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Scope and Contents Contains unorganized annotated rough draft papers, including miscellaneous appendices, from Cowden's dissertation. Also contains the envelope used to send the rough draft, which contains more notes, signatures, etc. on the front and/or back.

3 copies of "My Dear Mr. W." Mary Lincoln Writes To Alexander Williamson. Edited by Gerald Steffens Cowden. These were sent to the Illinois State Historical Society, and thus the article was placed in an issue of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. Also contains correspondence from the ISHS, and copies of letters discussing the life of Alexander Williamson, sent by the ISHS.

Multiple essays, spread out and unorganized, on different psalms and ideas of the New Testament, all written by Cowden.

Multiple essays from what appears to be from an Introduction to Old Testament class. Includes a book report on The Archeology of Old Palestine, two copies of a book report on The Development of the Doctrine of Future Life, and an essay about the architecture of Rome and Greece.