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		<titlestmt> 
		  <titleproper>A Guide to the Alexander Melvourne Jackson Research
			 Collection</titleproper> 
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		<publicationstmt> 
		  <publisher>The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History</publisher> 
		  <address> 
			 <addressline>Austin, Texas</addressline> 
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		  <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">November 2006</date> 
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		  <date>November 2006</date>Encoded in XMetal 3 by Evan Hocker according
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		<langusage>Finding aid written in<language>English.</language>
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		<head>Descriptive Summary</head> 
		<repository label="Repository" encodinganalog="852$a"> 
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			actuate="onrequest"> 
			 <corpname encodinganalog="852$a"> <subarea>Center for American
				History, </subarea>The University of Texas at Austin</corpname></extref>
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		<origination label="Creator"> 
		  <persname encodinganalog="700" source="lcnaf">Jackson, Alexander
			 Melvourne</persname> </origination> 
		<origination label="Creator"> 
		  <persname encodinganalog="700" source="lcnaf">Chance, Russell
			 James</persname></origination> 
		<unittitle label="Title" encodinganalog="245">Alexander Melvourne Jackson
		  Research Collection</unittitle> 
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		  langcode="eng">English</language>.</langmaterial> 
		<abstract label="Abstract">Research material compiled by Russell James
		  Chance for his doctoral dissertation on Alexander M. Jackson. </abstract> 
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		<head>Scope and Contents</head> 
		<p>Research material compiled by Russell James Chance for his doctoral
		  dissertation on Alexander M. Jackson. Collection consists primarily of
		  photocopies of research material from libraries and archives. Includes copies
		  of official reports, correspondence, journal articles, book excerpts,
		  photographs, etc. </p> 
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		<head>Preferred Citation</head> 
		<p>Alexander Melvourne Jackson Research Collection, Center for American
		  History, The University of Texas at Austin.</p> 
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		  <did> 
			 <unittitle>Alexander Melvourne Jackson Research
				Collection</unittitle> 
		  </did> 
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				<container type="box"> 4M808</container> 
				<unittitle> Copies of official reports, correspondence, journal
				  articles, book excerpts, etc.</unittitle> 
			 </did> 
		  </c02> 
		  <c02> 
			 <did>
				<container type="box"> 4M809</container> 
				<unittitle> Copies of official reports, correspondence, journal
				  articles, book excerpts, etc.</unittitle> 
			 </did> 
		  </c02> 
		  <c02> 
			 <did>
				<container type="box"> 4M810</container> 
				<unittitle> Copies of official reports, correspondence, journal
				  articles, book excerpts, etc.</unittitle> 
			 </did> 
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				<container type="box"> 4M810</container> 
				<unittitle>Photographs</unittitle> 
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				<container type="box"> 4M810</container> 
				<unittitle>Books:</unittitle> 
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			 <c03> 
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				  <container type="box"> 4M810</container> 
				  <unittitle><emph render="italic">Alexander Melvourne Jackson:
					 Mississippi Lawyer, Editor, Soldier, and Politician, 1823-1857</emph>, by
					 Russell James Chance, doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University,
					 </unittitle> 
				  <unitdate>1970.</unitdate> 
				</did> 
			 </c03> 
			 <c03> 
				<did>
				  <container type="box"> 4M810</container> 
				  <unittitle><emph render="italic">The Civil War in West Texas and
					 New Mexico: The Lost Letterbook of Brigadier General Henry Hopkins
					 Sibley</emph>, ed. by John P. Wilson and Jerry Thompson, Texas Western Press,
					 </unittitle> 
				  <unitdate>2001.</unitdate> 
				</did> 
			 </c03> 
		  </c02> 
		  <c02> 
			 <did>
				<container type="box"> 2.325/F257</container> 
				<unittitle>Jackson and Cavanaugh family history, including Nat P.
				  Jackson and Mary Virginia Jones Jackson.</unittitle> 
			 </did> 
		  </c02>
		  <c02> 
			 <did>
				<container type="box"> 2.325/F257</container> 
				<unittitle>Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and other materials
				  related to the family.</unittitle> 
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