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Z 1228.000
COODY (ARCHIBALD STINSON) PAPERS

1910-1968

Archibald Stinson Coody, IV (1883-1969) was born near Phoenix, Yazoo County, Mississippi. He attended Atlanta Pharmacy College and received a degree in 1905. Mr. Coody operated a drugstore from 1905 until 1916, served as Mayor of Lucedale in 1915, and was secretary of the State Tax Commission from 1918 until 1940. In 1907 and 1908 he was president of the Mississippi State Pharmaceutical Association, and from 1918 until 1932 he was secretary. Also, he was secretary of the Mississippi Capitol Commission, 1916-1918. Coody edited the Osyka Herald, 1912, The Issue, 1918, and contributed articles to other newspapers. Mr. Coody's interests are evident in his correspondence file: race problems, race relations and politics. He corresponded with persons from all parts of the country and distributed his pamphlets and other writings.

The general correspondence is arranged alphabetically in six manuscript boxes, and contains letters to and from Theodore G. Bilbo, Earl Brewer, James O. Eastland, John Stennis, John Bell Williams and James K. Vardaman, among others. A series of special files concerning business and personal interests are filed separately in seven boxes. Boxes 17 and 18 contain subject files of tear sheets and printed material arranged alphabetically by subject.

The collection is arranged in the following order:

Box 1:

Papers, n.d., 1910-1931; fiscal papers, 1911-1967.

Box 2:

Family correspondence, n.d., 1933-1965; Delia Vaught Coody will, 1959.

Box 3:

Abstract of title of Northwest Street property; Mississipi Historical Foundation charter, 1959; Talmadge T. Thomas, Jr.; Vardaman campaigns, n.d., 1911, 1922; letters to the editor, n.d., 1956-1960.

Box 4:

Correspondence, A-Cu.

Box 5:

Correspondence, Da-Fr.

Box 6:

Correspondence, Ga-Lu.

Box 7:

Correspondence, Ma-Ny.

Box 8:

Correspondence, Od-Tu.

Box 9:

Correspondence, Uh-Za.

Box 10:

Manuscripts.

Box 11:

Manuscripts.

Box 12:

Christmas messages, 1942-1961; pamphlets by Coody; miscellaneous notes; blank stationery and envelopes; clippings.

Box 13:

American Druggists' Fire Insurance Company, n.d., 1940-1963; correspondence with Charles E. Jones, n.d., 1916, 1947-1956; list of drugstores in Mississippi; First Christian, Church, Jackson, correspondence and papers, n.d., 1943-1950; "Christian Church News," September 1943-May 1945.

Box 14:

Magnolia Heritage Society, correspondence and papers, 1961-1963; estate of Mrs. M. S. Nesmith.

Box 15:

Estate of Mrs. M. S. Nesmith.

Box 16:

Estate of Mrs. M. S. Nesmith; Pullman Company, correspondence and papers, 1959-1968; State Tax Commission, miscellaneous papers, 1930-1957.

Box 17:

Subject files: Arkansas schools; civil rights act, 1957; communists-preachers; constitution (Mississippi); Democratic Party; justices of the peace; Miller, Horace Sherman; Mississippi State Pharmaceutical Association; National Council of Churches; New Party.

Box 18:

Subject files: Nixon, Richard M.; pamphlet data; population, 1960; Recall Act, 1956, Republican Party; states' rights; Supreme Court; textbooks; unpledged electors.

Box 19:

Pamphlets.

Box 20:

Pamphlets.

Box 21:

Vol. 1. Sunday school lessons,1926-1927.

Vol. 2. Sunday school lessons, 1928.

Vol. 3. Sunday school lessons, 1933-1934.

Box 22:

Vol. 4. Sunday school lessons, 1935-1936.

Vol. 5. Sunday school lessons, 1939-1941.

Vol. 7. Sunday school lessons, 1942-1946.

Box 23:

Vol. 5. Sunday school lessons, 1937-1938.

Vol. 8. Sunday school lessons, 1947 -1949.

Box 24:

Vol. 9. Sunday school lessons, 1950-1951.

Vol. 10. Sunday school lessons, 1952-1953.

Vol. 11. Magnolia Heritage Society minutes, 1961-1962.

Vol. 12. George Co. Bilbo Club, 1915.

Vol. 13. Chapel Hymnal.

Folder 331. Miscellaneous Sunday school lessons, 1957-1962.

Box 25:

Vols. 14-16. Scrapbooks.

Box 26:

Vols. 17-18. Scrapbooks.

Broadsides, pamphlets, and articles.

Box 27:

Newspapers.