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Copy of a letter to George Richard Lewis in New London, Connecticut, with information about Preston's family in Columbia, South Carolina and remarking that his sister, Margaret Hampton named her youngest son for him. A mention was made that Preston had met George Robins Gliddon in Charleston --"His manners did not impress me favourably, & although his lectures were well attended, I fear in private his standing was not very high."

The George R. Pivnicky Photograph Collection spans the years 1939-1989, with the bulk of the material dated between 1939 and 1944. The collection consists of a photograph album related to Pivnicky's service in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The album consists of personal photographs taken when Pivnicky was a child and when he served in the U.S. Army with the 35th Infantry Regiment, Hawaiian Division, and the 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. The photographs were taken in various locations, such as Hawaii (HI), Panama Canal, San Francisco, Mojave Desert, Aleutian Islands, Marshall Islands, Philippines, Saipan, and New Guinea, before and during the war. The photographs cover a variety of topics, such as life in HI, fellow Soldiers, drilling, weapons, the aftermath of fighting in the Pacific Theater, and Pivnicky's home life. The collection also includes two newspaper clippings: a notice that Pivnicky had been seriously wounded in 1944 and his obituary.

A Methodist minister in Kentucky describes his experiences during the Civil War and Reconstruction.