of\n                  Scurlock's; Frank Bensen has eloped with Darby's\n                  wife; cotton crops poor.","Expresses his opinion about national politics,\n                     predicts a military governor for Texas judging by\n                     the acts of the \"Vandal Congress,\" has no faith in\n                     \"Andrew Johnson the chief of drunkards of the\n                     Vandal states.\" Advises to sue, D.J. Kimball for\n                     money he owes; has not heard from Pittsburg and\n                     will write a \"cuss lettr\" if they \"do not\n                     respond\".","Has had to harvest his own cotton because he\n                     has no laborers; hired no freedmen because of some\n                     fights the previous year; will give up farming and\n                     maybe sell rugs with Dr. Hendricks; money is hard\n                     to come by; [Brother] Bill just recovering from\n                     serious illness; other family news.","Shows very little faith in the \"Vandal n\n                     government; questions whether Dan has received the\n                     horse he sent; business not very good, advises\n                     that one should run business on a cash system;\n                     relates he has lost about $200 on a credit based\n                     system; had had difficulty with superintendent of\n                     Lunatic Asylum, told him what he thought of him\n                     and challenged him to a fight, all stemmed from\n                     disagreement on treatment of patients; will be\n                     leaving soon.","Will begin selling rugs, have ordered supply\n                     from New Orleans; hopes doing better in city than\n                     would have at Asylum; other family news.","Has not heard from brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] since March; would like any information\n                     on him as had heard rumor that he had been killed;\n                     selling goods with Dr. Hendricks in \"six full\n                     stores in Mt. Pleasant\".","Relates rumors that T.J. is dead and how this\n                     rumor came about; Long guilt speech about the\n                     death of his mother; never received the horse sent\n                     to him; other family news.","Discusses different medical cases and dental\n                     cases; relates deaths of acquaintances; has been\n                     very ill.","Mentions Scurlock has left Austin but not where\n                     he's gone; war has ruined him; crops have been\n                     good; at home at time of surrender; has begun\n                     preaching and serving his God.","Have been in city 5 days, very different from\n                     Austin; many sick town supporting 10-12 Doctors\n                     and many drug stores; has met a gay widow with\n                     whom he keeps company.","Enquires of a Claiborne Herbert in Columbus,\n                     Colorado County; has opened a school but is doing\n                     poorly, would appreciate any help Scurlock could\n                     give; gives update on doctors [from Austin Lunatic\n                     Asylum]; will be leaving Austin soon.","Has been in poor health; crops have been very\n                     poor; war has destroyed the South and the\n                     \"Southern devils have a hard hand of it after we\n                     get through a war in which we lose everything\";\n                     will continue in business if can.","Jobs hard to get in Austin; Doctors from\n                     Lunatic Asylum did not do well in private\n                     practice, have gone to Georgetown; negro notary\n                     has been appointed in Austin, other town news.","Did not make as much in business here as in\n                     Bastrop; encourages Sky to join him and \"Dock\" in\n                     Austin; Dock will pay his passage to Austin; 2\n                     deaths from yellow fever; enjoying company of \"The\n                     widow\".","Austin dull place; Gen. [Joseph Jones] Reynolds\n                     has arrived to take over department; Boon has\n                     located office, not doing well; City covered with\n                     grasshoppers; describes as \"damb poor country\";\n                     \"Better be in Hell without claws\".","Describes his plans to get in touch with brother;\n                  feels government is in bad condition, \"Texas will\n                  soon pass through to fiery ordeal of what is\n                  denominated reconstruction.\", expresses his\n                  prejudices toward Blacks; begs brother to come back\n                  to Texas.","Expresses opinion of government: \"I hope it\n                     [government] will sink to the latter most pits of\n                     Hell.\"; has been able to collect some relates town\n                     news.","Waited until Texas was accepted back into the\n                     Union; considers this a good gained from\n                     reconstruction; claims Negroes will remain in\n                     place they should, inferior position; wants to\n                     know about Mexico: politics, commercial facilities\n                     and social events; encourages him to come back to\n                     the U.S.; other town news.","Relates local political happenings through\n                     reconstruction; and some very strong opinions;\n                     thanks for the description of Mexico; sends\n                     regards of many people and relates other family\n                     and town news.","Relates his preconception of Mexico; \"hopes to\n                     see all Democrats elected\" in upcoming elections;\n                     other town news.","Does not agree that Democrats have never changed,\n                  has been in poor health; is doing well in profession;\n                  explains his problems at the Asylum; eating in Mexico\n                  is cheap; is studying man; [contains several passages\n                  with no meaning].","Hasn't heard from him in 2 months; encourages him\n                  to come visit Mt. Pleasant; claims it will be one of\n                  the most important small towns when the railroad is\n                  built from St. Louis through Texarkana; is now\n                  assessing taxes for the county; other family news;\n                  includes envelope.","Wife not well with ovarian tumor; has become\n                  partner in goods firm; still county tax assessor;\n                  receives 6500 for this job; Mt. Pleasant included on\n                  Railroad which begins in St. Louis and will go to the\n                  Rio Grande to connect with Mexican rail encourages\n                  him to come and visit.","Received account against Jose Gamundi for $73.88;\n                  has placed credit in his name for $73.88.","Refers to securing claims on oil wells and coal\n                     mines; expects that there will be a boom in oil\n                     lands after [Mexican] Presidential election; hopes\n                     to do some speculating; hopes to settle himself\n                     financially for life.","Sickness is increasing; has received \"Charge of\n                     the Vice-consulate property.\" refers to a matter\n                     concerning archives [records of the consulate?],\n                     other town news.","Is now working at a bank as a cashier and\n                     continues to assess taxes; is living comfortably\n                     but still must pay off some debts from\n                     Merchandising; family is well and being educated\n                     as he would like; refers to the Democratic Victory\n                     for Presidency and remarks \"that the south is\n                     again at the Head of National affairs;\" other\n                     family news.","Introduces herself by reminding him of when she\n                     was a child; makes a plea for money which she\n                     needs; begs him not to pass judgement on her for\n                     asking for money.","Gives description of himself: gives family\n                     news; describes Mt. Pleasant; asks many questions\n                     about Mexico and whether a Doctor could do well\n                     there; hopes to study medicine.","Gives town news; crops look good, had a hail\n                     storm nearby; has chosen medicine as a prospective\n                     occupation; town working hard to raise money for\n                     railroad to town; includes lineage of Scurlock\n                     family.","Acknowledges \"carta\"[?] and list of goods sent\n                     to him; will do all in his power as executor of\n                     his will to deliver property safely.","Questions why he hasn't come to visit; gives\n                  description of herself; relates father's [Dan\n                  Scurlock] poor health; gives some town news.","Questions will of Dr. Theodocius [Joshua]\n                     Scurlock; inquires whether estate was left to\n                     brothers individually and was it lawful under\n                     Mexican laws; others are trying to come in on\n                     will.","Not acquainted with Mexican laws but believes\n                     the brother [William and Dan] are only\n                     benefactors.","Remits trunks and a box containing possession\n                     of brother [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock]; has sold\n                     amputating instruments for $20 to local hospital;\n                     will send due cash as soon a possible.","Assures him possessions have been sent;\n                     explains that his brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] did not have a great estate when he\n                     died; advises him to contact two friends who knew\n                     him; requests a receipt sent to him from\n                     [Scurlock's] papers.","Inquiring about possessions of deceased brother\n                     [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock] which he has not yet\n                     received; requests that he make some enquires;\n                     refers to his brother's assassination.","Informs him goods have arrived, will pay duties\n                     and willship as soon as possible.","Discusses the advantages of living outside of the\n                  U.S.; shows his bitterness toward U.S. politics,\n                  racial problems and how the government is taking care\n                  of them; defends Mexico as a better place to live;\n                  discourages any immigration.","Pages 1 and 2 missing.","Relates Bill Moore's crime of forgery for 50 bales\n                  of cotton and his arrest.","Begs brother to return to Marshall to comfort\n                  Mother and rest of family; relates [sister] 'Mit' has\n                  married; also \"Beany [?]\" was shot dead previous\n                  morning.","Diary of Theodocius Joshua Scurlock containing\n               details of Dr. Scurlock's journey from Texas to Tulango,\n               Mexico; his impressions of the lifestyles of the people\n               he encountered as he traveled south and the novelties he\n               sees and learns about for the first time; and a table of\n               distances traveled, detailed weather reports, and\n               descriptions of the locations and names of towns stayed\n               in. It gives an insight to the questioning nature of Dr.\n               Scurlock and his ability to describe some of the methods\n               of technique he viewed (e.g., medical and spinning). It\n               also contains lists of edible birds and animals, trees\n               for lumber and various fruit trees and vegetables."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/ Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eLetters, 1855-1888, received by or\n         concerning Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock while a resident of\n         Texas and Mexico from family members in Alabama and Texas and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Also includes a\n         diary, December 1867-April 1869, kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Letters, 1855-1888, received by or\n         concerning Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock while a resident of\n         Texas and Mexico from family members in Alabama and Texas and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Also includes a\n         diary, December 1867-April 1869, kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico."],"names_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"persname_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":130,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T15:09:05.010Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00020"}}],"included":[{"type":"facet","id":"repository_ssim","attributes":{"label":"Repository","items":[{"attributes":{"label":"College of William and Mary","value":"College of William and 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