{"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=United+States--+History--%0A++++++++++++Civil+War%2C+1861-1865.","last":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=United+States--+History--%0A++++++++++++Civil+War%2C+1861-1865.\u0026page=1"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":1,"next_page":null,"prev_page":null,"total_pages":1,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":0,"total_count":1,"first_page?":true,"last_page?":true}},"data":[{"id":"viw_viw00045","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Austin-Twyman Papers, \n \n 1765-1939.","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00045#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Austin family, Twyman family, Horsley family, Spiller family, Peter Francisco, Archibald Austin.","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00045#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Papers of the Austin, Twyman, Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham Counties, Virginia.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00045#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viw_viw00045","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00045","_root_":"viw_viw00045","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00045","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00045.xml","title_ssm":["Austin-Twyman Papers, \n \n 1765-1939."],"title_tesim":["Austin-Twyman Papers, \n \n 1765-1939."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 69 Au7"],"text":["Mss. 69 Au7","Austin-Twyman Papers, \n \n 1765-1939.","Virginia. General\n Assembly.","Slavery--Virginia--19th\n century.","Medicine--Study and\n teaching.","United States-- History--\n Civil War, 1861-1865.","United States--History--War\n of 1812.","Medicine--Practice-\n -Virginia.","10,706 items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization This collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1\n contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and\n Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and\n legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and\n Series 5 contains manuscript volumes.","This collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1\n contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and\n Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and\n legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and\n Series 5 contains manuscript volumes.","Arrangement This collection is arranged into series and then\n subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names,\n then by individual name and finally by date.","This collection is arranged into series and then\n subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names,\n then by individual name and finally by date.","Letters are filed in chronological order within each\n folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter\n in the folder written by the person listed in the\n inventory and also, the letters written by this person\n may not be filed together within the folder. If the\n researcher is interested in a person, look throughout\n the folder. If the researcher is interested in a\n subject, each letter by the person writing about the\n subject must be looked at make sure all of the\n information about the subject has been seen.","This series is divided into subseries by family\n name.","This series is divided into subseries by family\n name.","This series is divided into subseries by family\n name.","This series is divided into subseries by family name\n first and all other items not associated with a\n particular name are located at the end of the\n series.","Archibald Austin (1772-1837) was born in Buckingham County,\n Virginia. He practiced law in Buckingham County until being\n elected as a member of the Virginia State House of Delegates,\n 1815-1816, 1835-1837. He served as a Democrat to the fifteeth\n Congress, 1817-1819 and also as a presidential elector on the\n Democratic ticket in 1832 and 1836. He and his wife, Grace R.\n (Booker) Austin had several children including the following:\n James M. Austin, John Austin, Bernard Austin, Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.","Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman\n (1810-1864) married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second,\n Martha E. Austin. Their children were Iverson Lewis Twyman,\n Jr. (1849-1921); John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools\n in Buckingham County; Samuel Rogers Twyman; Augusta Giles\n Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman. James Madison Spiller was the\n father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr.","Additional biographical and genealogical information is\n interspersed throughout this collection.","Papers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman,\n Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham\n counties, Va. The papers include correspondence, accounts,\n legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of\n Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819,\n member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816,\n 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their\n children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin,\n Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright. Correspondents of\n Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L.\n Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and\n Robert T. Hubard. Subjects include the War of 1812, national\n politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly.\n Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's\n son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who\n married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E.\n Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management,\n the study and practice of medicine and the education of his\n children whose letters are also part of the collection. His\n children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin\n Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel\n Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles\n Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.","Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley\n family and much correspondence and many accounts of James\n Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the\n father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection\n includes several items relating to Peter Francisco,\n Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River\n and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War;\n accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst,\n Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland,\n Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward\n Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin,\n Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman\n and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of\n poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and\n photographs.","Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John\n Austin (concerning a survey of James\n Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and\n Robert Garland.","Includes letters by James Austin (brother,\n concerning candidates for House of Delegates in\n election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife),\n James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for\n House of Delegates in election of 1837),\n Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an\n unidentified college which he compares to\n Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law\n practice and that of his father; and politics),\n John Austin (son).","Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his\n mother asserting his independence in regard to\n a marriage choice and concerning his leaving\n Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs.\n Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L.\n Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to\n marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan\n Austin (slave), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.","Includes letters by James Walker (concerning\n inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor,\n Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed\n from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver\n (money owed for a racehorse and carriage\n horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from\n Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in\n War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March\n 1814, while serving with troops east of\n Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald\n Austin to run for Congress).","Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting\n up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey\n (written 10 February 1820, concerning session\n of General Assembly and the Missouri\n Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items]\n Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of\n Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of\n Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry\n Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election\n of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written\n 30 January 1821, concerning business of the\n General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot\n (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama;\n description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch,\n Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A.\n Caldwell.","Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney\n College (monthly report), George Booker\n (concerning business of General Assembly and\n revision of Virginia Court System in 1831),\n Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning\n anti-tariff convention to be held in\n Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C.\n Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James\n W. Bouldin.","Includes letters by George Booker (declining\n to run again for House of Delegates), Charles\n Yancey (declining to run again for House of\n Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald\n Austin to run for House of Delegates), James\n Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to\n constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith,\n Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb,\n Samuel Ford.","Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H.\n Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and\n Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy\n (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley,\n University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas\n H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.","Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.","Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin.\n Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation\n by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and\n to Dr. I. L. Twyman.","Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he\n was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to\n pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin\n while he was attending the University of\n Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on\n borrowed money. News of the centennial.\n Reconstruction.","Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations\n for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and\n selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves\n weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave\n Beverly.","Includes two slave letters (Mary to her\n mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to\n Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859,\n of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a\n slave marriage and endorsing the prospective\n husband. Letter outlining how to manage the\n estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we\n own the negroes, how much more loss we would\n sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what\n has transpired financially since Austin's death\n twelve years previously including the sale of\n forty-three slaves. Also letters written from\n Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.","Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to\n George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves;\n price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's\n life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.","Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in\n February 1865; and religion.","Studying medicine at the University of\n Virginia and at Philadelphia College of\n Medicine. Hiring out of slaves.","Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing\n location of rooms at University of Virginia and\n recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee\n (concerning studying medicine and University of\n Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies\n at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of\n slaves.","Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage\n in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter\n describing wedding plans and a cap.","Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September\n 1861, written by Austin while serving in\n [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry\n Regiment.]","Includes letter about civil War, 1861, from\n S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and\n letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins\n concerning University of Virginia. Other\n letters concern hiring slaves to work on\n railroad and runaway slave.","Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia\n Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley\n Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P.\n Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia\n Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).","Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin,\n Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E.\n Austin (written during her engagement to\n Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the\n practice of medicine; care of a slave's child\n while she is in the field; sudden death of a\n slave mourned both as loss of property and as\n loss of a member of the family; and sale of\n slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them\n to crying and howling.\"","Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas\n Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B.\n Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman,\n John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly;\n suggests taking him to a slave trader to see\n how much he would give for him to know whether\n to sell him or hire him out).","Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass\n \u0026 Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin,\n John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning\n the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.","Includes letters to John Austin (writing a\n thesis for Austin while Austin is studying\n medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves),\n Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.","Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman,\n Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of\n slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M.\n DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M.\n Pendleton.","Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas\n Austin (concerning sale of a slave child),\n Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of\n slaves; advice on raising their son; selling\n slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L.\n Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to\n read.)","Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr.\n Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley\n (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen,\n Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D.\n A. Snow (termination of a female\n schoolteacher's school because of her opinions\n on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators),\n Jno. Thompson.","Civil War comments in letters to Thomas\n Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b.\n 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama\n soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his\n illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R.\n H. Gilliam.","Includes note concerning trying to make\n slaves look better before they are sold.","Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and\n taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning\n medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes\n (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt,\n F. Hopkins.","Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel\n Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George\n S. Thornton (study of medicine in\n Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F.\n Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony\n Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026 Blanchard,\n Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin\n White.","Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F.\n T. Stribling (superintendent of Western\n Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B.\n M. DeWitt.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F.\n Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026\n Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H.\n Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling\n (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T.\n Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.","Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton\n (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt\n (concerning his financial condition), Martha M.\n Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874]\n Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters,\n V. Mosby.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt\n (concerning George T. Thornton; and the\n Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G.\n McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris,\n S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff\n (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott\n (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.","Includes letters from George T. Thornton\n (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown\n (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James\n M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A.\n Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea\n among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T.\n Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William\n H. Brown.","Includes letters from DeWitt H. White\n (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch\n (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan\n (granting permission for his slave to marry one\n of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem\n ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton\n (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman\n (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning\n Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer\n (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850;\n and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt\n (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer,\n J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).","Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens\n (concerning hiring slaves), William M.\n Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson\n (concerning east-west plit of Virginia),\n Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026 Dunnavant, R.\n Strabler \u0026 Co.","Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking\n Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to\n Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel\n Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock\n \u0026 Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave\n to be delivered so she can be sent south with\n others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell,\n J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.","Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical\n studies at University of Virginia; and death of\n John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield,\n B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and\n editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter\n (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph\n Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T.\n Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve,\n Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T.\n Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix\n (hiring slaves).","Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness\n of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John\n C. Mundy (medical studies at University of\n Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave),\n W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly),\n Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves),\n Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical\n practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S.\n Vawter (his medical studies at University of\n Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026 Brother\n (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert\n H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia\n \u0026 Tennessee Railroad).","Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery\n (hiring slaves to lay railroad track),\n Dickinson, Hill \u0026 Co. (value of slaves),\n Pulliam \u0026 Davis (value of slaves), James D.\n Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle\n (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F.\n Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield,\n George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his\n illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and\n Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis\n A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman\n delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to\n National Medical Association in Philadelphia),\n William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M.\n DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H.\n Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L.\n P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.","Includes letters from J. C. Mundy,\n Taliaferro \u0026 Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F.\n Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M.\n Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave),\n J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins,\n Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of\n slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse),\n John Harry (his illness), James Bolton\n (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac\n Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th.\n F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M.\n Pulliam \u0026 Co. (sale of runaway slave),\n James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J.\n Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R.\n T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of\n the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D.\n Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)","Includes letters from Absalom (slave\n letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom),\n James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River\n and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics),\n L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James\n Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H.\n Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson\n (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L.\n Thornton (illness and death of George T.\n Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward,\n Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching\n position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher),\n D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E.\n J. Snow), Hableston \u0026 Bro., T. Lyon, A. M.\n Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F.\n Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh\n (negotiating and accepting teaching position),\n Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching\n position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for\n Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B.\n Bocock.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P.\n Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention),\n McCorkle \u0026 Co. (hiring slaves), E. H. Gill\n (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee\n Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of\n slaves), Ella T. Watson (her education), C.\n Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant,\n William Knabe \u0026 Co. (piano), John G. Meem,\n Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C.\n A. Preots ([Buckingham] F[emale] C[ollegiate]\n Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert [Keats\n ?], L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill,\n R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring slaves),\n Elsom Bro. \u0026 Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob\n Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland,\n John H. Bondurant (hiring slaves), Judith B.\n Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah\n S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin)\n Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg\n (applying for teaching position), R. S.\n Powers.","Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring\n slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.;\n runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\"\n (concerning a teaching position; she studied at\n Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A.\n Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins\n (teaching), Bocock \u0026 Parrish, John W.\n Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee\n Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary [Annis?] DeWitt\n (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C.\n Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt),\n Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be\n re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B.\n Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack\n Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's\n hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's\n Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position),\n Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026\n Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton\n (describing Union raid in Orange County, Va.),\n Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026 Co.,\n Richmond, Va. (price of slaves), R. P.\n Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for\n Joseph R. Anderson \u0026 Co. [Tredegar]), Brown\n \u0026 Deane, Richmond, Va. (scarcity of\n schoolbooks) E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins\n (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his\n school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate\n cavalryman from Georgia).","Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J.\n M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave\n letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A.\n Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D.\n Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby,\n Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F.\n Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore,\n Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia),\n Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W.\n Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W.\n C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to\n grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James\n Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C.\n Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.","Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright\n (mother's female illness; an alleged\n malingering and burglarizing female slave;\n fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing\n slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin\n (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R.\n Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of\n Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).","Includes letters to sister Grace Austin,\n Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin,\n Iverson L. Twyman.","Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13\n September 1853 bears letter of Frances A.\n Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his\n wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up\n to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with\n Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign),\n James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha\n Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F.\n Harris.","Includes letters to her son Iverson L.\n Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about\n him, the education of his brothers and sisters,\n an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping\n with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James\n A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to\n her brother Iverson Twyman.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and\n her concern over the sale of family land.\n Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter\n from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a\n letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins\n Institute.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and\n her concern over the sale of family land.\n Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.","Concerns the family's poverty and money owed\n to West \u0026 Agee which may force the sale of\n her land.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and\n her concern over her son's safety.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and\n her concern for her son.","Written to her son John Twyman. Includes\n letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson\n L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L.\n Twyman.","Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864).\n Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John\n Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace\n Austin.","Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C.\n Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of\n verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel\n McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B.\n Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about\n the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of\n fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of\n slave by Confederate States Army), [James M.\n Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis\n Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of\n Washington College now Washington and Lee\n University), Internal Revenue Service\n (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and\n William J. Spencer.","Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M.\n Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson\n Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles\n Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for\n indigent students and his standard for hiring\n teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins\n College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? -\n former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins\n Institute [now Hollins College] sending his\n treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell\n (concerning will of James M. Wright).","Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr.,\n Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute\n [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke\n ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza\n M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?]\n concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K.\n Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a\n slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B.\n Partin.","Includes letters written (while teaching\n school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman\n (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman,\n Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July\n 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta\n Giles Twyman.","Includes letters written (while teaching\n school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while\n moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright],\n Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?]\n (love letter), James M. Spiller, M.\n Edwards.","Includes letters written (while teaching\n school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?]\n (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman,\n John Twyman.","Includes letters written from Texas to\n mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances\n (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice\n Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September\n 1874, concerns Texas and blacks.","Includes letters written from Texas to\n mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances\n (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R.\n Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles\n Twyman.","Includes letters written to mother Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A.\n Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.","Includes letters written from Texas to\n Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright),\n Mabel Booker Twyman.","Includes letters (written from Texas) to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin,\n Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A.\n Austin (concerning Greenback Party).","Includes letters (written from Texas) to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman,\n Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last\n letter in folder written from Virginia.","From Virginia to brother John in Nashville,\n Tennesse. One letter bears composition\n \"Management of Common Schools\" and another\n bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not\n to drink.","Include letters from Virginia to brother\n John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending\n college at State Normal College, now Peabody\n College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters\n of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern\n Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The\n Readjusters all over the county voted for the\n negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he\n is prouder of that one act than of any other in\n his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who\n voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.","Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas.\n Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State\n Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry\n Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller)\n Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d.,\n to J. Avis Bartley.","Includes letters written by Seymour W.\n Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters\n from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F.\n Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman\n and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued\n in Meriwether County, Ga.","Includes letters written by Seymour W.\n Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley\n P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a\n school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters\n of recommendation written by Holman concerning\n Twyman's qualifications to teach school.","Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See\n also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's\n letters).","Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W.\n Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie\n Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J.\n Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman\n to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson,\n Hinkle \u0026 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning\n schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson,\n Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes.\n Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching\n school.","Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George\n J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M.\n Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern\n teaching school.","Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T.\n Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters\n concerning Twyman's church membership and\n letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching\n certificate for Limestone, Texas.","Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman,\n (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a\n black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James\n B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny\n Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern\n Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H.\n Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F.\n Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman.\n Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching\n school.","W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia,\n Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears\n letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass\n Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman\n signed by citizens of Buckingham.","Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters\n from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his\n desire for an education; two people in jail for\n whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent\n of Public Instruction, and teachers\n certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va.","Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston concerning a controversy over the\n location of a school; copies of love letters to\n \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908\n and copies of love letters to Josephine White,\n December 1922 - January 1923.","Includes letters from William Merry Perkins,\n N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns\n (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal\n School, now Peabody College) and William S.\n Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One\n letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M.\n Colby concerning sale of Lee's\n Reminiscences.","Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas\n concerning State Normal College, Nashville,\n Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E.\n G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.","Letters to him in Texas and Virginia.\n Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G.\n Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or\n Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College,\n Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension\n in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham\n County.","Includes four letters from Miss Sally M.\n Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters\n to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].","Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools,\n Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas,\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving,\n William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January\n 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91\n and 87).","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S.\n Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A.\n Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit\n of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J.\n S. Jarman (president State female Normal\n School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood\n College).","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools in Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins\n (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom,\n Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller\n Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch,\n Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M.\n Smith).","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools in Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue\n Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W.\n Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D.\n Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm.\n G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving,\n W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents\n include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard\n (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers),\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes\n White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W.\n Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C.\n Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions\n requesting Twyman's reappointment as\n Superintendent.","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents\n include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva\n Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?]\n (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her\n mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones\n (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va.)","Letters to State Board of Education from W.\n L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett,\n George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S.\n Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting\n that Twyman be appointed again as school\n superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones.\n Includes petitions.","Include letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia\n Superintendent of Public Instruction.\n Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W.\n W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell,\n C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie,\n Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle,\n C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.","Include letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell,\n H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W.\n Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations\n and grading system of Arvonia High School,\n 1915-1916.","Include letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A.\n C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even\n though school sessions were shortened because\n of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler\n \u0026 Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown,\n Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton\n Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover),\n Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine\n White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett\n Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton,\n Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National\n Park). Includes wedding announcement; and\n minutes, 1925, of Democratic County\n Committee.","Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent\n of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J.\n Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A.\n W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M.\n Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.","Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic\n Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman,\n J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M.\n [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon.\n Includes speech by T. N. Hass.","Mostly concern Republican party politics.\n Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F.\n Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell,\n Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930,\n entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of\n Buckingham County.\"","Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora\n Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude\n Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah\n Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M.\n Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass\n thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S.\n Supreme Court.","To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A.\n Twyman. Concern family's poverty.","Includes letters to John A. Twyman,\n 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and\n Twyman genealogy.","Correspondents include Addison Spencer,\n Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman,\n Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie\n Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard\n (concerning membership in the Virginia\n Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M.\n Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb.\n Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman\n family.","Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister,\n Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J.\n Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis,\n John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs.\n F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd,\n Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V.\n Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker,\n Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis\n (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W.\n Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on\n Twyman family.","Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands\n Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M.\n A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode,\n Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman,\n Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical\n inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman\n crest.","Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman,\n Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Champ Clark,\n Margaret Huff (paper bears\n Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas\n S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman,\n Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman,\n Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie\n Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on\n the Twyman family.","Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno.\n C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association\n [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta\n G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern\n genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna\n Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth\n Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical\n inquiries of Twyman family.","Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman\n (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D.\n Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George\n Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier,\n [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern\n genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder,\n Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J.\n Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State\n Mission Board of Baptist General Association),\n W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace),\n David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet\n - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W.\n McDaniel. Letters concern World War I,\n Influenza Epidemic of 1918.","Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder,\n Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R.\n McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker,\n Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney,\n Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David\n Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J.\n H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred\n Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association).\n Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of\n Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.","Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs.\n Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton,\n Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford\n Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd\n (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula\n May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard\n (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)","Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon,\n Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog\n postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware,\n Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.","Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman\n (concerning teaching and the family's poverty),\n Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour\n W.] Holman.","Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel\n B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.","Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne\n [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S.\n F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal\n Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis,\n M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?],\n L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes\n booklet (The Light of Christmastide).","Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents\n include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of\n recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida\n teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while\n studying law at the University of Virginia.","Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John\n A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L.\n Twyman; most letters written while she was\n attending State Normal School, Nashville,\n Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning\n Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire,\n Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond),\n Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Letters written from Nellie [?].","Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in\n \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography\n (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia\n [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander\n H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie\n Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover\n Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M.\n Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman),\n Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.","Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S.\n Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband\n concerning slavery; letters, n.d., of A. E.\n Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley\n to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being\n appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty\n always intended to make their selections from the\n lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag\n \u0026 bobtail because ragtag \u0026 bobtail vote\n for the delegates and the delegates vote for the\n annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.","Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia\n Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of\n Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary\n Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the\n first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They\n were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.","Letters, 1853 and n.d. by Rebecca P. (Horsley)\n Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her\n separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman\n concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P.\n (Horsley) Austin.","Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley\n with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley)\n Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell.\n Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to\n George B. Austin.","Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A.\n Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning\n Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H.\n Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical\n school in Philadelphia).","2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony)\n Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson\n L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, n.d., by Hampden\n Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883\n \u0026 n.d., of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?]\n Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary\n F. Spiller.","Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman\n and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a\n student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans,\n Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile\n and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas\n Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle\n Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and\n Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M.\n Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- ,\n written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart,\n J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John\n Dooley.","Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4,\n James River \u0026 Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October\n 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and\n conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other\n letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of\n Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make\n a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to\n attend to the cows and her business - the women\n who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting\n Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from\n going back to her former husband.","Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson\n L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning\n slaves (buying and selling) and farm\n management.","Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F.\n Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William\n McCorkle, H. Johns.","Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell,\n William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil\n War.","Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M.\n Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of\n Twyman family and Readjusters.","Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George\n Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel,\n Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from\n Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning\n disposition of slaves and her ex- husband\n Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry\n Loving (concerning settling blacks in Ohio),\n Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington,\n John J. Grasty.","Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D.\n P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben\n Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley,\n N. H. Massie.","Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va.\n Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of\n engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December\n 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M.\n DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?]\n Rowland, Jones \u0026 Miller, Lynchburg, Va.,\n F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies\n in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S.\n Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B.\n Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026 Co.,\n Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.","Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A.\n Donald (describing his recommendations for\n stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin,\n W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins,\n B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson,\n John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).","Includes letters from John S. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott\n Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney\n College and including report) and M. N. Hylum\n (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of\n Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)","Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller\n by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College.\n Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry,\n State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents\n include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters,\n J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J.\n M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M.\n Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G.\n Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson,\n J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026 Johnson, [n. p.]","Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T.\n Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone\n (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie\n Hamilton.","Letters written by John T. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William\n E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning\n election of ? and his own office in state\n government), J. M. Reynolds.","Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883),\n S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison\n Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton,\n William A. White.","Letters written by Fleming Harris (former\n slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones,\n J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W.\n G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass,\n Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters,\n 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning\n tariff and providing campaign strategy to\n Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?]\n Figgatt).","Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R.\n W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican\n patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H.\n McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys,\n Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).","Letters written by or addressed to Sue M.\n Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B.\n Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H.\n Spiller, I. L. Twyman.","Letters written by or addressed to Dudley\n Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph\n Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary\n (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?],\n Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North,\n Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas\n Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John\n Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George\n Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026\n Rea.","Letters written by or addressed to Christopher\n Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David\n Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker,\n Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood,\n Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott),\n James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan\n Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E.\n Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of\n Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual\n Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026 Gilliam, Ca\n Ira, Va.","Many letters are permissions for slaves to join\n Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of\n dismissal from churches. Include letters written\n by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian,\n John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson\n (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D.\n Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James\n Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G.\n Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but\n objects to their being immersed in November),\n William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose,\n Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W.\n Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P.\n Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin\n Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams,\n Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist\n Church.","Includes letters concerning slaves joining the\n church. Letters written by or addressed to W.\n Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave\n Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas\n Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B.\n Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave),\n Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives,\n Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C.\n Tindall (concerning slave).","Letters written by or addressed to James Brown,\n E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews\n (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A.\n Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic\n Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret\n S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026\n Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C.\n Horsley's application for a position at the\n University of Virginia.","Letters written by or addressed to John M.\n Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika\n Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton,\n [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers,\n Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W.\n Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J.\n Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph\n Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A.\n Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S.\n Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W.\n Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker\n (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman\n (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.),\n George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff\n (selling of slave girls) \u0026 McCorkle, Simpson\n \u0026 Jones.","Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave\n working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada\n Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A.\n Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H.\n Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of\n Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum,\n Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A.\n Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026\n Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel\n McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter\n Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris\n (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged\n between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864),\n William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery\n and concerning service record of Jessie A.\n Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026 Co.,\n Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis\n T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic\n Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton\n (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th\n Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.","Letters written by or addressed to Grace R.\n Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank\n (describing a shooting outside saloon in San\n Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie\n Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley,\n Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary\n Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin\n (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E.\n Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance\n from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026\n Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.","Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J.\n Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for\n Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore,\n Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton,\n Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman\n genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman\n genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson\n (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J.\n Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M.\n Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor\n Company.","Many are incomplete and fragmentary.\n Genealogical material. Includes letters written by\n or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L.\n Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner\n Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E.\n G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol\n Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands,\n W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph\n of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A.\n Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment.\n Genealogical material, ca. 1850.","Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham\n County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew\n Jackson as...[the] next President.\"","Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026\n Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M.\n Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner,\n Iverson Lewis Twyman.","See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and\n Spiller manuscript volumes.","Papers relating to the canal. Letters written\n toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E.\n Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of\n the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris\n to Iverson L. Twyman.","Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters\n written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace\n B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H.\n DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William\n P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of\n Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and\n receipts.","Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn\n Dam \u0026 Lock. Drawing - section of finder. Gwynn\n Dam, n.d.","Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of\n sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated\n papers).","Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by\n Francisco.","Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph\n agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April\n 1809.","Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas\n Jefferson, Jr.","Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund\n Henry.","Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a\n legal matter.","Includes copy of legal paper involving\n Edmund Henry.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than\n one person by this name.","Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E.\n Twyman.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than\n one person by this name.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of\n sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M.\n Pulliam \u0026 Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and\n Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.","Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro\n slave to work on fortifications.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George\n Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another\n George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items\n 1873-1939.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving\n both names.","Papers involving both names.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving\n both names.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin,\n 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers\n involving both names.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Includes bill of James M. Spiller of\n 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for\n hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson\n to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the\n late rebellion.\"","Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883\n finally settled in 1887.","Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M.\n Spiller.","The majority of the material concerns Miss\n Mary Spiller.","Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed\n by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.","Includes papers on the estate of William\n Adams.","Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5\n February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha\n Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing\n with his slave estate.","Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May\n 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of\n employees.","Includes land grant of 1789 signed by\n Governor Beverly Randolph.","Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also\n those named in different Commissions of the\n Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.","Includes judgment involving Randolph\n Jefferson and John Jefferson.","Includes \"A list of a Company of Light\n Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of)\n Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and\n Twyman.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller\n Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp.\n 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Account book of William Adams and his estate.","Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court\n records, 1847-1848.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal\n accounts.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal\n accounts.","Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes,\n 1860-1864.","Including farm notes and notes of calls on\n patients.","Includes farm notes in back, 1840.","Including the estate of George Spiller.","Includes time charts for worker in the James\n River and Kanawha Canal.","Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other\n accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp.\n 80-81, 292-294.","Including time sheets of work on locks, James\n River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes work on the James River and Kanawha\n Canal.","Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.","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.","Papers of the Austin, Twyman,\n Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham\n Counties, Virginia.","Austin family,","Twyman family,","Horsley family,","Spiller family,","Austin family.","Horsley family.","Spiller family.","Twyman family.","Slave Letters:","Slave - Beverley:","Blacks:","Children:","Civil War Service:","Free Blacks:","Freedmen:","Health:","Hiring:","Ideology:","Lynching:","Marriage:","Occupations:","Profitability:","Recalcitrance:","Religion:","Resistance:","Runaways:","Sale:","Slavetraders:","Slaves - Status:","Teachers:","Treatment and Punishment:","Peter Francisco,","Archibald Austin.","Francisco, Peter, d.\n 1831.","Austin, Archibald, 1772-\n 1837.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 69 Au7"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Austin-Twyman Papers, \n \n 1765-1939."],"collection_title_tesim":["Austin-Twyman Papers, \n \n 1765-1939."],"collection_ssim":["Austin-Twyman Papers, \n \n 1765-1939."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Austin family, Twyman family, Horsley family, Spiller family, Peter Francisco, Archibald Austin."],"creator_ssim":["Austin family, Twyman family, Horsley family, Spiller family, Peter Francisco, Archibald Austin."],"creator_persname_ssim":["Peter Francisco,","Archibald Austin."],"creator_famname_ssim":["Austin family,","Twyman family,","Horsley family,","Spiller family,"],"creators_ssim":["Peter Francisco,","Archibald Austin.","Austin family,","Twyman family,","Horsley family,","Spiller family,"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchased: 10,706 items, \n 1969."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Virginia. General\n Assembly.","Slavery--Virginia--19th\n century.","Medicine--Study and\n teaching.","United States-- History--\n Civil War, 1861-1865.","United States--History--War\n of 1812.","Medicine--Practice-\n -Virginia."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Virginia. General\n Assembly.","Slavery--Virginia--19th\n century.","Medicine--Study and\n teaching.","United States-- History--\n Civil War, 1861-1865.","United States--History--War\n of 1812.","Medicine--Practice-\n -Virginia."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["10,706 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 is organized into 5 series: Series 1\n contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and\n Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and\n legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and\n Series 5 contains manuscript volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1\n contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and\n Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and\n legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and\n Series 5 contains manuscript volumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged into series and then\n subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names,\n then by individual name and finally by date.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged into series and then\n subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names,\n then by individual name and finally by date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are filed in chronological order within each\n folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter\n in the folder written by the person listed in the\n inventory and also, the letters written by this person\n may not be filed together within the folder. If the\n researcher is interested in a person, look throughout\n the folder. If the researcher is interested in a\n subject, each letter by the person writing about the\n subject must be looked at make sure all of the\n information about the subject has been seen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is divided into subseries by family\n name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is divided into subseries by family\n name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is divided into subseries by family\n name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is divided into subseries by family name\n first and all other items not associated with a\n particular name are located at the end of the\n series.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Organization","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization This collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1\n contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and\n Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and\n legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and\n Series 5 contains manuscript volumes.","This collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1\n contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and\n Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and\n legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and\n Series 5 contains manuscript volumes.","Arrangement This collection is arranged into series and then\n subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names,\n then by individual name and finally by date.","This collection is arranged into series and then\n subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names,\n then by individual name and finally by date.","Letters are filed in chronological order within each\n folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter\n in the folder written by the person listed in the\n inventory and also, the letters written by this person\n may not be filed together within the folder. If the\n researcher is interested in a person, look throughout\n the folder. If the researcher is interested in a\n subject, each letter by the person writing about the\n subject must be looked at make sure all of the\n information about the subject has been seen.","This series is divided into subseries by family\n name.","This series is divided into subseries by family\n name.","This series is divided into subseries by family\n name.","This series is divided into subseries by family name\n first and all other items not associated with a\n particular name are located at the end of the\n series."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArchibald Austin (1772-1837) was born in Buckingham County,\n Virginia. He practiced law in Buckingham County until being\n elected as a member of the Virginia State House of Delegates,\n 1815-1816, 1835-1837. He served as a Democrat to the fifteeth\n Congress, 1817-1819 and also as a presidential elector on the\n Democratic ticket in 1832 and 1836. He and his wife, Grace R.\n (Booker) Austin had several children including the following:\n James M. Austin, John Austin, Bernard Austin, Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArchibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman\n (1810-1864) married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second,\n Martha E. Austin. Their children were Iverson Lewis Twyman,\n Jr. (1849-1921); John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools\n in Buckingham County; Samuel Rogers Twyman; Augusta Giles\n Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman. James Madison Spiller was the\n father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional biographical and genealogical information is\n interspersed throughout this collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Archibald Austin (1772-1837) was born in Buckingham County,\n Virginia. He practiced law in Buckingham County until being\n elected as a member of the Virginia State House of Delegates,\n 1815-1816, 1835-1837. He served as a Democrat to the fifteeth\n Congress, 1817-1819 and also as a presidential elector on the\n Democratic ticket in 1832 and 1836. He and his wife, Grace R.\n (Booker) Austin had several children including the following:\n James M. Austin, John Austin, Bernard Austin, Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.","Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman\n (1810-1864) married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second,\n Martha E. Austin. Their children were Iverson Lewis Twyman,\n Jr. (1849-1921); John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools\n in Buckingham County; Samuel Rogers Twyman; Augusta Giles\n Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman. James Madison Spiller was the\n father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr.","Additional biographical and genealogical information is\n interspersed throughout this collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAustin-Twyman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Austin-Twyman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman,\n Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham\n counties, Va. The papers include correspondence, accounts,\n legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of\n Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819,\n member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816,\n 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their\n children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin,\n Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright. Correspondents of\n Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L.\n Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and\n Robert T. Hubard. Subjects include the War of 1812, national\n politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly.\n Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's\n son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who\n married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E.\n Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management,\n the study and practice of medicine and the education of his\n children whose letters are also part of the collection. His\n children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin\n Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel\n Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles\n Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley\n family and much correspondence and many accounts of James\n Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the\n father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection\n includes several items relating to Peter Francisco,\n Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River\n and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War;\n accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst,\n Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland,\n Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward\n Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin,\n Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman\n and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of\n poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and\n photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to Thomas Leland, John\n Austin (concerning a survey of James\n Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and\n Robert Garland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by James Austin (brother,\n concerning candidates for House of Delegates in\n election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife),\n James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for\n House of Delegates in election of 1837),\n Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an\n unidentified college which he compares to\n Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law\n practice and that of his father; and politics),\n John Austin (son).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by Bernard Austin (to his\n mother asserting his independence in regard to\n a marriage choice and concerning his leaving\n Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs.\n Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L.\n Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to\n marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan\n Austin (slave), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by James Walker (concerning\n inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor,\n Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed\n from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver\n (money owed for a racehorse and carriage\n horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from\n Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in\n War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March\n 1814, while serving with troops east of\n Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald\n Austin to run for Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting\n up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey\n (written 10 February 1820, concerning session\n of General Assembly and the Missouri\n Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items]\n Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of\n Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of\n Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry\n Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election\n of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written\n 30 January 1821, concerning business of the\n General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot\n (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama;\n description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch,\n Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A.\n Caldwell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney\n College (monthly report), George Booker\n (concerning business of General Assembly and\n revision of Virginia Court System in 1831),\n Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning\n anti-tariff convention to be held in\n Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C.\n Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James\n W. Bouldin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by George Booker (declining\n to run again for House of Delegates), Charles\n Yancey (declining to run again for House of\n Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald\n Austin to run for House of Delegates), James\n Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to\n constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith,\n Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb,\n Samuel Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H.\n Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and\n Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy\n (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley,\n University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas\n H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by Archibald Austin, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin.\n Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation\n by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and\n to Dr. I. L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment for hire of slave Beverly while he\n was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to\n pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin\n while he was attending the University of\n Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on\n borrowed money. News of the centennial.\n Reconstruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a homesick overseer, preparations\n for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and\n selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves\n weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave\n Beverly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes two slave letters (Mary to her\n mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to\n Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859,\n of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a\n slave marriage and endorsing the prospective\n husband. Letter outlining how to manage the\n estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we\n own the negroes, how much more loss we would\n sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what\n has transpired financially since Austin's death\n twelve years previously including the sale of\n forty-three slaves. Also letters written from\n Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to\n George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves;\n price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's\n life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in\n February 1865; and religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStudying medicine at the University of\n Virginia and at Philadelphia College of\n Medicine. Hiring out of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by J. L. Cabell (describing\n location of rooms at University of Virginia and\n recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee\n (concerning studying medicine and University of\n Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies\n at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of\n slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage\n in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter\n describing wedding plans and a cap.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September\n 1861, written by Austin while serving in\n [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry\n Regiment.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letter about civil War, 1861, from\n S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and\n letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins\n concerning University of Virginia. Other\n letters concern hiring slaves to work on\n railroad and runaway slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia\n Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley\n Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P.\n Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia\n Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin,\n Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E.\n Austin (written during her engagement to\n Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the\n practice of medicine; care of a slave's child\n while she is in the field; sudden death of a\n slave mourned both as loss of property and as\n loss of a member of the family; and sale of\n slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them\n to crying and howling.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas\n Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B.\n Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman,\n John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly;\n suggests taking him to a slave trader to see\n how much he would give for him to know whether\n to sell him or hire him out).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass\n \u0026amp; Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin,\n John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning\n the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to John Austin (writing a\n thesis for Austin while Austin is studying\n medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves),\n Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to Martha A. Twyman,\n Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of\n slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M.\n DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M.\n Pendleton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas\n Austin (concerning sale of a slave child),\n Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of\n slaves; advice on raising their son; selling\n slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L.\n Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to\n read.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr.\n Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley\n (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen,\n Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D.\n A. Snow (termination of a female\n schoolteacher's school because of her opinions\n on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators),\n Jno. Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCivil War comments in letters to Thomas\n Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b.\n 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama\n soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his\n illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R.\n H. Gilliam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes note concerning trying to make\n slaves look better before they are sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and\n taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning\n medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes\n (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt,\n F. Hopkins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel\n Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George\n S. Thornton (study of medicine in\n Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F.\n Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony\n Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026amp; Blanchard,\n Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin\n White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F.\n T. Stribling (superintendent of Western\n Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B.\n M. DeWitt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F.\n Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026amp;\n Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H.\n Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling\n (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T.\n Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from Geo. T. Thornton\n (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt\n (concerning his financial condition), Martha M.\n Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874]\n Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters,\n V. Mosby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from B. M. DeWitt\n (concerning George T. Thornton; and the\n Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G.\n McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris,\n S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff\n (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott\n (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from George T. Thornton\n (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown\n (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James\n M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A.\n Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea\n among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T.\n Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William\n H. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from DeWitt H. White\n (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch\n (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan\n (granting permission for his slave to marry one\n of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem\n ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton\n (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman\n (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning\n Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer\n (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850;\n and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt\n (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer,\n J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from Robert A. Stephens\n (concerning hiring slaves), William M.\n Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson\n (concerning east-west plit of Virginia),\n Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026amp; Dunnavant, R.\n Strabler \u0026amp; Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from James D. Watts (asking\n Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to\n Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel\n Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock\n \u0026amp; Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave\n to be delivered so she can be sent south with\n others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell,\n J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from H. Mundy (his medical\n studies at University of Virginia; and death of\n John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield,\n B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and\n editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter\n (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph\n Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T.\n Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve,\n Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T.\n Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix\n (hiring slaves).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from J. B. Scott (illness\n of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John\n C. Mundy (medical studies at University of\n Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave),\n W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly),\n Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves),\n Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical\n practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S.\n Vawter (his medical studies at University of\n Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026amp; Brother\n (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert\n H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia\n \u0026amp; Tennessee Railroad).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from A. M. Montgomery\n (hiring slaves to lay railroad track),\n Dickinson, Hill \u0026amp; Co. (value of slaves),\n Pulliam \u0026amp; Davis (value of slaves), James D.\n Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle\n (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F.\n Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield,\n George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his\n illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and\n Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis\n A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman\n delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to\n National Medical Association in Philadelphia),\n William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M.\n DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H.\n Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L.\n P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from J. C. Mundy,\n Taliaferro \u0026amp; Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F.\n Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M.\n Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave),\n J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins,\n Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of\n slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse),\n John Harry (his illness), James Bolton\n (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac\n Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th.\n F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M.\n Pulliam \u0026amp; Co. (sale of runaway slave),\n James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J.\n Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R.\n T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of\n the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D.\n Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from Absalom (slave\n letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom),\n James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River\n and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics),\n L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James\n Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H.\n Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson\n (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L.\n Thornton (illness and death of George T.\n Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward,\n Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching\n position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher),\n D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E.\n J. Snow), Hableston \u0026amp; Bro., T. Lyon, A. M.\n Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F.\n Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh\n (negotiating and accepting teaching position),\n Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching\n position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for\n Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B.\n Bocock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P.\n Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention),\n McCorkle \u0026amp; Co. (hiring slaves), E. H. Gill\n (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee\n Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of\n slaves), Ella T. Watson (her education), C.\n Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant,\n William Knabe \u0026amp; Co. (piano), John G. Meem,\n Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C.\n A. Preots ([Buckingham] F[emale] C[ollegiate]\n Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert [Keats\n ?], L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill,\n R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring slaves),\n Elsom Bro. \u0026amp; Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob\n Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland,\n John H. Bondurant (hiring slaves), Judith B.\n Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah\n S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin)\n Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg\n (applying for teaching position), R. S.\n Powers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring\n slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.;\n runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\"\n (concerning a teaching position; she studied at\n Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A.\n Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins\n (teaching), Bocock \u0026amp; Parrish, John W.\n Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee\n Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary [Annis?] DeWitt\n (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C.\n Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt),\n Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be\n re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B.\n Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack\n Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's\n hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's\n Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position),\n Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026amp;\n Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton\n (describing Union raid in Orange County, Va.),\n Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026amp; Co.,\n Richmond, Va. (price of slaves), R. P.\n Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for\n Joseph R. Anderson \u0026amp; Co. [Tredegar]), Brown\n \u0026amp; Deane, Richmond, Va. (scarcity of\n schoolbooks) E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins\n (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his\n school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate\n cavalryman from Georgia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by George T. Thornton, J.\n M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave\n letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A.\n Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D.\n Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby,\n Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F.\n Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore,\n Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia),\n Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W.\n Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W.\n C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to\n grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James\n Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C.\n Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to Frances Austin Wright\n (mother's female illness; an alleged\n malingering and burglarizing female slave;\n fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing\n slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin\n (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R.\n Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of\n Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to sister Grace Austin,\n Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin,\n Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13\n September 1853 bears letter of Frances A.\n Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his\n wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up\n to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with\n Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign),\n James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha\n Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F.\n Harris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to her son Iverson L.\n Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about\n him, the education of his brothers and sisters,\n an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping\n with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James\n A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to\n her brother Iverson Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and\n her concern over the sale of family land.\n Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter\n from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a\n letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins\n Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and\n her concern over the sale of family land.\n Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns the family's poverty and money owed\n to West \u0026amp; Agee which may force the sale of\n her land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and\n her concern over her son's safety.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and\n her concern for her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to her son John Twyman. Includes\n letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson\n L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L.\n Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864).\n Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John\n Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace\n Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C.\n Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of\n verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel\n McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B.\n Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about\n the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of\n fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of\n slave by Confederate States Army), [James M.\n Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis\n Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of\n Washington College now Washington and Lee\n University), Internal Revenue Service\n (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and\n William J. Spencer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from E. A. Carter, James M.\n Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson\n Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles\n Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for\n indigent students and his standard for hiring\n teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins\n College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? -\n former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins\n Institute [now Hollins College] sending his\n treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell\n (concerning will of James M. Wright).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr.,\n Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute\n [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke\n ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza\n M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?]\n concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K.\n Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a\n slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B.\n Partin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written (while teaching\n school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman\n (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman,\n Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July\n 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta\n Giles Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written (while teaching\n school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while\n moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright],\n Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?]\n (love letter), James M. Spiller, M.\n Edwards.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written (while teaching\n school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?]\n (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman,\n John Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written from Texas to\n mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances\n (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice\n Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September\n 1874, concerns Texas and blacks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written from Texas to\n mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances\n (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R.\n Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles\n Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written to mother Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A.\n Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written from Texas to\n Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright),\n Mabel Booker Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters (written from Texas) to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin,\n Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A.\n Austin (concerning Greenback Party).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters (written from Texas) to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman,\n Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last\n letter in folder written from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Virginia to brother John in Nashville,\n Tennesse. One letter bears composition\n \"Management of Common Schools\" and another\n bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not\n to drink.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInclude letters from Virginia to brother\n John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending\n college at State Normal College, now Peabody\n College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters\n of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern\n Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The\n Readjusters all over the county voted for the\n negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he\n is prouder of that one act than of any other in\n his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who\n voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to brother John Twyman in Texas.\n Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State\n Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry\n Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller)\n Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d.,\n to J. Avis Bartley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written by Seymour W.\n Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters\n from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F.\n Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman\n and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued\n in Meriwether County, Ga.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written by Seymour W.\n Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley\n P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a\n school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters\n of recommendation written by Holman concerning\n Twyman's qualifications to teach school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLove letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See\n also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's\n letters).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W.\n Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie\n Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J.\n Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman\n to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson,\n Hinkle \u0026amp; Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning\n schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson,\n Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes.\n Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching\n school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from W. M. Thornton, George\n J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M.\n Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern\n teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T.\n Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters\n concerning Twyman's church membership and\n letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching\n certificate for Limestone, Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from Seymour W. Holman,\n (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a\n black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James\n B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny\n Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern\n Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from M. E. Robertson, H.\n Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F.\n Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman.\n Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching\n school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia,\n Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears\n letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass\n Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman\n signed by citizens of Buckingham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters\n from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his\n desire for an education; two people in jail for\n whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent\n of Public Instruction, and teachers\n certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston concerning a controversy over the\n location of a school; copies of love letters to\n \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908\n and copies of love letters to Josephine White,\n December 1922 - January 1923.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from William Merry Perkins,\n N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns\n (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal\n School, now Peabody College) and William S.\n Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One\n letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M.\n Colby concerning sale of Lee's\n Reminiscences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas\n concerning State Normal College, Nashville,\n Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E.\n G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to him in Texas and Virginia.\n Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G.\n Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or\n Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College,\n Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension\n in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham\n County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes four letters from Miss Sally M.\n Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters\n to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to him as Superintendent of Schools,\n Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas,\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving,\n William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January\n 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91\n and 87).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S.\n Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A.\n Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit\n of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J.\n S. Jarman (president State female Normal\n School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood\n College).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools in Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins\n (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom,\n Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller\n Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch,\n Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M.\n Smith).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools in Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue\n Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W.\n Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D.\n Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm.\n G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving,\n W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents\n include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard\n (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers),\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes\n White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W.\n Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C.\n Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions\n requesting Twyman's reappointment as\n Superintendent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents\n include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva\n Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?]\n (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her\n mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones\n (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to State Board of Education from W.\n L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett,\n George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S.\n Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting\n that Twyman be appointed again as school\n superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones.\n Includes petitions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInclude letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia\n Superintendent of Public Instruction.\n Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W.\n W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell,\n C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie,\n Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle,\n C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInclude letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell,\n H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W.\n Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations\n and grading system of Arvonia High School,\n 1915-1916.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInclude letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A.\n C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even\n though school sessions were shortened because\n of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler\n \u0026amp; Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown,\n Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton\n Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover),\n Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine\n White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett\n Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton,\n Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National\n Park). Includes wedding announcement; and\n minutes, 1925, of Democratic County\n Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInclude letters to Twyman as Superintendent\n of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J.\n Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A.\n W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M.\n Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic\n Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman,\n J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M.\n [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon.\n Includes speech by T. N. Hass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMostly concern Republican party politics.\n Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F.\n Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell,\n Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930,\n entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of\n Buckingham County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora\n Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude\n Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah\n Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M.\n Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass\n thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S.\n Supreme Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A.\n Twyman. Concern family's poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to John A. Twyman,\n 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and\n Twyman genealogy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Addison Spencer,\n Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman,\n Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie\n Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard\n (concerning membership in the Virginia\n Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M.\n Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb.\n Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman\n family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include R. L. D. McAllister,\n Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J.\n Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis,\n John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs.\n F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd,\n Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V.\n Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker,\n Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis\n (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W.\n Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on\n Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Ruth Beall, Sands\n Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M.\n A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode,\n Nusbaum Book \u0026amp; Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman,\n Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical\n inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman\n crest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Benjamin Twyman,\n Nusbaum Book \u0026amp; Art Co., Champ Clark,\n Margaret Huff (paper bears\n Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas\n S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman,\n Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman,\n Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie\n Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on\n the Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno.\n C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association\n [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta\n G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern\n genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna\n Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth\n Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical\n inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Benjamin Twyman\n (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D.\n Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George\n Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier,\n [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern\n genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Mary Twyman Klayder,\n Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J.\n Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State\n Mission Board of Baptist General Association),\n W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace),\n David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet\n - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W.\n McDaniel. Letters concern World War I,\n Influenza Epidemic of 1918.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Mary Twyman Klayder,\n Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R.\n McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker,\n Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney,\n Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David\n Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J.\n H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred\n Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association).\n Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of\n Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Nettie [?], Mrs.\n Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton,\n Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford\n Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd\n (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula\n May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard\n (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Kate M. Cannon,\n Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog\n postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware,\n Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written to Iverson L. Twyman\n (concerning teaching and the family's poverty),\n Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour\n W.] Holman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel\n B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne\n [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S.\n F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal\n Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis,\n M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?],\n L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes\n booklet (The Light of Christmastide).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents\n include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of\n recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida\n teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while\n studying law at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John\n A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L.\n Twyman; most letters written while she was\n attending State Normal School, Nashville,\n Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning\n Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire,\n Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond),\n Dr. Hunter McGuire.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written from Nellie [?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in\n \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography\n (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia\n [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander\n H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie\n Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover\n Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M.\n Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman),\n Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S.\n Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband\n concerning slavery; letters, n.d., of A. E.\n Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley\n to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being\n appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty\n always intended to make their selections from the\n lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag\n \u0026amp; bobtail because ragtag \u0026amp; bobtail vote\n for the delegates and the delegates vote for the\n annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia\n Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of\n Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary\n Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the\n first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They\n were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters, 1853 and n.d. by Rebecca P. (Horsley)\n Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her\n separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman\n concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P.\n (Horsley) Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley\n with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley)\n Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell.\n Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to\n George B. Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A.\n Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning\n Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H.\n Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical\n school in Philadelphia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony)\n Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson\n L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, n.d., by Hampden\n Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883\n \u0026amp; n.d., of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?]\n Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary\n F. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman\n and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a\n student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans,\n Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile\n and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas\n Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle\n Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and\n Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M.\n Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- ,\n written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart,\n J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John\n Dooley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4,\n James River \u0026amp; Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October\n 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and\n conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other\n letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of\n Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make\n a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to\n attend to the cows and her business - the women\n who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting\n Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from\n going back to her former husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson\n L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning\n slaves (buying and selling) and farm\n management.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F.\n Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William\n McCorkle, H. Johns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell,\n William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil\n War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M.\n Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of\n Twyman family and Readjusters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from C[hapman] Johnson, George\n Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel,\n Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from\n Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning\n disposition of slaves and her ex- husband\n Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry\n Loving (concerning settling blacks in Ohio),\n Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington,\n John J. Grasty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D.\n P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben\n Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley,\n N. H. Massie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va.\n Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of\n engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December\n 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M.\n DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?]\n Rowland, Jones \u0026amp; Miller, Lynchburg, Va.,\n F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies\n in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S.\n Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B.\n Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026amp; Co.,\n Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A.\n Donald (describing his recommendations for\n stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin,\n W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins,\n B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson,\n John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from John S. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott\n Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney\n College and including report) and M. N. Hylum\n (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of\n Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany letters about death of Elliott Spiller\n by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College.\n Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry,\n State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents\n include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters,\n J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J.\n M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M.\n Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G.\n Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson,\n J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026amp; Johnson, [n. p.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by A. F. Robertson, John T.\n Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone\n (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie\n Hamilton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by John T. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William\n E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning\n election of ? and his own office in state\n government), J. M. Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by John F. White (d. 1883),\n S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison\n Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton,\n William A. White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by Fleming Harris (former\n slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones,\n J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W.\n G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass,\n Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters,\n 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning\n tariff and providing campaign strategy to\n Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?]\n Figgatt).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R.\n W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican\n patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H.\n McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys,\n Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to Sue M.\n Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B.\n Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H.\n Spiller, I. L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to Dudley\n Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph\n Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary\n (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?],\n Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North,\n Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas\n Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John\n Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George\n Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026amp;\n Rea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to Christopher\n Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David\n Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker,\n Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood,\n Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott),\n James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan\n Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E.\n Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of\n Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual\n Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026amp; Gilliam, Ca\n Ira, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany letters are permissions for slaves to join\n Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of\n dismissal from churches. Include letters written\n by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian,\n John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson\n (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D.\n Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James\n Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G.\n Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but\n objects to their being immersed in November),\n William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose,\n Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W.\n Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P.\n Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin\n Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams,\n Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist\n Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters concerning slaves joining the\n church. Letters written by or addressed to W.\n Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave\n Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas\n Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B.\n Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave),\n Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives,\n Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C.\n Tindall (concerning slave).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to James Brown,\n E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews\n (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A.\n Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic\n Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret\n S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026amp;\n Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C.\n Horsley's application for a position at the\n University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to John M.\n Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika\n Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton,\n [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers,\n Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W.\n Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J.\n Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph\n Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A.\n Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S.\n Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W.\n Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker\n (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman\n (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.),\n George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff\n (selling of slave girls) \u0026amp; McCorkle, Simpson\n \u0026amp; Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to Ben (slave\n working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada\n Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A.\n Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H.\n Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of\n Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum,\n Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A.\n Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026amp;\n Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel\n McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter\n Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris\n (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged\n between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864),\n William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery\n and concerning service record of Jessie A.\n Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026amp; Co.,\n Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis\n T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic\n Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton\n (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th\n Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to Grace R.\n Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank\n (describing a shooting outside saloon in San\n Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie\n Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley,\n Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary\n Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin\n (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E.\n Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance\n from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026amp;\n Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to Mrs. J.\n Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for\n Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore,\n Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton,\n Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman\n genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman\n genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson\n (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J.\n Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M.\n Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor\n Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany are incomplete and fragmentary.\n Genealogical material. Includes letters written by\n or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L.\n Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner\n Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E.\n G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol\n Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands,\n W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph\n of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A.\n Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment.\n Genealogical material, ca. 1850.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham\n County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew\n Jackson as...[the] next President.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written by Flippen \u0026amp;\n Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M.\n Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner,\n Iverson Lewis Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and\n Spiller manuscript volumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers relating to the canal. Letters written\n toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E.\n Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of\n the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris\n to Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers relating to the canal. Includes letters\n written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace\n B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H.\n DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William\n P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of\n Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and\n receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn\n Dam \u0026amp; Lock. Drawing - section of finder. Gwynn\n Dam, n.d.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of\n sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated\n papers).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by\n Francisco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph\n agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April\n 1809.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas\n Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund\n Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes item signed by Edmund Henry about a\n legal matter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes copy of legal paper involving\n Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than\n one person by this name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E.\n Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than\n one person by this name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes statement of 27 February 1858 of\n sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M.\n Pulliam \u0026amp; Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and\n Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro\n slave to work on fortifications.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George\n Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another\n George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items\n 1873-1939.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving\n both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving\n both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin,\n 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers\n involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes bill of James M. Spiller of\n 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for\n hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson\n to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the\n late rebellion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883\n finally settled in 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes copies of will of 1889 of J. M.\n Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe majority of the material concerns Miss\n Mary Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed\n by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers on the estate of William\n Adams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5\n February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha\n Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing\n with his slave estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes extract of Special Order #64 of May\n 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of\n employees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes land grant of 1789 signed by\n Governor Beverly Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes \"A list of Magistrates as also\n those named in different Commissions of the\n Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes judgment involving Randolph\n Jefferson and John Jefferson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes \"A list of a Company of Light\n Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of)\n Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials. See also Rogers and\n Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials. See also Rogers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller\n Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp.\n 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book of William Adams and his estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court\n records, 1847-1848.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes James River and Kanawha Canal\n accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes James River and Kanawha Canal\n accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books, 1849-1856, including farm notes,\n 1860-1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding farm notes and notes of calls on\n patients.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes farm notes in back, 1840.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding the estate of George Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes time charts for worker in the James\n River and Kanawha Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLedger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other\n accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp.\n 80-81, 292-294.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding time sheets of work on locks, James\n River and Kanawha Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes work on the James River and Kanawha\n Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman,\n Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham\n counties, Va. The papers include correspondence, accounts,\n legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of\n Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819,\n member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816,\n 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their\n children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin,\n Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright. Correspondents of\n Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L.\n Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and\n Robert T. Hubard. Subjects include the War of 1812, national\n politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly.\n Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's\n son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who\n married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E.\n Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management,\n the study and practice of medicine and the education of his\n children whose letters are also part of the collection. His\n children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin\n Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel\n Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles\n Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.","Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley\n family and much correspondence and many accounts of James\n Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the\n father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection\n includes several items relating to Peter Francisco,\n Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River\n and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War;\n accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst,\n Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland,\n Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward\n Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin,\n Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman\n and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of\n poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and\n photographs.","Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John\n Austin (concerning a survey of James\n Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and\n Robert Garland.","Includes letters by James Austin (brother,\n concerning candidates for House of Delegates in\n election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife),\n James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for\n House of Delegates in election of 1837),\n Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an\n unidentified college which he compares to\n Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law\n practice and that of his father; and politics),\n John Austin (son).","Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his\n mother asserting his independence in regard to\n a marriage choice and concerning his leaving\n Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs.\n Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L.\n Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to\n marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan\n Austin (slave), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.","Includes letters by James Walker (concerning\n inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor,\n Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed\n from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver\n (money owed for a racehorse and carriage\n horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from\n Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in\n War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March\n 1814, while serving with troops east of\n Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald\n Austin to run for Congress).","Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting\n up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey\n (written 10 February 1820, concerning session\n of General Assembly and the Missouri\n Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items]\n Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of\n Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of\n Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry\n Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election\n of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written\n 30 January 1821, concerning business of the\n General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot\n (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama;\n description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch,\n Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A.\n Caldwell.","Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney\n College (monthly report), George Booker\n (concerning business of General Assembly and\n revision of Virginia Court System in 1831),\n Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning\n anti-tariff convention to be held in\n Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C.\n Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James\n W. Bouldin.","Includes letters by George Booker (declining\n to run again for House of Delegates), Charles\n Yancey (declining to run again for House of\n Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald\n Austin to run for House of Delegates), James\n Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to\n constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith,\n Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb,\n Samuel Ford.","Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H.\n Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and\n Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy\n (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley,\n University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas\n H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.","Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.","Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin.\n Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation\n by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and\n to Dr. I. L. Twyman.","Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he\n was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to\n pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin\n while he was attending the University of\n Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on\n borrowed money. News of the centennial.\n Reconstruction.","Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations\n for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and\n selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves\n weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave\n Beverly.","Includes two slave letters (Mary to her\n mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to\n Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859,\n of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a\n slave marriage and endorsing the prospective\n husband. Letter outlining how to manage the\n estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we\n own the negroes, how much more loss we would\n sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what\n has transpired financially since Austin's death\n twelve years previously including the sale of\n forty-three slaves. Also letters written from\n Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.","Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to\n George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves;\n price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's\n life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.","Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in\n February 1865; and religion.","Studying medicine at the University of\n Virginia and at Philadelphia College of\n Medicine. Hiring out of slaves.","Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing\n location of rooms at University of Virginia and\n recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee\n (concerning studying medicine and University of\n Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies\n at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of\n slaves.","Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage\n in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter\n describing wedding plans and a cap.","Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September\n 1861, written by Austin while serving in\n [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry\n Regiment.]","Includes letter about civil War, 1861, from\n S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and\n letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins\n concerning University of Virginia. Other\n letters concern hiring slaves to work on\n railroad and runaway slave.","Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia\n Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley\n Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P.\n Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia\n Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).","Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin,\n Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E.\n Austin (written during her engagement to\n Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the\n practice of medicine; care of a slave's child\n while she is in the field; sudden death of a\n slave mourned both as loss of property and as\n loss of a member of the family; and sale of\n slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them\n to crying and howling.\"","Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas\n Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B.\n Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman,\n John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly;\n suggests taking him to a slave trader to see\n how much he would give for him to know whether\n to sell him or hire him out).","Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass\n \u0026 Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin,\n John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning\n the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.","Includes letters to John Austin (writing a\n thesis for Austin while Austin is studying\n medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves),\n Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.","Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman,\n Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of\n slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M.\n DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M.\n Pendleton.","Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas\n Austin (concerning sale of a slave child),\n Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of\n slaves; advice on raising their son; selling\n slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L.\n Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to\n read.)","Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr.\n Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley\n (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen,\n Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D.\n A. Snow (termination of a female\n schoolteacher's school because of her opinions\n on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators),\n Jno. Thompson.","Civil War comments in letters to Thomas\n Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b.\n 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama\n soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his\n illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R.\n H. Gilliam.","Includes note concerning trying to make\n slaves look better before they are sold.","Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and\n taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning\n medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes\n (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt,\n F. Hopkins.","Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel\n Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George\n S. Thornton (study of medicine in\n Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F.\n Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony\n Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026 Blanchard,\n Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin\n White.","Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F.\n T. Stribling (superintendent of Western\n Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B.\n M. DeWitt.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F.\n Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026\n Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H.\n Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling\n (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T.\n Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.","Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton\n (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt\n (concerning his financial condition), Martha M.\n Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874]\n Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters,\n V. Mosby.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt\n (concerning George T. Thornton; and the\n Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G.\n McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris,\n S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff\n (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott\n (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.","Includes letters from George T. Thornton\n (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown\n (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James\n M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A.\n Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea\n among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T.\n Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William\n H. Brown.","Includes letters from DeWitt H. White\n (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch\n (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan\n (granting permission for his slave to marry one\n of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem\n ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton\n (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman\n (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning\n Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer\n (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850;\n and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt\n (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer,\n J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).","Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens\n (concerning hiring slaves), William M.\n Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson\n (concerning east-west plit of Virginia),\n Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026 Dunnavant, R.\n Strabler \u0026 Co.","Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking\n Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to\n Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel\n Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock\n \u0026 Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave\n to be delivered so she can be sent south with\n others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell,\n J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.","Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical\n studies at University of Virginia; and death of\n John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield,\n B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and\n editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter\n (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph\n Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T.\n Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve,\n Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T.\n Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix\n (hiring slaves).","Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness\n of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John\n C. Mundy (medical studies at University of\n Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave),\n W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly),\n Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves),\n Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical\n practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S.\n Vawter (his medical studies at University of\n Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026 Brother\n (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert\n H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia\n \u0026 Tennessee Railroad).","Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery\n (hiring slaves to lay railroad track),\n Dickinson, Hill \u0026 Co. (value of slaves),\n Pulliam \u0026 Davis (value of slaves), James D.\n Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle\n (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F.\n Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield,\n George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his\n illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and\n Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis\n A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman\n delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to\n National Medical Association in Philadelphia),\n William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M.\n DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H.\n Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L.\n P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.","Includes letters from J. C. Mundy,\n Taliaferro \u0026 Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F.\n Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M.\n Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave),\n J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins,\n Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of\n slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse),\n John Harry (his illness), James Bolton\n (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac\n Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th.\n F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M.\n Pulliam \u0026 Co. (sale of runaway slave),\n James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J.\n Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R.\n T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of\n the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D.\n Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)","Includes letters from Absalom (slave\n letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom),\n James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River\n and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics),\n L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James\n Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H.\n Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson\n (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L.\n Thornton (illness and death of George T.\n Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward,\n Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching\n position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher),\n D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E.\n J. Snow), Hableston \u0026 Bro., T. Lyon, A. M.\n Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F.\n Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh\n (negotiating and accepting teaching position),\n Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching\n position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for\n Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B.\n Bocock.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P.\n Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention),\n McCorkle \u0026 Co. (hiring slaves), E. H. Gill\n (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee\n Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of\n slaves), Ella T. Watson (her education), C.\n Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant,\n William Knabe \u0026 Co. (piano), John G. Meem,\n Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C.\n A. Preots ([Buckingham] F[emale] C[ollegiate]\n Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert [Keats\n ?], L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill,\n R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring slaves),\n Elsom Bro. \u0026 Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob\n Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland,\n John H. Bondurant (hiring slaves), Judith B.\n Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah\n S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin)\n Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg\n (applying for teaching position), R. S.\n Powers.","Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring\n slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.;\n runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\"\n (concerning a teaching position; she studied at\n Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A.\n Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins\n (teaching), Bocock \u0026 Parrish, John W.\n Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee\n Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary [Annis?] DeWitt\n (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C.\n Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt),\n Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be\n re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B.\n Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack\n Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's\n hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's\n Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position),\n Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026\n Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton\n (describing Union raid in Orange County, Va.),\n Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026 Co.,\n Richmond, Va. (price of slaves), R. P.\n Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for\n Joseph R. Anderson \u0026 Co. [Tredegar]), Brown\n \u0026 Deane, Richmond, Va. (scarcity of\n schoolbooks) E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins\n (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his\n school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate\n cavalryman from Georgia).","Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J.\n M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave\n letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A.\n Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D.\n Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby,\n Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F.\n Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore,\n Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia),\n Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W.\n Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W.\n C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to\n grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James\n Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C.\n Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.","Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright\n (mother's female illness; an alleged\n malingering and burglarizing female slave;\n fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing\n slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin\n (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R.\n Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of\n Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).","Includes letters to sister Grace Austin,\n Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin,\n Iverson L. Twyman.","Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13\n September 1853 bears letter of Frances A.\n Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his\n wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up\n to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with\n Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign),\n James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha\n Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F.\n Harris.","Includes letters to her son Iverson L.\n Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about\n him, the education of his brothers and sisters,\n an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping\n with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James\n A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to\n her brother Iverson Twyman.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and\n her concern over the sale of family land.\n Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter\n from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a\n letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins\n Institute.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and\n her concern over the sale of family land.\n Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.","Concerns the family's poverty and money owed\n to West \u0026 Agee which may force the sale of\n her land.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and\n her concern over her son's safety.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and\n her concern for her son.","Written to her son John Twyman. Includes\n letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson\n L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L.\n Twyman.","Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864).\n Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John\n Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace\n Austin.","Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C.\n Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of\n verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel\n McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B.\n Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about\n the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of\n fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of\n slave by Confederate States Army), [James M.\n Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis\n Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of\n Washington College now Washington and Lee\n University), Internal Revenue Service\n (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and\n William J. Spencer.","Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M.\n Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson\n Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles\n Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for\n indigent students and his standard for hiring\n teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins\n College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? -\n former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins\n Institute [now Hollins College] sending his\n treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell\n (concerning will of James M. Wright).","Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr.,\n Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute\n [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke\n ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza\n M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?]\n concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K.\n Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a\n slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B.\n Partin.","Includes letters written (while teaching\n school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman\n (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman,\n Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July\n 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta\n Giles Twyman.","Includes letters written (while teaching\n school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while\n moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright],\n Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?]\n (love letter), James M. Spiller, M.\n Edwards.","Includes letters written (while teaching\n school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?]\n (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman,\n John Twyman.","Includes letters written from Texas to\n mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances\n (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice\n Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September\n 1874, concerns Texas and blacks.","Includes letters written from Texas to\n mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances\n (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R.\n Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles\n Twyman.","Includes letters written to mother Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A.\n Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.","Includes letters written from Texas to\n Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright),\n Mabel Booker Twyman.","Includes letters (written from Texas) to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin,\n Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A.\n Austin (concerning Greenback Party).","Includes letters (written from Texas) to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman,\n Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last\n letter in folder written from Virginia.","From Virginia to brother John in Nashville,\n Tennesse. One letter bears composition\n \"Management of Common Schools\" and another\n bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not\n to drink.","Include letters from Virginia to brother\n John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending\n college at State Normal College, now Peabody\n College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters\n of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern\n Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The\n Readjusters all over the county voted for the\n negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he\n is prouder of that one act than of any other in\n his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who\n voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.","Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas.\n Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State\n Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry\n Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller)\n Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d.,\n to J. Avis Bartley.","Includes letters written by Seymour W.\n Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters\n from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F.\n Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman\n and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued\n in Meriwether County, Ga.","Includes letters written by Seymour W.\n Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley\n P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a\n school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters\n of recommendation written by Holman concerning\n Twyman's qualifications to teach school.","Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See\n also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's\n letters).","Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W.\n Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie\n Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J.\n Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman\n to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson,\n Hinkle \u0026 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning\n schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson,\n Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes.\n Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching\n school.","Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George\n J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M.\n Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern\n teaching school.","Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T.\n Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters\n concerning Twyman's church membership and\n letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching\n certificate for Limestone, Texas.","Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman,\n (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a\n black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James\n B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny\n Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern\n Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H.\n Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F.\n Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman.\n Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching\n school.","W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia,\n Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears\n letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass\n Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman\n signed by citizens of Buckingham.","Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters\n from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his\n desire for an education; two people in jail for\n whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent\n of Public Instruction, and teachers\n certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va.","Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston concerning a controversy over the\n location of a school; copies of love letters to\n \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908\n and copies of love letters to Josephine White,\n December 1922 - January 1923.","Includes letters from William Merry Perkins,\n N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns\n (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal\n School, now Peabody College) and William S.\n Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One\n letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M.\n Colby concerning sale of Lee's\n Reminiscences.","Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas\n concerning State Normal College, Nashville,\n Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E.\n G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.","Letters to him in Texas and Virginia.\n Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G.\n Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or\n Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College,\n Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension\n in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham\n County.","Includes four letters from Miss Sally M.\n Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters\n to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].","Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools,\n Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas,\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving,\n William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January\n 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91\n and 87).","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S.\n Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A.\n Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit\n of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J.\n S. Jarman (president State female Normal\n School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood\n College).","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools in Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins\n (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom,\n Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller\n Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch,\n Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M.\n Smith).","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools in Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue\n Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W.\n Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D.\n Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm.\n G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving,\n W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents\n include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard\n (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers),\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes\n White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W.\n Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C.\n Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions\n requesting Twyman's reappointment as\n Superintendent.","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents\n include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva\n Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?]\n (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her\n mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones\n (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va.)","Letters to State Board of Education from W.\n L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett,\n George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S.\n Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting\n that Twyman be appointed again as school\n superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones.\n Includes petitions.","Include letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia\n Superintendent of Public Instruction.\n Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W.\n W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell,\n C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie,\n Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle,\n C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.","Include letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell,\n H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W.\n Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations\n and grading system of Arvonia High School,\n 1915-1916.","Include letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A.\n C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even\n though school sessions were shortened because\n of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler\n \u0026 Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown,\n Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton\n Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover),\n Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine\n White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett\n Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton,\n Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National\n Park). Includes wedding announcement; and\n minutes, 1925, of Democratic County\n Committee.","Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent\n of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J.\n Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A.\n W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M.\n Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.","Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic\n Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman,\n J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M.\n [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon.\n Includes speech by T. N. Hass.","Mostly concern Republican party politics.\n Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F.\n Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell,\n Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930,\n entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of\n Buckingham County.\"","Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora\n Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude\n Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah\n Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M.\n Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass\n thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S.\n Supreme Court.","To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A.\n Twyman. Concern family's poverty.","Includes letters to John A. Twyman,\n 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and\n Twyman genealogy.","Correspondents include Addison Spencer,\n Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman,\n Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie\n Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard\n (concerning membership in the Virginia\n Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M.\n Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb.\n Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman\n family.","Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister,\n Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J.\n Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis,\n John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs.\n F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd,\n Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V.\n Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker,\n Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis\n (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W.\n Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on\n Twyman family.","Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands\n Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M.\n A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode,\n Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman,\n Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical\n inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman\n crest.","Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman,\n Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Champ Clark,\n Margaret Huff (paper bears\n Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas\n S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman,\n Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman,\n Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie\n Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on\n the Twyman family.","Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno.\n C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association\n [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta\n G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern\n genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna\n Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth\n Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical\n inquiries of Twyman family.","Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman\n (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D.\n Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George\n Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier,\n [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern\n genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder,\n Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J.\n Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State\n Mission Board of Baptist General Association),\n W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace),\n David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet\n - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W.\n McDaniel. Letters concern World War I,\n Influenza Epidemic of 1918.","Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder,\n Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R.\n McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker,\n Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney,\n Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David\n Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J.\n H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred\n Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association).\n Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of\n Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.","Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs.\n Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton,\n Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford\n Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd\n (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula\n May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard\n (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)","Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon,\n Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog\n postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware,\n Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.","Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman\n (concerning teaching and the family's poverty),\n Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour\n W.] Holman.","Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel\n B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.","Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne\n [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S.\n F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal\n Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis,\n M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?],\n L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes\n booklet (The Light of Christmastide).","Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents\n include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of\n recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida\n teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while\n studying law at the University of Virginia.","Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John\n A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L.\n Twyman; most letters written while she was\n attending State Normal School, Nashville,\n Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning\n Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire,\n Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond),\n Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Letters written from Nellie [?].","Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in\n \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography\n (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia\n [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander\n H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie\n Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover\n Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M.\n Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman),\n Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.","Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S.\n Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband\n concerning slavery; letters, n.d., of A. E.\n Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley\n to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being\n appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty\n always intended to make their selections from the\n lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag\n \u0026 bobtail because ragtag \u0026 bobtail vote\n for the delegates and the delegates vote for the\n annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.","Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia\n Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of\n Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary\n Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the\n first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They\n were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.","Letters, 1853 and n.d. by Rebecca P. (Horsley)\n Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her\n separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman\n concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P.\n (Horsley) Austin.","Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley\n with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley)\n Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell.\n Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to\n George B. Austin.","Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A.\n Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning\n Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H.\n Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical\n school in Philadelphia).","2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony)\n Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson\n L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, n.d., by Hampden\n Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883\n \u0026 n.d., of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?]\n Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary\n F. Spiller.","Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman\n and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a\n student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans,\n Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile\n and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas\n Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle\n Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and\n Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M.\n Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- ,\n written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart,\n J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John\n Dooley.","Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4,\n James River \u0026 Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October\n 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and\n conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other\n letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of\n Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make\n a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to\n attend to the cows and her business - the women\n who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting\n Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from\n going back to her former husband.","Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson\n L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning\n slaves (buying and selling) and farm\n management.","Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F.\n Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William\n McCorkle, H. Johns.","Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell,\n William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil\n War.","Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M.\n Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of\n Twyman family and Readjusters.","Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George\n Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel,\n Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from\n Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning\n disposition of slaves and her ex- husband\n Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry\n Loving (concerning settling blacks in Ohio),\n Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington,\n John J. Grasty.","Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D.\n P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben\n Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley,\n N. H. Massie.","Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va.\n Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of\n engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December\n 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M.\n DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?]\n Rowland, Jones \u0026 Miller, Lynchburg, Va.,\n F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies\n in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S.\n Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B.\n Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026 Co.,\n Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.","Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A.\n Donald (describing his recommendations for\n stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin,\n W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins,\n B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson,\n John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).","Includes letters from John S. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott\n Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney\n College and including report) and M. N. Hylum\n (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of\n Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)","Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller\n by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College.\n Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry,\n State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents\n include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters,\n J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J.\n M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M.\n Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G.\n Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson,\n J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026 Johnson, [n. p.]","Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T.\n Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone\n (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie\n Hamilton.","Letters written by John T. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William\n E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning\n election of ? and his own office in state\n government), J. M. Reynolds.","Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883),\n S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison\n Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton,\n William A. White.","Letters written by Fleming Harris (former\n slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones,\n J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W.\n G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass,\n Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters,\n 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning\n tariff and providing campaign strategy to\n Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?]\n Figgatt).","Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R.\n W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican\n patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H.\n McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys,\n Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).","Letters written by or addressed to Sue M.\n Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B.\n Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H.\n Spiller, I. L. Twyman.","Letters written by or addressed to Dudley\n Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph\n Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary\n (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?],\n Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North,\n Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas\n Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John\n Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George\n Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026\n Rea.","Letters written by or addressed to Christopher\n Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David\n Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker,\n Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood,\n Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott),\n James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan\n Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E.\n Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of\n Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual\n Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026 Gilliam, Ca\n Ira, Va.","Many letters are permissions for slaves to join\n Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of\n dismissal from churches. Include letters written\n by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian,\n John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson\n (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D.\n Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James\n Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G.\n Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but\n objects to their being immersed in November),\n William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose,\n Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W.\n Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P.\n Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin\n Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams,\n Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist\n Church.","Includes letters concerning slaves joining the\n church. Letters written by or addressed to W.\n Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave\n Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas\n Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B.\n Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave),\n Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives,\n Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C.\n Tindall (concerning slave).","Letters written by or addressed to James Brown,\n E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews\n (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A.\n Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic\n Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret\n S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026\n Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C.\n Horsley's application for a position at the\n University of Virginia.","Letters written by or addressed to John M.\n Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika\n Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton,\n [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers,\n Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W.\n Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J.\n Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph\n Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A.\n Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S.\n Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W.\n Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker\n (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman\n (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.),\n George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff\n (selling of slave girls) \u0026 McCorkle, Simpson\n \u0026 Jones.","Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave\n working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada\n Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A.\n Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H.\n Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of\n Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum,\n Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A.\n Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026\n Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel\n McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter\n Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris\n (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged\n between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864),\n William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery\n and concerning service record of Jessie A.\n Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026 Co.,\n Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis\n T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic\n Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton\n (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th\n Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.","Letters written by or addressed to Grace R.\n Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank\n (describing a shooting outside saloon in San\n Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie\n Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley,\n Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary\n Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin\n (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E.\n Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance\n from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026\n Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.","Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J.\n Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for\n Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore,\n Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton,\n Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman\n genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman\n genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson\n (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J.\n Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M.\n Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor\n Company.","Many are incomplete and fragmentary.\n Genealogical material. Includes letters written by\n or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L.\n Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner\n Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E.\n G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol\n Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands,\n W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph\n of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A.\n Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment.\n Genealogical material, ca. 1850.","Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham\n County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew\n Jackson as...[the] next President.\"","Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026\n Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M.\n Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner,\n Iverson Lewis Twyman.","See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and\n Spiller manuscript volumes.","Papers relating to the canal. Letters written\n toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E.\n Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of\n the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris\n to Iverson L. Twyman.","Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters\n written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace\n B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H.\n DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William\n P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of\n Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and\n receipts.","Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn\n Dam \u0026 Lock. Drawing - section of finder. Gwynn\n Dam, n.d.","Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of\n sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated\n papers).","Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by\n Francisco.","Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph\n agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April\n 1809.","Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas\n Jefferson, Jr.","Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund\n Henry.","Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a\n legal matter.","Includes copy of legal paper involving\n Edmund Henry.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than\n one person by this name.","Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E.\n Twyman.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than\n one person by this name.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of\n sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M.\n Pulliam \u0026 Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and\n Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.","Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro\n slave to work on fortifications.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George\n Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another\n George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items\n 1873-1939.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving\n both names.","Papers involving both names.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving\n both names.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin,\n 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers\n involving both names.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Includes bill of James M. Spiller of\n 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for\n hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson\n to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the\n late rebellion.\"","Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883\n finally settled in 1887.","Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M.\n Spiller.","The majority of the material concerns Miss\n Mary Spiller.","Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed\n by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.","Includes papers on the estate of William\n Adams.","Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5\n February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha\n Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing\n with his slave estate.","Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May\n 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of\n employees.","Includes land grant of 1789 signed by\n Governor Beverly Randolph.","Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also\n those named in different Commissions of the\n Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.","Includes judgment involving Randolph\n Jefferson and John Jefferson.","Includes \"A list of a Company of Light\n Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of)\n Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and\n Twyman.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller\n Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp.\n 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Account book of William Adams and his estate.","Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court\n records, 1847-1848.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal\n accounts.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal\n accounts.","Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes,\n 1860-1864.","Including farm notes and notes of calls on\n patients.","Includes farm notes in back, 1840.","Including the estate of George Spiller.","Includes time charts for worker in the James\n River and Kanawha Canal.","Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other\n accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp.\n 80-81, 292-294.","Including time sheets of work on locks, James\n River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes work on the James River and Kanawha\n Canal.","Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock."],"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\"\u003ePapers of the Austin, Twyman,\n Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham\n Counties, Virginia.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of the Austin, Twyman,\n Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham\n Counties, Virginia."],"names_ssim":["Austin family,","Twyman family,","Horsley family,","Spiller family,","Austin family.","Horsley family.","Spiller family.","Twyman family.","Slave Letters:","Slave - Beverley:","Blacks:","Children:","Civil War Service:","Free Blacks:","Freedmen:","Health:","Hiring:","Ideology:","Lynching:","Marriage:","Occupations:","Profitability:","Recalcitrance:","Religion:","Resistance:","Runaways:","Sale:","Slavetraders:","Slaves - Status:","Teachers:","Treatment and Punishment:","Peter Francisco,","Archibald Austin.","Francisco, Peter, d.\n 1831.","Austin, Archibald, 1772-\n 1837."],"famname_ssim":["Austin family,","Twyman family,","Horsley family,","Spiller family,","Austin family.","Horsley family.","Spiller family.","Twyman family."],"name_ssim":["Slave Letters:","Slave - Beverley:","Blacks:","Children:","Civil War Service:","Free Blacks:","Freedmen:","Health:","Hiring:","Ideology:","Lynching:","Marriage:","Occupations:","Profitability:","Recalcitrance:","Religion:","Resistance:","Runaways:","Sale:","Slavetraders:","Slaves - Status:","Teachers:","Treatment and Punishment:"],"persname_ssim":["Peter Francisco,","Archibald Austin.","Francisco, Peter, d.\n 1831.","Austin, Archibald, 1772-\n 1837."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":500,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:36:30.538Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_viw00045","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00045","_root_":"viw_viw00045","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00045","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00045.xml","title_ssm":["Austin-Twyman Papers, \n \n 1765-1939."],"title_tesim":["Austin-Twyman Papers, \n \n 1765-1939."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 69 Au7"],"text":["Mss. 69 Au7","Austin-Twyman Papers, \n \n 1765-1939.","Virginia. General\n Assembly.","Slavery--Virginia--19th\n century.","Medicine--Study and\n teaching.","United States-- History--\n Civil War, 1861-1865.","United States--History--War\n of 1812.","Medicine--Practice-\n -Virginia.","10,706 items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization This collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1\n contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and\n Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and\n legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and\n Series 5 contains manuscript volumes.","This collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1\n contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and\n Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and\n legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and\n Series 5 contains manuscript volumes.","Arrangement This collection is arranged into series and then\n subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names,\n then by individual name and finally by date.","This collection is arranged into series and then\n subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names,\n then by individual name and finally by date.","Letters are filed in chronological order within each\n folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter\n in the folder written by the person listed in the\n inventory and also, the letters written by this person\n may not be filed together within the folder. If the\n researcher is interested in a person, look throughout\n the folder. If the researcher is interested in a\n subject, each letter by the person writing about the\n subject must be looked at make sure all of the\n information about the subject has been seen.","This series is divided into subseries by family\n name.","This series is divided into subseries by family\n name.","This series is divided into subseries by family\n name.","This series is divided into subseries by family name\n first and all other items not associated with a\n particular name are located at the end of the\n series.","Archibald Austin (1772-1837) was born in Buckingham County,\n Virginia. He practiced law in Buckingham County until being\n elected as a member of the Virginia State House of Delegates,\n 1815-1816, 1835-1837. He served as a Democrat to the fifteeth\n Congress, 1817-1819 and also as a presidential elector on the\n Democratic ticket in 1832 and 1836. He and his wife, Grace R.\n (Booker) Austin had several children including the following:\n James M. Austin, John Austin, Bernard Austin, Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.","Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman\n (1810-1864) married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second,\n Martha E. Austin. Their children were Iverson Lewis Twyman,\n Jr. (1849-1921); John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools\n in Buckingham County; Samuel Rogers Twyman; Augusta Giles\n Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman. James Madison Spiller was the\n father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr.","Additional biographical and genealogical information is\n interspersed throughout this collection.","Papers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman,\n Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham\n counties, Va. The papers include correspondence, accounts,\n legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of\n Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819,\n member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816,\n 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their\n children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin,\n Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright. Correspondents of\n Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L.\n Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and\n Robert T. Hubard. Subjects include the War of 1812, national\n politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly.\n Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's\n son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who\n married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E.\n Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management,\n the study and practice of medicine and the education of his\n children whose letters are also part of the collection. His\n children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin\n Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel\n Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles\n Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.","Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley\n family and much correspondence and many accounts of James\n Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the\n father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection\n includes several items relating to Peter Francisco,\n Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River\n and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War;\n accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst,\n Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland,\n Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward\n Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin,\n Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman\n and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of\n poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and\n photographs.","Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John\n Austin (concerning a survey of James\n Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and\n Robert Garland.","Includes letters by James Austin (brother,\n concerning candidates for House of Delegates in\n election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife),\n James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for\n House of Delegates in election of 1837),\n Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an\n unidentified college which he compares to\n Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law\n practice and that of his father; and politics),\n John Austin (son).","Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his\n mother asserting his independence in regard to\n a marriage choice and concerning his leaving\n Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs.\n Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L.\n Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to\n marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan\n Austin (slave), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.","Includes letters by James Walker (concerning\n inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor,\n Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed\n from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver\n (money owed for a racehorse and carriage\n horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from\n Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in\n War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March\n 1814, while serving with troops east of\n Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald\n Austin to run for Congress).","Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting\n up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey\n (written 10 February 1820, concerning session\n of General Assembly and the Missouri\n Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items]\n Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of\n Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of\n Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry\n Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election\n of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written\n 30 January 1821, concerning business of the\n General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot\n (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama;\n description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch,\n Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A.\n Caldwell.","Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney\n College (monthly report), George Booker\n (concerning business of General Assembly and\n revision of Virginia Court System in 1831),\n Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning\n anti-tariff convention to be held in\n Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C.\n Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James\n W. Bouldin.","Includes letters by George Booker (declining\n to run again for House of Delegates), Charles\n Yancey (declining to run again for House of\n Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald\n Austin to run for House of Delegates), James\n Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to\n constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith,\n Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb,\n Samuel Ford.","Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H.\n Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and\n Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy\n (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley,\n University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas\n H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.","Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.","Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin.\n Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation\n by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and\n to Dr. I. L. Twyman.","Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he\n was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to\n pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin\n while he was attending the University of\n Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on\n borrowed money. News of the centennial.\n Reconstruction.","Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations\n for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and\n selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves\n weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave\n Beverly.","Includes two slave letters (Mary to her\n mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to\n Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859,\n of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a\n slave marriage and endorsing the prospective\n husband. Letter outlining how to manage the\n estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we\n own the negroes, how much more loss we would\n sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what\n has transpired financially since Austin's death\n twelve years previously including the sale of\n forty-three slaves. Also letters written from\n Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.","Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to\n George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves;\n price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's\n life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.","Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in\n February 1865; and religion.","Studying medicine at the University of\n Virginia and at Philadelphia College of\n Medicine. Hiring out of slaves.","Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing\n location of rooms at University of Virginia and\n recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee\n (concerning studying medicine and University of\n Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies\n at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of\n slaves.","Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage\n in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter\n describing wedding plans and a cap.","Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September\n 1861, written by Austin while serving in\n [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry\n Regiment.]","Includes letter about civil War, 1861, from\n S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and\n letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins\n concerning University of Virginia. Other\n letters concern hiring slaves to work on\n railroad and runaway slave.","Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia\n Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley\n Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P.\n Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia\n Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).","Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin,\n Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E.\n Austin (written during her engagement to\n Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the\n practice of medicine; care of a slave's child\n while she is in the field; sudden death of a\n slave mourned both as loss of property and as\n loss of a member of the family; and sale of\n slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them\n to crying and howling.\"","Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas\n Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B.\n Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman,\n John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly;\n suggests taking him to a slave trader to see\n how much he would give for him to know whether\n to sell him or hire him out).","Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass\n \u0026 Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin,\n John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning\n the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.","Includes letters to John Austin (writing a\n thesis for Austin while Austin is studying\n medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves),\n Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.","Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman,\n Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of\n slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M.\n DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M.\n Pendleton.","Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas\n Austin (concerning sale of a slave child),\n Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of\n slaves; advice on raising their son; selling\n slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L.\n Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to\n read.)","Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr.\n Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley\n (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen,\n Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D.\n A. Snow (termination of a female\n schoolteacher's school because of her opinions\n on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators),\n Jno. Thompson.","Civil War comments in letters to Thomas\n Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b.\n 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama\n soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his\n illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R.\n H. Gilliam.","Includes note concerning trying to make\n slaves look better before they are sold.","Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and\n taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning\n medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes\n (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt,\n F. Hopkins.","Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel\n Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George\n S. Thornton (study of medicine in\n Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F.\n Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony\n Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026 Blanchard,\n Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin\n White.","Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F.\n T. Stribling (superintendent of Western\n Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B.\n M. DeWitt.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F.\n Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026\n Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H.\n Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling\n (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T.\n Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.","Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton\n (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt\n (concerning his financial condition), Martha M.\n Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874]\n Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters,\n V. Mosby.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt\n (concerning George T. Thornton; and the\n Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G.\n McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris,\n S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff\n (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott\n (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.","Includes letters from George T. Thornton\n (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown\n (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James\n M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A.\n Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea\n among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T.\n Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William\n H. Brown.","Includes letters from DeWitt H. White\n (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch\n (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan\n (granting permission for his slave to marry one\n of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem\n ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton\n (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman\n (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning\n Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer\n (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850;\n and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt\n (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer,\n J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).","Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens\n (concerning hiring slaves), William M.\n Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson\n (concerning east-west plit of Virginia),\n Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026 Dunnavant, R.\n Strabler \u0026 Co.","Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking\n Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to\n Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel\n Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock\n \u0026 Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave\n to be delivered so she can be sent south with\n others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell,\n J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.","Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical\n studies at University of Virginia; and death of\n John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield,\n B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and\n editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter\n (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph\n Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T.\n Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve,\n Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T.\n Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix\n (hiring slaves).","Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness\n of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John\n C. Mundy (medical studies at University of\n Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave),\n W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly),\n Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves),\n Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical\n practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S.\n Vawter (his medical studies at University of\n Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026 Brother\n (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert\n H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia\n \u0026 Tennessee Railroad).","Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery\n (hiring slaves to lay railroad track),\n Dickinson, Hill \u0026 Co. (value of slaves),\n Pulliam \u0026 Davis (value of slaves), James D.\n Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle\n (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F.\n Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield,\n George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his\n illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and\n Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis\n A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman\n delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to\n National Medical Association in Philadelphia),\n William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M.\n DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H.\n Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L.\n P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.","Includes letters from J. C. Mundy,\n Taliaferro \u0026 Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F.\n Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M.\n Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave),\n J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins,\n Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of\n slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse),\n John Harry (his illness), James Bolton\n (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac\n Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th.\n F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M.\n Pulliam \u0026 Co. (sale of runaway slave),\n James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J.\n Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R.\n T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of\n the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D.\n Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)","Includes letters from Absalom (slave\n letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom),\n James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River\n and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics),\n L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James\n Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H.\n Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson\n (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L.\n Thornton (illness and death of George T.\n Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward,\n Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching\n position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher),\n D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E.\n J. Snow), Hableston \u0026 Bro., T. Lyon, A. M.\n Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F.\n Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh\n (negotiating and accepting teaching position),\n Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching\n position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for\n Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B.\n Bocock.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P.\n Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention),\n McCorkle \u0026 Co. (hiring slaves), E. H. Gill\n (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee\n Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of\n slaves), Ella T. Watson (her education), C.\n Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant,\n William Knabe \u0026 Co. (piano), John G. Meem,\n Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C.\n A. Preots ([Buckingham] F[emale] C[ollegiate]\n Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert [Keats\n ?], L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill,\n R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring slaves),\n Elsom Bro. \u0026 Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob\n Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland,\n John H. Bondurant (hiring slaves), Judith B.\n Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah\n S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin)\n Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg\n (applying for teaching position), R. S.\n Powers.","Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring\n slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.;\n runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\"\n (concerning a teaching position; she studied at\n Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A.\n Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins\n (teaching), Bocock \u0026 Parrish, John W.\n Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee\n Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary [Annis?] DeWitt\n (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C.\n Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt),\n Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be\n re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B.\n Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack\n Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's\n hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's\n Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position),\n Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026\n Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton\n (describing Union raid in Orange County, Va.),\n Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026 Co.,\n Richmond, Va. (price of slaves), R. P.\n Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for\n Joseph R. Anderson \u0026 Co. [Tredegar]), Brown\n \u0026 Deane, Richmond, Va. (scarcity of\n schoolbooks) E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins\n (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his\n school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate\n cavalryman from Georgia).","Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J.\n M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave\n letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A.\n Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D.\n Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby,\n Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F.\n Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore,\n Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia),\n Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W.\n Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W.\n C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to\n grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James\n Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C.\n Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.","Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright\n (mother's female illness; an alleged\n malingering and burglarizing female slave;\n fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing\n slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin\n (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R.\n Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of\n Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).","Includes letters to sister Grace Austin,\n Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin,\n Iverson L. Twyman.","Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13\n September 1853 bears letter of Frances A.\n Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his\n wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up\n to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with\n Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign),\n James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha\n Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F.\n Harris.","Includes letters to her son Iverson L.\n Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about\n him, the education of his brothers and sisters,\n an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping\n with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James\n A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to\n her brother Iverson Twyman.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and\n her concern over the sale of family land.\n Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter\n from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a\n letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins\n Institute.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and\n her concern over the sale of family land.\n Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.","Concerns the family's poverty and money owed\n to West \u0026 Agee which may force the sale of\n her land.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and\n her concern over her son's safety.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and\n her concern for her son.","Written to her son John Twyman. Includes\n letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson\n L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L.\n Twyman.","Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864).\n Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John\n Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace\n Austin.","Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C.\n Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of\n verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel\n McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B.\n Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about\n the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of\n fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of\n slave by Confederate States Army), [James M.\n Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis\n Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of\n Washington College now Washington and Lee\n University), Internal Revenue Service\n (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and\n William J. Spencer.","Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M.\n Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson\n Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles\n Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for\n indigent students and his standard for hiring\n teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins\n College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? -\n former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins\n Institute [now Hollins College] sending his\n treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell\n (concerning will of James M. Wright).","Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr.,\n Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute\n [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke\n ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza\n M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?]\n concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K.\n Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a\n slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B.\n Partin.","Includes letters written (while teaching\n school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman\n (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman,\n Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July\n 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta\n Giles Twyman.","Includes letters written (while teaching\n school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while\n moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright],\n Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?]\n (love letter), James M. Spiller, M.\n Edwards.","Includes letters written (while teaching\n school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?]\n (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman,\n John Twyman.","Includes letters written from Texas to\n mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances\n (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice\n Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September\n 1874, concerns Texas and blacks.","Includes letters written from Texas to\n mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances\n (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R.\n Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles\n Twyman.","Includes letters written to mother Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A.\n Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.","Includes letters written from Texas to\n Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright),\n Mabel Booker Twyman.","Includes letters (written from Texas) to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin,\n Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A.\n Austin (concerning Greenback Party).","Includes letters (written from Texas) to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman,\n Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last\n letter in folder written from Virginia.","From Virginia to brother John in Nashville,\n Tennesse. One letter bears composition\n \"Management of Common Schools\" and another\n bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not\n to drink.","Include letters from Virginia to brother\n John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending\n college at State Normal College, now Peabody\n College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters\n of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern\n Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The\n Readjusters all over the county voted for the\n negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he\n is prouder of that one act than of any other in\n his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who\n voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.","Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas.\n Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State\n Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry\n Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller)\n Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d.,\n to J. Avis Bartley.","Includes letters written by Seymour W.\n Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters\n from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F.\n Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman\n and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued\n in Meriwether County, Ga.","Includes letters written by Seymour W.\n Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley\n P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a\n school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters\n of recommendation written by Holman concerning\n Twyman's qualifications to teach school.","Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See\n also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's\n letters).","Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W.\n Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie\n Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J.\n Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman\n to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson,\n Hinkle \u0026 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning\n schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson,\n Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes.\n Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching\n school.","Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George\n J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M.\n Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern\n teaching school.","Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T.\n Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters\n concerning Twyman's church membership and\n letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching\n certificate for Limestone, Texas.","Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman,\n (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a\n black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James\n B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny\n Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern\n Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H.\n Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F.\n Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman.\n Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching\n school.","W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia,\n Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears\n letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass\n Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman\n signed by citizens of Buckingham.","Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters\n from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his\n desire for an education; two people in jail for\n whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent\n of Public Instruction, and teachers\n certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va.","Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston concerning a controversy over the\n location of a school; copies of love letters to\n \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908\n and copies of love letters to Josephine White,\n December 1922 - January 1923.","Includes letters from William Merry Perkins,\n N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns\n (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal\n School, now Peabody College) and William S.\n Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One\n letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M.\n Colby concerning sale of Lee's\n Reminiscences.","Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas\n concerning State Normal College, Nashville,\n Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E.\n G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.","Letters to him in Texas and Virginia.\n Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G.\n Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or\n Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College,\n Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension\n in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham\n County.","Includes four letters from Miss Sally M.\n Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters\n to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].","Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools,\n Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas,\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving,\n William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January\n 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91\n and 87).","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S.\n Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A.\n Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit\n of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J.\n S. Jarman (president State female Normal\n School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood\n College).","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools in Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins\n (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom,\n Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller\n Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch,\n Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M.\n Smith).","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools in Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue\n Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W.\n Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D.\n Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm.\n G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving,\n W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents\n include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard\n (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers),\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes\n White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W.\n Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C.\n Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions\n requesting Twyman's reappointment as\n Superintendent.","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents\n include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva\n Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?]\n (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her\n mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones\n (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va.)","Letters to State Board of Education from W.\n L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett,\n George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S.\n Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting\n that Twyman be appointed again as school\n superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones.\n Includes petitions.","Include letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia\n Superintendent of Public Instruction.\n Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W.\n W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell,\n C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie,\n Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle,\n C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.","Include letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell,\n H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W.\n Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations\n and grading system of Arvonia High School,\n 1915-1916.","Include letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A.\n C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even\n though school sessions were shortened because\n of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler\n \u0026 Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown,\n Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton\n Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover),\n Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine\n White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett\n Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton,\n Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National\n Park). Includes wedding announcement; and\n minutes, 1925, of Democratic County\n Committee.","Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent\n of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J.\n Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A.\n W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M.\n Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.","Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic\n Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman,\n J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M.\n [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon.\n Includes speech by T. N. Hass.","Mostly concern Republican party politics.\n Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F.\n Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell,\n Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930,\n entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of\n Buckingham County.\"","Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora\n Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude\n Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah\n Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M.\n Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass\n thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S.\n Supreme Court.","To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A.\n Twyman. Concern family's poverty.","Includes letters to John A. Twyman,\n 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and\n Twyman genealogy.","Correspondents include Addison Spencer,\n Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman,\n Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie\n Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard\n (concerning membership in the Virginia\n Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M.\n Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb.\n Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman\n family.","Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister,\n Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J.\n Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis,\n John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs.\n F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd,\n Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V.\n Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker,\n Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis\n (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W.\n Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on\n Twyman family.","Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands\n Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M.\n A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode,\n Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman,\n Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical\n inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman\n crest.","Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman,\n Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Champ Clark,\n Margaret Huff (paper bears\n Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas\n S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman,\n Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman,\n Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie\n Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on\n the Twyman family.","Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno.\n C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association\n [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta\n G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern\n genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna\n Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth\n Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical\n inquiries of Twyman family.","Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman\n (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D.\n Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George\n Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier,\n [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern\n genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder,\n Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J.\n Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State\n Mission Board of Baptist General Association),\n W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace),\n David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet\n - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W.\n McDaniel. Letters concern World War I,\n Influenza Epidemic of 1918.","Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder,\n Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R.\n McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker,\n Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney,\n Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David\n Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J.\n H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred\n Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association).\n Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of\n Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.","Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs.\n Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton,\n Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford\n Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd\n (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula\n May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard\n (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)","Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon,\n Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog\n postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware,\n Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.","Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman\n (concerning teaching and the family's poverty),\n Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour\n W.] Holman.","Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel\n B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.","Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne\n [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S.\n F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal\n Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis,\n M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?],\n L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes\n booklet (The Light of Christmastide).","Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents\n include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of\n recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida\n teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while\n studying law at the University of Virginia.","Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John\n A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L.\n Twyman; most letters written while she was\n attending State Normal School, Nashville,\n Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning\n Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire,\n Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond),\n Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Letters written from Nellie [?].","Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in\n \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography\n (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia\n [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander\n H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie\n Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover\n Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M.\n Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman),\n Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.","Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S.\n Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband\n concerning slavery; letters, n.d., of A. E.\n Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley\n to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being\n appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty\n always intended to make their selections from the\n lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag\n \u0026 bobtail because ragtag \u0026 bobtail vote\n for the delegates and the delegates vote for the\n annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.","Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia\n Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of\n Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary\n Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the\n first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They\n were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.","Letters, 1853 and n.d. by Rebecca P. (Horsley)\n Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her\n separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman\n concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P.\n (Horsley) Austin.","Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley\n with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley)\n Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell.\n Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to\n George B. Austin.","Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A.\n Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning\n Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H.\n Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical\n school in Philadelphia).","2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony)\n Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson\n L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, n.d., by Hampden\n Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883\n \u0026 n.d., of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?]\n Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary\n F. Spiller.","Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman\n and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a\n student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans,\n Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile\n and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas\n Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle\n Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and\n Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M.\n Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- ,\n written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart,\n J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John\n Dooley.","Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4,\n James River \u0026 Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October\n 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and\n conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other\n letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of\n Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make\n a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to\n attend to the cows and her business - the women\n who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting\n Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from\n going back to her former husband.","Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson\n L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning\n slaves (buying and selling) and farm\n management.","Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F.\n Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William\n McCorkle, H. Johns.","Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell,\n William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil\n War.","Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M.\n Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of\n Twyman family and Readjusters.","Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George\n Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel,\n Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from\n Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning\n disposition of slaves and her ex- husband\n Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry\n Loving (concerning settling blacks in Ohio),\n Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington,\n John J. Grasty.","Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D.\n P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben\n Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley,\n N. H. Massie.","Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va.\n Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of\n engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December\n 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M.\n DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?]\n Rowland, Jones \u0026 Miller, Lynchburg, Va.,\n F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies\n in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S.\n Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B.\n Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026 Co.,\n Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.","Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A.\n Donald (describing his recommendations for\n stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin,\n W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins,\n B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson,\n John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).","Includes letters from John S. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott\n Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney\n College and including report) and M. N. Hylum\n (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of\n Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)","Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller\n by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College.\n Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry,\n State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents\n include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters,\n J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J.\n M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M.\n Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G.\n Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson,\n J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026 Johnson, [n. p.]","Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T.\n Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone\n (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie\n Hamilton.","Letters written by John T. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William\n E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning\n election of ? and his own office in state\n government), J. M. Reynolds.","Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883),\n S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison\n Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton,\n William A. White.","Letters written by Fleming Harris (former\n slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones,\n J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W.\n G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass,\n Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters,\n 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning\n tariff and providing campaign strategy to\n Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?]\n Figgatt).","Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R.\n W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican\n patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H.\n McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys,\n Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).","Letters written by or addressed to Sue M.\n Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B.\n Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H.\n Spiller, I. L. Twyman.","Letters written by or addressed to Dudley\n Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph\n Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary\n (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?],\n Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North,\n Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas\n Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John\n Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George\n Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026\n Rea.","Letters written by or addressed to Christopher\n Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David\n Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker,\n Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood,\n Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott),\n James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan\n Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E.\n Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of\n Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual\n Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026 Gilliam, Ca\n Ira, Va.","Many letters are permissions for slaves to join\n Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of\n dismissal from churches. Include letters written\n by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian,\n John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson\n (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D.\n Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James\n Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G.\n Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but\n objects to their being immersed in November),\n William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose,\n Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W.\n Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P.\n Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin\n Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams,\n Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist\n Church.","Includes letters concerning slaves joining the\n church. Letters written by or addressed to W.\n Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave\n Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas\n Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B.\n Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave),\n Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives,\n Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C.\n Tindall (concerning slave).","Letters written by or addressed to James Brown,\n E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews\n (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A.\n Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic\n Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret\n S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026\n Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C.\n Horsley's application for a position at the\n University of Virginia.","Letters written by or addressed to John M.\n Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika\n Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton,\n [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers,\n Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W.\n Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J.\n Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph\n Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A.\n Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S.\n Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W.\n Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker\n (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman\n (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.),\n George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff\n (selling of slave girls) \u0026 McCorkle, Simpson\n \u0026 Jones.","Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave\n working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada\n Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A.\n Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H.\n Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of\n Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum,\n Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A.\n Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026\n Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel\n McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter\n Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris\n (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged\n between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864),\n William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery\n and concerning service record of Jessie A.\n Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026 Co.,\n Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis\n T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic\n Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton\n (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th\n Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.","Letters written by or addressed to Grace R.\n Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank\n (describing a shooting outside saloon in San\n Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie\n Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley,\n Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary\n Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin\n (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E.\n Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance\n from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026\n Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.","Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J.\n Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for\n Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore,\n Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton,\n Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman\n genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman\n genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson\n (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J.\n Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M.\n Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor\n Company.","Many are incomplete and fragmentary.\n Genealogical material. Includes letters written by\n or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L.\n Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner\n Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E.\n G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol\n Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands,\n W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph\n of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A.\n Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment.\n Genealogical material, ca. 1850.","Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham\n County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew\n Jackson as...[the] next President.\"","Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026\n Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M.\n Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner,\n Iverson Lewis Twyman.","See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and\n Spiller manuscript volumes.","Papers relating to the canal. Letters written\n toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E.\n Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of\n the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris\n to Iverson L. Twyman.","Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters\n written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace\n B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H.\n DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William\n P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of\n Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and\n receipts.","Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn\n Dam \u0026 Lock. Drawing - section of finder. Gwynn\n Dam, n.d.","Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of\n sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated\n papers).","Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by\n Francisco.","Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph\n agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April\n 1809.","Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas\n Jefferson, Jr.","Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund\n Henry.","Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a\n legal matter.","Includes copy of legal paper involving\n Edmund Henry.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than\n one person by this name.","Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E.\n Twyman.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than\n one person by this name.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of\n sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M.\n Pulliam \u0026 Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and\n Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.","Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro\n slave to work on fortifications.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George\n Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another\n George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items\n 1873-1939.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving\n both names.","Papers involving both names.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving\n both names.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin,\n 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers\n involving both names.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Includes bill of James M. Spiller of\n 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for\n hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson\n to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the\n late rebellion.\"","Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883\n finally settled in 1887.","Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M.\n Spiller.","The majority of the material concerns Miss\n Mary Spiller.","Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed\n by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.","Includes papers on the estate of William\n Adams.","Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5\n February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha\n Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing\n with his slave estate.","Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May\n 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of\n employees.","Includes land grant of 1789 signed by\n Governor Beverly Randolph.","Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also\n those named in different Commissions of the\n Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.","Includes judgment involving Randolph\n Jefferson and John Jefferson.","Includes \"A list of a Company of Light\n Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of)\n Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Accounts and Legal Papers.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and\n Twyman.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller\n Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp.\n 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Genealogical Materials.","Account book of William Adams and his estate.","Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court\n records, 1847-1848.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal\n accounts.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal\n accounts.","Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes,\n 1860-1864.","Including farm notes and notes of calls on\n patients.","Includes farm notes in back, 1840.","Including the estate of George Spiller.","Includes time charts for worker in the James\n River and Kanawha Canal.","Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other\n accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp.\n 80-81, 292-294.","Including time sheets of work on locks, James\n River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes work on the James River and Kanawha\n Canal.","Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.","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.","Papers of the Austin, Twyman,\n Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham\n Counties, Virginia.","Austin family,","Twyman family,","Horsley family,","Spiller family,","Austin family.","Horsley family.","Spiller family.","Twyman family.","Slave Letters:","Slave - Beverley:","Blacks:","Children:","Civil War Service:","Free Blacks:","Freedmen:","Health:","Hiring:","Ideology:","Lynching:","Marriage:","Occupations:","Profitability:","Recalcitrance:","Religion:","Resistance:","Runaways:","Sale:","Slavetraders:","Slaves - Status:","Teachers:","Treatment and Punishment:","Peter Francisco,","Archibald Austin.","Francisco, Peter, d.\n 1831.","Austin, Archibald, 1772-\n 1837.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 69 Au7"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Austin-Twyman Papers, \n \n 1765-1939."],"collection_title_tesim":["Austin-Twyman Papers, \n \n 1765-1939."],"collection_ssim":["Austin-Twyman Papers, \n \n 1765-1939."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Austin family, Twyman family, Horsley family, Spiller family, Peter Francisco, Archibald Austin."],"creator_ssim":["Austin family, Twyman family, Horsley family, Spiller family, Peter Francisco, Archibald Austin."],"creator_persname_ssim":["Peter Francisco,","Archibald Austin."],"creator_famname_ssim":["Austin family,","Twyman family,","Horsley family,","Spiller family,"],"creators_ssim":["Peter Francisco,","Archibald Austin.","Austin family,","Twyman family,","Horsley family,","Spiller family,"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchased: 10,706 items, \n 1969."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Virginia. General\n Assembly.","Slavery--Virginia--19th\n century.","Medicine--Study and\n teaching.","United States-- History--\n Civil War, 1861-1865.","United States--History--War\n of 1812.","Medicine--Practice-\n -Virginia."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Virginia. General\n Assembly.","Slavery--Virginia--19th\n century.","Medicine--Study and\n teaching.","United States-- History--\n Civil War, 1861-1865.","United States--History--War\n of 1812.","Medicine--Practice-\n -Virginia."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["10,706 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 is organized into 5 series: Series 1\n contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and\n Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and\n legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and\n Series 5 contains manuscript volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1\n contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and\n Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and\n legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and\n Series 5 contains manuscript volumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged into series and then\n subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names,\n then by individual name and finally by date.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged into series and then\n subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names,\n then by individual name and finally by date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are filed in chronological order within each\n folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter\n in the folder written by the person listed in the\n inventory and also, the letters written by this person\n may not be filed together within the folder. If the\n researcher is interested in a person, look throughout\n the folder. If the researcher is interested in a\n subject, each letter by the person writing about the\n subject must be looked at make sure all of the\n information about the subject has been seen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is divided into subseries by family\n name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is divided into subseries by family\n name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is divided into subseries by family\n name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is divided into subseries by family name\n first and all other items not associated with a\n particular name are located at the end of the\n series.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Organization","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization This collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1\n contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and\n Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and\n legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and\n Series 5 contains manuscript volumes.","This collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1\n contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and\n Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and\n legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and\n Series 5 contains manuscript volumes.","Arrangement This collection is arranged into series and then\n subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names,\n then by individual name and finally by date.","This collection is arranged into series and then\n subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names,\n then by individual name and finally by date.","Letters are filed in chronological order within each\n folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter\n in the folder written by the person listed in the\n inventory and also, the letters written by this person\n may not be filed together within the folder. If the\n researcher is interested in a person, look throughout\n the folder. If the researcher is interested in a\n subject, each letter by the person writing about the\n subject must be looked at make sure all of the\n information about the subject has been seen.","This series is divided into subseries by family\n name.","This series is divided into subseries by family\n name.","This series is divided into subseries by family\n name.","This series is divided into subseries by family name\n first and all other items not associated with a\n particular name are located at the end of the\n series."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArchibald Austin (1772-1837) was born in Buckingham County,\n Virginia. He practiced law in Buckingham County until being\n elected as a member of the Virginia State House of Delegates,\n 1815-1816, 1835-1837. He served as a Democrat to the fifteeth\n Congress, 1817-1819 and also as a presidential elector on the\n Democratic ticket in 1832 and 1836. He and his wife, Grace R.\n (Booker) Austin had several children including the following:\n James M. Austin, John Austin, Bernard Austin, Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArchibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman\n (1810-1864) married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second,\n Martha E. Austin. Their children were Iverson Lewis Twyman,\n Jr. (1849-1921); John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools\n in Buckingham County; Samuel Rogers Twyman; Augusta Giles\n Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman. James Madison Spiller was the\n father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional biographical and genealogical information is\n interspersed throughout this collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Archibald Austin (1772-1837) was born in Buckingham County,\n Virginia. He practiced law in Buckingham County until being\n elected as a member of the Virginia State House of Delegates,\n 1815-1816, 1835-1837. He served as a Democrat to the fifteeth\n Congress, 1817-1819 and also as a presidential elector on the\n Democratic ticket in 1832 and 1836. He and his wife, Grace R.\n (Booker) Austin had several children including the following:\n James M. Austin, John Austin, Bernard Austin, Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.","Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman\n (1810-1864) married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second,\n Martha E. Austin. Their children were Iverson Lewis Twyman,\n Jr. (1849-1921); John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools\n in Buckingham County; Samuel Rogers Twyman; Augusta Giles\n Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman. James Madison Spiller was the\n father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr.","Additional biographical and genealogical information is\n interspersed throughout this collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAustin-Twyman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Austin-Twyman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman,\n Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham\n counties, Va. The papers include correspondence, accounts,\n legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of\n Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819,\n member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816,\n 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their\n children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin,\n Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright. Correspondents of\n Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L.\n Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and\n Robert T. Hubard. Subjects include the War of 1812, national\n politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly.\n Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's\n son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who\n married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E.\n Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management,\n the study and practice of medicine and the education of his\n children whose letters are also part of the collection. His\n children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin\n Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel\n Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles\n Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley\n family and much correspondence and many accounts of James\n Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the\n father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection\n includes several items relating to Peter Francisco,\n Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River\n and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War;\n accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst,\n Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland,\n Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward\n Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin,\n Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman\n and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of\n poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and\n photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to Thomas Leland, John\n Austin (concerning a survey of James\n Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and\n Robert Garland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by James Austin (brother,\n concerning candidates for House of Delegates in\n election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife),\n James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for\n House of Delegates in election of 1837),\n Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an\n unidentified college which he compares to\n Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law\n practice and that of his father; and politics),\n John Austin (son).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by Bernard Austin (to his\n mother asserting his independence in regard to\n a marriage choice and concerning his leaving\n Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs.\n Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L.\n Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to\n marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan\n Austin (slave), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by James Walker (concerning\n inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor,\n Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed\n from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver\n (money owed for a racehorse and carriage\n horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from\n Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in\n War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March\n 1814, while serving with troops east of\n Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald\n Austin to run for Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting\n up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey\n (written 10 February 1820, concerning session\n of General Assembly and the Missouri\n Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items]\n Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of\n Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of\n Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry\n Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election\n of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written\n 30 January 1821, concerning business of the\n General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot\n (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama;\n description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch,\n Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A.\n Caldwell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney\n College (monthly report), George Booker\n (concerning business of General Assembly and\n revision of Virginia Court System in 1831),\n Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning\n anti-tariff convention to be held in\n Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C.\n Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James\n W. Bouldin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by George Booker (declining\n to run again for House of Delegates), Charles\n Yancey (declining to run again for House of\n Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald\n Austin to run for House of Delegates), James\n Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to\n constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith,\n Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb,\n Samuel Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H.\n Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and\n Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy\n (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley,\n University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas\n H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by Archibald Austin, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin.\n Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation\n by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and\n to Dr. I. L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment for hire of slave Beverly while he\n was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to\n pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin\n while he was attending the University of\n Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on\n borrowed money. News of the centennial.\n Reconstruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a homesick overseer, preparations\n for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and\n selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves\n weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave\n Beverly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes two slave letters (Mary to her\n mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to\n Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859,\n of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a\n slave marriage and endorsing the prospective\n husband. Letter outlining how to manage the\n estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we\n own the negroes, how much more loss we would\n sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what\n has transpired financially since Austin's death\n twelve years previously including the sale of\n forty-three slaves. Also letters written from\n Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to\n George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves;\n price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's\n life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in\n February 1865; and religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStudying medicine at the University of\n Virginia and at Philadelphia College of\n Medicine. Hiring out of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by J. L. Cabell (describing\n location of rooms at University of Virginia and\n recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee\n (concerning studying medicine and University of\n Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies\n at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of\n slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage\n in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter\n describing wedding plans and a cap.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September\n 1861, written by Austin while serving in\n [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry\n Regiment.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letter about civil War, 1861, from\n S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and\n letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins\n concerning University of Virginia. Other\n letters concern hiring slaves to work on\n railroad and runaway slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia\n Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley\n Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P.\n Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia\n Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin,\n Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E.\n Austin (written during her engagement to\n Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the\n practice of medicine; care of a slave's child\n while she is in the field; sudden death of a\n slave mourned both as loss of property and as\n loss of a member of the family; and sale of\n slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them\n to crying and howling.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas\n Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B.\n Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman,\n John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly;\n suggests taking him to a slave trader to see\n how much he would give for him to know whether\n to sell him or hire him out).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass\n \u0026amp; Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin,\n John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning\n the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to John Austin (writing a\n thesis for Austin while Austin is studying\n medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves),\n Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to Martha A. Twyman,\n Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of\n slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M.\n DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M.\n Pendleton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas\n Austin (concerning sale of a slave child),\n Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of\n slaves; advice on raising their son; selling\n slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L.\n Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to\n read.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr.\n Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley\n (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen,\n Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D.\n A. Snow (termination of a female\n schoolteacher's school because of her opinions\n on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators),\n Jno. Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCivil War comments in letters to Thomas\n Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b.\n 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama\n soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his\n illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R.\n H. Gilliam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes note concerning trying to make\n slaves look better before they are sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and\n taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning\n medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes\n (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt,\n F. Hopkins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel\n Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George\n S. Thornton (study of medicine in\n Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F.\n Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony\n Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026amp; Blanchard,\n Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin\n White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F.\n T. Stribling (superintendent of Western\n Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B.\n M. DeWitt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F.\n Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026amp;\n Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H.\n Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling\n (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T.\n Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from Geo. T. Thornton\n (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt\n (concerning his financial condition), Martha M.\n Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874]\n Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters,\n V. Mosby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from B. M. DeWitt\n (concerning George T. Thornton; and the\n Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G.\n McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris,\n S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff\n (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott\n (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from George T. Thornton\n (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown\n (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James\n M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A.\n Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea\n among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T.\n Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William\n H. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from DeWitt H. White\n (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch\n (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan\n (granting permission for his slave to marry one\n of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem\n ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton\n (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman\n (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning\n Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer\n (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850;\n and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt\n (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer,\n J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from Robert A. Stephens\n (concerning hiring slaves), William M.\n Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson\n (concerning east-west plit of Virginia),\n Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026amp; Dunnavant, R.\n Strabler \u0026amp; Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from James D. Watts (asking\n Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to\n Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel\n Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock\n \u0026amp; Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave\n to be delivered so she can be sent south with\n others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell,\n J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from H. Mundy (his medical\n studies at University of Virginia; and death of\n John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield,\n B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and\n editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter\n (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph\n Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T.\n Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve,\n Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T.\n Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix\n (hiring slaves).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from J. B. Scott (illness\n of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John\n C. Mundy (medical studies at University of\n Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave),\n W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly),\n Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves),\n Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical\n practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S.\n Vawter (his medical studies at University of\n Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026amp; Brother\n (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert\n H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia\n \u0026amp; Tennessee Railroad).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from A. M. Montgomery\n (hiring slaves to lay railroad track),\n Dickinson, Hill \u0026amp; Co. (value of slaves),\n Pulliam \u0026amp; Davis (value of slaves), James D.\n Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle\n (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F.\n Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield,\n George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his\n illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and\n Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis\n A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman\n delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to\n National Medical Association in Philadelphia),\n William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M.\n DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H.\n Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L.\n P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from J. C. Mundy,\n Taliaferro \u0026amp; Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F.\n Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M.\n Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave),\n J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins,\n Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of\n slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse),\n John Harry (his illness), James Bolton\n (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac\n Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th.\n F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M.\n Pulliam \u0026amp; Co. (sale of runaway slave),\n James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J.\n Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R.\n T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of\n the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D.\n Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from Absalom (slave\n letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom),\n James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River\n and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics),\n L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James\n Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H.\n Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson\n (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L.\n Thornton (illness and death of George T.\n Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward,\n Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching\n position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher),\n D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E.\n J. Snow), Hableston \u0026amp; Bro., T. Lyon, A. M.\n Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F.\n Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh\n (negotiating and accepting teaching position),\n Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching\n position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for\n Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B.\n Bocock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P.\n Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention),\n McCorkle \u0026amp; Co. (hiring slaves), E. H. Gill\n (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee\n Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of\n slaves), Ella T. Watson (her education), C.\n Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant,\n William Knabe \u0026amp; Co. (piano), John G. Meem,\n Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C.\n A. Preots ([Buckingham] F[emale] C[ollegiate]\n Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert [Keats\n ?], L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill,\n R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring slaves),\n Elsom Bro. \u0026amp; Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob\n Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland,\n John H. Bondurant (hiring slaves), Judith B.\n Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah\n S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin)\n Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg\n (applying for teaching position), R. S.\n Powers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring\n slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.;\n runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\"\n (concerning a teaching position; she studied at\n Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A.\n Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins\n (teaching), Bocock \u0026amp; Parrish, John W.\n Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee\n Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary [Annis?] DeWitt\n (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C.\n Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt),\n Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be\n re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B.\n Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack\n Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's\n hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's\n Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position),\n Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026amp;\n Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton\n (describing Union raid in Orange County, Va.),\n Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026amp; Co.,\n Richmond, Va. (price of slaves), R. P.\n Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for\n Joseph R. Anderson \u0026amp; Co. [Tredegar]), Brown\n \u0026amp; Deane, Richmond, Va. (scarcity of\n schoolbooks) E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins\n (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his\n school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate\n cavalryman from Georgia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by George T. Thornton, J.\n M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave\n letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A.\n Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D.\n Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby,\n Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F.\n Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore,\n Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia),\n Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W.\n Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W.\n C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to\n grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James\n Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C.\n Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to Frances Austin Wright\n (mother's female illness; an alleged\n malingering and burglarizing female slave;\n fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing\n slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin\n (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R.\n Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of\n Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to sister Grace Austin,\n Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin,\n Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13\n September 1853 bears letter of Frances A.\n Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his\n wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up\n to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with\n Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign),\n James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha\n Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F.\n Harris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to her son Iverson L.\n Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about\n him, the education of his brothers and sisters,\n an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping\n with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James\n A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to\n her brother Iverson Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and\n her concern over the sale of family land.\n Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter\n from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a\n letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins\n Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and\n her concern over the sale of family land.\n Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns the family's poverty and money owed\n to West \u0026amp; Agee which may force the sale of\n her land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and\n her concern over her son's safety.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and\n her concern for her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to her son John Twyman. Includes\n letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson\n L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L.\n Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864).\n Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John\n Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace\n Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C.\n Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of\n verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel\n McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B.\n Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about\n the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of\n fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of\n slave by Confederate States Army), [James M.\n Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis\n Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of\n Washington College now Washington and Lee\n University), Internal Revenue Service\n (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and\n William J. Spencer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from E. A. Carter, James M.\n Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson\n Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles\n Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for\n indigent students and his standard for hiring\n teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins\n College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? -\n former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins\n Institute [now Hollins College] sending his\n treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell\n (concerning will of James M. Wright).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr.,\n Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute\n [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke\n ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza\n M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?]\n concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K.\n Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a\n slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B.\n Partin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written (while teaching\n school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman\n (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman,\n Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July\n 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta\n Giles Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written (while teaching\n school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while\n moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright],\n Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?]\n (love letter), James M. Spiller, M.\n Edwards.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written (while teaching\n school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?]\n (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman,\n John Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written from Texas to\n mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances\n (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice\n Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September\n 1874, concerns Texas and blacks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written from Texas to\n mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances\n (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R.\n Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles\n Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written to mother Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A.\n Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written from Texas to\n Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright),\n Mabel Booker Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters (written from Texas) to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin,\n Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A.\n Austin (concerning Greenback Party).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters (written from Texas) to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman,\n Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last\n letter in folder written from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Virginia to brother John in Nashville,\n Tennesse. One letter bears composition\n \"Management of Common Schools\" and another\n bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not\n to drink.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInclude letters from Virginia to brother\n John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending\n college at State Normal College, now Peabody\n College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters\n of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern\n Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The\n Readjusters all over the county voted for the\n negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he\n is prouder of that one act than of any other in\n his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who\n voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to brother John Twyman in Texas.\n Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State\n Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry\n Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller)\n Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d.,\n to J. Avis Bartley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written by Seymour W.\n Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters\n from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F.\n Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman\n and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued\n in Meriwether County, Ga.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written by Seymour W.\n Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley\n P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a\n school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters\n of recommendation written by Holman concerning\n Twyman's qualifications to teach school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLove letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See\n also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's\n letters).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W.\n Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie\n Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J.\n Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman\n to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson,\n Hinkle \u0026amp; Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning\n schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson,\n Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes.\n Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching\n school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from W. M. Thornton, George\n J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M.\n Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern\n teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T.\n Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters\n concerning Twyman's church membership and\n letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching\n certificate for Limestone, Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from Seymour W. Holman,\n (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a\n black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James\n B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny\n Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern\n Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from M. E. Robertson, H.\n Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F.\n Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman.\n Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching\n school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia,\n Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears\n letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass\n Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman\n signed by citizens of Buckingham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters\n from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his\n desire for an education; two people in jail for\n whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent\n of Public Instruction, and teachers\n certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston concerning a controversy over the\n location of a school; copies of love letters to\n \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908\n and copies of love letters to Josephine White,\n December 1922 - January 1923.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from William Merry Perkins,\n N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns\n (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal\n School, now Peabody College) and William S.\n Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One\n letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M.\n Colby concerning sale of Lee's\n Reminiscences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas\n concerning State Normal College, Nashville,\n Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E.\n G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to him in Texas and Virginia.\n Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G.\n Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or\n Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College,\n Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension\n in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham\n County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes four letters from Miss Sally M.\n Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters\n to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to him as Superintendent of Schools,\n Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas,\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving,\n William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January\n 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91\n and 87).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S.\n Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A.\n Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit\n of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J.\n S. Jarman (president State female Normal\n School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood\n College).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools in Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins\n (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom,\n Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller\n Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch,\n Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M.\n Smith).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools in Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue\n Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W.\n Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D.\n Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm.\n G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving,\n W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents\n include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard\n (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers),\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes\n White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W.\n Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C.\n Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions\n requesting Twyman's reappointment as\n Superintendent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents\n include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva\n Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?]\n (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her\n mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones\n (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to State Board of Education from W.\n L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett,\n George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S.\n Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting\n that Twyman be appointed again as school\n superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones.\n Includes petitions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInclude letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia\n Superintendent of Public Instruction.\n Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W.\n W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell,\n C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie,\n Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle,\n C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInclude letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell,\n H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W.\n Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations\n and grading system of Arvonia High School,\n 1915-1916.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInclude letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A.\n C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even\n though school sessions were shortened because\n of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler\n \u0026amp; Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown,\n Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton\n Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover),\n Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine\n White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett\n Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton,\n Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National\n Park). Includes wedding announcement; and\n minutes, 1925, of Democratic County\n Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInclude letters to Twyman as Superintendent\n of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J.\n Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A.\n W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M.\n Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic\n Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman,\n J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M.\n [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon.\n Includes speech by T. N. Hass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMostly concern Republican party politics.\n Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F.\n Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell,\n Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930,\n entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of\n Buckingham County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora\n Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude\n Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah\n Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M.\n Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass\n thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S.\n Supreme Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A.\n Twyman. Concern family's poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to John A. Twyman,\n 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and\n Twyman genealogy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Addison Spencer,\n Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman,\n Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie\n Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard\n (concerning membership in the Virginia\n Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M.\n Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb.\n Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman\n family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include R. L. D. McAllister,\n Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J.\n Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis,\n John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs.\n F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd,\n Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V.\n Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker,\n Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis\n (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W.\n Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on\n Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Ruth Beall, Sands\n Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M.\n A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode,\n Nusbaum Book \u0026amp; Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman,\n Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical\n inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman\n crest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Benjamin Twyman,\n Nusbaum Book \u0026amp; Art Co., Champ Clark,\n Margaret Huff (paper bears\n Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas\n S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman,\n Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman,\n Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie\n Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on\n the Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno.\n C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association\n [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta\n G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern\n genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna\n Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth\n Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical\n inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Benjamin Twyman\n (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D.\n Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George\n Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier,\n [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern\n genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Mary Twyman Klayder,\n Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J.\n Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State\n Mission Board of Baptist General Association),\n W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace),\n David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet\n - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W.\n McDaniel. Letters concern World War I,\n Influenza Epidemic of 1918.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Mary Twyman Klayder,\n Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R.\n McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker,\n Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney,\n Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David\n Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J.\n H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred\n Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association).\n Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of\n Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Nettie [?], Mrs.\n Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton,\n Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford\n Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd\n (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula\n May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard\n (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Kate M. Cannon,\n Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog\n postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware,\n Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written to Iverson L. Twyman\n (concerning teaching and the family's poverty),\n Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour\n W.] Holman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel\n B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne\n [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S.\n F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal\n Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis,\n M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?],\n L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes\n booklet (The Light of Christmastide).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents\n include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of\n recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida\n teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while\n studying law at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John\n A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L.\n Twyman; most letters written while she was\n attending State Normal School, Nashville,\n Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning\n Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire,\n Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond),\n Dr. Hunter McGuire.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written from Nellie [?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in\n \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography\n (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia\n [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander\n H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie\n Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover\n Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M.\n Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman),\n Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S.\n Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband\n concerning slavery; letters, n.d., of A. E.\n Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley\n to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being\n appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty\n always intended to make their selections from the\n lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag\n \u0026amp; bobtail because ragtag \u0026amp; bobtail vote\n for the delegates and the delegates vote for the\n annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia\n Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of\n Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary\n Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the\n first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They\n were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters, 1853 and n.d. by Rebecca P. (Horsley)\n Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her\n separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman\n concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P.\n (Horsley) Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley\n with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley)\n Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell.\n Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to\n George B. Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A.\n Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning\n Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H.\n Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical\n school in Philadelphia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony)\n Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson\n L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, n.d., by Hampden\n Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883\n \u0026amp; n.d., of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?]\n Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary\n F. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman\n and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a\n student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans,\n Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile\n and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas\n Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle\n Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and\n Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M.\n Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- ,\n written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart,\n J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John\n Dooley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4,\n James River \u0026amp; Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October\n 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and\n conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other\n letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of\n Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make\n a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to\n attend to the cows and her business - the women\n who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting\n Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from\n going back to her former husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson\n L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning\n slaves (buying and selling) and farm\n management.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F.\n Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William\n McCorkle, H. Johns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell,\n William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil\n War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M.\n Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of\n Twyman family and Readjusters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from C[hapman] Johnson, George\n Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel,\n Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from\n Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning\n disposition of slaves and her ex- husband\n Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry\n Loving (concerning settling blacks in Ohio),\n Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington,\n John J. Grasty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D.\n P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben\n Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley,\n N. H. Massie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va.\n Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of\n engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December\n 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M.\n DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?]\n Rowland, Jones \u0026amp; Miller, Lynchburg, Va.,\n F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies\n in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S.\n Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B.\n Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026amp; Co.,\n Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A.\n Donald (describing his recommendations for\n stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin,\n W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins,\n B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson,\n John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from John S. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott\n Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney\n College and including report) and M. N. Hylum\n (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of\n Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany letters about death of Elliott Spiller\n by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College.\n Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry,\n State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents\n include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters,\n J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J.\n M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M.\n Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G.\n Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson,\n J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026amp; Johnson, [n. p.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by A. F. Robertson, John T.\n Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone\n (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie\n Hamilton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by John T. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William\n E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning\n election of ? and his own office in state\n government), J. M. Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by John F. White (d. 1883),\n S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison\n Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton,\n William A. White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by Fleming Harris (former\n slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones,\n J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W.\n G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass,\n Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters,\n 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning\n tariff and providing campaign strategy to\n Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?]\n Figgatt).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R.\n W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican\n patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H.\n McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys,\n Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to Sue M.\n Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B.\n Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H.\n Spiller, I. L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to Dudley\n Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph\n Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary\n (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?],\n Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North,\n Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas\n Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John\n Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George\n Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026amp;\n Rea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to Christopher\n Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David\n Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker,\n Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood,\n Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott),\n James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan\n Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E.\n Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of\n Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual\n Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026amp; Gilliam, Ca\n Ira, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany letters are permissions for slaves to join\n Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of\n dismissal from churches. Include letters written\n by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian,\n John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson\n (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D.\n Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James\n Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G.\n Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but\n objects to their being immersed in November),\n William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose,\n Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W.\n Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P.\n Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin\n Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams,\n Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist\n Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters concerning slaves joining the\n church. Letters written by or addressed to W.\n Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave\n Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas\n Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B.\n Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave),\n Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives,\n Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C.\n Tindall (concerning slave).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to James Brown,\n E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews\n (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A.\n Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic\n Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret\n S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026amp;\n Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C.\n Horsley's application for a position at the\n University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to John M.\n Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika\n Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton,\n [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers,\n Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W.\n Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J.\n Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph\n Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A.\n Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S.\n Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W.\n Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker\n (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman\n (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.),\n George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff\n (selling of slave girls) \u0026amp; McCorkle, Simpson\n \u0026amp; Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to Ben (slave\n working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada\n Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A.\n Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H.\n Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of\n Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum,\n Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A.\n Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026amp;\n Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel\n McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter\n Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris\n (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged\n between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864),\n William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery\n and concerning service record of Jessie A.\n Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026amp; Co.,\n Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis\n T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic\n Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton\n (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th\n Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to Grace R.\n Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank\n (describing a shooting outside saloon in San\n Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie\n Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley,\n Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary\n Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin\n (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E.\n Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance\n from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026amp;\n Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written by or addressed to Mrs. J.\n Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for\n Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore,\n Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton,\n Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman\n genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman\n genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson\n (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J.\n Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M.\n Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor\n Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany are incomplete and fragmentary.\n Genealogical material. Includes letters written by\n or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L.\n Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner\n Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E.\n G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol\n Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands,\n W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph\n of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A.\n Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment.\n Genealogical material, ca. 1850.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham\n County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew\n Jackson as...[the] next President.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written by Flippen \u0026amp;\n Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M.\n Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner,\n Iverson Lewis Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and\n Spiller manuscript volumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers relating to the canal. Letters written\n toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E.\n Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of\n the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris\n to Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers relating to the canal. Includes letters\n written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace\n B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H.\n DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William\n P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of\n Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and\n receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn\n Dam \u0026amp; Lock. Drawing - section of finder. Gwynn\n Dam, n.d.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of\n sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated\n papers).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by\n Francisco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph\n agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April\n 1809.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas\n Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund\n Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes item signed by Edmund Henry about a\n legal matter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes copy of legal paper involving\n Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than\n one person by this name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E.\n Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than\n one person by this name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes statement of 27 February 1858 of\n sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M.\n Pulliam \u0026amp; Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and\n Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro\n slave to work on fortifications.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George\n Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another\n George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items\n 1873-1939.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving\n both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving\n both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin,\n 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers\n involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes bill of James M. Spiller of\n 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for\n hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson\n to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the\n late rebellion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883\n finally settled in 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes copies of will of 1889 of J. M.\n Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe majority of the material concerns Miss\n Mary Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed\n by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes papers on the estate of William\n Adams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5\n February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha\n Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing\n with his slave estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes extract of Special Order #64 of May\n 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of\n employees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes land grant of 1789 signed by\n Governor Beverly Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes \"A list of Magistrates as also\n those named in different Commissions of the\n Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes judgment involving Randolph\n Jefferson and John Jefferson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes \"A list of a Company of Light\n Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of)\n Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials. See also Rogers and\n Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials. See also Rogers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller\n Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp.\n 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book of William Adams and his estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court\n records, 1847-1848.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes James River and Kanawha Canal\n accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes James River and Kanawha Canal\n accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books, 1849-1856, including farm notes,\n 1860-1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding farm notes and notes of calls on\n patients.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes farm notes in back, 1840.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding the estate of George Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes time charts for worker in the James\n River and Kanawha Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLedger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other\n accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp.\n 80-81, 292-294.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding time sheets of work on locks, James\n River and Kanawha Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes work on the James River and Kanawha\n Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman,\n Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham\n counties, Va. The papers include correspondence, accounts,\n legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of\n Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819,\n member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816,\n 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their\n children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin,\n Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright. Correspondents of\n Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L.\n Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and\n Robert T. Hubard. Subjects include the War of 1812, national\n politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly.\n Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's\n son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who\n married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E.\n Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management,\n the study and practice of medicine and the education of his\n children whose letters are also part of the collection. His\n children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin\n Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel\n Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles\n Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.","Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley\n family and much correspondence and many accounts of James\n Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the\n father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection\n includes several items relating to Peter Francisco,\n Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River\n and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War;\n accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst,\n Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland,\n Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward\n Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin,\n Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman\n and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of\n poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and\n photographs.","Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John\n Austin (concerning a survey of James\n Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and\n Robert Garland.","Includes letters by James Austin (brother,\n concerning candidates for House of Delegates in\n election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife),\n James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for\n House of Delegates in election of 1837),\n Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an\n unidentified college which he compares to\n Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law\n practice and that of his father; and politics),\n John Austin (son).","Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his\n mother asserting his independence in regard to\n a marriage choice and concerning his leaving\n Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs.\n Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L.\n Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to\n marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan\n Austin (slave), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.","Includes letters by James Walker (concerning\n inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor,\n Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed\n from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver\n (money owed for a racehorse and carriage\n horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from\n Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in\n War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March\n 1814, while serving with troops east of\n Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald\n Austin to run for Congress).","Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting\n up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey\n (written 10 February 1820, concerning session\n of General Assembly and the Missouri\n Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items]\n Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of\n Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of\n Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry\n Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election\n of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written\n 30 January 1821, concerning business of the\n General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot\n (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama;\n description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch,\n Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A.\n Caldwell.","Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney\n College (monthly report), George Booker\n (concerning business of General Assembly and\n revision of Virginia Court System in 1831),\n Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning\n anti-tariff convention to be held in\n Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C.\n Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James\n W. Bouldin.","Includes letters by George Booker (declining\n to run again for House of Delegates), Charles\n Yancey (declining to run again for House of\n Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald\n Austin to run for House of Delegates), James\n Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to\n constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith,\n Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb,\n Samuel Ford.","Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H.\n Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and\n Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy\n (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley,\n University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas\n H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.","Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.","Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin.\n Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation\n by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and\n to Dr. I. L. Twyman.","Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he\n was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to\n pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin\n while he was attending the University of\n Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on\n borrowed money. News of the centennial.\n Reconstruction.","Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations\n for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and\n selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves\n weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave\n Beverly.","Includes two slave letters (Mary to her\n mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to\n Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859,\n of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a\n slave marriage and endorsing the prospective\n husband. Letter outlining how to manage the\n estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we\n own the negroes, how much more loss we would\n sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what\n has transpired financially since Austin's death\n twelve years previously including the sale of\n forty-three slaves. Also letters written from\n Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.","Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to\n George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves;\n price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's\n life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.","Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in\n February 1865; and religion.","Studying medicine at the University of\n Virginia and at Philadelphia College of\n Medicine. Hiring out of slaves.","Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing\n location of rooms at University of Virginia and\n recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee\n (concerning studying medicine and University of\n Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies\n at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of\n slaves.","Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage\n in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter\n describing wedding plans and a cap.","Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September\n 1861, written by Austin while serving in\n [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry\n Regiment.]","Includes letter about civil War, 1861, from\n S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and\n letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins\n concerning University of Virginia. Other\n letters concern hiring slaves to work on\n railroad and runaway slave.","Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia\n Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley\n Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P.\n Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia\n Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).","Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin,\n Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E.\n Austin (written during her engagement to\n Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the\n practice of medicine; care of a slave's child\n while she is in the field; sudden death of a\n slave mourned both as loss of property and as\n loss of a member of the family; and sale of\n slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them\n to crying and howling.\"","Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas\n Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B.\n Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman,\n John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly;\n suggests taking him to a slave trader to see\n how much he would give for him to know whether\n to sell him or hire him out).","Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass\n \u0026 Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin,\n John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning\n the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.","Includes letters to John Austin (writing a\n thesis for Austin while Austin is studying\n medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves),\n Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.","Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman,\n Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of\n slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M.\n DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M.\n Pendleton.","Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas\n Austin (concerning sale of a slave child),\n Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of\n slaves; advice on raising their son; selling\n slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L.\n Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to\n read.)","Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr.\n Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley\n (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen,\n Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D.\n A. Snow (termination of a female\n schoolteacher's school because of her opinions\n on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators),\n Jno. Thompson.","Civil War comments in letters to Thomas\n Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b.\n 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama\n soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his\n illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R.\n H. Gilliam.","Includes note concerning trying to make\n slaves look better before they are sold.","Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and\n taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning\n medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes\n (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt,\n F. Hopkins.","Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel\n Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George\n S. Thornton (study of medicine in\n Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F.\n Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony\n Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026 Blanchard,\n Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin\n White.","Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F.\n T. Stribling (superintendent of Western\n Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B.\n M. DeWitt.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F.\n Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026\n Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H.\n Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling\n (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T.\n Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.","Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton\n (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt\n (concerning his financial condition), Martha M.\n Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874]\n Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters,\n V. Mosby.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt\n (concerning George T. Thornton; and the\n Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G.\n McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris,\n S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff\n (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott\n (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.","Includes letters from George T. Thornton\n (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown\n (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James\n M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A.\n Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea\n among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T.\n Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William\n H. Brown.","Includes letters from DeWitt H. White\n (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch\n (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan\n (granting permission for his slave to marry one\n of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem\n ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton\n (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman\n (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning\n Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer\n (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850;\n and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt\n (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer,\n J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).","Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens\n (concerning hiring slaves), William M.\n Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson\n (concerning east-west plit of Virginia),\n Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026 Dunnavant, R.\n Strabler \u0026 Co.","Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking\n Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to\n Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel\n Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock\n \u0026 Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave\n to be delivered so she can be sent south with\n others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell,\n J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.","Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical\n studies at University of Virginia; and death of\n John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield,\n B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and\n editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter\n (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph\n Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T.\n Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve,\n Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T.\n Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix\n (hiring slaves).","Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness\n of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John\n C. Mundy (medical studies at University of\n Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave),\n W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly),\n Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves),\n Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical\n practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S.\n Vawter (his medical studies at University of\n Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026 Brother\n (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert\n H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia\n \u0026 Tennessee Railroad).","Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery\n (hiring slaves to lay railroad track),\n Dickinson, Hill \u0026 Co. (value of slaves),\n Pulliam \u0026 Davis (value of slaves), James D.\n Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle\n (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F.\n Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield,\n George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his\n illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and\n Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis\n A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman\n delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to\n National Medical Association in Philadelphia),\n William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M.\n DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H.\n Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L.\n P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.","Includes letters from J. C. Mundy,\n Taliaferro \u0026 Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F.\n Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M.\n Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave),\n J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins,\n Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of\n slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse),\n John Harry (his illness), James Bolton\n (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac\n Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th.\n F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M.\n Pulliam \u0026 Co. (sale of runaway slave),\n James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J.\n Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R.\n T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of\n the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D.\n Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)","Includes letters from Absalom (slave\n letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom),\n James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River\n and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics),\n L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James\n Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H.\n Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson\n (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L.\n Thornton (illness and death of George T.\n Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward,\n Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching\n position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher),\n D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E.\n J. Snow), Hableston \u0026 Bro., T. Lyon, A. M.\n Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F.\n Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh\n (negotiating and accepting teaching position),\n Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching\n position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for\n Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B.\n Bocock.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P.\n Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention),\n McCorkle \u0026 Co. (hiring slaves), E. H. Gill\n (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee\n Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of\n slaves), Ella T. Watson (her education), C.\n Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant,\n William Knabe \u0026 Co. (piano), John G. Meem,\n Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C.\n A. Preots ([Buckingham] F[emale] C[ollegiate]\n Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert [Keats\n ?], L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill,\n R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring slaves),\n Elsom Bro. \u0026 Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob\n Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland,\n John H. Bondurant (hiring slaves), Judith B.\n Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah\n S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin)\n Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg\n (applying for teaching position), R. S.\n Powers.","Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring\n slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.;\n runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\"\n (concerning a teaching position; she studied at\n Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A.\n Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins\n (teaching), Bocock \u0026 Parrish, John W.\n Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee\n Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary [Annis?] DeWitt\n (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C.\n Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt),\n Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be\n re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B.\n Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack\n Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's\n hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's\n Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position),\n Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026\n Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton\n (describing Union raid in Orange County, Va.),\n Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026 Co.,\n Richmond, Va. (price of slaves), R. P.\n Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for\n Joseph R. Anderson \u0026 Co. [Tredegar]), Brown\n \u0026 Deane, Richmond, Va. (scarcity of\n schoolbooks) E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins\n (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his\n school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate\n cavalryman from Georgia).","Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J.\n M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave\n letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A.\n Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D.\n Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby,\n Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F.\n Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore,\n Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia),\n Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W.\n Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W.\n C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to\n grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James\n Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C.\n Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.","Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright\n (mother's female illness; an alleged\n malingering and burglarizing female slave;\n fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing\n slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin\n (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R.\n Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of\n Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).","Includes letters to sister Grace Austin,\n Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin,\n Iverson L. Twyman.","Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13\n September 1853 bears letter of Frances A.\n Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his\n wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up\n to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with\n Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign),\n James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha\n Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F.\n Harris.","Includes letters to her son Iverson L.\n Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about\n him, the education of his brothers and sisters,\n an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping\n with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James\n A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to\n her brother Iverson Twyman.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and\n her concern over the sale of family land.\n Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter\n from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a\n letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins\n Institute.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and\n her concern over the sale of family land.\n Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.","Concerns the family's poverty and money owed\n to West \u0026 Agee which may force the sale of\n her land.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and\n her concern over her son's safety.","Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman\n (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and\n her concern for her son.","Written to her son John Twyman. Includes\n letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson\n L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L.\n Twyman.","Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864).\n Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John\n Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace\n Austin.","Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C.\n Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of\n verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel\n McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B.\n Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about\n the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of\n fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of\n slave by Confederate States Army), [James M.\n Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis\n Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of\n Washington College now Washington and Lee\n University), Internal Revenue Service\n (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and\n William J. Spencer.","Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M.\n Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson\n Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles\n Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for\n indigent students and his standard for hiring\n teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins\n College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? -\n former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins\n Institute [now Hollins College] sending his\n treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell\n (concerning will of James M. Wright).","Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr.,\n Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute\n [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke\n ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza\n M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?]\n concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K.\n Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a\n slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B.\n Partin.","Includes letters written (while teaching\n school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman\n (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman,\n Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July\n 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta\n Giles Twyman.","Includes letters written (while teaching\n school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while\n moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright],\n Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?]\n (love letter), James M. Spiller, M.\n Edwards.","Includes letters written (while teaching\n school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?]\n (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman,\n John Twyman.","Includes letters written from Texas to\n mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances\n (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice\n Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September\n 1874, concerns Texas and blacks.","Includes letters written from Texas to\n mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances\n (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R.\n Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles\n Twyman.","Includes letters written to mother Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A.\n Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.","Includes letters written from Texas to\n Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright),\n Mabel Booker Twyman.","Includes letters (written from Texas) to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin,\n Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A.\n Austin (concerning Greenback Party).","Includes letters (written from Texas) to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman,\n Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last\n letter in folder written from Virginia.","From Virginia to brother John in Nashville,\n Tennesse. One letter bears composition\n \"Management of Common Schools\" and another\n bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not\n to drink.","Include letters from Virginia to brother\n John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending\n college at State Normal College, now Peabody\n College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters\n of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern\n Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The\n Readjusters all over the county voted for the\n negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he\n is prouder of that one act than of any other in\n his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who\n voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.","Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas.\n Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State\n Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry\n Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller)\n Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to\n Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d.,\n to J. Avis Bartley.","Includes letters written by Seymour W.\n Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters\n from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F.\n Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman\n and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued\n in Meriwether County, Ga.","Includes letters written by Seymour W.\n Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley\n P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a\n school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters\n of recommendation written by Holman concerning\n Twyman's qualifications to teach school.","Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See\n also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's\n letters).","Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W.\n Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie\n Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J.\n Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman\n to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson,\n Hinkle \u0026 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning\n schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson,\n Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes.\n Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching\n school.","Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George\n J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M.\n Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern\n teaching school.","Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T.\n Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters\n concerning Twyman's church membership and\n letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching\n certificate for Limestone, Texas.","Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman,\n (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a\n black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James\n B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny\n Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern\n Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H.\n Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F.\n Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman.\n Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching\n school.","W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia,\n Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears\n letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass\n Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman\n signed by citizens of Buckingham.","Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters\n from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin)\n Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his\n desire for an education; two people in jail for\n whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent\n of Public Instruction, and teachers\n certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va.","Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston concerning a controversy over the\n location of a school; copies of love letters to\n \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908\n and copies of love letters to Josephine White,\n December 1922 - January 1923.","Includes letters from William Merry Perkins,\n N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns\n (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal\n School, now Peabody College) and William S.\n Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One\n letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M.\n Colby concerning sale of Lee's\n Reminiscences.","Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas\n concerning State Normal College, Nashville,\n Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E.\n G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.","Letters to him in Texas and Virginia.\n Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G.\n Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or\n Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College,\n Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension\n in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham\n County.","Includes four letters from Miss Sally M.\n Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters\n to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].","Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools,\n Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas,\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving,\n William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January\n 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91\n and 87).","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S.\n Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A.\n Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit\n of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J.\n S. Jarman (president State female Normal\n School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood\n College).","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools in Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins\n (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy\n Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom,\n Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller\n Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch,\n Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M.\n Smith).","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools in Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue\n Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W.\n Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D.\n Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm.\n G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving,\n W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents\n include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard\n (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers),\n Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes\n White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W.\n Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C.\n Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions\n requesting Twyman's reappointment as\n Superintendent.","Includes letters to him as Superintendent of\n Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents\n include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva\n Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?]\n (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her\n mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones\n (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va.)","Letters to State Board of Education from W.\n L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett,\n George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S.\n Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting\n that Twyman be appointed again as school\n superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones.\n Includes petitions.","Include letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia\n Superintendent of Public Instruction.\n Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W.\n W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell,\n C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie,\n Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle,\n C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.","Include letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell,\n H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W.\n Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations\n and grading system of Arvonia High School,\n 1915-1916.","Include letters written to Twyman as\n Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County,\n Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A.\n C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even\n though school sessions were shortened because\n of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler\n \u0026 Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown,\n Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton\n Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover),\n Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine\n White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett\n Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton,\n Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National\n Park). Includes wedding announcement; and\n minutes, 1925, of Democratic County\n Committee.","Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent\n of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.\n Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J.\n Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A.\n W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M.\n Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.","Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic\n Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman,\n J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M.\n [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon.\n Includes speech by T. N. Hass.","Mostly concern Republican party politics.\n Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F.\n Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell,\n Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930,\n entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of\n Buckingham County.\"","Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora\n Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude\n Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah\n Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M.\n Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass\n thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S.\n Supreme Court.","To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A.\n Twyman. Concern family's poverty.","Includes letters to John A. Twyman,\n 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and\n Twyman genealogy.","Correspondents include Addison Spencer,\n Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman,\n Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie\n Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard\n (concerning membership in the Virginia\n Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M.\n Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb.\n Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman\n family.","Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister,\n Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J.\n Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis,\n John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs.\n F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd,\n Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V.\n Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker,\n Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis\n (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W.\n Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on\n Twyman family.","Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands\n Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M.\n A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode,\n Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman,\n Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical\n inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman\n crest.","Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman,\n Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Champ Clark,\n Margaret Huff (paper bears\n Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas\n S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman,\n Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman,\n Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie\n Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on\n the Twyman family.","Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno.\n C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association\n [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta\n G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern\n genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna\n Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth\n Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical\n inquiries of Twyman family.","Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman\n (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D.\n Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George\n Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier,\n [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern\n genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder,\n Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J.\n Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State\n Mission Board of Baptist General Association),\n W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace),\n David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet\n - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W.\n McDaniel. Letters concern World War I,\n Influenza Epidemic of 1918.","Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder,\n Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R.\n McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker,\n Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney,\n Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David\n Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J.\n H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred\n Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association).\n Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of\n Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.","Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs.\n Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton,\n Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford\n Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd\n (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula\n May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard\n (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)","Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon,\n Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog\n postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware,\n Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.","Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman\n (concerning teaching and the family's poverty),\n Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour\n W.] Holman.","Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel\n B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.","Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne\n [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S.\n F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal\n Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis,\n M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?],\n L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes\n booklet (The Light of Christmastide).","Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents\n include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of\n recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida\n teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while\n studying law at the University of Virginia.","Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John\n A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L.\n Twyman; most letters written while she was\n attending State Normal School, Nashville,\n Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning\n Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire,\n Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond),\n Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Letters written from Nellie [?].","Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in\n \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography\n (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia\n [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander\n H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie\n Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover\n Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M.\n Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman),\n Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.","Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S.\n Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband\n concerning slavery; letters, n.d., of A. E.\n Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley\n to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being\n appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty\n always intended to make their selections from the\n lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag\n \u0026 bobtail because ragtag \u0026 bobtail vote\n for the delegates and the delegates vote for the\n annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.","Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia\n Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of\n Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary\n Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the\n first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They\n were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.","Letters, 1853 and n.d. by Rebecca P. (Horsley)\n Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her\n separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman\n concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P.\n (Horsley) Austin.","Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley\n with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley)\n Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell.\n Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to\n George B. Austin.","Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A.\n Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning\n Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H.\n Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical\n school in Philadelphia).","2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony)\n Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson\n L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, n.d., by Hampden\n Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883\n \u0026 n.d., of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?]\n Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary\n F. Spiller.","Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman\n and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a\n student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans,\n Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile\n and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas\n Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle\n Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and\n Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M.\n Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- ,\n written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart,\n J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John\n Dooley.","Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4,\n James River \u0026 Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October\n 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and\n conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other\n letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of\n Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make\n a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to\n attend to the cows and her business - the women\n who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting\n Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from\n going back to her former husband.","Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson\n L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning\n slaves (buying and selling) and farm\n management.","Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F.\n Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William\n McCorkle, H. Johns.","Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L.\n Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell,\n William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil\n War.","Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E.\n (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M.\n Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of\n Twyman family and Readjusters.","Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George\n Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel,\n Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from\n Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning\n disposition of slaves and her ex- husband\n Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry\n Loving (concerning settling blacks in Ohio),\n Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington,\n John J. Grasty.","Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D.\n P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben\n Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley,\n N. H. Massie.","Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va.\n Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of\n engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December\n 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M.\n DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?]\n Rowland, Jones \u0026 Miller, Lynchburg, Va.,\n F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies\n in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S.\n Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B.\n Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026 Co.,\n Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.","Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A.\n Donald (describing his recommendations for\n stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin,\n W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins,\n B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson,\n John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).","Includes letters from John S. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott\n Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney\n College and including report) and M. N. Hylum\n (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of\n Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)","Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller\n by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College.\n Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry,\n State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents\n include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters,\n J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J.\n M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M.\n Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G.\n Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson,\n J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026 Johnson, [n. p.]","Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T.\n Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone\n (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie\n Hamilton.","Letters written by John T. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William\n E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning\n election of ? and his own office in state\n government), J. M. Reynolds.","Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883),\n S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty\n (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison\n Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton,\n William A. White.","Letters written by Fleming Harris (former\n slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones,\n J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W.\n G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass,\n Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters,\n 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning\n tariff and providing campaign strategy to\n Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?]\n Figgatt).","Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R.\n W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican\n patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H.\n McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys,\n Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).","Letters written by or addressed to Sue M.\n Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B.\n Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H.\n Spiller, I. L. Twyman.","Letters written by or addressed to Dudley\n Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph\n Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary\n (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?],\n Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North,\n Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas\n Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John\n Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George\n Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026\n Rea.","Letters written by or addressed to Christopher\n Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David\n Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker,\n Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood,\n Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott),\n James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan\n Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E.\n Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of\n Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual\n Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026 Gilliam, Ca\n Ira, Va.","Many letters are permissions for slaves to join\n Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of\n dismissal from churches. Include letters written\n by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian,\n John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson\n (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D.\n Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James\n Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G.\n Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but\n objects to their being immersed in November),\n William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose,\n Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W.\n Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P.\n Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin\n Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams,\n Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist\n Church.","Includes letters concerning slaves joining the\n church. Letters written by or addressed to W.\n Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave\n Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas\n Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B.\n Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave),\n Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives,\n Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C.\n Tindall (concerning slave).","Letters written by or addressed to James Brown,\n E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews\n (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A.\n Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic\n Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret\n S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026\n Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C.\n Horsley's application for a position at the\n University of Virginia.","Letters written by or addressed to John M.\n Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika\n Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton,\n [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers,\n Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W.\n Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J.\n Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph\n Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A.\n Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S.\n Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W.\n Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker\n (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman\n (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.),\n George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff\n (selling of slave girls) \u0026 McCorkle, Simpson\n \u0026 Jones.","Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave\n working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada\n Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A.\n Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H.\n Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of\n Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum,\n Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A.\n Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026\n Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel\n McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter\n Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris\n (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged\n between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864),\n William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery\n and concerning service record of Jessie A.\n Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026 Co.,\n Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis\n T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic\n Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton\n (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th\n Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.","Letters written by or addressed to Grace R.\n Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank\n (describing a shooting outside saloon in San\n Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie\n Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley,\n Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary\n Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin\n (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E.\n Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance\n from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026\n Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.","Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J.\n Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for\n Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore,\n Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton,\n Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman\n genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman\n genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson\n (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J.\n Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M.\n Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor\n Company.","Many are incomplete and fragmentary.\n Genealogical material. Includes letters written by\n or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L.\n Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner\n Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E.\n G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol\n Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands,\n W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph\n of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A.\n Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment.\n Genealogical material, ca. 1850.","Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham\n County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew\n Jackson as...[the] next President.\"","Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026\n Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M.\n Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner,\n Iverson Lewis Twyman.","See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and\n Spiller manuscript volumes.","Papers relating to the canal. Letters written\n toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E.\n Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of\n the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris\n to Iverson L. Twyman.","Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters\n written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace\n B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H.\n DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William\n P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of\n Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and\n receipts.","Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn\n Dam \u0026 Lock. Drawing - section of finder. Gwynn\n Dam, n.d.","Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of\n sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated\n papers).","Legal papers involving him. 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