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The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. 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Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/1222","Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers family papers","United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Personal narratives","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives","women--education -- Virginia","Enslavers","United States -- History -- War of 1812","University of Virginia -- History","Enslaved laborers","enslaved persons","University of Virginia -- Faculty","letters (correspondence)","human hair","University of Virginia--Students--Correspondence","Fair to good.","The collection is open for research use.","The collection is arranged into fifteen series: 1.William and Sarah Hull papers, 2.Otis Mead Chalmers family correspondence, 3.Anna Maria Mead Chalmers correspondence, 4.Clarke family correspondence, 5. Anna Maria Mead Chalmers business papers, 6. Enslavery, 7. United States Civil War, 8. Financial papers, 9.Diaries and daybooks, 10. Genealogy, 11. Hair collection, 12. Miscellaneous first telegraph of morse code, 13.Photographs 14. Printed items  15.Poetry \u0026 writings","Under Series 1. William and Sarah Hull papers includes letters about  filing a claim in support of General Hull. Information about the claim can also be found throughout the family correspondence in the collection.","There are letters from the family and others about General Hull's claim throughout the correspondence in the collection.","Othello Tillo Freeman (1) was enslaved by General William Hull before or at the turn of the nineteenth century. He moved with Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hickman (1787-1847), daughter of General William Hull, from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838 and continued to be enslaved by the Mead Chalmers family until his death, which may have been in the 1860's. Sam had escaped from an enslaver in Louisiana and worked on the Hull farm for the last thirty years of his life [1800's to 1830's]. Jordan is described as hired out in a letter from Thomas R. Blair dated September 8, 1841. ","Anna Maria Chalmers was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825) who recollects the memories of Tillo and Sam on her grandparents farm. She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the  Southern Churchmen , an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\") a hospital for children. She wrote articles for the  Boston Home Journal , the  New York Tribune , and the  Southern Literary Messenger","Her mother was Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman and her father was Harris H. Hickman who served as a captain in the War of 1812 and the United States Navy, and died in 1824 in St. Thomas, South America. Her grandparents General William and Sarah Fuller Hull helped raise her in Newton, Massachusetts. She attended William B. Fowle's school in Boston (2) and after her father and grandparents died, she lived with her Uncle Edward and Aunt Maria Campbell, who ran a school in Marietta, Georgia. Her sister Louisa \"Louly\" Hickman Smith was a published poet who died as a young mother aged 21, in 1832 leaving a husband, Samuel Jenks Smith and their two children. ","Anna Maria Mead Chalmers survived three husbands, George Alexander Otis (1803-1831), Zachariah Mead (1800-1840), and David Chalmers (1779?-1875?), and had three sons, living during the American Civil War, George Alexander Otis, Jr. (1830-1881) who was a field surgeon in the Massachusetts 27th volunteers and assistant surgeon general of the army,  William Zachariah Mead, (1838-1864) who fought at Murfreesboro and died fighting for the Tennessee Army in the Confederacy in the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, and Edward C. Mead (1837-1908) who traveled to Australia in search of financial independence with a stint in gold digging, and settled on a farm in Keswick, Virginia.","Anna Maria's first husband, George Otis was a young lawyer who died from consumption one year after their marriage in 1831. Their first and only son was Dr. George Alexander Otis. Zachariah Mead, her second husband was a reverend at the Grace Episcopal Church in Cismont, Virginia, an assistant clergyman at Monumental, Saint James's, and Saint John's Episcopal Churches in Richmond and the editor of the  Southern Churchmen  also in Richmond, Virginia. They had two sons Edward, and William, and a daughter Louisa who died as a child. She married a third time in 1856 to David Chalmers who was a plantation owner in News Ferry, (Halifax) Virginia. He enslaved people, and educated African Americans at his school. The collection does not mention the school by name and no further details were found in the papers.","In 1881, after her son Dr. George Otis died, Mrs. Chalmers moved in with her son Edward Mead on his farm in Keswick. They were close friends with many prominent Charlottesville families including Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page. William Mead attended the University of Virginia and met with many of the University of Virginia's earliest professors including Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe.","Her grandfather, General William Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1753 and moved to Detroit Michigan when his government work which involved the taking of land from indigenous persons led him to become the Governor of the Territory of Michigan and the commander of the Army of the Northwest Territory during the War of 1812. He was appointed by Thomas Jefferson and was a friend of General Lafayette. After being unsuccessful in fighting off the Canadians, (however claiming that the government did not give him the resources to defend Michigan) he was court-martialed by James Madison who later commuted his sentence. (3) He died in 1825 in Newton, Massachusetts. He was married to Sarah Fuller Hull. Their children were Nancy Ann Binney Hickman, Sarah McKesson (1783-1810), Maria Campbell (1788-1845) Abraham Fuller Hull (1786-1814), Rebecca Parker Clarke (1790-1865), Caroline Hull (1793-1824), Julia Knox Wheeler (1799-1842), Eliza McClellan (1784-1864), and Cornelia Page.","Sources:","1. Hurd, D. Hamilton. \"History of Middlesex County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men\" Volume III. Philadelphia:J. W. Lewis and Company. 1890.\nhttps://books.google.com/books?id=mZU6AQAAIAAJ\u0026pg=PA33\u0026lpg=PA33\u0026dq=othello+%22tillo%22+freeman\u0026source=bl\u0026ots=4_Drct_uRZ\u0026sig=ACfU3U21FUtYLt8aQ7PklsGdRfOnEJ09RQ\u0026hl=en\u0026sa=X\u0026ved=2ahUKEwjRqtK1sYr5AhV0EFkFHRYkAg0Q6AF6BAgdEAM#v=onepage\u0026q=othello%20%22tillo%22%20freeman\u0026f=false","\n2.\tDuval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) From the collection.","\n3.\t\"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. \nhttps://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Lock of hair belonging to Sarah Louisa P. (Hickman) Smith who was the sister of Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers. Louisa was born in 1811 and died at age 20 from illness. Her husband, Samuel Jenks Smith published a book of her poems in 1829. They had two children.","Annie McLellan may have been a cousin of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers","The papers of Anna Maria (Campbell Hickman) Otis Mead Chalmers (1809-1891) and her family offer a deep look into a 19th century American family with a sharp focus on enslaved and formerly enslaved persons. The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. Blair.","In the correspondence of the Mead-Chalmers family, are letters describing Othello Tillo Freeman. There is also a will of Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman (1787-1847), mother of Anna Maria Chalmers, that left a stipulation providing room and board for Tillo. ","Letters also show that the family inquired about slave laws for travelling so that they could bring Tillo with them when they moved from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838. The family is characterized as being kind to enslaved persons by providing for them and educating them however this description does not take into consideration that they never had the opportunities that existed for free white men. ","There is also a leather-bound account book with the first names of enslaved persons.  It is not clear who owns the book or the location of the enslaved persons, but it has an extensive list of first names and dates from 1767 to 1845. Also included in the account book are records for horses and business transactions. "," The letters from William C. Mead (son of Anna Maria Chalmers) and his friends and family describe skirmishes and battles in the Civil War including Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Resaca, Georgia. Included in the collection are letters about succession and anxiety about the conflict between the states. Also included is a carte de visite of Lieutenant William Mead, n.d.; a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna Maria Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to General Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Lieutenant William Mead following his death at Resaca, Georgia in 1864.","William Mead graduated from the University of Virginia in 1857 before the Civil War began. The collection has many references to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, including comments about university professors Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe. Charlottesville families include Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page.","Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers was extraordinary in having been as well educated as any man in Boston (1) and was able to share her knowledge with other privileged young white girls through her school, including Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, the famous writer.The collection includes examination questions,correspondence about the school and a newspaper article in the   The Richmond Times Dispatch  dated August 10, 1913 describing Mrs. Mead Chalmers. There are also handwritten poems, short stories, and miscellaneous writings in the collection, including an essay on \"Virginia Before and After the Civil War.\" ","The collection also includes correspondence from Anna Maria Mead Chalmer's cousins, Samuel Clarke,James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) and his sister, Sarah Ann Freeman Clarke (1808-1896). Sarah Clarke was a landscape artist, a world traveler, and a member of the transcendentalist movement.(2) James Clarke was an American theologian, author, and abolitionist.(3) Mrs. Mead Chalmers and her cousins were friends with literary authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel P. Willis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.The letters refer to these individuals but there is no correspondence with them.","Unrelated to anything else in the collection, is a miscellaneous item which is a specimen of the first telegraphic writing made on the first telegraph in this country by Professor Morse in 1847.","\nAlso of interest in the collection are letters about General William Hull (1753-1825) who fought in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. His work with the government involved taking land from indigenous persons. In the end, he was charged by the government of not properly defending Detroit in the War of 1812, but President James Madison commuted his sentence.(4) For years, the family and descendants refuted the charges and filed a claim to receive his backpay. In contrast to General Hull's work with the government, is a newspaper clipping of a sermon by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) printed in 1876 which displays Whipple's outrage at the United States government for taking lands from indigenous persons.","From the taking away of the  lands of indigenous persons, to enslavement of African Americans, to a widowed woman trying to earn a living in the nineteenth century, with history about the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, as well as politics, religion, transcendentalism, local Charlottesville history and professors at the University of Virginia, this is a collection of letters rich in history that shows the inner workings of government, society, and people and its effects on everyday life. Collections like these help us to envision our collective past and broaden our perspective on our history and our future. This one is worth a deep dive into the history of the nineteenth century locally and nationally.","Sources:","1. Duval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) ","2. Maas, Judith. \"Sarah Freeman Clarke: Artist, Traveler, Diarist\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. November 21, 2019  \nhttps://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2019/11/sarah-freeman-clarke-artist-traveler-diarist/ ","3.\"James Freeman Clarke.\" Wikipedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke","\n4. \"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Included are comments about University of Virginia Professors Gessner Harrison, John B. Minor, Socrates Maupin, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilan Schele De Vere, James Lawrence Cabell, and William Holmes McGuffey. Included is a letter from Professor Gildersleeve to Dr. George Otis, Jr. dated 1876. Dr. Otis was the first born son of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers.","Condolences on the death of daughter Louisa and her mother Nancy Binney Hull Hickman.","Includes correspondence of Richard Gambill 1851-1856. There is also a letter from Thomas Walker Gilmer to Richard Gambill from 1833.","Other cousins may be included in this correspondence including McLellans and Clouds.","Samuel C. Clarke writes to his cousin Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers about his attitudes towards Freedmen after enslavement, and their working and living conditions.","Includes small broadside of Sarah Clark art exhibit","Letters about starting the school, procurement of teachers,letters from parents, and examinations.","Letters and notes about purchase of the newspaper and maintaining its operation.","Papers related to raising money and operating a charity hospital for children in Richmond, Virginia","\"The Lengthened Shadow\" of a Woman\" by Maria Pendleton Duval in the Ricmond Times Dispatch is a newspaper aticle about how Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers started Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies and how it influenced the opening of the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs Chalmers taught female students using the same curriculum as Harvard College.","Enslavement, letters from former enslaved people, and information about African American schools, and teaching African Americans to read the bible","Zachariah Mead (husband of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers) writes a letter to his mother-in-law Nancy Binney \"Anne\" Hickman dated August 24, 1838 in which he describes to her the legislation required for bringing enslaved persons to another state. The family wants to move  from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia and take Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman with them.","Blair writes that the bond agreement was for him to keep Jordan until October when servants would be returning from the Springs, but he will return him if she needs his services.","In her last will and testament, \"I direct that my old servant Othello Freeman, be supported from my estate, in such manner as my said executrive, may think proper.\"","Letter from the Hickman's accountant, Joseph Bacon, that Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman,  who was enslaved by the Hull and Mead family, was removed from the Mclellan household (sister of \"Ann\" Nancy Binney Hickman) and was being boarded at Mr. White's. He writes that Tillo cannot do any work,is not well, and needs medical attention.  Mr. White wants more money to board and take care of him.","Includes unidentified letter to Anna Maria Mead Chalmers about her being honored as a teacher, and her treatment of \"Tillo\".","Mr. Potter says that he has heard good accounts of the school. No details are included.","A note signed \"Massing Bird\" to [Frances] E. Meriwether asking to buy a horse. His son has taken his horse so he needs to buy one.","Letter written by \"Old William\" who was the carriage driver for Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers. He writes to Mrs. Chalmers after the death of Mr. Chalmers about his fondness for them.","Letter from Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers describing her memories of her grandfather General William Hull to her cousin James Freeman Clarke. Mrs. Chalmers recollects that her grandfather required Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman who they enslaved to be present in Church.","One page argument for the Southern Planter's claim that they need the  Freedmen to labor their crops. Author unidentified, undated.","Correspondence of the Mead family, Meriwether family, George H. Geyer and others describing camp life, skirmishes and battles, and officers, including General Stonewall Jackson, General Longstreet, General Braggs, General McLellan, and General Grant","Includes a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieut., 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna M. Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to Gen. Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Mead following his death at Resaca, Ga., 1864.","Some letters and notes about the genealogy of the Mead family","Photographs identified as Lieutenant William Zachariah Mead, Fannie Chalmers, and Marion Kollock.","Includes article about Bishop Whipple sermon supporting Indigenous persons; article about James Freeman Clarke, other obituaries, and various miscellaneous items including a football game at Pantops Academy.","John Greenleaf Whittier \"The Singer\" from the Atlantic Monthly, devotional prayers, and miscellaneous","Article Isaac McLellan, Sunday School brochures, advertisement for the Rockbridge Baths, Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist by N. W. Camp, and religious printed materials.","Certificate of Distinction from La Fourches School, Keswick, Virginia for Henry B. 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Anna Maria Mead Chalmers business papers, 6. Enslavery, 7. United States Civil War, 8. Financial papers, 9.Diaries and daybooks, 10. Genealogy, 11. Hair collection, 12. Miscellaneous first telegraph of morse code, 13.Photographs 14. Printed items  15.Poetry \u0026amp; writings\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnder Series 1. William and Sarah Hull papers includes letters about  filing a claim in support of General Hull. Information about the claim can also be found throughout the family correspondence in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters from the family and others about General Hull's claim throughout the correspondence in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is arranged into fifteen series: 1.William and Sarah Hull papers, 2.Otis Mead Chalmers family correspondence, 3.Anna Maria Mead Chalmers correspondence, 4.Clarke family correspondence, 5. Anna Maria Mead Chalmers business papers, 6. Enslavery, 7. United States Civil War, 8. Financial papers, 9.Diaries and daybooks, 10. Genealogy, 11. Hair collection, 12. Miscellaneous first telegraph of morse code, 13.Photographs 14. Printed items  15.Poetry \u0026 writings","Under Series 1. William and Sarah Hull papers includes letters about  filing a claim in support of General Hull. Information about the claim can also be found throughout the family correspondence in the collection.","There are letters from the family and others about General Hull's claim throughout the correspondence in the collection."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOthello Tillo Freeman (1) was enslaved by General William Hull before or at the turn of the nineteenth century. He moved with Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hickman (1787-1847), daughter of General William Hull, from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838 and continued to be enslaved by the Mead Chalmers family until his death, which may have been in the 1860's. Sam had escaped from an enslaver in Louisiana and worked on the Hull farm for the last thirty years of his life [1800's to 1830's]. Jordan is described as hired out in a letter from Thomas R. Blair dated September 8, 1841. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria Chalmers was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825) who recollects the memories of Tillo and Sam on her grandparents farm. She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Churchmen\u003c/emph\u003e, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\") a hospital for children. She wrote articles for the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBoston Home Journal\u003c/emph\u003e, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Tribune\u003c/emph\u003e, and the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Literary Messenger\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHer mother was Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman and her father was Harris H. Hickman who served as a captain in the War of 1812 and the United States Navy, and died in 1824 in St. Thomas, South America. Her grandparents General William and Sarah Fuller Hull helped raise her in Newton, Massachusetts. She attended William B. Fowle's school in Boston (2) and after her father and grandparents died, she lived with her Uncle Edward and Aunt Maria Campbell, who ran a school in Marietta, Georgia. Her sister Louisa \"Louly\" Hickman Smith was a published poet who died as a young mother aged 21, in 1832 leaving a husband, Samuel Jenks Smith and their two children. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria Mead Chalmers survived three husbands, George Alexander Otis (1803-1831), Zachariah Mead (1800-1840), and David Chalmers (1779?-1875?), and had three sons, living during the American Civil War, George Alexander Otis, Jr. (1830-1881) who was a field surgeon in the Massachusetts 27th volunteers and assistant surgeon general of the army,  William Zachariah Mead, (1838-1864) who fought at Murfreesboro and died fighting for the Tennessee Army in the Confederacy in the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, and Edward C. Mead (1837-1908) who traveled to Australia in search of financial independence with a stint in gold digging, and settled on a farm in Keswick, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria's first husband, George Otis was a young lawyer who died from consumption one year after their marriage in 1831. Their first and only son was Dr. George Alexander Otis. Zachariah Mead, her second husband was a reverend at the Grace Episcopal Church in Cismont, Virginia, an assistant clergyman at Monumental, Saint James's, and Saint John's Episcopal Churches in Richmond and the editor of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Churchmen\u003c/emph\u003e also in Richmond, Virginia. They had two sons Edward, and William, and a daughter Louisa who died as a child. She married a third time in 1856 to David Chalmers who was a plantation owner in News Ferry, (Halifax) Virginia. He enslaved people, and educated African Americans at his school. The collection does not mention the school by name and no further details were found in the papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1881, after her son Dr. George Otis died, Mrs. Chalmers moved in with her son Edward Mead on his farm in Keswick. They were close friends with many prominent Charlottesville families including Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page. William Mead attended the University of Virginia and met with many of the University of Virginia's earliest professors including Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHer grandfather, General William Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1753 and moved to Detroit Michigan when his government work which involved the taking of land from indigenous persons led him to become the Governor of the Territory of Michigan and the commander of the Army of the Northwest Territory during the War of 1812. He was appointed by Thomas Jefferson and was a friend of General Lafayette. After being unsuccessful in fighting off the Canadians, (however claiming that the government did not give him the resources to defend Michigan) he was court-martialed by James Madison who later commuted his sentence. (3) He died in 1825 in Newton, Massachusetts. He was married to Sarah Fuller Hull. Their children were Nancy Ann Binney Hickman, Sarah McKesson (1783-1810), Maria Campbell (1788-1845) Abraham Fuller Hull (1786-1814), Rebecca Parker Clarke (1790-1865), Caroline Hull (1793-1824), Julia Knox Wheeler (1799-1842), Eliza McClellan (1784-1864), and Cornelia Page.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. Hurd, D. Hamilton. \"History of Middlesex County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men\" Volume III. Philadelphia:J. W. Lewis and Company. 1890.\nhttps://books.google.com/books?id=mZU6AQAAIAAJ\u0026amp;pg=PA33\u0026amp;lpg=PA33\u0026amp;dq=othello+%22tillo%22+freeman\u0026amp;source=bl\u0026amp;ots=4_Drct_uRZ\u0026amp;sig=ACfU3U21FUtYLt8aQ7PklsGdRfOnEJ09RQ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;sa=X\u0026amp;ved=2ahUKEwjRqtK1sYr5AhV0EFkFHRYkAg0Q6AF6BAgdEAM#v=onepage\u0026amp;q=othello%20%22tillo%22%20freeman\u0026amp;f=false\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n2.\tDuval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) From the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n3.\t\"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. \nhttps://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLock of hair belonging to Sarah Louisa P. (Hickman) Smith who was the sister of Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers. Louisa was born in 1811 and died at age 20 from illness. Her husband, Samuel Jenks Smith published a book of her poems in 1829. They had two children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnie McLellan may have been a cousin of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Othello Tillo Freeman (1) was enslaved by General William Hull before or at the turn of the nineteenth century. He moved with Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hickman (1787-1847), daughter of General William Hull, from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838 and continued to be enslaved by the Mead Chalmers family until his death, which may have been in the 1860's. Sam had escaped from an enslaver in Louisiana and worked on the Hull farm for the last thirty years of his life [1800's to 1830's]. Jordan is described as hired out in a letter from Thomas R. Blair dated September 8, 1841. ","Anna Maria Chalmers was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825) who recollects the memories of Tillo and Sam on her grandparents farm. She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the  Southern Churchmen , an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\") a hospital for children. She wrote articles for the  Boston Home Journal , the  New York Tribune , and the  Southern Literary Messenger","Her mother was Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman and her father was Harris H. Hickman who served as a captain in the War of 1812 and the United States Navy, and died in 1824 in St. Thomas, South America. Her grandparents General William and Sarah Fuller Hull helped raise her in Newton, Massachusetts. She attended William B. Fowle's school in Boston (2) and after her father and grandparents died, she lived with her Uncle Edward and Aunt Maria Campbell, who ran a school in Marietta, Georgia. Her sister Louisa \"Louly\" Hickman Smith was a published poet who died as a young mother aged 21, in 1832 leaving a husband, Samuel Jenks Smith and their two children. ","Anna Maria Mead Chalmers survived three husbands, George Alexander Otis (1803-1831), Zachariah Mead (1800-1840), and David Chalmers (1779?-1875?), and had three sons, living during the American Civil War, George Alexander Otis, Jr. (1830-1881) who was a field surgeon in the Massachusetts 27th volunteers and assistant surgeon general of the army,  William Zachariah Mead, (1838-1864) who fought at Murfreesboro and died fighting for the Tennessee Army in the Confederacy in the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, and Edward C. Mead (1837-1908) who traveled to Australia in search of financial independence with a stint in gold digging, and settled on a farm in Keswick, Virginia.","Anna Maria's first husband, George Otis was a young lawyer who died from consumption one year after their marriage in 1831. Their first and only son was Dr. George Alexander Otis. Zachariah Mead, her second husband was a reverend at the Grace Episcopal Church in Cismont, Virginia, an assistant clergyman at Monumental, Saint James's, and Saint John's Episcopal Churches in Richmond and the editor of the  Southern Churchmen  also in Richmond, Virginia. They had two sons Edward, and William, and a daughter Louisa who died as a child. She married a third time in 1856 to David Chalmers who was a plantation owner in News Ferry, (Halifax) Virginia. He enslaved people, and educated African Americans at his school. The collection does not mention the school by name and no further details were found in the papers.","In 1881, after her son Dr. George Otis died, Mrs. Chalmers moved in with her son Edward Mead on his farm in Keswick. They were close friends with many prominent Charlottesville families including Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page. William Mead attended the University of Virginia and met with many of the University of Virginia's earliest professors including Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe.","Her grandfather, General William Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1753 and moved to Detroit Michigan when his government work which involved the taking of land from indigenous persons led him to become the Governor of the Territory of Michigan and the commander of the Army of the Northwest Territory during the War of 1812. He was appointed by Thomas Jefferson and was a friend of General Lafayette. After being unsuccessful in fighting off the Canadians, (however claiming that the government did not give him the resources to defend Michigan) he was court-martialed by James Madison who later commuted his sentence. (3) He died in 1825 in Newton, Massachusetts. He was married to Sarah Fuller Hull. Their children were Nancy Ann Binney Hickman, Sarah McKesson (1783-1810), Maria Campbell (1788-1845) Abraham Fuller Hull (1786-1814), Rebecca Parker Clarke (1790-1865), Caroline Hull (1793-1824), Julia Knox Wheeler (1799-1842), Eliza McClellan (1784-1864), and Cornelia Page.","Sources:","1. Hurd, D. Hamilton. \"History of Middlesex County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men\" Volume III. Philadelphia:J. W. Lewis and Company. 1890.\nhttps://books.google.com/books?id=mZU6AQAAIAAJ\u0026pg=PA33\u0026lpg=PA33\u0026dq=othello+%22tillo%22+freeman\u0026source=bl\u0026ots=4_Drct_uRZ\u0026sig=ACfU3U21FUtYLt8aQ7PklsGdRfOnEJ09RQ\u0026hl=en\u0026sa=X\u0026ved=2ahUKEwjRqtK1sYr5AhV0EFkFHRYkAg0Q6AF6BAgdEAM#v=onepage\u0026q=othello%20%22tillo%22%20freeman\u0026f=false","\n2.\tDuval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) From the collection.","\n3.\t\"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. \nhttps://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Lock of hair belonging to Sarah Louisa P. (Hickman) Smith who was the sister of Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers. Louisa was born in 1811 and died at age 20 from illness. Her husband, Samuel Jenks Smith published a book of her poems in 1829. They had two children.","Annie McLellan may have been a cousin of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMSS 4966, Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["MSS 4966, Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Anna Maria (Campbell Hickman) Otis Mead Chalmers (1809-1891) and her family offer a deep look into a 19th century American family with a sharp focus on enslaved and formerly enslaved persons. The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. Blair.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn the correspondence of the Mead-Chalmers family, are letters describing Othello Tillo Freeman. There is also a will of Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman (1787-1847), mother of Anna Maria Chalmers, that left a stipulation providing room and board for Tillo. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters also show that the family inquired about slave laws for travelling so that they could bring Tillo with them when they moved from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838. The family is characterized as being kind to enslaved persons by providing for them and educating them however this description does not take into consideration that they never had the opportunities that existed for free white men. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere is also a leather-bound account book with the first names of enslaved persons.  It is not clear who owns the book or the location of the enslaved persons, but it has an extensive list of first names and dates from 1767 to 1845. Also included in the account book are records for horses and business transactions. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The letters from William C. Mead (son of Anna Maria Chalmers) and his friends and family describe skirmishes and battles in the Civil War including Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Resaca, Georgia. Included in the collection are letters about succession and anxiety about the conflict between the states. Also included is a carte de visite of Lieutenant William Mead, n.d.; a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026amp; Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna Maria Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to General Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Lieutenant William Mead following his death at Resaca, Georgia in 1864.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Mead graduated from the University of Virginia in 1857 before the Civil War began. The collection has many references to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, including comments about university professors Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe. Charlottesville families include Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers was extraordinary in having been as well educated as any man in Boston (1) and was able to share her knowledge with other privileged young white girls through her school, including Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, the famous writer.The collection includes examination questions,correspondence about the school and a newspaper article in the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e The Richmond Times Dispatch\u003c/emph\u003e dated August 10, 1913 describing Mrs. Mead Chalmers. There are also handwritten poems, short stories, and miscellaneous writings in the collection, including an essay on \"Virginia Before and After the Civil War.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes correspondence from Anna Maria Mead Chalmer's cousins, Samuel Clarke,James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) and his sister, Sarah Ann Freeman Clarke (1808-1896). Sarah Clarke was a landscape artist, a world traveler, and a member of the transcendentalist movement.(2) James Clarke was an American theologian, author, and abolitionist.(3) Mrs. Mead Chalmers and her cousins were friends with literary authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel P. Willis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.The letters refer to these individuals but there is no correspondence with them.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnrelated to anything else in the collection, is a miscellaneous item which is a specimen of the first telegraphic writing made on the first telegraph in this country by Professor Morse in 1847.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAlso of interest in the collection are letters about General William Hull (1753-1825) who fought in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. His work with the government involved taking land from indigenous persons. In the end, he was charged by the government of not properly defending Detroit in the War of 1812, but President James Madison commuted his sentence.(4) For years, the family and descendants refuted the charges and filed a claim to receive his backpay. In contrast to General Hull's work with the government, is a newspaper clipping of a sermon by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) printed in 1876 which displays Whipple's outrage at the United States government for taking lands from indigenous persons.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFrom the taking away of the  lands of indigenous persons, to enslavement of African Americans, to a widowed woman trying to earn a living in the nineteenth century, with history about the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, as well as politics, religion, transcendentalism, local Charlottesville history and professors at the University of Virginia, this is a collection of letters rich in history that shows the inner workings of government, society, and people and its effects on everyday life. Collections like these help us to envision our collective past and broaden our perspective on our history and our future. This one is worth a deep dive into the history of the nineteenth century locally and nationally.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. Duval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Maas, Judith. \"Sarah Freeman Clarke: Artist, Traveler, Diarist\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. November 21, 2019  \nhttps://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2019/11/sarah-freeman-clarke-artist-traveler-diarist/ \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3.\"James Freeman Clarke.\" Wikipedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n4. \"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are comments about University of Virginia Professors Gessner Harrison, John B. Minor, Socrates Maupin, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilan Schele De Vere, James Lawrence Cabell, and William Holmes McGuffey. Included is a letter from Professor Gildersleeve to Dr. George Otis, Jr. dated 1876. Dr. Otis was the first born son of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolences on the death of daughter Louisa and her mother Nancy Binney Hull Hickman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence of Richard Gambill 1851-1856. There is also a letter from Thomas Walker Gilmer to Richard Gambill from 1833.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther cousins may be included in this correspondence including McLellans and Clouds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel C. Clarke writes to his cousin Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers about his attitudes towards Freedmen after enslavement, and their working and living conditions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes small broadside of Sarah Clark art exhibit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters about starting the school, procurement of teachers,letters from parents, and examinations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and notes about purchase of the newspaper and maintaining its operation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to raising money and operating a charity hospital for children in Richmond, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Lengthened Shadow\" of a Woman\" by Maria Pendleton Duval in the Ricmond Times Dispatch is a newspaper aticle about how Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers started Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies and how it influenced the opening of the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs Chalmers taught female students using the same curriculum as Harvard College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnslavement, letters from former enslaved people, and information about African American schools, and teaching African Americans to read the bible\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eZachariah Mead (husband of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers) writes a letter to his mother-in-law Nancy Binney \"Anne\" Hickman dated August 24, 1838 in which he describes to her the legislation required for bringing enslaved persons to another state. The family wants to move  from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia and take Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman with them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlair writes that the bond agreement was for him to keep Jordan until October when servants would be returning from the Springs, but he will return him if she needs his services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn her last will and testament, \"I direct that my old servant Othello Freeman, be supported from my estate, in such manner as my said executrive, may think proper.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from the Hickman's accountant, Joseph Bacon, that Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman,  who was enslaved by the Hull and Mead family, was removed from the Mclellan household (sister of \"Ann\" Nancy Binney Hickman) and was being boarded at Mr. White's. He writes that Tillo cannot do any work,is not well, and needs medical attention.  Mr. White wants more money to board and take care of him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes unidentified letter to Anna Maria Mead Chalmers about her being honored as a teacher, and her treatment of \"Tillo\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Potter says that he has heard good accounts of the school. No details are included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA note signed \"Massing Bird\" to [Frances] E. Meriwether asking to buy a horse. His son has taken his horse so he needs to buy one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter written by \"Old William\" who was the carriage driver for Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers. He writes to Mrs. Chalmers after the death of Mr. Chalmers about his fondness for them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers describing her memories of her grandfather General William Hull to her cousin James Freeman Clarke. Mrs. Chalmers recollects that her grandfather required Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman who they enslaved to be present in Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne page argument for the Southern Planter's claim that they need the  Freedmen to labor their crops. Author unidentified, undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the Mead family, Meriwether family, George H. Geyer and others describing camp life, skirmishes and battles, and officers, including General Stonewall Jackson, General Longstreet, General Braggs, General McLellan, and General Grant\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026amp; Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieut., 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna M. Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to Gen. Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Mead following his death at Resaca, Ga., 1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome letters and notes about the genealogy of the Mead family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs identified as Lieutenant William Zachariah Mead, Fannie Chalmers, and Marion Kollock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes article about Bishop Whipple sermon supporting Indigenous persons; article about James Freeman Clarke, other obituaries, and various miscellaneous items including a football game at Pantops Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Greenleaf Whittier \"The Singer\" from the Atlantic Monthly, devotional prayers, and miscellaneous\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle Isaac McLellan, Sunday School brochures, advertisement for the Rockbridge Baths, Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist by N. W. Camp, and religious printed materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of Distinction from La Fourches School, Keswick, Virginia for Henry B. 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The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. Blair.","In the correspondence of the Mead-Chalmers family, are letters describing Othello Tillo Freeman. There is also a will of Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman (1787-1847), mother of Anna Maria Chalmers, that left a stipulation providing room and board for Tillo. ","Letters also show that the family inquired about slave laws for travelling so that they could bring Tillo with them when they moved from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838. The family is characterized as being kind to enslaved persons by providing for them and educating them however this description does not take into consideration that they never had the opportunities that existed for free white men. ","There is also a leather-bound account book with the first names of enslaved persons.  It is not clear who owns the book or the location of the enslaved persons, but it has an extensive list of first names and dates from 1767 to 1845. Also included in the account book are records for horses and business transactions. "," The letters from William C. Mead (son of Anna Maria Chalmers) and his friends and family describe skirmishes and battles in the Civil War including Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Resaca, Georgia. Included in the collection are letters about succession and anxiety about the conflict between the states. Also included is a carte de visite of Lieutenant William Mead, n.d.; a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna Maria Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to General Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Lieutenant William Mead following his death at Resaca, Georgia in 1864.","William Mead graduated from the University of Virginia in 1857 before the Civil War began. The collection has many references to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, including comments about university professors Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe. Charlottesville families include Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page.","Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers was extraordinary in having been as well educated as any man in Boston (1) and was able to share her knowledge with other privileged young white girls through her school, including Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, the famous writer.The collection includes examination questions,correspondence about the school and a newspaper article in the   The Richmond Times Dispatch  dated August 10, 1913 describing Mrs. Mead Chalmers. There are also handwritten poems, short stories, and miscellaneous writings in the collection, including an essay on \"Virginia Before and After the Civil War.\" ","The collection also includes correspondence from Anna Maria Mead Chalmer's cousins, Samuel Clarke,James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) and his sister, Sarah Ann Freeman Clarke (1808-1896). Sarah Clarke was a landscape artist, a world traveler, and a member of the transcendentalist movement.(2) James Clarke was an American theologian, author, and abolitionist.(3) Mrs. Mead Chalmers and her cousins were friends with literary authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel P. Willis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.The letters refer to these individuals but there is no correspondence with them.","Unrelated to anything else in the collection, is a miscellaneous item which is a specimen of the first telegraphic writing made on the first telegraph in this country by Professor Morse in 1847.","\nAlso of interest in the collection are letters about General William Hull (1753-1825) who fought in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. His work with the government involved taking land from indigenous persons. In the end, he was charged by the government of not properly defending Detroit in the War of 1812, but President James Madison commuted his sentence.(4) For years, the family and descendants refuted the charges and filed a claim to receive his backpay. In contrast to General Hull's work with the government, is a newspaper clipping of a sermon by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) printed in 1876 which displays Whipple's outrage at the United States government for taking lands from indigenous persons.","From the taking away of the  lands of indigenous persons, to enslavement of African Americans, to a widowed woman trying to earn a living in the nineteenth century, with history about the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, as well as politics, religion, transcendentalism, local Charlottesville history and professors at the University of Virginia, this is a collection of letters rich in history that shows the inner workings of government, society, and people and its effects on everyday life. Collections like these help us to envision our collective past and broaden our perspective on our history and our future. This one is worth a deep dive into the history of the nineteenth century locally and nationally.","Sources:","1. Duval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) ","2. Maas, Judith. \"Sarah Freeman Clarke: Artist, Traveler, Diarist\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. November 21, 2019  \nhttps://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2019/11/sarah-freeman-clarke-artist-traveler-diarist/ ","3.\"James Freeman Clarke.\" Wikipedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke","\n4. \"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Included are comments about University of Virginia Professors Gessner Harrison, John B. Minor, Socrates Maupin, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilan Schele De Vere, James Lawrence Cabell, and William Holmes McGuffey. Included is a letter from Professor Gildersleeve to Dr. George Otis, Jr. dated 1876. Dr. Otis was the first born son of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers.","Condolences on the death of daughter Louisa and her mother Nancy Binney Hull Hickman.","Includes correspondence of Richard Gambill 1851-1856. There is also a letter from Thomas Walker Gilmer to Richard Gambill from 1833.","Other cousins may be included in this correspondence including McLellans and Clouds.","Samuel C. Clarke writes to his cousin Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers about his attitudes towards Freedmen after enslavement, and their working and living conditions.","Includes small broadside of Sarah Clark art exhibit","Letters about starting the school, procurement of teachers,letters from parents, and examinations.","Letters and notes about purchase of the newspaper and maintaining its operation.","Papers related to raising money and operating a charity hospital for children in Richmond, Virginia","\"The Lengthened Shadow\" of a Woman\" by Maria Pendleton Duval in the Ricmond Times Dispatch is a newspaper aticle about how Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers started Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies and how it influenced the opening of the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs Chalmers taught female students using the same curriculum as Harvard College.","Enslavement, letters from former enslaved people, and information about African American schools, and teaching African Americans to read the bible","Zachariah Mead (husband of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers) writes a letter to his mother-in-law Nancy Binney \"Anne\" Hickman dated August 24, 1838 in which he describes to her the legislation required for bringing enslaved persons to another state. The family wants to move  from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia and take Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman with them.","Blair writes that the bond agreement was for him to keep Jordan until October when servants would be returning from the Springs, but he will return him if she needs his services.","In her last will and testament, \"I direct that my old servant Othello Freeman, be supported from my estate, in such manner as my said executrive, may think proper.\"","Letter from the Hickman's accountant, Joseph Bacon, that Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman,  who was enslaved by the Hull and Mead family, was removed from the Mclellan household (sister of \"Ann\" Nancy Binney Hickman) and was being boarded at Mr. White's. He writes that Tillo cannot do any work,is not well, and needs medical attention.  Mr. White wants more money to board and take care of him.","Includes unidentified letter to Anna Maria Mead Chalmers about her being honored as a teacher, and her treatment of \"Tillo\".","Mr. Potter says that he has heard good accounts of the school. No details are included.","A note signed \"Massing Bird\" to [Frances] E. Meriwether asking to buy a horse. His son has taken his horse so he needs to buy one.","Letter written by \"Old William\" who was the carriage driver for Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers. He writes to Mrs. Chalmers after the death of Mr. Chalmers about his fondness for them.","Letter from Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers describing her memories of her grandfather General William Hull to her cousin James Freeman Clarke. Mrs. Chalmers recollects that her grandfather required Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman who they enslaved to be present in Church.","One page argument for the Southern Planter's claim that they need the  Freedmen to labor their crops. Author unidentified, undated.","Correspondence of the Mead family, Meriwether family, George H. Geyer and others describing camp life, skirmishes and battles, and officers, including General Stonewall Jackson, General Longstreet, General Braggs, General McLellan, and General Grant","Includes a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieut., 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna M. Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to Gen. Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Mead following his death at Resaca, Ga., 1864.","Some letters and notes about the genealogy of the Mead family","Photographs identified as Lieutenant William Zachariah Mead, Fannie Chalmers, and Marion Kollock.","Includes article about Bishop Whipple sermon supporting Indigenous persons; article about James Freeman Clarke, other obituaries, and various miscellaneous items including a football game at Pantops Academy.","John Greenleaf Whittier \"The Singer\" from the Atlantic Monthly, devotional prayers, and miscellaneous","Article Isaac McLellan, Sunday School brochures, advertisement for the Rockbridge Baths, Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist by N. W. Camp, and religious printed materials.","Certificate of Distinction from La Fourches School, Keswick, Virginia for Henry B. 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use.","The collection is arranged into fifteen series: 1.William and Sarah Hull papers, 2.Otis Mead Chalmers family correspondence, 3.Anna Maria Mead Chalmers correspondence, 4.Clarke family correspondence, 5. Anna Maria Mead Chalmers business papers, 6. Enslavery, 7. United States Civil War, 8. Financial papers, 9.Diaries and daybooks, 10. Genealogy, 11. Hair collection, 12. Miscellaneous first telegraph of morse code, 13.Photographs 14. Printed items  15.Poetry \u0026 writings","Under Series 1. William and Sarah Hull papers includes letters about  filing a claim in support of General Hull. Information about the claim can also be found throughout the family correspondence in the collection.","There are letters from the family and others about General Hull's claim throughout the correspondence in the collection.","Othello Tillo Freeman (1) was enslaved by General William Hull before or at the turn of the nineteenth century. He moved with Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hickman (1787-1847), daughter of General William Hull, from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838 and continued to be enslaved by the Mead Chalmers family until his death, which may have been in the 1860's. Sam had escaped from an enslaver in Louisiana and worked on the Hull farm for the last thirty years of his life [1800's to 1830's]. Jordan is described as hired out in a letter from Thomas R. Blair dated September 8, 1841. ","Anna Maria Chalmers was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825) who recollects the memories of Tillo and Sam on her grandparents farm. She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the  Southern Churchmen , an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\") a hospital for children. She wrote articles for the  Boston Home Journal , the  New York Tribune , and the  Southern Literary Messenger","Her mother was Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman and her father was Harris H. Hickman who served as a captain in the War of 1812 and the United States Navy, and died in 1824 in St. Thomas, South America. Her grandparents General William and Sarah Fuller Hull helped raise her in Newton, Massachusetts. She attended William B. Fowle's school in Boston (2) and after her father and grandparents died, she lived with her Uncle Edward and Aunt Maria Campbell, who ran a school in Marietta, Georgia. Her sister Louisa \"Louly\" Hickman Smith was a published poet who died as a young mother aged 21, in 1832 leaving a husband, Samuel Jenks Smith and their two children. ","Anna Maria Mead Chalmers survived three husbands, George Alexander Otis (1803-1831), Zachariah Mead (1800-1840), and David Chalmers (1779?-1875?), and had three sons, living during the American Civil War, George Alexander Otis, Jr. (1830-1881) who was a field surgeon in the Massachusetts 27th volunteers and assistant surgeon general of the army,  William Zachariah Mead, (1838-1864) who fought at Murfreesboro and died fighting for the Tennessee Army in the Confederacy in the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, and Edward C. Mead (1837-1908) who traveled to Australia in search of financial independence with a stint in gold digging, and settled on a farm in Keswick, Virginia.","Anna Maria's first husband, George Otis was a young lawyer who died from consumption one year after their marriage in 1831. Their first and only son was Dr. George Alexander Otis. Zachariah Mead, her second husband was a reverend at the Grace Episcopal Church in Cismont, Virginia, an assistant clergyman at Monumental, Saint James's, and Saint John's Episcopal Churches in Richmond and the editor of the  Southern Churchmen  also in Richmond, Virginia. They had two sons Edward, and William, and a daughter Louisa who died as a child. She married a third time in 1856 to David Chalmers who was a plantation owner in News Ferry, (Halifax) Virginia. He enslaved people, and educated African Americans at his school. The collection does not mention the school by name and no further details were found in the papers.","In 1881, after her son Dr. George Otis died, Mrs. Chalmers moved in with her son Edward Mead on his farm in Keswick. They were close friends with many prominent Charlottesville families including Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page. William Mead attended the University of Virginia and met with many of the University of Virginia's earliest professors including Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe.","Her grandfather, General William Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1753 and moved to Detroit Michigan when his government work which involved the taking of land from indigenous persons led him to become the Governor of the Territory of Michigan and the commander of the Army of the Northwest Territory during the War of 1812. He was appointed by Thomas Jefferson and was a friend of General Lafayette. After being unsuccessful in fighting off the Canadians, (however claiming that the government did not give him the resources to defend Michigan) he was court-martialed by James Madison who later commuted his sentence. (3) He died in 1825 in Newton, Massachusetts. He was married to Sarah Fuller Hull. Their children were Nancy Ann Binney Hickman, Sarah McKesson (1783-1810), Maria Campbell (1788-1845) Abraham Fuller Hull (1786-1814), Rebecca Parker Clarke (1790-1865), Caroline Hull (1793-1824), Julia Knox Wheeler (1799-1842), Eliza McClellan (1784-1864), and Cornelia Page.","Sources:","1. Hurd, D. Hamilton. \"History of Middlesex County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men\" Volume III. Philadelphia:J. W. Lewis and Company. 1890.\nhttps://books.google.com/books?id=mZU6AQAAIAAJ\u0026pg=PA33\u0026lpg=PA33\u0026dq=othello+%22tillo%22+freeman\u0026source=bl\u0026ots=4_Drct_uRZ\u0026sig=ACfU3U21FUtYLt8aQ7PklsGdRfOnEJ09RQ\u0026hl=en\u0026sa=X\u0026ved=2ahUKEwjRqtK1sYr5AhV0EFkFHRYkAg0Q6AF6BAgdEAM#v=onepage\u0026q=othello%20%22tillo%22%20freeman\u0026f=false","\n2.\tDuval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) From the collection.","\n3.\t\"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. \nhttps://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Lock of hair belonging to Sarah Louisa P. (Hickman) Smith who was the sister of Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers. Louisa was born in 1811 and died at age 20 from illness. Her husband, Samuel Jenks Smith published a book of her poems in 1829. They had two children.","Annie McLellan may have been a cousin of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers","The papers of Anna Maria (Campbell Hickman) Otis Mead Chalmers (1809-1891) and her family offer a deep look into a 19th century American family with a sharp focus on enslaved and formerly enslaved persons. The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. Blair.","In the correspondence of the Mead-Chalmers family, are letters describing Othello Tillo Freeman. There is also a will of Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman (1787-1847), mother of Anna Maria Chalmers, that left a stipulation providing room and board for Tillo. ","Letters also show that the family inquired about slave laws for travelling so that they could bring Tillo with them when they moved from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838. The family is characterized as being kind to enslaved persons by providing for them and educating them however this description does not take into consideration that they never had the opportunities that existed for free white men. ","There is also a leather-bound account book with the first names of enslaved persons.  It is not clear who owns the book or the location of the enslaved persons, but it has an extensive list of first names and dates from 1767 to 1845. Also included in the account book are records for horses and business transactions. "," The letters from William C. Mead (son of Anna Maria Chalmers) and his friends and family describe skirmishes and battles in the Civil War including Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Resaca, Georgia. Included in the collection are letters about succession and anxiety about the conflict between the states. Also included is a carte de visite of Lieutenant William Mead, n.d.; a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna Maria Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to General Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Lieutenant William Mead following his death at Resaca, Georgia in 1864.","William Mead graduated from the University of Virginia in 1857 before the Civil War began. The collection has many references to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, including comments about university professors Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe. Charlottesville families include Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page.","Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers was extraordinary in having been as well educated as any man in Boston (1) and was able to share her knowledge with other privileged young white girls through her school, including Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, the famous writer.The collection includes examination questions,correspondence about the school and a newspaper article in the   The Richmond Times Dispatch  dated August 10, 1913 describing Mrs. Mead Chalmers. There are also handwritten poems, short stories, and miscellaneous writings in the collection, including an essay on \"Virginia Before and After the Civil War.\" ","The collection also includes correspondence from Anna Maria Mead Chalmer's cousins, Samuel Clarke,James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) and his sister, Sarah Ann Freeman Clarke (1808-1896). Sarah Clarke was a landscape artist, a world traveler, and a member of the transcendentalist movement.(2) James Clarke was an American theologian, author, and abolitionist.(3) Mrs. Mead Chalmers and her cousins were friends with literary authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel P. Willis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.The letters refer to these individuals but there is no correspondence with them.","Unrelated to anything else in the collection, is a miscellaneous item which is a specimen of the first telegraphic writing made on the first telegraph in this country by Professor Morse in 1847.","\nAlso of interest in the collection are letters about General William Hull (1753-1825) who fought in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. His work with the government involved taking land from indigenous persons. In the end, he was charged by the government of not properly defending Detroit in the War of 1812, but President James Madison commuted his sentence.(4) For years, the family and descendants refuted the charges and filed a claim to receive his backpay. In contrast to General Hull's work with the government, is a newspaper clipping of a sermon by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) printed in 1876 which displays Whipple's outrage at the United States government for taking lands from indigenous persons.","From the taking away of the  lands of indigenous persons, to enslavement of African Americans, to a widowed woman trying to earn a living in the nineteenth century, with history about the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, as well as politics, religion, transcendentalism, local Charlottesville history and professors at the University of Virginia, this is a collection of letters rich in history that shows the inner workings of government, society, and people and its effects on everyday life. Collections like these help us to envision our collective past and broaden our perspective on our history and our future. This one is worth a deep dive into the history of the nineteenth century locally and nationally.","Sources:","1. Duval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) ","2. Maas, Judith. \"Sarah Freeman Clarke: Artist, Traveler, Diarist\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. November 21, 2019  \nhttps://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2019/11/sarah-freeman-clarke-artist-traveler-diarist/ ","3.\"James Freeman Clarke.\" Wikipedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke","\n4. \"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Included are comments about University of Virginia Professors Gessner Harrison, John B. Minor, Socrates Maupin, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilan Schele De Vere, James Lawrence Cabell, and William Holmes McGuffey. Included is a letter from Professor Gildersleeve to Dr. George Otis, Jr. dated 1876. Dr. Otis was the first born son of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers.","Condolences on the death of daughter Louisa and her mother Nancy Binney Hull Hickman.","Includes correspondence of Richard Gambill 1851-1856. There is also a letter from Thomas Walker Gilmer to Richard Gambill from 1833.","Other cousins may be included in this correspondence including McLellans and Clouds.","Samuel C. Clarke writes to his cousin Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers about his attitudes towards Freedmen after enslavement, and their working and living conditions.","Includes small broadside of Sarah Clark art exhibit","Letters about starting the school, procurement of teachers,letters from parents, and examinations.","Letters and notes about purchase of the newspaper and maintaining its operation.","Papers related to raising money and operating a charity hospital for children in Richmond, Virginia","\"The Lengthened Shadow\" of a Woman\" by Maria Pendleton Duval in the Ricmond Times Dispatch is a newspaper aticle about how Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers started Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies and how it influenced the opening of the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs Chalmers taught female students using the same curriculum as Harvard College.","Enslavement, letters from former enslaved people, and information about African American schools, and teaching African Americans to read the bible","Zachariah Mead (husband of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers) writes a letter to his mother-in-law Nancy Binney \"Anne\" Hickman dated August 24, 1838 in which he describes to her the legislation required for bringing enslaved persons to another state. The family wants to move  from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia and take Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman with them.","Blair writes that the bond agreement was for him to keep Jordan until October when servants would be returning from the Springs, but he will return him if she needs his services.","In her last will and testament, \"I direct that my old servant Othello Freeman, be supported from my estate, in such manner as my said executrive, may think proper.\"","Letter from the Hickman's accountant, Joseph Bacon, that Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman,  who was enslaved by the Hull and Mead family, was removed from the Mclellan household (sister of \"Ann\" Nancy Binney Hickman) and was being boarded at Mr. White's. He writes that Tillo cannot do any work,is not well, and needs medical attention.  Mr. White wants more money to board and take care of him.","Includes unidentified letter to Anna Maria Mead Chalmers about her being honored as a teacher, and her treatment of \"Tillo\".","Mr. Potter says that he has heard good accounts of the school. No details are included.","A note signed \"Massing Bird\" to [Frances] E. Meriwether asking to buy a horse. His son has taken his horse so he needs to buy one.","Letter written by \"Old William\" who was the carriage driver for Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers. He writes to Mrs. Chalmers after the death of Mr. Chalmers about his fondness for them.","Letter from Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers describing her memories of her grandfather General William Hull to her cousin James Freeman Clarke. Mrs. Chalmers recollects that her grandfather required Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman who they enslaved to be present in Church.","One page argument for the Southern Planter's claim that they need the  Freedmen to labor their crops. Author unidentified, undated.","Correspondence of the Mead family, Meriwether family, George H. Geyer and others describing camp life, skirmishes and battles, and officers, including General Stonewall Jackson, General Longstreet, General Braggs, General McLellan, and General Grant","Includes a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieut., 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna M. Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to Gen. Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Mead following his death at Resaca, Ga., 1864.","Some letters and notes about the genealogy of the Mead family","Photographs identified as Lieutenant William Zachariah Mead, Fannie Chalmers, and Marion Kollock.","Includes article about Bishop Whipple sermon supporting Indigenous persons; article about James Freeman Clarke, other obituaries, and various miscellaneous items including a football game at Pantops Academy.","John Greenleaf Whittier \"The Singer\" from the Atlantic Monthly, devotional prayers, and miscellaneous","Article Isaac McLellan, Sunday School brochures, advertisement for the Rockbridge Baths, Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist by N. W. Camp, and religious printed materials.","Certificate of Distinction from La Fourches School, Keswick, Virginia for Henry B. Mead; Anna Maria Chalmers marriage certificate; and Kappa Alpha In Universitate Virginiae broadside.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","English"],"unitid_tesim":["MSS 4966","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/1222"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers family papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers family papers"],"collection_ssim":["Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers family papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"geogname_ssm":["United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Personal narratives","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives","women--education -- Virginia","Enslavers","United States -- History -- War of 1812","University of Virginia -- History"],"geogname_ssim":["United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Personal narratives","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives","women--education -- Virginia","Enslavers","United States -- History -- War of 1812","University of Virginia -- History"],"places_ssim":["United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Personal narratives","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives","women--education -- Virginia","Enslavers","United States -- History -- War of 1812","University of Virginia -- History"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Part of this collection was a deposit from Ernest C. 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Anna Maria Mead Chalmers business papers, 6. Enslavery, 7. United States Civil War, 8. Financial papers, 9.Diaries and daybooks, 10. Genealogy, 11. Hair collection, 12. Miscellaneous first telegraph of morse code, 13.Photographs 14. Printed items  15.Poetry \u0026amp; writings\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnder Series 1. William and Sarah Hull papers includes letters about  filing a claim in support of General Hull. Information about the claim can also be found throughout the family correspondence in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters from the family and others about General Hull's claim throughout the correspondence in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is arranged into fifteen series: 1.William and Sarah Hull papers, 2.Otis Mead Chalmers family correspondence, 3.Anna Maria Mead Chalmers correspondence, 4.Clarke family correspondence, 5. Anna Maria Mead Chalmers business papers, 6. Enslavery, 7. United States Civil War, 8. Financial papers, 9.Diaries and daybooks, 10. Genealogy, 11. Hair collection, 12. Miscellaneous first telegraph of morse code, 13.Photographs 14. Printed items  15.Poetry \u0026 writings","Under Series 1. William and Sarah Hull papers includes letters about  filing a claim in support of General Hull. Information about the claim can also be found throughout the family correspondence in the collection.","There are letters from the family and others about General Hull's claim throughout the correspondence in the collection."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOthello Tillo Freeman (1) was enslaved by General William Hull before or at the turn of the nineteenth century. He moved with Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hickman (1787-1847), daughter of General William Hull, from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838 and continued to be enslaved by the Mead Chalmers family until his death, which may have been in the 1860's. Sam had escaped from an enslaver in Louisiana and worked on the Hull farm for the last thirty years of his life [1800's to 1830's]. Jordan is described as hired out in a letter from Thomas R. Blair dated September 8, 1841. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria Chalmers was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825) who recollects the memories of Tillo and Sam on her grandparents farm. She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Churchmen\u003c/emph\u003e, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\") a hospital for children. She wrote articles for the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBoston Home Journal\u003c/emph\u003e, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Tribune\u003c/emph\u003e, and the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Literary Messenger\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHer mother was Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman and her father was Harris H. Hickman who served as a captain in the War of 1812 and the United States Navy, and died in 1824 in St. Thomas, South America. Her grandparents General William and Sarah Fuller Hull helped raise her in Newton, Massachusetts. She attended William B. Fowle's school in Boston (2) and after her father and grandparents died, she lived with her Uncle Edward and Aunt Maria Campbell, who ran a school in Marietta, Georgia. Her sister Louisa \"Louly\" Hickman Smith was a published poet who died as a young mother aged 21, in 1832 leaving a husband, Samuel Jenks Smith and their two children. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria Mead Chalmers survived three husbands, George Alexander Otis (1803-1831), Zachariah Mead (1800-1840), and David Chalmers (1779?-1875?), and had three sons, living during the American Civil War, George Alexander Otis, Jr. (1830-1881) who was a field surgeon in the Massachusetts 27th volunteers and assistant surgeon general of the army,  William Zachariah Mead, (1838-1864) who fought at Murfreesboro and died fighting for the Tennessee Army in the Confederacy in the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, and Edward C. Mead (1837-1908) who traveled to Australia in search of financial independence with a stint in gold digging, and settled on a farm in Keswick, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria's first husband, George Otis was a young lawyer who died from consumption one year after their marriage in 1831. Their first and only son was Dr. George Alexander Otis. Zachariah Mead, her second husband was a reverend at the Grace Episcopal Church in Cismont, Virginia, an assistant clergyman at Monumental, Saint James's, and Saint John's Episcopal Churches in Richmond and the editor of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Churchmen\u003c/emph\u003e also in Richmond, Virginia. They had two sons Edward, and William, and a daughter Louisa who died as a child. She married a third time in 1856 to David Chalmers who was a plantation owner in News Ferry, (Halifax) Virginia. He enslaved people, and educated African Americans at his school. The collection does not mention the school by name and no further details were found in the papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1881, after her son Dr. George Otis died, Mrs. Chalmers moved in with her son Edward Mead on his farm in Keswick. They were close friends with many prominent Charlottesville families including Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page. William Mead attended the University of Virginia and met with many of the University of Virginia's earliest professors including Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHer grandfather, General William Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1753 and moved to Detroit Michigan when his government work which involved the taking of land from indigenous persons led him to become the Governor of the Territory of Michigan and the commander of the Army of the Northwest Territory during the War of 1812. He was appointed by Thomas Jefferson and was a friend of General Lafayette. After being unsuccessful in fighting off the Canadians, (however claiming that the government did not give him the resources to defend Michigan) he was court-martialed by James Madison who later commuted his sentence. (3) He died in 1825 in Newton, Massachusetts. He was married to Sarah Fuller Hull. Their children were Nancy Ann Binney Hickman, Sarah McKesson (1783-1810), Maria Campbell (1788-1845) Abraham Fuller Hull (1786-1814), Rebecca Parker Clarke (1790-1865), Caroline Hull (1793-1824), Julia Knox Wheeler (1799-1842), Eliza McClellan (1784-1864), and Cornelia Page.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. Hurd, D. Hamilton. \"History of Middlesex County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men\" Volume III. Philadelphia:J. W. Lewis and Company. 1890.\nhttps://books.google.com/books?id=mZU6AQAAIAAJ\u0026amp;pg=PA33\u0026amp;lpg=PA33\u0026amp;dq=othello+%22tillo%22+freeman\u0026amp;source=bl\u0026amp;ots=4_Drct_uRZ\u0026amp;sig=ACfU3U21FUtYLt8aQ7PklsGdRfOnEJ09RQ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;sa=X\u0026amp;ved=2ahUKEwjRqtK1sYr5AhV0EFkFHRYkAg0Q6AF6BAgdEAM#v=onepage\u0026amp;q=othello%20%22tillo%22%20freeman\u0026amp;f=false\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n2.\tDuval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) From the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n3.\t\"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. \nhttps://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLock of hair belonging to Sarah Louisa P. (Hickman) Smith who was the sister of Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers. Louisa was born in 1811 and died at age 20 from illness. Her husband, Samuel Jenks Smith published a book of her poems in 1829. They had two children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnie McLellan may have been a cousin of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Othello Tillo Freeman (1) was enslaved by General William Hull before or at the turn of the nineteenth century. He moved with Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hickman (1787-1847), daughter of General William Hull, from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838 and continued to be enslaved by the Mead Chalmers family until his death, which may have been in the 1860's. Sam had escaped from an enslaver in Louisiana and worked on the Hull farm for the last thirty years of his life [1800's to 1830's]. Jordan is described as hired out in a letter from Thomas R. Blair dated September 8, 1841. ","Anna Maria Chalmers was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825) who recollects the memories of Tillo and Sam on her grandparents farm. She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the  Southern Churchmen , an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\") a hospital for children. She wrote articles for the  Boston Home Journal , the  New York Tribune , and the  Southern Literary Messenger","Her mother was Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman and her father was Harris H. Hickman who served as a captain in the War of 1812 and the United States Navy, and died in 1824 in St. Thomas, South America. Her grandparents General William and Sarah Fuller Hull helped raise her in Newton, Massachusetts. She attended William B. Fowle's school in Boston (2) and after her father and grandparents died, she lived with her Uncle Edward and Aunt Maria Campbell, who ran a school in Marietta, Georgia. Her sister Louisa \"Louly\" Hickman Smith was a published poet who died as a young mother aged 21, in 1832 leaving a husband, Samuel Jenks Smith and their two children. ","Anna Maria Mead Chalmers survived three husbands, George Alexander Otis (1803-1831), Zachariah Mead (1800-1840), and David Chalmers (1779?-1875?), and had three sons, living during the American Civil War, George Alexander Otis, Jr. (1830-1881) who was a field surgeon in the Massachusetts 27th volunteers and assistant surgeon general of the army,  William Zachariah Mead, (1838-1864) who fought at Murfreesboro and died fighting for the Tennessee Army in the Confederacy in the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, and Edward C. Mead (1837-1908) who traveled to Australia in search of financial independence with a stint in gold digging, and settled on a farm in Keswick, Virginia.","Anna Maria's first husband, George Otis was a young lawyer who died from consumption one year after their marriage in 1831. Their first and only son was Dr. George Alexander Otis. Zachariah Mead, her second husband was a reverend at the Grace Episcopal Church in Cismont, Virginia, an assistant clergyman at Monumental, Saint James's, and Saint John's Episcopal Churches in Richmond and the editor of the  Southern Churchmen  also in Richmond, Virginia. They had two sons Edward, and William, and a daughter Louisa who died as a child. She married a third time in 1856 to David Chalmers who was a plantation owner in News Ferry, (Halifax) Virginia. He enslaved people, and educated African Americans at his school. The collection does not mention the school by name and no further details were found in the papers.","In 1881, after her son Dr. George Otis died, Mrs. Chalmers moved in with her son Edward Mead on his farm in Keswick. They were close friends with many prominent Charlottesville families including Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page. William Mead attended the University of Virginia and met with many of the University of Virginia's earliest professors including Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe.","Her grandfather, General William Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1753 and moved to Detroit Michigan when his government work which involved the taking of land from indigenous persons led him to become the Governor of the Territory of Michigan and the commander of the Army of the Northwest Territory during the War of 1812. He was appointed by Thomas Jefferson and was a friend of General Lafayette. After being unsuccessful in fighting off the Canadians, (however claiming that the government did not give him the resources to defend Michigan) he was court-martialed by James Madison who later commuted his sentence. (3) He died in 1825 in Newton, Massachusetts. He was married to Sarah Fuller Hull. Their children were Nancy Ann Binney Hickman, Sarah McKesson (1783-1810), Maria Campbell (1788-1845) Abraham Fuller Hull (1786-1814), Rebecca Parker Clarke (1790-1865), Caroline Hull (1793-1824), Julia Knox Wheeler (1799-1842), Eliza McClellan (1784-1864), and Cornelia Page.","Sources:","1. Hurd, D. Hamilton. \"History of Middlesex County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men\" Volume III. Philadelphia:J. W. Lewis and Company. 1890.\nhttps://books.google.com/books?id=mZU6AQAAIAAJ\u0026pg=PA33\u0026lpg=PA33\u0026dq=othello+%22tillo%22+freeman\u0026source=bl\u0026ots=4_Drct_uRZ\u0026sig=ACfU3U21FUtYLt8aQ7PklsGdRfOnEJ09RQ\u0026hl=en\u0026sa=X\u0026ved=2ahUKEwjRqtK1sYr5AhV0EFkFHRYkAg0Q6AF6BAgdEAM#v=onepage\u0026q=othello%20%22tillo%22%20freeman\u0026f=false","\n2.\tDuval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) From the collection.","\n3.\t\"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. \nhttps://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Lock of hair belonging to Sarah Louisa P. (Hickman) Smith who was the sister of Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers. Louisa was born in 1811 and died at age 20 from illness. Her husband, Samuel Jenks Smith published a book of her poems in 1829. They had two children.","Annie McLellan may have been a cousin of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMSS 4966, Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["MSS 4966, Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Anna Maria (Campbell Hickman) Otis Mead Chalmers (1809-1891) and her family offer a deep look into a 19th century American family with a sharp focus on enslaved and formerly enslaved persons. The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. Blair.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn the correspondence of the Mead-Chalmers family, are letters describing Othello Tillo Freeman. There is also a will of Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman (1787-1847), mother of Anna Maria Chalmers, that left a stipulation providing room and board for Tillo. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters also show that the family inquired about slave laws for travelling so that they could bring Tillo with them when they moved from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838. The family is characterized as being kind to enslaved persons by providing for them and educating them however this description does not take into consideration that they never had the opportunities that existed for free white men. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere is also a leather-bound account book with the first names of enslaved persons.  It is not clear who owns the book or the location of the enslaved persons, but it has an extensive list of first names and dates from 1767 to 1845. Also included in the account book are records for horses and business transactions. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The letters from William C. Mead (son of Anna Maria Chalmers) and his friends and family describe skirmishes and battles in the Civil War including Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Resaca, Georgia. Included in the collection are letters about succession and anxiety about the conflict between the states. Also included is a carte de visite of Lieutenant William Mead, n.d.; a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026amp; Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna Maria Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to General Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Lieutenant William Mead following his death at Resaca, Georgia in 1864.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Mead graduated from the University of Virginia in 1857 before the Civil War began. The collection has many references to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, including comments about university professors Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe. Charlottesville families include Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers was extraordinary in having been as well educated as any man in Boston (1) and was able to share her knowledge with other privileged young white girls through her school, including Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, the famous writer.The collection includes examination questions,correspondence about the school and a newspaper article in the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e The Richmond Times Dispatch\u003c/emph\u003e dated August 10, 1913 describing Mrs. Mead Chalmers. There are also handwritten poems, short stories, and miscellaneous writings in the collection, including an essay on \"Virginia Before and After the Civil War.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes correspondence from Anna Maria Mead Chalmer's cousins, Samuel Clarke,James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) and his sister, Sarah Ann Freeman Clarke (1808-1896). Sarah Clarke was a landscape artist, a world traveler, and a member of the transcendentalist movement.(2) James Clarke was an American theologian, author, and abolitionist.(3) Mrs. Mead Chalmers and her cousins were friends with literary authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel P. Willis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.The letters refer to these individuals but there is no correspondence with them.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnrelated to anything else in the collection, is a miscellaneous item which is a specimen of the first telegraphic writing made on the first telegraph in this country by Professor Morse in 1847.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAlso of interest in the collection are letters about General William Hull (1753-1825) who fought in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. His work with the government involved taking land from indigenous persons. In the end, he was charged by the government of not properly defending Detroit in the War of 1812, but President James Madison commuted his sentence.(4) For years, the family and descendants refuted the charges and filed a claim to receive his backpay. In contrast to General Hull's work with the government, is a newspaper clipping of a sermon by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) printed in 1876 which displays Whipple's outrage at the United States government for taking lands from indigenous persons.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFrom the taking away of the  lands of indigenous persons, to enslavement of African Americans, to a widowed woman trying to earn a living in the nineteenth century, with history about the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, as well as politics, religion, transcendentalism, local Charlottesville history and professors at the University of Virginia, this is a collection of letters rich in history that shows the inner workings of government, society, and people and its effects on everyday life. Collections like these help us to envision our collective past and broaden our perspective on our history and our future. This one is worth a deep dive into the history of the nineteenth century locally and nationally.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. Duval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Maas, Judith. \"Sarah Freeman Clarke: Artist, Traveler, Diarist\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. November 21, 2019  \nhttps://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2019/11/sarah-freeman-clarke-artist-traveler-diarist/ \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3.\"James Freeman Clarke.\" Wikipedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n4. \"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are comments about University of Virginia Professors Gessner Harrison, John B. Minor, Socrates Maupin, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilan Schele De Vere, James Lawrence Cabell, and William Holmes McGuffey. Included is a letter from Professor Gildersleeve to Dr. George Otis, Jr. dated 1876. Dr. Otis was the first born son of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolences on the death of daughter Louisa and her mother Nancy Binney Hull Hickman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence of Richard Gambill 1851-1856. There is also a letter from Thomas Walker Gilmer to Richard Gambill from 1833.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther cousins may be included in this correspondence including McLellans and Clouds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel C. Clarke writes to his cousin Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers about his attitudes towards Freedmen after enslavement, and their working and living conditions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes small broadside of Sarah Clark art exhibit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters about starting the school, procurement of teachers,letters from parents, and examinations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and notes about purchase of the newspaper and maintaining its operation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to raising money and operating a charity hospital for children in Richmond, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Lengthened Shadow\" of a Woman\" by Maria Pendleton Duval in the Ricmond Times Dispatch is a newspaper aticle about how Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers started Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies and how it influenced the opening of the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs Chalmers taught female students using the same curriculum as Harvard College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnslavement, letters from former enslaved people, and information about African American schools, and teaching African Americans to read the bible\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eZachariah Mead (husband of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers) writes a letter to his mother-in-law Nancy Binney \"Anne\" Hickman dated August 24, 1838 in which he describes to her the legislation required for bringing enslaved persons to another state. The family wants to move  from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia and take Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman with them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlair writes that the bond agreement was for him to keep Jordan until October when servants would be returning from the Springs, but he will return him if she needs his services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn her last will and testament, \"I direct that my old servant Othello Freeman, be supported from my estate, in such manner as my said executrive, may think proper.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from the Hickman's accountant, Joseph Bacon, that Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman,  who was enslaved by the Hull and Mead family, was removed from the Mclellan household (sister of \"Ann\" Nancy Binney Hickman) and was being boarded at Mr. White's. He writes that Tillo cannot do any work,is not well, and needs medical attention.  Mr. White wants more money to board and take care of him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes unidentified letter to Anna Maria Mead Chalmers about her being honored as a teacher, and her treatment of \"Tillo\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Potter says that he has heard good accounts of the school. No details are included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA note signed \"Massing Bird\" to [Frances] E. Meriwether asking to buy a horse. His son has taken his horse so he needs to buy one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter written by \"Old William\" who was the carriage driver for Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers. He writes to Mrs. Chalmers after the death of Mr. Chalmers about his fondness for them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers describing her memories of her grandfather General William Hull to her cousin James Freeman Clarke. Mrs. Chalmers recollects that her grandfather required Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman who they enslaved to be present in Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne page argument for the Southern Planter's claim that they need the  Freedmen to labor their crops. Author unidentified, undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the Mead family, Meriwether family, George H. Geyer and others describing camp life, skirmishes and battles, and officers, including General Stonewall Jackson, General Longstreet, General Braggs, General McLellan, and General Grant\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026amp; Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieut., 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna M. Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to Gen. Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Mead following his death at Resaca, Ga., 1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome letters and notes about the genealogy of the Mead family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs identified as Lieutenant William Zachariah Mead, Fannie Chalmers, and Marion Kollock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes article about Bishop Whipple sermon supporting Indigenous persons; article about James Freeman Clarke, other obituaries, and various miscellaneous items including a football game at Pantops Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Greenleaf Whittier \"The Singer\" from the Atlantic Monthly, devotional prayers, and miscellaneous\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle Isaac McLellan, Sunday School brochures, advertisement for the Rockbridge Baths, Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist by N. W. Camp, and religious printed materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of Distinction from La Fourches School, Keswick, Virginia for Henry B. Mead; Anna Maria Chalmers marriage certificate; and Kappa Alpha In Universitate Virginiae broadside.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The papers of Anna Maria (Campbell Hickman) Otis Mead Chalmers (1809-1891) and her family offer a deep look into a 19th century American family with a sharp focus on enslaved and formerly enslaved persons. The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. Blair.","In the correspondence of the Mead-Chalmers family, are letters describing Othello Tillo Freeman. There is also a will of Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman (1787-1847), mother of Anna Maria Chalmers, that left a stipulation providing room and board for Tillo. ","Letters also show that the family inquired about slave laws for travelling so that they could bring Tillo with them when they moved from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838. The family is characterized as being kind to enslaved persons by providing for them and educating them however this description does not take into consideration that they never had the opportunities that existed for free white men. ","There is also a leather-bound account book with the first names of enslaved persons.  It is not clear who owns the book or the location of the enslaved persons, but it has an extensive list of first names and dates from 1767 to 1845. Also included in the account book are records for horses and business transactions. "," The letters from William C. Mead (son of Anna Maria Chalmers) and his friends and family describe skirmishes and battles in the Civil War including Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Resaca, Georgia. Included in the collection are letters about succession and anxiety about the conflict between the states. Also included is a carte de visite of Lieutenant William Mead, n.d.; a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna Maria Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to General Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Lieutenant William Mead following his death at Resaca, Georgia in 1864.","William Mead graduated from the University of Virginia in 1857 before the Civil War began. The collection has many references to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, including comments about university professors Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe. Charlottesville families include Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page.","Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers was extraordinary in having been as well educated as any man in Boston (1) and was able to share her knowledge with other privileged young white girls through her school, including Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, the famous writer.The collection includes examination questions,correspondence about the school and a newspaper article in the   The Richmond Times Dispatch  dated August 10, 1913 describing Mrs. Mead Chalmers. There are also handwritten poems, short stories, and miscellaneous writings in the collection, including an essay on \"Virginia Before and After the Civil War.\" ","The collection also includes correspondence from Anna Maria Mead Chalmer's cousins, Samuel Clarke,James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) and his sister, Sarah Ann Freeman Clarke (1808-1896). Sarah Clarke was a landscape artist, a world traveler, and a member of the transcendentalist movement.(2) James Clarke was an American theologian, author, and abolitionist.(3) Mrs. Mead Chalmers and her cousins were friends with literary authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel P. Willis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.The letters refer to these individuals but there is no correspondence with them.","Unrelated to anything else in the collection, is a miscellaneous item which is a specimen of the first telegraphic writing made on the first telegraph in this country by Professor Morse in 1847.","\nAlso of interest in the collection are letters about General William Hull (1753-1825) who fought in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. His work with the government involved taking land from indigenous persons. In the end, he was charged by the government of not properly defending Detroit in the War of 1812, but President James Madison commuted his sentence.(4) For years, the family and descendants refuted the charges and filed a claim to receive his backpay. In contrast to General Hull's work with the government, is a newspaper clipping of a sermon by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) printed in 1876 which displays Whipple's outrage at the United States government for taking lands from indigenous persons.","From the taking away of the  lands of indigenous persons, to enslavement of African Americans, to a widowed woman trying to earn a living in the nineteenth century, with history about the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, as well as politics, religion, transcendentalism, local Charlottesville history and professors at the University of Virginia, this is a collection of letters rich in history that shows the inner workings of government, society, and people and its effects on everyday life. Collections like these help us to envision our collective past and broaden our perspective on our history and our future. This one is worth a deep dive into the history of the nineteenth century locally and nationally.","Sources:","1. Duval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) ","2. Maas, Judith. \"Sarah Freeman Clarke: Artist, Traveler, Diarist\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. November 21, 2019  \nhttps://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2019/11/sarah-freeman-clarke-artist-traveler-diarist/ ","3.\"James Freeman Clarke.\" Wikipedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke","\n4. \"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Included are comments about University of Virginia Professors Gessner Harrison, John B. Minor, Socrates Maupin, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilan Schele De Vere, James Lawrence Cabell, and William Holmes McGuffey. Included is a letter from Professor Gildersleeve to Dr. George Otis, Jr. dated 1876. Dr. Otis was the first born son of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers.","Condolences on the death of daughter Louisa and her mother Nancy Binney Hull Hickman.","Includes correspondence of Richard Gambill 1851-1856. There is also a letter from Thomas Walker Gilmer to Richard Gambill from 1833.","Other cousins may be included in this correspondence including McLellans and Clouds.","Samuel C. Clarke writes to his cousin Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers about his attitudes towards Freedmen after enslavement, and their working and living conditions.","Includes small broadside of Sarah Clark art exhibit","Letters about starting the school, procurement of teachers,letters from parents, and examinations.","Letters and notes about purchase of the newspaper and maintaining its operation.","Papers related to raising money and operating a charity hospital for children in Richmond, Virginia","\"The Lengthened Shadow\" of a Woman\" by Maria Pendleton Duval in the Ricmond Times Dispatch is a newspaper aticle about how Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers started Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies and how it influenced the opening of the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs Chalmers taught female students using the same curriculum as Harvard College.","Enslavement, letters from former enslaved people, and information about African American schools, and teaching African Americans to read the bible","Zachariah Mead (husband of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers) writes a letter to his mother-in-law Nancy Binney \"Anne\" Hickman dated August 24, 1838 in which he describes to her the legislation required for bringing enslaved persons to another state. The family wants to move  from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia and take Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman with them.","Blair writes that the bond agreement was for him to keep Jordan until October when servants would be returning from the Springs, but he will return him if she needs his services.","In her last will and testament, \"I direct that my old servant Othello Freeman, be supported from my estate, in such manner as my said executrive, may think proper.\"","Letter from the Hickman's accountant, Joseph Bacon, that Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman,  who was enslaved by the Hull and Mead family, was removed from the Mclellan household (sister of \"Ann\" Nancy Binney Hickman) and was being boarded at Mr. White's. He writes that Tillo cannot do any work,is not well, and needs medical attention.  Mr. White wants more money to board and take care of him.","Includes unidentified letter to Anna Maria Mead Chalmers about her being honored as a teacher, and her treatment of \"Tillo\".","Mr. Potter says that he has heard good accounts of the school. No details are included.","A note signed \"Massing Bird\" to [Frances] E. Meriwether asking to buy a horse. His son has taken his horse so he needs to buy one.","Letter written by \"Old William\" who was the carriage driver for Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers. He writes to Mrs. Chalmers after the death of Mr. Chalmers about his fondness for them.","Letter from Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers describing her memories of her grandfather General William Hull to her cousin James Freeman Clarke. Mrs. Chalmers recollects that her grandfather required Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman who they enslaved to be present in Church.","One page argument for the Southern Planter's claim that they need the  Freedmen to labor their crops. 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He tried to sell to the federal or state governments but finally sold Mount Vernon to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association in 1858 for $200,000. The family moved to Waveland plantation. Shortly after, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as an aid-de-camp to General Lee and was killed on September 13, 1861.","Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington was the mother of John Augustine Washington III. When she died in 1855, she left Mount Vernon to her son.","Eleanor Love Selden Washington was the wife of John Augustine Washington III.","Louisa Washington was the daughter of John Augustine Washington III and Eleanor Washington.","Note on folder: \"The enclosed picture was always said by Mrs. R.P. 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He tried to sell to the federal or state governments but finally sold Mount Vernon to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association in 1858 for $200,000. The family moved to Waveland plantation. Shortly after, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as an aid-de-camp to General Lee and was killed on September 13, 1861.","Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington was the mother of John Augustine Washington III. When she died in 1855, she left Mount Vernon to her son.","Eleanor Love Selden Washington was the wife of John Augustine Washington III.","Louisa Washington was the daughter of John Augustine Washington III and Eleanor Washington.","Note on folder: \"The enclosed picture was always said by Mrs. R.P. 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Ford, a former slave of the Washington family who was later freed and employed as overseer of Mount Vernon, reports on arrangements being made at Mount Vernon for a workman to slate a \"house for the books and papers.\" He mentions illnesses in his family and warns Bushrod against buying mules from his neighbor, Mr. Peake.","Richland to Mount Vernon. Has not heard from home; sends love to all; send things he asked for.","Charlottesville to Charlestown. Needs her permission to take only 2 courses at university; wants to purchase mare, visited Aunt Judy.","University of Virginia to Charlestown. Discusses possible appointment of new professor who does not have JAW's vote.","Mount Vernon to Charlestown. Tells mother of proposing to Nelly; describes horse races; financial matters.","Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Relates ill health of various family members and other family news.","Mount Vernon to Blakeley. Farm news; selling slave; thoughts on banks, family wishes.","Mount Vernon to Blakeley. Farm news; slave repeatedly running off; family matters.","Mount Vernon to Charlestown. Sending various flower cuttings; family news.","Mount Vernon to Blakeley. Illness is past; wants her to visit; concerned he might have offended aunt; other visits.","Mount Vernon to Blakeley. Relates travels home; landscape descriptions; family greetings.","Mount Vernon to Blakeley. Family illnesses; Alexandria returning to Virginia; discusses selling Mount Vernon to government.","Mount Vernon to Blakeley. Visitors to Mount Vernon; family matters.","Mount Vernon. Storm damaged trees; family matters.","Mount Vernon. Legal concerns.","Wants to meet in Alexandria about legal matters.","Blakeley. Much family news and love sent.","Sunnyside. Louisa was sick; drought; family matters.","Charlestown. Family matters.","Headquarters, Virginia Forces, Richmond. 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Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection","Maps.","There are no access restrictions.","Selections from the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection are also available in the \n                 .","This collection is arranged by size of map.","Charles Harrison Mann, Jr. was born in Alabama in 1908 and received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1931. He subsequently became an attorney both in Washington, D.C. and in Arlington, Virginia where he and his wife Betty Hart Mann, maintained their home. In 1949, while serving as President of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the University of Virginia Alumni Association, Mann organized an exploratory committee of local citizens to develop support for higher education in Northern Virginia. Through these efforts, the Northern Virginia Center of the University opened in October 1, 1949.","In 1953 Mann organized the Advisory Council to the Northern Virginia Center, which agreed that a two-year branch college should be established. Elected as a Democrat to the Virginia House of Delegates from 1954-1970, Mann sponsored a resolution calling for a study of educational needs for Virginia, and was instrumental in recommending the development of a college system in Virginia, particularly the establishment of a branch in Northern Virginia.","Mann was responsible for creating an educational financial assistance program for Virginia college students, and was instrumental in sponsoring legislation allowing local governments to form regional boards to acquire and transfer land and buildings for educational use.","He also served as the Chairman of George Mason College's first Board of Control. He sponsored bills constituting George Mason College as a branch of the University of Virginia and later elevating it to a four year division of the University with the right to grant degrees and offer graduate programs. He served on the GMU Board of Visitors from 1975 to 1977. He died in 1977.","Processed by Special Collections and Archives staff. EAD markup completed in July 2012 by Greta Kuriger.","Special Collections and Archives also holds   and handwritten draft of his history of George Mason University. Papers pertain to his political career and include subject files, memoranda, campaign materials, speeches, newsclippings and other related materials. In addition, there is the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. collection of rare books and atlases that can be found searching the GMU Libraries catalog.","New Virginia Map published ca. 1660 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.125 in. x 24.25 in. (51.12 cm x 62.23 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia. Titlepiece in upper center. Vignettes of Chief Powhatan in upper left and Native American figure in upper right below explanatory note. This image is based upon the 1608 map by Captain John Smith.","Map of Virginia and Florida published ca. 1640 by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 21.4 in. x 16.9 in. (54.35 cm x 42.93 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Virginia and parts of the southeast Atlantic coast. Large cartouche featuring Native American figures in upper center surrounding titlepiece. Smaller heraldic items in upper right and center of map. Cartouche featuring cherubs surrounds mileage chart in bottom center right.","By Francis Lamb. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.7 in. x 17 in. (52.57 cm x 43.18 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia, Maryland and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper right with cartouche featuring angelic figures. Heraldic symbol with crown in upper left just above scale.","New Virginia Map by Arnoldis Montanus. Published in Amsterdam in 1671. Copper plate engraving, black and white. 19.3 in. x 16.28 in. (49 cm x 41.35 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Virginia. Titlepiece in upper right adorned with images of cherubs. Heraldic image in upper center and Explanatory Note in upper right adorned with figures of Native Americans and animals. Scale in bottom center is also surrounded by cherub figures.","By Francis Lamb. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.7 in. x 17 in. (52.57 cm x 43.18 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia, Maryland, and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper right with cartouche featuring angelic figures. Heraldic symbol with crown in upper left just above scale. This Map has slightly different coloration than Map 3.","New Belgium and New England published ca. 1662 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 24.3 in. x 20.45 in. (61.72 cm x 51.94 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century New Belgium, New England, and New Netherland. Titlepiece is middle right and decorated with images of Native Americans, heraldic symbol, and crown. Scale is in bottom left and decorated with images of children. Other artwork in the map include vignettes of stockade-fenced settlements, animals, and ships.","Map of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey by John Senex (1678-1740) published 1719 in London. Copper plate engraving, color. 24 in. x 20 in. (60.96 cm x 50.8 cm). Map depicts Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper left. Scale in lower right.","Peter Goos. 17x21.","Homann. 20x23.","Map of Virginia and Maryland by Herman Moll (1654-1732). Published in London ca. 1700. Copper plate Engraving, color. 9.5 in. x 13.85 in. (24.14 cm x 35.18 cm). Map depicts Virginia, Maryland and parts of southern New Jersey. Unadorned titlepiece in upper left.","Map of Virginia and Maryland by Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688-1766) published in 1755. Copper plate engraving, color. 31.75 in x 21.5 in (80.64 cm x 54.61 cm). Map depicting Virginia, Maryland, and parts of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Titlepiece and scale in bottom right has cartouche of flora.","State of Virginia Map by Samuel Lewis, Philadelphia. Copper plate engraving, black and white. 21.3 in. x 16.9 in. (54.1 cm x 42.9 cm). Map depicting Virginia, the Northwest Territory, and parts of Maryland. Titlepiece with scale in upper left.","Unidentified. 10x15.","Map of Virginia and Maryland by Emmanuel Bowen. Copper plate engraving, color. 9.75 in. x 16 in. (24.76 cm x 40.64 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century Virginia, Maryland, and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece and scale are in bottom right.","New Map of Maryland by John Ogilby (1600-1676). Copper plate engraving, color. 20.15 in. x 16.21 in. (51.18 cm x 41.17 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Maryland and parts of both Virginia, and New Jersey. Ornate Titlepiece is in top center of map. Dedication, adorned with the coat of arms of Lord Baltimore, is in the upper right, and scale in lower left.","Map of North America by Pierre Schenk (1660-1718) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 25 in. x 20.5 in. (63.5 cm x 52.07 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century North America. European territorial possessions are colored in. Ornately decorated titlepiece featuring mythological sea creatures is in upper right. Advertisement and scale are in upper left.","Ortelius. 19x23.","Copper plate engraving, color. 8 in. x 11 in (20.32 cm x 27.94 cm). Map depicting the world's continents as seen from the vantage point of the North Pole. No identification, though \"1680\" penciled-in on verso.","America or New World Newly Described by Abraham Ortelius (1528-1598). Copper plate engraving, black and white. 20.25 in x 15.6 in (51.43 cm x 39.62 cm). Map of North and South America. Ornately decorated titlepiece in lower left and sailing ships in center.","Map of Caribbean islands and Gulf of Mexico by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) of Amsterdam. Copperplate engraving, color. 23 in. x 19.25 in. (58.42 cm x 48.89 cm). Map depicting Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Islands and parts of North, South, and Central America. Titlepiece in upper left flanked by cherubs. Ornate dedication in lower left and scale in lower right.","Map of North and South America by Herman Moll (1654-1732), London. Copper plate engraving, color. 9 in. x 14 in. (22.86 cm x 35.56 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century North and South America. Titlepiece in top left of map.","Map of North and Central America by Guillame Delisle (1675-1726) of Paris. Copper plate engraving, color. 21 in x 25 in (53.34 cm x 63.5 cm). Map depicting the eastern part of North America and Central America. Ornately decorated titlepiece in upper left featuring mythical sea figures and scale in upper right.","Map of the United States by William Faden (1750-1836). Published 1796 in London. Copper plate engraving, color. 23 in. x 31 in. (58.42 cm x 78.74 cm). Map depicts the eighteenth-century United States of America and parts of Canada. Titlepiece in bottom right is decorated with images having to do with shipping and trade. Scale is in bottom left.","Map of Chesapeake Bay Area of Virginia, Mark Tiddeman, London. Copper plate engraving, color. 19 in. x 23.5 in. (48.26 cm x 59.69 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century Tidewater and Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia. Titlepiece in bottom left. Scale is in bottom center.","Map of North America, J. Spillsbury, London. Copper plate engraving, color. 11 in. x 15 in. (27.94 cm x 38.1 cm). Eighteenth-century map depicting North America. Titlepiece is in bottom right. European territorial claims are delineated by colored outlining.","Map of American Colonies by Thomas Bowen (1700-1763), London. Copper plate engraving, color. 9 in. x 12 in. (22.86 cm x 30.48 cm). Map depicting the eighteenth-century American colonies. Titlepiece in lower right flanked by images of Native Americans. Scale in middle right.","Map of North America by Simon Bolton and engraved by R.W. Seale. Copper plate engraving, color. 21 in. x 26 in. (53.34 cm x 66.04 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century British and French North America. Large decorated titlepiece in lower right adorned with images of cherubs, a Native American figure, animals, and plants.","New Map of the World, by A. F. De wit. Copper plate engraving, color. 19 in. x 23 in. (48.26 cm x 58.42 cm). Seventeenth-century map of the world depicting the eastern and western hemispheres surrounded by images of the seasons, elements, and mythological figures.","World map showing eastern and western hemispheres, G.M. Lowitz. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 24 in. (49 cm x 41.35 cm). Eighteenth-century map depicting the eastern and western hemispheres of the world. Titlepieces in both upper left (Latin) and upper right (French) adorned with images of flora and fauna. Map has four insets, which depict the Arctic, Antarctic, Horizon of Nuremburg, and the Antipodes of Nuremburg.","Blaeu. 17x21.","Map of England and part of Scotland by Guliel Hole (d. 1624). Copper plate engraving, color. 12 in. x 13 in. (30.48 cm x 33.02 cm). Seventeenth-century map of England and Scotland. Titlepiece in upper right adorned with ornate cartouche featuring a crown and colorful embellishments. Large compass rose in lower left.","Map of the Isle of Wight, Joan Bleau (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 24 in. (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm). Seventeenth-century map of the Isle of Wight off the southern English coast. Title piece in lower left has cartouche featuring a coat of arms, and animals. Scale, adorned with globe, in lower right.","Bleau. 20x24.","Blaeu. 20x24.","John Rocque. 40x50. London. Two sheets.","Map of Warwickshire, England published ca. 1646 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 25 in. (50.8 cm x 63.5 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Warwickshire, England. Titlepiece in bottom left decorated with cartouche of fruits and flowers. Coats of arms in top left and bottom right, and scale in top right.","Bellin. 23x36. Paris.","I. Harrison. 21x32. Two sheet map.","Map of the Western Hemisphere published by J. Covens and C. Mortimer in Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 20 in. (50.8 cm x 50.8 cm). Map depicting eighteenth-century Western Hemisphere (North and South America and Pacific islands). Title in upper part of map. European territorial holdings are outlined in color.","Unidentified. 19x24.","Unidentified. 21x24. Paris.","LaRouge. 21x29. Paris.","From Pinkerton's Atlas. 24x40. London.","Map of roads between Chelmsford and Dover, England published by John Ogilby (1600-1676). Copper plate engraving, color. 15 in. x 18 in. (38.1 cm x 45.72 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century road from Chelmsford to Dover, England. Titlepiece is in top center of map with a cartouche of mythological sea creatures and figures.","Map of road from London to Bury, England by J. Gibson and published circa 1720. Copper plate engraving, color. 7 in. x 12 in. (17.78 cm x 30.48 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century road from London to Bury, England. Title runs entire length of map at top. Road is divided into ten numbered columns and towns and mileages are labeled.","2-sheet map of southern London by Christophe Homan (1703-30) and published 1736. Copper plate engraving, color. 25 in. x 31 in. (63.5 cm x 78.74 cm). 2-sheet map depicting eighteenth-century south London, England. Titlepiece in lower right with Lion and Unicorn Cartouche. Title of map is in Latin, while place and street names are in English. Other information is in German.","Map of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware by Henry Schenck Tanner (1786 - 1858), Philadelphia. Engraving, color. 19 in. x 23 in. (48.26 cm x 58.42 cm). Nineteenth-century map depicting Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Titlepiece is in top center. Scale and Explanation are in bottom center. Counties within each state are colored, while bordering states are left white.","Unidentified. 12x15. Includes: a) Virginia and Maryland, b) Texas, c) Arizona and New Mexica, d) Kentucky and Tennessee, e) Floriday, f) Georgia and Alabama, g) North and South Caroline, h) Baltimore, MD.","Wilkinson. 11x13. London.","Cadell and Davies. 23x30. London.","Unidentified. 9x11.","A. J. Johnson. 18x26. New York.","A. J. Johnson. 18x26. Same as item 52, but a different edition.","Cowperthwait. 14x17. Philadelphia.","Cotton. 16x18. New York.","Johnson. 14x18. New York. Same as item 55.","Colton. 16x18. New York.","Seers \u0026 Co. 11x16.","Unidentified. 17x21.","Cary. 21x24. London.","Unidentified. 18x22.","Unidentified. 18x22.","Unidentified. 18x27. New York.","Begin. 15x17.","Seutter. 221x25. Pictorial map with scene of burning of Lisbon.","Unidentified. 16x32.","Herman Boye. 31x50. Example of the first official map of Virginia backed with cloth in slip case.","Major J.E. Wayes. 22x25. New York. Maps include 1) Petersburg and Five Forks, 2) Antietam, 3) Spotsylvania Courthouse, and 4) Richmond; folded maps each with a hard cover. In 2 folders.","Blackford. 20x24. Baltimore. Folded map with hard cover.","Young. 13x16. Philadelphia.","Mitchell (publisher). 22x18. Philadelphia. Folding traveler's map in red morocco folder (3x5); map torn in folds, folder chipped and rubbed. In the same folder as item 70.","By Richard Long. 21x25. Manuscript map on parchment showing the future site of the Scottish Colony near Panama which existed from 1698 to 1699, when it was captured by the Spanish Army. Darien was to be the Scottish Jamestown and was part of the British effort to expand southward into the Caribbean. The few survivors found refuge in Jamaica.","Wytfliet. 9x12. Louvon.","Ortelius. 17x21. Map from early atlas.","Hondius. 19x23. Hondius edition of John Smith map of 1608.","12x19. Amsterdam.","Leide. 15x19.","27x29. Washington D.C.","There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection must be obtained from Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.","Donated to George Mason University Libraries in September 1978 by the Mann family, the C. Harrison Mann Jr, Map Collection comprises ninety-six maps ranging from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries and is housed in the Special Collections \u0026 Archives department. Though the majority of the maps Mann collected are of Virginia, there are many pertaining to other parts of the United States and the world in the collection.","George Mason University. Libraries. 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Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection are also available in the \n                \u003cextptr type=\"simple\" show=\"new\" title=\"C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Digitized Map Collection\" href=\"http://digilib.gmu.edu:8080/dspace/handle/1920/1935\"\u003e\u003c/extptr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e"],"altformavail_heading_ssm":["Alternative Form Available"],"altformavail_tesim":["Selections from the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection are also available in the \n                 ."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged by size of map.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is arranged by size of map."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCharles Harrison Mann, Jr. was born in Alabama in 1908 and received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1931. He subsequently became an attorney both in Washington, D.C. and in Arlington, Virginia where he and his wife Betty Hart Mann, maintained their home. In 1949, while serving as President of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the University of Virginia Alumni Association, Mann organized an exploratory committee of local citizens to develop support for higher education in Northern Virginia. Through these efforts, the Northern Virginia Center of the University opened in October 1, 1949.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1953 Mann organized the Advisory Council to the Northern Virginia Center, which agreed that a two-year branch college should be established. Elected as a Democrat to the Virginia House of Delegates from 1954-1970, Mann sponsored a resolution calling for a study of educational needs for Virginia, and was instrumental in recommending the development of a college system in Virginia, particularly the establishment of a branch in Northern Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMann was responsible for creating an educational financial assistance program for Virginia college students, and was instrumental in sponsoring legislation allowing local governments to form regional boards to acquire and transfer land and buildings for educational use.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe also served as the Chairman of George Mason College's first Board of Control. He sponsored bills constituting George Mason College as a branch of the University of Virginia and later elevating it to a four year division of the University with the right to grant degrees and offer graduate programs. He served on the GMU Board of Visitors from 1975 to 1977. 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Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia. Titlepiece in upper center. Vignettes of Chief Powhatan in upper left and Native American figure in upper right below explanatory note. This image is based upon the 1608 map by Captain John Smith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Virginia and Florida published ca. 1640 by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 21.4 in. x 16.9 in. (54.35 cm x 42.93 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Virginia and parts of the southeast Atlantic coast. Large cartouche featuring Native American figures in upper center surrounding titlepiece. Smaller heraldic items in upper right and center of map. Cartouche featuring cherubs surrounds mileage chart in bottom center right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy Francis Lamb. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.7 in. x 17 in. (52.57 cm x 43.18 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia, Maryland and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper right with cartouche featuring angelic figures. Heraldic symbol with crown in upper left just above scale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNew Virginia Map by Arnoldis Montanus. Published in Amsterdam in 1671. Copper plate engraving, black and white. 19.3 in. x 16.28 in. (49 cm x 41.35 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Virginia. Titlepiece in upper right adorned with images of cherubs. Heraldic image in upper center and Explanatory Note in upper right adorned with figures of Native Americans and animals. Scale in bottom center is also surrounded by cherub figures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy Francis Lamb. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.7 in. x 17 in. (52.57 cm x 43.18 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia, Maryland, and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper right with cartouche featuring angelic figures. Heraldic symbol with crown in upper left just above scale. This Map has slightly different coloration than Map 3.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNew Belgium and New England published ca. 1662 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 24.3 in. x 20.45 in. (61.72 cm x 51.94 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century New Belgium, New England, and New Netherland. Titlepiece is middle right and decorated with images of Native Americans, heraldic symbol, and crown. Scale is in bottom left and decorated with images of children. Other artwork in the map include vignettes of stockade-fenced settlements, animals, and ships.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey by John Senex (1678-1740) published 1719 in London. Copper plate engraving, color. 24 in. x 20 in. (60.96 cm x 50.8 cm). Map depicts Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper left. Scale in lower right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeter Goos. 17x21.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHomann. 20x23.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Virginia and Maryland by Herman Moll (1654-1732). Published in London ca. 1700. Copper plate Engraving, color. 9.5 in. x 13.85 in. (24.14 cm x 35.18 cm). Map depicts Virginia, Maryland and parts of southern New Jersey. Unadorned titlepiece in upper left.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Virginia and Maryland by Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688-1766) published in 1755. Copper plate engraving, color. 31.75 in x 21.5 in (80.64 cm x 54.61 cm). Map depicting Virginia, Maryland, and parts of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Titlepiece and scale in bottom right has cartouche of flora.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eState of Virginia Map by Samuel Lewis, Philadelphia. Copper plate engraving, black and white. 21.3 in. x 16.9 in. (54.1 cm x 42.9 cm). Map depicting Virginia, the Northwest Territory, and parts of Maryland. Titlepiece with scale in upper left.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 10x15.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Virginia and Maryland by Emmanuel Bowen. Copper plate engraving, color. 9.75 in. x 16 in. (24.76 cm x 40.64 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century Virginia, Maryland, and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece and scale are in bottom right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNew Map of Maryland by John Ogilby (1600-1676). Copper plate engraving, color. 20.15 in. x 16.21 in. (51.18 cm x 41.17 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Maryland and parts of both Virginia, and New Jersey. Ornate Titlepiece is in top center of map. Dedication, adorned with the coat of arms of Lord Baltimore, is in the upper right, and scale in lower left.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of North America by Pierre Schenk (1660-1718) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 25 in. x 20.5 in. (63.5 cm x 52.07 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century North America. European territorial possessions are colored in. Ornately decorated titlepiece featuring mythological sea creatures is in upper right. Advertisement and scale are in upper left.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrtelius. 19x23.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopper plate engraving, color. 8 in. x 11 in (20.32 cm x 27.94 cm). Map depicting the world's continents as seen from the vantage point of the North Pole. No identification, though \"1680\" penciled-in on verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerica or New World Newly Described by Abraham Ortelius (1528-1598). Copper plate engraving, black and white. 20.25 in x 15.6 in (51.43 cm x 39.62 cm). Map of North and South America. Ornately decorated titlepiece in lower left and sailing ships in center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Caribbean islands and Gulf of Mexico by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) of Amsterdam. Copperplate engraving, color. 23 in. x 19.25 in. (58.42 cm x 48.89 cm). Map depicting Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Islands and parts of North, South, and Central America. Titlepiece in upper left flanked by cherubs. Ornate dedication in lower left and scale in lower right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of North and South America by Herman Moll (1654-1732), London. Copper plate engraving, color. 9 in. x 14 in. (22.86 cm x 35.56 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century North and South America. Titlepiece in top left of map.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of North and Central America by Guillame Delisle (1675-1726) of Paris. Copper plate engraving, color. 21 in x 25 in (53.34 cm x 63.5 cm). Map depicting the eastern part of North America and Central America. Ornately decorated titlepiece in upper left featuring mythical sea figures and scale in upper right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of the United States by William Faden (1750-1836). Published 1796 in London. Copper plate engraving, color. 23 in. x 31 in. (58.42 cm x 78.74 cm). Map depicts the eighteenth-century United States of America and parts of Canada. Titlepiece in bottom right is decorated with images having to do with shipping and trade. Scale is in bottom left.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Chesapeake Bay Area of Virginia, Mark Tiddeman, London. Copper plate engraving, color. 19 in. x 23.5 in. (48.26 cm x 59.69 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century Tidewater and Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia. Titlepiece in bottom left. Scale is in bottom center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of North America, J. Spillsbury, London. Copper plate engraving, color. 11 in. x 15 in. (27.94 cm x 38.1 cm). Eighteenth-century map depicting North America. Titlepiece is in bottom right. European territorial claims are delineated by colored outlining.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of American Colonies by Thomas Bowen (1700-1763), London. Copper plate engraving, color. 9 in. x 12 in. (22.86 cm x 30.48 cm). Map depicting the eighteenth-century American colonies. Titlepiece in lower right flanked by images of Native Americans. Scale in middle right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of North America by Simon Bolton and engraved by R.W. Seale. Copper plate engraving, color. 21 in. x 26 in. (53.34 cm x 66.04 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century British and French North America. Large decorated titlepiece in lower right adorned with images of cherubs, a Native American figure, animals, and plants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNew Map of the World, by A. F. De wit. Copper plate engraving, color. 19 in. x 23 in. (48.26 cm x 58.42 cm). Seventeenth-century map of the world depicting the eastern and western hemispheres surrounded by images of the seasons, elements, and mythological figures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWorld map showing eastern and western hemispheres, G.M. Lowitz. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 24 in. (49 cm x 41.35 cm). Eighteenth-century map depicting the eastern and western hemispheres of the world. Titlepieces in both upper left (Latin) and upper right (French) adorned with images of flora and fauna. Map has four insets, which depict the Arctic, Antarctic, Horizon of Nuremburg, and the Antipodes of Nuremburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlaeu. 17x21.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of England and part of Scotland by Guliel Hole (d. 1624). Copper plate engraving, color. 12 in. x 13 in. (30.48 cm x 33.02 cm). Seventeenth-century map of England and Scotland. Titlepiece in upper right adorned with ornate cartouche featuring a crown and colorful embellishments. Large compass rose in lower left.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of the Isle of Wight, Joan Bleau (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 24 in. (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm). Seventeenth-century map of the Isle of Wight off the southern English coast. Title piece in lower left has cartouche featuring a coat of arms, and animals. Scale, adorned with globe, in lower right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBleau. 20x24.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlaeu. 20x24.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Rocque. 40x50. London. Two sheets.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Warwickshire, England published ca. 1646 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 25 in. (50.8 cm x 63.5 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Warwickshire, England. Titlepiece in bottom left decorated with cartouche of fruits and flowers. Coats of arms in top left and bottom right, and scale in top right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBellin. 23x36. Paris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI. Harrison. 21x32. Two sheet map.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of the Western Hemisphere published by J. Covens and C. Mortimer in Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 20 in. (50.8 cm x 50.8 cm). Map depicting eighteenth-century Western Hemisphere (North and South America and Pacific islands). Title in upper part of map. European territorial holdings are outlined in color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 19x24.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 21x24. Paris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaRouge. 21x29. Paris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Pinkerton's Atlas. 24x40. London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of roads between Chelmsford and Dover, England published by John Ogilby (1600-1676). Copper plate engraving, color. 15 in. x 18 in. (38.1 cm x 45.72 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century road from Chelmsford to Dover, England. Titlepiece is in top center of map with a cartouche of mythological sea creatures and figures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of road from London to Bury, England by J. Gibson and published circa 1720. Copper plate engraving, color. 7 in. x 12 in. (17.78 cm x 30.48 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century road from London to Bury, England. Title runs entire length of map at top. Road is divided into ten numbered columns and towns and mileages are labeled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2-sheet map of southern London by Christophe Homan (1703-30) and published 1736. Copper plate engraving, color. 25 in. x 31 in. (63.5 cm x 78.74 cm). 2-sheet map depicting eighteenth-century south London, England. Titlepiece in lower right with Lion and Unicorn Cartouche. Title of map is in Latin, while place and street names are in English. Other information is in German.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware by Henry Schenck Tanner (1786 - 1858), Philadelphia. Engraving, color. 19 in. x 23 in. (48.26 cm x 58.42 cm). Nineteenth-century map depicting Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Titlepiece is in top center. Scale and Explanation are in bottom center. Counties within each state are colored, while bordering states are left white.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 12x15. Includes: a) Virginia and Maryland, b) Texas, c) Arizona and New Mexica, d) Kentucky and Tennessee, e) Floriday, f) Georgia and Alabama, g) North and South Caroline, h) Baltimore, MD.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilkinson. 11x13. London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCadell and Davies. 23x30. London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 9x11.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA. J. Johnson. 18x26. New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA. J. Johnson. 18x26. Same as item 52, but a different edition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCowperthwait. 14x17. Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCotton. 16x18. New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohnson. 14x18. New York. Same as item 55.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColton. 16x18. New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeers \u0026amp; Co. 11x16.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 17x21.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCary. 21x24. London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 18x22.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 18x22.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 18x27. New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegin. 15x17.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeutter. 221x25. Pictorial map with scene of burning of Lisbon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 16x32.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHerman Boye. 31x50. Example of the first official map of Virginia backed with cloth in slip case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMajor J.E. Wayes. 22x25. New York. Maps include 1) Petersburg and Five Forks, 2) Antietam, 3) Spotsylvania Courthouse, and 4) Richmond; folded maps each with a hard cover. In 2 folders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlackford. 20x24. Baltimore. Folded map with hard cover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eYoung. 13x16. Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMitchell (publisher). 22x18. Philadelphia. Folding traveler's map in red morocco folder (3x5); map torn in folds, folder chipped and rubbed. In the same folder as item 70.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy Richard Long. 21x25. Manuscript map on parchment showing the future site of the Scottish Colony near Panama which existed from 1698 to 1699, when it was captured by the Spanish Army. Darien was to be the Scottish Jamestown and was part of the British effort to expand southward into the Caribbean. The few survivors found refuge in Jamaica.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWytfliet. 9x12. Louvon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrtelius. 17x21. Map from early atlas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHondius. 19x23. Hondius edition of John Smith map of 1608.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12x19. Amsterdam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeide. 15x19.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27x29. Washington D.C.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_tesim":["New Virginia Map published ca. 1660 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.125 in. x 24.25 in. (51.12 cm x 62.23 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia. Titlepiece in upper center. Vignettes of Chief Powhatan in upper left and Native American figure in upper right below explanatory note. This image is based upon the 1608 map by Captain John Smith.","Map of Virginia and Florida published ca. 1640 by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 21.4 in. x 16.9 in. (54.35 cm x 42.93 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Virginia and parts of the southeast Atlantic coast. Large cartouche featuring Native American figures in upper center surrounding titlepiece. Smaller heraldic items in upper right and center of map. Cartouche featuring cherubs surrounds mileage chart in bottom center right.","By Francis Lamb. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.7 in. x 17 in. (52.57 cm x 43.18 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia, Maryland and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper right with cartouche featuring angelic figures. Heraldic symbol with crown in upper left just above scale.","New Virginia Map by Arnoldis Montanus. Published in Amsterdam in 1671. Copper plate engraving, black and white. 19.3 in. x 16.28 in. (49 cm x 41.35 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Virginia. Titlepiece in upper right adorned with images of cherubs. Heraldic image in upper center and Explanatory Note in upper right adorned with figures of Native Americans and animals. Scale in bottom center is also surrounded by cherub figures.","By Francis Lamb. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.7 in. x 17 in. (52.57 cm x 43.18 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia, Maryland, and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper right with cartouche featuring angelic figures. Heraldic symbol with crown in upper left just above scale. This Map has slightly different coloration than Map 3.","New Belgium and New England published ca. 1662 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 24.3 in. x 20.45 in. (61.72 cm x 51.94 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century New Belgium, New England, and New Netherland. Titlepiece is middle right and decorated with images of Native Americans, heraldic symbol, and crown. Scale is in bottom left and decorated with images of children. Other artwork in the map include vignettes of stockade-fenced settlements, animals, and ships.","Map of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey by John Senex (1678-1740) published 1719 in London. Copper plate engraving, color. 24 in. x 20 in. (60.96 cm x 50.8 cm). Map depicts Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper left. Scale in lower right.","Peter Goos. 17x21.","Homann. 20x23.","Map of Virginia and Maryland by Herman Moll (1654-1732). Published in London ca. 1700. Copper plate Engraving, color. 9.5 in. x 13.85 in. (24.14 cm x 35.18 cm). Map depicts Virginia, Maryland and parts of southern New Jersey. Unadorned titlepiece in upper left.","Map of Virginia and Maryland by Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688-1766) published in 1755. Copper plate engraving, color. 31.75 in x 21.5 in (80.64 cm x 54.61 cm). Map depicting Virginia, Maryland, and parts of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Titlepiece and scale in bottom right has cartouche of flora.","State of Virginia Map by Samuel Lewis, Philadelphia. Copper plate engraving, black and white. 21.3 in. x 16.9 in. (54.1 cm x 42.9 cm). Map depicting Virginia, the Northwest Territory, and parts of Maryland. Titlepiece with scale in upper left.","Unidentified. 10x15.","Map of Virginia and Maryland by Emmanuel Bowen. Copper plate engraving, color. 9.75 in. x 16 in. (24.76 cm x 40.64 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century Virginia, Maryland, and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece and scale are in bottom right.","New Map of Maryland by John Ogilby (1600-1676). Copper plate engraving, color. 20.15 in. x 16.21 in. (51.18 cm x 41.17 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Maryland and parts of both Virginia, and New Jersey. Ornate Titlepiece is in top center of map. Dedication, adorned with the coat of arms of Lord Baltimore, is in the upper right, and scale in lower left.","Map of North America by Pierre Schenk (1660-1718) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 25 in. x 20.5 in. (63.5 cm x 52.07 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century North America. European territorial possessions are colored in. Ornately decorated titlepiece featuring mythological sea creatures is in upper right. Advertisement and scale are in upper left.","Ortelius. 19x23.","Copper plate engraving, color. 8 in. x 11 in (20.32 cm x 27.94 cm). Map depicting the world's continents as seen from the vantage point of the North Pole. No identification, though \"1680\" penciled-in on verso.","America or New World Newly Described by Abraham Ortelius (1528-1598). Copper plate engraving, black and white. 20.25 in x 15.6 in (51.43 cm x 39.62 cm). Map of North and South America. Ornately decorated titlepiece in lower left and sailing ships in center.","Map of Caribbean islands and Gulf of Mexico by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) of Amsterdam. Copperplate engraving, color. 23 in. x 19.25 in. (58.42 cm x 48.89 cm). Map depicting Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Islands and parts of North, South, and Central America. Titlepiece in upper left flanked by cherubs. Ornate dedication in lower left and scale in lower right.","Map of North and South America by Herman Moll (1654-1732), London. Copper plate engraving, color. 9 in. x 14 in. (22.86 cm x 35.56 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century North and South America. Titlepiece in top left of map.","Map of North and Central America by Guillame Delisle (1675-1726) of Paris. Copper plate engraving, color. 21 in x 25 in (53.34 cm x 63.5 cm). Map depicting the eastern part of North America and Central America. Ornately decorated titlepiece in upper left featuring mythical sea figures and scale in upper right.","Map of the United States by William Faden (1750-1836). Published 1796 in London. Copper plate engraving, color. 23 in. x 31 in. (58.42 cm x 78.74 cm). Map depicts the eighteenth-century United States of America and parts of Canada. Titlepiece in bottom right is decorated with images having to do with shipping and trade. Scale is in bottom left.","Map of Chesapeake Bay Area of Virginia, Mark Tiddeman, London. Copper plate engraving, color. 19 in. x 23.5 in. (48.26 cm x 59.69 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century Tidewater and Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia. Titlepiece in bottom left. Scale is in bottom center.","Map of North America, J. Spillsbury, London. Copper plate engraving, color. 11 in. x 15 in. (27.94 cm x 38.1 cm). Eighteenth-century map depicting North America. Titlepiece is in bottom right. European territorial claims are delineated by colored outlining.","Map of American Colonies by Thomas Bowen (1700-1763), London. Copper plate engraving, color. 9 in. x 12 in. (22.86 cm x 30.48 cm). Map depicting the eighteenth-century American colonies. Titlepiece in lower right flanked by images of Native Americans. Scale in middle right.","Map of North America by Simon Bolton and engraved by R.W. Seale. Copper plate engraving, color. 21 in. x 26 in. (53.34 cm x 66.04 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century British and French North America. Large decorated titlepiece in lower right adorned with images of cherubs, a Native American figure, animals, and plants.","New Map of the World, by A. F. De wit. Copper plate engraving, color. 19 in. x 23 in. (48.26 cm x 58.42 cm). Seventeenth-century map of the world depicting the eastern and western hemispheres surrounded by images of the seasons, elements, and mythological figures.","World map showing eastern and western hemispheres, G.M. Lowitz. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 24 in. (49 cm x 41.35 cm). Eighteenth-century map depicting the eastern and western hemispheres of the world. Titlepieces in both upper left (Latin) and upper right (French) adorned with images of flora and fauna. Map has four insets, which depict the Arctic, Antarctic, Horizon of Nuremburg, and the Antipodes of Nuremburg.","Blaeu. 17x21.","Map of England and part of Scotland by Guliel Hole (d. 1624). Copper plate engraving, color. 12 in. x 13 in. (30.48 cm x 33.02 cm). Seventeenth-century map of England and Scotland. Titlepiece in upper right adorned with ornate cartouche featuring a crown and colorful embellishments. Large compass rose in lower left.","Map of the Isle of Wight, Joan Bleau (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 24 in. (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm). Seventeenth-century map of the Isle of Wight off the southern English coast. Title piece in lower left has cartouche featuring a coat of arms, and animals. Scale, adorned with globe, in lower right.","Bleau. 20x24.","Blaeu. 20x24.","John Rocque. 40x50. London. Two sheets.","Map of Warwickshire, England published ca. 1646 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 25 in. (50.8 cm x 63.5 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Warwickshire, England. Titlepiece in bottom left decorated with cartouche of fruits and flowers. Coats of arms in top left and bottom right, and scale in top right.","Bellin. 23x36. Paris.","I. Harrison. 21x32. Two sheet map.","Map of the Western Hemisphere published by J. Covens and C. Mortimer in Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 20 in. (50.8 cm x 50.8 cm). Map depicting eighteenth-century Western Hemisphere (North and South America and Pacific islands). Title in upper part of map. European territorial holdings are outlined in color.","Unidentified. 19x24.","Unidentified. 21x24. Paris.","LaRouge. 21x29. Paris.","From Pinkerton's Atlas. 24x40. London.","Map of roads between Chelmsford and Dover, England published by John Ogilby (1600-1676). Copper plate engraving, color. 15 in. x 18 in. (38.1 cm x 45.72 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century road from Chelmsford to Dover, England. Titlepiece is in top center of map with a cartouche of mythological sea creatures and figures.","Map of road from London to Bury, England by J. Gibson and published circa 1720. Copper plate engraving, color. 7 in. x 12 in. (17.78 cm x 30.48 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century road from London to Bury, England. Title runs entire length of map at top. Road is divided into ten numbered columns and towns and mileages are labeled.","2-sheet map of southern London by Christophe Homan (1703-30) and published 1736. Copper plate engraving, color. 25 in. x 31 in. (63.5 cm x 78.74 cm). 2-sheet map depicting eighteenth-century south London, England. Titlepiece in lower right with Lion and Unicorn Cartouche. Title of map is in Latin, while place and street names are in English. Other information is in German.","Map of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware by Henry Schenck Tanner (1786 - 1858), Philadelphia. Engraving, color. 19 in. x 23 in. (48.26 cm x 58.42 cm). Nineteenth-century map depicting Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Titlepiece is in top center. Scale and Explanation are in bottom center. Counties within each state are colored, while bordering states are left white.","Unidentified. 12x15. Includes: a) Virginia and Maryland, b) Texas, c) Arizona and New Mexica, d) Kentucky and Tennessee, e) Floriday, f) Georgia and Alabama, g) North and South Caroline, h) Baltimore, MD.","Wilkinson. 11x13. London.","Cadell and Davies. 23x30. London.","Unidentified. 9x11.","A. J. Johnson. 18x26. New York.","A. J. Johnson. 18x26. Same as item 52, but a different edition.","Cowperthwait. 14x17. Philadelphia.","Cotton. 16x18. New York.","Johnson. 14x18. New York. Same as item 55.","Colton. 16x18. New York.","Seers \u0026 Co. 11x16.","Unidentified. 17x21.","Cary. 21x24. London.","Unidentified. 18x22.","Unidentified. 18x22.","Unidentified. 18x27. New York.","Begin. 15x17.","Seutter. 221x25. Pictorial map with scene of burning of Lisbon.","Unidentified. 16x32.","Herman Boye. 31x50. Example of the first official map of Virginia backed with cloth in slip case.","Major J.E. Wayes. 22x25. New York. Maps include 1) Petersburg and Five Forks, 2) Antietam, 3) Spotsylvania Courthouse, and 4) Richmond; folded maps each with a hard cover. In 2 folders.","Blackford. 20x24. Baltimore. Folded map with hard cover.","Young. 13x16. Philadelphia.","Mitchell (publisher). 22x18. Philadelphia. Folding traveler's map in red morocco folder (3x5); map torn in folds, folder chipped and rubbed. In the same folder as item 70.","By Richard Long. 21x25. Manuscript map on parchment showing the future site of the Scottish Colony near Panama which existed from 1698 to 1699, when it was captured by the Spanish Army. Darien was to be the Scottish Jamestown and was part of the British effort to expand southward into the Caribbean. The few survivors found refuge in Jamaica.","Wytfliet. 9x12. Louvon.","Ortelius. 17x21. Map from early atlas.","Hondius. 19x23. Hondius edition of John Smith map of 1608.","12x19. Amsterdam.","Leide. 15x19.","27x29. Washington D.C."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection must be obtained from Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection must be obtained from Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"ref175\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eDonated to George Mason University Libraries in September 1978 by the Mann family, the C. Harrison Mann Jr, Map Collection comprises ninety-six maps ranging from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries and is housed in the Special Collections \u0026amp; Archives department. Though the majority of the maps Mann collected are of Virginia, there are many pertaining to other parts of the United States and the world in the collection.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Donated to George Mason University Libraries in September 1978 by the Mann family, the C. Harrison Mann Jr, Map Collection comprises ninety-six maps ranging from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries and is housed in the Special Collections \u0026 Archives department. Though the majority of the maps Mann collected are of Virginia, there are many pertaining to other parts of the United States and the world in the collection."],"names_ssim":["George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections \u0026 Archives","Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977 \n\t\t"],"corpname_ssim":["George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections \u0026 Archives"],"persname_ssim":["Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977 \n\t\t"],"language_ssim":["English\n\t\t"],"total_component_count_is":92,"online_item_count_is":33,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T06:20:58.362Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vifgm_mannmaps","ead_ssi":"vifgm_mannmaps","_root_":"vifgm_mannmaps","_nest_parent_":"vifgm_mannmaps","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/gmu/mannmaps.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/mannmaps.html","title_ssm":["C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection"],"title_tesim":["C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection"],"unitdate_ssm":["1579-1961"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1579-1961"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["C0213"],"text":["C0213","C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection","Maps.","There are no access restrictions.","Selections from the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection are also available in the \n                 .","This collection is arranged by size of map.","Charles Harrison Mann, Jr. was born in Alabama in 1908 and received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1931. He subsequently became an attorney both in Washington, D.C. and in Arlington, Virginia where he and his wife Betty Hart Mann, maintained their home. In 1949, while serving as President of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the University of Virginia Alumni Association, Mann organized an exploratory committee of local citizens to develop support for higher education in Northern Virginia. Through these efforts, the Northern Virginia Center of the University opened in October 1, 1949.","In 1953 Mann organized the Advisory Council to the Northern Virginia Center, which agreed that a two-year branch college should be established. Elected as a Democrat to the Virginia House of Delegates from 1954-1970, Mann sponsored a resolution calling for a study of educational needs for Virginia, and was instrumental in recommending the development of a college system in Virginia, particularly the establishment of a branch in Northern Virginia.","Mann was responsible for creating an educational financial assistance program for Virginia college students, and was instrumental in sponsoring legislation allowing local governments to form regional boards to acquire and transfer land and buildings for educational use.","He also served as the Chairman of George Mason College's first Board of Control. He sponsored bills constituting George Mason College as a branch of the University of Virginia and later elevating it to a four year division of the University with the right to grant degrees and offer graduate programs. He served on the GMU Board of Visitors from 1975 to 1977. He died in 1977.","Processed by Special Collections and Archives staff. EAD markup completed in July 2012 by Greta Kuriger.","Special Collections and Archives also holds   and handwritten draft of his history of George Mason University. Papers pertain to his political career and include subject files, memoranda, campaign materials, speeches, newsclippings and other related materials. In addition, there is the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. collection of rare books and atlases that can be found searching the GMU Libraries catalog.","New Virginia Map published ca. 1660 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.125 in. x 24.25 in. (51.12 cm x 62.23 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia. Titlepiece in upper center. Vignettes of Chief Powhatan in upper left and Native American figure in upper right below explanatory note. This image is based upon the 1608 map by Captain John Smith.","Map of Virginia and Florida published ca. 1640 by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 21.4 in. x 16.9 in. (54.35 cm x 42.93 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Virginia and parts of the southeast Atlantic coast. Large cartouche featuring Native American figures in upper center surrounding titlepiece. Smaller heraldic items in upper right and center of map. Cartouche featuring cherubs surrounds mileage chart in bottom center right.","By Francis Lamb. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.7 in. x 17 in. (52.57 cm x 43.18 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia, Maryland and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper right with cartouche featuring angelic figures. Heraldic symbol with crown in upper left just above scale.","New Virginia Map by Arnoldis Montanus. Published in Amsterdam in 1671. Copper plate engraving, black and white. 19.3 in. x 16.28 in. (49 cm x 41.35 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Virginia. Titlepiece in upper right adorned with images of cherubs. Heraldic image in upper center and Explanatory Note in upper right adorned with figures of Native Americans and animals. Scale in bottom center is also surrounded by cherub figures.","By Francis Lamb. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.7 in. x 17 in. (52.57 cm x 43.18 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia, Maryland, and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper right with cartouche featuring angelic figures. Heraldic symbol with crown in upper left just above scale. This Map has slightly different coloration than Map 3.","New Belgium and New England published ca. 1662 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 24.3 in. x 20.45 in. (61.72 cm x 51.94 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century New Belgium, New England, and New Netherland. Titlepiece is middle right and decorated with images of Native Americans, heraldic symbol, and crown. Scale is in bottom left and decorated with images of children. Other artwork in the map include vignettes of stockade-fenced settlements, animals, and ships.","Map of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey by John Senex (1678-1740) published 1719 in London. Copper plate engraving, color. 24 in. x 20 in. (60.96 cm x 50.8 cm). Map depicts Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper left. Scale in lower right.","Peter Goos. 17x21.","Homann. 20x23.","Map of Virginia and Maryland by Herman Moll (1654-1732). Published in London ca. 1700. Copper plate Engraving, color. 9.5 in. x 13.85 in. (24.14 cm x 35.18 cm). Map depicts Virginia, Maryland and parts of southern New Jersey. Unadorned titlepiece in upper left.","Map of Virginia and Maryland by Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688-1766) published in 1755. Copper plate engraving, color. 31.75 in x 21.5 in (80.64 cm x 54.61 cm). Map depicting Virginia, Maryland, and parts of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Titlepiece and scale in bottom right has cartouche of flora.","State of Virginia Map by Samuel Lewis, Philadelphia. Copper plate engraving, black and white. 21.3 in. x 16.9 in. (54.1 cm x 42.9 cm). Map depicting Virginia, the Northwest Territory, and parts of Maryland. Titlepiece with scale in upper left.","Unidentified. 10x15.","Map of Virginia and Maryland by Emmanuel Bowen. Copper plate engraving, color. 9.75 in. x 16 in. (24.76 cm x 40.64 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century Virginia, Maryland, and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece and scale are in bottom right.","New Map of Maryland by John Ogilby (1600-1676). Copper plate engraving, color. 20.15 in. x 16.21 in. (51.18 cm x 41.17 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Maryland and parts of both Virginia, and New Jersey. Ornate Titlepiece is in top center of map. Dedication, adorned with the coat of arms of Lord Baltimore, is in the upper right, and scale in lower left.","Map of North America by Pierre Schenk (1660-1718) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 25 in. x 20.5 in. (63.5 cm x 52.07 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century North America. European territorial possessions are colored in. Ornately decorated titlepiece featuring mythological sea creatures is in upper right. Advertisement and scale are in upper left.","Ortelius. 19x23.","Copper plate engraving, color. 8 in. x 11 in (20.32 cm x 27.94 cm). Map depicting the world's continents as seen from the vantage point of the North Pole. No identification, though \"1680\" penciled-in on verso.","America or New World Newly Described by Abraham Ortelius (1528-1598). Copper plate engraving, black and white. 20.25 in x 15.6 in (51.43 cm x 39.62 cm). Map of North and South America. Ornately decorated titlepiece in lower left and sailing ships in center.","Map of Caribbean islands and Gulf of Mexico by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) of Amsterdam. Copperplate engraving, color. 23 in. x 19.25 in. (58.42 cm x 48.89 cm). Map depicting Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Islands and parts of North, South, and Central America. Titlepiece in upper left flanked by cherubs. Ornate dedication in lower left and scale in lower right.","Map of North and South America by Herman Moll (1654-1732), London. Copper plate engraving, color. 9 in. x 14 in. (22.86 cm x 35.56 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century North and South America. Titlepiece in top left of map.","Map of North and Central America by Guillame Delisle (1675-1726) of Paris. Copper plate engraving, color. 21 in x 25 in (53.34 cm x 63.5 cm). Map depicting the eastern part of North America and Central America. Ornately decorated titlepiece in upper left featuring mythical sea figures and scale in upper right.","Map of the United States by William Faden (1750-1836). Published 1796 in London. Copper plate engraving, color. 23 in. x 31 in. (58.42 cm x 78.74 cm). Map depicts the eighteenth-century United States of America and parts of Canada. Titlepiece in bottom right is decorated with images having to do with shipping and trade. Scale is in bottom left.","Map of Chesapeake Bay Area of Virginia, Mark Tiddeman, London. Copper plate engraving, color. 19 in. x 23.5 in. (48.26 cm x 59.69 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century Tidewater and Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia. Titlepiece in bottom left. Scale is in bottom center.","Map of North America, J. Spillsbury, London. Copper plate engraving, color. 11 in. x 15 in. (27.94 cm x 38.1 cm). Eighteenth-century map depicting North America. Titlepiece is in bottom right. European territorial claims are delineated by colored outlining.","Map of American Colonies by Thomas Bowen (1700-1763), London. Copper plate engraving, color. 9 in. x 12 in. (22.86 cm x 30.48 cm). Map depicting the eighteenth-century American colonies. Titlepiece in lower right flanked by images of Native Americans. Scale in middle right.","Map of North America by Simon Bolton and engraved by R.W. Seale. Copper plate engraving, color. 21 in. x 26 in. (53.34 cm x 66.04 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century British and French North America. Large decorated titlepiece in lower right adorned with images of cherubs, a Native American figure, animals, and plants.","New Map of the World, by A. F. De wit. Copper plate engraving, color. 19 in. x 23 in. (48.26 cm x 58.42 cm). Seventeenth-century map of the world depicting the eastern and western hemispheres surrounded by images of the seasons, elements, and mythological figures.","World map showing eastern and western hemispheres, G.M. Lowitz. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 24 in. (49 cm x 41.35 cm). Eighteenth-century map depicting the eastern and western hemispheres of the world. Titlepieces in both upper left (Latin) and upper right (French) adorned with images of flora and fauna. Map has four insets, which depict the Arctic, Antarctic, Horizon of Nuremburg, and the Antipodes of Nuremburg.","Blaeu. 17x21.","Map of England and part of Scotland by Guliel Hole (d. 1624). Copper plate engraving, color. 12 in. x 13 in. (30.48 cm x 33.02 cm). Seventeenth-century map of England and Scotland. Titlepiece in upper right adorned with ornate cartouche featuring a crown and colorful embellishments. Large compass rose in lower left.","Map of the Isle of Wight, Joan Bleau (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 24 in. (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm). Seventeenth-century map of the Isle of Wight off the southern English coast. Title piece in lower left has cartouche featuring a coat of arms, and animals. Scale, adorned with globe, in lower right.","Bleau. 20x24.","Blaeu. 20x24.","John Rocque. 40x50. London. Two sheets.","Map of Warwickshire, England published ca. 1646 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 25 in. (50.8 cm x 63.5 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Warwickshire, England. Titlepiece in bottom left decorated with cartouche of fruits and flowers. Coats of arms in top left and bottom right, and scale in top right.","Bellin. 23x36. Paris.","I. Harrison. 21x32. Two sheet map.","Map of the Western Hemisphere published by J. Covens and C. Mortimer in Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 20 in. (50.8 cm x 50.8 cm). Map depicting eighteenth-century Western Hemisphere (North and South America and Pacific islands). Title in upper part of map. European territorial holdings are outlined in color.","Unidentified. 19x24.","Unidentified. 21x24. Paris.","LaRouge. 21x29. Paris.","From Pinkerton's Atlas. 24x40. London.","Map of roads between Chelmsford and Dover, England published by John Ogilby (1600-1676). Copper plate engraving, color. 15 in. x 18 in. (38.1 cm x 45.72 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century road from Chelmsford to Dover, England. Titlepiece is in top center of map with a cartouche of mythological sea creatures and figures.","Map of road from London to Bury, England by J. Gibson and published circa 1720. Copper plate engraving, color. 7 in. x 12 in. (17.78 cm x 30.48 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century road from London to Bury, England. Title runs entire length of map at top. Road is divided into ten numbered columns and towns and mileages are labeled.","2-sheet map of southern London by Christophe Homan (1703-30) and published 1736. Copper plate engraving, color. 25 in. x 31 in. (63.5 cm x 78.74 cm). 2-sheet map depicting eighteenth-century south London, England. Titlepiece in lower right with Lion and Unicorn Cartouche. Title of map is in Latin, while place and street names are in English. Other information is in German.","Map of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware by Henry Schenck Tanner (1786 - 1858), Philadelphia. Engraving, color. 19 in. x 23 in. (48.26 cm x 58.42 cm). Nineteenth-century map depicting Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Titlepiece is in top center. Scale and Explanation are in bottom center. Counties within each state are colored, while bordering states are left white.","Unidentified. 12x15. Includes: a) Virginia and Maryland, b) Texas, c) Arizona and New Mexica, d) Kentucky and Tennessee, e) Floriday, f) Georgia and Alabama, g) North and South Caroline, h) Baltimore, MD.","Wilkinson. 11x13. London.","Cadell and Davies. 23x30. London.","Unidentified. 9x11.","A. J. Johnson. 18x26. New York.","A. J. Johnson. 18x26. Same as item 52, but a different edition.","Cowperthwait. 14x17. Philadelphia.","Cotton. 16x18. New York.","Johnson. 14x18. New York. Same as item 55.","Colton. 16x18. New York.","Seers \u0026 Co. 11x16.","Unidentified. 17x21.","Cary. 21x24. London.","Unidentified. 18x22.","Unidentified. 18x22.","Unidentified. 18x27. New York.","Begin. 15x17.","Seutter. 221x25. Pictorial map with scene of burning of Lisbon.","Unidentified. 16x32.","Herman Boye. 31x50. Example of the first official map of Virginia backed with cloth in slip case.","Major J.E. Wayes. 22x25. New York. Maps include 1) Petersburg and Five Forks, 2) Antietam, 3) Spotsylvania Courthouse, and 4) Richmond; folded maps each with a hard cover. In 2 folders.","Blackford. 20x24. Baltimore. Folded map with hard cover.","Young. 13x16. Philadelphia.","Mitchell (publisher). 22x18. Philadelphia. Folding traveler's map in red morocco folder (3x5); map torn in folds, folder chipped and rubbed. In the same folder as item 70.","By Richard Long. 21x25. Manuscript map on parchment showing the future site of the Scottish Colony near Panama which existed from 1698 to 1699, when it was captured by the Spanish Army. Darien was to be the Scottish Jamestown and was part of the British effort to expand southward into the Caribbean. The few survivors found refuge in Jamaica.","Wytfliet. 9x12. Louvon.","Ortelius. 17x21. Map from early atlas.","Hondius. 19x23. Hondius edition of John Smith map of 1608.","12x19. Amsterdam.","Leide. 15x19.","27x29. Washington D.C.","There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection must be obtained from Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.","Donated to George Mason University Libraries in September 1978 by the Mann family, the C. Harrison Mann Jr, Map Collection comprises ninety-six maps ranging from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries and is housed in the Special Collections \u0026 Archives department. Though the majority of the maps Mann collected are of Virginia, there are many pertaining to other parts of the United States and the world in the collection.","George Mason University. Libraries. 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Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection are also available in the \n                \u003cextptr type=\"simple\" show=\"new\" title=\"C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Digitized Map Collection\" href=\"http://digilib.gmu.edu:8080/dspace/handle/1920/1935\"\u003e\u003c/extptr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e"],"altformavail_heading_ssm":["Alternative Form Available"],"altformavail_tesim":["Selections from the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection are also available in the \n                 ."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged by size of map.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is arranged by size of map."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCharles Harrison Mann, Jr. was born in Alabama in 1908 and received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1931. He subsequently became an attorney both in Washington, D.C. and in Arlington, Virginia where he and his wife Betty Hart Mann, maintained their home. In 1949, while serving as President of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the University of Virginia Alumni Association, Mann organized an exploratory committee of local citizens to develop support for higher education in Northern Virginia. Through these efforts, the Northern Virginia Center of the University opened in October 1, 1949.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1953 Mann organized the Advisory Council to the Northern Virginia Center, which agreed that a two-year branch college should be established. Elected as a Democrat to the Virginia House of Delegates from 1954-1970, Mann sponsored a resolution calling for a study of educational needs for Virginia, and was instrumental in recommending the development of a college system in Virginia, particularly the establishment of a branch in Northern Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMann was responsible for creating an educational financial assistance program for Virginia college students, and was instrumental in sponsoring legislation allowing local governments to form regional boards to acquire and transfer land and buildings for educational use.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe also served as the Chairman of George Mason College's first Board of Control. He sponsored bills constituting George Mason College as a branch of the University of Virginia and later elevating it to a four year division of the University with the right to grant degrees and offer graduate programs. He served on the GMU Board of Visitors from 1975 to 1977. 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Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia. Titlepiece in upper center. Vignettes of Chief Powhatan in upper left and Native American figure in upper right below explanatory note. This image is based upon the 1608 map by Captain John Smith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Virginia and Florida published ca. 1640 by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 21.4 in. x 16.9 in. (54.35 cm x 42.93 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Virginia and parts of the southeast Atlantic coast. Large cartouche featuring Native American figures in upper center surrounding titlepiece. Smaller heraldic items in upper right and center of map. Cartouche featuring cherubs surrounds mileage chart in bottom center right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy Francis Lamb. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.7 in. x 17 in. (52.57 cm x 43.18 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia, Maryland and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper right with cartouche featuring angelic figures. Heraldic symbol with crown in upper left just above scale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNew Virginia Map by Arnoldis Montanus. Published in Amsterdam in 1671. Copper plate engraving, black and white. 19.3 in. x 16.28 in. (49 cm x 41.35 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Virginia. Titlepiece in upper right adorned with images of cherubs. Heraldic image in upper center and Explanatory Note in upper right adorned with figures of Native Americans and animals. Scale in bottom center is also surrounded by cherub figures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy Francis Lamb. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.7 in. x 17 in. (52.57 cm x 43.18 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia, Maryland, and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper right with cartouche featuring angelic figures. Heraldic symbol with crown in upper left just above scale. This Map has slightly different coloration than Map 3.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNew Belgium and New England published ca. 1662 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 24.3 in. x 20.45 in. (61.72 cm x 51.94 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century New Belgium, New England, and New Netherland. Titlepiece is middle right and decorated with images of Native Americans, heraldic symbol, and crown. Scale is in bottom left and decorated with images of children. Other artwork in the map include vignettes of stockade-fenced settlements, animals, and ships.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey by John Senex (1678-1740) published 1719 in London. Copper plate engraving, color. 24 in. x 20 in. (60.96 cm x 50.8 cm). Map depicts Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper left. Scale in lower right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeter Goos. 17x21.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHomann. 20x23.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Virginia and Maryland by Herman Moll (1654-1732). Published in London ca. 1700. Copper plate Engraving, color. 9.5 in. x 13.85 in. (24.14 cm x 35.18 cm). Map depicts Virginia, Maryland and parts of southern New Jersey. Unadorned titlepiece in upper left.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Virginia and Maryland by Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688-1766) published in 1755. Copper plate engraving, color. 31.75 in x 21.5 in (80.64 cm x 54.61 cm). Map depicting Virginia, Maryland, and parts of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Titlepiece and scale in bottom right has cartouche of flora.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eState of Virginia Map by Samuel Lewis, Philadelphia. Copper plate engraving, black and white. 21.3 in. x 16.9 in. (54.1 cm x 42.9 cm). Map depicting Virginia, the Northwest Territory, and parts of Maryland. Titlepiece with scale in upper left.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 10x15.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Virginia and Maryland by Emmanuel Bowen. Copper plate engraving, color. 9.75 in. x 16 in. (24.76 cm x 40.64 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century Virginia, Maryland, and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece and scale are in bottom right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNew Map of Maryland by John Ogilby (1600-1676). Copper plate engraving, color. 20.15 in. x 16.21 in. (51.18 cm x 41.17 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Maryland and parts of both Virginia, and New Jersey. Ornate Titlepiece is in top center of map. Dedication, adorned with the coat of arms of Lord Baltimore, is in the upper right, and scale in lower left.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of North America by Pierre Schenk (1660-1718) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 25 in. x 20.5 in. (63.5 cm x 52.07 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century North America. European territorial possessions are colored in. Ornately decorated titlepiece featuring mythological sea creatures is in upper right. Advertisement and scale are in upper left.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrtelius. 19x23.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopper plate engraving, color. 8 in. x 11 in (20.32 cm x 27.94 cm). Map depicting the world's continents as seen from the vantage point of the North Pole. No identification, though \"1680\" penciled-in on verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerica or New World Newly Described by Abraham Ortelius (1528-1598). Copper plate engraving, black and white. 20.25 in x 15.6 in (51.43 cm x 39.62 cm). Map of North and South America. Ornately decorated titlepiece in lower left and sailing ships in center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Caribbean islands and Gulf of Mexico by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) of Amsterdam. Copperplate engraving, color. 23 in. x 19.25 in. (58.42 cm x 48.89 cm). Map depicting Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Islands and parts of North, South, and Central America. Titlepiece in upper left flanked by cherubs. Ornate dedication in lower left and scale in lower right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of North and South America by Herman Moll (1654-1732), London. Copper plate engraving, color. 9 in. x 14 in. (22.86 cm x 35.56 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century North and South America. Titlepiece in top left of map.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of North and Central America by Guillame Delisle (1675-1726) of Paris. Copper plate engraving, color. 21 in x 25 in (53.34 cm x 63.5 cm). Map depicting the eastern part of North America and Central America. Ornately decorated titlepiece in upper left featuring mythical sea figures and scale in upper right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of the United States by William Faden (1750-1836). Published 1796 in London. Copper plate engraving, color. 23 in. x 31 in. (58.42 cm x 78.74 cm). Map depicts the eighteenth-century United States of America and parts of Canada. Titlepiece in bottom right is decorated with images having to do with shipping and trade. Scale is in bottom left.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Chesapeake Bay Area of Virginia, Mark Tiddeman, London. Copper plate engraving, color. 19 in. x 23.5 in. (48.26 cm x 59.69 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century Tidewater and Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia. Titlepiece in bottom left. Scale is in bottom center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of North America, J. Spillsbury, London. Copper plate engraving, color. 11 in. x 15 in. (27.94 cm x 38.1 cm). Eighteenth-century map depicting North America. Titlepiece is in bottom right. European territorial claims are delineated by colored outlining.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of American Colonies by Thomas Bowen (1700-1763), London. Copper plate engraving, color. 9 in. x 12 in. (22.86 cm x 30.48 cm). Map depicting the eighteenth-century American colonies. Titlepiece in lower right flanked by images of Native Americans. Scale in middle right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of North America by Simon Bolton and engraved by R.W. Seale. Copper plate engraving, color. 21 in. x 26 in. (53.34 cm x 66.04 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century British and French North America. Large decorated titlepiece in lower right adorned with images of cherubs, a Native American figure, animals, and plants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNew Map of the World, by A. F. De wit. Copper plate engraving, color. 19 in. x 23 in. (48.26 cm x 58.42 cm). Seventeenth-century map of the world depicting the eastern and western hemispheres surrounded by images of the seasons, elements, and mythological figures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWorld map showing eastern and western hemispheres, G.M. Lowitz. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 24 in. (49 cm x 41.35 cm). Eighteenth-century map depicting the eastern and western hemispheres of the world. Titlepieces in both upper left (Latin) and upper right (French) adorned with images of flora and fauna. Map has four insets, which depict the Arctic, Antarctic, Horizon of Nuremburg, and the Antipodes of Nuremburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlaeu. 17x21.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of England and part of Scotland by Guliel Hole (d. 1624). Copper plate engraving, color. 12 in. x 13 in. (30.48 cm x 33.02 cm). Seventeenth-century map of England and Scotland. Titlepiece in upper right adorned with ornate cartouche featuring a crown and colorful embellishments. Large compass rose in lower left.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of the Isle of Wight, Joan Bleau (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 24 in. (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm). Seventeenth-century map of the Isle of Wight off the southern English coast. Title piece in lower left has cartouche featuring a coat of arms, and animals. Scale, adorned with globe, in lower right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBleau. 20x24.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlaeu. 20x24.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Rocque. 40x50. London. Two sheets.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Warwickshire, England published ca. 1646 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 25 in. (50.8 cm x 63.5 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Warwickshire, England. Titlepiece in bottom left decorated with cartouche of fruits and flowers. Coats of arms in top left and bottom right, and scale in top right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBellin. 23x36. Paris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI. Harrison. 21x32. Two sheet map.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of the Western Hemisphere published by J. Covens and C. Mortimer in Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 20 in. (50.8 cm x 50.8 cm). Map depicting eighteenth-century Western Hemisphere (North and South America and Pacific islands). Title in upper part of map. European territorial holdings are outlined in color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 19x24.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 21x24. Paris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaRouge. 21x29. Paris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Pinkerton's Atlas. 24x40. London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of roads between Chelmsford and Dover, England published by John Ogilby (1600-1676). Copper plate engraving, color. 15 in. x 18 in. (38.1 cm x 45.72 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century road from Chelmsford to Dover, England. Titlepiece is in top center of map with a cartouche of mythological sea creatures and figures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of road from London to Bury, England by J. Gibson and published circa 1720. Copper plate engraving, color. 7 in. x 12 in. (17.78 cm x 30.48 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century road from London to Bury, England. Title runs entire length of map at top. Road is divided into ten numbered columns and towns and mileages are labeled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2-sheet map of southern London by Christophe Homan (1703-30) and published 1736. Copper plate engraving, color. 25 in. x 31 in. (63.5 cm x 78.74 cm). 2-sheet map depicting eighteenth-century south London, England. Titlepiece in lower right with Lion and Unicorn Cartouche. Title of map is in Latin, while place and street names are in English. Other information is in German.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware by Henry Schenck Tanner (1786 - 1858), Philadelphia. Engraving, color. 19 in. x 23 in. (48.26 cm x 58.42 cm). Nineteenth-century map depicting Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Titlepiece is in top center. Scale and Explanation are in bottom center. Counties within each state are colored, while bordering states are left white.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 12x15. Includes: a) Virginia and Maryland, b) Texas, c) Arizona and New Mexica, d) Kentucky and Tennessee, e) Floriday, f) Georgia and Alabama, g) North and South Caroline, h) Baltimore, MD.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilkinson. 11x13. London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCadell and Davies. 23x30. London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 9x11.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA. J. Johnson. 18x26. New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA. J. Johnson. 18x26. Same as item 52, but a different edition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCowperthwait. 14x17. Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCotton. 16x18. New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohnson. 14x18. New York. Same as item 55.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColton. 16x18. New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeers \u0026amp; Co. 11x16.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 17x21.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCary. 21x24. London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 18x22.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 18x22.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 18x27. New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegin. 15x17.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeutter. 221x25. Pictorial map with scene of burning of Lisbon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified. 16x32.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHerman Boye. 31x50. Example of the first official map of Virginia backed with cloth in slip case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMajor J.E. Wayes. 22x25. New York. Maps include 1) Petersburg and Five Forks, 2) Antietam, 3) Spotsylvania Courthouse, and 4) Richmond; folded maps each with a hard cover. In 2 folders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlackford. 20x24. Baltimore. Folded map with hard cover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eYoung. 13x16. Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMitchell (publisher). 22x18. Philadelphia. Folding traveler's map in red morocco folder (3x5); map torn in folds, folder chipped and rubbed. In the same folder as item 70.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy Richard Long. 21x25. Manuscript map on parchment showing the future site of the Scottish Colony near Panama which existed from 1698 to 1699, when it was captured by the Spanish Army. Darien was to be the Scottish Jamestown and was part of the British effort to expand southward into the Caribbean. The few survivors found refuge in Jamaica.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWytfliet. 9x12. Louvon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrtelius. 17x21. Map from early atlas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHondius. 19x23. Hondius edition of John Smith map of 1608.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12x19. Amsterdam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeide. 15x19.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27x29. Washington D.C.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_tesim":["New Virginia Map published ca. 1660 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.125 in. x 24.25 in. (51.12 cm x 62.23 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia. Titlepiece in upper center. Vignettes of Chief Powhatan in upper left and Native American figure in upper right below explanatory note. This image is based upon the 1608 map by Captain John Smith.","Map of Virginia and Florida published ca. 1640 by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 21.4 in. x 16.9 in. (54.35 cm x 42.93 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Virginia and parts of the southeast Atlantic coast. Large cartouche featuring Native American figures in upper center surrounding titlepiece. Smaller heraldic items in upper right and center of map. Cartouche featuring cherubs surrounds mileage chart in bottom center right.","By Francis Lamb. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.7 in. x 17 in. (52.57 cm x 43.18 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia, Maryland and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper right with cartouche featuring angelic figures. Heraldic symbol with crown in upper left just above scale.","New Virginia Map by Arnoldis Montanus. Published in Amsterdam in 1671. Copper plate engraving, black and white. 19.3 in. x 16.28 in. (49 cm x 41.35 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Virginia. Titlepiece in upper right adorned with images of cherubs. Heraldic image in upper center and Explanatory Note in upper right adorned with figures of Native Americans and animals. Scale in bottom center is also surrounded by cherub figures.","By Francis Lamb. Copper plate engraving, color. 20.7 in. x 17 in. (52.57 cm x 43.18 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Virginia, Maryland, and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper right with cartouche featuring angelic figures. Heraldic symbol with crown in upper left just above scale. This Map has slightly different coloration than Map 3.","New Belgium and New England published ca. 1662 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 24.3 in. x 20.45 in. (61.72 cm x 51.94 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century New Belgium, New England, and New Netherland. Titlepiece is middle right and decorated with images of Native Americans, heraldic symbol, and crown. Scale is in bottom left and decorated with images of children. Other artwork in the map include vignettes of stockade-fenced settlements, animals, and ships.","Map of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey by John Senex (1678-1740) published 1719 in London. Copper plate engraving, color. 24 in. x 20 in. (60.96 cm x 50.8 cm). Map depicts Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Titlepiece in upper left. Scale in lower right.","Peter Goos. 17x21.","Homann. 20x23.","Map of Virginia and Maryland by Herman Moll (1654-1732). Published in London ca. 1700. Copper plate Engraving, color. 9.5 in. x 13.85 in. (24.14 cm x 35.18 cm). Map depicts Virginia, Maryland and parts of southern New Jersey. Unadorned titlepiece in upper left.","Map of Virginia and Maryland by Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688-1766) published in 1755. Copper plate engraving, color. 31.75 in x 21.5 in (80.64 cm x 54.61 cm). Map depicting Virginia, Maryland, and parts of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Titlepiece and scale in bottom right has cartouche of flora.","State of Virginia Map by Samuel Lewis, Philadelphia. Copper plate engraving, black and white. 21.3 in. x 16.9 in. (54.1 cm x 42.9 cm). Map depicting Virginia, the Northwest Territory, and parts of Maryland. Titlepiece with scale in upper left.","Unidentified. 10x15.","Map of Virginia and Maryland by Emmanuel Bowen. Copper plate engraving, color. 9.75 in. x 16 in. (24.76 cm x 40.64 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century Virginia, Maryland, and part of New Jersey. Titlepiece and scale are in bottom right.","New Map of Maryland by John Ogilby (1600-1676). Copper plate engraving, color. 20.15 in. x 16.21 in. (51.18 cm x 41.17 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century Maryland and parts of both Virginia, and New Jersey. Ornate Titlepiece is in top center of map. Dedication, adorned with the coat of arms of Lord Baltimore, is in the upper right, and scale in lower left.","Map of North America by Pierre Schenk (1660-1718) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 25 in. x 20.5 in. (63.5 cm x 52.07 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century North America. European territorial possessions are colored in. Ornately decorated titlepiece featuring mythological sea creatures is in upper right. Advertisement and scale are in upper left.","Ortelius. 19x23.","Copper plate engraving, color. 8 in. x 11 in (20.32 cm x 27.94 cm). Map depicting the world's continents as seen from the vantage point of the North Pole. No identification, though \"1680\" penciled-in on verso.","America or New World Newly Described by Abraham Ortelius (1528-1598). Copper plate engraving, black and white. 20.25 in x 15.6 in (51.43 cm x 39.62 cm). Map of North and South America. Ornately decorated titlepiece in lower left and sailing ships in center.","Map of Caribbean islands and Gulf of Mexico by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) of Amsterdam. Copperplate engraving, color. 23 in. x 19.25 in. (58.42 cm x 48.89 cm). Map depicting Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Islands and parts of North, South, and Central America. Titlepiece in upper left flanked by cherubs. Ornate dedication in lower left and scale in lower right.","Map of North and South America by Herman Moll (1654-1732), London. Copper plate engraving, color. 9 in. x 14 in. (22.86 cm x 35.56 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century North and South America. Titlepiece in top left of map.","Map of North and Central America by Guillame Delisle (1675-1726) of Paris. Copper plate engraving, color. 21 in x 25 in (53.34 cm x 63.5 cm). Map depicting the eastern part of North America and Central America. Ornately decorated titlepiece in upper left featuring mythical sea figures and scale in upper right.","Map of the United States by William Faden (1750-1836). Published 1796 in London. Copper plate engraving, color. 23 in. x 31 in. (58.42 cm x 78.74 cm). Map depicts the eighteenth-century United States of America and parts of Canada. Titlepiece in bottom right is decorated with images having to do with shipping and trade. Scale is in bottom left.","Map of Chesapeake Bay Area of Virginia, Mark Tiddeman, London. Copper plate engraving, color. 19 in. x 23.5 in. (48.26 cm x 59.69 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century Tidewater and Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia. Titlepiece in bottom left. Scale is in bottom center.","Map of North America, J. Spillsbury, London. Copper plate engraving, color. 11 in. x 15 in. (27.94 cm x 38.1 cm). Eighteenth-century map depicting North America. Titlepiece is in bottom right. European territorial claims are delineated by colored outlining.","Map of American Colonies by Thomas Bowen (1700-1763), London. Copper plate engraving, color. 9 in. x 12 in. (22.86 cm x 30.48 cm). Map depicting the eighteenth-century American colonies. Titlepiece in lower right flanked by images of Native Americans. Scale in middle right.","Map of North America by Simon Bolton and engraved by R.W. Seale. Copper plate engraving, color. 21 in. x 26 in. (53.34 cm x 66.04 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century British and French North America. Large decorated titlepiece in lower right adorned with images of cherubs, a Native American figure, animals, and plants.","New Map of the World, by A. F. De wit. Copper plate engraving, color. 19 in. x 23 in. (48.26 cm x 58.42 cm). Seventeenth-century map of the world depicting the eastern and western hemispheres surrounded by images of the seasons, elements, and mythological figures.","World map showing eastern and western hemispheres, G.M. Lowitz. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 24 in. (49 cm x 41.35 cm). Eighteenth-century map depicting the eastern and western hemispheres of the world. Titlepieces in both upper left (Latin) and upper right (French) adorned with images of flora and fauna. Map has four insets, which depict the Arctic, Antarctic, Horizon of Nuremburg, and the Antipodes of Nuremburg.","Blaeu. 17x21.","Map of England and part of Scotland by Guliel Hole (d. 1624). Copper plate engraving, color. 12 in. x 13 in. (30.48 cm x 33.02 cm). Seventeenth-century map of England and Scotland. Titlepiece in upper right adorned with ornate cartouche featuring a crown and colorful embellishments. Large compass rose in lower left.","Map of the Isle of Wight, Joan Bleau (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 24 in. (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm). Seventeenth-century map of the Isle of Wight off the southern English coast. Title piece in lower left has cartouche featuring a coat of arms, and animals. Scale, adorned with globe, in lower right.","Bleau. 20x24.","Blaeu. 20x24.","John Rocque. 40x50. London. Two sheets.","Map of Warwickshire, England published ca. 1646 by Joan Blaeu (1597-1663) of Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 25 in. (50.8 cm x 63.5 cm). Map depicting seventeenth-century Warwickshire, England. Titlepiece in bottom left decorated with cartouche of fruits and flowers. Coats of arms in top left and bottom right, and scale in top right.","Bellin. 23x36. Paris.","I. Harrison. 21x32. Two sheet map.","Map of the Western Hemisphere published by J. Covens and C. Mortimer in Amsterdam. Copper plate engraving, color. 20 in. x 20 in. (50.8 cm x 50.8 cm). Map depicting eighteenth-century Western Hemisphere (North and South America and Pacific islands). Title in upper part of map. European territorial holdings are outlined in color.","Unidentified. 19x24.","Unidentified. 21x24. Paris.","LaRouge. 21x29. Paris.","From Pinkerton's Atlas. 24x40. London.","Map of roads between Chelmsford and Dover, England published by John Ogilby (1600-1676). Copper plate engraving, color. 15 in. x 18 in. (38.1 cm x 45.72 cm). Map depicts seventeenth-century road from Chelmsford to Dover, England. Titlepiece is in top center of map with a cartouche of mythological sea creatures and figures.","Map of road from London to Bury, England by J. Gibson and published circa 1720. Copper plate engraving, color. 7 in. x 12 in. (17.78 cm x 30.48 cm). Map depicts eighteenth-century road from London to Bury, England. Title runs entire length of map at top. Road is divided into ten numbered columns and towns and mileages are labeled.","2-sheet map of southern London by Christophe Homan (1703-30) and published 1736. Copper plate engraving, color. 25 in. x 31 in. (63.5 cm x 78.74 cm). 2-sheet map depicting eighteenth-century south London, England. Titlepiece in lower right with Lion and Unicorn Cartouche. Title of map is in Latin, while place and street names are in English. Other information is in German.","Map of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware by Henry Schenck Tanner (1786 - 1858), Philadelphia. Engraving, color. 19 in. x 23 in. (48.26 cm x 58.42 cm). Nineteenth-century map depicting Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Titlepiece is in top center. Scale and Explanation are in bottom center. Counties within each state are colored, while bordering states are left white.","Unidentified. 12x15. Includes: a) Virginia and Maryland, b) Texas, c) Arizona and New Mexica, d) Kentucky and Tennessee, e) Floriday, f) Georgia and Alabama, g) North and South Caroline, h) Baltimore, MD.","Wilkinson. 11x13. London.","Cadell and Davies. 23x30. London.","Unidentified. 9x11.","A. J. Johnson. 18x26. New York.","A. J. Johnson. 18x26. Same as item 52, but a different edition.","Cowperthwait. 14x17. Philadelphia.","Cotton. 16x18. New York.","Johnson. 14x18. New York. Same as item 55.","Colton. 16x18. New York.","Seers \u0026 Co. 11x16.","Unidentified. 17x21.","Cary. 21x24. London.","Unidentified. 18x22.","Unidentified. 18x22.","Unidentified. 18x27. New York.","Begin. 15x17.","Seutter. 221x25. Pictorial map with scene of burning of Lisbon.","Unidentified. 16x32.","Herman Boye. 31x50. Example of the first official map of Virginia backed with cloth in slip case.","Major J.E. Wayes. 22x25. New York. Maps include 1) Petersburg and Five Forks, 2) Antietam, 3) Spotsylvania Courthouse, and 4) Richmond; folded maps each with a hard cover. In 2 folders.","Blackford. 20x24. Baltimore. Folded map with hard cover.","Young. 13x16. Philadelphia.","Mitchell (publisher). 22x18. Philadelphia. Folding traveler's map in red morocco folder (3x5); map torn in folds, folder chipped and rubbed. In the same folder as item 70.","By Richard Long. 21x25. Manuscript map on parchment showing the future site of the Scottish Colony near Panama which existed from 1698 to 1699, when it was captured by the Spanish Army. Darien was to be the Scottish Jamestown and was part of the British effort to expand southward into the Caribbean. The few survivors found refuge in Jamaica.","Wytfliet. 9x12. Louvon.","Ortelius. 17x21. Map from early atlas.","Hondius. 19x23. Hondius edition of John Smith map of 1608.","12x19. Amsterdam.","Leide. 15x19.","27x29. Washington D.C."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection must be obtained from Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Map Collection must be obtained from Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"ref175\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eDonated to George Mason University Libraries in September 1978 by the Mann family, the C. Harrison Mann Jr, Map Collection comprises ninety-six maps ranging from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries and is housed in the Special Collections \u0026amp; Archives department. Though the majority of the maps Mann collected are of Virginia, there are many pertaining to other parts of the United States and the world in the collection.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Donated to George Mason University Libraries in September 1978 by the Mann family, the C. Harrison Mann Jr, Map Collection comprises ninety-six maps ranging from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries and is housed in the Special Collections \u0026 Archives department. Though the majority of the maps Mann collected are of Virginia, there are many pertaining to other parts of the United States and the world in the collection."],"names_ssim":["George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections \u0026 Archives","Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977 \n\t\t"],"corpname_ssim":["George Mason University. Libraries. 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Decisions to close records to research are made in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (VAFOIA), the policies of the University of Virginia, and other relevent laws, regulations, or policies.","The annual reports are open to research.","These records are open to research.","The planning documents and reports are open to research.","The photographs and negatives are open to research.","The public relations files are open to research.","The publications are open to research.","There are no restrictions on access to the newsletters in this subseries.","There are no restrictions on access to the publications of the Health Sciences Library.","The social media files are open to researchers.","The blog files are open to researchers.","The administrative organization and structure files are open to research.","The policies, procedures, and handbooks are open to research.","In accordance with the The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), the library may restrict access to student-authored materials and other protected student records in this series. Course syllabi, course announcements, and other materials produced by University faculty and staff are open to research.","Conference programs and reports are open to research.","The historical and biographical files are open to research.","The reports in this series are open to research.","The committee records and meeting minutes are open to research.","The awards, honors, and commemorations records are open to research.","The lecture and presentation materials are open to research.","The exhibit records are open to research.","The annual reports of the Health Sciences Library are scheduled for permanent retention. There will be accruals to this series if the Health Sciences Library resumes the creation of annual reports.","The correspondence and subject files of the Health Sciences Library director are not scheduled for permanent retention and, in the past, have been transferred to the archives on an irregular basis. No further accruals of this material is expected.","Historically significant planning documents and reports are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether a document or report is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected.","Historically significant photographs and negatives are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether a photograph or negative is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected.","Public relations files are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. These records are generally created by the University's marketing and communications departments and they are filed in the records groups associated with those units. However, the library does occasionally create its own public relations files that we expect to add to this series.","The publications of the Health Sciences Library are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. Much of the content that the Library made available through publications is now made available on various online platforms. It is likely that accruals to this series will be infrequent.","Annually, data is downloaded from the Library's active social media sites and added to this collection.","Copies of each existing blog are captured every year and added to the collection.","The organizational charts of the Health Sciences Library are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. Besides the charts, only historically significant records document administrative structure are retained in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether one of these records is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur occassionally.","Historically significant policies, procedures, and handbooks produced by the Health Sciences Library are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether a record is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected.","Historically significant syllabi and course materials are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether a course record is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur infrequently.","Historically significant conference programs and reports are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Health Sciences Library determines whether a program or report is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected.","Significant historical and biographical materials are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Health Sciences Library determines whether a record is significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur infrequently.","Historically significant reports are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Health Sciences Library determines whether a report is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur infrequently.","Historically significant exhibit records are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Health Sciences Library determines whether a record is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur infrequently.","Records are generally organized according to the records retention and disposition schedules series maintained by the Library of Virginia (LVA). When necessary, additional subdivisions have been created for materials that do not have clear equivalents in the LVA resources.","Annual reports are arranged into 3 subseries: Medical Library, Health Sciences Libary, and Information Sciences Council. The subseries are arranged chornologically. Inside the subseries annual reports are placed into files that are arranged chronologically.","The correspondence and subject files are arranged into subseries according to the library director who created them. The subseries are then arranged chronologically by the date that each director began his or her term in this position. Beginning and end dates of the directors' terms are given after his or her name in the subseries title.","In this series, a file is created for each planning report and its associated documents. The files are arranged chronologically by the date of creation for the materials they contain.","The photographs and negatives are arranged into subseries by subject. The subseries are then arranged alphabetically by title. The arrangements of the files in the subseries vary.","The photographs and negatives of library artifacts are arranged alphabetically according to the name of the artifact shown.","The images of Health Sciences Library staff and interiors are arranged chronologically according to their date of creation.","The miscellaneous photographs are arranged chronologically according to the date of their creation.","The public relations files are arranged into subseries according to types of materials (e.g. clippings collections and press releases). The subseries are then arranged alphabetically. The files in the subseries are arranged chonologically.","The publications are arranged into subseries according to types of materials (e.g. journals and magazines, newsletters, patient education resources). The subseries are then arranged alphabetically. The arrangements of the files in the subseries vary.","The newsletters are arranged alphabetically by title.","The promotional brochures, flyers, and other publications are arranged chronologically according to their date of creation.","The social media content is arranged into files alphabetically by title.","Blogs are arranged into files alphabetically by title.","Files in this series are arranged chronologically according to the date of their creation.","The policies, procedures, and handbooks are arranged into the following subseries in this order: Staff procedures and handbooks, and Library users procedures and handbooks. The files in each subseries are arranged chronologically.","Syllabi and course materials are arranged chronologically.","Conference records and programs are arranged into files by conference title. The files are arranged chronologically by the date each conference was held. All of the instances of a reoccurring conference are gathered together into the same file. If the conference is reoccurring, it is arranged in relation to the rest of the files according to the first instance of that conference.","Materials in this series are arranged chronologically according to the date that they were created.","The reports are arranged into files. The files are then arranged chronologically by their date of creation. When a report is reoccurring, all of the reports in that series are placed together in a single file.","The directories are arranged by title into files. The files are arranged chronologically.","The records in this series are arranged into files according to committee or department (when the department is holding reccurring general meetings). The files are then arranged alphabetically.","The awards, honors, and commemorations are arranged into files. The files are then arranged chronologically by date. When an award, honor, or commemoration is reoccurring (e.g. annually), all of the records in that series are placed together in a single file.","The records for stand-alone lectures and presentations are arranged into a subseries called \"Single lectures and presentations\". The records of lectures and presentations that belong to a program or lecture series are arranged into subseries named after the program or lecture series. Following the subseries titled \"Single lectures and presentations\", the remaining lecture series are arranged alphabetically by title. ","Records in all of the subseries are arranged into files titled with the names of the lectures and presentations. The files are then arranged chronologically by date of creation.","Records in this subseries are arranged into files titled with the names of the lectures and presentations. The files are then arranged chronologically by date of creation.","Records in this subseries are arranged into files titled with the names of the lectures and presentations. The files are then arranged chronologically by date of creation.","The materials are arranged into files, each file representing an exhibit. Files are arranged alphabetically by exhibit title.","These files are arranged alphabetically.","These items are arranged alphabetically.","\nBetween 1826 and 1929, the University of Virginia's collection of medical books and journals were kept with the general library collections in the Rotunda. In 1929, the University moved the collections to the new Medical Library inside the recently-constructed Medical School Building. \n","\nBetween 1929 and 1962, a medical librarian with a small staff of student and clerical workers stewarded the library's collections. The Medical Library at this time, although physically separate from the rest of the University's libraries, was administered as part of the central University library system with oversight from School of Medicine faculty serving on the Medical Library Committee. In addition to the management of collections, the medical librarians in this era began to curate exhibits and provide instruction. Only a few of the medical librarians who served in this period had professional library training.\n","\nIn 1962, Wilhelm Moll was appointed the first Director of the Medical Library. During his tenure, Moll oversaw the radical trasnformation of a small branch library into an independent research library. The full-time library staff expanded from 4 to 30, the University built a new library building over Jefferson Park Avenue, the nursing and medical libraries merged to form the Health Sciences Library, a history of medicine program was founded, and the library began to adopt digital technologies.\n","\nAfter Moll's death in 1979, the University apppointed Terry Thorkildsen as the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.  Thorkildsen and his successors Linda Watson (1990-2005) and Gretchen Arnold (2005-present) led the library during an era when revolutionary advances in digital technologies (e.g. the Internet, personal computers, databases) presented new challenges and opportunities for the Library.\n","","September 1826: The University of Virginia Library opens in the Rotunda and it includes a collection of medical books. 1911: The University Library's entire collection of medical books and journals are gathered together and moved to the basement of the Rotunda. September 13, 1915: Richard Henry Whitehead, Dean of the School of Medicine, creates the Medical Library Committee. 1919-June 1929: Ella Watson Johnson serves as the Medical Librarian. June 1929: The Medical Library moves from the basement of the Rotunda to its own space in the new Medical School Building, the Medical Library remains a department of the central University Library System. June 1929-September 1929: Margaret Otto serves as the Medical Librarian. 1929-1931: Anne Ashhurst Gwathmey serves as the Medical Librarian. 1931-1934: Caroline Hill Davis serves as the Medical Librarian. March 1934-June 1934: Dora Mitchell Brown serves as the Medical Librarian. 1934-1936: Miriam Thomas Buchanan serves as the Medical Librarian. 1935: The Medical Library institutes its first orientation for first year medical students. 1936-1943: Anne Lewis Morris serves as the Medical Librarian. 1943-1944: Mary Elizabeth Mayo serves as the Medical Librarian. 1944-1947: Mabel Cook Wyllie serves as the Medical Librarian. 1945-1949: The Nursing Library is placed under the Supervision of the Medical Librarian until the appointment of a clerk to manage the Nursing collection. 1947-1962: Elizabeth Frances Adkins serves as the Medical Librarian. September 1962: Wilhelm Moll is appointed the Director of the Medical Library. 1962-1963: As the result of administrative reorganizations during this period, the Medical Library is separated from the central University Library system and placed under the control of the School of Medicine. November 1970: Librarians conduct the first online searches of a database at the University of Virginia Medical Library using the experimental AIM-TWX service developed by the National Library of Medicine's Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications. November 1971: Librarians begin using the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE system to conduct online searches for patrons. August 1975: The Medical Library and Nursing Library are merged into the Health Sciences Library and Information Center and moved into a new building that spans over Jefferson Park Avenue. Wilhelm Moll is made the Director of the Health Sciences Library. April 1976: The Health Sciences Library is formally dedicated and named after Claude Moore, an alumnus of and donor to the University of Virginia. 1979: Terry Thorkildsen is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. 1989: The library card catalog is digitized and made available through computer terminals. 1990: Linda Watson is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. 2005: Gretchen Arnold is appointed the interim Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and is then made Director in 2007. 2022: Bart Ragon is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.","(formerly Reference Department from 1987-1991)","Historical Collections and Services was originally concieved in the 1980s by the first director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Wilhelm Moll. His vision was to create a rare book room that would house the rare books that belonged to the Medical Library. During the Jeffersonian era and up until 1929, the books belonging to the school of medicine and anatomy were housed in the Rotunda Library on Grounds. In 1929, a new Medical School Building opened. This unified all the medical departments, which had been scattered throughout the Grounds. The Medical Collection became the Medical Library, and moved into new quarters in the Medical School Building. When Alderman, now Shannon, Library was built in 1937, the books moved there until the creation of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in 1976. Following Dr. Moll's untimely death in 1979, Special Collections librarian Joan Echtenkamp Klein helped to make Moll's reality of a special collections department a reality. She became the curator and manager of Historical Collections and Services, serving in that role until 2015. Dan Cavanaugh took over the role of curator and manager until 2022. Meggan Cashwell became the curator and manager in 2023 and is currently serving in that position.","Some exhibit pages do not have creation dates listed anywhere, but they do have copyright dates at the bottom of the page. This can be confusing in understanding what is the true date of creation.","Many of these online exhibits were once physical exhibits on display in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Exhibit placards, text, images, curation notes, and other preparation documents may be found in folders with the same exhibit title in this records group in the sub series entitled \"Exhibit Files, 1970-2019, undated.\"","When the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library downloads content from a social media platform, the Library preserves all of the original files (e.g. jpeg files, html files, json files) from the capture.","Patrons may contact Historical Collections staff at the Library to request copies of files containing social media content. The files may be sent to the patron for remote viewing or they may be viewed in the Historical Collections reading room. The Library will provide patrons in the reading room with software to view the files. Patrons who request to view the files remotely are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the hardware and software required to render the files. ","When the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library captures a copy of a blog, the Library preserves all of the its original files (e.g. jpeg files, html files) as well as an aggregated web archive file (warc). Both a directory containing the original files and the warc file are bundled together into a single digital object. ","Patrons may contact Historical Collections staff at the Library to request copies of blog files. The files may be sent to the patron for remote viewing or they may be viewed in the Historical Collections reading room. The Library will provide patrons in the reading room with software to view the files. Patrons who request to view the files remotely are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the hardware and software required to render the files. ","Exhibit placards, text, images, curation notes, and other preparation documents may be found in folders with the same exhibit title in this records group in the sub series entitled \"Exhibit Files, 1970-2019, undated.\"","This collection consists of permanent and historically significant institutional records created by the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library and the antecedent Medical Library. These records include, but are not limited to: annual reports, planning documents, newsletters, online exhibits, blogs, social media content, conference programs, department histories, committee records, and library-sponsored lecture materials.","This series consists of annual reports produced by the Medical Library (1929-1975), the Health Sciences Library (1975-Present), and the Information Sciences Council (1990-1996). Annual reports for the Health Sciences Library are missing from this collection for the period from 2006 to the present. Also, the annual reports for the Medical Library are missing from this collections for the period from 1929 to 1942. It is unclear whether the Medical and Health Sciences libraries wrote reports for the years.","The annual reports of the Medical Library contain comprehensive descriptions of the annual activities of the Medical Library. The Medical Library's annual reports from 1929 to 1942 are missing from this collection. It is not known if the reports were ever written by the library.","The annual reports of the Health Sciences Library contain comprehensive descriptions of the annual activities of the Health Sciences Library. The Health Sciences Library's annual reports from 2006 to the present are missing from this collection. It is not known if the reports were ever written by the library.","Informal annual report-like documents and related material, including reports shared on the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library blog and an internal UVA Health System news website (HS Connect). Reports from: March 2007, September 2009 (written by Gretchen Arnold), January 2013 (written by Gretchen Arnold), and March 2018 (written by Gretchen Arnold).","This series consists of correspondence and subject files that were created and assembeled by the directors of the Health Sciences Library while carrying out the responsibilities of their position.","Correspondents include Curators of the HSL--Daniel Spikes, Cassandra Ruane, Frank C. Mevers, Todd L. Savitt, and Doris Leckie of the Smithsonian Institution","Includes articles about Jesse Lazear, Carlos Finlay, Philip Hench and cortisone, Henry R. Carter, Nicolas Chervin, Joseph Y. Porter and Isaac Hulse","Correspondents with Bean include Mary (Mrs. Philip) Hench, Atcheson L. Hench, Byrd S. Leavell, and Todd Savitt","Includes news releases, news clippings, journal articles, and correspondence related to the gift by Mary Hench of the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection.","Includes correspondence with William Bennett Bean","Includes correspondence on Health System reorganization","The records in this series document the planning of historically significant administrative initiatives, purchases, construction, and events at the Health Sciences Library.","This series consists of digital and analog images that show the history and collections of the Health Sciences Library. Image formats in this series include, but are not limited to, photographic prints, film negatives, jpeg files, tiff files, 35mm film slides, CDs or other media containing digital images. The series does not include official identification photographs for faculty, students, and staff.","This subseries contains images of artifacts in the collections of the Health Sciences Library.","The images in this subseries show the staff, faculty, and interior spaces of the Health Sciences Library.","Moll, Bowers, Bowers, and Rudnick are photographed with ceramic vessels used in the early production of penicillin.","LIS officially started in 1989. Dr. Don Detmer is upper right of FF sheet","People identified are: Inhye Son, Sarah Handley, Anne Humphries, Mike Wilson, Jonathan Lord, Elaine Banner, Julia Kochi, Marylin James, Mary Nightengale, Ophelia Payne, Nadine Ellero, Trisha Luby, Sue Daddezio, Diane Ricketson, Deborah Camden, Michael Sullivan, Betty Mickens, Dan Wilson, Shelby Miller John Sesody, Greatchen Arnold, Michelle Martin, Jeri Davis, Barbara Crawford, Cindy Saylor, Susan Yowell, Karen Collier, Pat Shannon, Rick Peterson, Brenda Bikos, Sandy Zoumbaris, Jana Maas, Joan Klein, Mark Mones, Jane Wagner, Eli Casarez, Aulia Gies, Cynthia Siedman-Willen, Catherine Anninos, Judy Shotwell, Linda Watson and Ann Carter.","Individuals not identified.","Front: Kathleen Tracey, karen Collier, Deborah Camden, Ophelia Payne, Rick Peterson\nSecond: Marylin James, Jane Wagner, Barbara Crawford, Polly Sandridge, Linda Watson\nThird: Pat Shannon, Brenda Bikos, Gretchen Naisawald, Anne Humphries, Jeri Davis, Shelby Miller, Jonquil Feldman, Mike Wilson\nFourth: Judith Robinson, Susan Daddezio, Julia Hochi\nFifth: Thomas Speare, Catherine Anninos, Libby Colley, Judy Shotwell\nSixth: Hall Sharp, Rick Weaver, Ann Carter\nSeventh: Nadine Ellero, Megan McCaskey, Sarah Handley\nEighth: Jonathan Lord, Jake Appleford, Mary Nightengale, Inhye Son\nAbsent: Joan Klein, christopher Marks, Betty Mickens, Mark Mones, Diane Spears","Left to right: Dieter Groeschel, Joan Klein, Linda Watson, unidentified person\nIn back: unidentified, Janet Pearson","One photo individuals front left to right Dieter Groeschel, Joan Klein, Linda Watson, unidentified person, in the back an unidentified person and Janet Pearson","Collection Services and Bibliographic Control","Intellectual Access and Collection Development","Library Administration","Ellen Ramsey, David Moody, Bart Ragon, Mike Wilson, Joan Klein, Dave Denton, Inhye Son, Wilma Lynch, Pat Shannon, Gretchen Arnold, Jeri Davis, Joy Nuckolls, Karen Knight, Elaine Attridge, Ann Carter, Jonathan Lord, Andrea Horne Denton, Stephanie Fielding, Adrienne Granitz, Sonya Coleman, Jason Bennett, Tony Hiserman, Tenzin Thosam, Roderick Martin, Nadine Ellero, Patricia Vaughn","This subseries consists of images that do not belong in any other subseries.","Gordon was the coordinator of an exhibit on the history of gastroscopy and visited the medical school to open the exhibit. Photo taken by Ursula Ziolkowki.","Photo was sent to Terry Thorkildson from the Area Health Education Centers Program Eastern Virginia Medical Authority","This series contains historically significant press releases, visual aids, clippings, and other items that record information about the Library that were produced for or by the news media.","This subseries contains print copies of news articles about the Health Sciences Library.","This series consists of publications produced by the Health Sciences Library for public distribution or general internal distribution. Publications include, but are not limited to, magazines, journals, monographs, newsletters, weblogs, weekly announcements, online publications, marketing materials, and patient education resources. This series may contain both print and digital publications.","The materials in this subseries were produced to guide the use of collections housed at the Health Sciences Library.","This subseries consists of digital and print newsletters that provide information about the activities of the Health Sciences Library.","A \"scrapbook\" of Library milestones and appropriate photographs for each medical and nursing graduating class celebrating its reunion in a particular year. The print series was discontinued after 2000, but additional Journey Through Time content is available online through the Historical Collections web exhibits.","This subseries contains brochures, flyers, and other printed ephemera that provide information about the Health Sciences Library.","Envelope has Dr. Wilhelm Moll handwritten on it. Brochure includes library statistics, what is needed in terms of money and space, various endorsements, and tax information.","This series contains social media content that has been produced by the Health Sciences Library for platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.","The staff of the Health Sciences Library's Historical Collections and Services department maintains and contributes content to this Facebook page. Many posts and photographs on the page relate to the Department's services, collections, and events. Other posts share information related to the history of the health sciences and the work of libraries, museums, and archives.","This series consists of blogs that were created by the Health Sciences Library. The files in this series were downloaded from the Internet by Library staff. Content in the blogs that are accessed through a link outside of the blog's parent directory (e.g. external YouTube videos, external web pages) are not downloaded and archived in this series.","The Moore Library News (MLN) blog is produced by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. MLN blog posts provide information about Library collections, policies, services, and events.","The records in this series document the organizational structure of the Health Sciences Library. It also contains records that document administrative reorganizations of the Library. These materials include, but are not limited to, organizational charts and reports.","This series contains policies, procedures, and handbooks produced by the Health Sciences Library to direct and guide the conduct of its faculty, staff, and patrons. These records may also formally describe and define the relationship between the Health Sciences Library and its faculty, staff, and patrons.","This subseries contains procedures and handbooks for the faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Library.","Includes items from the Printing Office with the new library name: The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library","This subseries consists of procedures and handbooks for the patrons of the Health Sciences Library.","This series contains course announcements, syllabi, notes, and other materials that document classes and workshops taught by the faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Library.","This series consists of programs and reports that document the history of conferences and symposia hosted by the Health Sciences Library. Programs and reports often contain the following information: lists of speakers, presentation titles, schedules of events, and lecture abstracts. The following conference records are not included in this series: registration records, financial records, organization records, attendance lists.","This series consists of significant material that conveys the history of the Health Sciences Library, its administration, its accomplishments, its officials or employees. Includes, but is not limited to, scrapbooks, photographs, articles, program notes and documentation of events sponsored or funded by the agency. Also included are narratives; printed, audio, or audiovisual histories; or matters of significant historical importance.","Includes many photos of the library interior and library staff. Some individuals identified. Probably an exhibit celebrating the library's 15th anniversary in 1991, but photos from 1993 are also in the folder.","Includes photos of library interiors, staff (some identified) and UVA buildings; library organization chart for 2/1995; and Library Building Funds chart, 1975.","This series consists of reports, of a historically significant nature, that do not belong to any other series of the Health Sciences Library records.","This series contains memos, correspondence, subject files, online resources, and meeting minutes of committees working within the Health Sciences Library.","This file includes the meeting minutes, meeting agendas, and other documentation of the Library Management Group. The members of this committee were the leaders of the Health Sciences Library. They met once a month to discuss major library initiatives, provide updates and reports about library department activities, and share other information related to the management of the Library.","This file consists of the meeting minutes, bylaws, constitution, and correspondence of the Medical History Society of the University of Virginia. The Society was formed to promote the knowledge and study of the history of medicine and the health sciences at the University of Virginia. For much of its history, Wilhelm Moll led the Society. It supported the development of historical collections and services at the Health Sciences Library and founded a lecture series that becsme the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series in 1984.","This series consists of records that document awards, honors, and commemorations presented by the Health Sciences Library. These records may include, but are not limited to, event programs, lists of recipients, and recipient biographies.","The dedication ceremony included remarks by Donald S. Fredrickson, MD, Director, National Institutes of Health.","Includes a tribute to Wilhelm Moll by William B. Bean and another speech by an unidentified individual.","Includes remarks that were given by Dr. Don Detmer.","Includes remarks given by Donald Lindberg. The title of Lindberg's presentation was\"The Computer and the Academical Village\".","This series consists of records that document lectures and presentations sponsored by the Health Sciences Library. These records include, but are not limited to, audiovisual recordings, transcripts, announcements, handouts, and correspondence between presenters and event organizers.","This subseries consists of records associated with standalone lectures and presentations sponsored by the Health Sciences Library.","This subseries contains records that are associated with the Health Sciences Library's History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series.","This subseries contains records that are associated with the Medical History Society of the University of Virginia Lecture Series.","Promotional posters for a medical history lecture series held at the UVA Health Sciences Library and organized by the UVA Medical History Society.","This series consists of records that document exhibits created by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library of an educational or promotional nature. Some records are physical, and others are archived websites crawled by the Internet Archives' Archive-It service and made accessible by their Wayback Machine.","These materials are physical materials containing exhibit plans and designs, text, labels, and images created for physical exhibits.","Identified individuals in photos are John Guerrant, Ken Crispell, and Barry Marshall","Includes print-out (109 pages) of \"Who's Who on the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection Website\" (2002) and supplemental list of compiled names.","\"Robley Dunglison: 1798-1869\" Pamphlet produced for a library exhibit honoring the 200th anniversary of Dunglison's birth. 3 copies; 14 pp. Prepared by Historical Collections \u0026 Services, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Folder note indicates biography was written by Joby Topper. Includes reference list.","Introduction by Joan Klein","This series contains web archived online exhibits created by Historical Collections and Services between 2007 and circa 2023, although some of the creation dates of the websites are questionable. These 21 exhibits were hosted on the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library website but are now available via the Internet Archives' Wayback Machine.","This online exhibit is centered on the book \"A History of Cancer Care at the University of Virginia, 1901-1911.\" This book provides vast insight into the teamwork, dedication, collegiality, and skill–as well as luck–which was necessary for the Cancer Center to exist today. Twenty-five oral history interviews were conducted in the course of researching the book and are included with the book or may be viewed in the videos section of this website. Written by Henry K. Sharp, Ph.D. and Morton C. Wilhelm, M.D. the Joseph Helms Farrow Professor Emeritus in Surgical Oncology, University of Virginia School of Medicine.","This online exhibit serves as an online \"scrapbook\" with some of the milestones of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Medical Center, and the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing. There are added appropriate photographs for each class year.","This exhibit recounts the origin and early history of the American Lung Association. The American Lung Association of Virginia (ALAV) Collection contains personal and official correspondence, financial and legal papers, minute books, organizational and scientific reports, educational publicity, photographs, and artifacts. ALAV donated its organization's papers to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in 1990 and 1991 made this exhibit possible. The ALAV made an additional donation in 2009.","This online exhibit presents images and summaries of the known uses of each instrument. The extant comments of medical writers from antiquity–including Oribasius, Galen, Soranus, Aetius, and the Hippocratic corpus–have provided scholars with some clues about the use of some instruments. Some instruments, such as mixing instruments and tweezers, probably had other household uses, such as the application of cosmetics and paints.","This online exhibit was created under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Hal Sharp, a Historical Collections staff member, wrote the essay giving a brief history of anatomical drawing. The exhibit was designed by Janet Pearson, Historical Collections; Bart Ragon, the Associate Director for Knowledge Integration, Research and Technology; and Paulina Vaca, Web Communications Assistant. Emily Bowden, Historical Collections, photographed the Denoyer-Geppert Anatomy Series charts. William Crutchfield generously donated W. and A. K. Johnston's Charts of Anatomy and Physiology which were owned for 33 years by his father, Dr. William Gayle Crutchfield.","This exhibit was designed to highlight the UVA Hospital's involvement with supporting United States Army troops during World War I and World War II. It was created by Janet Pearson with the assistance of Joby Topper. Special thanks to Dr. John L. Guerrant, Dorothy Sandridge Gloor, and Elizabeth Harlin Drash for sharing their stories and helping us identify photographs.","This online exhibit shows materials related to eugenics as it relates to UVA and Charlottesville, VA. Alison White and Ina Hofland, staff members of Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, created this Web exhibit. They also created the physical exhibit of the same title on which it is based. The physical exhibit was displayed in the foyer of the Health Sciences Library April-September 2002. Steve Stedman designed the Web exhibit. Special thanks to Sara Huyser, Joan Echtenkamp Klein, Ophelia Payne, Bart Ragon, Hal Sharp, and Mike Wilson for their assistance. Web Exhibit Publish Date: February 13, 2004","This exhibit was created under the direction of Joan Ectenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Dr. Morton C. Wilhelm, the Joseph Helms Farrow Professor in Surgical Oncology, wrote the essay with the editorial assistance of Janet Pearson. The web exhibit was designed by Janet Pearson, Historical Collections; Bart Ragon, the Associate Director for Knowledge Integration, Research and Technology; and Paulina Vaca, Web Communications Assistant.","This online exhibit offers a look into The Papers of James Carmichael and Son, a collection held at the UVA Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, and tells a story of the early nineteenth-century inhabitants of Fredericksburg, Virginia and its surrounding rural areas. ","The exhibit is organized into two content areas: the Story and the Collection. Each of these areas, as well as the Home and About sections, are represented in the tabs near the top of every page. See the site map for more detail.","The Story section sets the atmosphere for the exhibit. One can get a sense of what the practice of medicine was like for James and Edward Carmichael in the early nineteenth century by reading the essays describing the Pharmacy, the Tools of the Trade, and the Health Care of Slaves.","The Collection section houses the images of the original Carmichael letters, which are meticulously transcribed and categorized to provide access not only to the words, but to the medical conditions, treatments, and philosophies of almost two centuries past. Particularly compelling is the use of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to categorize the letters along with a very detailed methodology and definition of MeSH terms. Other items of interest include the daybook kept by Doctor Carmichael from 1816-1817, newspaper clippings, court records \u0026 summaries, period maps, and Virginia WPA Historical Inventory Project records. Additionally, there is an exhaustive Who's Who list of names that appeared in the letters as well as a thorough list of Places Mentioned.","This online exhibit tells the story of how the U.S. Army Commission, comprised of Major Walter Reed, Dr. James Carroll, Dr. Aristides Agramonte, and Dr. Jesse Lazear, confirmed Carlos Finlay's theory about the transmission of yellow fever. By showing without a doubt that mosquitoes were the vector for yellow fever, the researchers empowered public health officials in the Americas to eradicate this devastating disease from much of the Western Hemisphere.","The exhibit is divided into three main sections. The first section, Archives, provides information about and links to the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection. The collection, most collected by Philip S. Hench and housed at the University of Virginia's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, is a rich archive of materials that documents the history of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. The second section, History, tells the story of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission and the impact of its findings. Finally, the third section, Resources, provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and other resources visitors may want to consult to learn more about the Commission and the history of yellow fever.","This exhibit tells the story about 12 physicians practicing in Charlottesville, VA in 1848 mutually agreed to create an agreed rate of medical charges for services.","Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections \u0026 Services at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, conceived the idea for the fee bill project and directed it. Todd L. Savitt, Ph.D., wrote the background information essay on fee bills in general and the Charlottesville fee bill in particular. He is a faculty member at East Carolina University in the Department of Bioethics \u0026 Interdisciplinary Studies. Janet Pearson wrote the introduction and the biographical sketches of the twelve signers. She gathered images and took photographs in the University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium and in downtown Charlottesville. She is a member of the staff of Historical Collections and Services. Sonya Coleman, also a member of the staff of Historical Collections, contributed to the design elements. David Moody, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Webmaster, and Jason Bennett, Technology in Education Consultant, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.","Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections \u0026 Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, conceived the idea for the \"Fever Fighters\" project after the generous donation of Dr. Hanson's diary by his granddaughter, Jane H. Monroe.","Staff members at Historical Collections, Leigh Mantle, Susan Yowell, and Janet Pearson, contributed content and created the GIS Map. Caitlin Summers, a dedicated intern at Historical Collections, also provided editorial assistance in the spring of 2012.","David Moody, Library Webmaster; Mike Wilson, Information Services Specialist; and Jason Bennett, Technology Specialist, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.","This exhibit was inspired by The Mineral Springs of Western Virginia by William Burke, the first volume purchased by the Weaver Family Endowed Rare Book and Medical Materials Fund. Published in 1846, the book describes the setting and development of eleven springs in what are now Virginia and West Virginia. Dr. Burke, a one-time owner and resident physician at Red Sulphur Springs, remarks on the usefulness of the various mineral waters in certain diseases as well as contraindications to their use. The springs range from those that are well known today such as the White Sulphur Springs, currently the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, to the Blue Sulphur Springs, once able to accommodate several hundred people and now represented by a lone Greek Revival pavilion in the middle of a field near Smoot, West Virginia.","This exhibit was written and organized by Janet Pearson, a member of the staff of Historical Collections and Services, under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia. Claudia Sueyras, Normajean Hultman, and Sonya Coleman did preliminary research. Rod Martin and Victoria Meyer scanned items from Historical Collections and the Charles L. Brown Science \u0026 Engineering Library. David Moody, with the assistance of Bart Ragon, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit. Sonya Coleman contributed to the design elements. Special thanks has been given to the staff at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, as they retrieved dozens of documents and also to the Digital Curation Services staff for their scanning of the documents.","The Anatomical Theatre at the University of Virginia online exhibit tells the story of the Theatre's presence at the University for more than a century. While not included in the earliest plans of the University, the need for the Theatre became clear before the first classes were ever held. Thomas Jefferson himself drew the design which includes two floor plans, a front elevation view, and a cross section. The exhibit traces the construction and later changes to the building, its demise, and archeological investigations at the site. It also gives a glimpse of what happened inside the building and the deeds that were done to procure cadavers so that medical students could learn anatomy.","This exhibit was sparked by the interest of the late Dr. M.C. Wilhelm in the model of the Anatomical Theatre housed in Historical Collections at the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. A retired surgeon and volunteer in Historical Collections, Dr. Wilhelm gathered resources and did preliminary writing. It was decided to further develop the project, and the result is this exhibit, written and organized by Janet Pearson, a Historical Collections staff member. Originally done under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, who was the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections until her untimely death, project support was continued under Dan Cavanaugh, who stepped into Joan's role and position.","Others associated with the University of Virginia community freely shared their ideas and research. These individuals include Garth Anderson, the Facilities Management Historian; Kirt von Daacke, Assistant Dean and Professor, College of Arts \u0026 Sciences; Louis Nelson, Professor in the Department of Architectural History and Associate Provost for Outreach; Robert Bloodgood, Professor in the School of Medicine; Benjamin Ford, Principal Investigator with Rivanna Archaeological Services, LLC; and Sonya Coleman, formerly a staff member in Historical Collections and now at the Library of Virginia. Emily Bowden, the Historical Collections Specialist, answered many technical queries as well as gave editorial assistance. Anson Parker and Jason Bennett provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.","This exhibit explores the development of the iron lung during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and considers the reasons for its success during the height of the poliomyelitis epidemics. Andrew Sallans, Historical Collections Specialist, researched and compiled the content for the online and physical exhibits. The design of the online exhibit was conceived and executed by Steve Stedman, Webmaster for the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.","This online exhibit displays a digitized copy of Historical Collections and Services' rare book \"Plague and Public Health in Europe, with Special Reference to Sixteenth-Century England: An Introduction to Orders thought meete by her Maiestie ..., 1578.\"","Anne McKeithen, Janet Pearson, and Andrew Sallans, members of the staff of Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, compiled the material for the Plague Book exhibit under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein. Joaquin Bueno designed the Web exhibit and graphics, with the programming architecture of David Moody and the assistance of Bart Ragon.","Unless otherwise noted, the images are courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden, © 1995-2006 Missouri Botanical Garden http://www.illustratedgarden.org). They deserve special thanks for their generous permission to reproduce their exquisite illustrations. Special thanks are also given to Duane J. Osheim, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia for his paper, \"Plague and Public Health in Europe, with Special Reference to Sixteenth-Century England.\"","In 2001 Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library created an exhibit that traces the history of the first century of the Hospital in words and images. One copy of the exhibit traveled from location to location in the Health System and beyond; the other set of panels were hung in a busy hospital corridor near the main entrance where they remain today. These panels form the basis for this online exhibit which now includes the addition of a section on the first 14 years of the Hospital's second century. We hope you enjoy following the history of the growth of the University of Virginia Health System as it seeks to fulfill its longstanding vision to benefit human health and improve quality of life through patient care, research, and education.","This exhibition was prepared by Hal Sharp and Janet Pearson of the Department of Historical Collections and Services, The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.","This online exhibit aims to give viewers a view into more than 50 of Historical Collections and Services' most notable books and see how their authors over the years have documented their discoveries and concepts for contemporaries and for us.  There are digitized versions of many of the books in the Fulltext Books section, which offers links to the scanned images of over half of these rare books.","Sara Huyser, Anne McKeithen, and Janet Pearson, members of the staff of Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, wrote and compiled the material for Vaulted Treasures under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein.","Joaquin Bueno designed the Web exhibit and graphics, with the server expertise of David Moody and the assistance of Bart Ragon. Special thanks to Claudia Sueyras who scanned many of the books and Andrew Sallans who provided technical assistance.","The 37 caricatures displayed in this exhibit are divided into two groups: English and French. The English prints are predominately drawn by two of the more famous British caricaturists, James Gillray and George Cruikshank. The French caricatures include artwork by J.J. Grandville, Louis-Léopold Boilly, and Edme Jean Pigal.","Mary Wagner donated the caricatures in this exhibit to Historical Collections and Services, The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Her husband, the late Robert R. Wagner, M.D., collected these when he was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research in London from 1950 to 1951. Wagner was Chair of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Virginia from 1967 to 1994, and Director of the UVa Cancer Center from 1983 to 1993. Thanks to Mary Wagner's generosity, the caricatures recently have been professionally treated, preserved, and reframed. The originals are on display in Historical Collections and Services and in the Department of Microbiology in the Robert R. Wagner Conference Room. These nineteenth-century satirical prints will thus continue to delight future generations.","This exhibit was written by Sara Huyser and Janet Pearson, members of the staff of Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia. Steve Stedman designed the Web exhibit. Special thanks to Joan Echtenkamp Klein and Andrew Sallans for their assistance.","Walter Reed's professional experiences with typhoid fever stand in marked contrast to his professional encounters with yellow fever. In the case of typhoid, he was more a messenger than a conqueror. Typhoid fever remained defiant during a career that oversaw the rout of yellow fever. Through a humanizing story that shows how fate brought Reed continuing frustration as well as talent and success, this exhibit seeks to render him a more accessible role model for students of medicine and history.","This exhibit was written by Noel G. Harrison, a graduate student in The Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and an intern in Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia during the fall of 2002. The Web exhibit was prepared and designed by Mike Wilson and Sara Huyser. Special thanks to Bart Ragon, Joan Echtenkamp Klein, and Hal Sharp for their assistance.","This series includes records related to Historical Collections and Services, the special collections and archives department of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Records the public can access are related to exhibitions that were curated by staff and displayed in the library.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic works.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this collection varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to the annual reports in this series.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia owns the copyright to records in this series that were created by the library directors while they were acting within the scope of their position, except scholarly and academic works. Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to the planning documents and reports created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to images created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to media created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to publications created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic works.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The University of Virginia owns the copyrights to publications produced by the Health Sciences Library. Other copyright restrictions may apply to some materials.","Copyright restrictions may apply.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright for social media content (e.g. posts, photographs) created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic works. The organizations that own the social media platforms might also hold licenses to all of the content posted by University of Virginia employees. Copyright ownership varies for other content that has been posted on the Library's social media platforms and archived here.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to blogs and blog posts created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic works.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to media created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to conference records and programs created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to reports created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment. Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  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The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether a document or report is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected.","Historically significant photographs and negatives are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether a photograph or negative is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected.","Public relations files are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. These records are generally created by the University's marketing and communications departments and they are filed in the records groups associated with those units. However, the library does occasionally create its own public relations files that we expect to add to this series.","The publications of the Health Sciences Library are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. Much of the content that the Library made available through publications is now made available on various online platforms. It is likely that accruals to this series will be infrequent.","Annually, data is downloaded from the Library's active social media sites and added to this collection.","Copies of each existing blog are captured every year and added to the collection.","The organizational charts of the Health Sciences Library are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. Besides the charts, only historically significant records document administrative structure are retained in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether one of these records is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur occassionally.","Historically significant policies, procedures, and handbooks produced by the Health Sciences Library are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether a record is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected.","Historically significant syllabi and course materials are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether a course record is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur infrequently.","Historically significant conference programs and reports are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Health Sciences Library determines whether a program or report is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected.","Significant historical and biographical materials are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Health Sciences Library determines whether a record is significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur infrequently.","Historically significant reports are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Health Sciences Library determines whether a report is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur infrequently.","Historically significant exhibit records are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Health Sciences Library determines whether a record is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur infrequently."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords are generally organized according to the records retention and disposition schedules series maintained by the Library of Virginia (LVA). When necessary, additional subdivisions have been created for materials that do not have clear equivalents in the LVA resources.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnual reports are arranged into 3 subseries: Medical Library, Health Sciences Libary, and Information Sciences Council. The subseries are arranged chornologically. Inside the subseries annual reports are placed into files that are arranged chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence and subject files are arranged into subseries according to the library director who created them. The subseries are then arranged chronologically by the date that each director began his or her term in this position. Beginning and end dates of the directors' terms are given after his or her name in the subseries title.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn this series, a file is created for each planning report and its associated documents. The files are arranged chronologically by the date of creation for the materials they contain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe photographs and negatives are arranged into subseries by subject. The subseries are then arranged alphabetically by title. The arrangements of the files in the subseries vary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe photographs and negatives of library artifacts are arranged alphabetically according to the name of the artifact shown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe images of Health Sciences Library staff and interiors are arranged chronologically according to their date of creation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe miscellaneous photographs are arranged chronologically according to the date of their creation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe public relations files are arranged into subseries according to types of materials (e.g. clippings collections and press releases). The subseries are then arranged alphabetically. The files in the subseries are arranged chonologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe publications are arranged into subseries according to types of materials (e.g. journals and magazines, newsletters, patient education resources). The subseries are then arranged alphabetically. The arrangements of the files in the subseries vary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe newsletters are arranged alphabetically by title.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe promotional brochures, flyers, and other publications are arranged chronologically according to their date of creation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe social media content is arranged into files alphabetically by title.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlogs are arranged into files alphabetically by title.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFiles in this series are arranged chronologically according to the date of their creation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe policies, procedures, and handbooks are arranged into the following subseries in this order: Staff procedures and handbooks, and Library users procedures and handbooks. The files in each subseries are arranged chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSyllabi and course materials are arranged chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConference records and programs are arranged into files by conference title. The files are arranged chronologically by the date each conference was held. All of the instances of a reoccurring conference are gathered together into the same file. If the conference is reoccurring, it is arranged in relation to the rest of the files according to the first instance of that conference.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials in this series are arranged chronologically according to the date that they were created.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe reports are arranged into files. The files are then arranged chronologically by their date of creation. When a report is reoccurring, all of the reports in that series are placed together in a single file.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe directories are arranged by title into files. The files are arranged chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe records in this series are arranged into files according to committee or department (when the department is holding reccurring general meetings). The files are then arranged alphabetically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe awards, honors, and commemorations are arranged into files. The files are then arranged chronologically by date. When an award, honor, or commemoration is reoccurring (e.g. annually), all of the records in that series are placed together in a single file.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe records for stand-alone lectures and presentations are arranged into a subseries called \"Single lectures and presentations\". The records of lectures and presentations that belong to a program or lecture series are arranged into subseries named after the program or lecture series. Following the subseries titled \"Single lectures and presentations\", the remaining lecture series are arranged alphabetically by title. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRecords in all of the subseries are arranged into files titled with the names of the lectures and presentations. The files are then arranged chronologically by date of creation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords in this subseries are arranged into files titled with the names of the lectures and presentations. The files are then arranged chronologically by date of creation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords in this subseries are arranged into files titled with the names of the lectures and presentations. The files are then arranged chronologically by date of creation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe materials are arranged into files, each file representing an exhibit. Files are arranged alphabetically by exhibit title.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese files are arranged alphabetically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese items are arranged alphabetically.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Records are generally organized according to the records retention and disposition schedules series maintained by the Library of Virginia (LVA). When necessary, additional subdivisions have been created for materials that do not have clear equivalents in the LVA resources.","Annual reports are arranged into 3 subseries: Medical Library, Health Sciences Libary, and Information Sciences Council. The subseries are arranged chornologically. Inside the subseries annual reports are placed into files that are arranged chronologically.","The correspondence and subject files are arranged into subseries according to the library director who created them. The subseries are then arranged chronologically by the date that each director began his or her term in this position. Beginning and end dates of the directors' terms are given after his or her name in the subseries title.","In this series, a file is created for each planning report and its associated documents. The files are arranged chronologically by the date of creation for the materials they contain.","The photographs and negatives are arranged into subseries by subject. The subseries are then arranged alphabetically by title. The arrangements of the files in the subseries vary.","The photographs and negatives of library artifacts are arranged alphabetically according to the name of the artifact shown.","The images of Health Sciences Library staff and interiors are arranged chronologically according to their date of creation.","The miscellaneous photographs are arranged chronologically according to the date of their creation.","The public relations files are arranged into subseries according to types of materials (e.g. clippings collections and press releases). The subseries are then arranged alphabetically. The files in the subseries are arranged chonologically.","The publications are arranged into subseries according to types of materials (e.g. journals and magazines, newsletters, patient education resources). The subseries are then arranged alphabetically. The arrangements of the files in the subseries vary.","The newsletters are arranged alphabetically by title.","The promotional brochures, flyers, and other publications are arranged chronologically according to their date of creation.","The social media content is arranged into files alphabetically by title.","Blogs are arranged into files alphabetically by title.","Files in this series are arranged chronologically according to the date of their creation.","The policies, procedures, and handbooks are arranged into the following subseries in this order: Staff procedures and handbooks, and Library users procedures and handbooks. The files in each subseries are arranged chronologically.","Syllabi and course materials are arranged chronologically.","Conference records and programs are arranged into files by conference title. The files are arranged chronologically by the date each conference was held. All of the instances of a reoccurring conference are gathered together into the same file. If the conference is reoccurring, it is arranged in relation to the rest of the files according to the first instance of that conference.","Materials in this series are arranged chronologically according to the date that they were created.","The reports are arranged into files. The files are then arranged chronologically by their date of creation. When a report is reoccurring, all of the reports in that series are placed together in a single file.","The directories are arranged by title into files. The files are arranged chronologically.","The records in this series are arranged into files according to committee or department (when the department is holding reccurring general meetings). The files are then arranged alphabetically.","The awards, honors, and commemorations are arranged into files. The files are then arranged chronologically by date. When an award, honor, or commemoration is reoccurring (e.g. annually), all of the records in that series are placed together in a single file.","The records for stand-alone lectures and presentations are arranged into a subseries called \"Single lectures and presentations\". The records of lectures and presentations that belong to a program or lecture series are arranged into subseries named after the program or lecture series. Following the subseries titled \"Single lectures and presentations\", the remaining lecture series are arranged alphabetically by title. ","Records in all of the subseries are arranged into files titled with the names of the lectures and presentations. The files are then arranged chronologically by date of creation.","Records in this subseries are arranged into files titled with the names of the lectures and presentations. The files are then arranged chronologically by date of creation.","Records in this subseries are arranged into files titled with the names of the lectures and presentations. The files are then arranged chronologically by date of creation.","The materials are arranged into files, each file representing an exhibit. Files are arranged alphabetically by exhibit title.","These files are arranged alphabetically.","These items are arranged alphabetically."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\nBetween 1826 and 1929, the University of Virginia's collection of medical books and journals were kept with the general library collections in the Rotunda. In 1929, the University moved the collections to the new Medical Library inside the recently-constructed Medical School Building. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nBetween 1929 and 1962, a medical librarian with a small staff of student and clerical workers stewarded the library's collections. The Medical Library at this time, although physically separate from the rest of the University's libraries, was administered as part of the central University library system with oversight from School of Medicine faculty serving on the Medical Library Committee. In addition to the management of collections, the medical librarians in this era began to curate exhibits and provide instruction. Only a few of the medical librarians who served in this period had professional library training.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nIn 1962, Wilhelm Moll was appointed the first Director of the Medical Library. During his tenure, Moll oversaw the radical trasnformation of a small branch library into an independent research library. The full-time library staff expanded from 4 to 30, the University built a new library building over Jefferson Park Avenue, the nursing and medical libraries merged to form the Health Sciences Library, a history of medicine program was founded, and the library began to adopt digital technologies.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nAfter Moll's death in 1979, the University apppointed Terry Thorkildsen as the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.  Thorkildsen and his successors Linda Watson (1990-2005) and Gretchen Arnold (2005-present) led the library during an era when revolutionary advances in digital technologies (e.g. the Internet, personal computers, databases) presented new challenges and opportunities for the Library.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cbr\u003e","\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeptember 1826: The University of Virginia Library opens in the Rotunda and it includes a collection of medical books.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1911: The University Library's entire collection of medical books and journals are gathered together and moved to the basement of the Rotunda.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeptember 13, 1915: Richard Henry Whitehead, Dean of the School of Medicine, creates the Medical Library Committee.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1919-June 1929: Ella Watson Johnson serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJune 1929: The Medical Library moves from the basement of the Rotunda to its own space in the new Medical School Building, the Medical Library remains a department of the central University Library System.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJune 1929-September 1929: Margaret Otto serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1929-1931: Anne Ashhurst Gwathmey serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1931-1934: Caroline Hill Davis serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarch 1934-June 1934: Dora Mitchell Brown serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1934-1936: Miriam Thomas Buchanan serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1935: The Medical Library institutes its first orientation for first year medical students.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1936-1943: Anne Lewis Morris serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1943-1944: Mary Elizabeth Mayo serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1944-1947: Mabel Cook Wyllie serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1945-1949: The Nursing Library is placed under the Supervision of the Medical Librarian until the appointment of a clerk to manage the Nursing collection.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1947-1962: Elizabeth Frances Adkins serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeptember 1962: Wilhelm Moll is appointed the Director of the Medical Library.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1962-1963: As the result of administrative reorganizations during this period, the Medical Library is separated from the central University Library system and placed under the control of the School of Medicine.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNovember 1970: Librarians conduct the first online searches of a database at the University of Virginia Medical Library using the experimental AIM-TWX service developed by the National Library of Medicine's Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNovember 1971: Librarians begin using the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE system to conduct online searches for patrons.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAugust 1975: The Medical Library and Nursing Library are merged into the Health Sciences Library and Information Center and moved into a new building that spans over Jefferson Park Avenue. Wilhelm Moll is made the Director of the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApril 1976: The Health Sciences Library is formally dedicated and named after Claude Moore, an alumnus of and donor to the University of Virginia.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1979: Terry Thorkildsen is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1989: The library card catalog is digitized and made available through computer terminals.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1990: Linda Watson is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2005: Gretchen Arnold is appointed the interim Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and is then made Director in 2007.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2022: Bart Ragon is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(formerly Reference Department from 1987-1991)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHistorical Collections and Services was originally concieved in the 1980s by the first director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Wilhelm Moll. His vision was to create a rare book room that would house the rare books that belonged to the Medical Library. During the Jeffersonian era and up until 1929, the books belonging to the school of medicine and anatomy were housed in the Rotunda Library on Grounds. In 1929, a new Medical School Building opened. This unified all the medical departments, which had been scattered throughout the Grounds. The Medical Collection became the Medical Library, and moved into new quarters in the Medical School Building. When Alderman, now Shannon, Library was built in 1937, the books moved there until the creation of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in 1976. Following Dr. Moll's untimely death in 1979, Special Collections librarian Joan Echtenkamp Klein helped to make Moll's reality of a special collections department a reality. She became the curator and manager of Historical Collections and Services, serving in that role until 2015. Dan Cavanaugh took over the role of curator and manager until 2022. Meggan Cashwell became the curator and manager in 2023 and is currently serving in that position.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["\nBetween 1826 and 1929, the University of Virginia's collection of medical books and journals were kept with the general library collections in the Rotunda. In 1929, the University moved the collections to the new Medical Library inside the recently-constructed Medical School Building. \n","\nBetween 1929 and 1962, a medical librarian with a small staff of student and clerical workers stewarded the library's collections. The Medical Library at this time, although physically separate from the rest of the University's libraries, was administered as part of the central University library system with oversight from School of Medicine faculty serving on the Medical Library Committee. In addition to the management of collections, the medical librarians in this era began to curate exhibits and provide instruction. Only a few of the medical librarians who served in this period had professional library training.\n","\nIn 1962, Wilhelm Moll was appointed the first Director of the Medical Library. During his tenure, Moll oversaw the radical trasnformation of a small branch library into an independent research library. The full-time library staff expanded from 4 to 30, the University built a new library building over Jefferson Park Avenue, the nursing and medical libraries merged to form the Health Sciences Library, a history of medicine program was founded, and the library began to adopt digital technologies.\n","\nAfter Moll's death in 1979, the University apppointed Terry Thorkildsen as the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.  Thorkildsen and his successors Linda Watson (1990-2005) and Gretchen Arnold (2005-present) led the library during an era when revolutionary advances in digital technologies (e.g. the Internet, personal computers, databases) presented new challenges and opportunities for the Library.\n","","September 1826: The University of Virginia Library opens in the Rotunda and it includes a collection of medical books. 1911: The University Library's entire collection of medical books and journals are gathered together and moved to the basement of the Rotunda. September 13, 1915: Richard Henry Whitehead, Dean of the School of Medicine, creates the Medical Library Committee. 1919-June 1929: Ella Watson Johnson serves as the Medical Librarian. June 1929: The Medical Library moves from the basement of the Rotunda to its own space in the new Medical School Building, the Medical Library remains a department of the central University Library System. June 1929-September 1929: Margaret Otto serves as the Medical Librarian. 1929-1931: Anne Ashhurst Gwathmey serves as the Medical Librarian. 1931-1934: Caroline Hill Davis serves as the Medical Librarian. March 1934-June 1934: Dora Mitchell Brown serves as the Medical Librarian. 1934-1936: Miriam Thomas Buchanan serves as the Medical Librarian. 1935: The Medical Library institutes its first orientation for first year medical students. 1936-1943: Anne Lewis Morris serves as the Medical Librarian. 1943-1944: Mary Elizabeth Mayo serves as the Medical Librarian. 1944-1947: Mabel Cook Wyllie serves as the Medical Librarian. 1945-1949: The Nursing Library is placed under the Supervision of the Medical Librarian until the appointment of a clerk to manage the Nursing collection. 1947-1962: Elizabeth Frances Adkins serves as the Medical Librarian. September 1962: Wilhelm Moll is appointed the Director of the Medical Library. 1962-1963: As the result of administrative reorganizations during this period, the Medical Library is separated from the central University Library system and placed under the control of the School of Medicine. November 1970: Librarians conduct the first online searches of a database at the University of Virginia Medical Library using the experimental AIM-TWX service developed by the National Library of Medicine's Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications. November 1971: Librarians begin using the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE system to conduct online searches for patrons. August 1975: The Medical Library and Nursing Library are merged into the Health Sciences Library and Information Center and moved into a new building that spans over Jefferson Park Avenue. Wilhelm Moll is made the Director of the Health Sciences Library. April 1976: The Health Sciences Library is formally dedicated and named after Claude Moore, an alumnus of and donor to the University of Virginia. 1979: Terry Thorkildsen is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. 1989: The library card catalog is digitized and made available through computer terminals. 1990: Linda Watson is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. 2005: Gretchen Arnold is appointed the interim Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and is then made Director in 2007. 2022: Bart Ragon is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.","(formerly Reference Department from 1987-1991)","Historical Collections and Services was originally concieved in the 1980s by the first director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Wilhelm Moll. His vision was to create a rare book room that would house the rare books that belonged to the Medical Library. During the Jeffersonian era and up until 1929, the books belonging to the school of medicine and anatomy were housed in the Rotunda Library on Grounds. In 1929, a new Medical School Building opened. This unified all the medical departments, which had been scattered throughout the Grounds. The Medical Collection became the Medical Library, and moved into new quarters in the Medical School Building. When Alderman, now Shannon, Library was built in 1937, the books moved there until the creation of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in 1976. Following Dr. Moll's untimely death in 1979, Special Collections librarian Joan Echtenkamp Klein helped to make Moll's reality of a special collections department a reality. She became the curator and manager of Historical Collections and Services, serving in that role until 2015. Dan Cavanaugh took over the role of curator and manager until 2022. Meggan Cashwell became the curator and manager in 2023 and is currently serving in that position."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSome exhibit pages do not have creation dates listed anywhere, but they do have copyright dates at the bottom of the page. This can be confusing in understanding what is the true date of creation.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["Date Discrepancies"],"odd_tesim":["Some exhibit pages do not have creation dates listed anywhere, but they do have copyright dates at the bottom of the page. This can be confusing in understanding what is the true date of creation."],"originalsloc_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMany of these online exhibits were once physical exhibits on display in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Exhibit placards, text, images, curation notes, and other preparation documents may be found in folders with the same exhibit title in this records group in the sub series entitled \"Exhibit Files, 1970-2019, undated.\"\u003c/p\u003e"],"originalsloc_heading_ssm":["Existence and Location of Originals"],"originalsloc_tesim":["Many of these online exhibits were once physical exhibits on display in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Exhibit placards, text, images, curation notes, and other preparation documents may be found in folders with the same exhibit title in this records group in the sub series entitled \"Exhibit Files, 1970-2019, undated.\""],"phystech_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWhen the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library downloads content from a social media platform, the Library preserves all of the original files (e.g. jpeg files, html files, json files) from the capture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatrons may contact Historical Collections staff at the Library to request copies of files containing social media content. The files may be sent to the patron for remote viewing or they may be viewed in the Historical Collections reading room. The Library will provide patrons in the reading room with software to view the files. Patrons who request to view the files remotely are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the hardware and software required to render the files. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhen the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library captures a copy of a blog, the Library preserves all of the its original files (e.g. jpeg files, html files) as well as an aggregated web archive file (warc). Both a directory containing the original files and the warc file are bundled together into a single digital object. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatrons may contact Historical Collections staff at the Library to request copies of blog files. The files may be sent to the patron for remote viewing or they may be viewed in the Historical Collections reading room. The Library will provide patrons in the reading room with software to view the files. Patrons who request to view the files remotely are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the hardware and software required to render the files. \u003c/p\u003e"],"phystech_heading_ssm":["Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements","Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements"],"phystech_tesim":["When the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library downloads content from a social media platform, the Library preserves all of the original files (e.g. jpeg files, html files, json files) from the capture.","Patrons may contact Historical Collections staff at the Library to request copies of files containing social media content. The files may be sent to the patron for remote viewing or they may be viewed in the Historical Collections reading room. The Library will provide patrons in the reading room with software to view the files. Patrons who request to view the files remotely are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the hardware and software required to render the files. ","When the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library captures a copy of a blog, the Library preserves all of the its original files (e.g. jpeg files, html files) as well as an aggregated web archive file (warc). Both a directory containing the original files and the warc file are bundled together into a single digital object. ","Patrons may contact Historical Collections staff at the Library to request copies of blog files. The files may be sent to the patron for remote viewing or they may be viewed in the Historical Collections reading room. The Library will provide patrons in the reading room with software to view the files. Patrons who request to view the files remotely are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the hardware and software required to render the files. "],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eExhibit placards, text, images, curation notes, and other preparation documents may be found in folders with the same exhibit title in this records group in the sub series entitled \"Exhibit Files, 1970-2019, undated.\"\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Exhibit placards, text, images, curation notes, and other preparation documents may be found in folders with the same exhibit title in this records group in the sub series entitled \"Exhibit Files, 1970-2019, undated.\""],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of permanent and historically significant institutional records created by the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library and the antecedent Medical Library. These records include, but are not limited to: annual reports, planning documents, newsletters, online exhibits, blogs, social media content, conference programs, department histories, committee records, and library-sponsored lecture materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of annual reports produced by the Medical Library (1929-1975), the Health Sciences Library (1975-Present), and the Information Sciences Council (1990-1996). Annual reports for the Health Sciences Library are missing from this collection for the period from 2006 to the present. Also, the annual reports for the Medical Library are missing from this collections for the period from 1929 to 1942. It is unclear whether the Medical and Health Sciences libraries wrote reports for the years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe annual reports of the Medical Library contain comprehensive descriptions of the annual activities of the Medical Library. The Medical Library's annual reports from 1929 to 1942 are missing from this collection. It is not known if the reports were ever written by the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe annual reports of the Health Sciences Library contain comprehensive descriptions of the annual activities of the Health Sciences Library. The Health Sciences Library's annual reports from 2006 to the present are missing from this collection. It is not known if the reports were ever written by the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformal annual report-like documents and related material, including reports shared on the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library blog and an internal UVA Health System news website (HS Connect). Reports from: March 2007, September 2009 (written by Gretchen Arnold), January 2013 (written by Gretchen Arnold), and March 2018 (written by Gretchen Arnold).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of correspondence and subject files that were created and assembeled by the directors of the Health Sciences Library while carrying out the responsibilities of their position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Curators of the HSL--Daniel Spikes, Cassandra Ruane, Frank C. Mevers, Todd L. Savitt, and Doris Leckie of the Smithsonian Institution\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes articles about Jesse Lazear, Carlos Finlay, Philip Hench and cortisone, Henry R. Carter, Nicolas Chervin, Joseph Y. Porter and Isaac Hulse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents with Bean include Mary (Mrs. Philip) Hench, Atcheson L. Hench, Byrd S. Leavell, and Todd Savitt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes news releases, news clippings, journal articles, and correspondence related to the gift by Mary Hench of the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence with William Bennett Bean\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence on Health System reorganization\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe records in this series document the planning of historically significant administrative initiatives, purchases, construction, and events at the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of digital and analog images that show the history and collections of the Health Sciences Library. Image formats in this series include, but are not limited to, photographic prints, film negatives, jpeg files, tiff files, 35mm film slides, CDs or other media containing digital images. The series does not include official identification photographs for faculty, students, and staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains images of artifacts in the collections of the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe images in this subseries show the staff, faculty, and interior spaces of the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMoll, Bowers, Bowers, and Rudnick are photographed with ceramic vessels used in the early production of penicillin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLIS officially started in 1989. Dr. Don Detmer is upper right of FF sheet\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeople identified are: Inhye Son, Sarah Handley, Anne Humphries, Mike Wilson, Jonathan Lord, Elaine Banner, Julia Kochi, Marylin James, Mary Nightengale, Ophelia Payne, Nadine Ellero, Trisha Luby, Sue Daddezio, Diane Ricketson, Deborah Camden, Michael Sullivan, Betty Mickens, Dan Wilson, Shelby Miller John Sesody, Greatchen Arnold, Michelle Martin, Jeri Davis, Barbara Crawford, Cindy Saylor, Susan Yowell, Karen Collier, Pat Shannon, Rick Peterson, Brenda Bikos, Sandy Zoumbaris, Jana Maas, Joan Klein, Mark Mones, Jane Wagner, Eli Casarez, Aulia Gies, Cynthia Siedman-Willen, Catherine Anninos, Judy Shotwell, Linda Watson and Ann Carter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndividuals not identified.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFront: Kathleen Tracey, karen Collier, Deborah Camden, Ophelia Payne, Rick Peterson\nSecond: Marylin James, Jane Wagner, Barbara Crawford, Polly Sandridge, Linda Watson\nThird: Pat Shannon, Brenda Bikos, Gretchen Naisawald, Anne Humphries, Jeri Davis, Shelby Miller, Jonquil Feldman, Mike Wilson\nFourth: Judith Robinson, Susan Daddezio, Julia Hochi\nFifth: Thomas Speare, Catherine Anninos, Libby Colley, Judy Shotwell\nSixth: Hall Sharp, Rick Weaver, Ann Carter\nSeventh: Nadine Ellero, Megan McCaskey, Sarah Handley\nEighth: Jonathan Lord, Jake Appleford, Mary Nightengale, Inhye Son\nAbsent: Joan Klein, christopher Marks, Betty Mickens, Mark Mones, Diane Spears\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeft to right: Dieter Groeschel, Joan Klein, Linda Watson, unidentified person\nIn back: unidentified, Janet Pearson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne photo individuals front left to right Dieter Groeschel, Joan Klein, Linda Watson, unidentified person, in the back an unidentified person and Janet Pearson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollection Services and Bibliographic Control\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntellectual Access and Collection Development\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLibrary Administration\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllen Ramsey, David Moody, Bart Ragon, Mike Wilson, Joan Klein, Dave Denton, Inhye Son, Wilma Lynch, Pat Shannon, Gretchen Arnold, Jeri Davis, Joy Nuckolls, Karen Knight, Elaine Attridge, Ann Carter, Jonathan Lord, Andrea Horne Denton, Stephanie Fielding, Adrienne Granitz, Sonya Coleman, Jason Bennett, Tony Hiserman, Tenzin Thosam, Roderick Martin, Nadine Ellero, Patricia Vaughn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries consists of images that do not belong in any other subseries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGordon was the coordinator of an exhibit on the history of gastroscopy and visited the medical school to open the exhibit. Photo taken by Ursula Ziolkowki.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto was sent to Terry Thorkildson from the Area Health Education Centers Program Eastern Virginia Medical Authority\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains historically significant press releases, visual aids, clippings, and other items that record information about the Library that were produced for or by the news media.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains print copies of news articles about the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of publications produced by the Health Sciences Library for public distribution or general internal distribution. Publications include, but are not limited to, magazines, journals, monographs, newsletters, weblogs, weekly announcements, online publications, marketing materials, and patient education resources. This series may contain both print and digital publications.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe materials in this subseries were produced to guide the use of collections housed at the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries consists of digital and print newsletters that provide information about the activities of the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA \"scrapbook\" of Library milestones and appropriate photographs for each medical and nursing graduating class celebrating its reunion in a particular year. The print series was discontinued after 2000, but additional Journey Through Time content is available online through the Historical Collections web exhibits.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains brochures, flyers, and other printed ephemera that provide information about the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnvelope has Dr. Wilhelm Moll handwritten on it. Brochure includes library statistics, what is needed in terms of money and space, various endorsements, and tax information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains social media content that has been produced by the Health Sciences Library for platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe staff of the Health Sciences Library's Historical Collections and Services department maintains and contributes content to this Facebook page. Many posts and photographs on the page relate to the Department's services, collections, and events. Other posts share information related to the history of the health sciences and the work of libraries, museums, and archives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of blogs that were created by the Health Sciences Library. The files in this series were downloaded from the Internet by Library staff. Content in the blogs that are accessed through a link outside of the blog's parent directory (e.g. external YouTube videos, external web pages) are not downloaded and archived in this series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Moore Library News (MLN) blog is produced by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. MLN blog posts provide information about Library collections, policies, services, and events.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe records in this series document the organizational structure of the Health Sciences Library. It also contains records that document administrative reorganizations of the Library. These materials include, but are not limited to, organizational charts and reports.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains policies, procedures, and handbooks produced by the Health Sciences Library to direct and guide the conduct of its faculty, staff, and patrons. These records may also formally describe and define the relationship between the Health Sciences Library and its faculty, staff, and patrons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains procedures and handbooks for the faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes items from the Printing Office with the new library name: The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries consists of procedures and handbooks for the patrons of the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains course announcements, syllabi, notes, and other materials that document classes and workshops taught by the faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of programs and reports that document the history of conferences and symposia hosted by the Health Sciences Library. Programs and reports often contain the following information: lists of speakers, presentation titles, schedules of events, and lecture abstracts. The following conference records are not included in this series: registration records, financial records, organization records, attendance lists.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of significant material that conveys the history of the Health Sciences Library, its administration, its accomplishments, its officials or employees. Includes, but is not limited to, scrapbooks, photographs, articles, program notes and documentation of events sponsored or funded by the agency. Also included are narratives; printed, audio, or audiovisual histories; or matters of significant historical importance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes many photos of the library interior and library staff. Some individuals identified. Probably an exhibit celebrating the library's 15th anniversary in 1991, but photos from 1993 are also in the folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photos of library interiors, staff (some identified) and UVA buildings; library organization chart for 2/1995; and Library Building Funds chart, 1975.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of reports, of a historically significant nature, that do not belong to any other series of the Health Sciences Library records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains memos, correspondence, subject files, online resources, and meeting minutes of committees working within the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file includes the meeting minutes, meeting agendas, and other documentation of the Library Management Group. The members of this committee were the leaders of the Health Sciences Library. They met once a month to discuss major library initiatives, provide updates and reports about library department activities, and share other information related to the management of the Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of the meeting minutes, bylaws, constitution, and correspondence of the Medical History Society of the University of Virginia. The Society was formed to promote the knowledge and study of the history of medicine and the health sciences at the University of Virginia. For much of its history, Wilhelm Moll led the Society. It supported the development of historical collections and services at the Health Sciences Library and founded a lecture series that becsme the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series in 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of records that document awards, honors, and commemorations presented by the Health Sciences Library. These records may include, but are not limited to, event programs, lists of recipients, and recipient biographies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe dedication ceremony included remarks by Donald S. Fredrickson, MD, Director, National Institutes of Health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a tribute to Wilhelm Moll by William B. Bean and another speech by an unidentified individual.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes remarks that were given by Dr. Don Detmer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes remarks given by Donald Lindberg. The title of Lindberg's presentation was\"The Computer and the Academical Village\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of records that document lectures and presentations sponsored by the Health Sciences Library. These records include, but are not limited to, audiovisual recordings, transcripts, announcements, handouts, and correspondence between presenters and event organizers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries consists of records associated with standalone lectures and presentations sponsored by the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains records that are associated with the Health Sciences Library's History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains records that are associated with the Medical History Society of the University of Virginia Lecture Series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromotional posters for a medical history lecture series held at the UVA Health Sciences Library and organized by the UVA Medical History Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of records that document exhibits created by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library of an educational or promotional nature. Some records are physical, and others are archived websites crawled by the Internet Archives' Archive-It service and made accessible by their Wayback Machine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese materials are physical materials containing exhibit plans and designs, text, labels, and images created for physical exhibits.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentified individuals in photos are John Guerrant, Ken Crispell, and Barry Marshall\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes print-out (109 pages) of \"Who's Who on the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection Website\" (2002) and supplemental list of compiled names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Robley Dunglison: 1798-1869\" Pamphlet produced for a library exhibit honoring the 200th anniversary of Dunglison's birth. 3 copies; 14 pp. Prepared by Historical Collections \u0026amp; Services, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Folder note indicates biography was written by Joby Topper. Includes reference list.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Joan Klein\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains web archived online exhibits created by Historical Collections and Services between 2007 and circa 2023, although some of the creation dates of the websites are questionable. These 21 exhibits were hosted on the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library website but are now available via the Internet Archives' Wayback Machine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit is centered on the book \"A History of Cancer Care at the University of Virginia, 1901-1911.\" This book provides vast insight into the teamwork, dedication, collegiality, and skill–as well as luck–which was necessary for the Cancer Center to exist today. Twenty-five oral history interviews were conducted in the course of researching the book and are included with the book or may be viewed in the videos section of this website. Written by Henry K. Sharp, Ph.D. and Morton C. Wilhelm, M.D. the Joseph Helms Farrow Professor Emeritus in Surgical Oncology, University of Virginia School of Medicine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit serves as an online \"scrapbook\" with some of the milestones of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Medical Center, and the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing. There are added appropriate photographs for each class year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit recounts the origin and early history of the American Lung Association. The American Lung Association of Virginia (ALAV) Collection contains personal and official correspondence, financial and legal papers, minute books, organizational and scientific reports, educational publicity, photographs, and artifacts. ALAV donated its organization's papers to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in 1990 and 1991 made this exhibit possible. The ALAV made an additional donation in 2009.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit presents images and summaries of the known uses of each instrument. The extant comments of medical writers from antiquity–including Oribasius, Galen, Soranus, Aetius, and the Hippocratic corpus–have provided scholars with some clues about the use of some instruments. Some instruments, such as mixing instruments and tweezers, probably had other household uses, such as the application of cosmetics and paints.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit was created under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Hal Sharp, a Historical Collections staff member, wrote the essay giving a brief history of anatomical drawing. The exhibit was designed by Janet Pearson, Historical Collections; Bart Ragon, the Associate Director for Knowledge Integration, Research and Technology; and Paulina Vaca, Web Communications Assistant. Emily Bowden, Historical Collections, photographed the Denoyer-Geppert Anatomy Series charts. William Crutchfield generously donated W. and A. K. Johnston's Charts of Anatomy and Physiology which were owned for 33 years by his father, Dr. William Gayle Crutchfield.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit was designed to highlight the UVA Hospital's involvement with supporting United States Army troops during World War I and World War II. It was created by Janet Pearson with the assistance of Joby Topper. Special thanks to Dr. John L. Guerrant, Dorothy Sandridge Gloor, and Elizabeth Harlin Drash for sharing their stories and helping us identify photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit shows materials related to eugenics as it relates to UVA and Charlottesville, VA. Alison White and Ina Hofland, staff members of Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, created this Web exhibit. They also created the physical exhibit of the same title on which it is based. The physical exhibit was displayed in the foyer of the Health Sciences Library April-September 2002. Steve Stedman designed the Web exhibit. Special thanks to Sara Huyser, Joan Echtenkamp Klein, Ophelia Payne, Bart Ragon, Hal Sharp, and Mike Wilson for their assistance. Web Exhibit Publish Date: February 13, 2004\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit was created under the direction of Joan Ectenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Dr. Morton C. Wilhelm, the Joseph Helms Farrow Professor in Surgical Oncology, wrote the essay with the editorial assistance of Janet Pearson. The web exhibit was designed by Janet Pearson, Historical Collections; Bart Ragon, the Associate Director for Knowledge Integration, Research and Technology; and Paulina Vaca, Web Communications Assistant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit offers a look into The Papers of James Carmichael and Son, a collection held at the UVA Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, and tells a story of the early nineteenth-century inhabitants of Fredericksburg, Virginia and its surrounding rural areas. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe exhibit is organized into two content areas: the Story and the Collection. Each of these areas, as well as the Home and About sections, are represented in the tabs near the top of every page. See the site map for more detail.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Story section sets the atmosphere for the exhibit. One can get a sense of what the practice of medicine was like for James and Edward Carmichael in the early nineteenth century by reading the essays describing the Pharmacy, the Tools of the Trade, and the Health Care of Slaves.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Collection section houses the images of the original Carmichael letters, which are meticulously transcribed and categorized to provide access not only to the words, but to the medical conditions, treatments, and philosophies of almost two centuries past. Particularly compelling is the use of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to categorize the letters along with a very detailed methodology and definition of MeSH terms. Other items of interest include the daybook kept by Doctor Carmichael from 1816-1817, newspaper clippings, court records \u0026amp; summaries, period maps, and Virginia WPA Historical Inventory Project records. Additionally, there is an exhaustive Who's Who list of names that appeared in the letters as well as a thorough list of Places Mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit tells the story of how the U.S. Army Commission, comprised of Major Walter Reed, Dr. James Carroll, Dr. Aristides Agramonte, and Dr. Jesse Lazear, confirmed Carlos Finlay's theory about the transmission of yellow fever. By showing without a doubt that mosquitoes were the vector for yellow fever, the researchers empowered public health officials in the Americas to eradicate this devastating disease from much of the Western Hemisphere.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe exhibit is divided into three main sections. The first section, Archives, provides information about and links to the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection. The collection, most collected by Philip S. Hench and housed at the University of Virginia's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, is a rich archive of materials that documents the history of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. The second section, History, tells the story of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission and the impact of its findings. Finally, the third section, Resources, provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and other resources visitors may want to consult to learn more about the Commission and the history of yellow fever.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit tells the story about 12 physicians practicing in Charlottesville, VA in 1848 mutually agreed to create an agreed rate of medical charges for services.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJoan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections \u0026amp; Services at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, conceived the idea for the fee bill project and directed it. Todd L. Savitt, Ph.D., wrote the background information essay on fee bills in general and the Charlottesville fee bill in particular. He is a faculty member at East Carolina University in the Department of Bioethics \u0026amp; Interdisciplinary Studies. Janet Pearson wrote the introduction and the biographical sketches of the twelve signers. She gathered images and took photographs in the University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium and in downtown Charlottesville. She is a member of the staff of Historical Collections and Services. Sonya Coleman, also a member of the staff of Historical Collections, contributed to the design elements. David Moody, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Webmaster, and Jason Bennett, Technology in Education Consultant, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections \u0026amp; Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, conceived the idea for the \"Fever Fighters\" project after the generous donation of Dr. Hanson's diary by his granddaughter, Jane H. Monroe.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eStaff members at Historical Collections, Leigh Mantle, Susan Yowell, and Janet Pearson, contributed content and created the GIS Map. Caitlin Summers, a dedicated intern at Historical Collections, also provided editorial assistance in the spring of 2012.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavid Moody, Library Webmaster; Mike Wilson, Information Services Specialist; and Jason Bennett, Technology Specialist, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit was inspired by The Mineral Springs of Western Virginia by William Burke, the first volume purchased by the Weaver Family Endowed Rare Book and Medical Materials Fund. Published in 1846, the book describes the setting and development of eleven springs in what are now Virginia and West Virginia. Dr. Burke, a one-time owner and resident physician at Red Sulphur Springs, remarks on the usefulness of the various mineral waters in certain diseases as well as contraindications to their use. The springs range from those that are well known today such as the White Sulphur Springs, currently the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, to the Blue Sulphur Springs, once able to accommodate several hundred people and now represented by a lone Greek Revival pavilion in the middle of a field near Smoot, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit was written and organized by Janet Pearson, a member of the staff of Historical Collections and Services, under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia. Claudia Sueyras, Normajean Hultman, and Sonya Coleman did preliminary research. Rod Martin and Victoria Meyer scanned items from Historical Collections and the Charles L. Brown Science \u0026amp; Engineering Library. David Moody, with the assistance of Bart Ragon, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit. Sonya Coleman contributed to the design elements. Special thanks has been given to the staff at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, as they retrieved dozens of documents and also to the Digital Curation Services staff for their scanning of the documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Anatomical Theatre at the University of Virginia online exhibit tells the story of the Theatre's presence at the University for more than a century. While not included in the earliest plans of the University, the need for the Theatre became clear before the first classes were ever held. Thomas Jefferson himself drew the design which includes two floor plans, a front elevation view, and a cross section. The exhibit traces the construction and later changes to the building, its demise, and archeological investigations at the site. It also gives a glimpse of what happened inside the building and the deeds that were done to procure cadavers so that medical students could learn anatomy.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit was sparked by the interest of the late Dr. M.C. Wilhelm in the model of the Anatomical Theatre housed in Historical Collections at the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. A retired surgeon and volunteer in Historical Collections, Dr. Wilhelm gathered resources and did preliminary writing. It was decided to further develop the project, and the result is this exhibit, written and organized by Janet Pearson, a Historical Collections staff member. Originally done under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, who was the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections until her untimely death, project support was continued under Dan Cavanaugh, who stepped into Joan's role and position.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOthers associated with the University of Virginia community freely shared their ideas and research. These individuals include Garth Anderson, the Facilities Management Historian; Kirt von Daacke, Assistant Dean and Professor, College of Arts \u0026amp; Sciences; Louis Nelson, Professor in the Department of Architectural History and Associate Provost for Outreach; Robert Bloodgood, Professor in the School of Medicine; Benjamin Ford, Principal Investigator with Rivanna Archaeological Services, LLC; and Sonya Coleman, formerly a staff member in Historical Collections and now at the Library of Virginia. Emily Bowden, the Historical Collections Specialist, answered many technical queries as well as gave editorial assistance. Anson Parker and Jason Bennett provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit explores the development of the iron lung during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and considers the reasons for its success during the height of the poliomyelitis epidemics. Andrew Sallans, Historical Collections Specialist, researched and compiled the content for the online and physical exhibits. The design of the online exhibit was conceived and executed by Steve Stedman, Webmaster for the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit displays a digitized copy of Historical Collections and Services' rare book \"Plague and Public Health in Europe, with Special Reference to Sixteenth-Century England: An Introduction to Orders thought meete by her Maiestie ..., 1578.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnne McKeithen, Janet Pearson, and Andrew Sallans, members of the staff of Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, compiled the material for the Plague Book exhibit under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein. Joaquin Bueno designed the Web exhibit and graphics, with the programming architecture of David Moody and the assistance of Bart Ragon.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnless otherwise noted, the images are courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden, © 1995-2006 Missouri Botanical Garden http://www.illustratedgarden.org). They deserve special thanks for their generous permission to reproduce their exquisite illustrations. Special thanks are also given to Duane J. Osheim, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia for his paper, \"Plague and Public Health in Europe, with Special Reference to Sixteenth-Century England.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 2001 Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library created an exhibit that traces the history of the first century of the Hospital in words and images. One copy of the exhibit traveled from location to location in the Health System and beyond; the other set of panels were hung in a busy hospital corridor near the main entrance where they remain today. These panels form the basis for this online exhibit which now includes the addition of a section on the first 14 years of the Hospital's second century. We hope you enjoy following the history of the growth of the University of Virginia Health System as it seeks to fulfill its longstanding vision to benefit human health and improve quality of life through patient care, research, and education.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibition was prepared by Hal Sharp and Janet Pearson of the Department of Historical Collections and Services, The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit aims to give viewers a view into more than 50 of Historical Collections and Services' most notable books and see how their authors over the years have documented their discoveries and concepts for contemporaries and for us.  There are digitized versions of many of the books in the Fulltext Books section, which offers links to the scanned images of over half of these rare books.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSara Huyser, Anne McKeithen, and Janet Pearson, members of the staff of Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, wrote and compiled the material for Vaulted Treasures under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJoaquin Bueno designed the Web exhibit and graphics, with the server expertise of David Moody and the assistance of Bart Ragon. Special thanks to Claudia Sueyras who scanned many of the books and Andrew Sallans who provided technical assistance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 37 caricatures displayed in this exhibit are divided into two groups: English and French. The English prints are predominately drawn by two of the more famous British caricaturists, James Gillray and George Cruikshank. The French caricatures include artwork by J.J. Grandville, Louis-Léopold Boilly, and Edme Jean Pigal.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMary Wagner donated the caricatures in this exhibit to Historical Collections and Services, The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Her husband, the late Robert R. Wagner, M.D., collected these when he was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research in London from 1950 to 1951. Wagner was Chair of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Virginia from 1967 to 1994, and Director of the UVa Cancer Center from 1983 to 1993. Thanks to Mary Wagner's generosity, the caricatures recently have been professionally treated, preserved, and reframed. The originals are on display in Historical Collections and Services and in the Department of Microbiology in the Robert R. Wagner Conference Room. These nineteenth-century satirical prints will thus continue to delight future generations.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit was written by Sara Huyser and Janet Pearson, members of the staff of Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia. Steve Stedman designed the Web exhibit. Special thanks to Joan Echtenkamp Klein and Andrew Sallans for their assistance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWalter Reed's professional experiences with typhoid fever stand in marked contrast to his professional encounters with yellow fever. In the case of typhoid, he was more a messenger than a conqueror. Typhoid fever remained defiant during a career that oversaw the rout of yellow fever. Through a humanizing story that shows how fate brought Reed continuing frustration as well as talent and success, this exhibit seeks to render him a more accessible role model for students of medicine and history.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit was written by Noel G. Harrison, a graduate student in The Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and an intern in Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia during the fall of 2002. The Web exhibit was prepared and designed by Mike Wilson and Sara Huyser. Special thanks to Bart Ragon, Joan Echtenkamp Klein, and Hal Sharp for their assistance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes records related to Historical Collections and Services, the special collections and archives department of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. 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These records include, but are not limited to: annual reports, planning documents, newsletters, online exhibits, blogs, social media content, conference programs, department histories, committee records, and library-sponsored lecture materials.","This series consists of annual reports produced by the Medical Library (1929-1975), the Health Sciences Library (1975-Present), and the Information Sciences Council (1990-1996). Annual reports for the Health Sciences Library are missing from this collection for the period from 2006 to the present. Also, the annual reports for the Medical Library are missing from this collections for the period from 1929 to 1942. It is unclear whether the Medical and Health Sciences libraries wrote reports for the years.","The annual reports of the Medical Library contain comprehensive descriptions of the annual activities of the Medical Library. The Medical Library's annual reports from 1929 to 1942 are missing from this collection. It is not known if the reports were ever written by the library.","The annual reports of the Health Sciences Library contain comprehensive descriptions of the annual activities of the Health Sciences Library. The Health Sciences Library's annual reports from 2006 to the present are missing from this collection. It is not known if the reports were ever written by the library.","Informal annual report-like documents and related material, including reports shared on the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library blog and an internal UVA Health System news website (HS Connect). Reports from: March 2007, September 2009 (written by Gretchen Arnold), January 2013 (written by Gretchen Arnold), and March 2018 (written by Gretchen Arnold).","This series consists of correspondence and subject files that were created and assembeled by the directors of the Health Sciences Library while carrying out the responsibilities of their position.","Correspondents include Curators of the HSL--Daniel Spikes, Cassandra Ruane, Frank C. Mevers, Todd L. Savitt, and Doris Leckie of the Smithsonian Institution","Includes articles about Jesse Lazear, Carlos Finlay, Philip Hench and cortisone, Henry R. Carter, Nicolas Chervin, Joseph Y. Porter and Isaac Hulse","Correspondents with Bean include Mary (Mrs. Philip) Hench, Atcheson L. Hench, Byrd S. Leavell, and Todd Savitt","Includes news releases, news clippings, journal articles, and correspondence related to the gift by Mary Hench of the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection.","Includes correspondence with William Bennett Bean","Includes correspondence on Health System reorganization","The records in this series document the planning of historically significant administrative initiatives, purchases, construction, and events at the Health Sciences Library.","This series consists of digital and analog images that show the history and collections of the Health Sciences Library. Image formats in this series include, but are not limited to, photographic prints, film negatives, jpeg files, tiff files, 35mm film slides, CDs or other media containing digital images. The series does not include official identification photographs for faculty, students, and staff.","This subseries contains images of artifacts in the collections of the Health Sciences Library.","The images in this subseries show the staff, faculty, and interior spaces of the Health Sciences Library.","Moll, Bowers, Bowers, and Rudnick are photographed with ceramic vessels used in the early production of penicillin.","LIS officially started in 1989. Dr. Don Detmer is upper right of FF sheet","People identified are: Inhye Son, Sarah Handley, Anne Humphries, Mike Wilson, Jonathan Lord, Elaine Banner, Julia Kochi, Marylin James, Mary Nightengale, Ophelia Payne, Nadine Ellero, Trisha Luby, Sue Daddezio, Diane Ricketson, Deborah Camden, Michael Sullivan, Betty Mickens, Dan Wilson, Shelby Miller John Sesody, Greatchen Arnold, Michelle Martin, Jeri Davis, Barbara Crawford, Cindy Saylor, Susan Yowell, Karen Collier, Pat Shannon, Rick Peterson, Brenda Bikos, Sandy Zoumbaris, Jana Maas, Joan Klein, Mark Mones, Jane Wagner, Eli Casarez, Aulia Gies, Cynthia Siedman-Willen, Catherine Anninos, Judy Shotwell, Linda Watson and Ann Carter.","Individuals not identified.","Front: Kathleen Tracey, karen Collier, Deborah Camden, Ophelia Payne, Rick Peterson\nSecond: Marylin James, Jane Wagner, Barbara Crawford, Polly Sandridge, Linda Watson\nThird: Pat Shannon, Brenda Bikos, Gretchen Naisawald, Anne Humphries, Jeri Davis, Shelby Miller, Jonquil Feldman, Mike Wilson\nFourth: Judith Robinson, Susan Daddezio, Julia Hochi\nFifth: Thomas Speare, Catherine Anninos, Libby Colley, Judy Shotwell\nSixth: Hall Sharp, Rick Weaver, Ann Carter\nSeventh: Nadine Ellero, Megan McCaskey, Sarah Handley\nEighth: Jonathan Lord, Jake Appleford, Mary Nightengale, Inhye Son\nAbsent: Joan Klein, christopher Marks, Betty Mickens, Mark Mones, Diane Spears","Left to right: Dieter Groeschel, Joan Klein, Linda Watson, unidentified person\nIn back: unidentified, Janet Pearson","One photo individuals front left to right Dieter Groeschel, Joan Klein, Linda Watson, unidentified person, in the back an unidentified person and Janet Pearson","Collection Services and Bibliographic Control","Intellectual Access and Collection Development","Library Administration","Ellen Ramsey, David Moody, Bart Ragon, Mike Wilson, Joan Klein, Dave Denton, Inhye Son, Wilma Lynch, Pat Shannon, Gretchen Arnold, Jeri Davis, Joy Nuckolls, Karen Knight, Elaine Attridge, Ann Carter, Jonathan Lord, Andrea Horne Denton, Stephanie Fielding, Adrienne Granitz, Sonya Coleman, Jason Bennett, Tony Hiserman, Tenzin Thosam, Roderick Martin, Nadine Ellero, Patricia Vaughn","This subseries consists of images that do not belong in any other subseries.","Gordon was the coordinator of an exhibit on the history of gastroscopy and visited the medical school to open the exhibit. Photo taken by Ursula Ziolkowki.","Photo was sent to Terry Thorkildson from the Area Health Education Centers Program Eastern Virginia Medical Authority","This series contains historically significant press releases, visual aids, clippings, and other items that record information about the Library that were produced for or by the news media.","This subseries contains print copies of news articles about the Health Sciences Library.","This series consists of publications produced by the Health Sciences Library for public distribution or general internal distribution. Publications include, but are not limited to, magazines, journals, monographs, newsletters, weblogs, weekly announcements, online publications, marketing materials, and patient education resources. This series may contain both print and digital publications.","The materials in this subseries were produced to guide the use of collections housed at the Health Sciences Library.","This subseries consists of digital and print newsletters that provide information about the activities of the Health Sciences Library.","A \"scrapbook\" of Library milestones and appropriate photographs for each medical and nursing graduating class celebrating its reunion in a particular year. The print series was discontinued after 2000, but additional Journey Through Time content is available online through the Historical Collections web exhibits.","This subseries contains brochures, flyers, and other printed ephemera that provide information about the Health Sciences Library.","Envelope has Dr. Wilhelm Moll handwritten on it. Brochure includes library statistics, what is needed in terms of money and space, various endorsements, and tax information.","This series contains social media content that has been produced by the Health Sciences Library for platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.","The staff of the Health Sciences Library's Historical Collections and Services department maintains and contributes content to this Facebook page. Many posts and photographs on the page relate to the Department's services, collections, and events. Other posts share information related to the history of the health sciences and the work of libraries, museums, and archives.","This series consists of blogs that were created by the Health Sciences Library. The files in this series were downloaded from the Internet by Library staff. Content in the blogs that are accessed through a link outside of the blog's parent directory (e.g. external YouTube videos, external web pages) are not downloaded and archived in this series.","The Moore Library News (MLN) blog is produced by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. MLN blog posts provide information about Library collections, policies, services, and events.","The records in this series document the organizational structure of the Health Sciences Library. It also contains records that document administrative reorganizations of the Library. These materials include, but are not limited to, organizational charts and reports.","This series contains policies, procedures, and handbooks produced by the Health Sciences Library to direct and guide the conduct of its faculty, staff, and patrons. These records may also formally describe and define the relationship between the Health Sciences Library and its faculty, staff, and patrons.","This subseries contains procedures and handbooks for the faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Library.","Includes items from the Printing Office with the new library name: The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library","This subseries consists of procedures and handbooks for the patrons of the Health Sciences Library.","This series contains course announcements, syllabi, notes, and other materials that document classes and workshops taught by the faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Library.","This series consists of programs and reports that document the history of conferences and symposia hosted by the Health Sciences Library. Programs and reports often contain the following information: lists of speakers, presentation titles, schedules of events, and lecture abstracts. The following conference records are not included in this series: registration records, financial records, organization records, attendance lists.","This series consists of significant material that conveys the history of the Health Sciences Library, its administration, its accomplishments, its officials or employees. Includes, but is not limited to, scrapbooks, photographs, articles, program notes and documentation of events sponsored or funded by the agency. Also included are narratives; printed, audio, or audiovisual histories; or matters of significant historical importance.","Includes many photos of the library interior and library staff. Some individuals identified. Probably an exhibit celebrating the library's 15th anniversary in 1991, but photos from 1993 are also in the folder.","Includes photos of library interiors, staff (some identified) and UVA buildings; library organization chart for 2/1995; and Library Building Funds chart, 1975.","This series consists of reports, of a historically significant nature, that do not belong to any other series of the Health Sciences Library records.","This series contains memos, correspondence, subject files, online resources, and meeting minutes of committees working within the Health Sciences Library.","This file includes the meeting minutes, meeting agendas, and other documentation of the Library Management Group. The members of this committee were the leaders of the Health Sciences Library. They met once a month to discuss major library initiatives, provide updates and reports about library department activities, and share other information related to the management of the Library.","This file consists of the meeting minutes, bylaws, constitution, and correspondence of the Medical History Society of the University of Virginia. The Society was formed to promote the knowledge and study of the history of medicine and the health sciences at the University of Virginia. For much of its history, Wilhelm Moll led the Society. It supported the development of historical collections and services at the Health Sciences Library and founded a lecture series that becsme the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series in 1984.","This series consists of records that document awards, honors, and commemorations presented by the Health Sciences Library. These records may include, but are not limited to, event programs, lists of recipients, and recipient biographies.","The dedication ceremony included remarks by Donald S. Fredrickson, MD, Director, National Institutes of Health.","Includes a tribute to Wilhelm Moll by William B. Bean and another speech by an unidentified individual.","Includes remarks that were given by Dr. Don Detmer.","Includes remarks given by Donald Lindberg. The title of Lindberg's presentation was\"The Computer and the Academical Village\".","This series consists of records that document lectures and presentations sponsored by the Health Sciences Library. These records include, but are not limited to, audiovisual recordings, transcripts, announcements, handouts, and correspondence between presenters and event organizers.","This subseries consists of records associated with standalone lectures and presentations sponsored by the Health Sciences Library.","This subseries contains records that are associated with the Health Sciences Library's History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series.","This subseries contains records that are associated with the Medical History Society of the University of Virginia Lecture Series.","Promotional posters for a medical history lecture series held at the UVA Health Sciences Library and organized by the UVA Medical History Society.","This series consists of records that document exhibits created by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library of an educational or promotional nature. Some records are physical, and others are archived websites crawled by the Internet Archives' Archive-It service and made accessible by their Wayback Machine.","These materials are physical materials containing exhibit plans and designs, text, labels, and images created for physical exhibits.","Identified individuals in photos are John Guerrant, Ken Crispell, and Barry Marshall","Includes print-out (109 pages) of \"Who's Who on the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection Website\" (2002) and supplemental list of compiled names.","\"Robley Dunglison: 1798-1869\" Pamphlet produced for a library exhibit honoring the 200th anniversary of Dunglison's birth. 3 copies; 14 pp. Prepared by Historical Collections \u0026 Services, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Folder note indicates biography was written by Joby Topper. Includes reference list.","Introduction by Joan Klein","This series contains web archived online exhibits created by Historical Collections and Services between 2007 and circa 2023, although some of the creation dates of the websites are questionable. These 21 exhibits were hosted on the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library website but are now available via the Internet Archives' Wayback Machine.","This online exhibit is centered on the book \"A History of Cancer Care at the University of Virginia, 1901-1911.\" This book provides vast insight into the teamwork, dedication, collegiality, and skill–as well as luck–which was necessary for the Cancer Center to exist today. Twenty-five oral history interviews were conducted in the course of researching the book and are included with the book or may be viewed in the videos section of this website. Written by Henry K. Sharp, Ph.D. and Morton C. Wilhelm, M.D. the Joseph Helms Farrow Professor Emeritus in Surgical Oncology, University of Virginia School of Medicine.","This online exhibit serves as an online \"scrapbook\" with some of the milestones of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Medical Center, and the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing. There are added appropriate photographs for each class year.","This exhibit recounts the origin and early history of the American Lung Association. The American Lung Association of Virginia (ALAV) Collection contains personal and official correspondence, financial and legal papers, minute books, organizational and scientific reports, educational publicity, photographs, and artifacts. ALAV donated its organization's papers to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in 1990 and 1991 made this exhibit possible. The ALAV made an additional donation in 2009.","This online exhibit presents images and summaries of the known uses of each instrument. The extant comments of medical writers from antiquity–including Oribasius, Galen, Soranus, Aetius, and the Hippocratic corpus–have provided scholars with some clues about the use of some instruments. Some instruments, such as mixing instruments and tweezers, probably had other household uses, such as the application of cosmetics and paints.","This online exhibit was created under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Hal Sharp, a Historical Collections staff member, wrote the essay giving a brief history of anatomical drawing. The exhibit was designed by Janet Pearson, Historical Collections; Bart Ragon, the Associate Director for Knowledge Integration, Research and Technology; and Paulina Vaca, Web Communications Assistant. Emily Bowden, Historical Collections, photographed the Denoyer-Geppert Anatomy Series charts. William Crutchfield generously donated W. and A. K. Johnston's Charts of Anatomy and Physiology which were owned for 33 years by his father, Dr. William Gayle Crutchfield.","This exhibit was designed to highlight the UVA Hospital's involvement with supporting United States Army troops during World War I and World War II. It was created by Janet Pearson with the assistance of Joby Topper. Special thanks to Dr. John L. Guerrant, Dorothy Sandridge Gloor, and Elizabeth Harlin Drash for sharing their stories and helping us identify photographs.","This online exhibit shows materials related to eugenics as it relates to UVA and Charlottesville, VA. Alison White and Ina Hofland, staff members of Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, created this Web exhibit. They also created the physical exhibit of the same title on which it is based. The physical exhibit was displayed in the foyer of the Health Sciences Library April-September 2002. Steve Stedman designed the Web exhibit. Special thanks to Sara Huyser, Joan Echtenkamp Klein, Ophelia Payne, Bart Ragon, Hal Sharp, and Mike Wilson for their assistance. Web Exhibit Publish Date: February 13, 2004","This exhibit was created under the direction of Joan Ectenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Dr. Morton C. Wilhelm, the Joseph Helms Farrow Professor in Surgical Oncology, wrote the essay with the editorial assistance of Janet Pearson. The web exhibit was designed by Janet Pearson, Historical Collections; Bart Ragon, the Associate Director for Knowledge Integration, Research and Technology; and Paulina Vaca, Web Communications Assistant.","This online exhibit offers a look into The Papers of James Carmichael and Son, a collection held at the UVA Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, and tells a story of the early nineteenth-century inhabitants of Fredericksburg, Virginia and its surrounding rural areas. ","The exhibit is organized into two content areas: the Story and the Collection. Each of these areas, as well as the Home and About sections, are represented in the tabs near the top of every page. See the site map for more detail.","The Story section sets the atmosphere for the exhibit. One can get a sense of what the practice of medicine was like for James and Edward Carmichael in the early nineteenth century by reading the essays describing the Pharmacy, the Tools of the Trade, and the Health Care of Slaves.","The Collection section houses the images of the original Carmichael letters, which are meticulously transcribed and categorized to provide access not only to the words, but to the medical conditions, treatments, and philosophies of almost two centuries past. Particularly compelling is the use of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to categorize the letters along with a very detailed methodology and definition of MeSH terms. Other items of interest include the daybook kept by Doctor Carmichael from 1816-1817, newspaper clippings, court records \u0026 summaries, period maps, and Virginia WPA Historical Inventory Project records. Additionally, there is an exhaustive Who's Who list of names that appeared in the letters as well as a thorough list of Places Mentioned.","This online exhibit tells the story of how the U.S. Army Commission, comprised of Major Walter Reed, Dr. James Carroll, Dr. Aristides Agramonte, and Dr. Jesse Lazear, confirmed Carlos Finlay's theory about the transmission of yellow fever. By showing without a doubt that mosquitoes were the vector for yellow fever, the researchers empowered public health officials in the Americas to eradicate this devastating disease from much of the Western Hemisphere.","The exhibit is divided into three main sections. The first section, Archives, provides information about and links to the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection. The collection, most collected by Philip S. Hench and housed at the University of Virginia's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, is a rich archive of materials that documents the history of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. The second section, History, tells the story of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission and the impact of its findings. Finally, the third section, Resources, provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and other resources visitors may want to consult to learn more about the Commission and the history of yellow fever.","This exhibit tells the story about 12 physicians practicing in Charlottesville, VA in 1848 mutually agreed to create an agreed rate of medical charges for services.","Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections \u0026 Services at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, conceived the idea for the fee bill project and directed it. Todd L. Savitt, Ph.D., wrote the background information essay on fee bills in general and the Charlottesville fee bill in particular. He is a faculty member at East Carolina University in the Department of Bioethics \u0026 Interdisciplinary Studies. Janet Pearson wrote the introduction and the biographical sketches of the twelve signers. She gathered images and took photographs in the University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium and in downtown Charlottesville. She is a member of the staff of Historical Collections and Services. Sonya Coleman, also a member of the staff of Historical Collections, contributed to the design elements. David Moody, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Webmaster, and Jason Bennett, Technology in Education Consultant, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.","Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections \u0026 Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, conceived the idea for the \"Fever Fighters\" project after the generous donation of Dr. Hanson's diary by his granddaughter, Jane H. Monroe.","Staff members at Historical Collections, Leigh Mantle, Susan Yowell, and Janet Pearson, contributed content and created the GIS Map. Caitlin Summers, a dedicated intern at Historical Collections, also provided editorial assistance in the spring of 2012.","David Moody, Library Webmaster; Mike Wilson, Information Services Specialist; and Jason Bennett, Technology Specialist, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.","This exhibit was inspired by The Mineral Springs of Western Virginia by William Burke, the first volume purchased by the Weaver Family Endowed Rare Book and Medical Materials Fund. Published in 1846, the book describes the setting and development of eleven springs in what are now Virginia and West Virginia. Dr. Burke, a one-time owner and resident physician at Red Sulphur Springs, remarks on the usefulness of the various mineral waters in certain diseases as well as contraindications to their use. The springs range from those that are well known today such as the White Sulphur Springs, currently the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, to the Blue Sulphur Springs, once able to accommodate several hundred people and now represented by a lone Greek Revival pavilion in the middle of a field near Smoot, West Virginia.","This exhibit was written and organized by Janet Pearson, a member of the staff of Historical Collections and Services, under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia. Claudia Sueyras, Normajean Hultman, and Sonya Coleman did preliminary research. Rod Martin and Victoria Meyer scanned items from Historical Collections and the Charles L. Brown Science \u0026 Engineering Library. David Moody, with the assistance of Bart Ragon, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit. Sonya Coleman contributed to the design elements. Special thanks has been given to the staff at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, as they retrieved dozens of documents and also to the Digital Curation Services staff for their scanning of the documents.","The Anatomical Theatre at the University of Virginia online exhibit tells the story of the Theatre's presence at the University for more than a century. While not included in the earliest plans of the University, the need for the Theatre became clear before the first classes were ever held. Thomas Jefferson himself drew the design which includes two floor plans, a front elevation view, and a cross section. The exhibit traces the construction and later changes to the building, its demise, and archeological investigations at the site. It also gives a glimpse of what happened inside the building and the deeds that were done to procure cadavers so that medical students could learn anatomy.","This exhibit was sparked by the interest of the late Dr. M.C. Wilhelm in the model of the Anatomical Theatre housed in Historical Collections at the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. A retired surgeon and volunteer in Historical Collections, Dr. Wilhelm gathered resources and did preliminary writing. It was decided to further develop the project, and the result is this exhibit, written and organized by Janet Pearson, a Historical Collections staff member. Originally done under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, who was the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections until her untimely death, project support was continued under Dan Cavanaugh, who stepped into Joan's role and position.","Others associated with the University of Virginia community freely shared their ideas and research. These individuals include Garth Anderson, the Facilities Management Historian; Kirt von Daacke, Assistant Dean and Professor, College of Arts \u0026 Sciences; Louis Nelson, Professor in the Department of Architectural History and Associate Provost for Outreach; Robert Bloodgood, Professor in the School of Medicine; Benjamin Ford, Principal Investigator with Rivanna Archaeological Services, LLC; and Sonya Coleman, formerly a staff member in Historical Collections and now at the Library of Virginia. Emily Bowden, the Historical Collections Specialist, answered many technical queries as well as gave editorial assistance. Anson Parker and Jason Bennett provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.","This exhibit explores the development of the iron lung during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and considers the reasons for its success during the height of the poliomyelitis epidemics. Andrew Sallans, Historical Collections Specialist, researched and compiled the content for the online and physical exhibits. The design of the online exhibit was conceived and executed by Steve Stedman, Webmaster for the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.","This online exhibit displays a digitized copy of Historical Collections and Services' rare book \"Plague and Public Health in Europe, with Special Reference to Sixteenth-Century England: An Introduction to Orders thought meete by her Maiestie ..., 1578.\"","Anne McKeithen, Janet Pearson, and Andrew Sallans, members of the staff of Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, compiled the material for the Plague Book exhibit under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein. Joaquin Bueno designed the Web exhibit and graphics, with the programming architecture of David Moody and the assistance of Bart Ragon.","Unless otherwise noted, the images are courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden, © 1995-2006 Missouri Botanical Garden http://www.illustratedgarden.org). They deserve special thanks for their generous permission to reproduce their exquisite illustrations. Special thanks are also given to Duane J. Osheim, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia for his paper, \"Plague and Public Health in Europe, with Special Reference to Sixteenth-Century England.\"","In 2001 Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library created an exhibit that traces the history of the first century of the Hospital in words and images. One copy of the exhibit traveled from location to location in the Health System and beyond; the other set of panels were hung in a busy hospital corridor near the main entrance where they remain today. These panels form the basis for this online exhibit which now includes the addition of a section on the first 14 years of the Hospital's second century. We hope you enjoy following the history of the growth of the University of Virginia Health System as it seeks to fulfill its longstanding vision to benefit human health and improve quality of life through patient care, research, and education.","This exhibition was prepared by Hal Sharp and Janet Pearson of the Department of Historical Collections and Services, The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.","This online exhibit aims to give viewers a view into more than 50 of Historical Collections and Services' most notable books and see how their authors over the years have documented their discoveries and concepts for contemporaries and for us.  There are digitized versions of many of the books in the Fulltext Books section, which offers links to the scanned images of over half of these rare books.","Sara Huyser, Anne McKeithen, and Janet Pearson, members of the staff of Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, wrote and compiled the material for Vaulted Treasures under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein.","Joaquin Bueno designed the Web exhibit and graphics, with the server expertise of David Moody and the assistance of Bart Ragon. Special thanks to Claudia Sueyras who scanned many of the books and Andrew Sallans who provided technical assistance.","The 37 caricatures displayed in this exhibit are divided into two groups: English and French. The English prints are predominately drawn by two of the more famous British caricaturists, James Gillray and George Cruikshank. The French caricatures include artwork by J.J. Grandville, Louis-Léopold Boilly, and Edme Jean Pigal.","Mary Wagner donated the caricatures in this exhibit to Historical Collections and Services, The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Her husband, the late Robert R. Wagner, M.D., collected these when he was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research in London from 1950 to 1951. Wagner was Chair of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Virginia from 1967 to 1994, and Director of the UVa Cancer Center from 1983 to 1993. Thanks to Mary Wagner's generosity, the caricatures recently have been professionally treated, preserved, and reframed. The originals are on display in Historical Collections and Services and in the Department of Microbiology in the Robert R. Wagner Conference Room. These nineteenth-century satirical prints will thus continue to delight future generations.","This exhibit was written by Sara Huyser and Janet Pearson, members of the staff of Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia. Steve Stedman designed the Web exhibit. Special thanks to Joan Echtenkamp Klein and Andrew Sallans for their assistance.","Walter Reed's professional experiences with typhoid fever stand in marked contrast to his professional encounters with yellow fever. In the case of typhoid, he was more a messenger than a conqueror. Typhoid fever remained defiant during a career that oversaw the rout of yellow fever. Through a humanizing story that shows how fate brought Reed continuing frustration as well as talent and success, this exhibit seeks to render him a more accessible role model for students of medicine and history.","This exhibit was written by Noel G. Harrison, a graduate student in The Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and an intern in Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia during the fall of 2002. The Web exhibit was prepared and designed by Mike Wilson and Sara Huyser. Special thanks to Bart Ragon, Joan Echtenkamp Klein, and Hal Sharp for their assistance.","This series includes records related to Historical Collections and Services, the special collections and archives department of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Records the public can access are related to exhibitions that were curated by staff and displayed in the library."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic works.  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Copyright ownership varies for other content that has been posted on the Library's social media platforms and archived here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to blogs and blog posts created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic works.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  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Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to media created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to publications created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic works.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The University of Virginia owns the copyrights to publications produced by the Health Sciences Library. Other copyright restrictions may apply to some materials.","Copyright restrictions may apply.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright for social media content (e.g. posts, photographs) created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic works. The organizations that own the social media platforms might also hold licenses to all of the content posted by University of Virginia employees. Copyright ownership varies for other content that has been posted on the Library's social media platforms and archived here.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to blogs and blog posts created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic works.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to media created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to conference records and programs created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to reports created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment. Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to the records in this series that were created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to materials in this series created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to exhibit content created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies."],"names_ssim":["Claude Moore Health Sciences Library"],"corpname_ssim":["Claude Moore Health Sciences Library"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":471,"online_item_count_is":26,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T23:41:23.997Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_repositories_7_resources_215","ead_ssi":"viu_repositories_7_resources_215","_root_":"viu_repositories_7_resources_215","_nest_parent_":"viu_repositories_7_resources_215","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/UVA/repositories_7_resources_215.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/133046","title_ssm":["Claude Moore Health Sciences Library records"],"title_tesim":["Claude Moore Health Sciences Library records"],"unitdate_ssm":["1942-2025","1848-2019"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["1942-2025"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1848-2019"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["RG.17.4","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/7/resources/215"],"text":["RG.17.4","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/7/resources/215","Claude Moore Health Sciences Library records","University of Virginia","The records of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library are open to researchers, except where it is noted. Decisions to close records to research are made in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (VAFOIA), the policies of the University of Virginia, and other relevent laws, regulations, or policies.","The annual reports are open to research.","These records are open to research.","The planning documents and reports are open to research.","The photographs and negatives are open to research.","The public relations files are open to research.","The publications are open to research.","There are no restrictions on access to the newsletters in this subseries.","There are no restrictions on access to the publications of the Health Sciences Library.","The social media files are open to researchers.","The blog files are open to researchers.","The administrative organization and structure files are open to research.","The policies, procedures, and handbooks are open to research.","In accordance with the The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), the library may restrict access to student-authored materials and other protected student records in this series. Course syllabi, course announcements, and other materials produced by University faculty and staff are open to research.","Conference programs and reports are open to research.","The historical and biographical files are open to research.","The reports in this series are open to research.","The committee records and meeting minutes are open to research.","The awards, honors, and commemorations records are open to research.","The lecture and presentation materials are open to research.","The exhibit records are open to research.","The annual reports of the Health Sciences Library are scheduled for permanent retention. There will be accruals to this series if the Health Sciences Library resumes the creation of annual reports.","The correspondence and subject files of the Health Sciences Library director are not scheduled for permanent retention and, in the past, have been transferred to the archives on an irregular basis. No further accruals of this material is expected.","Historically significant planning documents and reports are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether a document or report is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected.","Historically significant photographs and negatives are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether a photograph or negative is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected.","Public relations files are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. These records are generally created by the University's marketing and communications departments and they are filed in the records groups associated with those units. However, the library does occasionally create its own public relations files that we expect to add to this series.","The publications of the Health Sciences Library are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. Much of the content that the Library made available through publications is now made available on various online platforms. It is likely that accruals to this series will be infrequent.","Annually, data is downloaded from the Library's active social media sites and added to this collection.","Copies of each existing blog are captured every year and added to the collection.","The organizational charts of the Health Sciences Library are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. Besides the charts, only historically significant records document administrative structure are retained in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether one of these records is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur occassionally.","Historically significant policies, procedures, and handbooks produced by the Health Sciences Library are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether a record is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected.","Historically significant syllabi and course materials are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Healh Sciences Library determines whether a course record is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur infrequently.","Historically significant conference programs and reports are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Health Sciences Library determines whether a program or report is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected.","Significant historical and biographical materials are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Health Sciences Library determines whether a record is significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur infrequently.","Historically significant reports are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Health Sciences Library determines whether a report is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur infrequently.","Historically significant exhibit records are scheduled for permanent retention in the archives. The head of the Historical Collections and Services Department at the Health Sciences Library determines whether a record is historically significant. Accruals to this series are expected to occur infrequently.","Records are generally organized according to the records retention and disposition schedules series maintained by the Library of Virginia (LVA). When necessary, additional subdivisions have been created for materials that do not have clear equivalents in the LVA resources.","Annual reports are arranged into 3 subseries: Medical Library, Health Sciences Libary, and Information Sciences Council. The subseries are arranged chornologically. Inside the subseries annual reports are placed into files that are arranged chronologically.","The correspondence and subject files are arranged into subseries according to the library director who created them. The subseries are then arranged chronologically by the date that each director began his or her term in this position. Beginning and end dates of the directors' terms are given after his or her name in the subseries title.","In this series, a file is created for each planning report and its associated documents. The files are arranged chronologically by the date of creation for the materials they contain.","The photographs and negatives are arranged into subseries by subject. The subseries are then arranged alphabetically by title. The arrangements of the files in the subseries vary.","The photographs and negatives of library artifacts are arranged alphabetically according to the name of the artifact shown.","The images of Health Sciences Library staff and interiors are arranged chronologically according to their date of creation.","The miscellaneous photographs are arranged chronologically according to the date of their creation.","The public relations files are arranged into subseries according to types of materials (e.g. clippings collections and press releases). The subseries are then arranged alphabetically. The files in the subseries are arranged chonologically.","The publications are arranged into subseries according to types of materials (e.g. journals and magazines, newsletters, patient education resources). The subseries are then arranged alphabetically. The arrangements of the files in the subseries vary.","The newsletters are arranged alphabetically by title.","The promotional brochures, flyers, and other publications are arranged chronologically according to their date of creation.","The social media content is arranged into files alphabetically by title.","Blogs are arranged into files alphabetically by title.","Files in this series are arranged chronologically according to the date of their creation.","The policies, procedures, and handbooks are arranged into the following subseries in this order: Staff procedures and handbooks, and Library users procedures and handbooks. The files in each subseries are arranged chronologically.","Syllabi and course materials are arranged chronologically.","Conference records and programs are arranged into files by conference title. The files are arranged chronologically by the date each conference was held. All of the instances of a reoccurring conference are gathered together into the same file. If the conference is reoccurring, it is arranged in relation to the rest of the files according to the first instance of that conference.","Materials in this series are arranged chronologically according to the date that they were created.","The reports are arranged into files. The files are then arranged chronologically by their date of creation. When a report is reoccurring, all of the reports in that series are placed together in a single file.","The directories are arranged by title into files. The files are arranged chronologically.","The records in this series are arranged into files according to committee or department (when the department is holding reccurring general meetings). The files are then arranged alphabetically.","The awards, honors, and commemorations are arranged into files. The files are then arranged chronologically by date. When an award, honor, or commemoration is reoccurring (e.g. annually), all of the records in that series are placed together in a single file.","The records for stand-alone lectures and presentations are arranged into a subseries called \"Single lectures and presentations\". The records of lectures and presentations that belong to a program or lecture series are arranged into subseries named after the program or lecture series. Following the subseries titled \"Single lectures and presentations\", the remaining lecture series are arranged alphabetically by title. ","Records in all of the subseries are arranged into files titled with the names of the lectures and presentations. The files are then arranged chronologically by date of creation.","Records in this subseries are arranged into files titled with the names of the lectures and presentations. The files are then arranged chronologically by date of creation.","Records in this subseries are arranged into files titled with the names of the lectures and presentations. The files are then arranged chronologically by date of creation.","The materials are arranged into files, each file representing an exhibit. Files are arranged alphabetically by exhibit title.","These files are arranged alphabetically.","These items are arranged alphabetically.","\nBetween 1826 and 1929, the University of Virginia's collection of medical books and journals were kept with the general library collections in the Rotunda. In 1929, the University moved the collections to the new Medical Library inside the recently-constructed Medical School Building. \n","\nBetween 1929 and 1962, a medical librarian with a small staff of student and clerical workers stewarded the library's collections. The Medical Library at this time, although physically separate from the rest of the University's libraries, was administered as part of the central University library system with oversight from School of Medicine faculty serving on the Medical Library Committee. In addition to the management of collections, the medical librarians in this era began to curate exhibits and provide instruction. Only a few of the medical librarians who served in this period had professional library training.\n","\nIn 1962, Wilhelm Moll was appointed the first Director of the Medical Library. During his tenure, Moll oversaw the radical trasnformation of a small branch library into an independent research library. The full-time library staff expanded from 4 to 30, the University built a new library building over Jefferson Park Avenue, the nursing and medical libraries merged to form the Health Sciences Library, a history of medicine program was founded, and the library began to adopt digital technologies.\n","\nAfter Moll's death in 1979, the University apppointed Terry Thorkildsen as the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.  Thorkildsen and his successors Linda Watson (1990-2005) and Gretchen Arnold (2005-present) led the library during an era when revolutionary advances in digital technologies (e.g. the Internet, personal computers, databases) presented new challenges and opportunities for the Library.\n","","September 1826: The University of Virginia Library opens in the Rotunda and it includes a collection of medical books. 1911: The University Library's entire collection of medical books and journals are gathered together and moved to the basement of the Rotunda. September 13, 1915: Richard Henry Whitehead, Dean of the School of Medicine, creates the Medical Library Committee. 1919-June 1929: Ella Watson Johnson serves as the Medical Librarian. June 1929: The Medical Library moves from the basement of the Rotunda to its own space in the new Medical School Building, the Medical Library remains a department of the central University Library System. June 1929-September 1929: Margaret Otto serves as the Medical Librarian. 1929-1931: Anne Ashhurst Gwathmey serves as the Medical Librarian. 1931-1934: Caroline Hill Davis serves as the Medical Librarian. March 1934-June 1934: Dora Mitchell Brown serves as the Medical Librarian. 1934-1936: Miriam Thomas Buchanan serves as the Medical Librarian. 1935: The Medical Library institutes its first orientation for first year medical students. 1936-1943: Anne Lewis Morris serves as the Medical Librarian. 1943-1944: Mary Elizabeth Mayo serves as the Medical Librarian. 1944-1947: Mabel Cook Wyllie serves as the Medical Librarian. 1945-1949: The Nursing Library is placed under the Supervision of the Medical Librarian until the appointment of a clerk to manage the Nursing collection. 1947-1962: Elizabeth Frances Adkins serves as the Medical Librarian. September 1962: Wilhelm Moll is appointed the Director of the Medical Library. 1962-1963: As the result of administrative reorganizations during this period, the Medical Library is separated from the central University Library system and placed under the control of the School of Medicine. November 1970: Librarians conduct the first online searches of a database at the University of Virginia Medical Library using the experimental AIM-TWX service developed by the National Library of Medicine's Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications. November 1971: Librarians begin using the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE system to conduct online searches for patrons. August 1975: The Medical Library and Nursing Library are merged into the Health Sciences Library and Information Center and moved into a new building that spans over Jefferson Park Avenue. Wilhelm Moll is made the Director of the Health Sciences Library. April 1976: The Health Sciences Library is formally dedicated and named after Claude Moore, an alumnus of and donor to the University of Virginia. 1979: Terry Thorkildsen is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. 1989: The library card catalog is digitized and made available through computer terminals. 1990: Linda Watson is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. 2005: Gretchen Arnold is appointed the interim Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and is then made Director in 2007. 2022: Bart Ragon is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.","(formerly Reference Department from 1987-1991)","Historical Collections and Services was originally concieved in the 1980s by the first director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Wilhelm Moll. His vision was to create a rare book room that would house the rare books that belonged to the Medical Library. During the Jeffersonian era and up until 1929, the books belonging to the school of medicine and anatomy were housed in the Rotunda Library on Grounds. In 1929, a new Medical School Building opened. This unified all the medical departments, which had been scattered throughout the Grounds. The Medical Collection became the Medical Library, and moved into new quarters in the Medical School Building. When Alderman, now Shannon, Library was built in 1937, the books moved there until the creation of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in 1976. Following Dr. Moll's untimely death in 1979, Special Collections librarian Joan Echtenkamp Klein helped to make Moll's reality of a special collections department a reality. She became the curator and manager of Historical Collections and Services, serving in that role until 2015. Dan Cavanaugh took over the role of curator and manager until 2022. Meggan Cashwell became the curator and manager in 2023 and is currently serving in that position.","Some exhibit pages do not have creation dates listed anywhere, but they do have copyright dates at the bottom of the page. This can be confusing in understanding what is the true date of creation.","Many of these online exhibits were once physical exhibits on display in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Exhibit placards, text, images, curation notes, and other preparation documents may be found in folders with the same exhibit title in this records group in the sub series entitled \"Exhibit Files, 1970-2019, undated.\"","When the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library downloads content from a social media platform, the Library preserves all of the original files (e.g. jpeg files, html files, json files) from the capture.","Patrons may contact Historical Collections staff at the Library to request copies of files containing social media content. The files may be sent to the patron for remote viewing or they may be viewed in the Historical Collections reading room. The Library will provide patrons in the reading room with software to view the files. Patrons who request to view the files remotely are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the hardware and software required to render the files. ","When the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library captures a copy of a blog, the Library preserves all of the its original files (e.g. jpeg files, html files) as well as an aggregated web archive file (warc). Both a directory containing the original files and the warc file are bundled together into a single digital object. ","Patrons may contact Historical Collections staff at the Library to request copies of blog files. The files may be sent to the patron for remote viewing or they may be viewed in the Historical Collections reading room. The Library will provide patrons in the reading room with software to view the files. Patrons who request to view the files remotely are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the hardware and software required to render the files. ","Exhibit placards, text, images, curation notes, and other preparation documents may be found in folders with the same exhibit title in this records group in the sub series entitled \"Exhibit Files, 1970-2019, undated.\"","This collection consists of permanent and historically significant institutional records created by the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library and the antecedent Medical Library. These records include, but are not limited to: annual reports, planning documents, newsletters, online exhibits, blogs, social media content, conference programs, department histories, committee records, and library-sponsored lecture materials.","This series consists of annual reports produced by the Medical Library (1929-1975), the Health Sciences Library (1975-Present), and the Information Sciences Council (1990-1996). Annual reports for the Health Sciences Library are missing from this collection for the period from 2006 to the present. Also, the annual reports for the Medical Library are missing from this collections for the period from 1929 to 1942. It is unclear whether the Medical and Health Sciences libraries wrote reports for the years.","The annual reports of the Medical Library contain comprehensive descriptions of the annual activities of the Medical Library. The Medical Library's annual reports from 1929 to 1942 are missing from this collection. It is not known if the reports were ever written by the library.","The annual reports of the Health Sciences Library contain comprehensive descriptions of the annual activities of the Health Sciences Library. The Health Sciences Library's annual reports from 2006 to the present are missing from this collection. It is not known if the reports were ever written by the library.","Informal annual report-like documents and related material, including reports shared on the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library blog and an internal UVA Health System news website (HS Connect). Reports from: March 2007, September 2009 (written by Gretchen Arnold), January 2013 (written by Gretchen Arnold), and March 2018 (written by Gretchen Arnold).","This series consists of correspondence and subject files that were created and assembeled by the directors of the Health Sciences Library while carrying out the responsibilities of their position.","Correspondents include Curators of the HSL--Daniel Spikes, Cassandra Ruane, Frank C. Mevers, Todd L. Savitt, and Doris Leckie of the Smithsonian Institution","Includes articles about Jesse Lazear, Carlos Finlay, Philip Hench and cortisone, Henry R. Carter, Nicolas Chervin, Joseph Y. Porter and Isaac Hulse","Correspondents with Bean include Mary (Mrs. Philip) Hench, Atcheson L. Hench, Byrd S. Leavell, and Todd Savitt","Includes news releases, news clippings, journal articles, and correspondence related to the gift by Mary Hench of the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection.","Includes correspondence with William Bennett Bean","Includes correspondence on Health System reorganization","The records in this series document the planning of historically significant administrative initiatives, purchases, construction, and events at the Health Sciences Library.","This series consists of digital and analog images that show the history and collections of the Health Sciences Library. Image formats in this series include, but are not limited to, photographic prints, film negatives, jpeg files, tiff files, 35mm film slides, CDs or other media containing digital images. The series does not include official identification photographs for faculty, students, and staff.","This subseries contains images of artifacts in the collections of the Health Sciences Library.","The images in this subseries show the staff, faculty, and interior spaces of the Health Sciences Library.","Moll, Bowers, Bowers, and Rudnick are photographed with ceramic vessels used in the early production of penicillin.","LIS officially started in 1989. Dr. Don Detmer is upper right of FF sheet","People identified are: Inhye Son, Sarah Handley, Anne Humphries, Mike Wilson, Jonathan Lord, Elaine Banner, Julia Kochi, Marylin James, Mary Nightengale, Ophelia Payne, Nadine Ellero, Trisha Luby, Sue Daddezio, Diane Ricketson, Deborah Camden, Michael Sullivan, Betty Mickens, Dan Wilson, Shelby Miller John Sesody, Greatchen Arnold, Michelle Martin, Jeri Davis, Barbara Crawford, Cindy Saylor, Susan Yowell, Karen Collier, Pat Shannon, Rick Peterson, Brenda Bikos, Sandy Zoumbaris, Jana Maas, Joan Klein, Mark Mones, Jane Wagner, Eli Casarez, Aulia Gies, Cynthia Siedman-Willen, Catherine Anninos, Judy Shotwell, Linda Watson and Ann Carter.","Individuals not identified.","Front: Kathleen Tracey, karen Collier, Deborah Camden, Ophelia Payne, Rick Peterson\nSecond: Marylin James, Jane Wagner, Barbara Crawford, Polly Sandridge, Linda Watson\nThird: Pat Shannon, Brenda Bikos, Gretchen Naisawald, Anne Humphries, Jeri Davis, Shelby Miller, Jonquil Feldman, Mike Wilson\nFourth: Judith Robinson, Susan Daddezio, Julia Hochi\nFifth: Thomas Speare, Catherine Anninos, Libby Colley, Judy Shotwell\nSixth: Hall Sharp, Rick Weaver, Ann Carter\nSeventh: Nadine Ellero, Megan McCaskey, Sarah Handley\nEighth: Jonathan Lord, Jake Appleford, Mary Nightengale, Inhye Son\nAbsent: Joan Klein, christopher Marks, Betty Mickens, Mark Mones, Diane Spears","Left to right: Dieter Groeschel, Joan Klein, Linda Watson, unidentified person\nIn back: unidentified, Janet Pearson","One photo individuals front left to right Dieter Groeschel, Joan Klein, Linda Watson, unidentified person, in the back an unidentified person and Janet Pearson","Collection Services and Bibliographic Control","Intellectual Access and Collection Development","Library Administration","Ellen Ramsey, David Moody, Bart Ragon, Mike Wilson, Joan Klein, Dave Denton, Inhye Son, Wilma Lynch, Pat Shannon, Gretchen Arnold, Jeri Davis, Joy Nuckolls, Karen Knight, Elaine Attridge, Ann Carter, Jonathan Lord, Andrea Horne Denton, Stephanie Fielding, Adrienne Granitz, Sonya Coleman, Jason Bennett, Tony Hiserman, Tenzin Thosam, Roderick Martin, Nadine Ellero, Patricia Vaughn","This subseries consists of images that do not belong in any other subseries.","Gordon was the coordinator of an exhibit on the history of gastroscopy and visited the medical school to open the exhibit. Photo taken by Ursula Ziolkowki.","Photo was sent to Terry Thorkildson from the Area Health Education Centers Program Eastern Virginia Medical Authority","This series contains historically significant press releases, visual aids, clippings, and other items that record information about the Library that were produced for or by the news media.","This subseries contains print copies of news articles about the Health Sciences Library.","This series consists of publications produced by the Health Sciences Library for public distribution or general internal distribution. Publications include, but are not limited to, magazines, journals, monographs, newsletters, weblogs, weekly announcements, online publications, marketing materials, and patient education resources. This series may contain both print and digital publications.","The materials in this subseries were produced to guide the use of collections housed at the Health Sciences Library.","This subseries consists of digital and print newsletters that provide information about the activities of the Health Sciences Library.","A \"scrapbook\" of Library milestones and appropriate photographs for each medical and nursing graduating class celebrating its reunion in a particular year. The print series was discontinued after 2000, but additional Journey Through Time content is available online through the Historical Collections web exhibits.","This subseries contains brochures, flyers, and other printed ephemera that provide information about the Health Sciences Library.","Envelope has Dr. Wilhelm Moll handwritten on it. Brochure includes library statistics, what is needed in terms of money and space, various endorsements, and tax information.","This series contains social media content that has been produced by the Health Sciences Library for platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.","The staff of the Health Sciences Library's Historical Collections and Services department maintains and contributes content to this Facebook page. Many posts and photographs on the page relate to the Department's services, collections, and events. Other posts share information related to the history of the health sciences and the work of libraries, museums, and archives.","This series consists of blogs that were created by the Health Sciences Library. The files in this series were downloaded from the Internet by Library staff. Content in the blogs that are accessed through a link outside of the blog's parent directory (e.g. external YouTube videos, external web pages) are not downloaded and archived in this series.","The Moore Library News (MLN) blog is produced by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. MLN blog posts provide information about Library collections, policies, services, and events.","The records in this series document the organizational structure of the Health Sciences Library. It also contains records that document administrative reorganizations of the Library. These materials include, but are not limited to, organizational charts and reports.","This series contains policies, procedures, and handbooks produced by the Health Sciences Library to direct and guide the conduct of its faculty, staff, and patrons. These records may also formally describe and define the relationship between the Health Sciences Library and its faculty, staff, and patrons.","This subseries contains procedures and handbooks for the faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Library.","Includes items from the Printing Office with the new library name: The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library","This subseries consists of procedures and handbooks for the patrons of the Health Sciences Library.","This series contains course announcements, syllabi, notes, and other materials that document classes and workshops taught by the faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Library.","This series consists of programs and reports that document the history of conferences and symposia hosted by the Health Sciences Library. Programs and reports often contain the following information: lists of speakers, presentation titles, schedules of events, and lecture abstracts. The following conference records are not included in this series: registration records, financial records, organization records, attendance lists.","This series consists of significant material that conveys the history of the Health Sciences Library, its administration, its accomplishments, its officials or employees. Includes, but is not limited to, scrapbooks, photographs, articles, program notes and documentation of events sponsored or funded by the agency. Also included are narratives; printed, audio, or audiovisual histories; or matters of significant historical importance.","Includes many photos of the library interior and library staff. Some individuals identified. Probably an exhibit celebrating the library's 15th anniversary in 1991, but photos from 1993 are also in the folder.","Includes photos of library interiors, staff (some identified) and UVA buildings; library organization chart for 2/1995; and Library Building Funds chart, 1975.","This series consists of reports, of a historically significant nature, that do not belong to any other series of the Health Sciences Library records.","This series contains memos, correspondence, subject files, online resources, and meeting minutes of committees working within the Health Sciences Library.","This file includes the meeting minutes, meeting agendas, and other documentation of the Library Management Group. The members of this committee were the leaders of the Health Sciences Library. They met once a month to discuss major library initiatives, provide updates and reports about library department activities, and share other information related to the management of the Library.","This file consists of the meeting minutes, bylaws, constitution, and correspondence of the Medical History Society of the University of Virginia. The Society was formed to promote the knowledge and study of the history of medicine and the health sciences at the University of Virginia. For much of its history, Wilhelm Moll led the Society. It supported the development of historical collections and services at the Health Sciences Library and founded a lecture series that becsme the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series in 1984.","This series consists of records that document awards, honors, and commemorations presented by the Health Sciences Library. These records may include, but are not limited to, event programs, lists of recipients, and recipient biographies.","The dedication ceremony included remarks by Donald S. Fredrickson, MD, Director, National Institutes of Health.","Includes a tribute to Wilhelm Moll by William B. Bean and another speech by an unidentified individual.","Includes remarks that were given by Dr. Don Detmer.","Includes remarks given by Donald Lindberg. The title of Lindberg's presentation was\"The Computer and the Academical Village\".","This series consists of records that document lectures and presentations sponsored by the Health Sciences Library. These records include, but are not limited to, audiovisual recordings, transcripts, announcements, handouts, and correspondence between presenters and event organizers.","This subseries consists of records associated with standalone lectures and presentations sponsored by the Health Sciences Library.","This subseries contains records that are associated with the Health Sciences Library's History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series.","This subseries contains records that are associated with the Medical History Society of the University of Virginia Lecture Series.","Promotional posters for a medical history lecture series held at the UVA Health Sciences Library and organized by the UVA Medical History Society.","This series consists of records that document exhibits created by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library of an educational or promotional nature. Some records are physical, and others are archived websites crawled by the Internet Archives' Archive-It service and made accessible by their Wayback Machine.","These materials are physical materials containing exhibit plans and designs, text, labels, and images created for physical exhibits.","Identified individuals in photos are John Guerrant, Ken Crispell, and Barry Marshall","Includes print-out (109 pages) of \"Who's Who on the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection Website\" (2002) and supplemental list of compiled names.","\"Robley Dunglison: 1798-1869\" Pamphlet produced for a library exhibit honoring the 200th anniversary of Dunglison's birth. 3 copies; 14 pp. Prepared by Historical Collections \u0026 Services, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Folder note indicates biography was written by Joby Topper. Includes reference list.","Introduction by Joan Klein","This series contains web archived online exhibits created by Historical Collections and Services between 2007 and circa 2023, although some of the creation dates of the websites are questionable. These 21 exhibits were hosted on the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library website but are now available via the Internet Archives' Wayback Machine.","This online exhibit is centered on the book \"A History of Cancer Care at the University of Virginia, 1901-1911.\" This book provides vast insight into the teamwork, dedication, collegiality, and skill–as well as luck–which was necessary for the Cancer Center to exist today. Twenty-five oral history interviews were conducted in the course of researching the book and are included with the book or may be viewed in the videos section of this website. Written by Henry K. Sharp, Ph.D. and Morton C. Wilhelm, M.D. the Joseph Helms Farrow Professor Emeritus in Surgical Oncology, University of Virginia School of Medicine.","This online exhibit serves as an online \"scrapbook\" with some of the milestones of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Medical Center, and the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing. There are added appropriate photographs for each class year.","This exhibit recounts the origin and early history of the American Lung Association. The American Lung Association of Virginia (ALAV) Collection contains personal and official correspondence, financial and legal papers, minute books, organizational and scientific reports, educational publicity, photographs, and artifacts. ALAV donated its organization's papers to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in 1990 and 1991 made this exhibit possible. The ALAV made an additional donation in 2009.","This online exhibit presents images and summaries of the known uses of each instrument. The extant comments of medical writers from antiquity–including Oribasius, Galen, Soranus, Aetius, and the Hippocratic corpus–have provided scholars with some clues about the use of some instruments. Some instruments, such as mixing instruments and tweezers, probably had other household uses, such as the application of cosmetics and paints.","This online exhibit was created under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Hal Sharp, a Historical Collections staff member, wrote the essay giving a brief history of anatomical drawing. The exhibit was designed by Janet Pearson, Historical Collections; Bart Ragon, the Associate Director for Knowledge Integration, Research and Technology; and Paulina Vaca, Web Communications Assistant. Emily Bowden, Historical Collections, photographed the Denoyer-Geppert Anatomy Series charts. William Crutchfield generously donated W. and A. K. Johnston's Charts of Anatomy and Physiology which were owned for 33 years by his father, Dr. William Gayle Crutchfield.","This exhibit was designed to highlight the UVA Hospital's involvement with supporting United States Army troops during World War I and World War II. It was created by Janet Pearson with the assistance of Joby Topper. Special thanks to Dr. John L. Guerrant, Dorothy Sandridge Gloor, and Elizabeth Harlin Drash for sharing their stories and helping us identify photographs.","This online exhibit shows materials related to eugenics as it relates to UVA and Charlottesville, VA. Alison White and Ina Hofland, staff members of Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, created this Web exhibit. They also created the physical exhibit of the same title on which it is based. The physical exhibit was displayed in the foyer of the Health Sciences Library April-September 2002. Steve Stedman designed the Web exhibit. Special thanks to Sara Huyser, Joan Echtenkamp Klein, Ophelia Payne, Bart Ragon, Hal Sharp, and Mike Wilson for their assistance. Web Exhibit Publish Date: February 13, 2004","This exhibit was created under the direction of Joan Ectenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Dr. Morton C. Wilhelm, the Joseph Helms Farrow Professor in Surgical Oncology, wrote the essay with the editorial assistance of Janet Pearson. The web exhibit was designed by Janet Pearson, Historical Collections; Bart Ragon, the Associate Director for Knowledge Integration, Research and Technology; and Paulina Vaca, Web Communications Assistant.","This online exhibit offers a look into The Papers of James Carmichael and Son, a collection held at the UVA Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, and tells a story of the early nineteenth-century inhabitants of Fredericksburg, Virginia and its surrounding rural areas. ","The exhibit is organized into two content areas: the Story and the Collection. Each of these areas, as well as the Home and About sections, are represented in the tabs near the top of every page. See the site map for more detail.","The Story section sets the atmosphere for the exhibit. One can get a sense of what the practice of medicine was like for James and Edward Carmichael in the early nineteenth century by reading the essays describing the Pharmacy, the Tools of the Trade, and the Health Care of Slaves.","The Collection section houses the images of the original Carmichael letters, which are meticulously transcribed and categorized to provide access not only to the words, but to the medical conditions, treatments, and philosophies of almost two centuries past. Particularly compelling is the use of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to categorize the letters along with a very detailed methodology and definition of MeSH terms. Other items of interest include the daybook kept by Doctor Carmichael from 1816-1817, newspaper clippings, court records \u0026 summaries, period maps, and Virginia WPA Historical Inventory Project records. Additionally, there is an exhaustive Who's Who list of names that appeared in the letters as well as a thorough list of Places Mentioned.","This online exhibit tells the story of how the U.S. Army Commission, comprised of Major Walter Reed, Dr. James Carroll, Dr. Aristides Agramonte, and Dr. Jesse Lazear, confirmed Carlos Finlay's theory about the transmission of yellow fever. By showing without a doubt that mosquitoes were the vector for yellow fever, the researchers empowered public health officials in the Americas to eradicate this devastating disease from much of the Western Hemisphere.","The exhibit is divided into three main sections. The first section, Archives, provides information about and links to the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection. The collection, most collected by Philip S. Hench and housed at the University of Virginia's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, is a rich archive of materials that documents the history of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. The second section, History, tells the story of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission and the impact of its findings. Finally, the third section, Resources, provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and other resources visitors may want to consult to learn more about the Commission and the history of yellow fever.","This exhibit tells the story about 12 physicians practicing in Charlottesville, VA in 1848 mutually agreed to create an agreed rate of medical charges for services.","Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections \u0026 Services at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, conceived the idea for the fee bill project and directed it. Todd L. Savitt, Ph.D., wrote the background information essay on fee bills in general and the Charlottesville fee bill in particular. He is a faculty member at East Carolina University in the Department of Bioethics \u0026 Interdisciplinary Studies. Janet Pearson wrote the introduction and the biographical sketches of the twelve signers. She gathered images and took photographs in the University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium and in downtown Charlottesville. She is a member of the staff of Historical Collections and Services. Sonya Coleman, also a member of the staff of Historical Collections, contributed to the design elements. David Moody, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Webmaster, and Jason Bennett, Technology in Education Consultant, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.","Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections \u0026 Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, conceived the idea for the \"Fever Fighters\" project after the generous donation of Dr. Hanson's diary by his granddaughter, Jane H. Monroe.","Staff members at Historical Collections, Leigh Mantle, Susan Yowell, and Janet Pearson, contributed content and created the GIS Map. Caitlin Summers, a dedicated intern at Historical Collections, also provided editorial assistance in the spring of 2012.","David Moody, Library Webmaster; Mike Wilson, Information Services Specialist; and Jason Bennett, Technology Specialist, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.","This exhibit was inspired by The Mineral Springs of Western Virginia by William Burke, the first volume purchased by the Weaver Family Endowed Rare Book and Medical Materials Fund. Published in 1846, the book describes the setting and development of eleven springs in what are now Virginia and West Virginia. Dr. Burke, a one-time owner and resident physician at Red Sulphur Springs, remarks on the usefulness of the various mineral waters in certain diseases as well as contraindications to their use. The springs range from those that are well known today such as the White Sulphur Springs, currently the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, to the Blue Sulphur Springs, once able to accommodate several hundred people and now represented by a lone Greek Revival pavilion in the middle of a field near Smoot, West Virginia.","This exhibit was written and organized by Janet Pearson, a member of the staff of Historical Collections and Services, under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia. Claudia Sueyras, Normajean Hultman, and Sonya Coleman did preliminary research. Rod Martin and Victoria Meyer scanned items from Historical Collections and the Charles L. Brown Science \u0026 Engineering Library. David Moody, with the assistance of Bart Ragon, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit. Sonya Coleman contributed to the design elements. Special thanks has been given to the staff at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, as they retrieved dozens of documents and also to the Digital Curation Services staff for their scanning of the documents.","The Anatomical Theatre at the University of Virginia online exhibit tells the story of the Theatre's presence at the University for more than a century. While not included in the earliest plans of the University, the need for the Theatre became clear before the first classes were ever held. Thomas Jefferson himself drew the design which includes two floor plans, a front elevation view, and a cross section. The exhibit traces the construction and later changes to the building, its demise, and archeological investigations at the site. It also gives a glimpse of what happened inside the building and the deeds that were done to procure cadavers so that medical students could learn anatomy.","This exhibit was sparked by the interest of the late Dr. M.C. Wilhelm in the model of the Anatomical Theatre housed in Historical Collections at the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. A retired surgeon and volunteer in Historical Collections, Dr. Wilhelm gathered resources and did preliminary writing. It was decided to further develop the project, and the result is this exhibit, written and organized by Janet Pearson, a Historical Collections staff member. Originally done under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, who was the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections until her untimely death, project support was continued under Dan Cavanaugh, who stepped into Joan's role and position.","Others associated with the University of Virginia community freely shared their ideas and research. These individuals include Garth Anderson, the Facilities Management Historian; Kirt von Daacke, Assistant Dean and Professor, College of Arts \u0026 Sciences; Louis Nelson, Professor in the Department of Architectural History and Associate Provost for Outreach; Robert Bloodgood, Professor in the School of Medicine; Benjamin Ford, Principal Investigator with Rivanna Archaeological Services, LLC; and Sonya Coleman, formerly a staff member in Historical Collections and now at the Library of Virginia. Emily Bowden, the Historical Collections Specialist, answered many technical queries as well as gave editorial assistance. Anson Parker and Jason Bennett provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.","This exhibit explores the development of the iron lung during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and considers the reasons for its success during the height of the poliomyelitis epidemics. Andrew Sallans, Historical Collections Specialist, researched and compiled the content for the online and physical exhibits. The design of the online exhibit was conceived and executed by Steve Stedman, Webmaster for the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.","This online exhibit displays a digitized copy of Historical Collections and Services' rare book \"Plague and Public Health in Europe, with Special Reference to Sixteenth-Century England: An Introduction to Orders thought meete by her Maiestie ..., 1578.\"","Anne McKeithen, Janet Pearson, and Andrew Sallans, members of the staff of Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, compiled the material for the Plague Book exhibit under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein. Joaquin Bueno designed the Web exhibit and graphics, with the programming architecture of David Moody and the assistance of Bart Ragon.","Unless otherwise noted, the images are courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden, © 1995-2006 Missouri Botanical Garden http://www.illustratedgarden.org). They deserve special thanks for their generous permission to reproduce their exquisite illustrations. Special thanks are also given to Duane J. Osheim, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia for his paper, \"Plague and Public Health in Europe, with Special Reference to Sixteenth-Century England.\"","In 2001 Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library created an exhibit that traces the history of the first century of the Hospital in words and images. One copy of the exhibit traveled from location to location in the Health System and beyond; the other set of panels were hung in a busy hospital corridor near the main entrance where they remain today. These panels form the basis for this online exhibit which now includes the addition of a section on the first 14 years of the Hospital's second century. We hope you enjoy following the history of the growth of the University of Virginia Health System as it seeks to fulfill its longstanding vision to benefit human health and improve quality of life through patient care, research, and education.","This exhibition was prepared by Hal Sharp and Janet Pearson of the Department of Historical Collections and Services, The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.","This online exhibit aims to give viewers a view into more than 50 of Historical Collections and Services' most notable books and see how their authors over the years have documented their discoveries and concepts for contemporaries and for us.  There are digitized versions of many of the books in the Fulltext Books section, which offers links to the scanned images of over half of these rare books.","Sara Huyser, Anne McKeithen, and Janet Pearson, members of the staff of Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, wrote and compiled the material for Vaulted Treasures under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein.","Joaquin Bueno designed the Web exhibit and graphics, with the server expertise of David Moody and the assistance of Bart Ragon. Special thanks to Claudia Sueyras who scanned many of the books and Andrew Sallans who provided technical assistance.","The 37 caricatures displayed in this exhibit are divided into two groups: English and French. The English prints are predominately drawn by two of the more famous British caricaturists, James Gillray and George Cruikshank. The French caricatures include artwork by J.J. Grandville, Louis-Léopold Boilly, and Edme Jean Pigal.","Mary Wagner donated the caricatures in this exhibit to Historical Collections and Services, The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Her husband, the late Robert R. Wagner, M.D., collected these when he was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research in London from 1950 to 1951. Wagner was Chair of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Virginia from 1967 to 1994, and Director of the UVa Cancer Center from 1983 to 1993. Thanks to Mary Wagner's generosity, the caricatures recently have been professionally treated, preserved, and reframed. The originals are on display in Historical Collections and Services and in the Department of Microbiology in the Robert R. Wagner Conference Room. These nineteenth-century satirical prints will thus continue to delight future generations.","This exhibit was written by Sara Huyser and Janet Pearson, members of the staff of Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia. Steve Stedman designed the Web exhibit. Special thanks to Joan Echtenkamp Klein and Andrew Sallans for their assistance.","Walter Reed's professional experiences with typhoid fever stand in marked contrast to his professional encounters with yellow fever. In the case of typhoid, he was more a messenger than a conqueror. Typhoid fever remained defiant during a career that oversaw the rout of yellow fever. Through a humanizing story that shows how fate brought Reed continuing frustration as well as talent and success, this exhibit seeks to render him a more accessible role model for students of medicine and history.","This exhibit was written by Noel G. Harrison, a graduate student in The Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and an intern in Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia during the fall of 2002. The Web exhibit was prepared and designed by Mike Wilson and Sara Huyser. Special thanks to Bart Ragon, Joan Echtenkamp Klein, and Hal Sharp for their assistance.","This series includes records related to Historical Collections and Services, the special collections and archives department of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Records the public can access are related to exhibitions that were curated by staff and displayed in the library.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic works.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this collection varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to the annual reports in this series.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia owns the copyright to records in this series that were created by the library directors while they were acting within the scope of their position, except scholarly and academic works. Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to the planning documents and reports created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to images created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to media created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to publications created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic works.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The University of Virginia owns the copyrights to publications produced by the Health Sciences Library. Other copyright restrictions may apply to some materials.","Copyright restrictions may apply.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright for social media content (e.g. posts, photographs) created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic works. The organizations that own the social media platforms might also hold licenses to all of the content posted by University of Virginia employees. Copyright ownership varies for other content that has been posted on the Library's social media platforms and archived here.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to blogs and blog posts created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic works.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to media created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to conference records and programs created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to reports created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment. Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to the records in this series that were created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to materials in this series created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic work.  Copyright ownership for other materials in this series varies.","The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to exhibit content created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment.  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The files are then arranged chronologically by date of creation.","Records in this subseries are arranged into files titled with the names of the lectures and presentations. The files are then arranged chronologically by date of creation.","The materials are arranged into files, each file representing an exhibit. Files are arranged alphabetically by exhibit title.","These files are arranged alphabetically.","These items are arranged alphabetically."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\nBetween 1826 and 1929, the University of Virginia's collection of medical books and journals were kept with the general library collections in the Rotunda. In 1929, the University moved the collections to the new Medical Library inside the recently-constructed Medical School Building. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nBetween 1929 and 1962, a medical librarian with a small staff of student and clerical workers stewarded the library's collections. 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The full-time library staff expanded from 4 to 30, the University built a new library building over Jefferson Park Avenue, the nursing and medical libraries merged to form the Health Sciences Library, a history of medicine program was founded, and the library began to adopt digital technologies.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nAfter Moll's death in 1979, the University apppointed Terry Thorkildsen as the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.  Thorkildsen and his successors Linda Watson (1990-2005) and Gretchen Arnold (2005-present) led the library during an era when revolutionary advances in digital technologies (e.g. the Internet, personal computers, databases) presented new challenges and opportunities for the Library.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cbr\u003e","\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeptember 1826: The University of Virginia Library opens in the Rotunda and it includes a collection of medical books.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1911: The University Library's entire collection of medical books and journals are gathered together and moved to the basement of the Rotunda.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeptember 13, 1915: Richard Henry Whitehead, Dean of the School of Medicine, creates the Medical Library Committee.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1919-June 1929: Ella Watson Johnson serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJune 1929: The Medical Library moves from the basement of the Rotunda to its own space in the new Medical School Building, the Medical Library remains a department of the central University Library System.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJune 1929-September 1929: Margaret Otto serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1929-1931: Anne Ashhurst Gwathmey serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1931-1934: Caroline Hill Davis serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarch 1934-June 1934: Dora Mitchell Brown serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1934-1936: Miriam Thomas Buchanan serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1935: The Medical Library institutes its first orientation for first year medical students.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1936-1943: Anne Lewis Morris serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1943-1944: Mary Elizabeth Mayo serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1944-1947: Mabel Cook Wyllie serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1945-1949: The Nursing Library is placed under the Supervision of the Medical Librarian until the appointment of a clerk to manage the Nursing collection.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1947-1962: Elizabeth Frances Adkins serves as the Medical Librarian.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeptember 1962: Wilhelm Moll is appointed the Director of the Medical Library.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1962-1963: As the result of administrative reorganizations during this period, the Medical Library is separated from the central University Library system and placed under the control of the School of Medicine.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNovember 1970: Librarians conduct the first online searches of a database at the University of Virginia Medical Library using the experimental AIM-TWX service developed by the National Library of Medicine's Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNovember 1971: Librarians begin using the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE system to conduct online searches for patrons.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAugust 1975: The Medical Library and Nursing Library are merged into the Health Sciences Library and Information Center and moved into a new building that spans over Jefferson Park Avenue. Wilhelm Moll is made the Director of the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApril 1976: The Health Sciences Library is formally dedicated and named after Claude Moore, an alumnus of and donor to the University of Virginia.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1979: Terry Thorkildsen is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1989: The library card catalog is digitized and made available through computer terminals.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1990: Linda Watson is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2005: Gretchen Arnold is appointed the interim Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and is then made Director in 2007.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2022: Bart Ragon is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(formerly Reference Department from 1987-1991)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHistorical Collections and Services was originally concieved in the 1980s by the first director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Wilhelm Moll. His vision was to create a rare book room that would house the rare books that belonged to the Medical Library. During the Jeffersonian era and up until 1929, the books belonging to the school of medicine and anatomy were housed in the Rotunda Library on Grounds. In 1929, a new Medical School Building opened. This unified all the medical departments, which had been scattered throughout the Grounds. The Medical Collection became the Medical Library, and moved into new quarters in the Medical School Building. When Alderman, now Shannon, Library was built in 1937, the books moved there until the creation of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in 1976. Following Dr. Moll's untimely death in 1979, Special Collections librarian Joan Echtenkamp Klein helped to make Moll's reality of a special collections department a reality. She became the curator and manager of Historical Collections and Services, serving in that role until 2015. Dan Cavanaugh took over the role of curator and manager until 2022. Meggan Cashwell became the curator and manager in 2023 and is currently serving in that position.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["\nBetween 1826 and 1929, the University of Virginia's collection of medical books and journals were kept with the general library collections in the Rotunda. In 1929, the University moved the collections to the new Medical Library inside the recently-constructed Medical School Building. \n","\nBetween 1929 and 1962, a medical librarian with a small staff of student and clerical workers stewarded the library's collections. The Medical Library at this time, although physically separate from the rest of the University's libraries, was administered as part of the central University library system with oversight from School of Medicine faculty serving on the Medical Library Committee. In addition to the management of collections, the medical librarians in this era began to curate exhibits and provide instruction. Only a few of the medical librarians who served in this period had professional library training.\n","\nIn 1962, Wilhelm Moll was appointed the first Director of the Medical Library. During his tenure, Moll oversaw the radical trasnformation of a small branch library into an independent research library. The full-time library staff expanded from 4 to 30, the University built a new library building over Jefferson Park Avenue, the nursing and medical libraries merged to form the Health Sciences Library, a history of medicine program was founded, and the library began to adopt digital technologies.\n","\nAfter Moll's death in 1979, the University apppointed Terry Thorkildsen as the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.  Thorkildsen and his successors Linda Watson (1990-2005) and Gretchen Arnold (2005-present) led the library during an era when revolutionary advances in digital technologies (e.g. the Internet, personal computers, databases) presented new challenges and opportunities for the Library.\n","","September 1826: The University of Virginia Library opens in the Rotunda and it includes a collection of medical books. 1911: The University Library's entire collection of medical books and journals are gathered together and moved to the basement of the Rotunda. September 13, 1915: Richard Henry Whitehead, Dean of the School of Medicine, creates the Medical Library Committee. 1919-June 1929: Ella Watson Johnson serves as the Medical Librarian. June 1929: The Medical Library moves from the basement of the Rotunda to its own space in the new Medical School Building, the Medical Library remains a department of the central University Library System. June 1929-September 1929: Margaret Otto serves as the Medical Librarian. 1929-1931: Anne Ashhurst Gwathmey serves as the Medical Librarian. 1931-1934: Caroline Hill Davis serves as the Medical Librarian. March 1934-June 1934: Dora Mitchell Brown serves as the Medical Librarian. 1934-1936: Miriam Thomas Buchanan serves as the Medical Librarian. 1935: The Medical Library institutes its first orientation for first year medical students. 1936-1943: Anne Lewis Morris serves as the Medical Librarian. 1943-1944: Mary Elizabeth Mayo serves as the Medical Librarian. 1944-1947: Mabel Cook Wyllie serves as the Medical Librarian. 1945-1949: The Nursing Library is placed under the Supervision of the Medical Librarian until the appointment of a clerk to manage the Nursing collection. 1947-1962: Elizabeth Frances Adkins serves as the Medical Librarian. September 1962: Wilhelm Moll is appointed the Director of the Medical Library. 1962-1963: As the result of administrative reorganizations during this period, the Medical Library is separated from the central University Library system and placed under the control of the School of Medicine. November 1970: Librarians conduct the first online searches of a database at the University of Virginia Medical Library using the experimental AIM-TWX service developed by the National Library of Medicine's Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications. November 1971: Librarians begin using the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE system to conduct online searches for patrons. August 1975: The Medical Library and Nursing Library are merged into the Health Sciences Library and Information Center and moved into a new building that spans over Jefferson Park Avenue. Wilhelm Moll is made the Director of the Health Sciences Library. April 1976: The Health Sciences Library is formally dedicated and named after Claude Moore, an alumnus of and donor to the University of Virginia. 1979: Terry Thorkildsen is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. 1989: The library card catalog is digitized and made available through computer terminals. 1990: Linda Watson is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. 2005: Gretchen Arnold is appointed the interim Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and is then made Director in 2007. 2022: Bart Ragon is appointed the Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.","(formerly Reference Department from 1987-1991)","Historical Collections and Services was originally concieved in the 1980s by the first director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Wilhelm Moll. His vision was to create a rare book room that would house the rare books that belonged to the Medical Library. During the Jeffersonian era and up until 1929, the books belonging to the school of medicine and anatomy were housed in the Rotunda Library on Grounds. In 1929, a new Medical School Building opened. This unified all the medical departments, which had been scattered throughout the Grounds. The Medical Collection became the Medical Library, and moved into new quarters in the Medical School Building. When Alderman, now Shannon, Library was built in 1937, the books moved there until the creation of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in 1976. Following Dr. Moll's untimely death in 1979, Special Collections librarian Joan Echtenkamp Klein helped to make Moll's reality of a special collections department a reality. She became the curator and manager of Historical Collections and Services, serving in that role until 2015. Dan Cavanaugh took over the role of curator and manager until 2022. Meggan Cashwell became the curator and manager in 2023 and is currently serving in that position."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSome exhibit pages do not have creation dates listed anywhere, but they do have copyright dates at the bottom of the page. This can be confusing in understanding what is the true date of creation.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["Date Discrepancies"],"odd_tesim":["Some exhibit pages do not have creation dates listed anywhere, but they do have copyright dates at the bottom of the page. This can be confusing in understanding what is the true date of creation."],"originalsloc_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMany of these online exhibits were once physical exhibits on display in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Exhibit placards, text, images, curation notes, and other preparation documents may be found in folders with the same exhibit title in this records group in the sub series entitled \"Exhibit Files, 1970-2019, undated.\"\u003c/p\u003e"],"originalsloc_heading_ssm":["Existence and Location of Originals"],"originalsloc_tesim":["Many of these online exhibits were once physical exhibits on display in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Exhibit placards, text, images, curation notes, and other preparation documents may be found in folders with the same exhibit title in this records group in the sub series entitled \"Exhibit Files, 1970-2019, undated.\""],"phystech_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWhen the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library downloads content from a social media platform, the Library preserves all of the original files (e.g. jpeg files, html files, json files) from the capture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatrons may contact Historical Collections staff at the Library to request copies of files containing social media content. The files may be sent to the patron for remote viewing or they may be viewed in the Historical Collections reading room. The Library will provide patrons in the reading room with software to view the files. Patrons who request to view the files remotely are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the hardware and software required to render the files. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhen the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library captures a copy of a blog, the Library preserves all of the its original files (e.g. jpeg files, html files) as well as an aggregated web archive file (warc). Both a directory containing the original files and the warc file are bundled together into a single digital object. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatrons may contact Historical Collections staff at the Library to request copies of blog files. The files may be sent to the patron for remote viewing or they may be viewed in the Historical Collections reading room. The Library will provide patrons in the reading room with software to view the files. Patrons who request to view the files remotely are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the hardware and software required to render the files. \u003c/p\u003e"],"phystech_heading_ssm":["Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements","Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements"],"phystech_tesim":["When the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library downloads content from a social media platform, the Library preserves all of the original files (e.g. jpeg files, html files, json files) from the capture.","Patrons may contact Historical Collections staff at the Library to request copies of files containing social media content. The files may be sent to the patron for remote viewing or they may be viewed in the Historical Collections reading room. The Library will provide patrons in the reading room with software to view the files. Patrons who request to view the files remotely are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the hardware and software required to render the files. ","When the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library captures a copy of a blog, the Library preserves all of the its original files (e.g. jpeg files, html files) as well as an aggregated web archive file (warc). Both a directory containing the original files and the warc file are bundled together into a single digital object. ","Patrons may contact Historical Collections staff at the Library to request copies of blog files. The files may be sent to the patron for remote viewing or they may be viewed in the Historical Collections reading room. The Library will provide patrons in the reading room with software to view the files. Patrons who request to view the files remotely are responsible for obtaining their own copies of the hardware and software required to render the files. "],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eExhibit placards, text, images, curation notes, and other preparation documents may be found in folders with the same exhibit title in this records group in the sub series entitled \"Exhibit Files, 1970-2019, undated.\"\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Exhibit placards, text, images, curation notes, and other preparation documents may be found in folders with the same exhibit title in this records group in the sub series entitled \"Exhibit Files, 1970-2019, undated.\""],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of permanent and historically significant institutional records created by the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library and the antecedent Medical Library. These records include, but are not limited to: annual reports, planning documents, newsletters, online exhibits, blogs, social media content, conference programs, department histories, committee records, and library-sponsored lecture materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of annual reports produced by the Medical Library (1929-1975), the Health Sciences Library (1975-Present), and the Information Sciences Council (1990-1996). Annual reports for the Health Sciences Library are missing from this collection for the period from 2006 to the present. Also, the annual reports for the Medical Library are missing from this collections for the period from 1929 to 1942. It is unclear whether the Medical and Health Sciences libraries wrote reports for the years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe annual reports of the Medical Library contain comprehensive descriptions of the annual activities of the Medical Library. The Medical Library's annual reports from 1929 to 1942 are missing from this collection. It is not known if the reports were ever written by the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe annual reports of the Health Sciences Library contain comprehensive descriptions of the annual activities of the Health Sciences Library. The Health Sciences Library's annual reports from 2006 to the present are missing from this collection. It is not known if the reports were ever written by the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformal annual report-like documents and related material, including reports shared on the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library blog and an internal UVA Health System news website (HS Connect). Reports from: March 2007, September 2009 (written by Gretchen Arnold), January 2013 (written by Gretchen Arnold), and March 2018 (written by Gretchen Arnold).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of correspondence and subject files that were created and assembeled by the directors of the Health Sciences Library while carrying out the responsibilities of their position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Curators of the HSL--Daniel Spikes, Cassandra Ruane, Frank C. Mevers, Todd L. Savitt, and Doris Leckie of the Smithsonian Institution\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes articles about Jesse Lazear, Carlos Finlay, Philip Hench and cortisone, Henry R. Carter, Nicolas Chervin, Joseph Y. Porter and Isaac Hulse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents with Bean include Mary (Mrs. Philip) Hench, Atcheson L. Hench, Byrd S. Leavell, and Todd Savitt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes news releases, news clippings, journal articles, and correspondence related to the gift by Mary Hench of the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence with William Bennett Bean\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence on Health System reorganization\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe records in this series document the planning of historically significant administrative initiatives, purchases, construction, and events at the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of digital and analog images that show the history and collections of the Health Sciences Library. Image formats in this series include, but are not limited to, photographic prints, film negatives, jpeg files, tiff files, 35mm film slides, CDs or other media containing digital images. The series does not include official identification photographs for faculty, students, and staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains images of artifacts in the collections of the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe images in this subseries show the staff, faculty, and interior spaces of the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMoll, Bowers, Bowers, and Rudnick are photographed with ceramic vessels used in the early production of penicillin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLIS officially started in 1989. Dr. Don Detmer is upper right of FF sheet\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeople identified are: Inhye Son, Sarah Handley, Anne Humphries, Mike Wilson, Jonathan Lord, Elaine Banner, Julia Kochi, Marylin James, Mary Nightengale, Ophelia Payne, Nadine Ellero, Trisha Luby, Sue Daddezio, Diane Ricketson, Deborah Camden, Michael Sullivan, Betty Mickens, Dan Wilson, Shelby Miller John Sesody, Greatchen Arnold, Michelle Martin, Jeri Davis, Barbara Crawford, Cindy Saylor, Susan Yowell, Karen Collier, Pat Shannon, Rick Peterson, Brenda Bikos, Sandy Zoumbaris, Jana Maas, Joan Klein, Mark Mones, Jane Wagner, Eli Casarez, Aulia Gies, Cynthia Siedman-Willen, Catherine Anninos, Judy Shotwell, Linda Watson and Ann Carter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndividuals not identified.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFront: Kathleen Tracey, karen Collier, Deborah Camden, Ophelia Payne, Rick Peterson\nSecond: Marylin James, Jane Wagner, Barbara Crawford, Polly Sandridge, Linda Watson\nThird: Pat Shannon, Brenda Bikos, Gretchen Naisawald, Anne Humphries, Jeri Davis, Shelby Miller, Jonquil Feldman, Mike Wilson\nFourth: Judith Robinson, Susan Daddezio, Julia Hochi\nFifth: Thomas Speare, Catherine Anninos, Libby Colley, Judy Shotwell\nSixth: Hall Sharp, Rick Weaver, Ann Carter\nSeventh: Nadine Ellero, Megan McCaskey, Sarah Handley\nEighth: Jonathan Lord, Jake Appleford, Mary Nightengale, Inhye Son\nAbsent: Joan Klein, christopher Marks, Betty Mickens, Mark Mones, Diane Spears\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeft to right: Dieter Groeschel, Joan Klein, Linda Watson, unidentified person\nIn back: unidentified, Janet Pearson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne photo individuals front left to right Dieter Groeschel, Joan Klein, Linda Watson, unidentified person, in the back an unidentified person and Janet Pearson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollection Services and Bibliographic Control\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntellectual Access and Collection Development\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLibrary Administration\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllen Ramsey, David Moody, Bart Ragon, Mike Wilson, Joan Klein, Dave Denton, Inhye Son, Wilma Lynch, Pat Shannon, Gretchen Arnold, Jeri Davis, Joy Nuckolls, Karen Knight, Elaine Attridge, Ann Carter, Jonathan Lord, Andrea Horne Denton, Stephanie Fielding, Adrienne Granitz, Sonya Coleman, Jason Bennett, Tony Hiserman, Tenzin Thosam, Roderick Martin, Nadine Ellero, Patricia Vaughn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries consists of images that do not belong in any other subseries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGordon was the coordinator of an exhibit on the history of gastroscopy and visited the medical school to open the exhibit. Photo taken by Ursula Ziolkowki.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto was sent to Terry Thorkildson from the Area Health Education Centers Program Eastern Virginia Medical Authority\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains historically significant press releases, visual aids, clippings, and other items that record information about the Library that were produced for or by the news media.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains print copies of news articles about the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of publications produced by the Health Sciences Library for public distribution or general internal distribution. Publications include, but are not limited to, magazines, journals, monographs, newsletters, weblogs, weekly announcements, online publications, marketing materials, and patient education resources. This series may contain both print and digital publications.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe materials in this subseries were produced to guide the use of collections housed at the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries consists of digital and print newsletters that provide information about the activities of the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA \"scrapbook\" of Library milestones and appropriate photographs for each medical and nursing graduating class celebrating its reunion in a particular year. The print series was discontinued after 2000, but additional Journey Through Time content is available online through the Historical Collections web exhibits.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains brochures, flyers, and other printed ephemera that provide information about the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnvelope has Dr. Wilhelm Moll handwritten on it. Brochure includes library statistics, what is needed in terms of money and space, various endorsements, and tax information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains social media content that has been produced by the Health Sciences Library for platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe staff of the Health Sciences Library's Historical Collections and Services department maintains and contributes content to this Facebook page. Many posts and photographs on the page relate to the Department's services, collections, and events. Other posts share information related to the history of the health sciences and the work of libraries, museums, and archives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of blogs that were created by the Health Sciences Library. The files in this series were downloaded from the Internet by Library staff. Content in the blogs that are accessed through a link outside of the blog's parent directory (e.g. external YouTube videos, external web pages) are not downloaded and archived in this series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Moore Library News (MLN) blog is produced by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. MLN blog posts provide information about Library collections, policies, services, and events.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe records in this series document the organizational structure of the Health Sciences Library. It also contains records that document administrative reorganizations of the Library. These materials include, but are not limited to, organizational charts and reports.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains policies, procedures, and handbooks produced by the Health Sciences Library to direct and guide the conduct of its faculty, staff, and patrons. These records may also formally describe and define the relationship between the Health Sciences Library and its faculty, staff, and patrons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains procedures and handbooks for the faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes items from the Printing Office with the new library name: The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries consists of procedures and handbooks for the patrons of the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains course announcements, syllabi, notes, and other materials that document classes and workshops taught by the faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of programs and reports that document the history of conferences and symposia hosted by the Health Sciences Library. Programs and reports often contain the following information: lists of speakers, presentation titles, schedules of events, and lecture abstracts. The following conference records are not included in this series: registration records, financial records, organization records, attendance lists.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of significant material that conveys the history of the Health Sciences Library, its administration, its accomplishments, its officials or employees. Includes, but is not limited to, scrapbooks, photographs, articles, program notes and documentation of events sponsored or funded by the agency. Also included are narratives; printed, audio, or audiovisual histories; or matters of significant historical importance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes many photos of the library interior and library staff. Some individuals identified. Probably an exhibit celebrating the library's 15th anniversary in 1991, but photos from 1993 are also in the folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photos of library interiors, staff (some identified) and UVA buildings; library organization chart for 2/1995; and Library Building Funds chart, 1975.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of reports, of a historically significant nature, that do not belong to any other series of the Health Sciences Library records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains memos, correspondence, subject files, online resources, and meeting minutes of committees working within the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file includes the meeting minutes, meeting agendas, and other documentation of the Library Management Group. The members of this committee were the leaders of the Health Sciences Library. They met once a month to discuss major library initiatives, provide updates and reports about library department activities, and share other information related to the management of the Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of the meeting minutes, bylaws, constitution, and correspondence of the Medical History Society of the University of Virginia. The Society was formed to promote the knowledge and study of the history of medicine and the health sciences at the University of Virginia. For much of its history, Wilhelm Moll led the Society. It supported the development of historical collections and services at the Health Sciences Library and founded a lecture series that becsme the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series in 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of records that document awards, honors, and commemorations presented by the Health Sciences Library. These records may include, but are not limited to, event programs, lists of recipients, and recipient biographies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe dedication ceremony included remarks by Donald S. Fredrickson, MD, Director, National Institutes of Health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a tribute to Wilhelm Moll by William B. Bean and another speech by an unidentified individual.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes remarks that were given by Dr. Don Detmer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes remarks given by Donald Lindberg. The title of Lindberg's presentation was\"The Computer and the Academical Village\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of records that document lectures and presentations sponsored by the Health Sciences Library. These records include, but are not limited to, audiovisual recordings, transcripts, announcements, handouts, and correspondence between presenters and event organizers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries consists of records associated with standalone lectures and presentations sponsored by the Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains records that are associated with the Health Sciences Library's History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains records that are associated with the Medical History Society of the University of Virginia Lecture Series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromotional posters for a medical history lecture series held at the UVA Health Sciences Library and organized by the UVA Medical History Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of records that document exhibits created by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library of an educational or promotional nature. Some records are physical, and others are archived websites crawled by the Internet Archives' Archive-It service and made accessible by their Wayback Machine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese materials are physical materials containing exhibit plans and designs, text, labels, and images created for physical exhibits.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentified individuals in photos are John Guerrant, Ken Crispell, and Barry Marshall\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes print-out (109 pages) of \"Who's Who on the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection Website\" (2002) and supplemental list of compiled names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Robley Dunglison: 1798-1869\" Pamphlet produced for a library exhibit honoring the 200th anniversary of Dunglison's birth. 3 copies; 14 pp. Prepared by Historical Collections \u0026amp; Services, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Folder note indicates biography was written by Joby Topper. Includes reference list.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Joan Klein\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains web archived online exhibits created by Historical Collections and Services between 2007 and circa 2023, although some of the creation dates of the websites are questionable. These 21 exhibits were hosted on the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library website but are now available via the Internet Archives' Wayback Machine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit is centered on the book \"A History of Cancer Care at the University of Virginia, 1901-1911.\" This book provides vast insight into the teamwork, dedication, collegiality, and skill–as well as luck–which was necessary for the Cancer Center to exist today. Twenty-five oral history interviews were conducted in the course of researching the book and are included with the book or may be viewed in the videos section of this website. Written by Henry K. Sharp, Ph.D. and Morton C. Wilhelm, M.D. the Joseph Helms Farrow Professor Emeritus in Surgical Oncology, University of Virginia School of Medicine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit serves as an online \"scrapbook\" with some of the milestones of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Medical Center, and the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing. There are added appropriate photographs for each class year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit recounts the origin and early history of the American Lung Association. The American Lung Association of Virginia (ALAV) Collection contains personal and official correspondence, financial and legal papers, minute books, organizational and scientific reports, educational publicity, photographs, and artifacts. ALAV donated its organization's papers to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in 1990 and 1991 made this exhibit possible. The ALAV made an additional donation in 2009.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit presents images and summaries of the known uses of each instrument. The extant comments of medical writers from antiquity–including Oribasius, Galen, Soranus, Aetius, and the Hippocratic corpus–have provided scholars with some clues about the use of some instruments. Some instruments, such as mixing instruments and tweezers, probably had other household uses, such as the application of cosmetics and paints.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit was created under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Hal Sharp, a Historical Collections staff member, wrote the essay giving a brief history of anatomical drawing. The exhibit was designed by Janet Pearson, Historical Collections; Bart Ragon, the Associate Director for Knowledge Integration, Research and Technology; and Paulina Vaca, Web Communications Assistant. Emily Bowden, Historical Collections, photographed the Denoyer-Geppert Anatomy Series charts. William Crutchfield generously donated W. and A. K. Johnston's Charts of Anatomy and Physiology which were owned for 33 years by his father, Dr. William Gayle Crutchfield.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit was designed to highlight the UVA Hospital's involvement with supporting United States Army troops during World War I and World War II. It was created by Janet Pearson with the assistance of Joby Topper. Special thanks to Dr. John L. Guerrant, Dorothy Sandridge Gloor, and Elizabeth Harlin Drash for sharing their stories and helping us identify photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit shows materials related to eugenics as it relates to UVA and Charlottesville, VA. Alison White and Ina Hofland, staff members of Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, created this Web exhibit. They also created the physical exhibit of the same title on which it is based. The physical exhibit was displayed in the foyer of the Health Sciences Library April-September 2002. Steve Stedman designed the Web exhibit. Special thanks to Sara Huyser, Joan Echtenkamp Klein, Ophelia Payne, Bart Ragon, Hal Sharp, and Mike Wilson for their assistance. Web Exhibit Publish Date: February 13, 2004\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit was created under the direction of Joan Ectenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Dr. Morton C. Wilhelm, the Joseph Helms Farrow Professor in Surgical Oncology, wrote the essay with the editorial assistance of Janet Pearson. The web exhibit was designed by Janet Pearson, Historical Collections; Bart Ragon, the Associate Director for Knowledge Integration, Research and Technology; and Paulina Vaca, Web Communications Assistant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit offers a look into The Papers of James Carmichael and Son, a collection held at the UVA Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, and tells a story of the early nineteenth-century inhabitants of Fredericksburg, Virginia and its surrounding rural areas. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe exhibit is organized into two content areas: the Story and the Collection. Each of these areas, as well as the Home and About sections, are represented in the tabs near the top of every page. See the site map for more detail.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Story section sets the atmosphere for the exhibit. One can get a sense of what the practice of medicine was like for James and Edward Carmichael in the early nineteenth century by reading the essays describing the Pharmacy, the Tools of the Trade, and the Health Care of Slaves.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Collection section houses the images of the original Carmichael letters, which are meticulously transcribed and categorized to provide access not only to the words, but to the medical conditions, treatments, and philosophies of almost two centuries past. Particularly compelling is the use of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to categorize the letters along with a very detailed methodology and definition of MeSH terms. Other items of interest include the daybook kept by Doctor Carmichael from 1816-1817, newspaper clippings, court records \u0026amp; summaries, period maps, and Virginia WPA Historical Inventory Project records. Additionally, there is an exhaustive Who's Who list of names that appeared in the letters as well as a thorough list of Places Mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit tells the story of how the U.S. Army Commission, comprised of Major Walter Reed, Dr. James Carroll, Dr. Aristides Agramonte, and Dr. Jesse Lazear, confirmed Carlos Finlay's theory about the transmission of yellow fever. By showing without a doubt that mosquitoes were the vector for yellow fever, the researchers empowered public health officials in the Americas to eradicate this devastating disease from much of the Western Hemisphere.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe exhibit is divided into three main sections. The first section, Archives, provides information about and links to the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection. The collection, most collected by Philip S. Hench and housed at the University of Virginia's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, is a rich archive of materials that documents the history of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. The second section, History, tells the story of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission and the impact of its findings. Finally, the third section, Resources, provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and other resources visitors may want to consult to learn more about the Commission and the history of yellow fever.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit tells the story about 12 physicians practicing in Charlottesville, VA in 1848 mutually agreed to create an agreed rate of medical charges for services.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJoan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections \u0026amp; Services at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, conceived the idea for the fee bill project and directed it. Todd L. Savitt, Ph.D., wrote the background information essay on fee bills in general and the Charlottesville fee bill in particular. He is a faculty member at East Carolina University in the Department of Bioethics \u0026amp; Interdisciplinary Studies. Janet Pearson wrote the introduction and the biographical sketches of the twelve signers. She gathered images and took photographs in the University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium and in downtown Charlottesville. She is a member of the staff of Historical Collections and Services. Sonya Coleman, also a member of the staff of Historical Collections, contributed to the design elements. David Moody, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Webmaster, and Jason Bennett, Technology in Education Consultant, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections \u0026amp; Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, conceived the idea for the \"Fever Fighters\" project after the generous donation of Dr. Hanson's diary by his granddaughter, Jane H. Monroe.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eStaff members at Historical Collections, Leigh Mantle, Susan Yowell, and Janet Pearson, contributed content and created the GIS Map. Caitlin Summers, a dedicated intern at Historical Collections, also provided editorial assistance in the spring of 2012.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDavid Moody, Library Webmaster; Mike Wilson, Information Services Specialist; and Jason Bennett, Technology Specialist, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit was inspired by The Mineral Springs of Western Virginia by William Burke, the first volume purchased by the Weaver Family Endowed Rare Book and Medical Materials Fund. Published in 1846, the book describes the setting and development of eleven springs in what are now Virginia and West Virginia. Dr. Burke, a one-time owner and resident physician at Red Sulphur Springs, remarks on the usefulness of the various mineral waters in certain diseases as well as contraindications to their use. The springs range from those that are well known today such as the White Sulphur Springs, currently the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, to the Blue Sulphur Springs, once able to accommodate several hundred people and now represented by a lone Greek Revival pavilion in the middle of a field near Smoot, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit was written and organized by Janet Pearson, a member of the staff of Historical Collections and Services, under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia. Claudia Sueyras, Normajean Hultman, and Sonya Coleman did preliminary research. Rod Martin and Victoria Meyer scanned items from Historical Collections and the Charles L. Brown Science \u0026amp; Engineering Library. David Moody, with the assistance of Bart Ragon, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit. Sonya Coleman contributed to the design elements. Special thanks has been given to the staff at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, as they retrieved dozens of documents and also to the Digital Curation Services staff for their scanning of the documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Anatomical Theatre at the University of Virginia online exhibit tells the story of the Theatre's presence at the University for more than a century. While not included in the earliest plans of the University, the need for the Theatre became clear before the first classes were ever held. Thomas Jefferson himself drew the design which includes two floor plans, a front elevation view, and a cross section. The exhibit traces the construction and later changes to the building, its demise, and archeological investigations at the site. It also gives a glimpse of what happened inside the building and the deeds that were done to procure cadavers so that medical students could learn anatomy.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit was sparked by the interest of the late Dr. M.C. Wilhelm in the model of the Anatomical Theatre housed in Historical Collections at the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. A retired surgeon and volunteer in Historical Collections, Dr. Wilhelm gathered resources and did preliminary writing. It was decided to further develop the project, and the result is this exhibit, written and organized by Janet Pearson, a Historical Collections staff member. Originally done under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, who was the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections until her untimely death, project support was continued under Dan Cavanaugh, who stepped into Joan's role and position.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOthers associated with the University of Virginia community freely shared their ideas and research. These individuals include Garth Anderson, the Facilities Management Historian; Kirt von Daacke, Assistant Dean and Professor, College of Arts \u0026amp; Sciences; Louis Nelson, Professor in the Department of Architectural History and Associate Provost for Outreach; Robert Bloodgood, Professor in the School of Medicine; Benjamin Ford, Principal Investigator with Rivanna Archaeological Services, LLC; and Sonya Coleman, formerly a staff member in Historical Collections and now at the Library of Virginia. Emily Bowden, the Historical Collections Specialist, answered many technical queries as well as gave editorial assistance. Anson Parker and Jason Bennett provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit explores the development of the iron lung during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and considers the reasons for its success during the height of the poliomyelitis epidemics. Andrew Sallans, Historical Collections Specialist, researched and compiled the content for the online and physical exhibits. The design of the online exhibit was conceived and executed by Steve Stedman, Webmaster for the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit displays a digitized copy of Historical Collections and Services' rare book \"Plague and Public Health in Europe, with Special Reference to Sixteenth-Century England: An Introduction to Orders thought meete by her Maiestie ..., 1578.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnne McKeithen, Janet Pearson, and Andrew Sallans, members of the staff of Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, compiled the material for the Plague Book exhibit under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein. Joaquin Bueno designed the Web exhibit and graphics, with the programming architecture of David Moody and the assistance of Bart Ragon.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnless otherwise noted, the images are courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden, © 1995-2006 Missouri Botanical Garden http://www.illustratedgarden.org). They deserve special thanks for their generous permission to reproduce their exquisite illustrations. Special thanks are also given to Duane J. Osheim, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia for his paper, \"Plague and Public Health in Europe, with Special Reference to Sixteenth-Century England.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 2001 Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library created an exhibit that traces the history of the first century of the Hospital in words and images. One copy of the exhibit traveled from location to location in the Health System and beyond; the other set of panels were hung in a busy hospital corridor near the main entrance where they remain today. These panels form the basis for this online exhibit which now includes the addition of a section on the first 14 years of the Hospital's second century. We hope you enjoy following the history of the growth of the University of Virginia Health System as it seeks to fulfill its longstanding vision to benefit human health and improve quality of life through patient care, research, and education.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibition was prepared by Hal Sharp and Janet Pearson of the Department of Historical Collections and Services, The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis online exhibit aims to give viewers a view into more than 50 of Historical Collections and Services' most notable books and see how their authors over the years have documented their discoveries and concepts for contemporaries and for us.  There are digitized versions of many of the books in the Fulltext Books section, which offers links to the scanned images of over half of these rare books.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSara Huyser, Anne McKeithen, and Janet Pearson, members of the staff of Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, wrote and compiled the material for Vaulted Treasures under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJoaquin Bueno designed the Web exhibit and graphics, with the server expertise of David Moody and the assistance of Bart Ragon. Special thanks to Claudia Sueyras who scanned many of the books and Andrew Sallans who provided technical assistance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 37 caricatures displayed in this exhibit are divided into two groups: English and French. The English prints are predominately drawn by two of the more famous British caricaturists, James Gillray and George Cruikshank. The French caricatures include artwork by J.J. Grandville, Louis-Léopold Boilly, and Edme Jean Pigal.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMary Wagner donated the caricatures in this exhibit to Historical Collections and Services, The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Her husband, the late Robert R. Wagner, M.D., collected these when he was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research in London from 1950 to 1951. Wagner was Chair of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Virginia from 1967 to 1994, and Director of the UVa Cancer Center from 1983 to 1993. Thanks to Mary Wagner's generosity, the caricatures recently have been professionally treated, preserved, and reframed. The originals are on display in Historical Collections and Services and in the Department of Microbiology in the Robert R. Wagner Conference Room. These nineteenth-century satirical prints will thus continue to delight future generations.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit was written by Sara Huyser and Janet Pearson, members of the staff of Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia. Steve Stedman designed the Web exhibit. Special thanks to Joan Echtenkamp Klein and Andrew Sallans for their assistance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWalter Reed's professional experiences with typhoid fever stand in marked contrast to his professional encounters with yellow fever. In the case of typhoid, he was more a messenger than a conqueror. Typhoid fever remained defiant during a career that oversaw the rout of yellow fever. Through a humanizing story that shows how fate brought Reed continuing frustration as well as talent and success, this exhibit seeks to render him a more accessible role model for students of medicine and history.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis exhibit was written by Noel G. Harrison, a graduate student in The Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and an intern in Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia during the fall of 2002. The Web exhibit was prepared and designed by Mike Wilson and Sara Huyser. Special thanks to Bart Ragon, Joan Echtenkamp Klein, and Hal Sharp for their assistance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes records related to Historical Collections and Services, the special collections and archives department of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. 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These records include, but are not limited to: annual reports, planning documents, newsletters, online exhibits, blogs, social media content, conference programs, department histories, committee records, and library-sponsored lecture materials.","This series consists of annual reports produced by the Medical Library (1929-1975), the Health Sciences Library (1975-Present), and the Information Sciences Council (1990-1996). Annual reports for the Health Sciences Library are missing from this collection for the period from 2006 to the present. Also, the annual reports for the Medical Library are missing from this collections for the period from 1929 to 1942. It is unclear whether the Medical and Health Sciences libraries wrote reports for the years.","The annual reports of the Medical Library contain comprehensive descriptions of the annual activities of the Medical Library. The Medical Library's annual reports from 1929 to 1942 are missing from this collection. It is not known if the reports were ever written by the library.","The annual reports of the Health Sciences Library contain comprehensive descriptions of the annual activities of the Health Sciences Library. The Health Sciences Library's annual reports from 2006 to the present are missing from this collection. It is not known if the reports were ever written by the library.","Informal annual report-like documents and related material, including reports shared on the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library blog and an internal UVA Health System news website (HS Connect). Reports from: March 2007, September 2009 (written by Gretchen Arnold), January 2013 (written by Gretchen Arnold), and March 2018 (written by Gretchen Arnold).","This series consists of correspondence and subject files that were created and assembeled by the directors of the Health Sciences Library while carrying out the responsibilities of their position.","Correspondents include Curators of the HSL--Daniel Spikes, Cassandra Ruane, Frank C. Mevers, Todd L. Savitt, and Doris Leckie of the Smithsonian Institution","Includes articles about Jesse Lazear, Carlos Finlay, Philip Hench and cortisone, Henry R. Carter, Nicolas Chervin, Joseph Y. Porter and Isaac Hulse","Correspondents with Bean include Mary (Mrs. Philip) Hench, Atcheson L. Hench, Byrd S. Leavell, and Todd Savitt","Includes news releases, news clippings, journal articles, and correspondence related to the gift by Mary Hench of the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection.","Includes correspondence with William Bennett Bean","Includes correspondence on Health System reorganization","The records in this series document the planning of historically significant administrative initiatives, purchases, construction, and events at the Health Sciences Library.","This series consists of digital and analog images that show the history and collections of the Health Sciences Library. Image formats in this series include, but are not limited to, photographic prints, film negatives, jpeg files, tiff files, 35mm film slides, CDs or other media containing digital images. The series does not include official identification photographs for faculty, students, and staff.","This subseries contains images of artifacts in the collections of the Health Sciences Library.","The images in this subseries show the staff, faculty, and interior spaces of the Health Sciences Library.","Moll, Bowers, Bowers, and Rudnick are photographed with ceramic vessels used in the early production of penicillin.","LIS officially started in 1989. Dr. Don Detmer is upper right of FF sheet","People identified are: Inhye Son, Sarah Handley, Anne Humphries, Mike Wilson, Jonathan Lord, Elaine Banner, Julia Kochi, Marylin James, Mary Nightengale, Ophelia Payne, Nadine Ellero, Trisha Luby, Sue Daddezio, Diane Ricketson, Deborah Camden, Michael Sullivan, Betty Mickens, Dan Wilson, Shelby Miller John Sesody, Greatchen Arnold, Michelle Martin, Jeri Davis, Barbara Crawford, Cindy Saylor, Susan Yowell, Karen Collier, Pat Shannon, Rick Peterson, Brenda Bikos, Sandy Zoumbaris, Jana Maas, Joan Klein, Mark Mones, Jane Wagner, Eli Casarez, Aulia Gies, Cynthia Siedman-Willen, Catherine Anninos, Judy Shotwell, Linda Watson and Ann Carter.","Individuals not identified.","Front: Kathleen Tracey, karen Collier, Deborah Camden, Ophelia Payne, Rick Peterson\nSecond: Marylin James, Jane Wagner, Barbara Crawford, Polly Sandridge, Linda Watson\nThird: Pat Shannon, Brenda Bikos, Gretchen Naisawald, Anne Humphries, Jeri Davis, Shelby Miller, Jonquil Feldman, Mike Wilson\nFourth: Judith Robinson, Susan Daddezio, Julia Hochi\nFifth: Thomas Speare, Catherine Anninos, Libby Colley, Judy Shotwell\nSixth: Hall Sharp, Rick Weaver, Ann Carter\nSeventh: Nadine Ellero, Megan McCaskey, Sarah Handley\nEighth: Jonathan Lord, Jake Appleford, Mary Nightengale, Inhye Son\nAbsent: Joan Klein, christopher Marks, Betty Mickens, Mark Mones, Diane Spears","Left to right: Dieter Groeschel, Joan Klein, Linda Watson, unidentified person\nIn back: unidentified, Janet Pearson","One photo individuals front left to right Dieter Groeschel, Joan Klein, Linda Watson, unidentified person, in the back an unidentified person and Janet Pearson","Collection Services and Bibliographic Control","Intellectual Access and Collection Development","Library Administration","Ellen Ramsey, David Moody, Bart Ragon, Mike Wilson, Joan Klein, Dave Denton, Inhye Son, Wilma Lynch, Pat Shannon, Gretchen Arnold, Jeri Davis, Joy Nuckolls, Karen Knight, Elaine Attridge, Ann Carter, Jonathan Lord, Andrea Horne Denton, Stephanie Fielding, Adrienne Granitz, Sonya Coleman, Jason Bennett, Tony Hiserman, Tenzin Thosam, Roderick Martin, Nadine Ellero, Patricia Vaughn","This subseries consists of images that do not belong in any other subseries.","Gordon was the coordinator of an exhibit on the history of gastroscopy and visited the medical school to open the exhibit. Photo taken by Ursula Ziolkowki.","Photo was sent to Terry Thorkildson from the Area Health Education Centers Program Eastern Virginia Medical Authority","This series contains historically significant press releases, visual aids, clippings, and other items that record information about the Library that were produced for or by the news media.","This subseries contains print copies of news articles about the Health Sciences Library.","This series consists of publications produced by the Health Sciences Library for public distribution or general internal distribution. Publications include, but are not limited to, magazines, journals, monographs, newsletters, weblogs, weekly announcements, online publications, marketing materials, and patient education resources. This series may contain both print and digital publications.","The materials in this subseries were produced to guide the use of collections housed at the Health Sciences Library.","This subseries consists of digital and print newsletters that provide information about the activities of the Health Sciences Library.","A \"scrapbook\" of Library milestones and appropriate photographs for each medical and nursing graduating class celebrating its reunion in a particular year. The print series was discontinued after 2000, but additional Journey Through Time content is available online through the Historical Collections web exhibits.","This subseries contains brochures, flyers, and other printed ephemera that provide information about the Health Sciences Library.","Envelope has Dr. Wilhelm Moll handwritten on it. Brochure includes library statistics, what is needed in terms of money and space, various endorsements, and tax information.","This series contains social media content that has been produced by the Health Sciences Library for platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.","The staff of the Health Sciences Library's Historical Collections and Services department maintains and contributes content to this Facebook page. Many posts and photographs on the page relate to the Department's services, collections, and events. Other posts share information related to the history of the health sciences and the work of libraries, museums, and archives.","This series consists of blogs that were created by the Health Sciences Library. The files in this series were downloaded from the Internet by Library staff. Content in the blogs that are accessed through a link outside of the blog's parent directory (e.g. external YouTube videos, external web pages) are not downloaded and archived in this series.","The Moore Library News (MLN) blog is produced by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. MLN blog posts provide information about Library collections, policies, services, and events.","The records in this series document the organizational structure of the Health Sciences Library. It also contains records that document administrative reorganizations of the Library. These materials include, but are not limited to, organizational charts and reports.","This series contains policies, procedures, and handbooks produced by the Health Sciences Library to direct and guide the conduct of its faculty, staff, and patrons. These records may also formally describe and define the relationship between the Health Sciences Library and its faculty, staff, and patrons.","This subseries contains procedures and handbooks for the faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Library.","Includes items from the Printing Office with the new library name: The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library","This subseries consists of procedures and handbooks for the patrons of the Health Sciences Library.","This series contains course announcements, syllabi, notes, and other materials that document classes and workshops taught by the faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Library.","This series consists of programs and reports that document the history of conferences and symposia hosted by the Health Sciences Library. Programs and reports often contain the following information: lists of speakers, presentation titles, schedules of events, and lecture abstracts. The following conference records are not included in this series: registration records, financial records, organization records, attendance lists.","This series consists of significant material that conveys the history of the Health Sciences Library, its administration, its accomplishments, its officials or employees. Includes, but is not limited to, scrapbooks, photographs, articles, program notes and documentation of events sponsored or funded by the agency. Also included are narratives; printed, audio, or audiovisual histories; or matters of significant historical importance.","Includes many photos of the library interior and library staff. Some individuals identified. Probably an exhibit celebrating the library's 15th anniversary in 1991, but photos from 1993 are also in the folder.","Includes photos of library interiors, staff (some identified) and UVA buildings; library organization chart for 2/1995; and Library Building Funds chart, 1975.","This series consists of reports, of a historically significant nature, that do not belong to any other series of the Health Sciences Library records.","This series contains memos, correspondence, subject files, online resources, and meeting minutes of committees working within the Health Sciences Library.","This file includes the meeting minutes, meeting agendas, and other documentation of the Library Management Group. The members of this committee were the leaders of the Health Sciences Library. They met once a month to discuss major library initiatives, provide updates and reports about library department activities, and share other information related to the management of the Library.","This file consists of the meeting minutes, bylaws, constitution, and correspondence of the Medical History Society of the University of Virginia. The Society was formed to promote the knowledge and study of the history of medicine and the health sciences at the University of Virginia. For much of its history, Wilhelm Moll led the Society. It supported the development of historical collections and services at the Health Sciences Library and founded a lecture series that becsme the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series in 1984.","This series consists of records that document awards, honors, and commemorations presented by the Health Sciences Library. These records may include, but are not limited to, event programs, lists of recipients, and recipient biographies.","The dedication ceremony included remarks by Donald S. Fredrickson, MD, Director, National Institutes of Health.","Includes a tribute to Wilhelm Moll by William B. Bean and another speech by an unidentified individual.","Includes remarks that were given by Dr. Don Detmer.","Includes remarks given by Donald Lindberg. The title of Lindberg's presentation was\"The Computer and the Academical Village\".","This series consists of records that document lectures and presentations sponsored by the Health Sciences Library. These records include, but are not limited to, audiovisual recordings, transcripts, announcements, handouts, and correspondence between presenters and event organizers.","This subseries consists of records associated with standalone lectures and presentations sponsored by the Health Sciences Library.","This subseries contains records that are associated with the Health Sciences Library's History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series.","This subseries contains records that are associated with the Medical History Society of the University of Virginia Lecture Series.","Promotional posters for a medical history lecture series held at the UVA Health Sciences Library and organized by the UVA Medical History Society.","This series consists of records that document exhibits created by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library of an educational or promotional nature. Some records are physical, and others are archived websites crawled by the Internet Archives' Archive-It service and made accessible by their Wayback Machine.","These materials are physical materials containing exhibit plans and designs, text, labels, and images created for physical exhibits.","Identified individuals in photos are John Guerrant, Ken Crispell, and Barry Marshall","Includes print-out (109 pages) of \"Who's Who on the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection Website\" (2002) and supplemental list of compiled names.","\"Robley Dunglison: 1798-1869\" Pamphlet produced for a library exhibit honoring the 200th anniversary of Dunglison's birth. 3 copies; 14 pp. Prepared by Historical Collections \u0026 Services, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Folder note indicates biography was written by Joby Topper. Includes reference list.","Introduction by Joan Klein","This series contains web archived online exhibits created by Historical Collections and Services between 2007 and circa 2023, although some of the creation dates of the websites are questionable. These 21 exhibits were hosted on the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library website but are now available via the Internet Archives' Wayback Machine.","This online exhibit is centered on the book \"A History of Cancer Care at the University of Virginia, 1901-1911.\" This book provides vast insight into the teamwork, dedication, collegiality, and skill–as well as luck–which was necessary for the Cancer Center to exist today. Twenty-five oral history interviews were conducted in the course of researching the book and are included with the book or may be viewed in the videos section of this website. Written by Henry K. Sharp, Ph.D. and Morton C. Wilhelm, M.D. the Joseph Helms Farrow Professor Emeritus in Surgical Oncology, University of Virginia School of Medicine.","This online exhibit serves as an online \"scrapbook\" with some of the milestones of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Medical Center, and the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing. There are added appropriate photographs for each class year.","This exhibit recounts the origin and early history of the American Lung Association. The American Lung Association of Virginia (ALAV) Collection contains personal and official correspondence, financial and legal papers, minute books, organizational and scientific reports, educational publicity, photographs, and artifacts. ALAV donated its organization's papers to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in 1990 and 1991 made this exhibit possible. The ALAV made an additional donation in 2009.","This online exhibit presents images and summaries of the known uses of each instrument. The extant comments of medical writers from antiquity–including Oribasius, Galen, Soranus, Aetius, and the Hippocratic corpus–have provided scholars with some clues about the use of some instruments. Some instruments, such as mixing instruments and tweezers, probably had other household uses, such as the application of cosmetics and paints.","This online exhibit was created under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Hal Sharp, a Historical Collections staff member, wrote the essay giving a brief history of anatomical drawing. The exhibit was designed by Janet Pearson, Historical Collections; Bart Ragon, the Associate Director for Knowledge Integration, Research and Technology; and Paulina Vaca, Web Communications Assistant. Emily Bowden, Historical Collections, photographed the Denoyer-Geppert Anatomy Series charts. William Crutchfield generously donated W. and A. K. Johnston's Charts of Anatomy and Physiology which were owned for 33 years by his father, Dr. William Gayle Crutchfield.","This exhibit was designed to highlight the UVA Hospital's involvement with supporting United States Army troops during World War I and World War II. It was created by Janet Pearson with the assistance of Joby Topper. Special thanks to Dr. John L. Guerrant, Dorothy Sandridge Gloor, and Elizabeth Harlin Drash for sharing their stories and helping us identify photographs.","This online exhibit shows materials related to eugenics as it relates to UVA and Charlottesville, VA. Alison White and Ina Hofland, staff members of Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, created this Web exhibit. They also created the physical exhibit of the same title on which it is based. The physical exhibit was displayed in the foyer of the Health Sciences Library April-September 2002. Steve Stedman designed the Web exhibit. Special thanks to Sara Huyser, Joan Echtenkamp Klein, Ophelia Payne, Bart Ragon, Hal Sharp, and Mike Wilson for their assistance. Web Exhibit Publish Date: February 13, 2004","This exhibit was created under the direction of Joan Ectenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Dr. Morton C. Wilhelm, the Joseph Helms Farrow Professor in Surgical Oncology, wrote the essay with the editorial assistance of Janet Pearson. The web exhibit was designed by Janet Pearson, Historical Collections; Bart Ragon, the Associate Director for Knowledge Integration, Research and Technology; and Paulina Vaca, Web Communications Assistant.","This online exhibit offers a look into The Papers of James Carmichael and Son, a collection held at the UVA Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, and tells a story of the early nineteenth-century inhabitants of Fredericksburg, Virginia and its surrounding rural areas. ","The exhibit is organized into two content areas: the Story and the Collection. Each of these areas, as well as the Home and About sections, are represented in the tabs near the top of every page. See the site map for more detail.","The Story section sets the atmosphere for the exhibit. One can get a sense of what the practice of medicine was like for James and Edward Carmichael in the early nineteenth century by reading the essays describing the Pharmacy, the Tools of the Trade, and the Health Care of Slaves.","The Collection section houses the images of the original Carmichael letters, which are meticulously transcribed and categorized to provide access not only to the words, but to the medical conditions, treatments, and philosophies of almost two centuries past. Particularly compelling is the use of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to categorize the letters along with a very detailed methodology and definition of MeSH terms. Other items of interest include the daybook kept by Doctor Carmichael from 1816-1817, newspaper clippings, court records \u0026 summaries, period maps, and Virginia WPA Historical Inventory Project records. Additionally, there is an exhaustive Who's Who list of names that appeared in the letters as well as a thorough list of Places Mentioned.","This online exhibit tells the story of how the U.S. Army Commission, comprised of Major Walter Reed, Dr. James Carroll, Dr. Aristides Agramonte, and Dr. Jesse Lazear, confirmed Carlos Finlay's theory about the transmission of yellow fever. By showing without a doubt that mosquitoes were the vector for yellow fever, the researchers empowered public health officials in the Americas to eradicate this devastating disease from much of the Western Hemisphere.","The exhibit is divided into three main sections. The first section, Archives, provides information about and links to the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection. The collection, most collected by Philip S. Hench and housed at the University of Virginia's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, is a rich archive of materials that documents the history of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. The second section, History, tells the story of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission and the impact of its findings. Finally, the third section, Resources, provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and other resources visitors may want to consult to learn more about the Commission and the history of yellow fever.","This exhibit tells the story about 12 physicians practicing in Charlottesville, VA in 1848 mutually agreed to create an agreed rate of medical charges for services.","Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections \u0026 Services at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, conceived the idea for the fee bill project and directed it. Todd L. Savitt, Ph.D., wrote the background information essay on fee bills in general and the Charlottesville fee bill in particular. He is a faculty member at East Carolina University in the Department of Bioethics \u0026 Interdisciplinary Studies. Janet Pearson wrote the introduction and the biographical sketches of the twelve signers. She gathered images and took photographs in the University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium and in downtown Charlottesville. She is a member of the staff of Historical Collections and Services. Sonya Coleman, also a member of the staff of Historical Collections, contributed to the design elements. David Moody, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Webmaster, and Jason Bennett, Technology in Education Consultant, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.","Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections \u0026 Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, conceived the idea for the \"Fever Fighters\" project after the generous donation of Dr. Hanson's diary by his granddaughter, Jane H. Monroe.","Staff members at Historical Collections, Leigh Mantle, Susan Yowell, and Janet Pearson, contributed content and created the GIS Map. Caitlin Summers, a dedicated intern at Historical Collections, also provided editorial assistance in the spring of 2012.","David Moody, Library Webmaster; Mike Wilson, Information Services Specialist; and Jason Bennett, Technology Specialist, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.","This exhibit was inspired by The Mineral Springs of Western Virginia by William Burke, the first volume purchased by the Weaver Family Endowed Rare Book and Medical Materials Fund. Published in 1846, the book describes the setting and development of eleven springs in what are now Virginia and West Virginia. Dr. Burke, a one-time owner and resident physician at Red Sulphur Springs, remarks on the usefulness of the various mineral waters in certain diseases as well as contraindications to their use. The springs range from those that are well known today such as the White Sulphur Springs, currently the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, to the Blue Sulphur Springs, once able to accommodate several hundred people and now represented by a lone Greek Revival pavilion in the middle of a field near Smoot, West Virginia.","This exhibit was written and organized by Janet Pearson, a member of the staff of Historical Collections and Services, under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia. Claudia Sueyras, Normajean Hultman, and Sonya Coleman did preliminary research. Rod Martin and Victoria Meyer scanned items from Historical Collections and the Charles L. Brown Science \u0026 Engineering Library. David Moody, with the assistance of Bart Ragon, provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit. Sonya Coleman contributed to the design elements. Special thanks has been given to the staff at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, as they retrieved dozens of documents and also to the Digital Curation Services staff for their scanning of the documents.","The Anatomical Theatre at the University of Virginia online exhibit tells the story of the Theatre's presence at the University for more than a century. While not included in the earliest plans of the University, the need for the Theatre became clear before the first classes were ever held. Thomas Jefferson himself drew the design which includes two floor plans, a front elevation view, and a cross section. The exhibit traces the construction and later changes to the building, its demise, and archeological investigations at the site. It also gives a glimpse of what happened inside the building and the deeds that were done to procure cadavers so that medical students could learn anatomy.","This exhibit was sparked by the interest of the late Dr. M.C. Wilhelm in the model of the Anatomical Theatre housed in Historical Collections at the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. A retired surgeon and volunteer in Historical Collections, Dr. Wilhelm gathered resources and did preliminary writing. It was decided to further develop the project, and the result is this exhibit, written and organized by Janet Pearson, a Historical Collections staff member. Originally done under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein, who was the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections until her untimely death, project support was continued under Dan Cavanaugh, who stepped into Joan's role and position.","Others associated with the University of Virginia community freely shared their ideas and research. These individuals include Garth Anderson, the Facilities Management Historian; Kirt von Daacke, Assistant Dean and Professor, College of Arts \u0026 Sciences; Louis Nelson, Professor in the Department of Architectural History and Associate Provost for Outreach; Robert Bloodgood, Professor in the School of Medicine; Benjamin Ford, Principal Investigator with Rivanna Archaeological Services, LLC; and Sonya Coleman, formerly a staff member in Historical Collections and now at the Library of Virginia. Emily Bowden, the Historical Collections Specialist, answered many technical queries as well as gave editorial assistance. Anson Parker and Jason Bennett provided the programming architecture for the Web exhibit.","This exhibit explores the development of the iron lung during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and considers the reasons for its success during the height of the poliomyelitis epidemics. Andrew Sallans, Historical Collections Specialist, researched and compiled the content for the online and physical exhibits. The design of the online exhibit was conceived and executed by Steve Stedman, Webmaster for the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.","This online exhibit displays a digitized copy of Historical Collections and Services' rare book \"Plague and Public Health in Europe, with Special Reference to Sixteenth-Century England: An Introduction to Orders thought meete by her Maiestie ..., 1578.\"","Anne McKeithen, Janet Pearson, and Andrew Sallans, members of the staff of Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, compiled the material for the Plague Book exhibit under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein. Joaquin Bueno designed the Web exhibit and graphics, with the programming architecture of David Moody and the assistance of Bart Ragon.","Unless otherwise noted, the images are courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden, © 1995-2006 Missouri Botanical Garden http://www.illustratedgarden.org). They deserve special thanks for their generous permission to reproduce their exquisite illustrations. Special thanks are also given to Duane J. Osheim, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia for his paper, \"Plague and Public Health in Europe, with Special Reference to Sixteenth-Century England.\"","In 2001 Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library created an exhibit that traces the history of the first century of the Hospital in words and images. One copy of the exhibit traveled from location to location in the Health System and beyond; the other set of panels were hung in a busy hospital corridor near the main entrance where they remain today. These panels form the basis for this online exhibit which now includes the addition of a section on the first 14 years of the Hospital's second century. We hope you enjoy following the history of the growth of the University of Virginia Health System as it seeks to fulfill its longstanding vision to benefit human health and improve quality of life through patient care, research, and education.","This exhibition was prepared by Hal Sharp and Janet Pearson of the Department of Historical Collections and Services, The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.","This online exhibit aims to give viewers a view into more than 50 of Historical Collections and Services' most notable books and see how their authors over the years have documented their discoveries and concepts for contemporaries and for us.  There are digitized versions of many of the books in the Fulltext Books section, which offers links to the scanned images of over half of these rare books.","Sara Huyser, Anne McKeithen, and Janet Pearson, members of the staff of Historical Collections at The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, wrote and compiled the material for Vaulted Treasures under the direction of Joan Echtenkamp Klein.","Joaquin Bueno designed the Web exhibit and graphics, with the server expertise of David Moody and the assistance of Bart Ragon. Special thanks to Claudia Sueyras who scanned many of the books and Andrew Sallans who provided technical assistance.","The 37 caricatures displayed in this exhibit are divided into two groups: English and French. The English prints are predominately drawn by two of the more famous British caricaturists, James Gillray and George Cruikshank. The French caricatures include artwork by J.J. Grandville, Louis-Léopold Boilly, and Edme Jean Pigal.","Mary Wagner donated the caricatures in this exhibit to Historical Collections and Services, The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Her husband, the late Robert R. Wagner, M.D., collected these when he was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research in London from 1950 to 1951. Wagner was Chair of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Virginia from 1967 to 1994, and Director of the UVa Cancer Center from 1983 to 1993. Thanks to Mary Wagner's generosity, the caricatures recently have been professionally treated, preserved, and reframed. The originals are on display in Historical Collections and Services and in the Department of Microbiology in the Robert R. Wagner Conference Room. These nineteenth-century satirical prints will thus continue to delight future generations.","This exhibit was written by Sara Huyser and Janet Pearson, members of the staff of Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia. Steve Stedman designed the Web exhibit. Special thanks to Joan Echtenkamp Klein and Andrew Sallans for their assistance.","Walter Reed's professional experiences with typhoid fever stand in marked contrast to his professional encounters with yellow fever. In the case of typhoid, he was more a messenger than a conqueror. Typhoid fever remained defiant during a career that oversaw the rout of yellow fever. Through a humanizing story that shows how fate brought Reed continuing frustration as well as talent and success, this exhibit seeks to render him a more accessible role model for students of medicine and history.","This exhibit was written by Noel G. Harrison, a graduate student in The Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and an intern in Historical Collections and Services at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia during the fall of 2002. The Web exhibit was prepared and designed by Mike Wilson and Sara Huyser. Special thanks to Bart Ragon, Joan Echtenkamp Klein, and Hal Sharp for their assistance.","This series includes records related to Historical Collections and Services, the special collections and archives department of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. Records the public can access are related to exhibitions that were curated by staff and displayed in the library."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia own the copyright to records created by University employees while acting within the scope of their employment, except scholarly and academic works.  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Elizabeth Conant, a biology teacher at the University of Virginia, realized that the land was ideal for a nature preserve. She contacted the Nature Conservancy who bought the farm and held it until the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County were able to buy the land. The Ivy Creek Foundation was incorporated on May 23, 1979, and the future management of the land lies with them. Paul Saunier, former University of Virginia administrator, was the first president of the Foundation.","The Ivy Creek Natural Area, which currently borders the South Rivanna Reservoir of the City of Charlottesville and consists of 215 acres of forest, field, and stream, was formed from several tracts of land. 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He became one of the largest African American landowners in Albemarle County, where he raised several generations of his family in the Union Ridge Hydraulic Mills community, until his death in 1914.","The papers show that Carr highly valued education for his daughters as well as his son. His eldest daughter, Mary Louise Carr Greer became a well-known educator and principal of Albemarle Training School. Her family continued to live on the farm until 1978 when it became the Ivy Creek Natural Area with the support of the Nature Conservancy. ","There are documents, newspaper clippings, photographs pertaining to the history of this prominent African American family. ","Included is the original receipt for the purchase of land for the farm by Hugh Carr in 1870 in the amount of $100 and contracts for when Carr worked as a farm manager for Richard Wingfield and A. A. Southerland. 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Many of his children earned college degrees, becoming teachers and community leaders. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHis oldest, Mary Louise Carr became principal of Albemarle Training School and was an influential educator in the local community. Later, she was honored for her commitment to education with the naming of Greer Elementary School after her. In 1916, Mary Carr married Conly Greer, the first African American extension agent for Albemarle County and the last family member to farm at Riverview Farm. After his death in 1957, Mary Carr Greer continued to live there but the land was rented to local farmers to farm. When she died in 1973, she left the estate to her only child, Evangeline Greer Jones, who in turn sold it.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFollowing its sale, the farm was slated to become one of Charlottesville's newest subdivisions with a projected 200 homes. Elizabeth Conant, a biology teacher at the University of Virginia, realized that the land was ideal for a nature preserve. She contacted the Nature Conservancy who bought the farm and held it until the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County were able to buy the land. The Ivy Creek Foundation was incorporated on May 23, 1979, and the future management of the land lies with them. Paul Saunier, former University of Virginia administrator, was the first president of the Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Ivy Creek Natural Area, which currently borders the South Rivanna Reservoir of the City of Charlottesville and consists of 215 acres of forest, field, and stream, was formed from several tracts of land. These include the original tract from the Mary Carr Greer Estate of eighty acres in 1975, a thirty-eight-acre tract from the City of Charlottesville in 1979, the James Fleming tract of eighty-acres in 1981, the Flamenco tract of sixteen acres in 1981, and four tenths of an acre from Bedford Moore in 1981. The Greer property was named the Rann Preserve when purchased by the Nature Conservancy and was renamed the Ivy Creek Natural Area. The organizers of the Ivy Creek Natural Area recognized the history of the Carr family and worked to save and preserve the land as well as the family documents that were found in the farmhouse. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources: Ivy Creek Foundation, Accessed 1/27/2023 https://ivycreekfoundation.org/cultural-history \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["During the Reconstruction period of Virginia history, Hugh Carr (1843-1914), who was formerly enslaved by Richard Wingfield, began the long process of purchasing various tracts of land that eventually made up the model farm along Ivy Creek known as \"River View\" in the Union Ridge Hydraulic Mills community.","He and his wife, Texie Mae Hawkins,(1865-1899) raised seven children at River View Farm: Mary Louise Carr Greer, (1884-1973), Fannie Carr Washington (1887-?), Peachie Carr Jackson (1889-1977), Emma Clorinda Carr (1892-1974), Virginia Carr Brown (1893-1935), Ann Hazel Carr (1895-?), and one son Marshall Hubert Carr (1886-1916).The farm continued to grow and by 1890 it was over 125 acres making Carr among the largest African American landowner in Albemarle County. ","\nAs Hugh Carr was deprived of any formal education, he placed an emphasis on education for his daughters and son, all of whom went to school. Many of his children earned college degrees, becoming teachers and community leaders. ","His oldest, Mary Louise Carr became principal of Albemarle Training School and was an influential educator in the local community. Later, she was honored for her commitment to education with the naming of Greer Elementary School after her. In 1916, Mary Carr married Conly Greer, the first African American extension agent for Albemarle County and the last family member to farm at Riverview Farm. After his death in 1957, Mary Carr Greer continued to live there but the land was rented to local farmers to farm. When she died in 1973, she left the estate to her only child, Evangeline Greer Jones, who in turn sold it.","Following its sale, the farm was slated to become one of Charlottesville's newest subdivisions with a projected 200 homes. Elizabeth Conant, a biology teacher at the University of Virginia, realized that the land was ideal for a nature preserve. She contacted the Nature Conservancy who bought the farm and held it until the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County were able to buy the land. The Ivy Creek Foundation was incorporated on May 23, 1979, and the future management of the land lies with them. Paul Saunier, former University of Virginia administrator, was the first president of the Foundation.","The Ivy Creek Natural Area, which currently borders the South Rivanna Reservoir of the City of Charlottesville and consists of 215 acres of forest, field, and stream, was formed from several tracts of land. These include the original tract from the Mary Carr Greer Estate of eighty acres in 1975, a thirty-eight-acre tract from the City of Charlottesville in 1979, the James Fleming tract of eighty-acres in 1981, the Flamenco tract of sixteen acres in 1981, and four tenths of an acre from Bedford Moore in 1981. The Greer property was named the Rann Preserve when purchased by the Nature Conservancy and was renamed the Ivy Creek Natural Area. The organizers of the Ivy Creek Natural Area recognized the history of the Carr family and worked to save and preserve the land as well as the family documents that were found in the farmhouse. ","Sources: Ivy Creek Foundation, Accessed 1/27/2023 https://ivycreekfoundation.org/cultural-history "],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSome items in this collection sustained damage from pests and/or mold prior to coming to the Library. 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Preservation staff has frozen and stabilized the items to prevent further damage from pests or mold and cleaned the items to facilitate handling."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMSS 10176, Hugh Carr family papers and River View Farm, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["MSS 10176, Hugh Carr family papers and River View Farm, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection MSS 10176 is related to the Ivy Creek Natural Area MSS 10770, about the history of River View farm and Hugh Carr family which is now the Ivy Creek Natural Area. MSS 10770 is a deposit. 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He became one of the largest African American landowners in Albemarle County, where he raised several generations of his family in the Union Ridge Hydraulic Mills community, until his death in 1914.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe papers show that Carr highly valued education for his daughters as well as his son. His eldest daughter, Mary Louise Carr Greer became a well-known educator and principal of Albemarle Training School. Her family continued to live on the farm until 1978 when it became the Ivy Creek Natural Area with the support of the Nature Conservancy. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere are documents, newspaper clippings, photographs pertaining to the history of this prominent African American family. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the original receipt for the purchase of land for the farm by Hugh Carr in 1870 in the amount of $100 and contracts for when Carr worked as a farm manager for Richard Wingfield and A. A. Southerland. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere are legal and financial papers of Conly Greer (1883-1956) and correspondence of Mary Carr Greer and her husband, Conly Greer.  Included is a letter written for Hugh Carr giving Conly approval to marry his daughter. (Hugh Carr could not read and write but he would sign his name with an X). There is also correspondence of their daughter, Evangeline Greer Jones while courting her husband, Hinton C. Jones.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the history of Hugh Carr, an African American born in enslavement in 1843 and his family who lived on a tract of land (River View Farm) that Carr and his wife Texie Mae Hawkins bought in 1870 after emancipation. He became one of the largest African American landowners in Albemarle County, where he raised several generations of his family in the Union Ridge Hydraulic Mills community, until his death in 1914.","The papers show that Carr highly valued education for his daughters as well as his son. His eldest daughter, Mary Louise Carr Greer became a well-known educator and principal of Albemarle Training School. Her family continued to live on the farm until 1978 when it became the Ivy Creek Natural Area with the support of the Nature Conservancy. ","There are documents, newspaper clippings, photographs pertaining to the history of this prominent African American family. ","Included is the original receipt for the purchase of land for the farm by Hugh Carr in 1870 in the amount of $100 and contracts for when Carr worked as a farm manager for Richard Wingfield and A. A. Southerland. ","There are legal and financial papers of Conly Greer (1883-1956) and correspondence of Mary Carr Greer and her husband, Conly Greer.  Included is a letter written for Hugh Carr giving Conly approval to marry his daughter. (Hugh Carr could not read and write but he would sign his name with an X). There is also correspondence of their daughter, Evangeline Greer Jones while courting her husband, Hinton C. 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Also included are letters to Eleanor Love Selden Washington, a few letters to or from John Augustine Washington III to various individuals, several letters from George Mason of Hollin Hall (1797-1870) to John Augustine Washington III, letters by Lackland and Alexander family members (relatives of the Washingtons) and three receipts. The subject matter of most letters is family or personal affairs and Mount Vernon business with some discussion of the enslaved people owned by the Washingtons. 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Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.","Arranged chronologically with undated material at the end of the collection.","Jane Charlotte Blackburn was born on August 23, 1786 at Rippon Lodge, Prince William, Virginia to Major Richard Scott Blackburn and Judith Blackburn. She married John Augustine Washington II and had five children, three of whom lived to adulthood – Anna Maria Thomasina Washington Alexander, John Augustine Washington III, and Richard Scott Blackburn Thomas. The couple lived at Blakely plantation near Charles Town, West Virginia, until the death of Bushrod Washington in 1829, who left the property of Mount Vernon to John Augustine Washington II in his will. When her husband died in 1832, Jane Charlotte Washington inherited Mount Vernon and vowed to maintain the estate to the best of her ability. She insisted her oldest son, John Augustine Washington III, attend college to better prepare him to someday manage the family's properties. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840 and a year later began overseeing all business at Mount Vernon for his mother. Jane Charlotte Washington died in 1855 and is buried at Mount Vernon with her husband.","John Augustine Washington was the great-grandnephew of George Washington and the last Washington to own Mount Vernon before its sale to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association (MVLA).  He was born on May 3, 1821 to John Augustine Washington II and Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840, and returned to Mount Vernon to manage the declining estate with his widowed mother's permission. In 1843, he married Eleanor Love Selden with whom he had seven children. He sold 200 acres of Mount Vernon to the MVLA in 1858 for $200,000, and he and his family moved to Waveland plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1860. He served as aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee, but was shot by a bushwhacker and died one week later on September 13, 1861.","John Augustine Washington III and Eleanor Love Selden Correspondence\nJohn Augustine Washington III and Descendants Papers\nJohn Augustine Washington III and MVLA Collection\nLawrence Washington Collection of Washington family papers\nHistoric Manuscripts Collection\nElswyth Thane Beebe Collection","The bulk of this collection is made up of letters from Jane Charlotte Washington to her son, John Augustine Washington III. Also included are letters to Eleanor Love Selden Washington, a few letters to or from John Augustine Washington III to various individuals, several letters from George Mason of Hollin Hall (1797-1870) to John Augustine Washington III, letters by Lackland and Alexander family members (relatives of the Washingtons) and three receipts. The subject matter of most letters is family or personal affairs and Mount Vernon business with some discussion of the enslaved people owned by the Washingtons. Inclusive dates are 1837 to 1861.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon. Tells him of four family members with consumption. Also \"have no servant to dispose of who would suit her sister, unless Milly would be willing for one of her three elder daughters to go. It would be a sure and good home I believe.\" Discusses sale of corn crop and other family news. Mentions repairs being made by Mr. Skidmore at Mt. Vernon. We have two other letters dated 1837 November 23 and 1838 November 1 mentioning repairs made by Jesse Skidmore. In 1839 July 27, Lawrence Lewis paid Skidmore for work done on the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","A.L.S. She is enclosing another $10 note requesting it get charged and sent to her by him.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is unable to join him at Mount Vernon as her business would not fare well. Is sending a horse down as he is better fitted for the saddle than harness. Writes about sending him to Mount Vernon to \"relieve Maj. Lewis,\" who is working with Struthers and Strickland to build the new tomb. Writes of her \"deep veneration and gratitude to the memory of Genl Washington.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Upon her return home, she found things had not been taken care of on her farm. A fodder house for the cattle was not placed correctly at all. She encouraged her son to get a good education at Mr. Hallowell's school in Alexandria.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She wants him to inquire about an appointment for Lawrence Washington who needs employment. Inquires about his studies and the repairs on the \"old mansion.\" Gives some family news and wants him to call on Mary and Julia.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Reports on crop yields. Says there \"have been some difficulties between the overseer and the Negroes\" on the Mountain. Tells him of the impending purchase of a pair of draft horses. Talks of sending Willoughby and Gabriel to Mount Vernon, as well as Henry and Dolly. (This is likely Gabriel Johnson, about whom we have at least nine other letters in the collection.) Mentions letting his cousin have Jesse at \"whatever you think a reasonable price.\" Reports pork prices are down and is worried about the expenses of repairs to Mount Vernon. Was sorry to \"learn by a letter from West that our crop of corn at Mount Vernon has turned out so badly.\" Might need to employ West for another year. More family news and greetings.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She was sorry to hear of his illness and tells him to leave Mount Vernon in the hands of hirelings and not endanger his health further by riding there. Refers to reading about \"Mr. Calhoun's and Mr. Clay's conversations in the Senate on Mr. Calhoun's resolutions respecting abolition petitions.\" Much difficulty regarding Jessy – Cousin Jane has abandoned all idea of purchasing her.","A.L.S. with additional writing by Jane C. Washington. Blakeley. Tells of new animals being born, his schooling, and family news. Jane adds: glad to hear his schooling is going well. Asks if he participated in the February 22 celebration. Is sorry he gave up Greek. Wants him to send her a translation from Latin or French. Orders shoes to be made for Kitty.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She returned home safely and passes along some family news. Harvest had not been started, but since she returned they have begun on the wheat. Much gets lost by \"having inefficient hands as rakers,\" so she requests him to send Willoughby and Gabriel up immediately. \"Labourers cannot be procured, and wages are higher than ever before known to be.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes he will get to enjoy his job at the Library of the House of Representatives. Thinks it will be good for his future. She is unwell at present. Reports on Dr. Gates who is also not doing well.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is troubled about getting Richard to be an \"irregular Cadet\" or maybe to West Point. Reports on the death of Dr. Yates. Gives various instructions and requests.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She hopes the water at White Sulphur Spring will prove beneficial. Describes a sermon on Communion Sunday and hopes he's hearing as good as that. Had a disappointing wheat crop. Contracted with Ford and Snyder for the crop. Gabriel is still there, with JAW's permission. Additional page from Aunt Judy Alexander, hoping he meets some young ladies.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She wants him to rent the Prospect Hill fields for three years to Mr. Anderson. George carried wheat and oats to him, as well as other items. Poor Tansel wants a place with him. He'll make rakes and \"I know he makes excellent shoes.\" Sends greetings to family.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She wants Maria and Augustine to return to Blakeley as both are sick. Is disturbed that cousin Jane means to keep Betty for the next year, despite knowing of the intention to send her to Mount Vernon. \"Shall I send Hannah or Sally down, or contend for Betty?\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. She relates the difficult journey of his sister to Blakeley. Is glad he is feeling better. Writes about selling enslaved people: \"I am sorry to tell you Milly I understand is unfit for hire, and we shall be obliged to keep her at home. Mr. Rutherford… will take Sally. She is said to be a first rate manager, a strict tho kind mistress. She is to give $35. Hannah I have as yet had no offer for. Closely confined at home without a way of getting out, I have not had it in my power to look out places for our hirelings and do not like to offer them at public hire.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Glad he got rid of his chills. The horse cart is so much in use it cannot be sent down to Mount Vernon. Will send George, Edmund, and Betty to him. Still been unable to get a place for Hannah whose character does not stand well as to docility or usefulness. More instructions as to how to deal with various servants.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. \"Dr. A. has determined to keep the servants. I hope they will continue faithful and useful to him. Willoughby is a grumbler, but I am sure he has no just cause of complaint. Dr. A is a human and liberal master. I think you give a high price for your wagoner. Negroes have generally hired lower than usual this year. Hannah is at present laid up, sd. I not be able to get a good and safe place for her, I will send her down by the first safe opportunity.\" \"Remember me most kindly to all our Mount Vernon household – dear Old Jenny especially and West Ford.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. She's so happy to hear from Dr. A that his health is much improved. Discusses financial difficulties. \"We must all practice strict economy.\" Sends family news.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon to Charlestown, Jefferson County, Virginia. Discusses the current low price for wood and Dr. Alexander and his travels. Regrets the failure of Ford and Snyder. Wants her to settle for Hannah's support as West thinks that she has not been given anything to eat. Also wants to remind Dick of a pair of boots for Mr. Morgan. Phil and Jesse have been sick for some time.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She hopes his health improves. Discusses disorder on banks, making business difficult. Is sorry this happened at the beginning of his life in business but hopes it will teach him. Tells of harvests and yields and gives some family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She's so glad he has recovered his health. Will be able to get clover seed shortly. Wants to plant the 90 acre field with oats. Sends greetings to Cary. Was able to hire Hannah out until Christmas.","A.L.S. Blakeley. George is off to Mount Vernon with a wagon full of goods. Requests various items to be brought back by him. Hopes his health remains good. His sister wishes to have Caroline whom she has hired brought down to Mount Vernon. She might come up with George. \"Remember me most kindly to Jenny – West's servant at Mount Vernon.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Sending this via Mr. Lamar requesting additional things for George to bring back. Describes a sermon given by Mr. Jones the previous Sunday. Hopes he will have \"our old establishment very clean white washed if not painted a little.\" Richard is not well but hopes he will join her when she goes down for a few days.","A.L.S. He is mortified that JAW might have been offended at not having received an invitation to dine with him, which was sent with a \"silly servant.\" He always values having his company and sends him some rhubarb with instructions as to its preparation.","A.L.S. Blakeley. George arrived safely yesterday afternoon. Disappointed various items from Mr. Hooff were not sent but instead sent via canal. Discusses prices of some items. Thanks him for fruit sent. Tells him to do what he thinks best with the greenhouse.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is anxiously awaiting the arrival of his hands from Mount Vernon as George Saunders Ned and Lewis are all laid up. Marie and Mary Jane are incapable of working out. Harvest has commenced. Wants him to send a barrel of white sand for plastering the pillars in the brick portico. Hopes he will come soon. Sends family greetings.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She had a good journey home with pleasant visits with friends on the way. \"You have a partial friend in Mr. S. altho' I think he would be pleased if you did not speak quite so loud.\" Richard says a man wants to rent the P.H. Farm but is unwilling to pay the terms requested. Describes two sermons she heard. Wants him to look in the study for letters which Uncle Bushrod says must be there.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Writes with suggestions for the furniture and carpet at Mount Vernon. She specifically mentions the \"little drawing room,\" \"parlor,\" \"front passage,\" \"little room,\" and \"old dining room.\" Fears she shall be left more largely in debt than ever yet been. A Dutch farmer wants to rent P. Hole farm.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Gives some financial information. \"If the work is all finished at Mount Vernon both Harry and Fanny had better come but if there is still any thing for Fanny to do, she can remain.\" Requests items to be brought up, including lemons and oranges. Family news, including that Uncle Bushrod remains confined to his couch.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has not heard from him. Ordered various building supplies. Financial times are very difficult and strict economy is necessary. Will send him some of her horses until his can be matched. Since Mary Jane is sick, Fanny should return to care for her. \"Remember me most kindly to my Old Jenny and West.\"","A.L.S. Walnut Farm to Mount Vernon. She returned home on Saturday and deplored the roads in Harpers Ferry. \"It seems Mr. John Selden is anxious to purchase Harriet. She was appraised at $400 with her child. She is said to be an excellent servant, and if you can get her in place of Hannah, Julia, or Sally, I think you had better do so. Julia is now at Blakely, having laid up and then come off without Lake's permission… Dr. Cordell has been called out to see her twice and from his prescription I rather suppose thinks very little except hysteria ails her.\" Discusses crops and a sermon and sends family greetings.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has not been feeling well at all lately. Has heard from Cousin Lorenzo Lewis that Augustine looks very well. She would have liked to have heard that from him or his wife. \"The servants are becoming more and more worthless and disobedient. I really find it very difficult to govern them, or to have the most necessary domestic work attended to with any regularity.\" Family news. Wants him to send Harry up before harvest.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She's glad to hear that he and Nelly are doing so well. Much family news. \"Remember me very kindly to my good and faithful Jenny and Harry, also West and Eliza.\"","A.L.S. Bath to Blakeley. She is in Bath for the waters. It is very crowded, and all the houses are full. Heard two good sermons but then was ill again.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon.  She is concerned about poor Jenny and hopes the operation will give her a better chance of recovery. Many family members are ill. Another description of a sermon she heard.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She tells of travel difficulties. Relates some gossip. Made a deal for some provisions, but nothing has been delivered. She advanced the man $150. Family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Lots of news about family and friends. Also mentions Hannah and Rebecca being still invalids and that Thomas has again gone to Maryland. \"The boys have bought a wagon and two or three servants.\"","A.L.S. Mount Vernon. She wants to know if certain lawyers are in Alexandria or Washington. Also wishes to subscribe to the Audubon works and asks him to see to that.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has been anxious at not hearing from him. Wants him to send the rent check for $500 as soon as possible. Wants him to send the fish via the Misses Moore's boats on the canal. Mentions the subject of Julia's purchase. Family and friend news. Additional page following receipt of his letter. Sorry the fishery has been unsuccessful. Due to drought the strawberries gave poor yield.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She received the check from him. His carpenter is unwilling to go to Mount Vernon before late next autumn due to the climate there. Has tried to find out why the fish and shingles he was to send have not been found on the wharves for the Misses Moore's boats to bring.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon. Deals with settling the estate of Mr. Selden. Discusses his purchase of Mary, an enslaved woman who seems to be quite ill and therefore not worth more than $50 or $60. His wife does not want her sold away. Also wants to sell the corn crop at Exeter.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She is glad he was able to go to Philadelphia. Mentions the death of the wife of Lewis Washington. His sister was with her at her death, and Jane was there through the funeral. Is anxious about Charles' daughter Catherine who was sent via stage to Mrs. Page who did not want her after all and seems unwilling to pay the stage driver for her passage. Discusses the hiring of a German gardener for Mount Vernon. Wants him to send a shoe she left at Mount Vernon and a quantity of cotton.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She is busy with pork business and will send two barrels of hams and one of lard. Complains about his brother and his wife coming without replying to her as to when they would arrive. Says her health is very infirm.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Thanks him for the articles send, including oysters and ducks. Discusses sale of corn and is keeping some back to get a better price in the spring. Gives family news and that Captain Symington \"is stationed at H.F. where the government intends having erected barracks for him.\" Discusses the benefits of religion. Wants him to give a \"piece of old bacon/shoulders to West, Jenny and Phill.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Lengthy discussion of the purchase of a house by Dr. Alexander and his sister. The finances of this are described.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. She is \"sorry to hear of the disturbances among the negroes, especially poor Alfred. I think you had better sell him. Perhaps you might do it advantageously to some one in Richmond, who wants a capable and trustworthy servant. I am told Jim is very much distressed at parting with his son. If the purchaser of Alfred is willing to take Jim and he wishes to go, I have no objection to it.\" Discusses various crop prices. Reports the death of one child from scarlet fever and how it sickens many in Charleston.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Discusses a few financial matters. \"Hannah was sick \u0026 soon gave birth to a still born infant a boy. It was a mercy the event occurred for decomposition had commenced.\" People are still getting sick with scarlet fever.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Describes the symptoms and illness with scarlet fever of Julia. She will be unable to attend Jane Davis's wedding. \"I have been in a most unsettled state for a long time. It seems difficult to get my family matters and business settled into any regular method again.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Julia Alexander died from scarlet fever. Others are also ill. She will not come to Mount Vernon for fear of bringing the disease with her and wants him to collect rents due her and pay various bills from that and send the rest to her.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discussion of finances and sale of stock. Gives medical advice to him for various people. Tells of recent election – not more than half of either party voted. Uncle Bushrod is going to Maryland to attend a meeting of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has \"the severest attack of Influenza I have had for two years.\" Kitty has discarded Lt. Hooe due to his poor conduct. Describes drought conditions badly affecting crops.","A.L.S. Draft copy. Mount Vernon. Refuses permission to bring a party of military people to Mount Vernon by water. Does not want boats to dock there, but will allow them to enter if they arrive by land.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Have had much sickness. \"Thompson, Jerry and Mingo laid up; in consequence of which George is driving the wagon… Am now endeavoring to save what apples remain on the trees and prepare winter clothing for the servants.\" Wants him to come visit.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Have had an unusual degree of sickness. \"Poor old Mingo is thought to be dying!... Berkeley, Jerry, and Thompson are still on the sick list.\" Tells of death of a neighbor who shot himself by accident as he was mounting his horse. Is unable to bring the wheat to the mill as the mill was \"dangerously full.\" Describes a difficult journey by his aunt. At end \"Mingo is Dead.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She was still too ill at Christmas to visit others. \"We have still four or five cases of typhoid fever at the quarters. Charlotte among them she is still very sick. The Dr. hopes a favourable change has taken place in Selina, Saul and Jerry. Mary came out today. I have taken Sophy home and hope to be able to get on with her under Fanny's superintendance.\" Other descriptions of moving enslaved people around. Relates episode of Julia having escaped from Cousin H. and coming to her.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Tells him Col. and Mrs. Davenport intend to visit him at Mount Vernon. Wants them to entertain them well. Discusses politics – \"the great question of Annexation.\" Mr. Rivers' speech was a great production. \"He feels as we do, the waning power of our once great \u0026 noble state.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She returned from a ride feeling quite well again. Describes a beautiful snowfall. \"I am sorry to hear you have still sickness among your servants. It is also the case here, new cases constantly occuring. The Dr. has been a daily visiter with the exception of two or three days. Milly's youngest child is now ill.\" Describes the death of his cousin. Other family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Describes her journey home from Mount Vernon, visiting friends on the way. \"Richard … is going Missouri and wishes to purchase Negroes to take with him. He has yet made no offer for Caroline, tho' we understand he wishes to get her. She I am told is averse to going.\" Describes a sermon and exhorts him to read the Bible. Family information. \"Excuse this blotted ill written scrawl. Read and burn it.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses the naming of his new baby girl. Nelly wanted to name her after Jane, but she thought she should be named after Nelly's recently deceased grandmother. Tells of financial difficulties of Dr. A. and the prices of crops. After her signature – \"Destroy this letter.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Writes to discuss ways to assist Dr. A. \"out of his present difficulties.\" Wants him to come visit soon with the family.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses a large christenings in church. Relates tale of two men who recently died from intemperance. Also tells plans for an upcoming wedding and where various guests will stay.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Has yet to hear back from him in answer to her letter about Dr. A. Tells him of what she wants to do for him. Gives instructions as to how he should travel to visit her with the family.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Wants to send George with the carriage to bring her and the children. Describes dancing by various people. Wants to receive some financial records.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Tells him of money placed in bank \"for servants sold… (Humphrey, Shedrack, Thompson, Caroline, Little Daniel, Margaret, and John).\" \"I am not well and feel a good deal agitated at the sale tho' I believe it will be better for all concerned but it is distressing to break up families by sales.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Sending notes to him and hopes he will return as soon as he arranges this business. Nelly and the girls are well, though Lou has still a cough.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Misses the family and tells of items that were left during their last visit. Much rain has kept her from church. Maria sent jars of quince jelly for her. Gives family news and describes some roses. Sends message to Augustine \"to write to his old and now very unimportant mother.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Describes family members' travels. Not a good wheat crop. Discusses the estate of Mr. Foote and how it treats his wife. Talks about the American B.S. and its efforts to bring the Bible to 10,000 families who have none. Asks him to pay some bills for her.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Congratulates him on getting much ice stored in his ice house as \"it is a luxury, essential to health, and economy in domestic management.\" \"I believe slaves will become less and less valuable; and unless we keep them in the hope of being able to liberate and provide for them: for pecuniary interest, it is best to own, only as many as are necessary for the ordinary work of our farms.\" Many hams were spoilt, so they cannot offer any.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Much sickness in the early spring of cholera. Many people unable to work – Old Jenny, Maria and Dick, Lewis and George obliged to plough. Her cook Eliza has a crippled sore arm. Sophy, Joe, and Little Tom have been helping with many guests. Much discussion of weather.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Tells of various charges Richard made on his behalf. The weather has badly affected the crops. Wants to travel to Chicago in the summer. \"Richard has purchased West's little farm… West intends going West.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Sorry to hear about his return of chills. Their diet has been quite poor with a lack of vegetables and fresh meat. Thanks him for the check he sent, but he forgot to sign it. Describes another sermon. Requests him to send cypress shingles as soon as possible as the house leaks when it rains.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon to Charlestown, Jefferson County. Discusses failure to purchase mules at auction. He is unable to procure the peaches she wanted in Alexandria as many fruits have already fallen off the trees. West Ford said they needed some double shovel ploughs to put in the wheat.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Baltimore. She is sorry to hear of Lou's \"hooping cough.\" Other family news. Long description of Mr. Tacker and his vision of his impending death. Is sorry that Augustine is alone at Mount Vernon with the servants who have been \"a source of disquiet and distress to him.\"","Summerville, Gloucester County, Virginia to Alexandria. Tells him of a property coming for sale in the area. Also wants to make bricks and needs a \"responsible white man to superintend.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Congratulates him on the birth of another daughter. Gives news of Richard.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Nelly is recovering from childbirth, and the baby thrives. Nelly wishes him to remind Miss Entwisle about the dresses.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Gives prices of bushels of wheat from Mr. Burns and Mr. Snyder.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a wedding and the young guests at the dinner. Discusses an Irishman who came to sell her tablecloths which she did not want. Letter was written over several days. She really misses the family.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Won't give him the family news as she just passed that along to Nelly in a very recent letter. Thanks him for paying her bills. Discusses rental of the Ferry Landing fisheries and wants to rent to Mr. Whitall. Will let him decide whether to increase the fisheries.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Entreats him to take it easy in the winter. They have had much snow. Uncle Bushrod has much ice stored away and offered some to her as her pond had a defect which caused it to drain. Discusses finances. He may rent out North Farm. \"I fear however you will have many difficulties and vexations if you let the servants go with the farm.\" Tells of his sister having a tumour under her arm. Also their church burned. Tells him of the death of her true friend Mrs. Adams.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes different people reading the will. Hopes his brother and family reached Mount Vernon safely. \"I think if the ladies attend the Inauguration of our brave honest chief, they had better join Mrs. Madison – who I am sure would be gratified at their so doing, and render their visit much more agreeable.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Has been anxiously awaiting a reply from him to her letter of a month ago. Wants to know when the monuments would be brought to Mount Vernon and the sum of money to be obtained. Is sending George with barrels containing hams and some apples. Wants him to return with the horses only, leaving the carriage. There was a fire at Hannah's house which was extinguished.","A.L.S. Gives much family news. Discusses lower prices for wheat and increasing the salary of the woman who must cook for Mr. Graham and all who are on the farm. Wants his help hiring a new overseer.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is waiting to hear from him as to the overseer and waiting to see if Mr. Graham will accept the terms offered. \"Richard intends hiring out the hands he employed on the farm hoping to derive more clear profit from the Hires than he has received from the farm.\" Questions whether she should do anything about the deed for Mount Vernon drawn up. His sister Maria continues to look quite ill.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Snyder has delivered in mill his rent wheat. Writes that she is sending the deed to Mount Vernon, which has officially been signed over to him. Discusses an interesting trial in Charlestown. \"A Negro hired by Anderson … made an assault on Anderson for which he was committed and is today to be tried. The gentlemen all seemed to consider the issue of high importance. It certainly is to the miserable prisoner whose fate will be selling, transportation, or Death! I trust the decision will be merciful.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Writes about acquiring copies of the free papers for a formerly enslaved man named William Lyons. He is hoping to travel to Tennessee to visit his parents. Tells him his sister continues to do poorly.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Relates the sending of the deed conveying Mount Vernon to him. Is preparing to have Maria come stay for a while.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Maria has been there for a week and continues to be very ill. Tells him his tenants have not honoured his orders. More family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Discusses difficulties with the harvest and procuring labourers. Dr. Alexander hired a tutor for Charlotte who is very well thought of. More neighborhood and family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes Nelly will soon be able to travel and recommends she drink a tea (\"it can no doubt be had at Stablers\") as the best remedy in her case. \"The servants … are very much alarmed in regard to cholera.\" Wants him to get some good port and M. Wine. She can get good whiskey in C-town.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is very glad of the dividend declared by the Alexandria Bank. They have had severe colds but not cholera.","A.L.S. Caledon to Mount Vernon. Writing from Caledon and describes journey there. Their trunk did not arrive with them, so they have no change of clothes. Tells stories from the boat trip.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Much family news. Tells him a cousin died shortly after their visit. Richard \"seems to be a very happy man, he surely is blest in his wife \u0026 eight children.\" Dr. A has acquired an excellent housekeeper.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells of Annie ill with scarlet fever and how the doctor has her rubbed with a piece of raw fat bacon. Is now much improved. Was in care of Miss Gantt, the housekeeper, whom she praises highly. Wishes she could have heard Miss Lind sing at Mount Vernon. Describes a sermon. More news about friends and relatives.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes the symptoms of \"our dear little John\" and is sure something is wrong with his spine. Tells of the route of the turnpike and how it will cut off some of his woodland. Much news about family and acquaintances. Is very pleased with \"our young minister\" and hopes his teachings will help everyone.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Top portion of first page cut away, incomplete letter. Wants him to see the plans for the turnpike as it might cut through his land. Mrs. Briscoe's son would like to visit Mount Vernon and will bring any letter or package there.","A.L.S. Blakeley. More on the Turnpike passing through his farm. Entreats him to not bring forward tempting articles which are stimulating and exciting during his brother's visit. She is unable to visit due to pressing business.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Met Dr. Alexander and family before church and invited them to dinner. Encloses a letter from Mrs. Moran who would like to stay at Mount Vernon on her way to visit Jane. Is sending George with fish to be pickled. Sends remembrances to \"your maids Sarah, Eliza, Fanny and Amanda.\"","A.L.S. Thanks him for the fish and oysters sent by wagon. George did not properly stack items on the wagon, and much was damaged. The prayer book for Louisa has finally arrived and will be sent as soon as possible.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses difficulties of Mr. Whitall and the fishery. Hopes to collect from Snyder and will send it to him. News about friends and family. Finished planting corn. Had snow recently.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells him she got $200 from Mr. Rutherford which will be deposited in a bank in Charlestown. He informed them that the roof of the barn is in need of repair. Gives family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Wants Nelly and the children to visit after harvest and will send George with the carriage to get them. Hopes Augustine will be friends with Mr. Moran. Has been sick and taken \"an unusual quantity of opium for me.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is glad his servants have recovered and \"that you … have not suffered from your humane and close attendance on them.\" Was sorry to hear that Ephraim had fallen a victim. Tells him of a good friend who seems to be recovering. Gives a recipe for a remedy. Talks about the harvest and the various servants who are working on it. Is considering renting out her farm though she would retain part. Tells of Hannah's health.","A.L.S. Springland to Staunton, Virginia. Urges her not to think too much of home and to apply herself to her books and music. Gives family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is happy to hear they are all healthy. Relates family news and gives him business advice. Describes hearing a musician. Discusses Mr. Rutherford and his acquiring bone dust to use as fertilizer.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She was so sorry to learn of the disaster that occurred to the vessel that was taking his wheat to market. Describes her journey home. At end, thanks him for the venison.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is so sorry about his heavy loss and prays that God will help him through it. More family news about various people being ill.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a sermon on intemperance. Discusses health problems of John and hopes he will improve when the weather gets better. Much family news.","A.L.S. Springland to Staunton, Virginia. Tells her that her last two letters appear to have been robbed. Gives news about her mother, grandmother, and sister.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Hopes Augustine is recovering. Much sickness in her house. Sent a new plough to Augustine. Hopes it arrives in time. Other family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a visit from Mrs. Powel and various other family members. Wants part of the rent on the fishery to go toward the purchase of a piano for Louisa and the rest sent to her to pay off some debts. Sends love to all and reports on a few deaths.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to the visit from him and his family in July. Describes harvesting of wheat and rye after much rain. Both had much desired Mr. Fillmore's election to the presidency. Wants Noblet to return from California.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is enclosing some stock certificates to Mr. Eaches to be her attorney. Glad Nelly and the children are safely home. Tells of the loss of Richard and Christian's children.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to Augustine's visit. Invited Kitty to spend the winter with her, but she will go elsewhere. News about various acquaintances. The disagreeable pork business is done, and she is sending three barrels of pippins via boat.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Thanks him for the $200 check which enabled her to pay her tax bill. Is again concerned about Noblet. Tells of Kitty Wright's trip to Winchester where her companion became ill with typhoid fever. Kitty \"is now with us, with three lovely children, and a good coloured girl (a slave) the one whom she hired.\" All her friends send their love.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. \"Gabriel has sent in to say he wishes to set off tomorrow on his return home.\" Tells of much family with her at Christmas time.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has been awaiting his visit and wonders about the cause of the delay. Still no news about Noblet. Tells of returning Annie Burnett home after she came into Richard's pew in church and wanted to come home with her. The next day she returned home.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Put $600 in bank to his credit. Kitty and her three children left with Sophy replacing the other nurse who has been ill for the children","A.L.S. Blakeley. There is much whooping cough going around with so far one death. The weather is very fine, and there are many flowers. Glad to hear the fisheries are doing well. Describes her visit to Walnut Farm and the people she saw while there. Asks if he has seen the Masonic oration on the \"centennial commemoration of the initiation of George Washington into the order of free Masons.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She was sorry to hear about the hail storm they had. Celebrated Hannah's birthday. Will send this letter with William Lyons who is leaving to see Augustine. Other family and friend news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is so glad Eliza is recovered. So sad about the death of Dr. Powel. More news about impending visits. General Duvall will be in Washington soon and would like to see Augustine so he could become \"acquainted with many of the influential members from the South \u0026 West, with whom he wishes you to become acquainted in case you still determine on disposing of M.V.\"","A.L.S. \tBlakeley. Wants either a visit from them or for her to visit them before winter sets in. She had quite a pleasant visit to New York and Philadelphia. Tells him of climbing 180 steps of the Washington Monument in Baltimore and having a beautiful view. Glad they have obtained a governess for the girls.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is sorry Nelly is sick but will be unable to come down until after Christmas. Has several articles brought from N.Y. for \"my deal g.children at M.V.\"","A.L.S. Tells him of a deposit in bank for his use. Grieved to learn Eliza continues in feeble health. Visited Walnut Farm and heard from Dr. Alexander that \"the financial affairs of our church are in a very confused \u0026 entangled state.\" Looking forward to her trip to New York.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Paid $200 on stock note at bank. Is anxious about his brother determining to go to Housekeeping \u0026 renting Col. Devenport's House. He will still be at Blakeley every day. She has been suffering from dyspepsia. Glad to hear the governess gives satisfaction. Reference to Miss Nancy at Walnut Farm, who \"is not only a good house keeper but also understands gardening.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells him Mr. and Mrs. Depau intend visiting Mount Vernon, along with their son. Richard and family left for their new home and are much missed. She feels quite anxious to see her \"dear children at M.V. especially my grandson whose name I am as yet unacquainted with.\" Says two of our Cedar lawn cousins are to be married. \"The servants have been divided \u0026 the Cedar Lawn will be sold.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Sympathizes with the delayed visit due to the sickness of the family \"and death of your valuable and good young servant Dennis. It is a severe affliction to his poor mother. He was I think her youngest child.\" Is most anxious to see her grandson Lawrence. Had a visit from his brother and Christian and their son John. Went by invitation to Mr. Lovel's school where pupils delivered speeches and addresses. Wants the family to visit and will have rooms fixed up for them. Sends \"kind regards to your good \u0026 faithful servant Eliza, Danny \u0026 Sarah.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to a shipment of \"Nellies Pickled Rockfish\" to share with neighbours \u0026 friends. Discusses planting of crops. Will visit him and his family \"this day week,\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes her trip back home from Mount Vernon. Everyone is harvesting but having difficulty obtaining sufficient hands for the task.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells of the sudden death of Mrs. Selden and the funeral. Mentions harvests and addition to his house Dr. A. is doing. Wants to see him and the family. Mr. Rutherford wishes to renew his lease on the farm.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes Maria's arm heals well and that he received the two barrels of oats she sent. Gives news about family. Tells of \"our beloved Charlotte\" taking communion and becoming a member of the church.","A.L.S. Blakeley.  She is so sorry that Richard is ill but glad that Augustine is with him. Tells of George's illness. Gives more family news and hopes to see the family soon.","A.L.S. Requests he send him the cantaloupe seeds he talked about. Wants to talk about a system of patrols \"to try \u0026 keep our slaves at home.\" Says the slaves are stealing so much from them and taking it to Alexandria. Says everyone in the neighborhood of slave holders could contribute to hire 6 good men to patrol.","A.L.S. New Charlestown to Richmond. Sends family news and gives advice as to her traveling home. Tells of someone about to die, and that Fanny Griggs' school is broken up.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Laments that it has been so long since she heard from him or his family and wonders when they will come to visit. Gives news about local people. Tells of the wonderful addition that Dr. A. put on his house.","A.L.S. \tBlakeley to Mount Vernon. Had a tooth extracted. News of friends and neighbors. Has had influenza for 10 days.","A.L.S. White House. Gives his legal opinion as to a dispute among them. First the fact that the seine was not received by Mr. Washington at the appointed time, necessitating many difficulties. Second, the Hoopers did not receive the required loom but are entitled to some compensation for work done. His judgment is for $275 for Mr. Washington.","A.L.S. Hampstead, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses her love of gardening and the recent harvest. Says she likes the new teacher at a neighbor's house \"but she looks consumptive.\" Describes a monument to two boys.","A.D.S. Fairfax County. Indicates full payment of judgment from JAW to William Mason.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses the route of the turnpike and that it should go through Mr. E's land. It would split it up, and so Mason wants to offer other alternatives. Much of the land is prone to flooding and marshy. It would be very expensive to put the road through that.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses his written ordinance about how to deal with people coming onto unenclosed land and hunting or fishing. Talks of a particular problem with land along waterways. Wants JAW to write to lawmakers and make this happen.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia. Before the Legislature meets, he encloses a proposed measure to be enacted. Discusses counties to be included – all along the Potomac and Rappahanoc.","A.L.S. Rose Hill. Discusses the hiring of an African American boy to do odd jobs and will pay $15.","A.L.S. Discusses the sending of clover seed. Had a problem with old Henry who emptied some tailings for the hens near the clover, mixing some up. \"I think I never was more vexed with any human being in all my life.\"","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Mason writes describing an incident he had with West Ford on his plantation. This remarkable letter highlights the way Ford, despite being a free man, was still treated like a slave by others: \"On the evening of the Monday after Whitsunday, I was about sunset standing at my stable, giving some orders for the morning's work, when there passed within three or four yards of me a Negro man, who I did not know, without touching his hat, or any other recognition of my presence. After he had passed, I called to him asking who he was, and who did he belong to? He walked on, taking no notice, until I repeated the question, when he said 'Washington.' I then said, I suppose you have a name, and can tell me what Mr. Washington you belong to? He replied, 'West Ford.' His manner was insolent and supposing he was drunk, I said to him, there is the road to the gate, go off my place at once… When he got to the corner of the house, he commenced whooping and continued doing so, till he got out of the gate, which I had to send and have closed after him. I said nothing further to him, as he was obviously drunk; but directed one of my servants to go and tell him never to put his foot on the place again… Had he been anyone's servant but yours, I shd. have immediately had him apprehended and flogged for his impertinence; but satisfied that it could only be necessary to report the facts to you, and that you would take measures to prevent his ever coming here again, or repeating it, I have taken no further steps in the matter.\"","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Sorry to hear that JAW is no longer a magistrate of the county. Will do what he can to get Mr. Herbert elected magistrate, so he can form the patrol necessary.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia. Heard that all will be done to keep out a Yankee for the office of Justice. Hopes Mr. Herbert will consent to serve.","A.L.S. Writes about the issue of county taxes which have become exceedingly high, mainly to pay for road construction. Found out that one group was destroying his trees and running a new road through his land to take business away from the turnpike.","A.D.S. Acknowledges receipt of payment in full on her account for boots and shoes for various named men.","A.L.S. Tells him of the considerable debts ($2,169.80) of Cousin Hannah and wishes to know what is to be done about it.","A.L.S. Urges him to do well in school and to board with the principal and not to associate with his old school mate Charles J.","A.L.S. Describes her trip home and the friends and family she visited on the way. Had friends to dine but had difficulty with the dinner as meat is scarce.","A.L.S. Just sent George to the Charlestown P.O. with a letter and check to him. Sorry to hear that Nelly is again sick.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Describes her feelings at the recent losses of children and Noblet. Tells of much sickness in the area. \"Old Jenny's was by far the severest case, one which Dr. C. intirely dispaired of. She is recovering which we are thankful for, tho' old and feeble, she is good and pious, and has considerable influence with her children and fellow servants.\"","A.L.S. Has attached a check for $200 to be paid to the Exchange Bank in Alexandria toward her debt of $700. Was sorry to hear of Nelly's illness. Gives other family news.","A.L.S. Discusses a recently recorded deed. Describes health concerns of her sister. Bad weather is affecting planting. At end of letter: \"Matilda, your woman at Harewood has had an infant and lost it. It died after suffering greatly from fits. Dr. Cordell attended it.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon.  Has enclosed a check to be paid on her account with Mr. Hooff. Prices are low for horses and stock. Planting goes slowly. Gives family and friends news. Gives a recipe for quince jelly and marmalade. \"Remember me most kindly to Jenny \u0026 West \u0026 … indeed all our household at M.V.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. A brief note requesting him to \"let George have money $2.50 to get a pair of boots.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. She is sending Jenny and Fanny and hopes they will be \"useful and conduct themselves well.\" His carpenter came by the day after he left wanting some money he was owed as he had a debt to pay. Wants to visit them but wants him to let her know \"whether or not it is desirable for me to go. I shall not be in the slightest degree either hurt or offended at my room being preferable to my company.\" \"Mr. Rutherford … declines keeping Sally another year. I have told Mr. Shepperd to look out for a good place for her but I really think you had better take her down and either keep her at M.V. under your own eye as milker and washer or hire her out there. I think she and Alfred or Gabriel had better make a match.\"","A.L.S. All have been enjoying the visit from Augustine but regrets she and the children did not also come. Hannah is about to leave for New York for medical treatment, accompanied by Fanny. Thanks Louisa for the chow chow she made. News about a visit to cousin Ann Washington. Much talk of friends and family.","A.L.S. \"Your kind mother always advances for me the money with which I travel to the upper country. I am making my arrangements to move rather earlier than usual this summer that I may have the advantage of Cousin Betsy Winter's company … I shall take Rosina with me who is a fine sensible, amiable girl of fourteen, rather handsome, but bashful and awkward. She looks badly now from a sort of bilious fever without chills, which hangs about her in despite of blue pile etc.\"","A.L.S. Anna writes of the death of an enslaved woman named Harry: \"she died on Monday last, after a short illness, inflammation of the brain and womb… Dr. Alexander and Straith examined her body and found the womb and other organs around it entirely diseased. Mother has lost a kind and faithful servant, a sincere tho humble friend. We shall all feel her loss, to mother it is irreparable, she has no servant who can take her place.\"","A.L.S. Letter being carried by Randall, a slave, and tells of various people's health problems.","A.L.S.\t Hollin Hall to Mount Vernon. Has heard there is little chance of the law they want passing in this session of the Legislature. Gives his thoughts about future elections of people who will assist them.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Wonders whether he has recovered his slave. If so \"make a stern and proper example.\" Tells Augustine to come to him for trials and punishments of slaves.","A.D.S. Autograph copy. Describes an ordinance stating consequences if anyone shall \"root, hunt, range, fish or fowl\" on private land.","Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon","Washington, Jane Charlotte Blackburn, 1786-1855","Washington, John Augustine, III, 1821-1861","Mason, George, 1797-1870","Washington, Eleanor Love Selden, 1824-1860","Tabb, John Prosser","Alexander, Judith Ball Blackburn, 1796-1866","Alexander, William Fontaine, 1811-1862","Ford, West, approximately 1784-1863","Alexander, Anna Maria Washington, 1817-1850","English \n.    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Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["This collection is open for research during scheduled appointments. Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. 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When her husband died in 1832, Jane Charlotte Washington inherited Mount Vernon and vowed to maintain the estate to the best of her ability. She insisted her oldest son, John Augustine Washington III, attend college to better prepare him to someday manage the family's properties. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840 and a year later began overseeing all business at Mount Vernon for his mother. Jane Charlotte Washington died in 1855 and is buried at Mount Vernon with her husband.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJohn Augustine Washington was the great-grandnephew of George Washington and the last Washington to own Mount Vernon before its sale to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association (MVLA).  He was born on May 3, 1821 to John Augustine Washington II and Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840, and returned to Mount Vernon to manage the declining estate with his widowed mother's permission. In 1843, he married Eleanor Love Selden with whom he had seven children. He sold 200 acres of Mount Vernon to the MVLA in 1858 for $200,000, and he and his family moved to Waveland plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1860. He served as aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee, but was shot by a bushwhacker and died one week later on September 13, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Jane Charlotte Blackburn was born on August 23, 1786 at Rippon Lodge, Prince William, Virginia to Major Richard Scott Blackburn and Judith Blackburn. She married John Augustine Washington II and had five children, three of whom lived to adulthood – Anna Maria Thomasina Washington Alexander, John Augustine Washington III, and Richard Scott Blackburn Thomas. The couple lived at Blakely plantation near Charles Town, West Virginia, until the death of Bushrod Washington in 1829, who left the property of Mount Vernon to John Augustine Washington II in his will. When her husband died in 1832, Jane Charlotte Washington inherited Mount Vernon and vowed to maintain the estate to the best of her ability. She insisted her oldest son, John Augustine Washington III, attend college to better prepare him to someday manage the family's properties. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840 and a year later began overseeing all business at Mount Vernon for his mother. Jane Charlotte Washington died in 1855 and is buried at Mount Vernon with her husband.","John Augustine Washington was the great-grandnephew of George Washington and the last Washington to own Mount Vernon before its sale to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association (MVLA).  He was born on May 3, 1821 to John Augustine Washington II and Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840, and returned to Mount Vernon to manage the declining estate with his widowed mother's permission. In 1843, he married Eleanor Love Selden with whom he had seven children. He sold 200 acres of Mount Vernon to the MVLA in 1858 for $200,000, and he and his family moved to Waveland plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1860. He served as aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee, but was shot by a bushwhacker and died one week later on September 13, 1861."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Name and date of item], Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington and John Augustine Washington III correspondence, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Name and date of item], Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington and John Augustine Washington III correspondence, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Augustine Washington III and Eleanor Love Selden Correspondence\nJohn Augustine Washington III and Descendants Papers\nJohn Augustine Washington III and MVLA Collection\nLawrence Washington Collection of Washington family papers\nHistoric Manuscripts Collection\nElswyth Thane Beebe Collection\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["John Augustine Washington III and Eleanor Love Selden Correspondence\nJohn Augustine Washington III and Descendants Papers\nJohn Augustine Washington III and MVLA Collection\nLawrence Washington Collection of Washington family papers\nHistoric Manuscripts Collection\nElswyth Thane Beebe Collection"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of this collection is made up of letters from Jane Charlotte Washington to her son, John Augustine Washington III. Also included are letters to Eleanor Love Selden Washington, a few letters to or from John Augustine Washington III to various individuals, several letters from George Mason of Hollin Hall (1797-1870) to John Augustine Washington III, letters by Lackland and Alexander family members (relatives of the Washingtons) and three receipts. The subject matter of most letters is family or personal affairs and Mount Vernon business with some discussion of the enslaved people owned by the Washingtons. Inclusive dates are 1837 to 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Mount Vernon. Tells him of four family members with consumption. Also \"have no servant to dispose of who would suit her sister, unless Milly would be willing for one of her three elder daughters to go. It would be a sure and good home I believe.\" Discusses sale of corn crop and other family news. Mentions repairs being made by Mr. Skidmore at Mt. Vernon. We have two other letters dated 1837 November 23 and 1838 November 1 mentioning repairs made by Jesse Skidmore. In 1839 July 27, Lawrence Lewis paid Skidmore for work done on the new tomb at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. She is enclosing another $10 note requesting it get charged and sent to her by him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is unable to join him at Mount Vernon as her business would not fare well. Is sending a horse down as he is better fitted for the saddle than harness. Writes about sending him to Mount Vernon to \"relieve Maj. Lewis,\" who is working with Struthers and Strickland to build the new tomb. Writes of her \"deep veneration and gratitude to the memory of Genl Washington.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Upon her return home, she found things had not been taken care of on her farm. A fodder house for the cattle was not placed correctly at all. She encouraged her son to get a good education at Mr. Hallowell's school in Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She wants him to inquire about an appointment for Lawrence Washington who needs employment. Inquires about his studies and the repairs on the \"old mansion.\" Gives some family news and wants him to call on Mary and Julia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Reports on crop yields. Says there \"have been some difficulties between the overseer and the Negroes\" on the Mountain. Tells him of the impending purchase of a pair of draft horses. Talks of sending Willoughby and Gabriel to Mount Vernon, as well as Henry and Dolly. (This is likely Gabriel Johnson, about whom we have at least nine other letters in the collection.) Mentions letting his cousin have Jesse at \"whatever you think a reasonable price.\" Reports pork prices are down and is worried about the expenses of repairs to Mount Vernon. Was sorry to \"learn by a letter from West that our crop of corn at Mount Vernon has turned out so badly.\" Might need to employ West for another year. More family news and greetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She was sorry to hear of his illness and tells him to leave Mount Vernon in the hands of hirelings and not endanger his health further by riding there. Refers to reading about \"Mr. Calhoun's and Mr. Clay's conversations in the Senate on Mr. Calhoun's resolutions respecting abolition petitions.\" Much difficulty regarding Jessy – Cousin Jane has abandoned all idea of purchasing her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. with additional writing by Jane C. Washington. Blakeley. Tells of new animals being born, his schooling, and family news. Jane adds: glad to hear his schooling is going well. Asks if he participated in the February 22 celebration. Is sorry he gave up Greek. Wants him to send her a translation from Latin or French. Orders shoes to be made for Kitty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She returned home safely and passes along some family news. Harvest had not been started, but since she returned they have begun on the wheat. Much gets lost by \"having inefficient hands as rakers,\" so she requests him to send Willoughby and Gabriel up immediately. \"Labourers cannot be procured, and wages are higher than ever before known to be.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes he will get to enjoy his job at the Library of the House of Representatives. Thinks it will be good for his future. She is unwell at present. Reports on Dr. Gates who is also not doing well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is troubled about getting Richard to be an \"irregular Cadet\" or maybe to West Point. Reports on the death of Dr. Yates. Gives various instructions and requests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She hopes the water at White Sulphur Spring will prove beneficial. Describes a sermon on Communion Sunday and hopes he's hearing as good as that. Had a disappointing wheat crop. Contracted with Ford and Snyder for the crop. Gabriel is still there, with JAW's permission. Additional page from Aunt Judy Alexander, hoping he meets some young ladies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She wants him to rent the Prospect Hill fields for three years to Mr. Anderson. George carried wheat and oats to him, as well as other items. Poor Tansel wants a place with him. He'll make rakes and \"I know he makes excellent shoes.\" Sends greetings to family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She wants Maria and Augustine to return to Blakeley as both are sick. Is disturbed that cousin Jane means to keep Betty for the next year, despite knowing of the intention to send her to Mount Vernon. \"Shall I send Hannah or Sally down, or contend for Betty?\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She relates the difficult journey of his sister to Blakeley. Is glad he is feeling better. Writes about selling enslaved people: \"I am sorry to tell you Milly I understand is unfit for hire, and we shall be obliged to keep her at home. Mr. Rutherford… will take Sally. She is said to be a first rate manager, a strict tho kind mistress. She is to give $35. Hannah I have as yet had no offer for. Closely confined at home without a way of getting out, I have not had it in my power to look out places for our hirelings and do not like to offer them at public hire.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Glad he got rid of his chills. The horse cart is so much in use it cannot be sent down to Mount Vernon. Will send George, Edmund, and Betty to him. Still been unable to get a place for Hannah whose character does not stand well as to docility or usefulness. More instructions as to how to deal with various servants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. \"Dr. A. has determined to keep the servants. I hope they will continue faithful and useful to him. Willoughby is a grumbler, but I am sure he has no just cause of complaint. Dr. A is a human and liberal master. I think you give a high price for your wagoner. Negroes have generally hired lower than usual this year. Hannah is at present laid up, sd. I not be able to get a good and safe place for her, I will send her down by the first safe opportunity.\" \"Remember me most kindly to all our Mount Vernon household – dear Old Jenny especially and West Ford.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She's so happy to hear from Dr. A that his health is much improved. Discusses financial difficulties. \"We must all practice strict economy.\" Sends family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Mount Vernon to Charlestown, Jefferson County, Virginia. Discusses the current low price for wood and Dr. Alexander and his travels. Regrets the failure of Ford and Snyder. Wants her to settle for Hannah's support as West thinks that she has not been given anything to eat. Also wants to remind Dick of a pair of boots for Mr. Morgan. Phil and Jesse have been sick for some time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She hopes his health improves. Discusses disorder on banks, making business difficult. Is sorry this happened at the beginning of his life in business but hopes it will teach him. Tells of harvests and yields and gives some family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She's so glad he has recovered his health. Will be able to get clover seed shortly. Wants to plant the 90 acre field with oats. Sends greetings to Cary. Was able to hire Hannah out until Christmas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. George is off to Mount Vernon with a wagon full of goods. Requests various items to be brought back by him. Hopes his health remains good. His sister wishes to have Caroline whom she has hired brought down to Mount Vernon. She might come up with George. \"Remember me most kindly to Jenny – West's servant at Mount Vernon.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Sending this via Mr. Lamar requesting additional things for George to bring back. Describes a sermon given by Mr. Jones the previous Sunday. Hopes he will have \"our old establishment very clean white washed if not painted a little.\" Richard is not well but hopes he will join her when she goes down for a few days.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. He is mortified that JAW might have been offended at not having received an invitation to dine with him, which was sent with a \"silly servant.\" He always values having his company and sends him some rhubarb with instructions as to its preparation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. George arrived safely yesterday afternoon. Disappointed various items from Mr. Hooff were not sent but instead sent via canal. Discusses prices of some items. Thanks him for fruit sent. Tells him to do what he thinks best with the greenhouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is anxiously awaiting the arrival of his hands from Mount Vernon as George Saunders Ned and Lewis are all laid up. Marie and Mary Jane are incapable of working out. Harvest has commenced. Wants him to send a barrel of white sand for plastering the pillars in the brick portico. Hopes he will come soon. Sends family greetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She had a good journey home with pleasant visits with friends on the way. \"You have a partial friend in Mr. S. altho' I think he would be pleased if you did not speak quite so loud.\" Richard says a man wants to rent the P.H. Farm but is unwilling to pay the terms requested. Describes two sermons she heard. Wants him to look in the study for letters which Uncle Bushrod says must be there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Writes with suggestions for the furniture and carpet at Mount Vernon. She specifically mentions the \"little drawing room,\" \"parlor,\" \"front passage,\" \"little room,\" and \"old dining room.\" Fears she shall be left more largely in debt than ever yet been. A Dutch farmer wants to rent P. Hole farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Gives some financial information. \"If the work is all finished at Mount Vernon both Harry and Fanny had better come but if there is still any thing for Fanny to do, she can remain.\" Requests items to be brought up, including lemons and oranges. Family news, including that Uncle Bushrod remains confined to his couch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has not heard from him. Ordered various building supplies. Financial times are very difficult and strict economy is necessary. Will send him some of her horses until his can be matched. Since Mary Jane is sick, Fanny should return to care for her. \"Remember me most kindly to my Old Jenny and West.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Walnut Farm to Mount Vernon. She returned home on Saturday and deplored the roads in Harpers Ferry. \"It seems Mr. John Selden is anxious to purchase Harriet. She was appraised at $400 with her child. She is said to be an excellent servant, and if you can get her in place of Hannah, Julia, or Sally, I think you had better do so. Julia is now at Blakely, having laid up and then come off without Lake's permission… Dr. Cordell has been called out to see her twice and from his prescription I rather suppose thinks very little except hysteria ails her.\" Discusses crops and a sermon and sends family greetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has not been feeling well at all lately. Has heard from Cousin Lorenzo Lewis that Augustine looks very well. She would have liked to have heard that from him or his wife. \"The servants are becoming more and more worthless and disobedient. I really find it very difficult to govern them, or to have the most necessary domestic work attended to with any regularity.\" Family news. Wants him to send Harry up before harvest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She's glad to hear that he and Nelly are doing so well. Much family news. \"Remember me very kindly to my good and faithful Jenny and Harry, also West and Eliza.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Bath to Blakeley. She is in Bath for the waters. It is very crowded, and all the houses are full. Heard two good sermons but then was ill again.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon.  She is concerned about poor Jenny and hopes the operation will give her a better chance of recovery. Many family members are ill. Another description of a sermon she heard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She tells of travel difficulties. Relates some gossip. Made a deal for some provisions, but nothing has been delivered. She advanced the man $150. Family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Lots of news about family and friends. Also mentions Hannah and Rebecca being still invalids and that Thomas has again gone to Maryland. \"The boys have bought a wagon and two or three servants.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Mount Vernon. She wants to know if certain lawyers are in Alexandria or Washington. Also wishes to subscribe to the Audubon works and asks him to see to that.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has been anxious at not hearing from him. Wants him to send the rent check for $500 as soon as possible. Wants him to send the fish via the Misses Moore's boats on the canal. Mentions the subject of Julia's purchase. Family and friend news. Additional page following receipt of his letter. Sorry the fishery has been unsuccessful. Due to drought the strawberries gave poor yield.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She received the check from him. His carpenter is unwilling to go to Mount Vernon before late next autumn due to the climate there. Has tried to find out why the fish and shingles he was to send have not been found on the wharves for the Misses Moore's boats to bring.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Mount Vernon. Deals with settling the estate of Mr. Selden. Discusses his purchase of Mary, an enslaved woman who seems to be quite ill and therefore not worth more than $50 or $60. His wife does not want her sold away. Also wants to sell the corn crop at Exeter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She is glad he was able to go to Philadelphia. Mentions the death of the wife of Lewis Washington. His sister was with her at her death, and Jane was there through the funeral. Is anxious about Charles' daughter Catherine who was sent via stage to Mrs. Page who did not want her after all and seems unwilling to pay the stage driver for her passage. Discusses the hiring of a German gardener for Mount Vernon. Wants him to send a shoe she left at Mount Vernon and a quantity of cotton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She is busy with pork business and will send two barrels of hams and one of lard. Complains about his brother and his wife coming without replying to her as to when they would arrive. Says her health is very infirm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Thanks him for the articles send, including oysters and ducks. Discusses sale of corn and is keeping some back to get a better price in the spring. Gives family news and that Captain Symington \"is stationed at H.F. where the government intends having erected barracks for him.\" Discusses the benefits of religion. Wants him to give a \"piece of old bacon/shoulders to West, Jenny and Phill.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Lengthy discussion of the purchase of a house by Dr. Alexander and his sister. The finances of this are described.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. She is \"sorry to hear of the disturbances among the negroes, especially poor Alfred. I think you had better sell him. Perhaps you might do it advantageously to some one in Richmond, who wants a capable and trustworthy servant. I am told Jim is very much distressed at parting with his son. If the purchaser of Alfred is willing to take Jim and he wishes to go, I have no objection to it.\" Discusses various crop prices. Reports the death of one child from scarlet fever and how it sickens many in Charleston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Discusses a few financial matters. \"Hannah was sick \u0026amp; soon gave birth to a still born infant a boy. It was a mercy the event occurred for decomposition had commenced.\" People are still getting sick with scarlet fever.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Describes the symptoms and illness with scarlet fever of Julia. She will be unable to attend Jane Davis's wedding. \"I have been in a most unsettled state for a long time. It seems difficult to get my family matters and business settled into any regular method again.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Julia Alexander died from scarlet fever. Others are also ill. She will not come to Mount Vernon for fear of bringing the disease with her and wants him to collect rents due her and pay various bills from that and send the rest to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discussion of finances and sale of stock. Gives medical advice to him for various people. Tells of recent election – not more than half of either party voted. Uncle Bushrod is going to Maryland to attend a meeting of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has \"the severest attack of Influenza I have had for two years.\" Kitty has discarded Lt. Hooe due to his poor conduct. Describes drought conditions badly affecting crops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Draft copy. Mount Vernon. Refuses permission to bring a party of military people to Mount Vernon by water. Does not want boats to dock there, but will allow them to enter if they arrive by land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Have had much sickness. \"Thompson, Jerry and Mingo laid up; in consequence of which George is driving the wagon… Am now endeavoring to save what apples remain on the trees and prepare winter clothing for the servants.\" Wants him to come visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Have had an unusual degree of sickness. \"Poor old Mingo is thought to be dying!... Berkeley, Jerry, and Thompson are still on the sick list.\" Tells of death of a neighbor who shot himself by accident as he was mounting his horse. Is unable to bring the wheat to the mill as the mill was \"dangerously full.\" Describes a difficult journey by his aunt. At end \"Mingo is Dead.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She was still too ill at Christmas to visit others. \"We have still four or five cases of typhoid fever at the quarters. Charlotte among them she is still very sick. The Dr. hopes a favourable change has taken place in Selina, Saul and Jerry. Mary came out today. I have taken Sophy home and hope to be able to get on with her under Fanny's superintendance.\" Other descriptions of moving enslaved people around. Relates episode of Julia having escaped from Cousin H. and coming to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Tells him Col. and Mrs. Davenport intend to visit him at Mount Vernon. Wants them to entertain them well. Discusses politics – \"the great question of Annexation.\" Mr. Rivers' speech was a great production. \"He feels as we do, the waning power of our once great \u0026amp; noble state.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She returned from a ride feeling quite well again. Describes a beautiful snowfall. \"I am sorry to hear you have still sickness among your servants. It is also the case here, new cases constantly occuring. The Dr. has been a daily visiter with the exception of two or three days. Milly's youngest child is now ill.\" Describes the death of his cousin. Other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Describes her journey home from Mount Vernon, visiting friends on the way. \"Richard … is going Missouri and wishes to purchase Negroes to take with him. He has yet made no offer for Caroline, tho' we understand he wishes to get her. She I am told is averse to going.\" Describes a sermon and exhorts him to read the Bible. Family information. \"Excuse this blotted ill written scrawl. Read and burn it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses the naming of his new baby girl. Nelly wanted to name her after Jane, but she thought she should be named after Nelly's recently deceased grandmother. Tells of financial difficulties of Dr. A. and the prices of crops. After her signature – \"Destroy this letter.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Writes to discuss ways to assist Dr. A. \"out of his present difficulties.\" Wants him to come visit soon with the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses a large christenings in church. Relates tale of two men who recently died from intemperance. Also tells plans for an upcoming wedding and where various guests will stay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Has yet to hear back from him in answer to her letter about Dr. A. Tells him of what she wants to do for him. Gives instructions as to how he should travel to visit her with the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Wants to send George with the carriage to bring her and the children. Describes dancing by various people. Wants to receive some financial records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Tells him of money placed in bank \"for servants sold… (Humphrey, Shedrack, Thompson, Caroline, Little Daniel, Margaret, and John).\" \"I am not well and feel a good deal agitated at the sale tho' I believe it will be better for all concerned but it is distressing to break up families by sales.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Sending notes to him and hopes he will return as soon as he arranges this business. Nelly and the girls are well, though Lou has still a cough.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Misses the family and tells of items that were left during their last visit. Much rain has kept her from church. Maria sent jars of quince jelly for her. Gives family news and describes some roses. Sends message to Augustine \"to write to his old and now very unimportant mother.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Describes family members' travels. Not a good wheat crop. Discusses the estate of Mr. Foote and how it treats his wife. Talks about the American B.S. and its efforts to bring the Bible to 10,000 families who have none. Asks him to pay some bills for her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Congratulates him on getting much ice stored in his ice house as \"it is a luxury, essential to health, and economy in domestic management.\" \"I believe slaves will become less and less valuable; and unless we keep them in the hope of being able to liberate and provide for them: for pecuniary interest, it is best to own, only as many as are necessary for the ordinary work of our farms.\" Many hams were spoilt, so they cannot offer any.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Much sickness in the early spring of cholera. Many people unable to work – Old Jenny, Maria and Dick, Lewis and George obliged to plough. Her cook Eliza has a crippled sore arm. Sophy, Joe, and Little Tom have been helping with many guests. Much discussion of weather.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Tells of various charges Richard made on his behalf. The weather has badly affected the crops. Wants to travel to Chicago in the summer. \"Richard has purchased West's little farm… West intends going West.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Sorry to hear about his return of chills. Their diet has been quite poor with a lack of vegetables and fresh meat. Thanks him for the check he sent, but he forgot to sign it. Describes another sermon. Requests him to send cypress shingles as soon as possible as the house leaks when it rains.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Mount Vernon to Charlestown, Jefferson County. Discusses failure to purchase mules at auction. He is unable to procure the peaches she wanted in Alexandria as many fruits have already fallen off the trees. West Ford said they needed some double shovel ploughs to put in the wheat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Baltimore. She is sorry to hear of Lou's \"hooping cough.\" Other family news. Long description of Mr. Tacker and his vision of his impending death. Is sorry that Augustine is alone at Mount Vernon with the servants who have been \"a source of disquiet and distress to him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSummerville, Gloucester County, Virginia to Alexandria. Tells him of a property coming for sale in the area. Also wants to make bricks and needs a \"responsible white man to superintend.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Congratulates him on the birth of another daughter. Gives news of Richard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Nelly is recovering from childbirth, and the baby thrives. Nelly wishes him to remind Miss Entwisle about the dresses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Gives prices of bushels of wheat from Mr. Burns and Mr. Snyder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a wedding and the young guests at the dinner. Discusses an Irishman who came to sell her tablecloths which she did not want. Letter was written over several days. She really misses the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Won't give him the family news as she just passed that along to Nelly in a very recent letter. Thanks him for paying her bills. Discusses rental of the Ferry Landing fisheries and wants to rent to Mr. Whitall. Will let him decide whether to increase the fisheries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Entreats him to take it easy in the winter. They have had much snow. Uncle Bushrod has much ice stored away and offered some to her as her pond had a defect which caused it to drain. Discusses finances. He may rent out North Farm. \"I fear however you will have many difficulties and vexations if you let the servants go with the farm.\" Tells of his sister having a tumour under her arm. Also their church burned. Tells him of the death of her true friend Mrs. Adams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Describes different people reading the will. Hopes his brother and family reached Mount Vernon safely. \"I think if the ladies attend the Inauguration of our brave honest chief, they had better join Mrs. Madison – who I am sure would be gratified at their so doing, and render their visit much more agreeable.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Has been anxiously awaiting a reply from him to her letter of a month ago. Wants to know when the monuments would be brought to Mount Vernon and the sum of money to be obtained. Is sending George with barrels containing hams and some apples. Wants him to return with the horses only, leaving the carriage. There was a fire at Hannah's house which was extinguished.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Gives much family news. Discusses lower prices for wheat and increasing the salary of the woman who must cook for Mr. Graham and all who are on the farm. Wants his help hiring a new overseer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is waiting to hear from him as to the overseer and waiting to see if Mr. Graham will accept the terms offered. \"Richard intends hiring out the hands he employed on the farm hoping to derive more clear profit from the Hires than he has received from the farm.\" Questions whether she should do anything about the deed for Mount Vernon drawn up. His sister Maria continues to look quite ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Snyder has delivered in mill his rent wheat. Writes that she is sending the deed to Mount Vernon, which has officially been signed over to him. Discusses an interesting trial in Charlestown. \"A Negro hired by Anderson … made an assault on Anderson for which he was committed and is today to be tried. The gentlemen all seemed to consider the issue of high importance. It certainly is to the miserable prisoner whose fate will be selling, transportation, or Death! I trust the decision will be merciful.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Writes about acquiring copies of the free papers for a formerly enslaved man named William Lyons. He is hoping to travel to Tennessee to visit his parents. Tells him his sister continues to do poorly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Relates the sending of the deed conveying Mount Vernon to him. Is preparing to have Maria come stay for a while.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Maria has been there for a week and continues to be very ill. Tells him his tenants have not honoured his orders. More family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Discusses difficulties with the harvest and procuring labourers. Dr. Alexander hired a tutor for Charlotte who is very well thought of. More neighborhood and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes Nelly will soon be able to travel and recommends she drink a tea (\"it can no doubt be had at Stablers\") as the best remedy in her case. \"The servants … are very much alarmed in regard to cholera.\" Wants him to get some good port and M. Wine. She can get good whiskey in C-town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is very glad of the dividend declared by the Alexandria Bank. They have had severe colds but not cholera.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Caledon to Mount Vernon. Writing from Caledon and describes journey there. Their trunk did not arrive with them, so they have no change of clothes. Tells stories from the boat trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Much family news. Tells him a cousin died shortly after their visit. Richard \"seems to be a very happy man, he surely is blest in his wife \u0026amp; eight children.\" Dr. A has acquired an excellent housekeeper.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Tells of Annie ill with scarlet fever and how the doctor has her rubbed with a piece of raw fat bacon. Is now much improved. Was in care of Miss Gantt, the housekeeper, whom she praises highly. Wishes she could have heard Miss Lind sing at Mount Vernon. Describes a sermon. More news about friends and relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Describes the symptoms of \"our dear little John\" and is sure something is wrong with his spine. Tells of the route of the turnpike and how it will cut off some of his woodland. Much news about family and acquaintances. Is very pleased with \"our young minister\" and hopes his teachings will help everyone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Top portion of first page cut away, incomplete letter. Wants him to see the plans for the turnpike as it might cut through his land. Mrs. Briscoe's son would like to visit Mount Vernon and will bring any letter or package there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. More on the Turnpike passing through his farm. Entreats him to not bring forward tempting articles which are stimulating and exciting during his brother's visit. She is unable to visit due to pressing business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Met Dr. Alexander and family before church and invited them to dinner. Encloses a letter from Mrs. Moran who would like to stay at Mount Vernon on her way to visit Jane. Is sending George with fish to be pickled. Sends remembrances to \"your maids Sarah, Eliza, Fanny and Amanda.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Thanks him for the fish and oysters sent by wagon. George did not properly stack items on the wagon, and much was damaged. The prayer book for Louisa has finally arrived and will be sent as soon as possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses difficulties of Mr. Whitall and the fishery. Hopes to collect from Snyder and will send it to him. News about friends and family. Finished planting corn. Had snow recently.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Tells him she got $200 from Mr. Rutherford which will be deposited in a bank in Charlestown. He informed them that the roof of the barn is in need of repair. Gives family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Wants Nelly and the children to visit after harvest and will send George with the carriage to get them. Hopes Augustine will be friends with Mr. Moran. Has been sick and taken \"an unusual quantity of opium for me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is glad his servants have recovered and \"that you … have not suffered from your humane and close attendance on them.\" Was sorry to hear that Ephraim had fallen a victim. Tells him of a good friend who seems to be recovering. Gives a recipe for a remedy. Talks about the harvest and the various servants who are working on it. Is considering renting out her farm though she would retain part. Tells of Hannah's health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Springland to Staunton, Virginia. Urges her not to think too much of home and to apply herself to her books and music. Gives family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is happy to hear they are all healthy. Relates family news and gives him business advice. Describes hearing a musician. Discusses Mr. Rutherford and his acquiring bone dust to use as fertilizer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She was so sorry to learn of the disaster that occurred to the vessel that was taking his wheat to market. Describes her journey home. At end, thanks him for the venison.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is so sorry about his heavy loss and prays that God will help him through it. More family news about various people being ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a sermon on intemperance. Discusses health problems of John and hopes he will improve when the weather gets better. Much family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Springland to Staunton, Virginia. Tells her that her last two letters appear to have been robbed. Gives news about her mother, grandmother, and sister.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Hopes Augustine is recovering. Much sickness in her house. Sent a new plough to Augustine. Hopes it arrives in time. Other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a visit from Mrs. Powel and various other family members. Wants part of the rent on the fishery to go toward the purchase of a piano for Louisa and the rest sent to her to pay off some debts. Sends love to all and reports on a few deaths.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to the visit from him and his family in July. Describes harvesting of wheat and rye after much rain. Both had much desired Mr. Fillmore's election to the presidency. Wants Noblet to return from California.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is enclosing some stock certificates to Mr. Eaches to be her attorney. Glad Nelly and the children are safely home. Tells of the loss of Richard and Christian's children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to Augustine's visit. Invited Kitty to spend the winter with her, but she will go elsewhere. News about various acquaintances. The disagreeable pork business is done, and she is sending three barrels of pippins via boat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Thanks him for the $200 check which enabled her to pay her tax bill. Is again concerned about Noblet. Tells of Kitty Wright's trip to Winchester where her companion became ill with typhoid fever. Kitty \"is now with us, with three lovely children, and a good coloured girl (a slave) the one whom she hired.\" All her friends send their love.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. \"Gabriel has sent in to say he wishes to set off tomorrow on his return home.\" Tells of much family with her at Christmas time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has been awaiting his visit and wonders about the cause of the delay. Still no news about Noblet. Tells of returning Annie Burnett home after she came into Richard's pew in church and wanted to come home with her. The next day she returned home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Put $600 in bank to his credit. Kitty and her three children left with Sophy replacing the other nurse who has been ill for the children\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. There is much whooping cough going around with so far one death. The weather is very fine, and there are many flowers. Glad to hear the fisheries are doing well. Describes her visit to Walnut Farm and the people she saw while there. Asks if he has seen the Masonic oration on the \"centennial commemoration of the initiation of George Washington into the order of free Masons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She was sorry to hear about the hail storm they had. Celebrated Hannah's birthday. Will send this letter with William Lyons who is leaving to see Augustine. Other family and friend news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is so glad Eliza is recovered. So sad about the death of Dr. Powel. More news about impending visits. General Duvall will be in Washington soon and would like to see Augustine so he could become \"acquainted with many of the influential members from the South \u0026amp; West, with whom he wishes you to become acquainted in case you still determine on disposing of M.V.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. \tBlakeley. Wants either a visit from them or for her to visit them before winter sets in. She had quite a pleasant visit to New York and Philadelphia. Tells him of climbing 180 steps of the Washington Monument in Baltimore and having a beautiful view. Glad they have obtained a governess for the girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is sorry Nelly is sick but will be unable to come down until after Christmas. Has several articles brought from N.Y. for \"my deal g.children at M.V.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Tells him of a deposit in bank for his use. Grieved to learn Eliza continues in feeble health. Visited Walnut Farm and heard from Dr. Alexander that \"the financial affairs of our church are in a very confused \u0026amp; entangled state.\" Looking forward to her trip to New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Paid $200 on stock note at bank. Is anxious about his brother determining to go to Housekeeping \u0026amp; renting Col. Devenport's House. He will still be at Blakeley every day. She has been suffering from dyspepsia. Glad to hear the governess gives satisfaction. Reference to Miss Nancy at Walnut Farm, who \"is not only a good house keeper but also understands gardening.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Tells him Mr. and Mrs. Depau intend visiting Mount Vernon, along with their son. Richard and family left for their new home and are much missed. She feels quite anxious to see her \"dear children at M.V. especially my grandson whose name I am as yet unacquainted with.\" Says two of our Cedar lawn cousins are to be married. \"The servants have been divided \u0026amp; the Cedar Lawn will be sold.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Sympathizes with the delayed visit due to the sickness of the family \"and death of your valuable and good young servant Dennis. It is a severe affliction to his poor mother. He was I think her youngest child.\" Is most anxious to see her grandson Lawrence. Had a visit from his brother and Christian and their son John. Went by invitation to Mr. Lovel's school where pupils delivered speeches and addresses. Wants the family to visit and will have rooms fixed up for them. Sends \"kind regards to your good \u0026amp; faithful servant Eliza, Danny \u0026amp; Sarah.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to a shipment of \"Nellies Pickled Rockfish\" to share with neighbours \u0026amp; friends. Discusses planting of crops. Will visit him and his family \"this day week,\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Describes her trip back home from Mount Vernon. Everyone is harvesting but having difficulty obtaining sufficient hands for the task.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Tells of the sudden death of Mrs. Selden and the funeral. Mentions harvests and addition to his house Dr. A. is doing. Wants to see him and the family. Mr. Rutherford wishes to renew his lease on the farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes Maria's arm heals well and that he received the two barrels of oats she sent. Gives news about family. Tells of \"our beloved Charlotte\" taking communion and becoming a member of the church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley.  She is so sorry that Richard is ill but glad that Augustine is with him. Tells of George's illness. Gives more family news and hopes to see the family soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Requests he send him the cantaloupe seeds he talked about. Wants to talk about a system of patrols \"to try \u0026amp; keep our slaves at home.\" Says the slaves are stealing so much from them and taking it to Alexandria. Says everyone in the neighborhood of slave holders could contribute to hire 6 good men to patrol.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. New Charlestown to Richmond. Sends family news and gives advice as to her traveling home. Tells of someone about to die, and that Fanny Griggs' school is broken up.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Laments that it has been so long since she heard from him or his family and wonders when they will come to visit. Gives news about local people. Tells of the wonderful addition that Dr. A. put on his house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. \tBlakeley to Mount Vernon. Had a tooth extracted. News of friends and neighbors. Has had influenza for 10 days.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. White House. Gives his legal opinion as to a dispute among them. First the fact that the seine was not received by Mr. Washington at the appointed time, necessitating many difficulties. Second, the Hoopers did not receive the required loom but are entitled to some compensation for work done. His judgment is for $275 for Mr. Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Hampstead, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses her love of gardening and the recent harvest. Says she likes the new teacher at a neighbor's house \"but she looks consumptive.\" Describes a monument to two boys.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.D.S. Fairfax County. Indicates full payment of judgment from JAW to William Mason.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses the route of the turnpike and that it should go through Mr. E's land. It would split it up, and so Mason wants to offer other alternatives. Much of the land is prone to flooding and marshy. It would be very expensive to put the road through that.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses his written ordinance about how to deal with people coming onto unenclosed land and hunting or fishing. Talks of a particular problem with land along waterways. Wants JAW to write to lawmakers and make this happen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia. Before the Legislature meets, he encloses a proposed measure to be enacted. Discusses counties to be included – all along the Potomac and Rappahanoc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Rose Hill. Discusses the hiring of an African American boy to do odd jobs and will pay $15.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Discusses the sending of clover seed. Had a problem with old Henry who emptied some tailings for the hens near the clover, mixing some up. \"I think I never was more vexed with any human being in all my life.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Mason writes describing an incident he had with West Ford on his plantation. This remarkable letter highlights the way Ford, despite being a free man, was still treated like a slave by others: \"On the evening of the Monday after Whitsunday, I was about sunset standing at my stable, giving some orders for the morning's work, when there passed within three or four yards of me a Negro man, who I did not know, without touching his hat, or any other recognition of my presence. After he had passed, I called to him asking who he was, and who did he belong to? He walked on, taking no notice, until I repeated the question, when he said 'Washington.' I then said, I suppose you have a name, and can tell me what Mr. Washington you belong to? He replied, 'West Ford.' His manner was insolent and supposing he was drunk, I said to him, there is the road to the gate, go off my place at once… When he got to the corner of the house, he commenced whooping and continued doing so, till he got out of the gate, which I had to send and have closed after him. I said nothing further to him, as he was obviously drunk; but directed one of my servants to go and tell him never to put his foot on the place again… Had he been anyone's servant but yours, I shd. have immediately had him apprehended and flogged for his impertinence; but satisfied that it could only be necessary to report the facts to you, and that you would take measures to prevent his ever coming here again, or repeating it, I have taken no further steps in the matter.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Sorry to hear that JAW is no longer a magistrate of the county. Will do what he can to get Mr. Herbert elected magistrate, so he can form the patrol necessary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia. Heard that all will be done to keep out a Yankee for the office of Justice. Hopes Mr. Herbert will consent to serve.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Writes about the issue of county taxes which have become exceedingly high, mainly to pay for road construction. Found out that one group was destroying his trees and running a new road through his land to take business away from the turnpike.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.D.S. Acknowledges receipt of payment in full on her account for boots and shoes for various named men.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Tells him of the considerable debts ($2,169.80) of Cousin Hannah and wishes to know what is to be done about it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Urges him to do well in school and to board with the principal and not to associate with his old school mate Charles J.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Describes her trip home and the friends and family she visited on the way. Had friends to dine but had difficulty with the dinner as meat is scarce.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Just sent George to the Charlestown P.O. with a letter and check to him. Sorry to hear that Nelly is again sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Describes her feelings at the recent losses of children and Noblet. Tells of much sickness in the area. \"Old Jenny's was by far the severest case, one which Dr. C. intirely dispaired of. She is recovering which we are thankful for, tho' old and feeble, she is good and pious, and has considerable influence with her children and fellow servants.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Has attached a check for $200 to be paid to the Exchange Bank in Alexandria toward her debt of $700. Was sorry to hear of Nelly's illness. Gives other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Discusses a recently recorded deed. Describes health concerns of her sister. Bad weather is affecting planting. At end of letter: \"Matilda, your woman at Harewood has had an infant and lost it. It died after suffering greatly from fits. Dr. Cordell attended it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon.  Has enclosed a check to be paid on her account with Mr. Hooff. Prices are low for horses and stock. Planting goes slowly. Gives family and friends news. Gives a recipe for quince jelly and marmalade. \"Remember me most kindly to Jenny \u0026amp; West \u0026amp; … indeed all our household at M.V.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. A brief note requesting him to \"let George have money $2.50 to get a pair of boots.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. She is sending Jenny and Fanny and hopes they will be \"useful and conduct themselves well.\" His carpenter came by the day after he left wanting some money he was owed as he had a debt to pay. Wants to visit them but wants him to let her know \"whether or not it is desirable for me to go. I shall not be in the slightest degree either hurt or offended at my room being preferable to my company.\" \"Mr. Rutherford … declines keeping Sally another year. I have told Mr. Shepperd to look out for a good place for her but I really think you had better take her down and either keep her at M.V. under your own eye as milker and washer or hire her out there. I think she and Alfred or Gabriel had better make a match.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. All have been enjoying the visit from Augustine but regrets she and the children did not also come. Hannah is about to leave for New York for medical treatment, accompanied by Fanny. Thanks Louisa for the chow chow she made. News about a visit to cousin Ann Washington. Much talk of friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. \"Your kind mother always advances for me the money with which I travel to the upper country. I am making my arrangements to move rather earlier than usual this summer that I may have the advantage of Cousin Betsy Winter's company … I shall take Rosina with me who is a fine sensible, amiable girl of fourteen, rather handsome, but bashful and awkward. She looks badly now from a sort of bilious fever without chills, which hangs about her in despite of blue pile etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Anna writes of the death of an enslaved woman named Harry: \"she died on Monday last, after a short illness, inflammation of the brain and womb… Dr. Alexander and Straith examined her body and found the womb and other organs around it entirely diseased. Mother has lost a kind and faithful servant, a sincere tho humble friend. We shall all feel her loss, to mother it is irreparable, she has no servant who can take her place.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Letter being carried by Randall, a slave, and tells of various people's health problems.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S.\t Hollin Hall to Mount Vernon. Has heard there is little chance of the law they want passing in this session of the Legislature. Gives his thoughts about future elections of people who will assist them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Wonders whether he has recovered his slave. If so \"make a stern and proper example.\" Tells Augustine to come to him for trials and punishments of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.D.S. Autograph copy. 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Also included are letters to Eleanor Love Selden Washington, a few letters to or from John Augustine Washington III to various individuals, several letters from George Mason of Hollin Hall (1797-1870) to John Augustine Washington III, letters by Lackland and Alexander family members (relatives of the Washingtons) and three receipts. The subject matter of most letters is family or personal affairs and Mount Vernon business with some discussion of the enslaved people owned by the Washingtons. Inclusive dates are 1837 to 1861.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon. Tells him of four family members with consumption. Also \"have no servant to dispose of who would suit her sister, unless Milly would be willing for one of her three elder daughters to go. It would be a sure and good home I believe.\" Discusses sale of corn crop and other family news. Mentions repairs being made by Mr. Skidmore at Mt. Vernon. We have two other letters dated 1837 November 23 and 1838 November 1 mentioning repairs made by Jesse Skidmore. In 1839 July 27, Lawrence Lewis paid Skidmore for work done on the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","A.L.S. She is enclosing another $10 note requesting it get charged and sent to her by him.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is unable to join him at Mount Vernon as her business would not fare well. Is sending a horse down as he is better fitted for the saddle than harness. Writes about sending him to Mount Vernon to \"relieve Maj. Lewis,\" who is working with Struthers and Strickland to build the new tomb. Writes of her \"deep veneration and gratitude to the memory of Genl Washington.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Upon her return home, she found things had not been taken care of on her farm. A fodder house for the cattle was not placed correctly at all. She encouraged her son to get a good education at Mr. Hallowell's school in Alexandria.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She wants him to inquire about an appointment for Lawrence Washington who needs employment. Inquires about his studies and the repairs on the \"old mansion.\" Gives some family news and wants him to call on Mary and Julia.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Reports on crop yields. Says there \"have been some difficulties between the overseer and the Negroes\" on the Mountain. Tells him of the impending purchase of a pair of draft horses. Talks of sending Willoughby and Gabriel to Mount Vernon, as well as Henry and Dolly. (This is likely Gabriel Johnson, about whom we have at least nine other letters in the collection.) Mentions letting his cousin have Jesse at \"whatever you think a reasonable price.\" Reports pork prices are down and is worried about the expenses of repairs to Mount Vernon. Was sorry to \"learn by a letter from West that our crop of corn at Mount Vernon has turned out so badly.\" Might need to employ West for another year. More family news and greetings.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She was sorry to hear of his illness and tells him to leave Mount Vernon in the hands of hirelings and not endanger his health further by riding there. Refers to reading about \"Mr. Calhoun's and Mr. Clay's conversations in the Senate on Mr. Calhoun's resolutions respecting abolition petitions.\" Much difficulty regarding Jessy – Cousin Jane has abandoned all idea of purchasing her.","A.L.S. with additional writing by Jane C. Washington. Blakeley. Tells of new animals being born, his schooling, and family news. Jane adds: glad to hear his schooling is going well. Asks if he participated in the February 22 celebration. Is sorry he gave up Greek. Wants him to send her a translation from Latin or French. Orders shoes to be made for Kitty.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She returned home safely and passes along some family news. Harvest had not been started, but since she returned they have begun on the wheat. Much gets lost by \"having inefficient hands as rakers,\" so she requests him to send Willoughby and Gabriel up immediately. \"Labourers cannot be procured, and wages are higher than ever before known to be.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes he will get to enjoy his job at the Library of the House of Representatives. Thinks it will be good for his future. She is unwell at present. Reports on Dr. Gates who is also not doing well.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is troubled about getting Richard to be an \"irregular Cadet\" or maybe to West Point. Reports on the death of Dr. Yates. Gives various instructions and requests.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She hopes the water at White Sulphur Spring will prove beneficial. Describes a sermon on Communion Sunday and hopes he's hearing as good as that. Had a disappointing wheat crop. Contracted with Ford and Snyder for the crop. Gabriel is still there, with JAW's permission. Additional page from Aunt Judy Alexander, hoping he meets some young ladies.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She wants him to rent the Prospect Hill fields for three years to Mr. Anderson. George carried wheat and oats to him, as well as other items. Poor Tansel wants a place with him. He'll make rakes and \"I know he makes excellent shoes.\" Sends greetings to family.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She wants Maria and Augustine to return to Blakeley as both are sick. Is disturbed that cousin Jane means to keep Betty for the next year, despite knowing of the intention to send her to Mount Vernon. \"Shall I send Hannah or Sally down, or contend for Betty?\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. She relates the difficult journey of his sister to Blakeley. Is glad he is feeling better. Writes about selling enslaved people: \"I am sorry to tell you Milly I understand is unfit for hire, and we shall be obliged to keep her at home. Mr. Rutherford… will take Sally. She is said to be a first rate manager, a strict tho kind mistress. She is to give $35. Hannah I have as yet had no offer for. Closely confined at home without a way of getting out, I have not had it in my power to look out places for our hirelings and do not like to offer them at public hire.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Glad he got rid of his chills. The horse cart is so much in use it cannot be sent down to Mount Vernon. Will send George, Edmund, and Betty to him. Still been unable to get a place for Hannah whose character does not stand well as to docility or usefulness. More instructions as to how to deal with various servants.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. \"Dr. A. has determined to keep the servants. I hope they will continue faithful and useful to him. Willoughby is a grumbler, but I am sure he has no just cause of complaint. Dr. A is a human and liberal master. I think you give a high price for your wagoner. Negroes have generally hired lower than usual this year. Hannah is at present laid up, sd. I not be able to get a good and safe place for her, I will send her down by the first safe opportunity.\" \"Remember me most kindly to all our Mount Vernon household – dear Old Jenny especially and West Ford.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. She's so happy to hear from Dr. A that his health is much improved. Discusses financial difficulties. \"We must all practice strict economy.\" Sends family news.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon to Charlestown, Jefferson County, Virginia. Discusses the current low price for wood and Dr. Alexander and his travels. Regrets the failure of Ford and Snyder. Wants her to settle for Hannah's support as West thinks that she has not been given anything to eat. Also wants to remind Dick of a pair of boots for Mr. Morgan. Phil and Jesse have been sick for some time.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She hopes his health improves. Discusses disorder on banks, making business difficult. Is sorry this happened at the beginning of his life in business but hopes it will teach him. Tells of harvests and yields and gives some family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She's so glad he has recovered his health. Will be able to get clover seed shortly. Wants to plant the 90 acre field with oats. Sends greetings to Cary. Was able to hire Hannah out until Christmas.","A.L.S. Blakeley. George is off to Mount Vernon with a wagon full of goods. Requests various items to be brought back by him. Hopes his health remains good. His sister wishes to have Caroline whom she has hired brought down to Mount Vernon. She might come up with George. \"Remember me most kindly to Jenny – West's servant at Mount Vernon.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Sending this via Mr. Lamar requesting additional things for George to bring back. Describes a sermon given by Mr. Jones the previous Sunday. Hopes he will have \"our old establishment very clean white washed if not painted a little.\" Richard is not well but hopes he will join her when she goes down for a few days.","A.L.S. He is mortified that JAW might have been offended at not having received an invitation to dine with him, which was sent with a \"silly servant.\" He always values having his company and sends him some rhubarb with instructions as to its preparation.","A.L.S. Blakeley. George arrived safely yesterday afternoon. Disappointed various items from Mr. Hooff were not sent but instead sent via canal. Discusses prices of some items. Thanks him for fruit sent. Tells him to do what he thinks best with the greenhouse.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is anxiously awaiting the arrival of his hands from Mount Vernon as George Saunders Ned and Lewis are all laid up. Marie and Mary Jane are incapable of working out. Harvest has commenced. Wants him to send a barrel of white sand for plastering the pillars in the brick portico. Hopes he will come soon. Sends family greetings.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She had a good journey home with pleasant visits with friends on the way. \"You have a partial friend in Mr. S. altho' I think he would be pleased if you did not speak quite so loud.\" Richard says a man wants to rent the P.H. Farm but is unwilling to pay the terms requested. Describes two sermons she heard. Wants him to look in the study for letters which Uncle Bushrod says must be there.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Writes with suggestions for the furniture and carpet at Mount Vernon. She specifically mentions the \"little drawing room,\" \"parlor,\" \"front passage,\" \"little room,\" and \"old dining room.\" Fears she shall be left more largely in debt than ever yet been. A Dutch farmer wants to rent P. Hole farm.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Gives some financial information. \"If the work is all finished at Mount Vernon both Harry and Fanny had better come but if there is still any thing for Fanny to do, she can remain.\" Requests items to be brought up, including lemons and oranges. Family news, including that Uncle Bushrod remains confined to his couch.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has not heard from him. Ordered various building supplies. Financial times are very difficult and strict economy is necessary. Will send him some of her horses until his can be matched. Since Mary Jane is sick, Fanny should return to care for her. \"Remember me most kindly to my Old Jenny and West.\"","A.L.S. Walnut Farm to Mount Vernon. She returned home on Saturday and deplored the roads in Harpers Ferry. \"It seems Mr. John Selden is anxious to purchase Harriet. She was appraised at $400 with her child. She is said to be an excellent servant, and if you can get her in place of Hannah, Julia, or Sally, I think you had better do so. Julia is now at Blakely, having laid up and then come off without Lake's permission… Dr. Cordell has been called out to see her twice and from his prescription I rather suppose thinks very little except hysteria ails her.\" Discusses crops and a sermon and sends family greetings.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has not been feeling well at all lately. Has heard from Cousin Lorenzo Lewis that Augustine looks very well. She would have liked to have heard that from him or his wife. \"The servants are becoming more and more worthless and disobedient. I really find it very difficult to govern them, or to have the most necessary domestic work attended to with any regularity.\" Family news. Wants him to send Harry up before harvest.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She's glad to hear that he and Nelly are doing so well. Much family news. \"Remember me very kindly to my good and faithful Jenny and Harry, also West and Eliza.\"","A.L.S. Bath to Blakeley. She is in Bath for the waters. It is very crowded, and all the houses are full. Heard two good sermons but then was ill again.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon.  She is concerned about poor Jenny and hopes the operation will give her a better chance of recovery. Many family members are ill. Another description of a sermon she heard.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She tells of travel difficulties. Relates some gossip. Made a deal for some provisions, but nothing has been delivered. She advanced the man $150. Family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Lots of news about family and friends. Also mentions Hannah and Rebecca being still invalids and that Thomas has again gone to Maryland. \"The boys have bought a wagon and two or three servants.\"","A.L.S. Mount Vernon. She wants to know if certain lawyers are in Alexandria or Washington. Also wishes to subscribe to the Audubon works and asks him to see to that.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has been anxious at not hearing from him. Wants him to send the rent check for $500 as soon as possible. Wants him to send the fish via the Misses Moore's boats on the canal. Mentions the subject of Julia's purchase. Family and friend news. Additional page following receipt of his letter. Sorry the fishery has been unsuccessful. Due to drought the strawberries gave poor yield.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She received the check from him. His carpenter is unwilling to go to Mount Vernon before late next autumn due to the climate there. Has tried to find out why the fish and shingles he was to send have not been found on the wharves for the Misses Moore's boats to bring.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon. Deals with settling the estate of Mr. Selden. Discusses his purchase of Mary, an enslaved woman who seems to be quite ill and therefore not worth more than $50 or $60. His wife does not want her sold away. Also wants to sell the corn crop at Exeter.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She is glad he was able to go to Philadelphia. Mentions the death of the wife of Lewis Washington. His sister was with her at her death, and Jane was there through the funeral. Is anxious about Charles' daughter Catherine who was sent via stage to Mrs. Page who did not want her after all and seems unwilling to pay the stage driver for her passage. Discusses the hiring of a German gardener for Mount Vernon. Wants him to send a shoe she left at Mount Vernon and a quantity of cotton.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She is busy with pork business and will send two barrels of hams and one of lard. Complains about his brother and his wife coming without replying to her as to when they would arrive. Says her health is very infirm.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Thanks him for the articles send, including oysters and ducks. Discusses sale of corn and is keeping some back to get a better price in the spring. Gives family news and that Captain Symington \"is stationed at H.F. where the government intends having erected barracks for him.\" Discusses the benefits of religion. Wants him to give a \"piece of old bacon/shoulders to West, Jenny and Phill.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Lengthy discussion of the purchase of a house by Dr. Alexander and his sister. The finances of this are described.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. She is \"sorry to hear of the disturbances among the negroes, especially poor Alfred. I think you had better sell him. Perhaps you might do it advantageously to some one in Richmond, who wants a capable and trustworthy servant. I am told Jim is very much distressed at parting with his son. If the purchaser of Alfred is willing to take Jim and he wishes to go, I have no objection to it.\" Discusses various crop prices. Reports the death of one child from scarlet fever and how it sickens many in Charleston.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Discusses a few financial matters. \"Hannah was sick \u0026 soon gave birth to a still born infant a boy. It was a mercy the event occurred for decomposition had commenced.\" People are still getting sick with scarlet fever.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Describes the symptoms and illness with scarlet fever of Julia. She will be unable to attend Jane Davis's wedding. \"I have been in a most unsettled state for a long time. It seems difficult to get my family matters and business settled into any regular method again.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Julia Alexander died from scarlet fever. Others are also ill. She will not come to Mount Vernon for fear of bringing the disease with her and wants him to collect rents due her and pay various bills from that and send the rest to her.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discussion of finances and sale of stock. Gives medical advice to him for various people. Tells of recent election – not more than half of either party voted. Uncle Bushrod is going to Maryland to attend a meeting of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has \"the severest attack of Influenza I have had for two years.\" Kitty has discarded Lt. Hooe due to his poor conduct. Describes drought conditions badly affecting crops.","A.L.S. Draft copy. Mount Vernon. Refuses permission to bring a party of military people to Mount Vernon by water. Does not want boats to dock there, but will allow them to enter if they arrive by land.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Have had much sickness. \"Thompson, Jerry and Mingo laid up; in consequence of which George is driving the wagon… Am now endeavoring to save what apples remain on the trees and prepare winter clothing for the servants.\" Wants him to come visit.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Have had an unusual degree of sickness. \"Poor old Mingo is thought to be dying!... Berkeley, Jerry, and Thompson are still on the sick list.\" Tells of death of a neighbor who shot himself by accident as he was mounting his horse. Is unable to bring the wheat to the mill as the mill was \"dangerously full.\" Describes a difficult journey by his aunt. At end \"Mingo is Dead.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She was still too ill at Christmas to visit others. \"We have still four or five cases of typhoid fever at the quarters. Charlotte among them she is still very sick. The Dr. hopes a favourable change has taken place in Selina, Saul and Jerry. Mary came out today. I have taken Sophy home and hope to be able to get on with her under Fanny's superintendance.\" Other descriptions of moving enslaved people around. Relates episode of Julia having escaped from Cousin H. and coming to her.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Tells him Col. and Mrs. Davenport intend to visit him at Mount Vernon. Wants them to entertain them well. Discusses politics – \"the great question of Annexation.\" Mr. Rivers' speech was a great production. \"He feels as we do, the waning power of our once great \u0026 noble state.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She returned from a ride feeling quite well again. Describes a beautiful snowfall. \"I am sorry to hear you have still sickness among your servants. It is also the case here, new cases constantly occuring. The Dr. has been a daily visiter with the exception of two or three days. Milly's youngest child is now ill.\" Describes the death of his cousin. Other family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Describes her journey home from Mount Vernon, visiting friends on the way. \"Richard … is going Missouri and wishes to purchase Negroes to take with him. He has yet made no offer for Caroline, tho' we understand he wishes to get her. She I am told is averse to going.\" Describes a sermon and exhorts him to read the Bible. Family information. \"Excuse this blotted ill written scrawl. Read and burn it.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses the naming of his new baby girl. Nelly wanted to name her after Jane, but she thought she should be named after Nelly's recently deceased grandmother. Tells of financial difficulties of Dr. A. and the prices of crops. After her signature – \"Destroy this letter.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Writes to discuss ways to assist Dr. A. \"out of his present difficulties.\" Wants him to come visit soon with the family.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses a large christenings in church. Relates tale of two men who recently died from intemperance. Also tells plans for an upcoming wedding and where various guests will stay.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Has yet to hear back from him in answer to her letter about Dr. A. Tells him of what she wants to do for him. Gives instructions as to how he should travel to visit her with the family.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Wants to send George with the carriage to bring her and the children. Describes dancing by various people. Wants to receive some financial records.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Tells him of money placed in bank \"for servants sold… (Humphrey, Shedrack, Thompson, Caroline, Little Daniel, Margaret, and John).\" \"I am not well and feel a good deal agitated at the sale tho' I believe it will be better for all concerned but it is distressing to break up families by sales.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Sending notes to him and hopes he will return as soon as he arranges this business. Nelly and the girls are well, though Lou has still a cough.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Misses the family and tells of items that were left during their last visit. Much rain has kept her from church. Maria sent jars of quince jelly for her. Gives family news and describes some roses. Sends message to Augustine \"to write to his old and now very unimportant mother.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Describes family members' travels. Not a good wheat crop. Discusses the estate of Mr. Foote and how it treats his wife. Talks about the American B.S. and its efforts to bring the Bible to 10,000 families who have none. Asks him to pay some bills for her.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Congratulates him on getting much ice stored in his ice house as \"it is a luxury, essential to health, and economy in domestic management.\" \"I believe slaves will become less and less valuable; and unless we keep them in the hope of being able to liberate and provide for them: for pecuniary interest, it is best to own, only as many as are necessary for the ordinary work of our farms.\" Many hams were spoilt, so they cannot offer any.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Much sickness in the early spring of cholera. Many people unable to work – Old Jenny, Maria and Dick, Lewis and George obliged to plough. Her cook Eliza has a crippled sore arm. Sophy, Joe, and Little Tom have been helping with many guests. Much discussion of weather.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Tells of various charges Richard made on his behalf. The weather has badly affected the crops. Wants to travel to Chicago in the summer. \"Richard has purchased West's little farm… West intends going West.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Sorry to hear about his return of chills. Their diet has been quite poor with a lack of vegetables and fresh meat. Thanks him for the check he sent, but he forgot to sign it. Describes another sermon. Requests him to send cypress shingles as soon as possible as the house leaks when it rains.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon to Charlestown, Jefferson County. Discusses failure to purchase mules at auction. He is unable to procure the peaches she wanted in Alexandria as many fruits have already fallen off the trees. West Ford said they needed some double shovel ploughs to put in the wheat.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Baltimore. She is sorry to hear of Lou's \"hooping cough.\" Other family news. Long description of Mr. Tacker and his vision of his impending death. Is sorry that Augustine is alone at Mount Vernon with the servants who have been \"a source of disquiet and distress to him.\"","Summerville, Gloucester County, Virginia to Alexandria. Tells him of a property coming for sale in the area. Also wants to make bricks and needs a \"responsible white man to superintend.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Congratulates him on the birth of another daughter. Gives news of Richard.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Nelly is recovering from childbirth, and the baby thrives. Nelly wishes him to remind Miss Entwisle about the dresses.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Gives prices of bushels of wheat from Mr. Burns and Mr. Snyder.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a wedding and the young guests at the dinner. Discusses an Irishman who came to sell her tablecloths which she did not want. Letter was written over several days. She really misses the family.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Won't give him the family news as she just passed that along to Nelly in a very recent letter. Thanks him for paying her bills. Discusses rental of the Ferry Landing fisheries and wants to rent to Mr. Whitall. Will let him decide whether to increase the fisheries.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Entreats him to take it easy in the winter. They have had much snow. Uncle Bushrod has much ice stored away and offered some to her as her pond had a defect which caused it to drain. Discusses finances. He may rent out North Farm. \"I fear however you will have many difficulties and vexations if you let the servants go with the farm.\" Tells of his sister having a tumour under her arm. Also their church burned. Tells him of the death of her true friend Mrs. Adams.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes different people reading the will. Hopes his brother and family reached Mount Vernon safely. \"I think if the ladies attend the Inauguration of our brave honest chief, they had better join Mrs. Madison – who I am sure would be gratified at their so doing, and render their visit much more agreeable.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Has been anxiously awaiting a reply from him to her letter of a month ago. Wants to know when the monuments would be brought to Mount Vernon and the sum of money to be obtained. Is sending George with barrels containing hams and some apples. Wants him to return with the horses only, leaving the carriage. There was a fire at Hannah's house which was extinguished.","A.L.S. Gives much family news. Discusses lower prices for wheat and increasing the salary of the woman who must cook for Mr. Graham and all who are on the farm. Wants his help hiring a new overseer.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is waiting to hear from him as to the overseer and waiting to see if Mr. Graham will accept the terms offered. \"Richard intends hiring out the hands he employed on the farm hoping to derive more clear profit from the Hires than he has received from the farm.\" Questions whether she should do anything about the deed for Mount Vernon drawn up. His sister Maria continues to look quite ill.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Snyder has delivered in mill his rent wheat. Writes that she is sending the deed to Mount Vernon, which has officially been signed over to him. Discusses an interesting trial in Charlestown. \"A Negro hired by Anderson … made an assault on Anderson for which he was committed and is today to be tried. The gentlemen all seemed to consider the issue of high importance. It certainly is to the miserable prisoner whose fate will be selling, transportation, or Death! I trust the decision will be merciful.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Writes about acquiring copies of the free papers for a formerly enslaved man named William Lyons. He is hoping to travel to Tennessee to visit his parents. Tells him his sister continues to do poorly.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Relates the sending of the deed conveying Mount Vernon to him. Is preparing to have Maria come stay for a while.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Maria has been there for a week and continues to be very ill. Tells him his tenants have not honoured his orders. More family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Discusses difficulties with the harvest and procuring labourers. Dr. Alexander hired a tutor for Charlotte who is very well thought of. More neighborhood and family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes Nelly will soon be able to travel and recommends she drink a tea (\"it can no doubt be had at Stablers\") as the best remedy in her case. \"The servants … are very much alarmed in regard to cholera.\" Wants him to get some good port and M. Wine. She can get good whiskey in C-town.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is very glad of the dividend declared by the Alexandria Bank. They have had severe colds but not cholera.","A.L.S. Caledon to Mount Vernon. Writing from Caledon and describes journey there. Their trunk did not arrive with them, so they have no change of clothes. Tells stories from the boat trip.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Much family news. Tells him a cousin died shortly after their visit. Richard \"seems to be a very happy man, he surely is blest in his wife \u0026 eight children.\" Dr. A has acquired an excellent housekeeper.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells of Annie ill with scarlet fever and how the doctor has her rubbed with a piece of raw fat bacon. Is now much improved. Was in care of Miss Gantt, the housekeeper, whom she praises highly. Wishes she could have heard Miss Lind sing at Mount Vernon. Describes a sermon. More news about friends and relatives.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes the symptoms of \"our dear little John\" and is sure something is wrong with his spine. Tells of the route of the turnpike and how it will cut off some of his woodland. Much news about family and acquaintances. Is very pleased with \"our young minister\" and hopes his teachings will help everyone.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Top portion of first page cut away, incomplete letter. Wants him to see the plans for the turnpike as it might cut through his land. Mrs. Briscoe's son would like to visit Mount Vernon and will bring any letter or package there.","A.L.S. Blakeley. More on the Turnpike passing through his farm. Entreats him to not bring forward tempting articles which are stimulating and exciting during his brother's visit. She is unable to visit due to pressing business.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Met Dr. Alexander and family before church and invited them to dinner. Encloses a letter from Mrs. Moran who would like to stay at Mount Vernon on her way to visit Jane. Is sending George with fish to be pickled. Sends remembrances to \"your maids Sarah, Eliza, Fanny and Amanda.\"","A.L.S. Thanks him for the fish and oysters sent by wagon. George did not properly stack items on the wagon, and much was damaged. The prayer book for Louisa has finally arrived and will be sent as soon as possible.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses difficulties of Mr. Whitall and the fishery. Hopes to collect from Snyder and will send it to him. News about friends and family. Finished planting corn. Had snow recently.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells him she got $200 from Mr. Rutherford which will be deposited in a bank in Charlestown. He informed them that the roof of the barn is in need of repair. Gives family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Wants Nelly and the children to visit after harvest and will send George with the carriage to get them. Hopes Augustine will be friends with Mr. Moran. Has been sick and taken \"an unusual quantity of opium for me.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is glad his servants have recovered and \"that you … have not suffered from your humane and close attendance on them.\" Was sorry to hear that Ephraim had fallen a victim. Tells him of a good friend who seems to be recovering. Gives a recipe for a remedy. Talks about the harvest and the various servants who are working on it. Is considering renting out her farm though she would retain part. Tells of Hannah's health.","A.L.S. Springland to Staunton, Virginia. Urges her not to think too much of home and to apply herself to her books and music. Gives family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is happy to hear they are all healthy. Relates family news and gives him business advice. Describes hearing a musician. Discusses Mr. Rutherford and his acquiring bone dust to use as fertilizer.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She was so sorry to learn of the disaster that occurred to the vessel that was taking his wheat to market. Describes her journey home. At end, thanks him for the venison.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is so sorry about his heavy loss and prays that God will help him through it. More family news about various people being ill.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a sermon on intemperance. Discusses health problems of John and hopes he will improve when the weather gets better. Much family news.","A.L.S. Springland to Staunton, Virginia. Tells her that her last two letters appear to have been robbed. Gives news about her mother, grandmother, and sister.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Hopes Augustine is recovering. Much sickness in her house. Sent a new plough to Augustine. Hopes it arrives in time. Other family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a visit from Mrs. Powel and various other family members. Wants part of the rent on the fishery to go toward the purchase of a piano for Louisa and the rest sent to her to pay off some debts. Sends love to all and reports on a few deaths.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to the visit from him and his family in July. Describes harvesting of wheat and rye after much rain. Both had much desired Mr. Fillmore's election to the presidency. Wants Noblet to return from California.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is enclosing some stock certificates to Mr. Eaches to be her attorney. Glad Nelly and the children are safely home. Tells of the loss of Richard and Christian's children.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to Augustine's visit. Invited Kitty to spend the winter with her, but she will go elsewhere. News about various acquaintances. The disagreeable pork business is done, and she is sending three barrels of pippins via boat.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Thanks him for the $200 check which enabled her to pay her tax bill. Is again concerned about Noblet. Tells of Kitty Wright's trip to Winchester where her companion became ill with typhoid fever. Kitty \"is now with us, with three lovely children, and a good coloured girl (a slave) the one whom she hired.\" All her friends send their love.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. \"Gabriel has sent in to say he wishes to set off tomorrow on his return home.\" Tells of much family with her at Christmas time.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has been awaiting his visit and wonders about the cause of the delay. Still no news about Noblet. Tells of returning Annie Burnett home after she came into Richard's pew in church and wanted to come home with her. The next day she returned home.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Put $600 in bank to his credit. Kitty and her three children left with Sophy replacing the other nurse who has been ill for the children","A.L.S. Blakeley. There is much whooping cough going around with so far one death. The weather is very fine, and there are many flowers. Glad to hear the fisheries are doing well. Describes her visit to Walnut Farm and the people she saw while there. Asks if he has seen the Masonic oration on the \"centennial commemoration of the initiation of George Washington into the order of free Masons.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She was sorry to hear about the hail storm they had. Celebrated Hannah's birthday. Will send this letter with William Lyons who is leaving to see Augustine. Other family and friend news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is so glad Eliza is recovered. So sad about the death of Dr. Powel. More news about impending visits. General Duvall will be in Washington soon and would like to see Augustine so he could become \"acquainted with many of the influential members from the South \u0026 West, with whom he wishes you to become acquainted in case you still determine on disposing of M.V.\"","A.L.S. \tBlakeley. Wants either a visit from them or for her to visit them before winter sets in. She had quite a pleasant visit to New York and Philadelphia. Tells him of climbing 180 steps of the Washington Monument in Baltimore and having a beautiful view. Glad they have obtained a governess for the girls.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is sorry Nelly is sick but will be unable to come down until after Christmas. Has several articles brought from N.Y. for \"my deal g.children at M.V.\"","A.L.S. Tells him of a deposit in bank for his use. Grieved to learn Eliza continues in feeble health. Visited Walnut Farm and heard from Dr. Alexander that \"the financial affairs of our church are in a very confused \u0026 entangled state.\" Looking forward to her trip to New York.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Paid $200 on stock note at bank. Is anxious about his brother determining to go to Housekeeping \u0026 renting Col. Devenport's House. He will still be at Blakeley every day. She has been suffering from dyspepsia. Glad to hear the governess gives satisfaction. Reference to Miss Nancy at Walnut Farm, who \"is not only a good house keeper but also understands gardening.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells him Mr. and Mrs. Depau intend visiting Mount Vernon, along with their son. Richard and family left for their new home and are much missed. She feels quite anxious to see her \"dear children at M.V. especially my grandson whose name I am as yet unacquainted with.\" Says two of our Cedar lawn cousins are to be married. \"The servants have been divided \u0026 the Cedar Lawn will be sold.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Sympathizes with the delayed visit due to the sickness of the family \"and death of your valuable and good young servant Dennis. It is a severe affliction to his poor mother. He was I think her youngest child.\" Is most anxious to see her grandson Lawrence. Had a visit from his brother and Christian and their son John. Went by invitation to Mr. Lovel's school where pupils delivered speeches and addresses. Wants the family to visit and will have rooms fixed up for them. Sends \"kind regards to your good \u0026 faithful servant Eliza, Danny \u0026 Sarah.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to a shipment of \"Nellies Pickled Rockfish\" to share with neighbours \u0026 friends. Discusses planting of crops. Will visit him and his family \"this day week,\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes her trip back home from Mount Vernon. Everyone is harvesting but having difficulty obtaining sufficient hands for the task.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells of the sudden death of Mrs. Selden and the funeral. Mentions harvests and addition to his house Dr. A. is doing. Wants to see him and the family. Mr. Rutherford wishes to renew his lease on the farm.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes Maria's arm heals well and that he received the two barrels of oats she sent. Gives news about family. Tells of \"our beloved Charlotte\" taking communion and becoming a member of the church.","A.L.S. Blakeley.  She is so sorry that Richard is ill but glad that Augustine is with him. Tells of George's illness. Gives more family news and hopes to see the family soon.","A.L.S. Requests he send him the cantaloupe seeds he talked about. Wants to talk about a system of patrols \"to try \u0026 keep our slaves at home.\" Says the slaves are stealing so much from them and taking it to Alexandria. Says everyone in the neighborhood of slave holders could contribute to hire 6 good men to patrol.","A.L.S. New Charlestown to Richmond. Sends family news and gives advice as to her traveling home. Tells of someone about to die, and that Fanny Griggs' school is broken up.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Laments that it has been so long since she heard from him or his family and wonders when they will come to visit. Gives news about local people. Tells of the wonderful addition that Dr. A. put on his house.","A.L.S. \tBlakeley to Mount Vernon. Had a tooth extracted. News of friends and neighbors. Has had influenza for 10 days.","A.L.S. White House. Gives his legal opinion as to a dispute among them. First the fact that the seine was not received by Mr. Washington at the appointed time, necessitating many difficulties. Second, the Hoopers did not receive the required loom but are entitled to some compensation for work done. His judgment is for $275 for Mr. Washington.","A.L.S. Hampstead, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses her love of gardening and the recent harvest. Says she likes the new teacher at a neighbor's house \"but she looks consumptive.\" Describes a monument to two boys.","A.D.S. Fairfax County. Indicates full payment of judgment from JAW to William Mason.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses the route of the turnpike and that it should go through Mr. E's land. It would split it up, and so Mason wants to offer other alternatives. Much of the land is prone to flooding and marshy. It would be very expensive to put the road through that.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses his written ordinance about how to deal with people coming onto unenclosed land and hunting or fishing. Talks of a particular problem with land along waterways. Wants JAW to write to lawmakers and make this happen.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia. Before the Legislature meets, he encloses a proposed measure to be enacted. Discusses counties to be included – all along the Potomac and Rappahanoc.","A.L.S. Rose Hill. Discusses the hiring of an African American boy to do odd jobs and will pay $15.","A.L.S. Discusses the sending of clover seed. Had a problem with old Henry who emptied some tailings for the hens near the clover, mixing some up. \"I think I never was more vexed with any human being in all my life.\"","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Mason writes describing an incident he had with West Ford on his plantation. This remarkable letter highlights the way Ford, despite being a free man, was still treated like a slave by others: \"On the evening of the Monday after Whitsunday, I was about sunset standing at my stable, giving some orders for the morning's work, when there passed within three or four yards of me a Negro man, who I did not know, without touching his hat, or any other recognition of my presence. After he had passed, I called to him asking who he was, and who did he belong to? He walked on, taking no notice, until I repeated the question, when he said 'Washington.' I then said, I suppose you have a name, and can tell me what Mr. Washington you belong to? He replied, 'West Ford.' His manner was insolent and supposing he was drunk, I said to him, there is the road to the gate, go off my place at once… When he got to the corner of the house, he commenced whooping and continued doing so, till he got out of the gate, which I had to send and have closed after him. I said nothing further to him, as he was obviously drunk; but directed one of my servants to go and tell him never to put his foot on the place again… Had he been anyone's servant but yours, I shd. have immediately had him apprehended and flogged for his impertinence; but satisfied that it could only be necessary to report the facts to you, and that you would take measures to prevent his ever coming here again, or repeating it, I have taken no further steps in the matter.\"","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Sorry to hear that JAW is no longer a magistrate of the county. Will do what he can to get Mr. Herbert elected magistrate, so he can form the patrol necessary.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia. Heard that all will be done to keep out a Yankee for the office of Justice. Hopes Mr. Herbert will consent to serve.","A.L.S. Writes about the issue of county taxes which have become exceedingly high, mainly to pay for road construction. Found out that one group was destroying his trees and running a new road through his land to take business away from the turnpike.","A.D.S. Acknowledges receipt of payment in full on her account for boots and shoes for various named men.","A.L.S. Tells him of the considerable debts ($2,169.80) of Cousin Hannah and wishes to know what is to be done about it.","A.L.S. Urges him to do well in school and to board with the principal and not to associate with his old school mate Charles J.","A.L.S. Describes her trip home and the friends and family she visited on the way. Had friends to dine but had difficulty with the dinner as meat is scarce.","A.L.S. Just sent George to the Charlestown P.O. with a letter and check to him. Sorry to hear that Nelly is again sick.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Describes her feelings at the recent losses of children and Noblet. Tells of much sickness in the area. \"Old Jenny's was by far the severest case, one which Dr. C. intirely dispaired of. She is recovering which we are thankful for, tho' old and feeble, she is good and pious, and has considerable influence with her children and fellow servants.\"","A.L.S. Has attached a check for $200 to be paid to the Exchange Bank in Alexandria toward her debt of $700. Was sorry to hear of Nelly's illness. Gives other family news.","A.L.S. Discusses a recently recorded deed. Describes health concerns of her sister. Bad weather is affecting planting. At end of letter: \"Matilda, your woman at Harewood has had an infant and lost it. It died after suffering greatly from fits. Dr. Cordell attended it.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon.  Has enclosed a check to be paid on her account with Mr. Hooff. Prices are low for horses and stock. Planting goes slowly. Gives family and friends news. Gives a recipe for quince jelly and marmalade. \"Remember me most kindly to Jenny \u0026 West \u0026 … indeed all our household at M.V.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. A brief note requesting him to \"let George have money $2.50 to get a pair of boots.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. She is sending Jenny and Fanny and hopes they will be \"useful and conduct themselves well.\" His carpenter came by the day after he left wanting some money he was owed as he had a debt to pay. Wants to visit them but wants him to let her know \"whether or not it is desirable for me to go. I shall not be in the slightest degree either hurt or offended at my room being preferable to my company.\" \"Mr. Rutherford … declines keeping Sally another year. I have told Mr. Shepperd to look out for a good place for her but I really think you had better take her down and either keep her at M.V. under your own eye as milker and washer or hire her out there. I think she and Alfred or Gabriel had better make a match.\"","A.L.S. All have been enjoying the visit from Augustine but regrets she and the children did not also come. Hannah is about to leave for New York for medical treatment, accompanied by Fanny. Thanks Louisa for the chow chow she made. News about a visit to cousin Ann Washington. Much talk of friends and family.","A.L.S. \"Your kind mother always advances for me the money with which I travel to the upper country. I am making my arrangements to move rather earlier than usual this summer that I may have the advantage of Cousin Betsy Winter's company … I shall take Rosina with me who is a fine sensible, amiable girl of fourteen, rather handsome, but bashful and awkward. She looks badly now from a sort of bilious fever without chills, which hangs about her in despite of blue pile etc.\"","A.L.S. Anna writes of the death of an enslaved woman named Harry: \"she died on Monday last, after a short illness, inflammation of the brain and womb… Dr. Alexander and Straith examined her body and found the womb and other organs around it entirely diseased. Mother has lost a kind and faithful servant, a sincere tho humble friend. We shall all feel her loss, to mother it is irreparable, she has no servant who can take her place.\"","A.L.S. Letter being carried by Randall, a slave, and tells of various people's health problems.","A.L.S.\t Hollin Hall to Mount Vernon. Has heard there is little chance of the law they want passing in this session of the Legislature. Gives his thoughts about future elections of people who will assist them.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Wonders whether he has recovered his slave. If so \"make a stern and proper example.\" Tells Augustine to come to him for trials and punishments of slaves.","A.D.S. Autograph copy. 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"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":168,"online_item_count_is":1,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T05:53:35.669Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vimtvl_repositories_3_resources_76","ead_ssi":"vimtvl_repositories_3_resources_76","_root_":"vimtvl_repositories_3_resources_76","_nest_parent_":"vimtvl_repositories_3_resources_76","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/MV/repositories_3_resources_76.xml","title_ssm":["Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington and John Augustine Washington III correspondence"],"title_tesim":["Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington and John Augustine Washington III correspondence"],"unitdate_ssm":["1837-1861"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1837-1861"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["2019.SC.035","/repositories/3/resources/76"],"text":["2019.SC.035","/repositories/3/resources/76","Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington and John Augustine Washington III correspondence","This collection is open for research during scheduled appointments. Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.","Arranged chronologically with undated material at the end of the collection.","Jane Charlotte Blackburn was born on August 23, 1786 at Rippon Lodge, Prince William, Virginia to Major Richard Scott Blackburn and Judith Blackburn. She married John Augustine Washington II and had five children, three of whom lived to adulthood – Anna Maria Thomasina Washington Alexander, John Augustine Washington III, and Richard Scott Blackburn Thomas. The couple lived at Blakely plantation near Charles Town, West Virginia, until the death of Bushrod Washington in 1829, who left the property of Mount Vernon to John Augustine Washington II in his will. When her husband died in 1832, Jane Charlotte Washington inherited Mount Vernon and vowed to maintain the estate to the best of her ability. She insisted her oldest son, John Augustine Washington III, attend college to better prepare him to someday manage the family's properties. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840 and a year later began overseeing all business at Mount Vernon for his mother. Jane Charlotte Washington died in 1855 and is buried at Mount Vernon with her husband.","John Augustine Washington was the great-grandnephew of George Washington and the last Washington to own Mount Vernon before its sale to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association (MVLA).  He was born on May 3, 1821 to John Augustine Washington II and Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840, and returned to Mount Vernon to manage the declining estate with his widowed mother's permission. In 1843, he married Eleanor Love Selden with whom he had seven children. He sold 200 acres of Mount Vernon to the MVLA in 1858 for $200,000, and he and his family moved to Waveland plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1860. He served as aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee, but was shot by a bushwhacker and died one week later on September 13, 1861.","John Augustine Washington III and Eleanor Love Selden Correspondence\nJohn Augustine Washington III and Descendants Papers\nJohn Augustine Washington III and MVLA Collection\nLawrence Washington Collection of Washington family papers\nHistoric Manuscripts Collection\nElswyth Thane Beebe Collection","The bulk of this collection is made up of letters from Jane Charlotte Washington to her son, John Augustine Washington III. Also included are letters to Eleanor Love Selden Washington, a few letters to or from John Augustine Washington III to various individuals, several letters from George Mason of Hollin Hall (1797-1870) to John Augustine Washington III, letters by Lackland and Alexander family members (relatives of the Washingtons) and three receipts. The subject matter of most letters is family or personal affairs and Mount Vernon business with some discussion of the enslaved people owned by the Washingtons. Inclusive dates are 1837 to 1861.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon. Tells him of four family members with consumption. Also \"have no servant to dispose of who would suit her sister, unless Milly would be willing for one of her three elder daughters to go. It would be a sure and good home I believe.\" Discusses sale of corn crop and other family news. Mentions repairs being made by Mr. Skidmore at Mt. Vernon. We have two other letters dated 1837 November 23 and 1838 November 1 mentioning repairs made by Jesse Skidmore. In 1839 July 27, Lawrence Lewis paid Skidmore for work done on the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","A.L.S. She is enclosing another $10 note requesting it get charged and sent to her by him.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is unable to join him at Mount Vernon as her business would not fare well. Is sending a horse down as he is better fitted for the saddle than harness. Writes about sending him to Mount Vernon to \"relieve Maj. Lewis,\" who is working with Struthers and Strickland to build the new tomb. Writes of her \"deep veneration and gratitude to the memory of Genl Washington.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Upon her return home, she found things had not been taken care of on her farm. A fodder house for the cattle was not placed correctly at all. She encouraged her son to get a good education at Mr. Hallowell's school in Alexandria.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She wants him to inquire about an appointment for Lawrence Washington who needs employment. Inquires about his studies and the repairs on the \"old mansion.\" Gives some family news and wants him to call on Mary and Julia.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Reports on crop yields. Says there \"have been some difficulties between the overseer and the Negroes\" on the Mountain. Tells him of the impending purchase of a pair of draft horses. Talks of sending Willoughby and Gabriel to Mount Vernon, as well as Henry and Dolly. (This is likely Gabriel Johnson, about whom we have at least nine other letters in the collection.) Mentions letting his cousin have Jesse at \"whatever you think a reasonable price.\" Reports pork prices are down and is worried about the expenses of repairs to Mount Vernon. Was sorry to \"learn by a letter from West that our crop of corn at Mount Vernon has turned out so badly.\" Might need to employ West for another year. More family news and greetings.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She was sorry to hear of his illness and tells him to leave Mount Vernon in the hands of hirelings and not endanger his health further by riding there. Refers to reading about \"Mr. Calhoun's and Mr. Clay's conversations in the Senate on Mr. Calhoun's resolutions respecting abolition petitions.\" Much difficulty regarding Jessy – Cousin Jane has abandoned all idea of purchasing her.","A.L.S. with additional writing by Jane C. Washington. Blakeley. Tells of new animals being born, his schooling, and family news. Jane adds: glad to hear his schooling is going well. Asks if he participated in the February 22 celebration. Is sorry he gave up Greek. Wants him to send her a translation from Latin or French. Orders shoes to be made for Kitty.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She returned home safely and passes along some family news. Harvest had not been started, but since she returned they have begun on the wheat. Much gets lost by \"having inefficient hands as rakers,\" so she requests him to send Willoughby and Gabriel up immediately. \"Labourers cannot be procured, and wages are higher than ever before known to be.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes he will get to enjoy his job at the Library of the House of Representatives. Thinks it will be good for his future. She is unwell at present. Reports on Dr. Gates who is also not doing well.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is troubled about getting Richard to be an \"irregular Cadet\" or maybe to West Point. Reports on the death of Dr. Yates. Gives various instructions and requests.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She hopes the water at White Sulphur Spring will prove beneficial. Describes a sermon on Communion Sunday and hopes he's hearing as good as that. Had a disappointing wheat crop. Contracted with Ford and Snyder for the crop. Gabriel is still there, with JAW's permission. Additional page from Aunt Judy Alexander, hoping he meets some young ladies.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She wants him to rent the Prospect Hill fields for three years to Mr. Anderson. George carried wheat and oats to him, as well as other items. Poor Tansel wants a place with him. He'll make rakes and \"I know he makes excellent shoes.\" Sends greetings to family.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She wants Maria and Augustine to return to Blakeley as both are sick. Is disturbed that cousin Jane means to keep Betty for the next year, despite knowing of the intention to send her to Mount Vernon. \"Shall I send Hannah or Sally down, or contend for Betty?\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. She relates the difficult journey of his sister to Blakeley. Is glad he is feeling better. Writes about selling enslaved people: \"I am sorry to tell you Milly I understand is unfit for hire, and we shall be obliged to keep her at home. Mr. Rutherford… will take Sally. She is said to be a first rate manager, a strict tho kind mistress. She is to give $35. Hannah I have as yet had no offer for. Closely confined at home without a way of getting out, I have not had it in my power to look out places for our hirelings and do not like to offer them at public hire.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Glad he got rid of his chills. The horse cart is so much in use it cannot be sent down to Mount Vernon. Will send George, Edmund, and Betty to him. Still been unable to get a place for Hannah whose character does not stand well as to docility or usefulness. More instructions as to how to deal with various servants.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. \"Dr. A. has determined to keep the servants. I hope they will continue faithful and useful to him. Willoughby is a grumbler, but I am sure he has no just cause of complaint. Dr. A is a human and liberal master. I think you give a high price for your wagoner. Negroes have generally hired lower than usual this year. Hannah is at present laid up, sd. I not be able to get a good and safe place for her, I will send her down by the first safe opportunity.\" \"Remember me most kindly to all our Mount Vernon household – dear Old Jenny especially and West Ford.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. She's so happy to hear from Dr. A that his health is much improved. Discusses financial difficulties. \"We must all practice strict economy.\" Sends family news.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon to Charlestown, Jefferson County, Virginia. Discusses the current low price for wood and Dr. Alexander and his travels. Regrets the failure of Ford and Snyder. Wants her to settle for Hannah's support as West thinks that she has not been given anything to eat. Also wants to remind Dick of a pair of boots for Mr. Morgan. Phil and Jesse have been sick for some time.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She hopes his health improves. Discusses disorder on banks, making business difficult. Is sorry this happened at the beginning of his life in business but hopes it will teach him. Tells of harvests and yields and gives some family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She's so glad he has recovered his health. Will be able to get clover seed shortly. Wants to plant the 90 acre field with oats. Sends greetings to Cary. Was able to hire Hannah out until Christmas.","A.L.S. Blakeley. George is off to Mount Vernon with a wagon full of goods. Requests various items to be brought back by him. Hopes his health remains good. His sister wishes to have Caroline whom she has hired brought down to Mount Vernon. She might come up with George. \"Remember me most kindly to Jenny – West's servant at Mount Vernon.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Sending this via Mr. Lamar requesting additional things for George to bring back. Describes a sermon given by Mr. Jones the previous Sunday. Hopes he will have \"our old establishment very clean white washed if not painted a little.\" Richard is not well but hopes he will join her when she goes down for a few days.","A.L.S. He is mortified that JAW might have been offended at not having received an invitation to dine with him, which was sent with a \"silly servant.\" He always values having his company and sends him some rhubarb with instructions as to its preparation.","A.L.S. Blakeley. George arrived safely yesterday afternoon. Disappointed various items from Mr. Hooff were not sent but instead sent via canal. Discusses prices of some items. Thanks him for fruit sent. Tells him to do what he thinks best with the greenhouse.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is anxiously awaiting the arrival of his hands from Mount Vernon as George Saunders Ned and Lewis are all laid up. Marie and Mary Jane are incapable of working out. Harvest has commenced. Wants him to send a barrel of white sand for plastering the pillars in the brick portico. Hopes he will come soon. Sends family greetings.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She had a good journey home with pleasant visits with friends on the way. \"You have a partial friend in Mr. S. altho' I think he would be pleased if you did not speak quite so loud.\" Richard says a man wants to rent the P.H. Farm but is unwilling to pay the terms requested. Describes two sermons she heard. Wants him to look in the study for letters which Uncle Bushrod says must be there.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Writes with suggestions for the furniture and carpet at Mount Vernon. She specifically mentions the \"little drawing room,\" \"parlor,\" \"front passage,\" \"little room,\" and \"old dining room.\" Fears she shall be left more largely in debt than ever yet been. A Dutch farmer wants to rent P. Hole farm.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Gives some financial information. \"If the work is all finished at Mount Vernon both Harry and Fanny had better come but if there is still any thing for Fanny to do, she can remain.\" Requests items to be brought up, including lemons and oranges. Family news, including that Uncle Bushrod remains confined to his couch.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has not heard from him. Ordered various building supplies. Financial times are very difficult and strict economy is necessary. Will send him some of her horses until his can be matched. Since Mary Jane is sick, Fanny should return to care for her. \"Remember me most kindly to my Old Jenny and West.\"","A.L.S. Walnut Farm to Mount Vernon. She returned home on Saturday and deplored the roads in Harpers Ferry. \"It seems Mr. John Selden is anxious to purchase Harriet. She was appraised at $400 with her child. She is said to be an excellent servant, and if you can get her in place of Hannah, Julia, or Sally, I think you had better do so. Julia is now at Blakely, having laid up and then come off without Lake's permission… Dr. Cordell has been called out to see her twice and from his prescription I rather suppose thinks very little except hysteria ails her.\" Discusses crops and a sermon and sends family greetings.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has not been feeling well at all lately. Has heard from Cousin Lorenzo Lewis that Augustine looks very well. She would have liked to have heard that from him or his wife. \"The servants are becoming more and more worthless and disobedient. I really find it very difficult to govern them, or to have the most necessary domestic work attended to with any regularity.\" Family news. Wants him to send Harry up before harvest.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She's glad to hear that he and Nelly are doing so well. Much family news. \"Remember me very kindly to my good and faithful Jenny and Harry, also West and Eliza.\"","A.L.S. Bath to Blakeley. She is in Bath for the waters. It is very crowded, and all the houses are full. Heard two good sermons but then was ill again.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon.  She is concerned about poor Jenny and hopes the operation will give her a better chance of recovery. Many family members are ill. Another description of a sermon she heard.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She tells of travel difficulties. Relates some gossip. Made a deal for some provisions, but nothing has been delivered. She advanced the man $150. Family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Lots of news about family and friends. Also mentions Hannah and Rebecca being still invalids and that Thomas has again gone to Maryland. \"The boys have bought a wagon and two or three servants.\"","A.L.S. Mount Vernon. She wants to know if certain lawyers are in Alexandria or Washington. Also wishes to subscribe to the Audubon works and asks him to see to that.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has been anxious at not hearing from him. Wants him to send the rent check for $500 as soon as possible. Wants him to send the fish via the Misses Moore's boats on the canal. Mentions the subject of Julia's purchase. Family and friend news. Additional page following receipt of his letter. Sorry the fishery has been unsuccessful. Due to drought the strawberries gave poor yield.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She received the check from him. His carpenter is unwilling to go to Mount Vernon before late next autumn due to the climate there. Has tried to find out why the fish and shingles he was to send have not been found on the wharves for the Misses Moore's boats to bring.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon. Deals with settling the estate of Mr. Selden. Discusses his purchase of Mary, an enslaved woman who seems to be quite ill and therefore not worth more than $50 or $60. His wife does not want her sold away. Also wants to sell the corn crop at Exeter.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She is glad he was able to go to Philadelphia. Mentions the death of the wife of Lewis Washington. His sister was with her at her death, and Jane was there through the funeral. Is anxious about Charles' daughter Catherine who was sent via stage to Mrs. Page who did not want her after all and seems unwilling to pay the stage driver for her passage. Discusses the hiring of a German gardener for Mount Vernon. Wants him to send a shoe she left at Mount Vernon and a quantity of cotton.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She is busy with pork business and will send two barrels of hams and one of lard. Complains about his brother and his wife coming without replying to her as to when they would arrive. Says her health is very infirm.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Thanks him for the articles send, including oysters and ducks. Discusses sale of corn and is keeping some back to get a better price in the spring. Gives family news and that Captain Symington \"is stationed at H.F. where the government intends having erected barracks for him.\" Discusses the benefits of religion. Wants him to give a \"piece of old bacon/shoulders to West, Jenny and Phill.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Lengthy discussion of the purchase of a house by Dr. Alexander and his sister. The finances of this are described.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. She is \"sorry to hear of the disturbances among the negroes, especially poor Alfred. I think you had better sell him. Perhaps you might do it advantageously to some one in Richmond, who wants a capable and trustworthy servant. I am told Jim is very much distressed at parting with his son. If the purchaser of Alfred is willing to take Jim and he wishes to go, I have no objection to it.\" Discusses various crop prices. Reports the death of one child from scarlet fever and how it sickens many in Charleston.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Discusses a few financial matters. \"Hannah was sick \u0026 soon gave birth to a still born infant a boy. It was a mercy the event occurred for decomposition had commenced.\" People are still getting sick with scarlet fever.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Describes the symptoms and illness with scarlet fever of Julia. She will be unable to attend Jane Davis's wedding. \"I have been in a most unsettled state for a long time. It seems difficult to get my family matters and business settled into any regular method again.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Julia Alexander died from scarlet fever. Others are also ill. She will not come to Mount Vernon for fear of bringing the disease with her and wants him to collect rents due her and pay various bills from that and send the rest to her.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discussion of finances and sale of stock. Gives medical advice to him for various people. Tells of recent election – not more than half of either party voted. Uncle Bushrod is going to Maryland to attend a meeting of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has \"the severest attack of Influenza I have had for two years.\" Kitty has discarded Lt. Hooe due to his poor conduct. Describes drought conditions badly affecting crops.","A.L.S. Draft copy. Mount Vernon. Refuses permission to bring a party of military people to Mount Vernon by water. Does not want boats to dock there, but will allow them to enter if they arrive by land.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Have had much sickness. \"Thompson, Jerry and Mingo laid up; in consequence of which George is driving the wagon… Am now endeavoring to save what apples remain on the trees and prepare winter clothing for the servants.\" Wants him to come visit.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Have had an unusual degree of sickness. \"Poor old Mingo is thought to be dying!... Berkeley, Jerry, and Thompson are still on the sick list.\" Tells of death of a neighbor who shot himself by accident as he was mounting his horse. Is unable to bring the wheat to the mill as the mill was \"dangerously full.\" Describes a difficult journey by his aunt. At end \"Mingo is Dead.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She was still too ill at Christmas to visit others. \"We have still four or five cases of typhoid fever at the quarters. Charlotte among them she is still very sick. The Dr. hopes a favourable change has taken place in Selina, Saul and Jerry. Mary came out today. I have taken Sophy home and hope to be able to get on with her under Fanny's superintendance.\" Other descriptions of moving enslaved people around. Relates episode of Julia having escaped from Cousin H. and coming to her.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Tells him Col. and Mrs. Davenport intend to visit him at Mount Vernon. Wants them to entertain them well. Discusses politics – \"the great question of Annexation.\" Mr. Rivers' speech was a great production. \"He feels as we do, the waning power of our once great \u0026 noble state.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She returned from a ride feeling quite well again. Describes a beautiful snowfall. \"I am sorry to hear you have still sickness among your servants. It is also the case here, new cases constantly occuring. The Dr. has been a daily visiter with the exception of two or three days. Milly's youngest child is now ill.\" Describes the death of his cousin. Other family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Describes her journey home from Mount Vernon, visiting friends on the way. \"Richard … is going Missouri and wishes to purchase Negroes to take with him. He has yet made no offer for Caroline, tho' we understand he wishes to get her. She I am told is averse to going.\" Describes a sermon and exhorts him to read the Bible. Family information. \"Excuse this blotted ill written scrawl. Read and burn it.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses the naming of his new baby girl. Nelly wanted to name her after Jane, but she thought she should be named after Nelly's recently deceased grandmother. Tells of financial difficulties of Dr. A. and the prices of crops. After her signature – \"Destroy this letter.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Writes to discuss ways to assist Dr. A. \"out of his present difficulties.\" Wants him to come visit soon with the family.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses a large christenings in church. Relates tale of two men who recently died from intemperance. Also tells plans for an upcoming wedding and where various guests will stay.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Has yet to hear back from him in answer to her letter about Dr. A. Tells him of what she wants to do for him. Gives instructions as to how he should travel to visit her with the family.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Wants to send George with the carriage to bring her and the children. Describes dancing by various people. Wants to receive some financial records.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Tells him of money placed in bank \"for servants sold… (Humphrey, Shedrack, Thompson, Caroline, Little Daniel, Margaret, and John).\" \"I am not well and feel a good deal agitated at the sale tho' I believe it will be better for all concerned but it is distressing to break up families by sales.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Sending notes to him and hopes he will return as soon as he arranges this business. Nelly and the girls are well, though Lou has still a cough.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Misses the family and tells of items that were left during their last visit. Much rain has kept her from church. Maria sent jars of quince jelly for her. Gives family news and describes some roses. Sends message to Augustine \"to write to his old and now very unimportant mother.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Describes family members' travels. Not a good wheat crop. Discusses the estate of Mr. Foote and how it treats his wife. Talks about the American B.S. and its efforts to bring the Bible to 10,000 families who have none. Asks him to pay some bills for her.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Congratulates him on getting much ice stored in his ice house as \"it is a luxury, essential to health, and economy in domestic management.\" \"I believe slaves will become less and less valuable; and unless we keep them in the hope of being able to liberate and provide for them: for pecuniary interest, it is best to own, only as many as are necessary for the ordinary work of our farms.\" Many hams were spoilt, so they cannot offer any.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Much sickness in the early spring of cholera. Many people unable to work – Old Jenny, Maria and Dick, Lewis and George obliged to plough. Her cook Eliza has a crippled sore arm. Sophy, Joe, and Little Tom have been helping with many guests. Much discussion of weather.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Tells of various charges Richard made on his behalf. The weather has badly affected the crops. Wants to travel to Chicago in the summer. \"Richard has purchased West's little farm… West intends going West.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Sorry to hear about his return of chills. Their diet has been quite poor with a lack of vegetables and fresh meat. Thanks him for the check he sent, but he forgot to sign it. Describes another sermon. Requests him to send cypress shingles as soon as possible as the house leaks when it rains.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon to Charlestown, Jefferson County. Discusses failure to purchase mules at auction. He is unable to procure the peaches she wanted in Alexandria as many fruits have already fallen off the trees. West Ford said they needed some double shovel ploughs to put in the wheat.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Baltimore. She is sorry to hear of Lou's \"hooping cough.\" Other family news. Long description of Mr. Tacker and his vision of his impending death. Is sorry that Augustine is alone at Mount Vernon with the servants who have been \"a source of disquiet and distress to him.\"","Summerville, Gloucester County, Virginia to Alexandria. Tells him of a property coming for sale in the area. Also wants to make bricks and needs a \"responsible white man to superintend.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Congratulates him on the birth of another daughter. Gives news of Richard.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Nelly is recovering from childbirth, and the baby thrives. Nelly wishes him to remind Miss Entwisle about the dresses.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Gives prices of bushels of wheat from Mr. Burns and Mr. Snyder.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a wedding and the young guests at the dinner. Discusses an Irishman who came to sell her tablecloths which she did not want. Letter was written over several days. She really misses the family.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Won't give him the family news as she just passed that along to Nelly in a very recent letter. Thanks him for paying her bills. Discusses rental of the Ferry Landing fisheries and wants to rent to Mr. Whitall. Will let him decide whether to increase the fisheries.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Entreats him to take it easy in the winter. They have had much snow. Uncle Bushrod has much ice stored away and offered some to her as her pond had a defect which caused it to drain. Discusses finances. He may rent out North Farm. \"I fear however you will have many difficulties and vexations if you let the servants go with the farm.\" Tells of his sister having a tumour under her arm. Also their church burned. Tells him of the death of her true friend Mrs. Adams.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes different people reading the will. Hopes his brother and family reached Mount Vernon safely. \"I think if the ladies attend the Inauguration of our brave honest chief, they had better join Mrs. Madison – who I am sure would be gratified at their so doing, and render their visit much more agreeable.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Has been anxiously awaiting a reply from him to her letter of a month ago. Wants to know when the monuments would be brought to Mount Vernon and the sum of money to be obtained. Is sending George with barrels containing hams and some apples. Wants him to return with the horses only, leaving the carriage. There was a fire at Hannah's house which was extinguished.","A.L.S. Gives much family news. Discusses lower prices for wheat and increasing the salary of the woman who must cook for Mr. Graham and all who are on the farm. Wants his help hiring a new overseer.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is waiting to hear from him as to the overseer and waiting to see if Mr. Graham will accept the terms offered. \"Richard intends hiring out the hands he employed on the farm hoping to derive more clear profit from the Hires than he has received from the farm.\" Questions whether she should do anything about the deed for Mount Vernon drawn up. His sister Maria continues to look quite ill.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Snyder has delivered in mill his rent wheat. Writes that she is sending the deed to Mount Vernon, which has officially been signed over to him. Discusses an interesting trial in Charlestown. \"A Negro hired by Anderson … made an assault on Anderson for which he was committed and is today to be tried. The gentlemen all seemed to consider the issue of high importance. It certainly is to the miserable prisoner whose fate will be selling, transportation, or Death! I trust the decision will be merciful.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Writes about acquiring copies of the free papers for a formerly enslaved man named William Lyons. He is hoping to travel to Tennessee to visit his parents. Tells him his sister continues to do poorly.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Relates the sending of the deed conveying Mount Vernon to him. Is preparing to have Maria come stay for a while.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Maria has been there for a week and continues to be very ill. Tells him his tenants have not honoured his orders. More family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Discusses difficulties with the harvest and procuring labourers. Dr. Alexander hired a tutor for Charlotte who is very well thought of. More neighborhood and family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes Nelly will soon be able to travel and recommends she drink a tea (\"it can no doubt be had at Stablers\") as the best remedy in her case. \"The servants … are very much alarmed in regard to cholera.\" Wants him to get some good port and M. Wine. She can get good whiskey in C-town.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is very glad of the dividend declared by the Alexandria Bank. They have had severe colds but not cholera.","A.L.S. Caledon to Mount Vernon. Writing from Caledon and describes journey there. Their trunk did not arrive with them, so they have no change of clothes. Tells stories from the boat trip.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Much family news. Tells him a cousin died shortly after their visit. Richard \"seems to be a very happy man, he surely is blest in his wife \u0026 eight children.\" Dr. A has acquired an excellent housekeeper.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells of Annie ill with scarlet fever and how the doctor has her rubbed with a piece of raw fat bacon. Is now much improved. Was in care of Miss Gantt, the housekeeper, whom she praises highly. Wishes she could have heard Miss Lind sing at Mount Vernon. Describes a sermon. More news about friends and relatives.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes the symptoms of \"our dear little John\" and is sure something is wrong with his spine. Tells of the route of the turnpike and how it will cut off some of his woodland. Much news about family and acquaintances. Is very pleased with \"our young minister\" and hopes his teachings will help everyone.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Top portion of first page cut away, incomplete letter. Wants him to see the plans for the turnpike as it might cut through his land. Mrs. Briscoe's son would like to visit Mount Vernon and will bring any letter or package there.","A.L.S. Blakeley. More on the Turnpike passing through his farm. Entreats him to not bring forward tempting articles which are stimulating and exciting during his brother's visit. She is unable to visit due to pressing business.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Met Dr. Alexander and family before church and invited them to dinner. Encloses a letter from Mrs. Moran who would like to stay at Mount Vernon on her way to visit Jane. Is sending George with fish to be pickled. Sends remembrances to \"your maids Sarah, Eliza, Fanny and Amanda.\"","A.L.S. Thanks him for the fish and oysters sent by wagon. George did not properly stack items on the wagon, and much was damaged. The prayer book for Louisa has finally arrived and will be sent as soon as possible.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses difficulties of Mr. Whitall and the fishery. Hopes to collect from Snyder and will send it to him. News about friends and family. Finished planting corn. Had snow recently.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells him she got $200 from Mr. Rutherford which will be deposited in a bank in Charlestown. He informed them that the roof of the barn is in need of repair. Gives family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Wants Nelly and the children to visit after harvest and will send George with the carriage to get them. Hopes Augustine will be friends with Mr. Moran. Has been sick and taken \"an unusual quantity of opium for me.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is glad his servants have recovered and \"that you … have not suffered from your humane and close attendance on them.\" Was sorry to hear that Ephraim had fallen a victim. Tells him of a good friend who seems to be recovering. Gives a recipe for a remedy. Talks about the harvest and the various servants who are working on it. Is considering renting out her farm though she would retain part. Tells of Hannah's health.","A.L.S. Springland to Staunton, Virginia. Urges her not to think too much of home and to apply herself to her books and music. Gives family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is happy to hear they are all healthy. Relates family news and gives him business advice. Describes hearing a musician. Discusses Mr. Rutherford and his acquiring bone dust to use as fertilizer.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She was so sorry to learn of the disaster that occurred to the vessel that was taking his wheat to market. Describes her journey home. At end, thanks him for the venison.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is so sorry about his heavy loss and prays that God will help him through it. More family news about various people being ill.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a sermon on intemperance. Discusses health problems of John and hopes he will improve when the weather gets better. Much family news.","A.L.S. Springland to Staunton, Virginia. Tells her that her last two letters appear to have been robbed. Gives news about her mother, grandmother, and sister.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Hopes Augustine is recovering. Much sickness in her house. Sent a new plough to Augustine. Hopes it arrives in time. Other family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a visit from Mrs. Powel and various other family members. Wants part of the rent on the fishery to go toward the purchase of a piano for Louisa and the rest sent to her to pay off some debts. Sends love to all and reports on a few deaths.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to the visit from him and his family in July. Describes harvesting of wheat and rye after much rain. Both had much desired Mr. Fillmore's election to the presidency. Wants Noblet to return from California.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is enclosing some stock certificates to Mr. Eaches to be her attorney. Glad Nelly and the children are safely home. Tells of the loss of Richard and Christian's children.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to Augustine's visit. Invited Kitty to spend the winter with her, but she will go elsewhere. News about various acquaintances. The disagreeable pork business is done, and she is sending three barrels of pippins via boat.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Thanks him for the $200 check which enabled her to pay her tax bill. Is again concerned about Noblet. Tells of Kitty Wright's trip to Winchester where her companion became ill with typhoid fever. Kitty \"is now with us, with three lovely children, and a good coloured girl (a slave) the one whom she hired.\" All her friends send their love.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. \"Gabriel has sent in to say he wishes to set off tomorrow on his return home.\" Tells of much family with her at Christmas time.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has been awaiting his visit and wonders about the cause of the delay. Still no news about Noblet. Tells of returning Annie Burnett home after she came into Richard's pew in church and wanted to come home with her. The next day she returned home.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Put $600 in bank to his credit. Kitty and her three children left with Sophy replacing the other nurse who has been ill for the children","A.L.S. Blakeley. There is much whooping cough going around with so far one death. The weather is very fine, and there are many flowers. Glad to hear the fisheries are doing well. Describes her visit to Walnut Farm and the people she saw while there. Asks if he has seen the Masonic oration on the \"centennial commemoration of the initiation of George Washington into the order of free Masons.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She was sorry to hear about the hail storm they had. Celebrated Hannah's birthday. Will send this letter with William Lyons who is leaving to see Augustine. Other family and friend news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is so glad Eliza is recovered. So sad about the death of Dr. Powel. More news about impending visits. General Duvall will be in Washington soon and would like to see Augustine so he could become \"acquainted with many of the influential members from the South \u0026 West, with whom he wishes you to become acquainted in case you still determine on disposing of M.V.\"","A.L.S. \tBlakeley. Wants either a visit from them or for her to visit them before winter sets in. She had quite a pleasant visit to New York and Philadelphia. Tells him of climbing 180 steps of the Washington Monument in Baltimore and having a beautiful view. Glad they have obtained a governess for the girls.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is sorry Nelly is sick but will be unable to come down until after Christmas. Has several articles brought from N.Y. for \"my deal g.children at M.V.\"","A.L.S. Tells him of a deposit in bank for his use. Grieved to learn Eliza continues in feeble health. Visited Walnut Farm and heard from Dr. Alexander that \"the financial affairs of our church are in a very confused \u0026 entangled state.\" Looking forward to her trip to New York.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Paid $200 on stock note at bank. Is anxious about his brother determining to go to Housekeeping \u0026 renting Col. Devenport's House. He will still be at Blakeley every day. She has been suffering from dyspepsia. Glad to hear the governess gives satisfaction. Reference to Miss Nancy at Walnut Farm, who \"is not only a good house keeper but also understands gardening.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells him Mr. and Mrs. Depau intend visiting Mount Vernon, along with their son. Richard and family left for their new home and are much missed. She feels quite anxious to see her \"dear children at M.V. especially my grandson whose name I am as yet unacquainted with.\" Says two of our Cedar lawn cousins are to be married. \"The servants have been divided \u0026 the Cedar Lawn will be sold.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Sympathizes with the delayed visit due to the sickness of the family \"and death of your valuable and good young servant Dennis. It is a severe affliction to his poor mother. He was I think her youngest child.\" Is most anxious to see her grandson Lawrence. Had a visit from his brother and Christian and their son John. Went by invitation to Mr. Lovel's school where pupils delivered speeches and addresses. Wants the family to visit and will have rooms fixed up for them. Sends \"kind regards to your good \u0026 faithful servant Eliza, Danny \u0026 Sarah.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to a shipment of \"Nellies Pickled Rockfish\" to share with neighbours \u0026 friends. Discusses planting of crops. Will visit him and his family \"this day week,\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes her trip back home from Mount Vernon. Everyone is harvesting but having difficulty obtaining sufficient hands for the task.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells of the sudden death of Mrs. Selden and the funeral. Mentions harvests and addition to his house Dr. A. is doing. Wants to see him and the family. Mr. Rutherford wishes to renew his lease on the farm.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes Maria's arm heals well and that he received the two barrels of oats she sent. Gives news about family. Tells of \"our beloved Charlotte\" taking communion and becoming a member of the church.","A.L.S. Blakeley.  She is so sorry that Richard is ill but glad that Augustine is with him. Tells of George's illness. Gives more family news and hopes to see the family soon.","A.L.S. Requests he send him the cantaloupe seeds he talked about. Wants to talk about a system of patrols \"to try \u0026 keep our slaves at home.\" Says the slaves are stealing so much from them and taking it to Alexandria. Says everyone in the neighborhood of slave holders could contribute to hire 6 good men to patrol.","A.L.S. New Charlestown to Richmond. Sends family news and gives advice as to her traveling home. Tells of someone about to die, and that Fanny Griggs' school is broken up.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Laments that it has been so long since she heard from him or his family and wonders when they will come to visit. Gives news about local people. Tells of the wonderful addition that Dr. A. put on his house.","A.L.S. \tBlakeley to Mount Vernon. Had a tooth extracted. News of friends and neighbors. Has had influenza for 10 days.","A.L.S. White House. Gives his legal opinion as to a dispute among them. First the fact that the seine was not received by Mr. Washington at the appointed time, necessitating many difficulties. Second, the Hoopers did not receive the required loom but are entitled to some compensation for work done. His judgment is for $275 for Mr. Washington.","A.L.S. Hampstead, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses her love of gardening and the recent harvest. Says she likes the new teacher at a neighbor's house \"but she looks consumptive.\" Describes a monument to two boys.","A.D.S. Fairfax County. Indicates full payment of judgment from JAW to William Mason.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses the route of the turnpike and that it should go through Mr. E's land. It would split it up, and so Mason wants to offer other alternatives. Much of the land is prone to flooding and marshy. It would be very expensive to put the road through that.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses his written ordinance about how to deal with people coming onto unenclosed land and hunting or fishing. Talks of a particular problem with land along waterways. Wants JAW to write to lawmakers and make this happen.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia. Before the Legislature meets, he encloses a proposed measure to be enacted. Discusses counties to be included – all along the Potomac and Rappahanoc.","A.L.S. Rose Hill. Discusses the hiring of an African American boy to do odd jobs and will pay $15.","A.L.S. Discusses the sending of clover seed. Had a problem with old Henry who emptied some tailings for the hens near the clover, mixing some up. \"I think I never was more vexed with any human being in all my life.\"","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Mason writes describing an incident he had with West Ford on his plantation. This remarkable letter highlights the way Ford, despite being a free man, was still treated like a slave by others: \"On the evening of the Monday after Whitsunday, I was about sunset standing at my stable, giving some orders for the morning's work, when there passed within three or four yards of me a Negro man, who I did not know, without touching his hat, or any other recognition of my presence. After he had passed, I called to him asking who he was, and who did he belong to? He walked on, taking no notice, until I repeated the question, when he said 'Washington.' I then said, I suppose you have a name, and can tell me what Mr. Washington you belong to? He replied, 'West Ford.' His manner was insolent and supposing he was drunk, I said to him, there is the road to the gate, go off my place at once… When he got to the corner of the house, he commenced whooping and continued doing so, till he got out of the gate, which I had to send and have closed after him. I said nothing further to him, as he was obviously drunk; but directed one of my servants to go and tell him never to put his foot on the place again… Had he been anyone's servant but yours, I shd. have immediately had him apprehended and flogged for his impertinence; but satisfied that it could only be necessary to report the facts to you, and that you would take measures to prevent his ever coming here again, or repeating it, I have taken no further steps in the matter.\"","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Sorry to hear that JAW is no longer a magistrate of the county. Will do what he can to get Mr. Herbert elected magistrate, so he can form the patrol necessary.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia. Heard that all will be done to keep out a Yankee for the office of Justice. Hopes Mr. Herbert will consent to serve.","A.L.S. Writes about the issue of county taxes which have become exceedingly high, mainly to pay for road construction. Found out that one group was destroying his trees and running a new road through his land to take business away from the turnpike.","A.D.S. Acknowledges receipt of payment in full on her account for boots and shoes for various named men.","A.L.S. Tells him of the considerable debts ($2,169.80) of Cousin Hannah and wishes to know what is to be done about it.","A.L.S. Urges him to do well in school and to board with the principal and not to associate with his old school mate Charles J.","A.L.S. Describes her trip home and the friends and family she visited on the way. Had friends to dine but had difficulty with the dinner as meat is scarce.","A.L.S. Just sent George to the Charlestown P.O. with a letter and check to him. Sorry to hear that Nelly is again sick.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Describes her feelings at the recent losses of children and Noblet. Tells of much sickness in the area. \"Old Jenny's was by far the severest case, one which Dr. C. intirely dispaired of. She is recovering which we are thankful for, tho' old and feeble, she is good and pious, and has considerable influence with her children and fellow servants.\"","A.L.S. Has attached a check for $200 to be paid to the Exchange Bank in Alexandria toward her debt of $700. Was sorry to hear of Nelly's illness. Gives other family news.","A.L.S. Discusses a recently recorded deed. Describes health concerns of her sister. Bad weather is affecting planting. At end of letter: \"Matilda, your woman at Harewood has had an infant and lost it. It died after suffering greatly from fits. Dr. Cordell attended it.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon.  Has enclosed a check to be paid on her account with Mr. Hooff. Prices are low for horses and stock. Planting goes slowly. Gives family and friends news. Gives a recipe for quince jelly and marmalade. \"Remember me most kindly to Jenny \u0026 West \u0026 … indeed all our household at M.V.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. A brief note requesting him to \"let George have money $2.50 to get a pair of boots.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. She is sending Jenny and Fanny and hopes they will be \"useful and conduct themselves well.\" His carpenter came by the day after he left wanting some money he was owed as he had a debt to pay. Wants to visit them but wants him to let her know \"whether or not it is desirable for me to go. I shall not be in the slightest degree either hurt or offended at my room being preferable to my company.\" \"Mr. Rutherford … declines keeping Sally another year. I have told Mr. Shepperd to look out for a good place for her but I really think you had better take her down and either keep her at M.V. under your own eye as milker and washer or hire her out there. I think she and Alfred or Gabriel had better make a match.\"","A.L.S. All have been enjoying the visit from Augustine but regrets she and the children did not also come. Hannah is about to leave for New York for medical treatment, accompanied by Fanny. Thanks Louisa for the chow chow she made. News about a visit to cousin Ann Washington. Much talk of friends and family.","A.L.S. \"Your kind mother always advances for me the money with which I travel to the upper country. I am making my arrangements to move rather earlier than usual this summer that I may have the advantage of Cousin Betsy Winter's company … I shall take Rosina with me who is a fine sensible, amiable girl of fourteen, rather handsome, but bashful and awkward. She looks badly now from a sort of bilious fever without chills, which hangs about her in despite of blue pile etc.\"","A.L.S. Anna writes of the death of an enslaved woman named Harry: \"she died on Monday last, after a short illness, inflammation of the brain and womb… Dr. Alexander and Straith examined her body and found the womb and other organs around it entirely diseased. Mother has lost a kind and faithful servant, a sincere tho humble friend. We shall all feel her loss, to mother it is irreparable, she has no servant who can take her place.\"","A.L.S. Letter being carried by Randall, a slave, and tells of various people's health problems.","A.L.S.\t Hollin Hall to Mount Vernon. Has heard there is little chance of the law they want passing in this session of the Legislature. Gives his thoughts about future elections of people who will assist them.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Wonders whether he has recovered his slave. If so \"make a stern and proper example.\" Tells Augustine to come to him for trials and punishments of slaves.","A.D.S. Autograph copy. Describes an ordinance stating consequences if anyone shall \"root, hunt, range, fish or fowl\" on private land.","Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon","Washington, Jane Charlotte Blackburn, 1786-1855","Washington, John Augustine, III, 1821-1861","Mason, George, 1797-1870","Washington, Eleanor Love Selden, 1824-1860","Tabb, John Prosser","Alexander, Judith Ball Blackburn, 1796-1866","Alexander, William Fontaine, 1811-1862","Ford, West, approximately 1784-1863","Alexander, Anna Maria Washington, 1817-1850","English \n.    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When her husband died in 1832, Jane Charlotte Washington inherited Mount Vernon and vowed to maintain the estate to the best of her ability. She insisted her oldest son, John Augustine Washington III, attend college to better prepare him to someday manage the family's properties. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840 and a year later began overseeing all business at Mount Vernon for his mother. Jane Charlotte Washington died in 1855 and is buried at Mount Vernon with her husband.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJohn Augustine Washington was the great-grandnephew of George Washington and the last Washington to own Mount Vernon before its sale to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association (MVLA).  He was born on May 3, 1821 to John Augustine Washington II and Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840, and returned to Mount Vernon to manage the declining estate with his widowed mother's permission. In 1843, he married Eleanor Love Selden with whom he had seven children. He sold 200 acres of Mount Vernon to the MVLA in 1858 for $200,000, and he and his family moved to Waveland plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1860. He served as aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee, but was shot by a bushwhacker and died one week later on September 13, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Jane Charlotte Blackburn was born on August 23, 1786 at Rippon Lodge, Prince William, Virginia to Major Richard Scott Blackburn and Judith Blackburn. She married John Augustine Washington II and had five children, three of whom lived to adulthood – Anna Maria Thomasina Washington Alexander, John Augustine Washington III, and Richard Scott Blackburn Thomas. The couple lived at Blakely plantation near Charles Town, West Virginia, until the death of Bushrod Washington in 1829, who left the property of Mount Vernon to John Augustine Washington II in his will. When her husband died in 1832, Jane Charlotte Washington inherited Mount Vernon and vowed to maintain the estate to the best of her ability. She insisted her oldest son, John Augustine Washington III, attend college to better prepare him to someday manage the family's properties. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840 and a year later began overseeing all business at Mount Vernon for his mother. Jane Charlotte Washington died in 1855 and is buried at Mount Vernon with her husband.","John Augustine Washington was the great-grandnephew of George Washington and the last Washington to own Mount Vernon before its sale to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association (MVLA).  He was born on May 3, 1821 to John Augustine Washington II and Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840, and returned to Mount Vernon to manage the declining estate with his widowed mother's permission. In 1843, he married Eleanor Love Selden with whom he had seven children. He sold 200 acres of Mount Vernon to the MVLA in 1858 for $200,000, and he and his family moved to Waveland plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1860. He served as aide-de-camp to General Robert E. 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Also included are letters to Eleanor Love Selden Washington, a few letters to or from John Augustine Washington III to various individuals, several letters from George Mason of Hollin Hall (1797-1870) to John Augustine Washington III, letters by Lackland and Alexander family members (relatives of the Washingtons) and three receipts. The subject matter of most letters is family or personal affairs and Mount Vernon business with some discussion of the enslaved people owned by the Washingtons. Inclusive dates are 1837 to 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Mount Vernon. Tells him of four family members with consumption. Also \"have no servant to dispose of who would suit her sister, unless Milly would be willing for one of her three elder daughters to go. It would be a sure and good home I believe.\" Discusses sale of corn crop and other family news. Mentions repairs being made by Mr. Skidmore at Mt. Vernon. We have two other letters dated 1837 November 23 and 1838 November 1 mentioning repairs made by Jesse Skidmore. In 1839 July 27, Lawrence Lewis paid Skidmore for work done on the new tomb at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. She is enclosing another $10 note requesting it get charged and sent to her by him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is unable to join him at Mount Vernon as her business would not fare well. Is sending a horse down as he is better fitted for the saddle than harness. Writes about sending him to Mount Vernon to \"relieve Maj. Lewis,\" who is working with Struthers and Strickland to build the new tomb. Writes of her \"deep veneration and gratitude to the memory of Genl Washington.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Upon her return home, she found things had not been taken care of on her farm. A fodder house for the cattle was not placed correctly at all. She encouraged her son to get a good education at Mr. Hallowell's school in Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She wants him to inquire about an appointment for Lawrence Washington who needs employment. Inquires about his studies and the repairs on the \"old mansion.\" Gives some family news and wants him to call on Mary and Julia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Reports on crop yields. Says there \"have been some difficulties between the overseer and the Negroes\" on the Mountain. Tells him of the impending purchase of a pair of draft horses. Talks of sending Willoughby and Gabriel to Mount Vernon, as well as Henry and Dolly. (This is likely Gabriel Johnson, about whom we have at least nine other letters in the collection.) Mentions letting his cousin have Jesse at \"whatever you think a reasonable price.\" Reports pork prices are down and is worried about the expenses of repairs to Mount Vernon. Was sorry to \"learn by a letter from West that our crop of corn at Mount Vernon has turned out so badly.\" Might need to employ West for another year. More family news and greetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She was sorry to hear of his illness and tells him to leave Mount Vernon in the hands of hirelings and not endanger his health further by riding there. Refers to reading about \"Mr. Calhoun's and Mr. Clay's conversations in the Senate on Mr. Calhoun's resolutions respecting abolition petitions.\" Much difficulty regarding Jessy – Cousin Jane has abandoned all idea of purchasing her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. with additional writing by Jane C. Washington. Blakeley. Tells of new animals being born, his schooling, and family news. Jane adds: glad to hear his schooling is going well. Asks if he participated in the February 22 celebration. Is sorry he gave up Greek. Wants him to send her a translation from Latin or French. Orders shoes to be made for Kitty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She returned home safely and passes along some family news. Harvest had not been started, but since she returned they have begun on the wheat. Much gets lost by \"having inefficient hands as rakers,\" so she requests him to send Willoughby and Gabriel up immediately. \"Labourers cannot be procured, and wages are higher than ever before known to be.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes he will get to enjoy his job at the Library of the House of Representatives. Thinks it will be good for his future. She is unwell at present. Reports on Dr. Gates who is also not doing well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is troubled about getting Richard to be an \"irregular Cadet\" or maybe to West Point. Reports on the death of Dr. Yates. Gives various instructions and requests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She hopes the water at White Sulphur Spring will prove beneficial. Describes a sermon on Communion Sunday and hopes he's hearing as good as that. Had a disappointing wheat crop. Contracted with Ford and Snyder for the crop. Gabriel is still there, with JAW's permission. Additional page from Aunt Judy Alexander, hoping he meets some young ladies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She wants him to rent the Prospect Hill fields for three years to Mr. Anderson. George carried wheat and oats to him, as well as other items. Poor Tansel wants a place with him. He'll make rakes and \"I know he makes excellent shoes.\" Sends greetings to family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She wants Maria and Augustine to return to Blakeley as both are sick. Is disturbed that cousin Jane means to keep Betty for the next year, despite knowing of the intention to send her to Mount Vernon. \"Shall I send Hannah or Sally down, or contend for Betty?\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She relates the difficult journey of his sister to Blakeley. Is glad he is feeling better. Writes about selling enslaved people: \"I am sorry to tell you Milly I understand is unfit for hire, and we shall be obliged to keep her at home. Mr. Rutherford… will take Sally. She is said to be a first rate manager, a strict tho kind mistress. She is to give $35. Hannah I have as yet had no offer for. Closely confined at home without a way of getting out, I have not had it in my power to look out places for our hirelings and do not like to offer them at public hire.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Glad he got rid of his chills. The horse cart is so much in use it cannot be sent down to Mount Vernon. Will send George, Edmund, and Betty to him. Still been unable to get a place for Hannah whose character does not stand well as to docility or usefulness. More instructions as to how to deal with various servants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. \"Dr. A. has determined to keep the servants. I hope they will continue faithful and useful to him. Willoughby is a grumbler, but I am sure he has no just cause of complaint. Dr. A is a human and liberal master. I think you give a high price for your wagoner. Negroes have generally hired lower than usual this year. Hannah is at present laid up, sd. I not be able to get a good and safe place for her, I will send her down by the first safe opportunity.\" \"Remember me most kindly to all our Mount Vernon household – dear Old Jenny especially and West Ford.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She's so happy to hear from Dr. A that his health is much improved. Discusses financial difficulties. \"We must all practice strict economy.\" Sends family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Mount Vernon to Charlestown, Jefferson County, Virginia. Discusses the current low price for wood and Dr. Alexander and his travels. Regrets the failure of Ford and Snyder. Wants her to settle for Hannah's support as West thinks that she has not been given anything to eat. Also wants to remind Dick of a pair of boots for Mr. Morgan. Phil and Jesse have been sick for some time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She hopes his health improves. Discusses disorder on banks, making business difficult. Is sorry this happened at the beginning of his life in business but hopes it will teach him. Tells of harvests and yields and gives some family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She's so glad he has recovered his health. Will be able to get clover seed shortly. Wants to plant the 90 acre field with oats. Sends greetings to Cary. Was able to hire Hannah out until Christmas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. George is off to Mount Vernon with a wagon full of goods. Requests various items to be brought back by him. Hopes his health remains good. His sister wishes to have Caroline whom she has hired brought down to Mount Vernon. She might come up with George. \"Remember me most kindly to Jenny – West's servant at Mount Vernon.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Sending this via Mr. Lamar requesting additional things for George to bring back. Describes a sermon given by Mr. Jones the previous Sunday. Hopes he will have \"our old establishment very clean white washed if not painted a little.\" Richard is not well but hopes he will join her when she goes down for a few days.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. He is mortified that JAW might have been offended at not having received an invitation to dine with him, which was sent with a \"silly servant.\" He always values having his company and sends him some rhubarb with instructions as to its preparation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. George arrived safely yesterday afternoon. Disappointed various items from Mr. Hooff were not sent but instead sent via canal. Discusses prices of some items. Thanks him for fruit sent. Tells him to do what he thinks best with the greenhouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is anxiously awaiting the arrival of his hands from Mount Vernon as George Saunders Ned and Lewis are all laid up. Marie and Mary Jane are incapable of working out. Harvest has commenced. Wants him to send a barrel of white sand for plastering the pillars in the brick portico. Hopes he will come soon. Sends family greetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She had a good journey home with pleasant visits with friends on the way. \"You have a partial friend in Mr. S. altho' I think he would be pleased if you did not speak quite so loud.\" Richard says a man wants to rent the P.H. Farm but is unwilling to pay the terms requested. Describes two sermons she heard. Wants him to look in the study for letters which Uncle Bushrod says must be there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Writes with suggestions for the furniture and carpet at Mount Vernon. She specifically mentions the \"little drawing room,\" \"parlor,\" \"front passage,\" \"little room,\" and \"old dining room.\" Fears she shall be left more largely in debt than ever yet been. A Dutch farmer wants to rent P. Hole farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Gives some financial information. \"If the work is all finished at Mount Vernon both Harry and Fanny had better come but if there is still any thing for Fanny to do, she can remain.\" Requests items to be brought up, including lemons and oranges. Family news, including that Uncle Bushrod remains confined to his couch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has not heard from him. Ordered various building supplies. Financial times are very difficult and strict economy is necessary. Will send him some of her horses until his can be matched. Since Mary Jane is sick, Fanny should return to care for her. \"Remember me most kindly to my Old Jenny and West.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Walnut Farm to Mount Vernon. She returned home on Saturday and deplored the roads in Harpers Ferry. \"It seems Mr. John Selden is anxious to purchase Harriet. She was appraised at $400 with her child. She is said to be an excellent servant, and if you can get her in place of Hannah, Julia, or Sally, I think you had better do so. Julia is now at Blakely, having laid up and then come off without Lake's permission… Dr. Cordell has been called out to see her twice and from his prescription I rather suppose thinks very little except hysteria ails her.\" Discusses crops and a sermon and sends family greetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has not been feeling well at all lately. Has heard from Cousin Lorenzo Lewis that Augustine looks very well. She would have liked to have heard that from him or his wife. \"The servants are becoming more and more worthless and disobedient. I really find it very difficult to govern them, or to have the most necessary domestic work attended to with any regularity.\" Family news. Wants him to send Harry up before harvest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She's glad to hear that he and Nelly are doing so well. Much family news. \"Remember me very kindly to my good and faithful Jenny and Harry, also West and Eliza.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Bath to Blakeley. She is in Bath for the waters. It is very crowded, and all the houses are full. Heard two good sermons but then was ill again.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon.  She is concerned about poor Jenny and hopes the operation will give her a better chance of recovery. Many family members are ill. Another description of a sermon she heard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She tells of travel difficulties. Relates some gossip. Made a deal for some provisions, but nothing has been delivered. She advanced the man $150. Family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Lots of news about family and friends. Also mentions Hannah and Rebecca being still invalids and that Thomas has again gone to Maryland. \"The boys have bought a wagon and two or three servants.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Mount Vernon. She wants to know if certain lawyers are in Alexandria or Washington. Also wishes to subscribe to the Audubon works and asks him to see to that.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has been anxious at not hearing from him. Wants him to send the rent check for $500 as soon as possible. Wants him to send the fish via the Misses Moore's boats on the canal. Mentions the subject of Julia's purchase. Family and friend news. Additional page following receipt of his letter. Sorry the fishery has been unsuccessful. Due to drought the strawberries gave poor yield.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She received the check from him. His carpenter is unwilling to go to Mount Vernon before late next autumn due to the climate there. Has tried to find out why the fish and shingles he was to send have not been found on the wharves for the Misses Moore's boats to bring.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Mount Vernon. Deals with settling the estate of Mr. Selden. Discusses his purchase of Mary, an enslaved woman who seems to be quite ill and therefore not worth more than $50 or $60. His wife does not want her sold away. Also wants to sell the corn crop at Exeter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She is glad he was able to go to Philadelphia. Mentions the death of the wife of Lewis Washington. His sister was with her at her death, and Jane was there through the funeral. Is anxious about Charles' daughter Catherine who was sent via stage to Mrs. Page who did not want her after all and seems unwilling to pay the stage driver for her passage. Discusses the hiring of a German gardener for Mount Vernon. Wants him to send a shoe she left at Mount Vernon and a quantity of cotton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She is busy with pork business and will send two barrels of hams and one of lard. Complains about his brother and his wife coming without replying to her as to when they would arrive. Says her health is very infirm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Thanks him for the articles send, including oysters and ducks. Discusses sale of corn and is keeping some back to get a better price in the spring. Gives family news and that Captain Symington \"is stationed at H.F. where the government intends having erected barracks for him.\" Discusses the benefits of religion. Wants him to give a \"piece of old bacon/shoulders to West, Jenny and Phill.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Lengthy discussion of the purchase of a house by Dr. Alexander and his sister. The finances of this are described.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. She is \"sorry to hear of the disturbances among the negroes, especially poor Alfred. I think you had better sell him. Perhaps you might do it advantageously to some one in Richmond, who wants a capable and trustworthy servant. I am told Jim is very much distressed at parting with his son. If the purchaser of Alfred is willing to take Jim and he wishes to go, I have no objection to it.\" Discusses various crop prices. Reports the death of one child from scarlet fever and how it sickens many in Charleston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Discusses a few financial matters. \"Hannah was sick \u0026amp; soon gave birth to a still born infant a boy. It was a mercy the event occurred for decomposition had commenced.\" People are still getting sick with scarlet fever.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Describes the symptoms and illness with scarlet fever of Julia. She will be unable to attend Jane Davis's wedding. \"I have been in a most unsettled state for a long time. It seems difficult to get my family matters and business settled into any regular method again.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Julia Alexander died from scarlet fever. Others are also ill. She will not come to Mount Vernon for fear of bringing the disease with her and wants him to collect rents due her and pay various bills from that and send the rest to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discussion of finances and sale of stock. Gives medical advice to him for various people. Tells of recent election – not more than half of either party voted. Uncle Bushrod is going to Maryland to attend a meeting of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has \"the severest attack of Influenza I have had for two years.\" Kitty has discarded Lt. Hooe due to his poor conduct. Describes drought conditions badly affecting crops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Draft copy. Mount Vernon. Refuses permission to bring a party of military people to Mount Vernon by water. Does not want boats to dock there, but will allow them to enter if they arrive by land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Have had much sickness. \"Thompson, Jerry and Mingo laid up; in consequence of which George is driving the wagon… Am now endeavoring to save what apples remain on the trees and prepare winter clothing for the servants.\" Wants him to come visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Have had an unusual degree of sickness. \"Poor old Mingo is thought to be dying!... Berkeley, Jerry, and Thompson are still on the sick list.\" Tells of death of a neighbor who shot himself by accident as he was mounting his horse. Is unable to bring the wheat to the mill as the mill was \"dangerously full.\" Describes a difficult journey by his aunt. At end \"Mingo is Dead.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She was still too ill at Christmas to visit others. \"We have still four or five cases of typhoid fever at the quarters. Charlotte among them she is still very sick. The Dr. hopes a favourable change has taken place in Selina, Saul and Jerry. Mary came out today. I have taken Sophy home and hope to be able to get on with her under Fanny's superintendance.\" Other descriptions of moving enslaved people around. Relates episode of Julia having escaped from Cousin H. and coming to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Tells him Col. and Mrs. Davenport intend to visit him at Mount Vernon. Wants them to entertain them well. Discusses politics – \"the great question of Annexation.\" Mr. Rivers' speech was a great production. \"He feels as we do, the waning power of our once great \u0026amp; noble state.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She returned from a ride feeling quite well again. Describes a beautiful snowfall. \"I am sorry to hear you have still sickness among your servants. It is also the case here, new cases constantly occuring. The Dr. has been a daily visiter with the exception of two or three days. Milly's youngest child is now ill.\" Describes the death of his cousin. Other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Describes her journey home from Mount Vernon, visiting friends on the way. \"Richard … is going Missouri and wishes to purchase Negroes to take with him. He has yet made no offer for Caroline, tho' we understand he wishes to get her. She I am told is averse to going.\" Describes a sermon and exhorts him to read the Bible. Family information. \"Excuse this blotted ill written scrawl. Read and burn it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses the naming of his new baby girl. Nelly wanted to name her after Jane, but she thought she should be named after Nelly's recently deceased grandmother. Tells of financial difficulties of Dr. A. and the prices of crops. After her signature – \"Destroy this letter.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Writes to discuss ways to assist Dr. A. \"out of his present difficulties.\" Wants him to come visit soon with the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses a large christenings in church. Relates tale of two men who recently died from intemperance. Also tells plans for an upcoming wedding and where various guests will stay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Has yet to hear back from him in answer to her letter about Dr. A. Tells him of what she wants to do for him. Gives instructions as to how he should travel to visit her with the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Wants to send George with the carriage to bring her and the children. Describes dancing by various people. Wants to receive some financial records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Tells him of money placed in bank \"for servants sold… (Humphrey, Shedrack, Thompson, Caroline, Little Daniel, Margaret, and John).\" \"I am not well and feel a good deal agitated at the sale tho' I believe it will be better for all concerned but it is distressing to break up families by sales.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Sending notes to him and hopes he will return as soon as he arranges this business. Nelly and the girls are well, though Lou has still a cough.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Misses the family and tells of items that were left during their last visit. Much rain has kept her from church. Maria sent jars of quince jelly for her. Gives family news and describes some roses. Sends message to Augustine \"to write to his old and now very unimportant mother.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Describes family members' travels. Not a good wheat crop. Discusses the estate of Mr. Foote and how it treats his wife. Talks about the American B.S. and its efforts to bring the Bible to 10,000 families who have none. Asks him to pay some bills for her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Congratulates him on getting much ice stored in his ice house as \"it is a luxury, essential to health, and economy in domestic management.\" \"I believe slaves will become less and less valuable; and unless we keep them in the hope of being able to liberate and provide for them: for pecuniary interest, it is best to own, only as many as are necessary for the ordinary work of our farms.\" Many hams were spoilt, so they cannot offer any.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Much sickness in the early spring of cholera. Many people unable to work – Old Jenny, Maria and Dick, Lewis and George obliged to plough. Her cook Eliza has a crippled sore arm. Sophy, Joe, and Little Tom have been helping with many guests. Much discussion of weather.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Tells of various charges Richard made on his behalf. The weather has badly affected the crops. Wants to travel to Chicago in the summer. \"Richard has purchased West's little farm… West intends going West.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Sorry to hear about his return of chills. Their diet has been quite poor with a lack of vegetables and fresh meat. Thanks him for the check he sent, but he forgot to sign it. Describes another sermon. Requests him to send cypress shingles as soon as possible as the house leaks when it rains.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Mount Vernon to Charlestown, Jefferson County. Discusses failure to purchase mules at auction. He is unable to procure the peaches she wanted in Alexandria as many fruits have already fallen off the trees. West Ford said they needed some double shovel ploughs to put in the wheat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Baltimore. She is sorry to hear of Lou's \"hooping cough.\" Other family news. Long description of Mr. Tacker and his vision of his impending death. Is sorry that Augustine is alone at Mount Vernon with the servants who have been \"a source of disquiet and distress to him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSummerville, Gloucester County, Virginia to Alexandria. Tells him of a property coming for sale in the area. Also wants to make bricks and needs a \"responsible white man to superintend.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Congratulates him on the birth of another daughter. Gives news of Richard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Nelly is recovering from childbirth, and the baby thrives. Nelly wishes him to remind Miss Entwisle about the dresses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Gives prices of bushels of wheat from Mr. Burns and Mr. Snyder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a wedding and the young guests at the dinner. Discusses an Irishman who came to sell her tablecloths which she did not want. Letter was written over several days. She really misses the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Won't give him the family news as she just passed that along to Nelly in a very recent letter. Thanks him for paying her bills. Discusses rental of the Ferry Landing fisheries and wants to rent to Mr. Whitall. Will let him decide whether to increase the fisheries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Entreats him to take it easy in the winter. They have had much snow. Uncle Bushrod has much ice stored away and offered some to her as her pond had a defect which caused it to drain. Discusses finances. He may rent out North Farm. \"I fear however you will have many difficulties and vexations if you let the servants go with the farm.\" Tells of his sister having a tumour under her arm. Also their church burned. Tells him of the death of her true friend Mrs. Adams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Describes different people reading the will. Hopes his brother and family reached Mount Vernon safely. \"I think if the ladies attend the Inauguration of our brave honest chief, they had better join Mrs. Madison – who I am sure would be gratified at their so doing, and render their visit much more agreeable.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Has been anxiously awaiting a reply from him to her letter of a month ago. Wants to know when the monuments would be brought to Mount Vernon and the sum of money to be obtained. Is sending George with barrels containing hams and some apples. Wants him to return with the horses only, leaving the carriage. There was a fire at Hannah's house which was extinguished.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Gives much family news. Discusses lower prices for wheat and increasing the salary of the woman who must cook for Mr. Graham and all who are on the farm. Wants his help hiring a new overseer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is waiting to hear from him as to the overseer and waiting to see if Mr. Graham will accept the terms offered. \"Richard intends hiring out the hands he employed on the farm hoping to derive more clear profit from the Hires than he has received from the farm.\" Questions whether she should do anything about the deed for Mount Vernon drawn up. His sister Maria continues to look quite ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Snyder has delivered in mill his rent wheat. Writes that she is sending the deed to Mount Vernon, which has officially been signed over to him. Discusses an interesting trial in Charlestown. \"A Negro hired by Anderson … made an assault on Anderson for which he was committed and is today to be tried. The gentlemen all seemed to consider the issue of high importance. It certainly is to the miserable prisoner whose fate will be selling, transportation, or Death! I trust the decision will be merciful.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Writes about acquiring copies of the free papers for a formerly enslaved man named William Lyons. He is hoping to travel to Tennessee to visit his parents. Tells him his sister continues to do poorly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Relates the sending of the deed conveying Mount Vernon to him. Is preparing to have Maria come stay for a while.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Maria has been there for a week and continues to be very ill. Tells him his tenants have not honoured his orders. More family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Discusses difficulties with the harvest and procuring labourers. Dr. Alexander hired a tutor for Charlotte who is very well thought of. More neighborhood and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes Nelly will soon be able to travel and recommends she drink a tea (\"it can no doubt be had at Stablers\") as the best remedy in her case. \"The servants … are very much alarmed in regard to cholera.\" Wants him to get some good port and M. Wine. She can get good whiskey in C-town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is very glad of the dividend declared by the Alexandria Bank. They have had severe colds but not cholera.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Caledon to Mount Vernon. Writing from Caledon and describes journey there. Their trunk did not arrive with them, so they have no change of clothes. Tells stories from the boat trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Much family news. Tells him a cousin died shortly after their visit. Richard \"seems to be a very happy man, he surely is blest in his wife \u0026amp; eight children.\" Dr. A has acquired an excellent housekeeper.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Tells of Annie ill with scarlet fever and how the doctor has her rubbed with a piece of raw fat bacon. Is now much improved. Was in care of Miss Gantt, the housekeeper, whom she praises highly. Wishes she could have heard Miss Lind sing at Mount Vernon. Describes a sermon. More news about friends and relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Describes the symptoms of \"our dear little John\" and is sure something is wrong with his spine. Tells of the route of the turnpike and how it will cut off some of his woodland. Much news about family and acquaintances. Is very pleased with \"our young minister\" and hopes his teachings will help everyone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Top portion of first page cut away, incomplete letter. Wants him to see the plans for the turnpike as it might cut through his land. Mrs. Briscoe's son would like to visit Mount Vernon and will bring any letter or package there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. More on the Turnpike passing through his farm. Entreats him to not bring forward tempting articles which are stimulating and exciting during his brother's visit. She is unable to visit due to pressing business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Met Dr. Alexander and family before church and invited them to dinner. Encloses a letter from Mrs. Moran who would like to stay at Mount Vernon on her way to visit Jane. Is sending George with fish to be pickled. Sends remembrances to \"your maids Sarah, Eliza, Fanny and Amanda.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Thanks him for the fish and oysters sent by wagon. George did not properly stack items on the wagon, and much was damaged. The prayer book for Louisa has finally arrived and will be sent as soon as possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses difficulties of Mr. Whitall and the fishery. Hopes to collect from Snyder and will send it to him. News about friends and family. Finished planting corn. Had snow recently.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Tells him she got $200 from Mr. Rutherford which will be deposited in a bank in Charlestown. He informed them that the roof of the barn is in need of repair. Gives family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Wants Nelly and the children to visit after harvest and will send George with the carriage to get them. Hopes Augustine will be friends with Mr. Moran. Has been sick and taken \"an unusual quantity of opium for me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is glad his servants have recovered and \"that you … have not suffered from your humane and close attendance on them.\" Was sorry to hear that Ephraim had fallen a victim. Tells him of a good friend who seems to be recovering. Gives a recipe for a remedy. Talks about the harvest and the various servants who are working on it. Is considering renting out her farm though she would retain part. Tells of Hannah's health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Springland to Staunton, Virginia. Urges her not to think too much of home and to apply herself to her books and music. Gives family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is happy to hear they are all healthy. Relates family news and gives him business advice. Describes hearing a musician. Discusses Mr. Rutherford and his acquiring bone dust to use as fertilizer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She was so sorry to learn of the disaster that occurred to the vessel that was taking his wheat to market. Describes her journey home. At end, thanks him for the venison.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is so sorry about his heavy loss and prays that God will help him through it. More family news about various people being ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a sermon on intemperance. Discusses health problems of John and hopes he will improve when the weather gets better. Much family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Springland to Staunton, Virginia. Tells her that her last two letters appear to have been robbed. Gives news about her mother, grandmother, and sister.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Hopes Augustine is recovering. Much sickness in her house. Sent a new plough to Augustine. Hopes it arrives in time. Other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a visit from Mrs. Powel and various other family members. Wants part of the rent on the fishery to go toward the purchase of a piano for Louisa and the rest sent to her to pay off some debts. Sends love to all and reports on a few deaths.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to the visit from him and his family in July. Describes harvesting of wheat and rye after much rain. Both had much desired Mr. Fillmore's election to the presidency. Wants Noblet to return from California.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is enclosing some stock certificates to Mr. Eaches to be her attorney. Glad Nelly and the children are safely home. Tells of the loss of Richard and Christian's children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to Augustine's visit. Invited Kitty to spend the winter with her, but she will go elsewhere. News about various acquaintances. The disagreeable pork business is done, and she is sending three barrels of pippins via boat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Thanks him for the $200 check which enabled her to pay her tax bill. Is again concerned about Noblet. Tells of Kitty Wright's trip to Winchester where her companion became ill with typhoid fever. Kitty \"is now with us, with three lovely children, and a good coloured girl (a slave) the one whom she hired.\" All her friends send their love.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. \"Gabriel has sent in to say he wishes to set off tomorrow on his return home.\" Tells of much family with her at Christmas time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has been awaiting his visit and wonders about the cause of the delay. Still no news about Noblet. Tells of returning Annie Burnett home after she came into Richard's pew in church and wanted to come home with her. The next day she returned home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Put $600 in bank to his credit. Kitty and her three children left with Sophy replacing the other nurse who has been ill for the children\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. There is much whooping cough going around with so far one death. The weather is very fine, and there are many flowers. Glad to hear the fisheries are doing well. Describes her visit to Walnut Farm and the people she saw while there. Asks if he has seen the Masonic oration on the \"centennial commemoration of the initiation of George Washington into the order of free Masons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She was sorry to hear about the hail storm they had. Celebrated Hannah's birthday. Will send this letter with William Lyons who is leaving to see Augustine. Other family and friend news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is so glad Eliza is recovered. So sad about the death of Dr. Powel. More news about impending visits. General Duvall will be in Washington soon and would like to see Augustine so he could become \"acquainted with many of the influential members from the South \u0026amp; West, with whom he wishes you to become acquainted in case you still determine on disposing of M.V.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. \tBlakeley. Wants either a visit from them or for her to visit them before winter sets in. She had quite a pleasant visit to New York and Philadelphia. Tells him of climbing 180 steps of the Washington Monument in Baltimore and having a beautiful view. Glad they have obtained a governess for the girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. She is sorry Nelly is sick but will be unable to come down until after Christmas. Has several articles brought from N.Y. for \"my deal g.children at M.V.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Tells him of a deposit in bank for his use. Grieved to learn Eliza continues in feeble health. Visited Walnut Farm and heard from Dr. Alexander that \"the financial affairs of our church are in a very confused \u0026amp; entangled state.\" Looking forward to her trip to New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Paid $200 on stock note at bank. Is anxious about his brother determining to go to Housekeeping \u0026amp; renting Col. Devenport's House. He will still be at Blakeley every day. She has been suffering from dyspepsia. Glad to hear the governess gives satisfaction. Reference to Miss Nancy at Walnut Farm, who \"is not only a good house keeper but also understands gardening.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Tells him Mr. and Mrs. Depau intend visiting Mount Vernon, along with their son. Richard and family left for their new home and are much missed. She feels quite anxious to see her \"dear children at M.V. especially my grandson whose name I am as yet unacquainted with.\" Says two of our Cedar lawn cousins are to be married. \"The servants have been divided \u0026amp; the Cedar Lawn will be sold.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Sympathizes with the delayed visit due to the sickness of the family \"and death of your valuable and good young servant Dennis. It is a severe affliction to his poor mother. He was I think her youngest child.\" Is most anxious to see her grandson Lawrence. Had a visit from his brother and Christian and their son John. Went by invitation to Mr. Lovel's school where pupils delivered speeches and addresses. Wants the family to visit and will have rooms fixed up for them. Sends \"kind regards to your good \u0026amp; faithful servant Eliza, Danny \u0026amp; Sarah.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to a shipment of \"Nellies Pickled Rockfish\" to share with neighbours \u0026amp; friends. Discusses planting of crops. Will visit him and his family \"this day week,\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Describes her trip back home from Mount Vernon. Everyone is harvesting but having difficulty obtaining sufficient hands for the task.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Tells of the sudden death of Mrs. Selden and the funeral. Mentions harvests and addition to his house Dr. A. is doing. Wants to see him and the family. Mr. Rutherford wishes to renew his lease on the farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes Maria's arm heals well and that he received the two barrels of oats she sent. Gives news about family. Tells of \"our beloved Charlotte\" taking communion and becoming a member of the church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley.  She is so sorry that Richard is ill but glad that Augustine is with him. Tells of George's illness. Gives more family news and hopes to see the family soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Requests he send him the cantaloupe seeds he talked about. Wants to talk about a system of patrols \"to try \u0026amp; keep our slaves at home.\" Says the slaves are stealing so much from them and taking it to Alexandria. Says everyone in the neighborhood of slave holders could contribute to hire 6 good men to patrol.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. New Charlestown to Richmond. Sends family news and gives advice as to her traveling home. Tells of someone about to die, and that Fanny Griggs' school is broken up.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Blakeley. Laments that it has been so long since she heard from him or his family and wonders when they will come to visit. Gives news about local people. Tells of the wonderful addition that Dr. A. put on his house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. \tBlakeley to Mount Vernon. Had a tooth extracted. News of friends and neighbors. Has had influenza for 10 days.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. White House. Gives his legal opinion as to a dispute among them. First the fact that the seine was not received by Mr. Washington at the appointed time, necessitating many difficulties. Second, the Hoopers did not receive the required loom but are entitled to some compensation for work done. His judgment is for $275 for Mr. Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Hampstead, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses her love of gardening and the recent harvest. Says she likes the new teacher at a neighbor's house \"but she looks consumptive.\" Describes a monument to two boys.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.D.S. Fairfax County. Indicates full payment of judgment from JAW to William Mason.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses the route of the turnpike and that it should go through Mr. E's land. It would split it up, and so Mason wants to offer other alternatives. Much of the land is prone to flooding and marshy. It would be very expensive to put the road through that.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses his written ordinance about how to deal with people coming onto unenclosed land and hunting or fishing. Talks of a particular problem with land along waterways. Wants JAW to write to lawmakers and make this happen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia. Before the Legislature meets, he encloses a proposed measure to be enacted. Discusses counties to be included – all along the Potomac and Rappahanoc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Rose Hill. Discusses the hiring of an African American boy to do odd jobs and will pay $15.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Discusses the sending of clover seed. Had a problem with old Henry who emptied some tailings for the hens near the clover, mixing some up. \"I think I never was more vexed with any human being in all my life.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Mason writes describing an incident he had with West Ford on his plantation. This remarkable letter highlights the way Ford, despite being a free man, was still treated like a slave by others: \"On the evening of the Monday after Whitsunday, I was about sunset standing at my stable, giving some orders for the morning's work, when there passed within three or four yards of me a Negro man, who I did not know, without touching his hat, or any other recognition of my presence. After he had passed, I called to him asking who he was, and who did he belong to? He walked on, taking no notice, until I repeated the question, when he said 'Washington.' I then said, I suppose you have a name, and can tell me what Mr. Washington you belong to? He replied, 'West Ford.' His manner was insolent and supposing he was drunk, I said to him, there is the road to the gate, go off my place at once… When he got to the corner of the house, he commenced whooping and continued doing so, till he got out of the gate, which I had to send and have closed after him. I said nothing further to him, as he was obviously drunk; but directed one of my servants to go and tell him never to put his foot on the place again… Had he been anyone's servant but yours, I shd. have immediately had him apprehended and flogged for his impertinence; but satisfied that it could only be necessary to report the facts to you, and that you would take measures to prevent his ever coming here again, or repeating it, I have taken no further steps in the matter.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Sorry to hear that JAW is no longer a magistrate of the county. Will do what he can to get Mr. Herbert elected magistrate, so he can form the patrol necessary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia. Heard that all will be done to keep out a Yankee for the office of Justice. Hopes Mr. Herbert will consent to serve.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Writes about the issue of county taxes which have become exceedingly high, mainly to pay for road construction. Found out that one group was destroying his trees and running a new road through his land to take business away from the turnpike.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.D.S. Acknowledges receipt of payment in full on her account for boots and shoes for various named men.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Tells him of the considerable debts ($2,169.80) of Cousin Hannah and wishes to know what is to be done about it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Urges him to do well in school and to board with the principal and not to associate with his old school mate Charles J.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Describes her trip home and the friends and family she visited on the way. Had friends to dine but had difficulty with the dinner as meat is scarce.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Just sent George to the Charlestown P.O. with a letter and check to him. Sorry to hear that Nelly is again sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Describes her feelings at the recent losses of children and Noblet. Tells of much sickness in the area. \"Old Jenny's was by far the severest case, one which Dr. C. intirely dispaired of. She is recovering which we are thankful for, tho' old and feeble, she is good and pious, and has considerable influence with her children and fellow servants.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Has attached a check for $200 to be paid to the Exchange Bank in Alexandria toward her debt of $700. Was sorry to hear of Nelly's illness. Gives other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Discusses a recently recorded deed. Describes health concerns of her sister. Bad weather is affecting planting. At end of letter: \"Matilda, your woman at Harewood has had an infant and lost it. It died after suffering greatly from fits. Dr. Cordell attended it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon.  Has enclosed a check to be paid on her account with Mr. Hooff. Prices are low for horses and stock. Planting goes slowly. Gives family and friends news. Gives a recipe for quince jelly and marmalade. \"Remember me most kindly to Jenny \u0026amp; West \u0026amp; … indeed all our household at M.V.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. A brief note requesting him to \"let George have money $2.50 to get a pair of boots.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. She is sending Jenny and Fanny and hopes they will be \"useful and conduct themselves well.\" His carpenter came by the day after he left wanting some money he was owed as he had a debt to pay. Wants to visit them but wants him to let her know \"whether or not it is desirable for me to go. I shall not be in the slightest degree either hurt or offended at my room being preferable to my company.\" \"Mr. Rutherford … declines keeping Sally another year. I have told Mr. Shepperd to look out for a good place for her but I really think you had better take her down and either keep her at M.V. under your own eye as milker and washer or hire her out there. I think she and Alfred or Gabriel had better make a match.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. All have been enjoying the visit from Augustine but regrets she and the children did not also come. Hannah is about to leave for New York for medical treatment, accompanied by Fanny. Thanks Louisa for the chow chow she made. News about a visit to cousin Ann Washington. Much talk of friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. \"Your kind mother always advances for me the money with which I travel to the upper country. I am making my arrangements to move rather earlier than usual this summer that I may have the advantage of Cousin Betsy Winter's company … I shall take Rosina with me who is a fine sensible, amiable girl of fourteen, rather handsome, but bashful and awkward. She looks badly now from a sort of bilious fever without chills, which hangs about her in despite of blue pile etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Anna writes of the death of an enslaved woman named Harry: \"she died on Monday last, after a short illness, inflammation of the brain and womb… Dr. Alexander and Straith examined her body and found the womb and other organs around it entirely diseased. Mother has lost a kind and faithful servant, a sincere tho humble friend. We shall all feel her loss, to mother it is irreparable, she has no servant who can take her place.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. Letter being carried by Randall, a slave, and tells of various people's health problems.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S.\t Hollin Hall to Mount Vernon. Has heard there is little chance of the law they want passing in this session of the Legislature. Gives his thoughts about future elections of people who will assist them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Wonders whether he has recovered his slave. If so \"make a stern and proper example.\" Tells Augustine to come to him for trials and punishments of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.D.S. Autograph copy. 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Also included are letters to Eleanor Love Selden Washington, a few letters to or from John Augustine Washington III to various individuals, several letters from George Mason of Hollin Hall (1797-1870) to John Augustine Washington III, letters by Lackland and Alexander family members (relatives of the Washingtons) and three receipts. The subject matter of most letters is family or personal affairs and Mount Vernon business with some discussion of the enslaved people owned by the Washingtons. Inclusive dates are 1837 to 1861.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon. Tells him of four family members with consumption. Also \"have no servant to dispose of who would suit her sister, unless Milly would be willing for one of her three elder daughters to go. It would be a sure and good home I believe.\" Discusses sale of corn crop and other family news. Mentions repairs being made by Mr. Skidmore at Mt. Vernon. We have two other letters dated 1837 November 23 and 1838 November 1 mentioning repairs made by Jesse Skidmore. In 1839 July 27, Lawrence Lewis paid Skidmore for work done on the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","A.L.S. She is enclosing another $10 note requesting it get charged and sent to her by him.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is unable to join him at Mount Vernon as her business would not fare well. Is sending a horse down as he is better fitted for the saddle than harness. Writes about sending him to Mount Vernon to \"relieve Maj. Lewis,\" who is working with Struthers and Strickland to build the new tomb. Writes of her \"deep veneration and gratitude to the memory of Genl Washington.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Upon her return home, she found things had not been taken care of on her farm. A fodder house for the cattle was not placed correctly at all. She encouraged her son to get a good education at Mr. Hallowell's school in Alexandria.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She wants him to inquire about an appointment for Lawrence Washington who needs employment. Inquires about his studies and the repairs on the \"old mansion.\" Gives some family news and wants him to call on Mary and Julia.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Reports on crop yields. Says there \"have been some difficulties between the overseer and the Negroes\" on the Mountain. Tells him of the impending purchase of a pair of draft horses. Talks of sending Willoughby and Gabriel to Mount Vernon, as well as Henry and Dolly. (This is likely Gabriel Johnson, about whom we have at least nine other letters in the collection.) Mentions letting his cousin have Jesse at \"whatever you think a reasonable price.\" Reports pork prices are down and is worried about the expenses of repairs to Mount Vernon. Was sorry to \"learn by a letter from West that our crop of corn at Mount Vernon has turned out so badly.\" Might need to employ West for another year. More family news and greetings.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She was sorry to hear of his illness and tells him to leave Mount Vernon in the hands of hirelings and not endanger his health further by riding there. Refers to reading about \"Mr. Calhoun's and Mr. Clay's conversations in the Senate on Mr. Calhoun's resolutions respecting abolition petitions.\" Much difficulty regarding Jessy – Cousin Jane has abandoned all idea of purchasing her.","A.L.S. with additional writing by Jane C. Washington. Blakeley. Tells of new animals being born, his schooling, and family news. Jane adds: glad to hear his schooling is going well. Asks if he participated in the February 22 celebration. Is sorry he gave up Greek. Wants him to send her a translation from Latin or French. Orders shoes to be made for Kitty.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She returned home safely and passes along some family news. Harvest had not been started, but since she returned they have begun on the wheat. Much gets lost by \"having inefficient hands as rakers,\" so she requests him to send Willoughby and Gabriel up immediately. \"Labourers cannot be procured, and wages are higher than ever before known to be.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes he will get to enjoy his job at the Library of the House of Representatives. Thinks it will be good for his future. She is unwell at present. Reports on Dr. Gates who is also not doing well.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is troubled about getting Richard to be an \"irregular Cadet\" or maybe to West Point. Reports on the death of Dr. Yates. Gives various instructions and requests.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She hopes the water at White Sulphur Spring will prove beneficial. Describes a sermon on Communion Sunday and hopes he's hearing as good as that. Had a disappointing wheat crop. Contracted with Ford and Snyder for the crop. Gabriel is still there, with JAW's permission. Additional page from Aunt Judy Alexander, hoping he meets some young ladies.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She wants him to rent the Prospect Hill fields for three years to Mr. Anderson. George carried wheat and oats to him, as well as other items. Poor Tansel wants a place with him. He'll make rakes and \"I know he makes excellent shoes.\" Sends greetings to family.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She wants Maria and Augustine to return to Blakeley as both are sick. Is disturbed that cousin Jane means to keep Betty for the next year, despite knowing of the intention to send her to Mount Vernon. \"Shall I send Hannah or Sally down, or contend for Betty?\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. She relates the difficult journey of his sister to Blakeley. Is glad he is feeling better. Writes about selling enslaved people: \"I am sorry to tell you Milly I understand is unfit for hire, and we shall be obliged to keep her at home. Mr. Rutherford… will take Sally. She is said to be a first rate manager, a strict tho kind mistress. She is to give $35. Hannah I have as yet had no offer for. Closely confined at home without a way of getting out, I have not had it in my power to look out places for our hirelings and do not like to offer them at public hire.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Glad he got rid of his chills. The horse cart is so much in use it cannot be sent down to Mount Vernon. Will send George, Edmund, and Betty to him. Still been unable to get a place for Hannah whose character does not stand well as to docility or usefulness. More instructions as to how to deal with various servants.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. \"Dr. A. has determined to keep the servants. I hope they will continue faithful and useful to him. Willoughby is a grumbler, but I am sure he has no just cause of complaint. Dr. A is a human and liberal master. I think you give a high price for your wagoner. Negroes have generally hired lower than usual this year. Hannah is at present laid up, sd. I not be able to get a good and safe place for her, I will send her down by the first safe opportunity.\" \"Remember me most kindly to all our Mount Vernon household – dear Old Jenny especially and West Ford.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. She's so happy to hear from Dr. A that his health is much improved. Discusses financial difficulties. \"We must all practice strict economy.\" Sends family news.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon to Charlestown, Jefferson County, Virginia. Discusses the current low price for wood and Dr. Alexander and his travels. Regrets the failure of Ford and Snyder. Wants her to settle for Hannah's support as West thinks that she has not been given anything to eat. Also wants to remind Dick of a pair of boots for Mr. Morgan. Phil and Jesse have been sick for some time.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She hopes his health improves. Discusses disorder on banks, making business difficult. Is sorry this happened at the beginning of his life in business but hopes it will teach him. Tells of harvests and yields and gives some family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She's so glad he has recovered his health. Will be able to get clover seed shortly. Wants to plant the 90 acre field with oats. Sends greetings to Cary. Was able to hire Hannah out until Christmas.","A.L.S. Blakeley. George is off to Mount Vernon with a wagon full of goods. Requests various items to be brought back by him. Hopes his health remains good. His sister wishes to have Caroline whom she has hired brought down to Mount Vernon. She might come up with George. \"Remember me most kindly to Jenny – West's servant at Mount Vernon.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Sending this via Mr. Lamar requesting additional things for George to bring back. Describes a sermon given by Mr. Jones the previous Sunday. Hopes he will have \"our old establishment very clean white washed if not painted a little.\" Richard is not well but hopes he will join her when she goes down for a few days.","A.L.S. He is mortified that JAW might have been offended at not having received an invitation to dine with him, which was sent with a \"silly servant.\" He always values having his company and sends him some rhubarb with instructions as to its preparation.","A.L.S. Blakeley. George arrived safely yesterday afternoon. Disappointed various items from Mr. Hooff were not sent but instead sent via canal. Discusses prices of some items. Thanks him for fruit sent. Tells him to do what he thinks best with the greenhouse.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is anxiously awaiting the arrival of his hands from Mount Vernon as George Saunders Ned and Lewis are all laid up. Marie and Mary Jane are incapable of working out. Harvest has commenced. Wants him to send a barrel of white sand for plastering the pillars in the brick portico. Hopes he will come soon. Sends family greetings.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She had a good journey home with pleasant visits with friends on the way. \"You have a partial friend in Mr. S. altho' I think he would be pleased if you did not speak quite so loud.\" Richard says a man wants to rent the P.H. Farm but is unwilling to pay the terms requested. Describes two sermons she heard. Wants him to look in the study for letters which Uncle Bushrod says must be there.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Writes with suggestions for the furniture and carpet at Mount Vernon. She specifically mentions the \"little drawing room,\" \"parlor,\" \"front passage,\" \"little room,\" and \"old dining room.\" Fears she shall be left more largely in debt than ever yet been. A Dutch farmer wants to rent P. Hole farm.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Gives some financial information. \"If the work is all finished at Mount Vernon both Harry and Fanny had better come but if there is still any thing for Fanny to do, she can remain.\" Requests items to be brought up, including lemons and oranges. Family news, including that Uncle Bushrod remains confined to his couch.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has not heard from him. Ordered various building supplies. Financial times are very difficult and strict economy is necessary. Will send him some of her horses until his can be matched. Since Mary Jane is sick, Fanny should return to care for her. \"Remember me most kindly to my Old Jenny and West.\"","A.L.S. Walnut Farm to Mount Vernon. She returned home on Saturday and deplored the roads in Harpers Ferry. \"It seems Mr. John Selden is anxious to purchase Harriet. She was appraised at $400 with her child. She is said to be an excellent servant, and if you can get her in place of Hannah, Julia, or Sally, I think you had better do so. Julia is now at Blakely, having laid up and then come off without Lake's permission… Dr. Cordell has been called out to see her twice and from his prescription I rather suppose thinks very little except hysteria ails her.\" Discusses crops and a sermon and sends family greetings.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has not been feeling well at all lately. Has heard from Cousin Lorenzo Lewis that Augustine looks very well. She would have liked to have heard that from him or his wife. \"The servants are becoming more and more worthless and disobedient. I really find it very difficult to govern them, or to have the most necessary domestic work attended to with any regularity.\" Family news. Wants him to send Harry up before harvest.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She's glad to hear that he and Nelly are doing so well. Much family news. \"Remember me very kindly to my good and faithful Jenny and Harry, also West and Eliza.\"","A.L.S. Bath to Blakeley. She is in Bath for the waters. It is very crowded, and all the houses are full. Heard two good sermons but then was ill again.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon.  She is concerned about poor Jenny and hopes the operation will give her a better chance of recovery. Many family members are ill. Another description of a sermon she heard.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She tells of travel difficulties. Relates some gossip. Made a deal for some provisions, but nothing has been delivered. She advanced the man $150. Family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Lots of news about family and friends. Also mentions Hannah and Rebecca being still invalids and that Thomas has again gone to Maryland. \"The boys have bought a wagon and two or three servants.\"","A.L.S. Mount Vernon. She wants to know if certain lawyers are in Alexandria or Washington. Also wishes to subscribe to the Audubon works and asks him to see to that.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has been anxious at not hearing from him. Wants him to send the rent check for $500 as soon as possible. Wants him to send the fish via the Misses Moore's boats on the canal. Mentions the subject of Julia's purchase. Family and friend news. Additional page following receipt of his letter. Sorry the fishery has been unsuccessful. Due to drought the strawberries gave poor yield.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She received the check from him. His carpenter is unwilling to go to Mount Vernon before late next autumn due to the climate there. Has tried to find out why the fish and shingles he was to send have not been found on the wharves for the Misses Moore's boats to bring.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon. Deals with settling the estate of Mr. Selden. Discusses his purchase of Mary, an enslaved woman who seems to be quite ill and therefore not worth more than $50 or $60. His wife does not want her sold away. Also wants to sell the corn crop at Exeter.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She is glad he was able to go to Philadelphia. Mentions the death of the wife of Lewis Washington. His sister was with her at her death, and Jane was there through the funeral. Is anxious about Charles' daughter Catherine who was sent via stage to Mrs. Page who did not want her after all and seems unwilling to pay the stage driver for her passage. Discusses the hiring of a German gardener for Mount Vernon. Wants him to send a shoe she left at Mount Vernon and a quantity of cotton.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She is busy with pork business and will send two barrels of hams and one of lard. Complains about his brother and his wife coming without replying to her as to when they would arrive. Says her health is very infirm.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Thanks him for the articles send, including oysters and ducks. Discusses sale of corn and is keeping some back to get a better price in the spring. Gives family news and that Captain Symington \"is stationed at H.F. where the government intends having erected barracks for him.\" Discusses the benefits of religion. Wants him to give a \"piece of old bacon/shoulders to West, Jenny and Phill.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Lengthy discussion of the purchase of a house by Dr. Alexander and his sister. The finances of this are described.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. She is \"sorry to hear of the disturbances among the negroes, especially poor Alfred. I think you had better sell him. Perhaps you might do it advantageously to some one in Richmond, who wants a capable and trustworthy servant. I am told Jim is very much distressed at parting with his son. If the purchaser of Alfred is willing to take Jim and he wishes to go, I have no objection to it.\" Discusses various crop prices. Reports the death of one child from scarlet fever and how it sickens many in Charleston.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Discusses a few financial matters. \"Hannah was sick \u0026 soon gave birth to a still born infant a boy. It was a mercy the event occurred for decomposition had commenced.\" People are still getting sick with scarlet fever.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Describes the symptoms and illness with scarlet fever of Julia. She will be unable to attend Jane Davis's wedding. \"I have been in a most unsettled state for a long time. It seems difficult to get my family matters and business settled into any regular method again.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Julia Alexander died from scarlet fever. Others are also ill. She will not come to Mount Vernon for fear of bringing the disease with her and wants him to collect rents due her and pay various bills from that and send the rest to her.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discussion of finances and sale of stock. Gives medical advice to him for various people. Tells of recent election – not more than half of either party voted. Uncle Bushrod is going to Maryland to attend a meeting of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has \"the severest attack of Influenza I have had for two years.\" Kitty has discarded Lt. Hooe due to his poor conduct. Describes drought conditions badly affecting crops.","A.L.S. Draft copy. Mount Vernon. Refuses permission to bring a party of military people to Mount Vernon by water. Does not want boats to dock there, but will allow them to enter if they arrive by land.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Have had much sickness. \"Thompson, Jerry and Mingo laid up; in consequence of which George is driving the wagon… Am now endeavoring to save what apples remain on the trees and prepare winter clothing for the servants.\" Wants him to come visit.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Have had an unusual degree of sickness. \"Poor old Mingo is thought to be dying!... Berkeley, Jerry, and Thompson are still on the sick list.\" Tells of death of a neighbor who shot himself by accident as he was mounting his horse. Is unable to bring the wheat to the mill as the mill was \"dangerously full.\" Describes a difficult journey by his aunt. At end \"Mingo is Dead.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She was still too ill at Christmas to visit others. \"We have still four or five cases of typhoid fever at the quarters. Charlotte among them she is still very sick. The Dr. hopes a favourable change has taken place in Selina, Saul and Jerry. Mary came out today. I have taken Sophy home and hope to be able to get on with her under Fanny's superintendance.\" Other descriptions of moving enslaved people around. Relates episode of Julia having escaped from Cousin H. and coming to her.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Tells him Col. and Mrs. Davenport intend to visit him at Mount Vernon. Wants them to entertain them well. Discusses politics – \"the great question of Annexation.\" Mr. Rivers' speech was a great production. \"He feels as we do, the waning power of our once great \u0026 noble state.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She returned from a ride feeling quite well again. Describes a beautiful snowfall. \"I am sorry to hear you have still sickness among your servants. It is also the case here, new cases constantly occuring. The Dr. has been a daily visiter with the exception of two or three days. Milly's youngest child is now ill.\" Describes the death of his cousin. Other family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Describes her journey home from Mount Vernon, visiting friends on the way. \"Richard … is going Missouri and wishes to purchase Negroes to take with him. He has yet made no offer for Caroline, tho' we understand he wishes to get her. She I am told is averse to going.\" Describes a sermon and exhorts him to read the Bible. Family information. \"Excuse this blotted ill written scrawl. Read and burn it.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses the naming of his new baby girl. Nelly wanted to name her after Jane, but she thought she should be named after Nelly's recently deceased grandmother. Tells of financial difficulties of Dr. A. and the prices of crops. After her signature – \"Destroy this letter.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Writes to discuss ways to assist Dr. A. \"out of his present difficulties.\" Wants him to come visit soon with the family.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses a large christenings in church. Relates tale of two men who recently died from intemperance. Also tells plans for an upcoming wedding and where various guests will stay.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Has yet to hear back from him in answer to her letter about Dr. A. Tells him of what she wants to do for him. Gives instructions as to how he should travel to visit her with the family.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Wants to send George with the carriage to bring her and the children. Describes dancing by various people. Wants to receive some financial records.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Tells him of money placed in bank \"for servants sold… (Humphrey, Shedrack, Thompson, Caroline, Little Daniel, Margaret, and John).\" \"I am not well and feel a good deal agitated at the sale tho' I believe it will be better for all concerned but it is distressing to break up families by sales.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Sending notes to him and hopes he will return as soon as he arranges this business. Nelly and the girls are well, though Lou has still a cough.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Misses the family and tells of items that were left during their last visit. Much rain has kept her from church. Maria sent jars of quince jelly for her. Gives family news and describes some roses. Sends message to Augustine \"to write to his old and now very unimportant mother.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Describes family members' travels. Not a good wheat crop. Discusses the estate of Mr. Foote and how it treats his wife. Talks about the American B.S. and its efforts to bring the Bible to 10,000 families who have none. Asks him to pay some bills for her.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Congratulates him on getting much ice stored in his ice house as \"it is a luxury, essential to health, and economy in domestic management.\" \"I believe slaves will become less and less valuable; and unless we keep them in the hope of being able to liberate and provide for them: for pecuniary interest, it is best to own, only as many as are necessary for the ordinary work of our farms.\" Many hams were spoilt, so they cannot offer any.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Much sickness in the early spring of cholera. Many people unable to work – Old Jenny, Maria and Dick, Lewis and George obliged to plough. Her cook Eliza has a crippled sore arm. Sophy, Joe, and Little Tom have been helping with many guests. Much discussion of weather.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Tells of various charges Richard made on his behalf. The weather has badly affected the crops. Wants to travel to Chicago in the summer. \"Richard has purchased West's little farm… West intends going West.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Sorry to hear about his return of chills. Their diet has been quite poor with a lack of vegetables and fresh meat. Thanks him for the check he sent, but he forgot to sign it. Describes another sermon. Requests him to send cypress shingles as soon as possible as the house leaks when it rains.","A.L.S. Mount Vernon to Charlestown, Jefferson County. Discusses failure to purchase mules at auction. He is unable to procure the peaches she wanted in Alexandria as many fruits have already fallen off the trees. West Ford said they needed some double shovel ploughs to put in the wheat.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Baltimore. She is sorry to hear of Lou's \"hooping cough.\" Other family news. Long description of Mr. Tacker and his vision of his impending death. Is sorry that Augustine is alone at Mount Vernon with the servants who have been \"a source of disquiet and distress to him.\"","Summerville, Gloucester County, Virginia to Alexandria. Tells him of a property coming for sale in the area. Also wants to make bricks and needs a \"responsible white man to superintend.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Congratulates him on the birth of another daughter. Gives news of Richard.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Nelly is recovering from childbirth, and the baby thrives. Nelly wishes him to remind Miss Entwisle about the dresses.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Gives prices of bushels of wheat from Mr. Burns and Mr. Snyder.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a wedding and the young guests at the dinner. Discusses an Irishman who came to sell her tablecloths which she did not want. Letter was written over several days. She really misses the family.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Won't give him the family news as she just passed that along to Nelly in a very recent letter. Thanks him for paying her bills. Discusses rental of the Ferry Landing fisheries and wants to rent to Mr. Whitall. Will let him decide whether to increase the fisheries.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Entreats him to take it easy in the winter. They have had much snow. Uncle Bushrod has much ice stored away and offered some to her as her pond had a defect which caused it to drain. Discusses finances. He may rent out North Farm. \"I fear however you will have many difficulties and vexations if you let the servants go with the farm.\" Tells of his sister having a tumour under her arm. Also their church burned. Tells him of the death of her true friend Mrs. Adams.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes different people reading the will. Hopes his brother and family reached Mount Vernon safely. \"I think if the ladies attend the Inauguration of our brave honest chief, they had better join Mrs. Madison – who I am sure would be gratified at their so doing, and render their visit much more agreeable.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Has been anxiously awaiting a reply from him to her letter of a month ago. Wants to know when the monuments would be brought to Mount Vernon and the sum of money to be obtained. Is sending George with barrels containing hams and some apples. Wants him to return with the horses only, leaving the carriage. There was a fire at Hannah's house which was extinguished.","A.L.S. Gives much family news. Discusses lower prices for wheat and increasing the salary of the woman who must cook for Mr. Graham and all who are on the farm. Wants his help hiring a new overseer.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is waiting to hear from him as to the overseer and waiting to see if Mr. Graham will accept the terms offered. \"Richard intends hiring out the hands he employed on the farm hoping to derive more clear profit from the Hires than he has received from the farm.\" Questions whether she should do anything about the deed for Mount Vernon drawn up. His sister Maria continues to look quite ill.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Snyder has delivered in mill his rent wheat. Writes that she is sending the deed to Mount Vernon, which has officially been signed over to him. Discusses an interesting trial in Charlestown. \"A Negro hired by Anderson … made an assault on Anderson for which he was committed and is today to be tried. The gentlemen all seemed to consider the issue of high importance. It certainly is to the miserable prisoner whose fate will be selling, transportation, or Death! I trust the decision will be merciful.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Writes about acquiring copies of the free papers for a formerly enslaved man named William Lyons. He is hoping to travel to Tennessee to visit his parents. Tells him his sister continues to do poorly.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Relates the sending of the deed conveying Mount Vernon to him. Is preparing to have Maria come stay for a while.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Maria has been there for a week and continues to be very ill. Tells him his tenants have not honoured his orders. More family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Discusses difficulties with the harvest and procuring labourers. Dr. Alexander hired a tutor for Charlotte who is very well thought of. More neighborhood and family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes Nelly will soon be able to travel and recommends she drink a tea (\"it can no doubt be had at Stablers\") as the best remedy in her case. \"The servants … are very much alarmed in regard to cholera.\" Wants him to get some good port and M. Wine. She can get good whiskey in C-town.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is very glad of the dividend declared by the Alexandria Bank. They have had severe colds but not cholera.","A.L.S. Caledon to Mount Vernon. Writing from Caledon and describes journey there. Their trunk did not arrive with them, so they have no change of clothes. Tells stories from the boat trip.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Much family news. Tells him a cousin died shortly after their visit. Richard \"seems to be a very happy man, he surely is blest in his wife \u0026 eight children.\" Dr. A has acquired an excellent housekeeper.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells of Annie ill with scarlet fever and how the doctor has her rubbed with a piece of raw fat bacon. Is now much improved. Was in care of Miss Gantt, the housekeeper, whom she praises highly. Wishes she could have heard Miss Lind sing at Mount Vernon. Describes a sermon. More news about friends and relatives.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes the symptoms of \"our dear little John\" and is sure something is wrong with his spine. Tells of the route of the turnpike and how it will cut off some of his woodland. Much news about family and acquaintances. Is very pleased with \"our young minister\" and hopes his teachings will help everyone.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Top portion of first page cut away, incomplete letter. Wants him to see the plans for the turnpike as it might cut through his land. Mrs. Briscoe's son would like to visit Mount Vernon and will bring any letter or package there.","A.L.S. Blakeley. More on the Turnpike passing through his farm. Entreats him to not bring forward tempting articles which are stimulating and exciting during his brother's visit. She is unable to visit due to pressing business.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Met Dr. Alexander and family before church and invited them to dinner. Encloses a letter from Mrs. Moran who would like to stay at Mount Vernon on her way to visit Jane. Is sending George with fish to be pickled. Sends remembrances to \"your maids Sarah, Eliza, Fanny and Amanda.\"","A.L.S. Thanks him for the fish and oysters sent by wagon. George did not properly stack items on the wagon, and much was damaged. The prayer book for Louisa has finally arrived and will be sent as soon as possible.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Discusses difficulties of Mr. Whitall and the fishery. Hopes to collect from Snyder and will send it to him. News about friends and family. Finished planting corn. Had snow recently.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells him she got $200 from Mr. Rutherford which will be deposited in a bank in Charlestown. He informed them that the roof of the barn is in need of repair. Gives family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Wants Nelly and the children to visit after harvest and will send George with the carriage to get them. Hopes Augustine will be friends with Mr. Moran. Has been sick and taken \"an unusual quantity of opium for me.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is glad his servants have recovered and \"that you … have not suffered from your humane and close attendance on them.\" Was sorry to hear that Ephraim had fallen a victim. Tells him of a good friend who seems to be recovering. Gives a recipe for a remedy. Talks about the harvest and the various servants who are working on it. Is considering renting out her farm though she would retain part. Tells of Hannah's health.","A.L.S. Springland to Staunton, Virginia. Urges her not to think too much of home and to apply herself to her books and music. Gives family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is happy to hear they are all healthy. Relates family news and gives him business advice. Describes hearing a musician. Discusses Mr. Rutherford and his acquiring bone dust to use as fertilizer.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She was so sorry to learn of the disaster that occurred to the vessel that was taking his wheat to market. Describes her journey home. At end, thanks him for the venison.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is so sorry about his heavy loss and prays that God will help him through it. More family news about various people being ill.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a sermon on intemperance. Discusses health problems of John and hopes he will improve when the weather gets better. Much family news.","A.L.S. Springland to Staunton, Virginia. Tells her that her last two letters appear to have been robbed. Gives news about her mother, grandmother, and sister.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Hopes Augustine is recovering. Much sickness in her house. Sent a new plough to Augustine. Hopes it arrives in time. Other family news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes a visit from Mrs. Powel and various other family members. Wants part of the rent on the fishery to go toward the purchase of a piano for Louisa and the rest sent to her to pay off some debts. Sends love to all and reports on a few deaths.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to the visit from him and his family in July. Describes harvesting of wheat and rye after much rain. Both had much desired Mr. Fillmore's election to the presidency. Wants Noblet to return from California.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is enclosing some stock certificates to Mr. Eaches to be her attorney. Glad Nelly and the children are safely home. Tells of the loss of Richard and Christian's children.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to Augustine's visit. Invited Kitty to spend the winter with her, but she will go elsewhere. News about various acquaintances. The disagreeable pork business is done, and she is sending three barrels of pippins via boat.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Thanks him for the $200 check which enabled her to pay her tax bill. Is again concerned about Noblet. Tells of Kitty Wright's trip to Winchester where her companion became ill with typhoid fever. Kitty \"is now with us, with three lovely children, and a good coloured girl (a slave) the one whom she hired.\" All her friends send their love.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. \"Gabriel has sent in to say he wishes to set off tomorrow on his return home.\" Tells of much family with her at Christmas time.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. She has been awaiting his visit and wonders about the cause of the delay. Still no news about Noblet. Tells of returning Annie Burnett home after she came into Richard's pew in church and wanted to come home with her. The next day she returned home.","A.L.S. Blakeley to Mount Vernon. Put $600 in bank to his credit. Kitty and her three children left with Sophy replacing the other nurse who has been ill for the children","A.L.S. Blakeley. There is much whooping cough going around with so far one death. The weather is very fine, and there are many flowers. Glad to hear the fisheries are doing well. Describes her visit to Walnut Farm and the people she saw while there. Asks if he has seen the Masonic oration on the \"centennial commemoration of the initiation of George Washington into the order of free Masons.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She was sorry to hear about the hail storm they had. Celebrated Hannah's birthday. Will send this letter with William Lyons who is leaving to see Augustine. Other family and friend news.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is so glad Eliza is recovered. So sad about the death of Dr. Powel. More news about impending visits. General Duvall will be in Washington soon and would like to see Augustine so he could become \"acquainted with many of the influential members from the South \u0026 West, with whom he wishes you to become acquainted in case you still determine on disposing of M.V.\"","A.L.S. \tBlakeley. Wants either a visit from them or for her to visit them before winter sets in. She had quite a pleasant visit to New York and Philadelphia. Tells him of climbing 180 steps of the Washington Monument in Baltimore and having a beautiful view. Glad they have obtained a governess for the girls.","A.L.S. Blakeley. She is sorry Nelly is sick but will be unable to come down until after Christmas. Has several articles brought from N.Y. for \"my deal g.children at M.V.\"","A.L.S. Tells him of a deposit in bank for his use. Grieved to learn Eliza continues in feeble health. Visited Walnut Farm and heard from Dr. Alexander that \"the financial affairs of our church are in a very confused \u0026 entangled state.\" Looking forward to her trip to New York.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Paid $200 on stock note at bank. Is anxious about his brother determining to go to Housekeeping \u0026 renting Col. Devenport's House. He will still be at Blakeley every day. She has been suffering from dyspepsia. Glad to hear the governess gives satisfaction. Reference to Miss Nancy at Walnut Farm, who \"is not only a good house keeper but also understands gardening.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells him Mr. and Mrs. Depau intend visiting Mount Vernon, along with their son. Richard and family left for their new home and are much missed. She feels quite anxious to see her \"dear children at M.V. especially my grandson whose name I am as yet unacquainted with.\" Says two of our Cedar lawn cousins are to be married. \"The servants have been divided \u0026 the Cedar Lawn will be sold.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Sympathizes with the delayed visit due to the sickness of the family \"and death of your valuable and good young servant Dennis. It is a severe affliction to his poor mother. He was I think her youngest child.\" Is most anxious to see her grandson Lawrence. Had a visit from his brother and Christian and their son John. Went by invitation to Mr. Lovel's school where pupils delivered speeches and addresses. Wants the family to visit and will have rooms fixed up for them. Sends \"kind regards to your good \u0026 faithful servant Eliza, Danny \u0026 Sarah.\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Looks forward to a shipment of \"Nellies Pickled Rockfish\" to share with neighbours \u0026 friends. Discusses planting of crops. Will visit him and his family \"this day week,\"","A.L.S. Blakeley. Describes her trip back home from Mount Vernon. Everyone is harvesting but having difficulty obtaining sufficient hands for the task.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Tells of the sudden death of Mrs. Selden and the funeral. Mentions harvests and addition to his house Dr. A. is doing. Wants to see him and the family. Mr. Rutherford wishes to renew his lease on the farm.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Hopes Maria's arm heals well and that he received the two barrels of oats she sent. Gives news about family. Tells of \"our beloved Charlotte\" taking communion and becoming a member of the church.","A.L.S. Blakeley.  She is so sorry that Richard is ill but glad that Augustine is with him. Tells of George's illness. Gives more family news and hopes to see the family soon.","A.L.S. Requests he send him the cantaloupe seeds he talked about. Wants to talk about a system of patrols \"to try \u0026 keep our slaves at home.\" Says the slaves are stealing so much from them and taking it to Alexandria. Says everyone in the neighborhood of slave holders could contribute to hire 6 good men to patrol.","A.L.S. New Charlestown to Richmond. Sends family news and gives advice as to her traveling home. Tells of someone about to die, and that Fanny Griggs' school is broken up.","A.L.S. Blakeley. Laments that it has been so long since she heard from him or his family and wonders when they will come to visit. Gives news about local people. Tells of the wonderful addition that Dr. A. put on his house.","A.L.S. \tBlakeley to Mount Vernon. Had a tooth extracted. News of friends and neighbors. Has had influenza for 10 days.","A.L.S. White House. Gives his legal opinion as to a dispute among them. First the fact that the seine was not received by Mr. Washington at the appointed time, necessitating many difficulties. Second, the Hoopers did not receive the required loom but are entitled to some compensation for work done. His judgment is for $275 for Mr. Washington.","A.L.S. Hampstead, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses her love of gardening and the recent harvest. Says she likes the new teacher at a neighbor's house \"but she looks consumptive.\" Describes a monument to two boys.","A.D.S. Fairfax County. Indicates full payment of judgment from JAW to William Mason.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses the route of the turnpike and that it should go through Mr. E's land. It would split it up, and so Mason wants to offer other alternatives. Much of the land is prone to flooding and marshy. It would be very expensive to put the road through that.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Discusses his written ordinance about how to deal with people coming onto unenclosed land and hunting or fishing. Talks of a particular problem with land along waterways. Wants JAW to write to lawmakers and make this happen.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia. Before the Legislature meets, he encloses a proposed measure to be enacted. Discusses counties to be included – all along the Potomac and Rappahanoc.","A.L.S. Rose Hill. Discusses the hiring of an African American boy to do odd jobs and will pay $15.","A.L.S. Discusses the sending of clover seed. Had a problem with old Henry who emptied some tailings for the hens near the clover, mixing some up. \"I think I never was more vexed with any human being in all my life.\"","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Mason writes describing an incident he had with West Ford on his plantation. This remarkable letter highlights the way Ford, despite being a free man, was still treated like a slave by others: \"On the evening of the Monday after Whitsunday, I was about sunset standing at my stable, giving some orders for the morning's work, when there passed within three or four yards of me a Negro man, who I did not know, without touching his hat, or any other recognition of my presence. After he had passed, I called to him asking who he was, and who did he belong to? He walked on, taking no notice, until I repeated the question, when he said 'Washington.' I then said, I suppose you have a name, and can tell me what Mr. Washington you belong to? He replied, 'West Ford.' His manner was insolent and supposing he was drunk, I said to him, there is the road to the gate, go off my place at once… When he got to the corner of the house, he commenced whooping and continued doing so, till he got out of the gate, which I had to send and have closed after him. I said nothing further to him, as he was obviously drunk; but directed one of my servants to go and tell him never to put his foot on the place again… Had he been anyone's servant but yours, I shd. have immediately had him apprehended and flogged for his impertinence; but satisfied that it could only be necessary to report the facts to you, and that you would take measures to prevent his ever coming here again, or repeating it, I have taken no further steps in the matter.\"","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia to Mount Vernon. Sorry to hear that JAW is no longer a magistrate of the county. Will do what he can to get Mr. Herbert elected magistrate, so he can form the patrol necessary.","A.L.S. Spring Bank, Virginia. Heard that all will be done to keep out a Yankee for the office of Justice. Hopes Mr. Herbert will consent to serve.","A.L.S. Writes about the issue of county taxes which have become exceedingly high, mainly to pay for road construction. Found out that one group was destroying his trees and running a new road through his land to take business away from the turnpike.","A.D.S. Acknowledges receipt of payment in full on her account for boots and shoes for various named men.","A.L.S. Tells him of the considerable debts ($2,169.80) of Cousin Hannah and wishes to know what is to be done about it.","A.L.S. Urges him to do well in school and to board with the principal and not to associate with his old school mate Charles J.","A.L.S. Describes her trip home and the friends and family she visited on the way. Had friends to dine but had difficulty with the dinner as meat is scarce.","A.L.S. Just sent George to the Charlestown P.O. with a letter and check to him. Sorry to hear that Nelly is again sick.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Describes her feelings at the recent losses of children and Noblet. Tells of much sickness in the area. \"Old Jenny's was by far the severest case, one which Dr. C. intirely dispaired of. She is recovering which we are thankful for, tho' old and feeble, she is good and pious, and has considerable influence with her children and fellow servants.\"","A.L.S. Has attached a check for $200 to be paid to the Exchange Bank in Alexandria toward her debt of $700. Was sorry to hear of Nelly's illness. Gives other family news.","A.L.S. Discusses a recently recorded deed. Describes health concerns of her sister. Bad weather is affecting planting. At end of letter: \"Matilda, your woman at Harewood has had an infant and lost it. It died after suffering greatly from fits. Dr. Cordell attended it.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon.  Has enclosed a check to be paid on her account with Mr. Hooff. Prices are low for horses and stock. Planting goes slowly. Gives family and friends news. Gives a recipe for quince jelly and marmalade. \"Remember me most kindly to Jenny \u0026 West \u0026 … indeed all our household at M.V.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. A brief note requesting him to \"let George have money $2.50 to get a pair of boots.\"","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. She is sending Jenny and Fanny and hopes they will be \"useful and conduct themselves well.\" His carpenter came by the day after he left wanting some money he was owed as he had a debt to pay. Wants to visit them but wants him to let her know \"whether or not it is desirable for me to go. I shall not be in the slightest degree either hurt or offended at my room being preferable to my company.\" \"Mr. Rutherford … declines keeping Sally another year. I have told Mr. Shepperd to look out for a good place for her but I really think you had better take her down and either keep her at M.V. under your own eye as milker and washer or hire her out there. I think she and Alfred or Gabriel had better make a match.\"","A.L.S. All have been enjoying the visit from Augustine but regrets she and the children did not also come. Hannah is about to leave for New York for medical treatment, accompanied by Fanny. Thanks Louisa for the chow chow she made. News about a visit to cousin Ann Washington. Much talk of friends and family.","A.L.S. \"Your kind mother always advances for me the money with which I travel to the upper country. I am making my arrangements to move rather earlier than usual this summer that I may have the advantage of Cousin Betsy Winter's company … I shall take Rosina with me who is a fine sensible, amiable girl of fourteen, rather handsome, but bashful and awkward. She looks badly now from a sort of bilious fever without chills, which hangs about her in despite of blue pile etc.\"","A.L.S. Anna writes of the death of an enslaved woman named Harry: \"she died on Monday last, after a short illness, inflammation of the brain and womb… Dr. Alexander and Straith examined her body and found the womb and other organs around it entirely diseased. Mother has lost a kind and faithful servant, a sincere tho humble friend. We shall all feel her loss, to mother it is irreparable, she has no servant who can take her place.\"","A.L.S. Letter being carried by Randall, a slave, and tells of various people's health problems.","A.L.S.\t Hollin Hall to Mount Vernon. Has heard there is little chance of the law they want passing in this session of the Legislature. Gives his thoughts about future elections of people who will assist them.","A.L.S. To Mount Vernon. Wonders whether he has recovered his slave. If so \"make a stern and proper example.\" Tells Augustine to come to him for trials and punishments of slaves.","A.D.S. Autograph copy. 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Together they had eleven children, whom Martha educated at home. Martha was known for her keen intellect and would often assist her father with his affairs. Thomas became a botanist and served as a Virginia delegate, senator, governor, and congressman.","Edgehill was Martha and Thomas' Virginia plantation, and later the chief residence of their eldest son, Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Martha and Thomas inherited the land from Thomas' father and built their first home there in 1799. A second, larger house was built in 1828. The family also operated a girls' school on the plantation, called \"Edgehill School\" from 1836 to 1896.","Source: Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia. monticello.org. Accessed 13 January 2023."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains material which discusses enslavement and may contain racist language. 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The letters begin during the Washingtons' engagement and continues through eighteen years of marriage, ending with a letter from John Augustine to Eleanor composed the day prior to her sudden death. 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Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.","Saw Dr. Powell on Thursday. Cases of bilious fever. Arrangements for slave Eliza's return to Mount Vernon. Crabs are \"disappearing very rapidly.\"","The collection is arranged first by letters written by John Augustine Washington III, organized chronologically, and second by letters written by Eleanor Love Selden Washington, organized chronologically.","John Augustine Washington III (1821-1861): John Augustine Washington was the great-grandnephew of George Washington and the last Washington to own Mount Vernon before its sale to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association (MVLA).  He was born on May 3, 1821 to John Augustine Washington II and Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840, and returned to Mount Vernon to manage the declining estate with his widowed mother's permission. In 1843, he married Eleanor Love Selden with whom he had seven children. He sold 200 acres of Mount Vernon to the MVLA in 1858 for $200,000, and he and his family moved to Waveland plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1860. He served as aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee, but was shot by a bushwhacker and died one week later on September 13, 1861.","Eleanor Love Selden Washington (1824-1860): Born April 12, 1824 to Wilson Cary Selden and Louisa Elizabeth Fontaine Alexander Selden, \"Nelly\" married John Augustine Washington III on February 16, 1843. Together, they had seven children: Louisa, Jane Charlotte (\"Jenny\"), Eliza (\"Lily\"), Anna Maria, Lawrence, Eleanor (\"Nelly\"), and George. She died from childbirth October 9, 1860.","Bushrod Washington Family Papers ;\nJohn Augustine Washington III and Descendants Papers ;\nElswyth Thane Beebe Collection of Washington Family Papers ;\nHistoric Manuscripts Collection","The collection contains correspondence between John Augustine Washington III and his wife Eleanor Love Selden. The letters begin during the Washingtons' engagement and continues through eighteen years of marriage, ending with a letter from John Augustine to Eleanor composed the day prior to her sudden death. The letters contain information on family matters, the management of the Mount Vernon estate, and plantation life prior to the Civil War.","Expresses his happiness at receiving Nelly's letters and love for her. \"I do not object to the whole world knowing that I love you.\"","Must defer visit to Exeter for four or five days due to appointments. His mother will visit Nelly on her way up to Leesburg.","Feels pain at parting from Nelly. Cousin William [Turner] distraught over his intention to marry Betty [Selden].","Arrived Christmas day. Distressed at being apart from Nelly. Saw the family at Mount Ida [Wilson Cary Selden, Sr.'s family] on Saturday.","Love letter. \"…as the dearest moments of my life have been with you, so the happiest hopes that my soul can form, have you for their reigning star.\"","Will probably not see or hear from Nelly until their wedding. Discredits stories that his relative Thomas Turner mistreated his family and servants.","Is unable to return to Jefferson until the middle or end of next week. Gives instructions for Dick [Richard Blackburn Washington] regarding delivery of wheat, receipts, and a shingles order. Mentions Bushrod Washington and West Ford.","Changed route after leaving Nelly. Hopes Nelly recovers from her headaches. Did she get the box from Stabler's safely?","\"Time hangs heavily on me when you are absent…\" Updates on relations. A new academy is to be built opposite Mr. Burr Harrison's. Leaves for Jefferson tomorrow.","\"…not having been aware of my right to vote out of the county in which I resided, at the Presidential election I made arrangements to return home…\" Hyacinths planted.","His case came up in Court and estate committed to Augustine's hands. Encloses ten dollars to entertain Dick and Christian Washington. Two or three snowstorms since his arrival at Blakeley. Scarlet fever prevailing.","Scarlet fever disappeared. Direct West [Ford] to tell William Hayes to procure eggs or chickens, \"but know the price beforehand, or he will charge you double.\"","Absence of Gabriel and desertion of some of the hired hands. Has decided not to sell Gabriel. \"If it were possible to without them [slaves], I do not think I could own one, but situated as we are, landed property would be almost valueless without them, and it is a matter of necessity to have their labor.\"","Sowing wheat. \"I have never had soft crabs in perfection before.\" Asks if mother [Jane C. B. Washington] has received money on his wheat. Offers two sets of names for Dick and Christian Washington's daughter.","Sale of Exeter will not take place until spring. Dr. Alexander struggling with debt.","\"I have not seen our friends here, but hear that Bentley bought Cousin Eliza's negroes at $1,200.00.\"","Mother [Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington] ill. His letter will be taken to Nelly \"by two negro men who I have purchased, and by Julia whom I send down. I wish West to set them to getting rails…\"","\"I left the negroes I got in Alexandria, where I had an offer of $650.00 for them from a negro trader, but I prefer selling to a private person if I can do so. I found several of the servants sick, and Phil who was very low, died this evening.\"","Servants recovering. Nelly's cloak was dyed mazarine blue. Shall begin seeding wheat.","West [Ford] has taken sick this morning. \"The stockings and socks for the negroes are nearly done…The coat patterns are eaten up by the rats…\"","Got up to Blakeley night before last accompanied by Charles Washington. \"I have the prospect of employing an overseer for next year.\"","He has been trying to procure signatures for a \"petition for the division of our county.\" The sale of Woodlawn and the Quakers who are to settle on it.","Received Nelly's letter of September 18th. Has succeeded in obtaining an overseer \"at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars a year.\"","Relates journey to Blakeley. Was delayed as Turbeville Stuart had typhus or nervous fever. Pneumonia and typhoid fever \"prevailing through this neighborhood.\"","Augustine is losing his overseer due to his marriage to a widow, Ms. Spence. Discusses case at the Alexandria Superior Court.","\"Between pleasant company and bad weather I was detained in the lower country some days longer than I expected.\" Pleased with Gloucester. Disappointed in Old Point. Gabriel's duties and tasks.","Has been twice at church. Hopes Nelly received a package with silk, a bottle with slips, and peach stones. Preserves and pickles are done.","Describes weather and damage caused by drought and storms. Mr. Turner informs him that he can probably obtain an overseer but \"the chance of getting a tenant is not so good.\"","Returned home yesterday from trip to Maryland. Visited Mr. Sewall at Poplar Hill. Went to visit Dr. Crawfort but he was absent, so went to Mr. Shipley's. Recommends Nelly go to Baltimore. Presumes Elizabeth Blackburn was married today.","Wheat machine broke. Sends thirty dollars. Colonel Bailey Peyton is to marry Julia Thompson. Employed three Irish workers to see if they could replace slaves but the \"experiment\" failed.","Sends a carriage up for Nelly. He shall leave tomorrow or the next day for Jefferson.","Relates arrival in Baltimore and journey to Mount Vernon. Steamboat brought five hundred visitors during the week. Misses Nelly: \"…I feel a constant yearning to have you at my side, to hear you, to see you…\"","Dreams of Nelly. Monuments were erected at the vault. Steamboat continues to come full. President Filmore and his cabinet postponed visit. Plasterer to come and fix dining room and cellars.","Will be down tomorrow accompanied by William Turner and two other gentlemen.","Is obliged to go to Fairfax Court House to \"sue out attachments against Mr. Whitehall's property.\"","Writes in haste. Ephraim died yesterday evening. Too hazardous for Nelly to come down until epidemic subsides. Sends a package containing a fan and dress.","Will be in Alexandria on Friday. Dick [Richard Washington] unwell with attack of erysipelas. Fears John Washington will be deformed. New steamboat for the Mount Vernon route will not begin trips until the week after next.","Short letter. Will not be in Alexandria before Saturday. Needs to attend to business with \"Brother\" Thomas [Blackburn Washington]. Families at Blakeley are well.","Short letter. Mother [Jane C. B. Washington] is \"dangerously ill.\" Requests a carpet bag with clean clothes. \"Send John [Michum] up tomorrow morning for my Buggy.\"","Mother is better but still weak. Gives instructions for Mr. Stowell regarding corn for mules at Marshall Hall.","Mother is better. \"I have been purchasing negroes—and am in negotiation for others…\" Gives instructions for \"grubbing and ploughing.\" Overseer position. Includes letter to daughter Louisa on same sheet regarding various cousins.","Sends Jim up with the carriage today for Nelly. Augustine writes he is \"completely tired of bacheloring.\"","Heard of Mrs. [Eleanor Parke Custis] Lewis' illness. Describes journey with stops in Berryville and Chantilly. Harriet subject to fainting attacks. Threshing machine is set. Negotiations with Mr. Stowell as overseer. Death of General Roger Jones","Health of Aunt Eliza and Mr. Lloyd. Railroad festival at Salem [now Marshall]. Cary, Fontaine and John hunting and fishing. Describes flowers in Louisa's garden. Wharf and buildings being put up at the White House for the steamboat and visitors.","Going to Alexandria to sell a load of wheat. The slave Eliza was injured when she \"ran a needle in her arm and broke it off…\" Ends with proclamation of undying love: \"Indeed as I grow older my heart seems to cling closer to you…and never do I feel this more deeply than when you are absent from me.\"","Finished ploughing in Maryland. Tried to sell the slave Matilda but she was unwilling. Has employed a German gardener. Gives updates on the steamboat, visitors, and construction of new wharf.","Attaches a check for fifty dollars for travel expenses by canal. Good weather to begin work again. Heard through West [Ford] of Cousin Esther's death. Health of servants","Mount Vernon and other farms have lost one third to one half of harvest due to rains. Has finally engaged a Maryland bricklayer and plasterer.","Was unable to write due to a cold. Noblet Herbert's death. Disappointed in sale of mountain land. Instructions for sowing and sale of clover seed.","He cannot get up to the house. Requests beef, ham, knives and forks, Worcestershire sauce, and cream or milk.","Sold Matilda and her family to Mr. Bevin. Augustine has had attacks of ague. Cases of scarlet fever and dysentery. Gives instructions for Mr. Stowell regarding sheep and wheat machine.","Brief letter. Getting on slowly with work. Will probably not come down tomorrow.","\"Brother T's [cousin Thomas Washington] corpse has not yet arrived.\" John Alexander has dysentery.","Thomas Washington's body arrived and was buried at Charlestown. John Alexander's death. Will conclude funeral arrangements tomorrow.","Servants sick. Bought and forwarded a dress for Louisa. Will take Louisa to Bath after sale of Richwoods [home of Thomas Blackburn Washington].","\"Richard [Washington] was rather better last night.\" Brief letter.","He is detained a few days longer due to Dr. Alexander's absence. Asks Nelly to send the wagon up for coal. Has sold corn at three dollars.","Arrived in Charlestown yesterday. Restaurants in Charlestown and Harper's Ferry filthy. Richard [Washington] sold about 300 acres of his land at $60.00 per acre.","\"Alexandria May 18\" crossed out at top. His health continues to improve, will join her in a few days. Requests pills and tea.","\"My cold is broken and a great deal better.\" Regrets that sickness prevents him from joining her as planned.","Augustine writes he will be down on Thursday or Friday. Direct Mr. Browner to get ready to kill the hogs next Saturday.","Has commenced hauling today. Encloses check for fifty dollars. Sends up a swan.","Augustine writes that though his health has improved, he's still unable to return.","Sends bacon, shad and fish by West [Ford]. Wrote a short note to Nelly this morning to be delivered by girl Maria. Son Lawrence and the baby [Eleanor] are well.","Encloses a letter from California. Has had stormy weather. Requests that Nelly tell Cousin Sally or the doctor to inform him how she is.","Stormy and rainy weather prevented his going to see Nelly. Weather unfavorable for fishing.","Forwards check for $100.","Instructions to send several servants [enslaved workers?] from Mount Vernon to Alexandria.","The slave Sarah \"had run off from Mr. Taylor and had gone home this morning.\" Has not heard from Richmond [regarding sale of Mount Vernon to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association]","Regarding negotiations with the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.","Relates his visits with the children to the University, Monticello, Farmington, and the \"Asylums for the Insane and for the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb.\"","Relates visit to Wyers Cave. Saw John Selden and his children. Visited Cousin Ann and Miss Mary Peter. Saw Sister Hannah and Jenny. \"My farm as usual will yield but a small rent, and I have half made up my mind to sell it.\"","Brief letter. Is detained until Monday and \"then have to go to Balt[imore]. If I do not get home on Tuesday in the boat, send up for me Wednesday morning.\"","Must travel to Baltimore with Mr. Herbert. Instructs William Ford to meet him in Alexandria to show him lots [of timber?] to be labeled.","Encloses letter from Magruder Mason. Gives instructions for delivering slaves George, Charlotte and Milly who have been hired out.","Has requested Mr. Price send down game and fish. Expects to meet Willie Rogers and Mr. Robinson on Saturday.","Christian Washington's baby had an operation on her lip. Heavy fall of snow. Gives instructions regarding clover seed, ploughs, and windows of hot beds.","Shall leave tomorrow for Frederick and Fauquier and be home Friday or Saturday. Bad weather prevented his visiting friends in Audley and Berryville. Has arranged matters with Mr. Richardson about Joe [a slave boy].","Describes journey to Chicago: stops and sights. Unsure if he can make an investment in Chicago or not.","Relates investigation of investments with Mr. Wright and Mr. McFarland. Describes geography of Chicago, Lake Michigan, and river and its relation to property value. Visited a Mr. Kerfoot. Describes scenery.","Has bought two pieces of property. Gives instructions regarding harvest. Inquires after cradles and rakes.","Richard and Bushrod Washington came down with him. \"I fear I shall be disappointed in selling Marshall Hall to the person who I expected to buy it.\"","Constant rains on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Will go to Washington to meet John F. Lee. Thinks they can move to Waveland by the first of December.","\"This box contains the correspondence between my wife and myself from October 1842 to October 1860. From the time of our engagement to her Death - John A. and E. L. Washington.\"","Dr. Lloyd's funeral will take place tomorrow. Requests suit of black clothes.","Description of journey from St. Louis to Chicago. Fertility of the prairie and poverty of inhabitants. Business in Chicago remains uncertain.","Received Nelly's letter of April 1st. Has not made much progress in his business. \"I went out yesterday about 35 miles on the Milwaukee Railroad branch…\"","Has rented a part of his property. Ogden suit will come up in a few days. Dined at Mr. Kerfoot's. Describes a \"feat of house lifting\" he witnessed.","His lawyers are confident in winning the Ogden Suit [Malebon D. Ogden vs. John A. Washington and William F. Turner]. Met with friends and relations; mentions Cassins, Grahams, and Mr. Morgan Johnson. Says he is \"wife sick or love sick.\"","Expects to leave tomorrow night or Saturday for Indianapolis and Louisville. Encloses flowers. \"I regret to hear that Miss Cunningham's enterprise turned out indifferently. It was I thought rather inconsiderate in her to attempt anything of the sort while we are living there, but I suppose she did not think of this.\"","Forgot trunk key and requests to have Nelly mail it. Has sent up boxes of silver, white and brown sugar, and soap. Gives instructions regarding a box of stolen sugar.","Going to Leesburg this morning with friends. Postscript \"Thursday morning.\"","\"Mr. Turner though still very unwell is going about a little, and we are engaged in sowing wheat…\" Bought a carpet for the library. Has sent up stair carpet rods.","Augustine writes he had intended going up to Waveland yesterday but \"as I have some little unfinished business here and have not had an opportunity of seeing Cousin H[arriet] I shall wait until tomorrow and accompany them up.\"","Reports he will not return as soon as planned. Encloses ten dollars.","After receiving her father's permission to respond to Augustine's letter, she writes that she has never before attempted such a letter. Expresses her feelings for him.","Disappointed in trip to Walnut Farm. Supposes Augustine has arrived at Mount Vernon. Death of Mrs. Mason.","If Augustine is detained, their separation will be nearly three weeks. Delivered messages to Dick. Recent storm caused flooding and destroyed fencing.","Spent yesterday at Mount Vernon. Whitewashing has improved the appearance of the yard. Longs for the twenty-sixth to come.  Miss Morey [Maury] leaves tomorrow.","Bridal party arrived [for wedding of Christian Maria and Richard Washington]. Asks Augustine to get a new pair of boots or have his mended.","Augustine's last letter dated the 10th. Pleased he employed a white overseer.","No time fixed for Dick's [Richard Washington] marriage. Will Augustine get the baby a pair of shoes? Penciled note by Augustine possibly noting property lines.","When did Augustine leave Loudon? Louisa has learned several words. Nelly has visited several friends.","Intends to have her tooth drawn. Weather very cold. Louisa learned waltzing.","Discusses weather. Mr. Stuart arrived. \"Louisa has completely retrieved her character since you left.\" Letter continues September 2nd. Nelly \"left Blakeley yesterday morning to spend this week with Aunt Maria and Anne.","Louisa's health. \"I was really gratified to hear you did not find it necessary to sell Gabriel.\" Louisa has \"several times mistaken persons down the street for you…\"","Delivery and payment of wheat. Louisa is well. Christian Washington already named her daughter Elizabeth. Old Mr. [John] Sinclair died and his slaves are to be sold.","Dined with Ellen Powell. Louisa \"fell against the table and nearly broke her nose…\"","Nelly writes she had a bad cold on Monday. Louisa's arm is almost entirely well. West [Ford] was in town yesterday. Charles Lee and Anne Gardener are engaged.","Daughter Jenny [Jane Charlotte Washington] sick with fever and welts.","Daughter Jenny and other family members illl. Cousin Thomas and Noblet returned last week. Postscript asking for money for children's dresses.","Aunt Eliza doing well. Nelly went to hear Hertz play: He is \"one of the most celebrated performers on the piano.\" Does not understand Anne's letter.","Short letter. Chastises Augustine for not writing. Asks \"is it because your wife is not of sufficient importance to you to write to her.\"","\"I shall be ready to go any day that you can come for me.\" Asks for mutton suet and cat mint.","\"Mr. George Turner, starts for Boston tomorrow, and I have determined to go under his escort.\" Discusses meetings with friends and relatives. Cousin Rebecca had a son.","Discusses harvest and rain. Jack and Anne drove up this morning. \"If there are any damsons, I wish you would have some preserved.\"","Hopes Augustine had a pleasant trip and \"felt no evil effects from crabs and oysters.\" Nelly treated Louisa's illness with calomel and oil. Sorry to hear that Mr. Moore the overseer took a wife. Enclosed note and postscript regarding letter from Sister Mary.","Inquires if the slave Mary has washed the bedstead. Will try to get a larger sheet of paper. Postscript regarding daughter Louisa's tin cow.","\"It has been nearly three weeks since my confinement…\" Uncle Bushrod [Washington] leaves for the Salt Sulphur on Monday.","Nelly and Augustine have been apart nine weeks. Describes her recovery and the new baby [Eliza]. General Rust [new owner of Exeter] traveled up on Sunday.","Requests Augustine have a log cabin built. \"Our children are well, having two babies keeps me pretty constantly employed.\" Postscript regarding poor pen and Aunt Eliza's confinement.","\"Our dear child is quite well again [Louisa].\" Hopes to hear from Augustine soon.  Postscript, \"Dear little Molly [Mary Selden Page] continues I think to improve.\"","Short letter. Aunt Eliza gave birth to a girl yesterday, about three o'clock.","Family news. Asks Augustine set a date for her to return to Mount Vernon.","Cary was thrown over his horse's head. Mrs. Carter died last night. Daughter Eliza goes looking for Augustine. Nelly makes requests and gives instructions for making preserves, \"and please don't forget my hen house.\"","Arrived Thursday evening. Requests more money to buy things for the winter. Mentions Aunt Maria, Rebecca and Dr. Tabb, and Aunt Eliza.","Daughter Eliza sick past ten days. \"Louisa and Jenny talk incessantly about you.\" Nelly has been walking a good deal.","Uncle Cary's death. Discusses children and weather. Passes on Mr. Lloyd's questions regarding hiring an overseer such as salary and privileges.","\"Old Dolly gave me the letter I enclose about ten days ago…\" Sister Mary wrote after her confinement. Today is Harriet's wedding day.","Boat landed with 50 or 60 visitors. Susan, a slave, prefers being sold.","She shall \"be down in the boat tomorrow to see you.\" Shall not bring the children.","Visitors. No one is sick. \"The boat had just come in sight and it is beginning to rain right fast…\"","Anxious to hear about Mother [Jane C. B. Washington]. A man came \"to apply for situation as overseer, at Marshall Hall…\" Note at end of letter written by Louisa Washington. Misses her father. Writes about dogs, birds, and sheep.","Has heard rumors and is unsure if Mrs. [Eleanor Parke Custis] Lewis is dead or alive. Went to Charlestown on Sunday. Visited with relations. Describes wellbeing of her daughters: \"Maria has five teeth.\"","Expresses her happiness at receiving Augustine's last letter. Sorry to hear of Eliza's injury. Describes children's party. Would be glad if he could finish the threshing.","\"Mrs. Byrd and Mrs. Alsbone… appear very nervous about the state of our slaves. They think the negroes hate the whites so much, that we are in constant danger.\"","Louisa has measles. Dr. Lloyd shipwrecked twice and lost everything. Scarlet fever and whooping cough going around.","Daughters Jenny, Lily [Eliza] and Maria all have measles. Distressed to hear about Augustine's wheat and corn. Begs for a letter from him; \"I am miserable.\"","Steamboat quite full today with sixty or seventy persons. Tomorrow is Louisa's birthday. Spoke to Susan [a slave] and \"she prefers being sold.\"","\"Aunt Eliza had a little girl last night, she and the child are both doing well.\"","Arrived at Cave Farm on Monday. Heard that \"Mr. Alexander was so extravagant that if you were not careful, Cousin Hannah's property would all in short time go.\" Louisa looks forward to a child's party. Nelly requests vanilla.","Instructions to have her black bonnet sent up as well as a night gown, linens, and visit cards. Went to hear Dr. Butler's sermon. \"Don't forget the butter from Maryland…\"","Encloses letter from Mr. Davis. She is visiting Richard and Christian. Asks Augustine to bring the \"baby's sucking bottle.\" Gives instructions for the slave Sarah to make a brine to drop the butter in.","Richard returned from town and says that court will begin on the second Monday of October, and the sale at Claymont will take place on the following Wednesday.","Daughter [Anna] Maria broke her left arm.","Infant [Lawrence] very ill. Family news.","Nursery chimney caught on fire yesterday. Son Lawrence has been ill. Mr. Turner salted hams. Wants to see Christian and the children this winter.","Is very concerned about Lawrence's fever. Asks that Augustine send for a doctor.","Has heard that his Uncle Augustine was unwell. Requests word on how he is. Sends a bottle of castor oil.","Regrets to hear that his health has not improved. Lawrence is better.","Nelly reports that she is ready to go home and regrets that she be sent for.","Her health continues to improve, hopes to be able to return soon. Letter sent with West [Ford].","Clara [Heilman] has arrived. Nelly is disappointed that the weather keeps her away. \"I am as well as ever, look very fat…and right strong.\"","Lawrence's health improves. Postscript regarding Edith and Mrs. Powell.","Their niece Anne, daughter of Augustine's brother Richard Blackburn and Christian Washington has died.","Gives preserving instructions for slaves Sarah and Matilda. Secret engagement of Andrew Kennedy. Asks about having the dining room fixed. Anne is sick with dysentery.","\"The baby [George Washington] improves every day.\" Watermelons in the ice house.","Dined with Harriett Cazenove. \"Everything is going on at home here as usual.\"","\"Everybody is leaving so fast that by Thursday everyone will be gone…\" She can be at Walnut Farm on Saturday.","Daughter Nelly had fever and boils. Nelly writes she is delighted she left [Capon Springs] as the \"house keeper, servants and all were dismissed and the stages taken off the line on Friday.\" Instructs Augustine to bring clothes for the children.","Louisa and Jenny went to a concert. Yesterday a crowd with Masons came by boat and made a speech. Received a letter from Miss [Ann Pamela] Cunningham requesting permission for an address.","Much rain. Wheat looks well. Family news.","Summer weather. Had first dish of asparagus yesterday. Miss [Ann Pamela] Cunningham's address is Saturday with Dr. Hawks of New York as orator.","\"Yesterday was the day fixed on by Miss Cunningham for her grand doings here…. There were benches enough to accommodate six hundred but I don't think there could have been more than one hundred and fifty or two hundred at most on the grounds.\"","Received his sixth letter this morning. Mrs. Robert [Mary Anna Custis] Lee staying with them. Son George has not learned to say a word since Augustine left. \"Wishing you happy dreams and hoping I may be the burden of them as you are of mine.\"","Nelly writes she cannot find the trunk key Augustine requested. She delivered his message to Mr. Lunsford [overseer at Waveland].","Mr. Lunsford finished seeding and now setting strawberry plants. Cabbage plants have come up but they look like kale. Received letters from ladies applying for \"the situation\" [teaching position?]. Requests jonquil roots, hairpins, and tea toweling.","Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon","Washington, John Augustine, III, 1821-1861","Washington, Eleanor Love Selden, 1824-1860","Ford, West, approximately 1784-1863","Chew, Louisa Fontaine Washington, 1844-1927","English \n.    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Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["This collection is open for research during scheduled appointments. Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes."],"altformavail_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSaw Dr. Powell on Thursday. Cases of bilious fever. Arrangements for slave Eliza's return to Mount Vernon. Crabs are \"disappearing very rapidly.\"\u003c/p\u003e"],"altformavail_heading_ssm":["Existence and Location of Copies"],"altformavail_tesim":["Saw Dr. Powell on Thursday. Cases of bilious fever. Arrangements for slave Eliza's return to Mount Vernon. Crabs are \"disappearing very rapidly.\""],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is arranged first by letters written by John Augustine Washington III, organized chronologically, and second by letters written by Eleanor Love Selden Washington, organized chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is arranged first by letters written by John Augustine Washington III, organized chronologically, and second by letters written by Eleanor Love Selden Washington, organized chronologically."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Augustine Washington III (1821-1861): John Augustine Washington was the great-grandnephew of George Washington and the last Washington to own Mount Vernon before its sale to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association (MVLA).  He was born on May 3, 1821 to John Augustine Washington II and Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840, and returned to Mount Vernon to manage the declining estate with his widowed mother's permission. In 1843, he married Eleanor Love Selden with whom he had seven children. He sold 200 acres of Mount Vernon to the MVLA in 1858 for $200,000, and he and his family moved to Waveland plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1860. He served as aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee, but was shot by a bushwhacker and died one week later on September 13, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Love Selden Washington (1824-1860): Born April 12, 1824 to Wilson Cary Selden and Louisa Elizabeth Fontaine Alexander Selden, \"Nelly\" married John Augustine Washington III on February 16, 1843. Together, they had seven children: Louisa, Jane Charlotte (\"Jenny\"), Eliza (\"Lily\"), Anna Maria, Lawrence, Eleanor (\"Nelly\"), and George. She died from childbirth October 9, 1860.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Augustine Washington III (1821-1861): John Augustine Washington was the great-grandnephew of George Washington and the last Washington to own Mount Vernon before its sale to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association (MVLA).  He was born on May 3, 1821 to John Augustine Washington II and Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840, and returned to Mount Vernon to manage the declining estate with his widowed mother's permission. In 1843, he married Eleanor Love Selden with whom he had seven children. He sold 200 acres of Mount Vernon to the MVLA in 1858 for $200,000, and he and his family moved to Waveland plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1860. He served as aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee, but was shot by a bushwhacker and died one week later on September 13, 1861.","Eleanor Love Selden Washington (1824-1860): Born April 12, 1824 to Wilson Cary Selden and Louisa Elizabeth Fontaine Alexander Selden, \"Nelly\" married John Augustine Washington III on February 16, 1843. Together, they had seven children: Louisa, Jane Charlotte (\"Jenny\"), Eliza (\"Lily\"), Anna Maria, Lawrence, Eleanor (\"Nelly\"), and George. She died from childbirth October 9, 1860."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Name and date of item], John Augustine Washington III and Eleanor Love Selden correspondence, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernonn [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Name and date of item], John Augustine Washington III and Eleanor Love Selden correspondence, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernonn [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBushrod Washington Family Papers ;\nJohn Augustine Washington III and Descendants Papers ;\nElswyth Thane Beebe Collection of Washington Family Papers ;\nHistoric Manuscripts Collection\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Bushrod Washington Family Papers ;\nJohn Augustine Washington III and Descendants Papers ;\nElswyth Thane Beebe Collection of Washington Family Papers ;\nHistoric Manuscripts Collection"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains correspondence between John Augustine Washington III and his wife Eleanor Love Selden. The letters begin during the Washingtons' engagement and continues through eighteen years of marriage, ending with a letter from John Augustine to Eleanor composed the day prior to her sudden death. The letters contain information on family matters, the management of the Mount Vernon estate, and plantation life prior to the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses his happiness at receiving Nelly's letters and love for her. \"I do not object to the whole world knowing that I love you.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMust defer visit to Exeter for four or five days due to appointments. His mother will visit Nelly on her way up to Leesburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFeels pain at parting from Nelly. Cousin William [Turner] distraught over his intention to marry Betty [Selden].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived Christmas day. Distressed at being apart from Nelly. Saw the family at Mount Ida [Wilson Cary Selden, Sr.'s family] on Saturday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLove letter. \"…as the dearest moments of my life have been with you, so the happiest hopes that my soul can form, have you for their reigning star.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill probably not see or hear from Nelly until their wedding. Discredits stories that his relative Thomas Turner mistreated his family and servants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs unable to return to Jefferson until the middle or end of next week. Gives instructions for Dick [Richard Blackburn Washington] regarding delivery of wheat, receipts, and a shingles order. Mentions Bushrod Washington and West Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChanged route after leaving Nelly. Hopes Nelly recovers from her headaches. Did she get the box from Stabler's safely?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Time hangs heavily on me when you are absent…\" Updates on relations. A new academy is to be built opposite Mr. Burr Harrison's. Leaves for Jefferson tomorrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"…not having been aware of my right to vote out of the county in which I resided, at the Presidential election I made arrangements to return home…\" Hyacinths planted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis case came up in Court and estate committed to Augustine's hands. Encloses ten dollars to entertain Dick and Christian Washington. Two or three snowstorms since his arrival at Blakeley. Scarlet fever prevailing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScarlet fever disappeared. Direct West [Ford] to tell William Hayes to procure eggs or chickens, \"but know the price beforehand, or he will charge you double.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbsence of Gabriel and desertion of some of the hired hands. Has decided not to sell Gabriel. \"If it were possible to without them [slaves], I do not think I could own one, but situated as we are, landed property would be almost valueless without them, and it is a matter of necessity to have their labor.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSowing wheat. \"I have never had soft crabs in perfection before.\" Asks if mother [Jane C. B. Washington] has received money on his wheat. Offers two sets of names for Dick and Christian Washington's daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Exeter will not take place until spring. Dr. Alexander struggling with debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I have not seen our friends here, but hear that Bentley bought Cousin Eliza's negroes at $1,200.00.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMother [Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington] ill. His letter will be taken to Nelly \"by two negro men who I have purchased, and by Julia whom I send down. I wish West to set them to getting rails…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I left the negroes I got in Alexandria, where I had an offer of $650.00 for them from a negro trader, but I prefer selling to a private person if I can do so. I found several of the servants sick, and Phil who was very low, died this evening.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eServants recovering. Nelly's cloak was dyed mazarine blue. Shall begin seeding wheat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWest [Ford] has taken sick this morning. \"The stockings and socks for the negroes are nearly done…The coat patterns are eaten up by the rats…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGot up to Blakeley night before last accompanied by Charles Washington. \"I have the prospect of employing an overseer for next year.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe has been trying to procure signatures for a \"petition for the division of our county.\" The sale of Woodlawn and the Quakers who are to settle on it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived Nelly's letter of September 18th. Has succeeded in obtaining an overseer \"at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars a year.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates journey to Blakeley. Was delayed as Turbeville Stuart had typhus or nervous fever. Pneumonia and typhoid fever \"prevailing through this neighborhood.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAugustine is losing his overseer due to his marriage to a widow, Ms. Spence. Discusses case at the Alexandria Superior Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Between pleasant company and bad weather I was detained in the lower country some days longer than I expected.\" Pleased with Gloucester. Disappointed in Old Point. Gabriel's duties and tasks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been twice at church. Hopes Nelly received a package with silk, a bottle with slips, and peach stones. Preserves and pickles are done.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes weather and damage caused by drought and storms. Mr. Turner informs him that he can probably obtain an overseer but \"the chance of getting a tenant is not so good.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturned home yesterday from trip to Maryland. Visited Mr. Sewall at Poplar Hill. Went to visit Dr. Crawfort but he was absent, so went to Mr. Shipley's. Recommends Nelly go to Baltimore. Presumes Elizabeth Blackburn was married today.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWheat machine broke. Sends thirty dollars. Colonel Bailey Peyton is to marry Julia Thompson. Employed three Irish workers to see if they could replace slaves but the \"experiment\" failed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends a carriage up for Nelly. He shall leave tomorrow or the next day for Jefferson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates arrival in Baltimore and journey to Mount Vernon. Steamboat brought five hundred visitors during the week. Misses Nelly: \"…I feel a constant yearning to have you at my side, to hear you, to see you…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDreams of Nelly. Monuments were erected at the vault. Steamboat continues to come full. President Filmore and his cabinet postponed visit. Plasterer to come and fix dining room and cellars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill be down tomorrow accompanied by William Turner and two other gentlemen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs obliged to go to Fairfax Court House to \"sue out attachments against Mr. Whitehall's property.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites in haste. Ephraim died yesterday evening. Too hazardous for Nelly to come down until epidemic subsides. Sends a package containing a fan and dress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill be in Alexandria on Friday. Dick [Richard Washington] unwell with attack of erysipelas. Fears John Washington will be deformed. New steamboat for the Mount Vernon route will not begin trips until the week after next.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShort letter. Will not be in Alexandria before Saturday. Needs to attend to business with \"Brother\" Thomas [Blackburn Washington]. Families at Blakeley are well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShort letter. Mother [Jane C. B. Washington] is \"dangerously ill.\" Requests a carpet bag with clean clothes. \"Send John [Michum] up tomorrow morning for my Buggy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMother is better but still weak. Gives instructions for Mr. Stowell regarding corn for mules at Marshall Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMother is better. \"I have been purchasing negroes—and am in negotiation for others…\" Gives instructions for \"grubbing and ploughing.\" Overseer position. Includes letter to daughter Louisa on same sheet regarding various cousins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends Jim up with the carriage today for Nelly. Augustine writes he is \"completely tired of bacheloring.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeard of Mrs. [Eleanor Parke Custis] Lewis' illness. Describes journey with stops in Berryville and Chantilly. Harriet subject to fainting attacks. Threshing machine is set. Negotiations with Mr. Stowell as overseer. Death of General Roger Jones\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of Aunt Eliza and Mr. Lloyd. Railroad festival at Salem [now Marshall]. Cary, Fontaine and John hunting and fishing. Describes flowers in Louisa's garden. Wharf and buildings being put up at the White House for the steamboat and visitors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoing to Alexandria to sell a load of wheat. The slave Eliza was injured when she \"ran a needle in her arm and broke it off…\" Ends with proclamation of undying love: \"Indeed as I grow older my heart seems to cling closer to you…and never do I feel this more deeply than when you are absent from me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinished ploughing in Maryland. Tried to sell the slave Matilda but she was unwilling. Has employed a German gardener. Gives updates on the steamboat, visitors, and construction of new wharf.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttaches a check for fifty dollars for travel expenses by canal. Good weather to begin work again. Heard through West [Ford] of Cousin Esther's death. Health of servants\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMount Vernon and other farms have lost one third to one half of harvest due to rains. Has finally engaged a Maryland bricklayer and plasterer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWas unable to write due to a cold. Noblet Herbert's death. Disappointed in sale of mountain land. Instructions for sowing and sale of clover seed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe cannot get up to the house. Requests beef, ham, knives and forks, Worcestershire sauce, and cream or milk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSold Matilda and her family to Mr. Bevin. Augustine has had attacks of ague. Cases of scarlet fever and dysentery. Gives instructions for Mr. Stowell regarding sheep and wheat machine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief letter. Getting on slowly with work. Will probably not come down tomorrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Brother T's [cousin Thomas Washington] corpse has not yet arrived.\" John Alexander has dysentery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Washington's body arrived and was buried at Charlestown. John Alexander's death. Will conclude funeral arrangements tomorrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eServants sick. Bought and forwarded a dress for Louisa. Will take Louisa to Bath after sale of Richwoods [home of Thomas Blackburn Washington].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Richard [Washington] was rather better last night.\" Brief letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe is detained a few days longer due to Dr. Alexander's absence. Asks Nelly to send the wagon up for coal. Has sold corn at three dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived in Charlestown yesterday. Restaurants in Charlestown and Harper's Ferry filthy. Richard [Washington] sold about 300 acres of his land at $60.00 per acre.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Alexandria May 18\" crossed out at top. His health continues to improve, will join her in a few days. Requests pills and tea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My cold is broken and a great deal better.\" Regrets that sickness prevents him from joining her as planned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAugustine writes he will be down on Thursday or Friday. Direct Mr. Browner to get ready to kill the hogs next Saturday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas commenced hauling today. Encloses check for fifty dollars. Sends up a swan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAugustine writes that though his health has improved, he's still unable to return.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends bacon, shad and fish by West [Ford]. Wrote a short note to Nelly this morning to be delivered by girl Maria. Son Lawrence and the baby [Eleanor] are well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a letter from California. Has had stormy weather. Requests that Nelly tell Cousin Sally or the doctor to inform him how she is.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStormy and rainy weather prevented his going to see Nelly. Weather unfavorable for fishing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForwards check for $100.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions to send several servants [enslaved workers?] from Mount Vernon to Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe slave Sarah \"had run off from Mr. Taylor and had gone home this morning.\" Has not heard from Richmond [regarding sale of Mount Vernon to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding negotiations with the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates his visits with the children to the University, Monticello, Farmington, and the \"Asylums for the Insane and for the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates visit to Wyers Cave. Saw John Selden and his children. Visited Cousin Ann and Miss Mary Peter. Saw Sister Hannah and Jenny. \"My farm as usual will yield but a small rent, and I have half made up my mind to sell it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief letter. Is detained until Monday and \"then have to go to Balt[imore]. If I do not get home on Tuesday in the boat, send up for me Wednesday morning.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMust travel to Baltimore with Mr. Herbert. Instructs William Ford to meet him in Alexandria to show him lots [of timber?] to be labeled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses letter from Magruder Mason. Gives instructions for delivering slaves George, Charlotte and Milly who have been hired out.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas requested Mr. Price send down game and fish. Expects to meet Willie Rogers and Mr. Robinson on Saturday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChristian Washington's baby had an operation on her lip. Heavy fall of snow. Gives instructions regarding clover seed, ploughs, and windows of hot beds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShall leave tomorrow for Frederick and Fauquier and be home Friday or Saturday. Bad weather prevented his visiting friends in Audley and Berryville. Has arranged matters with Mr. Richardson about Joe [a slave boy].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes journey to Chicago: stops and sights. Unsure if he can make an investment in Chicago or not.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates investigation of investments with Mr. Wright and Mr. McFarland. Describes geography of Chicago, Lake Michigan, and river and its relation to property value. Visited a Mr. Kerfoot. Describes scenery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas bought two pieces of property. Gives instructions regarding harvest. Inquires after cradles and rakes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard and Bushrod Washington came down with him. \"I fear I shall be disappointed in selling Marshall Hall to the person who I expected to buy it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConstant rains on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Will go to Washington to meet John F. Lee. Thinks they can move to Waveland by the first of December.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"This box contains the correspondence between my wife and myself from October 1842 to October 1860. From the time of our engagement to her Death - John A. and E. L. Washington.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Lloyd's funeral will take place tomorrow. Requests suit of black clothes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of journey from St. Louis to Chicago. Fertility of the prairie and poverty of inhabitants. Business in Chicago remains uncertain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived Nelly's letter of April 1st. Has not made much progress in his business. \"I went out yesterday about 35 miles on the Milwaukee Railroad branch…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas rented a part of his property. Ogden suit will come up in a few days. Dined at Mr. Kerfoot's. Describes a \"feat of house lifting\" he witnessed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis lawyers are confident in winning the Ogden Suit [Malebon D. Ogden vs. John A. Washington and William F. Turner]. Met with friends and relations; mentions Cassins, Grahams, and Mr. Morgan Johnson. Says he is \"wife sick or love sick.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpects to leave tomorrow night or Saturday for Indianapolis and Louisville. Encloses flowers. \"I regret to hear that Miss Cunningham's enterprise turned out indifferently. It was I thought rather inconsiderate in her to attempt anything of the sort while we are living there, but I suppose she did not think of this.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForgot trunk key and requests to have Nelly mail it. Has sent up boxes of silver, white and brown sugar, and soap. Gives instructions regarding a box of stolen sugar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoing to Leesburg this morning with friends. Postscript \"Thursday morning.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Mr. Turner though still very unwell is going about a little, and we are engaged in sowing wheat…\" Bought a carpet for the library. Has sent up stair carpet rods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAugustine writes he had intended going up to Waveland yesterday but \"as I have some little unfinished business here and have not had an opportunity of seeing Cousin H[arriet] I shall wait until tomorrow and accompany them up.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports he will not return as soon as planned. Encloses ten dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter receiving her father's permission to respond to Augustine's letter, she writes that she has never before attempted such a letter. Expresses her feelings for him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisappointed in trip to Walnut Farm. Supposes Augustine has arrived at Mount Vernon. Death of Mrs. Mason.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIf Augustine is detained, their separation will be nearly three weeks. Delivered messages to Dick. Recent storm caused flooding and destroyed fencing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpent yesterday at Mount Vernon. Whitewashing has improved the appearance of the yard. Longs for the twenty-sixth to come.  Miss Morey [Maury] leaves tomorrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBridal party arrived [for wedding of Christian Maria and Richard Washington]. Asks Augustine to get a new pair of boots or have his mended.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAugustine's last letter dated the 10th. Pleased he employed a white overseer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNo time fixed for Dick's [Richard Washington] marriage. Will Augustine get the baby a pair of shoes? Penciled note by Augustine possibly noting property lines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhen did Augustine leave Loudon? Louisa has learned several words. Nelly has visited several friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntends to have her tooth drawn. Weather very cold. Louisa learned waltzing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses weather. Mr. Stuart arrived. \"Louisa has completely retrieved her character since you left.\" Letter continues September 2nd. Nelly \"left Blakeley yesterday morning to spend this week with Aunt Maria and Anne.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouisa's health. \"I was really gratified to hear you did not find it necessary to sell Gabriel.\" Louisa has \"several times mistaken persons down the street for you…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelivery and payment of wheat. Louisa is well. Christian Washington already named her daughter Elizabeth. Old Mr. [John] Sinclair died and his slaves are to be sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDined with Ellen Powell. Louisa \"fell against the table and nearly broke her nose…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelly writes she had a bad cold on Monday. Louisa's arm is almost entirely well. West [Ford] was in town yesterday. Charles Lee and Anne Gardener are engaged.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaughter Jenny [Jane Charlotte Washington] sick with fever and welts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaughter Jenny and other family members illl. Cousin Thomas and Noblet returned last week. Postscript asking for money for children's dresses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAunt Eliza doing well. Nelly went to hear Hertz play: He is \"one of the most celebrated performers on the piano.\" Does not understand Anne's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShort letter. Chastises Augustine for not writing. Asks \"is it because your wife is not of sufficient importance to you to write to her.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I shall be ready to go any day that you can come for me.\" Asks for mutton suet and cat mint.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Mr. George Turner, starts for Boston tomorrow, and I have determined to go under his escort.\" Discusses meetings with friends and relatives. Cousin Rebecca had a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses harvest and rain. Jack and Anne drove up this morning. \"If there are any damsons, I wish you would have some preserved.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes Augustine had a pleasant trip and \"felt no evil effects from crabs and oysters.\" Nelly treated Louisa's illness with calomel and oil. Sorry to hear that Mr. Moore the overseer took a wife. Enclosed note and postscript regarding letter from Sister Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires if the slave Mary has washed the bedstead. Will try to get a larger sheet of paper. Postscript regarding daughter Louisa's tin cow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"It has been nearly three weeks since my confinement…\" Uncle Bushrod [Washington] leaves for the Salt Sulphur on Monday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelly and Augustine have been apart nine weeks. Describes her recovery and the new baby [Eliza]. General Rust [new owner of Exeter] traveled up on Sunday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests Augustine have a log cabin built. \"Our children are well, having two babies keeps me pretty constantly employed.\" Postscript regarding poor pen and Aunt Eliza's confinement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Our dear child is quite well again [Louisa].\" Hopes to hear from Augustine soon.  Postscript, \"Dear little Molly [Mary Selden Page] continues I think to improve.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShort letter. Aunt Eliza gave birth to a girl yesterday, about three o'clock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news. Asks Augustine set a date for her to return to Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCary was thrown over his horse's head. Mrs. Carter died last night. Daughter Eliza goes looking for Augustine. Nelly makes requests and gives instructions for making preserves, \"and please don't forget my hen house.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived Thursday evening. Requests more money to buy things for the winter. Mentions Aunt Maria, Rebecca and Dr. Tabb, and Aunt Eliza.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaughter Eliza sick past ten days. \"Louisa and Jenny talk incessantly about you.\" Nelly has been walking a good deal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUncle Cary's death. Discusses children and weather. Passes on Mr. Lloyd's questions regarding hiring an overseer such as salary and privileges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Old Dolly gave me the letter I enclose about ten days ago…\" Sister Mary wrote after her confinement. Today is Harriet's wedding day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoat landed with 50 or 60 visitors. Susan, a slave, prefers being sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe shall \"be down in the boat tomorrow to see you.\" Shall not bring the children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisitors. No one is sick. \"The boat had just come in sight and it is beginning to rain right fast…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnxious to hear about Mother [Jane C. B. Washington]. A man came \"to apply for situation as overseer, at Marshall Hall…\" Note at end of letter written by Louisa Washington. Misses her father. Writes about dogs, birds, and sheep.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas heard rumors and is unsure if Mrs. [Eleanor Parke Custis] Lewis is dead or alive. Went to Charlestown on Sunday. Visited with relations. Describes wellbeing of her daughters: \"Maria has five teeth.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses her happiness at receiving Augustine's last letter. Sorry to hear of Eliza's injury. Describes children's party. Would be glad if he could finish the threshing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Mrs. Byrd and Mrs. Alsbone… appear very nervous about the state of our slaves. They think the negroes hate the whites so much, that we are in constant danger.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouisa has measles. Dr. Lloyd shipwrecked twice and lost everything. Scarlet fever and whooping cough going around.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaughters Jenny, Lily [Eliza] and Maria all have measles. Distressed to hear about Augustine's wheat and corn. Begs for a letter from him; \"I am miserable.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSteamboat quite full today with sixty or seventy persons. Tomorrow is Louisa's birthday. Spoke to Susan [a slave] and \"she prefers being sold.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Aunt Eliza had a little girl last night, she and the child are both doing well.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived at Cave Farm on Monday. Heard that \"Mr. Alexander was so extravagant that if you were not careful, Cousin Hannah's property would all in short time go.\" Louisa looks forward to a child's party. Nelly requests vanilla.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions to have her black bonnet sent up as well as a night gown, linens, and visit cards. Went to hear Dr. Butler's sermon. \"Don't forget the butter from Maryland…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses letter from Mr. Davis. She is visiting Richard and Christian. Asks Augustine to bring the \"baby's sucking bottle.\" Gives instructions for the slave Sarah to make a brine to drop the butter in.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard returned from town and says that court will begin on the second Monday of October, and the sale at Claymont will take place on the following Wednesday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaughter [Anna] Maria broke her left arm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInfant [Lawrence] very ill. Family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNursery chimney caught on fire yesterday. Son Lawrence has been ill. Mr. Turner salted hams. Wants to see Christian and the children this winter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs very concerned about Lawrence's fever. Asks that Augustine send for a doctor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas heard that his Uncle Augustine was unwell. Requests word on how he is. Sends a bottle of castor oil.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets to hear that his health has not improved. Lawrence is better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelly reports that she is ready to go home and regrets that she be sent for.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer health continues to improve, hopes to be able to return soon. Letter sent with West [Ford].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClara [Heilman] has arrived. Nelly is disappointed that the weather keeps her away. \"I am as well as ever, look very fat…and right strong.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawrence's health improves. Postscript regarding Edith and Mrs. Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir niece Anne, daughter of Augustine's brother Richard Blackburn and Christian Washington has died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives preserving instructions for slaves Sarah and Matilda. Secret engagement of Andrew Kennedy. Asks about having the dining room fixed. Anne is sick with dysentery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The baby [George Washington] improves every day.\" Watermelons in the ice house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDined with Harriett Cazenove. \"Everything is going on at home here as usual.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Everybody is leaving so fast that by Thursday everyone will be gone…\" She can be at Walnut Farm on Saturday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaughter Nelly had fever and boils. Nelly writes she is delighted she left [Capon Springs] as the \"house keeper, servants and all were dismissed and the stages taken off the line on Friday.\" Instructs Augustine to bring clothes for the children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouisa and Jenny went to a concert. Yesterday a crowd with Masons came by boat and made a speech. Received a letter from Miss [Ann Pamela] Cunningham requesting permission for an address.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMuch rain. Wheat looks well. Family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSummer weather. Had first dish of asparagus yesterday. Miss [Ann Pamela] Cunningham's address is Saturday with Dr. Hawks of New York as orator.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Yesterday was the day fixed on by Miss Cunningham for her grand doings here…. There were benches enough to accommodate six hundred but I don't think there could have been more than one hundred and fifty or two hundred at most on the grounds.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived his sixth letter this morning. Mrs. Robert [Mary Anna Custis] Lee staying with them. Son George has not learned to say a word since Augustine left. \"Wishing you happy dreams and hoping I may be the burden of them as you are of mine.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelly writes she cannot find the trunk key Augustine requested. She delivered his message to Mr. Lunsford [overseer at Waveland].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Lunsford finished seeding and now setting strawberry plants. Cabbage plants have come up but they look like kale. Received letters from ladies applying for \"the situation\" [teaching position?]. 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The letters begin during the Washingtons' engagement and continues through eighteen years of marriage, ending with a letter from John Augustine to Eleanor composed the day prior to her sudden death. The letters contain information on family matters, the management of the Mount Vernon estate, and plantation life prior to the Civil War.","Expresses his happiness at receiving Nelly's letters and love for her. \"I do not object to the whole world knowing that I love you.\"","Must defer visit to Exeter for four or five days due to appointments. His mother will visit Nelly on her way up to Leesburg.","Feels pain at parting from Nelly. Cousin William [Turner] distraught over his intention to marry Betty [Selden].","Arrived Christmas day. Distressed at being apart from Nelly. Saw the family at Mount Ida [Wilson Cary Selden, Sr.'s family] on Saturday.","Love letter. \"…as the dearest moments of my life have been with you, so the happiest hopes that my soul can form, have you for their reigning star.\"","Will probably not see or hear from Nelly until their wedding. Discredits stories that his relative Thomas Turner mistreated his family and servants.","Is unable to return to Jefferson until the middle or end of next week. Gives instructions for Dick [Richard Blackburn Washington] regarding delivery of wheat, receipts, and a shingles order. Mentions Bushrod Washington and West Ford.","Changed route after leaving Nelly. Hopes Nelly recovers from her headaches. Did she get the box from Stabler's safely?","\"Time hangs heavily on me when you are absent…\" Updates on relations. A new academy is to be built opposite Mr. Burr Harrison's. Leaves for Jefferson tomorrow.","\"…not having been aware of my right to vote out of the county in which I resided, at the Presidential election I made arrangements to return home…\" Hyacinths planted.","His case came up in Court and estate committed to Augustine's hands. Encloses ten dollars to entertain Dick and Christian Washington. Two or three snowstorms since his arrival at Blakeley. Scarlet fever prevailing.","Scarlet fever disappeared. Direct West [Ford] to tell William Hayes to procure eggs or chickens, \"but know the price beforehand, or he will charge you double.\"","Absence of Gabriel and desertion of some of the hired hands. Has decided not to sell Gabriel. \"If it were possible to without them [slaves], I do not think I could own one, but situated as we are, landed property would be almost valueless without them, and it is a matter of necessity to have their labor.\"","Sowing wheat. \"I have never had soft crabs in perfection before.\" Asks if mother [Jane C. B. Washington] has received money on his wheat. Offers two sets of names for Dick and Christian Washington's daughter.","Sale of Exeter will not take place until spring. Dr. Alexander struggling with debt.","\"I have not seen our friends here, but hear that Bentley bought Cousin Eliza's negroes at $1,200.00.\"","Mother [Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington] ill. His letter will be taken to Nelly \"by two negro men who I have purchased, and by Julia whom I send down. I wish West to set them to getting rails…\"","\"I left the negroes I got in Alexandria, where I had an offer of $650.00 for them from a negro trader, but I prefer selling to a private person if I can do so. I found several of the servants sick, and Phil who was very low, died this evening.\"","Servants recovering. Nelly's cloak was dyed mazarine blue. Shall begin seeding wheat.","West [Ford] has taken sick this morning. \"The stockings and socks for the negroes are nearly done…The coat patterns are eaten up by the rats…\"","Got up to Blakeley night before last accompanied by Charles Washington. \"I have the prospect of employing an overseer for next year.\"","He has been trying to procure signatures for a \"petition for the division of our county.\" The sale of Woodlawn and the Quakers who are to settle on it.","Received Nelly's letter of September 18th. Has succeeded in obtaining an overseer \"at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars a year.\"","Relates journey to Blakeley. Was delayed as Turbeville Stuart had typhus or nervous fever. Pneumonia and typhoid fever \"prevailing through this neighborhood.\"","Augustine is losing his overseer due to his marriage to a widow, Ms. Spence. Discusses case at the Alexandria Superior Court.","\"Between pleasant company and bad weather I was detained in the lower country some days longer than I expected.\" Pleased with Gloucester. Disappointed in Old Point. Gabriel's duties and tasks.","Has been twice at church. Hopes Nelly received a package with silk, a bottle with slips, and peach stones. Preserves and pickles are done.","Describes weather and damage caused by drought and storms. Mr. Turner informs him that he can probably obtain an overseer but \"the chance of getting a tenant is not so good.\"","Returned home yesterday from trip to Maryland. Visited Mr. Sewall at Poplar Hill. Went to visit Dr. Crawfort but he was absent, so went to Mr. Shipley's. Recommends Nelly go to Baltimore. Presumes Elizabeth Blackburn was married today.","Wheat machine broke. Sends thirty dollars. Colonel Bailey Peyton is to marry Julia Thompson. Employed three Irish workers to see if they could replace slaves but the \"experiment\" failed.","Sends a carriage up for Nelly. He shall leave tomorrow or the next day for Jefferson.","Relates arrival in Baltimore and journey to Mount Vernon. Steamboat brought five hundred visitors during the week. Misses Nelly: \"…I feel a constant yearning to have you at my side, to hear you, to see you…\"","Dreams of Nelly. Monuments were erected at the vault. Steamboat continues to come full. President Filmore and his cabinet postponed visit. Plasterer to come and fix dining room and cellars.","Will be down tomorrow accompanied by William Turner and two other gentlemen.","Is obliged to go to Fairfax Court House to \"sue out attachments against Mr. Whitehall's property.\"","Writes in haste. Ephraim died yesterday evening. Too hazardous for Nelly to come down until epidemic subsides. Sends a package containing a fan and dress.","Will be in Alexandria on Friday. Dick [Richard Washington] unwell with attack of erysipelas. Fears John Washington will be deformed. New steamboat for the Mount Vernon route will not begin trips until the week after next.","Short letter. Will not be in Alexandria before Saturday. Needs to attend to business with \"Brother\" Thomas [Blackburn Washington]. Families at Blakeley are well.","Short letter. Mother [Jane C. B. Washington] is \"dangerously ill.\" Requests a carpet bag with clean clothes. \"Send John [Michum] up tomorrow morning for my Buggy.\"","Mother is better but still weak. Gives instructions for Mr. Stowell regarding corn for mules at Marshall Hall.","Mother is better. \"I have been purchasing negroes—and am in negotiation for others…\" Gives instructions for \"grubbing and ploughing.\" Overseer position. Includes letter to daughter Louisa on same sheet regarding various cousins.","Sends Jim up with the carriage today for Nelly. Augustine writes he is \"completely tired of bacheloring.\"","Heard of Mrs. [Eleanor Parke Custis] Lewis' illness. Describes journey with stops in Berryville and Chantilly. Harriet subject to fainting attacks. Threshing machine is set. Negotiations with Mr. Stowell as overseer. Death of General Roger Jones","Health of Aunt Eliza and Mr. Lloyd. Railroad festival at Salem [now Marshall]. Cary, Fontaine and John hunting and fishing. Describes flowers in Louisa's garden. Wharf and buildings being put up at the White House for the steamboat and visitors.","Going to Alexandria to sell a load of wheat. The slave Eliza was injured when she \"ran a needle in her arm and broke it off…\" Ends with proclamation of undying love: \"Indeed as I grow older my heart seems to cling closer to you…and never do I feel this more deeply than when you are absent from me.\"","Finished ploughing in Maryland. Tried to sell the slave Matilda but she was unwilling. Has employed a German gardener. Gives updates on the steamboat, visitors, and construction of new wharf.","Attaches a check for fifty dollars for travel expenses by canal. Good weather to begin work again. Heard through West [Ford] of Cousin Esther's death. Health of servants","Mount Vernon and other farms have lost one third to one half of harvest due to rains. Has finally engaged a Maryland bricklayer and plasterer.","Was unable to write due to a cold. Noblet Herbert's death. Disappointed in sale of mountain land. Instructions for sowing and sale of clover seed.","He cannot get up to the house. Requests beef, ham, knives and forks, Worcestershire sauce, and cream or milk.","Sold Matilda and her family to Mr. Bevin. Augustine has had attacks of ague. Cases of scarlet fever and dysentery. Gives instructions for Mr. Stowell regarding sheep and wheat machine.","Brief letter. Getting on slowly with work. Will probably not come down tomorrow.","\"Brother T's [cousin Thomas Washington] corpse has not yet arrived.\" John Alexander has dysentery.","Thomas Washington's body arrived and was buried at Charlestown. John Alexander's death. Will conclude funeral arrangements tomorrow.","Servants sick. Bought and forwarded a dress for Louisa. Will take Louisa to Bath after sale of Richwoods [home of Thomas Blackburn Washington].","\"Richard [Washington] was rather better last night.\" Brief letter.","He is detained a few days longer due to Dr. Alexander's absence. Asks Nelly to send the wagon up for coal. Has sold corn at three dollars.","Arrived in Charlestown yesterday. Restaurants in Charlestown and Harper's Ferry filthy. Richard [Washington] sold about 300 acres of his land at $60.00 per acre.","\"Alexandria May 18\" crossed out at top. His health continues to improve, will join her in a few days. Requests pills and tea.","\"My cold is broken and a great deal better.\" Regrets that sickness prevents him from joining her as planned.","Augustine writes he will be down on Thursday or Friday. Direct Mr. Browner to get ready to kill the hogs next Saturday.","Has commenced hauling today. Encloses check for fifty dollars. Sends up a swan.","Augustine writes that though his health has improved, he's still unable to return.","Sends bacon, shad and fish by West [Ford]. Wrote a short note to Nelly this morning to be delivered by girl Maria. Son Lawrence and the baby [Eleanor] are well.","Encloses a letter from California. Has had stormy weather. Requests that Nelly tell Cousin Sally or the doctor to inform him how she is.","Stormy and rainy weather prevented his going to see Nelly. Weather unfavorable for fishing.","Forwards check for $100.","Instructions to send several servants [enslaved workers?] from Mount Vernon to Alexandria.","The slave Sarah \"had run off from Mr. Taylor and had gone home this morning.\" Has not heard from Richmond [regarding sale of Mount Vernon to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association]","Regarding negotiations with the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.","Relates his visits with the children to the University, Monticello, Farmington, and the \"Asylums for the Insane and for the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb.\"","Relates visit to Wyers Cave. Saw John Selden and his children. Visited Cousin Ann and Miss Mary Peter. Saw Sister Hannah and Jenny. \"My farm as usual will yield but a small rent, and I have half made up my mind to sell it.\"","Brief letter. Is detained until Monday and \"then have to go to Balt[imore]. If I do not get home on Tuesday in the boat, send up for me Wednesday morning.\"","Must travel to Baltimore with Mr. Herbert. Instructs William Ford to meet him in Alexandria to show him lots [of timber?] to be labeled.","Encloses letter from Magruder Mason. Gives instructions for delivering slaves George, Charlotte and Milly who have been hired out.","Has requested Mr. Price send down game and fish. Expects to meet Willie Rogers and Mr. Robinson on Saturday.","Christian Washington's baby had an operation on her lip. Heavy fall of snow. Gives instructions regarding clover seed, ploughs, and windows of hot beds.","Shall leave tomorrow for Frederick and Fauquier and be home Friday or Saturday. Bad weather prevented his visiting friends in Audley and Berryville. Has arranged matters with Mr. Richardson about Joe [a slave boy].","Describes journey to Chicago: stops and sights. Unsure if he can make an investment in Chicago or not.","Relates investigation of investments with Mr. Wright and Mr. McFarland. Describes geography of Chicago, Lake Michigan, and river and its relation to property value. Visited a Mr. Kerfoot. Describes scenery.","Has bought two pieces of property. Gives instructions regarding harvest. Inquires after cradles and rakes.","Richard and Bushrod Washington came down with him. \"I fear I shall be disappointed in selling Marshall Hall to the person who I expected to buy it.\"","Constant rains on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Will go to Washington to meet John F. Lee. Thinks they can move to Waveland by the first of December.","\"This box contains the correspondence between my wife and myself from October 1842 to October 1860. From the time of our engagement to her Death - John A. and E. L. Washington.\"","Dr. Lloyd's funeral will take place tomorrow. Requests suit of black clothes.","Description of journey from St. Louis to Chicago. Fertility of the prairie and poverty of inhabitants. Business in Chicago remains uncertain.","Received Nelly's letter of April 1st. Has not made much progress in his business. \"I went out yesterday about 35 miles on the Milwaukee Railroad branch…\"","Has rented a part of his property. Ogden suit will come up in a few days. Dined at Mr. Kerfoot's. Describes a \"feat of house lifting\" he witnessed.","His lawyers are confident in winning the Ogden Suit [Malebon D. Ogden vs. John A. Washington and William F. Turner]. Met with friends and relations; mentions Cassins, Grahams, and Mr. Morgan Johnson. Says he is \"wife sick or love sick.\"","Expects to leave tomorrow night or Saturday for Indianapolis and Louisville. Encloses flowers. \"I regret to hear that Miss Cunningham's enterprise turned out indifferently. It was I thought rather inconsiderate in her to attempt anything of the sort while we are living there, but I suppose she did not think of this.\"","Forgot trunk key and requests to have Nelly mail it. Has sent up boxes of silver, white and brown sugar, and soap. Gives instructions regarding a box of stolen sugar.","Going to Leesburg this morning with friends. Postscript \"Thursday morning.\"","\"Mr. Turner though still very unwell is going about a little, and we are engaged in sowing wheat…\" Bought a carpet for the library. Has sent up stair carpet rods.","Augustine writes he had intended going up to Waveland yesterday but \"as I have some little unfinished business here and have not had an opportunity of seeing Cousin H[arriet] I shall wait until tomorrow and accompany them up.\"","Reports he will not return as soon as planned. Encloses ten dollars.","After receiving her father's permission to respond to Augustine's letter, she writes that she has never before attempted such a letter. Expresses her feelings for him.","Disappointed in trip to Walnut Farm. Supposes Augustine has arrived at Mount Vernon. Death of Mrs. Mason.","If Augustine is detained, their separation will be nearly three weeks. Delivered messages to Dick. Recent storm caused flooding and destroyed fencing.","Spent yesterday at Mount Vernon. Whitewashing has improved the appearance of the yard. Longs for the twenty-sixth to come.  Miss Morey [Maury] leaves tomorrow.","Bridal party arrived [for wedding of Christian Maria and Richard Washington]. Asks Augustine to get a new pair of boots or have his mended.","Augustine's last letter dated the 10th. Pleased he employed a white overseer.","No time fixed for Dick's [Richard Washington] marriage. Will Augustine get the baby a pair of shoes? Penciled note by Augustine possibly noting property lines.","When did Augustine leave Loudon? Louisa has learned several words. Nelly has visited several friends.","Intends to have her tooth drawn. Weather very cold. Louisa learned waltzing.","Discusses weather. Mr. Stuart arrived. \"Louisa has completely retrieved her character since you left.\" Letter continues September 2nd. Nelly \"left Blakeley yesterday morning to spend this week with Aunt Maria and Anne.","Louisa's health. \"I was really gratified to hear you did not find it necessary to sell Gabriel.\" Louisa has \"several times mistaken persons down the street for you…\"","Delivery and payment of wheat. Louisa is well. Christian Washington already named her daughter Elizabeth. Old Mr. [John] Sinclair died and his slaves are to be sold.","Dined with Ellen Powell. Louisa \"fell against the table and nearly broke her nose…\"","Nelly writes she had a bad cold on Monday. Louisa's arm is almost entirely well. West [Ford] was in town yesterday. Charles Lee and Anne Gardener are engaged.","Daughter Jenny [Jane Charlotte Washington] sick with fever and welts.","Daughter Jenny and other family members illl. Cousin Thomas and Noblet returned last week. Postscript asking for money for children's dresses.","Aunt Eliza doing well. Nelly went to hear Hertz play: He is \"one of the most celebrated performers on the piano.\" Does not understand Anne's letter.","Short letter. Chastises Augustine for not writing. Asks \"is it because your wife is not of sufficient importance to you to write to her.\"","\"I shall be ready to go any day that you can come for me.\" Asks for mutton suet and cat mint.","\"Mr. George Turner, starts for Boston tomorrow, and I have determined to go under his escort.\" Discusses meetings with friends and relatives. Cousin Rebecca had a son.","Discusses harvest and rain. Jack and Anne drove up this morning. \"If there are any damsons, I wish you would have some preserved.\"","Hopes Augustine had a pleasant trip and \"felt no evil effects from crabs and oysters.\" Nelly treated Louisa's illness with calomel and oil. Sorry to hear that Mr. Moore the overseer took a wife. Enclosed note and postscript regarding letter from Sister Mary.","Inquires if the slave Mary has washed the bedstead. Will try to get a larger sheet of paper. Postscript regarding daughter Louisa's tin cow.","\"It has been nearly three weeks since my confinement…\" Uncle Bushrod [Washington] leaves for the Salt Sulphur on Monday.","Nelly and Augustine have been apart nine weeks. Describes her recovery and the new baby [Eliza]. General Rust [new owner of Exeter] traveled up on Sunday.","Requests Augustine have a log cabin built. \"Our children are well, having two babies keeps me pretty constantly employed.\" Postscript regarding poor pen and Aunt Eliza's confinement.","\"Our dear child is quite well again [Louisa].\" Hopes to hear from Augustine soon.  Postscript, \"Dear little Molly [Mary Selden Page] continues I think to improve.\"","Short letter. Aunt Eliza gave birth to a girl yesterday, about three o'clock.","Family news. Asks Augustine set a date for her to return to Mount Vernon.","Cary was thrown over his horse's head. Mrs. Carter died last night. Daughter Eliza goes looking for Augustine. Nelly makes requests and gives instructions for making preserves, \"and please don't forget my hen house.\"","Arrived Thursday evening. Requests more money to buy things for the winter. Mentions Aunt Maria, Rebecca and Dr. Tabb, and Aunt Eliza.","Daughter Eliza sick past ten days. \"Louisa and Jenny talk incessantly about you.\" Nelly has been walking a good deal.","Uncle Cary's death. Discusses children and weather. Passes on Mr. Lloyd's questions regarding hiring an overseer such as salary and privileges.","\"Old Dolly gave me the letter I enclose about ten days ago…\" Sister Mary wrote after her confinement. Today is Harriet's wedding day.","Boat landed with 50 or 60 visitors. Susan, a slave, prefers being sold.","She shall \"be down in the boat tomorrow to see you.\" Shall not bring the children.","Visitors. No one is sick. \"The boat had just come in sight and it is beginning to rain right fast…\"","Anxious to hear about Mother [Jane C. B. Washington]. A man came \"to apply for situation as overseer, at Marshall Hall…\" Note at end of letter written by Louisa Washington. Misses her father. Writes about dogs, birds, and sheep.","Has heard rumors and is unsure if Mrs. [Eleanor Parke Custis] Lewis is dead or alive. Went to Charlestown on Sunday. Visited with relations. Describes wellbeing of her daughters: \"Maria has five teeth.\"","Expresses her happiness at receiving Augustine's last letter. Sorry to hear of Eliza's injury. Describes children's party. Would be glad if he could finish the threshing.","\"Mrs. Byrd and Mrs. Alsbone… appear very nervous about the state of our slaves. They think the negroes hate the whites so much, that we are in constant danger.\"","Louisa has measles. Dr. Lloyd shipwrecked twice and lost everything. Scarlet fever and whooping cough going around.","Daughters Jenny, Lily [Eliza] and Maria all have measles. Distressed to hear about Augustine's wheat and corn. Begs for a letter from him; \"I am miserable.\"","Steamboat quite full today with sixty or seventy persons. Tomorrow is Louisa's birthday. Spoke to Susan [a slave] and \"she prefers being sold.\"","\"Aunt Eliza had a little girl last night, she and the child are both doing well.\"","Arrived at Cave Farm on Monday. Heard that \"Mr. Alexander was so extravagant that if you were not careful, Cousin Hannah's property would all in short time go.\" Louisa looks forward to a child's party. Nelly requests vanilla.","Instructions to have her black bonnet sent up as well as a night gown, linens, and visit cards. Went to hear Dr. Butler's sermon. \"Don't forget the butter from Maryland…\"","Encloses letter from Mr. Davis. She is visiting Richard and Christian. Asks Augustine to bring the \"baby's sucking bottle.\" Gives instructions for the slave Sarah to make a brine to drop the butter in.","Richard returned from town and says that court will begin on the second Monday of October, and the sale at Claymont will take place on the following Wednesday.","Daughter [Anna] Maria broke her left arm.","Infant [Lawrence] very ill. Family news.","Nursery chimney caught on fire yesterday. Son Lawrence has been ill. Mr. Turner salted hams. Wants to see Christian and the children this winter.","Is very concerned about Lawrence's fever. Asks that Augustine send for a doctor.","Has heard that his Uncle Augustine was unwell. Requests word on how he is. Sends a bottle of castor oil.","Regrets to hear that his health has not improved. Lawrence is better.","Nelly reports that she is ready to go home and regrets that she be sent for.","Her health continues to improve, hopes to be able to return soon. Letter sent with West [Ford].","Clara [Heilman] has arrived. Nelly is disappointed that the weather keeps her away. \"I am as well as ever, look very fat…and right strong.\"","Lawrence's health improves. Postscript regarding Edith and Mrs. Powell.","Their niece Anne, daughter of Augustine's brother Richard Blackburn and Christian Washington has died.","Gives preserving instructions for slaves Sarah and Matilda. Secret engagement of Andrew Kennedy. Asks about having the dining room fixed. Anne is sick with dysentery.","\"The baby [George Washington] improves every day.\" Watermelons in the ice house.","Dined with Harriett Cazenove. \"Everything is going on at home here as usual.\"","\"Everybody is leaving so fast that by Thursday everyone will be gone…\" She can be at Walnut Farm on Saturday.","Daughter Nelly had fever and boils. Nelly writes she is delighted she left [Capon Springs] as the \"house keeper, servants and all were dismissed and the stages taken off the line on Friday.\" Instructs Augustine to bring clothes for the children.","Louisa and Jenny went to a concert. Yesterday a crowd with Masons came by boat and made a speech. Received a letter from Miss [Ann Pamela] Cunningham requesting permission for an address.","Much rain. Wheat looks well. Family news.","Summer weather. Had first dish of asparagus yesterday. Miss [Ann Pamela] Cunningham's address is Saturday with Dr. Hawks of New York as orator.","\"Yesterday was the day fixed on by Miss Cunningham for her grand doings here…. There were benches enough to accommodate six hundred but I don't think there could have been more than one hundred and fifty or two hundred at most on the grounds.\"","Received his sixth letter this morning. Mrs. Robert [Mary Anna Custis] Lee staying with them. Son George has not learned to say a word since Augustine left. \"Wishing you happy dreams and hoping I may be the burden of them as you are of mine.\"","Nelly writes she cannot find the trunk key Augustine requested. She delivered his message to Mr. Lunsford [overseer at Waveland].","Mr. Lunsford finished seeding and now setting strawberry plants. Cabbage plants have come up but they look like kale. Received letters from ladies applying for \"the situation\" [teaching position?]. Requests jonquil roots, hairpins, and tea toweling."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon","Washington, John Augustine, III, 1821-1861","Washington, Eleanor Love Selden, 1824-1860","Ford, West, approximately 1784-1863","Chew, Louisa Fontaine Washington, 1844-1927"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon"],"persname_ssim":["Washington, John Augustine, III, 1821-1861","Washington, Eleanor Love Selden, 1824-1860","Ford, West, approximately 1784-1863","Chew, Louisa Fontaine Washington, 1844-1927"],"language_ssim":["English \n.    "],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":172,"online_item_count_is":3,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T05:50:40.181Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vimtvl_repositories_3_resources_57","ead_ssi":"vimtvl_repositories_3_resources_57","_root_":"vimtvl_repositories_3_resources_57","_nest_parent_":"vimtvl_repositories_3_resources_57","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/MV/repositories_3_resources_57.xml","title_ssm":["John Augustine Washington III and Eleanor Love Selden correspondence"],"title_tesim":["John Augustine Washington III and Eleanor Love Selden correspondence"],"unitdate_ssm":["1842-1860"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1842-1860"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["RM.528"],"text":["RM.528","John Augustine Washington III and Eleanor Love Selden correspondence","This collection is open for research during scheduled appointments. Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.","Saw Dr. Powell on Thursday. Cases of bilious fever. Arrangements for slave Eliza's return to Mount Vernon. Crabs are \"disappearing very rapidly.\"","The collection is arranged first by letters written by John Augustine Washington III, organized chronologically, and second by letters written by Eleanor Love Selden Washington, organized chronologically.","John Augustine Washington III (1821-1861): John Augustine Washington was the great-grandnephew of George Washington and the last Washington to own Mount Vernon before its sale to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association (MVLA).  He was born on May 3, 1821 to John Augustine Washington II and Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840, and returned to Mount Vernon to manage the declining estate with his widowed mother's permission. In 1843, he married Eleanor Love Selden with whom he had seven children. He sold 200 acres of Mount Vernon to the MVLA in 1858 for $200,000, and he and his family moved to Waveland plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1860. He served as aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee, but was shot by a bushwhacker and died one week later on September 13, 1861.","Eleanor Love Selden Washington (1824-1860): Born April 12, 1824 to Wilson Cary Selden and Louisa Elizabeth Fontaine Alexander Selden, \"Nelly\" married John Augustine Washington III on February 16, 1843. Together, they had seven children: Louisa, Jane Charlotte (\"Jenny\"), Eliza (\"Lily\"), Anna Maria, Lawrence, Eleanor (\"Nelly\"), and George. She died from childbirth October 9, 1860.","Bushrod Washington Family Papers ;\nJohn Augustine Washington III and Descendants Papers ;\nElswyth Thane Beebe Collection of Washington Family Papers ;\nHistoric Manuscripts Collection","The collection contains correspondence between John Augustine Washington III and his wife Eleanor Love Selden. The letters begin during the Washingtons' engagement and continues through eighteen years of marriage, ending with a letter from John Augustine to Eleanor composed the day prior to her sudden death. The letters contain information on family matters, the management of the Mount Vernon estate, and plantation life prior to the Civil War.","Expresses his happiness at receiving Nelly's letters and love for her. \"I do not object to the whole world knowing that I love you.\"","Must defer visit to Exeter for four or five days due to appointments. His mother will visit Nelly on her way up to Leesburg.","Feels pain at parting from Nelly. Cousin William [Turner] distraught over his intention to marry Betty [Selden].","Arrived Christmas day. Distressed at being apart from Nelly. Saw the family at Mount Ida [Wilson Cary Selden, Sr.'s family] on Saturday.","Love letter. \"…as the dearest moments of my life have been with you, so the happiest hopes that my soul can form, have you for their reigning star.\"","Will probably not see or hear from Nelly until their wedding. Discredits stories that his relative Thomas Turner mistreated his family and servants.","Is unable to return to Jefferson until the middle or end of next week. Gives instructions for Dick [Richard Blackburn Washington] regarding delivery of wheat, receipts, and a shingles order. Mentions Bushrod Washington and West Ford.","Changed route after leaving Nelly. Hopes Nelly recovers from her headaches. Did she get the box from Stabler's safely?","\"Time hangs heavily on me when you are absent…\" Updates on relations. A new academy is to be built opposite Mr. Burr Harrison's. Leaves for Jefferson tomorrow.","\"…not having been aware of my right to vote out of the county in which I resided, at the Presidential election I made arrangements to return home…\" Hyacinths planted.","His case came up in Court and estate committed to Augustine's hands. Encloses ten dollars to entertain Dick and Christian Washington. Two or three snowstorms since his arrival at Blakeley. Scarlet fever prevailing.","Scarlet fever disappeared. Direct West [Ford] to tell William Hayes to procure eggs or chickens, \"but know the price beforehand, or he will charge you double.\"","Absence of Gabriel and desertion of some of the hired hands. Has decided not to sell Gabriel. \"If it were possible to without them [slaves], I do not think I could own one, but situated as we are, landed property would be almost valueless without them, and it is a matter of necessity to have their labor.\"","Sowing wheat. \"I have never had soft crabs in perfection before.\" Asks if mother [Jane C. B. Washington] has received money on his wheat. Offers two sets of names for Dick and Christian Washington's daughter.","Sale of Exeter will not take place until spring. Dr. Alexander struggling with debt.","\"I have not seen our friends here, but hear that Bentley bought Cousin Eliza's negroes at $1,200.00.\"","Mother [Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington] ill. His letter will be taken to Nelly \"by two negro men who I have purchased, and by Julia whom I send down. I wish West to set them to getting rails…\"","\"I left the negroes I got in Alexandria, where I had an offer of $650.00 for them from a negro trader, but I prefer selling to a private person if I can do so. I found several of the servants sick, and Phil who was very low, died this evening.\"","Servants recovering. Nelly's cloak was dyed mazarine blue. Shall begin seeding wheat.","West [Ford] has taken sick this morning. \"The stockings and socks for the negroes are nearly done…The coat patterns are eaten up by the rats…\"","Got up to Blakeley night before last accompanied by Charles Washington. \"I have the prospect of employing an overseer for next year.\"","He has been trying to procure signatures for a \"petition for the division of our county.\" The sale of Woodlawn and the Quakers who are to settle on it.","Received Nelly's letter of September 18th. Has succeeded in obtaining an overseer \"at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars a year.\"","Relates journey to Blakeley. Was delayed as Turbeville Stuart had typhus or nervous fever. Pneumonia and typhoid fever \"prevailing through this neighborhood.\"","Augustine is losing his overseer due to his marriage to a widow, Ms. Spence. Discusses case at the Alexandria Superior Court.","\"Between pleasant company and bad weather I was detained in the lower country some days longer than I expected.\" Pleased with Gloucester. Disappointed in Old Point. Gabriel's duties and tasks.","Has been twice at church. Hopes Nelly received a package with silk, a bottle with slips, and peach stones. Preserves and pickles are done.","Describes weather and damage caused by drought and storms. Mr. Turner informs him that he can probably obtain an overseer but \"the chance of getting a tenant is not so good.\"","Returned home yesterday from trip to Maryland. Visited Mr. Sewall at Poplar Hill. Went to visit Dr. Crawfort but he was absent, so went to Mr. Shipley's. Recommends Nelly go to Baltimore. Presumes Elizabeth Blackburn was married today.","Wheat machine broke. Sends thirty dollars. Colonel Bailey Peyton is to marry Julia Thompson. Employed three Irish workers to see if they could replace slaves but the \"experiment\" failed.","Sends a carriage up for Nelly. He shall leave tomorrow or the next day for Jefferson.","Relates arrival in Baltimore and journey to Mount Vernon. Steamboat brought five hundred visitors during the week. Misses Nelly: \"…I feel a constant yearning to have you at my side, to hear you, to see you…\"","Dreams of Nelly. Monuments were erected at the vault. Steamboat continues to come full. President Filmore and his cabinet postponed visit. Plasterer to come and fix dining room and cellars.","Will be down tomorrow accompanied by William Turner and two other gentlemen.","Is obliged to go to Fairfax Court House to \"sue out attachments against Mr. Whitehall's property.\"","Writes in haste. Ephraim died yesterday evening. Too hazardous for Nelly to come down until epidemic subsides. Sends a package containing a fan and dress.","Will be in Alexandria on Friday. Dick [Richard Washington] unwell with attack of erysipelas. Fears John Washington will be deformed. New steamboat for the Mount Vernon route will not begin trips until the week after next.","Short letter. Will not be in Alexandria before Saturday. Needs to attend to business with \"Brother\" Thomas [Blackburn Washington]. Families at Blakeley are well.","Short letter. Mother [Jane C. B. Washington] is \"dangerously ill.\" Requests a carpet bag with clean clothes. \"Send John [Michum] up tomorrow morning for my Buggy.\"","Mother is better but still weak. Gives instructions for Mr. Stowell regarding corn for mules at Marshall Hall.","Mother is better. \"I have been purchasing negroes—and am in negotiation for others…\" Gives instructions for \"grubbing and ploughing.\" Overseer position. Includes letter to daughter Louisa on same sheet regarding various cousins.","Sends Jim up with the carriage today for Nelly. Augustine writes he is \"completely tired of bacheloring.\"","Heard of Mrs. [Eleanor Parke Custis] Lewis' illness. Describes journey with stops in Berryville and Chantilly. Harriet subject to fainting attacks. Threshing machine is set. Negotiations with Mr. Stowell as overseer. Death of General Roger Jones","Health of Aunt Eliza and Mr. Lloyd. Railroad festival at Salem [now Marshall]. Cary, Fontaine and John hunting and fishing. Describes flowers in Louisa's garden. Wharf and buildings being put up at the White House for the steamboat and visitors.","Going to Alexandria to sell a load of wheat. The slave Eliza was injured when she \"ran a needle in her arm and broke it off…\" Ends with proclamation of undying love: \"Indeed as I grow older my heart seems to cling closer to you…and never do I feel this more deeply than when you are absent from me.\"","Finished ploughing in Maryland. Tried to sell the slave Matilda but she was unwilling. Has employed a German gardener. Gives updates on the steamboat, visitors, and construction of new wharf.","Attaches a check for fifty dollars for travel expenses by canal. Good weather to begin work again. Heard through West [Ford] of Cousin Esther's death. Health of servants","Mount Vernon and other farms have lost one third to one half of harvest due to rains. Has finally engaged a Maryland bricklayer and plasterer.","Was unable to write due to a cold. Noblet Herbert's death. Disappointed in sale of mountain land. Instructions for sowing and sale of clover seed.","He cannot get up to the house. Requests beef, ham, knives and forks, Worcestershire sauce, and cream or milk.","Sold Matilda and her family to Mr. Bevin. Augustine has had attacks of ague. Cases of scarlet fever and dysentery. Gives instructions for Mr. Stowell regarding sheep and wheat machine.","Brief letter. Getting on slowly with work. Will probably not come down tomorrow.","\"Brother T's [cousin Thomas Washington] corpse has not yet arrived.\" John Alexander has dysentery.","Thomas Washington's body arrived and was buried at Charlestown. John Alexander's death. Will conclude funeral arrangements tomorrow.","Servants sick. Bought and forwarded a dress for Louisa. Will take Louisa to Bath after sale of Richwoods [home of Thomas Blackburn Washington].","\"Richard [Washington] was rather better last night.\" Brief letter.","He is detained a few days longer due to Dr. Alexander's absence. Asks Nelly to send the wagon up for coal. Has sold corn at three dollars.","Arrived in Charlestown yesterday. Restaurants in Charlestown and Harper's Ferry filthy. Richard [Washington] sold about 300 acres of his land at $60.00 per acre.","\"Alexandria May 18\" crossed out at top. His health continues to improve, will join her in a few days. Requests pills and tea.","\"My cold is broken and a great deal better.\" Regrets that sickness prevents him from joining her as planned.","Augustine writes he will be down on Thursday or Friday. Direct Mr. Browner to get ready to kill the hogs next Saturday.","Has commenced hauling today. Encloses check for fifty dollars. Sends up a swan.","Augustine writes that though his health has improved, he's still unable to return.","Sends bacon, shad and fish by West [Ford]. Wrote a short note to Nelly this morning to be delivered by girl Maria. Son Lawrence and the baby [Eleanor] are well.","Encloses a letter from California. Has had stormy weather. Requests that Nelly tell Cousin Sally or the doctor to inform him how she is.","Stormy and rainy weather prevented his going to see Nelly. Weather unfavorable for fishing.","Forwards check for $100.","Instructions to send several servants [enslaved workers?] from Mount Vernon to Alexandria.","The slave Sarah \"had run off from Mr. Taylor and had gone home this morning.\" Has not heard from Richmond [regarding sale of Mount Vernon to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association]","Regarding negotiations with the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.","Relates his visits with the children to the University, Monticello, Farmington, and the \"Asylums for the Insane and for the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb.\"","Relates visit to Wyers Cave. Saw John Selden and his children. Visited Cousin Ann and Miss Mary Peter. Saw Sister Hannah and Jenny. \"My farm as usual will yield but a small rent, and I have half made up my mind to sell it.\"","Brief letter. Is detained until Monday and \"then have to go to Balt[imore]. If I do not get home on Tuesday in the boat, send up for me Wednesday morning.\"","Must travel to Baltimore with Mr. Herbert. Instructs William Ford to meet him in Alexandria to show him lots [of timber?] to be labeled.","Encloses letter from Magruder Mason. Gives instructions for delivering slaves George, Charlotte and Milly who have been hired out.","Has requested Mr. Price send down game and fish. Expects to meet Willie Rogers and Mr. Robinson on Saturday.","Christian Washington's baby had an operation on her lip. Heavy fall of snow. Gives instructions regarding clover seed, ploughs, and windows of hot beds.","Shall leave tomorrow for Frederick and Fauquier and be home Friday or Saturday. Bad weather prevented his visiting friends in Audley and Berryville. Has arranged matters with Mr. Richardson about Joe [a slave boy].","Describes journey to Chicago: stops and sights. Unsure if he can make an investment in Chicago or not.","Relates investigation of investments with Mr. Wright and Mr. McFarland. Describes geography of Chicago, Lake Michigan, and river and its relation to property value. Visited a Mr. Kerfoot. Describes scenery.","Has bought two pieces of property. Gives instructions regarding harvest. Inquires after cradles and rakes.","Richard and Bushrod Washington came down with him. \"I fear I shall be disappointed in selling Marshall Hall to the person who I expected to buy it.\"","Constant rains on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Will go to Washington to meet John F. Lee. Thinks they can move to Waveland by the first of December.","\"This box contains the correspondence between my wife and myself from October 1842 to October 1860. From the time of our engagement to her Death - John A. and E. L. Washington.\"","Dr. Lloyd's funeral will take place tomorrow. Requests suit of black clothes.","Description of journey from St. Louis to Chicago. Fertility of the prairie and poverty of inhabitants. Business in Chicago remains uncertain.","Received Nelly's letter of April 1st. Has not made much progress in his business. \"I went out yesterday about 35 miles on the Milwaukee Railroad branch…\"","Has rented a part of his property. Ogden suit will come up in a few days. Dined at Mr. Kerfoot's. Describes a \"feat of house lifting\" he witnessed.","His lawyers are confident in winning the Ogden Suit [Malebon D. Ogden vs. John A. Washington and William F. Turner]. Met with friends and relations; mentions Cassins, Grahams, and Mr. Morgan Johnson. Says he is \"wife sick or love sick.\"","Expects to leave tomorrow night or Saturday for Indianapolis and Louisville. Encloses flowers. \"I regret to hear that Miss Cunningham's enterprise turned out indifferently. It was I thought rather inconsiderate in her to attempt anything of the sort while we are living there, but I suppose she did not think of this.\"","Forgot trunk key and requests to have Nelly mail it. Has sent up boxes of silver, white and brown sugar, and soap. Gives instructions regarding a box of stolen sugar.","Going to Leesburg this morning with friends. Postscript \"Thursday morning.\"","\"Mr. Turner though still very unwell is going about a little, and we are engaged in sowing wheat…\" Bought a carpet for the library. Has sent up stair carpet rods.","Augustine writes he had intended going up to Waveland yesterday but \"as I have some little unfinished business here and have not had an opportunity of seeing Cousin H[arriet] I shall wait until tomorrow and accompany them up.\"","Reports he will not return as soon as planned. Encloses ten dollars.","After receiving her father's permission to respond to Augustine's letter, she writes that she has never before attempted such a letter. Expresses her feelings for him.","Disappointed in trip to Walnut Farm. Supposes Augustine has arrived at Mount Vernon. Death of Mrs. Mason.","If Augustine is detained, their separation will be nearly three weeks. Delivered messages to Dick. Recent storm caused flooding and destroyed fencing.","Spent yesterday at Mount Vernon. Whitewashing has improved the appearance of the yard. Longs for the twenty-sixth to come.  Miss Morey [Maury] leaves tomorrow.","Bridal party arrived [for wedding of Christian Maria and Richard Washington]. Asks Augustine to get a new pair of boots or have his mended.","Augustine's last letter dated the 10th. Pleased he employed a white overseer.","No time fixed for Dick's [Richard Washington] marriage. Will Augustine get the baby a pair of shoes? Penciled note by Augustine possibly noting property lines.","When did Augustine leave Loudon? Louisa has learned several words. Nelly has visited several friends.","Intends to have her tooth drawn. Weather very cold. Louisa learned waltzing.","Discusses weather. Mr. Stuart arrived. \"Louisa has completely retrieved her character since you left.\" Letter continues September 2nd. Nelly \"left Blakeley yesterday morning to spend this week with Aunt Maria and Anne.","Louisa's health. \"I was really gratified to hear you did not find it necessary to sell Gabriel.\" Louisa has \"several times mistaken persons down the street for you…\"","Delivery and payment of wheat. Louisa is well. Christian Washington already named her daughter Elizabeth. Old Mr. [John] Sinclair died and his slaves are to be sold.","Dined with Ellen Powell. Louisa \"fell against the table and nearly broke her nose…\"","Nelly writes she had a bad cold on Monday. Louisa's arm is almost entirely well. West [Ford] was in town yesterday. Charles Lee and Anne Gardener are engaged.","Daughter Jenny [Jane Charlotte Washington] sick with fever and welts.","Daughter Jenny and other family members illl. Cousin Thomas and Noblet returned last week. Postscript asking for money for children's dresses.","Aunt Eliza doing well. Nelly went to hear Hertz play: He is \"one of the most celebrated performers on the piano.\" Does not understand Anne's letter.","Short letter. Chastises Augustine for not writing. Asks \"is it because your wife is not of sufficient importance to you to write to her.\"","\"I shall be ready to go any day that you can come for me.\" Asks for mutton suet and cat mint.","\"Mr. George Turner, starts for Boston tomorrow, and I have determined to go under his escort.\" Discusses meetings with friends and relatives. Cousin Rebecca had a son.","Discusses harvest and rain. Jack and Anne drove up this morning. \"If there are any damsons, I wish you would have some preserved.\"","Hopes Augustine had a pleasant trip and \"felt no evil effects from crabs and oysters.\" Nelly treated Louisa's illness with calomel and oil. Sorry to hear that Mr. Moore the overseer took a wife. Enclosed note and postscript regarding letter from Sister Mary.","Inquires if the slave Mary has washed the bedstead. Will try to get a larger sheet of paper. Postscript regarding daughter Louisa's tin cow.","\"It has been nearly three weeks since my confinement…\" Uncle Bushrod [Washington] leaves for the Salt Sulphur on Monday.","Nelly and Augustine have been apart nine weeks. Describes her recovery and the new baby [Eliza]. General Rust [new owner of Exeter] traveled up on Sunday.","Requests Augustine have a log cabin built. \"Our children are well, having two babies keeps me pretty constantly employed.\" Postscript regarding poor pen and Aunt Eliza's confinement.","\"Our dear child is quite well again [Louisa].\" Hopes to hear from Augustine soon.  Postscript, \"Dear little Molly [Mary Selden Page] continues I think to improve.\"","Short letter. Aunt Eliza gave birth to a girl yesterday, about three o'clock.","Family news. Asks Augustine set a date for her to return to Mount Vernon.","Cary was thrown over his horse's head. Mrs. Carter died last night. Daughter Eliza goes looking for Augustine. Nelly makes requests and gives instructions for making preserves, \"and please don't forget my hen house.\"","Arrived Thursday evening. Requests more money to buy things for the winter. Mentions Aunt Maria, Rebecca and Dr. Tabb, and Aunt Eliza.","Daughter Eliza sick past ten days. \"Louisa and Jenny talk incessantly about you.\" Nelly has been walking a good deal.","Uncle Cary's death. Discusses children and weather. Passes on Mr. Lloyd's questions regarding hiring an overseer such as salary and privileges.","\"Old Dolly gave me the letter I enclose about ten days ago…\" Sister Mary wrote after her confinement. Today is Harriet's wedding day.","Boat landed with 50 or 60 visitors. Susan, a slave, prefers being sold.","She shall \"be down in the boat tomorrow to see you.\" Shall not bring the children.","Visitors. No one is sick. \"The boat had just come in sight and it is beginning to rain right fast…\"","Anxious to hear about Mother [Jane C. B. Washington]. A man came \"to apply for situation as overseer, at Marshall Hall…\" Note at end of letter written by Louisa Washington. Misses her father. Writes about dogs, birds, and sheep.","Has heard rumors and is unsure if Mrs. [Eleanor Parke Custis] Lewis is dead or alive. Went to Charlestown on Sunday. Visited with relations. Describes wellbeing of her daughters: \"Maria has five teeth.\"","Expresses her happiness at receiving Augustine's last letter. Sorry to hear of Eliza's injury. Describes children's party. Would be glad if he could finish the threshing.","\"Mrs. Byrd and Mrs. Alsbone… appear very nervous about the state of our slaves. They think the negroes hate the whites so much, that we are in constant danger.\"","Louisa has measles. Dr. Lloyd shipwrecked twice and lost everything. Scarlet fever and whooping cough going around.","Daughters Jenny, Lily [Eliza] and Maria all have measles. Distressed to hear about Augustine's wheat and corn. Begs for a letter from him; \"I am miserable.\"","Steamboat quite full today with sixty or seventy persons. Tomorrow is Louisa's birthday. Spoke to Susan [a slave] and \"she prefers being sold.\"","\"Aunt Eliza had a little girl last night, she and the child are both doing well.\"","Arrived at Cave Farm on Monday. Heard that \"Mr. Alexander was so extravagant that if you were not careful, Cousin Hannah's property would all in short time go.\" Louisa looks forward to a child's party. Nelly requests vanilla.","Instructions to have her black bonnet sent up as well as a night gown, linens, and visit cards. Went to hear Dr. Butler's sermon. \"Don't forget the butter from Maryland…\"","Encloses letter from Mr. Davis. She is visiting Richard and Christian. Asks Augustine to bring the \"baby's sucking bottle.\" Gives instructions for the slave Sarah to make a brine to drop the butter in.","Richard returned from town and says that court will begin on the second Monday of October, and the sale at Claymont will take place on the following Wednesday.","Daughter [Anna] Maria broke her left arm.","Infant [Lawrence] very ill. Family news.","Nursery chimney caught on fire yesterday. Son Lawrence has been ill. Mr. Turner salted hams. Wants to see Christian and the children this winter.","Is very concerned about Lawrence's fever. Asks that Augustine send for a doctor.","Has heard that his Uncle Augustine was unwell. Requests word on how he is. Sends a bottle of castor oil.","Regrets to hear that his health has not improved. Lawrence is better.","Nelly reports that she is ready to go home and regrets that she be sent for.","Her health continues to improve, hopes to be able to return soon. Letter sent with West [Ford].","Clara [Heilman] has arrived. Nelly is disappointed that the weather keeps her away. \"I am as well as ever, look very fat…and right strong.\"","Lawrence's health improves. Postscript regarding Edith and Mrs. Powell.","Their niece Anne, daughter of Augustine's brother Richard Blackburn and Christian Washington has died.","Gives preserving instructions for slaves Sarah and Matilda. Secret engagement of Andrew Kennedy. Asks about having the dining room fixed. Anne is sick with dysentery.","\"The baby [George Washington] improves every day.\" Watermelons in the ice house.","Dined with Harriett Cazenove. \"Everything is going on at home here as usual.\"","\"Everybody is leaving so fast that by Thursday everyone will be gone…\" She can be at Walnut Farm on Saturday.","Daughter Nelly had fever and boils. Nelly writes she is delighted she left [Capon Springs] as the \"house keeper, servants and all were dismissed and the stages taken off the line on Friday.\" Instructs Augustine to bring clothes for the children.","Louisa and Jenny went to a concert. Yesterday a crowd with Masons came by boat and made a speech. Received a letter from Miss [Ann Pamela] Cunningham requesting permission for an address.","Much rain. Wheat looks well. Family news.","Summer weather. Had first dish of asparagus yesterday. Miss [Ann Pamela] Cunningham's address is Saturday with Dr. Hawks of New York as orator.","\"Yesterday was the day fixed on by Miss Cunningham for her grand doings here…. There were benches enough to accommodate six hundred but I don't think there could have been more than one hundred and fifty or two hundred at most on the grounds.\"","Received his sixth letter this morning. Mrs. Robert [Mary Anna Custis] Lee staying with them. Son George has not learned to say a word since Augustine left. \"Wishing you happy dreams and hoping I may be the burden of them as you are of mine.\"","Nelly writes she cannot find the trunk key Augustine requested. She delivered his message to Mr. Lunsford [overseer at Waveland].","Mr. Lunsford finished seeding and now setting strawberry plants. Cabbage plants have come up but they look like kale. Received letters from ladies applying for \"the situation\" [teaching position?]. Requests jonquil roots, hairpins, and tea toweling.","Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon","Washington, John Augustine, III, 1821-1861","Washington, Eleanor Love Selden, 1824-1860","Ford, West, approximately 1784-1863","Chew, Louisa Fontaine Washington, 1844-1927","English \n.    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Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["This collection is open for research during scheduled appointments. Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes."],"altformavail_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSaw Dr. Powell on Thursday. Cases of bilious fever. Arrangements for slave Eliza's return to Mount Vernon. Crabs are \"disappearing very rapidly.\"\u003c/p\u003e"],"altformavail_heading_ssm":["Existence and Location of Copies"],"altformavail_tesim":["Saw Dr. Powell on Thursday. Cases of bilious fever. 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He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840, and returned to Mount Vernon to manage the declining estate with his widowed mother's permission. In 1843, he married Eleanor Love Selden with whom he had seven children. He sold 200 acres of Mount Vernon to the MVLA in 1858 for $200,000, and he and his family moved to Waveland plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1860. He served as aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee, but was shot by a bushwhacker and died one week later on September 13, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Love Selden Washington (1824-1860): Born April 12, 1824 to Wilson Cary Selden and Louisa Elizabeth Fontaine Alexander Selden, \"Nelly\" married John Augustine Washington III on February 16, 1843. Together, they had seven children: Louisa, Jane Charlotte (\"Jenny\"), Eliza (\"Lily\"), Anna Maria, Lawrence, Eleanor (\"Nelly\"), and George. She died from childbirth October 9, 1860.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Augustine Washington III (1821-1861): John Augustine Washington was the great-grandnephew of George Washington and the last Washington to own Mount Vernon before its sale to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association (MVLA).  He was born on May 3, 1821 to John Augustine Washington II and Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840, and returned to Mount Vernon to manage the declining estate with his widowed mother's permission. In 1843, he married Eleanor Love Selden with whom he had seven children. He sold 200 acres of Mount Vernon to the MVLA in 1858 for $200,000, and he and his family moved to Waveland plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1860. He served as aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee, but was shot by a bushwhacker and died one week later on September 13, 1861.","Eleanor Love Selden Washington (1824-1860): Born April 12, 1824 to Wilson Cary Selden and Louisa Elizabeth Fontaine Alexander Selden, \"Nelly\" married John Augustine Washington III on February 16, 1843. Together, they had seven children: Louisa, Jane Charlotte (\"Jenny\"), Eliza (\"Lily\"), Anna Maria, Lawrence, Eleanor (\"Nelly\"), and George. She died from childbirth October 9, 1860."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Name and date of item], John Augustine Washington III and Eleanor Love Selden correspondence, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernonn [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Name and date of item], John Augustine Washington III and Eleanor Love Selden correspondence, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernonn [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBushrod Washington Family Papers ;\nJohn Augustine Washington III and Descendants Papers ;\nElswyth Thane Beebe Collection of Washington Family Papers ;\nHistoric Manuscripts Collection\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Bushrod Washington Family Papers ;\nJohn Augustine Washington III and Descendants Papers ;\nElswyth Thane Beebe Collection of Washington Family Papers ;\nHistoric Manuscripts Collection"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains correspondence between John Augustine Washington III and his wife Eleanor Love Selden. The letters begin during the Washingtons' engagement and continues through eighteen years of marriage, ending with a letter from John Augustine to Eleanor composed the day prior to her sudden death. The letters contain information on family matters, the management of the Mount Vernon estate, and plantation life prior to the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses his happiness at receiving Nelly's letters and love for her. \"I do not object to the whole world knowing that I love you.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMust defer visit to Exeter for four or five days due to appointments. His mother will visit Nelly on her way up to Leesburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFeels pain at parting from Nelly. Cousin William [Turner] distraught over his intention to marry Betty [Selden].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived Christmas day. Distressed at being apart from Nelly. Saw the family at Mount Ida [Wilson Cary Selden, Sr.'s family] on Saturday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLove letter. \"…as the dearest moments of my life have been with you, so the happiest hopes that my soul can form, have you for their reigning star.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill probably not see or hear from Nelly until their wedding. Discredits stories that his relative Thomas Turner mistreated his family and servants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs unable to return to Jefferson until the middle or end of next week. Gives instructions for Dick [Richard Blackburn Washington] regarding delivery of wheat, receipts, and a shingles order. Mentions Bushrod Washington and West Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChanged route after leaving Nelly. Hopes Nelly recovers from her headaches. Did she get the box from Stabler's safely?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Time hangs heavily on me when you are absent…\" Updates on relations. A new academy is to be built opposite Mr. Burr Harrison's. Leaves for Jefferson tomorrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"…not having been aware of my right to vote out of the county in which I resided, at the Presidential election I made arrangements to return home…\" Hyacinths planted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis case came up in Court and estate committed to Augustine's hands. Encloses ten dollars to entertain Dick and Christian Washington. Two or three snowstorms since his arrival at Blakeley. Scarlet fever prevailing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScarlet fever disappeared. Direct West [Ford] to tell William Hayes to procure eggs or chickens, \"but know the price beforehand, or he will charge you double.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbsence of Gabriel and desertion of some of the hired hands. Has decided not to sell Gabriel. \"If it were possible to without them [slaves], I do not think I could own one, but situated as we are, landed property would be almost valueless without them, and it is a matter of necessity to have their labor.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSowing wheat. \"I have never had soft crabs in perfection before.\" Asks if mother [Jane C. B. Washington] has received money on his wheat. Offers two sets of names for Dick and Christian Washington's daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Exeter will not take place until spring. Dr. Alexander struggling with debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I have not seen our friends here, but hear that Bentley bought Cousin Eliza's negroes at $1,200.00.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMother [Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington] ill. His letter will be taken to Nelly \"by two negro men who I have purchased, and by Julia whom I send down. I wish West to set them to getting rails…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I left the negroes I got in Alexandria, where I had an offer of $650.00 for them from a negro trader, but I prefer selling to a private person if I can do so. I found several of the servants sick, and Phil who was very low, died this evening.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eServants recovering. Nelly's cloak was dyed mazarine blue. Shall begin seeding wheat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWest [Ford] has taken sick this morning. \"The stockings and socks for the negroes are nearly done…The coat patterns are eaten up by the rats…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGot up to Blakeley night before last accompanied by Charles Washington. \"I have the prospect of employing an overseer for next year.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe has been trying to procure signatures for a \"petition for the division of our county.\" The sale of Woodlawn and the Quakers who are to settle on it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived Nelly's letter of September 18th. Has succeeded in obtaining an overseer \"at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars a year.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates journey to Blakeley. Was delayed as Turbeville Stuart had typhus or nervous fever. Pneumonia and typhoid fever \"prevailing through this neighborhood.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAugustine is losing his overseer due to his marriage to a widow, Ms. Spence. Discusses case at the Alexandria Superior Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Between pleasant company and bad weather I was detained in the lower country some days longer than I expected.\" Pleased with Gloucester. Disappointed in Old Point. Gabriel's duties and tasks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been twice at church. Hopes Nelly received a package with silk, a bottle with slips, and peach stones. Preserves and pickles are done.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes weather and damage caused by drought and storms. Mr. Turner informs him that he can probably obtain an overseer but \"the chance of getting a tenant is not so good.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturned home yesterday from trip to Maryland. Visited Mr. Sewall at Poplar Hill. Went to visit Dr. Crawfort but he was absent, so went to Mr. Shipley's. Recommends Nelly go to Baltimore. Presumes Elizabeth Blackburn was married today.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWheat machine broke. Sends thirty dollars. Colonel Bailey Peyton is to marry Julia Thompson. Employed three Irish workers to see if they could replace slaves but the \"experiment\" failed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends a carriage up for Nelly. He shall leave tomorrow or the next day for Jefferson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates arrival in Baltimore and journey to Mount Vernon. Steamboat brought five hundred visitors during the week. Misses Nelly: \"…I feel a constant yearning to have you at my side, to hear you, to see you…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDreams of Nelly. Monuments were erected at the vault. Steamboat continues to come full. President Filmore and his cabinet postponed visit. Plasterer to come and fix dining room and cellars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill be down tomorrow accompanied by William Turner and two other gentlemen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs obliged to go to Fairfax Court House to \"sue out attachments against Mr. Whitehall's property.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites in haste. Ephraim died yesterday evening. Too hazardous for Nelly to come down until epidemic subsides. Sends a package containing a fan and dress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill be in Alexandria on Friday. Dick [Richard Washington] unwell with attack of erysipelas. Fears John Washington will be deformed. New steamboat for the Mount Vernon route will not begin trips until the week after next.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShort letter. Will not be in Alexandria before Saturday. Needs to attend to business with \"Brother\" Thomas [Blackburn Washington]. Families at Blakeley are well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShort letter. Mother [Jane C. B. Washington] is \"dangerously ill.\" Requests a carpet bag with clean clothes. \"Send John [Michum] up tomorrow morning for my Buggy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMother is better but still weak. Gives instructions for Mr. Stowell regarding corn for mules at Marshall Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMother is better. \"I have been purchasing negroes—and am in negotiation for others…\" Gives instructions for \"grubbing and ploughing.\" Overseer position. Includes letter to daughter Louisa on same sheet regarding various cousins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends Jim up with the carriage today for Nelly. Augustine writes he is \"completely tired of bacheloring.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeard of Mrs. [Eleanor Parke Custis] Lewis' illness. Describes journey with stops in Berryville and Chantilly. Harriet subject to fainting attacks. Threshing machine is set. Negotiations with Mr. Stowell as overseer. Death of General Roger Jones\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of Aunt Eliza and Mr. Lloyd. Railroad festival at Salem [now Marshall]. Cary, Fontaine and John hunting and fishing. Describes flowers in Louisa's garden. Wharf and buildings being put up at the White House for the steamboat and visitors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoing to Alexandria to sell a load of wheat. The slave Eliza was injured when she \"ran a needle in her arm and broke it off…\" Ends with proclamation of undying love: \"Indeed as I grow older my heart seems to cling closer to you…and never do I feel this more deeply than when you are absent from me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinished ploughing in Maryland. Tried to sell the slave Matilda but she was unwilling. Has employed a German gardener. Gives updates on the steamboat, visitors, and construction of new wharf.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttaches a check for fifty dollars for travel expenses by canal. Good weather to begin work again. Heard through West [Ford] of Cousin Esther's death. Health of servants\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMount Vernon and other farms have lost one third to one half of harvest due to rains. Has finally engaged a Maryland bricklayer and plasterer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWas unable to write due to a cold. Noblet Herbert's death. Disappointed in sale of mountain land. Instructions for sowing and sale of clover seed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe cannot get up to the house. Requests beef, ham, knives and forks, Worcestershire sauce, and cream or milk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSold Matilda and her family to Mr. Bevin. Augustine has had attacks of ague. Cases of scarlet fever and dysentery. Gives instructions for Mr. Stowell regarding sheep and wheat machine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief letter. Getting on slowly with work. Will probably not come down tomorrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Brother T's [cousin Thomas Washington] corpse has not yet arrived.\" John Alexander has dysentery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Washington's body arrived and was buried at Charlestown. John Alexander's death. Will conclude funeral arrangements tomorrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eServants sick. Bought and forwarded a dress for Louisa. Will take Louisa to Bath after sale of Richwoods [home of Thomas Blackburn Washington].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Richard [Washington] was rather better last night.\" Brief letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe is detained a few days longer due to Dr. Alexander's absence. Asks Nelly to send the wagon up for coal. Has sold corn at three dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived in Charlestown yesterday. Restaurants in Charlestown and Harper's Ferry filthy. Richard [Washington] sold about 300 acres of his land at $60.00 per acre.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Alexandria May 18\" crossed out at top. His health continues to improve, will join her in a few days. Requests pills and tea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My cold is broken and a great deal better.\" Regrets that sickness prevents him from joining her as planned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAugustine writes he will be down on Thursday or Friday. Direct Mr. Browner to get ready to kill the hogs next Saturday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas commenced hauling today. Encloses check for fifty dollars. Sends up a swan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAugustine writes that though his health has improved, he's still unable to return.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends bacon, shad and fish by West [Ford]. Wrote a short note to Nelly this morning to be delivered by girl Maria. Son Lawrence and the baby [Eleanor] are well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a letter from California. Has had stormy weather. Requests that Nelly tell Cousin Sally or the doctor to inform him how she is.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStormy and rainy weather prevented his going to see Nelly. Weather unfavorable for fishing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForwards check for $100.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions to send several servants [enslaved workers?] from Mount Vernon to Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe slave Sarah \"had run off from Mr. Taylor and had gone home this morning.\" Has not heard from Richmond [regarding sale of Mount Vernon to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding negotiations with the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates his visits with the children to the University, Monticello, Farmington, and the \"Asylums for the Insane and for the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates visit to Wyers Cave. Saw John Selden and his children. Visited Cousin Ann and Miss Mary Peter. Saw Sister Hannah and Jenny. \"My farm as usual will yield but a small rent, and I have half made up my mind to sell it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief letter. Is detained until Monday and \"then have to go to Balt[imore]. If I do not get home on Tuesday in the boat, send up for me Wednesday morning.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMust travel to Baltimore with Mr. Herbert. Instructs William Ford to meet him in Alexandria to show him lots [of timber?] to be labeled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses letter from Magruder Mason. Gives instructions for delivering slaves George, Charlotte and Milly who have been hired out.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas requested Mr. Price send down game and fish. Expects to meet Willie Rogers and Mr. Robinson on Saturday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChristian Washington's baby had an operation on her lip. Heavy fall of snow. Gives instructions regarding clover seed, ploughs, and windows of hot beds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShall leave tomorrow for Frederick and Fauquier and be home Friday or Saturday. Bad weather prevented his visiting friends in Audley and Berryville. Has arranged matters with Mr. Richardson about Joe [a slave boy].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes journey to Chicago: stops and sights. Unsure if he can make an investment in Chicago or not.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates investigation of investments with Mr. Wright and Mr. McFarland. Describes geography of Chicago, Lake Michigan, and river and its relation to property value. Visited a Mr. Kerfoot. Describes scenery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas bought two pieces of property. Gives instructions regarding harvest. Inquires after cradles and rakes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard and Bushrod Washington came down with him. \"I fear I shall be disappointed in selling Marshall Hall to the person who I expected to buy it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConstant rains on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Will go to Washington to meet John F. Lee. Thinks they can move to Waveland by the first of December.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"This box contains the correspondence between my wife and myself from October 1842 to October 1860. From the time of our engagement to her Death - John A. and E. L. Washington.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Lloyd's funeral will take place tomorrow. Requests suit of black clothes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of journey from St. Louis to Chicago. Fertility of the prairie and poverty of inhabitants. Business in Chicago remains uncertain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived Nelly's letter of April 1st. Has not made much progress in his business. \"I went out yesterday about 35 miles on the Milwaukee Railroad branch…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas rented a part of his property. Ogden suit will come up in a few days. Dined at Mr. Kerfoot's. Describes a \"feat of house lifting\" he witnessed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis lawyers are confident in winning the Ogden Suit [Malebon D. Ogden vs. John A. Washington and William F. Turner]. Met with friends and relations; mentions Cassins, Grahams, and Mr. Morgan Johnson. Says he is \"wife sick or love sick.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpects to leave tomorrow night or Saturday for Indianapolis and Louisville. Encloses flowers. \"I regret to hear that Miss Cunningham's enterprise turned out indifferently. It was I thought rather inconsiderate in her to attempt anything of the sort while we are living there, but I suppose she did not think of this.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForgot trunk key and requests to have Nelly mail it. Has sent up boxes of silver, white and brown sugar, and soap. Gives instructions regarding a box of stolen sugar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoing to Leesburg this morning with friends. Postscript \"Thursday morning.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Mr. Turner though still very unwell is going about a little, and we are engaged in sowing wheat…\" Bought a carpet for the library. Has sent up stair carpet rods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAugustine writes he had intended going up to Waveland yesterday but \"as I have some little unfinished business here and have not had an opportunity of seeing Cousin H[arriet] I shall wait until tomorrow and accompany them up.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports he will not return as soon as planned. Encloses ten dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter receiving her father's permission to respond to Augustine's letter, she writes that she has never before attempted such a letter. Expresses her feelings for him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisappointed in trip to Walnut Farm. Supposes Augustine has arrived at Mount Vernon. Death of Mrs. Mason.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIf Augustine is detained, their separation will be nearly three weeks. Delivered messages to Dick. Recent storm caused flooding and destroyed fencing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpent yesterday at Mount Vernon. Whitewashing has improved the appearance of the yard. Longs for the twenty-sixth to come.  Miss Morey [Maury] leaves tomorrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBridal party arrived [for wedding of Christian Maria and Richard Washington]. Asks Augustine to get a new pair of boots or have his mended.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAugustine's last letter dated the 10th. Pleased he employed a white overseer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNo time fixed for Dick's [Richard Washington] marriage. Will Augustine get the baby a pair of shoes? Penciled note by Augustine possibly noting property lines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhen did Augustine leave Loudon? Louisa has learned several words. Nelly has visited several friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntends to have her tooth drawn. Weather very cold. Louisa learned waltzing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses weather. Mr. Stuart arrived. \"Louisa has completely retrieved her character since you left.\" Letter continues September 2nd. Nelly \"left Blakeley yesterday morning to spend this week with Aunt Maria and Anne.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouisa's health. \"I was really gratified to hear you did not find it necessary to sell Gabriel.\" Louisa has \"several times mistaken persons down the street for you…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelivery and payment of wheat. Louisa is well. Christian Washington already named her daughter Elizabeth. Old Mr. [John] Sinclair died and his slaves are to be sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDined with Ellen Powell. Louisa \"fell against the table and nearly broke her nose…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelly writes she had a bad cold on Monday. Louisa's arm is almost entirely well. West [Ford] was in town yesterday. Charles Lee and Anne Gardener are engaged.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaughter Jenny [Jane Charlotte Washington] sick with fever and welts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaughter Jenny and other family members illl. Cousin Thomas and Noblet returned last week. Postscript asking for money for children's dresses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAunt Eliza doing well. Nelly went to hear Hertz play: He is \"one of the most celebrated performers on the piano.\" Does not understand Anne's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShort letter. Chastises Augustine for not writing. Asks \"is it because your wife is not of sufficient importance to you to write to her.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I shall be ready to go any day that you can come for me.\" Asks for mutton suet and cat mint.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Mr. George Turner, starts for Boston tomorrow, and I have determined to go under his escort.\" Discusses meetings with friends and relatives. Cousin Rebecca had a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses harvest and rain. Jack and Anne drove up this morning. \"If there are any damsons, I wish you would have some preserved.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes Augustine had a pleasant trip and \"felt no evil effects from crabs and oysters.\" Nelly treated Louisa's illness with calomel and oil. Sorry to hear that Mr. Moore the overseer took a wife. Enclosed note and postscript regarding letter from Sister Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires if the slave Mary has washed the bedstead. Will try to get a larger sheet of paper. Postscript regarding daughter Louisa's tin cow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"It has been nearly three weeks since my confinement…\" Uncle Bushrod [Washington] leaves for the Salt Sulphur on Monday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelly and Augustine have been apart nine weeks. Describes her recovery and the new baby [Eliza]. General Rust [new owner of Exeter] traveled up on Sunday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests Augustine have a log cabin built. \"Our children are well, having two babies keeps me pretty constantly employed.\" Postscript regarding poor pen and Aunt Eliza's confinement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Our dear child is quite well again [Louisa].\" Hopes to hear from Augustine soon.  Postscript, \"Dear little Molly [Mary Selden Page] continues I think to improve.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShort letter. Aunt Eliza gave birth to a girl yesterday, about three o'clock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news. Asks Augustine set a date for her to return to Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCary was thrown over his horse's head. Mrs. Carter died last night. Daughter Eliza goes looking for Augustine. Nelly makes requests and gives instructions for making preserves, \"and please don't forget my hen house.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived Thursday evening. Requests more money to buy things for the winter. Mentions Aunt Maria, Rebecca and Dr. Tabb, and Aunt Eliza.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaughter Eliza sick past ten days. \"Louisa and Jenny talk incessantly about you.\" Nelly has been walking a good deal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUncle Cary's death. Discusses children and weather. Passes on Mr. Lloyd's questions regarding hiring an overseer such as salary and privileges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Old Dolly gave me the letter I enclose about ten days ago…\" Sister Mary wrote after her confinement. Today is Harriet's wedding day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoat landed with 50 or 60 visitors. Susan, a slave, prefers being sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe shall \"be down in the boat tomorrow to see you.\" Shall not bring the children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisitors. No one is sick. \"The boat had just come in sight and it is beginning to rain right fast…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnxious to hear about Mother [Jane C. B. Washington]. A man came \"to apply for situation as overseer, at Marshall Hall…\" Note at end of letter written by Louisa Washington. Misses her father. Writes about dogs, birds, and sheep.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas heard rumors and is unsure if Mrs. [Eleanor Parke Custis] Lewis is dead or alive. Went to Charlestown on Sunday. Visited with relations. Describes wellbeing of her daughters: \"Maria has five teeth.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses her happiness at receiving Augustine's last letter. Sorry to hear of Eliza's injury. Describes children's party. Would be glad if he could finish the threshing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Mrs. Byrd and Mrs. Alsbone… appear very nervous about the state of our slaves. They think the negroes hate the whites so much, that we are in constant danger.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouisa has measles. Dr. Lloyd shipwrecked twice and lost everything. Scarlet fever and whooping cough going around.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaughters Jenny, Lily [Eliza] and Maria all have measles. Distressed to hear about Augustine's wheat and corn. Begs for a letter from him; \"I am miserable.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSteamboat quite full today with sixty or seventy persons. Tomorrow is Louisa's birthday. Spoke to Susan [a slave] and \"she prefers being sold.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Aunt Eliza had a little girl last night, she and the child are both doing well.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived at Cave Farm on Monday. Heard that \"Mr. Alexander was so extravagant that if you were not careful, Cousin Hannah's property would all in short time go.\" Louisa looks forward to a child's party. Nelly requests vanilla.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions to have her black bonnet sent up as well as a night gown, linens, and visit cards. Went to hear Dr. Butler's sermon. \"Don't forget the butter from Maryland…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses letter from Mr. Davis. She is visiting Richard and Christian. Asks Augustine to bring the \"baby's sucking bottle.\" Gives instructions for the slave Sarah to make a brine to drop the butter in.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard returned from town and says that court will begin on the second Monday of October, and the sale at Claymont will take place on the following Wednesday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaughter [Anna] Maria broke her left arm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInfant [Lawrence] very ill. Family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNursery chimney caught on fire yesterday. Son Lawrence has been ill. Mr. Turner salted hams. Wants to see Christian and the children this winter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs very concerned about Lawrence's fever. Asks that Augustine send for a doctor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas heard that his Uncle Augustine was unwell. Requests word on how he is. Sends a bottle of castor oil.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets to hear that his health has not improved. Lawrence is better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelly reports that she is ready to go home and regrets that she be sent for.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer health continues to improve, hopes to be able to return soon. Letter sent with West [Ford].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClara [Heilman] has arrived. Nelly is disappointed that the weather keeps her away. \"I am as well as ever, look very fat…and right strong.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawrence's health improves. Postscript regarding Edith and Mrs. Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir niece Anne, daughter of Augustine's brother Richard Blackburn and Christian Washington has died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives preserving instructions for slaves Sarah and Matilda. Secret engagement of Andrew Kennedy. Asks about having the dining room fixed. Anne is sick with dysentery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The baby [George Washington] improves every day.\" Watermelons in the ice house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDined with Harriett Cazenove. \"Everything is going on at home here as usual.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Everybody is leaving so fast that by Thursday everyone will be gone…\" She can be at Walnut Farm on Saturday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaughter Nelly had fever and boils. Nelly writes she is delighted she left [Capon Springs] as the \"house keeper, servants and all were dismissed and the stages taken off the line on Friday.\" Instructs Augustine to bring clothes for the children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouisa and Jenny went to a concert. Yesterday a crowd with Masons came by boat and made a speech. Received a letter from Miss [Ann Pamela] Cunningham requesting permission for an address.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMuch rain. Wheat looks well. Family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSummer weather. Had first dish of asparagus yesterday. Miss [Ann Pamela] Cunningham's address is Saturday with Dr. Hawks of New York as orator.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Yesterday was the day fixed on by Miss Cunningham for her grand doings here…. There were benches enough to accommodate six hundred but I don't think there could have been more than one hundred and fifty or two hundred at most on the grounds.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived his sixth letter this morning. Mrs. Robert [Mary Anna Custis] Lee staying with them. Son George has not learned to say a word since Augustine left. \"Wishing you happy dreams and hoping I may be the burden of them as you are of mine.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelly writes she cannot find the trunk key Augustine requested. She delivered his message to Mr. Lunsford [overseer at Waveland].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Lunsford finished seeding and now setting strawberry plants. Cabbage plants have come up but they look like kale. Received letters from ladies applying for \"the situation\" [teaching position?]. 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The letters begin during the Washingtons' engagement and continues through eighteen years of marriage, ending with a letter from John Augustine to Eleanor composed the day prior to her sudden death. The letters contain information on family matters, the management of the Mount Vernon estate, and plantation life prior to the Civil War.","Expresses his happiness at receiving Nelly's letters and love for her. \"I do not object to the whole world knowing that I love you.\"","Must defer visit to Exeter for four or five days due to appointments. His mother will visit Nelly on her way up to Leesburg.","Feels pain at parting from Nelly. Cousin William [Turner] distraught over his intention to marry Betty [Selden].","Arrived Christmas day. Distressed at being apart from Nelly. Saw the family at Mount Ida [Wilson Cary Selden, Sr.'s family] on Saturday.","Love letter. \"…as the dearest moments of my life have been with you, so the happiest hopes that my soul can form, have you for their reigning star.\"","Will probably not see or hear from Nelly until their wedding. Discredits stories that his relative Thomas Turner mistreated his family and servants.","Is unable to return to Jefferson until the middle or end of next week. Gives instructions for Dick [Richard Blackburn Washington] regarding delivery of wheat, receipts, and a shingles order. Mentions Bushrod Washington and West Ford.","Changed route after leaving Nelly. Hopes Nelly recovers from her headaches. Did she get the box from Stabler's safely?","\"Time hangs heavily on me when you are absent…\" Updates on relations. A new academy is to be built opposite Mr. Burr Harrison's. Leaves for Jefferson tomorrow.","\"…not having been aware of my right to vote out of the county in which I resided, at the Presidential election I made arrangements to return home…\" Hyacinths planted.","His case came up in Court and estate committed to Augustine's hands. Encloses ten dollars to entertain Dick and Christian Washington. Two or three snowstorms since his arrival at Blakeley. Scarlet fever prevailing.","Scarlet fever disappeared. Direct West [Ford] to tell William Hayes to procure eggs or chickens, \"but know the price beforehand, or he will charge you double.\"","Absence of Gabriel and desertion of some of the hired hands. Has decided not to sell Gabriel. \"If it were possible to without them [slaves], I do not think I could own one, but situated as we are, landed property would be almost valueless without them, and it is a matter of necessity to have their labor.\"","Sowing wheat. \"I have never had soft crabs in perfection before.\" Asks if mother [Jane C. B. Washington] has received money on his wheat. Offers two sets of names for Dick and Christian Washington's daughter.","Sale of Exeter will not take place until spring. Dr. Alexander struggling with debt.","\"I have not seen our friends here, but hear that Bentley bought Cousin Eliza's negroes at $1,200.00.\"","Mother [Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington] ill. His letter will be taken to Nelly \"by two negro men who I have purchased, and by Julia whom I send down. I wish West to set them to getting rails…\"","\"I left the negroes I got in Alexandria, where I had an offer of $650.00 for them from a negro trader, but I prefer selling to a private person if I can do so. I found several of the servants sick, and Phil who was very low, died this evening.\"","Servants recovering. Nelly's cloak was dyed mazarine blue. Shall begin seeding wheat.","West [Ford] has taken sick this morning. \"The stockings and socks for the negroes are nearly done…The coat patterns are eaten up by the rats…\"","Got up to Blakeley night before last accompanied by Charles Washington. \"I have the prospect of employing an overseer for next year.\"","He has been trying to procure signatures for a \"petition for the division of our county.\" The sale of Woodlawn and the Quakers who are to settle on it.","Received Nelly's letter of September 18th. Has succeeded in obtaining an overseer \"at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars a year.\"","Relates journey to Blakeley. Was delayed as Turbeville Stuart had typhus or nervous fever. Pneumonia and typhoid fever \"prevailing through this neighborhood.\"","Augustine is losing his overseer due to his marriage to a widow, Ms. Spence. Discusses case at the Alexandria Superior Court.","\"Between pleasant company and bad weather I was detained in the lower country some days longer than I expected.\" Pleased with Gloucester. Disappointed in Old Point. Gabriel's duties and tasks.","Has been twice at church. Hopes Nelly received a package with silk, a bottle with slips, and peach stones. Preserves and pickles are done.","Describes weather and damage caused by drought and storms. Mr. Turner informs him that he can probably obtain an overseer but \"the chance of getting a tenant is not so good.\"","Returned home yesterday from trip to Maryland. Visited Mr. Sewall at Poplar Hill. Went to visit Dr. Crawfort but he was absent, so went to Mr. Shipley's. Recommends Nelly go to Baltimore. Presumes Elizabeth Blackburn was married today.","Wheat machine broke. Sends thirty dollars. Colonel Bailey Peyton is to marry Julia Thompson. Employed three Irish workers to see if they could replace slaves but the \"experiment\" failed.","Sends a carriage up for Nelly. He shall leave tomorrow or the next day for Jefferson.","Relates arrival in Baltimore and journey to Mount Vernon. Steamboat brought five hundred visitors during the week. Misses Nelly: \"…I feel a constant yearning to have you at my side, to hear you, to see you…\"","Dreams of Nelly. Monuments were erected at the vault. Steamboat continues to come full. President Filmore and his cabinet postponed visit. Plasterer to come and fix dining room and cellars.","Will be down tomorrow accompanied by William Turner and two other gentlemen.","Is obliged to go to Fairfax Court House to \"sue out attachments against Mr. Whitehall's property.\"","Writes in haste. Ephraim died yesterday evening. Too hazardous for Nelly to come down until epidemic subsides. Sends a package containing a fan and dress.","Will be in Alexandria on Friday. Dick [Richard Washington] unwell with attack of erysipelas. Fears John Washington will be deformed. New steamboat for the Mount Vernon route will not begin trips until the week after next.","Short letter. Will not be in Alexandria before Saturday. Needs to attend to business with \"Brother\" Thomas [Blackburn Washington]. Families at Blakeley are well.","Short letter. Mother [Jane C. B. Washington] is \"dangerously ill.\" Requests a carpet bag with clean clothes. \"Send John [Michum] up tomorrow morning for my Buggy.\"","Mother is better but still weak. Gives instructions for Mr. Stowell regarding corn for mules at Marshall Hall.","Mother is better. \"I have been purchasing negroes—and am in negotiation for others…\" Gives instructions for \"grubbing and ploughing.\" Overseer position. Includes letter to daughter Louisa on same sheet regarding various cousins.","Sends Jim up with the carriage today for Nelly. Augustine writes he is \"completely tired of bacheloring.\"","Heard of Mrs. [Eleanor Parke Custis] Lewis' illness. Describes journey with stops in Berryville and Chantilly. Harriet subject to fainting attacks. Threshing machine is set. Negotiations with Mr. Stowell as overseer. Death of General Roger Jones","Health of Aunt Eliza and Mr. Lloyd. Railroad festival at Salem [now Marshall]. Cary, Fontaine and John hunting and fishing. Describes flowers in Louisa's garden. Wharf and buildings being put up at the White House for the steamboat and visitors.","Going to Alexandria to sell a load of wheat. The slave Eliza was injured when she \"ran a needle in her arm and broke it off…\" Ends with proclamation of undying love: \"Indeed as I grow older my heart seems to cling closer to you…and never do I feel this more deeply than when you are absent from me.\"","Finished ploughing in Maryland. Tried to sell the slave Matilda but she was unwilling. Has employed a German gardener. Gives updates on the steamboat, visitors, and construction of new wharf.","Attaches a check for fifty dollars for travel expenses by canal. Good weather to begin work again. Heard through West [Ford] of Cousin Esther's death. Health of servants","Mount Vernon and other farms have lost one third to one half of harvest due to rains. Has finally engaged a Maryland bricklayer and plasterer.","Was unable to write due to a cold. Noblet Herbert's death. Disappointed in sale of mountain land. Instructions for sowing and sale of clover seed.","He cannot get up to the house. Requests beef, ham, knives and forks, Worcestershire sauce, and cream or milk.","Sold Matilda and her family to Mr. Bevin. Augustine has had attacks of ague. Cases of scarlet fever and dysentery. Gives instructions for Mr. Stowell regarding sheep and wheat machine.","Brief letter. Getting on slowly with work. Will probably not come down tomorrow.","\"Brother T's [cousin Thomas Washington] corpse has not yet arrived.\" John Alexander has dysentery.","Thomas Washington's body arrived and was buried at Charlestown. John Alexander's death. Will conclude funeral arrangements tomorrow.","Servants sick. Bought and forwarded a dress for Louisa. Will take Louisa to Bath after sale of Richwoods [home of Thomas Blackburn Washington].","\"Richard [Washington] was rather better last night.\" Brief letter.","He is detained a few days longer due to Dr. Alexander's absence. Asks Nelly to send the wagon up for coal. Has sold corn at three dollars.","Arrived in Charlestown yesterday. Restaurants in Charlestown and Harper's Ferry filthy. Richard [Washington] sold about 300 acres of his land at $60.00 per acre.","\"Alexandria May 18\" crossed out at top. His health continues to improve, will join her in a few days. Requests pills and tea.","\"My cold is broken and a great deal better.\" Regrets that sickness prevents him from joining her as planned.","Augustine writes he will be down on Thursday or Friday. Direct Mr. Browner to get ready to kill the hogs next Saturday.","Has commenced hauling today. Encloses check for fifty dollars. Sends up a swan.","Augustine writes that though his health has improved, he's still unable to return.","Sends bacon, shad and fish by West [Ford]. Wrote a short note to Nelly this morning to be delivered by girl Maria. Son Lawrence and the baby [Eleanor] are well.","Encloses a letter from California. Has had stormy weather. Requests that Nelly tell Cousin Sally or the doctor to inform him how she is.","Stormy and rainy weather prevented his going to see Nelly. Weather unfavorable for fishing.","Forwards check for $100.","Instructions to send several servants [enslaved workers?] from Mount Vernon to Alexandria.","The slave Sarah \"had run off from Mr. Taylor and had gone home this morning.\" Has not heard from Richmond [regarding sale of Mount Vernon to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association]","Regarding negotiations with the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.","Relates his visits with the children to the University, Monticello, Farmington, and the \"Asylums for the Insane and for the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb.\"","Relates visit to Wyers Cave. Saw John Selden and his children. Visited Cousin Ann and Miss Mary Peter. Saw Sister Hannah and Jenny. \"My farm as usual will yield but a small rent, and I have half made up my mind to sell it.\"","Brief letter. Is detained until Monday and \"then have to go to Balt[imore]. If I do not get home on Tuesday in the boat, send up for me Wednesday morning.\"","Must travel to Baltimore with Mr. Herbert. Instructs William Ford to meet him in Alexandria to show him lots [of timber?] to be labeled.","Encloses letter from Magruder Mason. Gives instructions for delivering slaves George, Charlotte and Milly who have been hired out.","Has requested Mr. Price send down game and fish. Expects to meet Willie Rogers and Mr. Robinson on Saturday.","Christian Washington's baby had an operation on her lip. Heavy fall of snow. Gives instructions regarding clover seed, ploughs, and windows of hot beds.","Shall leave tomorrow for Frederick and Fauquier and be home Friday or Saturday. Bad weather prevented his visiting friends in Audley and Berryville. Has arranged matters with Mr. Richardson about Joe [a slave boy].","Describes journey to Chicago: stops and sights. Unsure if he can make an investment in Chicago or not.","Relates investigation of investments with Mr. Wright and Mr. McFarland. Describes geography of Chicago, Lake Michigan, and river and its relation to property value. Visited a Mr. Kerfoot. Describes scenery.","Has bought two pieces of property. Gives instructions regarding harvest. Inquires after cradles and rakes.","Richard and Bushrod Washington came down with him. \"I fear I shall be disappointed in selling Marshall Hall to the person who I expected to buy it.\"","Constant rains on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Will go to Washington to meet John F. Lee. Thinks they can move to Waveland by the first of December.","\"This box contains the correspondence between my wife and myself from October 1842 to October 1860. From the time of our engagement to her Death - John A. and E. L. Washington.\"","Dr. Lloyd's funeral will take place tomorrow. Requests suit of black clothes.","Description of journey from St. Louis to Chicago. Fertility of the prairie and poverty of inhabitants. Business in Chicago remains uncertain.","Received Nelly's letter of April 1st. Has not made much progress in his business. \"I went out yesterday about 35 miles on the Milwaukee Railroad branch…\"","Has rented a part of his property. Ogden suit will come up in a few days. Dined at Mr. Kerfoot's. Describes a \"feat of house lifting\" he witnessed.","His lawyers are confident in winning the Ogden Suit [Malebon D. Ogden vs. John A. Washington and William F. Turner]. Met with friends and relations; mentions Cassins, Grahams, and Mr. Morgan Johnson. Says he is \"wife sick or love sick.\"","Expects to leave tomorrow night or Saturday for Indianapolis and Louisville. Encloses flowers. \"I regret to hear that Miss Cunningham's enterprise turned out indifferently. It was I thought rather inconsiderate in her to attempt anything of the sort while we are living there, but I suppose she did not think of this.\"","Forgot trunk key and requests to have Nelly mail it. Has sent up boxes of silver, white and brown sugar, and soap. Gives instructions regarding a box of stolen sugar.","Going to Leesburg this morning with friends. Postscript \"Thursday morning.\"","\"Mr. Turner though still very unwell is going about a little, and we are engaged in sowing wheat…\" Bought a carpet for the library. Has sent up stair carpet rods.","Augustine writes he had intended going up to Waveland yesterday but \"as I have some little unfinished business here and have not had an opportunity of seeing Cousin H[arriet] I shall wait until tomorrow and accompany them up.\"","Reports he will not return as soon as planned. Encloses ten dollars.","After receiving her father's permission to respond to Augustine's letter, she writes that she has never before attempted such a letter. Expresses her feelings for him.","Disappointed in trip to Walnut Farm. Supposes Augustine has arrived at Mount Vernon. Death of Mrs. Mason.","If Augustine is detained, their separation will be nearly three weeks. Delivered messages to Dick. Recent storm caused flooding and destroyed fencing.","Spent yesterday at Mount Vernon. Whitewashing has improved the appearance of the yard. Longs for the twenty-sixth to come.  Miss Morey [Maury] leaves tomorrow.","Bridal party arrived [for wedding of Christian Maria and Richard Washington]. Asks Augustine to get a new pair of boots or have his mended.","Augustine's last letter dated the 10th. Pleased he employed a white overseer.","No time fixed for Dick's [Richard Washington] marriage. Will Augustine get the baby a pair of shoes? Penciled note by Augustine possibly noting property lines.","When did Augustine leave Loudon? Louisa has learned several words. Nelly has visited several friends.","Intends to have her tooth drawn. Weather very cold. Louisa learned waltzing.","Discusses weather. Mr. Stuart arrived. \"Louisa has completely retrieved her character since you left.\" Letter continues September 2nd. Nelly \"left Blakeley yesterday morning to spend this week with Aunt Maria and Anne.","Louisa's health. \"I was really gratified to hear you did not find it necessary to sell Gabriel.\" Louisa has \"several times mistaken persons down the street for you…\"","Delivery and payment of wheat. Louisa is well. Christian Washington already named her daughter Elizabeth. Old Mr. [John] Sinclair died and his slaves are to be sold.","Dined with Ellen Powell. Louisa \"fell against the table and nearly broke her nose…\"","Nelly writes she had a bad cold on Monday. Louisa's arm is almost entirely well. West [Ford] was in town yesterday. Charles Lee and Anne Gardener are engaged.","Daughter Jenny [Jane Charlotte Washington] sick with fever and welts.","Daughter Jenny and other family members illl. Cousin Thomas and Noblet returned last week. Postscript asking for money for children's dresses.","Aunt Eliza doing well. Nelly went to hear Hertz play: He is \"one of the most celebrated performers on the piano.\" Does not understand Anne's letter.","Short letter. Chastises Augustine for not writing. Asks \"is it because your wife is not of sufficient importance to you to write to her.\"","\"I shall be ready to go any day that you can come for me.\" Asks for mutton suet and cat mint.","\"Mr. George Turner, starts for Boston tomorrow, and I have determined to go under his escort.\" Discusses meetings with friends and relatives. Cousin Rebecca had a son.","Discusses harvest and rain. Jack and Anne drove up this morning. \"If there are any damsons, I wish you would have some preserved.\"","Hopes Augustine had a pleasant trip and \"felt no evil effects from crabs and oysters.\" Nelly treated Louisa's illness with calomel and oil. Sorry to hear that Mr. Moore the overseer took a wife. Enclosed note and postscript regarding letter from Sister Mary.","Inquires if the slave Mary has washed the bedstead. Will try to get a larger sheet of paper. Postscript regarding daughter Louisa's tin cow.","\"It has been nearly three weeks since my confinement…\" Uncle Bushrod [Washington] leaves for the Salt Sulphur on Monday.","Nelly and Augustine have been apart nine weeks. Describes her recovery and the new baby [Eliza]. General Rust [new owner of Exeter] traveled up on Sunday.","Requests Augustine have a log cabin built. \"Our children are well, having two babies keeps me pretty constantly employed.\" Postscript regarding poor pen and Aunt Eliza's confinement.","\"Our dear child is quite well again [Louisa].\" Hopes to hear from Augustine soon.  Postscript, \"Dear little Molly [Mary Selden Page] continues I think to improve.\"","Short letter. Aunt Eliza gave birth to a girl yesterday, about three o'clock.","Family news. Asks Augustine set a date for her to return to Mount Vernon.","Cary was thrown over his horse's head. Mrs. Carter died last night. Daughter Eliza goes looking for Augustine. Nelly makes requests and gives instructions for making preserves, \"and please don't forget my hen house.\"","Arrived Thursday evening. Requests more money to buy things for the winter. Mentions Aunt Maria, Rebecca and Dr. Tabb, and Aunt Eliza.","Daughter Eliza sick past ten days. \"Louisa and Jenny talk incessantly about you.\" Nelly has been walking a good deal.","Uncle Cary's death. Discusses children and weather. Passes on Mr. Lloyd's questions regarding hiring an overseer such as salary and privileges.","\"Old Dolly gave me the letter I enclose about ten days ago…\" Sister Mary wrote after her confinement. Today is Harriet's wedding day.","Boat landed with 50 or 60 visitors. Susan, a slave, prefers being sold.","She shall \"be down in the boat tomorrow to see you.\" Shall not bring the children.","Visitors. No one is sick. \"The boat had just come in sight and it is beginning to rain right fast…\"","Anxious to hear about Mother [Jane C. B. Washington]. A man came \"to apply for situation as overseer, at Marshall Hall…\" Note at end of letter written by Louisa Washington. Misses her father. Writes about dogs, birds, and sheep.","Has heard rumors and is unsure if Mrs. [Eleanor Parke Custis] Lewis is dead or alive. Went to Charlestown on Sunday. Visited with relations. Describes wellbeing of her daughters: \"Maria has five teeth.\"","Expresses her happiness at receiving Augustine's last letter. Sorry to hear of Eliza's injury. Describes children's party. Would be glad if he could finish the threshing.","\"Mrs. Byrd and Mrs. Alsbone… appear very nervous about the state of our slaves. They think the negroes hate the whites so much, that we are in constant danger.\"","Louisa has measles. Dr. Lloyd shipwrecked twice and lost everything. Scarlet fever and whooping cough going around.","Daughters Jenny, Lily [Eliza] and Maria all have measles. Distressed to hear about Augustine's wheat and corn. Begs for a letter from him; \"I am miserable.\"","Steamboat quite full today with sixty or seventy persons. Tomorrow is Louisa's birthday. Spoke to Susan [a slave] and \"she prefers being sold.\"","\"Aunt Eliza had a little girl last night, she and the child are both doing well.\"","Arrived at Cave Farm on Monday. Heard that \"Mr. Alexander was so extravagant that if you were not careful, Cousin Hannah's property would all in short time go.\" Louisa looks forward to a child's party. Nelly requests vanilla.","Instructions to have her black bonnet sent up as well as a night gown, linens, and visit cards. Went to hear Dr. Butler's sermon. \"Don't forget the butter from Maryland…\"","Encloses letter from Mr. Davis. She is visiting Richard and Christian. Asks Augustine to bring the \"baby's sucking bottle.\" Gives instructions for the slave Sarah to make a brine to drop the butter in.","Richard returned from town and says that court will begin on the second Monday of October, and the sale at Claymont will take place on the following Wednesday.","Daughter [Anna] Maria broke her left arm.","Infant [Lawrence] very ill. Family news.","Nursery chimney caught on fire yesterday. Son Lawrence has been ill. Mr. Turner salted hams. Wants to see Christian and the children this winter.","Is very concerned about Lawrence's fever. Asks that Augustine send for a doctor.","Has heard that his Uncle Augustine was unwell. Requests word on how he is. Sends a bottle of castor oil.","Regrets to hear that his health has not improved. Lawrence is better.","Nelly reports that she is ready to go home and regrets that she be sent for.","Her health continues to improve, hopes to be able to return soon. Letter sent with West [Ford].","Clara [Heilman] has arrived. Nelly is disappointed that the weather keeps her away. \"I am as well as ever, look very fat…and right strong.\"","Lawrence's health improves. Postscript regarding Edith and Mrs. Powell.","Their niece Anne, daughter of Augustine's brother Richard Blackburn and Christian Washington has died.","Gives preserving instructions for slaves Sarah and Matilda. Secret engagement of Andrew Kennedy. Asks about having the dining room fixed. Anne is sick with dysentery.","\"The baby [George Washington] improves every day.\" Watermelons in the ice house.","Dined with Harriett Cazenove. \"Everything is going on at home here as usual.\"","\"Everybody is leaving so fast that by Thursday everyone will be gone…\" She can be at Walnut Farm on Saturday.","Daughter Nelly had fever and boils. 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Son George has not learned to say a word since Augustine left. \"Wishing you happy dreams and hoping I may be the burden of them as you are of mine.\"","Nelly writes she cannot find the trunk key Augustine requested. She delivered his message to Mr. Lunsford [overseer at Waveland].","Mr. Lunsford finished seeding and now setting strawberry plants. Cabbage plants have come up but they look like kale. Received letters from ladies applying for \"the situation\" [teaching position?]. 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