UF028388037

Collections of Papers; Correspondence; Journals & Friendship Albums

Reynold Marvin Kirby

between 1837 and 1838

Kirby Diary & Papers; Department of Special and Area Studies Collections, University of Florida Libraries; Gainesville, Florida

UF SMATHERS, Special Coll Manuscripts (Non-Circulating) -- Fl. Misc. Ms.00,924

P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History.

As taken form the finding aid:

Diary, correspondence, photograph. The collection contains a diary about 35 pages long dated August 16, 1837, to May 18, 1838, containing details from the second Seminole Indian war. The diary is the Major's view of the war and why Major Dade takes command of the company that he should be leading. His view of the orders from the general to travel to Fort King, the site of which is now part of present day Ocala, and wait for reinforcements is different from that of Major Dade. There are also three letters from the Major to his wife, Mary, asking about her health. He writes the letters almost as love letters away from home and homesick. Also contained in the collection is a pension letter for Mary in reference to the death of the Major. A photograph of ...his personal effects is included with the diary.

The collection will be digitized in 2014 as part of the "Pioneer Days in Florida: Diaries and Letters from Settling the Sunshine State, 1800-1900" collection associated with the University of Florida. The link to the project's homepage can be found here: Pioneer Days in Florida

Also included is tranccriptions of correspondence between Reynold Marvin Kirby and Judge Joseph Smith from the Judge Joseph Smith Collection at the St. Augustine Historical Society.


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