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McIlwaine (1860-1923) of Nashville,\n         Tennessee, and Richard McIlwaine (1870-1937) of Norfolk,\n         Virginia, concerning family and business matters, including\n         their father's death, James' handling of their financial\n         accounts, and James' death and his estate. Other\n         correspondence details McIlwaine's efforts to find a teaching\n         position, his tenure as a professor at Hampden-Sidney College,\n         and his tenure as state librarian, as well as personal,\n         family, and business matters. Letters also discuss Read and\n         Doak families genealogies, the Seaboard Air Line Railway, and\n         Confederate veteran Isaac Read. 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Also contains essays\n         written on the histories of Virginia, Vermont, Texas,\n         Tennessee, Delaware, and Connecticut, along with histories of\n         Buckingham County and Jamestown, Virginia, and the Lost\n         Colony. Of interest are newspaper clippings, 1912-1936,\n         concerning the State Library, including efforts to construct a\n         new building for it in 1931. There are eulogies written on the\n         occasions of the deaths of John S. Patton, W. Pernet\n         Patterson, Edward Virginius Valentine, and H. R. McIlwaine.\n         Also of note are papers concerning the great seal of Virginia\n         and resolutions on the 150th anniversary of the British\n         surrender at Yorktown.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1885-1934, of H. R. 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