The Black Russian

Sources

CADN — Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes, France.

CC — Coahoma County Courthouse, Chancery Court Records, Clarksdale, MS.

CCD — Chancery Dockets Books (plus volume).

CCI — Index Land Deeds Books (plus volume).

CCM — Chancery Court Minutes Books (plus volume).

CCR — Deed Record Books (plus volume).

Cemetery — “Cherry Hill Cemetery, Coahoma County, MS,” and “Cheairs Cemetery,” typed registers of burials compiled by Judy Flowers and Graydon Flowers, Dublin, MS.

CP — Consular Post Records (plus city and box or volume number), Department of State, Record Group 84, NARA II.

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DP — Diplomatic Post Records (plus country or city and volume number), Department of State, Record Group 84, NARA II.

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GARF — Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii, Moscow.

Hoover — Hoover Institution Library, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Fisher: Edgar J. Fisher Papers.

Interviews — Bruce Thomass, November 8, 2006; June 16, 18, 2009; November 15, 2010; Paris.

LC — Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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NARA — National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.

NARA II — National Archives and Records Administration II, College Park, MD.

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RG 59 — Record Group 59, Department of State, NARA II.

RG 84 — Record Group 84, Department of State, NARA II.

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