This collection was once part of a pile of rubbish slotted for destruction at the Old State House. Louis Corneil Gulley, United States postal worker and collector of historic items, saved materials and donated them in 1913 to the Arkansas History Commission, now named the Arkansas State Archives.
This collection contains early correspondence of some Arkansas governors and other early officials of the territory and state, official correspondence regarding Native Americans, and some early French and Spanish papers. There are also messages from certain governors to the Arkansas Legislature, reports from various Civil War generals to Arkansas governors during the war, correspondence regarding Reconstruction, and letters concerning the purchase of land in Arkansas.
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![1828 November 3: David Vinals [sic], Independence County, Land Patent](https://digitalheritage.arkansas.gov/gulley/1096/thumbnail.jpg "1828 November 3: David Vinals [sic], Independence County, Land Patent")
