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Series\n            1 contains letters and Series 2 contains accounts and\n            receipts.","This collection has been organized into 2 series. Series\n            1 contains letters and Series 2 contains accounts and\n            receipts.","Arrangement This collection is arranged into series and then\n            chronologically.","This collection is arranged into series and then\n            chronologically.","The inventory includes letters, 1851-1861, and accounts,\n         1840-1866, of Rufus King Fitzhugh and his wife Henrietta Ellen\n         (Baytop) Fitzhugh of Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia.\n         Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro\n         (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and\n         Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. Also\n         includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of\n         Fredericksburg, Virginia. These letters relate various aspects\n         of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's\n         separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and\n         treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social\n         activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the\n         slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists,\n         and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are\n         generally from business associates or his brother George\n         Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and\n         business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land\n         speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well\n         as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and\n         tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson\n         County, Arkansas that was destroyed by the Union Army.","A \"last effort\" will be made to earn some\n                     profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has\n                     been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhughs\n                     advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he\n                     is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting\n                     powder\" in the area.","Including TCy. 1 page.","News of family and friends; tells of excitement\n                     about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our\n                     African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and\n                     girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next\n                     summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good;\n                     invites Hettie to visit.","Including TCy. 1 page.","Family will travel to Gordesville; physical\n                     ailments bothering him and his wife.","Including TCy pf ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from \n                      L[ucy]\n                     T[aliaferro] Baytop, n.p., to Hetty\n                     [Henrietta] Baytop, n.p., concerning health of\n                     family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its\n                     effects on their crops. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS.","Including ALS from \"Bunn\" Baytop, n.page to\n                     Hetty [Henrietta] Baytop, n.p., n.d., concerning\n                     \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, [County,\n                     Virginia] and his efforts to find a wife; went to\n                     an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were\n                     descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola [tribes];\n                     Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of\n                     the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the\n                     Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire;\n                     went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. [of Hampton,\n                     Virginia] has two beaux and dances every night in\n                     Old Point, [Hampton, Virginia?]. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Describes parties, with dinner and dancing, of\n                     the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we\n                     are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to\n                     Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling\n                     Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging\n                     \"father\" to go to Texas.","Including ALS from L[ucy] Baytop, Springfield,\n                     [Gloucester, Virginia?] to \"My dear Child,\"\n                     [Henrietta Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d., detailing the\n                     food and decorations of the Christmas parties;\n                     everyone is sick as a result of the hectic\n                     schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered\n                     16 hogs and 1 cow; longs for past Christmases when\n                     the children were young; related family news; asks\n                     if \"Mr. F[itzhugh]\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to\n                     try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" 1\n                     page.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","$80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed;\n                     farm is beginning to reap profits; land is\n                     expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Christmas has passed and work must resume;\n                     \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and\n                     pleurisys are very prevalent.\"","Including ALS from \n                      L[ucy]\n                     T[aliaferro] Baytop, n.p. to Hetty\n                     [Fitzhugh], 30 December [18]51. Concerning\n                     division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250.\n                     2 pages. ALS.","Including TCy of ALSs. 2 pages.","Hopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is\n                     expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring;\n                     gossip about weddings.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","News of family and friends; the young minister\n                     from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy\n                     [?] had a baby which died a month after birth of\n                     unknown causes, is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy\n                     farming and studying to prepare for the\n                     ministry.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Circuit court is in session and \"Thit is\n                     summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair\n                     are going to Washington to see about getting Mr.\n                     Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing\n                     persons for different offices as clerk\n                     commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff\n                     \u0026 c.; \"the guinea people have brought out\n                     Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he\n                     will stand a very good chance to be elected.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Father and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington;\n                     \"Father has given up all hope of his military\n                     claim.\"","Including TCy of AL. 1 page.","Reports sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy\n                     Ann; Lucy [Ann] left to visit Tom Taliaferro and\n                     then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news\n                     about births, visits, farm business of friends;\n                     comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" [a slave?], who\n                     \"has a better master this year.\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from Rowena [Baytop], n.p., n.d.\n                     to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p. telling of her sickness\n                     and wight loss; \"Cousin Lucy and Bun\" were\n                     travelling to Baltimore and \"Eugey is very anxious\n                     to go with them\"; invites them to visit this\n                     winter. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Hettie's trip to visit should not be postponed\n                     until February; had travelled to Baltimore, but\n                     cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so\n                     ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many\n                     gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to\n                     sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is\n                     \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Pressures of work and business have kept her\n                     from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom\n                     Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor\n                     and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another\n                     baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and\n                     Clara [?]; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the\n                     horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the\n                     jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to\n                     attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in\n                     California and doing well [mining for gold]; looks\n                     forward to her visit this winter.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and\n                     40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages\n                     Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in\n                     Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to\n                     send his horse to Charlottesville.","Admonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on\n                     a business deal involving the purchase of\n                     land.","Complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the\n                     \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to\n                     do.","Is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl;\n                     Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds\n                     Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of\n                     family and friends; a camp meeting is being\n                     organized and the date will be announced at the\n                     quarterly meeting.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to\n                     \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her\n                     friends inquire about her well being; has planted\n                     corn and will plant marl soon; has planted\n                     watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?]\n                     \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page\n                     Including TCy of ALS.","Acknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00;\n                     sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the\n                     Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for\n                     manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to\n                     buy wheat stock.","Including TCy of ALS.","Acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is\n                     writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune\n                     by my pen\"; planning visit for following year;\n                     transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of\n                     Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson\n                     Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and\n                     is an \"active farm in perfect order in every\n                     respect\"; description of land.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has been sick with a \"congestion of wind\";\n                     relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns\n                     sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle\n                     between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing\n                     ownership and value of the slave girl; comments,\n                     \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder\n                     to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk\n                     of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now\n                     we have a white war and a servile one to\n                     dread...\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Unexpected snow storm has killed the fruit;\n                     \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost\n                     wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old\n                     Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling\n                     yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending;\n                     \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\";\n                     Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas;\n                     mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and\n                     quilting should never go together; news of family\n                     and friends.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried;\n                     invites him and family to visit; their mother's\n                     health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by\n                     Dr. Wallace.","Including TCy of AlS. 1 page.","Friends and family have made them feel welcome;\n                     inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\";\n                     Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their\n                     income will support them; lists costs for rent and\n                     food.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Party given in honor of Tom Field and his\n                     bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy\n                     ditch; Christmas festivities.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to\n                     Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and\n                     Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr.\n                     Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until\n                     Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS.","For the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals,\n                  clothing and housewares.","Including TCy of D. 2 pages.","On foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment\n                  charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money\n                  signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and\n                  Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small\n                  child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash\n                  and also on the use of slaves.","Including TCy of D. 4 pages.","For the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee\n                  hives.","Paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land,\n                  slaves; horses, county and parish levies.","For $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing]\n                  Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus\n                  K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","For lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver,\n                  Adm[inistrator].","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","Including TCy of D. 2 pages.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","For furnishings and carriage accessories bought in\n                  Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.].","For material, hardware, clothing, school books,\n                  and candy.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","Of propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the\n                  Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list\n                  includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals,\n                  tools, and crops.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","Sends recipe for salting butter and preserving\n                  eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks\n                  forward to seeing her.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","For the purchase of trees, shrubbery and\n                  flowers.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.","The inventory includes letters,\n         1851-1861, and accounts, 1840-1866, of Rufus King Fitzhugh and\n         his wife Henrietta Ellen (Baytop) Fitzhugh of Stanardsville,\n         Greene County, Virginia.","Baytop Family,","Fitzhugh Family.","Baytop\n            family.","Fitzhugh\n            family.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 86S B34"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Baytop-Fitzhugh Papers, \n         \n         1840-1866."],"collection_title_tesim":["Baytop-Fitzhugh Papers, \n         \n         1840-1866."],"collection_ssim":["Baytop-Fitzhugh Papers, \n         \n         1840-1866."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Baytop Family, Fitzhugh Family."],"creator_ssim":["Baytop Family, Fitzhugh Family."],"creator_famname_ssim":["Baytop Family,","Fitzhugh Family."],"creators_ssim":["Baytop Family,","Fitzhugh Family."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 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Also\n         includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of\n         Fredericksburg, Virginia. These letters relate various aspects\n         of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's\n         separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and\n         treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social\n         activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the\n         slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists,\n         and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are\n         generally from business associates or his brother George\n         Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and\n         business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land\n         speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well\n         as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and\n         tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson\n         County, Arkansas that was destroyed by the Union Army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA \"last effort\" will be made to earn some\n                     profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has\n                     been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhughs\n                     advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he\n                     is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting\n                     powder\" in the area.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of family and friends; tells of excitement\n                     about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our\n                     African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and\n                     girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next\n                     summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good;\n                     invites Hettie to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily will travel to Gordesville; physical\n                     ailments bothering him and his wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy pf ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS from \n                     \u003cabbr expan=\"Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,\"\u003eL[ucy]\n                     T[aliaferro] Baytop,\u003c/abbr\u003en.p., to Hetty\n                     [Henrietta] Baytop, n.p., concerning health of\n                     family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its\n                     effects on their crops. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS from \"Bunn\" Baytop, n.page to\n                     Hetty [Henrietta] Baytop, n.p., n.d., concerning\n                     \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, [County,\n                     Virginia] and his efforts to find a wife; went to\n                     an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were\n                     descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola [tribes];\n                     Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of\n                     the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the\n                     Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire;\n                     went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. [of Hampton,\n                     Virginia] has two beaux and dances every night in\n                     Old Point, [Hampton, Virginia?]. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes parties, with dinner and dancing, of\n                     the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we\n                     are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to\n                     Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling\n                     Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging\n                     \"father\" to go to Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS from L[ucy] Baytop, Springfield,\n                     [Gloucester, Virginia?] to \"My dear Child,\"\n                     [Henrietta Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d., detailing the\n                     food and decorations of the Christmas parties;\n                     everyone is sick as a result of the hectic\n                     schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered\n                     16 hogs and 1 cow; longs for past Christmases when\n                     the children were young; related family news; asks\n                     if \"Mr. F[itzhugh]\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to\n                     try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" 1\n                     page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e$80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed;\n                     farm is beginning to reap profits; land is\n                     expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChristmas has passed and work must resume;\n                     \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and\n                     pleurisys are very prevalent.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS from \n                     \u003cabbr expan=\"Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,\"\u003eL[ucy]\n                     T[aliaferro] Baytop,\u003c/abbr\u003en.p. to Hetty\n                     [Fitzhugh], 30 December [18]51. Concerning\n                     division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250.\n                     2 pages. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALSs. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is\n                     expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring;\n                     gossip about weddings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of family and friends; the young minister\n                     from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy\n                     [?] had a baby which died a month after birth of\n                     unknown causes, is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy\n                     farming and studying to prepare for the\n                     ministry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCircuit court is in session and \"Thit is\n                     summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair\n                     are going to Washington to see about getting Mr.\n                     Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing\n                     persons for different offices as clerk\n                     commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff\n                     \u0026amp; c.; \"the guinea people have brought out\n                     Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he\n                     will stand a very good chance to be elected.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFather and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington;\n                     \"Father has given up all hope of his military\n                     claim.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of AL. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy\n                     Ann; Lucy [Ann] left to visit Tom Taliaferro and\n                     then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news\n                     about births, visits, farm business of friends;\n                     comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" [a slave?], who\n                     \"has a better master this year.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS from Rowena [Baytop], n.p., n.d.\n                     to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p. telling of her sickness\n                     and wight loss; \"Cousin Lucy and Bun\" were\n                     travelling to Baltimore and \"Eugey is very anxious\n                     to go with them\"; invites them to visit this\n                     winter. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHettie's trip to visit should not be postponed\n                     until February; had travelled to Baltimore, but\n                     cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so\n                     ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many\n                     gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to\n                     sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is\n                     \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePressures of work and business have kept her\n                     from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom\n                     Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor\n                     and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another\n                     baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and\n                     Clara [?]; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the\n                     horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the\n                     jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to\n                     attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in\n                     California and doing well [mining for gold]; looks\n                     forward to her visit this winter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and\n                     40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages\n                     Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in\n                     Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to\n                     send his horse to Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdmonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on\n                     a business deal involving the purchase of\n                     land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the\n                     \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to\n                     do.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs busy making soap, tending geese and fowl;\n                     Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds\n                     Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of\n                     family and friends; a camp meeting is being\n                     organized and the date will be announced at the\n                     quarterly meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to\n                     \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her\n                     friends inquire about her well being; has planted\n                     corn and will plant marl soon; has planted\n                     watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?]\n                     \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page\n                     Including TCy of ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00;\n                     sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the\n                     Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for\n                     manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to\n                     buy wheat stock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is\n                     writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune\n                     by my pen\"; planning visit for following year;\n                     transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of\n                     Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson\n                     Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and\n                     is an \"active farm in perfect order in every\n                     respect\"; description of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been sick with a \"congestion of wind\";\n                     relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns\n                     sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle\n                     between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing\n                     ownership and value of the slave girl; comments,\n                     \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder\n                     to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk\n                     of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now\n                     we have a white war and a servile one to\n                     dread...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnexpected snow storm has killed the fruit;\n                     \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost\n                     wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old\n                     Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling\n                     yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending;\n                     \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\";\n                     Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas;\n                     mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and\n                     quilting should never go together; news of family\n                     and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrival in Fredericksburg has been harried;\n                     invites him and family to visit; their mother's\n                     health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by\n                     Dr. Wallace.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of AlS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFriends and family have made them feel welcome;\n                     inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\";\n                     Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their\n                     income will support them; lists costs for rent and\n                     food.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParty given in honor of Tom Field and his\n                     bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy\n                     ditch; Christmas festivities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to\n                     Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and\n                     Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr.\n                     Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until\n                     Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals,\n                  clothing and housewares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment\n                  charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money\n                  signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and\n                  Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small\n                  child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash\n                  and also on the use of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 4 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee\n                  hives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land,\n                  slaves; horses, county and parish levies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing]\n                  Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus\n                  K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver,\n                  Adm[inistrator].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor furnishings and carriage accessories bought in\n                  Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor material, hardware, clothing, school books,\n                  and candy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOf propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the\n                  Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list\n                  includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals,\n                  tools, and crops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends recipe for salting butter and preserving\n                  eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks\n                  forward to seeing her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor the purchase of trees, shrubbery and\n                  flowers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The inventory includes letters, 1851-1861, and accounts,\n         1840-1866, of Rufus King Fitzhugh and his wife Henrietta Ellen\n         (Baytop) Fitzhugh of Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia.\n         Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro\n         (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and\n         Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. Also\n         includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of\n         Fredericksburg, Virginia. These letters relate various aspects\n         of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's\n         separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and\n         treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social\n         activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the\n         slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists,\n         and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are\n         generally from business associates or his brother George\n         Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and\n         business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land\n         speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well\n         as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and\n         tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson\n         County, Arkansas that was destroyed by the Union Army.","A \"last effort\" will be made to earn some\n                     profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has\n                     been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhughs\n                     advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he\n                     is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting\n                     powder\" in the area.","Including TCy. 1 page.","News of family and friends; tells of excitement\n                     about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our\n                     African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and\n                     girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next\n                     summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good;\n                     invites Hettie to visit.","Including TCy. 1 page.","Family will travel to Gordesville; physical\n                     ailments bothering him and his wife.","Including TCy pf ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from \n                      L[ucy]\n                     T[aliaferro] Baytop, n.p., to Hetty\n                     [Henrietta] Baytop, n.p., concerning health of\n                     family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its\n                     effects on their crops. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS.","Including ALS from \"Bunn\" Baytop, n.page to\n                     Hetty [Henrietta] Baytop, n.p., n.d., concerning\n                     \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, [County,\n                     Virginia] and his efforts to find a wife; went to\n                     an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were\n                     descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola [tribes];\n                     Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of\n                     the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the\n                     Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire;\n                     went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. [of Hampton,\n                     Virginia] has two beaux and dances every night in\n                     Old Point, [Hampton, Virginia?]. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Describes parties, with dinner and dancing, of\n                     the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we\n                     are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to\n                     Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling\n                     Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging\n                     \"father\" to go to Texas.","Including ALS from L[ucy] Baytop, Springfield,\n                     [Gloucester, Virginia?] to \"My dear Child,\"\n                     [Henrietta Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d., detailing the\n                     food and decorations of the Christmas parties;\n                     everyone is sick as a result of the hectic\n                     schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered\n                     16 hogs and 1 cow; longs for past Christmases when\n                     the children were young; related family news; asks\n                     if \"Mr. F[itzhugh]\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to\n                     try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" 1\n                     page.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","$80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed;\n                     farm is beginning to reap profits; land is\n                     expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Christmas has passed and work must resume;\n                     \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and\n                     pleurisys are very prevalent.\"","Including ALS from \n                      L[ucy]\n                     T[aliaferro] Baytop, n.p. to Hetty\n                     [Fitzhugh], 30 December [18]51. Concerning\n                     division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250.\n                     2 pages. ALS.","Including TCy of ALSs. 2 pages.","Hopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is\n                     expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring;\n                     gossip about weddings.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","News of family and friends; the young minister\n                     from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy\n                     [?] had a baby which died a month after birth of\n                     unknown causes, is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy\n                     farming and studying to prepare for the\n                     ministry.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Circuit court is in session and \"Thit is\n                     summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair\n                     are going to Washington to see about getting Mr.\n                     Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing\n                     persons for different offices as clerk\n                     commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff\n                     \u0026 c.; \"the guinea people have brought out\n                     Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he\n                     will stand a very good chance to be elected.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Father and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington;\n                     \"Father has given up all hope of his military\n                     claim.\"","Including TCy of AL. 1 page.","Reports sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy\n                     Ann; Lucy [Ann] left to visit Tom Taliaferro and\n                     then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news\n                     about births, visits, farm business of friends;\n                     comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" [a slave?], who\n                     \"has a better master this year.\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from Rowena [Baytop], n.p., n.d.\n                     to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p. telling of her sickness\n                     and wight loss; \"Cousin Lucy and Bun\" were\n                     travelling to Baltimore and \"Eugey is very anxious\n                     to go with them\"; invites them to visit this\n                     winter. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Hettie's trip to visit should not be postponed\n                     until February; had travelled to Baltimore, but\n                     cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so\n                     ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many\n                     gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to\n                     sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is\n                     \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Pressures of work and business have kept her\n                     from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom\n                     Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor\n                     and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another\n                     baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and\n                     Clara [?]; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the\n                     horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the\n                     jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to\n                     attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in\n                     California and doing well [mining for gold]; looks\n                     forward to her visit this winter.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and\n                     40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages\n                     Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in\n                     Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to\n                     send his horse to Charlottesville.","Admonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on\n                     a business deal involving the purchase of\n                     land.","Complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the\n                     \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to\n                     do.","Is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl;\n                     Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds\n                     Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of\n                     family and friends; a camp meeting is being\n                     organized and the date will be announced at the\n                     quarterly meeting.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to\n                     \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her\n                     friends inquire about her well being; has planted\n                     corn and will plant marl soon; has planted\n                     watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?]\n                     \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page\n                     Including TCy of ALS.","Acknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00;\n                     sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the\n                     Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for\n                     manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to\n                     buy wheat stock.","Including TCy of ALS.","Acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is\n                     writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune\n                     by my pen\"; planning visit for following year;\n                     transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of\n                     Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson\n                     Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and\n                     is an \"active farm in perfect order in every\n                     respect\"; description of land.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has been sick with a \"congestion of wind\";\n                     relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns\n                     sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle\n                     between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing\n                     ownership and value of the slave girl; comments,\n                     \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder\n                     to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk\n                     of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now\n                     we have a white war and a servile one to\n                     dread...\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Unexpected snow storm has killed the fruit;\n                     \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost\n                     wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old\n                     Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling\n                     yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending;\n                     \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\";\n                     Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas;\n                     mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and\n                     quilting should never go together; news of family\n                     and friends.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried;\n                     invites him and family to visit; their mother's\n                     health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by\n                     Dr. Wallace.","Including TCy of AlS. 1 page.","Friends and family have made them feel welcome;\n                     inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\";\n                     Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their\n                     income will support them; lists costs for rent and\n                     food.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Party given in honor of Tom Field and his\n                     bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy\n                     ditch; Christmas festivities.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to\n                     Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and\n                     Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr.\n                     Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until\n                     Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS.","For the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals,\n                  clothing and housewares.","Including TCy of D. 2 pages.","On foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment\n                  charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money\n                  signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and\n                  Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small\n                  child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash\n                  and also on the use of slaves.","Including TCy of D. 4 pages.","For the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee\n                  hives.","Paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land,\n                  slaves; horses, county and parish levies.","For $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing]\n                  Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus\n                  K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","For lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver,\n                  Adm[inistrator].","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","Including TCy of D. 2 pages.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","For furnishings and carriage accessories bought in\n                  Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.].","For material, hardware, clothing, school books,\n                  and candy.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","Of propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the\n                  Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list\n                  includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals,\n                  tools, and crops.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","Sends recipe for salting butter and preserving\n                  eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks\n                  forward to seeing her.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","For the purchase of trees, shrubbery and\n                  flowers."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe inventory includes letters,\n         1851-1861, and accounts, 1840-1866, of Rufus King Fitzhugh and\n         his wife Henrietta Ellen (Baytop) Fitzhugh of Stanardsville,\n         Greene County, Virginia.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The inventory includes letters,\n         1851-1861, and accounts, 1840-1866, of Rufus King Fitzhugh and\n         his wife Henrietta Ellen (Baytop) Fitzhugh of Stanardsville,\n         Greene County, Virginia."],"names_ssim":["Baytop Family,","Fitzhugh Family.","Baytop\n            family.","Fitzhugh\n            family."],"famname_ssim":["Baytop Family,","Fitzhugh Family.","Baytop\n            family.","Fitzhugh\n            family."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":42,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T15:06:24.717Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_viw00097","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00097","_root_":"viw_viw00097","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00097","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00097.xml","title_ssm":["Baytop-Fitzhugh Papers, \n         \n         1840-1866."],"title_tesim":["Baytop-Fitzhugh Papers, \n         \n         1840-1866."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 86S B34"],"text":["Mss. 86S B34","Baytop-Fitzhugh Papers, \n         \n         1840-1866.","\n            Slavery-Virginia-History-19th century.","\n            Marriage-Virginia-Gloucester County.","60 items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization This collection has been organized into 2 series. Series\n            1 contains letters and Series 2 contains accounts and\n            receipts.","This collection has been organized into 2 series. Series\n            1 contains letters and Series 2 contains accounts and\n            receipts.","Arrangement This collection is arranged into series and then\n            chronologically.","This collection is arranged into series and then\n            chronologically.","The inventory includes letters, 1851-1861, and accounts,\n         1840-1866, of Rufus King Fitzhugh and his wife Henrietta Ellen\n         (Baytop) Fitzhugh of Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia.\n         Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro\n         (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and\n         Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. Also\n         includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of\n         Fredericksburg, Virginia. These letters relate various aspects\n         of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's\n         separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and\n         treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social\n         activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the\n         slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists,\n         and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are\n         generally from business associates or his brother George\n         Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and\n         business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land\n         speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well\n         as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and\n         tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson\n         County, Arkansas that was destroyed by the Union Army.","A \"last effort\" will be made to earn some\n                     profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has\n                     been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhughs\n                     advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he\n                     is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting\n                     powder\" in the area.","Including TCy. 1 page.","News of family and friends; tells of excitement\n                     about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our\n                     African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and\n                     girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next\n                     summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good;\n                     invites Hettie to visit.","Including TCy. 1 page.","Family will travel to Gordesville; physical\n                     ailments bothering him and his wife.","Including TCy pf ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from \n                      L[ucy]\n                     T[aliaferro] Baytop, n.p., to Hetty\n                     [Henrietta] Baytop, n.p., concerning health of\n                     family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its\n                     effects on their crops. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS.","Including ALS from \"Bunn\" Baytop, n.page to\n                     Hetty [Henrietta] Baytop, n.p., n.d., concerning\n                     \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, [County,\n                     Virginia] and his efforts to find a wife; went to\n                     an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were\n                     descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola [tribes];\n                     Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of\n                     the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the\n                     Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire;\n                     went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. [of Hampton,\n                     Virginia] has two beaux and dances every night in\n                     Old Point, [Hampton, Virginia?]. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Describes parties, with dinner and dancing, of\n                     the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we\n                     are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to\n                     Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling\n                     Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging\n                     \"father\" to go to Texas.","Including ALS from L[ucy] Baytop, Springfield,\n                     [Gloucester, Virginia?] to \"My dear Child,\"\n                     [Henrietta Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d., detailing the\n                     food and decorations of the Christmas parties;\n                     everyone is sick as a result of the hectic\n                     schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered\n                     16 hogs and 1 cow; longs for past Christmases when\n                     the children were young; related family news; asks\n                     if \"Mr. F[itzhugh]\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to\n                     try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" 1\n                     page.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","$80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed;\n                     farm is beginning to reap profits; land is\n                     expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Christmas has passed and work must resume;\n                     \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and\n                     pleurisys are very prevalent.\"","Including ALS from \n                      L[ucy]\n                     T[aliaferro] Baytop, n.p. to Hetty\n                     [Fitzhugh], 30 December [18]51. Concerning\n                     division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250.\n                     2 pages. ALS.","Including TCy of ALSs. 2 pages.","Hopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is\n                     expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring;\n                     gossip about weddings.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","News of family and friends; the young minister\n                     from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy\n                     [?] had a baby which died a month after birth of\n                     unknown causes, is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy\n                     farming and studying to prepare for the\n                     ministry.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Circuit court is in session and \"Thit is\n                     summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair\n                     are going to Washington to see about getting Mr.\n                     Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing\n                     persons for different offices as clerk\n                     commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff\n                     \u0026 c.; \"the guinea people have brought out\n                     Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he\n                     will stand a very good chance to be elected.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Father and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington;\n                     \"Father has given up all hope of his military\n                     claim.\"","Including TCy of AL. 1 page.","Reports sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy\n                     Ann; Lucy [Ann] left to visit Tom Taliaferro and\n                     then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news\n                     about births, visits, farm business of friends;\n                     comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" [a slave?], who\n                     \"has a better master this year.\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from Rowena [Baytop], n.p., n.d.\n                     to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p. telling of her sickness\n                     and wight loss; \"Cousin Lucy and Bun\" were\n                     travelling to Baltimore and \"Eugey is very anxious\n                     to go with them\"; invites them to visit this\n                     winter. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Hettie's trip to visit should not be postponed\n                     until February; had travelled to Baltimore, but\n                     cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so\n                     ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many\n                     gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to\n                     sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is\n                     \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Pressures of work and business have kept her\n                     from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom\n                     Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor\n                     and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another\n                     baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and\n                     Clara [?]; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the\n                     horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the\n                     jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to\n                     attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in\n                     California and doing well [mining for gold]; looks\n                     forward to her visit this winter.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and\n                     40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages\n                     Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in\n                     Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to\n                     send his horse to Charlottesville.","Admonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on\n                     a business deal involving the purchase of\n                     land.","Complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the\n                     \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to\n                     do.","Is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl;\n                     Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds\n                     Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of\n                     family and friends; a camp meeting is being\n                     organized and the date will be announced at the\n                     quarterly meeting.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to\n                     \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her\n                     friends inquire about her well being; has planted\n                     corn and will plant marl soon; has planted\n                     watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?]\n                     \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page\n                     Including TCy of ALS.","Acknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00;\n                     sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the\n                     Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for\n                     manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to\n                     buy wheat stock.","Including TCy of ALS.","Acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is\n                     writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune\n                     by my pen\"; planning visit for following year;\n                     transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of\n                     Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson\n                     Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and\n                     is an \"active farm in perfect order in every\n                     respect\"; description of land.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has been sick with a \"congestion of wind\";\n                     relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns\n                     sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle\n                     between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing\n                     ownership and value of the slave girl; comments,\n                     \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder\n                     to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk\n                     of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now\n                     we have a white war and a servile one to\n                     dread...\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Unexpected snow storm has killed the fruit;\n                     \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost\n                     wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old\n                     Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling\n                     yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending;\n                     \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\";\n                     Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas;\n                     mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and\n                     quilting should never go together; news of family\n                     and friends.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried;\n                     invites him and family to visit; their mother's\n                     health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by\n                     Dr. Wallace.","Including TCy of AlS. 1 page.","Friends and family have made them feel welcome;\n                     inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\";\n                     Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their\n                     income will support them; lists costs for rent and\n                     food.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Party given in honor of Tom Field and his\n                     bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy\n                     ditch; Christmas festivities.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to\n                     Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and\n                     Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr.\n                     Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until\n                     Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS.","For the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals,\n                  clothing and housewares.","Including TCy of D. 2 pages.","On foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment\n                  charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money\n                  signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and\n                  Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small\n                  child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash\n                  and also on the use of slaves.","Including TCy of D. 4 pages.","For the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee\n                  hives.","Paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land,\n                  slaves; horses, county and parish levies.","For $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing]\n                  Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus\n                  K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","For lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver,\n                  Adm[inistrator].","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","Including TCy of D. 2 pages.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","For furnishings and carriage accessories bought in\n                  Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.].","For material, hardware, clothing, school books,\n                  and candy.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","Of propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the\n                  Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list\n                  includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals,\n                  tools, and crops.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","Sends recipe for salting butter and preserving\n                  eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks\n                  forward to seeing her.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","For the purchase of trees, shrubbery and\n                  flowers.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.","The inventory includes letters,\n         1851-1861, and accounts, 1840-1866, of Rufus King Fitzhugh and\n         his wife Henrietta Ellen (Baytop) Fitzhugh of Stanardsville,\n         Greene County, Virginia.","Baytop Family,","Fitzhugh Family.","Baytop\n            family.","Fitzhugh\n            family.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 86S B34"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Baytop-Fitzhugh Papers, \n         \n         1840-1866."],"collection_title_tesim":["Baytop-Fitzhugh Papers, \n         \n         1840-1866."],"collection_ssim":["Baytop-Fitzhugh Papers, \n         \n         1840-1866."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Baytop Family, Fitzhugh Family."],"creator_ssim":["Baytop Family, Fitzhugh Family."],"creator_famname_ssim":["Baytop Family,","Fitzhugh Family."],"creators_ssim":["Baytop Family,","Fitzhugh Family."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 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Also\n         includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of\n         Fredericksburg, Virginia. These letters relate various aspects\n         of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's\n         separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and\n         treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social\n         activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the\n         slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists,\n         and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are\n         generally from business associates or his brother George\n         Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and\n         business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land\n         speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well\n         as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and\n         tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson\n         County, Arkansas that was destroyed by the Union Army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA \"last effort\" will be made to earn some\n                     profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has\n                     been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhughs\n                     advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he\n                     is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting\n                     powder\" in the area.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of family and friends; tells of excitement\n                     about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our\n                     African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and\n                     girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next\n                     summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good;\n                     invites Hettie to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily will travel to Gordesville; physical\n                     ailments bothering him and his wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy pf ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS from \n                     \u003cabbr expan=\"Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,\"\u003eL[ucy]\n                     T[aliaferro] Baytop,\u003c/abbr\u003en.p., to Hetty\n                     [Henrietta] Baytop, n.p., concerning health of\n                     family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its\n                     effects on their crops. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS from \"Bunn\" Baytop, n.page to\n                     Hetty [Henrietta] Baytop, n.p., n.d., concerning\n                     \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, [County,\n                     Virginia] and his efforts to find a wife; went to\n                     an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were\n                     descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola [tribes];\n                     Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of\n                     the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the\n                     Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire;\n                     went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. [of Hampton,\n                     Virginia] has two beaux and dances every night in\n                     Old Point, [Hampton, Virginia?]. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes parties, with dinner and dancing, of\n                     the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we\n                     are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to\n                     Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling\n                     Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging\n                     \"father\" to go to Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS from L[ucy] Baytop, Springfield,\n                     [Gloucester, Virginia?] to \"My dear Child,\"\n                     [Henrietta Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d., detailing the\n                     food and decorations of the Christmas parties;\n                     everyone is sick as a result of the hectic\n                     schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered\n                     16 hogs and 1 cow; longs for past Christmases when\n                     the children were young; related family news; asks\n                     if \"Mr. F[itzhugh]\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to\n                     try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" 1\n                     page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e$80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed;\n                     farm is beginning to reap profits; land is\n                     expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChristmas has passed and work must resume;\n                     \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and\n                     pleurisys are very prevalent.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS from \n                     \u003cabbr expan=\"Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,\"\u003eL[ucy]\n                     T[aliaferro] Baytop,\u003c/abbr\u003en.p. to Hetty\n                     [Fitzhugh], 30 December [18]51. Concerning\n                     division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250.\n                     2 pages. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALSs. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is\n                     expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring;\n                     gossip about weddings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of family and friends; the young minister\n                     from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy\n                     [?] had a baby which died a month after birth of\n                     unknown causes, is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy\n                     farming and studying to prepare for the\n                     ministry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCircuit court is in session and \"Thit is\n                     summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair\n                     are going to Washington to see about getting Mr.\n                     Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing\n                     persons for different offices as clerk\n                     commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff\n                     \u0026amp; c.; \"the guinea people have brought out\n                     Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he\n                     will stand a very good chance to be elected.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFather and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington;\n                     \"Father has given up all hope of his military\n                     claim.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of AL. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy\n                     Ann; Lucy [Ann] left to visit Tom Taliaferro and\n                     then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news\n                     about births, visits, farm business of friends;\n                     comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" [a slave?], who\n                     \"has a better master this year.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS from Rowena [Baytop], n.p., n.d.\n                     to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p. telling of her sickness\n                     and wight loss; \"Cousin Lucy and Bun\" were\n                     travelling to Baltimore and \"Eugey is very anxious\n                     to go with them\"; invites them to visit this\n                     winter. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHettie's trip to visit should not be postponed\n                     until February; had travelled to Baltimore, but\n                     cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so\n                     ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many\n                     gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to\n                     sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is\n                     \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePressures of work and business have kept her\n                     from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom\n                     Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor\n                     and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another\n                     baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and\n                     Clara [?]; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the\n                     horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the\n                     jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to\n                     attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in\n                     California and doing well [mining for gold]; looks\n                     forward to her visit this winter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and\n                     40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages\n                     Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in\n                     Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to\n                     send his horse to Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdmonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on\n                     a business deal involving the purchase of\n                     land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the\n                     \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to\n                     do.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs busy making soap, tending geese and fowl;\n                     Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds\n                     Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of\n                     family and friends; a camp meeting is being\n                     organized and the date will be announced at the\n                     quarterly meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to\n                     \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her\n                     friends inquire about her well being; has planted\n                     corn and will plant marl soon; has planted\n                     watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?]\n                     \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page\n                     Including TCy of ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00;\n                     sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the\n                     Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for\n                     manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to\n                     buy wheat stock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is\n                     writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune\n                     by my pen\"; planning visit for following year;\n                     transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of\n                     Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson\n                     Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and\n                     is an \"active farm in perfect order in every\n                     respect\"; description of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been sick with a \"congestion of wind\";\n                     relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns\n                     sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle\n                     between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing\n                     ownership and value of the slave girl; comments,\n                     \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder\n                     to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk\n                     of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now\n                     we have a white war and a servile one to\n                     dread...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnexpected snow storm has killed the fruit;\n                     \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost\n                     wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old\n                     Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling\n                     yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending;\n                     \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\";\n                     Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas;\n                     mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and\n                     quilting should never go together; news of family\n                     and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrival in Fredericksburg has been harried;\n                     invites him and family to visit; their mother's\n                     health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by\n                     Dr. Wallace.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of AlS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFriends and family have made them feel welcome;\n                     inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\";\n                     Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their\n                     income will support them; lists costs for rent and\n                     food.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParty given in honor of Tom Field and his\n                     bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy\n                     ditch; Christmas festivities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding ALS from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to\n                     Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and\n                     Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr.\n                     Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until\n                     Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals,\n                  clothing and housewares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment\n                  charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money\n                  signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and\n                  Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small\n                  child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash\n                  and also on the use of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 4 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee\n                  hives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land,\n                  slaves; horses, county and parish levies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing]\n                  Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus\n                  K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver,\n                  Adm[inistrator].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor furnishings and carriage accessories bought in\n                  Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor material, hardware, clothing, school books,\n                  and candy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOf propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the\n                  Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list\n                  includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals,\n                  tools, and crops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of D. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends recipe for salting butter and preserving\n                  eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks\n                  forward to seeing her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding TCy of ALS. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor the purchase of trees, shrubbery and\n                  flowers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The inventory includes letters, 1851-1861, and accounts,\n         1840-1866, of Rufus King Fitzhugh and his wife Henrietta Ellen\n         (Baytop) Fitzhugh of Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia.\n         Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro\n         (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and\n         Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. Also\n         includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of\n         Fredericksburg, Virginia. These letters relate various aspects\n         of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's\n         separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and\n         treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social\n         activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the\n         slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists,\n         and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are\n         generally from business associates or his brother George\n         Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and\n         business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land\n         speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well\n         as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and\n         tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson\n         County, Arkansas that was destroyed by the Union Army.","A \"last effort\" will be made to earn some\n                     profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has\n                     been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhughs\n                     advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he\n                     is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting\n                     powder\" in the area.","Including TCy. 1 page.","News of family and friends; tells of excitement\n                     about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our\n                     African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and\n                     girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next\n                     summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good;\n                     invites Hettie to visit.","Including TCy. 1 page.","Family will travel to Gordesville; physical\n                     ailments bothering him and his wife.","Including TCy pf ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from \n                      L[ucy]\n                     T[aliaferro] Baytop, n.p., to Hetty\n                     [Henrietta] Baytop, n.p., concerning health of\n                     family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its\n                     effects on their crops. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS.","Including ALS from \"Bunn\" Baytop, n.page to\n                     Hetty [Henrietta] Baytop, n.p., n.d., concerning\n                     \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, [County,\n                     Virginia] and his efforts to find a wife; went to\n                     an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were\n                     descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola [tribes];\n                     Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of\n                     the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the\n                     Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire;\n                     went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. [of Hampton,\n                     Virginia] has two beaux and dances every night in\n                     Old Point, [Hampton, Virginia?]. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Describes parties, with dinner and dancing, of\n                     the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we\n                     are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to\n                     Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling\n                     Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging\n                     \"father\" to go to Texas.","Including ALS from L[ucy] Baytop, Springfield,\n                     [Gloucester, Virginia?] to \"My dear Child,\"\n                     [Henrietta Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d., detailing the\n                     food and decorations of the Christmas parties;\n                     everyone is sick as a result of the hectic\n                     schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered\n                     16 hogs and 1 cow; longs for past Christmases when\n                     the children were young; related family news; asks\n                     if \"Mr. F[itzhugh]\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to\n                     try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" 1\n                     page.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","$80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed;\n                     farm is beginning to reap profits; land is\n                     expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Christmas has passed and work must resume;\n                     \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and\n                     pleurisys are very prevalent.\"","Including ALS from \n                      L[ucy]\n                     T[aliaferro] Baytop, n.p. to Hetty\n                     [Fitzhugh], 30 December [18]51. Concerning\n                     division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250.\n                     2 pages. ALS.","Including TCy of ALSs. 2 pages.","Hopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is\n                     expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring;\n                     gossip about weddings.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","News of family and friends; the young minister\n                     from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy\n                     [?] had a baby which died a month after birth of\n                     unknown causes, is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy\n                     farming and studying to prepare for the\n                     ministry.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Circuit court is in session and \"Thit is\n                     summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair\n                     are going to Washington to see about getting Mr.\n                     Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing\n                     persons for different offices as clerk\n                     commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff\n                     \u0026 c.; \"the guinea people have brought out\n                     Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he\n                     will stand a very good chance to be elected.","Including TCy of ALS. 2 pages.","Father and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington;\n                     \"Father has given up all hope of his military\n                     claim.\"","Including TCy of AL. 1 page.","Reports sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy\n                     Ann; Lucy [Ann] left to visit Tom Taliaferro and\n                     then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news\n                     about births, visits, farm business of friends;\n                     comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" [a slave?], who\n                     \"has a better master this year.\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from Rowena [Baytop], n.p., n.d.\n                     to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p. telling of her sickness\n                     and wight loss; \"Cousin Lucy and Bun\" were\n                     travelling to Baltimore and \"Eugey is very anxious\n                     to go with them\"; invites them to visit this\n                     winter. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Hettie's trip to visit should not be postponed\n                     until February; had travelled to Baltimore, but\n                     cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so\n                     ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many\n                     gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to\n                     sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is\n                     \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Pressures of work and business have kept her\n                     from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom\n                     Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor\n                     and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another\n                     baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and\n                     Clara [?]; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the\n                     horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the\n                     jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to\n                     attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in\n                     California and doing well [mining for gold]; looks\n                     forward to her visit this winter.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and\n                     40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages\n                     Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in\n                     Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to\n                     send his horse to Charlottesville.","Admonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on\n                     a business deal involving the purchase of\n                     land.","Complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the\n                     \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to\n                     do.","Is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl;\n                     Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds\n                     Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of\n                     family and friends; a camp meeting is being\n                     organized and the date will be announced at the\n                     quarterly meeting.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to\n                     \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her\n                     friends inquire about her well being; has planted\n                     corn and will plant marl soon; has planted\n                     watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?]\n                     \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page\n                     Including TCy of ALS.","Acknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00;\n                     sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the\n                     Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for\n                     manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to\n                     buy wheat stock.","Including TCy of ALS.","Acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is\n                     writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune\n                     by my pen\"; planning visit for following year;\n                     transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of\n                     Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson\n                     Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and\n                     is an \"active farm in perfect order in every\n                     respect\"; description of land.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Has been sick with a \"congestion of wind\";\n                     relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns\n                     sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle\n                     between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing\n                     ownership and value of the slave girl; comments,\n                     \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder\n                     to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk\n                     of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now\n                     we have a white war and a servile one to\n                     dread...\"","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Unexpected snow storm has killed the fruit;\n                     \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost\n                     wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old\n                     Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling\n                     yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending;\n                     \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\";\n                     Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas;\n                     mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and\n                     quilting should never go together; news of family\n                     and friends.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried;\n                     invites him and family to visit; their mother's\n                     health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by\n                     Dr. Wallace.","Including TCy of AlS. 1 page.","Friends and family have made them feel welcome;\n                     inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\";\n                     Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their\n                     income will support them; lists costs for rent and\n                     food.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Party given in honor of Tom Field and his\n                     bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy\n                     ditch; Christmas festivities.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","Including ALS from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to\n                     Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and\n                     Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr.\n                     Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until\n                     Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page.","Including TCy of ALS.","For the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals,\n                  clothing and housewares.","Including TCy of D. 2 pages.","On foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment\n                  charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money\n                  signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and\n                  Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small\n                  child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash\n                  and also on the use of slaves.","Including TCy of D. 4 pages.","For the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee\n                  hives.","Paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land,\n                  slaves; horses, county and parish levies.","For $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing]\n                  Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus\n                  K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","For lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver,\n                  Adm[inistrator].","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","Including TCy of D. 2 pages.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","For furnishings and carriage accessories bought in\n                  Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.].","For material, hardware, clothing, school books,\n                  and candy.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","Of propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the\n                  Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list\n                  includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals,\n                  tools, and crops.","Including TCy of D. 1 page.","Sends recipe for salting butter and preserving\n                  eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks\n                  forward to seeing her.","Including TCy of ALS. 1 page.","For the purchase of trees, shrubbery and\n                  flowers."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            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