{"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bdate_range%5D%5B%5D=1765\u0026f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=University+of+Virginia%2C+Special+Collections+Dept.\u0026page=14","prev":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bdate_range%5D%5B%5D=1765\u0026f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=University+of+Virginia%2C+Special+Collections+Dept.\u0026page=13","last":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bdate_range%5D%5B%5D=1765\u0026f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=University+of+Virginia%2C+Special+Collections+Dept.\u0026page=14"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":14,"next_page":null,"prev_page":13,"total_pages":14,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":130,"total_count":133,"first_page?":false,"last_page?":true}},"data":[{"id":"viu_repositories_3_resources_294","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Wickham family papers","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_repositories_3_resources_294#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Wickham family","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_repositories_3_resources_294#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). \u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_repositories_3_resources_294#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viu_repositories_3_resources_294","ead_ssi":"viu_repositories_3_resources_294","_root_":"viu_repositories_3_resources_294","_nest_parent_":"viu_repositories_3_resources_294","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/UVA/repositories_3_resources_294.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/120871","title_filing_ssi":"Wickham family papers","title_ssm":["Wickham family papers"],"title_tesim":["Wickham family papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1704-circa 1950"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1704-circa 1950"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["File","Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["MSS 15753","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/294"],"text":["MSS 15753","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/294","Wickham family papers","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Virginia)","Virginia -- History -- 19th Century","Plantation life -- Virginia","Slavery--United States -- Virginia","Slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County","The collection is arranged in four series, Series 1: Business correspondence arranged chronologically (Boxes 1-5). Several business correspondents warranted individual folders based on either the amount of material or the importance of the correspondent. Series 2: Correspondence of John Wickham, arranged alphabetically by the last name of the chief correspondent (Box 5); Series 3: Correspondence of the Wickham and related families, arranged by the last name of the main correspondent (Boxes 6-15); Series 4: Financial and Legal Papers and Miscellany (Boxes 16-19), all arranged in chronological order.","This collection chiefly concerns the Wickham family of Richmond, Virginia and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). When other relatives and friends appear in the folder listing, their birth and death dates and relationships are noted if known. The family owned enslaved persons and lists them by age. ","Attorney John Wickham married twice and had two lines of descent. His first wife was Mary Smith Fanning (1775-1799) by whom he had two sons, William Fanning Wickham of \"Hickory Hills,\" married to Anne Butler Carter (1797-1868), and Edmund Fanning Wickham of \"Rocky Mount\" (1796-1843), married to Anne's sister, Lucy Carter (1799-1835). ","After the death of his first wife, John Wickham married Elizabeth Seldon McClurg and had several more children. Some of these children are also represented in these papers.","Anne Carter Wickham (1851-1939), the daughter of Williams Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham, married Robert H. Renshaw (1833-1910) in 1881 and they had four children. In 1920, Anne Renshaw married Dr. W.E. Byerly and lived in Massachusetts.","Lucy Carter Wickham Byrd was the daughter of Edmund Fanning Wickham (1796-1834) and Lucy Carter (1799-1835) and the wife of George Harrison Byrd (1827-1910).","Apparently the spelling of his name varies slightly from his mother's family name, Maclurg versus McClurg, but the use here reflects the spelling on his grave stone.","The Howard School opened in 1831 and continued until 1834 with two teachers, the Reverend Jonathan Loring Woart (1807-1838) and his brother, the Reverend John Woart. The Episcopal High School opened in 1839 on the former Howard School location. There are also letters from the Reverend Jonathan Loring Woart (1807-1838) to William F. Wickham, including progress reports on the two boys, among this correspondence.","Added fa to VH 7 Dec. 2017.","The original letter has been transferred to the Henry Clay Papers.","Originals of these letters transferred to the John Randolph of Roanoke papers.","The originals of all three Wirt letters have been transferred to the Autographs collection.","The original of the Robert E. Lee letter has been transferred to the Robert E. Lee papers.","The  original of the Lee letter  has been transferred to the Robert E. Lee papers.","The original of letters to Robert E. Lee have been transferred to the Robert E. Lee papers, the originals of the letters from Henry Clay transferred to the Henry Clay papers and those from John Singleton Mosby were transferred to the John Singleton Mosby papers.","The originals of Lee letters were transferred to Robert E. Lee papers.","The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). ","The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with immediate and extended relatives; personal correspondence from friends and political associates; two brief diaries discussing the secession and the beginning of the Civil War; financial and legal papers, including lists of books purchased, hires of enslaved laborers, the purchase of enslaved laborers, medical care for enslaved laborers, losses from invading soldiers during the Civil War, estate values, including those of enslaved laborers, indentures, deeds, receipts, plats and surveys, and lists of enslaved laborers by name and age; genealogies and genealogical charts; invitations and calling cards; military papers of General Williams Carter Wickham in the Civil War and Captain Williams Carter Wickham, U.S. Navy; news clippings; some notes and manuscripts of William F. Wickham; a few photographs and snapshots; poetry; hand-written recipes; school papers; and sympathy and greeting cards. ","There is also a hand drawn map of Hickory Hill plantation, the Wickham family estate which may have been drawn by a descendant of an enslaved laborer. It shows a diagram of \"Mammy's House\" and surrounding buildings that were revisited in the 1980's. The pages following the illustration name African Americans who were still living and working at Hickory Hill estate in the early 1900's. Mentioned are the families of John Robinson, Albert Cash,  Henry Toliver, Edith Jackson, Matt Foley, Maria Tucker, Ruben Lewis,Landonia Lewis, ALec Hewlett, Louisa and Albert Jackson, Henry Abrams, Betty Jackson, John Abram and Roselyn, Milton Hewlett, and Virginia Shelton.","Topics include the Civil War, the relationships between family members in both the North and the South, and attitudes toward secession; many aspects of enslavement, often naming the enslaved laborers involved; Virginia and national politics; the practice of agriculture in Virginia; the education of the children of Virginia planters, including attendance at the Howard School, Episcopal High School, Washington College and the University of Virginia; military service of General Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), Captain William Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and other Wickham relatives.  ","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include:, John Slidell and Co., Thomas C. Keaton, William Lyne, W.P. Mason, W.T. Nivison, William B. Page, Philip Rogers, Thomas Rotch, Penn T. Sale, John M. Shepherd, Peter F. Smith, Thomas Strode, William Sullivan, Thomas Swann, Richard Wallack, Ralph Wingfield, Alice B. Winston, and Zach Vowels","Correspondents, chiefly with Edmund F. Wickham, include: Williams Carter (1819), Archibald Gracie and Robert Gracie (1821), and multiple correspondents in 1822: Curwen and Hagarty, Samuel John Dunlop, King and Gracie, Samuel Lambert, and Robert Hughes and Co.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: James Dunlop, Ninian Edwards, John Ferguson, C.B. Fleet, William Fleet, Robert Gracie, Francis Gregg, James Hagarty, George E. Harrison, James Henderson, L. Jones, T. Jones, and Robert King.","Letters involving enslavement or enslaved laborers include one from L. Jones, asking for protection for \"old Billy\" and mentioning other issues concerning the welfare of enslaved laborers, January 2, 1823, and another letter from Ninian Edwards discussing the possible purchase of a female enslaved laborer for the wife of Dr. Harvey Lane, January 13, 1823.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Henry Arnall, Curwen and Hagarty, [J.] Dunlop, Ninian Edwards, C.B. Fleet, John G. Gamble, Robert G. Harper, George E. Harrison, Jones and Rodes, Hardage Lane, C.C. Lee, Lewis and Tomes, George Marx, John Morgan, and Charles Morris.","Letters involving enslavement include the inquiry by Robert G. Harper, May 5, 182[3], for information about the \"present condition, conduct, and prospects\" of some manumitted enslaved laborers formerly belonging to Samuel Gist who were freed in his will. He also asks for  the name and address of some respectable and intelligent person in the area where the freed formerly enslaved laborers now live who can send a report to Gist's relatives.","Correspondents, chiefly Edmund F. Wickham and William F. Wickham, include: Curwen and Hagarty, James Dunlop, John Dunlop, William Logan Fisher, William Fleet, George Greenhow, George E. Harrison, B.B. Keesee, Robert King, Thomas Kelly, Hardage Lane, Lewis and Tomes, Charles F. Logan, William Lyne, and  Robert and John Oliver. One letter mentions a runaway enslaved man, named Joe, December 18, 1823.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: David Barclay, John H. Blair, Carter Braxton, William Burns, William L. Dance, S.W. Dandridge, Aaron Denman, Robert Douthat, Ninian Edwards, William Fleet, Gillingham and Randolphs (G.F. and E. Randolph), James Hagerty, George E. Harrison, John Hopkins, and Thomas and John G. Riddle.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Richard Anderson, John Balfour, Thomas and John S. Biddle, Carter Braxton, William Burns, Hugh Campbell, Robert Douthat, and Gillingham and Randolphs (G.F. and E. Randolph).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Carter Berkeley, Carter Braxton, Roger Mallory, Thomas Nelson, and William F. Wickham to Thomas B. Coleman. Roger Mallory, the jailor in Petersburg, Virginia, writes concerning a runaway enslaved man named Jim who finally admitted he belonged to William F. Wickham. Jim had originally claimed to belong to Price Sharpe who was charged with permitting him to \"go at large contrary to law,\" and hire himself out, March 19, 1827.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: G.H. Bacchus, Thomas T. Bouldin, Thomas B. Coleman, M. Huelin,  Benjamin Whitehead Ladd, W.H. McFarland, William Nelson, John W. Payne, William G. Pendleton, M.E.M. Roane, and A.B. Spooner. Topics include the reception of freed former enslaved laborers in Ohio (Benjamin W. Ladd, March 4, 1830); and the [Samuel?] Gist estate (John M. Payne, April 22, 1830).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Patrick Nesbett Edgar, John Exall, Chapman Johnson, Thomas N. Lee, John Ponsonby Martin, William Nelson, Severn E. Parker, A. Robinson, Jr., William Rowlett, J.S. Skinner, Benjamin Temple, Robert Temple, Thomas Biddle and Company, and John R. Triplett. Topics include: blue wheat (Benjamin and Robert Temple, July 4, 1830 and August 4, 1830); American turf and racing magazine (August 3, 1830; September 1, 1830; October 19, 1830); and a collection of pedigrees for an American Stud Book (October 13, 1830).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: J.D. Andrews, John Corbin, Alfred V. Crenshaw, Crouches and Snead, Gracie and Company, James Gray, Richard B. Haxall, William Hilberg, James Lyle, and Francis Page. Topics include problems with a horse purchased from Wickham (November 15, 1838), the safe arrival of the Andrews family in Houston, Texas (January 28, 1839), and the sending of an enslaved man named Jefferson to fetch two mules from Wickham (April 22, 1839).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Beers and Poindexter, Robert M. Candlish, John S. Corbin, Robert Ellett, William Linton, A.T.B. Merritt, Nathaniel Nelson, J.W. Pegram, W. Richardson, Thomas Samson, John Shore, John N. Tazewell, James G. Watson, and William L. White. Topics include mention of the horse \"Priam\" at Merritt's Hicks Ford stud in Virginia and the failure of Wickham's Eclipse mare to foal last spring (May 11, 1842); the dire condition of the [enslaved man?] old Bob Clark and his family on the land of Nathanael Nelson and attempts to provide for their care (June 15 and July 11, 1842); and a discussion of improvements to Wickham's bevel wheel (July 11, 1842) by Thomas Samson of D.J. Burr and Company.","Correspondents include: John S. Corbin, Nathanael Cross, William Dorbaker, Thomas Ellis and Charles Ellis, Robert G. Gilman, J.H. Martin, [S.H.] Parker, James L. Pendleton, James A. Seddon, Jane J. Swann, George Taylor, John N. Tazewell, William L. White, and John Wight. Topics include lumber needed for a penitentiary and a possible list of enslaved laborers written in pencil on an address portion of the letter (October 10, 1842).","Correspondents include: Warwick Barksdale, John Barr, Samuel Cottrell, Richard Gwathmey, John Struthers and Son, Lucius Minor, William Nelson, Lucien B. Price, Richard Randolph, Edmund Ruffin, William D. Taylor, John N. Tazewell, Philip B. Winston, and Richard M. Young (General Land Office). Topics include the sale of two enslaved women (January 29, 1845).","Correspondents include: Warwick Barksdale, Wellington Goddin, Phineas Janney, C.C. Lee, Thomas Nelson, Bernard Peyton, [Lucien] B. Price, John T. Rogers, Edmund Ruffin, Robert Taylor, J.R. Underwood, William F. Watson, Joseph Wingfield, and Philip B. Winston. Topics include a description of damage to the property of Joseph Wingfield by the breakage of the mill dam of Wickham (March 12, 1848).","Correspondents include: John Gibson, G.W. Goode, Richard Gwathmey, Benjamin F. Larned (1794-1862), William Leigh, Thomas Nelson, John E. Page, James A. Seddon, Alexander H.H. Stuart, William F. Watson, Hugh A. Watt, W.C. Wickham (to James M. Ford), Edmund Winston, and William Overton Winston. Topics include the shipment of some prairie birds and directions for their care (December 23, 1849); lists of enslaved laborers for hire, including \"old Fanny,\" Nancy and her three children, and Betsy (January 1, 1850); request for information about the amount due on account of the division of the \"Negroes\" or enslaved laborers (March 5, 1850); William F. Wickham as the guardian of the minor heirs of Robert C. Wickham (April 20, 1850); the offer of the use of a Southdown buck for sheep breeding (July 12, 1850); the increase of visitors to the mountains of Virginia, especially at White Sulphur Springs, the Warm Springs, and the Hot Springs (August 5, 1850); the purchase of stained glass (November 19 and 23, 1850); the return of an enslaved woman who was a wet nurse, \"Mamma Betsy\" hired the year before for his little boy (July 28, 1849; November 5, 1850); and an opinion about Jenny Lind (December 20, 1850).","Correspondents include: Alexander Hew, John F. Lay, [Laudonier] J. Randolph; Robert L. Randolph, Allen P. Richardson, William Sayre, William F. Wickham, and Thomas Wight. \nTopics include the redemption of land in Saline County, Missouri (September 13, 1853) and the settlement with McClurg Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham, and John Wickham concerning a loan from John Henry Wickham to them on August 11, 1851 (May 28, 1858).","Correspondents include: J.A. Allen, David Anderson, Jr., A.W. Ball, Ann B. Berkeley, the Reverend P.F. Berkeley, George H. Byrd (Wyman, Byrd and Co. Commission Merchants), [Magrat] Davis, R.B. Davis, Robert Johnston, J.H. Montague, H.C. Parsons, James H. Storrs, John R. Taylor, James Usher, and William F. Wickham (drafts to Ann B. Berkeley, the Reverend P.F. Berkeley, and B.W. Green). \nTopics include: the question in the legislature concerning the payment of legacies given in Confederate money between 1862-1865 (March 10, 1866); difficulties in settling court cases in West Virginia following the Civil War (November 16, 1866); a request from a woman for legal help in keeping her inheritance in her name and under her control rather than her husband's as her current lawyer advised (April 25, 1867); and reports on the \"North Wales\" farm (May 20, 27, and 31, 1870).","Correspondents include: James L. Apperson, W.W. Baldwin, Lewis D. Crenshaw, Jr., Isaac Davis, L.R. Dickinson, Maynard Dyson,  James S. Earle and Sons, George William Gibson, Charles Herndon, J.M. Hill, I.M. Parr and Son (Commission Merchants), J. Sabin and Sons (Booksellers, Printsellers and Importers), Walter C. Jones, A.C. Loomis, J.H. Montague, Henry Parry, G. Peyton, Joseph T. Priddy, R.H. Maury and Co. (Stock and Exchange Brokers), J.W. Ratcliffe, C.T. Smith, E.D. Starke, A.T. Stewart, W.T. Tinsley, H. Wernich, William F. Wickham (draft to L. Upshur Evans), and Wright and Co., Rio de Janeiro. \nTopics include: the sale of property in Richmond, Virginia, of a former brewery belonging to the estate of David G. Yuengling, Jr. along the James River called the \"James River Steam Brewery\" (August 16, 1879).","Correspondents include: George B. Butler, Alexander Kaslovistsh, and John Watkins.","Alvis discusses the farm operations of the East Tuckahoe Plantation.","The company sends sketches and discusses the replacement of the mantle damaged in the house fire at Hickory Hill.","Discusses the oak tobacco boxes supplied by Edmund F. Wickham from \"Rocky Mills\" plantation.","Correspondence is chiefly with William F. Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham. Topics include concern about the \"military bill\" in the South as a way for Congress to get at the landed property there (March 4, 1867); Wickham's fondness for memoirs and other mentions of reading (December 17, 1868; May 30, 1873; June 15 and 20, 1875; February 11, 1876; May 4, 1877; July 2, 1880); and the offer of building supplies currently at \"Broad Neck\" in order to rebuild the house at \"Hickory Hill\" after a fire (February 16, 1875).","Correspondence is chiefly with William F. Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham. Topics include the financial affairs of their cousin Georgina L. Featherstonhaugh (September 24 and October 28, 1879).","Topics include Carter's impressions of Bristol College, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (October 18, 1834); complaints about the western states and their impact upon agricultural prices and politics, mentioning James Buchanan by name (July 17, 1846); suggestion that the enslaved laborers belonging to their nephews, Robert and John Wickham, be sold to pay the debt of their education (June 18, 1847); mention of a violent snowstorm that occurred just after he had returned home on a gunboat following a period of being nursed by his sister at \"Hickory Hill\" (November 8, 1862); and the death of Julia Wickham (July 16, 1873).","Correspondents include C.P. Huntington (President), Henry Taylor Wickham, and Williams C. Wickham and J.S.F. Smith (Paint Creek Depot) concerning the opening of the coal mines on the land purchased from the Hansford heirs and the employment of miners in Kanawha County, West Virginia.","Correspondents include C.P. Huntington (President), Henry Taylor Wickham, and Williams C. Wickham and J.S.F. Smith (Paint Creek Depot) concerning the opening of the coal mines on the land purchased from the Hansford heirs and the employment of miners in Kanawha County, West Virginia.","Letters concern lands held by Reuben Jenkins and John Henry Wickham in Saline County, Missouri.","Letters discuss matters concerning the Louisa Railroad, which was chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in 1836, and renamed the Virginia Central Railroad in 1850, with Fontaine as its longtime president.","Correspondence is concerned with securing payment on the accounts of John Wickham and Littleton W. T. Wickham, brothers of William F. Wickham by an immediate sale of livestock and agricultural goods.","Mentions the illness of President Monroe and his own wife, Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay, the daughter of Monroe (August 4, 1823) and expresses disparaging remarks concerning a Yankee business associate (October 19, 1823).","Topics include a request to help in the administration of the estate of Dr. McClurg (March 2, 1839); fears about the possible death of his son, Thomas, in [Mississippi?] (June 22, 1839); instructions about the purchase of summer clothing for the enslaved laborers by Alvis (April 21, 1840); mention that there are 70 enslaved laborerss associated with the \"Rocky Mills\" plantation of Edmund Wickham and 40 additional enslaved laborers associated with his father's [John Wickham] estate (July 28, 1842). Much of the correspondence in general deals with the settling of the estate of John Wickham (1763-1839).","Discusses arrangements for the support of Mr. Harrison's children and his disappointment with Dr. Selden.","Letter of introduction from Henry Clay for Mr. Bainbridge of Kentucky to John Wickham.","Kerr requests copies of any ordinances or laws concerning lands either given or planned to be given by the state of Virginia to the officers and soldiers who served in either the Continental Army or the Virginia state militia for use in the United States Court in Ohio.","Discusses the best way to secure the claim of Dr. McClurg for surgeon pay during his service in the Continental Army, keeping in mind that the United States will soon find a use for surplus money and mentions Henry Clay as doing a great deal of good [in Congress?].","Recommends that they make sure that Dr. [James] McClurg's will is recorded in Kentucky.","Notifies Wickham that he has located among his scorched papers enough information to send him a transcript of all he knows or remembers about the bonds of Mr. Balfour and invites him to visit Studley, Virginia.","Mentions the health concerns of family members and friends in Baltimore, Maryland.","Describes the worsening physical condition of Walter [Maclurg Wickham?]  in Baltimore, Maryland.","Notifies Wickham about the death of Walter [Maclurg Wickham?] in Baltimore, Maryland.","Requests Wickham provide the wording to a decree that would enable a sale of his property in Richmond, Virginia, to proceed since his power of attorney, Mr. Botts, was unable to perform his duties.","One letter, March 24, 1820, incomplete, last page only, John Randolph of Roanoke writes concerning Stephen Decatur's death. In a second letter, April 1, 1820,   part of the letter and autograph signature excised, John Randolph of Roanoke thanks Wickham for his indulgence and civility in the matter of his father's estate and mentions [Littleton Waller] Tazewell's move to Norfolk.,","Topics include: request for advice on a business proposition concerning property offered by Mr. Page as security for the payment of Tazewell's stock (July 4 and 9, 1819); Tazewell's current ill health (November 26, 1819); criticism of President John Quincy Adams and a description of a duel between Henry Clay and John Randolph of Roanoke (April 8, 1826); and damages suffered during a hurricane (October 14, 1838).","Letters concerns legal work performed by Wickham for Richardson.","Expresses concern over several outbreaks of cholera among citizens and enslaved laborers on the plantation.","Writes from White Sulphur Springs about the convalescence of Susan [Decatur Wickham (1819 -1831)].","John Wickham addresses business matters in his absence on a trip to Philadelphia, sending four letters from stops in Washington, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia.","He discusses the prospects for the wheat crop, the demand for flour in [American] towns and South America, and reports on his conversations with Mr. Haxall about pricing if the crop is delivered early (May through August 1830) and the last letter mentions their pleasant stay at the Sulphur Springs and Sweet Springs and the journey home, the drought in Kentucky and Ohio, and \"this new explosion in France\" (September 24, 1830).","Wickham writes to his son William F. Wickham with concerns about his wheat crop, a notification of an outbreak of disease at Howard School for boys from Jonathan Loring Woart, and the preoccupation of the Virginia General Assembly over internal improvements (January 29 and May 30, 1834); the design of a mill powered by water (February 21, 1834); discussions about the Bank of Virginia and the elections (April 17 and 21, 1834); discussions about possible schools for their boys and rumors of a duel in Washington (September 28, 1834); discusses the President's message (December 7, 1834); an enslaved laborer, sick with cholera, who was believed to be dead several times, appears to be recovering partly due to work of Dr. McCaw (December 18, 1834); and politics in Washington (December 24, 1834).","Wickham writes to his son William F. Wickham with concerns about his wheat crop (July 6, 1837) and to his sons at the University of Virginia, George and Littleton W.T. Wickham with advice about their studies, especially geology and the study of soils, and their visit to the Natural Bridge (May 15, 1837).","The letters written during a trip to New England by William F. Wickham and Anne Wickham mention seeing the effects of a great drought all over the northeast, speculations about the wheat crop, poor corn crop of the current year, Littleton at the University of Virginia and George reporting for duty in Washington in the U.S. Navy (September 13, 17, and 25, 1838); news about the wheat market and John Wickham's health (November 20 and December 12, 1838); and news about the opening of the [James River and Kanawha Canal] and its advantages for Richmond, Virginia (December 20, 1838).","Wirt asks for Wickham's advice concerning the rights of the widow in the estate of John Ellis (December 21, 1815); in another letter, October 10, 1830, autograph signature excised, Wirt asks for his advice and support in the case of the Cherokee Nation versus the state of Georgia, argued by Wirt before the Supreme Court; and in a third undated letter, Wirt discusses a property case involving Colonel Byrd and Mr. Harrison of Berkeley and lots in Manchester and Richmond, Virginia.","Includes two letters mentioning visits by Yankees to Hickory Hill and the taking of her father as a prisoner (May 27, 1862; August 4, 1862); also includes a letter from Robert E. Lee to his cousin, Miss Annie Wickham [later Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly], Lee promises to stop by \"Hickory Hill\" to visit if at all possible on his way back to Lexington, autograph signature excised from the letter (May 23, 1870).","Letters through March 1883 are written from Port Oratava to Henry T. Wickham but in April 1883 the Renshaw's began their journey home, settling in New Market and then Boyce, Virginia, by the turn of the century; In 1906, Annie writes from the University of Virginia about Robert H. Renshaw's poor health which continues until his death in 1910.","These letters are chiefly undated, but she appears to continue her correspondence with her uncle after the death of her Aunt Anne in1868, chiefly written from New York.","Leigh mentions the death of Lizzie Wickham (February 27, 1862); General Johnston and his prospects in the Tennessee area (March 25, 1863); and the death of Mrs. Carter, probably Mary B. Randolph Carter (August 6, 1864).","One letter, September 16, 1836, described a duel between her brother James and John Chapman, which ended in reconciliation between the two men.","Contains one letter, August 17, 1863, concerning the Civil War, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, shortly before his death following his wounding and capture.","Topics include the preparation to leave for France with her husband, William Cabell Rives, appointed minister to France (June 26, 1829); and their return to Paris, France (August 2, 1851).","One letter, written from the Warm Springs Hospital, discusses Taylor's health problems and the recent Battle of Cheat Mountain (October 2, 1861).","Two letters are written from China, one from Chefoo [present day Yantai] and the second from Tsingtao, while her husband, Captain Williams C. Wickham (1887-1985) was serving in the U.S. Asiatic Fleet.","One letter from Williams Carter Wickham expresses his pleasure at her engagement to his son, Henry Taylor Wickham (August 26, 1885).","These letters are chiefly to her husband, Henry, while staying at the Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, (1911) and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (1913) for her health but two letters are to her son, Captain Williams Carter Wickham during his journey to join the Asiastic fleet (1924).","Early letters are chiefly from his grandparents, William F. and Anne Wickham, and the letters in 1864 are between Henry and his parents, Williams C. and Lucy Wickham","One letter mentions the death of his grandmother, Anne B. Carter Wickham (February 26, 1868); four letters were written as a University of Virginia student (October 17, 24, and 31, 1869; and May 8, 1870); and one letter from Henry to his son, Captain Williams C. Wickham, congratulating him on his engagement to Credilla Miller (October 2, 1911).","John Wickham writes concerning land in Franklin County, Missouri, belonging to the estate of John Wickham (July 11, 1850).","During the Civil War, Leigh Wickham received an appointment in the Confederate Quartermaster department at Memphis, Tennessee (September 13 and 19, and December 8, 1861); reports that the people of Mississippi were frightened of General Grant's army (December 23, 1862); and mentions the hanging of Colonel Lawrence Orton Williams as a Confederate spy by the Federals (June 14, 1863).","Correspondence includes one letter from Williams Carter Wickham while at the University of Virginia concerning the results of Professor Rogers' analysis of Edmund's specimens of marl (January 16, 1838).","Contains two letters from W.F. Wickham, Jr. as a student at the University of Virginia (December 19, 1848 and January 12, 1849).","Includes letters written as a student at the Episcopal High School of Virginia, Fairfax, Virginia (1874-1878) and the University of Virginia (1878-1883).","While his father is away in New York and Boston, Williams Carter Wickham sends reports on the activities and condition of the plantation, including illness and death among the enslaved laborers (September 7, 1845; September 15, 1848). Williams Carter Wickham writes with further reports to his father hoping to catch him still at Bowling Green (August 30, 1849); and Williams describes a trip with his wife Lucy to New York and on to Quebec (August 27, 1855).","This folder contains references to the participation of Williams Carter Wickham in the First Battle of Bull Run (July 24, 1861, and August 1861); rumors of possible attacks on Arlington and Alexandria and Norfolk (September 2, 1861); discussion about the ramifications of the seizure of James Murray Mason and John Slidell on board the RMS Trent by Union Captain Charles Wilkes (December 8, 1861); and W. Leigh Wickham's commission as assistant quartermaster with rank of captain (December 20, 1861). During the recent visit of William F. Wickham with General Robert E. Lee, Lee reported on the sufferings of the army in the west [1861].","Williams Carter Wickham shares his weariness of the war and announces himself as a candidate for Congress (May 15, 1863); William F. Wickham voices his concern over scarcity of food in Richmond and near Charlottesville to Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham (January 19, 1864); and William F. Wickham fears that Lee cannot maintain communications to the south and wishes he had nothing more to do with land or enslaved laborers if only his son were home in peace (June 28, [1864]).","This folder contains references to the participation of Williams Carter Wickham in the First Battle of Bull Run (July 22-23, 27, and 31, 1861).","Wickham is in Cavalry Camp, 5th Brigade and attached to Colonel Cocke's Brigade and has a complete blacksmith shop and blacksmith fixed up with his company but requires clothes for his [enslaved?] personal attendant, Robin (September 1, 1861); Many letters discuss conditions of camp life for an officer in the Confederate forces and the efforts of family at home to supply the needs and wants of their own family members in the forces but also those of other soldiers, such as clothing. The letters also show a desire to establish a local hospital for the troops like the ones run by the ladies in Fredericksburg, Virginia (September 4, 1861); Wickham writes from his camp at Fairfax Courthouse about opportunities for drilling the troops, his resignation of his seat in the Convention and in the Virginia Senate, his increasing concerns over the conduct of the war in the last two months, and the injurious effect of the capture of Fort Hatteras in North Carolina to the South (September 6, 1861); news that his son, Henry T. Taylor, is intensely reading the novels of Sir Walter Scott to the detriment of his studies (September 26, 1861); clothing made by the ladies of the community shipped off to the troops (October 12, 1861); Wickham currently at Union Mills (October 22, 1861); the difficulties of Lizzie Fry in getting a permit to leave to go home (October 24, 1861); and Wickham's meeting with General [Jeb] Stuart with whom he is very pleased (October 27, 1861).","Wickham writes a very detailed letter about the detrimental effects of fighting the Civil War on their own home soil, his dinner with General Cocke, whose ardor for the war has cooled considerably, the wasting of their best resources in an unnatural strife, and the devastation wrought by both occupying armies (November 3, 1861); and mention of Colonel Robertson and General Stuart (November 7, 13, and 29, 1861). \nWriting from Camp Frontier after an absence of three days, he describes a plan for a force of  nine companies of cavalry and three regiments of infantry, all under General Stuart, to cut off an enemy encampment near Alexandria, but this was prevented by the arrival of more Federal forces in the area near Pohick Church and describes his activities as a member of the scouting party (November 13, 1861); furnishes a description of his strategy when in new territory (November 21, 1861); shares his belief that the Yankees will advance along the Evansport line, chiefly by water, but with a land force on the telegraph road, otherwise believes that they will go into winter quarters (November 24, 1861); and repeats a report from Mr. Porcher [of South Carolina?] that some of the coloured people had been shot by the Confederates and that some of the people offered to work on the entrenchments for the Yankees for pay (November 28, 1861). \nWickham is still waiting for word on any advancement against the enemy and a describes the Federal forces arrayed against Virginia (December 4, 1861); Wickham shares his wish to command a full regiment of cavalry if he cannot have his first  preference to be at home with Lucy, his shock at hearing about the death of Mr. [Cooke?] and his efforts to secure a furlough for Church to go home for the funeral (December 14, 1861).","Wickham writes about the following topics, a story about Lt. Colonel Thomas L. Kane, commander of the Bucktail Rifles of Northern Pennsylvania and a relative (January 2, 1862); General Johnston likes Wickham's bill for the better organization of the army (January 8, 1862); Wickham's [enslaved?], attendant, Robin, has built a wonderful shelter for the horses in their winter camp (January 8, 1862); Wickham's return to Camp Ewell after his furlough (January 29, 1862); his disapproval of the bill in the Senate concerning the Virginia forces (February 4, 1862); and his concerns over the reorganization of his regiment (February 15, 1862).","Topics include the alarm of the people in the area north of the Rappahannock where people are abandoning their homes and \"Negroes\" or enslaved laborers are going northward by the hundreds (March 14, 1862); bivouacking comfortably near Brandy Station (April 4, 1862); and reports that their new location is twelve miles below Williamsburg and five miles from Yorktown at \"Blows Mill\" and that they are short on provisions (April 18, 22 and 24, 1862).","Topics include writing from Sudley Mills describes recent events that have greatly reduced his regiment and prevented his communicating with his family, noting that with 200 men Wickham charged the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry 800 strong, routing them and capturing a large number, mentioning that General Ewell has lost a leg [during the battle of Groveton] (August 30, 1862); currently near Frederick, Maryland (September 7, 1862); yesterday at Sharpsburg, Maryland, \"fought probably the most desperate battle of the war\" [Battle of Antietam], Wickham lost twenty  men killed, wounded or missing, W.H.F. Lee's horse fell with him, Lt. Colonel Thornton of the 3rd had his arm torn by a shell and died of shock, Hill Carter received two severe wounds at Boonsborough and was left in the hands of the enemy, very difficult to find anything to eat, as local people will not sell them anything, and Thomas L. Kane was just made a Brigadier General in the Union army (September 18 and 21, 1862).\nReports on his safe return from an expedition to Pennsylvania with 1800 men (October 14 and 19, 1862); details of the cavalry raid to collect horses from Mercersburg, Chambersburg, and Emmitsburg (October 19, 1862); troops destroying the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (October 21, 1862);  his participation recently in a serious battle with losses of 1500 killed or wounded [Battle of Fredericksburg], with the town of Fredericksburg totally devastated and mentions activities of Major General Ambrose Burnside (December 15 and 18, 1862).","Topics include the rejection of his resignation by the Secretary of War (January 15, 1863); staying with General Robert E. Lee at Culpeper Courthouse (March 1, 1863); discussion of the [Battle of Chancellorsville] (May 8, 1863 copy); spent the day with Lee who was in good spirits but without any hope of quick termination of the war and who would not allow his resignation, and General Jackson said to be dangerously ill with pleurisy (May 10, 1863); mentions the death of General Jackson and his fears for the safety of General Lee who he describes in appreciative terms (May 11, 1863); and describes his visit to General Lee's headquarters and assesses the results of recent battles (May 31, 1863).","Topics include Wickham's approval of the generals James Longstreet, A.P. Hill, and Richard S. Ewell (June 3, 1863); Lucy relates their losses during visits of the Yankees to \"Hickory Hill\" and \"North Wales\" plantations and the capture of Fitzhugh Lee out of his sick bed (July 25, 1863); Wickham writes from the headquarters of Wickham's Brigade, following his commission as Brigadier General (September 12, 1863); news of Julius Theodore Porcher being mortally wounded from members of the 10th South Carolina Regiment (December 1863); Lucy Wickham's visit with General Wickham near Charlottesville, Virginia (January 17, 21, 31, 1864); General Lee has issued the first order that has not received Wickham's admiration (February 8, 1864); and draft of a letter from Wickham to Captain J.E. Cook, describing his actions beginning on October 28, 1862 until November 3, 1862 (February 26, 1864).","Topics include accompanying General Robert E. Lee to the anniversary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Poney's Brigade to hear a talk on the character of General [Stonewall?] Jackson (March 29, 1864); description of the pillaging of \"Hickory Hill\" by the Yankees and their threatening Uncle Hill Carter (June 5, 1864, June 1864, August 1, 1864); mention of General Sheridan (July 25, 1864); description of the devastation in the area around Culpeper and mention of [Jubal] Early (August 12, 1864); and Wickham, while stationed in Winchester, Virginia, describing the broad valley just prior to the Battle of Winchester (September 5, 8, and 10, 1864).","Wickham attended the U.S. Naval Academy from 1904 until 1909 and most of the letters from this period were to his parents. There are also a few dating from his service aboard the U.S.S. Minnesota (1911) and the U.S.S. Smith (1913) addressed to them. Letters dated 1924 from Captain Wickham to his wife, Credilla Miller Wickham, were written while serving in the U.S. Asiastic Fleet aboard the U.S.S. Pillsbury when the navy summered at Chefoo [present day Yantai], China.","Correspondents include: J.S.B. Alleyne (resolutions concerning the death of Dr. William F. Wickham in 1851); John B. Baldwin; L.M. Baldwin; Nannie P. Ballard; A.P. Bankhead; B. Johnson Barbour, John L. Barbour; Greta du Pont Barksdale (1891-1965); Phoebe [Barksdale?]; Marianna Elizabeth Barksdale (1796-1856) and her husband, William Jones Barksdale (1794-1859); Ann B. Berkeley; Letitia Glenn Biddle (1864-1950); John Minor Botts (1802-1869); Mary G. Braxton; Mary Carter Brickner; G. Thompson Brown; Alfred H. Byrd; E.H. Byrd and L.C. Byrd.\nTopics include a very detailed letter from John Minor Botts to General Williams Carter Wickham about the Civil War, particularly the requested transfer of Colonel Charles H. Wager from the infantry service to the cavalry, rumors about General Lee evacuating Virginia, complaints about the press stimulating the prejudices of the people, and rumors of a proposal to arm enslaved laborers to help fight against the Northern forces (January 8, 1865).","Correspondents include: Ellen J. Cackie; J.R. Campbell (damaged postal card only); B.B. Claike; George Colton; A. Coolidge; O.A. Crenshaw; M.W.T. Cumberland; John B. Custis; Laura G. Custis; Raleigh T. Daniel; J.S. Davis; Enid Deem; Martha Lee Doughty \"To the Women of the Confederacy\" (undated); Fanny Duncan; Georgina L. Featherstonhaugh; and Mary J. Foster.\nTopics include: a discussion of several books read by Laura G. Custis of Boston (May 25, no year) and a description of the past few months the Custis family were forced to stay in Versailles, France, due to illness and the onset of the Franco-Prussian War (March 30, [1871]).","Correspondents include: Ellen Carter, Lizzie Carter, L.W. Carter, Mary Carter, and W[illiams?] Carter, Jr.\nTopics include: the concern of W[illiams] Carter, Jr. that his father make a will immediately so that the Confederacy will not get any of [his brother?] Charles' portion of the estate.  He writes emphatically \"I don't wish the South to get a cent – no country in the history of the world has so worked out its own destruction as the Southern portion of the U.S. America, and all Christendom will in history say, Amen – next to Sodom and Gomorrah\" (February 3, 1862); W[illiams?] Carter, Jr. also asks that the enslaved laborers on both the North Wales and South Wales plantations be sent to Charlotte or some safe place so they will not be sold like cattle, mentioning all of the Tom and Sarah Fox family, Ben Napper and family, the Tom Brown and Harry Brown families, and other enslaved laborers by first name only (March 1, 1862).","Correspondents include: A.W. Carter; Agnes M. Carter; Annie Carter; Betty Carter; E.H. Carter; Emily Carter; Fanny N. Carter; L.H. Carter, Louise Carter, Pauline Carter, Susan Roy Carter, Thomas B. Carter, Thomas H. Carter (1831-1908), and Williams Carter.\nTopics include: the death of Julia Wickham (Thomas H. Carter, July 19, 1873); an expression of hope that the nation will mend following the Civil War, saying \"my hatred for Davis is only equaled by that for Charles Sumner,\" and mention of balloon flights and France's position of strength in Europe (Thomas B. Carter, Paris, May 22, 1866).","Topics of note include two references to the Civil War, including the \"suffering northern soldiers\" and the sentiment \"the same God made us all\" (August 10, 1861); and a second letter about the Civil War concerning shelling of the area near Shirley along the river by northern gunboats and comments about [General John] Pope (August 28, 1862).","Topics include a condolence letter (July 12, 1873) concerning the death of Julia Leiper Wickham (1859-1873).","Correspondents include: Peter J. Chevallie to his wife, Elizabeth Gilliam Chevallie; Sarah Magee \"Sally\" Chevallie Warwick (1816-1846) to her mother, Elizabeth Green Gilliam Chevallie (1796-1865); Joseph Gallego to his nephew, Peter J. Chevallie;  Henry Chevallie to his sister, Mary G. Chevallie; and Abraham Warwick (1794-1874) to his daughter-in-law, Elise F. Warwick.","Correspondents include: Robert Gamble; S.P. Gregory; Gene and [George?] Griffin; A.G. Grinnan; Evelyn Hale; Hetty Cary Harrison; Ella Havisham; Jane R. Haxall; Rosalie Haxall; Eva Mary Anna Mason Heth (1836-1915); Mary Heywood (with a photograph of her on her 78th birthday);  E.[L.] Holmes; R.R. Howison; J. Johns, Jr.; S. Harvey Johnson; William T. Joyner; W.M. Justis; Bessie D. Kane; J.D.L. Kane; Sallie G. Kean; and Ethel Kilburn.\nTopics include the Civil War (Robert Gamble, June 19, 1863); reminiscences about the Civil War and General Stuart, and a discussion about genealogy (A.G. Grinnan, 1892-1893); family reading (R.R. Howison, January 30, 1878); discussion of Reuben Lindsay Walker (1827-1890), commander of the Third Corps artillery, and his opposition to the peace commission, known as the [Hampton Roads Conference] during the Civil War and political issues that will arise at the conclusion of the war (William T. Joyner, February 3, 1865); and the poor state of the Confederate army, due in part to desertions (William T. Joyner, February 25, 1865).","Correspondents include: Frances Wickham Graham; [Hartley] Graham; James Duncan Graham; Salva Graham; and William F. Wickham.\nTopics include chiefly family news but also some references to the work of James Duncan Graham as a member of the United States Engineer Corps (April 13, 1862; April 9, 1865; May 9, 1865); the condition of the South at the conclusion of the Civil War (June 2, 1865); and papers concerning the pension of James Duncan Graham (1867-1871).","Correspondents include: E.W. Hubard and J.L. Hubard.","Correspondents include: Robert B. Lancaster; Elizabeth W. Lay; R. Bruce Lockhart; A.C. Leigh; William Leigh; Ellen McCaw; Rose M. MacDonald; F. Mark; Captain G. [Marvel]; Dido Mason; E.K.N. Massie; Alice W. Meade; Susan W. Miller; Edgar Miller; F.B. Minor; Mary W. Minor;  and M.M. Morris. \nTopics include work on the book about old homes of Hanover (Robert B. Lancaster, January 8, 1984); the fire at Hickory Hill (Elizabeth W. Lay, February 17, 1875); and notification of an ankle injury of Captain W. Leigh Wickham in Chattanooga, Tennessee while serving as paymaster for the Confederate army (Edgar Miller, May 2, 1863).","Correspondents include: Agnes Lee, Annie C. Lee, Ann H. Lee, C.C. Lee; Mary Custis Lee; Richard Henry Lee (1794-1865) concerning the state literary fund and his proposed memoir of Richard A. Lee; Robert E. Lee, Jr. concerning the death of William F. Wickham (July 16, 1873); and William H.F. \"Rooney\"  Lee (1837-1891).","Correspondents include: Elizabeth B. Nicholas, concerning the fall of New Orleans to Federal forces (April 30, 1862); Helen N. Patterson; Lt. Colonel William H. Payne; Virginia Porcher; Lucy Carter Renshaw (1838-1965) concerning damages suffered by the \"Shirley\" plantation during the Civil War battles (July 4, 1862); Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (1863-1945); and M.C. Rives.","Correspondents include: Carrie P. Nelson; F. Nelson; F.P. Nelson; Jane E. Nelson; Jenny Nelson concerning the capture of Confederate George Washington \"Wash\" Nelson near Smithfield (November 6, 1863) and the raids of the Yankee soldiers in the neighborhood against the local residents (undated Civil War letter); Judith? Nelson; M.W. Nelson concerning the death of Lucy Carter Wickham (January 17, 1835); Mary C. Nelson; Robert Nelson on board the ship Oriental with his friend John Lewis [Points?] (August 29, 1851); Rose Nelson; Virginia L. Nelson; and W. Nelson.","Correspondents include: Anne Rose Page; Elizabeth Burwell Page; John Page; Judith Nelson Page; Leila Page; and Thomas Nelson Page concerning his book about Italy and his visit to England (January 9, 1920).","Correspondents include: George William Shelton; Amelie Louise Sigourney; M.M. Smith; Walter N. Sprinkel; A.M. Stearns; Alexander H.H. Stuart writes of his fear of the future, suggests that Williams Carter Wickham and himself travel to Washington on business to meet with some of the Yankee magnates and discuss ways to end the Civil War and expresses his sorrow over the sundering of the Union (January 23, 1865); Alta E. Stumpf concerning the awakening of Russia and its development (June 29, 1931); J.V. Swearingen; Louisa Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873) describing the death of her father, former Virginia governor, Littleton Waller Tazewell (1774-1860) in her letter (May 16, 1860); Fannie W. Toler; and C. Vanderbilt, Jr.","Correspondents include: Belle Taylor; Bertie Taylor; Edmund P. Taylor; Elizabeth Taylor; Henry Taylor; Henry Taylor, Jr., John Taylor; Julianna Dunlap Leiper Taylor (1801-1883); R.I. Taylor; and Susan W. Taylor.\nOne letter from Henry Taylor, Jr., July 31, 1877, includes a very detailed discussion about Professor Colonel Peters at the University of Virginia.","Correspondents include: Davy Wallace; S. Gardner Waller; Louisa Webb; C.E. Wellford; Mary T. Williams; Captain W.L. Wingfield; Alice B. Winston; Philip B. Winston; and Beulah H.J. Woolston.","Correspondents include: A.C.L. Wickham; Elizabeth S. Wickham; Fanny Wickham concerning the death of Ella Wickham (March 27, 1851); George Wickham; Julia L. Wickham; J.L. Wickham; L.A.C. Wickham; [L.V.] Wickham; M.F. Wickham; and Sarah Wickham.","Topics include a description of the meeting of the trustees of the Peabody Fund for Education in the South, particularly Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple of Minnesota and his life among the indigenous native Americans, who he referred to as \"Indians\" (August 12, 1876).","Topics include climate change (January 31, 1872); details of the career of his friend Custis, who died in 1872 and was a water commissioner in Boston (February 8, 1872); the influence of John C. Calhoun in ruining the whole South and his own state by men following his \"evil counsel\" (January 1, 1875); discussions of reading and current politics (January 8, 1875); description of Wickham's losses during the fire in February (March 13, 1875); mentions of Lord Byron, Charles Lamb, William Cullen Bryant and other literary figures (March 22, 1875); description of the Bunker Hill centennial (June 7, 1875); detailed discussion of the career of Patrick Henry (January 1, 1878); religious reading (March 13, 1878); and Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (December 11, 1878).","The letters are chiefly social or agricultural but one, May 30, 1867, touches upon politics and international events and mentions Rives reading the biography of James Madison.","Topics include the perils of travel by stage to Norfolk, Virginia, in winter (March 3, 1817); condolence letter upon the death of his friend, John Wickham, and reflections upon Wickham's importance in his own life as a mentor and friend and his singular character (January 26, 1839); the mention of Tazewell in the will of John Wickham (March 17 and April 1, 1839); ten inch snowfall in March and the economic difficulties of the country (March 21, 1843); discussion on the political issue on \"our title to Oregon\" (February 26, 1846); and Tazewell thanking William F. Wickham for his translations of Italian comedies, but does not think they merit the efforts of someone of Wickham's ability in the Italian language (July 15, 1849).","Correspondents include: William B. Bowers; E.E. Cooke; E.S. Holmes; E. Laurens; Robert E. Lee; L.M. Mason; N.W. Massie; Catharine H. Myers; [J.] R. Ritchie; E.R. Simons; Sue R. Simons; and Sallie P. Winston.\nThe letter from Robert E. Lee to his cousin, Anne B. Carter Wickham, November 11, 1862, hand-written copy, expresses his regret that her son, Williams Carter Wickham, has again been wounded but explains that he cannot spare Wickham from returning to duty in the army.","Among the numerous correspondents are George Washington Custis Lee; Mildred Lee; W.H.F. Lee; General William Mahone; Francis H. Smith; and George D. Wise.","Correspondents include: John Minor discussing the two engravings, of General Marion and \"the Artist's Dream,\" sent by the Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in the United States and the current relations of the United States and England, especially as affected by the affair of the \"Creole\" (March 18 and October 12, 1842); Henry Clay declines an invitation to visit (February 22, 1848); John S. Mosby, concerning the service of the late Dr. James McClurg as a surgeon in the Revolutionary War (July 16 and August 6, 1849); Francis Robert Rives (1822-1891); Andrew Stevenson (1784-1857) concerning politics and enslavement (February 15, 1850) and a visit (July 20, 1854); John R. Thompson, editor of the  \"Messenger,\" refusing an essay by Wickham defending the Mormons (December 4, 1850);  Edward Vernon Childe (1804-1861) writes concerning the peace negotiations during the Crimean War (December 18, 1855); and two drafts of a letter from Wickham to Robert E. Lee concerning the arrival of the Yankee cavalry at \"Hickory Hill,\" who carried off General W.H. F. Lee as a prisoner in Wickham's carriage as well as horses and enslaved laborers, and includes the report that Charlotte Lee's health is not good and that she is much distressed at her husband's capture (June 28, 1863).","Topics include financial inquiry about Virginia's non-payment of the interest on state stock (January 17, 1872); the fire at Hickory Hill, Hanover County, Virginia (February 15, 1875); the voyage of William D. Shipman to England and his assessment of Thomas Jefferson's life and career (July 4, 1876); Wickham's analysis of State Trials of the United States by Francis Wharton, including his own memories of the James T. Callendar trial (June 19, 1876); and William D. Shipman's mention of seeing the effigy of ancestor William of Wykeham in Winchester, England and information about him (November 6, 1876).","Topics include advice for Henry T. Wickham on entering the legal profession and the study of law (July 24, 1868); Robinson's work with a case in the Supreme Court concerning Allen T. Caperton (1810-1876) and his acts in West Virginia as Provost Marshal (April 15, 1872).","Topics include the declaration of [William B.] Preston for the immediate secession of Virginia from the Union and Wickham's fear that \"the dogs of war will be let loose\" (April 16, 1861); two letters from Colonel [Beverly Holcombe] Robertson about missing and absent soldiers and his efforts to round them up (May 13 and 14, 1862); request for Wickham's support and vote for Robert H. Wynne as doorkeeper of the Confederate House of Representatives (December 24, 1863); John B. Baldwin informs Williams Carter Wickham that his nomination has not been acted upon (February 5, 1864) and two letters from John Taylor about family and home events during the Civil War (February 2 and 8, 1864).","Topics include a letter from Robert E. Lee about Henry T. Wickham's attendance at Washington College in Lexington and Lee's plan to write a history about military campaigns in Virginia during the Civil War (October 3, 1865) and a draft of Wickham's reply to Lee in the hand of Lucy Wickham [October 13, 1865];  a draft of Wickham's letter to General W.H.F. Lee about contemporary politics (April 16, 1868); the formation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (September 17, 1868); Horace Greeley's comments on the progress of the railroads in Virginia (November 15, 1868); request and recommendation from Alexander H.H. Stuart on behalf of two job seekers in the railroad business (May 5, 1873); efforts of C.T. Smith to get Wickham elected (August 19, 1883); two congratulatory letters on the recent election of Wickham to the Virginia Senate from B. Johnson Barbour and John T. Harris (November 19, 1883); and a request for a donation towards a University of Virginia chapel from Schele de Vere (November 21, 1883).","The diary begins with an entry about the secession of South Carolina from the Union and continues with entries about the evacuation of Fort Moultrie and the removal of troops to Fort Sumter in South Carolina; each state that secedes from the Union is noted and mention made of the firing upon the steamer Star of the West at Charleston, South Carolina; Intermixed with news of the impending war are notes about building a henhouse, nests, the receipt of toys, and weather; his father [Williams Carter Wickham] as a candidate for the Virginia Secession Convention from Henrico (January 29, 1861); and ends with an entry for February 12, 1861.","The diary mentions the following topics: the loan of a sharps rifle from George W. Randolph, supposedly owned before by John Brown and presented to the 1st [Virginia?] Regiment at Harper's Ferry; a four mile drive on the Petersburg Road to \"Strawberry Hill\" owned by Robert Edmond;  Judge and Mrs. Robertson leaving for \"Mount Athos\" their place in the country near Lynchburg, Virginia; double guard on \"the mills\" [Gallego Mills?]; the arrival of 1,000 men from Tennessee who went to the old fairgrounds; a drill by the \"Richland Rifles\" at the South Carolina camp; occupation of Alexandria by President Lincoln's troops; news of a battle at Bethel Church between Yorktown and Hampton; the departure of 2,000 troops for Manassas on June 13th; a visit to Camp Lee; examination of the fortifications below the city with locations noted; note that business is very slow since the commencement of the war; the meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Macfarland and General Lee at Mr. Lyon's [home?]; birth of a daughter [Elise Warwick Barksdale Wickham (1861-1952)] on August 28, 1861; note that he spent the last month with the 16th Virginia Regiment as Quartermaster at \"Camp Withers\" six miles from Norfolk; his orders to transfer to Colonel L. Smith's office as paymaster, September 13, 1861; and the death of cousin Fanny Townes, September 20, 1861.","Subjects include: lists of books purchased from Peter Cotton (October 20, 1816-January 27, 1817 and September 22, 1817); purchases of quills, paper, ink, chessmen, etc. (October 15, 1817); hires of enslaved laborers (January 25 and 27, 1817 and February 21, 1817); and a bill of sale for enslaved laborers (September 17, 1817).","Subjects include: medical care for enslaved laborers from Dr. W.P. Jones (January 12, February 24 and 26, March 24, and June 24, 1818); a hire of an enslaved laborer (April 2, 1819); and a bill of sale for two male enslaved men (January 19, 1820).","Subjects include: the return of a little boy, Joe Lewis, and little girl, Lucy, the property of William F. Wickham (September 28, 1821); payment to overseer William Lizer on \"South Wales\" plantation (January 26, 1821); and purchase of paper, ink, and books (July 7, 1821).","Subjects include: the hire of an enslaved girl, Jenny (January 11, 1823).","Subjects include: hiring of Nathaniel B. Priddy as overseer (1834-1835; 1837-1838, 1840); and a list of books and magazines, quills, pencils, and paper purchased (1836-1838).","Subjects include: hiring of Samuel Bumpass as overseer (1842); the sale of an enslaved boy, Washington (January 6, 1843); hiring of Nathaniel B. Priddy as overseer (1843); sale of the enslaved woman, Nancy Wylde, and her two youngest children (May 23, 1843); and the sale of an enslaved man, Ned Davis (June 27, 1843).","Subjects include: lists of books and writing supplies purchased (July 20, 1846; March 22 and April 16, 1847).","Subjects include: lists of books and writing supplies purchased (February 1848; July 14, 1848; and October 4, 1849).","Subjects include: lists of books purchased (January and November 1850); memoranda book containing the names of enslaved laborers (May 12, 1850); and the hire of enslaved men, Giles, Frank, and John from J.H. Wickham (1851).","Subjects include: list of taxable property for William F. Wickham in 1853, includes 96 enslaved laborers over 16 years old and 116 enslaved laborers over twelve years old.","Subjects include: partners listed for Warwick and Barksdale at the \"Gallego Mills\" following the death of William J. Barksdale (February 15 and July 2, 1860).","Subjects include: theft of stock certificates, bank book, and checks from Williams Carter at the \"North Wales\" plantation during a Yankee raid (May 31, 1864); copy of the last will and testament of Williams Carter with a codicil dated July 30, 1864, freeing his two enslaved women, Margaret and Sally, with any offspring that they have as soon as peace shall be established in the country (July 17, 1864); an enslaved mulatto girl named Sally was lent to Anne Butler Berkeley by Williams Carter (August 10, 1864); indenture concerning the former plantations and property of Williams Carter, Sr. including \"North Wales\" and \"Broad Neck\" (May 16, 1867); and payroll lists (April 1, 1868).","Subjects include: receipts for work in the coal banks, Clifton, West Virginia (1873).","Subjects include: a valuation of personal property at \"North Wales\" plantation; valuation of real estate of Mr. [Abraham] Warwick made by commissioners, including factories, blacksmith shop, houses, lots, and a Brookfield farm; and a list of the names of enslaved laborers, with their evaluations.","These three oversize items include an indenture between Betty Littlepage and Charles Carter of Corotoman (May 5, 1768); a deed of trust from Carter B. Page and Rebecca Page to Thomas Taylor and Benjamin Harrison (June 17, 1817); and an indenture concerning Catherine Page, \"Broad Neck\" and Williams Carter (March 11, 1822).","The oversize deeds and indentures include those signed by Carter B. and Rebecca Page and Thomas Taylor (June 7, 1817); an indenture between John Wickham, Edward Carrington, Daniel Call, and Littleton Waller Tazewell (March 17, 1800); an indenture between Harry and Anna Terrell and Charles Carter (October 7, 1769); an indenture between James Littlepage and Joel Terrell (April 23, 1751); an indenture between John Littlepage and John Carter (March 2, 1735); and a bill of sale for two male enslaved men, Billy and Cyrus (January 15, 1820).","These include a list with the heading \"A List of My Slaves, such as I wish to keep, such as I may wish to sell and may wish to send to the West\" with names, ages, special skills or jobs, and their evaluations on the \"Rocky Mills\" and \"South Wales\" plantations belonging to Edmund Fanning Wickham in 1835; an account of the sale of land and enslaved laborers at \"Rocky Mills\" in November 1842 with the name of the purchaser, name of the enslaved laborer and the prices; a list of enslaved laborers treated by Dr. J.P. Harrison (April 24, 1844; July 1845; July 1848); list of William F. Wickham's enslaved laborers by age category (1843); the evaluation of an enslaved man, Tom Christian and his entire family (December 22, 1846); a list of named enslaved laborers with their ages belonging to the estate of Dr. James McClurg, Hanover County, Virginia, with evalutions by W. O. Winston (January 18, 1852); a list of 209 named enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] (January 1854); a list of 269 named enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] (January 1859); a list of enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] who were either carried off the plantation by Yankee forces or left of their own accord during the Civil War (1862-1864); and one list of enslaved men between the ages of 18 and 55 with the notation that two are in Confederate service, 14 remain on the plantation and 33 have left and gone to the enemy (January 31, 1865) and another list of enslaved laborers that went to the enemy by year, 120 in all [1865].","These six oversize items include four land grant certificates to Edmund F. Wickham and Edwin P. Crenshaw; a London Medical Society membership certificate for Dr. James Maclurg (1784); a letter from Lucy Nelson (1835).","The oversize plats include one for \"North Wales\" plantation belonging to Charles Carter, October 4, 1779; a plat of \"South Wales\" and Lane plantations, Hanover County, according to the division of January 1818, but updated on May 21, 1858; a plat showing the part of \"South Wales\" plantation allotted to Anne B. Carter, the purchase of land by W.F. Wickham from Thomas Carter, and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation purchased by W.F. Wickham from the estate of George W. Smith, November 27, 1825; plat of \"Verdon\" Hanover County, Virginia, belonging to the estate of John T. Anderson (December 1, 1865); and an undated plat showing parcels of land west of the Missouri River, apparently belonging to Thomas Gorham and a Wickham family member, 4 items.","These six oversize items include a survey of the Broad Neck or Big Neck tract for Thomas C. Nelson (September 8, 1818); survey of the Lane tract, part of the South Wales Estate (January 1818); plat of the Lane tract, South Wales and Hickory Hill (January 1818); fields laid off and numbered from a survey of W.F. Wickham's river fields (February 16, 1837); surveys no. 137 and no. 146 in Saline County, Missouri for Edmund F. Wickham (1841); diagram of land plots to the west of the Missouri River and the 5th principal meridian, presumably in Missouri [1841-1842?].","This material includes a recollection of George Wythe by William F. Wickham (1874); and the first recollection of General Robert E. Lee by Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly, written in a letter to her brother Henry (undated); biographical sketches of Captain William C. Wickham, U.S. Navy (April 19, 1962 and September 1985), John Wickham (undated), and General Williams Carter Wickham (undated); and history of \"Hickory Hill\" (undated).","Families discussed include Fanning, Leiper, Martian, Peyton, Pye, Tabb and Barksdale, Taylor, Warwick, and Wingfield.","This includes a report of [3rd (Wickham's) Virginia Cavalry Brigade] near Front Royal, Virginia (August 23, 1864).","This folder includes such items as the weather at Hickory Hill (1857); a prayer of Bishop Meade (1861); printed advertisement for a catalog of attorneys (1875); damaged circular from a Rochester nursery (1882); a horse pedigree (undated); and \"Notes on Planting Box at Williamsburg\" by Arthur A. Shurcliff (undated).","These include Wickham's notes concerning the \"Home Reminiscences of John Randolph, of Roanoke\" by Powhatan Bouldin, the benefits of lime and marl, and W.W. Mac Farland's address.","These include [Julia L. Wickham], \"Peliso\" Orange, Virginia, gardens in Rome, [Hickory Hill], Captain Williams C. Wickham, U.S. Navy, and an unidentified boy taken by Tyson and Perry, Charlottesville, Virginia.","This collection is open for research use.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Wickham family","Wickham, John, 1763-1839","Wickham, William Fanning , 1793-1880","Wickham, Lucy Taylor, 1830-1913","Wickham, Williams Carter, 1820-1888","Wickham, Henry Taylor","English"],"unitid_tesim":["MSS 15753","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/294"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Wickham family papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Wickham family papers"],"collection_ssim":["Wickham family papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"geogname_ssm":["Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Virginia)","Virginia -- History -- 19th Century"],"geogname_ssim":["Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Virginia)","Virginia -- History -- 19th Century"],"creator_ssm":["Wickham family","Wickham, John, 1763-1839","Wickham, William Fanning , 1793-1880","Wickham, Lucy Taylor, 1830-1913","Wickham, Williams Carter, 1820-1888","Wickham, Henry Taylor"],"creator_ssim":["Wickham family","Wickham, John, 1763-1839","Wickham, William Fanning , 1793-1880","Wickham, Lucy Taylor, 1830-1913","Wickham, Williams Carter, 1820-1888","Wickham, Henry Taylor"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Wickham, John, 1763-1839","Wickham, William Fanning , 1793-1880","Wickham, Lucy Taylor, 1830-1913","Wickham, Williams Carter, 1820-1888","Wickham, Henry Taylor"],"creator_famname_ssim":["Wickham family"],"creators_ssim":["Wickham, John, 1763-1839","Wickham, William Fanning , 1793-1880","Wickham, Lucy Taylor, 1830-1913","Wickham, Williams Carter, 1820-1888","Wickham, Henry Taylor","Wickham family"],"places_ssim":["Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Virginia)","Virginia -- History -- 19th Century"],"access_terms_ssm":["This collection is open for research use."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchased, 3 July 2014. The first addition to this collection, MSS 15753-a,was purchased from Beltrone and Company on 6 July 2016."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Plantation life -- Virginia","Slavery--United States -- Virginia","Slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Plantation life -- Virginia","Slavery--United States -- Virginia","Slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["9.5 Cubic Feet 19 legal doc boxes, 6 oversize folders."],"extent_tesim":["9.5 Cubic Feet 19 legal doc boxes, 6 oversize folders."],"date_range_isim":[1704,1705,1706,1707,1708,1709,1710,1711,1712,1713,1714,1715,1716,1717,1718,1719,1720,1721,1722,1723,1724,1725,1726,1727,1728,1729,1730,1731,1732,1733,1734,1735,1736,1737,1738,1739,1740,1741,1742,1743,1744,1745,1746,1747,1748,1749,1750,1751,1752,1753,1754,1755,1756,1757,1758,1759,1760,1761,1762,1763,1764,1765,1766,1767,1768,1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is arranged in four series, Series 1: Business correspondence arranged chronologically (Boxes 1-5). Several business correspondents warranted individual folders based on either the amount of material or the importance of the correspondent. Series 2: Correspondence of John Wickham, arranged alphabetically by the last name of the chief correspondent (Box 5); Series 3: Correspondence of the Wickham and related families, arranged by the last name of the main correspondent (Boxes 6-15); Series 4: Financial and Legal Papers and Miscellany (Boxes 16-19), all arranged in chronological order.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is arranged in four series, Series 1: Business correspondence arranged chronologically (Boxes 1-5). Several business correspondents warranted individual folders based on either the amount of material or the importance of the correspondent. Series 2: Correspondence of John Wickham, arranged alphabetically by the last name of the chief correspondent (Box 5); Series 3: Correspondence of the Wickham and related families, arranged by the last name of the main correspondent (Boxes 6-15); Series 4: Financial and Legal Papers and Miscellany (Boxes 16-19), all arranged in chronological order."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection chiefly concerns the Wickham family of Richmond, Virginia and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). When other relatives and friends appear in the folder listing, their birth and death dates and relationships are noted if known. The family owned enslaved persons and lists them by age. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAttorney John Wickham married twice and had two lines of descent. His first wife was Mary Smith Fanning (1775-1799) by whom he had two sons, William Fanning Wickham of \"Hickory Hills,\" married to Anne Butler Carter (1797-1868), and Edmund Fanning Wickham of \"Rocky Mount\" (1796-1843), married to Anne's sister, Lucy Carter (1799-1835). \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAfter the death of his first wife, John Wickham married Elizabeth Seldon McClurg and had several more children. Some of these children are also represented in these papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnne Carter Wickham (1851-1939), the daughter of Williams Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham, married Robert H. Renshaw (1833-1910) in 1881 and they had four children. In 1920, Anne Renshaw married Dr. W.E. Byerly and lived in Massachusetts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Carter Wickham Byrd was the daughter of Edmund Fanning Wickham (1796-1834) and Lucy Carter (1799-1835) and the wife of George Harrison Byrd (1827-1910).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApparently the spelling of his name varies slightly from his mother's family name, Maclurg versus McClurg, but the use here reflects the spelling on his grave stone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Howard School opened in 1831 and continued until 1834 with two teachers, the Reverend Jonathan Loring Woart (1807-1838) and his brother, the Reverend John Woart. The Episcopal High School opened in 1839 on the former Howard School location. There are also letters from the Reverend Jonathan Loring Woart (1807-1838) to William F. Wickham, including progress reports on the two boys, among this correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["This collection chiefly concerns the Wickham family of Richmond, Virginia and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). When other relatives and friends appear in the folder listing, their birth and death dates and relationships are noted if known. The family owned enslaved persons and lists them by age. ","Attorney John Wickham married twice and had two lines of descent. His first wife was Mary Smith Fanning (1775-1799) by whom he had two sons, William Fanning Wickham of \"Hickory Hills,\" married to Anne Butler Carter (1797-1868), and Edmund Fanning Wickham of \"Rocky Mount\" (1796-1843), married to Anne's sister, Lucy Carter (1799-1835). ","After the death of his first wife, John Wickham married Elizabeth Seldon McClurg and had several more children. Some of these children are also represented in these papers.","Anne Carter Wickham (1851-1939), the daughter of Williams Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham, married Robert H. Renshaw (1833-1910) in 1881 and they had four children. In 1920, Anne Renshaw married Dr. W.E. Byerly and lived in Massachusetts.","Lucy Carter Wickham Byrd was the daughter of Edmund Fanning Wickham (1796-1834) and Lucy Carter (1799-1835) and the wife of George Harrison Byrd (1827-1910).","Apparently the spelling of his name varies slightly from his mother's family name, Maclurg versus McClurg, but the use here reflects the spelling on his grave stone.","The Howard School opened in 1831 and continued until 1834 with two teachers, the Reverend Jonathan Loring Woart (1807-1838) and his brother, the Reverend John Woart. The Episcopal High School opened in 1839 on the former Howard School location. There are also letters from the Reverend Jonathan Loring Woart (1807-1838) to William F. Wickham, including progress reports on the two boys, among this correspondence."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdded fa to VH 7 Dec. 2017.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General"],"odd_tesim":["Added fa to VH 7 Dec. 2017."],"originalsloc_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe original letter has been transferred to the Henry Clay Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginals of these letters transferred to the John Randolph of Roanoke papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe originals of all three Wirt letters have been transferred to the Autographs collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe original of the Robert E. Lee letter has been transferred to the Robert E. Lee papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe  original of the Lee letter  has been transferred to the Robert E. Lee papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe original of letters to Robert E. Lee have been transferred to the Robert E. 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Lee papers.","The  original of the Lee letter  has been transferred to the Robert E. Lee papers.","The original of letters to Robert E. Lee have been transferred to the Robert E. Lee papers, the originals of the letters from Henry Clay transferred to the Henry Clay papers and those from John Singleton Mosby were transferred to the John Singleton Mosby papers.","The originals of Lee letters were transferred to Robert E. Lee papers."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMSS 15753 Wickham family papers, Albert and Shirley Special Collection Library, University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["MSS 15753 Wickham family papers, Albert and Shirley Special Collection Library, University of Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with immediate and extended relatives; personal correspondence from friends and political associates; two brief diaries discussing the secession and the beginning of the Civil War; financial and legal papers, including lists of books purchased, hires of enslaved laborers, the purchase of enslaved laborers, medical care for enslaved laborers, losses from invading soldiers during the Civil War, estate values, including those of enslaved laborers, indentures, deeds, receipts, plats and surveys, and lists of enslaved laborers by name and age; genealogies and genealogical charts; invitations and calling cards; military papers of General Williams Carter Wickham in the Civil War and Captain Williams Carter Wickham, U.S. Navy; news clippings; some notes and manuscripts of William F. Wickham; a few photographs and snapshots; poetry; hand-written recipes; school papers; and sympathy and greeting cards. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere is also a hand drawn map of Hickory Hill plantation, the Wickham family estate which may have been drawn by a descendant of an enslaved laborer. It shows a diagram of \"Mammy's House\" and surrounding buildings that were revisited in the 1980's. The pages following the illustration name African Americans who were still living and working at Hickory Hill estate in the early 1900's. Mentioned are the families of John Robinson, Albert Cash,  Henry Toliver, Edith Jackson, Matt Foley, Maria Tucker, Ruben Lewis,Landonia Lewis, ALec Hewlett, Louisa and Albert Jackson, Henry Abrams, Betty Jackson, John Abram and Roselyn, Milton Hewlett, and Virginia Shelton.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTopics include the Civil War, the relationships between family members in both the North and the South, and attitudes toward secession; many aspects of enslavement, often naming the enslaved laborers involved; Virginia and national politics; the practice of agriculture in Virginia; the education of the children of Virginia planters, including attendance at the Howard School, Episcopal High School, Washington College and the University of Virginia; military service of General Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), Captain William Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and other Wickham relatives.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include:, John Slidell and Co., Thomas C. Keaton, William Lyne, W.P. Mason, W.T. Nivison, William B. Page, Philip Rogers, Thomas Rotch, Penn T. Sale, John M. Shepherd, Peter F. Smith, Thomas Strode, William Sullivan, Thomas Swann, Richard Wallack, Ralph Wingfield, Alice B. Winston, and Zach Vowels\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with Edmund F. Wickham, include: Williams Carter (1819), Archibald Gracie and Robert Gracie (1821), and multiple correspondents in 1822: Curwen and Hagarty, Samuel John Dunlop, King and Gracie, Samuel Lambert, and Robert Hughes and Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: James Dunlop, Ninian Edwards, John Ferguson, C.B. Fleet, William Fleet, Robert Gracie, Francis Gregg, James Hagarty, George E. Harrison, James Henderson, L. Jones, T. Jones, and Robert King.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters involving enslavement or enslaved laborers include one from L. Jones, asking for protection for \"old Billy\" and mentioning other issues concerning the welfare of enslaved laborers, January 2, 1823, and another letter from Ninian Edwards discussing the possible purchase of a female enslaved laborer for the wife of Dr. Harvey Lane, January 13, 1823.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Henry Arnall, Curwen and Hagarty, [J.] Dunlop, Ninian Edwards, C.B. Fleet, John G. Gamble, Robert G. Harper, George E. Harrison, Jones and Rodes, Hardage Lane, C.C. Lee, Lewis and Tomes, George Marx, John Morgan, and Charles Morris.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters involving enslavement include the inquiry by Robert G. Harper, May 5, 182[3], for information about the \"present condition, conduct, and prospects\" of some manumitted enslaved laborers formerly belonging to Samuel Gist who were freed in his will. He also asks for  the name and address of some respectable and intelligent person in the area where the freed formerly enslaved laborers now live who can send a report to Gist's relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly Edmund F. Wickham and William F. Wickham, include: Curwen and Hagarty, James Dunlop, John Dunlop, William Logan Fisher, William Fleet, George Greenhow, George E. Harrison, B.B. Keesee, Robert King, Thomas Kelly, Hardage Lane, Lewis and Tomes, Charles F. Logan, William Lyne, and  Robert and John Oliver. One letter mentions a runaway enslaved man, named Joe, December 18, 1823.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: David Barclay, John H. Blair, Carter Braxton, William Burns, William L. Dance, S.W. Dandridge, Aaron Denman, Robert Douthat, Ninian Edwards, William Fleet, Gillingham and Randolphs (G.F. and E. Randolph), James Hagerty, George E. Harrison, John Hopkins, and Thomas and John G. Riddle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Richard Anderson, John Balfour, Thomas and John S. Biddle, Carter Braxton, William Burns, Hugh Campbell, Robert Douthat, and Gillingham and Randolphs (G.F. and E. Randolph).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Carter Berkeley, Carter Braxton, Roger Mallory, Thomas Nelson, and William F. Wickham to Thomas B. Coleman. Roger Mallory, the jailor in Petersburg, Virginia, writes concerning a runaway enslaved man named Jim who finally admitted he belonged to William F. Wickham. Jim had originally claimed to belong to Price Sharpe who was charged with permitting him to \"go at large contrary to law,\" and hire himself out, March 19, 1827.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: G.H. Bacchus, Thomas T. Bouldin, Thomas B. Coleman, M. Huelin,  Benjamin Whitehead Ladd, W.H. McFarland, William Nelson, John W. Payne, William G. Pendleton, M.E.M. Roane, and A.B. Spooner. Topics include the reception of freed former enslaved laborers in Ohio (Benjamin W. Ladd, March 4, 1830); and the [Samuel?] Gist estate (John M. Payne, April 22, 1830).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Patrick Nesbett Edgar, John Exall, Chapman Johnson, Thomas N. Lee, John Ponsonby Martin, William Nelson, Severn E. Parker, A. Robinson, Jr., William Rowlett, J.S. Skinner, Benjamin Temple, Robert Temple, Thomas Biddle and Company, and John R. Triplett. Topics include: blue wheat (Benjamin and Robert Temple, July 4, 1830 and August 4, 1830); American turf and racing magazine (August 3, 1830; September 1, 1830; October 19, 1830); and a collection of pedigrees for an American Stud Book (October 13, 1830).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: J.D. Andrews, John Corbin, Alfred V. Crenshaw, Crouches and Snead, Gracie and Company, James Gray, Richard B. Haxall, William Hilberg, James Lyle, and Francis Page. Topics include problems with a horse purchased from Wickham (November 15, 1838), the safe arrival of the Andrews family in Houston, Texas (January 28, 1839), and the sending of an enslaved man named Jefferson to fetch two mules from Wickham (April 22, 1839).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Beers and Poindexter, Robert M. Candlish, John S. Corbin, Robert Ellett, William Linton, A.T.B. Merritt, Nathaniel Nelson, J.W. Pegram, W. Richardson, Thomas Samson, John Shore, John N. Tazewell, James G. Watson, and William L. White. Topics include mention of the horse \"Priam\" at Merritt's Hicks Ford stud in Virginia and the failure of Wickham's Eclipse mare to foal last spring (May 11, 1842); the dire condition of the [enslaved man?] old Bob Clark and his family on the land of Nathanael Nelson and attempts to provide for their care (June 15 and July 11, 1842); and a discussion of improvements to Wickham's bevel wheel (July 11, 1842) by Thomas Samson of D.J. Burr and Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: John S. Corbin, Nathanael Cross, William Dorbaker, Thomas Ellis and Charles Ellis, Robert G. Gilman, J.H. Martin, [S.H.] Parker, James L. Pendleton, James A. Seddon, Jane J. Swann, George Taylor, John N. Tazewell, William L. White, and John Wight. Topics include lumber needed for a penitentiary and a possible list of enslaved laborers written in pencil on an address portion of the letter (October 10, 1842).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Warwick Barksdale, John Barr, Samuel Cottrell, Richard Gwathmey, John Struthers and Son, Lucius Minor, William Nelson, Lucien B. Price, Richard Randolph, Edmund Ruffin, William D. Taylor, John N. Tazewell, Philip B. Winston, and Richard M. Young (General Land Office). Topics include the sale of two enslaved women (January 29, 1845).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Warwick Barksdale, Wellington Goddin, Phineas Janney, C.C. Lee, Thomas Nelson, Bernard Peyton, [Lucien] B. Price, John T. Rogers, Edmund Ruffin, Robert Taylor, J.R. Underwood, William F. Watson, Joseph Wingfield, and Philip B. Winston. Topics include a description of damage to the property of Joseph Wingfield by the breakage of the mill dam of Wickham (March 12, 1848).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: John Gibson, G.W. Goode, Richard Gwathmey, Benjamin F. Larned (1794-1862), William Leigh, Thomas Nelson, John E. Page, James A. Seddon, Alexander H.H. Stuart, William F. Watson, Hugh A. Watt, W.C. Wickham (to James M. Ford), Edmund Winston, and William Overton Winston. Topics include the shipment of some prairie birds and directions for their care (December 23, 1849); lists of enslaved laborers for hire, including \"old Fanny,\" Nancy and her three children, and Betsy (January 1, 1850); request for information about the amount due on account of the division of the \"Negroes\" or enslaved laborers (March 5, 1850); William F. Wickham as the guardian of the minor heirs of Robert C. Wickham (April 20, 1850); the offer of the use of a Southdown buck for sheep breeding (July 12, 1850); the increase of visitors to the mountains of Virginia, especially at White Sulphur Springs, the Warm Springs, and the Hot Springs (August 5, 1850); the purchase of stained glass (November 19 and 23, 1850); the return of an enslaved woman who was a wet nurse, \"Mamma Betsy\" hired the year before for his little boy (July 28, 1849; November 5, 1850); and an opinion about Jenny Lind (December 20, 1850).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Alexander Hew, John F. Lay, [Laudonier] J. Randolph; Robert L. Randolph, Allen P. Richardson, William Sayre, William F. Wickham, and Thomas Wight. \nTopics include the redemption of land in Saline County, Missouri (September 13, 1853) and the settlement with McClurg Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham, and John Wickham concerning a loan from John Henry Wickham to them on August 11, 1851 (May 28, 1858).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: J.A. Allen, David Anderson, Jr., A.W. Ball, Ann B. Berkeley, the Reverend P.F. Berkeley, George H. Byrd (Wyman, Byrd and Co. Commission Merchants), [Magrat] Davis, R.B. Davis, Robert Johnston, J.H. Montague, H.C. Parsons, James H. Storrs, John R. Taylor, James Usher, and William F. Wickham (drafts to Ann B. Berkeley, the Reverend P.F. Berkeley, and B.W. Green). \nTopics include: the question in the legislature concerning the payment of legacies given in Confederate money between 1862-1865 (March 10, 1866); difficulties in settling court cases in West Virginia following the Civil War (November 16, 1866); a request from a woman for legal help in keeping her inheritance in her name and under her control rather than her husband's as her current lawyer advised (April 25, 1867); and reports on the \"North Wales\" farm (May 20, 27, and 31, 1870).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: James L. Apperson, W.W. Baldwin, Lewis D. Crenshaw, Jr., Isaac Davis, L.R. Dickinson, Maynard Dyson,  James S. Earle and Sons, George William Gibson, Charles Herndon, J.M. Hill, I.M. Parr and Son (Commission Merchants), J. Sabin and Sons (Booksellers, Printsellers and Importers), Walter C. Jones, A.C. Loomis, J.H. Montague, Henry Parry, G. Peyton, Joseph T. Priddy, R.H. Maury and Co. (Stock and Exchange Brokers), J.W. Ratcliffe, C.T. Smith, E.D. Starke, A.T. Stewart, W.T. Tinsley, H. Wernich, William F. Wickham (draft to L. Upshur Evans), and Wright and Co., Rio de Janeiro. \nTopics include: the sale of property in Richmond, Virginia, of a former brewery belonging to the estate of David G. Yuengling, Jr. along the James River called the \"James River Steam Brewery\" (August 16, 1879).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: George B. Butler, Alexander Kaslovistsh, and John Watkins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlvis discusses the farm operations of the East Tuckahoe Plantation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe company sends sketches and discusses the replacement of the mantle damaged in the house fire at Hickory Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the oak tobacco boxes supplied by Edmund F. Wickham from \"Rocky Mills\" plantation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence is chiefly with William F. Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham. Topics include concern about the \"military bill\" in the South as a way for Congress to get at the landed property there (March 4, 1867); Wickham's fondness for memoirs and other mentions of reading (December 17, 1868; May 30, 1873; June 15 and 20, 1875; February 11, 1876; May 4, 1877; July 2, 1880); and the offer of building supplies currently at \"Broad Neck\" in order to rebuild the house at \"Hickory Hill\" after a fire (February 16, 1875).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence is chiefly with William F. Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham. Topics include the financial affairs of their cousin Georgina L. Featherstonhaugh (September 24 and October 28, 1879).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include Carter's impressions of Bristol College, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (October 18, 1834); complaints about the western states and their impact upon agricultural prices and politics, mentioning James Buchanan by name (July 17, 1846); suggestion that the enslaved laborers belonging to their nephews, Robert and John Wickham, be sold to pay the debt of their education (June 18, 1847); mention of a violent snowstorm that occurred just after he had returned home on a gunboat following a period of being nursed by his sister at \"Hickory Hill\" (November 8, 1862); and the death of Julia Wickham (July 16, 1873).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include C.P. Huntington (President), Henry Taylor Wickham, and Williams C. Wickham and J.S.F. Smith (Paint Creek Depot) concerning the opening of the coal mines on the land purchased from the Hansford heirs and the employment of miners in Kanawha County, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include C.P. Huntington (President), Henry Taylor Wickham, and Williams C. Wickham and J.S.F. Smith (Paint Creek Depot) concerning the opening of the coal mines on the land purchased from the Hansford heirs and the employment of miners in Kanawha County, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters concern lands held by Reuben Jenkins and John Henry Wickham in Saline County, Missouri.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters discuss matters concerning the Louisa Railroad, which was chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in 1836, and renamed the Virginia Central Railroad in 1850, with Fontaine as its longtime president.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence is concerned with securing payment on the accounts of John Wickham and Littleton W. T. Wickham, brothers of William F. Wickham by an immediate sale of livestock and agricultural goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions the illness of President Monroe and his own wife, Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay, the daughter of Monroe (August 4, 1823) and expresses disparaging remarks concerning a Yankee business associate (October 19, 1823).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include a request to help in the administration of the estate of Dr. McClurg (March 2, 1839); fears about the possible death of his son, Thomas, in [Mississippi?] (June 22, 1839); instructions about the purchase of summer clothing for the enslaved laborers by Alvis (April 21, 1840); mention that there are 70 enslaved laborerss associated with the \"Rocky Mills\" plantation of Edmund Wickham and 40 additional enslaved laborers associated with his father's [John Wickham] estate (July 28, 1842). Much of the correspondence in general deals with the settling of the estate of John Wickham (1763-1839).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses arrangements for the support of Mr. Harrison's children and his disappointment with Dr. Selden.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of introduction from Henry Clay for Mr. Bainbridge of Kentucky to John Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKerr requests copies of any ordinances or laws concerning lands either given or planned to be given by the state of Virginia to the officers and soldiers who served in either the Continental Army or the Virginia state militia for use in the United States Court in Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the best way to secure the claim of Dr. McClurg for surgeon pay during his service in the Continental Army, keeping in mind that the United States will soon find a use for surplus money and mentions Henry Clay as doing a great deal of good [in Congress?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends that they make sure that Dr. [James] McClurg's will is recorded in Kentucky.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotifies Wickham that he has located among his scorched papers enough information to send him a transcript of all he knows or remembers about the bonds of Mr. Balfour and invites him to visit Studley, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions the health concerns of family members and friends in Baltimore, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the worsening physical condition of Walter [Maclurg Wickham?]  in Baltimore, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotifies Wickham about the death of Walter [Maclurg Wickham?] in Baltimore, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests Wickham provide the wording to a decree that would enable a sale of his property in Richmond, Virginia, to proceed since his power of attorney, Mr. Botts, was unable to perform his duties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter, March 24, 1820, incomplete, last page only, John Randolph of Roanoke writes concerning Stephen Decatur's death. In a second letter, April 1, 1820,   part of the letter and autograph signature excised, John Randolph of Roanoke thanks Wickham for his indulgence and civility in the matter of his father's estate and mentions [Littleton Waller] Tazewell's move to Norfolk.,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include: request for advice on a business proposition concerning property offered by Mr. Page as security for the payment of Tazewell's stock (July 4 and 9, 1819); Tazewell's current ill health (November 26, 1819); criticism of President John Quincy Adams and a description of a duel between Henry Clay and John Randolph of Roanoke (April 8, 1826); and damages suffered during a hurricane (October 14, 1838).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters concerns legal work performed by Wickham for Richardson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses concern over several outbreaks of cholera among citizens and enslaved laborers on the plantation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites from White Sulphur Springs about the convalescence of Susan [Decatur Wickham (1819 -1831)].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham addresses business matters in his absence on a trip to Philadelphia, sending four letters from stops in Washington, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe discusses the prospects for the wheat crop, the demand for flour in [American] towns and South America, and reports on his conversations with Mr. Haxall about pricing if the crop is delivered early (May through August 1830) and the last letter mentions their pleasant stay at the Sulphur Springs and Sweet Springs and the journey home, the drought in Kentucky and Ohio, and \"this new explosion in France\" (September 24, 1830).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham writes to his son William F. Wickham with concerns about his wheat crop, a notification of an outbreak of disease at Howard School for boys from Jonathan Loring Woart, and the preoccupation of the Virginia General Assembly over internal improvements (January 29 and May 30, 1834); the design of a mill powered by water (February 21, 1834); discussions about the Bank of Virginia and the elections (April 17 and 21, 1834); discussions about possible schools for their boys and rumors of a duel in Washington (September 28, 1834); discusses the President's message (December 7, 1834); an enslaved laborer, sick with cholera, who was believed to be dead several times, appears to be recovering partly due to work of Dr. McCaw (December 18, 1834); and politics in Washington (December 24, 1834).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham writes to his son William F. Wickham with concerns about his wheat crop (July 6, 1837) and to his sons at the University of Virginia, George and Littleton W.T. Wickham with advice about their studies, especially geology and the study of soils, and their visit to the Natural Bridge (May 15, 1837).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters written during a trip to New England by William F. Wickham and Anne Wickham mention seeing the effects of a great drought all over the northeast, speculations about the wheat crop, poor corn crop of the current year, Littleton at the University of Virginia and George reporting for duty in Washington in the U.S. Navy (September 13, 17, and 25, 1838); news about the wheat market and John Wickham's health (November 20 and December 12, 1838); and news about the opening of the [James River and Kanawha Canal] and its advantages for Richmond, Virginia (December 20, 1838).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWirt asks for Wickham's advice concerning the rights of the widow in the estate of John Ellis (December 21, 1815); in another letter, October 10, 1830, autograph signature excised, Wirt asks for his advice and support in the case of the Cherokee Nation versus the state of Georgia, argued by Wirt before the Supreme Court; and in a third undated letter, Wirt discusses a property case involving Colonel Byrd and Mr. Harrison of Berkeley and lots in Manchester and Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes two letters mentioning visits by Yankees to Hickory Hill and the taking of her father as a prisoner (May 27, 1862; August 4, 1862); also includes a letter from Robert E. Lee to his cousin, Miss Annie Wickham [later Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly], Lee promises to stop by \"Hickory Hill\" to visit if at all possible on his way back to Lexington, autograph signature excised from the letter (May 23, 1870).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters through March 1883 are written from Port Oratava to Henry T. Wickham but in April 1883 the Renshaw's began their journey home, settling in New Market and then Boyce, Virginia, by the turn of the century; In 1906, Annie writes from the University of Virginia about Robert H. Renshaw's poor health which continues until his death in 1910.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters are chiefly undated, but she appears to continue her correspondence with her uncle after the death of her Aunt Anne in1868, chiefly written from New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeigh mentions the death of Lizzie Wickham (February 27, 1862); General Johnston and his prospects in the Tennessee area (March 25, 1863); and the death of Mrs. Carter, probably Mary B. Randolph Carter (August 6, 1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter, September 16, 1836, described a duel between her brother James and John Chapman, which ended in reconciliation between the two men.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains one letter, August 17, 1863, concerning the Civil War, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, shortly before his death following his wounding and capture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include the preparation to leave for France with her husband, William Cabell Rives, appointed minister to France (June 26, 1829); and their return to Paris, France (August 2, 1851).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter, written from the Warm Springs Hospital, discusses Taylor's health problems and the recent Battle of Cheat Mountain (October 2, 1861).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters are written from China, one from Chefoo [present day Yantai] and the second from Tsingtao, while her husband, Captain Williams C. Wickham (1887-1985) was serving in the U.S. Asiatic Fleet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter from Williams Carter Wickham expresses his pleasure at her engagement to his son, Henry Taylor Wickham (August 26, 1885).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters are chiefly to her husband, Henry, while staying at the Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, (1911) and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (1913) for her health but two letters are to her son, Captain Williams Carter Wickham during his journey to join the Asiastic fleet (1924).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEarly letters are chiefly from his grandparents, William F. and Anne Wickham, and the letters in 1864 are between Henry and his parents, Williams C. and Lucy Wickham\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter mentions the death of his grandmother, Anne B. Carter Wickham (February 26, 1868); four letters were written as a University of Virginia student (October 17, 24, and 31, 1869; and May 8, 1870); and one letter from Henry to his son, Captain Williams C. Wickham, congratulating him on his engagement to Credilla Miller (October 2, 1911).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham writes concerning land in Franklin County, Missouri, belonging to the estate of John Wickham (July 11, 1850).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring the Civil War, Leigh Wickham received an appointment in the Confederate Quartermaster department at Memphis, Tennessee (September 13 and 19, and December 8, 1861); reports that the people of Mississippi were frightened of General Grant's army (December 23, 1862); and mentions the hanging of Colonel Lawrence Orton Williams as a Confederate spy by the Federals (June 14, 1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence includes one letter from Williams Carter Wickham while at the University of Virginia concerning the results of Professor Rogers' analysis of Edmund's specimens of marl (January 16, 1838).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains two letters from W.F. Wickham, Jr. as a student at the University of Virginia (December 19, 1848 and January 12, 1849).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written as a student at the Episcopal High School of Virginia, Fairfax, Virginia (1874-1878) and the University of Virginia (1878-1883).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile his father is away in New York and Boston, Williams Carter Wickham sends reports on the activities and condition of the plantation, including illness and death among the enslaved laborers (September 7, 1845; September 15, 1848). Williams Carter Wickham writes with further reports to his father hoping to catch him still at Bowling Green (August 30, 1849); and Williams describes a trip with his wife Lucy to New York and on to Quebec (August 27, 1855).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains references to the participation of Williams Carter Wickham in the First Battle of Bull Run (July 24, 1861, and August 1861); rumors of possible attacks on Arlington and Alexandria and Norfolk (September 2, 1861); discussion about the ramifications of the seizure of James Murray Mason and John Slidell on board the RMS Trent by Union Captain Charles Wilkes (December 8, 1861); and W. Leigh Wickham's commission as assistant quartermaster with rank of captain (December 20, 1861). During the recent visit of William F. Wickham with General Robert E. Lee, Lee reported on the sufferings of the army in the west [1861].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham shares his weariness of the war and announces himself as a candidate for Congress (May 15, 1863); William F. Wickham voices his concern over scarcity of food in Richmond and near Charlottesville to Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham (January 19, 1864); and William F. Wickham fears that Lee cannot maintain communications to the south and wishes he had nothing more to do with land or enslaved laborers if only his son were home in peace (June 28, [1864]).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains references to the participation of Williams Carter Wickham in the First Battle of Bull Run (July 22-23, 27, and 31, 1861).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham is in Cavalry Camp, 5th Brigade and attached to Colonel Cocke's Brigade and has a complete blacksmith shop and blacksmith fixed up with his company but requires clothes for his [enslaved?] personal attendant, Robin (September 1, 1861); Many letters discuss conditions of camp life for an officer in the Confederate forces and the efforts of family at home to supply the needs and wants of their own family members in the forces but also those of other soldiers, such as clothing. The letters also show a desire to establish a local hospital for the troops like the ones run by the ladies in Fredericksburg, Virginia (September 4, 1861); Wickham writes from his camp at Fairfax Courthouse about opportunities for drilling the troops, his resignation of his seat in the Convention and in the Virginia Senate, his increasing concerns over the conduct of the war in the last two months, and the injurious effect of the capture of Fort Hatteras in North Carolina to the South (September 6, 1861); news that his son, Henry T. Taylor, is intensely reading the novels of Sir Walter Scott to the detriment of his studies (September 26, 1861); clothing made by the ladies of the community shipped off to the troops (October 12, 1861); Wickham currently at Union Mills (October 22, 1861); the difficulties of Lizzie Fry in getting a permit to leave to go home (October 24, 1861); and Wickham's meeting with General [Jeb] Stuart with whom he is very pleased (October 27, 1861).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham writes a very detailed letter about the detrimental effects of fighting the Civil War on their own home soil, his dinner with General Cocke, whose ardor for the war has cooled considerably, the wasting of their best resources in an unnatural strife, and the devastation wrought by both occupying armies (November 3, 1861); and mention of Colonel Robertson and General Stuart (November 7, 13, and 29, 1861). \nWriting from Camp Frontier after an absence of three days, he describes a plan for a force of  nine companies of cavalry and three regiments of infantry, all under General Stuart, to cut off an enemy encampment near Alexandria, but this was prevented by the arrival of more Federal forces in the area near Pohick Church and describes his activities as a member of the scouting party (November 13, 1861); furnishes a description of his strategy when in new territory (November 21, 1861); shares his belief that the Yankees will advance along the Evansport line, chiefly by water, but with a land force on the telegraph road, otherwise believes that they will go into winter quarters (November 24, 1861); and repeats a report from Mr. Porcher [of South Carolina?] that some of the coloured people had been shot by the Confederates and that some of the people offered to work on the entrenchments for the Yankees for pay (November 28, 1861). \nWickham is still waiting for word on any advancement against the enemy and a describes the Federal forces arrayed against Virginia (December 4, 1861); Wickham shares his wish to command a full regiment of cavalry if he cannot have his first  preference to be at home with Lucy, his shock at hearing about the death of Mr. [Cooke?] and his efforts to secure a furlough for Church to go home for the funeral (December 14, 1861).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham writes about the following topics, a story about Lt. Colonel Thomas L. Kane, commander of the Bucktail Rifles of Northern Pennsylvania and a relative (January 2, 1862); General Johnston likes Wickham's bill for the better organization of the army (January 8, 1862); Wickham's [enslaved?], attendant, Robin, has built a wonderful shelter for the horses in their winter camp (January 8, 1862); Wickham's return to Camp Ewell after his furlough (January 29, 1862); his disapproval of the bill in the Senate concerning the Virginia forces (February 4, 1862); and his concerns over the reorganization of his regiment (February 15, 1862).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include the alarm of the people in the area north of the Rappahannock where people are abandoning their homes and \"Negroes\" or enslaved laborers are going northward by the hundreds (March 14, 1862); bivouacking comfortably near Brandy Station (April 4, 1862); and reports that their new location is twelve miles below Williamsburg and five miles from Yorktown at \"Blows Mill\" and that they are short on provisions (April 18, 22 and 24, 1862).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include writing from Sudley Mills describes recent events that have greatly reduced his regiment and prevented his communicating with his family, noting that with 200 men Wickham charged the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry 800 strong, routing them and capturing a large number, mentioning that General Ewell has lost a leg [during the battle of Groveton] (August 30, 1862); currently near Frederick, Maryland (September 7, 1862); yesterday at Sharpsburg, Maryland, \"fought probably the most desperate battle of the war\" [Battle of Antietam], Wickham lost twenty  men killed, wounded or missing, W.H.F. Lee's horse fell with him, Lt. Colonel Thornton of the 3rd had his arm torn by a shell and died of shock, Hill Carter received two severe wounds at Boonsborough and was left in the hands of the enemy, very difficult to find anything to eat, as local people will not sell them anything, and Thomas L. Kane was just made a Brigadier General in the Union army (September 18 and 21, 1862).\nReports on his safe return from an expedition to Pennsylvania with 1800 men (October 14 and 19, 1862); details of the cavalry raid to collect horses from Mercersburg, Chambersburg, and Emmitsburg (October 19, 1862); troops destroying the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (October 21, 1862);  his participation recently in a serious battle with losses of 1500 killed or wounded [Battle of Fredericksburg], with the town of Fredericksburg totally devastated and mentions activities of Major General Ambrose Burnside (December 15 and 18, 1862).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include the rejection of his resignation by the Secretary of War (January 15, 1863); staying with General Robert E. Lee at Culpeper Courthouse (March 1, 1863); discussion of the [Battle of Chancellorsville] (May 8, 1863 copy); spent the day with Lee who was in good spirits but without any hope of quick termination of the war and who would not allow his resignation, and General Jackson said to be dangerously ill with pleurisy (May 10, 1863); mentions the death of General Jackson and his fears for the safety of General Lee who he describes in appreciative terms (May 11, 1863); and describes his visit to General Lee's headquarters and assesses the results of recent battles (May 31, 1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include Wickham's approval of the generals James Longstreet, A.P. Hill, and Richard S. Ewell (June 3, 1863); Lucy relates their losses during visits of the Yankees to \"Hickory Hill\" and \"North Wales\" plantations and the capture of Fitzhugh Lee out of his sick bed (July 25, 1863); Wickham writes from the headquarters of Wickham's Brigade, following his commission as Brigadier General (September 12, 1863); news of Julius Theodore Porcher being mortally wounded from members of the 10th South Carolina Regiment (December 1863); Lucy Wickham's visit with General Wickham near Charlottesville, Virginia (January 17, 21, 31, 1864); General Lee has issued the first order that has not received Wickham's admiration (February 8, 1864); and draft of a letter from Wickham to Captain J.E. Cook, describing his actions beginning on October 28, 1862 until November 3, 1862 (February 26, 1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include accompanying General Robert E. Lee to the anniversary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Poney's Brigade to hear a talk on the character of General [Stonewall?] Jackson (March 29, 1864); description of the pillaging of \"Hickory Hill\" by the Yankees and their threatening Uncle Hill Carter (June 5, 1864, June 1864, August 1, 1864); mention of General Sheridan (July 25, 1864); description of the devastation in the area around Culpeper and mention of [Jubal] Early (August 12, 1864); and Wickham, while stationed in Winchester, Virginia, describing the broad valley just prior to the Battle of Winchester (September 5, 8, and 10, 1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham attended the U.S. Naval Academy from 1904 until 1909 and most of the letters from this period were to his parents. There are also a few dating from his service aboard the U.S.S. Minnesota (1911) and the U.S.S. Smith (1913) addressed to them. Letters dated 1924 from Captain Wickham to his wife, Credilla Miller Wickham, were written while serving in the U.S. Asiastic Fleet aboard the U.S.S. Pillsbury when the navy summered at Chefoo [present day Yantai], China.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: J.S.B. Alleyne (resolutions concerning the death of Dr. William F. Wickham in 1851); John B. Baldwin; L.M. Baldwin; Nannie P. Ballard; A.P. Bankhead; B. Johnson Barbour, John L. Barbour; Greta du Pont Barksdale (1891-1965); Phoebe [Barksdale?]; Marianna Elizabeth Barksdale (1796-1856) and her husband, William Jones Barksdale (1794-1859); Ann B. Berkeley; Letitia Glenn Biddle (1864-1950); John Minor Botts (1802-1869); Mary G. Braxton; Mary Carter Brickner; G. Thompson Brown; Alfred H. Byrd; E.H. Byrd and L.C. Byrd.\nTopics include a very detailed letter from John Minor Botts to General Williams Carter Wickham about the Civil War, particularly the requested transfer of Colonel Charles H. Wager from the infantry service to the cavalry, rumors about General Lee evacuating Virginia, complaints about the press stimulating the prejudices of the people, and rumors of a proposal to arm enslaved laborers to help fight against the Northern forces (January 8, 1865).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Ellen J. Cackie; J.R. Campbell (damaged postal card only); B.B. Claike; George Colton; A. Coolidge; O.A. Crenshaw; M.W.T. Cumberland; John B. Custis; Laura G. Custis; Raleigh T. Daniel; J.S. Davis; Enid Deem; Martha Lee Doughty \"To the Women of the Confederacy\" (undated); Fanny Duncan; Georgina L. Featherstonhaugh; and Mary J. Foster.\nTopics include: a discussion of several books read by Laura G. Custis of Boston (May 25, no year) and a description of the past few months the Custis family were forced to stay in Versailles, France, due to illness and the onset of the Franco-Prussian War (March 30, [1871]).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Ellen Carter, Lizzie Carter, L.W. Carter, Mary Carter, and W[illiams?] Carter, Jr.\nTopics include: the concern of W[illiams] Carter, Jr. that his father make a will immediately so that the Confederacy will not get any of [his brother?] Charles' portion of the estate.  He writes emphatically \"I don't wish the South to get a cent – no country in the history of the world has so worked out its own destruction as the Southern portion of the U.S. America, and all Christendom will in history say, Amen – next to Sodom and Gomorrah\" (February 3, 1862); W[illiams?] Carter, Jr. also asks that the enslaved laborers on both the North Wales and South Wales plantations be sent to Charlotte or some safe place so they will not be sold like cattle, mentioning all of the Tom and Sarah Fox family, Ben Napper and family, the Tom Brown and Harry Brown families, and other enslaved laborers by first name only (March 1, 1862).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: A.W. Carter; Agnes M. Carter; Annie Carter; Betty Carter; E.H. Carter; Emily Carter; Fanny N. Carter; L.H. Carter, Louise Carter, Pauline Carter, Susan Roy Carter, Thomas B. Carter, Thomas H. Carter (1831-1908), and Williams Carter.\nTopics include: the death of Julia Wickham (Thomas H. Carter, July 19, 1873); an expression of hope that the nation will mend following the Civil War, saying \"my hatred for Davis is only equaled by that for Charles Sumner,\" and mention of balloon flights and France's position of strength in Europe (Thomas B. Carter, Paris, May 22, 1866).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics of note include two references to the Civil War, including the \"suffering northern soldiers\" and the sentiment \"the same God made us all\" (August 10, 1861); and a second letter about the Civil War concerning shelling of the area near Shirley along the river by northern gunboats and comments about [General John] Pope (August 28, 1862).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include a condolence letter (July 12, 1873) concerning the death of Julia Leiper Wickham (1859-1873).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Peter J. Chevallie to his wife, Elizabeth Gilliam Chevallie; Sarah Magee \"Sally\" Chevallie Warwick (1816-1846) to her mother, Elizabeth Green Gilliam Chevallie (1796-1865); Joseph Gallego to his nephew, Peter J. Chevallie;  Henry Chevallie to his sister, Mary G. Chevallie; and Abraham Warwick (1794-1874) to his daughter-in-law, Elise F. Warwick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Robert Gamble; S.P. Gregory; Gene and [George?] Griffin; A.G. Grinnan; Evelyn Hale; Hetty Cary Harrison; Ella Havisham; Jane R. Haxall; Rosalie Haxall; Eva Mary Anna Mason Heth (1836-1915); Mary Heywood (with a photograph of her on her 78th birthday);  E.[L.] Holmes; R.R. Howison; J. Johns, Jr.; S. Harvey Johnson; William T. Joyner; W.M. Justis; Bessie D. Kane; J.D.L. Kane; Sallie G. Kean; and Ethel Kilburn.\nTopics include the Civil War (Robert Gamble, June 19, 1863); reminiscences about the Civil War and General Stuart, and a discussion about genealogy (A.G. Grinnan, 1892-1893); family reading (R.R. Howison, January 30, 1878); discussion of Reuben Lindsay Walker (1827-1890), commander of the Third Corps artillery, and his opposition to the peace commission, known as the [Hampton Roads Conference] during the Civil War and political issues that will arise at the conclusion of the war (William T. Joyner, February 3, 1865); and the poor state of the Confederate army, due in part to desertions (William T. Joyner, February 25, 1865).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Frances Wickham Graham; [Hartley] Graham; James Duncan Graham; Salva Graham; and William F. Wickham.\nTopics include chiefly family news but also some references to the work of James Duncan Graham as a member of the United States Engineer Corps (April 13, 1862; April 9, 1865; May 9, 1865); the condition of the South at the conclusion of the Civil War (June 2, 1865); and papers concerning the pension of James Duncan Graham (1867-1871).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: E.W. Hubard and J.L. Hubard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Robert B. Lancaster; Elizabeth W. Lay; R. Bruce Lockhart; A.C. Leigh; William Leigh; Ellen McCaw; Rose M. MacDonald; F. Mark; Captain G. [Marvel]; Dido Mason; E.K.N. Massie; Alice W. Meade; Susan W. Miller; Edgar Miller; F.B. Minor; Mary W. Minor;  and M.M. Morris. \nTopics include work on the book about old homes of Hanover (Robert B. Lancaster, January 8, 1984); the fire at Hickory Hill (Elizabeth W. Lay, February 17, 1875); and notification of an ankle injury of Captain W. Leigh Wickham in Chattanooga, Tennessee while serving as paymaster for the Confederate army (Edgar Miller, May 2, 1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Agnes Lee, Annie C. Lee, Ann H. Lee, C.C. Lee; Mary Custis Lee; Richard Henry Lee (1794-1865) concerning the state literary fund and his proposed memoir of Richard A. Lee; Robert E. Lee, Jr. concerning the death of William F. Wickham (July 16, 1873); and William H.F. \"Rooney\"  Lee (1837-1891).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Elizabeth B. Nicholas, concerning the fall of New Orleans to Federal forces (April 30, 1862); Helen N. Patterson; Lt. Colonel William H. Payne; Virginia Porcher; Lucy Carter Renshaw (1838-1965) concerning damages suffered by the \"Shirley\" plantation during the Civil War battles (July 4, 1862); Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (1863-1945); and M.C. Rives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Carrie P. Nelson; F. Nelson; F.P. Nelson; Jane E. Nelson; Jenny Nelson concerning the capture of Confederate George Washington \"Wash\" Nelson near Smithfield (November 6, 1863) and the raids of the Yankee soldiers in the neighborhood against the local residents (undated Civil War letter); Judith? Nelson; M.W. Nelson concerning the death of Lucy Carter Wickham (January 17, 1835); Mary C. Nelson; Robert Nelson on board the ship Oriental with his friend John Lewis [Points?] (August 29, 1851); Rose Nelson; Virginia L. Nelson; and W. Nelson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Anne Rose Page; Elizabeth Burwell Page; John Page; Judith Nelson Page; Leila Page; and Thomas Nelson Page concerning his book about Italy and his visit to England (January 9, 1920).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: George William Shelton; Amelie Louise Sigourney; M.M. Smith; Walter N. Sprinkel; A.M. Stearns; Alexander H.H. Stuart writes of his fear of the future, suggests that Williams Carter Wickham and himself travel to Washington on business to meet with some of the Yankee magnates and discuss ways to end the Civil War and expresses his sorrow over the sundering of the Union (January 23, 1865); Alta E. Stumpf concerning the awakening of Russia and its development (June 29, 1931); J.V. Swearingen; Louisa Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873) describing the death of her father, former Virginia governor, Littleton Waller Tazewell (1774-1860) in her letter (May 16, 1860); Fannie W. Toler; and C. Vanderbilt, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Belle Taylor; Bertie Taylor; Edmund P. Taylor; Elizabeth Taylor; Henry Taylor; Henry Taylor, Jr., John Taylor; Julianna Dunlap Leiper Taylor (1801-1883); R.I. Taylor; and Susan W. Taylor.\nOne letter from Henry Taylor, Jr., July 31, 1877, includes a very detailed discussion about Professor Colonel Peters at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Davy Wallace; S. Gardner Waller; Louisa Webb; C.E. Wellford; Mary T. Williams; Captain W.L. Wingfield; Alice B. Winston; Philip B. Winston; and Beulah H.J. Woolston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: A.C.L. Wickham; Elizabeth S. Wickham; Fanny Wickham concerning the death of Ella Wickham (March 27, 1851); George Wickham; Julia L. Wickham; J.L. Wickham; L.A.C. Wickham; [L.V.] Wickham; M.F. Wickham; and Sarah Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include a description of the meeting of the trustees of the Peabody Fund for Education in the South, particularly Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple of Minnesota and his life among the indigenous native Americans, who he referred to as \"Indians\" (August 12, 1876).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include climate change (January 31, 1872); details of the career of his friend Custis, who died in 1872 and was a water commissioner in Boston (February 8, 1872); the influence of John C. Calhoun in ruining the whole South and his own state by men following his \"evil counsel\" (January 1, 1875); discussions of reading and current politics (January 8, 1875); description of Wickham's losses during the fire in February (March 13, 1875); mentions of Lord Byron, Charles Lamb, William Cullen Bryant and other literary figures (March 22, 1875); description of the Bunker Hill centennial (June 7, 1875); detailed discussion of the career of Patrick Henry (January 1, 1878); religious reading (March 13, 1878); and Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (December 11, 1878).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are chiefly social or agricultural but one, May 30, 1867, touches upon politics and international events and mentions Rives reading the biography of James Madison.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include the perils of travel by stage to Norfolk, Virginia, in winter (March 3, 1817); condolence letter upon the death of his friend, John Wickham, and reflections upon Wickham's importance in his own life as a mentor and friend and his singular character (January 26, 1839); the mention of Tazewell in the will of John Wickham (March 17 and April 1, 1839); ten inch snowfall in March and the economic difficulties of the country (March 21, 1843); discussion on the political issue on \"our title to Oregon\" (February 26, 1846); and Tazewell thanking William F. Wickham for his translations of Italian comedies, but does not think they merit the efforts of someone of Wickham's ability in the Italian language (July 15, 1849).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: William B. Bowers; E.E. Cooke; E.S. Holmes; E. Laurens; Robert E. Lee; L.M. Mason; N.W. Massie; Catharine H. Myers; [J.] R. Ritchie; E.R. Simons; Sue R. Simons; and Sallie P. Winston.\nThe letter from Robert E. Lee to his cousin, Anne B. Carter Wickham, November 11, 1862, hand-written copy, expresses his regret that her son, Williams Carter Wickham, has again been wounded but explains that he cannot spare Wickham from returning to duty in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the numerous correspondents are George Washington Custis Lee; Mildred Lee; W.H.F. Lee; General William Mahone; Francis H. Smith; and George D. Wise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: John Minor discussing the two engravings, of General Marion and \"the Artist's Dream,\" sent by the Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in the United States and the current relations of the United States and England, especially as affected by the affair of the \"Creole\" (March 18 and October 12, 1842); Henry Clay declines an invitation to visit (February 22, 1848); John S. Mosby, concerning the service of the late Dr. James McClurg as a surgeon in the Revolutionary War (July 16 and August 6, 1849); Francis Robert Rives (1822-1891); Andrew Stevenson (1784-1857) concerning politics and enslavement (February 15, 1850) and a visit (July 20, 1854); John R. Thompson, editor of the  \"Messenger,\" refusing an essay by Wickham defending the Mormons (December 4, 1850);  Edward Vernon Childe (1804-1861) writes concerning the peace negotiations during the Crimean War (December 18, 1855); and two drafts of a letter from Wickham to Robert E. Lee concerning the arrival of the Yankee cavalry at \"Hickory Hill,\" who carried off General W.H. F. Lee as a prisoner in Wickham's carriage as well as horses and enslaved laborers, and includes the report that Charlotte Lee's health is not good and that she is much distressed at her husband's capture (June 28, 1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include financial inquiry about Virginia's non-payment of the interest on state stock (January 17, 1872); the fire at Hickory Hill, Hanover County, Virginia (February 15, 1875); the voyage of William D. Shipman to England and his assessment of Thomas Jefferson's life and career (July 4, 1876); Wickham's analysis of State Trials of the United States by Francis Wharton, including his own memories of the James T. Callendar trial (June 19, 1876); and William D. Shipman's mention of seeing the effigy of ancestor William of Wykeham in Winchester, England and information about him (November 6, 1876).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include advice for Henry T. Wickham on entering the legal profession and the study of law (July 24, 1868); Robinson's work with a case in the Supreme Court concerning Allen T. Caperton (1810-1876) and his acts in West Virginia as Provost Marshal (April 15, 1872).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include the declaration of [William B.] Preston for the immediate secession of Virginia from the Union and Wickham's fear that \"the dogs of war will be let loose\" (April 16, 1861); two letters from Colonel [Beverly Holcombe] Robertson about missing and absent soldiers and his efforts to round them up (May 13 and 14, 1862); request for Wickham's support and vote for Robert H. Wynne as doorkeeper of the Confederate House of Representatives (December 24, 1863); John B. Baldwin informs Williams Carter Wickham that his nomination has not been acted upon (February 5, 1864) and two letters from John Taylor about family and home events during the Civil War (February 2 and 8, 1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include a letter from Robert E. Lee about Henry T. Wickham's attendance at Washington College in Lexington and Lee's plan to write a history about military campaigns in Virginia during the Civil War (October 3, 1865) and a draft of Wickham's reply to Lee in the hand of Lucy Wickham [October 13, 1865];  a draft of Wickham's letter to General W.H.F. Lee about contemporary politics (April 16, 1868); the formation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (September 17, 1868); Horace Greeley's comments on the progress of the railroads in Virginia (November 15, 1868); request and recommendation from Alexander H.H. Stuart on behalf of two job seekers in the railroad business (May 5, 1873); efforts of C.T. Smith to get Wickham elected (August 19, 1883); two congratulatory letters on the recent election of Wickham to the Virginia Senate from B. Johnson Barbour and John T. Harris (November 19, 1883); and a request for a donation towards a University of Virginia chapel from Schele de Vere (November 21, 1883).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe diary begins with an entry about the secession of South Carolina from the Union and continues with entries about the evacuation of Fort Moultrie and the removal of troops to Fort Sumter in South Carolina; each state that secedes from the Union is noted and mention made of the firing upon the steamer Star of the West at Charleston, South Carolina; Intermixed with news of the impending war are notes about building a henhouse, nests, the receipt of toys, and weather; his father [Williams Carter Wickham] as a candidate for the Virginia Secession Convention from Henrico (January 29, 1861); and ends with an entry for February 12, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe diary mentions the following topics: the loan of a sharps rifle from George W. Randolph, supposedly owned before by John Brown and presented to the 1st [Virginia?] Regiment at Harper's Ferry; a four mile drive on the Petersburg Road to \"Strawberry Hill\" owned by Robert Edmond;  Judge and Mrs. Robertson leaving for \"Mount Athos\" their place in the country near Lynchburg, Virginia; double guard on \"the mills\" [Gallego Mills?]; the arrival of 1,000 men from Tennessee who went to the old fairgrounds; a drill by the \"Richland Rifles\" at the South Carolina camp; occupation of Alexandria by President Lincoln's troops; news of a battle at Bethel Church between Yorktown and Hampton; the departure of 2,000 troops for Manassas on June 13th; a visit to Camp Lee; examination of the fortifications below the city with locations noted; note that business is very slow since the commencement of the war; the meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Macfarland and General Lee at Mr. Lyon's [home?]; birth of a daughter [Elise Warwick Barksdale Wickham (1861-1952)] on August 28, 1861; note that he spent the last month with the 16th Virginia Regiment as Quartermaster at \"Camp Withers\" six miles from Norfolk; his orders to transfer to Colonel L. Smith's office as paymaster, September 13, 1861; and the death of cousin Fanny Townes, September 20, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: lists of books purchased from Peter Cotton (October 20, 1816-January 27, 1817 and September 22, 1817); purchases of quills, paper, ink, chessmen, etc. (October 15, 1817); hires of enslaved laborers (January 25 and 27, 1817 and February 21, 1817); and a bill of sale for enslaved laborers (September 17, 1817).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: medical care for enslaved laborers from Dr. W.P. Jones (January 12, February 24 and 26, March 24, and June 24, 1818); a hire of an enslaved laborer (April 2, 1819); and a bill of sale for two male enslaved men (January 19, 1820).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: the return of a little boy, Joe Lewis, and little girl, Lucy, the property of William F. Wickham (September 28, 1821); payment to overseer William Lizer on \"South Wales\" plantation (January 26, 1821); and purchase of paper, ink, and books (July 7, 1821).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: the hire of an enslaved girl, Jenny (January 11, 1823).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: hiring of Nathaniel B. Priddy as overseer (1834-1835; 1837-1838, 1840); and a list of books and magazines, quills, pencils, and paper purchased (1836-1838).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: hiring of Samuel Bumpass as overseer (1842); the sale of an enslaved boy, Washington (January 6, 1843); hiring of Nathaniel B. Priddy as overseer (1843); sale of the enslaved woman, Nancy Wylde, and her two youngest children (May 23, 1843); and the sale of an enslaved man, Ned Davis (June 27, 1843).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: lists of books and writing supplies purchased (July 20, 1846; March 22 and April 16, 1847).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: lists of books and writing supplies purchased (February 1848; July 14, 1848; and October 4, 1849).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: lists of books purchased (January and November 1850); memoranda book containing the names of enslaved laborers (May 12, 1850); and the hire of enslaved men, Giles, Frank, and John from J.H. Wickham (1851).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: list of taxable property for William F. Wickham in 1853, includes 96 enslaved laborers over 16 years old and 116 enslaved laborers over twelve years old.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: partners listed for Warwick and Barksdale at the \"Gallego Mills\" following the death of William J. Barksdale (February 15 and July 2, 1860).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: theft of stock certificates, bank book, and checks from Williams Carter at the \"North Wales\" plantation during a Yankee raid (May 31, 1864); copy of the last will and testament of Williams Carter with a codicil dated July 30, 1864, freeing his two enslaved women, Margaret and Sally, with any offspring that they have as soon as peace shall be established in the country (July 17, 1864); an enslaved mulatto girl named Sally was lent to Anne Butler Berkeley by Williams Carter (August 10, 1864); indenture concerning the former plantations and property of Williams Carter, Sr. including \"North Wales\" and \"Broad Neck\" (May 16, 1867); and payroll lists (April 1, 1868).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: receipts for work in the coal banks, Clifton, West Virginia (1873).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: a valuation of personal property at \"North Wales\" plantation; valuation of real estate of Mr. [Abraham] Warwick made by commissioners, including factories, blacksmith shop, houses, lots, and a Brookfield farm; and a list of the names of enslaved laborers, with their evaluations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese three oversize items include an indenture between Betty Littlepage and Charles Carter of Corotoman (May 5, 1768); a deed of trust from Carter B. Page and Rebecca Page to Thomas Taylor and Benjamin Harrison (June 17, 1817); and an indenture concerning Catherine Page, \"Broad Neck\" and Williams Carter (March 11, 1822).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe oversize deeds and indentures include those signed by Carter B. and Rebecca Page and Thomas Taylor (June 7, 1817); an indenture between John Wickham, Edward Carrington, Daniel Call, and Littleton Waller Tazewell (March 17, 1800); an indenture between Harry and Anna Terrell and Charles Carter (October 7, 1769); an indenture between James Littlepage and Joel Terrell (April 23, 1751); an indenture between John Littlepage and John Carter (March 2, 1735); and a bill of sale for two male enslaved men, Billy and Cyrus (January 15, 1820).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese include a list with the heading \"A List of My Slaves, such as I wish to keep, such as I may wish to sell and may wish to send to the West\" with names, ages, special skills or jobs, and their evaluations on the \"Rocky Mills\" and \"South Wales\" plantations belonging to Edmund Fanning Wickham in 1835; an account of the sale of land and enslaved laborers at \"Rocky Mills\" in November 1842 with the name of the purchaser, name of the enslaved laborer and the prices; a list of enslaved laborers treated by Dr. J.P. Harrison (April 24, 1844; July 1845; July 1848); list of William F. Wickham's enslaved laborers by age category (1843); the evaluation of an enslaved man, Tom Christian and his entire family (December 22, 1846); a list of named enslaved laborers with their ages belonging to the estate of Dr. James McClurg, Hanover County, Virginia, with evalutions by W. O. Winston (January 18, 1852); a list of 209 named enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] (January 1854); a list of 269 named enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] (January 1859); a list of enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] who were either carried off the plantation by Yankee forces or left of their own accord during the Civil War (1862-1864); and one list of enslaved men between the ages of 18 and 55 with the notation that two are in Confederate service, 14 remain on the plantation and 33 have left and gone to the enemy (January 31, 1865) and another list of enslaved laborers that went to the enemy by year, 120 in all [1865].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese six oversize items include four land grant certificates to Edmund F. Wickham and Edwin P. Crenshaw; a London Medical Society membership certificate for Dr. James Maclurg (1784); a letter from Lucy Nelson (1835).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe oversize plats include one for \"North Wales\" plantation belonging to Charles Carter, October 4, 1779; a plat of \"South Wales\" and Lane plantations, Hanover County, according to the division of January 1818, but updated on May 21, 1858; a plat showing the part of \"South Wales\" plantation allotted to Anne B. Carter, the purchase of land by W.F. Wickham from Thomas Carter, and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation purchased by W.F. Wickham from the estate of George W. Smith, November 27, 1825; plat of \"Verdon\" Hanover County, Virginia, belonging to the estate of John T. Anderson (December 1, 1865); and an undated plat showing parcels of land west of the Missouri River, apparently belonging to Thomas Gorham and a Wickham family member, 4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese six oversize items include a survey of the Broad Neck or Big Neck tract for Thomas C. Nelson (September 8, 1818); survey of the Lane tract, part of the South Wales Estate (January 1818); plat of the Lane tract, South Wales and Hickory Hill (January 1818); fields laid off and numbered from a survey of W.F. Wickham's river fields (February 16, 1837); surveys no. 137 and no. 146 in Saline County, Missouri for Edmund F. Wickham (1841); diagram of land plots to the west of the Missouri River and the 5th principal meridian, presumably in Missouri [1841-1842?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material includes a recollection of George Wythe by William F. Wickham (1874); and the first recollection of General Robert E. Lee by Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly, written in a letter to her brother Henry (undated); biographical sketches of Captain William C. Wickham, U.S. Navy (April 19, 1962 and September 1985), John Wickham (undated), and General Williams Carter Wickham (undated); and history of \"Hickory Hill\" (undated).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamilies discussed include Fanning, Leiper, Martian, Peyton, Pye, Tabb and Barksdale, Taylor, Warwick, and Wingfield.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis includes a report of [3rd (Wickham's) Virginia Cavalry Brigade] near Front Royal, Virginia (August 23, 1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes such items as the weather at Hickory Hill (1857); a prayer of Bishop Meade (1861); printed advertisement for a catalog of attorneys (1875); damaged circular from a Rochester nursery (1882); a horse pedigree (undated); and \"Notes on Planting Box at Williamsburg\" by Arthur A. Shurcliff (undated).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese include Wickham's notes concerning the \"Home Reminiscences of John Randolph, of Roanoke\" by Powhatan Bouldin, the benefits of lime and marl, and W.W. Mac Farland's address.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese include [Julia L. Wickham], \"Peliso\" Orange, Virginia, gardens in Rome, [Hickory Hill], Captain Williams C. 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","The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with immediate and extended relatives; personal correspondence from friends and political associates; two brief diaries discussing the secession and the beginning of the Civil War; financial and legal papers, including lists of books purchased, hires of enslaved laborers, the purchase of enslaved laborers, medical care for enslaved laborers, losses from invading soldiers during the Civil War, estate values, including those of enslaved laborers, indentures, deeds, receipts, plats and surveys, and lists of enslaved laborers by name and age; genealogies and genealogical charts; invitations and calling cards; military papers of General Williams Carter Wickham in the Civil War and Captain Williams Carter Wickham, U.S. Navy; news clippings; some notes and manuscripts of William F. Wickham; a few photographs and snapshots; poetry; hand-written recipes; school papers; and sympathy and greeting cards. ","There is also a hand drawn map of Hickory Hill plantation, the Wickham family estate which may have been drawn by a descendant of an enslaved laborer. It shows a diagram of \"Mammy's House\" and surrounding buildings that were revisited in the 1980's. The pages following the illustration name African Americans who were still living and working at Hickory Hill estate in the early 1900's. Mentioned are the families of John Robinson, Albert Cash,  Henry Toliver, Edith Jackson, Matt Foley, Maria Tucker, Ruben Lewis,Landonia Lewis, ALec Hewlett, Louisa and Albert Jackson, Henry Abrams, Betty Jackson, John Abram and Roselyn, Milton Hewlett, and Virginia Shelton.","Topics include the Civil War, the relationships between family members in both the North and the South, and attitudes toward secession; many aspects of enslavement, often naming the enslaved laborers involved; Virginia and national politics; the practice of agriculture in Virginia; the education of the children of Virginia planters, including attendance at the Howard School, Episcopal High School, Washington College and the University of Virginia; military service of General Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), Captain William Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and other Wickham relatives.  ","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include:, John Slidell and Co., Thomas C. Keaton, William Lyne, W.P. Mason, W.T. Nivison, William B. Page, Philip Rogers, Thomas Rotch, Penn T. Sale, John M. Shepherd, Peter F. Smith, Thomas Strode, William Sullivan, Thomas Swann, Richard Wallack, Ralph Wingfield, Alice B. Winston, and Zach Vowels","Correspondents, chiefly with Edmund F. Wickham, include: Williams Carter (1819), Archibald Gracie and Robert Gracie (1821), and multiple correspondents in 1822: Curwen and Hagarty, Samuel John Dunlop, King and Gracie, Samuel Lambert, and Robert Hughes and Co.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: James Dunlop, Ninian Edwards, John Ferguson, C.B. Fleet, William Fleet, Robert Gracie, Francis Gregg, James Hagarty, George E. Harrison, James Henderson, L. Jones, T. Jones, and Robert King.","Letters involving enslavement or enslaved laborers include one from L. Jones, asking for protection for \"old Billy\" and mentioning other issues concerning the welfare of enslaved laborers, January 2, 1823, and another letter from Ninian Edwards discussing the possible purchase of a female enslaved laborer for the wife of Dr. Harvey Lane, January 13, 1823.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Henry Arnall, Curwen and Hagarty, [J.] Dunlop, Ninian Edwards, C.B. Fleet, John G. Gamble, Robert G. Harper, George E. Harrison, Jones and Rodes, Hardage Lane, C.C. Lee, Lewis and Tomes, George Marx, John Morgan, and Charles Morris.","Letters involving enslavement include the inquiry by Robert G. Harper, May 5, 182[3], for information about the \"present condition, conduct, and prospects\" of some manumitted enslaved laborers formerly belonging to Samuel Gist who were freed in his will. He also asks for  the name and address of some respectable and intelligent person in the area where the freed formerly enslaved laborers now live who can send a report to Gist's relatives.","Correspondents, chiefly Edmund F. Wickham and William F. Wickham, include: Curwen and Hagarty, James Dunlop, John Dunlop, William Logan Fisher, William Fleet, George Greenhow, George E. Harrison, B.B. Keesee, Robert King, Thomas Kelly, Hardage Lane, Lewis and Tomes, Charles F. Logan, William Lyne, and  Robert and John Oliver. One letter mentions a runaway enslaved man, named Joe, December 18, 1823.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: David Barclay, John H. Blair, Carter Braxton, William Burns, William L. Dance, S.W. Dandridge, Aaron Denman, Robert Douthat, Ninian Edwards, William Fleet, Gillingham and Randolphs (G.F. and E. Randolph), James Hagerty, George E. Harrison, John Hopkins, and Thomas and John G. Riddle.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Richard Anderson, John Balfour, Thomas and John S. Biddle, Carter Braxton, William Burns, Hugh Campbell, Robert Douthat, and Gillingham and Randolphs (G.F. and E. Randolph).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Carter Berkeley, Carter Braxton, Roger Mallory, Thomas Nelson, and William F. Wickham to Thomas B. Coleman. Roger Mallory, the jailor in Petersburg, Virginia, writes concerning a runaway enslaved man named Jim who finally admitted he belonged to William F. Wickham. Jim had originally claimed to belong to Price Sharpe who was charged with permitting him to \"go at large contrary to law,\" and hire himself out, March 19, 1827.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: G.H. Bacchus, Thomas T. Bouldin, Thomas B. Coleman, M. Huelin,  Benjamin Whitehead Ladd, W.H. McFarland, William Nelson, John W. Payne, William G. Pendleton, M.E.M. Roane, and A.B. Spooner. Topics include the reception of freed former enslaved laborers in Ohio (Benjamin W. Ladd, March 4, 1830); and the [Samuel?] Gist estate (John M. Payne, April 22, 1830).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Patrick Nesbett Edgar, John Exall, Chapman Johnson, Thomas N. Lee, John Ponsonby Martin, William Nelson, Severn E. Parker, A. Robinson, Jr., William Rowlett, J.S. Skinner, Benjamin Temple, Robert Temple, Thomas Biddle and Company, and John R. Triplett. Topics include: blue wheat (Benjamin and Robert Temple, July 4, 1830 and August 4, 1830); American turf and racing magazine (August 3, 1830; September 1, 1830; October 19, 1830); and a collection of pedigrees for an American Stud Book (October 13, 1830).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: J.D. Andrews, John Corbin, Alfred V. Crenshaw, Crouches and Snead, Gracie and Company, James Gray, Richard B. Haxall, William Hilberg, James Lyle, and Francis Page. Topics include problems with a horse purchased from Wickham (November 15, 1838), the safe arrival of the Andrews family in Houston, Texas (January 28, 1839), and the sending of an enslaved man named Jefferson to fetch two mules from Wickham (April 22, 1839).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Beers and Poindexter, Robert M. Candlish, John S. Corbin, Robert Ellett, William Linton, A.T.B. Merritt, Nathaniel Nelson, J.W. Pegram, W. Richardson, Thomas Samson, John Shore, John N. Tazewell, James G. Watson, and William L. White. Topics include mention of the horse \"Priam\" at Merritt's Hicks Ford stud in Virginia and the failure of Wickham's Eclipse mare to foal last spring (May 11, 1842); the dire condition of the [enslaved man?] old Bob Clark and his family on the land of Nathanael Nelson and attempts to provide for their care (June 15 and July 11, 1842); and a discussion of improvements to Wickham's bevel wheel (July 11, 1842) by Thomas Samson of D.J. Burr and Company.","Correspondents include: John S. Corbin, Nathanael Cross, William Dorbaker, Thomas Ellis and Charles Ellis, Robert G. Gilman, J.H. Martin, [S.H.] Parker, James L. Pendleton, James A. Seddon, Jane J. Swann, George Taylor, John N. Tazewell, William L. White, and John Wight. Topics include lumber needed for a penitentiary and a possible list of enslaved laborers written in pencil on an address portion of the letter (October 10, 1842).","Correspondents include: Warwick Barksdale, John Barr, Samuel Cottrell, Richard Gwathmey, John Struthers and Son, Lucius Minor, William Nelson, Lucien B. Price, Richard Randolph, Edmund Ruffin, William D. Taylor, John N. Tazewell, Philip B. Winston, and Richard M. Young (General Land Office). Topics include the sale of two enslaved women (January 29, 1845).","Correspondents include: Warwick Barksdale, Wellington Goddin, Phineas Janney, C.C. Lee, Thomas Nelson, Bernard Peyton, [Lucien] B. Price, John T. Rogers, Edmund Ruffin, Robert Taylor, J.R. Underwood, William F. Watson, Joseph Wingfield, and Philip B. Winston. Topics include a description of damage to the property of Joseph Wingfield by the breakage of the mill dam of Wickham (March 12, 1848).","Correspondents include: John Gibson, G.W. Goode, Richard Gwathmey, Benjamin F. Larned (1794-1862), William Leigh, Thomas Nelson, John E. Page, James A. Seddon, Alexander H.H. Stuart, William F. Watson, Hugh A. Watt, W.C. Wickham (to James M. Ford), Edmund Winston, and William Overton Winston. Topics include the shipment of some prairie birds and directions for their care (December 23, 1849); lists of enslaved laborers for hire, including \"old Fanny,\" Nancy and her three children, and Betsy (January 1, 1850); request for information about the amount due on account of the division of the \"Negroes\" or enslaved laborers (March 5, 1850); William F. Wickham as the guardian of the minor heirs of Robert C. Wickham (April 20, 1850); the offer of the use of a Southdown buck for sheep breeding (July 12, 1850); the increase of visitors to the mountains of Virginia, especially at White Sulphur Springs, the Warm Springs, and the Hot Springs (August 5, 1850); the purchase of stained glass (November 19 and 23, 1850); the return of an enslaved woman who was a wet nurse, \"Mamma Betsy\" hired the year before for his little boy (July 28, 1849; November 5, 1850); and an opinion about Jenny Lind (December 20, 1850).","Correspondents include: Alexander Hew, John F. Lay, [Laudonier] J. Randolph; Robert L. Randolph, Allen P. Richardson, William Sayre, William F. Wickham, and Thomas Wight. \nTopics include the redemption of land in Saline County, Missouri (September 13, 1853) and the settlement with McClurg Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham, and John Wickham concerning a loan from John Henry Wickham to them on August 11, 1851 (May 28, 1858).","Correspondents include: J.A. Allen, David Anderson, Jr., A.W. Ball, Ann B. Berkeley, the Reverend P.F. Berkeley, George H. Byrd (Wyman, Byrd and Co. Commission Merchants), [Magrat] Davis, R.B. Davis, Robert Johnston, J.H. Montague, H.C. Parsons, James H. Storrs, John R. Taylor, James Usher, and William F. Wickham (drafts to Ann B. Berkeley, the Reverend P.F. Berkeley, and B.W. Green). \nTopics include: the question in the legislature concerning the payment of legacies given in Confederate money between 1862-1865 (March 10, 1866); difficulties in settling court cases in West Virginia following the Civil War (November 16, 1866); a request from a woman for legal help in keeping her inheritance in her name and under her control rather than her husband's as her current lawyer advised (April 25, 1867); and reports on the \"North Wales\" farm (May 20, 27, and 31, 1870).","Correspondents include: James L. Apperson, W.W. Baldwin, Lewis D. Crenshaw, Jr., Isaac Davis, L.R. Dickinson, Maynard Dyson,  James S. Earle and Sons, George William Gibson, Charles Herndon, J.M. Hill, I.M. Parr and Son (Commission Merchants), J. Sabin and Sons (Booksellers, Printsellers and Importers), Walter C. Jones, A.C. Loomis, J.H. Montague, Henry Parry, G. Peyton, Joseph T. Priddy, R.H. Maury and Co. (Stock and Exchange Brokers), J.W. Ratcliffe, C.T. Smith, E.D. Starke, A.T. Stewart, W.T. Tinsley, H. Wernich, William F. Wickham (draft to L. Upshur Evans), and Wright and Co., Rio de Janeiro. \nTopics include: the sale of property in Richmond, Virginia, of a former brewery belonging to the estate of David G. Yuengling, Jr. along the James River called the \"James River Steam Brewery\" (August 16, 1879).","Correspondents include: George B. Butler, Alexander Kaslovistsh, and John Watkins.","Alvis discusses the farm operations of the East Tuckahoe Plantation.","The company sends sketches and discusses the replacement of the mantle damaged in the house fire at Hickory Hill.","Discusses the oak tobacco boxes supplied by Edmund F. Wickham from \"Rocky Mills\" plantation.","Correspondence is chiefly with William F. Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham. Topics include concern about the \"military bill\" in the South as a way for Congress to get at the landed property there (March 4, 1867); Wickham's fondness for memoirs and other mentions of reading (December 17, 1868; May 30, 1873; June 15 and 20, 1875; February 11, 1876; May 4, 1877; July 2, 1880); and the offer of building supplies currently at \"Broad Neck\" in order to rebuild the house at \"Hickory Hill\" after a fire (February 16, 1875).","Correspondence is chiefly with William F. Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham. Topics include the financial affairs of their cousin Georgina L. Featherstonhaugh (September 24 and October 28, 1879).","Topics include Carter's impressions of Bristol College, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (October 18, 1834); complaints about the western states and their impact upon agricultural prices and politics, mentioning James Buchanan by name (July 17, 1846); suggestion that the enslaved laborers belonging to their nephews, Robert and John Wickham, be sold to pay the debt of their education (June 18, 1847); mention of a violent snowstorm that occurred just after he had returned home on a gunboat following a period of being nursed by his sister at \"Hickory Hill\" (November 8, 1862); and the death of Julia Wickham (July 16, 1873).","Correspondents include C.P. Huntington (President), Henry Taylor Wickham, and Williams C. Wickham and J.S.F. Smith (Paint Creek Depot) concerning the opening of the coal mines on the land purchased from the Hansford heirs and the employment of miners in Kanawha County, West Virginia.","Correspondents include C.P. Huntington (President), Henry Taylor Wickham, and Williams C. Wickham and J.S.F. Smith (Paint Creek Depot) concerning the opening of the coal mines on the land purchased from the Hansford heirs and the employment of miners in Kanawha County, West Virginia.","Letters concern lands held by Reuben Jenkins and John Henry Wickham in Saline County, Missouri.","Letters discuss matters concerning the Louisa Railroad, which was chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in 1836, and renamed the Virginia Central Railroad in 1850, with Fontaine as its longtime president.","Correspondence is concerned with securing payment on the accounts of John Wickham and Littleton W. T. Wickham, brothers of William F. Wickham by an immediate sale of livestock and agricultural goods.","Mentions the illness of President Monroe and his own wife, Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay, the daughter of Monroe (August 4, 1823) and expresses disparaging remarks concerning a Yankee business associate (October 19, 1823).","Topics include a request to help in the administration of the estate of Dr. McClurg (March 2, 1839); fears about the possible death of his son, Thomas, in [Mississippi?] (June 22, 1839); instructions about the purchase of summer clothing for the enslaved laborers by Alvis (April 21, 1840); mention that there are 70 enslaved laborerss associated with the \"Rocky Mills\" plantation of Edmund Wickham and 40 additional enslaved laborers associated with his father's [John Wickham] estate (July 28, 1842). Much of the correspondence in general deals with the settling of the estate of John Wickham (1763-1839).","Discusses arrangements for the support of Mr. Harrison's children and his disappointment with Dr. Selden.","Letter of introduction from Henry Clay for Mr. Bainbridge of Kentucky to John Wickham.","Kerr requests copies of any ordinances or laws concerning lands either given or planned to be given by the state of Virginia to the officers and soldiers who served in either the Continental Army or the Virginia state militia for use in the United States Court in Ohio.","Discusses the best way to secure the claim of Dr. McClurg for surgeon pay during his service in the Continental Army, keeping in mind that the United States will soon find a use for surplus money and mentions Henry Clay as doing a great deal of good [in Congress?].","Recommends that they make sure that Dr. [James] McClurg's will is recorded in Kentucky.","Notifies Wickham that he has located among his scorched papers enough information to send him a transcript of all he knows or remembers about the bonds of Mr. Balfour and invites him to visit Studley, Virginia.","Mentions the health concerns of family members and friends in Baltimore, Maryland.","Describes the worsening physical condition of Walter [Maclurg Wickham?]  in Baltimore, Maryland.","Notifies Wickham about the death of Walter [Maclurg Wickham?] in Baltimore, Maryland.","Requests Wickham provide the wording to a decree that would enable a sale of his property in Richmond, Virginia, to proceed since his power of attorney, Mr. Botts, was unable to perform his duties.","One letter, March 24, 1820, incomplete, last page only, John Randolph of Roanoke writes concerning Stephen Decatur's death. In a second letter, April 1, 1820,   part of the letter and autograph signature excised, John Randolph of Roanoke thanks Wickham for his indulgence and civility in the matter of his father's estate and mentions [Littleton Waller] Tazewell's move to Norfolk.,","Topics include: request for advice on a business proposition concerning property offered by Mr. Page as security for the payment of Tazewell's stock (July 4 and 9, 1819); Tazewell's current ill health (November 26, 1819); criticism of President John Quincy Adams and a description of a duel between Henry Clay and John Randolph of Roanoke (April 8, 1826); and damages suffered during a hurricane (October 14, 1838).","Letters concerns legal work performed by Wickham for Richardson.","Expresses concern over several outbreaks of cholera among citizens and enslaved laborers on the plantation.","Writes from White Sulphur Springs about the convalescence of Susan [Decatur Wickham (1819 -1831)].","John Wickham addresses business matters in his absence on a trip to Philadelphia, sending four letters from stops in Washington, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia.","He discusses the prospects for the wheat crop, the demand for flour in [American] towns and South America, and reports on his conversations with Mr. Haxall about pricing if the crop is delivered early (May through August 1830) and the last letter mentions their pleasant stay at the Sulphur Springs and Sweet Springs and the journey home, the drought in Kentucky and Ohio, and \"this new explosion in France\" (September 24, 1830).","Wickham writes to his son William F. Wickham with concerns about his wheat crop, a notification of an outbreak of disease at Howard School for boys from Jonathan Loring Woart, and the preoccupation of the Virginia General Assembly over internal improvements (January 29 and May 30, 1834); the design of a mill powered by water (February 21, 1834); discussions about the Bank of Virginia and the elections (April 17 and 21, 1834); discussions about possible schools for their boys and rumors of a duel in Washington (September 28, 1834); discusses the President's message (December 7, 1834); an enslaved laborer, sick with cholera, who was believed to be dead several times, appears to be recovering partly due to work of Dr. McCaw (December 18, 1834); and politics in Washington (December 24, 1834).","Wickham writes to his son William F. Wickham with concerns about his wheat crop (July 6, 1837) and to his sons at the University of Virginia, George and Littleton W.T. Wickham with advice about their studies, especially geology and the study of soils, and their visit to the Natural Bridge (May 15, 1837).","The letters written during a trip to New England by William F. Wickham and Anne Wickham mention seeing the effects of a great drought all over the northeast, speculations about the wheat crop, poor corn crop of the current year, Littleton at the University of Virginia and George reporting for duty in Washington in the U.S. Navy (September 13, 17, and 25, 1838); news about the wheat market and John Wickham's health (November 20 and December 12, 1838); and news about the opening of the [James River and Kanawha Canal] and its advantages for Richmond, Virginia (December 20, 1838).","Wirt asks for Wickham's advice concerning the rights of the widow in the estate of John Ellis (December 21, 1815); in another letter, October 10, 1830, autograph signature excised, Wirt asks for his advice and support in the case of the Cherokee Nation versus the state of Georgia, argued by Wirt before the Supreme Court; and in a third undated letter, Wirt discusses a property case involving Colonel Byrd and Mr. Harrison of Berkeley and lots in Manchester and Richmond, Virginia.","Includes two letters mentioning visits by Yankees to Hickory Hill and the taking of her father as a prisoner (May 27, 1862; August 4, 1862); also includes a letter from Robert E. Lee to his cousin, Miss Annie Wickham [later Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly], Lee promises to stop by \"Hickory Hill\" to visit if at all possible on his way back to Lexington, autograph signature excised from the letter (May 23, 1870).","Letters through March 1883 are written from Port Oratava to Henry T. Wickham but in April 1883 the Renshaw's began their journey home, settling in New Market and then Boyce, Virginia, by the turn of the century; In 1906, Annie writes from the University of Virginia about Robert H. Renshaw's poor health which continues until his death in 1910.","These letters are chiefly undated, but she appears to continue her correspondence with her uncle after the death of her Aunt Anne in1868, chiefly written from New York.","Leigh mentions the death of Lizzie Wickham (February 27, 1862); General Johnston and his prospects in the Tennessee area (March 25, 1863); and the death of Mrs. Carter, probably Mary B. Randolph Carter (August 6, 1864).","One letter, September 16, 1836, described a duel between her brother James and John Chapman, which ended in reconciliation between the two men.","Contains one letter, August 17, 1863, concerning the Civil War, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, shortly before his death following his wounding and capture.","Topics include the preparation to leave for France with her husband, William Cabell Rives, appointed minister to France (June 26, 1829); and their return to Paris, France (August 2, 1851).","One letter, written from the Warm Springs Hospital, discusses Taylor's health problems and the recent Battle of Cheat Mountain (October 2, 1861).","Two letters are written from China, one from Chefoo [present day Yantai] and the second from Tsingtao, while her husband, Captain Williams C. Wickham (1887-1985) was serving in the U.S. Asiatic Fleet.","One letter from Williams Carter Wickham expresses his pleasure at her engagement to his son, Henry Taylor Wickham (August 26, 1885).","These letters are chiefly to her husband, Henry, while staying at the Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, (1911) and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (1913) for her health but two letters are to her son, Captain Williams Carter Wickham during his journey to join the Asiastic fleet (1924).","Early letters are chiefly from his grandparents, William F. and Anne Wickham, and the letters in 1864 are between Henry and his parents, Williams C. and Lucy Wickham","One letter mentions the death of his grandmother, Anne B. Carter Wickham (February 26, 1868); four letters were written as a University of Virginia student (October 17, 24, and 31, 1869; and May 8, 1870); and one letter from Henry to his son, Captain Williams C. Wickham, congratulating him on his engagement to Credilla Miller (October 2, 1911).","John Wickham writes concerning land in Franklin County, Missouri, belonging to the estate of John Wickham (July 11, 1850).","During the Civil War, Leigh Wickham received an appointment in the Confederate Quartermaster department at Memphis, Tennessee (September 13 and 19, and December 8, 1861); reports that the people of Mississippi were frightened of General Grant's army (December 23, 1862); and mentions the hanging of Colonel Lawrence Orton Williams as a Confederate spy by the Federals (June 14, 1863).","Correspondence includes one letter from Williams Carter Wickham while at the University of Virginia concerning the results of Professor Rogers' analysis of Edmund's specimens of marl (January 16, 1838).","Contains two letters from W.F. Wickham, Jr. as a student at the University of Virginia (December 19, 1848 and January 12, 1849).","Includes letters written as a student at the Episcopal High School of Virginia, Fairfax, Virginia (1874-1878) and the University of Virginia (1878-1883).","While his father is away in New York and Boston, Williams Carter Wickham sends reports on the activities and condition of the plantation, including illness and death among the enslaved laborers (September 7, 1845; September 15, 1848). Williams Carter Wickham writes with further reports to his father hoping to catch him still at Bowling Green (August 30, 1849); and Williams describes a trip with his wife Lucy to New York and on to Quebec (August 27, 1855).","This folder contains references to the participation of Williams Carter Wickham in the First Battle of Bull Run (July 24, 1861, and August 1861); rumors of possible attacks on Arlington and Alexandria and Norfolk (September 2, 1861); discussion about the ramifications of the seizure of James Murray Mason and John Slidell on board the RMS Trent by Union Captain Charles Wilkes (December 8, 1861); and W. Leigh Wickham's commission as assistant quartermaster with rank of captain (December 20, 1861). During the recent visit of William F. Wickham with General Robert E. Lee, Lee reported on the sufferings of the army in the west [1861].","Williams Carter Wickham shares his weariness of the war and announces himself as a candidate for Congress (May 15, 1863); William F. Wickham voices his concern over scarcity of food in Richmond and near Charlottesville to Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham (January 19, 1864); and William F. Wickham fears that Lee cannot maintain communications to the south and wishes he had nothing more to do with land or enslaved laborers if only his son were home in peace (June 28, [1864]).","This folder contains references to the participation of Williams Carter Wickham in the First Battle of Bull Run (July 22-23, 27, and 31, 1861).","Wickham is in Cavalry Camp, 5th Brigade and attached to Colonel Cocke's Brigade and has a complete blacksmith shop and blacksmith fixed up with his company but requires clothes for his [enslaved?] personal attendant, Robin (September 1, 1861); Many letters discuss conditions of camp life for an officer in the Confederate forces and the efforts of family at home to supply the needs and wants of their own family members in the forces but also those of other soldiers, such as clothing. The letters also show a desire to establish a local hospital for the troops like the ones run by the ladies in Fredericksburg, Virginia (September 4, 1861); Wickham writes from his camp at Fairfax Courthouse about opportunities for drilling the troops, his resignation of his seat in the Convention and in the Virginia Senate, his increasing concerns over the conduct of the war in the last two months, and the injurious effect of the capture of Fort Hatteras in North Carolina to the South (September 6, 1861); news that his son, Henry T. Taylor, is intensely reading the novels of Sir Walter Scott to the detriment of his studies (September 26, 1861); clothing made by the ladies of the community shipped off to the troops (October 12, 1861); Wickham currently at Union Mills (October 22, 1861); the difficulties of Lizzie Fry in getting a permit to leave to go home (October 24, 1861); and Wickham's meeting with General [Jeb] Stuart with whom he is very pleased (October 27, 1861).","Wickham writes a very detailed letter about the detrimental effects of fighting the Civil War on their own home soil, his dinner with General Cocke, whose ardor for the war has cooled considerably, the wasting of their best resources in an unnatural strife, and the devastation wrought by both occupying armies (November 3, 1861); and mention of Colonel Robertson and General Stuart (November 7, 13, and 29, 1861). \nWriting from Camp Frontier after an absence of three days, he describes a plan for a force of  nine companies of cavalry and three regiments of infantry, all under General Stuart, to cut off an enemy encampment near Alexandria, but this was prevented by the arrival of more Federal forces in the area near Pohick Church and describes his activities as a member of the scouting party (November 13, 1861); furnishes a description of his strategy when in new territory (November 21, 1861); shares his belief that the Yankees will advance along the Evansport line, chiefly by water, but with a land force on the telegraph road, otherwise believes that they will go into winter quarters (November 24, 1861); and repeats a report from Mr. Porcher [of South Carolina?] that some of the coloured people had been shot by the Confederates and that some of the people offered to work on the entrenchments for the Yankees for pay (November 28, 1861). \nWickham is still waiting for word on any advancement against the enemy and a describes the Federal forces arrayed against Virginia (December 4, 1861); Wickham shares his wish to command a full regiment of cavalry if he cannot have his first  preference to be at home with Lucy, his shock at hearing about the death of Mr. [Cooke?] and his efforts to secure a furlough for Church to go home for the funeral (December 14, 1861).","Wickham writes about the following topics, a story about Lt. Colonel Thomas L. Kane, commander of the Bucktail Rifles of Northern Pennsylvania and a relative (January 2, 1862); General Johnston likes Wickham's bill for the better organization of the army (January 8, 1862); Wickham's [enslaved?], attendant, Robin, has built a wonderful shelter for the horses in their winter camp (January 8, 1862); Wickham's return to Camp Ewell after his furlough (January 29, 1862); his disapproval of the bill in the Senate concerning the Virginia forces (February 4, 1862); and his concerns over the reorganization of his regiment (February 15, 1862).","Topics include the alarm of the people in the area north of the Rappahannock where people are abandoning their homes and \"Negroes\" or enslaved laborers are going northward by the hundreds (March 14, 1862); bivouacking comfortably near Brandy Station (April 4, 1862); and reports that their new location is twelve miles below Williamsburg and five miles from Yorktown at \"Blows Mill\" and that they are short on provisions (April 18, 22 and 24, 1862).","Topics include writing from Sudley Mills describes recent events that have greatly reduced his regiment and prevented his communicating with his family, noting that with 200 men Wickham charged the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry 800 strong, routing them and capturing a large number, mentioning that General Ewell has lost a leg [during the battle of Groveton] (August 30, 1862); currently near Frederick, Maryland (September 7, 1862); yesterday at Sharpsburg, Maryland, \"fought probably the most desperate battle of the war\" [Battle of Antietam], Wickham lost twenty  men killed, wounded or missing, W.H.F. Lee's horse fell with him, Lt. Colonel Thornton of the 3rd had his arm torn by a shell and died of shock, Hill Carter received two severe wounds at Boonsborough and was left in the hands of the enemy, very difficult to find anything to eat, as local people will not sell them anything, and Thomas L. Kane was just made a Brigadier General in the Union army (September 18 and 21, 1862).\nReports on his safe return from an expedition to Pennsylvania with 1800 men (October 14 and 19, 1862); details of the cavalry raid to collect horses from Mercersburg, Chambersburg, and Emmitsburg (October 19, 1862); troops destroying the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (October 21, 1862);  his participation recently in a serious battle with losses of 1500 killed or wounded [Battle of Fredericksburg], with the town of Fredericksburg totally devastated and mentions activities of Major General Ambrose Burnside (December 15 and 18, 1862).","Topics include the rejection of his resignation by the Secretary of War (January 15, 1863); staying with General Robert E. Lee at Culpeper Courthouse (March 1, 1863); discussion of the [Battle of Chancellorsville] (May 8, 1863 copy); spent the day with Lee who was in good spirits but without any hope of quick termination of the war and who would not allow his resignation, and General Jackson said to be dangerously ill with pleurisy (May 10, 1863); mentions the death of General Jackson and his fears for the safety of General Lee who he describes in appreciative terms (May 11, 1863); and describes his visit to General Lee's headquarters and assesses the results of recent battles (May 31, 1863).","Topics include Wickham's approval of the generals James Longstreet, A.P. Hill, and Richard S. Ewell (June 3, 1863); Lucy relates their losses during visits of the Yankees to \"Hickory Hill\" and \"North Wales\" plantations and the capture of Fitzhugh Lee out of his sick bed (July 25, 1863); Wickham writes from the headquarters of Wickham's Brigade, following his commission as Brigadier General (September 12, 1863); news of Julius Theodore Porcher being mortally wounded from members of the 10th South Carolina Regiment (December 1863); Lucy Wickham's visit with General Wickham near Charlottesville, Virginia (January 17, 21, 31, 1864); General Lee has issued the first order that has not received Wickham's admiration (February 8, 1864); and draft of a letter from Wickham to Captain J.E. Cook, describing his actions beginning on October 28, 1862 until November 3, 1862 (February 26, 1864).","Topics include accompanying General Robert E. Lee to the anniversary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Poney's Brigade to hear a talk on the character of General [Stonewall?] Jackson (March 29, 1864); description of the pillaging of \"Hickory Hill\" by the Yankees and their threatening Uncle Hill Carter (June 5, 1864, June 1864, August 1, 1864); mention of General Sheridan (July 25, 1864); description of the devastation in the area around Culpeper and mention of [Jubal] Early (August 12, 1864); and Wickham, while stationed in Winchester, Virginia, describing the broad valley just prior to the Battle of Winchester (September 5, 8, and 10, 1864).","Wickham attended the U.S. Naval Academy from 1904 until 1909 and most of the letters from this period were to his parents. There are also a few dating from his service aboard the U.S.S. Minnesota (1911) and the U.S.S. Smith (1913) addressed to them. Letters dated 1924 from Captain Wickham to his wife, Credilla Miller Wickham, were written while serving in the U.S. Asiastic Fleet aboard the U.S.S. Pillsbury when the navy summered at Chefoo [present day Yantai], China.","Correspondents include: J.S.B. Alleyne (resolutions concerning the death of Dr. William F. Wickham in 1851); John B. Baldwin; L.M. Baldwin; Nannie P. Ballard; A.P. Bankhead; B. Johnson Barbour, John L. Barbour; Greta du Pont Barksdale (1891-1965); Phoebe [Barksdale?]; Marianna Elizabeth Barksdale (1796-1856) and her husband, William Jones Barksdale (1794-1859); Ann B. Berkeley; Letitia Glenn Biddle (1864-1950); John Minor Botts (1802-1869); Mary G. Braxton; Mary Carter Brickner; G. Thompson Brown; Alfred H. Byrd; E.H. Byrd and L.C. Byrd.\nTopics include a very detailed letter from John Minor Botts to General Williams Carter Wickham about the Civil War, particularly the requested transfer of Colonel Charles H. Wager from the infantry service to the cavalry, rumors about General Lee evacuating Virginia, complaints about the press stimulating the prejudices of the people, and rumors of a proposal to arm enslaved laborers to help fight against the Northern forces (January 8, 1865).","Correspondents include: Ellen J. Cackie; J.R. Campbell (damaged postal card only); B.B. Claike; George Colton; A. Coolidge; O.A. Crenshaw; M.W.T. Cumberland; John B. Custis; Laura G. Custis; Raleigh T. Daniel; J.S. Davis; Enid Deem; Martha Lee Doughty \"To the Women of the Confederacy\" (undated); Fanny Duncan; Georgina L. Featherstonhaugh; and Mary J. Foster.\nTopics include: a discussion of several books read by Laura G. Custis of Boston (May 25, no year) and a description of the past few months the Custis family were forced to stay in Versailles, France, due to illness and the onset of the Franco-Prussian War (March 30, [1871]).","Correspondents include: Ellen Carter, Lizzie Carter, L.W. Carter, Mary Carter, and W[illiams?] Carter, Jr.\nTopics include: the concern of W[illiams] Carter, Jr. that his father make a will immediately so that the Confederacy will not get any of [his brother?] Charles' portion of the estate.  He writes emphatically \"I don't wish the South to get a cent – no country in the history of the world has so worked out its own destruction as the Southern portion of the U.S. America, and all Christendom will in history say, Amen – next to Sodom and Gomorrah\" (February 3, 1862); W[illiams?] Carter, Jr. also asks that the enslaved laborers on both the North Wales and South Wales plantations be sent to Charlotte or some safe place so they will not be sold like cattle, mentioning all of the Tom and Sarah Fox family, Ben Napper and family, the Tom Brown and Harry Brown families, and other enslaved laborers by first name only (March 1, 1862).","Correspondents include: A.W. Carter; Agnes M. Carter; Annie Carter; Betty Carter; E.H. Carter; Emily Carter; Fanny N. Carter; L.H. Carter, Louise Carter, Pauline Carter, Susan Roy Carter, Thomas B. Carter, Thomas H. Carter (1831-1908), and Williams Carter.\nTopics include: the death of Julia Wickham (Thomas H. Carter, July 19, 1873); an expression of hope that the nation will mend following the Civil War, saying \"my hatred for Davis is only equaled by that for Charles Sumner,\" and mention of balloon flights and France's position of strength in Europe (Thomas B. Carter, Paris, May 22, 1866).","Topics of note include two references to the Civil War, including the \"suffering northern soldiers\" and the sentiment \"the same God made us all\" (August 10, 1861); and a second letter about the Civil War concerning shelling of the area near Shirley along the river by northern gunboats and comments about [General John] Pope (August 28, 1862).","Topics include a condolence letter (July 12, 1873) concerning the death of Julia Leiper Wickham (1859-1873).","Correspondents include: Peter J. Chevallie to his wife, Elizabeth Gilliam Chevallie; Sarah Magee \"Sally\" Chevallie Warwick (1816-1846) to her mother, Elizabeth Green Gilliam Chevallie (1796-1865); Joseph Gallego to his nephew, Peter J. Chevallie;  Henry Chevallie to his sister, Mary G. Chevallie; and Abraham Warwick (1794-1874) to his daughter-in-law, Elise F. Warwick.","Correspondents include: Robert Gamble; S.P. Gregory; Gene and [George?] Griffin; A.G. Grinnan; Evelyn Hale; Hetty Cary Harrison; Ella Havisham; Jane R. Haxall; Rosalie Haxall; Eva Mary Anna Mason Heth (1836-1915); Mary Heywood (with a photograph of her on her 78th birthday);  E.[L.] Holmes; R.R. Howison; J. Johns, Jr.; S. Harvey Johnson; William T. Joyner; W.M. Justis; Bessie D. Kane; J.D.L. Kane; Sallie G. Kean; and Ethel Kilburn.\nTopics include the Civil War (Robert Gamble, June 19, 1863); reminiscences about the Civil War and General Stuart, and a discussion about genealogy (A.G. Grinnan, 1892-1893); family reading (R.R. Howison, January 30, 1878); discussion of Reuben Lindsay Walker (1827-1890), commander of the Third Corps artillery, and his opposition to the peace commission, known as the [Hampton Roads Conference] during the Civil War and political issues that will arise at the conclusion of the war (William T. Joyner, February 3, 1865); and the poor state of the Confederate army, due in part to desertions (William T. Joyner, February 25, 1865).","Correspondents include: Frances Wickham Graham; [Hartley] Graham; James Duncan Graham; Salva Graham; and William F. Wickham.\nTopics include chiefly family news but also some references to the work of James Duncan Graham as a member of the United States Engineer Corps (April 13, 1862; April 9, 1865; May 9, 1865); the condition of the South at the conclusion of the Civil War (June 2, 1865); and papers concerning the pension of James Duncan Graham (1867-1871).","Correspondents include: E.W. Hubard and J.L. Hubard.","Correspondents include: Robert B. Lancaster; Elizabeth W. Lay; R. Bruce Lockhart; A.C. Leigh; William Leigh; Ellen McCaw; Rose M. MacDonald; F. Mark; Captain G. [Marvel]; Dido Mason; E.K.N. Massie; Alice W. Meade; Susan W. Miller; Edgar Miller; F.B. Minor; Mary W. Minor;  and M.M. Morris. \nTopics include work on the book about old homes of Hanover (Robert B. Lancaster, January 8, 1984); the fire at Hickory Hill (Elizabeth W. Lay, February 17, 1875); and notification of an ankle injury of Captain W. Leigh Wickham in Chattanooga, Tennessee while serving as paymaster for the Confederate army (Edgar Miller, May 2, 1863).","Correspondents include: Agnes Lee, Annie C. Lee, Ann H. Lee, C.C. Lee; Mary Custis Lee; Richard Henry Lee (1794-1865) concerning the state literary fund and his proposed memoir of Richard A. Lee; Robert E. Lee, Jr. concerning the death of William F. Wickham (July 16, 1873); and William H.F. \"Rooney\"  Lee (1837-1891).","Correspondents include: Elizabeth B. Nicholas, concerning the fall of New Orleans to Federal forces (April 30, 1862); Helen N. Patterson; Lt. Colonel William H. Payne; Virginia Porcher; Lucy Carter Renshaw (1838-1965) concerning damages suffered by the \"Shirley\" plantation during the Civil War battles (July 4, 1862); Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (1863-1945); and M.C. Rives.","Correspondents include: Carrie P. Nelson; F. Nelson; F.P. Nelson; Jane E. Nelson; Jenny Nelson concerning the capture of Confederate George Washington \"Wash\" Nelson near Smithfield (November 6, 1863) and the raids of the Yankee soldiers in the neighborhood against the local residents (undated Civil War letter); Judith? Nelson; M.W. Nelson concerning the death of Lucy Carter Wickham (January 17, 1835); Mary C. Nelson; Robert Nelson on board the ship Oriental with his friend John Lewis [Points?] (August 29, 1851); Rose Nelson; Virginia L. Nelson; and W. Nelson.","Correspondents include: Anne Rose Page; Elizabeth Burwell Page; John Page; Judith Nelson Page; Leila Page; and Thomas Nelson Page concerning his book about Italy and his visit to England (January 9, 1920).","Correspondents include: George William Shelton; Amelie Louise Sigourney; M.M. Smith; Walter N. Sprinkel; A.M. Stearns; Alexander H.H. Stuart writes of his fear of the future, suggests that Williams Carter Wickham and himself travel to Washington on business to meet with some of the Yankee magnates and discuss ways to end the Civil War and expresses his sorrow over the sundering of the Union (January 23, 1865); Alta E. Stumpf concerning the awakening of Russia and its development (June 29, 1931); J.V. Swearingen; Louisa Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873) describing the death of her father, former Virginia governor, Littleton Waller Tazewell (1774-1860) in her letter (May 16, 1860); Fannie W. Toler; and C. Vanderbilt, Jr.","Correspondents include: Belle Taylor; Bertie Taylor; Edmund P. Taylor; Elizabeth Taylor; Henry Taylor; Henry Taylor, Jr., John Taylor; Julianna Dunlap Leiper Taylor (1801-1883); R.I. Taylor; and Susan W. Taylor.\nOne letter from Henry Taylor, Jr., July 31, 1877, includes a very detailed discussion about Professor Colonel Peters at the University of Virginia.","Correspondents include: Davy Wallace; S. Gardner Waller; Louisa Webb; C.E. Wellford; Mary T. Williams; Captain W.L. Wingfield; Alice B. Winston; Philip B. Winston; and Beulah H.J. Woolston.","Correspondents include: A.C.L. Wickham; Elizabeth S. Wickham; Fanny Wickham concerning the death of Ella Wickham (March 27, 1851); George Wickham; Julia L. Wickham; J.L. Wickham; L.A.C. Wickham; [L.V.] Wickham; M.F. Wickham; and Sarah Wickham.","Topics include a description of the meeting of the trustees of the Peabody Fund for Education in the South, particularly Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple of Minnesota and his life among the indigenous native Americans, who he referred to as \"Indians\" (August 12, 1876).","Topics include climate change (January 31, 1872); details of the career of his friend Custis, who died in 1872 and was a water commissioner in Boston (February 8, 1872); the influence of John C. Calhoun in ruining the whole South and his own state by men following his \"evil counsel\" (January 1, 1875); discussions of reading and current politics (January 8, 1875); description of Wickham's losses during the fire in February (March 13, 1875); mentions of Lord Byron, Charles Lamb, William Cullen Bryant and other literary figures (March 22, 1875); description of the Bunker Hill centennial (June 7, 1875); detailed discussion of the career of Patrick Henry (January 1, 1878); religious reading (March 13, 1878); and Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (December 11, 1878).","The letters are chiefly social or agricultural but one, May 30, 1867, touches upon politics and international events and mentions Rives reading the biography of James Madison.","Topics include the perils of travel by stage to Norfolk, Virginia, in winter (March 3, 1817); condolence letter upon the death of his friend, John Wickham, and reflections upon Wickham's importance in his own life as a mentor and friend and his singular character (January 26, 1839); the mention of Tazewell in the will of John Wickham (March 17 and April 1, 1839); ten inch snowfall in March and the economic difficulties of the country (March 21, 1843); discussion on the political issue on \"our title to Oregon\" (February 26, 1846); and Tazewell thanking William F. Wickham for his translations of Italian comedies, but does not think they merit the efforts of someone of Wickham's ability in the Italian language (July 15, 1849).","Correspondents include: William B. Bowers; E.E. Cooke; E.S. Holmes; E. Laurens; Robert E. Lee; L.M. Mason; N.W. Massie; Catharine H. Myers; [J.] R. Ritchie; E.R. Simons; Sue R. Simons; and Sallie P. Winston.\nThe letter from Robert E. Lee to his cousin, Anne B. Carter Wickham, November 11, 1862, hand-written copy, expresses his regret that her son, Williams Carter Wickham, has again been wounded but explains that he cannot spare Wickham from returning to duty in the army.","Among the numerous correspondents are George Washington Custis Lee; Mildred Lee; W.H.F. Lee; General William Mahone; Francis H. Smith; and George D. Wise.","Correspondents include: John Minor discussing the two engravings, of General Marion and \"the Artist's Dream,\" sent by the Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in the United States and the current relations of the United States and England, especially as affected by the affair of the \"Creole\" (March 18 and October 12, 1842); Henry Clay declines an invitation to visit (February 22, 1848); John S. Mosby, concerning the service of the late Dr. James McClurg as a surgeon in the Revolutionary War (July 16 and August 6, 1849); Francis Robert Rives (1822-1891); Andrew Stevenson (1784-1857) concerning politics and enslavement (February 15, 1850) and a visit (July 20, 1854); John R. Thompson, editor of the  \"Messenger,\" refusing an essay by Wickham defending the Mormons (December 4, 1850);  Edward Vernon Childe (1804-1861) writes concerning the peace negotiations during the Crimean War (December 18, 1855); and two drafts of a letter from Wickham to Robert E. Lee concerning the arrival of the Yankee cavalry at \"Hickory Hill,\" who carried off General W.H. F. Lee as a prisoner in Wickham's carriage as well as horses and enslaved laborers, and includes the report that Charlotte Lee's health is not good and that she is much distressed at her husband's capture (June 28, 1863).","Topics include financial inquiry about Virginia's non-payment of the interest on state stock (January 17, 1872); the fire at Hickory Hill, Hanover County, Virginia (February 15, 1875); the voyage of William D. Shipman to England and his assessment of Thomas Jefferson's life and career (July 4, 1876); Wickham's analysis of State Trials of the United States by Francis Wharton, including his own memories of the James T. Callendar trial (June 19, 1876); and William D. Shipman's mention of seeing the effigy of ancestor William of Wykeham in Winchester, England and information about him (November 6, 1876).","Topics include advice for Henry T. Wickham on entering the legal profession and the study of law (July 24, 1868); Robinson's work with a case in the Supreme Court concerning Allen T. Caperton (1810-1876) and his acts in West Virginia as Provost Marshal (April 15, 1872).","Topics include the declaration of [William B.] Preston for the immediate secession of Virginia from the Union and Wickham's fear that \"the dogs of war will be let loose\" (April 16, 1861); two letters from Colonel [Beverly Holcombe] Robertson about missing and absent soldiers and his efforts to round them up (May 13 and 14, 1862); request for Wickham's support and vote for Robert H. Wynne as doorkeeper of the Confederate House of Representatives (December 24, 1863); John B. Baldwin informs Williams Carter Wickham that his nomination has not been acted upon (February 5, 1864) and two letters from John Taylor about family and home events during the Civil War (February 2 and 8, 1864).","Topics include a letter from Robert E. Lee about Henry T. Wickham's attendance at Washington College in Lexington and Lee's plan to write a history about military campaigns in Virginia during the Civil War (October 3, 1865) and a draft of Wickham's reply to Lee in the hand of Lucy Wickham [October 13, 1865];  a draft of Wickham's letter to General W.H.F. Lee about contemporary politics (April 16, 1868); the formation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (September 17, 1868); Horace Greeley's comments on the progress of the railroads in Virginia (November 15, 1868); request and recommendation from Alexander H.H. Stuart on behalf of two job seekers in the railroad business (May 5, 1873); efforts of C.T. Smith to get Wickham elected (August 19, 1883); two congratulatory letters on the recent election of Wickham to the Virginia Senate from B. Johnson Barbour and John T. Harris (November 19, 1883); and a request for a donation towards a University of Virginia chapel from Schele de Vere (November 21, 1883).","The diary begins with an entry about the secession of South Carolina from the Union and continues with entries about the evacuation of Fort Moultrie and the removal of troops to Fort Sumter in South Carolina; each state that secedes from the Union is noted and mention made of the firing upon the steamer Star of the West at Charleston, South Carolina; Intermixed with news of the impending war are notes about building a henhouse, nests, the receipt of toys, and weather; his father [Williams Carter Wickham] as a candidate for the Virginia Secession Convention from Henrico (January 29, 1861); and ends with an entry for February 12, 1861.","The diary mentions the following topics: the loan of a sharps rifle from George W. Randolph, supposedly owned before by John Brown and presented to the 1st [Virginia?] Regiment at Harper's Ferry; a four mile drive on the Petersburg Road to \"Strawberry Hill\" owned by Robert Edmond;  Judge and Mrs. Robertson leaving for \"Mount Athos\" their place in the country near Lynchburg, Virginia; double guard on \"the mills\" [Gallego Mills?]; the arrival of 1,000 men from Tennessee who went to the old fairgrounds; a drill by the \"Richland Rifles\" at the South Carolina camp; occupation of Alexandria by President Lincoln's troops; news of a battle at Bethel Church between Yorktown and Hampton; the departure of 2,000 troops for Manassas on June 13th; a visit to Camp Lee; examination of the fortifications below the city with locations noted; note that business is very slow since the commencement of the war; the meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Macfarland and General Lee at Mr. Lyon's [home?]; birth of a daughter [Elise Warwick Barksdale Wickham (1861-1952)] on August 28, 1861; note that he spent the last month with the 16th Virginia Regiment as Quartermaster at \"Camp Withers\" six miles from Norfolk; his orders to transfer to Colonel L. Smith's office as paymaster, September 13, 1861; and the death of cousin Fanny Townes, September 20, 1861.","Subjects include: lists of books purchased from Peter Cotton (October 20, 1816-January 27, 1817 and September 22, 1817); purchases of quills, paper, ink, chessmen, etc. (October 15, 1817); hires of enslaved laborers (January 25 and 27, 1817 and February 21, 1817); and a bill of sale for enslaved laborers (September 17, 1817).","Subjects include: medical care for enslaved laborers from Dr. W.P. Jones (January 12, February 24 and 26, March 24, and June 24, 1818); a hire of an enslaved laborer (April 2, 1819); and a bill of sale for two male enslaved men (January 19, 1820).","Subjects include: the return of a little boy, Joe Lewis, and little girl, Lucy, the property of William F. Wickham (September 28, 1821); payment to overseer William Lizer on \"South Wales\" plantation (January 26, 1821); and purchase of paper, ink, and books (July 7, 1821).","Subjects include: the hire of an enslaved girl, Jenny (January 11, 1823).","Subjects include: hiring of Nathaniel B. Priddy as overseer (1834-1835; 1837-1838, 1840); and a list of books and magazines, quills, pencils, and paper purchased (1836-1838).","Subjects include: hiring of Samuel Bumpass as overseer (1842); the sale of an enslaved boy, Washington (January 6, 1843); hiring of Nathaniel B. Priddy as overseer (1843); sale of the enslaved woman, Nancy Wylde, and her two youngest children (May 23, 1843); and the sale of an enslaved man, Ned Davis (June 27, 1843).","Subjects include: lists of books and writing supplies purchased (July 20, 1846; March 22 and April 16, 1847).","Subjects include: lists of books and writing supplies purchased (February 1848; July 14, 1848; and October 4, 1849).","Subjects include: lists of books purchased (January and November 1850); memoranda book containing the names of enslaved laborers (May 12, 1850); and the hire of enslaved men, Giles, Frank, and John from J.H. Wickham (1851).","Subjects include: list of taxable property for William F. Wickham in 1853, includes 96 enslaved laborers over 16 years old and 116 enslaved laborers over twelve years old.","Subjects include: partners listed for Warwick and Barksdale at the \"Gallego Mills\" following the death of William J. Barksdale (February 15 and July 2, 1860).","Subjects include: theft of stock certificates, bank book, and checks from Williams Carter at the \"North Wales\" plantation during a Yankee raid (May 31, 1864); copy of the last will and testament of Williams Carter with a codicil dated July 30, 1864, freeing his two enslaved women, Margaret and Sally, with any offspring that they have as soon as peace shall be established in the country (July 17, 1864); an enslaved mulatto girl named Sally was lent to Anne Butler Berkeley by Williams Carter (August 10, 1864); indenture concerning the former plantations and property of Williams Carter, Sr. including \"North Wales\" and \"Broad Neck\" (May 16, 1867); and payroll lists (April 1, 1868).","Subjects include: receipts for work in the coal banks, Clifton, West Virginia (1873).","Subjects include: a valuation of personal property at \"North Wales\" plantation; valuation of real estate of Mr. [Abraham] Warwick made by commissioners, including factories, blacksmith shop, houses, lots, and a Brookfield farm; and a list of the names of enslaved laborers, with their evaluations.","These three oversize items include an indenture between Betty Littlepage and Charles Carter of Corotoman (May 5, 1768); a deed of trust from Carter B. Page and Rebecca Page to Thomas Taylor and Benjamin Harrison (June 17, 1817); and an indenture concerning Catherine Page, \"Broad Neck\" and Williams Carter (March 11, 1822).","The oversize deeds and indentures include those signed by Carter B. and Rebecca Page and Thomas Taylor (June 7, 1817); an indenture between John Wickham, Edward Carrington, Daniel Call, and Littleton Waller Tazewell (March 17, 1800); an indenture between Harry and Anna Terrell and Charles Carter (October 7, 1769); an indenture between James Littlepage and Joel Terrell (April 23, 1751); an indenture between John Littlepage and John Carter (March 2, 1735); and a bill of sale for two male enslaved men, Billy and Cyrus (January 15, 1820).","These include a list with the heading \"A List of My Slaves, such as I wish to keep, such as I may wish to sell and may wish to send to the West\" with names, ages, special skills or jobs, and their evaluations on the \"Rocky Mills\" and \"South Wales\" plantations belonging to Edmund Fanning Wickham in 1835; an account of the sale of land and enslaved laborers at \"Rocky Mills\" in November 1842 with the name of the purchaser, name of the enslaved laborer and the prices; a list of enslaved laborers treated by Dr. J.P. Harrison (April 24, 1844; July 1845; July 1848); list of William F. Wickham's enslaved laborers by age category (1843); the evaluation of an enslaved man, Tom Christian and his entire family (December 22, 1846); a list of named enslaved laborers with their ages belonging to the estate of Dr. James McClurg, Hanover County, Virginia, with evalutions by W. O. Winston (January 18, 1852); a list of 209 named enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] (January 1854); a list of 269 named enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] (January 1859); a list of enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] who were either carried off the plantation by Yankee forces or left of their own accord during the Civil War (1862-1864); and one list of enslaved men between the ages of 18 and 55 with the notation that two are in Confederate service, 14 remain on the plantation and 33 have left and gone to the enemy (January 31, 1865) and another list of enslaved laborers that went to the enemy by year, 120 in all [1865].","These six oversize items include four land grant certificates to Edmund F. Wickham and Edwin P. Crenshaw; a London Medical Society membership certificate for Dr. James Maclurg (1784); a letter from Lucy Nelson (1835).","The oversize plats include one for \"North Wales\" plantation belonging to Charles Carter, October 4, 1779; a plat of \"South Wales\" and Lane plantations, Hanover County, according to the division of January 1818, but updated on May 21, 1858; a plat showing the part of \"South Wales\" plantation allotted to Anne B. Carter, the purchase of land by W.F. Wickham from Thomas Carter, and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation purchased by W.F. Wickham from the estate of George W. Smith, November 27, 1825; plat of \"Verdon\" Hanover County, Virginia, belonging to the estate of John T. Anderson (December 1, 1865); and an undated plat showing parcels of land west of the Missouri River, apparently belonging to Thomas Gorham and a Wickham family member, 4 items.","These six oversize items include a survey of the Broad Neck or Big Neck tract for Thomas C. Nelson (September 8, 1818); survey of the Lane tract, part of the South Wales Estate (January 1818); plat of the Lane tract, South Wales and Hickory Hill (January 1818); fields laid off and numbered from a survey of W.F. Wickham's river fields (February 16, 1837); surveys no. 137 and no. 146 in Saline County, Missouri for Edmund F. Wickham (1841); diagram of land plots to the west of the Missouri River and the 5th principal meridian, presumably in Missouri [1841-1842?].","This material includes a recollection of George Wythe by William F. Wickham (1874); and the first recollection of General Robert E. Lee by Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly, written in a letter to her brother Henry (undated); biographical sketches of Captain William C. Wickham, U.S. Navy (April 19, 1962 and September 1985), John Wickham (undated), and General Williams Carter Wickham (undated); and history of \"Hickory Hill\" (undated).","Families discussed include Fanning, Leiper, Martian, Peyton, Pye, Tabb and Barksdale, Taylor, Warwick, and Wingfield.","This includes a report of [3rd (Wickham's) Virginia Cavalry Brigade] near Front Royal, Virginia (August 23, 1864).","This folder includes such items as the weather at Hickory Hill (1857); a prayer of Bishop Meade (1861); printed advertisement for a catalog of attorneys (1875); damaged circular from a Rochester nursery (1882); a horse pedigree (undated); and \"Notes on Planting Box at Williamsburg\" by Arthur A. Shurcliff (undated).","These include Wickham's notes concerning the \"Home Reminiscences of John Randolph, of Roanoke\" by Powhatan Bouldin, the benefits of lime and marl, and W.W. Mac Farland's address.","These include [Julia L. Wickham], \"Peliso\" Orange, Virginia, gardens in Rome, [Hickory Hill], Captain Williams C. Wickham, U.S. Navy, and an unidentified boy taken by Tyson and Perry, Charlottesville, Virginia."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is open for research use.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["This collection is open for research use."],"names_ssim":["Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Wickham family","Wickham, John, 1763-1839","Wickham, William Fanning , 1793-1880","Wickham, Lucy Taylor, 1830-1913","Wickham, Williams Carter, 1820-1888","Wickham, Henry Taylor"],"corpname_ssim":["Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library"],"famname_ssim":["Wickham family"],"persname_ssim":["Wickham, John, 1763-1839","Wickham, William Fanning , 1793-1880","Wickham, Lucy Taylor, 1830-1913","Wickham, Williams Carter, 1820-1888","Wickham, Henry Taylor"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":223,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-09T07:08:45.006Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_repositories_3_resources_294","ead_ssi":"viu_repositories_3_resources_294","_root_":"viu_repositories_3_resources_294","_nest_parent_":"viu_repositories_3_resources_294","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/UVA/repositories_3_resources_294.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/120871","title_filing_ssi":"Wickham family papers","title_ssm":["Wickham family papers"],"title_tesim":["Wickham family papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1704-circa 1950"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1704-circa 1950"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["File","Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["MSS 15753","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/294"],"text":["MSS 15753","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/294","Wickham family papers","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Virginia)","Virginia -- History -- 19th Century","Plantation life -- Virginia","Slavery--United States -- Virginia","Slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County","The collection is arranged in four series, Series 1: Business correspondence arranged chronologically (Boxes 1-5). Several business correspondents warranted individual folders based on either the amount of material or the importance of the correspondent. Series 2: Correspondence of John Wickham, arranged alphabetically by the last name of the chief correspondent (Box 5); Series 3: Correspondence of the Wickham and related families, arranged by the last name of the main correspondent (Boxes 6-15); Series 4: Financial and Legal Papers and Miscellany (Boxes 16-19), all arranged in chronological order.","This collection chiefly concerns the Wickham family of Richmond, Virginia and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). When other relatives and friends appear in the folder listing, their birth and death dates and relationships are noted if known. The family owned enslaved persons and lists them by age. ","Attorney John Wickham married twice and had two lines of descent. His first wife was Mary Smith Fanning (1775-1799) by whom he had two sons, William Fanning Wickham of \"Hickory Hills,\" married to Anne Butler Carter (1797-1868), and Edmund Fanning Wickham of \"Rocky Mount\" (1796-1843), married to Anne's sister, Lucy Carter (1799-1835). ","After the death of his first wife, John Wickham married Elizabeth Seldon McClurg and had several more children. Some of these children are also represented in these papers.","Anne Carter Wickham (1851-1939), the daughter of Williams Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham, married Robert H. Renshaw (1833-1910) in 1881 and they had four children. In 1920, Anne Renshaw married Dr. W.E. Byerly and lived in Massachusetts.","Lucy Carter Wickham Byrd was the daughter of Edmund Fanning Wickham (1796-1834) and Lucy Carter (1799-1835) and the wife of George Harrison Byrd (1827-1910).","Apparently the spelling of his name varies slightly from his mother's family name, Maclurg versus McClurg, but the use here reflects the spelling on his grave stone.","The Howard School opened in 1831 and continued until 1834 with two teachers, the Reverend Jonathan Loring Woart (1807-1838) and his brother, the Reverend John Woart. The Episcopal High School opened in 1839 on the former Howard School location. There are also letters from the Reverend Jonathan Loring Woart (1807-1838) to William F. Wickham, including progress reports on the two boys, among this correspondence.","Added fa to VH 7 Dec. 2017.","The original letter has been transferred to the Henry Clay Papers.","Originals of these letters transferred to the John Randolph of Roanoke papers.","The originals of all three Wirt letters have been transferred to the Autographs collection.","The original of the Robert E. Lee letter has been transferred to the Robert E. Lee papers.","The  original of the Lee letter  has been transferred to the Robert E. Lee papers.","The original of letters to Robert E. Lee have been transferred to the Robert E. Lee papers, the originals of the letters from Henry Clay transferred to the Henry Clay papers and those from John Singleton Mosby were transferred to the John Singleton Mosby papers.","The originals of Lee letters were transferred to Robert E. Lee papers.","The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). ","The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with immediate and extended relatives; personal correspondence from friends and political associates; two brief diaries discussing the secession and the beginning of the Civil War; financial and legal papers, including lists of books purchased, hires of enslaved laborers, the purchase of enslaved laborers, medical care for enslaved laborers, losses from invading soldiers during the Civil War, estate values, including those of enslaved laborers, indentures, deeds, receipts, plats and surveys, and lists of enslaved laborers by name and age; genealogies and genealogical charts; invitations and calling cards; military papers of General Williams Carter Wickham in the Civil War and Captain Williams Carter Wickham, U.S. Navy; news clippings; some notes and manuscripts of William F. Wickham; a few photographs and snapshots; poetry; hand-written recipes; school papers; and sympathy and greeting cards. ","There is also a hand drawn map of Hickory Hill plantation, the Wickham family estate which may have been drawn by a descendant of an enslaved laborer. It shows a diagram of \"Mammy's House\" and surrounding buildings that were revisited in the 1980's. The pages following the illustration name African Americans who were still living and working at Hickory Hill estate in the early 1900's. Mentioned are the families of John Robinson, Albert Cash,  Henry Toliver, Edith Jackson, Matt Foley, Maria Tucker, Ruben Lewis,Landonia Lewis, ALec Hewlett, Louisa and Albert Jackson, Henry Abrams, Betty Jackson, John Abram and Roselyn, Milton Hewlett, and Virginia Shelton.","Topics include the Civil War, the relationships between family members in both the North and the South, and attitudes toward secession; many aspects of enslavement, often naming the enslaved laborers involved; Virginia and national politics; the practice of agriculture in Virginia; the education of the children of Virginia planters, including attendance at the Howard School, Episcopal High School, Washington College and the University of Virginia; military service of General Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), Captain William Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and other Wickham relatives.  ","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include:, John Slidell and Co., Thomas C. Keaton, William Lyne, W.P. Mason, W.T. Nivison, William B. Page, Philip Rogers, Thomas Rotch, Penn T. Sale, John M. Shepherd, Peter F. Smith, Thomas Strode, William Sullivan, Thomas Swann, Richard Wallack, Ralph Wingfield, Alice B. Winston, and Zach Vowels","Correspondents, chiefly with Edmund F. Wickham, include: Williams Carter (1819), Archibald Gracie and Robert Gracie (1821), and multiple correspondents in 1822: Curwen and Hagarty, Samuel John Dunlop, King and Gracie, Samuel Lambert, and Robert Hughes and Co.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: James Dunlop, Ninian Edwards, John Ferguson, C.B. Fleet, William Fleet, Robert Gracie, Francis Gregg, James Hagarty, George E. Harrison, James Henderson, L. Jones, T. Jones, and Robert King.","Letters involving enslavement or enslaved laborers include one from L. Jones, asking for protection for \"old Billy\" and mentioning other issues concerning the welfare of enslaved laborers, January 2, 1823, and another letter from Ninian Edwards discussing the possible purchase of a female enslaved laborer for the wife of Dr. Harvey Lane, January 13, 1823.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Henry Arnall, Curwen and Hagarty, [J.] Dunlop, Ninian Edwards, C.B. Fleet, John G. Gamble, Robert G. Harper, George E. Harrison, Jones and Rodes, Hardage Lane, C.C. Lee, Lewis and Tomes, George Marx, John Morgan, and Charles Morris.","Letters involving enslavement include the inquiry by Robert G. Harper, May 5, 182[3], for information about the \"present condition, conduct, and prospects\" of some manumitted enslaved laborers formerly belonging to Samuel Gist who were freed in his will. He also asks for  the name and address of some respectable and intelligent person in the area where the freed formerly enslaved laborers now live who can send a report to Gist's relatives.","Correspondents, chiefly Edmund F. Wickham and William F. Wickham, include: Curwen and Hagarty, James Dunlop, John Dunlop, William Logan Fisher, William Fleet, George Greenhow, George E. Harrison, B.B. Keesee, Robert King, Thomas Kelly, Hardage Lane, Lewis and Tomes, Charles F. Logan, William Lyne, and  Robert and John Oliver. One letter mentions a runaway enslaved man, named Joe, December 18, 1823.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: David Barclay, John H. Blair, Carter Braxton, William Burns, William L. Dance, S.W. Dandridge, Aaron Denman, Robert Douthat, Ninian Edwards, William Fleet, Gillingham and Randolphs (G.F. and E. Randolph), James Hagerty, George E. Harrison, John Hopkins, and Thomas and John G. Riddle.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Richard Anderson, John Balfour, Thomas and John S. Biddle, Carter Braxton, William Burns, Hugh Campbell, Robert Douthat, and Gillingham and Randolphs (G.F. and E. Randolph).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Carter Berkeley, Carter Braxton, Roger Mallory, Thomas Nelson, and William F. Wickham to Thomas B. Coleman. Roger Mallory, the jailor in Petersburg, Virginia, writes concerning a runaway enslaved man named Jim who finally admitted he belonged to William F. Wickham. Jim had originally claimed to belong to Price Sharpe who was charged with permitting him to \"go at large contrary to law,\" and hire himself out, March 19, 1827.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: G.H. Bacchus, Thomas T. Bouldin, Thomas B. Coleman, M. Huelin,  Benjamin Whitehead Ladd, W.H. McFarland, William Nelson, John W. Payne, William G. Pendleton, M.E.M. Roane, and A.B. Spooner. Topics include the reception of freed former enslaved laborers in Ohio (Benjamin W. Ladd, March 4, 1830); and the [Samuel?] Gist estate (John M. Payne, April 22, 1830).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Patrick Nesbett Edgar, John Exall, Chapman Johnson, Thomas N. Lee, John Ponsonby Martin, William Nelson, Severn E. Parker, A. Robinson, Jr., William Rowlett, J.S. Skinner, Benjamin Temple, Robert Temple, Thomas Biddle and Company, and John R. Triplett. Topics include: blue wheat (Benjamin and Robert Temple, July 4, 1830 and August 4, 1830); American turf and racing magazine (August 3, 1830; September 1, 1830; October 19, 1830); and a collection of pedigrees for an American Stud Book (October 13, 1830).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: J.D. Andrews, John Corbin, Alfred V. Crenshaw, Crouches and Snead, Gracie and Company, James Gray, Richard B. Haxall, William Hilberg, James Lyle, and Francis Page. Topics include problems with a horse purchased from Wickham (November 15, 1838), the safe arrival of the Andrews family in Houston, Texas (January 28, 1839), and the sending of an enslaved man named Jefferson to fetch two mules from Wickham (April 22, 1839).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Beers and Poindexter, Robert M. Candlish, John S. Corbin, Robert Ellett, William Linton, A.T.B. Merritt, Nathaniel Nelson, J.W. Pegram, W. Richardson, Thomas Samson, John Shore, John N. Tazewell, James G. Watson, and William L. White. Topics include mention of the horse \"Priam\" at Merritt's Hicks Ford stud in Virginia and the failure of Wickham's Eclipse mare to foal last spring (May 11, 1842); the dire condition of the [enslaved man?] old Bob Clark and his family on the land of Nathanael Nelson and attempts to provide for their care (June 15 and July 11, 1842); and a discussion of improvements to Wickham's bevel wheel (July 11, 1842) by Thomas Samson of D.J. Burr and Company.","Correspondents include: John S. Corbin, Nathanael Cross, William Dorbaker, Thomas Ellis and Charles Ellis, Robert G. Gilman, J.H. Martin, [S.H.] Parker, James L. Pendleton, James A. Seddon, Jane J. Swann, George Taylor, John N. Tazewell, William L. White, and John Wight. Topics include lumber needed for a penitentiary and a possible list of enslaved laborers written in pencil on an address portion of the letter (October 10, 1842).","Correspondents include: Warwick Barksdale, John Barr, Samuel Cottrell, Richard Gwathmey, John Struthers and Son, Lucius Minor, William Nelson, Lucien B. Price, Richard Randolph, Edmund Ruffin, William D. Taylor, John N. Tazewell, Philip B. Winston, and Richard M. Young (General Land Office). Topics include the sale of two enslaved women (January 29, 1845).","Correspondents include: Warwick Barksdale, Wellington Goddin, Phineas Janney, C.C. Lee, Thomas Nelson, Bernard Peyton, [Lucien] B. Price, John T. Rogers, Edmund Ruffin, Robert Taylor, J.R. Underwood, William F. Watson, Joseph Wingfield, and Philip B. Winston. Topics include a description of damage to the property of Joseph Wingfield by the breakage of the mill dam of Wickham (March 12, 1848).","Correspondents include: John Gibson, G.W. Goode, Richard Gwathmey, Benjamin F. Larned (1794-1862), William Leigh, Thomas Nelson, John E. Page, James A. Seddon, Alexander H.H. Stuart, William F. Watson, Hugh A. Watt, W.C. Wickham (to James M. Ford), Edmund Winston, and William Overton Winston. Topics include the shipment of some prairie birds and directions for their care (December 23, 1849); lists of enslaved laborers for hire, including \"old Fanny,\" Nancy and her three children, and Betsy (January 1, 1850); request for information about the amount due on account of the division of the \"Negroes\" or enslaved laborers (March 5, 1850); William F. Wickham as the guardian of the minor heirs of Robert C. Wickham (April 20, 1850); the offer of the use of a Southdown buck for sheep breeding (July 12, 1850); the increase of visitors to the mountains of Virginia, especially at White Sulphur Springs, the Warm Springs, and the Hot Springs (August 5, 1850); the purchase of stained glass (November 19 and 23, 1850); the return of an enslaved woman who was a wet nurse, \"Mamma Betsy\" hired the year before for his little boy (July 28, 1849; November 5, 1850); and an opinion about Jenny Lind (December 20, 1850).","Correspondents include: Alexander Hew, John F. Lay, [Laudonier] J. Randolph; Robert L. Randolph, Allen P. Richardson, William Sayre, William F. Wickham, and Thomas Wight. \nTopics include the redemption of land in Saline County, Missouri (September 13, 1853) and the settlement with McClurg Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham, and John Wickham concerning a loan from John Henry Wickham to them on August 11, 1851 (May 28, 1858).","Correspondents include: J.A. Allen, David Anderson, Jr., A.W. Ball, Ann B. Berkeley, the Reverend P.F. Berkeley, George H. Byrd (Wyman, Byrd and Co. Commission Merchants), [Magrat] Davis, R.B. Davis, Robert Johnston, J.H. Montague, H.C. Parsons, James H. Storrs, John R. Taylor, James Usher, and William F. Wickham (drafts to Ann B. Berkeley, the Reverend P.F. Berkeley, and B.W. Green). \nTopics include: the question in the legislature concerning the payment of legacies given in Confederate money between 1862-1865 (March 10, 1866); difficulties in settling court cases in West Virginia following the Civil War (November 16, 1866); a request from a woman for legal help in keeping her inheritance in her name and under her control rather than her husband's as her current lawyer advised (April 25, 1867); and reports on the \"North Wales\" farm (May 20, 27, and 31, 1870).","Correspondents include: James L. Apperson, W.W. Baldwin, Lewis D. Crenshaw, Jr., Isaac Davis, L.R. Dickinson, Maynard Dyson,  James S. Earle and Sons, George William Gibson, Charles Herndon, J.M. Hill, I.M. Parr and Son (Commission Merchants), J. Sabin and Sons (Booksellers, Printsellers and Importers), Walter C. Jones, A.C. Loomis, J.H. Montague, Henry Parry, G. Peyton, Joseph T. Priddy, R.H. Maury and Co. (Stock and Exchange Brokers), J.W. Ratcliffe, C.T. Smith, E.D. Starke, A.T. Stewart, W.T. Tinsley, H. Wernich, William F. Wickham (draft to L. Upshur Evans), and Wright and Co., Rio de Janeiro. \nTopics include: the sale of property in Richmond, Virginia, of a former brewery belonging to the estate of David G. Yuengling, Jr. along the James River called the \"James River Steam Brewery\" (August 16, 1879).","Correspondents include: George B. Butler, Alexander Kaslovistsh, and John Watkins.","Alvis discusses the farm operations of the East Tuckahoe Plantation.","The company sends sketches and discusses the replacement of the mantle damaged in the house fire at Hickory Hill.","Discusses the oak tobacco boxes supplied by Edmund F. Wickham from \"Rocky Mills\" plantation.","Correspondence is chiefly with William F. Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham. Topics include concern about the \"military bill\" in the South as a way for Congress to get at the landed property there (March 4, 1867); Wickham's fondness for memoirs and other mentions of reading (December 17, 1868; May 30, 1873; June 15 and 20, 1875; February 11, 1876; May 4, 1877; July 2, 1880); and the offer of building supplies currently at \"Broad Neck\" in order to rebuild the house at \"Hickory Hill\" after a fire (February 16, 1875).","Correspondence is chiefly with William F. Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham. Topics include the financial affairs of their cousin Georgina L. Featherstonhaugh (September 24 and October 28, 1879).","Topics include Carter's impressions of Bristol College, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (October 18, 1834); complaints about the western states and their impact upon agricultural prices and politics, mentioning James Buchanan by name (July 17, 1846); suggestion that the enslaved laborers belonging to their nephews, Robert and John Wickham, be sold to pay the debt of their education (June 18, 1847); mention of a violent snowstorm that occurred just after he had returned home on a gunboat following a period of being nursed by his sister at \"Hickory Hill\" (November 8, 1862); and the death of Julia Wickham (July 16, 1873).","Correspondents include C.P. Huntington (President), Henry Taylor Wickham, and Williams C. Wickham and J.S.F. Smith (Paint Creek Depot) concerning the opening of the coal mines on the land purchased from the Hansford heirs and the employment of miners in Kanawha County, West Virginia.","Correspondents include C.P. Huntington (President), Henry Taylor Wickham, and Williams C. Wickham and J.S.F. Smith (Paint Creek Depot) concerning the opening of the coal mines on the land purchased from the Hansford heirs and the employment of miners in Kanawha County, West Virginia.","Letters concern lands held by Reuben Jenkins and John Henry Wickham in Saline County, Missouri.","Letters discuss matters concerning the Louisa Railroad, which was chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in 1836, and renamed the Virginia Central Railroad in 1850, with Fontaine as its longtime president.","Correspondence is concerned with securing payment on the accounts of John Wickham and Littleton W. T. Wickham, brothers of William F. Wickham by an immediate sale of livestock and agricultural goods.","Mentions the illness of President Monroe and his own wife, Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay, the daughter of Monroe (August 4, 1823) and expresses disparaging remarks concerning a Yankee business associate (October 19, 1823).","Topics include a request to help in the administration of the estate of Dr. McClurg (March 2, 1839); fears about the possible death of his son, Thomas, in [Mississippi?] (June 22, 1839); instructions about the purchase of summer clothing for the enslaved laborers by Alvis (April 21, 1840); mention that there are 70 enslaved laborerss associated with the \"Rocky Mills\" plantation of Edmund Wickham and 40 additional enslaved laborers associated with his father's [John Wickham] estate (July 28, 1842). Much of the correspondence in general deals with the settling of the estate of John Wickham (1763-1839).","Discusses arrangements for the support of Mr. Harrison's children and his disappointment with Dr. Selden.","Letter of introduction from Henry Clay for Mr. Bainbridge of Kentucky to John Wickham.","Kerr requests copies of any ordinances or laws concerning lands either given or planned to be given by the state of Virginia to the officers and soldiers who served in either the Continental Army or the Virginia state militia for use in the United States Court in Ohio.","Discusses the best way to secure the claim of Dr. McClurg for surgeon pay during his service in the Continental Army, keeping in mind that the United States will soon find a use for surplus money and mentions Henry Clay as doing a great deal of good [in Congress?].","Recommends that they make sure that Dr. [James] McClurg's will is recorded in Kentucky.","Notifies Wickham that he has located among his scorched papers enough information to send him a transcript of all he knows or remembers about the bonds of Mr. Balfour and invites him to visit Studley, Virginia.","Mentions the health concerns of family members and friends in Baltimore, Maryland.","Describes the worsening physical condition of Walter [Maclurg Wickham?]  in Baltimore, Maryland.","Notifies Wickham about the death of Walter [Maclurg Wickham?] in Baltimore, Maryland.","Requests Wickham provide the wording to a decree that would enable a sale of his property in Richmond, Virginia, to proceed since his power of attorney, Mr. Botts, was unable to perform his duties.","One letter, March 24, 1820, incomplete, last page only, John Randolph of Roanoke writes concerning Stephen Decatur's death. In a second letter, April 1, 1820,   part of the letter and autograph signature excised, John Randolph of Roanoke thanks Wickham for his indulgence and civility in the matter of his father's estate and mentions [Littleton Waller] Tazewell's move to Norfolk.,","Topics include: request for advice on a business proposition concerning property offered by Mr. Page as security for the payment of Tazewell's stock (July 4 and 9, 1819); Tazewell's current ill health (November 26, 1819); criticism of President John Quincy Adams and a description of a duel between Henry Clay and John Randolph of Roanoke (April 8, 1826); and damages suffered during a hurricane (October 14, 1838).","Letters concerns legal work performed by Wickham for Richardson.","Expresses concern over several outbreaks of cholera among citizens and enslaved laborers on the plantation.","Writes from White Sulphur Springs about the convalescence of Susan [Decatur Wickham (1819 -1831)].","John Wickham addresses business matters in his absence on a trip to Philadelphia, sending four letters from stops in Washington, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia.","He discusses the prospects for the wheat crop, the demand for flour in [American] towns and South America, and reports on his conversations with Mr. Haxall about pricing if the crop is delivered early (May through August 1830) and the last letter mentions their pleasant stay at the Sulphur Springs and Sweet Springs and the journey home, the drought in Kentucky and Ohio, and \"this new explosion in France\" (September 24, 1830).","Wickham writes to his son William F. Wickham with concerns about his wheat crop, a notification of an outbreak of disease at Howard School for boys from Jonathan Loring Woart, and the preoccupation of the Virginia General Assembly over internal improvements (January 29 and May 30, 1834); the design of a mill powered by water (February 21, 1834); discussions about the Bank of Virginia and the elections (April 17 and 21, 1834); discussions about possible schools for their boys and rumors of a duel in Washington (September 28, 1834); discusses the President's message (December 7, 1834); an enslaved laborer, sick with cholera, who was believed to be dead several times, appears to be recovering partly due to work of Dr. McCaw (December 18, 1834); and politics in Washington (December 24, 1834).","Wickham writes to his son William F. Wickham with concerns about his wheat crop (July 6, 1837) and to his sons at the University of Virginia, George and Littleton W.T. Wickham with advice about their studies, especially geology and the study of soils, and their visit to the Natural Bridge (May 15, 1837).","The letters written during a trip to New England by William F. Wickham and Anne Wickham mention seeing the effects of a great drought all over the northeast, speculations about the wheat crop, poor corn crop of the current year, Littleton at the University of Virginia and George reporting for duty in Washington in the U.S. Navy (September 13, 17, and 25, 1838); news about the wheat market and John Wickham's health (November 20 and December 12, 1838); and news about the opening of the [James River and Kanawha Canal] and its advantages for Richmond, Virginia (December 20, 1838).","Wirt asks for Wickham's advice concerning the rights of the widow in the estate of John Ellis (December 21, 1815); in another letter, October 10, 1830, autograph signature excised, Wirt asks for his advice and support in the case of the Cherokee Nation versus the state of Georgia, argued by Wirt before the Supreme Court; and in a third undated letter, Wirt discusses a property case involving Colonel Byrd and Mr. Harrison of Berkeley and lots in Manchester and Richmond, Virginia.","Includes two letters mentioning visits by Yankees to Hickory Hill and the taking of her father as a prisoner (May 27, 1862; August 4, 1862); also includes a letter from Robert E. Lee to his cousin, Miss Annie Wickham [later Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly], Lee promises to stop by \"Hickory Hill\" to visit if at all possible on his way back to Lexington, autograph signature excised from the letter (May 23, 1870).","Letters through March 1883 are written from Port Oratava to Henry T. Wickham but in April 1883 the Renshaw's began their journey home, settling in New Market and then Boyce, Virginia, by the turn of the century; In 1906, Annie writes from the University of Virginia about Robert H. Renshaw's poor health which continues until his death in 1910.","These letters are chiefly undated, but she appears to continue her correspondence with her uncle after the death of her Aunt Anne in1868, chiefly written from New York.","Leigh mentions the death of Lizzie Wickham (February 27, 1862); General Johnston and his prospects in the Tennessee area (March 25, 1863); and the death of Mrs. Carter, probably Mary B. Randolph Carter (August 6, 1864).","One letter, September 16, 1836, described a duel between her brother James and John Chapman, which ended in reconciliation between the two men.","Contains one letter, August 17, 1863, concerning the Civil War, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, shortly before his death following his wounding and capture.","Topics include the preparation to leave for France with her husband, William Cabell Rives, appointed minister to France (June 26, 1829); and their return to Paris, France (August 2, 1851).","One letter, written from the Warm Springs Hospital, discusses Taylor's health problems and the recent Battle of Cheat Mountain (October 2, 1861).","Two letters are written from China, one from Chefoo [present day Yantai] and the second from Tsingtao, while her husband, Captain Williams C. Wickham (1887-1985) was serving in the U.S. Asiatic Fleet.","One letter from Williams Carter Wickham expresses his pleasure at her engagement to his son, Henry Taylor Wickham (August 26, 1885).","These letters are chiefly to her husband, Henry, while staying at the Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, (1911) and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (1913) for her health but two letters are to her son, Captain Williams Carter Wickham during his journey to join the Asiastic fleet (1924).","Early letters are chiefly from his grandparents, William F. and Anne Wickham, and the letters in 1864 are between Henry and his parents, Williams C. and Lucy Wickham","One letter mentions the death of his grandmother, Anne B. Carter Wickham (February 26, 1868); four letters were written as a University of Virginia student (October 17, 24, and 31, 1869; and May 8, 1870); and one letter from Henry to his son, Captain Williams C. Wickham, congratulating him on his engagement to Credilla Miller (October 2, 1911).","John Wickham writes concerning land in Franklin County, Missouri, belonging to the estate of John Wickham (July 11, 1850).","During the Civil War, Leigh Wickham received an appointment in the Confederate Quartermaster department at Memphis, Tennessee (September 13 and 19, and December 8, 1861); reports that the people of Mississippi were frightened of General Grant's army (December 23, 1862); and mentions the hanging of Colonel Lawrence Orton Williams as a Confederate spy by the Federals (June 14, 1863).","Correspondence includes one letter from Williams Carter Wickham while at the University of Virginia concerning the results of Professor Rogers' analysis of Edmund's specimens of marl (January 16, 1838).","Contains two letters from W.F. Wickham, Jr. as a student at the University of Virginia (December 19, 1848 and January 12, 1849).","Includes letters written as a student at the Episcopal High School of Virginia, Fairfax, Virginia (1874-1878) and the University of Virginia (1878-1883).","While his father is away in New York and Boston, Williams Carter Wickham sends reports on the activities and condition of the plantation, including illness and death among the enslaved laborers (September 7, 1845; September 15, 1848). Williams Carter Wickham writes with further reports to his father hoping to catch him still at Bowling Green (August 30, 1849); and Williams describes a trip with his wife Lucy to New York and on to Quebec (August 27, 1855).","This folder contains references to the participation of Williams Carter Wickham in the First Battle of Bull Run (July 24, 1861, and August 1861); rumors of possible attacks on Arlington and Alexandria and Norfolk (September 2, 1861); discussion about the ramifications of the seizure of James Murray Mason and John Slidell on board the RMS Trent by Union Captain Charles Wilkes (December 8, 1861); and W. Leigh Wickham's commission as assistant quartermaster with rank of captain (December 20, 1861). During the recent visit of William F. Wickham with General Robert E. Lee, Lee reported on the sufferings of the army in the west [1861].","Williams Carter Wickham shares his weariness of the war and announces himself as a candidate for Congress (May 15, 1863); William F. Wickham voices his concern over scarcity of food in Richmond and near Charlottesville to Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham (January 19, 1864); and William F. Wickham fears that Lee cannot maintain communications to the south and wishes he had nothing more to do with land or enslaved laborers if only his son were home in peace (June 28, [1864]).","This folder contains references to the participation of Williams Carter Wickham in the First Battle of Bull Run (July 22-23, 27, and 31, 1861).","Wickham is in Cavalry Camp, 5th Brigade and attached to Colonel Cocke's Brigade and has a complete blacksmith shop and blacksmith fixed up with his company but requires clothes for his [enslaved?] personal attendant, Robin (September 1, 1861); Many letters discuss conditions of camp life for an officer in the Confederate forces and the efforts of family at home to supply the needs and wants of their own family members in the forces but also those of other soldiers, such as clothing. The letters also show a desire to establish a local hospital for the troops like the ones run by the ladies in Fredericksburg, Virginia (September 4, 1861); Wickham writes from his camp at Fairfax Courthouse about opportunities for drilling the troops, his resignation of his seat in the Convention and in the Virginia Senate, his increasing concerns over the conduct of the war in the last two months, and the injurious effect of the capture of Fort Hatteras in North Carolina to the South (September 6, 1861); news that his son, Henry T. Taylor, is intensely reading the novels of Sir Walter Scott to the detriment of his studies (September 26, 1861); clothing made by the ladies of the community shipped off to the troops (October 12, 1861); Wickham currently at Union Mills (October 22, 1861); the difficulties of Lizzie Fry in getting a permit to leave to go home (October 24, 1861); and Wickham's meeting with General [Jeb] Stuart with whom he is very pleased (October 27, 1861).","Wickham writes a very detailed letter about the detrimental effects of fighting the Civil War on their own home soil, his dinner with General Cocke, whose ardor for the war has cooled considerably, the wasting of their best resources in an unnatural strife, and the devastation wrought by both occupying armies (November 3, 1861); and mention of Colonel Robertson and General Stuart (November 7, 13, and 29, 1861). \nWriting from Camp Frontier after an absence of three days, he describes a plan for a force of  nine companies of cavalry and three regiments of infantry, all under General Stuart, to cut off an enemy encampment near Alexandria, but this was prevented by the arrival of more Federal forces in the area near Pohick Church and describes his activities as a member of the scouting party (November 13, 1861); furnishes a description of his strategy when in new territory (November 21, 1861); shares his belief that the Yankees will advance along the Evansport line, chiefly by water, but with a land force on the telegraph road, otherwise believes that they will go into winter quarters (November 24, 1861); and repeats a report from Mr. Porcher [of South Carolina?] that some of the coloured people had been shot by the Confederates and that some of the people offered to work on the entrenchments for the Yankees for pay (November 28, 1861). \nWickham is still waiting for word on any advancement against the enemy and a describes the Federal forces arrayed against Virginia (December 4, 1861); Wickham shares his wish to command a full regiment of cavalry if he cannot have his first  preference to be at home with Lucy, his shock at hearing about the death of Mr. [Cooke?] and his efforts to secure a furlough for Church to go home for the funeral (December 14, 1861).","Wickham writes about the following topics, a story about Lt. Colonel Thomas L. Kane, commander of the Bucktail Rifles of Northern Pennsylvania and a relative (January 2, 1862); General Johnston likes Wickham's bill for the better organization of the army (January 8, 1862); Wickham's [enslaved?], attendant, Robin, has built a wonderful shelter for the horses in their winter camp (January 8, 1862); Wickham's return to Camp Ewell after his furlough (January 29, 1862); his disapproval of the bill in the Senate concerning the Virginia forces (February 4, 1862); and his concerns over the reorganization of his regiment (February 15, 1862).","Topics include the alarm of the people in the area north of the Rappahannock where people are abandoning their homes and \"Negroes\" or enslaved laborers are going northward by the hundreds (March 14, 1862); bivouacking comfortably near Brandy Station (April 4, 1862); and reports that their new location is twelve miles below Williamsburg and five miles from Yorktown at \"Blows Mill\" and that they are short on provisions (April 18, 22 and 24, 1862).","Topics include writing from Sudley Mills describes recent events that have greatly reduced his regiment and prevented his communicating with his family, noting that with 200 men Wickham charged the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry 800 strong, routing them and capturing a large number, mentioning that General Ewell has lost a leg [during the battle of Groveton] (August 30, 1862); currently near Frederick, Maryland (September 7, 1862); yesterday at Sharpsburg, Maryland, \"fought probably the most desperate battle of the war\" [Battle of Antietam], Wickham lost twenty  men killed, wounded or missing, W.H.F. Lee's horse fell with him, Lt. Colonel Thornton of the 3rd had his arm torn by a shell and died of shock, Hill Carter received two severe wounds at Boonsborough and was left in the hands of the enemy, very difficult to find anything to eat, as local people will not sell them anything, and Thomas L. Kane was just made a Brigadier General in the Union army (September 18 and 21, 1862).\nReports on his safe return from an expedition to Pennsylvania with 1800 men (October 14 and 19, 1862); details of the cavalry raid to collect horses from Mercersburg, Chambersburg, and Emmitsburg (October 19, 1862); troops destroying the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (October 21, 1862);  his participation recently in a serious battle with losses of 1500 killed or wounded [Battle of Fredericksburg], with the town of Fredericksburg totally devastated and mentions activities of Major General Ambrose Burnside (December 15 and 18, 1862).","Topics include the rejection of his resignation by the Secretary of War (January 15, 1863); staying with General Robert E. Lee at Culpeper Courthouse (March 1, 1863); discussion of the [Battle of Chancellorsville] (May 8, 1863 copy); spent the day with Lee who was in good spirits but without any hope of quick termination of the war and who would not allow his resignation, and General Jackson said to be dangerously ill with pleurisy (May 10, 1863); mentions the death of General Jackson and his fears for the safety of General Lee who he describes in appreciative terms (May 11, 1863); and describes his visit to General Lee's headquarters and assesses the results of recent battles (May 31, 1863).","Topics include Wickham's approval of the generals James Longstreet, A.P. Hill, and Richard S. Ewell (June 3, 1863); Lucy relates their losses during visits of the Yankees to \"Hickory Hill\" and \"North Wales\" plantations and the capture of Fitzhugh Lee out of his sick bed (July 25, 1863); Wickham writes from the headquarters of Wickham's Brigade, following his commission as Brigadier General (September 12, 1863); news of Julius Theodore Porcher being mortally wounded from members of the 10th South Carolina Regiment (December 1863); Lucy Wickham's visit with General Wickham near Charlottesville, Virginia (January 17, 21, 31, 1864); General Lee has issued the first order that has not received Wickham's admiration (February 8, 1864); and draft of a letter from Wickham to Captain J.E. Cook, describing his actions beginning on October 28, 1862 until November 3, 1862 (February 26, 1864).","Topics include accompanying General Robert E. Lee to the anniversary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Poney's Brigade to hear a talk on the character of General [Stonewall?] Jackson (March 29, 1864); description of the pillaging of \"Hickory Hill\" by the Yankees and their threatening Uncle Hill Carter (June 5, 1864, June 1864, August 1, 1864); mention of General Sheridan (July 25, 1864); description of the devastation in the area around Culpeper and mention of [Jubal] Early (August 12, 1864); and Wickham, while stationed in Winchester, Virginia, describing the broad valley just prior to the Battle of Winchester (September 5, 8, and 10, 1864).","Wickham attended the U.S. Naval Academy from 1904 until 1909 and most of the letters from this period were to his parents. There are also a few dating from his service aboard the U.S.S. Minnesota (1911) and the U.S.S. Smith (1913) addressed to them. Letters dated 1924 from Captain Wickham to his wife, Credilla Miller Wickham, were written while serving in the U.S. Asiastic Fleet aboard the U.S.S. Pillsbury when the navy summered at Chefoo [present day Yantai], China.","Correspondents include: J.S.B. Alleyne (resolutions concerning the death of Dr. William F. Wickham in 1851); John B. Baldwin; L.M. Baldwin; Nannie P. Ballard; A.P. Bankhead; B. Johnson Barbour, John L. Barbour; Greta du Pont Barksdale (1891-1965); Phoebe [Barksdale?]; Marianna Elizabeth Barksdale (1796-1856) and her husband, William Jones Barksdale (1794-1859); Ann B. Berkeley; Letitia Glenn Biddle (1864-1950); John Minor Botts (1802-1869); Mary G. Braxton; Mary Carter Brickner; G. Thompson Brown; Alfred H. Byrd; E.H. Byrd and L.C. Byrd.\nTopics include a very detailed letter from John Minor Botts to General Williams Carter Wickham about the Civil War, particularly the requested transfer of Colonel Charles H. Wager from the infantry service to the cavalry, rumors about General Lee evacuating Virginia, complaints about the press stimulating the prejudices of the people, and rumors of a proposal to arm enslaved laborers to help fight against the Northern forces (January 8, 1865).","Correspondents include: Ellen J. Cackie; J.R. Campbell (damaged postal card only); B.B. Claike; George Colton; A. Coolidge; O.A. Crenshaw; M.W.T. Cumberland; John B. Custis; Laura G. Custis; Raleigh T. Daniel; J.S. Davis; Enid Deem; Martha Lee Doughty \"To the Women of the Confederacy\" (undated); Fanny Duncan; Georgina L. Featherstonhaugh; and Mary J. Foster.\nTopics include: a discussion of several books read by Laura G. Custis of Boston (May 25, no year) and a description of the past few months the Custis family were forced to stay in Versailles, France, due to illness and the onset of the Franco-Prussian War (March 30, [1871]).","Correspondents include: Ellen Carter, Lizzie Carter, L.W. Carter, Mary Carter, and W[illiams?] Carter, Jr.\nTopics include: the concern of W[illiams] Carter, Jr. that his father make a will immediately so that the Confederacy will not get any of [his brother?] Charles' portion of the estate.  He writes emphatically \"I don't wish the South to get a cent – no country in the history of the world has so worked out its own destruction as the Southern portion of the U.S. America, and all Christendom will in history say, Amen – next to Sodom and Gomorrah\" (February 3, 1862); W[illiams?] Carter, Jr. also asks that the enslaved laborers on both the North Wales and South Wales plantations be sent to Charlotte or some safe place so they will not be sold like cattle, mentioning all of the Tom and Sarah Fox family, Ben Napper and family, the Tom Brown and Harry Brown families, and other enslaved laborers by first name only (March 1, 1862).","Correspondents include: A.W. Carter; Agnes M. Carter; Annie Carter; Betty Carter; E.H. Carter; Emily Carter; Fanny N. Carter; L.H. Carter, Louise Carter, Pauline Carter, Susan Roy Carter, Thomas B. Carter, Thomas H. Carter (1831-1908), and Williams Carter.\nTopics include: the death of Julia Wickham (Thomas H. Carter, July 19, 1873); an expression of hope that the nation will mend following the Civil War, saying \"my hatred for Davis is only equaled by that for Charles Sumner,\" and mention of balloon flights and France's position of strength in Europe (Thomas B. Carter, Paris, May 22, 1866).","Topics of note include two references to the Civil War, including the \"suffering northern soldiers\" and the sentiment \"the same God made us all\" (August 10, 1861); and a second letter about the Civil War concerning shelling of the area near Shirley along the river by northern gunboats and comments about [General John] Pope (August 28, 1862).","Topics include a condolence letter (July 12, 1873) concerning the death of Julia Leiper Wickham (1859-1873).","Correspondents include: Peter J. Chevallie to his wife, Elizabeth Gilliam Chevallie; Sarah Magee \"Sally\" Chevallie Warwick (1816-1846) to her mother, Elizabeth Green Gilliam Chevallie (1796-1865); Joseph Gallego to his nephew, Peter J. Chevallie;  Henry Chevallie to his sister, Mary G. Chevallie; and Abraham Warwick (1794-1874) to his daughter-in-law, Elise F. Warwick.","Correspondents include: Robert Gamble; S.P. Gregory; Gene and [George?] Griffin; A.G. Grinnan; Evelyn Hale; Hetty Cary Harrison; Ella Havisham; Jane R. Haxall; Rosalie Haxall; Eva Mary Anna Mason Heth (1836-1915); Mary Heywood (with a photograph of her on her 78th birthday);  E.[L.] Holmes; R.R. Howison; J. Johns, Jr.; S. Harvey Johnson; William T. Joyner; W.M. Justis; Bessie D. Kane; J.D.L. Kane; Sallie G. Kean; and Ethel Kilburn.\nTopics include the Civil War (Robert Gamble, June 19, 1863); reminiscences about the Civil War and General Stuart, and a discussion about genealogy (A.G. Grinnan, 1892-1893); family reading (R.R. Howison, January 30, 1878); discussion of Reuben Lindsay Walker (1827-1890), commander of the Third Corps artillery, and his opposition to the peace commission, known as the [Hampton Roads Conference] during the Civil War and political issues that will arise at the conclusion of the war (William T. Joyner, February 3, 1865); and the poor state of the Confederate army, due in part to desertions (William T. Joyner, February 25, 1865).","Correspondents include: Frances Wickham Graham; [Hartley] Graham; James Duncan Graham; Salva Graham; and William F. Wickham.\nTopics include chiefly family news but also some references to the work of James Duncan Graham as a member of the United States Engineer Corps (April 13, 1862; April 9, 1865; May 9, 1865); the condition of the South at the conclusion of the Civil War (June 2, 1865); and papers concerning the pension of James Duncan Graham (1867-1871).","Correspondents include: E.W. Hubard and J.L. Hubard.","Correspondents include: Robert B. Lancaster; Elizabeth W. Lay; R. Bruce Lockhart; A.C. Leigh; William Leigh; Ellen McCaw; Rose M. MacDonald; F. Mark; Captain G. [Marvel]; Dido Mason; E.K.N. Massie; Alice W. Meade; Susan W. Miller; Edgar Miller; F.B. Minor; Mary W. Minor;  and M.M. Morris. \nTopics include work on the book about old homes of Hanover (Robert B. Lancaster, January 8, 1984); the fire at Hickory Hill (Elizabeth W. Lay, February 17, 1875); and notification of an ankle injury of Captain W. Leigh Wickham in Chattanooga, Tennessee while serving as paymaster for the Confederate army (Edgar Miller, May 2, 1863).","Correspondents include: Agnes Lee, Annie C. Lee, Ann H. Lee, C.C. Lee; Mary Custis Lee; Richard Henry Lee (1794-1865) concerning the state literary fund and his proposed memoir of Richard A. Lee; Robert E. Lee, Jr. concerning the death of William F. Wickham (July 16, 1873); and William H.F. \"Rooney\"  Lee (1837-1891).","Correspondents include: Elizabeth B. Nicholas, concerning the fall of New Orleans to Federal forces (April 30, 1862); Helen N. Patterson; Lt. Colonel William H. Payne; Virginia Porcher; Lucy Carter Renshaw (1838-1965) concerning damages suffered by the \"Shirley\" plantation during the Civil War battles (July 4, 1862); Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (1863-1945); and M.C. Rives.","Correspondents include: Carrie P. Nelson; F. Nelson; F.P. Nelson; Jane E. Nelson; Jenny Nelson concerning the capture of Confederate George Washington \"Wash\" Nelson near Smithfield (November 6, 1863) and the raids of the Yankee soldiers in the neighborhood against the local residents (undated Civil War letter); Judith? Nelson; M.W. Nelson concerning the death of Lucy Carter Wickham (January 17, 1835); Mary C. Nelson; Robert Nelson on board the ship Oriental with his friend John Lewis [Points?] (August 29, 1851); Rose Nelson; Virginia L. Nelson; and W. Nelson.","Correspondents include: Anne Rose Page; Elizabeth Burwell Page; John Page; Judith Nelson Page; Leila Page; and Thomas Nelson Page concerning his book about Italy and his visit to England (January 9, 1920).","Correspondents include: George William Shelton; Amelie Louise Sigourney; M.M. Smith; Walter N. Sprinkel; A.M. Stearns; Alexander H.H. Stuart writes of his fear of the future, suggests that Williams Carter Wickham and himself travel to Washington on business to meet with some of the Yankee magnates and discuss ways to end the Civil War and expresses his sorrow over the sundering of the Union (January 23, 1865); Alta E. Stumpf concerning the awakening of Russia and its development (June 29, 1931); J.V. Swearingen; Louisa Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873) describing the death of her father, former Virginia governor, Littleton Waller Tazewell (1774-1860) in her letter (May 16, 1860); Fannie W. Toler; and C. Vanderbilt, Jr.","Correspondents include: Belle Taylor; Bertie Taylor; Edmund P. Taylor; Elizabeth Taylor; Henry Taylor; Henry Taylor, Jr., John Taylor; Julianna Dunlap Leiper Taylor (1801-1883); R.I. Taylor; and Susan W. Taylor.\nOne letter from Henry Taylor, Jr., July 31, 1877, includes a very detailed discussion about Professor Colonel Peters at the University of Virginia.","Correspondents include: Davy Wallace; S. Gardner Waller; Louisa Webb; C.E. Wellford; Mary T. Williams; Captain W.L. Wingfield; Alice B. Winston; Philip B. Winston; and Beulah H.J. Woolston.","Correspondents include: A.C.L. Wickham; Elizabeth S. Wickham; Fanny Wickham concerning the death of Ella Wickham (March 27, 1851); George Wickham; Julia L. Wickham; J.L. Wickham; L.A.C. Wickham; [L.V.] Wickham; M.F. Wickham; and Sarah Wickham.","Topics include a description of the meeting of the trustees of the Peabody Fund for Education in the South, particularly Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple of Minnesota and his life among the indigenous native Americans, who he referred to as \"Indians\" (August 12, 1876).","Topics include climate change (January 31, 1872); details of the career of his friend Custis, who died in 1872 and was a water commissioner in Boston (February 8, 1872); the influence of John C. Calhoun in ruining the whole South and his own state by men following his \"evil counsel\" (January 1, 1875); discussions of reading and current politics (January 8, 1875); description of Wickham's losses during the fire in February (March 13, 1875); mentions of Lord Byron, Charles Lamb, William Cullen Bryant and other literary figures (March 22, 1875); description of the Bunker Hill centennial (June 7, 1875); detailed discussion of the career of Patrick Henry (January 1, 1878); religious reading (March 13, 1878); and Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (December 11, 1878).","The letters are chiefly social or agricultural but one, May 30, 1867, touches upon politics and international events and mentions Rives reading the biography of James Madison.","Topics include the perils of travel by stage to Norfolk, Virginia, in winter (March 3, 1817); condolence letter upon the death of his friend, John Wickham, and reflections upon Wickham's importance in his own life as a mentor and friend and his singular character (January 26, 1839); the mention of Tazewell in the will of John Wickham (March 17 and April 1, 1839); ten inch snowfall in March and the economic difficulties of the country (March 21, 1843); discussion on the political issue on \"our title to Oregon\" (February 26, 1846); and Tazewell thanking William F. Wickham for his translations of Italian comedies, but does not think they merit the efforts of someone of Wickham's ability in the Italian language (July 15, 1849).","Correspondents include: William B. Bowers; E.E. Cooke; E.S. Holmes; E. Laurens; Robert E. Lee; L.M. Mason; N.W. Massie; Catharine H. Myers; [J.] R. Ritchie; E.R. Simons; Sue R. Simons; and Sallie P. Winston.\nThe letter from Robert E. Lee to his cousin, Anne B. Carter Wickham, November 11, 1862, hand-written copy, expresses his regret that her son, Williams Carter Wickham, has again been wounded but explains that he cannot spare Wickham from returning to duty in the army.","Among the numerous correspondents are George Washington Custis Lee; Mildred Lee; W.H.F. Lee; General William Mahone; Francis H. Smith; and George D. Wise.","Correspondents include: John Minor discussing the two engravings, of General Marion and \"the Artist's Dream,\" sent by the Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in the United States and the current relations of the United States and England, especially as affected by the affair of the \"Creole\" (March 18 and October 12, 1842); Henry Clay declines an invitation to visit (February 22, 1848); John S. Mosby, concerning the service of the late Dr. James McClurg as a surgeon in the Revolutionary War (July 16 and August 6, 1849); Francis Robert Rives (1822-1891); Andrew Stevenson (1784-1857) concerning politics and enslavement (February 15, 1850) and a visit (July 20, 1854); John R. Thompson, editor of the  \"Messenger,\" refusing an essay by Wickham defending the Mormons (December 4, 1850);  Edward Vernon Childe (1804-1861) writes concerning the peace negotiations during the Crimean War (December 18, 1855); and two drafts of a letter from Wickham to Robert E. Lee concerning the arrival of the Yankee cavalry at \"Hickory Hill,\" who carried off General W.H. F. Lee as a prisoner in Wickham's carriage as well as horses and enslaved laborers, and includes the report that Charlotte Lee's health is not good and that she is much distressed at her husband's capture (June 28, 1863).","Topics include financial inquiry about Virginia's non-payment of the interest on state stock (January 17, 1872); the fire at Hickory Hill, Hanover County, Virginia (February 15, 1875); the voyage of William D. Shipman to England and his assessment of Thomas Jefferson's life and career (July 4, 1876); Wickham's analysis of State Trials of the United States by Francis Wharton, including his own memories of the James T. Callendar trial (June 19, 1876); and William D. Shipman's mention of seeing the effigy of ancestor William of Wykeham in Winchester, England and information about him (November 6, 1876).","Topics include advice for Henry T. Wickham on entering the legal profession and the study of law (July 24, 1868); Robinson's work with a case in the Supreme Court concerning Allen T. Caperton (1810-1876) and his acts in West Virginia as Provost Marshal (April 15, 1872).","Topics include the declaration of [William B.] Preston for the immediate secession of Virginia from the Union and Wickham's fear that \"the dogs of war will be let loose\" (April 16, 1861); two letters from Colonel [Beverly Holcombe] Robertson about missing and absent soldiers and his efforts to round them up (May 13 and 14, 1862); request for Wickham's support and vote for Robert H. Wynne as doorkeeper of the Confederate House of Representatives (December 24, 1863); John B. Baldwin informs Williams Carter Wickham that his nomination has not been acted upon (February 5, 1864) and two letters from John Taylor about family and home events during the Civil War (February 2 and 8, 1864).","Topics include a letter from Robert E. Lee about Henry T. Wickham's attendance at Washington College in Lexington and Lee's plan to write a history about military campaigns in Virginia during the Civil War (October 3, 1865) and a draft of Wickham's reply to Lee in the hand of Lucy Wickham [October 13, 1865];  a draft of Wickham's letter to General W.H.F. Lee about contemporary politics (April 16, 1868); the formation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (September 17, 1868); Horace Greeley's comments on the progress of the railroads in Virginia (November 15, 1868); request and recommendation from Alexander H.H. Stuart on behalf of two job seekers in the railroad business (May 5, 1873); efforts of C.T. Smith to get Wickham elected (August 19, 1883); two congratulatory letters on the recent election of Wickham to the Virginia Senate from B. Johnson Barbour and John T. Harris (November 19, 1883); and a request for a donation towards a University of Virginia chapel from Schele de Vere (November 21, 1883).","The diary begins with an entry about the secession of South Carolina from the Union and continues with entries about the evacuation of Fort Moultrie and the removal of troops to Fort Sumter in South Carolina; each state that secedes from the Union is noted and mention made of the firing upon the steamer Star of the West at Charleston, South Carolina; Intermixed with news of the impending war are notes about building a henhouse, nests, the receipt of toys, and weather; his father [Williams Carter Wickham] as a candidate for the Virginia Secession Convention from Henrico (January 29, 1861); and ends with an entry for February 12, 1861.","The diary mentions the following topics: the loan of a sharps rifle from George W. Randolph, supposedly owned before by John Brown and presented to the 1st [Virginia?] Regiment at Harper's Ferry; a four mile drive on the Petersburg Road to \"Strawberry Hill\" owned by Robert Edmond;  Judge and Mrs. Robertson leaving for \"Mount Athos\" their place in the country near Lynchburg, Virginia; double guard on \"the mills\" [Gallego Mills?]; the arrival of 1,000 men from Tennessee who went to the old fairgrounds; a drill by the \"Richland Rifles\" at the South Carolina camp; occupation of Alexandria by President Lincoln's troops; news of a battle at Bethel Church between Yorktown and Hampton; the departure of 2,000 troops for Manassas on June 13th; a visit to Camp Lee; examination of the fortifications below the city with locations noted; note that business is very slow since the commencement of the war; the meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Macfarland and General Lee at Mr. Lyon's [home?]; birth of a daughter [Elise Warwick Barksdale Wickham (1861-1952)] on August 28, 1861; note that he spent the last month with the 16th Virginia Regiment as Quartermaster at \"Camp Withers\" six miles from Norfolk; his orders to transfer to Colonel L. Smith's office as paymaster, September 13, 1861; and the death of cousin Fanny Townes, September 20, 1861.","Subjects include: lists of books purchased from Peter Cotton (October 20, 1816-January 27, 1817 and September 22, 1817); purchases of quills, paper, ink, chessmen, etc. (October 15, 1817); hires of enslaved laborers (January 25 and 27, 1817 and February 21, 1817); and a bill of sale for enslaved laborers (September 17, 1817).","Subjects include: medical care for enslaved laborers from Dr. W.P. Jones (January 12, February 24 and 26, March 24, and June 24, 1818); a hire of an enslaved laborer (April 2, 1819); and a bill of sale for two male enslaved men (January 19, 1820).","Subjects include: the return of a little boy, Joe Lewis, and little girl, Lucy, the property of William F. Wickham (September 28, 1821); payment to overseer William Lizer on \"South Wales\" plantation (January 26, 1821); and purchase of paper, ink, and books (July 7, 1821).","Subjects include: the hire of an enslaved girl, Jenny (January 11, 1823).","Subjects include: hiring of Nathaniel B. Priddy as overseer (1834-1835; 1837-1838, 1840); and a list of books and magazines, quills, pencils, and paper purchased (1836-1838).","Subjects include: hiring of Samuel Bumpass as overseer (1842); the sale of an enslaved boy, Washington (January 6, 1843); hiring of Nathaniel B. Priddy as overseer (1843); sale of the enslaved woman, Nancy Wylde, and her two youngest children (May 23, 1843); and the sale of an enslaved man, Ned Davis (June 27, 1843).","Subjects include: lists of books and writing supplies purchased (July 20, 1846; March 22 and April 16, 1847).","Subjects include: lists of books and writing supplies purchased (February 1848; July 14, 1848; and October 4, 1849).","Subjects include: lists of books purchased (January and November 1850); memoranda book containing the names of enslaved laborers (May 12, 1850); and the hire of enslaved men, Giles, Frank, and John from J.H. Wickham (1851).","Subjects include: list of taxable property for William F. Wickham in 1853, includes 96 enslaved laborers over 16 years old and 116 enslaved laborers over twelve years old.","Subjects include: partners listed for Warwick and Barksdale at the \"Gallego Mills\" following the death of William J. Barksdale (February 15 and July 2, 1860).","Subjects include: theft of stock certificates, bank book, and checks from Williams Carter at the \"North Wales\" plantation during a Yankee raid (May 31, 1864); copy of the last will and testament of Williams Carter with a codicil dated July 30, 1864, freeing his two enslaved women, Margaret and Sally, with any offspring that they have as soon as peace shall be established in the country (July 17, 1864); an enslaved mulatto girl named Sally was lent to Anne Butler Berkeley by Williams Carter (August 10, 1864); indenture concerning the former plantations and property of Williams Carter, Sr. including \"North Wales\" and \"Broad Neck\" (May 16, 1867); and payroll lists (April 1, 1868).","Subjects include: receipts for work in the coal banks, Clifton, West Virginia (1873).","Subjects include: a valuation of personal property at \"North Wales\" plantation; valuation of real estate of Mr. [Abraham] Warwick made by commissioners, including factories, blacksmith shop, houses, lots, and a Brookfield farm; and a list of the names of enslaved laborers, with their evaluations.","These three oversize items include an indenture between Betty Littlepage and Charles Carter of Corotoman (May 5, 1768); a deed of trust from Carter B. Page and Rebecca Page to Thomas Taylor and Benjamin Harrison (June 17, 1817); and an indenture concerning Catherine Page, \"Broad Neck\" and Williams Carter (March 11, 1822).","The oversize deeds and indentures include those signed by Carter B. and Rebecca Page and Thomas Taylor (June 7, 1817); an indenture between John Wickham, Edward Carrington, Daniel Call, and Littleton Waller Tazewell (March 17, 1800); an indenture between Harry and Anna Terrell and Charles Carter (October 7, 1769); an indenture between James Littlepage and Joel Terrell (April 23, 1751); an indenture between John Littlepage and John Carter (March 2, 1735); and a bill of sale for two male enslaved men, Billy and Cyrus (January 15, 1820).","These include a list with the heading \"A List of My Slaves, such as I wish to keep, such as I may wish to sell and may wish to send to the West\" with names, ages, special skills or jobs, and their evaluations on the \"Rocky Mills\" and \"South Wales\" plantations belonging to Edmund Fanning Wickham in 1835; an account of the sale of land and enslaved laborers at \"Rocky Mills\" in November 1842 with the name of the purchaser, name of the enslaved laborer and the prices; a list of enslaved laborers treated by Dr. J.P. Harrison (April 24, 1844; July 1845; July 1848); list of William F. Wickham's enslaved laborers by age category (1843); the evaluation of an enslaved man, Tom Christian and his entire family (December 22, 1846); a list of named enslaved laborers with their ages belonging to the estate of Dr. James McClurg, Hanover County, Virginia, with evalutions by W. O. Winston (January 18, 1852); a list of 209 named enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] (January 1854); a list of 269 named enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] (January 1859); a list of enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] who were either carried off the plantation by Yankee forces or left of their own accord during the Civil War (1862-1864); and one list of enslaved men between the ages of 18 and 55 with the notation that two are in Confederate service, 14 remain on the plantation and 33 have left and gone to the enemy (January 31, 1865) and another list of enslaved laborers that went to the enemy by year, 120 in all [1865].","These six oversize items include four land grant certificates to Edmund F. Wickham and Edwin P. Crenshaw; a London Medical Society membership certificate for Dr. James Maclurg (1784); a letter from Lucy Nelson (1835).","The oversize plats include one for \"North Wales\" plantation belonging to Charles Carter, October 4, 1779; a plat of \"South Wales\" and Lane plantations, Hanover County, according to the division of January 1818, but updated on May 21, 1858; a plat showing the part of \"South Wales\" plantation allotted to Anne B. Carter, the purchase of land by W.F. Wickham from Thomas Carter, and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation purchased by W.F. Wickham from the estate of George W. Smith, November 27, 1825; plat of \"Verdon\" Hanover County, Virginia, belonging to the estate of John T. Anderson (December 1, 1865); and an undated plat showing parcels of land west of the Missouri River, apparently belonging to Thomas Gorham and a Wickham family member, 4 items.","These six oversize items include a survey of the Broad Neck or Big Neck tract for Thomas C. Nelson (September 8, 1818); survey of the Lane tract, part of the South Wales Estate (January 1818); plat of the Lane tract, South Wales and Hickory Hill (January 1818); fields laid off and numbered from a survey of W.F. Wickham's river fields (February 16, 1837); surveys no. 137 and no. 146 in Saline County, Missouri for Edmund F. Wickham (1841); diagram of land plots to the west of the Missouri River and the 5th principal meridian, presumably in Missouri [1841-1842?].","This material includes a recollection of George Wythe by William F. Wickham (1874); and the first recollection of General Robert E. Lee by Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly, written in a letter to her brother Henry (undated); biographical sketches of Captain William C. Wickham, U.S. Navy (April 19, 1962 and September 1985), John Wickham (undated), and General Williams Carter Wickham (undated); and history of \"Hickory Hill\" (undated).","Families discussed include Fanning, Leiper, Martian, Peyton, Pye, Tabb and Barksdale, Taylor, Warwick, and Wingfield.","This includes a report of [3rd (Wickham's) Virginia Cavalry Brigade] near Front Royal, Virginia (August 23, 1864).","This folder includes such items as the weather at Hickory Hill (1857); a prayer of Bishop Meade (1861); printed advertisement for a catalog of attorneys (1875); damaged circular from a Rochester nursery (1882); a horse pedigree (undated); and \"Notes on Planting Box at Williamsburg\" by Arthur A. Shurcliff (undated).","These include Wickham's notes concerning the \"Home Reminiscences of John Randolph, of Roanoke\" by Powhatan Bouldin, the benefits of lime and marl, and W.W. Mac Farland's address.","These include [Julia L. Wickham], \"Peliso\" Orange, Virginia, gardens in Rome, [Hickory Hill], Captain Williams C. Wickham, U.S. Navy, and an unidentified boy taken by Tyson and Perry, Charlottesville, Virginia.","This collection is open for research use.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Wickham family","Wickham, John, 1763-1839","Wickham, William Fanning , 1793-1880","Wickham, Lucy Taylor, 1830-1913","Wickham, Williams Carter, 1820-1888","Wickham, Henry Taylor","English"],"unitid_tesim":["MSS 15753","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/294"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Wickham family papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Wickham family papers"],"collection_ssim":["Wickham family papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"geogname_ssm":["Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Virginia)","Virginia -- History -- 19th Century"],"geogname_ssim":["Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Virginia)","Virginia -- History -- 19th Century"],"creator_ssm":["Wickham family","Wickham, John, 1763-1839","Wickham, William Fanning , 1793-1880","Wickham, Lucy Taylor, 1830-1913","Wickham, Williams Carter, 1820-1888","Wickham, Henry Taylor"],"creator_ssim":["Wickham family","Wickham, John, 1763-1839","Wickham, William Fanning , 1793-1880","Wickham, Lucy Taylor, 1830-1913","Wickham, Williams Carter, 1820-1888","Wickham, Henry Taylor"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Wickham, John, 1763-1839","Wickham, William Fanning , 1793-1880","Wickham, Lucy Taylor, 1830-1913","Wickham, Williams Carter, 1820-1888","Wickham, Henry Taylor"],"creator_famname_ssim":["Wickham family"],"creators_ssim":["Wickham, John, 1763-1839","Wickham, William Fanning , 1793-1880","Wickham, Lucy Taylor, 1830-1913","Wickham, Williams Carter, 1820-1888","Wickham, Henry Taylor","Wickham family"],"places_ssim":["Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Virginia)","Virginia -- History -- 19th Century"],"access_terms_ssm":["This collection is open for research use."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchased, 3 July 2014. 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Several business correspondents warranted individual folders based on either the amount of material or the importance of the correspondent. Series 2: Correspondence of John Wickham, arranged alphabetically by the last name of the chief correspondent (Box 5); Series 3: Correspondence of the Wickham and related families, arranged by the last name of the main correspondent (Boxes 6-15); Series 4: Financial and Legal Papers and Miscellany (Boxes 16-19), all arranged in chronological order.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is arranged in four series, Series 1: Business correspondence arranged chronologically (Boxes 1-5). Several business correspondents warranted individual folders based on either the amount of material or the importance of the correspondent. Series 2: Correspondence of John Wickham, arranged alphabetically by the last name of the chief correspondent (Box 5); Series 3: Correspondence of the Wickham and related families, arranged by the last name of the main correspondent (Boxes 6-15); Series 4: Financial and Legal Papers and Miscellany (Boxes 16-19), all arranged in chronological order."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection chiefly concerns the Wickham family of Richmond, Virginia and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). When other relatives and friends appear in the folder listing, their birth and death dates and relationships are noted if known. The family owned enslaved persons and lists them by age. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAttorney John Wickham married twice and had two lines of descent. His first wife was Mary Smith Fanning (1775-1799) by whom he had two sons, William Fanning Wickham of \"Hickory Hills,\" married to Anne Butler Carter (1797-1868), and Edmund Fanning Wickham of \"Rocky Mount\" (1796-1843), married to Anne's sister, Lucy Carter (1799-1835). \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAfter the death of his first wife, John Wickham married Elizabeth Seldon McClurg and had several more children. Some of these children are also represented in these papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnne Carter Wickham (1851-1939), the daughter of Williams Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham, married Robert H. Renshaw (1833-1910) in 1881 and they had four children. In 1920, Anne Renshaw married Dr. W.E. Byerly and lived in Massachusetts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Carter Wickham Byrd was the daughter of Edmund Fanning Wickham (1796-1834) and Lucy Carter (1799-1835) and the wife of George Harrison Byrd (1827-1910).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApparently the spelling of his name varies slightly from his mother's family name, Maclurg versus McClurg, but the use here reflects the spelling on his grave stone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Howard School opened in 1831 and continued until 1834 with two teachers, the Reverend Jonathan Loring Woart (1807-1838) and his brother, the Reverend John Woart. The Episcopal High School opened in 1839 on the former Howard School location. There are also letters from the Reverend Jonathan Loring Woart (1807-1838) to William F. 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His first wife was Mary Smith Fanning (1775-1799) by whom he had two sons, William Fanning Wickham of \"Hickory Hills,\" married to Anne Butler Carter (1797-1868), and Edmund Fanning Wickham of \"Rocky Mount\" (1796-1843), married to Anne's sister, Lucy Carter (1799-1835). ","After the death of his first wife, John Wickham married Elizabeth Seldon McClurg and had several more children. Some of these children are also represented in these papers.","Anne Carter Wickham (1851-1939), the daughter of Williams Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham, married Robert H. Renshaw (1833-1910) in 1881 and they had four children. In 1920, Anne Renshaw married Dr. W.E. Byerly and lived in Massachusetts.","Lucy Carter Wickham Byrd was the daughter of Edmund Fanning Wickham (1796-1834) and Lucy Carter (1799-1835) and the wife of George Harrison Byrd (1827-1910).","Apparently the spelling of his name varies slightly from his mother's family name, Maclurg versus McClurg, but the use here reflects the spelling on his grave stone.","The Howard School opened in 1831 and continued until 1834 with two teachers, the Reverend Jonathan Loring Woart (1807-1838) and his brother, the Reverend John Woart. The Episcopal High School opened in 1839 on the former Howard School location. There are also letters from the Reverend Jonathan Loring Woart (1807-1838) to William F. 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Lee papers.","The  original of the Lee letter  has been transferred to the Robert E. Lee papers.","The original of letters to Robert E. Lee have been transferred to the Robert E. Lee papers, the originals of the letters from Henry Clay transferred to the Henry Clay papers and those from John Singleton Mosby were transferred to the John Singleton Mosby papers.","The originals of Lee letters were transferred to Robert E. 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Wickham; a few photographs and snapshots; poetry; hand-written recipes; school papers; and sympathy and greeting cards. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere is also a hand drawn map of Hickory Hill plantation, the Wickham family estate which may have been drawn by a descendant of an enslaved laborer. It shows a diagram of \"Mammy's House\" and surrounding buildings that were revisited in the 1980's. The pages following the illustration name African Americans who were still living and working at Hickory Hill estate in the early 1900's. Mentioned are the families of John Robinson, Albert Cash,  Henry Toliver, Edith Jackson, Matt Foley, Maria Tucker, Ruben Lewis,Landonia Lewis, ALec Hewlett, Louisa and Albert Jackson, Henry Abrams, Betty Jackson, John Abram and Roselyn, Milton Hewlett, and Virginia Shelton.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTopics include the Civil War, the relationships between family members in both the North and the South, and attitudes toward secession; many aspects of enslavement, often naming the enslaved laborers involved; Virginia and national politics; the practice of agriculture in Virginia; the education of the children of Virginia planters, including attendance at the Howard School, Episcopal High School, Washington College and the University of Virginia; military service of General Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), Captain William Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and other Wickham relatives.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include:, John Slidell and Co., Thomas C. Keaton, William Lyne, W.P. Mason, W.T. Nivison, William B. Page, Philip Rogers, Thomas Rotch, Penn T. Sale, John M. Shepherd, Peter F. Smith, Thomas Strode, William Sullivan, Thomas Swann, Richard Wallack, Ralph Wingfield, Alice B. Winston, and Zach Vowels\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with Edmund F. Wickham, include: Williams Carter (1819), Archibald Gracie and Robert Gracie (1821), and multiple correspondents in 1822: Curwen and Hagarty, Samuel John Dunlop, King and Gracie, Samuel Lambert, and Robert Hughes and Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: James Dunlop, Ninian Edwards, John Ferguson, C.B. Fleet, William Fleet, Robert Gracie, Francis Gregg, James Hagarty, George E. Harrison, James Henderson, L. Jones, T. Jones, and Robert King.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters involving enslavement or enslaved laborers include one from L. Jones, asking for protection for \"old Billy\" and mentioning other issues concerning the welfare of enslaved laborers, January 2, 1823, and another letter from Ninian Edwards discussing the possible purchase of a female enslaved laborer for the wife of Dr. Harvey Lane, January 13, 1823.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Henry Arnall, Curwen and Hagarty, [J.] Dunlop, Ninian Edwards, C.B. Fleet, John G. Gamble, Robert G. Harper, George E. Harrison, Jones and Rodes, Hardage Lane, C.C. Lee, Lewis and Tomes, George Marx, John Morgan, and Charles Morris.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters involving enslavement include the inquiry by Robert G. Harper, May 5, 182[3], for information about the \"present condition, conduct, and prospects\" of some manumitted enslaved laborers formerly belonging to Samuel Gist who were freed in his will. He also asks for  the name and address of some respectable and intelligent person in the area where the freed formerly enslaved laborers now live who can send a report to Gist's relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly Edmund F. Wickham and William F. Wickham, include: Curwen and Hagarty, James Dunlop, John Dunlop, William Logan Fisher, William Fleet, George Greenhow, George E. Harrison, B.B. Keesee, Robert King, Thomas Kelly, Hardage Lane, Lewis and Tomes, Charles F. Logan, William Lyne, and  Robert and John Oliver. One letter mentions a runaway enslaved man, named Joe, December 18, 1823.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: David Barclay, John H. Blair, Carter Braxton, William Burns, William L. Dance, S.W. Dandridge, Aaron Denman, Robert Douthat, Ninian Edwards, William Fleet, Gillingham and Randolphs (G.F. and E. Randolph), James Hagerty, George E. Harrison, John Hopkins, and Thomas and John G. Riddle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Richard Anderson, John Balfour, Thomas and John S. Biddle, Carter Braxton, William Burns, Hugh Campbell, Robert Douthat, and Gillingham and Randolphs (G.F. and E. Randolph).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Carter Berkeley, Carter Braxton, Roger Mallory, Thomas Nelson, and William F. Wickham to Thomas B. Coleman. Roger Mallory, the jailor in Petersburg, Virginia, writes concerning a runaway enslaved man named Jim who finally admitted he belonged to William F. Wickham. Jim had originally claimed to belong to Price Sharpe who was charged with permitting him to \"go at large contrary to law,\" and hire himself out, March 19, 1827.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: G.H. Bacchus, Thomas T. Bouldin, Thomas B. Coleman, M. Huelin,  Benjamin Whitehead Ladd, W.H. McFarland, William Nelson, John W. Payne, William G. Pendleton, M.E.M. Roane, and A.B. Spooner. Topics include the reception of freed former enslaved laborers in Ohio (Benjamin W. Ladd, March 4, 1830); and the [Samuel?] Gist estate (John M. Payne, April 22, 1830).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Patrick Nesbett Edgar, John Exall, Chapman Johnson, Thomas N. Lee, John Ponsonby Martin, William Nelson, Severn E. Parker, A. Robinson, Jr., William Rowlett, J.S. Skinner, Benjamin Temple, Robert Temple, Thomas Biddle and Company, and John R. Triplett. Topics include: blue wheat (Benjamin and Robert Temple, July 4, 1830 and August 4, 1830); American turf and racing magazine (August 3, 1830; September 1, 1830; October 19, 1830); and a collection of pedigrees for an American Stud Book (October 13, 1830).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: J.D. Andrews, John Corbin, Alfred V. Crenshaw, Crouches and Snead, Gracie and Company, James Gray, Richard B. Haxall, William Hilberg, James Lyle, and Francis Page. Topics include problems with a horse purchased from Wickham (November 15, 1838), the safe arrival of the Andrews family in Houston, Texas (January 28, 1839), and the sending of an enslaved man named Jefferson to fetch two mules from Wickham (April 22, 1839).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Beers and Poindexter, Robert M. Candlish, John S. Corbin, Robert Ellett, William Linton, A.T.B. Merritt, Nathaniel Nelson, J.W. Pegram, W. Richardson, Thomas Samson, John Shore, John N. Tazewell, James G. Watson, and William L. White. Topics include mention of the horse \"Priam\" at Merritt's Hicks Ford stud in Virginia and the failure of Wickham's Eclipse mare to foal last spring (May 11, 1842); the dire condition of the [enslaved man?] old Bob Clark and his family on the land of Nathanael Nelson and attempts to provide for their care (June 15 and July 11, 1842); and a discussion of improvements to Wickham's bevel wheel (July 11, 1842) by Thomas Samson of D.J. Burr and Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: John S. Corbin, Nathanael Cross, William Dorbaker, Thomas Ellis and Charles Ellis, Robert G. Gilman, J.H. Martin, [S.H.] Parker, James L. Pendleton, James A. Seddon, Jane J. Swann, George Taylor, John N. Tazewell, William L. White, and John Wight. Topics include lumber needed for a penitentiary and a possible list of enslaved laborers written in pencil on an address portion of the letter (October 10, 1842).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Warwick Barksdale, John Barr, Samuel Cottrell, Richard Gwathmey, John Struthers and Son, Lucius Minor, William Nelson, Lucien B. Price, Richard Randolph, Edmund Ruffin, William D. Taylor, John N. Tazewell, Philip B. Winston, and Richard M. Young (General Land Office). Topics include the sale of two enslaved women (January 29, 1845).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Warwick Barksdale, Wellington Goddin, Phineas Janney, C.C. Lee, Thomas Nelson, Bernard Peyton, [Lucien] B. Price, John T. Rogers, Edmund Ruffin, Robert Taylor, J.R. Underwood, William F. Watson, Joseph Wingfield, and Philip B. Winston. Topics include a description of damage to the property of Joseph Wingfield by the breakage of the mill dam of Wickham (March 12, 1848).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: John Gibson, G.W. Goode, Richard Gwathmey, Benjamin F. Larned (1794-1862), William Leigh, Thomas Nelson, John E. Page, James A. Seddon, Alexander H.H. Stuart, William F. Watson, Hugh A. Watt, W.C. Wickham (to James M. Ford), Edmund Winston, and William Overton Winston. Topics include the shipment of some prairie birds and directions for their care (December 23, 1849); lists of enslaved laborers for hire, including \"old Fanny,\" Nancy and her three children, and Betsy (January 1, 1850); request for information about the amount due on account of the division of the \"Negroes\" or enslaved laborers (March 5, 1850); William F. Wickham as the guardian of the minor heirs of Robert C. Wickham (April 20, 1850); the offer of the use of a Southdown buck for sheep breeding (July 12, 1850); the increase of visitors to the mountains of Virginia, especially at White Sulphur Springs, the Warm Springs, and the Hot Springs (August 5, 1850); the purchase of stained glass (November 19 and 23, 1850); the return of an enslaved woman who was a wet nurse, \"Mamma Betsy\" hired the year before for his little boy (July 28, 1849; November 5, 1850); and an opinion about Jenny Lind (December 20, 1850).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Alexander Hew, John F. Lay, [Laudonier] J. Randolph; Robert L. Randolph, Allen P. Richardson, William Sayre, William F. Wickham, and Thomas Wight. \nTopics include the redemption of land in Saline County, Missouri (September 13, 1853) and the settlement with McClurg Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham, and John Wickham concerning a loan from John Henry Wickham to them on August 11, 1851 (May 28, 1858).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: J.A. Allen, David Anderson, Jr., A.W. Ball, Ann B. Berkeley, the Reverend P.F. Berkeley, George H. Byrd (Wyman, Byrd and Co. Commission Merchants), [Magrat] Davis, R.B. Davis, Robert Johnston, J.H. Montague, H.C. Parsons, James H. Storrs, John R. Taylor, James Usher, and William F. Wickham (drafts to Ann B. Berkeley, the Reverend P.F. Berkeley, and B.W. Green). \nTopics include: the question in the legislature concerning the payment of legacies given in Confederate money between 1862-1865 (March 10, 1866); difficulties in settling court cases in West Virginia following the Civil War (November 16, 1866); a request from a woman for legal help in keeping her inheritance in her name and under her control rather than her husband's as her current lawyer advised (April 25, 1867); and reports on the \"North Wales\" farm (May 20, 27, and 31, 1870).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: James L. Apperson, W.W. Baldwin, Lewis D. Crenshaw, Jr., Isaac Davis, L.R. Dickinson, Maynard Dyson,  James S. Earle and Sons, George William Gibson, Charles Herndon, J.M. Hill, I.M. Parr and Son (Commission Merchants), J. Sabin and Sons (Booksellers, Printsellers and Importers), Walter C. Jones, A.C. Loomis, J.H. Montague, Henry Parry, G. Peyton, Joseph T. Priddy, R.H. Maury and Co. (Stock and Exchange Brokers), J.W. Ratcliffe, C.T. Smith, E.D. Starke, A.T. Stewart, W.T. Tinsley, H. Wernich, William F. Wickham (draft to L. Upshur Evans), and Wright and Co., Rio de Janeiro. \nTopics include: the sale of property in Richmond, Virginia, of a former brewery belonging to the estate of David G. Yuengling, Jr. along the James River called the \"James River Steam Brewery\" (August 16, 1879).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: George B. Butler, Alexander Kaslovistsh, and John Watkins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlvis discusses the farm operations of the East Tuckahoe Plantation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe company sends sketches and discusses the replacement of the mantle damaged in the house fire at Hickory Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the oak tobacco boxes supplied by Edmund F. Wickham from \"Rocky Mills\" plantation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence is chiefly with William F. Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham. Topics include concern about the \"military bill\" in the South as a way for Congress to get at the landed property there (March 4, 1867); Wickham's fondness for memoirs and other mentions of reading (December 17, 1868; May 30, 1873; June 15 and 20, 1875; February 11, 1876; May 4, 1877; July 2, 1880); and the offer of building supplies currently at \"Broad Neck\" in order to rebuild the house at \"Hickory Hill\" after a fire (February 16, 1875).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence is chiefly with William F. Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham. Topics include the financial affairs of their cousin Georgina L. Featherstonhaugh (September 24 and October 28, 1879).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include Carter's impressions of Bristol College, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (October 18, 1834); complaints about the western states and their impact upon agricultural prices and politics, mentioning James Buchanan by name (July 17, 1846); suggestion that the enslaved laborers belonging to their nephews, Robert and John Wickham, be sold to pay the debt of their education (June 18, 1847); mention of a violent snowstorm that occurred just after he had returned home on a gunboat following a period of being nursed by his sister at \"Hickory Hill\" (November 8, 1862); and the death of Julia Wickham (July 16, 1873).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include C.P. Huntington (President), Henry Taylor Wickham, and Williams C. Wickham and J.S.F. Smith (Paint Creek Depot) concerning the opening of the coal mines on the land purchased from the Hansford heirs and the employment of miners in Kanawha County, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include C.P. Huntington (President), Henry Taylor Wickham, and Williams C. Wickham and J.S.F. Smith (Paint Creek Depot) concerning the opening of the coal mines on the land purchased from the Hansford heirs and the employment of miners in Kanawha County, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters concern lands held by Reuben Jenkins and John Henry Wickham in Saline County, Missouri.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters discuss matters concerning the Louisa Railroad, which was chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in 1836, and renamed the Virginia Central Railroad in 1850, with Fontaine as its longtime president.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence is concerned with securing payment on the accounts of John Wickham and Littleton W. T. Wickham, brothers of William F. Wickham by an immediate sale of livestock and agricultural goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions the illness of President Monroe and his own wife, Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay, the daughter of Monroe (August 4, 1823) and expresses disparaging remarks concerning a Yankee business associate (October 19, 1823).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include a request to help in the administration of the estate of Dr. McClurg (March 2, 1839); fears about the possible death of his son, Thomas, in [Mississippi?] (June 22, 1839); instructions about the purchase of summer clothing for the enslaved laborers by Alvis (April 21, 1840); mention that there are 70 enslaved laborerss associated with the \"Rocky Mills\" plantation of Edmund Wickham and 40 additional enslaved laborers associated with his father's [John Wickham] estate (July 28, 1842). Much of the correspondence in general deals with the settling of the estate of John Wickham (1763-1839).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses arrangements for the support of Mr. Harrison's children and his disappointment with Dr. Selden.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of introduction from Henry Clay for Mr. Bainbridge of Kentucky to John Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKerr requests copies of any ordinances or laws concerning lands either given or planned to be given by the state of Virginia to the officers and soldiers who served in either the Continental Army or the Virginia state militia for use in the United States Court in Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the best way to secure the claim of Dr. McClurg for surgeon pay during his service in the Continental Army, keeping in mind that the United States will soon find a use for surplus money and mentions Henry Clay as doing a great deal of good [in Congress?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends that they make sure that Dr. [James] McClurg's will is recorded in Kentucky.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotifies Wickham that he has located among his scorched papers enough information to send him a transcript of all he knows or remembers about the bonds of Mr. Balfour and invites him to visit Studley, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions the health concerns of family members and friends in Baltimore, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the worsening physical condition of Walter [Maclurg Wickham?]  in Baltimore, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotifies Wickham about the death of Walter [Maclurg Wickham?] in Baltimore, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests Wickham provide the wording to a decree that would enable a sale of his property in Richmond, Virginia, to proceed since his power of attorney, Mr. Botts, was unable to perform his duties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter, March 24, 1820, incomplete, last page only, John Randolph of Roanoke writes concerning Stephen Decatur's death. In a second letter, April 1, 1820,   part of the letter and autograph signature excised, John Randolph of Roanoke thanks Wickham for his indulgence and civility in the matter of his father's estate and mentions [Littleton Waller] Tazewell's move to Norfolk.,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include: request for advice on a business proposition concerning property offered by Mr. Page as security for the payment of Tazewell's stock (July 4 and 9, 1819); Tazewell's current ill health (November 26, 1819); criticism of President John Quincy Adams and a description of a duel between Henry Clay and John Randolph of Roanoke (April 8, 1826); and damages suffered during a hurricane (October 14, 1838).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters concerns legal work performed by Wickham for Richardson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses concern over several outbreaks of cholera among citizens and enslaved laborers on the plantation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites from White Sulphur Springs about the convalescence of Susan [Decatur Wickham (1819 -1831)].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham addresses business matters in his absence on a trip to Philadelphia, sending four letters from stops in Washington, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe discusses the prospects for the wheat crop, the demand for flour in [American] towns and South America, and reports on his conversations with Mr. Haxall about pricing if the crop is delivered early (May through August 1830) and the last letter mentions their pleasant stay at the Sulphur Springs and Sweet Springs and the journey home, the drought in Kentucky and Ohio, and \"this new explosion in France\" (September 24, 1830).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham writes to his son William F. Wickham with concerns about his wheat crop, a notification of an outbreak of disease at Howard School for boys from Jonathan Loring Woart, and the preoccupation of the Virginia General Assembly over internal improvements (January 29 and May 30, 1834); the design of a mill powered by water (February 21, 1834); discussions about the Bank of Virginia and the elections (April 17 and 21, 1834); discussions about possible schools for their boys and rumors of a duel in Washington (September 28, 1834); discusses the President's message (December 7, 1834); an enslaved laborer, sick with cholera, who was believed to be dead several times, appears to be recovering partly due to work of Dr. McCaw (December 18, 1834); and politics in Washington (December 24, 1834).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham writes to his son William F. Wickham with concerns about his wheat crop (July 6, 1837) and to his sons at the University of Virginia, George and Littleton W.T. Wickham with advice about their studies, especially geology and the study of soils, and their visit to the Natural Bridge (May 15, 1837).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters written during a trip to New England by William F. Wickham and Anne Wickham mention seeing the effects of a great drought all over the northeast, speculations about the wheat crop, poor corn crop of the current year, Littleton at the University of Virginia and George reporting for duty in Washington in the U.S. Navy (September 13, 17, and 25, 1838); news about the wheat market and John Wickham's health (November 20 and December 12, 1838); and news about the opening of the [James River and Kanawha Canal] and its advantages for Richmond, Virginia (December 20, 1838).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWirt asks for Wickham's advice concerning the rights of the widow in the estate of John Ellis (December 21, 1815); in another letter, October 10, 1830, autograph signature excised, Wirt asks for his advice and support in the case of the Cherokee Nation versus the state of Georgia, argued by Wirt before the Supreme Court; and in a third undated letter, Wirt discusses a property case involving Colonel Byrd and Mr. Harrison of Berkeley and lots in Manchester and Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes two letters mentioning visits by Yankees to Hickory Hill and the taking of her father as a prisoner (May 27, 1862; August 4, 1862); also includes a letter from Robert E. Lee to his cousin, Miss Annie Wickham [later Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly], Lee promises to stop by \"Hickory Hill\" to visit if at all possible on his way back to Lexington, autograph signature excised from the letter (May 23, 1870).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters through March 1883 are written from Port Oratava to Henry T. Wickham but in April 1883 the Renshaw's began their journey home, settling in New Market and then Boyce, Virginia, by the turn of the century; In 1906, Annie writes from the University of Virginia about Robert H. Renshaw's poor health which continues until his death in 1910.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters are chiefly undated, but she appears to continue her correspondence with her uncle after the death of her Aunt Anne in1868, chiefly written from New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeigh mentions the death of Lizzie Wickham (February 27, 1862); General Johnston and his prospects in the Tennessee area (March 25, 1863); and the death of Mrs. Carter, probably Mary B. Randolph Carter (August 6, 1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter, September 16, 1836, described a duel between her brother James and John Chapman, which ended in reconciliation between the two men.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains one letter, August 17, 1863, concerning the Civil War, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, shortly before his death following his wounding and capture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include the preparation to leave for France with her husband, William Cabell Rives, appointed minister to France (June 26, 1829); and their return to Paris, France (August 2, 1851).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter, written from the Warm Springs Hospital, discusses Taylor's health problems and the recent Battle of Cheat Mountain (October 2, 1861).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters are written from China, one from Chefoo [present day Yantai] and the second from Tsingtao, while her husband, Captain Williams C. Wickham (1887-1985) was serving in the U.S. Asiatic Fleet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter from Williams Carter Wickham expresses his pleasure at her engagement to his son, Henry Taylor Wickham (August 26, 1885).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters are chiefly to her husband, Henry, while staying at the Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, (1911) and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (1913) for her health but two letters are to her son, Captain Williams Carter Wickham during his journey to join the Asiastic fleet (1924).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEarly letters are chiefly from his grandparents, William F. and Anne Wickham, and the letters in 1864 are between Henry and his parents, Williams C. and Lucy Wickham\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter mentions the death of his grandmother, Anne B. Carter Wickham (February 26, 1868); four letters were written as a University of Virginia student (October 17, 24, and 31, 1869; and May 8, 1870); and one letter from Henry to his son, Captain Williams C. Wickham, congratulating him on his engagement to Credilla Miller (October 2, 1911).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham writes concerning land in Franklin County, Missouri, belonging to the estate of John Wickham (July 11, 1850).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring the Civil War, Leigh Wickham received an appointment in the Confederate Quartermaster department at Memphis, Tennessee (September 13 and 19, and December 8, 1861); reports that the people of Mississippi were frightened of General Grant's army (December 23, 1862); and mentions the hanging of Colonel Lawrence Orton Williams as a Confederate spy by the Federals (June 14, 1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence includes one letter from Williams Carter Wickham while at the University of Virginia concerning the results of Professor Rogers' analysis of Edmund's specimens of marl (January 16, 1838).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains two letters from W.F. Wickham, Jr. as a student at the University of Virginia (December 19, 1848 and January 12, 1849).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters written as a student at the Episcopal High School of Virginia, Fairfax, Virginia (1874-1878) and the University of Virginia (1878-1883).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile his father is away in New York and Boston, Williams Carter Wickham sends reports on the activities and condition of the plantation, including illness and death among the enslaved laborers (September 7, 1845; September 15, 1848). Williams Carter Wickham writes with further reports to his father hoping to catch him still at Bowling Green (August 30, 1849); and Williams describes a trip with his wife Lucy to New York and on to Quebec (August 27, 1855).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains references to the participation of Williams Carter Wickham in the First Battle of Bull Run (July 24, 1861, and August 1861); rumors of possible attacks on Arlington and Alexandria and Norfolk (September 2, 1861); discussion about the ramifications of the seizure of James Murray Mason and John Slidell on board the RMS Trent by Union Captain Charles Wilkes (December 8, 1861); and W. Leigh Wickham's commission as assistant quartermaster with rank of captain (December 20, 1861). During the recent visit of William F. Wickham with General Robert E. Lee, Lee reported on the sufferings of the army in the west [1861].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham shares his weariness of the war and announces himself as a candidate for Congress (May 15, 1863); William F. Wickham voices his concern over scarcity of food in Richmond and near Charlottesville to Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham (January 19, 1864); and William F. Wickham fears that Lee cannot maintain communications to the south and wishes he had nothing more to do with land or enslaved laborers if only his son were home in peace (June 28, [1864]).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains references to the participation of Williams Carter Wickham in the First Battle of Bull Run (July 22-23, 27, and 31, 1861).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham is in Cavalry Camp, 5th Brigade and attached to Colonel Cocke's Brigade and has a complete blacksmith shop and blacksmith fixed up with his company but requires clothes for his [enslaved?] personal attendant, Robin (September 1, 1861); Many letters discuss conditions of camp life for an officer in the Confederate forces and the efforts of family at home to supply the needs and wants of their own family members in the forces but also those of other soldiers, such as clothing. The letters also show a desire to establish a local hospital for the troops like the ones run by the ladies in Fredericksburg, Virginia (September 4, 1861); Wickham writes from his camp at Fairfax Courthouse about opportunities for drilling the troops, his resignation of his seat in the Convention and in the Virginia Senate, his increasing concerns over the conduct of the war in the last two months, and the injurious effect of the capture of Fort Hatteras in North Carolina to the South (September 6, 1861); news that his son, Henry T. Taylor, is intensely reading the novels of Sir Walter Scott to the detriment of his studies (September 26, 1861); clothing made by the ladies of the community shipped off to the troops (October 12, 1861); Wickham currently at Union Mills (October 22, 1861); the difficulties of Lizzie Fry in getting a permit to leave to go home (October 24, 1861); and Wickham's meeting with General [Jeb] Stuart with whom he is very pleased (October 27, 1861).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham writes a very detailed letter about the detrimental effects of fighting the Civil War on their own home soil, his dinner with General Cocke, whose ardor for the war has cooled considerably, the wasting of their best resources in an unnatural strife, and the devastation wrought by both occupying armies (November 3, 1861); and mention of Colonel Robertson and General Stuart (November 7, 13, and 29, 1861). \nWriting from Camp Frontier after an absence of three days, he describes a plan for a force of  nine companies of cavalry and three regiments of infantry, all under General Stuart, to cut off an enemy encampment near Alexandria, but this was prevented by the arrival of more Federal forces in the area near Pohick Church and describes his activities as a member of the scouting party (November 13, 1861); furnishes a description of his strategy when in new territory (November 21, 1861); shares his belief that the Yankees will advance along the Evansport line, chiefly by water, but with a land force on the telegraph road, otherwise believes that they will go into winter quarters (November 24, 1861); and repeats a report from Mr. Porcher [of South Carolina?] that some of the coloured people had been shot by the Confederates and that some of the people offered to work on the entrenchments for the Yankees for pay (November 28, 1861). \nWickham is still waiting for word on any advancement against the enemy and a describes the Federal forces arrayed against Virginia (December 4, 1861); Wickham shares his wish to command a full regiment of cavalry if he cannot have his first  preference to be at home with Lucy, his shock at hearing about the death of Mr. [Cooke?] and his efforts to secure a furlough for Church to go home for the funeral (December 14, 1861).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham writes about the following topics, a story about Lt. Colonel Thomas L. Kane, commander of the Bucktail Rifles of Northern Pennsylvania and a relative (January 2, 1862); General Johnston likes Wickham's bill for the better organization of the army (January 8, 1862); Wickham's [enslaved?], attendant, Robin, has built a wonderful shelter for the horses in their winter camp (January 8, 1862); Wickham's return to Camp Ewell after his furlough (January 29, 1862); his disapproval of the bill in the Senate concerning the Virginia forces (February 4, 1862); and his concerns over the reorganization of his regiment (February 15, 1862).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include the alarm of the people in the area north of the Rappahannock where people are abandoning their homes and \"Negroes\" or enslaved laborers are going northward by the hundreds (March 14, 1862); bivouacking comfortably near Brandy Station (April 4, 1862); and reports that their new location is twelve miles below Williamsburg and five miles from Yorktown at \"Blows Mill\" and that they are short on provisions (April 18, 22 and 24, 1862).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include writing from Sudley Mills describes recent events that have greatly reduced his regiment and prevented his communicating with his family, noting that with 200 men Wickham charged the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry 800 strong, routing them and capturing a large number, mentioning that General Ewell has lost a leg [during the battle of Groveton] (August 30, 1862); currently near Frederick, Maryland (September 7, 1862); yesterday at Sharpsburg, Maryland, \"fought probably the most desperate battle of the war\" [Battle of Antietam], Wickham lost twenty  men killed, wounded or missing, W.H.F. Lee's horse fell with him, Lt. Colonel Thornton of the 3rd had his arm torn by a shell and died of shock, Hill Carter received two severe wounds at Boonsborough and was left in the hands of the enemy, very difficult to find anything to eat, as local people will not sell them anything, and Thomas L. Kane was just made a Brigadier General in the Union army (September 18 and 21, 1862).\nReports on his safe return from an expedition to Pennsylvania with 1800 men (October 14 and 19, 1862); details of the cavalry raid to collect horses from Mercersburg, Chambersburg, and Emmitsburg (October 19, 1862); troops destroying the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (October 21, 1862);  his participation recently in a serious battle with losses of 1500 killed or wounded [Battle of Fredericksburg], with the town of Fredericksburg totally devastated and mentions activities of Major General Ambrose Burnside (December 15 and 18, 1862).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include the rejection of his resignation by the Secretary of War (January 15, 1863); staying with General Robert E. Lee at Culpeper Courthouse (March 1, 1863); discussion of the [Battle of Chancellorsville] (May 8, 1863 copy); spent the day with Lee who was in good spirits but without any hope of quick termination of the war and who would not allow his resignation, and General Jackson said to be dangerously ill with pleurisy (May 10, 1863); mentions the death of General Jackson and his fears for the safety of General Lee who he describes in appreciative terms (May 11, 1863); and describes his visit to General Lee's headquarters and assesses the results of recent battles (May 31, 1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include Wickham's approval of the generals James Longstreet, A.P. Hill, and Richard S. Ewell (June 3, 1863); Lucy relates their losses during visits of the Yankees to \"Hickory Hill\" and \"North Wales\" plantations and the capture of Fitzhugh Lee out of his sick bed (July 25, 1863); Wickham writes from the headquarters of Wickham's Brigade, following his commission as Brigadier General (September 12, 1863); news of Julius Theodore Porcher being mortally wounded from members of the 10th South Carolina Regiment (December 1863); Lucy Wickham's visit with General Wickham near Charlottesville, Virginia (January 17, 21, 31, 1864); General Lee has issued the first order that has not received Wickham's admiration (February 8, 1864); and draft of a letter from Wickham to Captain J.E. Cook, describing his actions beginning on October 28, 1862 until November 3, 1862 (February 26, 1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include accompanying General Robert E. Lee to the anniversary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Poney's Brigade to hear a talk on the character of General [Stonewall?] Jackson (March 29, 1864); description of the pillaging of \"Hickory Hill\" by the Yankees and their threatening Uncle Hill Carter (June 5, 1864, June 1864, August 1, 1864); mention of General Sheridan (July 25, 1864); description of the devastation in the area around Culpeper and mention of [Jubal] Early (August 12, 1864); and Wickham, while stationed in Winchester, Virginia, describing the broad valley just prior to the Battle of Winchester (September 5, 8, and 10, 1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham attended the U.S. Naval Academy from 1904 until 1909 and most of the letters from this period were to his parents. There are also a few dating from his service aboard the U.S.S. Minnesota (1911) and the U.S.S. Smith (1913) addressed to them. Letters dated 1924 from Captain Wickham to his wife, Credilla Miller Wickham, were written while serving in the U.S. Asiastic Fleet aboard the U.S.S. Pillsbury when the navy summered at Chefoo [present day Yantai], China.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: J.S.B. Alleyne (resolutions concerning the death of Dr. William F. Wickham in 1851); John B. Baldwin; L.M. Baldwin; Nannie P. Ballard; A.P. Bankhead; B. Johnson Barbour, John L. Barbour; Greta du Pont Barksdale (1891-1965); Phoebe [Barksdale?]; Marianna Elizabeth Barksdale (1796-1856) and her husband, William Jones Barksdale (1794-1859); Ann B. Berkeley; Letitia Glenn Biddle (1864-1950); John Minor Botts (1802-1869); Mary G. Braxton; Mary Carter Brickner; G. Thompson Brown; Alfred H. Byrd; E.H. Byrd and L.C. Byrd.\nTopics include a very detailed letter from John Minor Botts to General Williams Carter Wickham about the Civil War, particularly the requested transfer of Colonel Charles H. Wager from the infantry service to the cavalry, rumors about General Lee evacuating Virginia, complaints about the press stimulating the prejudices of the people, and rumors of a proposal to arm enslaved laborers to help fight against the Northern forces (January 8, 1865).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Ellen J. Cackie; J.R. Campbell (damaged postal card only); B.B. Claike; George Colton; A. Coolidge; O.A. Crenshaw; M.W.T. Cumberland; John B. Custis; Laura G. Custis; Raleigh T. Daniel; J.S. Davis; Enid Deem; Martha Lee Doughty \"To the Women of the Confederacy\" (undated); Fanny Duncan; Georgina L. Featherstonhaugh; and Mary J. Foster.\nTopics include: a discussion of several books read by Laura G. Custis of Boston (May 25, no year) and a description of the past few months the Custis family were forced to stay in Versailles, France, due to illness and the onset of the Franco-Prussian War (March 30, [1871]).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Ellen Carter, Lizzie Carter, L.W. Carter, Mary Carter, and W[illiams?] Carter, Jr.\nTopics include: the concern of W[illiams] Carter, Jr. that his father make a will immediately so that the Confederacy will not get any of [his brother?] Charles' portion of the estate.  He writes emphatically \"I don't wish the South to get a cent – no country in the history of the world has so worked out its own destruction as the Southern portion of the U.S. America, and all Christendom will in history say, Amen – next to Sodom and Gomorrah\" (February 3, 1862); W[illiams?] Carter, Jr. also asks that the enslaved laborers on both the North Wales and South Wales plantations be sent to Charlotte or some safe place so they will not be sold like cattle, mentioning all of the Tom and Sarah Fox family, Ben Napper and family, the Tom Brown and Harry Brown families, and other enslaved laborers by first name only (March 1, 1862).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: A.W. Carter; Agnes M. Carter; Annie Carter; Betty Carter; E.H. Carter; Emily Carter; Fanny N. Carter; L.H. Carter, Louise Carter, Pauline Carter, Susan Roy Carter, Thomas B. Carter, Thomas H. Carter (1831-1908), and Williams Carter.\nTopics include: the death of Julia Wickham (Thomas H. Carter, July 19, 1873); an expression of hope that the nation will mend following the Civil War, saying \"my hatred for Davis is only equaled by that for Charles Sumner,\" and mention of balloon flights and France's position of strength in Europe (Thomas B. Carter, Paris, May 22, 1866).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics of note include two references to the Civil War, including the \"suffering northern soldiers\" and the sentiment \"the same God made us all\" (August 10, 1861); and a second letter about the Civil War concerning shelling of the area near Shirley along the river by northern gunboats and comments about [General John] Pope (August 28, 1862).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include a condolence letter (July 12, 1873) concerning the death of Julia Leiper Wickham (1859-1873).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Peter J. Chevallie to his wife, Elizabeth Gilliam Chevallie; Sarah Magee \"Sally\" Chevallie Warwick (1816-1846) to her mother, Elizabeth Green Gilliam Chevallie (1796-1865); Joseph Gallego to his nephew, Peter J. Chevallie;  Henry Chevallie to his sister, Mary G. Chevallie; and Abraham Warwick (1794-1874) to his daughter-in-law, Elise F. Warwick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Robert Gamble; S.P. Gregory; Gene and [George?] Griffin; A.G. Grinnan; Evelyn Hale; Hetty Cary Harrison; Ella Havisham; Jane R. Haxall; Rosalie Haxall; Eva Mary Anna Mason Heth (1836-1915); Mary Heywood (with a photograph of her on her 78th birthday);  E.[L.] Holmes; R.R. Howison; J. Johns, Jr.; S. Harvey Johnson; William T. Joyner; W.M. Justis; Bessie D. Kane; J.D.L. Kane; Sallie G. Kean; and Ethel Kilburn.\nTopics include the Civil War (Robert Gamble, June 19, 1863); reminiscences about the Civil War and General Stuart, and a discussion about genealogy (A.G. Grinnan, 1892-1893); family reading (R.R. Howison, January 30, 1878); discussion of Reuben Lindsay Walker (1827-1890), commander of the Third Corps artillery, and his opposition to the peace commission, known as the [Hampton Roads Conference] during the Civil War and political issues that will arise at the conclusion of the war (William T. Joyner, February 3, 1865); and the poor state of the Confederate army, due in part to desertions (William T. Joyner, February 25, 1865).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Frances Wickham Graham; [Hartley] Graham; James Duncan Graham; Salva Graham; and William F. Wickham.\nTopics include chiefly family news but also some references to the work of James Duncan Graham as a member of the United States Engineer Corps (April 13, 1862; April 9, 1865; May 9, 1865); the condition of the South at the conclusion of the Civil War (June 2, 1865); and papers concerning the pension of James Duncan Graham (1867-1871).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: E.W. Hubard and J.L. Hubard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Robert B. Lancaster; Elizabeth W. Lay; R. Bruce Lockhart; A.C. Leigh; William Leigh; Ellen McCaw; Rose M. MacDonald; F. Mark; Captain G. [Marvel]; Dido Mason; E.K.N. Massie; Alice W. Meade; Susan W. Miller; Edgar Miller; F.B. Minor; Mary W. Minor;  and M.M. Morris. \nTopics include work on the book about old homes of Hanover (Robert B. Lancaster, January 8, 1984); the fire at Hickory Hill (Elizabeth W. Lay, February 17, 1875); and notification of an ankle injury of Captain W. Leigh Wickham in Chattanooga, Tennessee while serving as paymaster for the Confederate army (Edgar Miller, May 2, 1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Agnes Lee, Annie C. Lee, Ann H. Lee, C.C. Lee; Mary Custis Lee; Richard Henry Lee (1794-1865) concerning the state literary fund and his proposed memoir of Richard A. Lee; Robert E. Lee, Jr. concerning the death of William F. Wickham (July 16, 1873); and William H.F. \"Rooney\"  Lee (1837-1891).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Elizabeth B. Nicholas, concerning the fall of New Orleans to Federal forces (April 30, 1862); Helen N. Patterson; Lt. Colonel William H. Payne; Virginia Porcher; Lucy Carter Renshaw (1838-1965) concerning damages suffered by the \"Shirley\" plantation during the Civil War battles (July 4, 1862); Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (1863-1945); and M.C. Rives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Carrie P. Nelson; F. Nelson; F.P. Nelson; Jane E. Nelson; Jenny Nelson concerning the capture of Confederate George Washington \"Wash\" Nelson near Smithfield (November 6, 1863) and the raids of the Yankee soldiers in the neighborhood against the local residents (undated Civil War letter); Judith? Nelson; M.W. Nelson concerning the death of Lucy Carter Wickham (January 17, 1835); Mary C. Nelson; Robert Nelson on board the ship Oriental with his friend John Lewis [Points?] (August 29, 1851); Rose Nelson; Virginia L. Nelson; and W. Nelson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Anne Rose Page; Elizabeth Burwell Page; John Page; Judith Nelson Page; Leila Page; and Thomas Nelson Page concerning his book about Italy and his visit to England (January 9, 1920).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: George William Shelton; Amelie Louise Sigourney; M.M. Smith; Walter N. Sprinkel; A.M. Stearns; Alexander H.H. Stuart writes of his fear of the future, suggests that Williams Carter Wickham and himself travel to Washington on business to meet with some of the Yankee magnates and discuss ways to end the Civil War and expresses his sorrow over the sundering of the Union (January 23, 1865); Alta E. Stumpf concerning the awakening of Russia and its development (June 29, 1931); J.V. Swearingen; Louisa Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873) describing the death of her father, former Virginia governor, Littleton Waller Tazewell (1774-1860) in her letter (May 16, 1860); Fannie W. Toler; and C. Vanderbilt, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Belle Taylor; Bertie Taylor; Edmund P. Taylor; Elizabeth Taylor; Henry Taylor; Henry Taylor, Jr., John Taylor; Julianna Dunlap Leiper Taylor (1801-1883); R.I. Taylor; and Susan W. Taylor.\nOne letter from Henry Taylor, Jr., July 31, 1877, includes a very detailed discussion about Professor Colonel Peters at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: Davy Wallace; S. Gardner Waller; Louisa Webb; C.E. Wellford; Mary T. Williams; Captain W.L. Wingfield; Alice B. Winston; Philip B. Winston; and Beulah H.J. Woolston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: A.C.L. Wickham; Elizabeth S. Wickham; Fanny Wickham concerning the death of Ella Wickham (March 27, 1851); George Wickham; Julia L. Wickham; J.L. Wickham; L.A.C. Wickham; [L.V.] Wickham; M.F. Wickham; and Sarah Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include a description of the meeting of the trustees of the Peabody Fund for Education in the South, particularly Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple of Minnesota and his life among the indigenous native Americans, who he referred to as \"Indians\" (August 12, 1876).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include climate change (January 31, 1872); details of the career of his friend Custis, who died in 1872 and was a water commissioner in Boston (February 8, 1872); the influence of John C. Calhoun in ruining the whole South and his own state by men following his \"evil counsel\" (January 1, 1875); discussions of reading and current politics (January 8, 1875); description of Wickham's losses during the fire in February (March 13, 1875); mentions of Lord Byron, Charles Lamb, William Cullen Bryant and other literary figures (March 22, 1875); description of the Bunker Hill centennial (June 7, 1875); detailed discussion of the career of Patrick Henry (January 1, 1878); religious reading (March 13, 1878); and Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (December 11, 1878).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are chiefly social or agricultural but one, May 30, 1867, touches upon politics and international events and mentions Rives reading the biography of James Madison.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include the perils of travel by stage to Norfolk, Virginia, in winter (March 3, 1817); condolence letter upon the death of his friend, John Wickham, and reflections upon Wickham's importance in his own life as a mentor and friend and his singular character (January 26, 1839); the mention of Tazewell in the will of John Wickham (March 17 and April 1, 1839); ten inch snowfall in March and the economic difficulties of the country (March 21, 1843); discussion on the political issue on \"our title to Oregon\" (February 26, 1846); and Tazewell thanking William F. Wickham for his translations of Italian comedies, but does not think they merit the efforts of someone of Wickham's ability in the Italian language (July 15, 1849).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: William B. Bowers; E.E. Cooke; E.S. Holmes; E. Laurens; Robert E. Lee; L.M. Mason; N.W. Massie; Catharine H. Myers; [J.] R. Ritchie; E.R. Simons; Sue R. Simons; and Sallie P. Winston.\nThe letter from Robert E. Lee to his cousin, Anne B. Carter Wickham, November 11, 1862, hand-written copy, expresses his regret that her son, Williams Carter Wickham, has again been wounded but explains that he cannot spare Wickham from returning to duty in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the numerous correspondents are George Washington Custis Lee; Mildred Lee; W.H.F. Lee; General William Mahone; Francis H. Smith; and George D. Wise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include: John Minor discussing the two engravings, of General Marion and \"the Artist's Dream,\" sent by the Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in the United States and the current relations of the United States and England, especially as affected by the affair of the \"Creole\" (March 18 and October 12, 1842); Henry Clay declines an invitation to visit (February 22, 1848); John S. Mosby, concerning the service of the late Dr. James McClurg as a surgeon in the Revolutionary War (July 16 and August 6, 1849); Francis Robert Rives (1822-1891); Andrew Stevenson (1784-1857) concerning politics and enslavement (February 15, 1850) and a visit (July 20, 1854); John R. Thompson, editor of the  \"Messenger,\" refusing an essay by Wickham defending the Mormons (December 4, 1850);  Edward Vernon Childe (1804-1861) writes concerning the peace negotiations during the Crimean War (December 18, 1855); and two drafts of a letter from Wickham to Robert E. Lee concerning the arrival of the Yankee cavalry at \"Hickory Hill,\" who carried off General W.H. F. Lee as a prisoner in Wickham's carriage as well as horses and enslaved laborers, and includes the report that Charlotte Lee's health is not good and that she is much distressed at her husband's capture (June 28, 1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include financial inquiry about Virginia's non-payment of the interest on state stock (January 17, 1872); the fire at Hickory Hill, Hanover County, Virginia (February 15, 1875); the voyage of William D. Shipman to England and his assessment of Thomas Jefferson's life and career (July 4, 1876); Wickham's analysis of State Trials of the United States by Francis Wharton, including his own memories of the James T. Callendar trial (June 19, 1876); and William D. Shipman's mention of seeing the effigy of ancestor William of Wykeham in Winchester, England and information about him (November 6, 1876).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include advice for Henry T. Wickham on entering the legal profession and the study of law (July 24, 1868); Robinson's work with a case in the Supreme Court concerning Allen T. Caperton (1810-1876) and his acts in West Virginia as Provost Marshal (April 15, 1872).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include the declaration of [William B.] Preston for the immediate secession of Virginia from the Union and Wickham's fear that \"the dogs of war will be let loose\" (April 16, 1861); two letters from Colonel [Beverly Holcombe] Robertson about missing and absent soldiers and his efforts to round them up (May 13 and 14, 1862); request for Wickham's support and vote for Robert H. Wynne as doorkeeper of the Confederate House of Representatives (December 24, 1863); John B. Baldwin informs Williams Carter Wickham that his nomination has not been acted upon (February 5, 1864) and two letters from John Taylor about family and home events during the Civil War (February 2 and 8, 1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include a letter from Robert E. Lee about Henry T. Wickham's attendance at Washington College in Lexington and Lee's plan to write a history about military campaigns in Virginia during the Civil War (October 3, 1865) and a draft of Wickham's reply to Lee in the hand of Lucy Wickham [October 13, 1865];  a draft of Wickham's letter to General W.H.F. Lee about contemporary politics (April 16, 1868); the formation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (September 17, 1868); Horace Greeley's comments on the progress of the railroads in Virginia (November 15, 1868); request and recommendation from Alexander H.H. Stuart on behalf of two job seekers in the railroad business (May 5, 1873); efforts of C.T. Smith to get Wickham elected (August 19, 1883); two congratulatory letters on the recent election of Wickham to the Virginia Senate from B. Johnson Barbour and John T. Harris (November 19, 1883); and a request for a donation towards a University of Virginia chapel from Schele de Vere (November 21, 1883).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe diary begins with an entry about the secession of South Carolina from the Union and continues with entries about the evacuation of Fort Moultrie and the removal of troops to Fort Sumter in South Carolina; each state that secedes from the Union is noted and mention made of the firing upon the steamer Star of the West at Charleston, South Carolina; Intermixed with news of the impending war are notes about building a henhouse, nests, the receipt of toys, and weather; his father [Williams Carter Wickham] as a candidate for the Virginia Secession Convention from Henrico (January 29, 1861); and ends with an entry for February 12, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe diary mentions the following topics: the loan of a sharps rifle from George W. Randolph, supposedly owned before by John Brown and presented to the 1st [Virginia?] Regiment at Harper's Ferry; a four mile drive on the Petersburg Road to \"Strawberry Hill\" owned by Robert Edmond;  Judge and Mrs. Robertson leaving for \"Mount Athos\" their place in the country near Lynchburg, Virginia; double guard on \"the mills\" [Gallego Mills?]; the arrival of 1,000 men from Tennessee who went to the old fairgrounds; a drill by the \"Richland Rifles\" at the South Carolina camp; occupation of Alexandria by President Lincoln's troops; news of a battle at Bethel Church between Yorktown and Hampton; the departure of 2,000 troops for Manassas on June 13th; a visit to Camp Lee; examination of the fortifications below the city with locations noted; note that business is very slow since the commencement of the war; the meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Macfarland and General Lee at Mr. Lyon's [home?]; birth of a daughter [Elise Warwick Barksdale Wickham (1861-1952)] on August 28, 1861; note that he spent the last month with the 16th Virginia Regiment as Quartermaster at \"Camp Withers\" six miles from Norfolk; his orders to transfer to Colonel L. Smith's office as paymaster, September 13, 1861; and the death of cousin Fanny Townes, September 20, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: lists of books purchased from Peter Cotton (October 20, 1816-January 27, 1817 and September 22, 1817); purchases of quills, paper, ink, chessmen, etc. (October 15, 1817); hires of enslaved laborers (January 25 and 27, 1817 and February 21, 1817); and a bill of sale for enslaved laborers (September 17, 1817).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: medical care for enslaved laborers from Dr. W.P. Jones (January 12, February 24 and 26, March 24, and June 24, 1818); a hire of an enslaved laborer (April 2, 1819); and a bill of sale for two male enslaved men (January 19, 1820).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: the return of a little boy, Joe Lewis, and little girl, Lucy, the property of William F. Wickham (September 28, 1821); payment to overseer William Lizer on \"South Wales\" plantation (January 26, 1821); and purchase of paper, ink, and books (July 7, 1821).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: the hire of an enslaved girl, Jenny (January 11, 1823).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: hiring of Nathaniel B. Priddy as overseer (1834-1835; 1837-1838, 1840); and a list of books and magazines, quills, pencils, and paper purchased (1836-1838).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: hiring of Samuel Bumpass as overseer (1842); the sale of an enslaved boy, Washington (January 6, 1843); hiring of Nathaniel B. Priddy as overseer (1843); sale of the enslaved woman, Nancy Wylde, and her two youngest children (May 23, 1843); and the sale of an enslaved man, Ned Davis (June 27, 1843).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: lists of books and writing supplies purchased (July 20, 1846; March 22 and April 16, 1847).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: lists of books and writing supplies purchased (February 1848; July 14, 1848; and October 4, 1849).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: lists of books purchased (January and November 1850); memoranda book containing the names of enslaved laborers (May 12, 1850); and the hire of enslaved men, Giles, Frank, and John from J.H. Wickham (1851).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: list of taxable property for William F. Wickham in 1853, includes 96 enslaved laborers over 16 years old and 116 enslaved laborers over twelve years old.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: partners listed for Warwick and Barksdale at the \"Gallego Mills\" following the death of William J. Barksdale (February 15 and July 2, 1860).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: theft of stock certificates, bank book, and checks from Williams Carter at the \"North Wales\" plantation during a Yankee raid (May 31, 1864); copy of the last will and testament of Williams Carter with a codicil dated July 30, 1864, freeing his two enslaved women, Margaret and Sally, with any offspring that they have as soon as peace shall be established in the country (July 17, 1864); an enslaved mulatto girl named Sally was lent to Anne Butler Berkeley by Williams Carter (August 10, 1864); indenture concerning the former plantations and property of Williams Carter, Sr. including \"North Wales\" and \"Broad Neck\" (May 16, 1867); and payroll lists (April 1, 1868).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: receipts for work in the coal banks, Clifton, West Virginia (1873).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: a valuation of personal property at \"North Wales\" plantation; valuation of real estate of Mr. [Abraham] Warwick made by commissioners, including factories, blacksmith shop, houses, lots, and a Brookfield farm; and a list of the names of enslaved laborers, with their evaluations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese three oversize items include an indenture between Betty Littlepage and Charles Carter of Corotoman (May 5, 1768); a deed of trust from Carter B. Page and Rebecca Page to Thomas Taylor and Benjamin Harrison (June 17, 1817); and an indenture concerning Catherine Page, \"Broad Neck\" and Williams Carter (March 11, 1822).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe oversize deeds and indentures include those signed by Carter B. and Rebecca Page and Thomas Taylor (June 7, 1817); an indenture between John Wickham, Edward Carrington, Daniel Call, and Littleton Waller Tazewell (March 17, 1800); an indenture between Harry and Anna Terrell and Charles Carter (October 7, 1769); an indenture between James Littlepage and Joel Terrell (April 23, 1751); an indenture between John Littlepage and John Carter (March 2, 1735); and a bill of sale for two male enslaved men, Billy and Cyrus (January 15, 1820).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese include a list with the heading \"A List of My Slaves, such as I wish to keep, such as I may wish to sell and may wish to send to the West\" with names, ages, special skills or jobs, and their evaluations on the \"Rocky Mills\" and \"South Wales\" plantations belonging to Edmund Fanning Wickham in 1835; an account of the sale of land and enslaved laborers at \"Rocky Mills\" in November 1842 with the name of the purchaser, name of the enslaved laborer and the prices; a list of enslaved laborers treated by Dr. J.P. Harrison (April 24, 1844; July 1845; July 1848); list of William F. Wickham's enslaved laborers by age category (1843); the evaluation of an enslaved man, Tom Christian and his entire family (December 22, 1846); a list of named enslaved laborers with their ages belonging to the estate of Dr. James McClurg, Hanover County, Virginia, with evalutions by W. O. Winston (January 18, 1852); a list of 209 named enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] (January 1854); a list of 269 named enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] (January 1859); a list of enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] who were either carried off the plantation by Yankee forces or left of their own accord during the Civil War (1862-1864); and one list of enslaved men between the ages of 18 and 55 with the notation that two are in Confederate service, 14 remain on the plantation and 33 have left and gone to the enemy (January 31, 1865) and another list of enslaved laborers that went to the enemy by year, 120 in all [1865].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese six oversize items include four land grant certificates to Edmund F. Wickham and Edwin P. Crenshaw; a London Medical Society membership certificate for Dr. James Maclurg (1784); a letter from Lucy Nelson (1835).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe oversize plats include one for \"North Wales\" plantation belonging to Charles Carter, October 4, 1779; a plat of \"South Wales\" and Lane plantations, Hanover County, according to the division of January 1818, but updated on May 21, 1858; a plat showing the part of \"South Wales\" plantation allotted to Anne B. Carter, the purchase of land by W.F. Wickham from Thomas Carter, and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation purchased by W.F. Wickham from the estate of George W. Smith, November 27, 1825; plat of \"Verdon\" Hanover County, Virginia, belonging to the estate of John T. Anderson (December 1, 1865); and an undated plat showing parcels of land west of the Missouri River, apparently belonging to Thomas Gorham and a Wickham family member, 4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese six oversize items include a survey of the Broad Neck or Big Neck tract for Thomas C. Nelson (September 8, 1818); survey of the Lane tract, part of the South Wales Estate (January 1818); plat of the Lane tract, South Wales and Hickory Hill (January 1818); fields laid off and numbered from a survey of W.F. Wickham's river fields (February 16, 1837); surveys no. 137 and no. 146 in Saline County, Missouri for Edmund F. Wickham (1841); diagram of land plots to the west of the Missouri River and the 5th principal meridian, presumably in Missouri [1841-1842?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material includes a recollection of George Wythe by William F. Wickham (1874); and the first recollection of General Robert E. Lee by Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly, written in a letter to her brother Henry (undated); biographical sketches of Captain William C. Wickham, U.S. Navy (April 19, 1962 and September 1985), John Wickham (undated), and General Williams Carter Wickham (undated); and history of \"Hickory Hill\" (undated).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamilies discussed include Fanning, Leiper, Martian, Peyton, Pye, Tabb and Barksdale, Taylor, Warwick, and Wingfield.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis includes a report of [3rd (Wickham's) Virginia Cavalry Brigade] near Front Royal, Virginia (August 23, 1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes such items as the weather at Hickory Hill (1857); a prayer of Bishop Meade (1861); printed advertisement for a catalog of attorneys (1875); damaged circular from a Rochester nursery (1882); a horse pedigree (undated); and \"Notes on Planting Box at Williamsburg\" by Arthur A. Shurcliff (undated).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese include Wickham's notes concerning the \"Home Reminiscences of John Randolph, of Roanoke\" by Powhatan Bouldin, the benefits of lime and marl, and W.W. Mac Farland's address.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese include [Julia L. Wickham], \"Peliso\" Orange, Virginia, gardens in Rome, [Hickory Hill], Captain Williams C. 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","The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with immediate and extended relatives; personal correspondence from friends and political associates; two brief diaries discussing the secession and the beginning of the Civil War; financial and legal papers, including lists of books purchased, hires of enslaved laborers, the purchase of enslaved laborers, medical care for enslaved laborers, losses from invading soldiers during the Civil War, estate values, including those of enslaved laborers, indentures, deeds, receipts, plats and surveys, and lists of enslaved laborers by name and age; genealogies and genealogical charts; invitations and calling cards; military papers of General Williams Carter Wickham in the Civil War and Captain Williams Carter Wickham, U.S. Navy; news clippings; some notes and manuscripts of William F. Wickham; a few photographs and snapshots; poetry; hand-written recipes; school papers; and sympathy and greeting cards. ","There is also a hand drawn map of Hickory Hill plantation, the Wickham family estate which may have been drawn by a descendant of an enslaved laborer. It shows a diagram of \"Mammy's House\" and surrounding buildings that were revisited in the 1980's. The pages following the illustration name African Americans who were still living and working at Hickory Hill estate in the early 1900's. Mentioned are the families of John Robinson, Albert Cash,  Henry Toliver, Edith Jackson, Matt Foley, Maria Tucker, Ruben Lewis,Landonia Lewis, ALec Hewlett, Louisa and Albert Jackson, Henry Abrams, Betty Jackson, John Abram and Roselyn, Milton Hewlett, and Virginia Shelton.","Topics include the Civil War, the relationships between family members in both the North and the South, and attitudes toward secession; many aspects of enslavement, often naming the enslaved laborers involved; Virginia and national politics; the practice of agriculture in Virginia; the education of the children of Virginia planters, including attendance at the Howard School, Episcopal High School, Washington College and the University of Virginia; military service of General Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), Captain William Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and other Wickham relatives.  ","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include:, John Slidell and Co., Thomas C. Keaton, William Lyne, W.P. Mason, W.T. Nivison, William B. Page, Philip Rogers, Thomas Rotch, Penn T. Sale, John M. Shepherd, Peter F. Smith, Thomas Strode, William Sullivan, Thomas Swann, Richard Wallack, Ralph Wingfield, Alice B. Winston, and Zach Vowels","Correspondents, chiefly with Edmund F. Wickham, include: Williams Carter (1819), Archibald Gracie and Robert Gracie (1821), and multiple correspondents in 1822: Curwen and Hagarty, Samuel John Dunlop, King and Gracie, Samuel Lambert, and Robert Hughes and Co.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: James Dunlop, Ninian Edwards, John Ferguson, C.B. Fleet, William Fleet, Robert Gracie, Francis Gregg, James Hagarty, George E. Harrison, James Henderson, L. Jones, T. Jones, and Robert King.","Letters involving enslavement or enslaved laborers include one from L. Jones, asking for protection for \"old Billy\" and mentioning other issues concerning the welfare of enslaved laborers, January 2, 1823, and another letter from Ninian Edwards discussing the possible purchase of a female enslaved laborer for the wife of Dr. Harvey Lane, January 13, 1823.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Henry Arnall, Curwen and Hagarty, [J.] Dunlop, Ninian Edwards, C.B. Fleet, John G. Gamble, Robert G. Harper, George E. Harrison, Jones and Rodes, Hardage Lane, C.C. Lee, Lewis and Tomes, George Marx, John Morgan, and Charles Morris.","Letters involving enslavement include the inquiry by Robert G. Harper, May 5, 182[3], for information about the \"present condition, conduct, and prospects\" of some manumitted enslaved laborers formerly belonging to Samuel Gist who were freed in his will. He also asks for  the name and address of some respectable and intelligent person in the area where the freed formerly enslaved laborers now live who can send a report to Gist's relatives.","Correspondents, chiefly Edmund F. Wickham and William F. Wickham, include: Curwen and Hagarty, James Dunlop, John Dunlop, William Logan Fisher, William Fleet, George Greenhow, George E. Harrison, B.B. Keesee, Robert King, Thomas Kelly, Hardage Lane, Lewis and Tomes, Charles F. Logan, William Lyne, and  Robert and John Oliver. One letter mentions a runaway enslaved man, named Joe, December 18, 1823.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: David Barclay, John H. Blair, Carter Braxton, William Burns, William L. Dance, S.W. Dandridge, Aaron Denman, Robert Douthat, Ninian Edwards, William Fleet, Gillingham and Randolphs (G.F. and E. Randolph), James Hagerty, George E. Harrison, John Hopkins, and Thomas and John G. Riddle.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Richard Anderson, John Balfour, Thomas and John S. Biddle, Carter Braxton, William Burns, Hugh Campbell, Robert Douthat, and Gillingham and Randolphs (G.F. and E. Randolph).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Carter Berkeley, Carter Braxton, Roger Mallory, Thomas Nelson, and William F. Wickham to Thomas B. Coleman. Roger Mallory, the jailor in Petersburg, Virginia, writes concerning a runaway enslaved man named Jim who finally admitted he belonged to William F. Wickham. Jim had originally claimed to belong to Price Sharpe who was charged with permitting him to \"go at large contrary to law,\" and hire himself out, March 19, 1827.","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: G.H. Bacchus, Thomas T. Bouldin, Thomas B. Coleman, M. Huelin,  Benjamin Whitehead Ladd, W.H. McFarland, William Nelson, John W. Payne, William G. Pendleton, M.E.M. Roane, and A.B. Spooner. Topics include the reception of freed former enslaved laborers in Ohio (Benjamin W. Ladd, March 4, 1830); and the [Samuel?] Gist estate (John M. Payne, April 22, 1830).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Patrick Nesbett Edgar, John Exall, Chapman Johnson, Thomas N. Lee, John Ponsonby Martin, William Nelson, Severn E. Parker, A. Robinson, Jr., William Rowlett, J.S. Skinner, Benjamin Temple, Robert Temple, Thomas Biddle and Company, and John R. Triplett. Topics include: blue wheat (Benjamin and Robert Temple, July 4, 1830 and August 4, 1830); American turf and racing magazine (August 3, 1830; September 1, 1830; October 19, 1830); and a collection of pedigrees for an American Stud Book (October 13, 1830).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: J.D. Andrews, John Corbin, Alfred V. Crenshaw, Crouches and Snead, Gracie and Company, James Gray, Richard B. Haxall, William Hilberg, James Lyle, and Francis Page. Topics include problems with a horse purchased from Wickham (November 15, 1838), the safe arrival of the Andrews family in Houston, Texas (January 28, 1839), and the sending of an enslaved man named Jefferson to fetch two mules from Wickham (April 22, 1839).","Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Beers and Poindexter, Robert M. Candlish, John S. Corbin, Robert Ellett, William Linton, A.T.B. Merritt, Nathaniel Nelson, J.W. Pegram, W. Richardson, Thomas Samson, John Shore, John N. Tazewell, James G. Watson, and William L. White. Topics include mention of the horse \"Priam\" at Merritt's Hicks Ford stud in Virginia and the failure of Wickham's Eclipse mare to foal last spring (May 11, 1842); the dire condition of the [enslaved man?] old Bob Clark and his family on the land of Nathanael Nelson and attempts to provide for their care (June 15 and July 11, 1842); and a discussion of improvements to Wickham's bevel wheel (July 11, 1842) by Thomas Samson of D.J. Burr and Company.","Correspondents include: John S. Corbin, Nathanael Cross, William Dorbaker, Thomas Ellis and Charles Ellis, Robert G. Gilman, J.H. Martin, [S.H.] Parker, James L. Pendleton, James A. Seddon, Jane J. Swann, George Taylor, John N. Tazewell, William L. White, and John Wight. Topics include lumber needed for a penitentiary and a possible list of enslaved laborers written in pencil on an address portion of the letter (October 10, 1842).","Correspondents include: Warwick Barksdale, John Barr, Samuel Cottrell, Richard Gwathmey, John Struthers and Son, Lucius Minor, William Nelson, Lucien B. Price, Richard Randolph, Edmund Ruffin, William D. Taylor, John N. Tazewell, Philip B. Winston, and Richard M. Young (General Land Office). Topics include the sale of two enslaved women (January 29, 1845).","Correspondents include: Warwick Barksdale, Wellington Goddin, Phineas Janney, C.C. Lee, Thomas Nelson, Bernard Peyton, [Lucien] B. Price, John T. Rogers, Edmund Ruffin, Robert Taylor, J.R. Underwood, William F. Watson, Joseph Wingfield, and Philip B. Winston. Topics include a description of damage to the property of Joseph Wingfield by the breakage of the mill dam of Wickham (March 12, 1848).","Correspondents include: John Gibson, G.W. Goode, Richard Gwathmey, Benjamin F. Larned (1794-1862), William Leigh, Thomas Nelson, John E. Page, James A. Seddon, Alexander H.H. Stuart, William F. Watson, Hugh A. Watt, W.C. Wickham (to James M. Ford), Edmund Winston, and William Overton Winston. Topics include the shipment of some prairie birds and directions for their care (December 23, 1849); lists of enslaved laborers for hire, including \"old Fanny,\" Nancy and her three children, and Betsy (January 1, 1850); request for information about the amount due on account of the division of the \"Negroes\" or enslaved laborers (March 5, 1850); William F. Wickham as the guardian of the minor heirs of Robert C. Wickham (April 20, 1850); the offer of the use of a Southdown buck for sheep breeding (July 12, 1850); the increase of visitors to the mountains of Virginia, especially at White Sulphur Springs, the Warm Springs, and the Hot Springs (August 5, 1850); the purchase of stained glass (November 19 and 23, 1850); the return of an enslaved woman who was a wet nurse, \"Mamma Betsy\" hired the year before for his little boy (July 28, 1849; November 5, 1850); and an opinion about Jenny Lind (December 20, 1850).","Correspondents include: Alexander Hew, John F. Lay, [Laudonier] J. Randolph; Robert L. Randolph, Allen P. Richardson, William Sayre, William F. Wickham, and Thomas Wight. \nTopics include the redemption of land in Saline County, Missouri (September 13, 1853) and the settlement with McClurg Wickham, Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham, and John Wickham concerning a loan from John Henry Wickham to them on August 11, 1851 (May 28, 1858).","Correspondents include: J.A. Allen, David Anderson, Jr., A.W. Ball, Ann B. Berkeley, the Reverend P.F. Berkeley, George H. Byrd (Wyman, Byrd and Co. Commission Merchants), [Magrat] Davis, R.B. Davis, Robert Johnston, J.H. Montague, H.C. Parsons, James H. Storrs, John R. Taylor, James Usher, and William F. Wickham (drafts to Ann B. Berkeley, the Reverend P.F. Berkeley, and B.W. Green). \nTopics include: the question in the legislature concerning the payment of legacies given in Confederate money between 1862-1865 (March 10, 1866); difficulties in settling court cases in West Virginia following the Civil War (November 16, 1866); a request from a woman for legal help in keeping her inheritance in her name and under her control rather than her husband's as her current lawyer advised (April 25, 1867); and reports on the \"North Wales\" farm (May 20, 27, and 31, 1870).","Correspondents include: James L. Apperson, W.W. Baldwin, Lewis D. Crenshaw, Jr., Isaac Davis, L.R. Dickinson, Maynard Dyson,  James S. Earle and Sons, George William Gibson, Charles Herndon, J.M. Hill, I.M. Parr and Son (Commission Merchants), J. Sabin and Sons (Booksellers, Printsellers and Importers), Walter C. Jones, A.C. Loomis, J.H. Montague, Henry Parry, G. Peyton, Joseph T. Priddy, R.H. Maury and Co. (Stock and Exchange Brokers), J.W. Ratcliffe, C.T. Smith, E.D. Starke, A.T. Stewart, W.T. Tinsley, H. Wernich, William F. Wickham (draft to L. Upshur Evans), and Wright and Co., Rio de Janeiro. \nTopics include: the sale of property in Richmond, Virginia, of a former brewery belonging to the estate of David G. Yuengling, Jr. along the James River called the \"James River Steam Brewery\" (August 16, 1879).","Correspondents include: George B. Butler, Alexander Kaslovistsh, and John Watkins.","Alvis discusses the farm operations of the East Tuckahoe Plantation.","The company sends sketches and discusses the replacement of the mantle damaged in the house fire at Hickory Hill.","Discusses the oak tobacco boxes supplied by Edmund F. Wickham from \"Rocky Mills\" plantation.","Correspondence is chiefly with William F. Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham. Topics include concern about the \"military bill\" in the South as a way for Congress to get at the landed property there (March 4, 1867); Wickham's fondness for memoirs and other mentions of reading (December 17, 1868; May 30, 1873; June 15 and 20, 1875; February 11, 1876; May 4, 1877; July 2, 1880); and the offer of building supplies currently at \"Broad Neck\" in order to rebuild the house at \"Hickory Hill\" after a fire (February 16, 1875).","Correspondence is chiefly with William F. Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham. Topics include the financial affairs of their cousin Georgina L. Featherstonhaugh (September 24 and October 28, 1879).","Topics include Carter's impressions of Bristol College, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (October 18, 1834); complaints about the western states and their impact upon agricultural prices and politics, mentioning James Buchanan by name (July 17, 1846); suggestion that the enslaved laborers belonging to their nephews, Robert and John Wickham, be sold to pay the debt of their education (June 18, 1847); mention of a violent snowstorm that occurred just after he had returned home on a gunboat following a period of being nursed by his sister at \"Hickory Hill\" (November 8, 1862); and the death of Julia Wickham (July 16, 1873).","Correspondents include C.P. Huntington (President), Henry Taylor Wickham, and Williams C. Wickham and J.S.F. Smith (Paint Creek Depot) concerning the opening of the coal mines on the land purchased from the Hansford heirs and the employment of miners in Kanawha County, West Virginia.","Correspondents include C.P. Huntington (President), Henry Taylor Wickham, and Williams C. Wickham and J.S.F. Smith (Paint Creek Depot) concerning the opening of the coal mines on the land purchased from the Hansford heirs and the employment of miners in Kanawha County, West Virginia.","Letters concern lands held by Reuben Jenkins and John Henry Wickham in Saline County, Missouri.","Letters discuss matters concerning the Louisa Railroad, which was chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in 1836, and renamed the Virginia Central Railroad in 1850, with Fontaine as its longtime president.","Correspondence is concerned with securing payment on the accounts of John Wickham and Littleton W. T. Wickham, brothers of William F. Wickham by an immediate sale of livestock and agricultural goods.","Mentions the illness of President Monroe and his own wife, Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay, the daughter of Monroe (August 4, 1823) and expresses disparaging remarks concerning a Yankee business associate (October 19, 1823).","Topics include a request to help in the administration of the estate of Dr. McClurg (March 2, 1839); fears about the possible death of his son, Thomas, in [Mississippi?] (June 22, 1839); instructions about the purchase of summer clothing for the enslaved laborers by Alvis (April 21, 1840); mention that there are 70 enslaved laborerss associated with the \"Rocky Mills\" plantation of Edmund Wickham and 40 additional enslaved laborers associated with his father's [John Wickham] estate (July 28, 1842). Much of the correspondence in general deals with the settling of the estate of John Wickham (1763-1839).","Discusses arrangements for the support of Mr. Harrison's children and his disappointment with Dr. Selden.","Letter of introduction from Henry Clay for Mr. Bainbridge of Kentucky to John Wickham.","Kerr requests copies of any ordinances or laws concerning lands either given or planned to be given by the state of Virginia to the officers and soldiers who served in either the Continental Army or the Virginia state militia for use in the United States Court in Ohio.","Discusses the best way to secure the claim of Dr. McClurg for surgeon pay during his service in the Continental Army, keeping in mind that the United States will soon find a use for surplus money and mentions Henry Clay as doing a great deal of good [in Congress?].","Recommends that they make sure that Dr. [James] McClurg's will is recorded in Kentucky.","Notifies Wickham that he has located among his scorched papers enough information to send him a transcript of all he knows or remembers about the bonds of Mr. Balfour and invites him to visit Studley, Virginia.","Mentions the health concerns of family members and friends in Baltimore, Maryland.","Describes the worsening physical condition of Walter [Maclurg Wickham?]  in Baltimore, Maryland.","Notifies Wickham about the death of Walter [Maclurg Wickham?] in Baltimore, Maryland.","Requests Wickham provide the wording to a decree that would enable a sale of his property in Richmond, Virginia, to proceed since his power of attorney, Mr. Botts, was unable to perform his duties.","One letter, March 24, 1820, incomplete, last page only, John Randolph of Roanoke writes concerning Stephen Decatur's death. In a second letter, April 1, 1820,   part of the letter and autograph signature excised, John Randolph of Roanoke thanks Wickham for his indulgence and civility in the matter of his father's estate and mentions [Littleton Waller] Tazewell's move to Norfolk.,","Topics include: request for advice on a business proposition concerning property offered by Mr. Page as security for the payment of Tazewell's stock (July 4 and 9, 1819); Tazewell's current ill health (November 26, 1819); criticism of President John Quincy Adams and a description of a duel between Henry Clay and John Randolph of Roanoke (April 8, 1826); and damages suffered during a hurricane (October 14, 1838).","Letters concerns legal work performed by Wickham for Richardson.","Expresses concern over several outbreaks of cholera among citizens and enslaved laborers on the plantation.","Writes from White Sulphur Springs about the convalescence of Susan [Decatur Wickham (1819 -1831)].","John Wickham addresses business matters in his absence on a trip to Philadelphia, sending four letters from stops in Washington, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia.","He discusses the prospects for the wheat crop, the demand for flour in [American] towns and South America, and reports on his conversations with Mr. Haxall about pricing if the crop is delivered early (May through August 1830) and the last letter mentions their pleasant stay at the Sulphur Springs and Sweet Springs and the journey home, the drought in Kentucky and Ohio, and \"this new explosion in France\" (September 24, 1830).","Wickham writes to his son William F. Wickham with concerns about his wheat crop, a notification of an outbreak of disease at Howard School for boys from Jonathan Loring Woart, and the preoccupation of the Virginia General Assembly over internal improvements (January 29 and May 30, 1834); the design of a mill powered by water (February 21, 1834); discussions about the Bank of Virginia and the elections (April 17 and 21, 1834); discussions about possible schools for their boys and rumors of a duel in Washington (September 28, 1834); discusses the President's message (December 7, 1834); an enslaved laborer, sick with cholera, who was believed to be dead several times, appears to be recovering partly due to work of Dr. McCaw (December 18, 1834); and politics in Washington (December 24, 1834).","Wickham writes to his son William F. Wickham with concerns about his wheat crop (July 6, 1837) and to his sons at the University of Virginia, George and Littleton W.T. Wickham with advice about their studies, especially geology and the study of soils, and their visit to the Natural Bridge (May 15, 1837).","The letters written during a trip to New England by William F. Wickham and Anne Wickham mention seeing the effects of a great drought all over the northeast, speculations about the wheat crop, poor corn crop of the current year, Littleton at the University of Virginia and George reporting for duty in Washington in the U.S. Navy (September 13, 17, and 25, 1838); news about the wheat market and John Wickham's health (November 20 and December 12, 1838); and news about the opening of the [James River and Kanawha Canal] and its advantages for Richmond, Virginia (December 20, 1838).","Wirt asks for Wickham's advice concerning the rights of the widow in the estate of John Ellis (December 21, 1815); in another letter, October 10, 1830, autograph signature excised, Wirt asks for his advice and support in the case of the Cherokee Nation versus the state of Georgia, argued by Wirt before the Supreme Court; and in a third undated letter, Wirt discusses a property case involving Colonel Byrd and Mr. Harrison of Berkeley and lots in Manchester and Richmond, Virginia.","Includes two letters mentioning visits by Yankees to Hickory Hill and the taking of her father as a prisoner (May 27, 1862; August 4, 1862); also includes a letter from Robert E. Lee to his cousin, Miss Annie Wickham [later Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly], Lee promises to stop by \"Hickory Hill\" to visit if at all possible on his way back to Lexington, autograph signature excised from the letter (May 23, 1870).","Letters through March 1883 are written from Port Oratava to Henry T. Wickham but in April 1883 the Renshaw's began their journey home, settling in New Market and then Boyce, Virginia, by the turn of the century; In 1906, Annie writes from the University of Virginia about Robert H. Renshaw's poor health which continues until his death in 1910.","These letters are chiefly undated, but she appears to continue her correspondence with her uncle after the death of her Aunt Anne in1868, chiefly written from New York.","Leigh mentions the death of Lizzie Wickham (February 27, 1862); General Johnston and his prospects in the Tennessee area (March 25, 1863); and the death of Mrs. Carter, probably Mary B. Randolph Carter (August 6, 1864).","One letter, September 16, 1836, described a duel between her brother James and John Chapman, which ended in reconciliation between the two men.","Contains one letter, August 17, 1863, concerning the Civil War, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, shortly before his death following his wounding and capture.","Topics include the preparation to leave for France with her husband, William Cabell Rives, appointed minister to France (June 26, 1829); and their return to Paris, France (August 2, 1851).","One letter, written from the Warm Springs Hospital, discusses Taylor's health problems and the recent Battle of Cheat Mountain (October 2, 1861).","Two letters are written from China, one from Chefoo [present day Yantai] and the second from Tsingtao, while her husband, Captain Williams C. Wickham (1887-1985) was serving in the U.S. Asiatic Fleet.","One letter from Williams Carter Wickham expresses his pleasure at her engagement to his son, Henry Taylor Wickham (August 26, 1885).","These letters are chiefly to her husband, Henry, while staying at the Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, (1911) and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (1913) for her health but two letters are to her son, Captain Williams Carter Wickham during his journey to join the Asiastic fleet (1924).","Early letters are chiefly from his grandparents, William F. and Anne Wickham, and the letters in 1864 are between Henry and his parents, Williams C. and Lucy Wickham","One letter mentions the death of his grandmother, Anne B. Carter Wickham (February 26, 1868); four letters were written as a University of Virginia student (October 17, 24, and 31, 1869; and May 8, 1870); and one letter from Henry to his son, Captain Williams C. Wickham, congratulating him on his engagement to Credilla Miller (October 2, 1911).","John Wickham writes concerning land in Franklin County, Missouri, belonging to the estate of John Wickham (July 11, 1850).","During the Civil War, Leigh Wickham received an appointment in the Confederate Quartermaster department at Memphis, Tennessee (September 13 and 19, and December 8, 1861); reports that the people of Mississippi were frightened of General Grant's army (December 23, 1862); and mentions the hanging of Colonel Lawrence Orton Williams as a Confederate spy by the Federals (June 14, 1863).","Correspondence includes one letter from Williams Carter Wickham while at the University of Virginia concerning the results of Professor Rogers' analysis of Edmund's specimens of marl (January 16, 1838).","Contains two letters from W.F. Wickham, Jr. as a student at the University of Virginia (December 19, 1848 and January 12, 1849).","Includes letters written as a student at the Episcopal High School of Virginia, Fairfax, Virginia (1874-1878) and the University of Virginia (1878-1883).","While his father is away in New York and Boston, Williams Carter Wickham sends reports on the activities and condition of the plantation, including illness and death among the enslaved laborers (September 7, 1845; September 15, 1848). Williams Carter Wickham writes with further reports to his father hoping to catch him still at Bowling Green (August 30, 1849); and Williams describes a trip with his wife Lucy to New York and on to Quebec (August 27, 1855).","This folder contains references to the participation of Williams Carter Wickham in the First Battle of Bull Run (July 24, 1861, and August 1861); rumors of possible attacks on Arlington and Alexandria and Norfolk (September 2, 1861); discussion about the ramifications of the seizure of James Murray Mason and John Slidell on board the RMS Trent by Union Captain Charles Wilkes (December 8, 1861); and W. Leigh Wickham's commission as assistant quartermaster with rank of captain (December 20, 1861). During the recent visit of William F. Wickham with General Robert E. Lee, Lee reported on the sufferings of the army in the west [1861].","Williams Carter Wickham shares his weariness of the war and announces himself as a candidate for Congress (May 15, 1863); William F. Wickham voices his concern over scarcity of food in Richmond and near Charlottesville to Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham (January 19, 1864); and William F. Wickham fears that Lee cannot maintain communications to the south and wishes he had nothing more to do with land or enslaved laborers if only his son were home in peace (June 28, [1864]).","This folder contains references to the participation of Williams Carter Wickham in the First Battle of Bull Run (July 22-23, 27, and 31, 1861).","Wickham is in Cavalry Camp, 5th Brigade and attached to Colonel Cocke's Brigade and has a complete blacksmith shop and blacksmith fixed up with his company but requires clothes for his [enslaved?] personal attendant, Robin (September 1, 1861); Many letters discuss conditions of camp life for an officer in the Confederate forces and the efforts of family at home to supply the needs and wants of their own family members in the forces but also those of other soldiers, such as clothing. The letters also show a desire to establish a local hospital for the troops like the ones run by the ladies in Fredericksburg, Virginia (September 4, 1861); Wickham writes from his camp at Fairfax Courthouse about opportunities for drilling the troops, his resignation of his seat in the Convention and in the Virginia Senate, his increasing concerns over the conduct of the war in the last two months, and the injurious effect of the capture of Fort Hatteras in North Carolina to the South (September 6, 1861); news that his son, Henry T. Taylor, is intensely reading the novels of Sir Walter Scott to the detriment of his studies (September 26, 1861); clothing made by the ladies of the community shipped off to the troops (October 12, 1861); Wickham currently at Union Mills (October 22, 1861); the difficulties of Lizzie Fry in getting a permit to leave to go home (October 24, 1861); and Wickham's meeting with General [Jeb] Stuart with whom he is very pleased (October 27, 1861).","Wickham writes a very detailed letter about the detrimental effects of fighting the Civil War on their own home soil, his dinner with General Cocke, whose ardor for the war has cooled considerably, the wasting of their best resources in an unnatural strife, and the devastation wrought by both occupying armies (November 3, 1861); and mention of Colonel Robertson and General Stuart (November 7, 13, and 29, 1861). \nWriting from Camp Frontier after an absence of three days, he describes a plan for a force of  nine companies of cavalry and three regiments of infantry, all under General Stuart, to cut off an enemy encampment near Alexandria, but this was prevented by the arrival of more Federal forces in the area near Pohick Church and describes his activities as a member of the scouting party (November 13, 1861); furnishes a description of his strategy when in new territory (November 21, 1861); shares his belief that the Yankees will advance along the Evansport line, chiefly by water, but with a land force on the telegraph road, otherwise believes that they will go into winter quarters (November 24, 1861); and repeats a report from Mr. Porcher [of South Carolina?] that some of the coloured people had been shot by the Confederates and that some of the people offered to work on the entrenchments for the Yankees for pay (November 28, 1861). \nWickham is still waiting for word on any advancement against the enemy and a describes the Federal forces arrayed against Virginia (December 4, 1861); Wickham shares his wish to command a full regiment of cavalry if he cannot have his first  preference to be at home with Lucy, his shock at hearing about the death of Mr. [Cooke?] and his efforts to secure a furlough for Church to go home for the funeral (December 14, 1861).","Wickham writes about the following topics, a story about Lt. Colonel Thomas L. Kane, commander of the Bucktail Rifles of Northern Pennsylvania and a relative (January 2, 1862); General Johnston likes Wickham's bill for the better organization of the army (January 8, 1862); Wickham's [enslaved?], attendant, Robin, has built a wonderful shelter for the horses in their winter camp (January 8, 1862); Wickham's return to Camp Ewell after his furlough (January 29, 1862); his disapproval of the bill in the Senate concerning the Virginia forces (February 4, 1862); and his concerns over the reorganization of his regiment (February 15, 1862).","Topics include the alarm of the people in the area north of the Rappahannock where people are abandoning their homes and \"Negroes\" or enslaved laborers are going northward by the hundreds (March 14, 1862); bivouacking comfortably near Brandy Station (April 4, 1862); and reports that their new location is twelve miles below Williamsburg and five miles from Yorktown at \"Blows Mill\" and that they are short on provisions (April 18, 22 and 24, 1862).","Topics include writing from Sudley Mills describes recent events that have greatly reduced his regiment and prevented his communicating with his family, noting that with 200 men Wickham charged the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry 800 strong, routing them and capturing a large number, mentioning that General Ewell has lost a leg [during the battle of Groveton] (August 30, 1862); currently near Frederick, Maryland (September 7, 1862); yesterday at Sharpsburg, Maryland, \"fought probably the most desperate battle of the war\" [Battle of Antietam], Wickham lost twenty  men killed, wounded or missing, W.H.F. Lee's horse fell with him, Lt. Colonel Thornton of the 3rd had his arm torn by a shell and died of shock, Hill Carter received two severe wounds at Boonsborough and was left in the hands of the enemy, very difficult to find anything to eat, as local people will not sell them anything, and Thomas L. Kane was just made a Brigadier General in the Union army (September 18 and 21, 1862).\nReports on his safe return from an expedition to Pennsylvania with 1800 men (October 14 and 19, 1862); details of the cavalry raid to collect horses from Mercersburg, Chambersburg, and Emmitsburg (October 19, 1862); troops destroying the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (October 21, 1862);  his participation recently in a serious battle with losses of 1500 killed or wounded [Battle of Fredericksburg], with the town of Fredericksburg totally devastated and mentions activities of Major General Ambrose Burnside (December 15 and 18, 1862).","Topics include the rejection of his resignation by the Secretary of War (January 15, 1863); staying with General Robert E. Lee at Culpeper Courthouse (March 1, 1863); discussion of the [Battle of Chancellorsville] (May 8, 1863 copy); spent the day with Lee who was in good spirits but without any hope of quick termination of the war and who would not allow his resignation, and General Jackson said to be dangerously ill with pleurisy (May 10, 1863); mentions the death of General Jackson and his fears for the safety of General Lee who he describes in appreciative terms (May 11, 1863); and describes his visit to General Lee's headquarters and assesses the results of recent battles (May 31, 1863).","Topics include Wickham's approval of the generals James Longstreet, A.P. Hill, and Richard S. Ewell (June 3, 1863); Lucy relates their losses during visits of the Yankees to \"Hickory Hill\" and \"North Wales\" plantations and the capture of Fitzhugh Lee out of his sick bed (July 25, 1863); Wickham writes from the headquarters of Wickham's Brigade, following his commission as Brigadier General (September 12, 1863); news of Julius Theodore Porcher being mortally wounded from members of the 10th South Carolina Regiment (December 1863); Lucy Wickham's visit with General Wickham near Charlottesville, Virginia (January 17, 21, 31, 1864); General Lee has issued the first order that has not received Wickham's admiration (February 8, 1864); and draft of a letter from Wickham to Captain J.E. Cook, describing his actions beginning on October 28, 1862 until November 3, 1862 (February 26, 1864).","Topics include accompanying General Robert E. Lee to the anniversary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Poney's Brigade to hear a talk on the character of General [Stonewall?] Jackson (March 29, 1864); description of the pillaging of \"Hickory Hill\" by the Yankees and their threatening Uncle Hill Carter (June 5, 1864, June 1864, August 1, 1864); mention of General Sheridan (July 25, 1864); description of the devastation in the area around Culpeper and mention of [Jubal] Early (August 12, 1864); and Wickham, while stationed in Winchester, Virginia, describing the broad valley just prior to the Battle of Winchester (September 5, 8, and 10, 1864).","Wickham attended the U.S. Naval Academy from 1904 until 1909 and most of the letters from this period were to his parents. There are also a few dating from his service aboard the U.S.S. Minnesota (1911) and the U.S.S. Smith (1913) addressed to them. Letters dated 1924 from Captain Wickham to his wife, Credilla Miller Wickham, were written while serving in the U.S. Asiastic Fleet aboard the U.S.S. Pillsbury when the navy summered at Chefoo [present day Yantai], China.","Correspondents include: J.S.B. Alleyne (resolutions concerning the death of Dr. William F. Wickham in 1851); John B. Baldwin; L.M. Baldwin; Nannie P. Ballard; A.P. Bankhead; B. Johnson Barbour, John L. Barbour; Greta du Pont Barksdale (1891-1965); Phoebe [Barksdale?]; Marianna Elizabeth Barksdale (1796-1856) and her husband, William Jones Barksdale (1794-1859); Ann B. Berkeley; Letitia Glenn Biddle (1864-1950); John Minor Botts (1802-1869); Mary G. Braxton; Mary Carter Brickner; G. Thompson Brown; Alfred H. Byrd; E.H. Byrd and L.C. Byrd.\nTopics include a very detailed letter from John Minor Botts to General Williams Carter Wickham about the Civil War, particularly the requested transfer of Colonel Charles H. Wager from the infantry service to the cavalry, rumors about General Lee evacuating Virginia, complaints about the press stimulating the prejudices of the people, and rumors of a proposal to arm enslaved laborers to help fight against the Northern forces (January 8, 1865).","Correspondents include: Ellen J. Cackie; J.R. Campbell (damaged postal card only); B.B. Claike; George Colton; A. Coolidge; O.A. Crenshaw; M.W.T. Cumberland; John B. Custis; Laura G. Custis; Raleigh T. Daniel; J.S. Davis; Enid Deem; Martha Lee Doughty \"To the Women of the Confederacy\" (undated); Fanny Duncan; Georgina L. Featherstonhaugh; and Mary J. Foster.\nTopics include: a discussion of several books read by Laura G. Custis of Boston (May 25, no year) and a description of the past few months the Custis family were forced to stay in Versailles, France, due to illness and the onset of the Franco-Prussian War (March 30, [1871]).","Correspondents include: Ellen Carter, Lizzie Carter, L.W. Carter, Mary Carter, and W[illiams?] Carter, Jr.\nTopics include: the concern of W[illiams] Carter, Jr. that his father make a will immediately so that the Confederacy will not get any of [his brother?] Charles' portion of the estate.  He writes emphatically \"I don't wish the South to get a cent – no country in the history of the world has so worked out its own destruction as the Southern portion of the U.S. America, and all Christendom will in history say, Amen – next to Sodom and Gomorrah\" (February 3, 1862); W[illiams?] Carter, Jr. also asks that the enslaved laborers on both the North Wales and South Wales plantations be sent to Charlotte or some safe place so they will not be sold like cattle, mentioning all of the Tom and Sarah Fox family, Ben Napper and family, the Tom Brown and Harry Brown families, and other enslaved laborers by first name only (March 1, 1862).","Correspondents include: A.W. Carter; Agnes M. Carter; Annie Carter; Betty Carter; E.H. Carter; Emily Carter; Fanny N. Carter; L.H. Carter, Louise Carter, Pauline Carter, Susan Roy Carter, Thomas B. Carter, Thomas H. Carter (1831-1908), and Williams Carter.\nTopics include: the death of Julia Wickham (Thomas H. Carter, July 19, 1873); an expression of hope that the nation will mend following the Civil War, saying \"my hatred for Davis is only equaled by that for Charles Sumner,\" and mention of balloon flights and France's position of strength in Europe (Thomas B. Carter, Paris, May 22, 1866).","Topics of note include two references to the Civil War, including the \"suffering northern soldiers\" and the sentiment \"the same God made us all\" (August 10, 1861); and a second letter about the Civil War concerning shelling of the area near Shirley along the river by northern gunboats and comments about [General John] Pope (August 28, 1862).","Topics include a condolence letter (July 12, 1873) concerning the death of Julia Leiper Wickham (1859-1873).","Correspondents include: Peter J. Chevallie to his wife, Elizabeth Gilliam Chevallie; Sarah Magee \"Sally\" Chevallie Warwick (1816-1846) to her mother, Elizabeth Green Gilliam Chevallie (1796-1865); Joseph Gallego to his nephew, Peter J. Chevallie;  Henry Chevallie to his sister, Mary G. Chevallie; and Abraham Warwick (1794-1874) to his daughter-in-law, Elise F. Warwick.","Correspondents include: Robert Gamble; S.P. Gregory; Gene and [George?] Griffin; A.G. Grinnan; Evelyn Hale; Hetty Cary Harrison; Ella Havisham; Jane R. Haxall; Rosalie Haxall; Eva Mary Anna Mason Heth (1836-1915); Mary Heywood (with a photograph of her on her 78th birthday);  E.[L.] Holmes; R.R. Howison; J. Johns, Jr.; S. Harvey Johnson; William T. Joyner; W.M. Justis; Bessie D. Kane; J.D.L. Kane; Sallie G. Kean; and Ethel Kilburn.\nTopics include the Civil War (Robert Gamble, June 19, 1863); reminiscences about the Civil War and General Stuart, and a discussion about genealogy (A.G. Grinnan, 1892-1893); family reading (R.R. Howison, January 30, 1878); discussion of Reuben Lindsay Walker (1827-1890), commander of the Third Corps artillery, and his opposition to the peace commission, known as the [Hampton Roads Conference] during the Civil War and political issues that will arise at the conclusion of the war (William T. Joyner, February 3, 1865); and the poor state of the Confederate army, due in part to desertions (William T. Joyner, February 25, 1865).","Correspondents include: Frances Wickham Graham; [Hartley] Graham; James Duncan Graham; Salva Graham; and William F. Wickham.\nTopics include chiefly family news but also some references to the work of James Duncan Graham as a member of the United States Engineer Corps (April 13, 1862; April 9, 1865; May 9, 1865); the condition of the South at the conclusion of the Civil War (June 2, 1865); and papers concerning the pension of James Duncan Graham (1867-1871).","Correspondents include: E.W. Hubard and J.L. Hubard.","Correspondents include: Robert B. Lancaster; Elizabeth W. Lay; R. Bruce Lockhart; A.C. Leigh; William Leigh; Ellen McCaw; Rose M. MacDonald; F. Mark; Captain G. [Marvel]; Dido Mason; E.K.N. Massie; Alice W. Meade; Susan W. Miller; Edgar Miller; F.B. Minor; Mary W. Minor;  and M.M. Morris. \nTopics include work on the book about old homes of Hanover (Robert B. Lancaster, January 8, 1984); the fire at Hickory Hill (Elizabeth W. Lay, February 17, 1875); and notification of an ankle injury of Captain W. Leigh Wickham in Chattanooga, Tennessee while serving as paymaster for the Confederate army (Edgar Miller, May 2, 1863).","Correspondents include: Agnes Lee, Annie C. Lee, Ann H. Lee, C.C. Lee; Mary Custis Lee; Richard Henry Lee (1794-1865) concerning the state literary fund and his proposed memoir of Richard A. Lee; Robert E. Lee, Jr. concerning the death of William F. Wickham (July 16, 1873); and William H.F. \"Rooney\"  Lee (1837-1891).","Correspondents include: Elizabeth B. Nicholas, concerning the fall of New Orleans to Federal forces (April 30, 1862); Helen N. Patterson; Lt. Colonel William H. Payne; Virginia Porcher; Lucy Carter Renshaw (1838-1965) concerning damages suffered by the \"Shirley\" plantation during the Civil War battles (July 4, 1862); Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (1863-1945); and M.C. Rives.","Correspondents include: Carrie P. Nelson; F. Nelson; F.P. Nelson; Jane E. Nelson; Jenny Nelson concerning the capture of Confederate George Washington \"Wash\" Nelson near Smithfield (November 6, 1863) and the raids of the Yankee soldiers in the neighborhood against the local residents (undated Civil War letter); Judith? Nelson; M.W. Nelson concerning the death of Lucy Carter Wickham (January 17, 1835); Mary C. Nelson; Robert Nelson on board the ship Oriental with his friend John Lewis [Points?] (August 29, 1851); Rose Nelson; Virginia L. Nelson; and W. Nelson.","Correspondents include: Anne Rose Page; Elizabeth Burwell Page; John Page; Judith Nelson Page; Leila Page; and Thomas Nelson Page concerning his book about Italy and his visit to England (January 9, 1920).","Correspondents include: George William Shelton; Amelie Louise Sigourney; M.M. Smith; Walter N. Sprinkel; A.M. Stearns; Alexander H.H. Stuart writes of his fear of the future, suggests that Williams Carter Wickham and himself travel to Washington on business to meet with some of the Yankee magnates and discuss ways to end the Civil War and expresses his sorrow over the sundering of the Union (January 23, 1865); Alta E. Stumpf concerning the awakening of Russia and its development (June 29, 1931); J.V. Swearingen; Louisa Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873) describing the death of her father, former Virginia governor, Littleton Waller Tazewell (1774-1860) in her letter (May 16, 1860); Fannie W. Toler; and C. Vanderbilt, Jr.","Correspondents include: Belle Taylor; Bertie Taylor; Edmund P. Taylor; Elizabeth Taylor; Henry Taylor; Henry Taylor, Jr., John Taylor; Julianna Dunlap Leiper Taylor (1801-1883); R.I. Taylor; and Susan W. Taylor.\nOne letter from Henry Taylor, Jr., July 31, 1877, includes a very detailed discussion about Professor Colonel Peters at the University of Virginia.","Correspondents include: Davy Wallace; S. Gardner Waller; Louisa Webb; C.E. Wellford; Mary T. Williams; Captain W.L. Wingfield; Alice B. Winston; Philip B. Winston; and Beulah H.J. Woolston.","Correspondents include: A.C.L. Wickham; Elizabeth S. Wickham; Fanny Wickham concerning the death of Ella Wickham (March 27, 1851); George Wickham; Julia L. Wickham; J.L. Wickham; L.A.C. Wickham; [L.V.] Wickham; M.F. Wickham; and Sarah Wickham.","Topics include a description of the meeting of the trustees of the Peabody Fund for Education in the South, particularly Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple of Minnesota and his life among the indigenous native Americans, who he referred to as \"Indians\" (August 12, 1876).","Topics include climate change (January 31, 1872); details of the career of his friend Custis, who died in 1872 and was a water commissioner in Boston (February 8, 1872); the influence of John C. Calhoun in ruining the whole South and his own state by men following his \"evil counsel\" (January 1, 1875); discussions of reading and current politics (January 8, 1875); description of Wickham's losses during the fire in February (March 13, 1875); mentions of Lord Byron, Charles Lamb, William Cullen Bryant and other literary figures (March 22, 1875); description of the Bunker Hill centennial (June 7, 1875); detailed discussion of the career of Patrick Henry (January 1, 1878); religious reading (March 13, 1878); and Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (December 11, 1878).","The letters are chiefly social or agricultural but one, May 30, 1867, touches upon politics and international events and mentions Rives reading the biography of James Madison.","Topics include the perils of travel by stage to Norfolk, Virginia, in winter (March 3, 1817); condolence letter upon the death of his friend, John Wickham, and reflections upon Wickham's importance in his own life as a mentor and friend and his singular character (January 26, 1839); the mention of Tazewell in the will of John Wickham (March 17 and April 1, 1839); ten inch snowfall in March and the economic difficulties of the country (March 21, 1843); discussion on the political issue on \"our title to Oregon\" (February 26, 1846); and Tazewell thanking William F. Wickham for his translations of Italian comedies, but does not think they merit the efforts of someone of Wickham's ability in the Italian language (July 15, 1849).","Correspondents include: William B. Bowers; E.E. Cooke; E.S. Holmes; E. Laurens; Robert E. Lee; L.M. Mason; N.W. Massie; Catharine H. Myers; [J.] R. Ritchie; E.R. Simons; Sue R. Simons; and Sallie P. Winston.\nThe letter from Robert E. Lee to his cousin, Anne B. Carter Wickham, November 11, 1862, hand-written copy, expresses his regret that her son, Williams Carter Wickham, has again been wounded but explains that he cannot spare Wickham from returning to duty in the army.","Among the numerous correspondents are George Washington Custis Lee; Mildred Lee; W.H.F. Lee; General William Mahone; Francis H. Smith; and George D. Wise.","Correspondents include: John Minor discussing the two engravings, of General Marion and \"the Artist's Dream,\" sent by the Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in the United States and the current relations of the United States and England, especially as affected by the affair of the \"Creole\" (March 18 and October 12, 1842); Henry Clay declines an invitation to visit (February 22, 1848); John S. Mosby, concerning the service of the late Dr. James McClurg as a surgeon in the Revolutionary War (July 16 and August 6, 1849); Francis Robert Rives (1822-1891); Andrew Stevenson (1784-1857) concerning politics and enslavement (February 15, 1850) and a visit (July 20, 1854); John R. Thompson, editor of the  \"Messenger,\" refusing an essay by Wickham defending the Mormons (December 4, 1850);  Edward Vernon Childe (1804-1861) writes concerning the peace negotiations during the Crimean War (December 18, 1855); and two drafts of a letter from Wickham to Robert E. Lee concerning the arrival of the Yankee cavalry at \"Hickory Hill,\" who carried off General W.H. F. Lee as a prisoner in Wickham's carriage as well as horses and enslaved laborers, and includes the report that Charlotte Lee's health is not good and that she is much distressed at her husband's capture (June 28, 1863).","Topics include financial inquiry about Virginia's non-payment of the interest on state stock (January 17, 1872); the fire at Hickory Hill, Hanover County, Virginia (February 15, 1875); the voyage of William D. Shipman to England and his assessment of Thomas Jefferson's life and career (July 4, 1876); Wickham's analysis of State Trials of the United States by Francis Wharton, including his own memories of the James T. Callendar trial (June 19, 1876); and William D. Shipman's mention of seeing the effigy of ancestor William of Wykeham in Winchester, England and information about him (November 6, 1876).","Topics include advice for Henry T. Wickham on entering the legal profession and the study of law (July 24, 1868); Robinson's work with a case in the Supreme Court concerning Allen T. Caperton (1810-1876) and his acts in West Virginia as Provost Marshal (April 15, 1872).","Topics include the declaration of [William B.] Preston for the immediate secession of Virginia from the Union and Wickham's fear that \"the dogs of war will be let loose\" (April 16, 1861); two letters from Colonel [Beverly Holcombe] Robertson about missing and absent soldiers and his efforts to round them up (May 13 and 14, 1862); request for Wickham's support and vote for Robert H. Wynne as doorkeeper of the Confederate House of Representatives (December 24, 1863); John B. Baldwin informs Williams Carter Wickham that his nomination has not been acted upon (February 5, 1864) and two letters from John Taylor about family and home events during the Civil War (February 2 and 8, 1864).","Topics include a letter from Robert E. Lee about Henry T. Wickham's attendance at Washington College in Lexington and Lee's plan to write a history about military campaigns in Virginia during the Civil War (October 3, 1865) and a draft of Wickham's reply to Lee in the hand of Lucy Wickham [October 13, 1865];  a draft of Wickham's letter to General W.H.F. Lee about contemporary politics (April 16, 1868); the formation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (September 17, 1868); Horace Greeley's comments on the progress of the railroads in Virginia (November 15, 1868); request and recommendation from Alexander H.H. Stuart on behalf of two job seekers in the railroad business (May 5, 1873); efforts of C.T. Smith to get Wickham elected (August 19, 1883); two congratulatory letters on the recent election of Wickham to the Virginia Senate from B. Johnson Barbour and John T. Harris (November 19, 1883); and a request for a donation towards a University of Virginia chapel from Schele de Vere (November 21, 1883).","The diary begins with an entry about the secession of South Carolina from the Union and continues with entries about the evacuation of Fort Moultrie and the removal of troops to Fort Sumter in South Carolina; each state that secedes from the Union is noted and mention made of the firing upon the steamer Star of the West at Charleston, South Carolina; Intermixed with news of the impending war are notes about building a henhouse, nests, the receipt of toys, and weather; his father [Williams Carter Wickham] as a candidate for the Virginia Secession Convention from Henrico (January 29, 1861); and ends with an entry for February 12, 1861.","The diary mentions the following topics: the loan of a sharps rifle from George W. Randolph, supposedly owned before by John Brown and presented to the 1st [Virginia?] Regiment at Harper's Ferry; a four mile drive on the Petersburg Road to \"Strawberry Hill\" owned by Robert Edmond;  Judge and Mrs. Robertson leaving for \"Mount Athos\" their place in the country near Lynchburg, Virginia; double guard on \"the mills\" [Gallego Mills?]; the arrival of 1,000 men from Tennessee who went to the old fairgrounds; a drill by the \"Richland Rifles\" at the South Carolina camp; occupation of Alexandria by President Lincoln's troops; news of a battle at Bethel Church between Yorktown and Hampton; the departure of 2,000 troops for Manassas on June 13th; a visit to Camp Lee; examination of the fortifications below the city with locations noted; note that business is very slow since the commencement of the war; the meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Macfarland and General Lee at Mr. Lyon's [home?]; birth of a daughter [Elise Warwick Barksdale Wickham (1861-1952)] on August 28, 1861; note that he spent the last month with the 16th Virginia Regiment as Quartermaster at \"Camp Withers\" six miles from Norfolk; his orders to transfer to Colonel L. Smith's office as paymaster, September 13, 1861; and the death of cousin Fanny Townes, September 20, 1861.","Subjects include: lists of books purchased from Peter Cotton (October 20, 1816-January 27, 1817 and September 22, 1817); purchases of quills, paper, ink, chessmen, etc. (October 15, 1817); hires of enslaved laborers (January 25 and 27, 1817 and February 21, 1817); and a bill of sale for enslaved laborers (September 17, 1817).","Subjects include: medical care for enslaved laborers from Dr. W.P. Jones (January 12, February 24 and 26, March 24, and June 24, 1818); a hire of an enslaved laborer (April 2, 1819); and a bill of sale for two male enslaved men (January 19, 1820).","Subjects include: the return of a little boy, Joe Lewis, and little girl, Lucy, the property of William F. Wickham (September 28, 1821); payment to overseer William Lizer on \"South Wales\" plantation (January 26, 1821); and purchase of paper, ink, and books (July 7, 1821).","Subjects include: the hire of an enslaved girl, Jenny (January 11, 1823).","Subjects include: hiring of Nathaniel B. Priddy as overseer (1834-1835; 1837-1838, 1840); and a list of books and magazines, quills, pencils, and paper purchased (1836-1838).","Subjects include: hiring of Samuel Bumpass as overseer (1842); the sale of an enslaved boy, Washington (January 6, 1843); hiring of Nathaniel B. Priddy as overseer (1843); sale of the enslaved woman, Nancy Wylde, and her two youngest children (May 23, 1843); and the sale of an enslaved man, Ned Davis (June 27, 1843).","Subjects include: lists of books and writing supplies purchased (July 20, 1846; March 22 and April 16, 1847).","Subjects include: lists of books and writing supplies purchased (February 1848; July 14, 1848; and October 4, 1849).","Subjects include: lists of books purchased (January and November 1850); memoranda book containing the names of enslaved laborers (May 12, 1850); and the hire of enslaved men, Giles, Frank, and John from J.H. Wickham (1851).","Subjects include: list of taxable property for William F. Wickham in 1853, includes 96 enslaved laborers over 16 years old and 116 enslaved laborers over twelve years old.","Subjects include: partners listed for Warwick and Barksdale at the \"Gallego Mills\" following the death of William J. Barksdale (February 15 and July 2, 1860).","Subjects include: theft of stock certificates, bank book, and checks from Williams Carter at the \"North Wales\" plantation during a Yankee raid (May 31, 1864); copy of the last will and testament of Williams Carter with a codicil dated July 30, 1864, freeing his two enslaved women, Margaret and Sally, with any offspring that they have as soon as peace shall be established in the country (July 17, 1864); an enslaved mulatto girl named Sally was lent to Anne Butler Berkeley by Williams Carter (August 10, 1864); indenture concerning the former plantations and property of Williams Carter, Sr. including \"North Wales\" and \"Broad Neck\" (May 16, 1867); and payroll lists (April 1, 1868).","Subjects include: receipts for work in the coal banks, Clifton, West Virginia (1873).","Subjects include: a valuation of personal property at \"North Wales\" plantation; valuation of real estate of Mr. [Abraham] Warwick made by commissioners, including factories, blacksmith shop, houses, lots, and a Brookfield farm; and a list of the names of enslaved laborers, with their evaluations.","These three oversize items include an indenture between Betty Littlepage and Charles Carter of Corotoman (May 5, 1768); a deed of trust from Carter B. Page and Rebecca Page to Thomas Taylor and Benjamin Harrison (June 17, 1817); and an indenture concerning Catherine Page, \"Broad Neck\" and Williams Carter (March 11, 1822).","The oversize deeds and indentures include those signed by Carter B. and Rebecca Page and Thomas Taylor (June 7, 1817); an indenture between John Wickham, Edward Carrington, Daniel Call, and Littleton Waller Tazewell (March 17, 1800); an indenture between Harry and Anna Terrell and Charles Carter (October 7, 1769); an indenture between James Littlepage and Joel Terrell (April 23, 1751); an indenture between John Littlepage and John Carter (March 2, 1735); and a bill of sale for two male enslaved men, Billy and Cyrus (January 15, 1820).","These include a list with the heading \"A List of My Slaves, such as I wish to keep, such as I may wish to sell and may wish to send to the West\" with names, ages, special skills or jobs, and their evaluations on the \"Rocky Mills\" and \"South Wales\" plantations belonging to Edmund Fanning Wickham in 1835; an account of the sale of land and enslaved laborers at \"Rocky Mills\" in November 1842 with the name of the purchaser, name of the enslaved laborer and the prices; a list of enslaved laborers treated by Dr. J.P. Harrison (April 24, 1844; July 1845; July 1848); list of William F. Wickham's enslaved laborers by age category (1843); the evaluation of an enslaved man, Tom Christian and his entire family (December 22, 1846); a list of named enslaved laborers with their ages belonging to the estate of Dr. James McClurg, Hanover County, Virginia, with evalutions by W. O. Winston (January 18, 1852); a list of 209 named enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] (January 1854); a list of 269 named enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] (January 1859); a list of enslaved laborers belonging to [William F. Wickham?] who were either carried off the plantation by Yankee forces or left of their own accord during the Civil War (1862-1864); and one list of enslaved men between the ages of 18 and 55 with the notation that two are in Confederate service, 14 remain on the plantation and 33 have left and gone to the enemy (January 31, 1865) and another list of enslaved laborers that went to the enemy by year, 120 in all [1865].","These six oversize items include four land grant certificates to Edmund F. Wickham and Edwin P. Crenshaw; a London Medical Society membership certificate for Dr. James Maclurg (1784); a letter from Lucy Nelson (1835).","The oversize plats include one for \"North Wales\" plantation belonging to Charles Carter, October 4, 1779; a plat of \"South Wales\" and Lane plantations, Hanover County, according to the division of January 1818, but updated on May 21, 1858; a plat showing the part of \"South Wales\" plantation allotted to Anne B. Carter, the purchase of land by W.F. Wickham from Thomas Carter, and \"Hickory Hill\" plantation purchased by W.F. Wickham from the estate of George W. Smith, November 27, 1825; plat of \"Verdon\" Hanover County, Virginia, belonging to the estate of John T. Anderson (December 1, 1865); and an undated plat showing parcels of land west of the Missouri River, apparently belonging to Thomas Gorham and a Wickham family member, 4 items.","These six oversize items include a survey of the Broad Neck or Big Neck tract for Thomas C. Nelson (September 8, 1818); survey of the Lane tract, part of the South Wales Estate (January 1818); plat of the Lane tract, South Wales and Hickory Hill (January 1818); fields laid off and numbered from a survey of W.F. Wickham's river fields (February 16, 1837); surveys no. 137 and no. 146 in Saline County, Missouri for Edmund F. Wickham (1841); diagram of land plots to the west of the Missouri River and the 5th principal meridian, presumably in Missouri [1841-1842?].","This material includes a recollection of George Wythe by William F. Wickham (1874); and the first recollection of General Robert E. Lee by Anne Carter Wickham Renshaw Byerly, written in a letter to her brother Henry (undated); biographical sketches of Captain William C. Wickham, U.S. Navy (April 19, 1962 and September 1985), John Wickham (undated), and General Williams Carter Wickham (undated); and history of \"Hickory Hill\" (undated).","Families discussed include Fanning, Leiper, Martian, Peyton, Pye, Tabb and Barksdale, Taylor, Warwick, and Wingfield.","This includes a report of [3rd (Wickham's) Virginia Cavalry Brigade] near Front Royal, Virginia (August 23, 1864).","This folder includes such items as the weather at Hickory Hill (1857); a prayer of Bishop Meade (1861); printed advertisement for a catalog of attorneys (1875); damaged circular from a Rochester nursery (1882); a horse pedigree (undated); and \"Notes on Planting Box at Williamsburg\" by Arthur A. Shurcliff (undated).","These include Wickham's notes concerning the \"Home Reminiscences of John Randolph, of Roanoke\" by Powhatan Bouldin, the benefits of lime and marl, and W.W. Mac Farland's address.","These include [Julia L. Wickham], \"Peliso\" Orange, Virginia, gardens in Rome, [Hickory Hill], Captain Williams C. 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Business Papers; III. Legal Papers; IV.\n         Miscellaneous; V. Bound Volumes; and, VI. Oversize.","Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities","This collection of papers, 1650-1898, consists of ca. 710\n         items pertaining to the \n          Latane family of \n          Essex County, Virginia . Included are\n         correspondence, business and legal papers, papers re military\n         and religious matters, school notebooks, and certificates of\n         graduation from schools at the \n          University of Virginia .","Although little seems to be known or published about the\n         Latane family, valuable information may be found in \n          Parson Latane 1672-1732 by Lucy Temple Latane (Mss CS71.L347 1936); \n          Essex County, Virginia: Its Historic Homes,\n            Landmarks and Traditions edited by Essex County Woman's Club (F232.E7E7 1940);\n         and, \n          Settlers, Southerners, Americans: The History of\n            Essex County, Virginia 1608-1984 by James B. Slaughter (F232.E7S5 1985).","The early eighteenth century correspondence contains many\n         letters from \n          Henry Latane and his wife, \n          Anne Latane , London, England, to his\n         brother, \n          Lewis Latane (1672-1732) and his third\n         wife, \n          Mary (Deane) Latane (1685-1765), South\n         Farnham Parish, Essex County. Some of the letters are written\n         in French but the majority of them are in English. During the\n         1720s, Henry frequently advised Lewis to grow another crop\n         besides tobacco, saying that Europe could not consume all that\n         comes from America. In a letter of January 13, 1730, Henry is\n         \"impatient to know what the fate of Europe whether warr or\n         Peace everything seems to tend to a Crisis ...,\" possibly\n         referring to the trade conflict between England and Spain.","After her husband's death in 1732, Mary (Deane) Latane\n         managed the property that came to her and her children, with\n         the help of her cousin, \n          William Beverley (1698-1756). There are\n         several letters, 1733-1750, from Beverley discussing the\n         settlement of her husband's estate and the sale of her\n         tobacco. In addition, there are business correspondence, bills\n         of lading, invoices, and other papers concerning the sale of\n         tobacco.","Letters of interest include correspondence of \n          Spencer Roane (1762-1822), King and Queen\n         County, and \n          William Latane (1750-1811), Essex County,\n         July 1791-August 1792, concerning the deed and survey for the\n         \"Mount Clement Trail of Land,\" and another on July 25, 1804 re\n         the suit of Braxton vs Roane; letters on April 19, 1825, June\n         13, 1826, and November 18, 1826, from \n          James Montague , \n          Harden County, Kentucky , to friends in\n         Essex County, concerning various aspects of life in Kentucky\n         such as the conflict between anti-relief and relief parties,\n         tobacco sales, and prices of corn, flour, cotton, whiskey, et\n         al.; one on June 9, 1854, from Rev. \n          Henry W. L. Temple , Wayland, to \n          James Allen Latane , University of\n         Virginia, discussing Bishop \n          William Meade 's visit; and, several\n         letters, October 25, 1864, December 4, 1871, February 2 and\n         June 15, 1883, and June 13, 1885, from \n          Thomas S. Watson , Bracketts, chiefly to \n          Julia A. Holladay , \n          Botetourt County, Virginia , mentioning\n         news of family and friends, new dwellings built on Ionia, and\n         his being disqualified as a member of the legislature.","Letters pertaining to black history include one of December\n         10, 1772, from \n          Samuel Peachey, Jr. , \n          Occoquan Furnace , to William Latane,\n         Essex County, asking him to send a young black at Christmas\n         because the latter wants to learn the blacksmith trade; one of\n         November 10, 1788, from \n          Bartlett Williams , New Kent, to \n          William Latane , Essex County, complaining\n         about Latane's man Ephraim corrupting his blacks, and\n         requesting that he not be permitted to visit his plantation; a\n         circular, February 27, 1794, referring to the transportation\n         of slaves from Africa to the West-India islands; one of\n         February 28, 1809, from S. Chenault, Nelson County, Kentucky,\n         re the \"elopement\" of Franklin and his recovery by a Captain\n         Lafon who kept him in his possession for awhile;\n         correspondence between \n          Henry Waring Latane (1782-1860), Essex\n         County, and his brother-in-law, \n          John Temple ( -1812), Parkersburg, re the\n         death of Temple's father and the division of his slaves at\n         \"Goldberry,\" December 10, 1811 and January 8, 1812; and, one\n         of June 13, 1885, from \n          Thomas S. Watson , Bracketts, to \n          Julia A. Holladay , Botetourt County,\n         mentioning the poisoning of some children by a black\n         woman.","The business papers are comprised of accounts and\n         administrative and estate papers as well as general\n         correspondence and papers. The accounts are chiefly for\n         members of the Latane and Waring families, and, to a lesser\n         extent, for members of the \n          Allen family and \n          Temple family . The administrative and\n         estate papers concern the estates of \n          William Peachey ( -1700), \n          Lewis Latane (1672-1732), \n          Robert Payne Waring (-1799?), \n          William Latane (1750-1811), \n          John Temple ( -1812), \n          Lewis Dix ( -1815?), \n          James Allen ( -1820?), \n          Ann Latane ( -1820?), and \n          Henry Waring Latane (1782-1860). Also,\n         there are business papers pertaining to black history; and, a\n         separate itemized listing has been compiled.","The legal papers contain many indentures, land grants and\n         plats/surveys for lands in \n          Essex County , \n          King and Queen County , and \n          Rappahannock County . These papers are\n         helpful in determining ownership of lands held by the Latane\n         Family, \n          Roane Family , \n          Allen Family , and \n          Dix Family . In addition, there are copies\n         of wills for members of the Latane, Roane, Allen, and Dix\n         families. The wills also contain references to the division of\n         blacks among the families.","There are also genealogical, military, and religious\n         material. The military papers, 1814-1828, pertain chiefly to\n         James Allen's career as captain in the Virginia militia and\n         include abstracts of forage, regimental orders, receipt for\n         arms, detailed returns of arms accoutrements, and rosters of\n         officers and other personnel. 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Included are\n         correspondence, business and legal papers, papers re military\n         and religious matters, school notebooks, and certificates of\n         graduation from schools at the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlthough little seems to be known or published about the\n         Latane family, valuable information may be found in \n         \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eParson Latane 1672-1732\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby Lucy Temple Latane (Mss CS71.L347 1936); \n         \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eEssex County, Virginia: Its Historic Homes,\n            Landmarks and Traditions\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eedited by Essex County Woman's Club (F232.E7E7 1940);\n         and, \n         \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eSettlers, Southerners, Americans: The History of\n            Essex County, Virginia 1608-1984\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby James B. Slaughter (F232.E7S5 1985).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe early eighteenth century correspondence contains many\n         letters from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Latane\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAnne Latane\u003c/persname\u003e, London, England, to his\n         brother, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eLewis Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1672-1732) and his third\n         wife, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMary (Deane) Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1685-1765), South\n         Farnham Parish, Essex County. Some of the letters are written\n         in French but the majority of them are in English. During the\n         1720s, Henry frequently advised Lewis to grow another crop\n         besides tobacco, saying that Europe could not consume all that\n         comes from America. In a letter of January 13, 1730, Henry is\n         \"impatient to know what the fate of Europe whether warr or\n         Peace everything seems to tend to a Crisis ...,\" possibly\n         referring to the trade conflict between England and Spain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter her husband's death in 1732, Mary (Deane) Latane\n         managed the property that came to her and her children, with\n         the help of her cousin, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Beverley\u003c/persname\u003e(1698-1756). There are\n         several letters, 1733-1750, from Beverley discussing the\n         settlement of her husband's estate and the sale of her\n         tobacco. In addition, there are business correspondence, bills\n         of lading, invoices, and other papers concerning the sale of\n         tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters of interest include correspondence of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSpencer Roane\u003c/persname\u003e(1762-1822), King and Queen\n         County, and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1750-1811), Essex County,\n         July 1791-August 1792, concerning the deed and survey for the\n         \"Mount Clement Trail of Land,\" and another on July 25, 1804 re\n         the suit of Braxton vs Roane; letters on April 19, 1825, June\n         13, 1826, and November 18, 1826, from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Montague\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eHarden County, Kentucky\u003c/geogname\u003e, to friends in\n         Essex County, concerning various aspects of life in Kentucky\n         such as the conflict between anti-relief and relief parties,\n         tobacco sales, and prices of corn, flour, cotton, whiskey, et\n         al.; one on June 9, 1854, from Rev. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHenry W. L. Temple\u003c/persname\u003e, Wayland, to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Allen Latane\u003c/persname\u003e, University of\n         Virginia, discussing Bishop \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Meade\u003c/persname\u003e's visit; and, several\n         letters, October 25, 1864, December 4, 1871, February 2 and\n         June 15, 1883, and June 13, 1885, from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas S. Watson\u003c/persname\u003e, Bracketts, chiefly to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJulia A. Holladay\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBotetourt County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, mentioning\n         news of family and friends, new dwellings built on Ionia, and\n         his being disqualified as a member of the legislature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters pertaining to black history include one of December\n         10, 1772, from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Peachey, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eOccoquan Furnace\u003c/geogname\u003e, to William Latane,\n         Essex County, asking him to send a young black at Christmas\n         because the latter wants to learn the blacksmith trade; one of\n         November 10, 1788, from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eBartlett Williams\u003c/persname\u003e, New Kent, to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Latane\u003c/persname\u003e, Essex County, complaining\n         about Latane's man Ephraim corrupting his blacks, and\n         requesting that he not be permitted to visit his plantation; a\n         circular, February 27, 1794, referring to the transportation\n         of slaves from Africa to the West-India islands; one of\n         February 28, 1809, from S. Chenault, Nelson County, Kentucky,\n         re the \"elopement\" of Franklin and his recovery by a Captain\n         Lafon who kept him in his possession for awhile;\n         correspondence between \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Waring Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1782-1860), Essex\n         County, and his brother-in-law, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Temple\u003c/persname\u003e( -1812), Parkersburg, re the\n         death of Temple's father and the division of his slaves at\n         \"Goldberry,\" December 10, 1811 and January 8, 1812; and, one\n         of June 13, 1885, from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas S. Watson\u003c/persname\u003e, Bracketts, to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJulia A. Holladay\u003c/persname\u003e, Botetourt County,\n         mentioning the poisoning of some children by a black\n         woman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe business papers are comprised of accounts and\n         administrative and estate papers as well as general\n         correspondence and papers. The accounts are chiefly for\n         members of the Latane and Waring families, and, to a lesser\n         extent, for members of the \n         \u003cfamname\u003eAllen family\u003c/famname\u003eand \n         \u003cfamname\u003eTemple family\u003c/famname\u003e. The administrative and\n         estate papers concern the estates of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Peachey\u003c/persname\u003e( -1700), \n         \u003cpersname\u003eLewis Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1672-1732), \n         \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Payne Waring\u003c/persname\u003e(-1799?), \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1750-1811), \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Temple\u003c/persname\u003e( -1812), \n         \u003cpersname\u003eLewis Dix\u003c/persname\u003e( -1815?), \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Allen\u003c/persname\u003e( -1820?), \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAnn Latane\u003c/persname\u003e( -1820?), and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Waring Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1782-1860). Also,\n         there are business papers pertaining to black history; and, a\n         separate itemized listing has been compiled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe legal papers contain many indentures, land grants and\n         plats/surveys for lands in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eEssex County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eKing and Queen County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRappahannock County\u003c/geogname\u003e. These papers are\n         helpful in determining ownership of lands held by the Latane\n         Family, \n         \u003cfamname\u003eRoane Family\u003c/famname\u003e, \n         \u003cfamname\u003eAllen Family\u003c/famname\u003e, and \n         \u003cfamname\u003eDix Family\u003c/famname\u003e. In addition, there are copies\n         of wills for members of the Latane, Roane, Allen, and Dix\n         families. The wills also contain references to the division of\n         blacks among the families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also genealogical, military, and religious\n         material. The military papers, 1814-1828, pertain chiefly to\n         James Allen's career as captain in the Virginia militia and\n         include abstracts of forage, regimental orders, receipt for\n         arms, detailed returns of arms accoutrements, and rosters of\n         officers and other personnel. Among the miscellaneous papers\n         is a small group of material concerning religious matters,\n         particularly having to do with \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eSouth Farnham Parish\u003c/corpname\u003ein Essex County.\n         Included are a letter, December 17, 1716, from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Spotswood\u003c/persname\u003eto the vestry of the\n         parish re their decision to suspend \n         \u003cpersname\u003eLewis Latane\u003c/persname\u003efrom his ministerial office;\n         a hymn book belonging to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Latane\u003c/persname\u003e; and, two letters about the\n         weakening of the Church in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection of papers, 1650-1898, consists of ca. 710\n         items pertaining to the \n          Latane family of \n          Essex County, Virginia . Included are\n         correspondence, business and legal papers, papers re military\n         and religious matters, school notebooks, and certificates of\n         graduation from schools at the \n          University of Virginia .","Although little seems to be known or published about the\n         Latane family, valuable information may be found in \n          Parson Latane 1672-1732 by Lucy Temple Latane (Mss CS71.L347 1936); \n          Essex County, Virginia: Its Historic Homes,\n            Landmarks and Traditions edited by Essex County Woman's Club (F232.E7E7 1940);\n         and, \n          Settlers, Southerners, Americans: The History of\n            Essex County, Virginia 1608-1984 by James B. Slaughter (F232.E7S5 1985).","The early eighteenth century correspondence contains many\n         letters from \n          Henry Latane and his wife, \n          Anne Latane , London, England, to his\n         brother, \n          Lewis Latane (1672-1732) and his third\n         wife, \n          Mary (Deane) Latane (1685-1765), South\n         Farnham Parish, Essex County. Some of the letters are written\n         in French but the majority of them are in English. During the\n         1720s, Henry frequently advised Lewis to grow another crop\n         besides tobacco, saying that Europe could not consume all that\n         comes from America. In a letter of January 13, 1730, Henry is\n         \"impatient to know what the fate of Europe whether warr or\n         Peace everything seems to tend to a Crisis ...,\" possibly\n         referring to the trade conflict between England and Spain.","After her husband's death in 1732, Mary (Deane) Latane\n         managed the property that came to her and her children, with\n         the help of her cousin, \n          William Beverley (1698-1756). There are\n         several letters, 1733-1750, from Beverley discussing the\n         settlement of her husband's estate and the sale of her\n         tobacco. In addition, there are business correspondence, bills\n         of lading, invoices, and other papers concerning the sale of\n         tobacco.","Letters of interest include correspondence of \n          Spencer Roane (1762-1822), King and Queen\n         County, and \n          William Latane (1750-1811), Essex County,\n         July 1791-August 1792, concerning the deed and survey for the\n         \"Mount Clement Trail of Land,\" and another on July 25, 1804 re\n         the suit of Braxton vs Roane; letters on April 19, 1825, June\n         13, 1826, and November 18, 1826, from \n          James Montague , \n          Harden County, Kentucky , to friends in\n         Essex County, concerning various aspects of life in Kentucky\n         such as the conflict between anti-relief and relief parties,\n         tobacco sales, and prices of corn, flour, cotton, whiskey, et\n         al.; one on June 9, 1854, from Rev. \n          Henry W. L. Temple , Wayland, to \n          James Allen Latane , University of\n         Virginia, discussing Bishop \n          William Meade 's visit; and, several\n         letters, October 25, 1864, December 4, 1871, February 2 and\n         June 15, 1883, and June 13, 1885, from \n          Thomas S. Watson , Bracketts, chiefly to \n          Julia A. Holladay , \n          Botetourt County, Virginia , mentioning\n         news of family and friends, new dwellings built on Ionia, and\n         his being disqualified as a member of the legislature.","Letters pertaining to black history include one of December\n         10, 1772, from \n          Samuel Peachey, Jr. , \n          Occoquan Furnace , to William Latane,\n         Essex County, asking him to send a young black at Christmas\n         because the latter wants to learn the blacksmith trade; one of\n         November 10, 1788, from \n          Bartlett Williams , New Kent, to \n          William Latane , Essex County, complaining\n         about Latane's man Ephraim corrupting his blacks, and\n         requesting that he not be permitted to visit his plantation; a\n         circular, February 27, 1794, referring to the transportation\n         of slaves from Africa to the West-India islands; one of\n         February 28, 1809, from S. Chenault, Nelson County, Kentucky,\n         re the \"elopement\" of Franklin and his recovery by a Captain\n         Lafon who kept him in his possession for awhile;\n         correspondence between \n          Henry Waring Latane (1782-1860), Essex\n         County, and his brother-in-law, \n          John Temple ( -1812), Parkersburg, re the\n         death of Temple's father and the division of his slaves at\n         \"Goldberry,\" December 10, 1811 and January 8, 1812; and, one\n         of June 13, 1885, from \n          Thomas S. Watson , Bracketts, to \n          Julia A. Holladay , Botetourt County,\n         mentioning the poisoning of some children by a black\n         woman.","The business papers are comprised of accounts and\n         administrative and estate papers as well as general\n         correspondence and papers. The accounts are chiefly for\n         members of the Latane and Waring families, and, to a lesser\n         extent, for members of the \n          Allen family and \n          Temple family . The administrative and\n         estate papers concern the estates of \n          William Peachey ( -1700), \n          Lewis Latane (1672-1732), \n          Robert Payne Waring (-1799?), \n          William Latane (1750-1811), \n          John Temple ( -1812), \n          Lewis Dix ( -1815?), \n          James Allen ( -1820?), \n          Ann Latane ( -1820?), and \n          Henry Waring Latane (1782-1860). Also,\n         there are business papers pertaining to black history; and, a\n         separate itemized listing has been compiled.","The legal papers contain many indentures, land grants and\n         plats/surveys for lands in \n          Essex County , \n          King and Queen County , and \n          Rappahannock County . These papers are\n         helpful in determining ownership of lands held by the Latane\n         Family, \n          Roane Family , \n          Allen Family , and \n          Dix Family . In addition, there are copies\n         of wills for members of the Latane, Roane, Allen, and Dix\n         families. The wills also contain references to the division of\n         blacks among the families.","There are also genealogical, military, and religious\n         material. The military papers, 1814-1828, pertain chiefly to\n         James Allen's career as captain in the Virginia militia and\n         include abstracts of forage, regimental orders, receipt for\n         arms, detailed returns of arms accoutrements, and rosters of\n         officers and other personnel. Among the miscellaneous papers\n         is a small group of material concerning religious matters,\n         particularly having to do with \n          South Farnham Parish in Essex County.\n         Included are a letter, December 17, 1716, from \n          Alexander Spotswood to the vestry of the\n         parish re their decision to suspend \n          Lewis Latane from his ministerial office;\n         a hymn book belonging to \n          John Latane ; and, two letters about the\n         weakening of the Church in Virginia."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n            \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc/\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":[""],"names_ssim":["University of Virginia. 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Large portions of the\n         correspondence belong to \n          William Watts and \n          Fleming Saunders . Included with the\n         correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n          Frank Prufer . The business papers include\n         accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n         chiefly pertaining to \n          William Watts and \n          Fleming Saunders , but also various\n         members of these families. The legal papers include court\n         dockets and memoranda of \n          William Watts , documents, and wills.\n         There are various legal papers of \n          William Watts pertaining to \n          Virginia counties including \n          Amelia County , \n          Amherst County , \n          Buckingham County , \n          Campbell County , \n          Cumberland County , \n          Prince Edward County . The miscellaneous\n         material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n         photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n         bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n         journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n         arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n         inside arranged chronologically.","Correspondence","From the correspondence of the \n          Davis Family , \n          Saunders Family , and related families,\n         1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n         30, 1800, from \n          Louisa County , which advises the\n         recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n         the \n          Kingdom of God . A letter dated April 2,\n         1812 from \n          James Rayland to his sister mentions that\n         his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n         help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n          Mount Pleasant , indicates that \"Mary\n         thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n         requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n         Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n          Pleasant Milkhill needs brandy, and asks\n         that it be sent with \n          David (probably a slave) for there is none\n         at \n          Bethel . A letter dating November 6, 1856\n         at \n          Bleak Hills makes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n         [Roanoke County, or \n          John Randolph 's estate \"Roanoke\"?].","From their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n         letter to \n          Sam Tyree , Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n         student: \n          [Sam L. Preston?] complaining that he can\n         not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n         a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n          Trinity and Ivy Chapel in \n          Boonsboro, Bedford County to a Mr.\n         Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n         There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n         size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n         to see.\"","Among the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n         dated November 17 to \n          \"Carter\" [Saunders?] , by a female who\n         mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n         letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n         Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n         a \n          Sam K. Jenny , probably a doctor of\n         medicine, which mentions that \n          William Green attended a man named\n         Barnhart to \n          Bedford so Jenny could prescribe to his\n         case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"","From the correspondence of \n          Eva (Smith) Saunders , dated 1868-1894,\n         there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n          The Grove which mentions that while Eva\n         passed her exams--her brother \n          Fleming Saunders III did not. A letter,\n         August 2, 1892, to \n          Eva Saunders from \n          M. Natalie Manson , at \n          Wintore , speaks of school and Latin.\n         There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n          Florence, Italy to Eva, mentioning that\n         there is no silver in \n          Italy for the English and French are\n         buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n         carry,\" seeing the works of \n          Donato and \n          Brunelleschi and the \n          Medici Chapel , and the \n          \"Brothers of Pity\" who wear black robes\n         and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n         letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n         book to \n          May Begg , \"a literary courtship under the\n         auspices of \n          Pike's Peak . \" \n          Fleming Saunders III at \n          Randolph-Macon Academy in \n          Bedford writes to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n         saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n         congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n         doing better.","Among the \n          Eva Saunders undated correspondence, there\n         is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n         little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n         dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n         and concerns her ordered blouses.","From the correspondence of \n          Fleming Saunders and \n          Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders , 1858-1879, a\n         letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n          Peter Saunders, Jr. , \n          Bleak Hill , says that his tobacco crop\n         has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n          Jeanie Edmond , \n          Hudson Lodge , makes a reference to the \n          Jubilee Singers traveling to raise money\n         for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n         acquaintances visiting \n          England , mentioning a \"public worship\n         bill\" in \n          Parliament , and one acquaintance having\n         an appointment with the Bishop of \n          Melbourne ; and to visiting \n          Australia . In a postcard dated August 21,\n         1879, \n          W. A. Alrich asks \n          Fleming Saunders ' opinion as to the next\n         \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n         alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n         that Mrs. \n          C[harles] Dabney has a fine little\n         daughter.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n         there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n         Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n         give the same salary as before. \n          Peter Saunders writes from \n          Bleak Hill on January 19, 1881 saying that\n         he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n          Virgina Midland [Rail] Road , and does not\n         think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n         director on the \n          Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n         Company , and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n          W. A. Alrich writes from \n          Emanuel Rectory , \n          Chatham, Virginia , on February 16, 1882,\n         saying he is glad that the \n          Saunders ' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n         Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n          Ellen Boulder , a school teacher, writes\n         to \n          Mary Saunders from \n          Drake's Branch on March 18, 1889,\n         mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n         June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n          [Peter Saunders] , \n          Bleak Hill , writes \n          Fleming Saunders , on October 26, 1891\n         mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n         alliance such as the \n          Grange ?].","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n          Fleming Saunders III writes to his parents\n         from \n          Randolph-Macon Academy in \n          Bedford on March 14, 1893, saying that he\n         is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n         the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n         girls than studying. \n          James F. Plummer writes to Captain\n         Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n         saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n         of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n         tested. \n          Peter Saunders writes to Fleming from \n          Bleak Hill , on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n         the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n         in the \n          Democratic Party , and discussing briefly\n         possible effects on the present financial situation.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n         there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n          Edward Watts Saunders , while serving in\n         the \n          Virginia House of Delegates . \n          William W. Old writes to Fleming on\n         February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n         the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n         method of finalizing the transaction. \n          E. W. Saunders writes to Fleming on\n         January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n         \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n          Alice [Saunders] at \n          Hollins, Virginia , to her aunt Saunders\n         refers to the Roman poet \n          Virgil . She writes to her mother on March\n         12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n          Caesar and that he had been in the second\n         book of \n          Virgil .","In the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n          D. Saunders writes to his mother from \n          Randolph-Macon Academy on February 10,\n         saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n         spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n         previously boxing.","In the correspondence of \n          William Watts , 1754-1784, there is a\n         letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n          General Assembly in \n          Williamsburg . \n          Samuel Dilworth writes on June 2, 1783\n         from \n          Blanford mentioning the problem of\n         collecting debts owed to the British. \n          Thomas Baldwin, Jr. writes on December 22,\n         1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n         $18.","In the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n         16, 1785, from \n          William Roach informs Watts that while \n          Peter Kern is employing Watts in a matter\n         between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n         matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n          Arthur Campbell , a candidate for the\n         senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n         asking for Watts' support. \n          Edward Graham of \n          Bedford , writes on December 20, 1792,\n         mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n          Horace and sending the boy a copy of \n          Cicero which would supply \"the means of\n         raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n         and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n         soon be studying science.","In the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n          Duncan Rose writes from \n          Petersburg , on July 8, 1794, stating that\n          Buchanan's Hartie and Company has been\n         doing business in \n          Great Britain and is waiting for a\n         successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n         be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n          France and \n          Britain at this time: \n          George Hancock writes to Watts in 1794\n         mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n         ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n         by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n         U.S., and referring to Mr. \n          [James] Madison 's arguments whereas he\n         conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n          Creed Taylor writes on May 11, 1795,\n         concerning some bonds. \n          William Vannerson writes, on October 30,\n         1795, from \n          Petersburg mentioning a British war sloop\n         in \n          Norfolk, Virginia and the order for\n         carrying American bottoms bound for \n          France into British ports with invoice\n         being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n         has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n         $27 per barrel.","In Watts' correspondence with \n          Edward Randolph , 1796-1797, Randolph\n         writes from \n          Richmond on February 21 and March 13, 1796\n         on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n         with \n          Thomas F. Scott , 1792-1798, Scott writes\n         on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n         British debts. In the correspondence of \n          William Watts with \n          John Watts , 1784-1800, John writes to\n         William in April 1784 from \n          Lincoln County, Virginia (now \n          Kentucky ), concerning apprehension about\n         a possible Indian war in the \n          Northwest Territories . John says that\n         while the lands in \n          Kentucky are good, the inconveniences are\n         many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n         surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.","Business Papers","There are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n         beginning November 16, 1762, with \n          George Kippen \u0026 Co. at their store in \n          Goochland, Virginia , lists \n          John Gilliam as having ordered a dozen\n         flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n         list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n          A. Watts , on which is listed a\n         £0.2.0 debt to \n          Mary Petillo , the only woman on the list,\n         and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n          William Skipwith . The account of \n          Thomas East with \n          Archelaus Austin from November 15, 1771,\n         consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n         entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n         of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n         Vaughn with \n          Edward Watts lists various quantities of\n         rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n         1779-1794, of the estate of \n          Nathaniel Davis , including an entry for\n         1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n         1784 for half of hire of \n          Jacob . There is a section, \"Accts\n         Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n         and half share for \n          Jacob , and another for dinner at the\n         courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n          James Davis with \n          Daniel Warwick , dating 1799-1803, with\n         references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n         materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n          Elizabeth Davis ' account beginning May\n         31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n         material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n          James Davis with \n          Rowland P. Banks lists \"163 days tuition\n         at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n         1826, of Capt. \n          James Davis with \n          Thomas Pleasants , has lists orders for\n         cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n         Judge Saunders, of \n          Lynchburg, Virginia , orders castor oil,\n         ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n         but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n          James Davis which contains an entry for\n         imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n         from Mrs. Eubank.","The accounts of \n          Williams Watts span 1752-1797. There is\n         also a hotel account with \n          Charles Williamson with entries dating\n         1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n         clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n          Betty Tucker and \n          Betty Kirkland , both beginning September\n         10, 1767, and Capt. \n          Joseph Tucker , 1767-1769. Watts has\n         accounts, 1768, with \n          John Brittan for a waistcoat, shoes,\n         stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n         building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n         20, 1771, with \n          Miller Woodson with an entry of May 16,\n         1772 listing a \n          Patrick Henry . There is a document which\n         contains information on the estate of \n          William Randolph . There is another\n         lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n         Watts with \n          Charles Williams . There is an account\n         beginning March 9, 1778, with \n          William Kirkland which includes listings\n         for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n         with \n          Frederick Nance mentions a violin and a\n         set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n         1787, with \n          Robert Wilson ordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n         and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n          Edward McDonald with \n          William Watts , there is the note of the\n         hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n          Charles Smith , there is a note for the\n         finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n         There are two medical bills, one with \n          George Martin , beginning January 14,\n         1794, and one with Doctor \n          Graham , beginning November 3, 1795. In\n         October 1797, Watts had an account with \n          George Quille for the hire of a Negro.\n         There is an undated account of \n          W. Walter Spence with Watts for the hire\n         of a Negro for eight months.","Promissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n         There are several items concerned with the estate of \n          John Fleming and include an entry for\n         February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n          George Martin and Watts there is an\n         agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n         wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n          James Davis has a note dated 1803 with the\n         Sheriff of \n          Amherst County for tax on four Negroes,\n         four horses, and five tithes. \n          Elizabeth Davis has a note dated 1816 for\n         tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n         December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n         Negro man by \n          James Davis from \n          J. Wright for \n          Lavinia Wright . There is a 1840 note from\n          Charles Davis to the Sheriff of \n          Amherst for tax on six Negroes and six\n         horses.","Legal Papers","There are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n         kept by \n          William Watts in his capacity as a lawyer.\n         In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n          Buckingham County court, there is an entry\n         for detinue for Negro woman named \n          Agge . From the memo for the April 1772\n         court at \n          Lunenburg County , \n          Thomas Taylor and his wife have a suit\n         against a Hurt for a Negro in \n          Amelia . There is also a list of debts\n         owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n         there are court dockets from \n          Amelia County and \n          Lunenburg County from 1771-1782. A number\n         of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n         book with the signatures of William and \n          Edward Watts , which includes a record of \n          William Watts ' court expenses. There are\n         also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n          Buckingham County , \n          Amelia , \n          Cumberland County , and \n          Prince Edward County as well as for \n          Williamsburg, Virginia . There is another\n         1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n          Amelia County , \n          Cumberland County , and \n          Buckingham County .","The indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n         there is an agreement between \n          Benjamin Tambro and \n          Ayres Hodnett of \n          Buckingham in regard to the former's son, \n          John Tambro , to be apprentice to the\n         latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n         indenture between Watts and \n          William Ford . From September 17, 1768,\n         there is an agreement between \n          Abraham West and \n          John Blankenship of \n          Prince Edward . On November 17, 1772,\n         there is an agreement between \n          John Lewallen of \n          Amelia County and \n          James and Robert Donalds and Company ,\n         Merchants of \n          Glasgow . On September 15, 1778, there is\n         an agreement between \n          David Wright of \n          Botetourt and \n          Alexander Paine of the same concerning a\n         land dispute in the area where the \n          Roanoke River and \n          Tinker Creek .","The will, December 25, 1745, of \n          Thomas Patterson of \n          Albemarle County , names his slaves and\n         divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n         his land in \n          Goochland County be known as \n          \"Locust Thicket.\" Margery Hinshaw contested the will of \n          Samuel Hinshaw dated March 1758 with \n          [Cedw] Gibson on July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n         had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n         daughter \n          Elizabeth Hinshaw , and the latter's\n         children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n         will of \n          Thomas Bottom of \n          Amelia dated May 10, 1760 divides his\n         slaves which are named between his three daughters.","A folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n         inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n          John Eubank mentions prices for his\n         Negroes: £300 for a man named \n          Jacob , £200 for a man named \n          Joe , £10 for a woman named \n          Hannah , £20 for a girl named \n          Lolly , and £0 for a girl named\n          Caroline . There is also a list of tickets\n         of ommission paid by \n          William Watts , attorney. Among the legal\n         papers of \n          Amelia County , 1768 through 1789\n         including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n         states that \n          Sarah Tinker on December 6, 1781 gave her\n         son-in-law \n          John Tucker an ailing Negro named \n          Ned until the latter gets well whereas he\n         will be returned to \n          Sarah Tucker . In an undated document, \n          George Vaughn yields up title/right of two\n         Negroes--named \n          Frank and \n          Phoebe --to son-in-law \n          John Norris --formerly given to grandson \n          John Norris by a deed dated October 2,\n         1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n         son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n         annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n          Campbell County papers, Justice \n          Adam Clement says that \n          Charles Gilbert of \n          Campbell on April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n         Negro slave \n          Jack --property of Watts of \n          Prince Edward County --ran away and was\n         found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n          Prince Edward , \n          Edward Watts sold to \n          William Watts eight Negro slaves: \n          True , \n          James , \n          Winnie , \n          Peter , \n          Sarah , \n          Betty , \n          Rachel , and \n          Doc on January 14, 1787. There is also a\n         account of Dr. \n          M. John King with the sheriff of \n          Lunenburg which has an entry dating 1769:\n         the former is in account with \n          [John] Epps for four lbs. of tobacco at\n         £0.5.1.","Miscellaneous","Among the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n         September 20, 1871 from the \n          Omaha, Nebraska Lottery for the building\n         of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n          Cox and Sons Church Furniture shows a\n         garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n          James Garfield . There is an undated\n         letter to Mrs. \n          Fleming Saunders asking for a subscription\n         to the \n          Graphic, a ladies society\n         magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n          George Munro, Publishers . There is also a\n         broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n         English poetry pertaining to \n          Christ 's birth dating from the medieval\n         period.","The church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n         from \n          Virginia Polytechnic Institute to the \n          Saunders asking for aid for the building of\n         an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n         enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n         from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n         of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n         There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n         listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n         service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n         faith.","Civil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n         there are a number of furloughs issued to \n          Confederate enlisted men in \n          Virginia , each with a physical\n         description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n         concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n         a company of the \n          13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers .\n         There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n         ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n          Fleming Saunders , assistant\n         quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.","The educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n         a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n         from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n          \"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\" ,\n         September 6, 1877, by \n          John Randolph Tucker of \n          Virginia . There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n         for the \n          Edgeworth School , a church-related\n         boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n         1895 grade report from \n          Virginia Polytechnic Institute (formerly \n          Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n         College ) for \n          Fleming Saunders, III . There is a fall\n         term 1902 grade report from \n          Hollins College for \n          Elsie Saunders . There is another VPI\n         grade report, from February 1903, for \n          Carter Temple Saunders . There is a report\n         from \n          St. Timothy's School of \n          Catonsville, Maryland . Another undated\n         piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n         There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n         algebra.","There are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n         and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n         1794 from \n          Edward Watts ; another lecture on motive\n         dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n         1843.","Miscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n         marriage of Capt. \n          Fleming Saunders to \n          Mary Gwathmey on July 30.","The obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n          Fleming Saunders, Sr , a reprint of the\n         1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n          Alice Fleming --and the 1904 obituary of \n          Peter Saunders . The obituaries of\n         Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n         transcribed by \n          John Blair Dabney .","The photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n         young member of the \n          Saunders family and undated photo cards of\n         liturgical furniture.","Bound Volumes","The Day Books include a day book from \n          Maple Creek Mills dating from 1842. There\n         is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n         agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n         in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n          Richmond , July 29, 1863. Dating January\n         18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n          Lee Monumental Association . Also present\n         is a $1 donation from \n          Alex Berkeley of \n          Yellow Branch, Virginia . There are also\n         farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.","A card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n         which is based on the kings of \n          England who reigned down to its date, is\n         also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n         cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n         nature.","The Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n          Fleming Saunders , includes employees,\n         supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n         The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n         data.","The \n          Otter River Township Record Book dates\n         from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n         entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n         road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n         expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n         materials bought. One entry notes that \n          B. H. Anthony , overseer of the poor,\n         sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n         the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n         and 1875 meetings, \n          Fleming Saunders is mentioned as road\n         overseer in certain districts.","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Kingdom of God","Pleasant Milkhill","Bethel","Bleak Hills","Trinity and Ivy Chapel","The Grove","Wintore","Medici Chapel","\"Brothers of Pity\"","Randolph-Macon Academy","Bleak Hill","Hudson Lodge","Jubilee Singers","Parliament","Virgina Midland [Rail] Road","Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n         Company","Emanuel Rectory","Grange","Democratic Party","Virginia House of Delegates","General Assembly","Blanford","Buchanan's Hartie and Company","Norfolk, Virginia","Northwest Territories","George Kippen \u0026 Co.","James and Robert Donalds and Company","\"Locust Thicket.\"","Omaha, Nebraska Lottery","Cox and Sons Church Furniture","George Munro, Publishers","Virginia Polytechnic Institute","Confederate","13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers","Edgeworth School","Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n         College","Hollins College","St. Timothy's School","Maple Creek Mills","Lee Monumental Association","Otter River Township","Internal Revenue\n                  Service","New York Public\n                  Library","University of Virginia\n                  Volunteers","Davis Family","Saunders Family","Watts Family","Saunders","Saunders family","William H. 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Large portions of the\n         correspondence belong to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. Included with the\n         correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrank Prufer\u003c/persname\u003e. The business papers include\n         accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n         chiefly pertaining to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, but also various\n         members of these families. The legal papers include court\n         dockets and memoranda of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, documents, and wills.\n         There are various legal papers of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003epertaining to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003ecounties including \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003e. The miscellaneous\n         material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n         photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n         bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n         journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n         arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n         inside arranged chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of the \n         \u003cfamname\u003eDavis Family\u003c/famname\u003e, \n         \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders Family\u003c/famname\u003e, and related families,\n         1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n         30, 1800, from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eLouisa County\u003c/geogname\u003e, which advises the\n         recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n         the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eKingdom of God\u003c/corpname\u003e. A letter dated April 2,\n         1812 from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Rayland\u003c/persname\u003eto his sister mentions that\n         his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n         help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eMount Pleasant\u003c/geogname\u003e, indicates that \"Mary\n         thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n         requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n         Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n         \u003ccorpname\u003ePleasant Milkhill\u003c/corpname\u003eneeds brandy, and asks\n         that it be sent with \n         \u003cpersname\u003eDavid\u003c/persname\u003e(probably a slave) for there is none\n         at \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eBethel\u003c/corpname\u003e. A letter dating November 6, 1856\n         at \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hills\u003c/corpname\u003emakes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n         [Roanoke County, or \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e's estate \"Roanoke\"?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n         letter to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSam Tyree\u003c/persname\u003e, Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n         student: \n         \u003cpersname\u003e[Sam L. Preston?]\u003c/persname\u003ecomplaining that he can\n         not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n         a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eTrinity and Ivy Chapel\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBoonsboro, Bedford County\u003c/geogname\u003eto a Mr.\n         Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n         There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n         size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n         to see.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n         dated November 17 to \n         \u003cpersname\u003e\"Carter\" [Saunders?]\u003c/persname\u003e, by a female who\n         mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n         letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n         Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n         a \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSam K. Jenny\u003c/persname\u003e, probably a doctor of\n         medicine, which mentions that \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Green\u003c/persname\u003eattended a man named\n         Barnhart to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003eso Jenny could prescribe to his\n         case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEva (Smith) Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, dated 1868-1894,\n         there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eThe Grove\u003c/corpname\u003ewhich mentions that while Eva\n         passed her exams--her brother \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003edid not. A letter,\n         August 2, 1892, to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEva Saunders\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n         \u003cpersname\u003eM. Natalie Manson\u003c/persname\u003e, at \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eWintore\u003c/corpname\u003e, speaks of school and Latin.\n         There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorence, Italy\u003c/geogname\u003eto Eva, mentioning that\n         there is no silver in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003efor the English and French are\n         buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n         carry,\" seeing the works of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eDonato\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eBrunelleschi\u003c/persname\u003eand the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eMedici Chapel\u003c/corpname\u003e, and the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e\"Brothers of Pity\"\u003c/corpname\u003ewho wear black robes\n         and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n         letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n         book to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMay Begg\u003c/persname\u003e, \"a literary courtship under the\n         auspices of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePike's Peak\u003c/geogname\u003e. \" \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003eat \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003ewrites to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n         saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n         congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n         doing better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEva Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eundated correspondence, there\n         is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n         little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n         dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n         and concerns her ordered blouses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMary (Gwathmey) Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, 1858-1879, a\n         letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n         \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, says that his tobacco crop\n         has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJeanie Edmond\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eHudson Lodge\u003c/corpname\u003e, makes a reference to the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eJubilee Singers\u003c/corpname\u003etraveling to raise money\n         for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n         acquaintances visiting \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003e, mentioning a \"public worship\n         bill\" in \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eParliament\u003c/corpname\u003e, and one acquaintance having\n         an appointment with the Bishop of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eMelbourne\u003c/geogname\u003e; and to visiting \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAustralia\u003c/geogname\u003e. In a postcard dated August 21,\n         1879, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eW. A. Alrich\u003c/persname\u003easks \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e' opinion as to the next\n         \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n         alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n         that Mrs. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eC[harles] Dabney\u003c/persname\u003ehas a fine little\n         daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n         there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n         Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n         give the same salary as before. \n         \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003eon January 19, 1881 saying that\n         he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eVirgina Midland [Rail] Road\u003c/corpname\u003e, and does not\n         think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n         director on the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eFranklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n         Company\u003c/corpname\u003e, and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n         \u003cpersname\u003eW. A. Alrich\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eEmanuel Rectory\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eChatham, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, on February 16, 1882,\n         saying he is glad that the \n         \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders\u003c/famname\u003e' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n         Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEllen Boulder\u003c/persname\u003e, a school teacher, writes\n         to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMary Saunders\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eDrake's Branch\u003c/geogname\u003eon March 18, 1889,\n         mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n         June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n         \u003cpersname\u003e[Peter Saunders]\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, writes \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, on October 26, 1891\n         mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n         alliance such as the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eGrange\u003c/corpname\u003e?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to his parents\n         from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003eon March 14, 1893, saying that he\n         is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n         the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n         girls than studying. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames F. Plummer\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Captain\n         Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n         saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n         of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n         tested. \n         \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n         the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n         in the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eDemocratic Party\u003c/corpname\u003e, and discussing briefly\n         possible effects on the present financial situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n         there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, while serving in\n         the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia House of Delegates\u003c/corpname\u003e. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam W. Old\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming on\n         February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n         the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n         method of finalizing the transaction. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eE. W. Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming on\n         January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n         \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAlice [Saunders]\u003c/persname\u003eat \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eHollins, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, to her aunt Saunders\n         refers to the Roman poet \n         \u003cpersname\u003eVirgil\u003c/persname\u003e. She writes to her mother on March\n         12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCaesar\u003c/persname\u003eand that he had been in the second\n         book of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eVirgil\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eD. Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to his mother from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003eon February 10,\n         saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n         spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n         previously boxing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the correspondence of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, 1754-1784, there is a\n         letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eGeneral Assembly\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Dilworth\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on June 2, 1783\n         from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eBlanford\u003c/corpname\u003ementioning the problem of\n         collecting debts owed to the British. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Baldwin, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on December 22,\n         1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n         $18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n         16, 1785, from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Roach\u003c/persname\u003einforms Watts that while \n         \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Kern\u003c/persname\u003eis employing Watts in a matter\n         between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n         matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eArthur Campbell\u003c/persname\u003e, a candidate for the\n         senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n         asking for Watts' support. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Graham\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003e, writes on December 20, 1792,\n         mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHorace\u003c/persname\u003eand sending the boy a copy of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCicero\u003c/persname\u003ewhich would supply \"the means of\n         raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n         and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n         soon be studying science.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eDuncan Rose\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePetersburg\u003c/geogname\u003e, on July 8, 1794, stating that\n         \u003ccorpname\u003eBuchanan's Hartie and Company\u003c/corpname\u003ehas been\n         doing business in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eGreat Britain\u003c/geogname\u003eand is waiting for a\n         successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n         be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBritain\u003c/geogname\u003eat this time: \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Hancock\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Watts in 1794\n         mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n         ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n         by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n         U.S., and referring to Mr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003e[James] Madison\u003c/persname\u003e's arguments whereas he\n         conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCreed Taylor\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on May 11, 1795,\n         concerning some bonds. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Vannerson\u003c/persname\u003ewrites, on October 30,\n         1795, from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePetersburg\u003c/geogname\u003ementioning a British war sloop\n         in \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eNorfolk, Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003eand the order for\n         carrying American bottoms bound for \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003einto British ports with invoice\n         being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n         has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n         $27 per barrel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Watts' correspondence with \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e, 1796-1797, Randolph\n         writes from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eon February 21 and March 13, 1796\n         on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n         with \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas F. Scott\u003c/persname\u003e, 1792-1798, Scott writes\n         on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n         British debts. In the correspondence of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, 1784-1800, John writes to\n         William in April 1784 from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eLincoln County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e(now \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eKentucky\u003c/geogname\u003e), concerning apprehension about\n         a possible Indian war in the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eNorthwest Territories\u003c/corpname\u003e. John says that\n         while the lands in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eKentucky\u003c/geogname\u003eare good, the inconveniences are\n         many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n         surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n         beginning November 16, 1762, with \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eGeorge Kippen \u0026amp; Co.\u003c/corpname\u003eat their store in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eGoochland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, lists \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Gilliam\u003c/persname\u003eas having ordered a dozen\n         flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n         list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eA. Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, on which is listed a\n         £0.2.0 debt to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMary Petillo\u003c/persname\u003e, the only woman on the list,\n         and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Skipwith\u003c/persname\u003e. The account of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas East\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n         \u003cpersname\u003eArchelaus Austin\u003c/persname\u003efrom November 15, 1771,\n         consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n         entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n         of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n         Vaughn with \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003elists various quantities of\n         rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n         1779-1794, of the estate of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eNathaniel Davis\u003c/persname\u003e, including an entry for\n         1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n         1784 for half of hire of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a section, \"Accts\n         Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n         and half share for \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e, and another for dinner at the\n         courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n         \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Warwick\u003c/persname\u003e, dating 1799-1803, with\n         references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n         materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Davis\u003c/persname\u003e' account beginning May\n         31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n         material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n         \u003cpersname\u003eRowland P. Banks\u003c/persname\u003elists \"163 days tuition\n         at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n         1826, of Capt. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Pleasants\u003c/persname\u003e, has lists orders for\n         cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n         Judge Saunders, of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eLynchburg, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, orders castor oil,\n         ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n         but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewhich contains an entry for\n         imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n         from Mrs. Eubank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe accounts of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliams Watts\u003c/persname\u003espan 1752-1797. There is\n         also a hotel account with \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Williamson\u003c/persname\u003ewith entries dating\n         1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n         clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Tucker\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Kirkland\u003c/persname\u003e, both beginning September\n         10, 1767, and Capt. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Tucker\u003c/persname\u003e, 1767-1769. Watts has\n         accounts, 1768, with \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Brittan\u003c/persname\u003efor a waistcoat, shoes,\n         stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n         building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n         20, 1771, with \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMiller Woodson\u003c/persname\u003ewith an entry of May 16,\n         1772 listing a \n         \u003cpersname\u003ePatrick Henry\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a document which\n         contains information on the estate of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e. There is another\n         lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n         Watts with \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Williams\u003c/persname\u003e. There is an account\n         beginning March 9, 1778, with \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Kirkland\u003c/persname\u003ewhich includes listings\n         for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n         with \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrederick Nance\u003c/persname\u003ementions a violin and a\n         set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n         1787, with \n         \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Wilson\u003c/persname\u003eordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n         and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEdward McDonald\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, there is the note of the\n         hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Smith\u003c/persname\u003e, there is a note for the\n         finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n         There are two medical bills, one with \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Martin\u003c/persname\u003e, beginning January 14,\n         1794, and one with Doctor \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGraham\u003c/persname\u003e, beginning November 3, 1795. In\n         October 1797, Watts had an account with \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Quille\u003c/persname\u003efor the hire of a Negro.\n         There is an undated account of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eW. Walter Spence\u003c/persname\u003ewith Watts for the hire\n         of a Negro for eight months.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n         There are several items concerned with the estate of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Fleming\u003c/persname\u003eand include an entry for\n         February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Martin\u003c/persname\u003eand Watts there is an\n         agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n         wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ehas a note dated 1803 with the\n         Sheriff of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst County\u003c/geogname\u003efor tax on four Negroes,\n         four horses, and five tithes. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Davis\u003c/persname\u003ehas a note dated 1816 for\n         tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n         December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n         Negro man by \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJ. Wright\u003c/persname\u003efor \n         \u003cpersname\u003eLavinia Wright\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a 1840 note from\n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Davis\u003c/persname\u003eto the Sheriff of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst\u003c/geogname\u003efor tax on six Negroes and six\n         horses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n         kept by \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003ein his capacity as a lawyer.\n         In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003ecourt, there is an entry\n         for detinue for Negro woman named \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAgge\u003c/persname\u003e. From the memo for the April 1772\n         court at \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Taylor\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife have a suit\n         against a Hurt for a Negro in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is also a list of debts\n         owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n         there are court dockets from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg County\u003c/geogname\u003efrom 1771-1782. A number\n         of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n         book with the signatures of William and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, which includes a record of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e' court expenses. There are\n         also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003eas well as for \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is another\n         1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n         there is an agreement between \n         \u003cpersname\u003eBenjamin Tambro\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAyres Hodnett\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham\u003c/geogname\u003ein regard to the former's son, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tambro\u003c/persname\u003e, to be apprentice to the\n         latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n         indenture between Watts and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Ford\u003c/persname\u003e. From September 17, 1768,\n         there is an agreement between \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham West\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Blankenship\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward\u003c/geogname\u003e. On November 17, 1772,\n         there is an agreement between \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Lewallen\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eJames and Robert Donalds and Company\u003c/corpname\u003e,\n         Merchants of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eGlasgow\u003c/geogname\u003e. On September 15, 1778, there is\n         an agreement between \n         \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Wright\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBotetourt\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Paine\u003c/persname\u003eof the same concerning a\n         land dispute in the area where the \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRoanoke River\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTinker Creek\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe will, December 25, 1745, of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Patterson\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbemarle County\u003c/geogname\u003e, names his slaves and\n         divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n         his land in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eGoochland County\u003c/geogname\u003ebe known as \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e\"Locust Thicket.\"\u003c/corpname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMargery Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003econtested the will of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003edated March 1758 with \n         \u003cpersname\u003e[Cedw] Gibson\u003c/persname\u003eon July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n         had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n         daughter \n         \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003e, and the latter's\n         children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n         will of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Bottom\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003edated May 10, 1760 divides his\n         slaves which are named between his three daughters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n         inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Eubank\u003c/persname\u003ementions prices for his\n         Negroes: £300 for a man named \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e, £200 for a man named \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJoe\u003c/persname\u003e, £10 for a woman named \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHannah\u003c/persname\u003e, £20 for a girl named \n         \u003cpersname\u003eLolly\u003c/persname\u003e, and £0 for a girl named\n         \u003cpersname\u003eCaroline\u003c/persname\u003e. There is also a list of tickets\n         of ommission paid by \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, attorney. Among the legal\n         papers of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, 1768 through 1789\n         including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n         states that \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tinker\u003c/persname\u003eon December 6, 1781 gave her\n         son-in-law \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tucker\u003c/persname\u003ean ailing Negro named \n         \u003cpersname\u003eNed\u003c/persname\u003euntil the latter gets well whereas he\n         will be returned to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tucker\u003c/persname\u003e. In an undated document, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Vaughn\u003c/persname\u003eyields up title/right of two\n         Negroes--named \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFrank\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003ePhoebe\u003c/persname\u003e--to son-in-law \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Norris\u003c/persname\u003e--formerly given to grandson \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Norris\u003c/persname\u003eby a deed dated October 2,\n         1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n         son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n         annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell County\u003c/geogname\u003epapers, Justice \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAdam Clement\u003c/persname\u003esays that \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Gilbert\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell\u003c/geogname\u003eon April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n         Negro slave \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJack\u003c/persname\u003e--property of Watts of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003e--ran away and was\n         found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003esold to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eeight Negro slaves: \n         \u003cpersname\u003eTrue\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWinnie\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003ePeter\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSarah\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eBetty\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eRachel\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eDoc\u003c/persname\u003eon January 14, 1787. There is also a\n         account of Dr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eM. John King\u003c/persname\u003ewith the sheriff of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg\u003c/geogname\u003ewhich has an entry dating 1769:\n         the former is in account with \n         \u003cpersname\u003e[John] Epps\u003c/persname\u003efor four lbs. of tobacco at\n         £0.5.1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n         September 20, 1871 from the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eOmaha, Nebraska Lottery\u003c/corpname\u003efor the building\n         of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCox and Sons Church Furniture\u003c/corpname\u003eshows a\n         garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Garfield\u003c/persname\u003e. There is an undated\n         letter to Mrs. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003easking for a subscription\n         to the \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGraphic,\u003c/title\u003ea ladies society\n         magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eGeorge Munro, Publishers\u003c/corpname\u003e. There is also a\n         broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n         English poetry pertaining to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eChrist\u003c/persname\u003e's birth dating from the medieval\n         period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n         from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Polytechnic Institute\u003c/corpname\u003eto the \n         \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders\u003c/famname\u003easking for aid for the building of\n         an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n         enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n         from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n         of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n         There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n         listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n         service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n         faith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCivil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n         there are a number of furloughs issued to \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eConfederate\u003c/corpname\u003eenlisted men in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, each with a physical\n         description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n         concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n         a company of the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003e13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers\u003c/corpname\u003e.\n         There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n         ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, assistant\n         quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n         a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n         from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\"\u003c/title\u003e,\n         September 6, 1877, by \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Randolph Tucker\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n         for the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eEdgeworth School\u003c/corpname\u003e, a church-related\n         boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n         1895 grade report from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Polytechnic Institute\u003c/corpname\u003e(formerly \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n         College\u003c/corpname\u003e) for \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders, III\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a fall\n         term 1902 grade report from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eHollins College\u003c/corpname\u003efor \n         \u003cpersname\u003eElsie Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. There is another VPI\n         grade report, from February 1903, for \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCarter Temple Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a report\n         from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eSt. Timothy's School\u003c/corpname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCatonsville, Maryland\u003c/geogname\u003e. Another undated\n         piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n         There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n         algebra.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n         and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n         1794 from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003e; another lecture on motive\n         dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n         1843.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n         marriage of Capt. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eto \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMary Gwathmey\u003c/persname\u003eon July 30.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders, Sr\u003c/persname\u003e, a reprint of the\n         1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAlice Fleming\u003c/persname\u003e--and the 1904 obituary of \n         \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. The obituaries of\n         Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n         transcribed by \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Blair Dabney\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n         young member of the \n         \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders family\u003c/famname\u003eand undated photo cards of\n         liturgical furniture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound Volumes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Day Books include a day book from \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eMaple Creek Mills\u003c/corpname\u003edating from 1842. There\n         is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n         agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n         in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003e, July 29, 1863. Dating January\n         18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eLee Monumental Association\u003c/corpname\u003e. Also present\n         is a $1 donation from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAlex Berkeley\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eYellow Branch, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There are also\n         farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n         which is based on the kings of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003ewho reigned down to its date, is\n         also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n         cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n         nature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, includes employees,\n         supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n         The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n         data.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eOtter River Township\u003c/corpname\u003eRecord Book dates\n         from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n         entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n         road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n         expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n         materials bought. One entry notes that \n         \u003cpersname\u003eB. H. Anthony\u003c/persname\u003e, overseer of the poor,\n         sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n         the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n         and 1875 meetings, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eis mentioned as road\n         overseer in certain districts.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection, 1745-1910, n.d., of ca. 2100 items,\n         consists of correspondence, business and legal papers,\n         miscellaneous, and bound volumes, pertaining to the \n          Davis Family , \n          Saunders Family , and \n          Watts Family . Large portions of the\n         correspondence belong to \n          William Watts and \n          Fleming Saunders . Included with the\n         correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n          Frank Prufer . The business papers include\n         accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n         chiefly pertaining to \n          William Watts and \n          Fleming Saunders , but also various\n         members of these families. The legal papers include court\n         dockets and memoranda of \n          William Watts , documents, and wills.\n         There are various legal papers of \n          William Watts pertaining to \n          Virginia counties including \n          Amelia County , \n          Amherst County , \n          Buckingham County , \n          Campbell County , \n          Cumberland County , \n          Prince Edward County . The miscellaneous\n         material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n         photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n         bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n         journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n         arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n         inside arranged chronologically.","Correspondence","From the correspondence of the \n          Davis Family , \n          Saunders Family , and related families,\n         1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n         30, 1800, from \n          Louisa County , which advises the\n         recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n         the \n          Kingdom of God . A letter dated April 2,\n         1812 from \n          James Rayland to his sister mentions that\n         his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n         help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n          Mount Pleasant , indicates that \"Mary\n         thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n         requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n         Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n          Pleasant Milkhill needs brandy, and asks\n         that it be sent with \n          David (probably a slave) for there is none\n         at \n          Bethel . A letter dating November 6, 1856\n         at \n          Bleak Hills makes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n         [Roanoke County, or \n          John Randolph 's estate \"Roanoke\"?].","From their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n         letter to \n          Sam Tyree , Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n         student: \n          [Sam L. Preston?] complaining that he can\n         not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n         a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n          Trinity and Ivy Chapel in \n          Boonsboro, Bedford County to a Mr.\n         Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n         There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n         size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n         to see.\"","Among the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n         dated November 17 to \n          \"Carter\" [Saunders?] , by a female who\n         mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n         letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n         Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n         a \n          Sam K. Jenny , probably a doctor of\n         medicine, which mentions that \n          William Green attended a man named\n         Barnhart to \n          Bedford so Jenny could prescribe to his\n         case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"","From the correspondence of \n          Eva (Smith) Saunders , dated 1868-1894,\n         there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n          The Grove which mentions that while Eva\n         passed her exams--her brother \n          Fleming Saunders III did not. A letter,\n         August 2, 1892, to \n          Eva Saunders from \n          M. Natalie Manson , at \n          Wintore , speaks of school and Latin.\n         There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n          Florence, Italy to Eva, mentioning that\n         there is no silver in \n          Italy for the English and French are\n         buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n         carry,\" seeing the works of \n          Donato and \n          Brunelleschi and the \n          Medici Chapel , and the \n          \"Brothers of Pity\" who wear black robes\n         and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n         letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n         book to \n          May Begg , \"a literary courtship under the\n         auspices of \n          Pike's Peak . \" \n          Fleming Saunders III at \n          Randolph-Macon Academy in \n          Bedford writes to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n         saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n         congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n         doing better.","Among the \n          Eva Saunders undated correspondence, there\n         is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n         little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n         dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n         and concerns her ordered blouses.","From the correspondence of \n          Fleming Saunders and \n          Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders , 1858-1879, a\n         letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n          Peter Saunders, Jr. , \n          Bleak Hill , says that his tobacco crop\n         has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n          Jeanie Edmond , \n          Hudson Lodge , makes a reference to the \n          Jubilee Singers traveling to raise money\n         for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n         acquaintances visiting \n          England , mentioning a \"public worship\n         bill\" in \n          Parliament , and one acquaintance having\n         an appointment with the Bishop of \n          Melbourne ; and to visiting \n          Australia . In a postcard dated August 21,\n         1879, \n          W. A. Alrich asks \n          Fleming Saunders ' opinion as to the next\n         \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n         alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n         that Mrs. \n          C[harles] Dabney has a fine little\n         daughter.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n         there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n         Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n         give the same salary as before. \n          Peter Saunders writes from \n          Bleak Hill on January 19, 1881 saying that\n         he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n          Virgina Midland [Rail] Road , and does not\n         think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n         director on the \n          Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n         Company , and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n          W. A. Alrich writes from \n          Emanuel Rectory , \n          Chatham, Virginia , on February 16, 1882,\n         saying he is glad that the \n          Saunders ' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n         Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n          Ellen Boulder , a school teacher, writes\n         to \n          Mary Saunders from \n          Drake's Branch on March 18, 1889,\n         mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n         June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n          [Peter Saunders] , \n          Bleak Hill , writes \n          Fleming Saunders , on October 26, 1891\n         mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n         alliance such as the \n          Grange ?].","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n          Fleming Saunders III writes to his parents\n         from \n          Randolph-Macon Academy in \n          Bedford on March 14, 1893, saying that he\n         is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n         the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n         girls than studying. \n          James F. Plummer writes to Captain\n         Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n         saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n         of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n         tested. \n          Peter Saunders writes to Fleming from \n          Bleak Hill , on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n         the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n         in the \n          Democratic Party , and discussing briefly\n         possible effects on the present financial situation.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n         there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n          Edward Watts Saunders , while serving in\n         the \n          Virginia House of Delegates . \n          William W. Old writes to Fleming on\n         February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n         the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n         method of finalizing the transaction. \n          E. W. Saunders writes to Fleming on\n         January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n         \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n          Alice [Saunders] at \n          Hollins, Virginia , to her aunt Saunders\n         refers to the Roman poet \n          Virgil . She writes to her mother on March\n         12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n          Caesar and that he had been in the second\n         book of \n          Virgil .","In the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n          D. Saunders writes to his mother from \n          Randolph-Macon Academy on February 10,\n         saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n         spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n         previously boxing.","In the correspondence of \n          William Watts , 1754-1784, there is a\n         letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n          General Assembly in \n          Williamsburg . \n          Samuel Dilworth writes on June 2, 1783\n         from \n          Blanford mentioning the problem of\n         collecting debts owed to the British. \n          Thomas Baldwin, Jr. writes on December 22,\n         1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n         $18.","In the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n         16, 1785, from \n          William Roach informs Watts that while \n          Peter Kern is employing Watts in a matter\n         between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n         matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n          Arthur Campbell , a candidate for the\n         senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n         asking for Watts' support. \n          Edward Graham of \n          Bedford , writes on December 20, 1792,\n         mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n          Horace and sending the boy a copy of \n          Cicero which would supply \"the means of\n         raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n         and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n         soon be studying science.","In the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n          Duncan Rose writes from \n          Petersburg , on July 8, 1794, stating that\n          Buchanan's Hartie and Company has been\n         doing business in \n          Great Britain and is waiting for a\n         successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n         be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n          France and \n          Britain at this time: \n          George Hancock writes to Watts in 1794\n         mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n         ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n         by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n         U.S., and referring to Mr. \n          [James] Madison 's arguments whereas he\n         conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n          Creed Taylor writes on May 11, 1795,\n         concerning some bonds. \n          William Vannerson writes, on October 30,\n         1795, from \n          Petersburg mentioning a British war sloop\n         in \n          Norfolk, Virginia and the order for\n         carrying American bottoms bound for \n          France into British ports with invoice\n         being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n         has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n         $27 per barrel.","In Watts' correspondence with \n          Edward Randolph , 1796-1797, Randolph\n         writes from \n          Richmond on February 21 and March 13, 1796\n         on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n         with \n          Thomas F. Scott , 1792-1798, Scott writes\n         on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n         British debts. In the correspondence of \n          William Watts with \n          John Watts , 1784-1800, John writes to\n         William in April 1784 from \n          Lincoln County, Virginia (now \n          Kentucky ), concerning apprehension about\n         a possible Indian war in the \n          Northwest Territories . John says that\n         while the lands in \n          Kentucky are good, the inconveniences are\n         many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n         surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.","Business Papers","There are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n         beginning November 16, 1762, with \n          George Kippen \u0026 Co. at their store in \n          Goochland, Virginia , lists \n          John Gilliam as having ordered a dozen\n         flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n         list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n          A. Watts , on which is listed a\n         £0.2.0 debt to \n          Mary Petillo , the only woman on the list,\n         and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n          William Skipwith . The account of \n          Thomas East with \n          Archelaus Austin from November 15, 1771,\n         consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n         entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n         of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n         Vaughn with \n          Edward Watts lists various quantities of\n         rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n         1779-1794, of the estate of \n          Nathaniel Davis , including an entry for\n         1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n         1784 for half of hire of \n          Jacob . There is a section, \"Accts\n         Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n         and half share for \n          Jacob , and another for dinner at the\n         courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n          James Davis with \n          Daniel Warwick , dating 1799-1803, with\n         references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n         materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n          Elizabeth Davis ' account beginning May\n         31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n         material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n          James Davis with \n          Rowland P. Banks lists \"163 days tuition\n         at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n         1826, of Capt. \n          James Davis with \n          Thomas Pleasants , has lists orders for\n         cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n         Judge Saunders, of \n          Lynchburg, Virginia , orders castor oil,\n         ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n         but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n          James Davis which contains an entry for\n         imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n         from Mrs. Eubank.","The accounts of \n          Williams Watts span 1752-1797. There is\n         also a hotel account with \n          Charles Williamson with entries dating\n         1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n         clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n          Betty Tucker and \n          Betty Kirkland , both beginning September\n         10, 1767, and Capt. \n          Joseph Tucker , 1767-1769. Watts has\n         accounts, 1768, with \n          John Brittan for a waistcoat, shoes,\n         stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n         building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n         20, 1771, with \n          Miller Woodson with an entry of May 16,\n         1772 listing a \n          Patrick Henry . There is a document which\n         contains information on the estate of \n          William Randolph . There is another\n         lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n         Watts with \n          Charles Williams . There is an account\n         beginning March 9, 1778, with \n          William Kirkland which includes listings\n         for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n         with \n          Frederick Nance mentions a violin and a\n         set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n         1787, with \n          Robert Wilson ordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n         and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n          Edward McDonald with \n          William Watts , there is the note of the\n         hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n          Charles Smith , there is a note for the\n         finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n         There are two medical bills, one with \n          George Martin , beginning January 14,\n         1794, and one with Doctor \n          Graham , beginning November 3, 1795. In\n         October 1797, Watts had an account with \n          George Quille for the hire of a Negro.\n         There is an undated account of \n          W. Walter Spence with Watts for the hire\n         of a Negro for eight months.","Promissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n         There are several items concerned with the estate of \n          John Fleming and include an entry for\n         February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n          George Martin and Watts there is an\n         agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n         wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n          James Davis has a note dated 1803 with the\n         Sheriff of \n          Amherst County for tax on four Negroes,\n         four horses, and five tithes. \n          Elizabeth Davis has a note dated 1816 for\n         tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n         December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n         Negro man by \n          James Davis from \n          J. Wright for \n          Lavinia Wright . There is a 1840 note from\n          Charles Davis to the Sheriff of \n          Amherst for tax on six Negroes and six\n         horses.","Legal Papers","There are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n         kept by \n          William Watts in his capacity as a lawyer.\n         In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n          Buckingham County court, there is an entry\n         for detinue for Negro woman named \n          Agge . From the memo for the April 1772\n         court at \n          Lunenburg County , \n          Thomas Taylor and his wife have a suit\n         against a Hurt for a Negro in \n          Amelia . There is also a list of debts\n         owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n         there are court dockets from \n          Amelia County and \n          Lunenburg County from 1771-1782. A number\n         of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n         book with the signatures of William and \n          Edward Watts , which includes a record of \n          William Watts ' court expenses. There are\n         also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n          Buckingham County , \n          Amelia , \n          Cumberland County , and \n          Prince Edward County as well as for \n          Williamsburg, Virginia . There is another\n         1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n          Amelia County , \n          Cumberland County , and \n          Buckingham County .","The indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n         there is an agreement between \n          Benjamin Tambro and \n          Ayres Hodnett of \n          Buckingham in regard to the former's son, \n          John Tambro , to be apprentice to the\n         latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n         indenture between Watts and \n          William Ford . From September 17, 1768,\n         there is an agreement between \n          Abraham West and \n          John Blankenship of \n          Prince Edward . On November 17, 1772,\n         there is an agreement between \n          John Lewallen of \n          Amelia County and \n          James and Robert Donalds and Company ,\n         Merchants of \n          Glasgow . On September 15, 1778, there is\n         an agreement between \n          David Wright of \n          Botetourt and \n          Alexander Paine of the same concerning a\n         land dispute in the area where the \n          Roanoke River and \n          Tinker Creek .","The will, December 25, 1745, of \n          Thomas Patterson of \n          Albemarle County , names his slaves and\n         divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n         his land in \n          Goochland County be known as \n          \"Locust Thicket.\" Margery Hinshaw contested the will of \n          Samuel Hinshaw dated March 1758 with \n          [Cedw] Gibson on July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n         had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n         daughter \n          Elizabeth Hinshaw , and the latter's\n         children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n         will of \n          Thomas Bottom of \n          Amelia dated May 10, 1760 divides his\n         slaves which are named between his three daughters.","A folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n         inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n          John Eubank mentions prices for his\n         Negroes: £300 for a man named \n          Jacob , £200 for a man named \n          Joe , £10 for a woman named \n          Hannah , £20 for a girl named \n          Lolly , and £0 for a girl named\n          Caroline . There is also a list of tickets\n         of ommission paid by \n          William Watts , attorney. Among the legal\n         papers of \n          Amelia County , 1768 through 1789\n         including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n         states that \n          Sarah Tinker on December 6, 1781 gave her\n         son-in-law \n          John Tucker an ailing Negro named \n          Ned until the latter gets well whereas he\n         will be returned to \n          Sarah Tucker . In an undated document, \n          George Vaughn yields up title/right of two\n         Negroes--named \n          Frank and \n          Phoebe --to son-in-law \n          John Norris --formerly given to grandson \n          John Norris by a deed dated October 2,\n         1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n         son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n         annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n          Campbell County papers, Justice \n          Adam Clement says that \n          Charles Gilbert of \n          Campbell on April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n         Negro slave \n          Jack --property of Watts of \n          Prince Edward County --ran away and was\n         found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n          Prince Edward , \n          Edward Watts sold to \n          William Watts eight Negro slaves: \n          True , \n          James , \n          Winnie , \n          Peter , \n          Sarah , \n          Betty , \n          Rachel , and \n          Doc on January 14, 1787. There is also a\n         account of Dr. \n          M. John King with the sheriff of \n          Lunenburg which has an entry dating 1769:\n         the former is in account with \n          [John] Epps for four lbs. of tobacco at\n         £0.5.1.","Miscellaneous","Among the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n         September 20, 1871 from the \n          Omaha, Nebraska Lottery for the building\n         of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n          Cox and Sons Church Furniture shows a\n         garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n          James Garfield . There is an undated\n         letter to Mrs. \n          Fleming Saunders asking for a subscription\n         to the \n          Graphic, a ladies society\n         magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n          George Munro, Publishers . There is also a\n         broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n         English poetry pertaining to \n          Christ 's birth dating from the medieval\n         period.","The church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n         from \n          Virginia Polytechnic Institute to the \n          Saunders asking for aid for the building of\n         an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n         enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n         from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n         of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n         There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n         listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n         service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n         faith.","Civil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n         there are a number of furloughs issued to \n          Confederate enlisted men in \n          Virginia , each with a physical\n         description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n         concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n         a company of the \n          13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers .\n         There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n         ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n          Fleming Saunders , assistant\n         quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.","The educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n         a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n         from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n          \"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\" ,\n         September 6, 1877, by \n          John Randolph Tucker of \n          Virginia . There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n         for the \n          Edgeworth School , a church-related\n         boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n         1895 grade report from \n          Virginia Polytechnic Institute (formerly \n          Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n         College ) for \n          Fleming Saunders, III . There is a fall\n         term 1902 grade report from \n          Hollins College for \n          Elsie Saunders . There is another VPI\n         grade report, from February 1903, for \n          Carter Temple Saunders . There is a report\n         from \n          St. Timothy's School of \n          Catonsville, Maryland . 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