A Compendium of Births,
Deaths, Publications, Awards, and Other Events in Mississippi’s
Literary History
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1880
Publications:
Mississippi, as a Province, Territory and State, with Biographical Notices of Eminent Citizens. Vol I, by J.F.H. Claiborne (Power & Barksdale)
Dialect Tales, stories by Sherwood Bonner (Harper & Brothers).
The Tariff: Speech in the Senate of the United States, February 7, 1883, by L.Q.C. Lamar (United States Congress)
July 22:Sherwood Bonner dies of breast cancer in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
1884
Publications:
Suwanee River Tales, stories by Sherwood Bonner (Roberts Brothers).
May 17: J.F.H. Claiborne dies in Natchez, two months after his home burned to the ground, taking with it the manuscript of the second volume of his magnum opus, Mississippi As A Province, Territory, and State.
1885
Publications:
A Sketch of Harvey's Scouts, Formerly of Jackson's Cavalry Division, Army of Tennessee ... Being a Part of the Second Volume of Claiborne's History of Mississippi, by J.F.H. Claiborne
Oration on the Life, Character and Public Services of the Hon. John C.
Calhoun: Delivered before the Ladies Calhoun Monument Association and the
Public, at Charleston, South Carolina,, by L.Q.C.
Lamar (Lucas, Richardson and Company).
Recollections of Mississippi and Mississippians, by Reuben
Davis (Houghton, Mifflin).
November
5: Soldier, statesman, railroad-builder and writer William
Clark Falkner was shot and killed by a former business partner in Ripley,
Mississippi.