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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 3 records found where LC Subject Heading is Battle, Lee W., b. 1840?
	Dr. Lee Battle account These financial records indicate what products Lee W. Battle, a physician, purchased from the Atlas M. Rigsbee general store in 1880. This ledger account provides information about the cost and availability of foods like oil, eggs, butter, lard, and flour, as well as luxury items like coffeee, rice, pepper, mace and cloves. The account indicates that Dr. Battle paid cash for his goods.
	Letter from James Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate Jones, circa 1885 In this fragment of a letter, James Southgate takes his daughter on an imaginary walking tour of Durham where he visits with her friends, neighbors and town luminaries. Southgate reports on the news and gossip of the day: Durham's tobacco entrepreneurs, Blackwell & Goodson dissolved their partnership, Dr. A.G. Carr sold his stock of medicines to the druggists Vaughan & Tenny, Mrs. Battle struggles while her husband Dr. Lee W. Battle seeks treatment for his opium habit at the Asylum, and the Lehman family purchases a new piano. Additionally, Southgate supplies his daughter with tidbits of news concerning the Halliburton, Lyon, Smith, Perry, Phillips, Lockhart, Watts, Howerton, Farthing, Angier, McCabe, Thomas, Walker, Betts, Burton, Cooper, Rowland, Miller, Fuller, Gammon, Hopkins, Day, Mohsberg, Levy, Fawcett, Wilkerson, and Dalby families.
	Letter from Lessie Southgate to James Southgate, Delia Southgate, James Haywood Southgate, Annie Southgate, Mattie Southgate, December 25, 1881 Lessie Southgate writes her family in Durham from Goliad, Texas where she is teaching music. She vividly recollects her illness and recovery in the winter of 1880, the visits of doctors Carr, Battle, and Knox, as well as the rich "Christmas eatings," her spare diet of "tea-eggs, toast and mush" and the gifts of her family and friends. Lessie tells her family about the benefit concerts she has organized and gives news of a concert she will give in Victoria, Texas. She writes about a fashionable dress that she will wear at Annie Bradshaw's wedding, a garment that she purchased with her earnings.

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