{"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Reconstruction.","last":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Reconstruction.\u0026page=1"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":1,"next_page":null,"prev_page":null,"total_pages":1,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":0,"total_count":2,"first_page?":true,"last_page?":true}},"data":[{"id":"viw_viw00018","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Armistead-Cocke Papers, \n         \n         1680-1907.","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00018#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Armistead Family. 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Series\n            1 is the genealogical and donor material, Series 2 is\n            photographs, Series 3 is material concerning houses and\n            land, Series 4 is correspondence and other papers, Series 5\n            is the Jones Account Books, Series 6 is Accession 1997.34\n            and Series 7 is Accession 1998.45.","The inventory has been divided into seven Series. Series\n            1 is the genealogical and donor material, Series 2 is\n            photographs, Series 3 is material concerning houses and\n            land, Series 4 is correspondence and other papers, Series 5\n            is the Jones Account Books, Series 6 is Accession 1997.34\n            and Series 7 is Accession 1998.45.","Maria Carter, daughter of Charles Carter of \"Cleve,\" King\n         George County, Virginia married William Armistead of \"Hesse,\"\n         Gloucester County, Virginia William Cocke, son of Elizabeth\n         Fauntleroy Cocke and Bowler Cocke, married Jane Armistead.\n         Their son, William Armistead Cocke had among other children,\n         Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke who married Mary Booth Curtis.","Correspondence, 1756-1764, of Maria Carter Armistead;\n         business papers, 1782-1828, of William Cocke of \"Bremo,\"\n         Henrico County, Virginia and of \"Oakland,\" Cumberland County,\n         Virginia; and letters, 1861-1863, of William Fauntleroy Cocke,\n         Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke and Edmund Randolph Cocke\n         concerning their service in the Confederate States Army\n         (including the Battle of First Bull Run). Also included are\n         five volumes of farm and account books, 1851-1863, of Richard\n         P. Jones of \"Land's End,\" Gloucester County, Virginia;\n         copybooks on astronomy, [ca.1770-1780?], scrapbooks, and\n         genealogical material. Includes letter, 1869, of Benjamin\n         Stoddert Ewell concerning the connections between the Randolph\n         and Preston families and the College of William and Mary.","Additions to the collection (1997.34 and 1998.45) include\n         family letters, genealogical notes and poems of members of the\n         Cocke family and to related branches of Throckmorton, Curtis,\n         Sheldon, Jones, Preston, Byrd, Dandridge and Carter families\n         living in Richmond, Virginia and Powhatan County, Virginia.\n         Some letters are written from Richmond in the Reconstruction\n         Era.","Press release, 1958. Initial list of the\n                  collection. Genealogical charts.","Re: Genealogical Column, about Carters and\n                  Armisteads.","Early Carter and Armistead families, containing\n                  copies of letters from this collection.","Genealogical material concerning the Curtis,\n                  Sheldon, Carter, and Cocke families by Maria C.\n                  Talcott.","From \n                   The Times-Dispatch ,\n                  Richmond","Copy of the tombstone of Emanuel Jones, died 1739,\n                  made by P[eyton] H. Page.","Re: Major Robert Throckmorton and John Peyton\n                  Dixon, from Bible owned by Mrs. Fann Throckmorton\n                  Nicolson.","The Sun , Baltimore.\n                  Re: \n                   The Throckmorton family\n                  of England and Virginia by Jane Griffin\n                  Keys.","Photograph of painting in Alexandria. She married\n                  Bowler Cocke II, and their son was William Cocke who\n                  married Jane Armistead.","Photostat positive and negative of painting, owned\n                  by Mrs. Maria C. and [Nathan?] Talcott, of Maria\n                  Byrd, daughter of William Byrd II and wife of Charles\n                  Carter, with son Charles Carter and [Maria Carter\n                  Armistead?].","Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke, son of William\n                  Armistead Cocke, Oakland.","Mrs. Elizabeth Randolph Preston Cocke, with Sally\n                  Lyle Preston Cocke, eldest daughter of Edmund\n                  Randolph Cocke.","Mary Booth Curtis Cocke, wife of Thomas L. P.\n                  Cocke.","\"Historic Mansion of Mathews County,\" Hesse.","Oakland. Short\n                  History on back.","Mrs. Cocke, Mistress of\n                  Oakland and Hostess of the Lees at Derwent, by\n                  Alice M. Tyler from \n                   The Times-Dispatch ,\n                  Richmond.","Derwent Must Be\n                  Saved from \n                   The News Leader ,\n                  Richmond, Virginia.","Lee's Hideaway Still\n                  Stands. Reprinted from \n                   The Washington and Lee\n                  University Alumni Magazine by Dr. Leslie Lyle\n                  Campbell.","Southerner Heard First\n                  and Final Shots of War Between States, was friend of\n                  Lee , by Charles F. Preston.","Part of plat. Showing land on the Piantantan River\n                  of Lady Skipwith, George Curtis, Collonell [sic]\n                  Kemps, Augustin Horthus and William Marloe.","Sale of land in Kingston Parish, inherited from\n                  George Curtis, who bought the land from Edward\n                  Wyatt.","Thomas Curtis, Gloucester County to Charles\n                  Curtis, Middlesex County Re: Deed of same date was to\n                  fulfill Thomas' bond to Charles.","P. Beverly, Clerk of County Court. Re: Testimony\n                  of Nicholas Cobb, defendant; by his attorney, Thomas\n                  Gregson, in dispute over land purchased from George\n                  Curtis, now deceased.","Charles Curtis, Kingston Parish, Gloucester\n                  CountyHis will Gives all land to son Augustine, to\n                  daughters Sarrah [sic] Henry and Sous Anna [sic]\n                  Iveson, Negroes and linens","Plat of land. Charles Curtis on Piantatank River\n                  to Jno. West, Chisanassirk River, Accomack County\n                  Plat showing land surveyed by Jno. Smith. Shows\n                  location of the house.","Nicholas Foster. Re: Floor plan of a house.","Re: How to stay busy during the day. Published in\n                  15 V 432.","Requests that the family visit her at\n                  Westover.","Bound in letter, April 14, 1792, from Christopher\n                  Pryor to Mrs. Maria Armistead, Hesse.","Cousin Maria Carter, daughter of Landon Beverley,\n                  gave birth to a son in October. Uncle William III and\n                  Aunt Mary Willing Byrd are going to tour through New\n                  York and Philadelphia. Health. Published in 10 V\n                  178.","Pocket money for her visiting. Cautions against\n                  flattery. Publixhed in 10 V 178.","Coming marriages of Lucy Burwell to Edmund\n                  Berkeley, Rebecca Burwell to Jaquelin Amble and Jenny\n                  Burwell to Mann Page of Rosewell, and Miss Hannah\n                  Fairfax to Warner Washington. Published in 10 V\n                  177-178 and 15 V 433-434.","Concerns Mr. William Armistead. Published in 15 V\n                  435.","Family news.","Re: Her marriage to Mr. William Armistead.\n                  Published in 10 V 179-180 and 15 V 435.","Vote getting. Lewis' coming marriage. Launching of\n                  ship by the father of Lewis.","Suit against Clark Courtney and his mother Anne\n                  Mabry concerning land \"at Eatons warehouse on\n                  Rappahannock River.\"","Virginians' reaction to Lord Dunmore as Governor\n                  Tryon is well received at New York, as is Col.\n                  Fanning. Family news. Part published in 10 V 180.","Accounts with William Jackson, James Clark, Major\n                  Thomas Boswell, John Robinson, Richard Hodges, Robert\n                  Matthewes, William Bentley Estate, Francis Elliot and\n                  John Hibble.","John New, John Fox and Danall New, Senior to\n                  William Armistead, Sheriff, Gloucester County Re:\n                  Bond of Indemnity.","Visit of Mr. William and Mrs. Armistead to their\n                  church. Route over Pudding Creek Bridge.","News about fighting in Norfolk and man of war near\n                  York. Sent cotton and worsted.","The Armisteads' moving North River to avoid the\n                  enemy. The Armisteads have kept prisoners.","The evils and hardships brought upon the people by\n                  persons without authority.","Submission to the catastrophies brought by man and\n                  God. News of the Russian General, and General Howe\n                  building on the Delaware.","Birth of Mrs. Armistead's child. Capt. Deane\n                  carried Major Skith in his ship. Resignation to the\n                  will of Providence.","Mr. Smith came to Elizabeth Town, N.J. but was\n                  denied a permit for New York. Lack of Negroes.","Accounts.","Accounts.","Memorandum of money received.","Copy book on Astronomy.","On reverse, John T. Griffin assigns the bond to\n                  Major William Lewis.","Account for the year.","Money payment in Half Joes. Land papers brought\n                  from Augusta.","\"Invoice of Sundry Goods Shipped on board the\n                  Planter Capt. William Arthurs for Virginia...\"\n                  Furniture, linens, carpets, dishes and\n                  silverware.","Corn and wheat deliveries, requested by Mr.\n                  Lynham. Her son Charles Carter Armistead is placed\n                  with Mr. Waugh in Port Royal.","Account for nails and German steel.","\"Invoice of Sundries shipped on board the Ann\u0026\n                  Mary, Capt. John Wheeler...\" Horses, tools, medical\n                  implements, riding equipment and spices.","Lucy's visit to home of Col. William Byrd III?.\n                  Published in 10 V 183.","Offers to send Negro girls to help her\n                  daughter.","Protests the manner of payment of bill of\n                  exchange. Includes copy of request for bill of\n                  exchange from William Cocke to Rowles Grymes and\n                  County, London, November 30, 1787.","Sends tobacco to be sold to cover cost of\n                  requested items. Draws a bill of exchange upon\n                  them.","Agreement about Negroes written by Mr. Page.","Return of Cocke's bill of exchange resulted from\n                  his not reporting it.","Return of Cocke's bill of exchange resulted from\n                  his not reporting it.","Children's education in spelling, Greek, and\n                  reading. The new Constitution will lead to a\n                  navy.","Her brother Charles [Carter] will send for her\n                  daughters. Plans to return to Hesse soon.","Shipment of tobacco sent by the ship Williamson\n                  under John Miers to Rowles Grymes and County","Shipment of tobacco and other goods.","Damages from a hurricane. A [legal] \"execution\".\n                  Aunt and Uncle [Lewis] Willis.","Arrival of tobacco and confusion of orders.","Accounts against Cocke. On Reverse, note from Mr.\n                  Weaver and W.A. Fry.","Receipt for tuition of Master [Charles Carter]\n                  Armistead.","\"Invoice of Goods...\" shipped care of P. Parker at\n                  Norfolk.","Travelling and illness. Mr. Page and Mr. Byrd may\n                  help her move.","Sends by Willis, a tobacco note for Mrs. Maria\n                  Armistead's travels.","Receipt for tuition of Master Charles Carter\n                  Armistead.","Receipts for money for Benjamin Harrison Jr.","Receipt of Cocke's draft through Alexander\n                  Donald.","Shipment of tobacco on the Brandon. Requests\n                  information on the most popular kinds of tobacco.","Items to be sent to the care of P.L. Grymes. Notes\n                  of exchange.","Account of work done around his house. Lists cost\n                  of items used.","Receipt for payment on coffee.","Dispute. Copy sent to Mrs. Maria Armistead.","Wife Sally Sarah desires news of her sister Jane\n                  Armistead Cole. One of Washington's sisters married\n                  Mr. Milton. Growth of the area. Advantages of this\n                  farm.","Sale of Cocke's tobacco which was of poor quality\n                  and \"injured by the spot.\"","Account of sale of tobacco.","Account of sale of tobacco.","Account of sale of tobacco.","Account due John and Thomas Gilliat for sugar,\n                  salt and iron.","Death of partner James Rowles. Sale of\n                  tobacco.","Payment of a debt to prevent having to sell\n                  Negroes. His wife Betsy. Miss Nancy Armistead \"is\n                  almost devoured by Sweet Hearts.\"","Supplies of tea, earthenware, cyder [sic] and\n                  herring from Mr. Gilliat. Mother Mrs. Elizabeth Hill\n                  Carter Cocke will visit soon.","Judy Armistead's ill health; suggests cures.\n                  Charles Carter Armistead is over the measles; Mr.\n                  Thomas Ryan praises him.","Sends all requested items except loaf sugar.","Wheat harvest. Possibility of a Spanish war;\n                  Spanish ships have been seen in New York and\n                  Virginia. Mentions brother Charles Cocke and his son\n                  Henry.","Confusion in the settlement of Cocke's account\n                  with Donald and Barton of London.","At Manchester, with Mr. Pankey, inquired after\n                  hogsheads of mother Elizabeth Hill Carter Cocke.\n                  Tobacco; one had been sent to William Mitchell.","Poor tobacco sales of the previous crop will\n                  prevent his getting out of debt. Present crop does\n                  well. People have started growing wheat.","John Hall brought a runaway Negro to Napier. The\n                  boy said he belonged to William Cocke of\n                  Cumberland.","Sends account of tobacco shipped in the\n                  Williamson.","His sister Elizabeth Adams wishes Cocke to sell\n                  her corn. Consulted Major Thomas Massie and William\n                  Fry.","Monies due from estate of Thomas Adams.","Account for carrying hogsheads to market.","List of monies due Cocke.","\"Appraisement and Inventory of stock and\n                  plantation tools and utensils on Mrs. Elizabeth\n                  Adames' plantation in Amherst County.\"","Acting for James Brown, sends coffee, and iron by\n                  Mr. Fenwick. Prices given.","Sends account and asks it be paid up, to enable\n                  the settlement of the estate of James Grymes.","Sends account and asks it be paid up, to enable\n                  the settlement of the estate of James Grymes.","Sent corn. Hired a new overseer, Smith. Sale of\n                  wheat. The trial of a Negro.","Accounts, from November 1790 to date, for salt,\n                  iron, wheat, leather, waggonage of tobacco, pork and\n                  draft on Donald and Burton.","Agreement that Moore will cultivate land for 5\n                  years and then become the owner.","Accounting of money.","Bill for carrying tobacco of Mrs. Adams to the\n                  canal.","William Creacy (or Cresey) took too large and\n                  order of money on Weaver.","Account for women's clothing. On reverse, account\n                  of items furnished Mrs. Maria Armistead and for\n                  tuition for Charles Carter Armistead.","Exchange of servants. Harry's death.","Agreement for building a house, \"with a plain\n                  Cornice.\"","Death of Mrs Elizabeth Adams, settlement of part\n                  of the estate between her daughter Sally Sarah and\n                  William Cocke [her son].","Schooling of her son Charles Carter Armistead.","Account for money lent.","Agreement to rent Negroes and plantation on\n                  Rockfish River, Amherst County, part of estate of\n                  Thomas Adams, deceased.","Family accounts and death of [William]'s mother\n                  [Mrs. Elizabeth Fauntleroy Cocke Adams].","Sends account.","Sale of slaves and horses. Crops.","His fall from a horse.","Repaying William Cocke for building a bridge\n                  across Knockbuckle Stream, by wheat growers.","Wheat receipts.","Account of sale of tobacco and settlement of\n                  bonds.","Shipment of tobacco from Tappahannock.","Clothes and family news.","Sale of Negro living at house of Thomas Taylor\n                  Byrd [husband of Mary, dau. of William Armistead],\n                  Frederick.","Money due on a draft.","Family matters. Marriage of daughter Nancy [Ann\n                  Cleves] to Mr. [John P.] Pleasants.","Account.","Case of Powell v. Armistead's Executors,\n                  concerning William Armistead's will.","Case of Powell v. [Armistead's] Executors. Mr.\n                  [John] Warden is an able friend. Consulted Tho[ma]s\n                  Tabb.","Death of Godfrey; consolation. Illness in the\n                  family.","Sarah Daingerfield to Mrs. Maria Armistead, Hesse.\n                  Health, the phaeton and chocolate.","Account.","Death of Mrs. [Maria] Armistead. Her papers in the\n                  [Powell v. Armistead] lawsuit.","Family reunion. Marriage of Mrs. Randolph. The\n                  coming marriage of her brother Phil to Miss Betsy\n                  Page.","Family news. The Hesse estate.","Leasing Hesse house to Mr. Van Bibber and the\n                  house's burning down. Living in Matthews County","Deed for property in Gloucester County on\n                  Piankatank River.","Arranging insurance for insurance for Cocke's\n                  barn.","Flour business.","Settlement of account.","Receipt for flour.","Bishop [James] Madison's draft on Hollins, for his\n                  son, [Peyton Randolph].","Agreement that Ashton will be an apprentice\n                  miller.","Account sheet.","Agreement to hire Powers as overseer.","Hessian fly affecting the wheat. His cousin, John\n                  Coles, has nervous fever. Asks for money.","Report on son William [A. Cocke] in Chemical and\n                  Moral classes.","Portfolio subscription. Requests news of Mr. R. H.\n                  Atkinson.","Drought. Acquiring Burnett seeds for Peter Bowdoin\n                  of Hungais, Northampton County, [Virginia] and Genl.\n                  Nathaniel Carzell of Sussex County, [Virginia].","2 receipts for payment on a debt.","Promissory note.","Treatment of a Negro girl.","Travelling. Family news. Character of\n                  Napoleon.","Receipt for interest paid on a bond.","Partitions land and describes how he wishes to be\n                  buried.","The E.F. Academy, Eternity and God. Father\n                  appointed to Port Gibson.","Family news. Hot Spring resorts.","Promotion. Departure from Camp Bejara. Genl.\n                  Cushing coming to visit. Friends in Santa Anna are\n                  Bob Hughes, Major Kenly, Dr. Tilghman and Dr.\n                  Field.","Love letter. Hopes she rejects the suit of Mr.\n                  Nelson.","Preaching at the Poplars and at Mr. Taliaferro's.\n                  Dined at Airville.","[Marriage?] Witt's injuries.","Account for money paid and received.","Illness, and death of Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Snow.\n                  Their school, composed of Mann Jones, John Dixon, and\n                  John and William Fox. Cousin Francis Tomkies is\n                  coming to Gloucester.","Family news and weather. Farming.","Minister Cole Hodges and Mr. Rodher. Sending a\n                  package for the Judge.","Tobacco shipping. On second sheet, printed list of\n                  merchandise and marketing information.","Certificate that account of Richard P. Jones,\n                  written by W[illia]m H. Allmand, is correct.","Settlement of a suit. His cruise to Madiera and\n                  the Canary Islands.","Requests medical attention for his man Jonah.","Papers connected with the\n                  suit of Gov. Thomas of Maryland and his unfortunate\n                  wife Sally McDowell. [A Genl. Jones was\n                  counsel for Thomas.]","Sale of property in Highland and Adams counties.\n                  Traveling.","Sends supplies. Wheat shipment.","\"Horses bought in Ohio. . .\"","Tobaco sales. \"I hear the distant thunder rumbling\n                  in our own beloved country.\" quoted Virgil on the war\n                  in Europe.","\"Sale of Forkes Plantation,\" planned with Rush\n                  Floyd.","C[harles] Le Baron, Mobile [Alabama] to Richard P.\n                  Jones, Gloucester County [Virginia] [brother of\n                  Harriet who married Charles Curtis and their daughter\n                  married Charles Curtis and their daughter married\n                  Thomas L.P. Cocke.] Settlement of estate of Mr.\n                  [George L.] Fauntleroy.","Miss Booth. As Dr. Booth had few debts, the sale\n                  of a slave should settle the account for his own\n                  services.","Sale of tobacco.","Settlement of [estate of Dr. Booth]. Money is to\n                  be left wtih Mr. Curtis if she is not at Wareham.","Troubles sent by God, especially the death of Mr.\n                  Langhorn. Mr. [Jacob C.] Sheldon is sick. Family\n                  news.","Contract made with R.F. Northern for carrying\n                  mail.","Projected celebration at Yorktown. Patriotism.\n                  Preservation of the Republic.","Payment on a mortgage assumed from T.L.\n                  Phillips.","Form for monthly return of the captain.","Upon Genl. Taliaferro's orders, collected guns in\n                  the county. Guns of Col. Hayes and Col. Taylor.\n                  Completion of arsenal. Asks for job on Taliaferro's\n                  staff.","Family news and agriculture. Formation of a\n                  company in Cumberland.","Edmund [R. Cocke, writer's brother] sent news\n                  about obstructing roads and fords. Promotion of\n                  officers. Cousin Robert Preston. War maneuvers.","Movement toward Alexandria. Expects an attack.\n                  Thomas [L.P. Cocke] is needed at home. \"Most\n                  officers, as they make more money by their offices\n                  than they did by their professions or trades get less\n                  credit for patriotism.\" Agriculture.","Fight at Manassas. Cally Heath came down.","Family news. His description of Battle of Bull\n                  Run.","Politics of the artillery company. Behavior of\n                  Pendleton. Clothing.","The members of his mess. Food is of fine quality.\n                  Family news.","Troop movements. Housing. Family news.","Troop movements near Winchester and Harrisonburg.\n                  Uncle [J.T.L.] Preston is well.","Flanking McClellan's force. News of his\n                  brothers.","Flanking McClellan's force. News of his\n                  brothers.","Edmund [R. Cocke] was well after the recent\n                  battle.","Hot weather. Cousin Charles Moncure. Edmund leads\n                  a relaxed life.","Philadelphia press reports movements of Yankee\n                  forces inaccurately. Will fall back to Richmond\n                  before fighting. Tom [L.P. Cocke]'s company is near\n                  Port Royal. Furloughs.","Their man Abner. Troop movements in the rain.\n                  Vaccinations. Shoes and clothing. Wheat.","Work on breastworks. Furlough of Dr. Weymouth.","Attempts to get a discharge from a hospital.\n                  Getting a substitute.","Busy in legislature. Horses and mules being\n                  vulnerable to Yankee theft. Problems with Negroes.\n                  Marital attachment of a Negro couple.","\"In the event Tho[ma]s L.P. Cocke is not sent into\n                  the Army\" from Elizabeth R[andolph] Cocke, Robert D.\n                  Brown, John Hatcher and Nath[anie]l Walton.","Bill for horses and corn.","Management and/or sale of property in London.","Letter describing place of Randolphs and Prestons\n                  at the College of William and Mary, part of a program\n                  for raising the endowment.","Mother visiting her son in Washington. Plans for\n                  Christmas. [Plus, Ms. note from Mrs. Maria C.\n                  Talcott.]","Obituary taken from the Southern Churchman of Mrs.\n                  Elizabeth Randolph Cocke. [Ms. notes by Mrs. Maria C.\n                  Talcott].","Obituary, Mrs. Harriet Sheldon, wife of Jacob C.\n                  Sheldon, daughter of John Dixon.","Death of Uncle [J.T.L.] Preston. Family news.","A present for Miss Martha.","Devoted to Robert E. Lee.","Descendants of\n                     Gentlemen-Adventurer will celebrate Henrico Grant\n                     of 1636.","Engraving of letter from G[eorge] Washington,\n                  Mount Vernon, to Fran[ci]s Hopkinson, May 16, 1785;\n                  \"for the \n                   Port Folio .\"","Recent death of her husband [Mann Page.] Visitors\n                  Sophia and Lizzie Tompkins.","Carbon copy of \"Third Regiment Virginia Calvalry,\n                  Roll of Company G, Cumberland County.\"","Religious poem.","Made by C.S. Laboratory, Richmond, [Virginia].","Copy book of poems.","Account books and a scrapbook of poems.","Re: Scrapbook of poems.","Later family letters, genealogical notes, and poems,\n               1839-1916, of members of the Cocke family and to related\n               branches of Throckmorton, Curtis, Sheldon, Jones,\n               Preston, Byrd, Dandridge, and Carter families. Includes\n               letters kept by Elizabeth R.P. Cocke, daughter of T.L.P.\n               Cocke and letters of Mary B. Cocke, mother of Maria C.\n               Talcott.","Includes letters of the Cocke, Curtis, and Preston\n               families of Richmond, Virginia, particularly\n               correspondence between Harriet Throgmorton Jones Curtis\n               and her children Charles (\"Barney\"), Mary Boothe,\n               Harriet, Maria, and Martha Curtis. Also includes\n               correspondence between Mary Booth Curtis and her\n               husband, Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke, as well as letters\n               from Thomas L.P. Cocke's mother, Elizabeth R.P. Cocke,\n               to himself and his brothers, William, Edmund, and\n               Preston Cocke.","Family news.","Letters are to her sons William F. Cocke, Thomas\n                  L.P. Cocke, Edmund R. Cocke, and Preston Cocke, and\n                  her daughters-in-law and grandchildren.","Correspondence early in their marriage when they\n                  were apart. Includes letters from their children\n                  Maria, Harriet, Charles and William Cocke, living in\n                  Powhatan County, Virginia with their mother, to their\n                  father.","Letters are to brother Charles Curtis, her sisters\n                  Mary Boothe, Maria and Martha Curtis, and her\n                  brother-in-law, Thomas L.P. Cocke.","Letters from Martha Throgmorton Curtis James to\n                  her sisters Mary Boothe Curtis Cocke, Maria\n                  Greenhough Curtis JOnes, Harriet Curtis Cringan,\n                  Fanny Throgmorton Curtis, and her mother Harriet T.J.\n                  Curtis, about family news.","Letters are to sisters Harriet T.J. Curtis, her\n                  brother-in-law, Thomas L.P. Cocke and her niece,\n                  Harriet Cocke.","Letters to her sisters, mother and Mary Booth\n                  Curtis Cocke and Thomas L.P. Cocke.","Letters from family and friends just prior to her\n                  wedding to Thomas L.P. Cocke.","Letters to Curtis (also called \"Barney\") from\n                  friends and family.","From family and friends.","Includes one photograph of Annie Page.","From Washington College and the University of\n                  Virginia. 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Series\n            1 is the genealogical and donor material, Series 2 is\n            photographs, Series 3 is material concerning houses and\n            land, Series 4 is correspondence and other papers, Series 5\n            is the Jones Account Books, Series 6 is Accession 1997.34\n            and Series 7 is Accession 1998.45.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe inventory has been divided into seven Series. Series\n            1 is the genealogical and donor material, Series 2 is\n            photographs, Series 3 is material concerning houses and\n            land, Series 4 is correspondence and other papers, Series 5\n            is the Jones Account Books, Series 6 is Accession 1997.34\n            and Series 7 is Accession 1998.45.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement","Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arrangement Collection is arranged chronologically.","Collection is arranged chronologically.","Organization The inventory has been divided into seven Series. Series\n            1 is the genealogical and donor material, Series 2 is\n            photographs, Series 3 is material concerning houses and\n            land, Series 4 is correspondence and other papers, Series 5\n            is the Jones Account Books, Series 6 is Accession 1997.34\n            and Series 7 is Accession 1998.45.","The inventory has been divided into seven Series. Series\n            1 is the genealogical and donor material, Series 2 is\n            photographs, Series 3 is material concerning houses and\n            land, Series 4 is correspondence and other papers, Series 5\n            is the Jones Account Books, Series 6 is Accession 1997.34\n            and Series 7 is Accession 1998.45."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMaria Carter, daughter of Charles Carter of \"Cleve,\" King\n         George County, Virginia married William Armistead of \"Hesse,\"\n         Gloucester County, Virginia William Cocke, son of Elizabeth\n         Fauntleroy Cocke and Bowler Cocke, married Jane Armistead.\n         Their son, William Armistead Cocke had among other children,\n         Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke who married Mary Booth Curtis.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Maria Carter, daughter of Charles Carter of \"Cleve,\" King\n         George County, Virginia married William Armistead of \"Hesse,\"\n         Gloucester County, Virginia William Cocke, son of Elizabeth\n         Fauntleroy Cocke and Bowler Cocke, married Jane Armistead.\n         Their son, William Armistead Cocke had among other children,\n         Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke who married Mary Booth Curtis."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArmistead-Cocke Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare\n            Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n            Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Armistead-Cocke Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare\n            Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n            Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1756-1764, of Maria Carter Armistead;\n         business papers, 1782-1828, of William Cocke of \"Bremo,\"\n         Henrico County, Virginia and of \"Oakland,\" Cumberland County,\n         Virginia; and letters, 1861-1863, of William Fauntleroy Cocke,\n         Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke and Edmund Randolph Cocke\n         concerning their service in the Confederate States Army\n         (including the Battle of First Bull Run). Also included are\n         five volumes of farm and account books, 1851-1863, of Richard\n         P. Jones of \"Land's End,\" Gloucester County, Virginia;\n         copybooks on astronomy, [ca.1770-1780?], scrapbooks, and\n         genealogical material. Includes letter, 1869, of Benjamin\n         Stoddert Ewell concerning the connections between the Randolph\n         and Preston families and the College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditions to the collection (1997.34 and 1998.45) include\n         family letters, genealogical notes and poems of members of the\n         Cocke family and to related branches of Throckmorton, Curtis,\n         Sheldon, Jones, Preston, Byrd, Dandridge and Carter families\n         living in Richmond, Virginia and Powhatan County, Virginia.\n         Some letters are written from Richmond in the Reconstruction\n         Era.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePress release, 1958. Initial list of the\n                  collection. Genealogical charts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Genealogical Column, about Carters and\n                  Armisteads.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEarly Carter and Armistead families, containing\n                  copies of letters from this collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical material concerning the Curtis,\n                  Sheldon, Carter, and Cocke families by Maria C.\n                  Talcott.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Times-Dispatch\u003c/title\u003e,\n                  Richmond\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of the tombstone of Emanuel Jones, died 1739,\n                  made by P[eyton] H. Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Major Robert Throckmorton and John Peyton\n                  Dixon, from Bible owned by Mrs. Fann Throckmorton\n                  Nicolson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Sun\u003c/title\u003e, Baltimore.\n                  Re: \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Throckmorton family\n                  of England and Virginia\u003c/title\u003eby Jane Griffin\n                  Keys.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of painting in Alexandria. She married\n                  Bowler Cocke II, and their son was William Cocke who\n                  married Jane Armistead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotostat positive and negative of painting, owned\n                  by Mrs. Maria C. and [Nathan?] Talcott, of Maria\n                  Byrd, daughter of William Byrd II and wife of Charles\n                  Carter, with son Charles Carter and [Maria Carter\n                  Armistead?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Lewis Preston Cocke, son of William\n                  Armistead Cocke, Oakland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Elizabeth Randolph Preston Cocke, with Sally\n                  Lyle Preston Cocke, eldest daughter of Edmund\n                  Randolph Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary Booth Curtis Cocke, wife of Thomas L. P.\n                  Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Historic Mansion of Mathews County,\" Hesse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eOakland.\u003c/title\u003eShort\n                  History on back.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eMrs. Cocke, Mistress of\n                  Oakland and Hostess of the Lees at Derwent,\u003c/title\u003eby\n                  Alice M. Tyler from \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Times-Dispatch\u003c/title\u003e,\n                  Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eDerwent Must Be\n                  Saved\u003c/title\u003efrom \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe News Leader\u003c/title\u003e,\n                  Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eLee's Hideaway Still\n                  Stands.\u003c/title\u003eReprinted from \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Washington and Lee\n                  University Alumni Magazine\u003c/title\u003eby Dr. Leslie Lyle\n                  Campbell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eSoutherner Heard First\n                  and Final Shots of War Between States, was friend of\n                  Lee\u003c/title\u003e, by Charles F. Preston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePart of plat. Showing land on the Piantantan River\n                  of Lady Skipwith, George Curtis, Collonell [sic]\n                  Kemps, Augustin Horthus and William Marloe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of land in Kingston Parish, inherited from\n                  George Curtis, who bought the land from Edward\n                  Wyatt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Curtis, Gloucester County to Charles\n                  Curtis, Middlesex County Re: Deed of same date was to\n                  fulfill Thomas' bond to Charles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eP. Beverly, Clerk of County Court. Re: Testimony\n                  of Nicholas Cobb, defendant; by his attorney, Thomas\n                  Gregson, in dispute over land purchased from George\n                  Curtis, now deceased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Curtis, Kingston Parish, Gloucester\n                  CountyHis will Gives all land to son Augustine, to\n                  daughters Sarrah [sic] Henry and Sous Anna [sic]\n                  Iveson, Negroes and linens\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlat of land. Charles Curtis on Piantatank River\n                  to Jno. West, Chisanassirk River, Accomack County\n                  Plat showing land surveyed by Jno. Smith. Shows\n                  location of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNicholas Foster. Re: Floor plan of a house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: How to stay busy during the day. Published in\n                  15 V 432.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests that the family visit her at\n                  Westover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound in letter, April 14, 1792, from Christopher\n                  Pryor to Mrs. Maria Armistead, Hesse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCousin Maria Carter, daughter of Landon Beverley,\n                  gave birth to a son in October. Uncle William III and\n                  Aunt Mary Willing Byrd are going to tour through New\n                  York and Philadelphia. Health. Published in 10 V\n                  178.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePocket money for her visiting. Cautions against\n                  flattery. Publixhed in 10 V 178.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComing marriages of Lucy Burwell to Edmund\n                  Berkeley, Rebecca Burwell to Jaquelin Amble and Jenny\n                  Burwell to Mann Page of Rosewell, and Miss Hannah\n                  Fairfax to Warner Washington. Published in 10 V\n                  177-178 and 15 V 433-434.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns Mr. William Armistead. Published in 15 V\n                  435.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Her marriage to Mr. William Armistead.\n                  Published in 10 V 179-180 and 15 V 435.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVote getting. Lewis' coming marriage. Launching of\n                  ship by the father of Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit against Clark Courtney and his mother Anne\n                  Mabry concerning land \"at Eatons warehouse on\n                  Rappahannock River.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginians' reaction to Lord Dunmore as Governor\n                  Tryon is well received at New York, as is Col.\n                  Fanning. Family news. Part published in 10 V 180.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts with William Jackson, James Clark, Major\n                  Thomas Boswell, John Robinson, Richard Hodges, Robert\n                  Matthewes, William Bentley Estate, Francis Elliot and\n                  John Hibble.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn New, John Fox and Danall New, Senior to\n                  William Armistead, Sheriff, Gloucester County Re:\n                  Bond of Indemnity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisit of Mr. William and Mrs. Armistead to their\n                  church. Route over Pudding Creek Bridge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews about fighting in Norfolk and man of war near\n                  York. Sent cotton and worsted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Armisteads' moving North River to avoid the\n                  enemy. The Armisteads have kept prisoners.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe evils and hardships brought upon the people by\n                  persons without authority.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubmission to the catastrophies brought by man and\n                  God. News of the Russian General, and General Howe\n                  building on the Delaware.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBirth of Mrs. Armistead's child. Capt. Deane\n                  carried Major Skith in his ship. Resignation to the\n                  will of Providence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Smith came to Elizabeth Town, N.J. but was\n                  denied a permit for New York. Lack of Negroes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum of money received.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy book on Astronomy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn reverse, John T. Griffin assigns the bond to\n                  Major William Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount for the year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMoney payment in Half Joes. Land papers brought\n                  from Augusta.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Invoice of Sundry Goods Shipped on board the\n                  Planter Capt. William Arthurs for Virginia...\"\n                  Furniture, linens, carpets, dishes and\n                  silverware.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorn and wheat deliveries, requested by Mr.\n                  Lynham. Her son Charles Carter Armistead is placed\n                  with Mr. Waugh in Port Royal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount for nails and German steel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Invoice of Sundries shipped on board the Ann\u0026amp;\n                  Mary, Capt. John Wheeler...\" Horses, tools, medical\n                  implements, riding equipment and spices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy's visit to home of Col. William Byrd III?.\n                  Published in 10 V 183.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers to send Negro girls to help her\n                  daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProtests the manner of payment of bill of\n                  exchange. Includes copy of request for bill of\n                  exchange from William Cocke to Rowles Grymes and\n                  County, London, November 30, 1787.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends tobacco to be sold to cover cost of\n                  requested items. Draws a bill of exchange upon\n                  them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement about Negroes written by Mr. Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturn of Cocke's bill of exchange resulted from\n                  his not reporting it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturn of Cocke's bill of exchange resulted from\n                  his not reporting it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChildren's education in spelling, Greek, and\n                  reading. The new Constitution will lead to a\n                  navy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer brother Charles [Carter] will send for her\n                  daughters. Plans to return to Hesse soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of tobacco sent by the ship Williamson\n                  under John Miers to Rowles Grymes and County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of tobacco and other goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDamages from a hurricane. A [legal] \"execution\".\n                  Aunt and Uncle [Lewis] Willis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrival of tobacco and confusion of orders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts against Cocke. On Reverse, note from Mr.\n                  Weaver and W.A. Fry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for tuition of Master [Charles Carter]\n                  Armistead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Invoice of Goods...\" shipped care of P. Parker at\n                  Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTravelling and illness. Mr. Page and Mr. Byrd may\n                  help her move.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends by Willis, a tobacco note for Mrs. Maria\n                  Armistead's travels.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for tuition of Master Charles Carter\n                  Armistead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts for money for Benjamin Harrison Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of Cocke's draft through Alexander\n                  Donald.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of tobacco on the Brandon. Requests\n                  information on the most popular kinds of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems to be sent to the care of P.L. Grymes. Notes\n                  of exchange.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of work done around his house. Lists cost\n                  of items used.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for payment on coffee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDispute. Copy sent to Mrs. Maria Armistead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWife Sally Sarah desires news of her sister Jane\n                  Armistead Cole. One of Washington's sisters married\n                  Mr. Milton. Growth of the area. Advantages of this\n                  farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Cocke's tobacco which was of poor quality\n                  and \"injured by the spot.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of sale of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of sale of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of sale of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount due John and Thomas Gilliat for sugar,\n                  salt and iron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of partner James Rowles. Sale of\n                  tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of a debt to prevent having to sell\n                  Negroes. His wife Betsy. Miss Nancy Armistead \"is\n                  almost devoured by Sweet Hearts.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSupplies of tea, earthenware, cyder [sic] and\n                  herring from Mr. Gilliat. Mother Mrs. Elizabeth Hill\n                  Carter Cocke will visit soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudy Armistead's ill health; suggests cures.\n                  Charles Carter Armistead is over the measles; Mr.\n                  Thomas Ryan praises him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends all requested items except loaf sugar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWheat harvest. Possibility of a Spanish war;\n                  Spanish ships have been seen in New York and\n                  Virginia. Mentions brother Charles Cocke and his son\n                  Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConfusion in the settlement of Cocke's account\n                  with Donald and Barton of London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt Manchester, with Mr. Pankey, inquired after\n                  hogsheads of mother Elizabeth Hill Carter Cocke.\n                  Tobacco; one had been sent to William Mitchell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoor tobacco sales of the previous crop will\n                  prevent his getting out of debt. Present crop does\n                  well. People have started growing wheat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Hall brought a runaway Negro to Napier. The\n                  boy said he belonged to William Cocke of\n                  Cumberland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends account of tobacco shipped in the\n                  Williamson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis sister Elizabeth Adams wishes Cocke to sell\n                  her corn. Consulted Major Thomas Massie and William\n                  Fry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMonies due from estate of Thomas Adams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount for carrying hogsheads to market.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of monies due Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Appraisement and Inventory of stock and\n                  plantation tools and utensils on Mrs. Elizabeth\n                  Adames' plantation in Amherst County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eActing for James Brown, sends coffee, and iron by\n                  Mr. Fenwick. Prices given.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends account and asks it be paid up, to enable\n                  the settlement of the estate of James Grymes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends account and asks it be paid up, to enable\n                  the settlement of the estate of James Grymes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent corn. Hired a new overseer, Smith. Sale of\n                  wheat. The trial of a Negro.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, from November 1790 to date, for salt,\n                  iron, wheat, leather, waggonage of tobacco, pork and\n                  draft on Donald and Burton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement that Moore will cultivate land for 5\n                  years and then become the owner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounting of money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for carrying tobacco of Mrs. Adams to the\n                  canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Creacy (or Cresey) took too large and\n                  order of money on Weaver.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount for women's clothing. On reverse, account\n                  of items furnished Mrs. Maria Armistead and for\n                  tuition for Charles Carter Armistead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExchange of servants. Harry's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement for building a house, \"with a plain\n                  Cornice.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs Elizabeth Adams, settlement of part\n                  of the estate between her daughter Sally Sarah and\n                  William Cocke [her son].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchooling of her son Charles Carter Armistead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount for money lent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement to rent Negroes and plantation on\n                  Rockfish River, Amherst County, part of estate of\n                  Thomas Adams, deceased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily accounts and death of [William]'s mother\n                  [Mrs. Elizabeth Fauntleroy Cocke Adams].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of slaves and horses. Crops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis fall from a horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepaying William Cocke for building a bridge\n                  across Knockbuckle Stream, by wheat growers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWheat receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of sale of tobacco and settlement of\n                  bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of tobacco from Tappahannock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClothes and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Negro living at house of Thomas Taylor\n                  Byrd [husband of Mary, dau. of William Armistead],\n                  Frederick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMoney due on a draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily matters. Marriage of daughter Nancy [Ann\n                  Cleves] to Mr. [John P.] Pleasants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCase of Powell v. Armistead's Executors,\n                  concerning William Armistead's will.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCase of Powell v. [Armistead's] Executors. Mr.\n                  [John] Warden is an able friend. Consulted Tho[ma]s\n                  Tabb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Godfrey; consolation. Illness in the\n                  family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Daingerfield to Mrs. Maria Armistead, Hesse.\n                  Health, the phaeton and chocolate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs. [Maria] Armistead. Her papers in the\n                  [Powell v. Armistead] lawsuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily reunion. Marriage of Mrs. Randolph. The\n                  coming marriage of her brother Phil to Miss Betsy\n                  Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news. The Hesse estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeasing Hesse house to Mr. Van Bibber and the\n                  house's burning down. Living in Matthews County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for property in Gloucester County on\n                  Piankatank River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArranging insurance for insurance for Cocke's\n                  barn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlour business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSettlement of account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for flour.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBishop [James] Madison's draft on Hollins, for his\n                  son, [Peyton Randolph].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement that Ashton will be an apprentice\n                  miller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement to hire Powers as overseer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHessian fly affecting the wheat. His cousin, John\n                  Coles, has nervous fever. Asks for money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on son William [A. Cocke] in Chemical and\n                  Moral classes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePortfolio subscription. Requests news of Mr. R. H.\n                  Atkinson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrought. Acquiring Burnett seeds for Peter Bowdoin\n                  of Hungais, Northampton County, [Virginia] and Genl.\n                  Nathaniel Carzell of Sussex County, [Virginia].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 receipts for payment on a debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTreatment of a Negro girl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTravelling. Family news. Character of\n                  Napoleon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for interest paid on a bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePartitions land and describes how he wishes to be\n                  buried.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe E.F. Academy, Eternity and God. Father\n                  appointed to Port Gibson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news. Hot Spring resorts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromotion. Departure from Camp Bejara. Genl.\n                  Cushing coming to visit. Friends in Santa Anna are\n                  Bob Hughes, Major Kenly, Dr. Tilghman and Dr.\n                  Field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLove letter. Hopes she rejects the suit of Mr.\n                  Nelson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreaching at the Poplars and at Mr. Taliaferro's.\n                  Dined at Airville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Marriage?] Witt's injuries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount for money paid and received.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllness, and death of Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Snow.\n                  Their school, composed of Mann Jones, John Dixon, and\n                  John and William Fox. Cousin Francis Tomkies is\n                  coming to Gloucester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news and weather. Farming.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinister Cole Hodges and Mr. Rodher. Sending a\n                  package for the Judge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco shipping. On second sheet, printed list of\n                  merchandise and marketing information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate that account of Richard P. Jones,\n                  written by W[illia]m H. Allmand, is correct.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSettlement of a suit. His cruise to Madiera and\n                  the Canary Islands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests medical attention for his man Jonah.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003ePapers connected with the\n                  suit of Gov. Thomas of Maryland and his unfortunate\n                  wife Sally McDowell.\u003c/title\u003e[A Genl. Jones was\n                  counsel for Thomas.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of property in Highland and Adams counties.\n                  Traveling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends supplies. Wheat shipment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Horses bought in Ohio. . .\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobaco sales. \"I hear the distant thunder rumbling\n                  in our own beloved country.\" quoted Virgil on the war\n                  in Europe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sale of Forkes Plantation,\" planned with Rush\n                  Floyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eC[harles] Le Baron, Mobile [Alabama] to Richard P.\n                  Jones, Gloucester County [Virginia] [brother of\n                  Harriet who married Charles Curtis and their daughter\n                  married Charles Curtis and their daughter married\n                  Thomas L.P. Cocke.] Settlement of estate of Mr.\n                  [George L.] Fauntleroy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiss Booth. As Dr. Booth had few debts, the sale\n                  of a slave should settle the account for his own\n                  services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSettlement of [estate of Dr. Booth]. Money is to\n                  be left wtih Mr. Curtis if she is not at Wareham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTroubles sent by God, especially the death of Mr.\n                  Langhorn. Mr. [Jacob C.] Sheldon is sick. Family\n                  news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract made with R.F. Northern for carrying\n                  mail.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProjected celebration at Yorktown. Patriotism.\n                  Preservation of the Republic.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment on a mortgage assumed from T.L.\n                  Phillips.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForm for monthly return of the captain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUpon Genl. Taliaferro's orders, collected guns in\n                  the county. Guns of Col. Hayes and Col. Taylor.\n                  Completion of arsenal. Asks for job on Taliaferro's\n                  staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news and agriculture. Formation of a\n                  company in Cumberland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdmund [R. Cocke, writer's brother] sent news\n                  about obstructing roads and fords. Promotion of\n                  officers. Cousin Robert Preston. War maneuvers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMovement toward Alexandria. Expects an attack.\n                  Thomas [L.P. Cocke] is needed at home. \"Most\n                  officers, as they make more money by their offices\n                  than they did by their professions or trades get less\n                  credit for patriotism.\" Agriculture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFight at Manassas. Cally Heath came down.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news. His description of Battle of Bull\n                  Run.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics of the artillery company. Behavior of\n                  Pendleton. Clothing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe members of his mess. Food is of fine quality.\n                  Family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTroop movements. Housing. Family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTroop movements near Winchester and Harrisonburg.\n                  Uncle [J.T.L.] Preston is well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlanking McClellan's force. News of his\n                  brothers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlanking McClellan's force. News of his\n                  brothers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdmund [R. Cocke] was well after the recent\n                  battle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHot weather. Cousin Charles Moncure. Edmund leads\n                  a relaxed life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhiladelphia press reports movements of Yankee\n                  forces inaccurately. Will fall back to Richmond\n                  before fighting. Tom [L.P. Cocke]'s company is near\n                  Port Royal. Furloughs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir man Abner. Troop movements in the rain.\n                  Vaccinations. Shoes and clothing. Wheat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWork on breastworks. Furlough of Dr. Weymouth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttempts to get a discharge from a hospital.\n                  Getting a substitute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusy in legislature. Horses and mules being\n                  vulnerable to Yankee theft. Problems with Negroes.\n                  Marital attachment of a Negro couple.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"In the event Tho[ma]s L.P. Cocke is not sent into\n                  the Army\" from Elizabeth R[andolph] Cocke, Robert D.\n                  Brown, John Hatcher and Nath[anie]l Walton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for horses and corn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManagement and/or sale of property in London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter describing place of Randolphs and Prestons\n                  at the College of William and Mary, part of a program\n                  for raising the endowment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMother visiting her son in Washington. Plans for\n                  Christmas. [Plus, Ms. note from Mrs. Maria C.\n                  Talcott.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary taken from the Southern Churchman of Mrs.\n                  Elizabeth Randolph Cocke. [Ms. notes by Mrs. Maria C.\n                  Talcott].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary, Mrs. Harriet Sheldon, wife of Jacob C.\n                  Sheldon, daughter of John Dixon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Uncle [J.T.L.] Preston. Family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA present for Miss Martha.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDevoted to Robert E. Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n              \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eDescendants of\n                     Gentlemen-Adventurer will celebrate Henrico Grant\n                     of 1636.\u003c/title\u003e\n            \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEngraving of letter from G[eorge] Washington,\n                  Mount Vernon, to Fran[ci]s Hopkinson, May 16, 1785;\n                  \"for the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ePort Folio\u003c/title\u003e.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecent death of her husband [Mann Page.] Visitors\n                  Sophia and Lizzie Tompkins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarbon copy of \"Third Regiment Virginia Calvalry,\n                  Roll of Company G, Cumberland County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReligious poem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMade by C.S. Laboratory, Richmond, [Virginia].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy book of poems.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books and a scrapbook of poems.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Scrapbook of poems.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLater family letters, genealogical notes, and poems,\n               1839-1916, of members of the Cocke family and to related\n               branches of Throckmorton, Curtis, Sheldon, Jones,\n               Preston, Byrd, Dandridge, and Carter families. Includes\n               letters kept by Elizabeth R.P. Cocke, daughter of T.L.P.\n               Cocke and letters of Mary B. Cocke, mother of Maria C.\n               Talcott.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters of the Cocke, Curtis, and Preston\n               families of Richmond, Virginia, particularly\n               correspondence between Harriet Throgmorton Jones Curtis\n               and her children Charles (\"Barney\"), Mary Boothe,\n               Harriet, Maria, and Martha Curtis. Also includes\n               correspondence between Mary Booth Curtis and her\n               husband, Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke, as well as letters\n               from Thomas L.P. Cocke's mother, Elizabeth R.P. Cocke,\n               to himself and his brothers, William, Edmund, and\n               Preston Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are to her sons William F. Cocke, Thomas\n                  L.P. Cocke, Edmund R. Cocke, and Preston Cocke, and\n                  her daughters-in-law and grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence early in their marriage when they\n                  were apart. Includes letters from their children\n                  Maria, Harriet, Charles and William Cocke, living in\n                  Powhatan County, Virginia with their mother, to their\n                  father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are to brother Charles Curtis, her sisters\n                  Mary Boothe, Maria and Martha Curtis, and her\n                  brother-in-law, Thomas L.P. Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Martha Throgmorton Curtis James to\n                  her sisters Mary Boothe Curtis Cocke, Maria\n                  Greenhough Curtis JOnes, Harriet Curtis Cringan,\n                  Fanny Throgmorton Curtis, and her mother Harriet T.J.\n                  Curtis, about family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are to sisters Harriet T.J. Curtis, her\n                  brother-in-law, Thomas L.P. Cocke and her niece,\n                  Harriet Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to her sisters, mother and Mary Booth\n                  Curtis Cocke and Thomas L.P. Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from family and friends just prior to her\n                  wedding to Thomas L.P. Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Curtis (also called \"Barney\") from\n                  friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes one photograph of Annie Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Washington College and the University of\n                  Virginia. Also includes Vol. 1 (March 1839) of the\n                  Collegian, published by the students of the\n                  University of Virginia, and a program of the\n                  Baccalaureate Exercises at the College of William and\n                  Mary in 1935.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to her children before the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Correspondence, 1756-1764, of Maria Carter Armistead;\n         business papers, 1782-1828, of William Cocke of \"Bremo,\"\n         Henrico County, Virginia and of \"Oakland,\" Cumberland County,\n         Virginia; and letters, 1861-1863, of William Fauntleroy Cocke,\n         Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke and Edmund Randolph Cocke\n         concerning their service in the Confederate States Army\n         (including the Battle of First Bull Run). Also included are\n         five volumes of farm and account books, 1851-1863, of Richard\n         P. Jones of \"Land's End,\" Gloucester County, Virginia;\n         copybooks on astronomy, [ca.1770-1780?], scrapbooks, and\n         genealogical material. Includes letter, 1869, of Benjamin\n         Stoddert Ewell concerning the connections between the Randolph\n         and Preston families and the College of William and Mary.","Additions to the collection (1997.34 and 1998.45) include\n         family letters, genealogical notes and poems of members of the\n         Cocke family and to related branches of Throckmorton, Curtis,\n         Sheldon, Jones, Preston, Byrd, Dandridge and Carter families\n         living in Richmond, Virginia and Powhatan County, Virginia.\n         Some letters are written from Richmond in the Reconstruction\n         Era.","Press release, 1958. Initial list of the\n                  collection. Genealogical charts.","Re: Genealogical Column, about Carters and\n                  Armisteads.","Early Carter and Armistead families, containing\n                  copies of letters from this collection.","Genealogical material concerning the Curtis,\n                  Sheldon, Carter, and Cocke families by Maria C.\n                  Talcott.","From \n                   The Times-Dispatch ,\n                  Richmond","Copy of the tombstone of Emanuel Jones, died 1739,\n                  made by P[eyton] H. Page.","Re: Major Robert Throckmorton and John Peyton\n                  Dixon, from Bible owned by Mrs. Fann Throckmorton\n                  Nicolson.","The Sun , Baltimore.\n                  Re: \n                   The Throckmorton family\n                  of England and Virginia by Jane Griffin\n                  Keys.","Photograph of painting in Alexandria. She married\n                  Bowler Cocke II, and their son was William Cocke who\n                  married Jane Armistead.","Photostat positive and negative of painting, owned\n                  by Mrs. Maria C. and [Nathan?] Talcott, of Maria\n                  Byrd, daughter of William Byrd II and wife of Charles\n                  Carter, with son Charles Carter and [Maria Carter\n                  Armistead?].","Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke, son of William\n                  Armistead Cocke, Oakland.","Mrs. Elizabeth Randolph Preston Cocke, with Sally\n                  Lyle Preston Cocke, eldest daughter of Edmund\n                  Randolph Cocke.","Mary Booth Curtis Cocke, wife of Thomas L. P.\n                  Cocke.","\"Historic Mansion of Mathews County,\" Hesse.","Oakland. Short\n                  History on back.","Mrs. Cocke, Mistress of\n                  Oakland and Hostess of the Lees at Derwent, by\n                  Alice M. Tyler from \n                   The Times-Dispatch ,\n                  Richmond.","Derwent Must Be\n                  Saved from \n                   The News Leader ,\n                  Richmond, Virginia.","Lee's Hideaway Still\n                  Stands. Reprinted from \n                   The Washington and Lee\n                  University Alumni Magazine by Dr. Leslie Lyle\n                  Campbell.","Southerner Heard First\n                  and Final Shots of War Between States, was friend of\n                  Lee , by Charles F. Preston.","Part of plat. Showing land on the Piantantan River\n                  of Lady Skipwith, George Curtis, Collonell [sic]\n                  Kemps, Augustin Horthus and William Marloe.","Sale of land in Kingston Parish, inherited from\n                  George Curtis, who bought the land from Edward\n                  Wyatt.","Thomas Curtis, Gloucester County to Charles\n                  Curtis, Middlesex County Re: Deed of same date was to\n                  fulfill Thomas' bond to Charles.","P. Beverly, Clerk of County Court. Re: Testimony\n                  of Nicholas Cobb, defendant; by his attorney, Thomas\n                  Gregson, in dispute over land purchased from George\n                  Curtis, now deceased.","Charles Curtis, Kingston Parish, Gloucester\n                  CountyHis will Gives all land to son Augustine, to\n                  daughters Sarrah [sic] Henry and Sous Anna [sic]\n                  Iveson, Negroes and linens","Plat of land. Charles Curtis on Piantatank River\n                  to Jno. West, Chisanassirk River, Accomack County\n                  Plat showing land surveyed by Jno. Smith. Shows\n                  location of the house.","Nicholas Foster. Re: Floor plan of a house.","Re: How to stay busy during the day. Published in\n                  15 V 432.","Requests that the family visit her at\n                  Westover.","Bound in letter, April 14, 1792, from Christopher\n                  Pryor to Mrs. Maria Armistead, Hesse.","Cousin Maria Carter, daughter of Landon Beverley,\n                  gave birth to a son in October. Uncle William III and\n                  Aunt Mary Willing Byrd are going to tour through New\n                  York and Philadelphia. Health. Published in 10 V\n                  178.","Pocket money for her visiting. Cautions against\n                  flattery. Publixhed in 10 V 178.","Coming marriages of Lucy Burwell to Edmund\n                  Berkeley, Rebecca Burwell to Jaquelin Amble and Jenny\n                  Burwell to Mann Page of Rosewell, and Miss Hannah\n                  Fairfax to Warner Washington. Published in 10 V\n                  177-178 and 15 V 433-434.","Concerns Mr. William Armistead. Published in 15 V\n                  435.","Family news.","Re: Her marriage to Mr. William Armistead.\n                  Published in 10 V 179-180 and 15 V 435.","Vote getting. Lewis' coming marriage. Launching of\n                  ship by the father of Lewis.","Suit against Clark Courtney and his mother Anne\n                  Mabry concerning land \"at Eatons warehouse on\n                  Rappahannock River.\"","Virginians' reaction to Lord Dunmore as Governor\n                  Tryon is well received at New York, as is Col.\n                  Fanning. Family news. Part published in 10 V 180.","Accounts with William Jackson, James Clark, Major\n                  Thomas Boswell, John Robinson, Richard Hodges, Robert\n                  Matthewes, William Bentley Estate, Francis Elliot and\n                  John Hibble.","John New, John Fox and Danall New, Senior to\n                  William Armistead, Sheriff, Gloucester County Re:\n                  Bond of Indemnity.","Visit of Mr. William and Mrs. Armistead to their\n                  church. Route over Pudding Creek Bridge.","News about fighting in Norfolk and man of war near\n                  York. Sent cotton and worsted.","The Armisteads' moving North River to avoid the\n                  enemy. The Armisteads have kept prisoners.","The evils and hardships brought upon the people by\n                  persons without authority.","Submission to the catastrophies brought by man and\n                  God. News of the Russian General, and General Howe\n                  building on the Delaware.","Birth of Mrs. Armistead's child. Capt. Deane\n                  carried Major Skith in his ship. Resignation to the\n                  will of Providence.","Mr. Smith came to Elizabeth Town, N.J. but was\n                  denied a permit for New York. Lack of Negroes.","Accounts.","Accounts.","Memorandum of money received.","Copy book on Astronomy.","On reverse, John T. Griffin assigns the bond to\n                  Major William Lewis.","Account for the year.","Money payment in Half Joes. Land papers brought\n                  from Augusta.","\"Invoice of Sundry Goods Shipped on board the\n                  Planter Capt. William Arthurs for Virginia...\"\n                  Furniture, linens, carpets, dishes and\n                  silverware.","Corn and wheat deliveries, requested by Mr.\n                  Lynham. Her son Charles Carter Armistead is placed\n                  with Mr. Waugh in Port Royal.","Account for nails and German steel.","\"Invoice of Sundries shipped on board the Ann\u0026\n                  Mary, Capt. John Wheeler...\" Horses, tools, medical\n                  implements, riding equipment and spices.","Lucy's visit to home of Col. William Byrd III?.\n                  Published in 10 V 183.","Offers to send Negro girls to help her\n                  daughter.","Protests the manner of payment of bill of\n                  exchange. Includes copy of request for bill of\n                  exchange from William Cocke to Rowles Grymes and\n                  County, London, November 30, 1787.","Sends tobacco to be sold to cover cost of\n                  requested items. Draws a bill of exchange upon\n                  them.","Agreement about Negroes written by Mr. Page.","Return of Cocke's bill of exchange resulted from\n                  his not reporting it.","Return of Cocke's bill of exchange resulted from\n                  his not reporting it.","Children's education in spelling, Greek, and\n                  reading. The new Constitution will lead to a\n                  navy.","Her brother Charles [Carter] will send for her\n                  daughters. Plans to return to Hesse soon.","Shipment of tobacco sent by the ship Williamson\n                  under John Miers to Rowles Grymes and County","Shipment of tobacco and other goods.","Damages from a hurricane. A [legal] \"execution\".\n                  Aunt and Uncle [Lewis] Willis.","Arrival of tobacco and confusion of orders.","Accounts against Cocke. On Reverse, note from Mr.\n                  Weaver and W.A. Fry.","Receipt for tuition of Master [Charles Carter]\n                  Armistead.","\"Invoice of Goods...\" shipped care of P. Parker at\n                  Norfolk.","Travelling and illness. Mr. Page and Mr. Byrd may\n                  help her move.","Sends by Willis, a tobacco note for Mrs. Maria\n                  Armistead's travels.","Receipt for tuition of Master Charles Carter\n                  Armistead.","Receipts for money for Benjamin Harrison Jr.","Receipt of Cocke's draft through Alexander\n                  Donald.","Shipment of tobacco on the Brandon. Requests\n                  information on the most popular kinds of tobacco.","Items to be sent to the care of P.L. Grymes. Notes\n                  of exchange.","Account of work done around his house. Lists cost\n                  of items used.","Receipt for payment on coffee.","Dispute. Copy sent to Mrs. Maria Armistead.","Wife Sally Sarah desires news of her sister Jane\n                  Armistead Cole. One of Washington's sisters married\n                  Mr. Milton. Growth of the area. Advantages of this\n                  farm.","Sale of Cocke's tobacco which was of poor quality\n                  and \"injured by the spot.\"","Account of sale of tobacco.","Account of sale of tobacco.","Account of sale of tobacco.","Account due John and Thomas Gilliat for sugar,\n                  salt and iron.","Death of partner James Rowles. Sale of\n                  tobacco.","Payment of a debt to prevent having to sell\n                  Negroes. His wife Betsy. Miss Nancy Armistead \"is\n                  almost devoured by Sweet Hearts.\"","Supplies of tea, earthenware, cyder [sic] and\n                  herring from Mr. Gilliat. Mother Mrs. Elizabeth Hill\n                  Carter Cocke will visit soon.","Judy Armistead's ill health; suggests cures.\n                  Charles Carter Armistead is over the measles; Mr.\n                  Thomas Ryan praises him.","Sends all requested items except loaf sugar.","Wheat harvest. Possibility of a Spanish war;\n                  Spanish ships have been seen in New York and\n                  Virginia. Mentions brother Charles Cocke and his son\n                  Henry.","Confusion in the settlement of Cocke's account\n                  with Donald and Barton of London.","At Manchester, with Mr. Pankey, inquired after\n                  hogsheads of mother Elizabeth Hill Carter Cocke.\n                  Tobacco; one had been sent to William Mitchell.","Poor tobacco sales of the previous crop will\n                  prevent his getting out of debt. Present crop does\n                  well. People have started growing wheat.","John Hall brought a runaway Negro to Napier. The\n                  boy said he belonged to William Cocke of\n                  Cumberland.","Sends account of tobacco shipped in the\n                  Williamson.","His sister Elizabeth Adams wishes Cocke to sell\n                  her corn. Consulted Major Thomas Massie and William\n                  Fry.","Monies due from estate of Thomas Adams.","Account for carrying hogsheads to market.","List of monies due Cocke.","\"Appraisement and Inventory of stock and\n                  plantation tools and utensils on Mrs. Elizabeth\n                  Adames' plantation in Amherst County.\"","Acting for James Brown, sends coffee, and iron by\n                  Mr. Fenwick. Prices given.","Sends account and asks it be paid up, to enable\n                  the settlement of the estate of James Grymes.","Sends account and asks it be paid up, to enable\n                  the settlement of the estate of James Grymes.","Sent corn. Hired a new overseer, Smith. Sale of\n                  wheat. The trial of a Negro.","Accounts, from November 1790 to date, for salt,\n                  iron, wheat, leather, waggonage of tobacco, pork and\n                  draft on Donald and Burton.","Agreement that Moore will cultivate land for 5\n                  years and then become the owner.","Accounting of money.","Bill for carrying tobacco of Mrs. Adams to the\n                  canal.","William Creacy (or Cresey) took too large and\n                  order of money on Weaver.","Account for women's clothing. On reverse, account\n                  of items furnished Mrs. Maria Armistead and for\n                  tuition for Charles Carter Armistead.","Exchange of servants. Harry's death.","Agreement for building a house, \"with a plain\n                  Cornice.\"","Death of Mrs Elizabeth Adams, settlement of part\n                  of the estate between her daughter Sally Sarah and\n                  William Cocke [her son].","Schooling of her son Charles Carter Armistead.","Account for money lent.","Agreement to rent Negroes and plantation on\n                  Rockfish River, Amherst County, part of estate of\n                  Thomas Adams, deceased.","Family accounts and death of [William]'s mother\n                  [Mrs. Elizabeth Fauntleroy Cocke Adams].","Sends account.","Sale of slaves and horses. Crops.","His fall from a horse.","Repaying William Cocke for building a bridge\n                  across Knockbuckle Stream, by wheat growers.","Wheat receipts.","Account of sale of tobacco and settlement of\n                  bonds.","Shipment of tobacco from Tappahannock.","Clothes and family news.","Sale of Negro living at house of Thomas Taylor\n                  Byrd [husband of Mary, dau. of William Armistead],\n                  Frederick.","Money due on a draft.","Family matters. Marriage of daughter Nancy [Ann\n                  Cleves] to Mr. [John P.] Pleasants.","Account.","Case of Powell v. Armistead's Executors,\n                  concerning William Armistead's will.","Case of Powell v. [Armistead's] Executors. Mr.\n                  [John] Warden is an able friend. Consulted Tho[ma]s\n                  Tabb.","Death of Godfrey; consolation. Illness in the\n                  family.","Sarah Daingerfield to Mrs. Maria Armistead, Hesse.\n                  Health, the phaeton and chocolate.","Account.","Death of Mrs. [Maria] Armistead. Her papers in the\n                  [Powell v. Armistead] lawsuit.","Family reunion. Marriage of Mrs. Randolph. The\n                  coming marriage of her brother Phil to Miss Betsy\n                  Page.","Family news. The Hesse estate.","Leasing Hesse house to Mr. Van Bibber and the\n                  house's burning down. Living in Matthews County","Deed for property in Gloucester County on\n                  Piankatank River.","Arranging insurance for insurance for Cocke's\n                  barn.","Flour business.","Settlement of account.","Receipt for flour.","Bishop [James] Madison's draft on Hollins, for his\n                  son, [Peyton Randolph].","Agreement that Ashton will be an apprentice\n                  miller.","Account sheet.","Agreement to hire Powers as overseer.","Hessian fly affecting the wheat. His cousin, John\n                  Coles, has nervous fever. Asks for money.","Report on son William [A. Cocke] in Chemical and\n                  Moral classes.","Portfolio subscription. Requests news of Mr. R. H.\n                  Atkinson.","Drought. Acquiring Burnett seeds for Peter Bowdoin\n                  of Hungais, Northampton County, [Virginia] and Genl.\n                  Nathaniel Carzell of Sussex County, [Virginia].","2 receipts for payment on a debt.","Promissory note.","Treatment of a Negro girl.","Travelling. Family news. Character of\n                  Napoleon.","Receipt for interest paid on a bond.","Partitions land and describes how he wishes to be\n                  buried.","The E.F. Academy, Eternity and God. Father\n                  appointed to Port Gibson.","Family news. Hot Spring resorts.","Promotion. Departure from Camp Bejara. Genl.\n                  Cushing coming to visit. Friends in Santa Anna are\n                  Bob Hughes, Major Kenly, Dr. Tilghman and Dr.\n                  Field.","Love letter. Hopes she rejects the suit of Mr.\n                  Nelson.","Preaching at the Poplars and at Mr. Taliaferro's.\n                  Dined at Airville.","[Marriage?] Witt's injuries.","Account for money paid and received.","Illness, and death of Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Snow.\n                  Their school, composed of Mann Jones, John Dixon, and\n                  John and William Fox. Cousin Francis Tomkies is\n                  coming to Gloucester.","Family news and weather. Farming.","Minister Cole Hodges and Mr. Rodher. Sending a\n                  package for the Judge.","Tobacco shipping. On second sheet, printed list of\n                  merchandise and marketing information.","Certificate that account of Richard P. Jones,\n                  written by W[illia]m H. Allmand, is correct.","Settlement of a suit. His cruise to Madiera and\n                  the Canary Islands.","Requests medical attention for his man Jonah.","Papers connected with the\n                  suit of Gov. Thomas of Maryland and his unfortunate\n                  wife Sally McDowell. [A Genl. Jones was\n                  counsel for Thomas.]","Sale of property in Highland and Adams counties.\n                  Traveling.","Sends supplies. Wheat shipment.","\"Horses bought in Ohio. . .\"","Tobaco sales. \"I hear the distant thunder rumbling\n                  in our own beloved country.\" quoted Virgil on the war\n                  in Europe.","\"Sale of Forkes Plantation,\" planned with Rush\n                  Floyd.","C[harles] Le Baron, Mobile [Alabama] to Richard P.\n                  Jones, Gloucester County [Virginia] [brother of\n                  Harriet who married Charles Curtis and their daughter\n                  married Charles Curtis and their daughter married\n                  Thomas L.P. Cocke.] Settlement of estate of Mr.\n                  [George L.] Fauntleroy.","Miss Booth. As Dr. Booth had few debts, the sale\n                  of a slave should settle the account for his own\n                  services.","Sale of tobacco.","Settlement of [estate of Dr. Booth]. Money is to\n                  be left wtih Mr. Curtis if she is not at Wareham.","Troubles sent by God, especially the death of Mr.\n                  Langhorn. Mr. [Jacob C.] Sheldon is sick. Family\n                  news.","Contract made with R.F. Northern for carrying\n                  mail.","Projected celebration at Yorktown. Patriotism.\n                  Preservation of the Republic.","Payment on a mortgage assumed from T.L.\n                  Phillips.","Form for monthly return of the captain.","Upon Genl. Taliaferro's orders, collected guns in\n                  the county. Guns of Col. Hayes and Col. Taylor.\n                  Completion of arsenal. Asks for job on Taliaferro's\n                  staff.","Family news and agriculture. Formation of a\n                  company in Cumberland.","Edmund [R. Cocke, writer's brother] sent news\n                  about obstructing roads and fords. Promotion of\n                  officers. Cousin Robert Preston. War maneuvers.","Movement toward Alexandria. Expects an attack.\n                  Thomas [L.P. Cocke] is needed at home. \"Most\n                  officers, as they make more money by their offices\n                  than they did by their professions or trades get less\n                  credit for patriotism.\" Agriculture.","Fight at Manassas. Cally Heath came down.","Family news. His description of Battle of Bull\n                  Run.","Politics of the artillery company. Behavior of\n                  Pendleton. Clothing.","The members of his mess. Food is of fine quality.\n                  Family news.","Troop movements. Housing. Family news.","Troop movements near Winchester and Harrisonburg.\n                  Uncle [J.T.L.] Preston is well.","Flanking McClellan's force. News of his\n                  brothers.","Flanking McClellan's force. News of his\n                  brothers.","Edmund [R. Cocke] was well after the recent\n                  battle.","Hot weather. Cousin Charles Moncure. Edmund leads\n                  a relaxed life.","Philadelphia press reports movements of Yankee\n                  forces inaccurately. Will fall back to Richmond\n                  before fighting. Tom [L.P. Cocke]'s company is near\n                  Port Royal. Furloughs.","Their man Abner. Troop movements in the rain.\n                  Vaccinations. Shoes and clothing. Wheat.","Work on breastworks. Furlough of Dr. Weymouth.","Attempts to get a discharge from a hospital.\n                  Getting a substitute.","Busy in legislature. Horses and mules being\n                  vulnerable to Yankee theft. Problems with Negroes.\n                  Marital attachment of a Negro couple.","\"In the event Tho[ma]s L.P. Cocke is not sent into\n                  the Army\" from Elizabeth R[andolph] Cocke, Robert D.\n                  Brown, John Hatcher and Nath[anie]l Walton.","Bill for horses and corn.","Management and/or sale of property in London.","Letter describing place of Randolphs and Prestons\n                  at the College of William and Mary, part of a program\n                  for raising the endowment.","Mother visiting her son in Washington. Plans for\n                  Christmas. [Plus, Ms. note from Mrs. Maria C.\n                  Talcott.]","Obituary taken from the Southern Churchman of Mrs.\n                  Elizabeth Randolph Cocke. [Ms. notes by Mrs. Maria C.\n                  Talcott].","Obituary, Mrs. Harriet Sheldon, wife of Jacob C.\n                  Sheldon, daughter of John Dixon.","Death of Uncle [J.T.L.] Preston. Family news.","A present for Miss Martha.","Devoted to Robert E. Lee.","Descendants of\n                     Gentlemen-Adventurer will celebrate Henrico Grant\n                     of 1636.","Engraving of letter from G[eorge] Washington,\n                  Mount Vernon, to Fran[ci]s Hopkinson, May 16, 1785;\n                  \"for the \n                   Port Folio .\"","Recent death of her husband [Mann Page.] Visitors\n                  Sophia and Lizzie Tompkins.","Carbon copy of \"Third Regiment Virginia Calvalry,\n                  Roll of Company G, Cumberland County.\"","Religious poem.","Made by C.S. Laboratory, Richmond, [Virginia].","Copy book of poems.","Account books and a scrapbook of poems.","Re: Scrapbook of poems.","Later family letters, genealogical notes, and poems,\n               1839-1916, of members of the Cocke family and to related\n               branches of Throckmorton, Curtis, Sheldon, Jones,\n               Preston, Byrd, Dandridge, and Carter families. Includes\n               letters kept by Elizabeth R.P. Cocke, daughter of T.L.P.\n               Cocke and letters of Mary B. Cocke, mother of Maria C.\n               Talcott.","Includes letters of the Cocke, Curtis, and Preston\n               families of Richmond, Virginia, particularly\n               correspondence between Harriet Throgmorton Jones Curtis\n               and her children Charles (\"Barney\"), Mary Boothe,\n               Harriet, Maria, and Martha Curtis. Also includes\n               correspondence between Mary Booth Curtis and her\n               husband, Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke, as well as letters\n               from Thomas L.P. Cocke's mother, Elizabeth R.P. Cocke,\n               to himself and his brothers, William, Edmund, and\n               Preston Cocke.","Family news.","Letters are to her sons William F. Cocke, Thomas\n                  L.P. Cocke, Edmund R. Cocke, and Preston Cocke, and\n                  her daughters-in-law and grandchildren.","Correspondence early in their marriage when they\n                  were apart. Includes letters from their children\n                  Maria, Harriet, Charles and William Cocke, living in\n                  Powhatan County, Virginia with their mother, to their\n                  father.","Letters are to brother Charles Curtis, her sisters\n                  Mary Boothe, Maria and Martha Curtis, and her\n                  brother-in-law, Thomas L.P. Cocke.","Letters from Martha Throgmorton Curtis James to\n                  her sisters Mary Boothe Curtis Cocke, Maria\n                  Greenhough Curtis JOnes, Harriet Curtis Cringan,\n                  Fanny Throgmorton Curtis, and her mother Harriet T.J.\n                  Curtis, about family news.","Letters are to sisters Harriet T.J. Curtis, her\n                  brother-in-law, Thomas L.P. Cocke and her niece,\n                  Harriet Cocke.","Letters to her sisters, mother and Mary Booth\n                  Curtis Cocke and Thomas L.P. Cocke.","Letters from family and friends just prior to her\n                  wedding to Thomas L.P. Cocke.","Letters to Curtis (also called \"Barney\") from\n                  friends and family.","From family and friends.","Includes one photograph of Annie Page.","From Washington College and the University of\n                  Virginia. Also includes Vol. 1 (March 1839) of the\n                  Collegian, published by the students of the\n                  University of Virginia, and a program of the\n                  Baccalaureate Exercises at the College of William and\n                  Mary in 1935.","Written to her children before the Civil War."],"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\"\u003eLetters and papers of the Armistead\n         and Cocke families of Henrico and Cumberland Counties,\n         Virginia.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Letters and papers of the Armistead\n         and Cocke families of Henrico and Cumberland Counties,\n         Virginia."],"names_ssim":["Armistead Family.","Cocke Family.","Armistead family.","Cocke family.","Cocke, William, fl. 1798-1855.","Cocke, William Fauntleroy, 1826-1863.","Cocke, Thomas Lewis Preston,\n            1838-1895.","Cocke, Edmund Randolph, 1841-1922.","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894."],"famname_ssim":["Armistead Family.","Cocke Family.","Armistead family.","Cocke family."],"persname_ssim":["Cocke, William, fl. 1798-1855.","Cocke, William Fauntleroy, 1826-1863.","Cocke, Thomas Lewis Preston,\n            1838-1895.","Cocke, Edmund Randolph, 1841-1922.","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":279,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:35:56.571Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_viw00018","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00018","_root_":"viw_viw00018","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00018","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00018.xml","title_ssm":["Armistead-Cocke Papers, \n         \n         1680-1907."],"title_tesim":["Armistead-Cocke Papers, \n         \n         1680-1907."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 65 Ar6"],"text":["Mss. 65 Ar6","Armistead-Cocke Papers, \n         \n         1680-1907.","Armistead family.","Cocke family.","Preston family.","Randolph family.","College of William and Mary--History--19th\n            century.","Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Virginia, 1861.","Astronomy--Study and teaching.","Reconstruction.","Henrico County (Virginia)--History.","Cumberland County (Virginia)--History.","Gloucester County (Virginia)--History.","Powhatan County (Virginia)--History.","Richmond (Virginia)--History.","ca. 733 items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Arrangement Collection is arranged chronologically.","Collection is arranged chronologically.","Organization The inventory has been divided into seven Series. Series\n            1 is the genealogical and donor material, Series 2 is\n            photographs, Series 3 is material concerning houses and\n            land, Series 4 is correspondence and other papers, Series 5\n            is the Jones Account Books, Series 6 is Accession 1997.34\n            and Series 7 is Accession 1998.45.","The inventory has been divided into seven Series. Series\n            1 is the genealogical and donor material, Series 2 is\n            photographs, Series 3 is material concerning houses and\n            land, Series 4 is correspondence and other papers, Series 5\n            is the Jones Account Books, Series 6 is Accession 1997.34\n            and Series 7 is Accession 1998.45.","Maria Carter, daughter of Charles Carter of \"Cleve,\" King\n         George County, Virginia married William Armistead of \"Hesse,\"\n         Gloucester County, Virginia William Cocke, son of Elizabeth\n         Fauntleroy Cocke and Bowler Cocke, married Jane Armistead.\n         Their son, William Armistead Cocke had among other children,\n         Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke who married Mary Booth Curtis.","Correspondence, 1756-1764, of Maria Carter Armistead;\n         business papers, 1782-1828, of William Cocke of \"Bremo,\"\n         Henrico County, Virginia and of \"Oakland,\" Cumberland County,\n         Virginia; and letters, 1861-1863, of William Fauntleroy Cocke,\n         Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke and Edmund Randolph Cocke\n         concerning their service in the Confederate States Army\n         (including the Battle of First Bull Run). Also included are\n         five volumes of farm and account books, 1851-1863, of Richard\n         P. Jones of \"Land's End,\" Gloucester County, Virginia;\n         copybooks on astronomy, [ca.1770-1780?], scrapbooks, and\n         genealogical material. Includes letter, 1869, of Benjamin\n         Stoddert Ewell concerning the connections between the Randolph\n         and Preston families and the College of William and Mary.","Additions to the collection (1997.34 and 1998.45) include\n         family letters, genealogical notes and poems of members of the\n         Cocke family and to related branches of Throckmorton, Curtis,\n         Sheldon, Jones, Preston, Byrd, Dandridge and Carter families\n         living in Richmond, Virginia and Powhatan County, Virginia.\n         Some letters are written from Richmond in the Reconstruction\n         Era.","Press release, 1958. Initial list of the\n                  collection. Genealogical charts.","Re: Genealogical Column, about Carters and\n                  Armisteads.","Early Carter and Armistead families, containing\n                  copies of letters from this collection.","Genealogical material concerning the Curtis,\n                  Sheldon, Carter, and Cocke families by Maria C.\n                  Talcott.","From \n                   The Times-Dispatch ,\n                  Richmond","Copy of the tombstone of Emanuel Jones, died 1739,\n                  made by P[eyton] H. Page.","Re: Major Robert Throckmorton and John Peyton\n                  Dixon, from Bible owned by Mrs. Fann Throckmorton\n                  Nicolson.","The Sun , Baltimore.\n                  Re: \n                   The Throckmorton family\n                  of England and Virginia by Jane Griffin\n                  Keys.","Photograph of painting in Alexandria. She married\n                  Bowler Cocke II, and their son was William Cocke who\n                  married Jane Armistead.","Photostat positive and negative of painting, owned\n                  by Mrs. Maria C. and [Nathan?] Talcott, of Maria\n                  Byrd, daughter of William Byrd II and wife of Charles\n                  Carter, with son Charles Carter and [Maria Carter\n                  Armistead?].","Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke, son of William\n                  Armistead Cocke, Oakland.","Mrs. Elizabeth Randolph Preston Cocke, with Sally\n                  Lyle Preston Cocke, eldest daughter of Edmund\n                  Randolph Cocke.","Mary Booth Curtis Cocke, wife of Thomas L. P.\n                  Cocke.","\"Historic Mansion of Mathews County,\" Hesse.","Oakland. Short\n                  History on back.","Mrs. Cocke, Mistress of\n                  Oakland and Hostess of the Lees at Derwent, by\n                  Alice M. Tyler from \n                   The Times-Dispatch ,\n                  Richmond.","Derwent Must Be\n                  Saved from \n                   The News Leader ,\n                  Richmond, Virginia.","Lee's Hideaway Still\n                  Stands. Reprinted from \n                   The Washington and Lee\n                  University Alumni Magazine by Dr. Leslie Lyle\n                  Campbell.","Southerner Heard First\n                  and Final Shots of War Between States, was friend of\n                  Lee , by Charles F. Preston.","Part of plat. Showing land on the Piantantan River\n                  of Lady Skipwith, George Curtis, Collonell [sic]\n                  Kemps, Augustin Horthus and William Marloe.","Sale of land in Kingston Parish, inherited from\n                  George Curtis, who bought the land from Edward\n                  Wyatt.","Thomas Curtis, Gloucester County to Charles\n                  Curtis, Middlesex County Re: Deed of same date was to\n                  fulfill Thomas' bond to Charles.","P. Beverly, Clerk of County Court. Re: Testimony\n                  of Nicholas Cobb, defendant; by his attorney, Thomas\n                  Gregson, in dispute over land purchased from George\n                  Curtis, now deceased.","Charles Curtis, Kingston Parish, Gloucester\n                  CountyHis will Gives all land to son Augustine, to\n                  daughters Sarrah [sic] Henry and Sous Anna [sic]\n                  Iveson, Negroes and linens","Plat of land. Charles Curtis on Piantatank River\n                  to Jno. West, Chisanassirk River, Accomack County\n                  Plat showing land surveyed by Jno. Smith. Shows\n                  location of the house.","Nicholas Foster. Re: Floor plan of a house.","Re: How to stay busy during the day. Published in\n                  15 V 432.","Requests that the family visit her at\n                  Westover.","Bound in letter, April 14, 1792, from Christopher\n                  Pryor to Mrs. Maria Armistead, Hesse.","Cousin Maria Carter, daughter of Landon Beverley,\n                  gave birth to a son in October. Uncle William III and\n                  Aunt Mary Willing Byrd are going to tour through New\n                  York and Philadelphia. Health. Published in 10 V\n                  178.","Pocket money for her visiting. Cautions against\n                  flattery. Publixhed in 10 V 178.","Coming marriages of Lucy Burwell to Edmund\n                  Berkeley, Rebecca Burwell to Jaquelin Amble and Jenny\n                  Burwell to Mann Page of Rosewell, and Miss Hannah\n                  Fairfax to Warner Washington. Published in 10 V\n                  177-178 and 15 V 433-434.","Concerns Mr. William Armistead. Published in 15 V\n                  435.","Family news.","Re: Her marriage to Mr. William Armistead.\n                  Published in 10 V 179-180 and 15 V 435.","Vote getting. Lewis' coming marriage. Launching of\n                  ship by the father of Lewis.","Suit against Clark Courtney and his mother Anne\n                  Mabry concerning land \"at Eatons warehouse on\n                  Rappahannock River.\"","Virginians' reaction to Lord Dunmore as Governor\n                  Tryon is well received at New York, as is Col.\n                  Fanning. Family news. Part published in 10 V 180.","Accounts with William Jackson, James Clark, Major\n                  Thomas Boswell, John Robinson, Richard Hodges, Robert\n                  Matthewes, William Bentley Estate, Francis Elliot and\n                  John Hibble.","John New, John Fox and Danall New, Senior to\n                  William Armistead, Sheriff, Gloucester County Re:\n                  Bond of Indemnity.","Visit of Mr. William and Mrs. Armistead to their\n                  church. Route over Pudding Creek Bridge.","News about fighting in Norfolk and man of war near\n                  York. Sent cotton and worsted.","The Armisteads' moving North River to avoid the\n                  enemy. The Armisteads have kept prisoners.","The evils and hardships brought upon the people by\n                  persons without authority.","Submission to the catastrophies brought by man and\n                  God. News of the Russian General, and General Howe\n                  building on the Delaware.","Birth of Mrs. Armistead's child. Capt. Deane\n                  carried Major Skith in his ship. Resignation to the\n                  will of Providence.","Mr. Smith came to Elizabeth Town, N.J. but was\n                  denied a permit for New York. Lack of Negroes.","Accounts.","Accounts.","Memorandum of money received.","Copy book on Astronomy.","On reverse, John T. Griffin assigns the bond to\n                  Major William Lewis.","Account for the year.","Money payment in Half Joes. Land papers brought\n                  from Augusta.","\"Invoice of Sundry Goods Shipped on board the\n                  Planter Capt. William Arthurs for Virginia...\"\n                  Furniture, linens, carpets, dishes and\n                  silverware.","Corn and wheat deliveries, requested by Mr.\n                  Lynham. Her son Charles Carter Armistead is placed\n                  with Mr. Waugh in Port Royal.","Account for nails and German steel.","\"Invoice of Sundries shipped on board the Ann\u0026\n                  Mary, Capt. John Wheeler...\" Horses, tools, medical\n                  implements, riding equipment and spices.","Lucy's visit to home of Col. William Byrd III?.\n                  Published in 10 V 183.","Offers to send Negro girls to help her\n                  daughter.","Protests the manner of payment of bill of\n                  exchange. Includes copy of request for bill of\n                  exchange from William Cocke to Rowles Grymes and\n                  County, London, November 30, 1787.","Sends tobacco to be sold to cover cost of\n                  requested items. Draws a bill of exchange upon\n                  them.","Agreement about Negroes written by Mr. Page.","Return of Cocke's bill of exchange resulted from\n                  his not reporting it.","Return of Cocke's bill of exchange resulted from\n                  his not reporting it.","Children's education in spelling, Greek, and\n                  reading. The new Constitution will lead to a\n                  navy.","Her brother Charles [Carter] will send for her\n                  daughters. Plans to return to Hesse soon.","Shipment of tobacco sent by the ship Williamson\n                  under John Miers to Rowles Grymes and County","Shipment of tobacco and other goods.","Damages from a hurricane. A [legal] \"execution\".\n                  Aunt and Uncle [Lewis] Willis.","Arrival of tobacco and confusion of orders.","Accounts against Cocke. On Reverse, note from Mr.\n                  Weaver and W.A. Fry.","Receipt for tuition of Master [Charles Carter]\n                  Armistead.","\"Invoice of Goods...\" shipped care of P. Parker at\n                  Norfolk.","Travelling and illness. Mr. Page and Mr. Byrd may\n                  help her move.","Sends by Willis, a tobacco note for Mrs. Maria\n                  Armistead's travels.","Receipt for tuition of Master Charles Carter\n                  Armistead.","Receipts for money for Benjamin Harrison Jr.","Receipt of Cocke's draft through Alexander\n                  Donald.","Shipment of tobacco on the Brandon. Requests\n                  information on the most popular kinds of tobacco.","Items to be sent to the care of P.L. Grymes. Notes\n                  of exchange.","Account of work done around his house. Lists cost\n                  of items used.","Receipt for payment on coffee.","Dispute. Copy sent to Mrs. Maria Armistead.","Wife Sally Sarah desires news of her sister Jane\n                  Armistead Cole. One of Washington's sisters married\n                  Mr. Milton. Growth of the area. Advantages of this\n                  farm.","Sale of Cocke's tobacco which was of poor quality\n                  and \"injured by the spot.\"","Account of sale of tobacco.","Account of sale of tobacco.","Account of sale of tobacco.","Account due John and Thomas Gilliat for sugar,\n                  salt and iron.","Death of partner James Rowles. Sale of\n                  tobacco.","Payment of a debt to prevent having to sell\n                  Negroes. His wife Betsy. Miss Nancy Armistead \"is\n                  almost devoured by Sweet Hearts.\"","Supplies of tea, earthenware, cyder [sic] and\n                  herring from Mr. Gilliat. Mother Mrs. Elizabeth Hill\n                  Carter Cocke will visit soon.","Judy Armistead's ill health; suggests cures.\n                  Charles Carter Armistead is over the measles; Mr.\n                  Thomas Ryan praises him.","Sends all requested items except loaf sugar.","Wheat harvest. Possibility of a Spanish war;\n                  Spanish ships have been seen in New York and\n                  Virginia. Mentions brother Charles Cocke and his son\n                  Henry.","Confusion in the settlement of Cocke's account\n                  with Donald and Barton of London.","At Manchester, with Mr. Pankey, inquired after\n                  hogsheads of mother Elizabeth Hill Carter Cocke.\n                  Tobacco; one had been sent to William Mitchell.","Poor tobacco sales of the previous crop will\n                  prevent his getting out of debt. Present crop does\n                  well. People have started growing wheat.","John Hall brought a runaway Negro to Napier. The\n                  boy said he belonged to William Cocke of\n                  Cumberland.","Sends account of tobacco shipped in the\n                  Williamson.","His sister Elizabeth Adams wishes Cocke to sell\n                  her corn. Consulted Major Thomas Massie and William\n                  Fry.","Monies due from estate of Thomas Adams.","Account for carrying hogsheads to market.","List of monies due Cocke.","\"Appraisement and Inventory of stock and\n                  plantation tools and utensils on Mrs. Elizabeth\n                  Adames' plantation in Amherst County.\"","Acting for James Brown, sends coffee, and iron by\n                  Mr. Fenwick. Prices given.","Sends account and asks it be paid up, to enable\n                  the settlement of the estate of James Grymes.","Sends account and asks it be paid up, to enable\n                  the settlement of the estate of James Grymes.","Sent corn. Hired a new overseer, Smith. Sale of\n                  wheat. The trial of a Negro.","Accounts, from November 1790 to date, for salt,\n                  iron, wheat, leather, waggonage of tobacco, pork and\n                  draft on Donald and Burton.","Agreement that Moore will cultivate land for 5\n                  years and then become the owner.","Accounting of money.","Bill for carrying tobacco of Mrs. Adams to the\n                  canal.","William Creacy (or Cresey) took too large and\n                  order of money on Weaver.","Account for women's clothing. On reverse, account\n                  of items furnished Mrs. Maria Armistead and for\n                  tuition for Charles Carter Armistead.","Exchange of servants. Harry's death.","Agreement for building a house, \"with a plain\n                  Cornice.\"","Death of Mrs Elizabeth Adams, settlement of part\n                  of the estate between her daughter Sally Sarah and\n                  William Cocke [her son].","Schooling of her son Charles Carter Armistead.","Account for money lent.","Agreement to rent Negroes and plantation on\n                  Rockfish River, Amherst County, part of estate of\n                  Thomas Adams, deceased.","Family accounts and death of [William]'s mother\n                  [Mrs. Elizabeth Fauntleroy Cocke Adams].","Sends account.","Sale of slaves and horses. Crops.","His fall from a horse.","Repaying William Cocke for building a bridge\n                  across Knockbuckle Stream, by wheat growers.","Wheat receipts.","Account of sale of tobacco and settlement of\n                  bonds.","Shipment of tobacco from Tappahannock.","Clothes and family news.","Sale of Negro living at house of Thomas Taylor\n                  Byrd [husband of Mary, dau. of William Armistead],\n                  Frederick.","Money due on a draft.","Family matters. Marriage of daughter Nancy [Ann\n                  Cleves] to Mr. [John P.] Pleasants.","Account.","Case of Powell v. Armistead's Executors,\n                  concerning William Armistead's will.","Case of Powell v. [Armistead's] Executors. Mr.\n                  [John] Warden is an able friend. Consulted Tho[ma]s\n                  Tabb.","Death of Godfrey; consolation. Illness in the\n                  family.","Sarah Daingerfield to Mrs. Maria Armistead, Hesse.\n                  Health, the phaeton and chocolate.","Account.","Death of Mrs. [Maria] Armistead. Her papers in the\n                  [Powell v. Armistead] lawsuit.","Family reunion. Marriage of Mrs. Randolph. The\n                  coming marriage of her brother Phil to Miss Betsy\n                  Page.","Family news. The Hesse estate.","Leasing Hesse house to Mr. Van Bibber and the\n                  house's burning down. Living in Matthews County","Deed for property in Gloucester County on\n                  Piankatank River.","Arranging insurance for insurance for Cocke's\n                  barn.","Flour business.","Settlement of account.","Receipt for flour.","Bishop [James] Madison's draft on Hollins, for his\n                  son, [Peyton Randolph].","Agreement that Ashton will be an apprentice\n                  miller.","Account sheet.","Agreement to hire Powers as overseer.","Hessian fly affecting the wheat. His cousin, John\n                  Coles, has nervous fever. Asks for money.","Report on son William [A. Cocke] in Chemical and\n                  Moral classes.","Portfolio subscription. Requests news of Mr. R. H.\n                  Atkinson.","Drought. Acquiring Burnett seeds for Peter Bowdoin\n                  of Hungais, Northampton County, [Virginia] and Genl.\n                  Nathaniel Carzell of Sussex County, [Virginia].","2 receipts for payment on a debt.","Promissory note.","Treatment of a Negro girl.","Travelling. Family news. Character of\n                  Napoleon.","Receipt for interest paid on a bond.","Partitions land and describes how he wishes to be\n                  buried.","The E.F. Academy, Eternity and God. Father\n                  appointed to Port Gibson.","Family news. Hot Spring resorts.","Promotion. Departure from Camp Bejara. Genl.\n                  Cushing coming to visit. Friends in Santa Anna are\n                  Bob Hughes, Major Kenly, Dr. Tilghman and Dr.\n                  Field.","Love letter. Hopes she rejects the suit of Mr.\n                  Nelson.","Preaching at the Poplars and at Mr. Taliaferro's.\n                  Dined at Airville.","[Marriage?] Witt's injuries.","Account for money paid and received.","Illness, and death of Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Snow.\n                  Their school, composed of Mann Jones, John Dixon, and\n                  John and William Fox. Cousin Francis Tomkies is\n                  coming to Gloucester.","Family news and weather. Farming.","Minister Cole Hodges and Mr. Rodher. Sending a\n                  package for the Judge.","Tobacco shipping. On second sheet, printed list of\n                  merchandise and marketing information.","Certificate that account of Richard P. Jones,\n                  written by W[illia]m H. Allmand, is correct.","Settlement of a suit. His cruise to Madiera and\n                  the Canary Islands.","Requests medical attention for his man Jonah.","Papers connected with the\n                  suit of Gov. Thomas of Maryland and his unfortunate\n                  wife Sally McDowell. [A Genl. Jones was\n                  counsel for Thomas.]","Sale of property in Highland and Adams counties.\n                  Traveling.","Sends supplies. Wheat shipment.","\"Horses bought in Ohio. . .\"","Tobaco sales. \"I hear the distant thunder rumbling\n                  in our own beloved country.\" quoted Virgil on the war\n                  in Europe.","\"Sale of Forkes Plantation,\" planned with Rush\n                  Floyd.","C[harles] Le Baron, Mobile [Alabama] to Richard P.\n                  Jones, Gloucester County [Virginia] [brother of\n                  Harriet who married Charles Curtis and their daughter\n                  married Charles Curtis and their daughter married\n                  Thomas L.P. Cocke.] Settlement of estate of Mr.\n                  [George L.] Fauntleroy.","Miss Booth. As Dr. Booth had few debts, the sale\n                  of a slave should settle the account for his own\n                  services.","Sale of tobacco.","Settlement of [estate of Dr. Booth]. Money is to\n                  be left wtih Mr. Curtis if she is not at Wareham.","Troubles sent by God, especially the death of Mr.\n                  Langhorn. Mr. [Jacob C.] Sheldon is sick. Family\n                  news.","Contract made with R.F. Northern for carrying\n                  mail.","Projected celebration at Yorktown. Patriotism.\n                  Preservation of the Republic.","Payment on a mortgage assumed from T.L.\n                  Phillips.","Form for monthly return of the captain.","Upon Genl. Taliaferro's orders, collected guns in\n                  the county. Guns of Col. Hayes and Col. Taylor.\n                  Completion of arsenal. Asks for job on Taliaferro's\n                  staff.","Family news and agriculture. Formation of a\n                  company in Cumberland.","Edmund [R. Cocke, writer's brother] sent news\n                  about obstructing roads and fords. Promotion of\n                  officers. Cousin Robert Preston. War maneuvers.","Movement toward Alexandria. Expects an attack.\n                  Thomas [L.P. Cocke] is needed at home. \"Most\n                  officers, as they make more money by their offices\n                  than they did by their professions or trades get less\n                  credit for patriotism.\" Agriculture.","Fight at Manassas. Cally Heath came down.","Family news. His description of Battle of Bull\n                  Run.","Politics of the artillery company. Behavior of\n                  Pendleton. Clothing.","The members of his mess. Food is of fine quality.\n                  Family news.","Troop movements. Housing. Family news.","Troop movements near Winchester and Harrisonburg.\n                  Uncle [J.T.L.] Preston is well.","Flanking McClellan's force. News of his\n                  brothers.","Flanking McClellan's force. News of his\n                  brothers.","Edmund [R. Cocke] was well after the recent\n                  battle.","Hot weather. Cousin Charles Moncure. Edmund leads\n                  a relaxed life.","Philadelphia press reports movements of Yankee\n                  forces inaccurately. Will fall back to Richmond\n                  before fighting. Tom [L.P. Cocke]'s company is near\n                  Port Royal. Furloughs.","Their man Abner. Troop movements in the rain.\n                  Vaccinations. Shoes and clothing. Wheat.","Work on breastworks. Furlough of Dr. Weymouth.","Attempts to get a discharge from a hospital.\n                  Getting a substitute.","Busy in legislature. Horses and mules being\n                  vulnerable to Yankee theft. Problems with Negroes.\n                  Marital attachment of a Negro couple.","\"In the event Tho[ma]s L.P. Cocke is not sent into\n                  the Army\" from Elizabeth R[andolph] Cocke, Robert D.\n                  Brown, John Hatcher and Nath[anie]l Walton.","Bill for horses and corn.","Management and/or sale of property in London.","Letter describing place of Randolphs and Prestons\n                  at the College of William and Mary, part of a program\n                  for raising the endowment.","Mother visiting her son in Washington. Plans for\n                  Christmas. [Plus, Ms. note from Mrs. Maria C.\n                  Talcott.]","Obituary taken from the Southern Churchman of Mrs.\n                  Elizabeth Randolph Cocke. [Ms. notes by Mrs. Maria C.\n                  Talcott].","Obituary, Mrs. Harriet Sheldon, wife of Jacob C.\n                  Sheldon, daughter of John Dixon.","Death of Uncle [J.T.L.] Preston. Family news.","A present for Miss Martha.","Devoted to Robert E. Lee.","Descendants of\n                     Gentlemen-Adventurer will celebrate Henrico Grant\n                     of 1636.","Engraving of letter from G[eorge] Washington,\n                  Mount Vernon, to Fran[ci]s Hopkinson, May 16, 1785;\n                  \"for the \n                   Port Folio .\"","Recent death of her husband [Mann Page.] Visitors\n                  Sophia and Lizzie Tompkins.","Carbon copy of \"Third Regiment Virginia Calvalry,\n                  Roll of Company G, Cumberland County.\"","Religious poem.","Made by C.S. Laboratory, Richmond, [Virginia].","Copy book of poems.","Account books and a scrapbook of poems.","Re: Scrapbook of poems.","Later family letters, genealogical notes, and poems,\n               1839-1916, of members of the Cocke family and to related\n               branches of Throckmorton, Curtis, Sheldon, Jones,\n               Preston, Byrd, Dandridge, and Carter families. Includes\n               letters kept by Elizabeth R.P. Cocke, daughter of T.L.P.\n               Cocke and letters of Mary B. Cocke, mother of Maria C.\n               Talcott.","Includes letters of the Cocke, Curtis, and Preston\n               families of Richmond, Virginia, particularly\n               correspondence between Harriet Throgmorton Jones Curtis\n               and her children Charles (\"Barney\"), Mary Boothe,\n               Harriet, Maria, and Martha Curtis. Also includes\n               correspondence between Mary Booth Curtis and her\n               husband, Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke, as well as letters\n               from Thomas L.P. Cocke's mother, Elizabeth R.P. Cocke,\n               to himself and his brothers, William, Edmund, and\n               Preston Cocke.","Family news.","Letters are to her sons William F. Cocke, Thomas\n                  L.P. Cocke, Edmund R. Cocke, and Preston Cocke, and\n                  her daughters-in-law and grandchildren.","Correspondence early in their marriage when they\n                  were apart. Includes letters from their children\n                  Maria, Harriet, Charles and William Cocke, living in\n                  Powhatan County, Virginia with their mother, to their\n                  father.","Letters are to brother Charles Curtis, her sisters\n                  Mary Boothe, Maria and Martha Curtis, and her\n                  brother-in-law, Thomas L.P. Cocke.","Letters from Martha Throgmorton Curtis James to\n                  her sisters Mary Boothe Curtis Cocke, Maria\n                  Greenhough Curtis JOnes, Harriet Curtis Cringan,\n                  Fanny Throgmorton Curtis, and her mother Harriet T.J.\n                  Curtis, about family news.","Letters are to sisters Harriet T.J. Curtis, her\n                  brother-in-law, Thomas L.P. Cocke and her niece,\n                  Harriet Cocke.","Letters to her sisters, mother and Mary Booth\n                  Curtis Cocke and Thomas L.P. Cocke.","Letters from family and friends just prior to her\n                  wedding to Thomas L.P. Cocke.","Letters to Curtis (also called \"Barney\") from\n                  friends and family.","From family and friends.","Includes one photograph of Annie Page.","From Washington College and the University of\n                  Virginia. Also includes Vol. 1 (March 1839) of the\n                  Collegian, published by the students of the\n                  University of Virginia, and a program of the\n                  Baccalaureate Exercises at the College of William and\n                  Mary in 1935.","Written to her children before the Civil War.","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.","Letters and papers of the Armistead\n         and Cocke families of Henrico and Cumberland Counties,\n         Virginia.","Armistead Family.","Cocke Family.","Armistead family.","Cocke family.","Cocke, William, fl. 1798-1855.","Cocke, William Fauntleroy, 1826-1863.","Cocke, Thomas Lewis Preston,\n            1838-1895.","Cocke, Edmund Randolph, 1841-1922.","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 Ar6"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Armistead-Cocke Papers, \n         \n         1680-1907."],"collection_title_tesim":["Armistead-Cocke Papers, \n         \n         1680-1907."],"collection_ssim":["Armistead-Cocke Papers, \n         \n         1680-1907."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Armistead Family. 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Also included are\n         five volumes of farm and account books, 1851-1863, of Richard\n         P. Jones of \"Land's End,\" Gloucester County, Virginia;\n         copybooks on astronomy, [ca.1770-1780?], scrapbooks, and\n         genealogical material. Includes letter, 1869, of Benjamin\n         Stoddert Ewell concerning the connections between the Randolph\n         and Preston families and the College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditions to the collection (1997.34 and 1998.45) include\n         family letters, genealogical notes and poems of members of the\n         Cocke family and to related branches of Throckmorton, Curtis,\n         Sheldon, Jones, Preston, Byrd, Dandridge and Carter families\n         living in Richmond, Virginia and Powhatan County, Virginia.\n         Some letters are written from Richmond in the Reconstruction\n         Era.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePress release, 1958. Initial list of the\n                  collection. Genealogical charts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Genealogical Column, about Carters and\n                  Armisteads.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEarly Carter and Armistead families, containing\n                  copies of letters from this collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical material concerning the Curtis,\n                  Sheldon, Carter, and Cocke families by Maria C.\n                  Talcott.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Times-Dispatch\u003c/title\u003e,\n                  Richmond\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of the tombstone of Emanuel Jones, died 1739,\n                  made by P[eyton] H. Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Major Robert Throckmorton and John Peyton\n                  Dixon, from Bible owned by Mrs. Fann Throckmorton\n                  Nicolson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Sun\u003c/title\u003e, Baltimore.\n                  Re: \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Throckmorton family\n                  of England and Virginia\u003c/title\u003eby Jane Griffin\n                  Keys.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of painting in Alexandria. She married\n                  Bowler Cocke II, and their son was William Cocke who\n                  married Jane Armistead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotostat positive and negative of painting, owned\n                  by Mrs. Maria C. and [Nathan?] Talcott, of Maria\n                  Byrd, daughter of William Byrd II and wife of Charles\n                  Carter, with son Charles Carter and [Maria Carter\n                  Armistead?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Lewis Preston Cocke, son of William\n                  Armistead Cocke, Oakland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Elizabeth Randolph Preston Cocke, with Sally\n                  Lyle Preston Cocke, eldest daughter of Edmund\n                  Randolph Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary Booth Curtis Cocke, wife of Thomas L. P.\n                  Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Historic Mansion of Mathews County,\" Hesse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eOakland.\u003c/title\u003eShort\n                  History on back.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eMrs. Cocke, Mistress of\n                  Oakland and Hostess of the Lees at Derwent,\u003c/title\u003eby\n                  Alice M. Tyler from \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Times-Dispatch\u003c/title\u003e,\n                  Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eDerwent Must Be\n                  Saved\u003c/title\u003efrom \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe News Leader\u003c/title\u003e,\n                  Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eLee's Hideaway Still\n                  Stands.\u003c/title\u003eReprinted from \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Washington and Lee\n                  University Alumni Magazine\u003c/title\u003eby Dr. Leslie Lyle\n                  Campbell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eSoutherner Heard First\n                  and Final Shots of War Between States, was friend of\n                  Lee\u003c/title\u003e, by Charles F. Preston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePart of plat. Showing land on the Piantantan River\n                  of Lady Skipwith, George Curtis, Collonell [sic]\n                  Kemps, Augustin Horthus and William Marloe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of land in Kingston Parish, inherited from\n                  George Curtis, who bought the land from Edward\n                  Wyatt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Curtis, Gloucester County to Charles\n                  Curtis, Middlesex County Re: Deed of same date was to\n                  fulfill Thomas' bond to Charles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eP. Beverly, Clerk of County Court. Re: Testimony\n                  of Nicholas Cobb, defendant; by his attorney, Thomas\n                  Gregson, in dispute over land purchased from George\n                  Curtis, now deceased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Curtis, Kingston Parish, Gloucester\n                  CountyHis will Gives all land to son Augustine, to\n                  daughters Sarrah [sic] Henry and Sous Anna [sic]\n                  Iveson, Negroes and linens\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlat of land. Charles Curtis on Piantatank River\n                  to Jno. West, Chisanassirk River, Accomack County\n                  Plat showing land surveyed by Jno. Smith. Shows\n                  location of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNicholas Foster. Re: Floor plan of a house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: How to stay busy during the day. Published in\n                  15 V 432.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests that the family visit her at\n                  Westover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound in letter, April 14, 1792, from Christopher\n                  Pryor to Mrs. Maria Armistead, Hesse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCousin Maria Carter, daughter of Landon Beverley,\n                  gave birth to a son in October. Uncle William III and\n                  Aunt Mary Willing Byrd are going to tour through New\n                  York and Philadelphia. Health. Published in 10 V\n                  178.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePocket money for her visiting. Cautions against\n                  flattery. Publixhed in 10 V 178.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComing marriages of Lucy Burwell to Edmund\n                  Berkeley, Rebecca Burwell to Jaquelin Amble and Jenny\n                  Burwell to Mann Page of Rosewell, and Miss Hannah\n                  Fairfax to Warner Washington. Published in 10 V\n                  177-178 and 15 V 433-434.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns Mr. William Armistead. Published in 15 V\n                  435.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Her marriage to Mr. William Armistead.\n                  Published in 10 V 179-180 and 15 V 435.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVote getting. Lewis' coming marriage. Launching of\n                  ship by the father of Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit against Clark Courtney and his mother Anne\n                  Mabry concerning land \"at Eatons warehouse on\n                  Rappahannock River.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginians' reaction to Lord Dunmore as Governor\n                  Tryon is well received at New York, as is Col.\n                  Fanning. Family news. Part published in 10 V 180.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts with William Jackson, James Clark, Major\n                  Thomas Boswell, John Robinson, Richard Hodges, Robert\n                  Matthewes, William Bentley Estate, Francis Elliot and\n                  John Hibble.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn New, John Fox and Danall New, Senior to\n                  William Armistead, Sheriff, Gloucester County Re:\n                  Bond of Indemnity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisit of Mr. William and Mrs. Armistead to their\n                  church. Route over Pudding Creek Bridge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews about fighting in Norfolk and man of war near\n                  York. Sent cotton and worsted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Armisteads' moving North River to avoid the\n                  enemy. The Armisteads have kept prisoners.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe evils and hardships brought upon the people by\n                  persons without authority.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubmission to the catastrophies brought by man and\n                  God. News of the Russian General, and General Howe\n                  building on the Delaware.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBirth of Mrs. Armistead's child. Capt. Deane\n                  carried Major Skith in his ship. Resignation to the\n                  will of Providence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Smith came to Elizabeth Town, N.J. but was\n                  denied a permit for New York. Lack of Negroes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum of money received.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy book on Astronomy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn reverse, John T. Griffin assigns the bond to\n                  Major William Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount for the year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMoney payment in Half Joes. Land papers brought\n                  from Augusta.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Invoice of Sundry Goods Shipped on board the\n                  Planter Capt. William Arthurs for Virginia...\"\n                  Furniture, linens, carpets, dishes and\n                  silverware.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorn and wheat deliveries, requested by Mr.\n                  Lynham. Her son Charles Carter Armistead is placed\n                  with Mr. Waugh in Port Royal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount for nails and German steel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Invoice of Sundries shipped on board the Ann\u0026amp;\n                  Mary, Capt. John Wheeler...\" Horses, tools, medical\n                  implements, riding equipment and spices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy's visit to home of Col. William Byrd III?.\n                  Published in 10 V 183.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers to send Negro girls to help her\n                  daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProtests the manner of payment of bill of\n                  exchange. Includes copy of request for bill of\n                  exchange from William Cocke to Rowles Grymes and\n                  County, London, November 30, 1787.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends tobacco to be sold to cover cost of\n                  requested items. Draws a bill of exchange upon\n                  them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement about Negroes written by Mr. Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturn of Cocke's bill of exchange resulted from\n                  his not reporting it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturn of Cocke's bill of exchange resulted from\n                  his not reporting it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChildren's education in spelling, Greek, and\n                  reading. The new Constitution will lead to a\n                  navy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer brother Charles [Carter] will send for her\n                  daughters. Plans to return to Hesse soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of tobacco sent by the ship Williamson\n                  under John Miers to Rowles Grymes and County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of tobacco and other goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDamages from a hurricane. A [legal] \"execution\".\n                  Aunt and Uncle [Lewis] Willis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrival of tobacco and confusion of orders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts against Cocke. On Reverse, note from Mr.\n                  Weaver and W.A. Fry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for tuition of Master [Charles Carter]\n                  Armistead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Invoice of Goods...\" shipped care of P. Parker at\n                  Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTravelling and illness. Mr. Page and Mr. Byrd may\n                  help her move.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends by Willis, a tobacco note for Mrs. Maria\n                  Armistead's travels.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for tuition of Master Charles Carter\n                  Armistead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts for money for Benjamin Harrison Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of Cocke's draft through Alexander\n                  Donald.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of tobacco on the Brandon. Requests\n                  information on the most popular kinds of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems to be sent to the care of P.L. Grymes. Notes\n                  of exchange.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of work done around his house. Lists cost\n                  of items used.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for payment on coffee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDispute. Copy sent to Mrs. Maria Armistead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWife Sally Sarah desires news of her sister Jane\n                  Armistead Cole. One of Washington's sisters married\n                  Mr. Milton. Growth of the area. Advantages of this\n                  farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Cocke's tobacco which was of poor quality\n                  and \"injured by the spot.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of sale of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of sale of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of sale of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount due John and Thomas Gilliat for sugar,\n                  salt and iron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of partner James Rowles. Sale of\n                  tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of a debt to prevent having to sell\n                  Negroes. His wife Betsy. Miss Nancy Armistead \"is\n                  almost devoured by Sweet Hearts.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSupplies of tea, earthenware, cyder [sic] and\n                  herring from Mr. Gilliat. Mother Mrs. Elizabeth Hill\n                  Carter Cocke will visit soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudy Armistead's ill health; suggests cures.\n                  Charles Carter Armistead is over the measles; Mr.\n                  Thomas Ryan praises him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends all requested items except loaf sugar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWheat harvest. Possibility of a Spanish war;\n                  Spanish ships have been seen in New York and\n                  Virginia. Mentions brother Charles Cocke and his son\n                  Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConfusion in the settlement of Cocke's account\n                  with Donald and Barton of London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt Manchester, with Mr. Pankey, inquired after\n                  hogsheads of mother Elizabeth Hill Carter Cocke.\n                  Tobacco; one had been sent to William Mitchell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoor tobacco sales of the previous crop will\n                  prevent his getting out of debt. Present crop does\n                  well. People have started growing wheat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Hall brought a runaway Negro to Napier. The\n                  boy said he belonged to William Cocke of\n                  Cumberland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends account of tobacco shipped in the\n                  Williamson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis sister Elizabeth Adams wishes Cocke to sell\n                  her corn. Consulted Major Thomas Massie and William\n                  Fry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMonies due from estate of Thomas Adams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount for carrying hogsheads to market.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of monies due Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Appraisement and Inventory of stock and\n                  plantation tools and utensils on Mrs. Elizabeth\n                  Adames' plantation in Amherst County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eActing for James Brown, sends coffee, and iron by\n                  Mr. Fenwick. Prices given.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends account and asks it be paid up, to enable\n                  the settlement of the estate of James Grymes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends account and asks it be paid up, to enable\n                  the settlement of the estate of James Grymes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent corn. Hired a new overseer, Smith. Sale of\n                  wheat. The trial of a Negro.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, from November 1790 to date, for salt,\n                  iron, wheat, leather, waggonage of tobacco, pork and\n                  draft on Donald and Burton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement that Moore will cultivate land for 5\n                  years and then become the owner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounting of money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for carrying tobacco of Mrs. Adams to the\n                  canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Creacy (or Cresey) took too large and\n                  order of money on Weaver.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount for women's clothing. On reverse, account\n                  of items furnished Mrs. Maria Armistead and for\n                  tuition for Charles Carter Armistead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExchange of servants. Harry's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement for building a house, \"with a plain\n                  Cornice.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs Elizabeth Adams, settlement of part\n                  of the estate between her daughter Sally Sarah and\n                  William Cocke [her son].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchooling of her son Charles Carter Armistead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount for money lent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement to rent Negroes and plantation on\n                  Rockfish River, Amherst County, part of estate of\n                  Thomas Adams, deceased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily accounts and death of [William]'s mother\n                  [Mrs. Elizabeth Fauntleroy Cocke Adams].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of slaves and horses. Crops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis fall from a horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepaying William Cocke for building a bridge\n                  across Knockbuckle Stream, by wheat growers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWheat receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of sale of tobacco and settlement of\n                  bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of tobacco from Tappahannock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClothes and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Negro living at house of Thomas Taylor\n                  Byrd [husband of Mary, dau. of William Armistead],\n                  Frederick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMoney due on a draft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily matters. Marriage of daughter Nancy [Ann\n                  Cleves] to Mr. [John P.] Pleasants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCase of Powell v. Armistead's Executors,\n                  concerning William Armistead's will.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCase of Powell v. [Armistead's] Executors. Mr.\n                  [John] Warden is an able friend. Consulted Tho[ma]s\n                  Tabb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Godfrey; consolation. Illness in the\n                  family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Daingerfield to Mrs. Maria Armistead, Hesse.\n                  Health, the phaeton and chocolate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs. [Maria] Armistead. Her papers in the\n                  [Powell v. Armistead] lawsuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily reunion. Marriage of Mrs. Randolph. The\n                  coming marriage of her brother Phil to Miss Betsy\n                  Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news. The Hesse estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeasing Hesse house to Mr. Van Bibber and the\n                  house's burning down. Living in Matthews County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for property in Gloucester County on\n                  Piankatank River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArranging insurance for insurance for Cocke's\n                  barn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlour business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSettlement of account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for flour.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBishop [James] Madison's draft on Hollins, for his\n                  son, [Peyton Randolph].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement that Ashton will be an apprentice\n                  miller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement to hire Powers as overseer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHessian fly affecting the wheat. His cousin, John\n                  Coles, has nervous fever. Asks for money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on son William [A. Cocke] in Chemical and\n                  Moral classes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePortfolio subscription. Requests news of Mr. R. H.\n                  Atkinson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrought. Acquiring Burnett seeds for Peter Bowdoin\n                  of Hungais, Northampton County, [Virginia] and Genl.\n                  Nathaniel Carzell of Sussex County, [Virginia].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 receipts for payment on a debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTreatment of a Negro girl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTravelling. Family news. Character of\n                  Napoleon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for interest paid on a bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePartitions land and describes how he wishes to be\n                  buried.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe E.F. Academy, Eternity and God. Father\n                  appointed to Port Gibson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news. Hot Spring resorts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromotion. Departure from Camp Bejara. Genl.\n                  Cushing coming to visit. Friends in Santa Anna are\n                  Bob Hughes, Major Kenly, Dr. Tilghman and Dr.\n                  Field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLove letter. Hopes she rejects the suit of Mr.\n                  Nelson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreaching at the Poplars and at Mr. Taliaferro's.\n                  Dined at Airville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Marriage?] Witt's injuries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount for money paid and received.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllness, and death of Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Snow.\n                  Their school, composed of Mann Jones, John Dixon, and\n                  John and William Fox. Cousin Francis Tomkies is\n                  coming to Gloucester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news and weather. Farming.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinister Cole Hodges and Mr. Rodher. Sending a\n                  package for the Judge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco shipping. On second sheet, printed list of\n                  merchandise and marketing information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate that account of Richard P. Jones,\n                  written by W[illia]m H. Allmand, is correct.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSettlement of a suit. His cruise to Madiera and\n                  the Canary Islands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests medical attention for his man Jonah.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003ePapers connected with the\n                  suit of Gov. Thomas of Maryland and his unfortunate\n                  wife Sally McDowell.\u003c/title\u003e[A Genl. Jones was\n                  counsel for Thomas.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of property in Highland and Adams counties.\n                  Traveling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends supplies. Wheat shipment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Horses bought in Ohio. . .\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobaco sales. \"I hear the distant thunder rumbling\n                  in our own beloved country.\" quoted Virgil on the war\n                  in Europe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sale of Forkes Plantation,\" planned with Rush\n                  Floyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eC[harles] Le Baron, Mobile [Alabama] to Richard P.\n                  Jones, Gloucester County [Virginia] [brother of\n                  Harriet who married Charles Curtis and their daughter\n                  married Charles Curtis and their daughter married\n                  Thomas L.P. Cocke.] Settlement of estate of Mr.\n                  [George L.] Fauntleroy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiss Booth. As Dr. Booth had few debts, the sale\n                  of a slave should settle the account for his own\n                  services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSettlement of [estate of Dr. Booth]. Money is to\n                  be left wtih Mr. Curtis if she is not at Wareham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTroubles sent by God, especially the death of Mr.\n                  Langhorn. Mr. [Jacob C.] Sheldon is sick. Family\n                  news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract made with R.F. Northern for carrying\n                  mail.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProjected celebration at Yorktown. Patriotism.\n                  Preservation of the Republic.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment on a mortgage assumed from T.L.\n                  Phillips.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForm for monthly return of the captain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUpon Genl. Taliaferro's orders, collected guns in\n                  the county. Guns of Col. Hayes and Col. Taylor.\n                  Completion of arsenal. Asks for job on Taliaferro's\n                  staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news and agriculture. Formation of a\n                  company in Cumberland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdmund [R. Cocke, writer's brother] sent news\n                  about obstructing roads and fords. Promotion of\n                  officers. Cousin Robert Preston. War maneuvers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMovement toward Alexandria. Expects an attack.\n                  Thomas [L.P. Cocke] is needed at home. \"Most\n                  officers, as they make more money by their offices\n                  than they did by their professions or trades get less\n                  credit for patriotism.\" Agriculture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFight at Manassas. Cally Heath came down.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news. His description of Battle of Bull\n                  Run.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitics of the artillery company. Behavior of\n                  Pendleton. Clothing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe members of his mess. Food is of fine quality.\n                  Family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTroop movements. Housing. Family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTroop movements near Winchester and Harrisonburg.\n                  Uncle [J.T.L.] Preston is well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlanking McClellan's force. News of his\n                  brothers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlanking McClellan's force. News of his\n                  brothers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdmund [R. Cocke] was well after the recent\n                  battle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHot weather. Cousin Charles Moncure. Edmund leads\n                  a relaxed life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhiladelphia press reports movements of Yankee\n                  forces inaccurately. Will fall back to Richmond\n                  before fighting. Tom [L.P. Cocke]'s company is near\n                  Port Royal. Furloughs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir man Abner. Troop movements in the rain.\n                  Vaccinations. Shoes and clothing. Wheat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWork on breastworks. Furlough of Dr. Weymouth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttempts to get a discharge from a hospital.\n                  Getting a substitute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusy in legislature. Horses and mules being\n                  vulnerable to Yankee theft. Problems with Negroes.\n                  Marital attachment of a Negro couple.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"In the event Tho[ma]s L.P. Cocke is not sent into\n                  the Army\" from Elizabeth R[andolph] Cocke, Robert D.\n                  Brown, John Hatcher and Nath[anie]l Walton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for horses and corn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManagement and/or sale of property in London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter describing place of Randolphs and Prestons\n                  at the College of William and Mary, part of a program\n                  for raising the endowment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMother visiting her son in Washington. Plans for\n                  Christmas. [Plus, Ms. note from Mrs. Maria C.\n                  Talcott.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary taken from the Southern Churchman of Mrs.\n                  Elizabeth Randolph Cocke. [Ms. notes by Mrs. Maria C.\n                  Talcott].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary, Mrs. Harriet Sheldon, wife of Jacob C.\n                  Sheldon, daughter of John Dixon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Uncle [J.T.L.] Preston. Family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA present for Miss Martha.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDevoted to Robert E. Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n              \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eDescendants of\n                     Gentlemen-Adventurer will celebrate Henrico Grant\n                     of 1636.\u003c/title\u003e\n            \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEngraving of letter from G[eorge] Washington,\n                  Mount Vernon, to Fran[ci]s Hopkinson, May 16, 1785;\n                  \"for the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ePort Folio\u003c/title\u003e.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecent death of her husband [Mann Page.] Visitors\n                  Sophia and Lizzie Tompkins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarbon copy of \"Third Regiment Virginia Calvalry,\n                  Roll of Company G, Cumberland County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReligious poem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMade by C.S. Laboratory, Richmond, [Virginia].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy book of poems.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books and a scrapbook of poems.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Scrapbook of poems.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLater family letters, genealogical notes, and poems,\n               1839-1916, of members of the Cocke family and to related\n               branches of Throckmorton, Curtis, Sheldon, Jones,\n               Preston, Byrd, Dandridge, and Carter families. Includes\n               letters kept by Elizabeth R.P. Cocke, daughter of T.L.P.\n               Cocke and letters of Mary B. Cocke, mother of Maria C.\n               Talcott.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters of the Cocke, Curtis, and Preston\n               families of Richmond, Virginia, particularly\n               correspondence between Harriet Throgmorton Jones Curtis\n               and her children Charles (\"Barney\"), Mary Boothe,\n               Harriet, Maria, and Martha Curtis. Also includes\n               correspondence between Mary Booth Curtis and her\n               husband, Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke, as well as letters\n               from Thomas L.P. Cocke's mother, Elizabeth R.P. Cocke,\n               to himself and his brothers, William, Edmund, and\n               Preston Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are to her sons William F. Cocke, Thomas\n                  L.P. Cocke, Edmund R. Cocke, and Preston Cocke, and\n                  her daughters-in-law and grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence early in their marriage when they\n                  were apart. Includes letters from their children\n                  Maria, Harriet, Charles and William Cocke, living in\n                  Powhatan County, Virginia with their mother, to their\n                  father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are to brother Charles Curtis, her sisters\n                  Mary Boothe, Maria and Martha Curtis, and her\n                  brother-in-law, Thomas L.P. Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Martha Throgmorton Curtis James to\n                  her sisters Mary Boothe Curtis Cocke, Maria\n                  Greenhough Curtis JOnes, Harriet Curtis Cringan,\n                  Fanny Throgmorton Curtis, and her mother Harriet T.J.\n                  Curtis, about family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are to sisters Harriet T.J. Curtis, her\n                  brother-in-law, Thomas L.P. Cocke and her niece,\n                  Harriet Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to her sisters, mother and Mary Booth\n                  Curtis Cocke and Thomas L.P. Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from family and friends just prior to her\n                  wedding to Thomas L.P. Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Curtis (also called \"Barney\") from\n                  friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes one photograph of Annie Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Washington College and the University of\n                  Virginia. Also includes Vol. 1 (March 1839) of the\n                  Collegian, published by the students of the\n                  University of Virginia, and a program of the\n                  Baccalaureate Exercises at the College of William and\n                  Mary in 1935.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to her children before the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Correspondence, 1756-1764, of Maria Carter Armistead;\n         business papers, 1782-1828, of William Cocke of \"Bremo,\"\n         Henrico County, Virginia and of \"Oakland,\" Cumberland County,\n         Virginia; and letters, 1861-1863, of William Fauntleroy Cocke,\n         Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke and Edmund Randolph Cocke\n         concerning their service in the Confederate States Army\n         (including the Battle of First Bull Run). Also included are\n         five volumes of farm and account books, 1851-1863, of Richard\n         P. Jones of \"Land's End,\" Gloucester County, Virginia;\n         copybooks on astronomy, [ca.1770-1780?], scrapbooks, and\n         genealogical material. Includes letter, 1869, of Benjamin\n         Stoddert Ewell concerning the connections between the Randolph\n         and Preston families and the College of William and Mary.","Additions to the collection (1997.34 and 1998.45) include\n         family letters, genealogical notes and poems of members of the\n         Cocke family and to related branches of Throckmorton, Curtis,\n         Sheldon, Jones, Preston, Byrd, Dandridge and Carter families\n         living in Richmond, Virginia and Powhatan County, Virginia.\n         Some letters are written from Richmond in the Reconstruction\n         Era.","Press release, 1958. Initial list of the\n                  collection. Genealogical charts.","Re: Genealogical Column, about Carters and\n                  Armisteads.","Early Carter and Armistead families, containing\n                  copies of letters from this collection.","Genealogical material concerning the Curtis,\n                  Sheldon, Carter, and Cocke families by Maria C.\n                  Talcott.","From \n                   The Times-Dispatch ,\n                  Richmond","Copy of the tombstone of Emanuel Jones, died 1739,\n                  made by P[eyton] H. Page.","Re: Major Robert Throckmorton and John Peyton\n                  Dixon, from Bible owned by Mrs. Fann Throckmorton\n                  Nicolson.","The Sun , Baltimore.\n                  Re: \n                   The Throckmorton family\n                  of England and Virginia by Jane Griffin\n                  Keys.","Photograph of painting in Alexandria. She married\n                  Bowler Cocke II, and their son was William Cocke who\n                  married Jane Armistead.","Photostat positive and negative of painting, owned\n                  by Mrs. Maria C. and [Nathan?] Talcott, of Maria\n                  Byrd, daughter of William Byrd II and wife of Charles\n                  Carter, with son Charles Carter and [Maria Carter\n                  Armistead?].","Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke, son of William\n                  Armistead Cocke, Oakland.","Mrs. Elizabeth Randolph Preston Cocke, with Sally\n                  Lyle Preston Cocke, eldest daughter of Edmund\n                  Randolph Cocke.","Mary Booth Curtis Cocke, wife of Thomas L. P.\n                  Cocke.","\"Historic Mansion of Mathews County,\" Hesse.","Oakland. Short\n                  History on back.","Mrs. Cocke, Mistress of\n                  Oakland and Hostess of the Lees at Derwent, by\n                  Alice M. Tyler from \n                   The Times-Dispatch ,\n                  Richmond.","Derwent Must Be\n                  Saved from \n                   The News Leader ,\n                  Richmond, Virginia.","Lee's Hideaway Still\n                  Stands. Reprinted from \n                   The Washington and Lee\n                  University Alumni Magazine by Dr. Leslie Lyle\n                  Campbell.","Southerner Heard First\n                  and Final Shots of War Between States, was friend of\n                  Lee , by Charles F. Preston.","Part of plat. Showing land on the Piantantan River\n                  of Lady Skipwith, George Curtis, Collonell [sic]\n                  Kemps, Augustin Horthus and William Marloe.","Sale of land in Kingston Parish, inherited from\n                  George Curtis, who bought the land from Edward\n                  Wyatt.","Thomas Curtis, Gloucester County to Charles\n                  Curtis, Middlesex County Re: Deed of same date was to\n                  fulfill Thomas' bond to Charles.","P. Beverly, Clerk of County Court. Re: Testimony\n                  of Nicholas Cobb, defendant; by his attorney, Thomas\n                  Gregson, in dispute over land purchased from George\n                  Curtis, now deceased.","Charles Curtis, Kingston Parish, Gloucester\n                  CountyHis will Gives all land to son Augustine, to\n                  daughters Sarrah [sic] Henry and Sous Anna [sic]\n                  Iveson, Negroes and linens","Plat of land. Charles Curtis on Piantatank River\n                  to Jno. West, Chisanassirk River, Accomack County\n                  Plat showing land surveyed by Jno. Smith. Shows\n                  location of the house.","Nicholas Foster. Re: Floor plan of a house.","Re: How to stay busy during the day. Published in\n                  15 V 432.","Requests that the family visit her at\n                  Westover.","Bound in letter, April 14, 1792, from Christopher\n                  Pryor to Mrs. Maria Armistead, Hesse.","Cousin Maria Carter, daughter of Landon Beverley,\n                  gave birth to a son in October. Uncle William III and\n                  Aunt Mary Willing Byrd are going to tour through New\n                  York and Philadelphia. Health. Published in 10 V\n                  178.","Pocket money for her visiting. Cautions against\n                  flattery. Publixhed in 10 V 178.","Coming marriages of Lucy Burwell to Edmund\n                  Berkeley, Rebecca Burwell to Jaquelin Amble and Jenny\n                  Burwell to Mann Page of Rosewell, and Miss Hannah\n                  Fairfax to Warner Washington. Published in 10 V\n                  177-178 and 15 V 433-434.","Concerns Mr. William Armistead. Published in 15 V\n                  435.","Family news.","Re: Her marriage to Mr. William Armistead.\n                  Published in 10 V 179-180 and 15 V 435.","Vote getting. Lewis' coming marriage. Launching of\n                  ship by the father of Lewis.","Suit against Clark Courtney and his mother Anne\n                  Mabry concerning land \"at Eatons warehouse on\n                  Rappahannock River.\"","Virginians' reaction to Lord Dunmore as Governor\n                  Tryon is well received at New York, as is Col.\n                  Fanning. Family news. Part published in 10 V 180.","Accounts with William Jackson, James Clark, Major\n                  Thomas Boswell, John Robinson, Richard Hodges, Robert\n                  Matthewes, William Bentley Estate, Francis Elliot and\n                  John Hibble.","John New, John Fox and Danall New, Senior to\n                  William Armistead, Sheriff, Gloucester County Re:\n                  Bond of Indemnity.","Visit of Mr. William and Mrs. Armistead to their\n                  church. Route over Pudding Creek Bridge.","News about fighting in Norfolk and man of war near\n                  York. Sent cotton and worsted.","The Armisteads' moving North River to avoid the\n                  enemy. The Armisteads have kept prisoners.","The evils and hardships brought upon the people by\n                  persons without authority.","Submission to the catastrophies brought by man and\n                  God. News of the Russian General, and General Howe\n                  building on the Delaware.","Birth of Mrs. Armistead's child. Capt. Deane\n                  carried Major Skith in his ship. Resignation to the\n                  will of Providence.","Mr. Smith came to Elizabeth Town, N.J. but was\n                  denied a permit for New York. Lack of Negroes.","Accounts.","Accounts.","Memorandum of money received.","Copy book on Astronomy.","On reverse, John T. Griffin assigns the bond to\n                  Major William Lewis.","Account for the year.","Money payment in Half Joes. Land papers brought\n                  from Augusta.","\"Invoice of Sundry Goods Shipped on board the\n                  Planter Capt. William Arthurs for Virginia...\"\n                  Furniture, linens, carpets, dishes and\n                  silverware.","Corn and wheat deliveries, requested by Mr.\n                  Lynham. Her son Charles Carter Armistead is placed\n                  with Mr. Waugh in Port Royal.","Account for nails and German steel.","\"Invoice of Sundries shipped on board the Ann\u0026\n                  Mary, Capt. John Wheeler...\" Horses, tools, medical\n                  implements, riding equipment and spices.","Lucy's visit to home of Col. William Byrd III?.\n                  Published in 10 V 183.","Offers to send Negro girls to help her\n                  daughter.","Protests the manner of payment of bill of\n                  exchange. Includes copy of request for bill of\n                  exchange from William Cocke to Rowles Grymes and\n                  County, London, November 30, 1787.","Sends tobacco to be sold to cover cost of\n                  requested items. Draws a bill of exchange upon\n                  them.","Agreement about Negroes written by Mr. Page.","Return of Cocke's bill of exchange resulted from\n                  his not reporting it.","Return of Cocke's bill of exchange resulted from\n                  his not reporting it.","Children's education in spelling, Greek, and\n                  reading. The new Constitution will lead to a\n                  navy.","Her brother Charles [Carter] will send for her\n                  daughters. Plans to return to Hesse soon.","Shipment of tobacco sent by the ship Williamson\n                  under John Miers to Rowles Grymes and County","Shipment of tobacco and other goods.","Damages from a hurricane. A [legal] \"execution\".\n                  Aunt and Uncle [Lewis] Willis.","Arrival of tobacco and confusion of orders.","Accounts against Cocke. On Reverse, note from Mr.\n                  Weaver and W.A. Fry.","Receipt for tuition of Master [Charles Carter]\n                  Armistead.","\"Invoice of Goods...\" shipped care of P. Parker at\n                  Norfolk.","Travelling and illness. Mr. Page and Mr. Byrd may\n                  help her move.","Sends by Willis, a tobacco note for Mrs. Maria\n                  Armistead's travels.","Receipt for tuition of Master Charles Carter\n                  Armistead.","Receipts for money for Benjamin Harrison Jr.","Receipt of Cocke's draft through Alexander\n                  Donald.","Shipment of tobacco on the Brandon. Requests\n                  information on the most popular kinds of tobacco.","Items to be sent to the care of P.L. Grymes. Notes\n                  of exchange.","Account of work done around his house. Lists cost\n                  of items used.","Receipt for payment on coffee.","Dispute. Copy sent to Mrs. Maria Armistead.","Wife Sally Sarah desires news of her sister Jane\n                  Armistead Cole. One of Washington's sisters married\n                  Mr. Milton. Growth of the area. Advantages of this\n                  farm.","Sale of Cocke's tobacco which was of poor quality\n                  and \"injured by the spot.\"","Account of sale of tobacco.","Account of sale of tobacco.","Account of sale of tobacco.","Account due John and Thomas Gilliat for sugar,\n                  salt and iron.","Death of partner James Rowles. Sale of\n                  tobacco.","Payment of a debt to prevent having to sell\n                  Negroes. His wife Betsy. Miss Nancy Armistead \"is\n                  almost devoured by Sweet Hearts.\"","Supplies of tea, earthenware, cyder [sic] and\n                  herring from Mr. Gilliat. Mother Mrs. Elizabeth Hill\n                  Carter Cocke will visit soon.","Judy Armistead's ill health; suggests cures.\n                  Charles Carter Armistead is over the measles; Mr.\n                  Thomas Ryan praises him.","Sends all requested items except loaf sugar.","Wheat harvest. Possibility of a Spanish war;\n                  Spanish ships have been seen in New York and\n                  Virginia. Mentions brother Charles Cocke and his son\n                  Henry.","Confusion in the settlement of Cocke's account\n                  with Donald and Barton of London.","At Manchester, with Mr. Pankey, inquired after\n                  hogsheads of mother Elizabeth Hill Carter Cocke.\n                  Tobacco; one had been sent to William Mitchell.","Poor tobacco sales of the previous crop will\n                  prevent his getting out of debt. Present crop does\n                  well. People have started growing wheat.","John Hall brought a runaway Negro to Napier. The\n                  boy said he belonged to William Cocke of\n                  Cumberland.","Sends account of tobacco shipped in the\n                  Williamson.","His sister Elizabeth Adams wishes Cocke to sell\n                  her corn. Consulted Major Thomas Massie and William\n                  Fry.","Monies due from estate of Thomas Adams.","Account for carrying hogsheads to market.","List of monies due Cocke.","\"Appraisement and Inventory of stock and\n                  plantation tools and utensils on Mrs. Elizabeth\n                  Adames' plantation in Amherst County.\"","Acting for James Brown, sends coffee, and iron by\n                  Mr. Fenwick. Prices given.","Sends account and asks it be paid up, to enable\n                  the settlement of the estate of James Grymes.","Sends account and asks it be paid up, to enable\n                  the settlement of the estate of James Grymes.","Sent corn. Hired a new overseer, Smith. Sale of\n                  wheat. The trial of a Negro.","Accounts, from November 1790 to date, for salt,\n                  iron, wheat, leather, waggonage of tobacco, pork and\n                  draft on Donald and Burton.","Agreement that Moore will cultivate land for 5\n                  years and then become the owner.","Accounting of money.","Bill for carrying tobacco of Mrs. Adams to the\n                  canal.","William Creacy (or Cresey) took too large and\n                  order of money on Weaver.","Account for women's clothing. On reverse, account\n                  of items furnished Mrs. Maria Armistead and for\n                  tuition for Charles Carter Armistead.","Exchange of servants. Harry's death.","Agreement for building a house, \"with a plain\n                  Cornice.\"","Death of Mrs Elizabeth Adams, settlement of part\n                  of the estate between her daughter Sally Sarah and\n                  William Cocke [her son].","Schooling of her son Charles Carter Armistead.","Account for money lent.","Agreement to rent Negroes and plantation on\n                  Rockfish River, Amherst County, part of estate of\n                  Thomas Adams, deceased.","Family accounts and death of [William]'s mother\n                  [Mrs. Elizabeth Fauntleroy Cocke Adams].","Sends account.","Sale of slaves and horses. Crops.","His fall from a horse.","Repaying William Cocke for building a bridge\n                  across Knockbuckle Stream, by wheat growers.","Wheat receipts.","Account of sale of tobacco and settlement of\n                  bonds.","Shipment of tobacco from Tappahannock.","Clothes and family news.","Sale of Negro living at house of Thomas Taylor\n                  Byrd [husband of Mary, dau. of William Armistead],\n                  Frederick.","Money due on a draft.","Family matters. Marriage of daughter Nancy [Ann\n                  Cleves] to Mr. [John P.] Pleasants.","Account.","Case of Powell v. Armistead's Executors,\n                  concerning William Armistead's will.","Case of Powell v. [Armistead's] Executors. Mr.\n                  [John] Warden is an able friend. Consulted Tho[ma]s\n                  Tabb.","Death of Godfrey; consolation. Illness in the\n                  family.","Sarah Daingerfield to Mrs. Maria Armistead, Hesse.\n                  Health, the phaeton and chocolate.","Account.","Death of Mrs. [Maria] Armistead. Her papers in the\n                  [Powell v. Armistead] lawsuit.","Family reunion. Marriage of Mrs. Randolph. The\n                  coming marriage of her brother Phil to Miss Betsy\n                  Page.","Family news. The Hesse estate.","Leasing Hesse house to Mr. Van Bibber and the\n                  house's burning down. Living in Matthews County","Deed for property in Gloucester County on\n                  Piankatank River.","Arranging insurance for insurance for Cocke's\n                  barn.","Flour business.","Settlement of account.","Receipt for flour.","Bishop [James] Madison's draft on Hollins, for his\n                  son, [Peyton Randolph].","Agreement that Ashton will be an apprentice\n                  miller.","Account sheet.","Agreement to hire Powers as overseer.","Hessian fly affecting the wheat. His cousin, John\n                  Coles, has nervous fever. Asks for money.","Report on son William [A. Cocke] in Chemical and\n                  Moral classes.","Portfolio subscription. Requests news of Mr. R. H.\n                  Atkinson.","Drought. Acquiring Burnett seeds for Peter Bowdoin\n                  of Hungais, Northampton County, [Virginia] and Genl.\n                  Nathaniel Carzell of Sussex County, [Virginia].","2 receipts for payment on a debt.","Promissory note.","Treatment of a Negro girl.","Travelling. Family news. Character of\n                  Napoleon.","Receipt for interest paid on a bond.","Partitions land and describes how he wishes to be\n                  buried.","The E.F. Academy, Eternity and God. Father\n                  appointed to Port Gibson.","Family news. Hot Spring resorts.","Promotion. Departure from Camp Bejara. Genl.\n                  Cushing coming to visit. Friends in Santa Anna are\n                  Bob Hughes, Major Kenly, Dr. Tilghman and Dr.\n                  Field.","Love letter. Hopes she rejects the suit of Mr.\n                  Nelson.","Preaching at the Poplars and at Mr. Taliaferro's.\n                  Dined at Airville.","[Marriage?] Witt's injuries.","Account for money paid and received.","Illness, and death of Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Snow.\n                  Their school, composed of Mann Jones, John Dixon, and\n                  John and William Fox. Cousin Francis Tomkies is\n                  coming to Gloucester.","Family news and weather. Farming.","Minister Cole Hodges and Mr. Rodher. Sending a\n                  package for the Judge.","Tobacco shipping. On second sheet, printed list of\n                  merchandise and marketing information.","Certificate that account of Richard P. Jones,\n                  written by W[illia]m H. Allmand, is correct.","Settlement of a suit. His cruise to Madiera and\n                  the Canary Islands.","Requests medical attention for his man Jonah.","Papers connected with the\n                  suit of Gov. Thomas of Maryland and his unfortunate\n                  wife Sally McDowell. [A Genl. Jones was\n                  counsel for Thomas.]","Sale of property in Highland and Adams counties.\n                  Traveling.","Sends supplies. Wheat shipment.","\"Horses bought in Ohio. . .\"","Tobaco sales. \"I hear the distant thunder rumbling\n                  in our own beloved country.\" quoted Virgil on the war\n                  in Europe.","\"Sale of Forkes Plantation,\" planned with Rush\n                  Floyd.","C[harles] Le Baron, Mobile [Alabama] to Richard P.\n                  Jones, Gloucester County [Virginia] [brother of\n                  Harriet who married Charles Curtis and their daughter\n                  married Charles Curtis and their daughter married\n                  Thomas L.P. Cocke.] Settlement of estate of Mr.\n                  [George L.] Fauntleroy.","Miss Booth. As Dr. Booth had few debts, the sale\n                  of a slave should settle the account for his own\n                  services.","Sale of tobacco.","Settlement of [estate of Dr. Booth]. Money is to\n                  be left wtih Mr. Curtis if she is not at Wareham.","Troubles sent by God, especially the death of Mr.\n                  Langhorn. Mr. [Jacob C.] Sheldon is sick. Family\n                  news.","Contract made with R.F. Northern for carrying\n                  mail.","Projected celebration at Yorktown. Patriotism.\n                  Preservation of the Republic.","Payment on a mortgage assumed from T.L.\n                  Phillips.","Form for monthly return of the captain.","Upon Genl. Taliaferro's orders, collected guns in\n                  the county. Guns of Col. Hayes and Col. Taylor.\n                  Completion of arsenal. Asks for job on Taliaferro's\n                  staff.","Family news and agriculture. Formation of a\n                  company in Cumberland.","Edmund [R. Cocke, writer's brother] sent news\n                  about obstructing roads and fords. Promotion of\n                  officers. Cousin Robert Preston. War maneuvers.","Movement toward Alexandria. Expects an attack.\n                  Thomas [L.P. Cocke] is needed at home. \"Most\n                  officers, as they make more money by their offices\n                  than they did by their professions or trades get less\n                  credit for patriotism.\" Agriculture.","Fight at Manassas. Cally Heath came down.","Family news. His description of Battle of Bull\n                  Run.","Politics of the artillery company. Behavior of\n                  Pendleton. Clothing.","The members of his mess. Food is of fine quality.\n                  Family news.","Troop movements. Housing. Family news.","Troop movements near Winchester and Harrisonburg.\n                  Uncle [J.T.L.] Preston is well.","Flanking McClellan's force. News of his\n                  brothers.","Flanking McClellan's force. News of his\n                  brothers.","Edmund [R. Cocke] was well after the recent\n                  battle.","Hot weather. Cousin Charles Moncure. Edmund leads\n                  a relaxed life.","Philadelphia press reports movements of Yankee\n                  forces inaccurately. Will fall back to Richmond\n                  before fighting. Tom [L.P. Cocke]'s company is near\n                  Port Royal. Furloughs.","Their man Abner. Troop movements in the rain.\n                  Vaccinations. Shoes and clothing. Wheat.","Work on breastworks. Furlough of Dr. Weymouth.","Attempts to get a discharge from a hospital.\n                  Getting a substitute.","Busy in legislature. Horses and mules being\n                  vulnerable to Yankee theft. Problems with Negroes.\n                  Marital attachment of a Negro couple.","\"In the event Tho[ma]s L.P. Cocke is not sent into\n                  the Army\" from Elizabeth R[andolph] Cocke, Robert D.\n                  Brown, John Hatcher and Nath[anie]l Walton.","Bill for horses and corn.","Management and/or sale of property in London.","Letter describing place of Randolphs and Prestons\n                  at the College of William and Mary, part of a program\n                  for raising the endowment.","Mother visiting her son in Washington. Plans for\n                  Christmas. [Plus, Ms. note from Mrs. Maria C.\n                  Talcott.]","Obituary taken from the Southern Churchman of Mrs.\n                  Elizabeth Randolph Cocke. [Ms. notes by Mrs. Maria C.\n                  Talcott].","Obituary, Mrs. Harriet Sheldon, wife of Jacob C.\n                  Sheldon, daughter of John Dixon.","Death of Uncle [J.T.L.] Preston. Family news.","A present for Miss Martha.","Devoted to Robert E. Lee.","Descendants of\n                     Gentlemen-Adventurer will celebrate Henrico Grant\n                     of 1636.","Engraving of letter from G[eorge] Washington,\n                  Mount Vernon, to Fran[ci]s Hopkinson, May 16, 1785;\n                  \"for the \n                   Port Folio .\"","Recent death of her husband [Mann Page.] Visitors\n                  Sophia and Lizzie Tompkins.","Carbon copy of \"Third Regiment Virginia Calvalry,\n                  Roll of Company G, Cumberland County.\"","Religious poem.","Made by C.S. Laboratory, Richmond, [Virginia].","Copy book of poems.","Account books and a scrapbook of poems.","Re: Scrapbook of poems.","Later family letters, genealogical notes, and poems,\n               1839-1916, of members of the Cocke family and to related\n               branches of Throckmorton, Curtis, Sheldon, Jones,\n               Preston, Byrd, Dandridge, and Carter families. Includes\n               letters kept by Elizabeth R.P. Cocke, daughter of T.L.P.\n               Cocke and letters of Mary B. Cocke, mother of Maria C.\n               Talcott.","Includes letters of the Cocke, Curtis, and Preston\n               families of Richmond, Virginia, particularly\n               correspondence between Harriet Throgmorton Jones Curtis\n               and her children Charles (\"Barney\"), Mary Boothe,\n               Harriet, Maria, and Martha Curtis. Also includes\n               correspondence between Mary Booth Curtis and her\n               husband, Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke, as well as letters\n               from Thomas L.P. Cocke's mother, Elizabeth R.P. Cocke,\n               to himself and his brothers, William, Edmund, and\n               Preston Cocke.","Family news.","Letters are to her sons William F. Cocke, Thomas\n                  L.P. Cocke, Edmund R. Cocke, and Preston Cocke, and\n                  her daughters-in-law and grandchildren.","Correspondence early in their marriage when they\n                  were apart. Includes letters from their children\n                  Maria, Harriet, Charles and William Cocke, living in\n                  Powhatan County, Virginia with their mother, to their\n                  father.","Letters are to brother Charles Curtis, her sisters\n                  Mary Boothe, Maria and Martha Curtis, and her\n                  brother-in-law, Thomas L.P. Cocke.","Letters from Martha Throgmorton Curtis James to\n                  her sisters Mary Boothe Curtis Cocke, Maria\n                  Greenhough Curtis JOnes, Harriet Curtis Cringan,\n                  Fanny Throgmorton Curtis, and her mother Harriet T.J.\n                  Curtis, about family news.","Letters are to sisters Harriet T.J. Curtis, her\n                  brother-in-law, Thomas L.P. Cocke and her niece,\n                  Harriet Cocke.","Letters to her sisters, mother and Mary Booth\n                  Curtis Cocke and Thomas L.P. Cocke.","Letters from family and friends just prior to her\n                  wedding to Thomas L.P. Cocke.","Letters to Curtis (also called \"Barney\") from\n                  friends and family.","From family and friends.","Includes one photograph of Annie Page.","From Washington College and the University of\n                  Virginia. Also includes Vol. 1 (March 1839) of the\n                  Collegian, published by the students of the\n                  University of Virginia, and a program of the\n                  Baccalaureate Exercises at the College of William and\n                  Mary in 1935.","Written to her children before the Civil War."],"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\"\u003eLetters and papers of the Armistead\n         and Cocke families of Henrico and Cumberland Counties,\n         Virginia.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Letters and papers of the Armistead\n         and Cocke families of Henrico and Cumberland Counties,\n         Virginia."],"names_ssim":["Armistead Family.","Cocke Family.","Armistead family.","Cocke family.","Cocke, William, fl. 1798-1855.","Cocke, William Fauntleroy, 1826-1863.","Cocke, Thomas Lewis Preston,\n            1838-1895.","Cocke, Edmund Randolph, 1841-1922.","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894."],"famname_ssim":["Armistead Family.","Cocke Family.","Armistead family.","Cocke family."],"persname_ssim":["Cocke, William, fl. 1798-1855.","Cocke, William Fauntleroy, 1826-1863.","Cocke, Thomas Lewis Preston,\n            1838-1895.","Cocke, Edmund Randolph, 1841-1922.","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":279,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:35:56.571Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00018"}},{"id":"viw_viw00020","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888.","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00020#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Theodocius Josha Scurlock.","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00020#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Letters, 1855-1888, received by or concerning Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock while a resident of Texas and Mexico from family members in Alabama and Texas and friends in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Also includes a diary, December 1867-April 1869, kept by Scurlock on his journey to Mexico.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00020#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viw_viw00020","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00020","_root_":"viw_viw00020","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00020","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00020.xml","title_ssm":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"title_tesim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 81 Scu4"],"text":["Mss. 81 Scu4","Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888.","Reconstruction.","116 items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","Arrangement The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.","The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.","The collection is primarily composed of letters received by\n         Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock (1828-1887), a graduate of\n         Tulane University and a resident of Texas and Mexico,\n         1855-1888, from family members in Alabama and Texas, and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. The letters\n         reflect the restlessness of the pre-Civil War years, and the\n         difficulties and disillusionment felt by many people during\n         Reconstruction. Diary included was kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico, December 1867-April 1869, in which he gives\n         his impressions of the people he encountered as well as the\n         natural history of the regions he passed through.","Glad to have received letter but worried about\n                     health; reports brother Dan had left for Irving\n                     [College]; money hard to come by and price for\n                     cotton very low; refers to pending lawsuit; other\n                     family news.","Worries about health and relates deaths of\n                     various towns people; money hard to come by and\n                     business bad; other family and town related\n                     news.","Crops doing well; received letter from a most\n                     \"dangerous woman,\" claiming son hadn't paid a\n                     debt; advises him to stay away from this \"awful\n                     woman\"; mentions pending lawsuit referred to as\n                     \"hooke suit\" (?); other family and town news.","Refers to a favor which \"came to hand\"; talks\n                     about crops and prices; refers to the burning of a\n                     foundry in Montgomery [Alabama]; many suffering\n                     from scarlet fever; mentions the Hook's lawsuit\n                     being taken to Supreme Court; other family and\n                     town news.","Complains about mail system; has not received\n                     any letters from son; crops doing very well,\n                     especially corn; discusses Hook's lawsuit; relates\n                     town \"anicdote\"; other family news.","Glad to receive letter after \"too months\";\n                     crops doing very well; Scarlet fever still \"going\n                     through neighbourhood\"; other family news.","Speaks of fine crops and many deaths from\n                     Scarlet fever; Hook suit not yet decided; advises\n                     to stay away from the \"slandering living old\n                     devil\" who claims he hasn't paid debt; other\n                     family news.","Worried that lawyers want evidence from him for\n                     Hook's case; advises not to give any at all;\n                     reports crops are good except cotton and all are\n                     well.","Reports a retrial for \"Hooke's\" case and\n                     advises that he give no evidence; advises to stay\n                     away from \"Tom the big baby\"; asks him not to\n                     mention case in any letters except to her, Mit or\n                     Will; other family news.","Replies to question about health and crops;\n                     gives long account about political opinions\n                     relating to the \"American party\", break up of the\n                     Whigs and strengthening of Democrats; relates\n                     local arrests; business interests shifting; other\n                     news about common friends.","Disease going around caused by snakes, many\n                     deaths; defines Hook's case as divorce case;\n                     advises to not give any evidence; case has been\n                     given a retrial; worried about Mary's [sister]\n                     health; not receiving Texas paper; other family\n                     news.","Received letter; has severe cold, health at\n                     Irving generally good; plans on staying two years;\n                     has not rained lately and is very warm; Had sent\n                     catalogue, will send another.","Requests help in getting into business as an\n                     \"averseer.\"","Inflicted with typhoid, hopes to be well soon;\n                     asks that Scurlock take care of some business\n                     dealings; received letter from William Harrison\n                     giving news of many deaths in Montgomery, County\n                     [Alabama]; provides arrangements for moving [to\n                     Texas]; family news.","Times dull as session ending; has sprained\n                     ankle; has received letter from Ma which\n                     criticizes his spelling; will try again to send\n                     catalogue.","Sends papers on Freeman Divorce case; refers to\n                     a petition and preparation of legal papers; other\n                     family news.","Relates how letter had been detoured to\n                     mother's house, was \"read at home\" then sent on to\n                     Irving; advises T.J. to settle down and get\n                     married; also advises to not travel until decision\n                     to make Kansas a state is made; advises to go to\n                     Kansas if it becomes a slave state; mentions a\n                     planned act of violence by Negroes near\n                     Clarksville [Tennessee] on the Cumberlan[d] River;\n                     planned to knock us all in the head\" and \"make\n                     themselves free Ladies and Gentleman.\"; other\n                     family news.","Glad to hear that he is happy, expected him to\n                     be \"Alabama-sick\" [homesick]; has begun farming,\n                     finds its hard work; all in good health except\n                     mother who has \"posey \"; other news.","Complains in great length that Josh did not\n                     stop to visit on his way to Texas; glad to hear\n                     his health has improved with the \"Minreul wutter\";\n                     inquires about a Negro, John, who held freedman's\n                     status; other family news.","Relates the marriage of two couples of the\n                     area; reports the results of the elections for\n                     probate and circuit judge and refers them to their\n                     respective parties; have had long dry spell,\n                     hasn't been good for the \"God of Macon...King\n                     cotton\"; reports other deaths and gives some\n                     family news.","Bill has gotten married, spends great deal of\n                     time telling why he shouldn't have \"don[e] the\n                     deed\"; begs son not to go to Central America\n                     because climate not good for health; crops are\n                     doing well except cotton; inquires about \"Ben's\n                     wife\" who was lost on a boat which was sunk on 20\n                     April 1856; has hired new help who is young and\n                     \"don't know much\"; other family news.","Gives long philosophical and metaphorical\n                     arguments about the importance of good health;\n                     compares the \"excruciating pain\" of the invalid to\n                     the \"vast freedom\" of the healthy; will remain at\n                     College for 6 week break in isolation as few\n                     students have remained.","Refers to a debt owed by Mr. Scurlock and to\n                     Mr. Scurlock's absence at this time; mentions a\n                     hired black man in the employ of Mr. Scurlock.","Has not heard or seen [Theodoicus Joshua]\n                     Scurlock nor has he been in [Texas]; Has not the\n                     funds to pay the debt but will soon; refers to a\n                     boy [slave] who \"has plenty to eat but nothing to\n                     do.\"","Pleads with brother to stop his traveling, to\n                     buy a home and settle down; claims that hundreds\n                     of tears have been shed, thinking he was dead;\n                     begs [T.J.] to meet brother Billy in Marshall\n                     [Texas] and stay with him.","Glad to receive letter and that he [T.J.]\n                     hasn't gone to Nicaragua; sorry to learn he has\n                     been \"lying on the bed of affliction\"; encourages\n                     him to go to Marshall [County, Texas] to meet\n                     [brother] Bill who has just married; sister has\n                     been married; sent 2 letters to different\n                     addresses; other family news.","Rejects Scurlock's proposition to buy his land\n                     in Nepsher County; would like $3 an acre; doesn't\n                     believe land in that area is selling for less.","Hopes business better for Scurlock than\n                     himself; selling out and moving to New Orleans;\n                     enjoyed traveling from his town.","Has returned to \"this city\" and plans to say;\n                     is pleased by the business prospects; believes\n                     could make good profit on investments; likes the\n                     amusements of the city.","Has not received word in 3 months; very cold\n                     weather and is affecting the crops; very little\n                     corn; money is tight; has bought \"a negro\"; had\n                     poor crop last year; other family news.","Has had a \"very cold and backward spring\"; 200\n                     deaths since Xmas from measles; brother is talking\n                     about joining U.S. Army; Democrats have full\n                     ticket for legislature and County offices; many\n                     old whigs have gone Democrat; Democrats only party\n                     \"able to beat back abolitionists and save our\n                     country from ruin\"; reports Freeman and Williams\n                     lawsuit decided in favor of Williams; other family\n                     and town news.","Relates family is well, brother Dan is home\n                     from Tennessee, brother William had measles; will\n                     try to visit [T.J.] and that part of country; a\n                     few deaths have occurred caused by measles; other\n                     town news.","Glad to have received letter; sorry Josh didn't\n                     come to visit; crops doing badly because of cold\n                     spring but should make profit in cotton; voted for\n                     Buchanan in election as did Josh.","In good health; has been trying to find a job;\n                     reading law now; married an unnamed woman; crops\n                     okay except cotton for which it has been too\n                     cold.","Glad to receive letter and all in good health;\n                     American Party has won full representation in both\n                     Houses of Congress; describes political antics of\n                     both parties concerning \"burying\" the opponent;\n                     crops doing well except cotton because of cold;\n                     relationship between Jones family and Scurlocks\n                     not on firm ground as a result of daughter Mit's\n                     husband; other town news.","Has not been well but glad to receive letter;\n                     crops not very good, cotton getting a high price,\n                     about 15 cents; Wishes he could come to visit\n                     before she dies; discourages [Josh] to go to\n                     Central America as there will be \"fighting enuf\n                     [sic] to do in your own native land.\"; other\n                     family news.","Has a slight cold; have been several weddings;\n                     thinking about going to law school in Tennessee;\n                     would like to set up practice in Texas or \"other\n                     new country,\"; other family news.","Has the \"clap\", likes T.J.'s proposition, would\n                     like to be doing something; hard times coming on;\n                     other family news.","Just returned home; has a cold; expenses for\n                     trip amounted to $60, Did not need money advanced\n                     by T.J.","Has on hand $150 belonging to T.J. received\n                     through money order; Mr. Barker has paid nothing\n                     on debt; sister sends word T.J. must get\n                     married.","Misses Josh very much, encourages him to come\n                     and visit several times; family is well; has been\n                     married; other family news.","Has received no word since February; refers\n                     sarcastically to Cupid and Social Life; reading\n                     [law] at home; intends to come to Texas following\n                     winter; other family news.","Describes the fashions of LaPlace and the young\n                     ladies; crops doing well, plenty of food;\n                     convention meeting in Montgomery [Alabama] to\n                     discuss dissolving of nation; court system\n                     inefficient and overloaded; other family and town\n                     news.","Surprised to hear he is studying medicine\n                     although thinks he's too old; married a 45 year\n                     old man to his first wife, thought that was\n                     strange; has been very ill with chills and fever;\n                     crops not very good, winter was too wet.","Describes in detail the \"examinations\" which\n                     were attended by all the music lovers; loves young\n                     America; still plans to go to Texas to live, would\n                     like to practice law there; sister is living in\n                     unfortunate situation; encourages him to study\n                     medicine; other family news.","Requests to have bond signed, money given and\n                     note returned, in reference to Hart Conyer.","Has received signed note; rejects offer to sell\n                     piece of land to a friend because terms are too\n                     long for the low price offered.","Has been ill for 10 days; advises him to not go\n                     to New Orleans too early because of Yellow fever;\n                     encourages him to write to brother [Dan] to go to\n                     law school in Montgomery; other family news.","All in good health; have been a few cases of\n                     Typhoid fever; crops very good; has been reading\n                     [law], feels this year has been a waste, will go\n                     back to read [with another lawyer] as before;\n                     other family news.","Ma has decided to move to Polk County Texas;\n                  requests a small house; this has foiled plans for\n                  school, will maybe farm in Texas if can't find a\n                  school.","Receipt for $287.50 included; speaks of terms\n                     of payment; refers to an unknown lawsuit; has a\n                     jug of whiskey and no one to drink it with.","Has made business contacts requested; the due\n                     bill has come up in court but they cannot collect\n                     on it; and other family news.","Land sold to Day and Thompson for $3 an acre;\n                     brother William left for Alabama; corn looks good\n                     but cotton is small, haven't had rain since 16 of\n                     April; other town news.","Discusses recent emigration to Texas of family\n                     and friends from Macon County Alabama; presents\n                     some prejudices toward northwesterners; refers to\n                     a note coming due; crops good but need rain;\n                     refers to the \"railroad sensation\" in Jefferson\n                     which will take some time to settle; other family\n                     news.","Speaks of crops and lack of rain; reports\n                     problems with child slave Scurlock left [to his\n                     brother]; other family news.","Making preparations from 4th of July\n                     Celebration; have had little rain and temperatures\n                     have been up to 98 [F.]; has heard of yellow fever\n                     in T.J.'s city, advises him to take care of\n                     himself; refers to the drinking habits of\n                     friends.","Instructions referring to Scurlock moving out\n                     of the house he is living in and what the owner\n                     expects will be done by Scurlock in upkeep.","Family all well; had intended to move to Texas\n                     but crops failed, will have to buy corn this year;\n                     anxious to see Josh, wants to know why he hasn't\n                     married.","Weather has been very hot, have had no rain,\n                     crops are burning, cotton failing, wonders if\n                     Texas is \"a fit place for civilized men to live\",\n                     many Western town and private homes have been\n                     burned because of the abolition movement, \"The\n                     people are aroused to a sense of their [the\n                     abolitionist's] danger\", compares it to Harper's\n                     Ferry; refers to T.J.'s thesis, suggests the topic\n                     of Tetanus, mentions a case of murder Dan is\n                     defending; centering on a Negro who contacted\n                     tetanus after a severe whipping.","Inquires about a note for several hundred\n                     dollars that he has heard nothing about, would\n                     like to know what happened to it; shows his\n                     discontent with Texas, describes it as \"this land\n                     of contention where belzebub seems to be prime\n                     ruler.\"","Sorry to hear [Scurlock's] mother is\n                     dissatisfied with her move to Texas, but has heard\n                     many are; the drought continues, has traveled to\n                     Alabama and 200 miles up Alabama River and found\n                     the drought reaches further; friends wanted to\n                     look him up in New Orleans; encourages him to come\n                     visit; other family and town news.","All in good health, crops are turning out\n                     better than expected; has traded land in Tennessee\n                     for land in Texas; reports murder of old man by\n                     child in Sumpter [South Carolina], in jail waiting\n                     trial; coal is scarce, other family and area\n                     news.","Received letter with thesis, contained\n                     information they already had, refers to the\n                     lawsuit thesis was needed for; finally received\n                     rain which rejuvenated crops; health of area has\n                     been good, \"too much so for the good of the\n                     Doctors\", refers to murder committed by Jack\n                     Taliaferro, includes other town news.","Begs \"Dosh\" to come and visit him, outlines how\n                     to get to Philadelphia; all are well, has heard\n                     from Scurlock's mother who hates Texas and wants\n                     to return to Alabama.","Promises to pay what he owes in few weeks.","Corn crop better than expected; relates robbery\n                     charges against men from Polk County and other\n                     town news.","Describes details of common friend's death,\n                     also refers vaguely to various other [medical]\n                     cases \"town is improving, have built a female\n                     college and have a Methodist preacher who will\n                     convert...the negroes and dogs before they stop\",\n                     other town news.","Gives lengthy opinion of upcoming Presidential\n                     election between Douglas and Lincoln and also\n                     projection and hopes for house and Senate\n                     elections; other family news.","\"Bad crops, low water and high prices\"; will be\n                     traveling back to Polk County before Christmas;\n                     gives results of Presidential elections; other\n                     family news.","All well; friend has stopped drinking; this\n                     friend wants to fight when war begins; [Brother]\n                     Dan \"fixing n to go see Mother; other news.","Hasn't heard from him; corn crops good, leaf\n                     worm has injured cotton crops; has decided to\n                     study medicine; hopes girlfriend hasn't decided to\n                     marry someone else, encourages Scurlock to marry;\n                     relates town affairs.","Asks advice on collecting lawyers in Upshur\n                  County, has not gotten judgement on claims of\n                  Scurlock's; Frank Bensen has eloped with Darby's\n                  wife; cotton crops poor.","Expresses his opinion about national politics,\n                     predicts a military governor for Texas judging by\n                     the acts of the \"Vandal Congress,\" has no faith in\n                     \"Andrew Johnson the chief of drunkards of the\n                     Vandal states.\" Advises to sue, D.J. Kimball for\n                     money he owes; has not heard from Pittsburg and\n                     will write a \"cuss lettr\" if they \"do not\n                     respond\".","Has had to harvest his own cotton because he\n                     has no laborers; hired no freedmen because of some\n                     fights the previous year; will give up farming and\n                     maybe sell rugs with Dr. Hendricks; money is hard\n                     to come by; [Brother] Bill just recovering from\n                     serious illness; other family news.","Shows very little faith in the \"Vandal n\n                     government; questions whether Dan has received the\n                     horse he sent; business not very good, advises\n                     that one should run business on a cash system;\n                     relates he has lost about $200 on a credit based\n                     system; had had difficulty with superintendent of\n                     Lunatic Asylum, told him what he thought of him\n                     and challenged him to a fight, all stemmed from\n                     disagreement on treatment of patients; will be\n                     leaving soon.","Will begin selling rugs, have ordered supply\n                     from New Orleans; hopes doing better in city than\n                     would have at Asylum; other family news.","Has not heard from brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] since March; would like any information\n                     on him as had heard rumor that he had been killed;\n                     selling goods with Dr. Hendricks in \"six full\n                     stores in Mt. Pleasant\".","Relates rumors that T.J. is dead and how this\n                     rumor came about; Long guilt speech about the\n                     death of his mother; never received the horse sent\n                     to him; other family news.","Discusses different medical cases and dental\n                     cases; relates deaths of acquaintances; has been\n                     very ill.","Mentions Scurlock has left Austin but not where\n                     he's gone; war has ruined him; crops have been\n                     good; at home at time of surrender; has begun\n                     preaching and serving his God.","Have been in city 5 days, very different from\n                     Austin; many sick town supporting 10-12 Doctors\n                     and many drug stores; has met a gay widow with\n                     whom he keeps company.","Enquires of a Claiborne Herbert in Columbus,\n                     Colorado County; has opened a school but is doing\n                     poorly, would appreciate any help Scurlock could\n                     give; gives update on doctors [from Austin Lunatic\n                     Asylum]; will be leaving Austin soon.","Has been in poor health; crops have been very\n                     poor; war has destroyed the South and the\n                     \"Southern devils have a hard hand of it after we\n                     get through a war in which we lose everything\";\n                     will continue in business if can.","Jobs hard to get in Austin; Doctors from\n                     Lunatic Asylum did not do well in private\n                     practice, have gone to Georgetown; negro notary\n                     has been appointed in Austin, other town news.","Did not make as much in business here as in\n                     Bastrop; encourages Sky to join him and \"Dock\" in\n                     Austin; Dock will pay his passage to Austin; 2\n                     deaths from yellow fever; enjoying company of \"The\n                     widow\".","Austin dull place; Gen. [Joseph Jones] Reynolds\n                     has arrived to take over department; Boon has\n                     located office, not doing well; City covered with\n                     grasshoppers; describes as \"damb poor country\";\n                     \"Better be in Hell without claws\".","Describes his plans to get in touch with brother;\n                  feels government is in bad condition, \"Texas will\n                  soon pass through to fiery ordeal of what is\n                  denominated reconstruction.\", expresses his\n                  prejudices toward Blacks; begs brother to come back\n                  to Texas.","Expresses opinion of government: \"I hope it\n                     [government] will sink to the latter most pits of\n                     Hell.\"; has been able to collect some relates town\n                     news.","Waited until Texas was accepted back into the\n                     Union; considers this a good gained from\n                     reconstruction; claims Negroes will remain in\n                     place they should, inferior position; wants to\n                     know about Mexico: politics, commercial facilities\n                     and social events; encourages him to come back to\n                     the U.S.; other town news.","Relates local political happenings through\n                     reconstruction; and some very strong opinions;\n                     thanks for the description of Mexico; sends\n                     regards of many people and relates other family\n                     and town news.","Relates his preconception of Mexico; \"hopes to\n                     see all Democrats elected\" in upcoming elections;\n                     other town news.","Does not agree that Democrats have never changed,\n                  has been in poor health; is doing well in profession;\n                  explains his problems at the Asylum; eating in Mexico\n                  is cheap; is studying man; [contains several passages\n                  with no meaning].","Hasn't heard from him in 2 months; encourages him\n                  to come visit Mt. Pleasant; claims it will be one of\n                  the most important small towns when the railroad is\n                  built from St. Louis through Texarkana; is now\n                  assessing taxes for the county; other family news;\n                  includes envelope.","Wife not well with ovarian tumor; has become\n                  partner in goods firm; still county tax assessor;\n                  receives 6500 for this job; Mt. Pleasant included on\n                  Railroad which begins in St. Louis and will go to the\n                  Rio Grande to connect with Mexican rail encourages\n                  him to come and visit.","Received account against Jose Gamundi for $73.88;\n                  has placed credit in his name for $73.88.","Refers to securing claims on oil wells and coal\n                     mines; expects that there will be a boom in oil\n                     lands after [Mexican] Presidential election; hopes\n                     to do some speculating; hopes to settle himself\n                     financially for life.","Sickness is increasing; has received \"Charge of\n                     the Vice-consulate property.\" refers to a matter\n                     concerning archives [records of the consulate?],\n                     other town news.","Is now working at a bank as a cashier and\n                     continues to assess taxes; is living comfortably\n                     but still must pay off some debts from\n                     Merchandising; family is well and being educated\n                     as he would like; refers to the Democratic Victory\n                     for Presidency and remarks \"that the south is\n                     again at the Head of National affairs;\" other\n                     family news.","Introduces herself by reminding him of when she\n                     was a child; makes a plea for money which she\n                     needs; begs him not to pass judgement on her for\n                     asking for money.","Gives description of himself: gives family\n                     news; describes Mt. Pleasant; asks many questions\n                     about Mexico and whether a Doctor could do well\n                     there; hopes to study medicine.","Gives town news; crops look good, had a hail\n                     storm nearby; has chosen medicine as a prospective\n                     occupation; town working hard to raise money for\n                     railroad to town; includes lineage of Scurlock\n                     family.","Acknowledges \"carta\"[?] and list of goods sent\n                     to him; will do all in his power as executor of\n                     his will to deliver property safely.","Questions why he hasn't come to visit; gives\n                  description of herself; relates father's [Dan\n                  Scurlock] poor health; gives some town news.","Questions will of Dr. Theodocius [Joshua]\n                     Scurlock; inquires whether estate was left to\n                     brothers individually and was it lawful under\n                     Mexican laws; others are trying to come in on\n                     will.","Not acquainted with Mexican laws but believes\n                     the brother [William and Dan] are only\n                     benefactors.","Remits trunks and a box containing possession\n                     of brother [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock]; has sold\n                     amputating instruments for $20 to local hospital;\n                     will send due cash as soon a possible.","Assures him possessions have been sent;\n                     explains that his brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] did not have a great estate when he\n                     died; advises him to contact two friends who knew\n                     him; requests a receipt sent to him from\n                     [Scurlock's] papers.","Inquiring about possessions of deceased brother\n                     [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock] which he has not yet\n                     received; requests that he make some enquires;\n                     refers to his brother's assassination.","Informs him goods have arrived, will pay duties\n                     and willship as soon as possible.","Discusses the advantages of living outside of the\n                  U.S.; shows his bitterness toward U.S. politics,\n                  racial problems and how the government is taking care\n                  of them; defends Mexico as a better place to live;\n                  discourages any immigration.","Pages 1 and 2 missing.","Relates Bill Moore's crime of forgery for 50 bales\n                  of cotton and his arrest.","Begs brother to return to Marshall to comfort\n                  Mother and rest of family; relates [sister] 'Mit' has\n                  married; also \"Beany [?]\" was shot dead previous\n                  morning.","Diary of Theodocius Joshua Scurlock containing\n               details of Dr. Scurlock's journey from Texas to Tulango,\n               Mexico; his impressions of the lifestyles of the people\n               he encountered as he traveled south and the novelties he\n               sees and learns about for the first time; and a table of\n               distances traveled, detailed weather reports, and\n               descriptions of the locations and names of towns stayed\n               in. It gives an insight to the questioning nature of Dr.\n               Scurlock and his ability to describe some of the methods\n               of technique he viewed (e.g., medical and spinning). It\n               also contains lists of edible birds and animals, trees\n               for lumber and various fruit trees and vegetables.","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.","Letters, 1855-1888, received by or\n         concerning Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock while a resident of\n         Texas and Mexico from family members in Alabama and Texas and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Also includes a\n         diary, December 1867-April 1869, kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico.","Theodocius Josha Scurlock.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 81 Scu4"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"collection_title_tesim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"collection_ssim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"creator_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"creator_persname_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"creators_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift \n             04/00/1981."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Reconstruction."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Reconstruction."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["116 items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Restrictions on Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Organization","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","Arrangement The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.","The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eTheodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, Manuscripts and Rare\n            Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n            Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, Manuscripts and Rare\n            Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n            Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is primarily composed of letters received by\n         Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock (1828-1887), a graduate of\n         Tulane University and a resident of Texas and Mexico,\n         1855-1888, from family members in Alabama and Texas, and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. The letters\n         reflect the restlessness of the pre-Civil War years, and the\n         difficulties and disillusionment felt by many people during\n         Reconstruction. Diary included was kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico, December 1867-April 1869, in which he gives\n         his impressions of the people he encountered as well as the\n         natural history of the regions he passed through.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to have received letter but worried about\n                     health; reports brother Dan had left for Irving\n                     [College]; money hard to come by and price for\n                     cotton very low; refers to pending lawsuit; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWorries about health and relates deaths of\n                     various towns people; money hard to come by and\n                     business bad; other family and town related\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrops doing well; received letter from a most\n                     \"dangerous woman,\" claiming son hadn't paid a\n                     debt; advises him to stay away from this \"awful\n                     woman\"; mentions pending lawsuit referred to as\n                     \"hooke suit\" (?); other family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to a favor which \"came to hand\"; talks\n                     about crops and prices; refers to the burning of a\n                     foundry in Montgomery [Alabama]; many suffering\n                     from scarlet fever; mentions the Hook's lawsuit\n                     being taken to Supreme Court; other family and\n                     town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains about mail system; has not received\n                     any letters from son; crops doing very well,\n                     especially corn; discusses Hook's lawsuit; relates\n                     town \"anicdote\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to receive letter after \"too months\";\n                     crops doing very well; Scarlet fever still \"going\n                     through neighbourhood\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of fine crops and many deaths from\n                     Scarlet fever; Hook suit not yet decided; advises\n                     to stay away from the \"slandering living old\n                     devil\" who claims he hasn't paid debt; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWorried that lawyers want evidence from him for\n                     Hook's case; advises not to give any at all;\n                     reports crops are good except cotton and all are\n                     well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports a retrial for \"Hooke's\" case and\n                     advises that he give no evidence; advises to stay\n                     away from \"Tom the big baby\"; asks him not to\n                     mention case in any letters except to her, Mit or\n                     Will; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReplies to question about health and crops;\n                     gives long account about political opinions\n                     relating to the \"American party\", break up of the\n                     Whigs and strengthening of Democrats; relates\n                     local arrests; business interests shifting; other\n                     news about common friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisease going around caused by snakes, many\n                     deaths; defines Hook's case as divorce case;\n                     advises to not give any evidence; case has been\n                     given a retrial; worried about Mary's [sister]\n                     health; not receiving Texas paper; other family\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived letter; has severe cold, health at\n                     Irving generally good; plans on staying two years;\n                     has not rained lately and is very warm; Had sent\n                     catalogue, will send another.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests help in getting into business as an\n                     \"averseer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInflicted with typhoid, hopes to be well soon;\n                     asks that Scurlock take care of some business\n                     dealings; received letter from William Harrison\n                     giving news of many deaths in Montgomery, County\n                     [Alabama]; provides arrangements for moving [to\n                     Texas]; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTimes dull as session ending; has sprained\n                     ankle; has received letter from Ma which\n                     criticizes his spelling; will try again to send\n                     catalogue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends papers on Freeman Divorce case; refers to\n                     a petition and preparation of legal papers; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates how letter had been detoured to\n                     mother's house, was \"read at home\" then sent on to\n                     Irving; advises T.J. to settle down and get\n                     married; also advises to not travel until decision\n                     to make Kansas a state is made; advises to go to\n                     Kansas if it becomes a slave state; mentions a\n                     planned act of violence by Negroes near\n                     Clarksville [Tennessee] on the Cumberlan[d] River;\n                     planned to knock us all in the head\" and \"make\n                     themselves free Ladies and Gentleman.\"; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to hear that he is happy, expected him to\n                     be \"Alabama-sick\" [homesick]; has begun farming,\n                     finds its hard work; all in good health except\n                     mother who has \"posey \"; other news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains in great length that Josh did not\n                     stop to visit on his way to Texas; glad to hear\n                     his health has improved with the \"Minreul wutter\";\n                     inquires about a Negro, John, who held freedman's\n                     status; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates the marriage of two couples of the\n                     area; reports the results of the elections for\n                     probate and circuit judge and refers them to their\n                     respective parties; have had long dry spell,\n                     hasn't been good for the \"God of Macon...King\n                     cotton\"; reports other deaths and gives some\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill has gotten married, spends great deal of\n                     time telling why he shouldn't have \"don[e] the\n                     deed\"; begs son not to go to Central America\n                     because climate not good for health; crops are\n                     doing well except cotton; inquires about \"Ben's\n                     wife\" who was lost on a boat which was sunk on 20\n                     April 1856; has hired new help who is young and\n                     \"don't know much\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives long philosophical and metaphorical\n                     arguments about the importance of good health;\n                     compares the \"excruciating pain\" of the invalid to\n                     the \"vast freedom\" of the healthy; will remain at\n                     College for 6 week break in isolation as few\n                     students have remained.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to a debt owed by Mr. Scurlock and to\n                     Mr. Scurlock's absence at this time; mentions a\n                     hired black man in the employ of Mr. Scurlock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not heard or seen [Theodoicus Joshua]\n                     Scurlock nor has he been in [Texas]; Has not the\n                     funds to pay the debt but will soon; refers to a\n                     boy [slave] who \"has plenty to eat but nothing to\n                     do.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePleads with brother to stop his traveling, to\n                     buy a home and settle down; claims that hundreds\n                     of tears have been shed, thinking he was dead;\n                     begs [T.J.] to meet brother Billy in Marshall\n                     [Texas] and stay with him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to receive letter and that he [T.J.]\n                     hasn't gone to Nicaragua; sorry to learn he has\n                     been \"lying on the bed of affliction\"; encourages\n                     him to go to Marshall [County, Texas] to meet\n                     [brother] Bill who has just married; sister has\n                     been married; sent 2 letters to different\n                     addresses; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRejects Scurlock's proposition to buy his land\n                     in Nepsher County; would like $3 an acre; doesn't\n                     believe land in that area is selling for less.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes business better for Scurlock than\n                     himself; selling out and moving to New Orleans;\n                     enjoyed traveling from his town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas returned to \"this city\" and plans to say;\n                     is pleased by the business prospects; believes\n                     could make good profit on investments; likes the\n                     amusements of the city.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not received word in 3 months; very cold\n                     weather and is affecting the crops; very little\n                     corn; money is tight; has bought \"a negro\"; had\n                     poor crop last year; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had a \"very cold and backward spring\"; 200\n                     deaths since Xmas from measles; brother is talking\n                     about joining U.S. Army; Democrats have full\n                     ticket for legislature and County offices; many\n                     old whigs have gone Democrat; Democrats only party\n                     \"able to beat back abolitionists and save our\n                     country from ruin\"; reports Freeman and Williams\n                     lawsuit decided in favor of Williams; other family\n                     and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates family is well, brother Dan is home\n                     from Tennessee, brother William had measles; will\n                     try to visit [T.J.] and that part of country; a\n                     few deaths have occurred caused by measles; other\n                     town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to have received letter; sorry Josh didn't\n                     come to visit; crops doing badly because of cold\n                     spring but should make profit in cotton; voted for\n                     Buchanan in election as did Josh.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn good health; has been trying to find a job;\n                     reading law now; married an unnamed woman; crops\n                     okay except cotton for which it has been too\n                     cold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to receive letter and all in good health;\n                     American Party has won full representation in both\n                     Houses of Congress; describes political antics of\n                     both parties concerning \"burying\" the opponent;\n                     crops doing well except cotton because of cold;\n                     relationship between Jones family and Scurlocks\n                     not on firm ground as a result of daughter Mit's\n                     husband; other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not been well but glad to receive letter;\n                     crops not very good, cotton getting a high price,\n                     about 15 cents; Wishes he could come to visit\n                     before she dies; discourages [Josh] to go to\n                     Central America as there will be \"fighting enuf\n                     [sic] to do in your own native land.\"; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas a slight cold; have been several weddings;\n                     thinking about going to law school in Tennessee;\n                     would like to set up practice in Texas or \"other\n                     new country,\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas the \"clap\", likes T.J.'s proposition, would\n                     like to be doing something; hard times coming on;\n                     other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJust returned home; has a cold; expenses for\n                     trip amounted to $60, Did not need money advanced\n                     by T.J.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas on hand $150 belonging to T.J. received\n                     through money order; Mr. Barker has paid nothing\n                     on debt; sister sends word T.J. must get\n                     married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMisses Josh very much, encourages him to come\n                     and visit several times; family is well; has been\n                     married; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received no word since February; refers\n                     sarcastically to Cupid and Social Life; reading\n                     [law] at home; intends to come to Texas following\n                     winter; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the fashions of LaPlace and the young\n                     ladies; crops doing well, plenty of food;\n                     convention meeting in Montgomery [Alabama] to\n                     discuss dissolving of nation; court system\n                     inefficient and overloaded; other family and town\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurprised to hear he is studying medicine\n                     although thinks he's too old; married a 45 year\n                     old man to his first wife, thought that was\n                     strange; has been very ill with chills and fever;\n                     crops not very good, winter was too wet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes in detail the \"examinations\" which\n                     were attended by all the music lovers; loves young\n                     America; still plans to go to Texas to live, would\n                     like to practice law there; sister is living in\n                     unfortunate situation; encourages him to study\n                     medicine; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests to have bond signed, money given and\n                     note returned, in reference to Hart Conyer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received signed note; rejects offer to sell\n                     piece of land to a friend because terms are too\n                     long for the low price offered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been ill for 10 days; advises him to not go\n                     to New Orleans too early because of Yellow fever;\n                     encourages him to write to brother [Dan] to go to\n                     law school in Montgomery; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll in good health; have been a few cases of\n                     Typhoid fever; crops very good; has been reading\n                     [law], feels this year has been a waste, will go\n                     back to read [with another lawyer] as before;\n                     other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMa has decided to move to Polk County Texas;\n                  requests a small house; this has foiled plans for\n                  school, will maybe farm in Texas if can't find a\n                  school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for $287.50 included; speaks of terms\n                     of payment; refers to an unknown lawsuit; has a\n                     jug of whiskey and no one to drink it with.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas made business contacts requested; the due\n                     bill has come up in court but they cannot collect\n                     on it; and other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand sold to Day and Thompson for $3 an acre;\n                     brother William left for Alabama; corn looks good\n                     but cotton is small, haven't had rain since 16 of\n                     April; other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses recent emigration to Texas of family\n                     and friends from Macon County Alabama; presents\n                     some prejudices toward northwesterners; refers to\n                     a note coming due; crops good but need rain;\n                     refers to the \"railroad sensation\" in Jefferson\n                     which will take some time to settle; other family\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of crops and lack of rain; reports\n                     problems with child slave Scurlock left [to his\n                     brother]; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaking preparations from 4th of July\n                     Celebration; have had little rain and temperatures\n                     have been up to 98 [F.]; has heard of yellow fever\n                     in T.J.'s city, advises him to take care of\n                     himself; refers to the drinking habits of\n                     friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions referring to Scurlock moving out\n                     of the house he is living in and what the owner\n                     expects will be done by Scurlock in upkeep.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily all well; had intended to move to Texas\n                     but crops failed, will have to buy corn this year;\n                     anxious to see Josh, wants to know why he hasn't\n                     married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeather has been very hot, have had no rain,\n                     crops are burning, cotton failing, wonders if\n                     Texas is \"a fit place for civilized men to live\",\n                     many Western town and private homes have been\n                     burned because of the abolition movement, \"The\n                     people are aroused to a sense of their [the\n                     abolitionist's] danger\", compares it to Harper's\n                     Ferry; refers to T.J.'s thesis, suggests the topic\n                     of Tetanus, mentions a case of murder Dan is\n                     defending; centering on a Negro who contacted\n                     tetanus after a severe whipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about a note for several hundred\n                     dollars that he has heard nothing about, would\n                     like to know what happened to it; shows his\n                     discontent with Texas, describes it as \"this land\n                     of contention where belzebub seems to be prime\n                     ruler.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry to hear [Scurlock's] mother is\n                     dissatisfied with her move to Texas, but has heard\n                     many are; the drought continues, has traveled to\n                     Alabama and 200 miles up Alabama River and found\n                     the drought reaches further; friends wanted to\n                     look him up in New Orleans; encourages him to come\n                     visit; other family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll in good health, crops are turning out\n                     better than expected; has traded land in Tennessee\n                     for land in Texas; reports murder of old man by\n                     child in Sumpter [South Carolina], in jail waiting\n                     trial; coal is scarce, other family and area\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived letter with thesis, contained\n                     information they already had, refers to the\n                     lawsuit thesis was needed for; finally received\n                     rain which rejuvenated crops; health of area has\n                     been good, \"too much so for the good of the\n                     Doctors\", refers to murder committed by Jack\n                     Taliaferro, includes other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegs \"Dosh\" to come and visit him, outlines how\n                     to get to Philadelphia; all are well, has heard\n                     from Scurlock's mother who hates Texas and wants\n                     to return to Alabama.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromises to pay what he owes in few weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorn crop better than expected; relates robbery\n                     charges against men from Polk County and other\n                     town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes details of common friend's death,\n                     also refers vaguely to various other [medical]\n                     cases \"town is improving, have built a female\n                     college and have a Methodist preacher who will\n                     convert...the negroes and dogs before they stop\",\n                     other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives lengthy opinion of upcoming Presidential\n                     election between Douglas and Lincoln and also\n                     projection and hopes for house and Senate\n                     elections; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Bad crops, low water and high prices\"; will be\n                     traveling back to Polk County before Christmas;\n                     gives results of Presidential elections; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll well; friend has stopped drinking; this\n                     friend wants to fight when war begins; [Brother]\n                     Dan \"fixing n to go see Mother; other news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHasn't heard from him; corn crops good, leaf\n                     worm has injured cotton crops; has decided to\n                     study medicine; hopes girlfriend hasn't decided to\n                     marry someone else, encourages Scurlock to marry;\n                     relates town affairs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks advice on collecting lawyers in Upshur\n                  County, has not gotten judgement on claims of\n                  Scurlock's; Frank Bensen has eloped with Darby's\n                  wife; cotton crops poor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses his opinion about national politics,\n                     predicts a military governor for Texas judging by\n                     the acts of the \"Vandal Congress,\" has no faith in\n                     \"Andrew Johnson the chief of drunkards of the\n                     Vandal states.\" Advises to sue, D.J. Kimball for\n                     money he owes; has not heard from Pittsburg and\n                     will write a \"cuss lettr\" if they \"do not\n                     respond\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had to harvest his own cotton because he\n                     has no laborers; hired no freedmen because of some\n                     fights the previous year; will give up farming and\n                     maybe sell rugs with Dr. Hendricks; money is hard\n                     to come by; [Brother] Bill just recovering from\n                     serious illness; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShows very little faith in the \"Vandal n\n                     government; questions whether Dan has received the\n                     horse he sent; business not very good, advises\n                     that one should run business on a cash system;\n                     relates he has lost about $200 on a credit based\n                     system; had had difficulty with superintendent of\n                     Lunatic Asylum, told him what he thought of him\n                     and challenged him to a fight, all stemmed from\n                     disagreement on treatment of patients; will be\n                     leaving soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill begin selling rugs, have ordered supply\n                     from New Orleans; hopes doing better in city than\n                     would have at Asylum; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not heard from brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] since March; would like any information\n                     on him as had heard rumor that he had been killed;\n                     selling goods with Dr. Hendricks in \"six full\n                     stores in Mt. Pleasant\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates rumors that T.J. is dead and how this\n                     rumor came about; Long guilt speech about the\n                     death of his mother; never received the horse sent\n                     to him; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses different medical cases and dental\n                     cases; relates deaths of acquaintances; has been\n                     very ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions Scurlock has left Austin but not where\n                     he's gone; war has ruined him; crops have been\n                     good; at home at time of surrender; has begun\n                     preaching and serving his God.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave been in city 5 days, very different from\n                     Austin; many sick town supporting 10-12 Doctors\n                     and many drug stores; has met a gay widow with\n                     whom he keeps company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnquires of a Claiborne Herbert in Columbus,\n                     Colorado County; has opened a school but is doing\n                     poorly, would appreciate any help Scurlock could\n                     give; gives update on doctors [from Austin Lunatic\n                     Asylum]; will be leaving Austin soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been in poor health; crops have been very\n                     poor; war has destroyed the South and the\n                     \"Southern devils have a hard hand of it after we\n                     get through a war in which we lose everything\";\n                     will continue in business if can.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJobs hard to get in Austin; Doctors from\n                     Lunatic Asylum did not do well in private\n                     practice, have gone to Georgetown; negro notary\n                     has been appointed in Austin, other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDid not make as much in business here as in\n                     Bastrop; encourages Sky to join him and \"Dock\" in\n                     Austin; Dock will pay his passage to Austin; 2\n                     deaths from yellow fever; enjoying company of \"The\n                     widow\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAustin dull place; Gen. [Joseph Jones] Reynolds\n                     has arrived to take over department; Boon has\n                     located office, not doing well; City covered with\n                     grasshoppers; describes as \"damb poor country\";\n                     \"Better be in Hell without claws\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his plans to get in touch with brother;\n                  feels government is in bad condition, \"Texas will\n                  soon pass through to fiery ordeal of what is\n                  denominated reconstruction.\", expresses his\n                  prejudices toward Blacks; begs brother to come back\n                  to Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses opinion of government: \"I hope it\n                     [government] will sink to the latter most pits of\n                     Hell.\"; has been able to collect some relates town\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWaited until Texas was accepted back into the\n                     Union; considers this a good gained from\n                     reconstruction; claims Negroes will remain in\n                     place they should, inferior position; wants to\n                     know about Mexico: politics, commercial facilities\n                     and social events; encourages him to come back to\n                     the U.S.; other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates local political happenings through\n                     reconstruction; and some very strong opinions;\n                     thanks for the description of Mexico; sends\n                     regards of many people and relates other family\n                     and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates his preconception of Mexico; \"hopes to\n                     see all Democrats elected\" in upcoming elections;\n                     other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoes not agree that Democrats have never changed,\n                  has been in poor health; is doing well in profession;\n                  explains his problems at the Asylum; eating in Mexico\n                  is cheap; is studying man; [contains several passages\n                  with no meaning].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHasn't heard from him in 2 months; encourages him\n                  to come visit Mt. Pleasant; claims it will be one of\n                  the most important small towns when the railroad is\n                  built from St. Louis through Texarkana; is now\n                  assessing taxes for the county; other family news;\n                  includes envelope.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWife not well with ovarian tumor; has become\n                  partner in goods firm; still county tax assessor;\n                  receives 6500 for this job; Mt. Pleasant included on\n                  Railroad which begins in St. Louis and will go to the\n                  Rio Grande to connect with Mexican rail encourages\n                  him to come and visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived account against Jose Gamundi for $73.88;\n                  has placed credit in his name for $73.88.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to securing claims on oil wells and coal\n                     mines; expects that there will be a boom in oil\n                     lands after [Mexican] Presidential election; hopes\n                     to do some speculating; hopes to settle himself\n                     financially for life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSickness is increasing; has received \"Charge of\n                     the Vice-consulate property.\" refers to a matter\n                     concerning archives [records of the consulate?],\n                     other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs now working at a bank as a cashier and\n                     continues to assess taxes; is living comfortably\n                     but still must pay off some debts from\n                     Merchandising; family is well and being educated\n                     as he would like; refers to the Democratic Victory\n                     for Presidency and remarks \"that the south is\n                     again at the Head of National affairs;\" other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroduces herself by reminding him of when she\n                     was a child; makes a plea for money which she\n                     needs; begs him not to pass judgement on her for\n                     asking for money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives description of himself: gives family\n                     news; describes Mt. Pleasant; asks many questions\n                     about Mexico and whether a Doctor could do well\n                     there; hopes to study medicine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives town news; crops look good, had a hail\n                     storm nearby; has chosen medicine as a prospective\n                     occupation; town working hard to raise money for\n                     railroad to town; includes lineage of Scurlock\n                     family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges \"carta\"[?] and list of goods sent\n                     to him; will do all in his power as executor of\n                     his will to deliver property safely.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuestions why he hasn't come to visit; gives\n                  description of herself; relates father's [Dan\n                  Scurlock] poor health; gives some town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuestions will of Dr. Theodocius [Joshua]\n                     Scurlock; inquires whether estate was left to\n                     brothers individually and was it lawful under\n                     Mexican laws; others are trying to come in on\n                     will.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNot acquainted with Mexican laws but believes\n                     the brother [William and Dan] are only\n                     benefactors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRemits trunks and a box containing possession\n                     of brother [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock]; has sold\n                     amputating instruments for $20 to local hospital;\n                     will send due cash as soon a possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAssures him possessions have been sent;\n                     explains that his brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] did not have a great estate when he\n                     died; advises him to contact two friends who knew\n                     him; requests a receipt sent to him from\n                     [Scurlock's] papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquiring about possessions of deceased brother\n                     [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock] which he has not yet\n                     received; requests that he make some enquires;\n                     refers to his brother's assassination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms him goods have arrived, will pay duties\n                     and willship as soon as possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the advantages of living outside of the\n                  U.S.; shows his bitterness toward U.S. politics,\n                  racial problems and how the government is taking care\n                  of them; defends Mexico as a better place to live;\n                  discourages any immigration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePages 1 and 2 missing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates Bill Moore's crime of forgery for 50 bales\n                  of cotton and his arrest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegs brother to return to Marshall to comfort\n                  Mother and rest of family; relates [sister] 'Mit' has\n                  married; also \"Beany [?]\" was shot dead previous\n                  morning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary of Theodocius Joshua Scurlock containing\n               details of Dr. Scurlock's journey from Texas to Tulango,\n               Mexico; his impressions of the lifestyles of the people\n               he encountered as he traveled south and the novelties he\n               sees and learns about for the first time; and a table of\n               distances traveled, detailed weather reports, and\n               descriptions of the locations and names of towns stayed\n               in. It gives an insight to the questioning nature of Dr.\n               Scurlock and his ability to describe some of the methods\n               of technique he viewed (e.g., medical and spinning). It\n               also contains lists of edible birds and animals, trees\n               for lumber and various fruit trees and vegetables.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection is primarily composed of letters received by\n         Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock (1828-1887), a graduate of\n         Tulane University and a resident of Texas and Mexico,\n         1855-1888, from family members in Alabama and Texas, and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. The letters\n         reflect the restlessness of the pre-Civil War years, and the\n         difficulties and disillusionment felt by many people during\n         Reconstruction. Diary included was kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico, December 1867-April 1869, in which he gives\n         his impressions of the people he encountered as well as the\n         natural history of the regions he passed through.","Glad to have received letter but worried about\n                     health; reports brother Dan had left for Irving\n                     [College]; money hard to come by and price for\n                     cotton very low; refers to pending lawsuit; other\n                     family news.","Worries about health and relates deaths of\n                     various towns people; money hard to come by and\n                     business bad; other family and town related\n                     news.","Crops doing well; received letter from a most\n                     \"dangerous woman,\" claiming son hadn't paid a\n                     debt; advises him to stay away from this \"awful\n                     woman\"; mentions pending lawsuit referred to as\n                     \"hooke suit\" (?); other family and town news.","Refers to a favor which \"came to hand\"; talks\n                     about crops and prices; refers to the burning of a\n                     foundry in Montgomery [Alabama]; many suffering\n                     from scarlet fever; mentions the Hook's lawsuit\n                     being taken to Supreme Court; other family and\n                     town news.","Complains about mail system; has not received\n                     any letters from son; crops doing very well,\n                     especially corn; discusses Hook's lawsuit; relates\n                     town \"anicdote\"; other family news.","Glad to receive letter after \"too months\";\n                     crops doing very well; Scarlet fever still \"going\n                     through neighbourhood\"; other family news.","Speaks of fine crops and many deaths from\n                     Scarlet fever; Hook suit not yet decided; advises\n                     to stay away from the \"slandering living old\n                     devil\" who claims he hasn't paid debt; other\n                     family news.","Worried that lawyers want evidence from him for\n                     Hook's case; advises not to give any at all;\n                     reports crops are good except cotton and all are\n                     well.","Reports a retrial for \"Hooke's\" case and\n                     advises that he give no evidence; advises to stay\n                     away from \"Tom the big baby\"; asks him not to\n                     mention case in any letters except to her, Mit or\n                     Will; other family news.","Replies to question about health and crops;\n                     gives long account about political opinions\n                     relating to the \"American party\", break up of the\n                     Whigs and strengthening of Democrats; relates\n                     local arrests; business interests shifting; other\n                     news about common friends.","Disease going around caused by snakes, many\n                     deaths; defines Hook's case as divorce case;\n                     advises to not give any evidence; case has been\n                     given a retrial; worried about Mary's [sister]\n                     health; not receiving Texas paper; other family\n                     news.","Received letter; has severe cold, health at\n                     Irving generally good; plans on staying two years;\n                     has not rained lately and is very warm; Had sent\n                     catalogue, will send another.","Requests help in getting into business as an\n                     \"averseer.\"","Inflicted with typhoid, hopes to be well soon;\n                     asks that Scurlock take care of some business\n                     dealings; received letter from William Harrison\n                     giving news of many deaths in Montgomery, County\n                     [Alabama]; provides arrangements for moving [to\n                     Texas]; family news.","Times dull as session ending; has sprained\n                     ankle; has received letter from Ma which\n                     criticizes his spelling; will try again to send\n                     catalogue.","Sends papers on Freeman Divorce case; refers to\n                     a petition and preparation of legal papers; other\n                     family news.","Relates how letter had been detoured to\n                     mother's house, was \"read at home\" then sent on to\n                     Irving; advises T.J. to settle down and get\n                     married; also advises to not travel until decision\n                     to make Kansas a state is made; advises to go to\n                     Kansas if it becomes a slave state; mentions a\n                     planned act of violence by Negroes near\n                     Clarksville [Tennessee] on the Cumberlan[d] River;\n                     planned to knock us all in the head\" and \"make\n                     themselves free Ladies and Gentleman.\"; other\n                     family news.","Glad to hear that he is happy, expected him to\n                     be \"Alabama-sick\" [homesick]; has begun farming,\n                     finds its hard work; all in good health except\n                     mother who has \"posey \"; other news.","Complains in great length that Josh did not\n                     stop to visit on his way to Texas; glad to hear\n                     his health has improved with the \"Minreul wutter\";\n                     inquires about a Negro, John, who held freedman's\n                     status; other family news.","Relates the marriage of two couples of the\n                     area; reports the results of the elections for\n                     probate and circuit judge and refers them to their\n                     respective parties; have had long dry spell,\n                     hasn't been good for the \"God of Macon...King\n                     cotton\"; reports other deaths and gives some\n                     family news.","Bill has gotten married, spends great deal of\n                     time telling why he shouldn't have \"don[e] the\n                     deed\"; begs son not to go to Central America\n                     because climate not good for health; crops are\n                     doing well except cotton; inquires about \"Ben's\n                     wife\" who was lost on a boat which was sunk on 20\n                     April 1856; has hired new help who is young and\n                     \"don't know much\"; other family news.","Gives long philosophical and metaphorical\n                     arguments about the importance of good health;\n                     compares the \"excruciating pain\" of the invalid to\n                     the \"vast freedom\" of the healthy; will remain at\n                     College for 6 week break in isolation as few\n                     students have remained.","Refers to a debt owed by Mr. Scurlock and to\n                     Mr. Scurlock's absence at this time; mentions a\n                     hired black man in the employ of Mr. Scurlock.","Has not heard or seen [Theodoicus Joshua]\n                     Scurlock nor has he been in [Texas]; Has not the\n                     funds to pay the debt but will soon; refers to a\n                     boy [slave] who \"has plenty to eat but nothing to\n                     do.\"","Pleads with brother to stop his traveling, to\n                     buy a home and settle down; claims that hundreds\n                     of tears have been shed, thinking he was dead;\n                     begs [T.J.] to meet brother Billy in Marshall\n                     [Texas] and stay with him.","Glad to receive letter and that he [T.J.]\n                     hasn't gone to Nicaragua; sorry to learn he has\n                     been \"lying on the bed of affliction\"; encourages\n                     him to go to Marshall [County, Texas] to meet\n                     [brother] Bill who has just married; sister has\n                     been married; sent 2 letters to different\n                     addresses; other family news.","Rejects Scurlock's proposition to buy his land\n                     in Nepsher County; would like $3 an acre; doesn't\n                     believe land in that area is selling for less.","Hopes business better for Scurlock than\n                     himself; selling out and moving to New Orleans;\n                     enjoyed traveling from his town.","Has returned to \"this city\" and plans to say;\n                     is pleased by the business prospects; believes\n                     could make good profit on investments; likes the\n                     amusements of the city.","Has not received word in 3 months; very cold\n                     weather and is affecting the crops; very little\n                     corn; money is tight; has bought \"a negro\"; had\n                     poor crop last year; other family news.","Has had a \"very cold and backward spring\"; 200\n                     deaths since Xmas from measles; brother is talking\n                     about joining U.S. Army; Democrats have full\n                     ticket for legislature and County offices; many\n                     old whigs have gone Democrat; Democrats only party\n                     \"able to beat back abolitionists and save our\n                     country from ruin\"; reports Freeman and Williams\n                     lawsuit decided in favor of Williams; other family\n                     and town news.","Relates family is well, brother Dan is home\n                     from Tennessee, brother William had measles; will\n                     try to visit [T.J.] and that part of country; a\n                     few deaths have occurred caused by measles; other\n                     town news.","Glad to have received letter; sorry Josh didn't\n                     come to visit; crops doing badly because of cold\n                     spring but should make profit in cotton; voted for\n                     Buchanan in election as did Josh.","In good health; has been trying to find a job;\n                     reading law now; married an unnamed woman; crops\n                     okay except cotton for which it has been too\n                     cold.","Glad to receive letter and all in good health;\n                     American Party has won full representation in both\n                     Houses of Congress; describes political antics of\n                     both parties concerning \"burying\" the opponent;\n                     crops doing well except cotton because of cold;\n                     relationship between Jones family and Scurlocks\n                     not on firm ground as a result of daughter Mit's\n                     husband; other town news.","Has not been well but glad to receive letter;\n                     crops not very good, cotton getting a high price,\n                     about 15 cents; Wishes he could come to visit\n                     before she dies; discourages [Josh] to go to\n                     Central America as there will be \"fighting enuf\n                     [sic] to do in your own native land.\"; other\n                     family news.","Has a slight cold; have been several weddings;\n                     thinking about going to law school in Tennessee;\n                     would like to set up practice in Texas or \"other\n                     new country,\"; other family news.","Has the \"clap\", likes T.J.'s proposition, would\n                     like to be doing something; hard times coming on;\n                     other family news.","Just returned home; has a cold; expenses for\n                     trip amounted to $60, Did not need money advanced\n                     by T.J.","Has on hand $150 belonging to T.J. received\n                     through money order; Mr. Barker has paid nothing\n                     on debt; sister sends word T.J. must get\n                     married.","Misses Josh very much, encourages him to come\n                     and visit several times; family is well; has been\n                     married; other family news.","Has received no word since February; refers\n                     sarcastically to Cupid and Social Life; reading\n                     [law] at home; intends to come to Texas following\n                     winter; other family news.","Describes the fashions of LaPlace and the young\n                     ladies; crops doing well, plenty of food;\n                     convention meeting in Montgomery [Alabama] to\n                     discuss dissolving of nation; court system\n                     inefficient and overloaded; other family and town\n                     news.","Surprised to hear he is studying medicine\n                     although thinks he's too old; married a 45 year\n                     old man to his first wife, thought that was\n                     strange; has been very ill with chills and fever;\n                     crops not very good, winter was too wet.","Describes in detail the \"examinations\" which\n                     were attended by all the music lovers; loves young\n                     America; still plans to go to Texas to live, would\n                     like to practice law there; sister is living in\n                     unfortunate situation; encourages him to study\n                     medicine; other family news.","Requests to have bond signed, money given and\n                     note returned, in reference to Hart Conyer.","Has received signed note; rejects offer to sell\n                     piece of land to a friend because terms are too\n                     long for the low price offered.","Has been ill for 10 days; advises him to not go\n                     to New Orleans too early because of Yellow fever;\n                     encourages him to write to brother [Dan] to go to\n                     law school in Montgomery; other family news.","All in good health; have been a few cases of\n                     Typhoid fever; crops very good; has been reading\n                     [law], feels this year has been a waste, will go\n                     back to read [with another lawyer] as before;\n                     other family news.","Ma has decided to move to Polk County Texas;\n                  requests a small house; this has foiled plans for\n                  school, will maybe farm in Texas if can't find a\n                  school.","Receipt for $287.50 included; speaks of terms\n                     of payment; refers to an unknown lawsuit; has a\n                     jug of whiskey and no one to drink it with.","Has made business contacts requested; the due\n                     bill has come up in court but they cannot collect\n                     on it; and other family news.","Land sold to Day and Thompson for $3 an acre;\n                     brother William left for Alabama; corn looks good\n                     but cotton is small, haven't had rain since 16 of\n                     April; other town news.","Discusses recent emigration to Texas of family\n                     and friends from Macon County Alabama; presents\n                     some prejudices toward northwesterners; refers to\n                     a note coming due; crops good but need rain;\n                     refers to the \"railroad sensation\" in Jefferson\n                     which will take some time to settle; other family\n                     news.","Speaks of crops and lack of rain; reports\n                     problems with child slave Scurlock left [to his\n                     brother]; other family news.","Making preparations from 4th of July\n                     Celebration; have had little rain and temperatures\n                     have been up to 98 [F.]; has heard of yellow fever\n                     in T.J.'s city, advises him to take care of\n                     himself; refers to the drinking habits of\n                     friends.","Instructions referring to Scurlock moving out\n                     of the house he is living in and what the owner\n                     expects will be done by Scurlock in upkeep.","Family all well; had intended to move to Texas\n                     but crops failed, will have to buy corn this year;\n                     anxious to see Josh, wants to know why he hasn't\n                     married.","Weather has been very hot, have had no rain,\n                     crops are burning, cotton failing, wonders if\n                     Texas is \"a fit place for civilized men to live\",\n                     many Western town and private homes have been\n                     burned because of the abolition movement, \"The\n                     people are aroused to a sense of their [the\n                     abolitionist's] danger\", compares it to Harper's\n                     Ferry; refers to T.J.'s thesis, suggests the topic\n                     of Tetanus, mentions a case of murder Dan is\n                     defending; centering on a Negro who contacted\n                     tetanus after a severe whipping.","Inquires about a note for several hundred\n                     dollars that he has heard nothing about, would\n                     like to know what happened to it; shows his\n                     discontent with Texas, describes it as \"this land\n                     of contention where belzebub seems to be prime\n                     ruler.\"","Sorry to hear [Scurlock's] mother is\n                     dissatisfied with her move to Texas, but has heard\n                     many are; the drought continues, has traveled to\n                     Alabama and 200 miles up Alabama River and found\n                     the drought reaches further; friends wanted to\n                     look him up in New Orleans; encourages him to come\n                     visit; other family and town news.","All in good health, crops are turning out\n                     better than expected; has traded land in Tennessee\n                     for land in Texas; reports murder of old man by\n                     child in Sumpter [South Carolina], in jail waiting\n                     trial; coal is scarce, other family and area\n                     news.","Received letter with thesis, contained\n                     information they already had, refers to the\n                     lawsuit thesis was needed for; finally received\n                     rain which rejuvenated crops; health of area has\n                     been good, \"too much so for the good of the\n                     Doctors\", refers to murder committed by Jack\n                     Taliaferro, includes other town news.","Begs \"Dosh\" to come and visit him, outlines how\n                     to get to Philadelphia; all are well, has heard\n                     from Scurlock's mother who hates Texas and wants\n                     to return to Alabama.","Promises to pay what he owes in few weeks.","Corn crop better than expected; relates robbery\n                     charges against men from Polk County and other\n                     town news.","Describes details of common friend's death,\n                     also refers vaguely to various other [medical]\n                     cases \"town is improving, have built a female\n                     college and have a Methodist preacher who will\n                     convert...the negroes and dogs before they stop\",\n                     other town news.","Gives lengthy opinion of upcoming Presidential\n                     election between Douglas and Lincoln and also\n                     projection and hopes for house and Senate\n                     elections; other family news.","\"Bad crops, low water and high prices\"; will be\n                     traveling back to Polk County before Christmas;\n                     gives results of Presidential elections; other\n                     family news.","All well; friend has stopped drinking; this\n                     friend wants to fight when war begins; [Brother]\n                     Dan \"fixing n to go see Mother; other news.","Hasn't heard from him; corn crops good, leaf\n                     worm has injured cotton crops; has decided to\n                     study medicine; hopes girlfriend hasn't decided to\n                     marry someone else, encourages Scurlock to marry;\n                     relates town affairs.","Asks advice on collecting lawyers in Upshur\n                  County, has not gotten judgement on claims of\n                  Scurlock's; Frank Bensen has eloped with Darby's\n                  wife; cotton crops poor.","Expresses his opinion about national politics,\n                     predicts a military governor for Texas judging by\n                     the acts of the \"Vandal Congress,\" has no faith in\n                     \"Andrew Johnson the chief of drunkards of the\n                     Vandal states.\" Advises to sue, D.J. Kimball for\n                     money he owes; has not heard from Pittsburg and\n                     will write a \"cuss lettr\" if they \"do not\n                     respond\".","Has had to harvest his own cotton because he\n                     has no laborers; hired no freedmen because of some\n                     fights the previous year; will give up farming and\n                     maybe sell rugs with Dr. Hendricks; money is hard\n                     to come by; [Brother] Bill just recovering from\n                     serious illness; other family news.","Shows very little faith in the \"Vandal n\n                     government; questions whether Dan has received the\n                     horse he sent; business not very good, advises\n                     that one should run business on a cash system;\n                     relates he has lost about $200 on a credit based\n                     system; had had difficulty with superintendent of\n                     Lunatic Asylum, told him what he thought of him\n                     and challenged him to a fight, all stemmed from\n                     disagreement on treatment of patients; will be\n                     leaving soon.","Will begin selling rugs, have ordered supply\n                     from New Orleans; hopes doing better in city than\n                     would have at Asylum; other family news.","Has not heard from brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] since March; would like any information\n                     on him as had heard rumor that he had been killed;\n                     selling goods with Dr. Hendricks in \"six full\n                     stores in Mt. Pleasant\".","Relates rumors that T.J. is dead and how this\n                     rumor came about; Long guilt speech about the\n                     death of his mother; never received the horse sent\n                     to him; other family news.","Discusses different medical cases and dental\n                     cases; relates deaths of acquaintances; has been\n                     very ill.","Mentions Scurlock has left Austin but not where\n                     he's gone; war has ruined him; crops have been\n                     good; at home at time of surrender; has begun\n                     preaching and serving his God.","Have been in city 5 days, very different from\n                     Austin; many sick town supporting 10-12 Doctors\n                     and many drug stores; has met a gay widow with\n                     whom he keeps company.","Enquires of a Claiborne Herbert in Columbus,\n                     Colorado County; has opened a school but is doing\n                     poorly, would appreciate any help Scurlock could\n                     give; gives update on doctors [from Austin Lunatic\n                     Asylum]; will be leaving Austin soon.","Has been in poor health; crops have been very\n                     poor; war has destroyed the South and the\n                     \"Southern devils have a hard hand of it after we\n                     get through a war in which we lose everything\";\n                     will continue in business if can.","Jobs hard to get in Austin; Doctors from\n                     Lunatic Asylum did not do well in private\n                     practice, have gone to Georgetown; negro notary\n                     has been appointed in Austin, other town news.","Did not make as much in business here as in\n                     Bastrop; encourages Sky to join him and \"Dock\" in\n                     Austin; Dock will pay his passage to Austin; 2\n                     deaths from yellow fever; enjoying company of \"The\n                     widow\".","Austin dull place; Gen. [Joseph Jones] Reynolds\n                     has arrived to take over department; Boon has\n                     located office, not doing well; City covered with\n                     grasshoppers; describes as \"damb poor country\";\n                     \"Better be in Hell without claws\".","Describes his plans to get in touch with brother;\n                  feels government is in bad condition, \"Texas will\n                  soon pass through to fiery ordeal of what is\n                  denominated reconstruction.\", expresses his\n                  prejudices toward Blacks; begs brother to come back\n                  to Texas.","Expresses opinion of government: \"I hope it\n                     [government] will sink to the latter most pits of\n                     Hell.\"; has been able to collect some relates town\n                     news.","Waited until Texas was accepted back into the\n                     Union; considers this a good gained from\n                     reconstruction; claims Negroes will remain in\n                     place they should, inferior position; wants to\n                     know about Mexico: politics, commercial facilities\n                     and social events; encourages him to come back to\n                     the U.S.; other town news.","Relates local political happenings through\n                     reconstruction; and some very strong opinions;\n                     thanks for the description of Mexico; sends\n                     regards of many people and relates other family\n                     and town news.","Relates his preconception of Mexico; \"hopes to\n                     see all Democrats elected\" in upcoming elections;\n                     other town news.","Does not agree that Democrats have never changed,\n                  has been in poor health; is doing well in profession;\n                  explains his problems at the Asylum; eating in Mexico\n                  is cheap; is studying man; [contains several passages\n                  with no meaning].","Hasn't heard from him in 2 months; encourages him\n                  to come visit Mt. Pleasant; claims it will be one of\n                  the most important small towns when the railroad is\n                  built from St. Louis through Texarkana; is now\n                  assessing taxes for the county; other family news;\n                  includes envelope.","Wife not well with ovarian tumor; has become\n                  partner in goods firm; still county tax assessor;\n                  receives 6500 for this job; Mt. Pleasant included on\n                  Railroad which begins in St. Louis and will go to the\n                  Rio Grande to connect with Mexican rail encourages\n                  him to come and visit.","Received account against Jose Gamundi for $73.88;\n                  has placed credit in his name for $73.88.","Refers to securing claims on oil wells and coal\n                     mines; expects that there will be a boom in oil\n                     lands after [Mexican] Presidential election; hopes\n                     to do some speculating; hopes to settle himself\n                     financially for life.","Sickness is increasing; has received \"Charge of\n                     the Vice-consulate property.\" refers to a matter\n                     concerning archives [records of the consulate?],\n                     other town news.","Is now working at a bank as a cashier and\n                     continues to assess taxes; is living comfortably\n                     but still must pay off some debts from\n                     Merchandising; family is well and being educated\n                     as he would like; refers to the Democratic Victory\n                     for Presidency and remarks \"that the south is\n                     again at the Head of National affairs;\" other\n                     family news.","Introduces herself by reminding him of when she\n                     was a child; makes a plea for money which she\n                     needs; begs him not to pass judgement on her for\n                     asking for money.","Gives description of himself: gives family\n                     news; describes Mt. Pleasant; asks many questions\n                     about Mexico and whether a Doctor could do well\n                     there; hopes to study medicine.","Gives town news; crops look good, had a hail\n                     storm nearby; has chosen medicine as a prospective\n                     occupation; town working hard to raise money for\n                     railroad to town; includes lineage of Scurlock\n                     family.","Acknowledges \"carta\"[?] and list of goods sent\n                     to him; will do all in his power as executor of\n                     his will to deliver property safely.","Questions why he hasn't come to visit; gives\n                  description of herself; relates father's [Dan\n                  Scurlock] poor health; gives some town news.","Questions will of Dr. Theodocius [Joshua]\n                     Scurlock; inquires whether estate was left to\n                     brothers individually and was it lawful under\n                     Mexican laws; others are trying to come in on\n                     will.","Not acquainted with Mexican laws but believes\n                     the brother [William and Dan] are only\n                     benefactors.","Remits trunks and a box containing possession\n                     of brother [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock]; has sold\n                     amputating instruments for $20 to local hospital;\n                     will send due cash as soon a possible.","Assures him possessions have been sent;\n                     explains that his brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] did not have a great estate when he\n                     died; advises him to contact two friends who knew\n                     him; requests a receipt sent to him from\n                     [Scurlock's] papers.","Inquiring about possessions of deceased brother\n                     [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock] which he has not yet\n                     received; requests that he make some enquires;\n                     refers to his brother's assassination.","Informs him goods have arrived, will pay duties\n                     and willship as soon as possible.","Discusses the advantages of living outside of the\n                  U.S.; shows his bitterness toward U.S. politics,\n                  racial problems and how the government is taking care\n                  of them; defends Mexico as a better place to live;\n                  discourages any immigration.","Pages 1 and 2 missing.","Relates Bill Moore's crime of forgery for 50 bales\n                  of cotton and his arrest.","Begs brother to return to Marshall to comfort\n                  Mother and rest of family; relates [sister] 'Mit' has\n                  married; also \"Beany [?]\" was shot dead previous\n                  morning.","Diary of Theodocius Joshua Scurlock containing\n               details of Dr. Scurlock's journey from Texas to Tulango,\n               Mexico; his impressions of the lifestyles of the people\n               he encountered as he traveled south and the novelties he\n               sees and learns about for the first time; and a table of\n               distances traveled, detailed weather reports, and\n               descriptions of the locations and names of towns stayed\n               in. It gives an insight to the questioning nature of Dr.\n               Scurlock and his ability to describe some of the methods\n               of technique he viewed (e.g., medical and spinning). It\n               also contains lists of edible birds and animals, trees\n               for lumber and various fruit trees and vegetables."],"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\"\u003eLetters, 1855-1888, received by or\n         concerning Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock while a resident of\n         Texas and Mexico from family members in Alabama and Texas and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Also includes a\n         diary, December 1867-April 1869, kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Letters, 1855-1888, received by or\n         concerning Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock while a resident of\n         Texas and Mexico from family members in Alabama and Texas and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Also includes a\n         diary, December 1867-April 1869, kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico."],"names_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"persname_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":130,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:56:17.443Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_viw00020","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00020","_root_":"viw_viw00020","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00020","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00020.xml","title_ssm":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"title_tesim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 81 Scu4"],"text":["Mss. 81 Scu4","Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888.","Reconstruction.","116 items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","Arrangement The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.","The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.","The collection is primarily composed of letters received by\n         Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock (1828-1887), a graduate of\n         Tulane University and a resident of Texas and Mexico,\n         1855-1888, from family members in Alabama and Texas, and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. The letters\n         reflect the restlessness of the pre-Civil War years, and the\n         difficulties and disillusionment felt by many people during\n         Reconstruction. Diary included was kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico, December 1867-April 1869, in which he gives\n         his impressions of the people he encountered as well as the\n         natural history of the regions he passed through.","Glad to have received letter but worried about\n                     health; reports brother Dan had left for Irving\n                     [College]; money hard to come by and price for\n                     cotton very low; refers to pending lawsuit; other\n                     family news.","Worries about health and relates deaths of\n                     various towns people; money hard to come by and\n                     business bad; other family and town related\n                     news.","Crops doing well; received letter from a most\n                     \"dangerous woman,\" claiming son hadn't paid a\n                     debt; advises him to stay away from this \"awful\n                     woman\"; mentions pending lawsuit referred to as\n                     \"hooke suit\" (?); other family and town news.","Refers to a favor which \"came to hand\"; talks\n                     about crops and prices; refers to the burning of a\n                     foundry in Montgomery [Alabama]; many suffering\n                     from scarlet fever; mentions the Hook's lawsuit\n                     being taken to Supreme Court; other family and\n                     town news.","Complains about mail system; has not received\n                     any letters from son; crops doing very well,\n                     especially corn; discusses Hook's lawsuit; relates\n                     town \"anicdote\"; other family news.","Glad to receive letter after \"too months\";\n                     crops doing very well; Scarlet fever still \"going\n                     through neighbourhood\"; other family news.","Speaks of fine crops and many deaths from\n                     Scarlet fever; Hook suit not yet decided; advises\n                     to stay away from the \"slandering living old\n                     devil\" who claims he hasn't paid debt; other\n                     family news.","Worried that lawyers want evidence from him for\n                     Hook's case; advises not to give any at all;\n                     reports crops are good except cotton and all are\n                     well.","Reports a retrial for \"Hooke's\" case and\n                     advises that he give no evidence; advises to stay\n                     away from \"Tom the big baby\"; asks him not to\n                     mention case in any letters except to her, Mit or\n                     Will; other family news.","Replies to question about health and crops;\n                     gives long account about political opinions\n                     relating to the \"American party\", break up of the\n                     Whigs and strengthening of Democrats; relates\n                     local arrests; business interests shifting; other\n                     news about common friends.","Disease going around caused by snakes, many\n                     deaths; defines Hook's case as divorce case;\n                     advises to not give any evidence; case has been\n                     given a retrial; worried about Mary's [sister]\n                     health; not receiving Texas paper; other family\n                     news.","Received letter; has severe cold, health at\n                     Irving generally good; plans on staying two years;\n                     has not rained lately and is very warm; Had sent\n                     catalogue, will send another.","Requests help in getting into business as an\n                     \"averseer.\"","Inflicted with typhoid, hopes to be well soon;\n                     asks that Scurlock take care of some business\n                     dealings; received letter from William Harrison\n                     giving news of many deaths in Montgomery, County\n                     [Alabama]; provides arrangements for moving [to\n                     Texas]; family news.","Times dull as session ending; has sprained\n                     ankle; has received letter from Ma which\n                     criticizes his spelling; will try again to send\n                     catalogue.","Sends papers on Freeman Divorce case; refers to\n                     a petition and preparation of legal papers; other\n                     family news.","Relates how letter had been detoured to\n                     mother's house, was \"read at home\" then sent on to\n                     Irving; advises T.J. to settle down and get\n                     married; also advises to not travel until decision\n                     to make Kansas a state is made; advises to go to\n                     Kansas if it becomes a slave state; mentions a\n                     planned act of violence by Negroes near\n                     Clarksville [Tennessee] on the Cumberlan[d] River;\n                     planned to knock us all in the head\" and \"make\n                     themselves free Ladies and Gentleman.\"; other\n                     family news.","Glad to hear that he is happy, expected him to\n                     be \"Alabama-sick\" [homesick]; has begun farming,\n                     finds its hard work; all in good health except\n                     mother who has \"posey \"; other news.","Complains in great length that Josh did not\n                     stop to visit on his way to Texas; glad to hear\n                     his health has improved with the \"Minreul wutter\";\n                     inquires about a Negro, John, who held freedman's\n                     status; other family news.","Relates the marriage of two couples of the\n                     area; reports the results of the elections for\n                     probate and circuit judge and refers them to their\n                     respective parties; have had long dry spell,\n                     hasn't been good for the \"God of Macon...King\n                     cotton\"; reports other deaths and gives some\n                     family news.","Bill has gotten married, spends great deal of\n                     time telling why he shouldn't have \"don[e] the\n                     deed\"; begs son not to go to Central America\n                     because climate not good for health; crops are\n                     doing well except cotton; inquires about \"Ben's\n                     wife\" who was lost on a boat which was sunk on 20\n                     April 1856; has hired new help who is young and\n                     \"don't know much\"; other family news.","Gives long philosophical and metaphorical\n                     arguments about the importance of good health;\n                     compares the \"excruciating pain\" of the invalid to\n                     the \"vast freedom\" of the healthy; will remain at\n                     College for 6 week break in isolation as few\n                     students have remained.","Refers to a debt owed by Mr. Scurlock and to\n                     Mr. Scurlock's absence at this time; mentions a\n                     hired black man in the employ of Mr. Scurlock.","Has not heard or seen [Theodoicus Joshua]\n                     Scurlock nor has he been in [Texas]; Has not the\n                     funds to pay the debt but will soon; refers to a\n                     boy [slave] who \"has plenty to eat but nothing to\n                     do.\"","Pleads with brother to stop his traveling, to\n                     buy a home and settle down; claims that hundreds\n                     of tears have been shed, thinking he was dead;\n                     begs [T.J.] to meet brother Billy in Marshall\n                     [Texas] and stay with him.","Glad to receive letter and that he [T.J.]\n                     hasn't gone to Nicaragua; sorry to learn he has\n                     been \"lying on the bed of affliction\"; encourages\n                     him to go to Marshall [County, Texas] to meet\n                     [brother] Bill who has just married; sister has\n                     been married; sent 2 letters to different\n                     addresses; other family news.","Rejects Scurlock's proposition to buy his land\n                     in Nepsher County; would like $3 an acre; doesn't\n                     believe land in that area is selling for less.","Hopes business better for Scurlock than\n                     himself; selling out and moving to New Orleans;\n                     enjoyed traveling from his town.","Has returned to \"this city\" and plans to say;\n                     is pleased by the business prospects; believes\n                     could make good profit on investments; likes the\n                     amusements of the city.","Has not received word in 3 months; very cold\n                     weather and is affecting the crops; very little\n                     corn; money is tight; has bought \"a negro\"; had\n                     poor crop last year; other family news.","Has had a \"very cold and backward spring\"; 200\n                     deaths since Xmas from measles; brother is talking\n                     about joining U.S. Army; Democrats have full\n                     ticket for legislature and County offices; many\n                     old whigs have gone Democrat; Democrats only party\n                     \"able to beat back abolitionists and save our\n                     country from ruin\"; reports Freeman and Williams\n                     lawsuit decided in favor of Williams; other family\n                     and town news.","Relates family is well, brother Dan is home\n                     from Tennessee, brother William had measles; will\n                     try to visit [T.J.] and that part of country; a\n                     few deaths have occurred caused by measles; other\n                     town news.","Glad to have received letter; sorry Josh didn't\n                     come to visit; crops doing badly because of cold\n                     spring but should make profit in cotton; voted for\n                     Buchanan in election as did Josh.","In good health; has been trying to find a job;\n                     reading law now; married an unnamed woman; crops\n                     okay except cotton for which it has been too\n                     cold.","Glad to receive letter and all in good health;\n                     American Party has won full representation in both\n                     Houses of Congress; describes political antics of\n                     both parties concerning \"burying\" the opponent;\n                     crops doing well except cotton because of cold;\n                     relationship between Jones family and Scurlocks\n                     not on firm ground as a result of daughter Mit's\n                     husband; other town news.","Has not been well but glad to receive letter;\n                     crops not very good, cotton getting a high price,\n                     about 15 cents; Wishes he could come to visit\n                     before she dies; discourages [Josh] to go to\n                     Central America as there will be \"fighting enuf\n                     [sic] to do in your own native land.\"; other\n                     family news.","Has a slight cold; have been several weddings;\n                     thinking about going to law school in Tennessee;\n                     would like to set up practice in Texas or \"other\n                     new country,\"; other family news.","Has the \"clap\", likes T.J.'s proposition, would\n                     like to be doing something; hard times coming on;\n                     other family news.","Just returned home; has a cold; expenses for\n                     trip amounted to $60, Did not need money advanced\n                     by T.J.","Has on hand $150 belonging to T.J. received\n                     through money order; Mr. Barker has paid nothing\n                     on debt; sister sends word T.J. must get\n                     married.","Misses Josh very much, encourages him to come\n                     and visit several times; family is well; has been\n                     married; other family news.","Has received no word since February; refers\n                     sarcastically to Cupid and Social Life; reading\n                     [law] at home; intends to come to Texas following\n                     winter; other family news.","Describes the fashions of LaPlace and the young\n                     ladies; crops doing well, plenty of food;\n                     convention meeting in Montgomery [Alabama] to\n                     discuss dissolving of nation; court system\n                     inefficient and overloaded; other family and town\n                     news.","Surprised to hear he is studying medicine\n                     although thinks he's too old; married a 45 year\n                     old man to his first wife, thought that was\n                     strange; has been very ill with chills and fever;\n                     crops not very good, winter was too wet.","Describes in detail the \"examinations\" which\n                     were attended by all the music lovers; loves young\n                     America; still plans to go to Texas to live, would\n                     like to practice law there; sister is living in\n                     unfortunate situation; encourages him to study\n                     medicine; other family news.","Requests to have bond signed, money given and\n                     note returned, in reference to Hart Conyer.","Has received signed note; rejects offer to sell\n                     piece of land to a friend because terms are too\n                     long for the low price offered.","Has been ill for 10 days; advises him to not go\n                     to New Orleans too early because of Yellow fever;\n                     encourages him to write to brother [Dan] to go to\n                     law school in Montgomery; other family news.","All in good health; have been a few cases of\n                     Typhoid fever; crops very good; has been reading\n                     [law], feels this year has been a waste, will go\n                     back to read [with another lawyer] as before;\n                     other family news.","Ma has decided to move to Polk County Texas;\n                  requests a small house; this has foiled plans for\n                  school, will maybe farm in Texas if can't find a\n                  school.","Receipt for $287.50 included; speaks of terms\n                     of payment; refers to an unknown lawsuit; has a\n                     jug of whiskey and no one to drink it with.","Has made business contacts requested; the due\n                     bill has come up in court but they cannot collect\n                     on it; and other family news.","Land sold to Day and Thompson for $3 an acre;\n                     brother William left for Alabama; corn looks good\n                     but cotton is small, haven't had rain since 16 of\n                     April; other town news.","Discusses recent emigration to Texas of family\n                     and friends from Macon County Alabama; presents\n                     some prejudices toward northwesterners; refers to\n                     a note coming due; crops good but need rain;\n                     refers to the \"railroad sensation\" in Jefferson\n                     which will take some time to settle; other family\n                     news.","Speaks of crops and lack of rain; reports\n                     problems with child slave Scurlock left [to his\n                     brother]; other family news.","Making preparations from 4th of July\n                     Celebration; have had little rain and temperatures\n                     have been up to 98 [F.]; has heard of yellow fever\n                     in T.J.'s city, advises him to take care of\n                     himself; refers to the drinking habits of\n                     friends.","Instructions referring to Scurlock moving out\n                     of the house he is living in and what the owner\n                     expects will be done by Scurlock in upkeep.","Family all well; had intended to move to Texas\n                     but crops failed, will have to buy corn this year;\n                     anxious to see Josh, wants to know why he hasn't\n                     married.","Weather has been very hot, have had no rain,\n                     crops are burning, cotton failing, wonders if\n                     Texas is \"a fit place for civilized men to live\",\n                     many Western town and private homes have been\n                     burned because of the abolition movement, \"The\n                     people are aroused to a sense of their [the\n                     abolitionist's] danger\", compares it to Harper's\n                     Ferry; refers to T.J.'s thesis, suggests the topic\n                     of Tetanus, mentions a case of murder Dan is\n                     defending; centering on a Negro who contacted\n                     tetanus after a severe whipping.","Inquires about a note for several hundred\n                     dollars that he has heard nothing about, would\n                     like to know what happened to it; shows his\n                     discontent with Texas, describes it as \"this land\n                     of contention where belzebub seems to be prime\n                     ruler.\"","Sorry to hear [Scurlock's] mother is\n                     dissatisfied with her move to Texas, but has heard\n                     many are; the drought continues, has traveled to\n                     Alabama and 200 miles up Alabama River and found\n                     the drought reaches further; friends wanted to\n                     look him up in New Orleans; encourages him to come\n                     visit; other family and town news.","All in good health, crops are turning out\n                     better than expected; has traded land in Tennessee\n                     for land in Texas; reports murder of old man by\n                     child in Sumpter [South Carolina], in jail waiting\n                     trial; coal is scarce, other family and area\n                     news.","Received letter with thesis, contained\n                     information they already had, refers to the\n                     lawsuit thesis was needed for; finally received\n                     rain which rejuvenated crops; health of area has\n                     been good, \"too much so for the good of the\n                     Doctors\", refers to murder committed by Jack\n                     Taliaferro, includes other town news.","Begs \"Dosh\" to come and visit him, outlines how\n                     to get to Philadelphia; all are well, has heard\n                     from Scurlock's mother who hates Texas and wants\n                     to return to Alabama.","Promises to pay what he owes in few weeks.","Corn crop better than expected; relates robbery\n                     charges against men from Polk County and other\n                     town news.","Describes details of common friend's death,\n                     also refers vaguely to various other [medical]\n                     cases \"town is improving, have built a female\n                     college and have a Methodist preacher who will\n                     convert...the negroes and dogs before they stop\",\n                     other town news.","Gives lengthy opinion of upcoming Presidential\n                     election between Douglas and Lincoln and also\n                     projection and hopes for house and Senate\n                     elections; other family news.","\"Bad crops, low water and high prices\"; will be\n                     traveling back to Polk County before Christmas;\n                     gives results of Presidential elections; other\n                     family news.","All well; friend has stopped drinking; this\n                     friend wants to fight when war begins; [Brother]\n                     Dan \"fixing n to go see Mother; other news.","Hasn't heard from him; corn crops good, leaf\n                     worm has injured cotton crops; has decided to\n                     study medicine; hopes girlfriend hasn't decided to\n                     marry someone else, encourages Scurlock to marry;\n                     relates town affairs.","Asks advice on collecting lawyers in Upshur\n                  County, has not gotten judgement on claims of\n                  Scurlock's; Frank Bensen has eloped with Darby's\n                  wife; cotton crops poor.","Expresses his opinion about national politics,\n                     predicts a military governor for Texas judging by\n                     the acts of the \"Vandal Congress,\" has no faith in\n                     \"Andrew Johnson the chief of drunkards of the\n                     Vandal states.\" Advises to sue, D.J. Kimball for\n                     money he owes; has not heard from Pittsburg and\n                     will write a \"cuss lettr\" if they \"do not\n                     respond\".","Has had to harvest his own cotton because he\n                     has no laborers; hired no freedmen because of some\n                     fights the previous year; will give up farming and\n                     maybe sell rugs with Dr. Hendricks; money is hard\n                     to come by; [Brother] Bill just recovering from\n                     serious illness; other family news.","Shows very little faith in the \"Vandal n\n                     government; questions whether Dan has received the\n                     horse he sent; business not very good, advises\n                     that one should run business on a cash system;\n                     relates he has lost about $200 on a credit based\n                     system; had had difficulty with superintendent of\n                     Lunatic Asylum, told him what he thought of him\n                     and challenged him to a fight, all stemmed from\n                     disagreement on treatment of patients; will be\n                     leaving soon.","Will begin selling rugs, have ordered supply\n                     from New Orleans; hopes doing better in city than\n                     would have at Asylum; other family news.","Has not heard from brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] since March; would like any information\n                     on him as had heard rumor that he had been killed;\n                     selling goods with Dr. Hendricks in \"six full\n                     stores in Mt. Pleasant\".","Relates rumors that T.J. is dead and how this\n                     rumor came about; Long guilt speech about the\n                     death of his mother; never received the horse sent\n                     to him; other family news.","Discusses different medical cases and dental\n                     cases; relates deaths of acquaintances; has been\n                     very ill.","Mentions Scurlock has left Austin but not where\n                     he's gone; war has ruined him; crops have been\n                     good; at home at time of surrender; has begun\n                     preaching and serving his God.","Have been in city 5 days, very different from\n                     Austin; many sick town supporting 10-12 Doctors\n                     and many drug stores; has met a gay widow with\n                     whom he keeps company.","Enquires of a Claiborne Herbert in Columbus,\n                     Colorado County; has opened a school but is doing\n                     poorly, would appreciate any help Scurlock could\n                     give; gives update on doctors [from Austin Lunatic\n                     Asylum]; will be leaving Austin soon.","Has been in poor health; crops have been very\n                     poor; war has destroyed the South and the\n                     \"Southern devils have a hard hand of it after we\n                     get through a war in which we lose everything\";\n                     will continue in business if can.","Jobs hard to get in Austin; Doctors from\n                     Lunatic Asylum did not do well in private\n                     practice, have gone to Georgetown; negro notary\n                     has been appointed in Austin, other town news.","Did not make as much in business here as in\n                     Bastrop; encourages Sky to join him and \"Dock\" in\n                     Austin; Dock will pay his passage to Austin; 2\n                     deaths from yellow fever; enjoying company of \"The\n                     widow\".","Austin dull place; Gen. [Joseph Jones] Reynolds\n                     has arrived to take over department; Boon has\n                     located office, not doing well; City covered with\n                     grasshoppers; describes as \"damb poor country\";\n                     \"Better be in Hell without claws\".","Describes his plans to get in touch with brother;\n                  feels government is in bad condition, \"Texas will\n                  soon pass through to fiery ordeal of what is\n                  denominated reconstruction.\", expresses his\n                  prejudices toward Blacks; begs brother to come back\n                  to Texas.","Expresses opinion of government: \"I hope it\n                     [government] will sink to the latter most pits of\n                     Hell.\"; has been able to collect some relates town\n                     news.","Waited until Texas was accepted back into the\n                     Union; considers this a good gained from\n                     reconstruction; claims Negroes will remain in\n                     place they should, inferior position; wants to\n                     know about Mexico: politics, commercial facilities\n                     and social events; encourages him to come back to\n                     the U.S.; other town news.","Relates local political happenings through\n                     reconstruction; and some very strong opinions;\n                     thanks for the description of Mexico; sends\n                     regards of many people and relates other family\n                     and town news.","Relates his preconception of Mexico; \"hopes to\n                     see all Democrats elected\" in upcoming elections;\n                     other town news.","Does not agree that Democrats have never changed,\n                  has been in poor health; is doing well in profession;\n                  explains his problems at the Asylum; eating in Mexico\n                  is cheap; is studying man; [contains several passages\n                  with no meaning].","Hasn't heard from him in 2 months; encourages him\n                  to come visit Mt. Pleasant; claims it will be one of\n                  the most important small towns when the railroad is\n                  built from St. Louis through Texarkana; is now\n                  assessing taxes for the county; other family news;\n                  includes envelope.","Wife not well with ovarian tumor; has become\n                  partner in goods firm; still county tax assessor;\n                  receives 6500 for this job; Mt. Pleasant included on\n                  Railroad which begins in St. Louis and will go to the\n                  Rio Grande to connect with Mexican rail encourages\n                  him to come and visit.","Received account against Jose Gamundi for $73.88;\n                  has placed credit in his name for $73.88.","Refers to securing claims on oil wells and coal\n                     mines; expects that there will be a boom in oil\n                     lands after [Mexican] Presidential election; hopes\n                     to do some speculating; hopes to settle himself\n                     financially for life.","Sickness is increasing; has received \"Charge of\n                     the Vice-consulate property.\" refers to a matter\n                     concerning archives [records of the consulate?],\n                     other town news.","Is now working at a bank as a cashier and\n                     continues to assess taxes; is living comfortably\n                     but still must pay off some debts from\n                     Merchandising; family is well and being educated\n                     as he would like; refers to the Democratic Victory\n                     for Presidency and remarks \"that the south is\n                     again at the Head of National affairs;\" other\n                     family news.","Introduces herself by reminding him of when she\n                     was a child; makes a plea for money which she\n                     needs; begs him not to pass judgement on her for\n                     asking for money.","Gives description of himself: gives family\n                     news; describes Mt. Pleasant; asks many questions\n                     about Mexico and whether a Doctor could do well\n                     there; hopes to study medicine.","Gives town news; crops look good, had a hail\n                     storm nearby; has chosen medicine as a prospective\n                     occupation; town working hard to raise money for\n                     railroad to town; includes lineage of Scurlock\n                     family.","Acknowledges \"carta\"[?] and list of goods sent\n                     to him; will do all in his power as executor of\n                     his will to deliver property safely.","Questions why he hasn't come to visit; gives\n                  description of herself; relates father's [Dan\n                  Scurlock] poor health; gives some town news.","Questions will of Dr. Theodocius [Joshua]\n                     Scurlock; inquires whether estate was left to\n                     brothers individually and was it lawful under\n                     Mexican laws; others are trying to come in on\n                     will.","Not acquainted with Mexican laws but believes\n                     the brother [William and Dan] are only\n                     benefactors.","Remits trunks and a box containing possession\n                     of brother [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock]; has sold\n                     amputating instruments for $20 to local hospital;\n                     will send due cash as soon a possible.","Assures him possessions have been sent;\n                     explains that his brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] did not have a great estate when he\n                     died; advises him to contact two friends who knew\n                     him; requests a receipt sent to him from\n                     [Scurlock's] papers.","Inquiring about possessions of deceased brother\n                     [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock] which he has not yet\n                     received; requests that he make some enquires;\n                     refers to his brother's assassination.","Informs him goods have arrived, will pay duties\n                     and willship as soon as possible.","Discusses the advantages of living outside of the\n                  U.S.; shows his bitterness toward U.S. politics,\n                  racial problems and how the government is taking care\n                  of them; defends Mexico as a better place to live;\n                  discourages any immigration.","Pages 1 and 2 missing.","Relates Bill Moore's crime of forgery for 50 bales\n                  of cotton and his arrest.","Begs brother to return to Marshall to comfort\n                  Mother and rest of family; relates [sister] 'Mit' has\n                  married; also \"Beany [?]\" was shot dead previous\n                  morning.","Diary of Theodocius Joshua Scurlock containing\n               details of Dr. Scurlock's journey from Texas to Tulango,\n               Mexico; his impressions of the lifestyles of the people\n               he encountered as he traveled south and the novelties he\n               sees and learns about for the first time; and a table of\n               distances traveled, detailed weather reports, and\n               descriptions of the locations and names of towns stayed\n               in. It gives an insight to the questioning nature of Dr.\n               Scurlock and his ability to describe some of the methods\n               of technique he viewed (e.g., medical and spinning). It\n               also contains lists of edible birds and animals, trees\n               for lumber and various fruit trees and vegetables.","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.","Letters, 1855-1888, received by or\n         concerning Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock while a resident of\n         Texas and Mexico from family members in Alabama and Texas and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Also includes a\n         diary, December 1867-April 1869, kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico.","Theodocius Josha Scurlock.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 81 Scu4"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"collection_title_tesim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"collection_ssim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"creator_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"creator_persname_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"creators_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift \n             04/00/1981."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Reconstruction."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Reconstruction."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["116 items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Restrictions on Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Organization","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","This collection has been organized into 5 Series: 1.\n            Letters, 1850-1859, 2. Letters, 1860-1869, 3. Letters,\n            1870-1879, 4. Letters, 1880-1889, 5. Letters, no date.","Arrangement The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection.","The letters in this collection are arranged into Series\n            by ten year incriments, the Subseries are then arranged\n            chronologically into individual years. Not every year\n            produced letters and this is reflected in overall\n            arrangement. The diary is listed separately as the last\n            item in the collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eTheodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, Manuscripts and Rare\n            Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n            Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, Manuscripts and Rare\n            Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n            Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is primarily composed of letters received by\n         Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock (1828-1887), a graduate of\n         Tulane University and a resident of Texas and Mexico,\n         1855-1888, from family members in Alabama and Texas, and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. The letters\n         reflect the restlessness of the pre-Civil War years, and the\n         difficulties and disillusionment felt by many people during\n         Reconstruction. Diary included was kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico, December 1867-April 1869, in which he gives\n         his impressions of the people he encountered as well as the\n         natural history of the regions he passed through.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to have received letter but worried about\n                     health; reports brother Dan had left for Irving\n                     [College]; money hard to come by and price for\n                     cotton very low; refers to pending lawsuit; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWorries about health and relates deaths of\n                     various towns people; money hard to come by and\n                     business bad; other family and town related\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrops doing well; received letter from a most\n                     \"dangerous woman,\" claiming son hadn't paid a\n                     debt; advises him to stay away from this \"awful\n                     woman\"; mentions pending lawsuit referred to as\n                     \"hooke suit\" (?); other family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to a favor which \"came to hand\"; talks\n                     about crops and prices; refers to the burning of a\n                     foundry in Montgomery [Alabama]; many suffering\n                     from scarlet fever; mentions the Hook's lawsuit\n                     being taken to Supreme Court; other family and\n                     town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains about mail system; has not received\n                     any letters from son; crops doing very well,\n                     especially corn; discusses Hook's lawsuit; relates\n                     town \"anicdote\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to receive letter after \"too months\";\n                     crops doing very well; Scarlet fever still \"going\n                     through neighbourhood\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of fine crops and many deaths from\n                     Scarlet fever; Hook suit not yet decided; advises\n                     to stay away from the \"slandering living old\n                     devil\" who claims he hasn't paid debt; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWorried that lawyers want evidence from him for\n                     Hook's case; advises not to give any at all;\n                     reports crops are good except cotton and all are\n                     well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports a retrial for \"Hooke's\" case and\n                     advises that he give no evidence; advises to stay\n                     away from \"Tom the big baby\"; asks him not to\n                     mention case in any letters except to her, Mit or\n                     Will; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReplies to question about health and crops;\n                     gives long account about political opinions\n                     relating to the \"American party\", break up of the\n                     Whigs and strengthening of Democrats; relates\n                     local arrests; business interests shifting; other\n                     news about common friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisease going around caused by snakes, many\n                     deaths; defines Hook's case as divorce case;\n                     advises to not give any evidence; case has been\n                     given a retrial; worried about Mary's [sister]\n                     health; not receiving Texas paper; other family\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived letter; has severe cold, health at\n                     Irving generally good; plans on staying two years;\n                     has not rained lately and is very warm; Had sent\n                     catalogue, will send another.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests help in getting into business as an\n                     \"averseer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInflicted with typhoid, hopes to be well soon;\n                     asks that Scurlock take care of some business\n                     dealings; received letter from William Harrison\n                     giving news of many deaths in Montgomery, County\n                     [Alabama]; provides arrangements for moving [to\n                     Texas]; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTimes dull as session ending; has sprained\n                     ankle; has received letter from Ma which\n                     criticizes his spelling; will try again to send\n                     catalogue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends papers on Freeman Divorce case; refers to\n                     a petition and preparation of legal papers; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates how letter had been detoured to\n                     mother's house, was \"read at home\" then sent on to\n                     Irving; advises T.J. to settle down and get\n                     married; also advises to not travel until decision\n                     to make Kansas a state is made; advises to go to\n                     Kansas if it becomes a slave state; mentions a\n                     planned act of violence by Negroes near\n                     Clarksville [Tennessee] on the Cumberlan[d] River;\n                     planned to knock us all in the head\" and \"make\n                     themselves free Ladies and Gentleman.\"; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to hear that he is happy, expected him to\n                     be \"Alabama-sick\" [homesick]; has begun farming,\n                     finds its hard work; all in good health except\n                     mother who has \"posey \"; other news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains in great length that Josh did not\n                     stop to visit on his way to Texas; glad to hear\n                     his health has improved with the \"Minreul wutter\";\n                     inquires about a Negro, John, who held freedman's\n                     status; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates the marriage of two couples of the\n                     area; reports the results of the elections for\n                     probate and circuit judge and refers them to their\n                     respective parties; have had long dry spell,\n                     hasn't been good for the \"God of Macon...King\n                     cotton\"; reports other deaths and gives some\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill has gotten married, spends great deal of\n                     time telling why he shouldn't have \"don[e] the\n                     deed\"; begs son not to go to Central America\n                     because climate not good for health; crops are\n                     doing well except cotton; inquires about \"Ben's\n                     wife\" who was lost on a boat which was sunk on 20\n                     April 1856; has hired new help who is young and\n                     \"don't know much\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives long philosophical and metaphorical\n                     arguments about the importance of good health;\n                     compares the \"excruciating pain\" of the invalid to\n                     the \"vast freedom\" of the healthy; will remain at\n                     College for 6 week break in isolation as few\n                     students have remained.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to a debt owed by Mr. Scurlock and to\n                     Mr. Scurlock's absence at this time; mentions a\n                     hired black man in the employ of Mr. Scurlock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not heard or seen [Theodoicus Joshua]\n                     Scurlock nor has he been in [Texas]; Has not the\n                     funds to pay the debt but will soon; refers to a\n                     boy [slave] who \"has plenty to eat but nothing to\n                     do.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePleads with brother to stop his traveling, to\n                     buy a home and settle down; claims that hundreds\n                     of tears have been shed, thinking he was dead;\n                     begs [T.J.] to meet brother Billy in Marshall\n                     [Texas] and stay with him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to receive letter and that he [T.J.]\n                     hasn't gone to Nicaragua; sorry to learn he has\n                     been \"lying on the bed of affliction\"; encourages\n                     him to go to Marshall [County, Texas] to meet\n                     [brother] Bill who has just married; sister has\n                     been married; sent 2 letters to different\n                     addresses; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRejects Scurlock's proposition to buy his land\n                     in Nepsher County; would like $3 an acre; doesn't\n                     believe land in that area is selling for less.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes business better for Scurlock than\n                     himself; selling out and moving to New Orleans;\n                     enjoyed traveling from his town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas returned to \"this city\" and plans to say;\n                     is pleased by the business prospects; believes\n                     could make good profit on investments; likes the\n                     amusements of the city.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not received word in 3 months; very cold\n                     weather and is affecting the crops; very little\n                     corn; money is tight; has bought \"a negro\"; had\n                     poor crop last year; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had a \"very cold and backward spring\"; 200\n                     deaths since Xmas from measles; brother is talking\n                     about joining U.S. Army; Democrats have full\n                     ticket for legislature and County offices; many\n                     old whigs have gone Democrat; Democrats only party\n                     \"able to beat back abolitionists and save our\n                     country from ruin\"; reports Freeman and Williams\n                     lawsuit decided in favor of Williams; other family\n                     and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates family is well, brother Dan is home\n                     from Tennessee, brother William had measles; will\n                     try to visit [T.J.] and that part of country; a\n                     few deaths have occurred caused by measles; other\n                     town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to have received letter; sorry Josh didn't\n                     come to visit; crops doing badly because of cold\n                     spring but should make profit in cotton; voted for\n                     Buchanan in election as did Josh.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn good health; has been trying to find a job;\n                     reading law now; married an unnamed woman; crops\n                     okay except cotton for which it has been too\n                     cold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to receive letter and all in good health;\n                     American Party has won full representation in both\n                     Houses of Congress; describes political antics of\n                     both parties concerning \"burying\" the opponent;\n                     crops doing well except cotton because of cold;\n                     relationship between Jones family and Scurlocks\n                     not on firm ground as a result of daughter Mit's\n                     husband; other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not been well but glad to receive letter;\n                     crops not very good, cotton getting a high price,\n                     about 15 cents; Wishes he could come to visit\n                     before she dies; discourages [Josh] to go to\n                     Central America as there will be \"fighting enuf\n                     [sic] to do in your own native land.\"; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas a slight cold; have been several weddings;\n                     thinking about going to law school in Tennessee;\n                     would like to set up practice in Texas or \"other\n                     new country,\"; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas the \"clap\", likes T.J.'s proposition, would\n                     like to be doing something; hard times coming on;\n                     other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJust returned home; has a cold; expenses for\n                     trip amounted to $60, Did not need money advanced\n                     by T.J.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas on hand $150 belonging to T.J. received\n                     through money order; Mr. Barker has paid nothing\n                     on debt; sister sends word T.J. must get\n                     married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMisses Josh very much, encourages him to come\n                     and visit several times; family is well; has been\n                     married; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received no word since February; refers\n                     sarcastically to Cupid and Social Life; reading\n                     [law] at home; intends to come to Texas following\n                     winter; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the fashions of LaPlace and the young\n                     ladies; crops doing well, plenty of food;\n                     convention meeting in Montgomery [Alabama] to\n                     discuss dissolving of nation; court system\n                     inefficient and overloaded; other family and town\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurprised to hear he is studying medicine\n                     although thinks he's too old; married a 45 year\n                     old man to his first wife, thought that was\n                     strange; has been very ill with chills and fever;\n                     crops not very good, winter was too wet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes in detail the \"examinations\" which\n                     were attended by all the music lovers; loves young\n                     America; still plans to go to Texas to live, would\n                     like to practice law there; sister is living in\n                     unfortunate situation; encourages him to study\n                     medicine; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests to have bond signed, money given and\n                     note returned, in reference to Hart Conyer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received signed note; rejects offer to sell\n                     piece of land to a friend because terms are too\n                     long for the low price offered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been ill for 10 days; advises him to not go\n                     to New Orleans too early because of Yellow fever;\n                     encourages him to write to brother [Dan] to go to\n                     law school in Montgomery; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll in good health; have been a few cases of\n                     Typhoid fever; crops very good; has been reading\n                     [law], feels this year has been a waste, will go\n                     back to read [with another lawyer] as before;\n                     other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMa has decided to move to Polk County Texas;\n                  requests a small house; this has foiled plans for\n                  school, will maybe farm in Texas if can't find a\n                  school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for $287.50 included; speaks of terms\n                     of payment; refers to an unknown lawsuit; has a\n                     jug of whiskey and no one to drink it with.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas made business contacts requested; the due\n                     bill has come up in court but they cannot collect\n                     on it; and other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand sold to Day and Thompson for $3 an acre;\n                     brother William left for Alabama; corn looks good\n                     but cotton is small, haven't had rain since 16 of\n                     April; other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses recent emigration to Texas of family\n                     and friends from Macon County Alabama; presents\n                     some prejudices toward northwesterners; refers to\n                     a note coming due; crops good but need rain;\n                     refers to the \"railroad sensation\" in Jefferson\n                     which will take some time to settle; other family\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of crops and lack of rain; reports\n                     problems with child slave Scurlock left [to his\n                     brother]; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaking preparations from 4th of July\n                     Celebration; have had little rain and temperatures\n                     have been up to 98 [F.]; has heard of yellow fever\n                     in T.J.'s city, advises him to take care of\n                     himself; refers to the drinking habits of\n                     friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions referring to Scurlock moving out\n                     of the house he is living in and what the owner\n                     expects will be done by Scurlock in upkeep.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily all well; had intended to move to Texas\n                     but crops failed, will have to buy corn this year;\n                     anxious to see Josh, wants to know why he hasn't\n                     married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeather has been very hot, have had no rain,\n                     crops are burning, cotton failing, wonders if\n                     Texas is \"a fit place for civilized men to live\",\n                     many Western town and private homes have been\n                     burned because of the abolition movement, \"The\n                     people are aroused to a sense of their [the\n                     abolitionist's] danger\", compares it to Harper's\n                     Ferry; refers to T.J.'s thesis, suggests the topic\n                     of Tetanus, mentions a case of murder Dan is\n                     defending; centering on a Negro who contacted\n                     tetanus after a severe whipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about a note for several hundred\n                     dollars that he has heard nothing about, would\n                     like to know what happened to it; shows his\n                     discontent with Texas, describes it as \"this land\n                     of contention where belzebub seems to be prime\n                     ruler.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry to hear [Scurlock's] mother is\n                     dissatisfied with her move to Texas, but has heard\n                     many are; the drought continues, has traveled to\n                     Alabama and 200 miles up Alabama River and found\n                     the drought reaches further; friends wanted to\n                     look him up in New Orleans; encourages him to come\n                     visit; other family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll in good health, crops are turning out\n                     better than expected; has traded land in Tennessee\n                     for land in Texas; reports murder of old man by\n                     child in Sumpter [South Carolina], in jail waiting\n                     trial; coal is scarce, other family and area\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived letter with thesis, contained\n                     information they already had, refers to the\n                     lawsuit thesis was needed for; finally received\n                     rain which rejuvenated crops; health of area has\n                     been good, \"too much so for the good of the\n                     Doctors\", refers to murder committed by Jack\n                     Taliaferro, includes other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegs \"Dosh\" to come and visit him, outlines how\n                     to get to Philadelphia; all are well, has heard\n                     from Scurlock's mother who hates Texas and wants\n                     to return to Alabama.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromises to pay what he owes in few weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorn crop better than expected; relates robbery\n                     charges against men from Polk County and other\n                     town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes details of common friend's death,\n                     also refers vaguely to various other [medical]\n                     cases \"town is improving, have built a female\n                     college and have a Methodist preacher who will\n                     convert...the negroes and dogs before they stop\",\n                     other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives lengthy opinion of upcoming Presidential\n                     election between Douglas and Lincoln and also\n                     projection and hopes for house and Senate\n                     elections; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Bad crops, low water and high prices\"; will be\n                     traveling back to Polk County before Christmas;\n                     gives results of Presidential elections; other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll well; friend has stopped drinking; this\n                     friend wants to fight when war begins; [Brother]\n                     Dan \"fixing n to go see Mother; other news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHasn't heard from him; corn crops good, leaf\n                     worm has injured cotton crops; has decided to\n                     study medicine; hopes girlfriend hasn't decided to\n                     marry someone else, encourages Scurlock to marry;\n                     relates town affairs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks advice on collecting lawyers in Upshur\n                  County, has not gotten judgement on claims of\n                  Scurlock's; Frank Bensen has eloped with Darby's\n                  wife; cotton crops poor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses his opinion about national politics,\n                     predicts a military governor for Texas judging by\n                     the acts of the \"Vandal Congress,\" has no faith in\n                     \"Andrew Johnson the chief of drunkards of the\n                     Vandal states.\" Advises to sue, D.J. Kimball for\n                     money he owes; has not heard from Pittsburg and\n                     will write a \"cuss lettr\" if they \"do not\n                     respond\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had to harvest his own cotton because he\n                     has no laborers; hired no freedmen because of some\n                     fights the previous year; will give up farming and\n                     maybe sell rugs with Dr. Hendricks; money is hard\n                     to come by; [Brother] Bill just recovering from\n                     serious illness; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShows very little faith in the \"Vandal n\n                     government; questions whether Dan has received the\n                     horse he sent; business not very good, advises\n                     that one should run business on a cash system;\n                     relates he has lost about $200 on a credit based\n                     system; had had difficulty with superintendent of\n                     Lunatic Asylum, told him what he thought of him\n                     and challenged him to a fight, all stemmed from\n                     disagreement on treatment of patients; will be\n                     leaving soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill begin selling rugs, have ordered supply\n                     from New Orleans; hopes doing better in city than\n                     would have at Asylum; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not heard from brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] since March; would like any information\n                     on him as had heard rumor that he had been killed;\n                     selling goods with Dr. Hendricks in \"six full\n                     stores in Mt. Pleasant\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates rumors that T.J. is dead and how this\n                     rumor came about; Long guilt speech about the\n                     death of his mother; never received the horse sent\n                     to him; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses different medical cases and dental\n                     cases; relates deaths of acquaintances; has been\n                     very ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions Scurlock has left Austin but not where\n                     he's gone; war has ruined him; crops have been\n                     good; at home at time of surrender; has begun\n                     preaching and serving his God.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave been in city 5 days, very different from\n                     Austin; many sick town supporting 10-12 Doctors\n                     and many drug stores; has met a gay widow with\n                     whom he keeps company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnquires of a Claiborne Herbert in Columbus,\n                     Colorado County; has opened a school but is doing\n                     poorly, would appreciate any help Scurlock could\n                     give; gives update on doctors [from Austin Lunatic\n                     Asylum]; will be leaving Austin soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been in poor health; crops have been very\n                     poor; war has destroyed the South and the\n                     \"Southern devils have a hard hand of it after we\n                     get through a war in which we lose everything\";\n                     will continue in business if can.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJobs hard to get in Austin; Doctors from\n                     Lunatic Asylum did not do well in private\n                     practice, have gone to Georgetown; negro notary\n                     has been appointed in Austin, other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDid not make as much in business here as in\n                     Bastrop; encourages Sky to join him and \"Dock\" in\n                     Austin; Dock will pay his passage to Austin; 2\n                     deaths from yellow fever; enjoying company of \"The\n                     widow\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAustin dull place; Gen. [Joseph Jones] Reynolds\n                     has arrived to take over department; Boon has\n                     located office, not doing well; City covered with\n                     grasshoppers; describes as \"damb poor country\";\n                     \"Better be in Hell without claws\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his plans to get in touch with brother;\n                  feels government is in bad condition, \"Texas will\n                  soon pass through to fiery ordeal of what is\n                  denominated reconstruction.\", expresses his\n                  prejudices toward Blacks; begs brother to come back\n                  to Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses opinion of government: \"I hope it\n                     [government] will sink to the latter most pits of\n                     Hell.\"; has been able to collect some relates town\n                     news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWaited until Texas was accepted back into the\n                     Union; considers this a good gained from\n                     reconstruction; claims Negroes will remain in\n                     place they should, inferior position; wants to\n                     know about Mexico: politics, commercial facilities\n                     and social events; encourages him to come back to\n                     the U.S.; other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates local political happenings through\n                     reconstruction; and some very strong opinions;\n                     thanks for the description of Mexico; sends\n                     regards of many people and relates other family\n                     and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates his preconception of Mexico; \"hopes to\n                     see all Democrats elected\" in upcoming elections;\n                     other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoes not agree that Democrats have never changed,\n                  has been in poor health; is doing well in profession;\n                  explains his problems at the Asylum; eating in Mexico\n                  is cheap; is studying man; [contains several passages\n                  with no meaning].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHasn't heard from him in 2 months; encourages him\n                  to come visit Mt. Pleasant; claims it will be one of\n                  the most important small towns when the railroad is\n                  built from St. Louis through Texarkana; is now\n                  assessing taxes for the county; other family news;\n                  includes envelope.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWife not well with ovarian tumor; has become\n                  partner in goods firm; still county tax assessor;\n                  receives 6500 for this job; Mt. Pleasant included on\n                  Railroad which begins in St. Louis and will go to the\n                  Rio Grande to connect with Mexican rail encourages\n                  him to come and visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived account against Jose Gamundi for $73.88;\n                  has placed credit in his name for $73.88.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to securing claims on oil wells and coal\n                     mines; expects that there will be a boom in oil\n                     lands after [Mexican] Presidential election; hopes\n                     to do some speculating; hopes to settle himself\n                     financially for life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSickness is increasing; has received \"Charge of\n                     the Vice-consulate property.\" refers to a matter\n                     concerning archives [records of the consulate?],\n                     other town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs now working at a bank as a cashier and\n                     continues to assess taxes; is living comfortably\n                     but still must pay off some debts from\n                     Merchandising; family is well and being educated\n                     as he would like; refers to the Democratic Victory\n                     for Presidency and remarks \"that the south is\n                     again at the Head of National affairs;\" other\n                     family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroduces herself by reminding him of when she\n                     was a child; makes a plea for money which she\n                     needs; begs him not to pass judgement on her for\n                     asking for money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives description of himself: gives family\n                     news; describes Mt. Pleasant; asks many questions\n                     about Mexico and whether a Doctor could do well\n                     there; hopes to study medicine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives town news; crops look good, had a hail\n                     storm nearby; has chosen medicine as a prospective\n                     occupation; town working hard to raise money for\n                     railroad to town; includes lineage of Scurlock\n                     family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges \"carta\"[?] and list of goods sent\n                     to him; will do all in his power as executor of\n                     his will to deliver property safely.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuestions why he hasn't come to visit; gives\n                  description of herself; relates father's [Dan\n                  Scurlock] poor health; gives some town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuestions will of Dr. Theodocius [Joshua]\n                     Scurlock; inquires whether estate was left to\n                     brothers individually and was it lawful under\n                     Mexican laws; others are trying to come in on\n                     will.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNot acquainted with Mexican laws but believes\n                     the brother [William and Dan] are only\n                     benefactors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRemits trunks and a box containing possession\n                     of brother [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock]; has sold\n                     amputating instruments for $20 to local hospital;\n                     will send due cash as soon a possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAssures him possessions have been sent;\n                     explains that his brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] did not have a great estate when he\n                     died; advises him to contact two friends who knew\n                     him; requests a receipt sent to him from\n                     [Scurlock's] papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquiring about possessions of deceased brother\n                     [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock] which he has not yet\n                     received; requests that he make some enquires;\n                     refers to his brother's assassination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms him goods have arrived, will pay duties\n                     and willship as soon as possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the advantages of living outside of the\n                  U.S.; shows his bitterness toward U.S. politics,\n                  racial problems and how the government is taking care\n                  of them; defends Mexico as a better place to live;\n                  discourages any immigration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePages 1 and 2 missing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates Bill Moore's crime of forgery for 50 bales\n                  of cotton and his arrest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegs brother to return to Marshall to comfort\n                  Mother and rest of family; relates [sister] 'Mit' has\n                  married; also \"Beany [?]\" was shot dead previous\n                  morning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary of Theodocius Joshua Scurlock containing\n               details of Dr. Scurlock's journey from Texas to Tulango,\n               Mexico; his impressions of the lifestyles of the people\n               he encountered as he traveled south and the novelties he\n               sees and learns about for the first time; and a table of\n               distances traveled, detailed weather reports, and\n               descriptions of the locations and names of towns stayed\n               in. It gives an insight to the questioning nature of Dr.\n               Scurlock and his ability to describe some of the methods\n               of technique he viewed (e.g., medical and spinning). It\n               also contains lists of edible birds and animals, trees\n               for lumber and various fruit trees and vegetables.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection is primarily composed of letters received by\n         Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock (1828-1887), a graduate of\n         Tulane University and a resident of Texas and Mexico,\n         1855-1888, from family members in Alabama and Texas, and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. The letters\n         reflect the restlessness of the pre-Civil War years, and the\n         difficulties and disillusionment felt by many people during\n         Reconstruction. Diary included was kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico, December 1867-April 1869, in which he gives\n         his impressions of the people he encountered as well as the\n         natural history of the regions he passed through.","Glad to have received letter but worried about\n                     health; reports brother Dan had left for Irving\n                     [College]; money hard to come by and price for\n                     cotton very low; refers to pending lawsuit; other\n                     family news.","Worries about health and relates deaths of\n                     various towns people; money hard to come by and\n                     business bad; other family and town related\n                     news.","Crops doing well; received letter from a most\n                     \"dangerous woman,\" claiming son hadn't paid a\n                     debt; advises him to stay away from this \"awful\n                     woman\"; mentions pending lawsuit referred to as\n                     \"hooke suit\" (?); other family and town news.","Refers to a favor which \"came to hand\"; talks\n                     about crops and prices; refers to the burning of a\n                     foundry in Montgomery [Alabama]; many suffering\n                     from scarlet fever; mentions the Hook's lawsuit\n                     being taken to Supreme Court; other family and\n                     town news.","Complains about mail system; has not received\n                     any letters from son; crops doing very well,\n                     especially corn; discusses Hook's lawsuit; relates\n                     town \"anicdote\"; other family news.","Glad to receive letter after \"too months\";\n                     crops doing very well; Scarlet fever still \"going\n                     through neighbourhood\"; other family news.","Speaks of fine crops and many deaths from\n                     Scarlet fever; Hook suit not yet decided; advises\n                     to stay away from the \"slandering living old\n                     devil\" who claims he hasn't paid debt; other\n                     family news.","Worried that lawyers want evidence from him for\n                     Hook's case; advises not to give any at all;\n                     reports crops are good except cotton and all are\n                     well.","Reports a retrial for \"Hooke's\" case and\n                     advises that he give no evidence; advises to stay\n                     away from \"Tom the big baby\"; asks him not to\n                     mention case in any letters except to her, Mit or\n                     Will; other family news.","Replies to question about health and crops;\n                     gives long account about political opinions\n                     relating to the \"American party\", break up of the\n                     Whigs and strengthening of Democrats; relates\n                     local arrests; business interests shifting; other\n                     news about common friends.","Disease going around caused by snakes, many\n                     deaths; defines Hook's case as divorce case;\n                     advises to not give any evidence; case has been\n                     given a retrial; worried about Mary's [sister]\n                     health; not receiving Texas paper; other family\n                     news.","Received letter; has severe cold, health at\n                     Irving generally good; plans on staying two years;\n                     has not rained lately and is very warm; Had sent\n                     catalogue, will send another.","Requests help in getting into business as an\n                     \"averseer.\"","Inflicted with typhoid, hopes to be well soon;\n                     asks that Scurlock take care of some business\n                     dealings; received letter from William Harrison\n                     giving news of many deaths in Montgomery, County\n                     [Alabama]; provides arrangements for moving [to\n                     Texas]; family news.","Times dull as session ending; has sprained\n                     ankle; has received letter from Ma which\n                     criticizes his spelling; will try again to send\n                     catalogue.","Sends papers on Freeman Divorce case; refers to\n                     a petition and preparation of legal papers; other\n                     family news.","Relates how letter had been detoured to\n                     mother's house, was \"read at home\" then sent on to\n                     Irving; advises T.J. to settle down and get\n                     married; also advises to not travel until decision\n                     to make Kansas a state is made; advises to go to\n                     Kansas if it becomes a slave state; mentions a\n                     planned act of violence by Negroes near\n                     Clarksville [Tennessee] on the Cumberlan[d] River;\n                     planned to knock us all in the head\" and \"make\n                     themselves free Ladies and Gentleman.\"; other\n                     family news.","Glad to hear that he is happy, expected him to\n                     be \"Alabama-sick\" [homesick]; has begun farming,\n                     finds its hard work; all in good health except\n                     mother who has \"posey \"; other news.","Complains in great length that Josh did not\n                     stop to visit on his way to Texas; glad to hear\n                     his health has improved with the \"Minreul wutter\";\n                     inquires about a Negro, John, who held freedman's\n                     status; other family news.","Relates the marriage of two couples of the\n                     area; reports the results of the elections for\n                     probate and circuit judge and refers them to their\n                     respective parties; have had long dry spell,\n                     hasn't been good for the \"God of Macon...King\n                     cotton\"; reports other deaths and gives some\n                     family news.","Bill has gotten married, spends great deal of\n                     time telling why he shouldn't have \"don[e] the\n                     deed\"; begs son not to go to Central America\n                     because climate not good for health; crops are\n                     doing well except cotton; inquires about \"Ben's\n                     wife\" who was lost on a boat which was sunk on 20\n                     April 1856; has hired new help who is young and\n                     \"don't know much\"; other family news.","Gives long philosophical and metaphorical\n                     arguments about the importance of good health;\n                     compares the \"excruciating pain\" of the invalid to\n                     the \"vast freedom\" of the healthy; will remain at\n                     College for 6 week break in isolation as few\n                     students have remained.","Refers to a debt owed by Mr. Scurlock and to\n                     Mr. Scurlock's absence at this time; mentions a\n                     hired black man in the employ of Mr. Scurlock.","Has not heard or seen [Theodoicus Joshua]\n                     Scurlock nor has he been in [Texas]; Has not the\n                     funds to pay the debt but will soon; refers to a\n                     boy [slave] who \"has plenty to eat but nothing to\n                     do.\"","Pleads with brother to stop his traveling, to\n                     buy a home and settle down; claims that hundreds\n                     of tears have been shed, thinking he was dead;\n                     begs [T.J.] to meet brother Billy in Marshall\n                     [Texas] and stay with him.","Glad to receive letter and that he [T.J.]\n                     hasn't gone to Nicaragua; sorry to learn he has\n                     been \"lying on the bed of affliction\"; encourages\n                     him to go to Marshall [County, Texas] to meet\n                     [brother] Bill who has just married; sister has\n                     been married; sent 2 letters to different\n                     addresses; other family news.","Rejects Scurlock's proposition to buy his land\n                     in Nepsher County; would like $3 an acre; doesn't\n                     believe land in that area is selling for less.","Hopes business better for Scurlock than\n                     himself; selling out and moving to New Orleans;\n                     enjoyed traveling from his town.","Has returned to \"this city\" and plans to say;\n                     is pleased by the business prospects; believes\n                     could make good profit on investments; likes the\n                     amusements of the city.","Has not received word in 3 months; very cold\n                     weather and is affecting the crops; very little\n                     corn; money is tight; has bought \"a negro\"; had\n                     poor crop last year; other family news.","Has had a \"very cold and backward spring\"; 200\n                     deaths since Xmas from measles; brother is talking\n                     about joining U.S. Army; Democrats have full\n                     ticket for legislature and County offices; many\n                     old whigs have gone Democrat; Democrats only party\n                     \"able to beat back abolitionists and save our\n                     country from ruin\"; reports Freeman and Williams\n                     lawsuit decided in favor of Williams; other family\n                     and town news.","Relates family is well, brother Dan is home\n                     from Tennessee, brother William had measles; will\n                     try to visit [T.J.] and that part of country; a\n                     few deaths have occurred caused by measles; other\n                     town news.","Glad to have received letter; sorry Josh didn't\n                     come to visit; crops doing badly because of cold\n                     spring but should make profit in cotton; voted for\n                     Buchanan in election as did Josh.","In good health; has been trying to find a job;\n                     reading law now; married an unnamed woman; crops\n                     okay except cotton for which it has been too\n                     cold.","Glad to receive letter and all in good health;\n                     American Party has won full representation in both\n                     Houses of Congress; describes political antics of\n                     both parties concerning \"burying\" the opponent;\n                     crops doing well except cotton because of cold;\n                     relationship between Jones family and Scurlocks\n                     not on firm ground as a result of daughter Mit's\n                     husband; other town news.","Has not been well but glad to receive letter;\n                     crops not very good, cotton getting a high price,\n                     about 15 cents; Wishes he could come to visit\n                     before she dies; discourages [Josh] to go to\n                     Central America as there will be \"fighting enuf\n                     [sic] to do in your own native land.\"; other\n                     family news.","Has a slight cold; have been several weddings;\n                     thinking about going to law school in Tennessee;\n                     would like to set up practice in Texas or \"other\n                     new country,\"; other family news.","Has the \"clap\", likes T.J.'s proposition, would\n                     like to be doing something; hard times coming on;\n                     other family news.","Just returned home; has a cold; expenses for\n                     trip amounted to $60, Did not need money advanced\n                     by T.J.","Has on hand $150 belonging to T.J. received\n                     through money order; Mr. Barker has paid nothing\n                     on debt; sister sends word T.J. must get\n                     married.","Misses Josh very much, encourages him to come\n                     and visit several times; family is well; has been\n                     married; other family news.","Has received no word since February; refers\n                     sarcastically to Cupid and Social Life; reading\n                     [law] at home; intends to come to Texas following\n                     winter; other family news.","Describes the fashions of LaPlace and the young\n                     ladies; crops doing well, plenty of food;\n                     convention meeting in Montgomery [Alabama] to\n                     discuss dissolving of nation; court system\n                     inefficient and overloaded; other family and town\n                     news.","Surprised to hear he is studying medicine\n                     although thinks he's too old; married a 45 year\n                     old man to his first wife, thought that was\n                     strange; has been very ill with chills and fever;\n                     crops not very good, winter was too wet.","Describes in detail the \"examinations\" which\n                     were attended by all the music lovers; loves young\n                     America; still plans to go to Texas to live, would\n                     like to practice law there; sister is living in\n                     unfortunate situation; encourages him to study\n                     medicine; other family news.","Requests to have bond signed, money given and\n                     note returned, in reference to Hart Conyer.","Has received signed note; rejects offer to sell\n                     piece of land to a friend because terms are too\n                     long for the low price offered.","Has been ill for 10 days; advises him to not go\n                     to New Orleans too early because of Yellow fever;\n                     encourages him to write to brother [Dan] to go to\n                     law school in Montgomery; other family news.","All in good health; have been a few cases of\n                     Typhoid fever; crops very good; has been reading\n                     [law], feels this year has been a waste, will go\n                     back to read [with another lawyer] as before;\n                     other family news.","Ma has decided to move to Polk County Texas;\n                  requests a small house; this has foiled plans for\n                  school, will maybe farm in Texas if can't find a\n                  school.","Receipt for $287.50 included; speaks of terms\n                     of payment; refers to an unknown lawsuit; has a\n                     jug of whiskey and no one to drink it with.","Has made business contacts requested; the due\n                     bill has come up in court but they cannot collect\n                     on it; and other family news.","Land sold to Day and Thompson for $3 an acre;\n                     brother William left for Alabama; corn looks good\n                     but cotton is small, haven't had rain since 16 of\n                     April; other town news.","Discusses recent emigration to Texas of family\n                     and friends from Macon County Alabama; presents\n                     some prejudices toward northwesterners; refers to\n                     a note coming due; crops good but need rain;\n                     refers to the \"railroad sensation\" in Jefferson\n                     which will take some time to settle; other family\n                     news.","Speaks of crops and lack of rain; reports\n                     problems with child slave Scurlock left [to his\n                     brother]; other family news.","Making preparations from 4th of July\n                     Celebration; have had little rain and temperatures\n                     have been up to 98 [F.]; has heard of yellow fever\n                     in T.J.'s city, advises him to take care of\n                     himself; refers to the drinking habits of\n                     friends.","Instructions referring to Scurlock moving out\n                     of the house he is living in and what the owner\n                     expects will be done by Scurlock in upkeep.","Family all well; had intended to move to Texas\n                     but crops failed, will have to buy corn this year;\n                     anxious to see Josh, wants to know why he hasn't\n                     married.","Weather has been very hot, have had no rain,\n                     crops are burning, cotton failing, wonders if\n                     Texas is \"a fit place for civilized men to live\",\n                     many Western town and private homes have been\n                     burned because of the abolition movement, \"The\n                     people are aroused to a sense of their [the\n                     abolitionist's] danger\", compares it to Harper's\n                     Ferry; refers to T.J.'s thesis, suggests the topic\n                     of Tetanus, mentions a case of murder Dan is\n                     defending; centering on a Negro who contacted\n                     tetanus after a severe whipping.","Inquires about a note for several hundred\n                     dollars that he has heard nothing about, would\n                     like to know what happened to it; shows his\n                     discontent with Texas, describes it as \"this land\n                     of contention where belzebub seems to be prime\n                     ruler.\"","Sorry to hear [Scurlock's] mother is\n                     dissatisfied with her move to Texas, but has heard\n                     many are; the drought continues, has traveled to\n                     Alabama and 200 miles up Alabama River and found\n                     the drought reaches further; friends wanted to\n                     look him up in New Orleans; encourages him to come\n                     visit; other family and town news.","All in good health, crops are turning out\n                     better than expected; has traded land in Tennessee\n                     for land in Texas; reports murder of old man by\n                     child in Sumpter [South Carolina], in jail waiting\n                     trial; coal is scarce, other family and area\n                     news.","Received letter with thesis, contained\n                     information they already had, refers to the\n                     lawsuit thesis was needed for; finally received\n                     rain which rejuvenated crops; health of area has\n                     been good, \"too much so for the good of the\n                     Doctors\", refers to murder committed by Jack\n                     Taliaferro, includes other town news.","Begs \"Dosh\" to come and visit him, outlines how\n                     to get to Philadelphia; all are well, has heard\n                     from Scurlock's mother who hates Texas and wants\n                     to return to Alabama.","Promises to pay what he owes in few weeks.","Corn crop better than expected; relates robbery\n                     charges against men from Polk County and other\n                     town news.","Describes details of common friend's death,\n                     also refers vaguely to various other [medical]\n                     cases \"town is improving, have built a female\n                     college and have a Methodist preacher who will\n                     convert...the negroes and dogs before they stop\",\n                     other town news.","Gives lengthy opinion of upcoming Presidential\n                     election between Douglas and Lincoln and also\n                     projection and hopes for house and Senate\n                     elections; other family news.","\"Bad crops, low water and high prices\"; will be\n                     traveling back to Polk County before Christmas;\n                     gives results of Presidential elections; other\n                     family news.","All well; friend has stopped drinking; this\n                     friend wants to fight when war begins; [Brother]\n                     Dan \"fixing n to go see Mother; other news.","Hasn't heard from him; corn crops good, leaf\n                     worm has injured cotton crops; has decided to\n                     study medicine; hopes girlfriend hasn't decided to\n                     marry someone else, encourages Scurlock to marry;\n                     relates town affairs.","Asks advice on collecting lawyers in Upshur\n                  County, has not gotten judgement on claims of\n                  Scurlock's; Frank Bensen has eloped with Darby's\n                  wife; cotton crops poor.","Expresses his opinion about national politics,\n                     predicts a military governor for Texas judging by\n                     the acts of the \"Vandal Congress,\" has no faith in\n                     \"Andrew Johnson the chief of drunkards of the\n                     Vandal states.\" Advises to sue, D.J. Kimball for\n                     money he owes; has not heard from Pittsburg and\n                     will write a \"cuss lettr\" if they \"do not\n                     respond\".","Has had to harvest his own cotton because he\n                     has no laborers; hired no freedmen because of some\n                     fights the previous year; will give up farming and\n                     maybe sell rugs with Dr. Hendricks; money is hard\n                     to come by; [Brother] Bill just recovering from\n                     serious illness; other family news.","Shows very little faith in the \"Vandal n\n                     government; questions whether Dan has received the\n                     horse he sent; business not very good, advises\n                     that one should run business on a cash system;\n                     relates he has lost about $200 on a credit based\n                     system; had had difficulty with superintendent of\n                     Lunatic Asylum, told him what he thought of him\n                     and challenged him to a fight, all stemmed from\n                     disagreement on treatment of patients; will be\n                     leaving soon.","Will begin selling rugs, have ordered supply\n                     from New Orleans; hopes doing better in city than\n                     would have at Asylum; other family news.","Has not heard from brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] since March; would like any information\n                     on him as had heard rumor that he had been killed;\n                     selling goods with Dr. Hendricks in \"six full\n                     stores in Mt. Pleasant\".","Relates rumors that T.J. is dead and how this\n                     rumor came about; Long guilt speech about the\n                     death of his mother; never received the horse sent\n                     to him; other family news.","Discusses different medical cases and dental\n                     cases; relates deaths of acquaintances; has been\n                     very ill.","Mentions Scurlock has left Austin but not where\n                     he's gone; war has ruined him; crops have been\n                     good; at home at time of surrender; has begun\n                     preaching and serving his God.","Have been in city 5 days, very different from\n                     Austin; many sick town supporting 10-12 Doctors\n                     and many drug stores; has met a gay widow with\n                     whom he keeps company.","Enquires of a Claiborne Herbert in Columbus,\n                     Colorado County; has opened a school but is doing\n                     poorly, would appreciate any help Scurlock could\n                     give; gives update on doctors [from Austin Lunatic\n                     Asylum]; will be leaving Austin soon.","Has been in poor health; crops have been very\n                     poor; war has destroyed the South and the\n                     \"Southern devils have a hard hand of it after we\n                     get through a war in which we lose everything\";\n                     will continue in business if can.","Jobs hard to get in Austin; Doctors from\n                     Lunatic Asylum did not do well in private\n                     practice, have gone to Georgetown; negro notary\n                     has been appointed in Austin, other town news.","Did not make as much in business here as in\n                     Bastrop; encourages Sky to join him and \"Dock\" in\n                     Austin; Dock will pay his passage to Austin; 2\n                     deaths from yellow fever; enjoying company of \"The\n                     widow\".","Austin dull place; Gen. [Joseph Jones] Reynolds\n                     has arrived to take over department; Boon has\n                     located office, not doing well; City covered with\n                     grasshoppers; describes as \"damb poor country\";\n                     \"Better be in Hell without claws\".","Describes his plans to get in touch with brother;\n                  feels government is in bad condition, \"Texas will\n                  soon pass through to fiery ordeal of what is\n                  denominated reconstruction.\", expresses his\n                  prejudices toward Blacks; begs brother to come back\n                  to Texas.","Expresses opinion of government: \"I hope it\n                     [government] will sink to the latter most pits of\n                     Hell.\"; has been able to collect some relates town\n                     news.","Waited until Texas was accepted back into the\n                     Union; considers this a good gained from\n                     reconstruction; claims Negroes will remain in\n                     place they should, inferior position; wants to\n                     know about Mexico: politics, commercial facilities\n                     and social events; encourages him to come back to\n                     the U.S.; other town news.","Relates local political happenings through\n                     reconstruction; and some very strong opinions;\n                     thanks for the description of Mexico; sends\n                     regards of many people and relates other family\n                     and town news.","Relates his preconception of Mexico; \"hopes to\n                     see all Democrats elected\" in upcoming elections;\n                     other town news.","Does not agree that Democrats have never changed,\n                  has been in poor health; is doing well in profession;\n                  explains his problems at the Asylum; eating in Mexico\n                  is cheap; is studying man; [contains several passages\n                  with no meaning].","Hasn't heard from him in 2 months; encourages him\n                  to come visit Mt. Pleasant; claims it will be one of\n                  the most important small towns when the railroad is\n                  built from St. Louis through Texarkana; is now\n                  assessing taxes for the county; other family news;\n                  includes envelope.","Wife not well with ovarian tumor; has become\n                  partner in goods firm; still county tax assessor;\n                  receives 6500 for this job; Mt. Pleasant included on\n                  Railroad which begins in St. Louis and will go to the\n                  Rio Grande to connect with Mexican rail encourages\n                  him to come and visit.","Received account against Jose Gamundi for $73.88;\n                  has placed credit in his name for $73.88.","Refers to securing claims on oil wells and coal\n                     mines; expects that there will be a boom in oil\n                     lands after [Mexican] Presidential election; hopes\n                     to do some speculating; hopes to settle himself\n                     financially for life.","Sickness is increasing; has received \"Charge of\n                     the Vice-consulate property.\" refers to a matter\n                     concerning archives [records of the consulate?],\n                     other town news.","Is now working at a bank as a cashier and\n                     continues to assess taxes; is living comfortably\n                     but still must pay off some debts from\n                     Merchandising; family is well and being educated\n                     as he would like; refers to the Democratic Victory\n                     for Presidency and remarks \"that the south is\n                     again at the Head of National affairs;\" other\n                     family news.","Introduces herself by reminding him of when she\n                     was a child; makes a plea for money which she\n                     needs; begs him not to pass judgement on her for\n                     asking for money.","Gives description of himself: gives family\n                     news; describes Mt. Pleasant; asks many questions\n                     about Mexico and whether a Doctor could do well\n                     there; hopes to study medicine.","Gives town news; crops look good, had a hail\n                     storm nearby; has chosen medicine as a prospective\n                     occupation; town working hard to raise money for\n                     railroad to town; includes lineage of Scurlock\n                     family.","Acknowledges \"carta\"[?] and list of goods sent\n                     to him; will do all in his power as executor of\n                     his will to deliver property safely.","Questions why he hasn't come to visit; gives\n                  description of herself; relates father's [Dan\n                  Scurlock] poor health; gives some town news.","Questions will of Dr. Theodocius [Joshua]\n                     Scurlock; inquires whether estate was left to\n                     brothers individually and was it lawful under\n                     Mexican laws; others are trying to come in on\n                     will.","Not acquainted with Mexican laws but believes\n                     the brother [William and Dan] are only\n                     benefactors.","Remits trunks and a box containing possession\n                     of brother [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock]; has sold\n                     amputating instruments for $20 to local hospital;\n                     will send due cash as soon a possible.","Assures him possessions have been sent;\n                     explains that his brother [Theodocius Joshua\n                     Scurlock] did not have a great estate when he\n                     died; advises him to contact two friends who knew\n                     him; requests a receipt sent to him from\n                     [Scurlock's] papers.","Inquiring about possessions of deceased brother\n                     [Theodocius Joshua Scurlock] which he has not yet\n                     received; requests that he make some enquires;\n                     refers to his brother's assassination.","Informs him goods have arrived, will pay duties\n                     and willship as soon as possible.","Discusses the advantages of living outside of the\n                  U.S.; shows his bitterness toward U.S. politics,\n                  racial problems and how the government is taking care\n                  of them; defends Mexico as a better place to live;\n                  discourages any immigration.","Pages 1 and 2 missing.","Relates Bill Moore's crime of forgery for 50 bales\n                  of cotton and his arrest.","Begs brother to return to Marshall to comfort\n                  Mother and rest of family; relates [sister] 'Mit' has\n                  married; also \"Beany [?]\" was shot dead previous\n                  morning.","Diary of Theodocius Joshua Scurlock containing\n               details of Dr. Scurlock's journey from Texas to Tulango,\n               Mexico; his impressions of the lifestyles of the people\n               he encountered as he traveled south and the novelties he\n               sees and learns about for the first time; and a table of\n               distances traveled, detailed weather reports, and\n               descriptions of the locations and names of towns stayed\n               in. It gives an insight to the questioning nature of Dr.\n               Scurlock and his ability to describe some of the methods\n               of technique he viewed (e.g., medical and spinning). It\n               also contains lists of edible birds and animals, trees\n               for lumber and various fruit trees and vegetables."],"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\"\u003eLetters, 1855-1888, received by or\n         concerning Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock while a resident of\n         Texas and Mexico from family members in Alabama and Texas and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Also includes a\n         diary, December 1867-April 1869, kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Letters, 1855-1888, received by or\n         concerning Dr. Theodocius Joshua Scurlock while a resident of\n         Texas and Mexico from family members in Alabama and Texas and\n         friends in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Also includes a\n         diary, December 1867-April 1869, kept by Scurlock on his\n         journey to Mexico."],"names_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"persname_ssim":["Theodocius Josha Scurlock."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":130,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:56:17.443Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00020"}}],"included":[{"type":"facet","id":"repository_ssim","attributes":{"label":"Repository","items":[{"attributes":{"label":"College of William and Mary","value":"College of William and Mary","hits":2},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Reconstruction.\u0026f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=College+of+William+and+Mary"}}]},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/facet/repository_ssim.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Reconstruction."}},{"type":"facet","id":"collection_ssim","attributes":{"label":"Collection","items":[{"attributes":{"label":"Armistead-Cocke Papers, \n         \n         1680-1907.","value":"Armistead-Cocke Papers, \n         \n         1680-1907.","hits":1},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Reconstruction.\u0026f%5Bcollection%5D%5B%5D=Armistead-Cocke+Papers%2C+%0A+++++++++%0A+++++++++1680-1907."}},{"attributes":{"label":"Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888.","value":"Theodocius Joshua Scurlock Papers, \n         \n         1855-1888.","hits":1},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Reconstruction.\u0026f%5Bcollection%5D%5B%5D=Theodocius+Joshua+Scurlock+Papers%2C+%0A+++++++++%0A+++++++++1855-1888."}}]},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/facet/collection_ssim.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Reconstruction."}},{"type":"facet","id":"creator_ssim","attributes":{"label":"Creator","items":[{"attributes":{"label":"Armistead Family. 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