If one pulls up http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/branson/title.html, there is, in color, a picture of the frontispiece and a couple more pages of "First Book of Composition Applying the Principles of Grammar to the Art of Composing: Also, Giving Full Directions for Punctuation; Especially Designed for the Use of Southern Schools By L. Branson, A. M. Raleigh, Branson, Farrar & Co., 1863. It's in "The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 - Documenting the American South, Academic Affairs Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. William "Bill" Branson, who married Sarah McMahan, Sevier County, TN, and died in Brown, OK., we believe, was the son of Levi Branson, a minister. My Levi married Penelope E. Langston (aka Mary Elender Langston) on 14 day of July in either 1867 or 1864 (7 looks like a 4 or vice versa) in Sevier, TN. He was a Civil War veteran. He also died in Pottowatomie County, OK, as did that wife. He then married Emaline Nipper, but preceded her in death. Don't know whether this is "that" Levi or that Levi's father. Can anyone help here? I think it may be that selfsame Levi. Mary Lou Branson