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Fitzpatrick, the original owner of the Fitzpatrick General Store at Kerrs Creek, Viginia.","The author, John McCurday was a classmate of Pat Robertson at Lexington High School in Lexington, Virginia.  Pat became a TV evangelistic preacher.  Pat also attended Washington and Lee University, and ran for President of the United States 1988 bid.","Incomplete paper tells stories about the Radford Arsenal in the early 1950s.","Initiators of the new fire department were Dean Knick, R. A. Engleman, Raymond Hostetter, Paul Higgins, Tom Dunlap, Albert McCown, Paul Plott, Warren Smith, and Harry Swisher.  The new officers of the Kerrs Creek Fire Dept. were John A. Hostetter, president; Albert McCown, Vice President; Harry M. Swindler, Secretary; Warren A. Smith, Fire Chief; and Hunter Ayres, Assist. Fire Chief.  The Board of Directors indluded Raymond Hostetter, Harry Swisher, Raymond Hartbarger, Arthur Alphin, Tom Dunlap, and Harold Hotinger.","File includes a photocopy of a Richmond Times Dispatch newspaper article, \"Retired Prof. Latture: Living Landmark at W\u0026L,\" March 4, 1974; a commemorative stamp envelope signed by Washington and Lee University Presidents, Denny through Wilson; and obituaries by The Roanoke Times and the News-Gazette.","Washington and Lee Student Journalism Project, by students Catherine Carlock, Erin Galliher, Farrell Ulrich, and Mike White.","Also includes Historical research of Lexington's Lost Cemetery.","Photocopy","HorseMania is a local public art project whose 13 life-sized fiberglass horses were fabricated by local artisan, Mark Cline, painted by local artists, sponsored by businesses and individuals, and placed throughout the cities of Lexington and Buena Vista as well as Rockbridge County, with the purpose of raising funds for Blue Ride CASA for Children.","Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) is a non-profit organization serving our area's most severely abused, abandoned and neglected children through the recruitment, training, and supervision of community volunteers who advocate for their best interests.","News-Gazette article, \"Bodie To Write Rockbridge History,\" The News-Gazette, Feb. 5, 2003; The Weekender article, \"Telling the 'Story' of Rockbridge,\" Dec. 3, 2011; and a cover of Bodie's book, REMARKABLE ROCKBRIDGE: THE STORY OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.","photocopy","Kerrs Creek newspaper announcement that Josephine will be the News-Gazette correspondent for the Kerrs Creek area.  Also included, a June 1995 Thank You from the American Red Cross, Virginia West Virginia Floods DR#686, to Josephine for sharing her time and special talents, while helping people recover from the Virginia/West Virginia Floods.","photocopies","A Texas-Sized Donation for Virginia Colleges, by Gregory Turley, Washington and Lee Class of 1987.","photocopy","General R. E. Lee's war-Horses, Traveller and Lucy Long.  Southern Historical Society Papers. Vol.18. Richmond, Va., January-December, 1890.","photocopy","Dwelling in Lexington, Virginia, designed by Pendleton Scott Clark, architecture renowned for authenticity, was completed in 1929 for W\u0026L Dean and Mrs. Frank J. Gilliam.  The handsome gardens for the Gilliams were primarily designed by the Charles Gillette, a widely regarded landscape architect of Richmond, Virginia.","Lexington in Historic Virginia brochure, about 1970, a notecard with a drawing of North Main Street by Raynal, and a color notecard of the Quilt designed by Gillie W. Campbell and quilted by Elise Bick, 1983. All items given by Lisa McCown, Lexington, VA.","Happy Holidays card from Wade's Mill, John and Karen Siegfried, 2017.  Also included from 2017 are as follows: 7 postcards, brochure, information card, retail grain's price list, and a flyer listing the stone-ground grains available at Wade's Mill. Also, a December 2, 1992 News-Gazetter article on the history of the mill and it's owners at the time.","The 1959 brochure, gift of Lisa McCown.","The Seven Hills of Rockbridge include the homes, Cherry Hill, Fruit Hill, Fancy Hill, Rose Hill, Hickory Hill, Clover Hill, and Liberty Hill.  A map of the location of these homes is included, as well as descriptions from the Rockbridge County, Virginia Hertiage Book.","The Scarletter, Lexington High School newsletter - v.30 no.2, Oct. 31, 1977; v.30 no.7, April 8, 1978; v.30 no.8, May 3, 1978.","Football Programs: Lexington vs. Turner Ashby, Sept. 27, 1974; Lexington vs. Harrisonburg, Oct. 11, 1974; Lexington vs. Broadway, Sept. 9, 1977.","Life in Late Nineteenth Century Rockbridge Baths, paper written at Hollins College, Ms. Mary W. Atwell, Carrie M. Irvine, [ca.1974].","Photocoy","This file includes a list of WLU alumni who went on to careers in the military and achieved the rank of General.","Charles C. Lewis, Jr. W\u0026L '68, '71L; Charles C. Lewis, W\u0026L 1930, M.A. 1931; H. Flood Madison, Jr., W\u0026L 1920.","\"The Honor System at the Washington and Lee University,\" by W\u0026L Prof. J. A. Quarles, April 1902, WESTMINSTER MONTHLY, vol. 1, no.7.","The Record, Mock Democratic Convention, March 6 and 7, 1992. The cover of this booklet has a sketch of Main Street, looking south, with parade. The Mock Convention Record, W\u0026L, April 17, 1995.","Colonnade Oaks flyer, Dashiell Dericks '18.","Poem, \"The Dogwood of Washington and Lee.\"","John Wall Lykes, WLU 1908, Joseph Taliaferro Lykes, WLU 1909, Joseph Taliaferro Lykes, Jr. WLU 1941","Thomas D. Ranson WLU 1859-60","Genealogy compiled by Alex Taylor, whose great grandfather was Alexander Tedford Barclay.","Material given by Tangy (Gilven) Hunter-Hughes, a descendant of Jack Gilvin.","Geneaology of Garland family, who bought some of the Washington College slaves.","Genealogy on the Harman family given by Carolyn Scott, which has photos and biographies of Charles Price Harman, born 1868, and his wife, Rachel Primrose \"Rose\" Cameron Sherrard, and their children.","Genealogy and biography of Rev. Peter Simon Lewis, the pastor of First Baptist Church, Lexington, Va., 1901-1906.","Compiled by Tom Vansant Jr., Descendant of Dr. James Ramsey, Son of William.","Descendant of Robert Alexander of Virginia, founder of the first classical school west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which became the present Washington and Lee University.","Borgus served VMI as head waiter during the period between September 1919 and September 1955.  He then returned for a brief period between the months of September and December 1958.","William Griffin born 1792 in Lexington, married November 21, 1816 in Virginia, and died 1850 in Boone County, Indiana.","Washington and Lee first established a registrar's office in 1910.","Also includes: Multivariate Analysis Through Narrative History, by Alfred L. Brophy.  Reviewing G. Edward White, Law in American History: From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War.","Shep Rouse, W\u0026L Graduate 1976.","Located one mile west of I-81/64 at the Raphine, Virginia interchange.","The University Cleaners businesses were located at 7 N. Jefferson Street, Lexington, VA and 2028 Magnolia Street, Buena Vista, VA.","See also book, \"Big Hill Road,\" in our Rare Book Collection (Rare F 232 .R68 B466 2022), which was compiled by Stewart Bennington and his sister Barbara Nunley.","Photocopy","Gifts of Lisa McCown","\"America's Finest Inland Beach Resort.\" Gift of Lisa McCown","Gift of Lisa McCown","Gift of Lisa McCown","File includes article titled \"Paxton Davis, Former W\u0026L Professor, Dies.\"","See Catherine's 1922 Elizabethan College yearbook (Rare LD 7251 .S32 E44 v.5 1922). She played basketball and her cousin Hope Welsh also attended there.  The school burned while the students were at home on Christmas vacation.","Published lecture by retired professor John McKenzie Gunn, dated April 25, 1994; \"Can Economics be Both Relevant and 'good'?\"","Folder includes four items: \"A Community's Stories\" article from The News Gazzette concerning an exhibit by the Rockbridge Historical Society; a list of 'Old Lexington Colored People,' from the early 1900's from Leslie Lyle Campbell's notes; information on a group of slaves from Caroline County (a page copied from Colonial Caroline: a History of Caroline County, Virginia); and a letter to Special Collections concerning information on the holdings of records concerning black history in Virginia.  Nine Historic Lexington Foundation interviews done for Black History Month 2016, mostly by Beverly Tucker, one by Anne McClung, and one by W\u0026L Students Caitlin Mullen '05 and Anne Young '04, with Lexington African Americans and one Buena Vista resident.","143 pages printed from the 1810 Virginia Census, listing \"Other Free\" Heads of Household, by family name.","Register of Free Negroes of Rockbridge County, Virginia, with index.  According to the Act of the General Assembly of Virginia.  Passed January 25, 1803","Register of Marriages, Colored Persons in Rockbridge County under act of Virginia Assembly Passed February 27, 1866","Copy of Washington Post article, \"The Captive Nations of Slaves,\" covering an exhibit at the Museum of the Confederacy named \"Before Freedom Came,\" 1991. \nReceipt for purchase of slave, John. January 26, 1850.","Includes program for the All Saints Memorial Celebration at the Augusta Street United Methodist Church, Nov. 1, 2009, a Fairview Cemetery brochure, and Friends of Fairview Christmas wreath order form, Nov. 23, 2009.","Includes brochure, African-American Heritage, Staunton, Virginia, undated.","Address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Rockbridge, at its annual Fair, at Fancy Hill, October 17, 1839, by the Rev. Henry Ruffner, D. D., President of Washington College.  The Lexington Gazette, and Rockbridge Farmer, June 23, 1840.","Folder includes \"Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book: Designed for Farmers, Mechanics, and all People,\" 1872.","Photocopy of ledger, 1892-1903.","Folder includes a copy of a report of \"Approval of Site, Plans, etc.\" for a school house at Alone Mill; a balance sheet by Alone Canning Co., and a photocopy of a pencil drawn map of Alone Mill. Also includes a lecture paper by Anne McClung, which includes many photos.","Folder includes \"Selected Bibliography for Historic Artifact Identification and Analysis\" prepared by Kurt C. Russ and John M. McDaniel, for distribution at 1989 ASV Historic Artifact Workshop.","Contains booklet titled \"Battle of Asheville.\"","Contains two copies of \"The Ruth Anderson McCulloch Branch of The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiguqities: 1896-1987.\"","Contains a booklet titled \"A Rockbridge Area Resource Guide for People in Need.\" Prepared by Helpline/Information and Referral and United Way of Lexington-Rockbridge County. Also includes the minutes of Board Meeting, May 9, 1995.","Contains student paper authored by Emily Barnes '01 titled \"Lee Memorial Association.\" In addition, a copy of a sketch from 1883 about the Lee Memorial Association titled \"Southern Historical Society Papers.\"","Booklet titled \"Education for a Better Tomorrow, 1992 Annual Report.\"","\"Procedings\" publication published by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, including reports and activities of the 100th Annual Meeting in Atlanta Georgia as well as current lists of member insitutions.","Includes photocopy of a 1758 schedule titled \"To the Militia of the Coutny of Augusta, and for Provisions furnished by sundry inhabitants of the said county, viz.\"","File includes photocopies of two letters concerning Washington and Lee student, John West Addison.","Article titled \"A Confederate Hero,\" from  Blue and Gray , 1984.","Biography compiled in 1997 concerning Archibald Alexander (5 pgs. long).","Correspondence about the Washington and Lee Homecoming Queen from c.1893 and her protrait which hangs in the Special Collections vault (WLU Coll PP 0081).","Contains an article titled \"Colonel William Allan at McDonough\"; an 1889 address by J. Randolph Tucker; and an 1890 memorial by Washington and Lee Board of Trustees concerning Allan.","Includes a biography and illustration of Allen under the title of \"The Headlight.\"","Photocopry of newpaper article concerning Anderson, slave of Cyrus McCormick.","Photocopy of biography concerning Armstrong from the \"Dictionary of American Biography.\"","Article titled \"Civil War Author on the Trail of History.\"","Two copies of a Christmas oration in memoriam of Constance Rosalie Auden.","Obituaries, clipped from Roanoke Times 2002.","Biography of Alexander Tedford Barclay compiled by Washington and Lee student in 1997.","Biography compiled in 1997 and geneological chart showing many prominent people of Rockbridge County.","Narrative titled \"Aunt Elizabeth Remembers;\" interview with retired Washington and Lee professor, Charles Turner.","Photocopies of newspaper clippings concerning the death of Barkley at Washington and Lee University.","Photocopy of a letter to George Baxter from Edward Johnson introducing Dr. Barton, December 21, 1805. Pamphlet entitled, \"How Many Botany Books Did Thomas Jefferson Own?\" mentioning Dr. Barton.","Photocopy of Calyx 1939 yearbook picture. Basse gave donation towards Special Collections workroom.","\"Fatal Affray,\" Lexington Gazette, January 19, 1854. Murder of Cadet Thomas Blackburn.","Photocopies of Calyx yearbook pictures and Alumni directory information. John G. Boatwright '15 made donation for the University Library reading room in memory of Robert McDearmon Boatwright '42.","Obituary, Washington and Lee University News Home, 5/12/2006.","Two separate biographies for Borden Jr. and Sr.","E-mail message to the Washington and Lee community concerning Brady's death, obituaries from the News-Gazette and The Roanoke Time. Article titled \"'Pat' Brady's Life One of Quiet Service to a Community He Loved So Dearly,\" the News-Gazette.","Photocopy of letter from Andrew Brooks to sister, January 23,1861; photocopy and written transcript of letter from James J. White relating to the death of William Brooks, July 16,1861; photocopy of telegram to J.M. Brooks relating to the remains of his son, William Brooks, July 20,1861; Diary entries written by Andrew Brooks in Augusta County.","Composer in Residence, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Roanoke Valley Choral Society, 1995-1996, pgs. 7-8.","Photocopies of letters to his sister, Fannie, September 20, 1846, and September 7, 1848, while a student at Washington College. Original letters reside at Virginia Military Academy Archives.","Radio script concerning Clarence Brown used in Cincinnati, Ohio on the radio program, \"Personalities in your Government.\"","Robert and Benjamin Brown's relatives who attended Washington and Lee University. A letter addressed to President John Delane Wilson from their mother, Elizabeth Barry Brown.","Folder includes a Civil War centennial commemorative edition of the Valley News Echo concerning John Brown's Raid and Harper's Ferry(2 copies); Stanton Spectator article titled \"The Out-break at Harper's Ferry\"; Stanton Spectator article concerning John Brown's execution titled \"Results of the Trial\"; Richmond Times-Dispatch article titled \"Documents in Treason Trial of John Brown; The Sunday Baltimore article titled \"Verdict Missing in Brown Papers; a history course examinaton concerning this time period; an account by someone named \"Jackson\" of John Brown's execution addressed to his wife.","Articles from three local newspapers titled \"He's a Third-Generation Blacksmith,\" \"The Village Blacksmith, Manly Brown, Dies at 93,\" \"Family Dreams of Living Museum. Jack Chaffee as Blacksmith and Curator of Brown's Forge.\"","Includes photocopy of the Ministerial Directory of the Presbyterian Church in the United States highlighting William Brown.","Contains obituary of Bruinsma dated September 17, 1999.","File includes color notecard of Frank Buchser painting of Robert E. Lee, \"The Last Life Portrait of General Robert E. Lee,\" a letter from Buchser to Lee concerning a portrait, Washington and Lee News Release titled \"General Lee 'Comes Home' for His Birthday,\" Religious Herald article titled \"Valentine's Recumbent Statue of General Robert E. Lee,\" and correspondence between various researchers interested in this topic and Special Collections.","Booklet titled \"Edward Buncombe and Buncombe County.\"","Obituary, \"Thrown from Horse...,\" by Lexington Gazette.","Obituary found in the News-Gazette about Edmund Campbell, a Washington and Lee graduate and attorney who worked on various cases concerning desegregation of Virginia schools.","File includes a biography excerpt from \"Who's Who in America\" and an obituary by the Lexington Gazette.","File includes an obituary of John Lyle Campbell Sr. by the Lexington Gazette, a biography writtten by his son Robert Fishburne Campbell, and copies of letters between Robert E. Lee and Prof. Campbell as well as T.J. Jackson and Prof. Campbell.","File includes article \"Coach Nears End of Not-So-Typical Career: Washington and Lee's Canfield Prepares for Life After 31 Years of Generals' Basketball,\" and a Roanoke Times article named \" 'I Hope I've Touched Some Lives.' \"","Biography by the American National Biography Online.","Contains one photocopy of obituary by News-Gazette.","Obituary by the News-Gazette.","Memorial program for Gray Castle.","Roanoke Times article concerning Caudill's retirement.","Contains a booklet titled \"The Cavendish Family History.\"","Folder includes biography and copies of two letters from Theofore Roosevelt, one concerning a memorial to Robert E. Lee and the other one concerning Chamberlain's son.","Folder contains at least twenty eight separate items concerning John Chavis, from articles, portraits, letters, records, to research papers concerning his role in Washington and Lee Lee as well as African American history. Also included are the W\u0026L Alumni magazine artices, \"Chavis House named,\" March/April 1986 and \"Chavis House dedicated,\"  November/December 1986.","Includes obituary by Rockbridge County News.","File contains obituary by the News-Gazette.","File includes an article titled Honor Rolls,\" a set of photographs, and a pamphlet commemorating her life and work.","Folder includes an obituary written by The Lexington Gazette.","Lexington Gazette obituary about Crenshaw.","The file includes a biography by the American National Biography Online.","File includes a photocopied catalogue of the Library of Daniel Parke Custis: From a Manuscript in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society, \"The Magazine of History and Biography,\" October 1909, pages 404-412.","The Library of John Parke Custis, Esq., of Fairfax County, Virginia, \"Tyler's Quarterly,\" October 1927, pages 97-103.","File includes a greeting card made by the Artists of the Lexington, Virginia Note Card Series, 2002.","The file includes a program in memory of Daniels, hosted at Robert E. Lee Memorial Church.","File includes an article titled \"Turning 90 is Just Another Milestone in Lexington Woman's Interesting Life.\"","File includes three articles concerning Professor DeLaney's professional career.","File includes photocopies of newspaper obituaries of her death on December 10,1940. Photocopy of a newspaper article, \"U.D.C. Holds Exercises at Sayler Creek Battlefield\" at which Ms. Dickinson was a speaker. Photocopy of a page concerning Miss Dickinson's book, \"Confederate Leaders.\"","File includes article titled \"Service Held for Dr. G.W. Diehl.\"","Articled titled \"Judge Ryland Dodson Remembers Early 20th Century Tobacco Farming,\" September 2000.","File contains e-mail message distributed by the Broadcast Mailer at Washington and Lee on the death of Francis Drake.","File includes biography.","File includes a biography from the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation website and some genealogy from the LDS website.","File includes two copies of the memorial service program for Farrar's passing and a photocopy of a News-Gazette article titled \"Tiger.\"","File includes an article titled \"He Disciplined Popular Culture\" as well as an obituary.","File includes a photocopy of the \"Washington and Lee Ambulance Unit\" from the 1926 Alumni Directory. This photocopy features an article about Fletcher.","File includes notes on \"Miss Laura.\"","File includes photocopies of two obituaries concerning Mr. Ford.","File includes a photocopy of Roanoke Times newspaper clipping titled \"New President of Washington and Lee.\"","File includes obituary.","Folder includes biography on Mr. Gatewood.","File includes a photocopy of obituary for Mercer Graham.","File includes photocopies of articles concerning the life and career of Mel Greenberg.","File includes biography on Mr. Greenwood, dentist of George Washington.","File includes a memorial program as well as an obituary by the Roanoke Times.","File includes article titled \"Randolph Hall Refused to Fail.\"","File includes memorial program.","File includes two photocopies of the Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine with an article focused on Ms. Harris, titled \"Still Crazy After All These Years.\"","File includes photocopy of article titled \"Off the beaten path: the Chronicler of Lexington is an institution himself.\"","File includes photocopy of a petition to Jefferson Davis representing that Heale is a citizen of Giles County, Virginia.","File includes an appendix titled \"The Mystery Woman.\"","File includes a photocopy of a biographical sketch of Hobson by Charles Lee Hobson, March 5, 1998. Photocopies of two papers by Hobson entitled \"How I came to Elizabethtown, Kentucky\" and \"How General Lee Came to Washington College.\" Photocopies of a letter to Lee concerning Hobson (1869) and a Louisville Times article about the letter.","Includes Harvey's Lexington High School, Senior Class Graduation invitation, June 1, 1950.","File includes a photocopy of essay titled \"James Lewis Howe - Chemist and Philatelist.\"","Article includes biography and obituary concerning Howerton and his wife Mary N.","File includes notes on Mrs. Hull, a source for Eleanor Roosevelt's Visit to Goshen Recalled.\"","File includes 27 photocopies of letters, transcripts, notes, etc. on Mr. Hutcherson, Washington and Lee University Class of 1902.","File includes a letter concerning Ipsen's chauffer, as well as photocopy of portrait of Lee painted by Ipsen.","File includes \"Stonewall,\" a commemorative section of The News-Gazette concerning the Jackson Statue Rededication. In addition, a set of remarks and notes by Mayor Derrick and papers of lectures given by Mary Coulling, Robert F. Hunter, James I. Robertson, Jr., and the Frederick Ladies Relief Society. Program and brochure.","File includes article titled \"Window on the Past: An Unusual Tribute to Stonewall Jackson;\" \"'Stonewall' Jackson's Grave;\" \"Jackson Day,\" and many more copies of similarly focused articles from local newspapers. Also included a brochure reprinted and distributed by Stonewall Jackson Memorial Incorporate, Lexington, Virginia, \"The Religious Character of Stonewall Jackson,\" an address by James Power Smith, D.D., Captain and A.D.C. Staff of General Jackson. The address was delivered at the Inauguration of the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Building, Virginia Military Institute, June 23, 1897.\nA printed map showing all of Stonewall Jackson's movements, Compliments of Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Inc., Lexington, Virginia.","Photocopies of material concerning Jackson as constable.","File includes eleven photocopies, black and white and color of Moor as Jackson, one of which is at Virginia Military Institute. Two color photos.","File includes article from The American Art Journal titled \"Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Thomas jefferson\" as well as a photocopy of the Spring 1982 article, \"The Adams-Jefferson portrait Exchange.\"","File includes photocopies of obituaries and photographs concerning the Johnson and McDowell families.","File includes a photocopy of inside cover of \"Closing Exercises of Privat School.\"","File includes photocopy of biography from \"Dictionary of American Biography.\"","Biking Through Albemarle with John Jones, Scottsville Museum, Capturing Our Heritage","File includes a copy of a magazine titled \"The Iron Worker\" as well as handwritten and typewritten copies of \"A Sketch of Colonel John Jordan (1777-1854).  Also includes a paper, \"John Jordan, Virginia Builder,\" by Marshall Fishwick, and a photocopy of Summer 1973 Virginia Cavalcade article, \"John Jordan: Builder and Entrepreneur,\" by L. Moody Simms, Jr.","File includes a booklet titled \"Edward Southey Joynes: Father of the University and Life Trustee of Winthrop.\"","File includes a magazine article titled \"A Chinese Master Opens Western Eyes to Eastern Art.\"","File includes various pieces, including \"The Unusual of Lieutenant George C. Junkin, C.S.A.,\" a discourse commemorative of George Junkin delivered in the West Spruce St. Presbyterian Church, and \"George Junkin and His Eschatological Vision,\" and \"Secession Fever on a Southern Campus.\"","File includes articles titled \"Matthew Kahle's Log\" and \"Old George , 1844.\"","The file includes a brochure for The Stan Kamen Collection of Western Art at Washington and Lee University.","File includes a biography, obituary, funeral and memorial services programs.","File includes an obituary (dated August 1, 1955) and two Athletic Association certificates for cross country, 1928 and track, 1929.","In Memoriam, A senseless tragedy. The New President, John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. POST, The Saturday Evening Post, December 14, 1963.","File includes various copies of programs of \"A Celebration of the Life of King,\" bulletins for churches, as well as various programs, which includes Black History Month.","The 2010 Black History Month program includes the following:  Poem, \"From the Shanty to the White House,\" by Laura Watts; \"Ground Hog Poem,\" by Spotswood Alexander Styles; \"What If There Were No Black Folk?,\" by Barbara Leahy, 1998.","File includes a memorial service program held at Lee Chapel on July 5, 1997.","File includes a photocopy of a newspaper article concerning Labro, November 12, 1988.","File includes an obituary from the Rockbridge County News, November 8, 1900.","J. J. Lafferty: A Remarkable Life, Secrets of the Blue Ridge","File includes information concerning the burial of Latane and a painting of and poem about the burial.","File includes an article titled \"America's Baskerville Printer.\"","File includes article from the News Gazette titled \"It's a Lauck!\"","File includes an article concerning the death of Annie Lee by The Roanoke News; a copy of music sung at Ms. Lee's funeral and the Washington and Lee memorial service; articles titled \"Famous Daughter Laid to Rest at W\u0026L\" and \"Annie Lee's Remains Now in Lee Chapel\"; a program, In Memoriam Anne Carter Lee; invitation to private memorial service and luncheon at Lee House; remarks made by Mary Coulling at the private memorial service; remarks made by Capt. Peniston at the private memorial service for Annie Carter Lee; two color postcards of her grave and monument at Warren County, North Carolina; and an excerpt from a letter written at West Point, concerning the young gentlemen.","File includes an obituary of Mr. Lee, former Mayor of Buena Vista.","File includes article concerning the death and burial of Dr. G.B. Lee by the Ring-tum Phi.","File includes obituary of Lee by the Ring-tum Phi; \"From West Point to Fort Point: The Story of George Elliot and Custis Lee\"; \"Major-General George Washington Custis Lee\"; \"Last Battles: The Wartime and Postwar Careers of Custis Lee\"; and photocopies of items at the National Archives concerning G.W.C. Lee.","File includes a booklet with an article titled \"Reverend Henderson Lee: Father of Presbyterianism in Lunenburg County.\"","File includes an article titled \"The Manly and Upright will Brand Your Name Infamy.\"","File includes article titled \"They Surrendered Honorably,\" an excerpt from a letter to her cousin Caroline from Derwent, and a collection of letters from Mrs. Mary Custis Lee to the Snowden Family of Alexandria, Virginia entitled \"My Dear Louisa.\"","File includes copies of letters containing information suggesting that G. Campbell Brown, stepson of Gen. Richard Ewell, began courting Mildred Lee and later proposed to her. In addition, the file includes an article concerning the death of Mildred Lee's death.","This file includes twenty-seven separate items. Of these items, there are various brochures and booklets entitled, \"Robert E. Lee: Innovative Educator,\" \"Notes on a Visit to Robert E. Lee,\" \"Lee: The Final Achievement,\" and \"Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson Returned to Lexington, Virginia.\""," In addition, the following articles: \"Furtherance of Southern Education was Lee's Goal;\" \"Aging Successfully: The Example of Robert E. Lee;\" \"How Gen. Lee Came to Washington College;\" \"After 32 Years, Lee-Jackson Painting on Display;\" \"General Lee After the War,\" from the magazine  The Century Magazine ; \"Reminiscences of General Lee,\"  The Outlook  pages 964-969; \"The Last Years of Lee\" delivered to the United Daughters of the Confederacy; \"The Robert E. Lee Birthday Celebration;\" \"Lee Centennial at Washington and Lee,\" from  The Southern Collegian ; \"On the Life and Character of Gen. Robert E. Lee,\" written by John W. Daniel for the  Lexington Gazette ; \"Unveiling Lee's Statue,\" written by John W. Daniel for the  Staunton Spectator ; Article written for  The Free-Lance Star  by Capt. Robert Peniston entitled \"The Last Tour;\" Articled written by John Elrod for the  Richmond Times-Dispatch  entitled, \"Lee as Educator Sought to Heal Wounds;\" and an Article written by Captain James L.D. Monroe entitled \"General Robert E. Lee Covers.\"","\nThe file includes excerpts from letters written by Agnes Lee to her friend Lizzie Fuller and Mrs. R.E. Lee concerning Robert E. Lee's death, as well as \"General Lee's Special Letters,\" notes used by Captain Peniston during his talk to the Alumni College at Washington and Lee, July 2006.  \nThere are two chapters from two books: \"College Days Under General Lee,\" chapter 6 of the book,  Memories of Four-Score Years  by Samuel Hall Chester; \"The Lee-White Friendship,\" chapter 7 of  Old Zeus: Life and Letters of James J. White.","Finally, the file includes remarks on Robert E. Lee made at Kiwanis by Capt. Robert Peniston, an essay entitled \"Lee at Appomattox,\" photocopies of two sketches by Robert E. Lee of soldiers in the Mexican Army sent home to his children, a copy of an endorsement of young Robert E. Lee from William B. Leary, his teacher in Alexandria, and a program and flier of the memorial observance of Lee given by the Liberty Hall Volunteers re-enactment group and Washington and Lee Alumni. ","Eight items added to file.","Program, Robert E. Lee Week, August 22-26, 1932, The Greenbrier and Cottages, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.","\"A Tribute to General Robert E. Lee,\" by Dr. Julian C. Brown (1856-1904).","An Interview with General Robert E. Lee by John Leyburn.  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. May to October 1885.","The Hardy Heritage by Harold D. Garber, Moorefield (WV) Examiner, January 2010.","Death of Gen. R. E. Lee, The Virginia Gazette, October 14, 1870.","A Dream of Robert E. Lee Comes True, by Virgil C. Jones, The United States Publisher, September 1928.","LEE, The Photographic History of the Civil War.","\"Cache,\" Autumn Song, by Ceane O'Hanlon-Lincoln.","File includes various copies of programs for memorial services honoring Robert E. Lee as well as an article entitled \"Decoration Day at the Graves of Lee and Jackson.\"","File includes an obituary by the  Lexington Gazette , articles in the  Rockbridge County News  and the  Lexington Gazette  concerning his death and funeral, one entitled \"The Burial March of Dundee.\" In addition, the file includes a  Ring-tum Phi  article entitled, \"May Remove Colonel Lee from Chapel.\"","File includes articles entitled \"Children of the Blue and Gray,\" from  People Magazine  and \"Robert E. Lee V Tries to Avoid Trading on His Honored Name\" from  The Atlanta Journal and Constitution .","File includes articles entitled \"On the Trail of Robert E. Lee's Daughters\" and \"Author Says Unmarried Women Neglected by Historians\" from the  Daily News Leader .","File includes photocopies of two obituaries for Mr. Letcher, 1994.","File includes an essay written by Charles C. Lewis entitled \"A Tale of an Oar: A Hidden Message Revealed.\"","File includes obituaries of James Lewis, Stonewall Jackson's faithful body servant,  Lexington Gazette .","File includes article by the  Richmond Times-Dispatch .","File includes an obituary from the  Lewiston Teller  and an article In Memoriam by the  Idaho Daily Statesman .","File includes an obituary from  The News-Gazette .","File includes an article by the  News-Gazette  entitled \"Shop to Feature Books, Items on War Era.\" In addition, the file includes a brochure to the Lexington Historical Shop and business card for Lurate.","File includes an article from the  Virginia Cavalcade  entitled \"John Blair and His 'Automatic Bookstore'.\"","File includes three pages with information about MacCorkle for the Alumni Directory and Jacket File.","File includes a brief biography of MacCorkle by the Washington and Lee University News Office, a biographical statement, \"Information for the Alumni Directory and Jacket File,\" and a picture of Stuart MacCorkle.","File includes two obituaries.","File includes an article by the  Roanoke Times  entitled, \"New Headmaster Mixes Work and Play.\"","File includes a magazine article entitled, \"Persisting in the Publishing World.\"","File includes an obituary by the  News Gazette .","File includes a 2001 article entitled, \"The Man Behind the Name: New Biography Explores The Achievements of 'Fesser' McCluer\" and obituaries for the  Lexington Gazette  and the  Rockbridge County News .","File includes a photocopy of a short biography of McClung.","File includes a medal -  Centennial of the Reaper, 1831-1931 ; a booklet entitled  McCormick Celebration, September 25, 1931 ; a color brochure of the McCormick Farm; a biography from the McCormick International Harvester Collection Archives; and two copies of the  Iron Worker  featuring an article entitled, \"Walnut Grove--Where Farm Mechanization Began.\"","File includes a program of retirement from 25 years of service to the Buena Vista City Public Schools, two biographies, and two photographs of Albert McCown, about 1955 and Oct. 1980.  Also included an early color Christmas card printed by Albert, before his marriage, while he studied Industrial Arts at VPI. Also a Christmas card printed by Albert at his home in Kerrs Creek, Rockbridge County, VA, about 1970's, when he had his family, and an envelope of Albert's, McCown's Printing Service.  Included is his name tag for the Virginia School Boards Association, Rockbridge County, with ribbons, Board Member, Delegate. A newspaper clipping, \"McCown New Member of School Board,\" and photocopy of the News-Gazette clipping featuring Albert's service to the Rockbridge County School Board.  Also included a return address envelope, Parry McCluer High School, Athletic Department, Buena Vista, VA 24416, maybe printed by Albert when he was Athletic Director there. A 1973-74 basketball/wrestling Parry McCluer high school card.  A photo of Albert and coworker Industrial Arts Teacher, Ward Lockett.","Also includes a 1969 issue of THE VISTA, which includes an article, \"Teacher of the Month: Albert McCown.\" On the title page of this issue is a sketch of the Parry McCluer mascot.","Included are a Father's Day card and Happy Birthday card, both made by his oldest daughter, Lisa. The Happy Birthday card is signed by Lisa, Josephine, his wife, and Jennifer, his youngest daughter.","A Washington and Lee application for Admission, April 1, 1947, which was never turned in.  Albert decided to go to VPI in Blacksburg, and graduated in 1957.  He became the Industrial Arts Teacher at Parry McCluer High School in Buena Vista, Virginia, 1959-1984.  Also included is a William Byrd Parent-Teachers Association yearbook, 1957-1958, where Albert is listed as Senior High teacher, where he taught Industrial Arts in Roanoke, Virginia.","Albert T. McCown Memorial Scholarship recipients, Buena Vista Public Schools, 1987-1995.","File includes a  Rockbridge County News  article entitled, \"Civil War Memoirs of Mr. McCown Telling of Life in Northern Prison\"; other brief newspaper notices about McCown from  The Dallas Daily Herald ; an obituary from the  Lexington Gazette ; and an image of Dr. Albert McCown and his father James L. McCown.","File includes a photocopy from the book,  The McCormick Reaper Legend  focusing on John McCown, the \"Blade Maker.\"","File includes an obituary and picture of John Graham McCown.","A photo as baby included and letter from Sears, Roebuck and Co. announcing Josephine as one of the winners of a baby contest.","Josephine's Presbyterian Church in the U. S. Catechism certificate, August 14, 1938.","Pledge for regular investment in defense savings bonds, May 16, 1942.","Photocopy of 1949 Roanoke College yearbook page.","Two European postcards from first cousin Richard Marshall, 1950's, one addressed to their grandmother, Mrs. Rice Hotinger.","Photocopy of invitation to Johnston-Willis Hospital School of Nursing graduation, May 16, 1952, including photocopy of photo as RN in 1952. Whiteside Radio Service, Lexington, VA receipt to Josephine Hotinger for purchase of a TV set, etc., October 1954.","Includes Mrs. Josephine H. McCown, R.N. pin worn at the Stonewall Jackson Hospital, 1959-1971, along with hospital mask.","Also includes miscellaneous documents, 1975, 1979, 2003 and 1970 American Red Cross Nursing Program card, and American Red Cross volunteer identification pin, worn while volunteering ath local bloodmobiles, after retiring in 1992. Also her American National Red Cross Nurse pin.","File also includes photo of Josephine as W\u0026L Student Health Head Nurse and W\u0026L indentification pin worn as Head Nurse, biographical information written at her retirement from Washington and Lee University as head nurse of infirmary, 1992; as well as an article from the News-Gazette, entitled, \"W\u0026L Honors Employees At Banquet\".","Included are two postcards from first cousin Richard Marshall of Urbanna, Virginia, while in Paris, 1951, to Josephine, and the other to his grandmother, Susan Rader Hotinger (Mrs. Rice), 1952, while in Rome.  Also a letter from Richard Marshall to Josephine, March 24, 1952.","Includes photo of Josephine as a little girl, ca.1930.  Also photos included are as follows: Josephine in wedding gown at her home in September 1955, two identified photos of Josephine celebrating her November 1989 birthday with her coworkers from the W\u0026L Infirmary, a group photo of Stonewall Jackson Registered nurses, and Josephine's W\u0026L ID card.","Copy of Josephine's obituary from the News-Gazette, September 7, 2022.  She passed away on August 31, 2022.  Also included are her September 10 funeral service programs done by New Monmouth Church and Harrison's Funeral Home. Included is a letter of condolences from W\u0026L President William C. Dudley, September 12, 2022 and Carol Calkins, a nurse coworker at W\u0026L, September 2022.","File includes 25 photographs and photocopies of photographs of the McCown family and their homes. Includes photographs of various generations and extended family members.","File includes a wide range of materials. Various photocopies contain documentation of Charles A. McCown and Alertie C. Anderson's wedding in 1907. In addition, a list ascertains the burial of Charles A. McCown, Alertie McCown, and their infant at Fawn Creek Cemetary. A map of Montgomeny Co. KS. Cemeteries highlights cemetery 16 (Fawn Creek). Another map highlights the location of McCowan Springs in Bath County. Additionally, there are three articles by  The Coffeyville Daily Journal . An article in  The News-Gazette  covers the recognition of Lisa McCown by the Rockbridge Historical Society in 2002. Finally, a small envelope contains a letter from Charles A. McCown to his mother Ida McCown, two wedding inviations from McCown weddings, memoriams from William B. McCown's passing, and a pamphlet made in memory of Helen McCown Boyts.","File includes one letter from John W. McCoy to an unidentified person.","File includes four items, two of which are letters between the McCrory siblings.","File includes Columbia University's 1937  Report of the Dean of the School of Libary Service , which mentions of Blanche P. McCrum's tenure at the school.","Rev. McCutchan, Biography, Glade Spring Presbyterian Church.  A paper, \"The Rank and Importance of Liberal Education,\" submitted by him, April 20, 1870, Washington College.  A sermon by him in Waynesboro, September 14, 1879 and five sermons by him in Rogersville, Tennessee, transcripts, 1892, 1903, 1909, 1914-1915.  Rev. Frank McCutchan","W\u0026L History Class Brings Alum's Story to the Web, William Morrison started first modern human rights movement","\"This,\" World Catalyst Magazine, May 2009 and \"Blue Lights,\" The Shine Journal, both by student Lenora Nunnley, WLU 2009","William Beverley, James Patton, and the Settling of the Shenandoah Valley, Essex County Museum and Historical Society Bulletin, v.55, November 2010","Doctor Andrew Taylor Still, Virginia and North Carolina Ancestors From Revolutionary Times to 1836","Includes leaflet, \"Come Cheer for Mame Warren: The Author At?? Years,\" (A Washington and Lee Gentleman Would Never Reveal a Woman's Age.)","Daniel Winston, Former Slave, Buena Vista Resident, Marks Century of Life, Still Active.  Roanoke Times","Folder includes newspaper article entitled, \"Life of Blacks in Brownsburg Recalled\", \"Brownsburg of Old Recalled\" and the \"The Brownsburg Homicide\". Also included is a pamphlet titles \"Commencement Exercises Invitations for the Senior Class\" (1933), in which students Everette Sensabaugh, Beatrice Hart, Mary Buchanan, Virginia Craig, Mary Lotts, Nellie Wade, Mary Ellen Sweet, Mitchell Swisher, and Hugh Adams are mentioned.The folder also conatins a copy of the \"Historic Brownsburg Newsletter\", volume 6, issue 1, March-April 2009.","Includes two page Articles of Incorporation of Kerrs Creek Volunteer Fire Company, signed by members, July 19, 1960.","Includes invitation to the Fall Service of Thanksgiving, Honoring the Life of Louise Mikell, at Cedar Hill, October 1, 2023, Rev. Pendleton, Preacher.","Includes an eight page paper and a notecard with drawing of Sunnyside home, by Arthur Bartenstein.","Includes writing ink pen marked, Virginia Horse Center, Honoring Gov. Charles S. Robb, Bill Signing Day, March 22, 1985.","Stonewall Jackson's war horse.","Includes 1952 pay schedules for Registered Nurses at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Also included is a sixteen page paper, \"The Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital,\" by Katherine E. McAlpine.","Includes Stonewall Jackson Hospital Clinical Laboratories, 1987 pocket calendar.","The Student's Account of His Visit to the House Mountain.  The Height of Our Mountains by John Elder","Includes a June 1968 County News newspaer clipping, concerning death of Helen Keller, and states that Helen's great grandmother lived for some years in the Stonewall Jackson House.  She was Elizabeth Aylett, who married Alexander Spottswood Moore, nephew by marriage of Light Horse Harry Lee. After Elizabeth became a widow, she moved from their country home, \"Sydney Cove,\" and moved to Lexington with her five children.","Includes brochure, \"The Upper James River Water Trail: A New Perspective on the Blue Ridge Mountains,\" February 2009.","History of the Lost River State Park. A part of this park was formerly known as Lee White Sulphur Spring or Howard's Lick. Also included is a history of the Lee Cabin, whithin the park in Hardy County, West Virginia.","At Jordan's Point - Interpreting the Industrial and Transportation History of the Lexington, Virginia Area, Brochure","Clouds of Glory, A girl born in Richmond of Northern parents adopts Confederate loyalties, Virginia Cavalcade, Autumn","\"An Ideal Home Circle\": Lee Residences in Lexington, VA","Includes a Directory of Local Government Officials: Goshen, Glasgow, Lexington, Buena Vista, and Rockbridge, compiled by Lisa McCown, August 7, 1975 for a high school government class.  Also included are four pages of \"Our County Government Offices,\" August 21, 1997, giving the offices and names of the officials in each office, which include the following: Don Austin, Bob Day, Pat Self, Carol Hines, Gordon Saunders, Bruce Patterson, Leanne Shank, Bob Claytor, Bob Hayslett, Ron Argenbright, Charlie McGee, Sam Crickenberger, Eugene Browning, Tom Higgins, Woody Bowyer, Bob Weikel, Wayne Isley, Delbert Moore, Nina Cron, and George Simpson.","Includes a Rockbridge County, Virginia road map from 1938, a printed hand drawn regional \"scenic and historic\" map printed as a Christmas gift from Washington and Lee University, and a 2017 Lexingon/Rockbridge Chamber of Commerce community map which includes places and roads for the county as well as local business advertisements.","Includes undated Roanoke Times newspaper artice, \"Prints of old building will be sold to help fund renovation,\" and 2012 Rockbridge Weekly online 2011 article, \"Preservation Virginia Branch Honors Buena Vista Colored School Historical Society.\"","Includes a one page Closing Exercises Program for June 1, 1950 and a report card for Mary Alphin.  Also included are a June 8, 1971 elementary school certificate and seventh grade 1970-71 citizen award for Lisa Suzanne McCown.","Includes May 1997 LHS Alumni Newsletter, Memorial Donation Announcement 1992 notecard by Josephine H. McCown for Albert T. McCown, and Spring Concert program Lexington High School presents the Scarlet Hurricane Bands and the Lexington Elementary Bands, May 23, 1976.","Includes a News-Gazette article, October 15, 2003, \"Discipline 'Lovingly Dispensed,' Hardship 'Just The Way It Was': New Book Describes History of Palmer School.\" Palmer: The First Hundred Years in the Buffalo Community.  Also includes two copies of the program for the Palmer Homecoming and Rededication, Centennial Celebration, Palmer Community Center, October 19, 2003.","Brochure, Maury River Mercantile, the old Anderson Store.","Address Delivered by the Hon. John W. Brockenbrough on laying the corner stone of the new barracks of the Virginia Military Institute, July 4, 1850.  New York: John Wiley, 1850.","Includes 1980's bumper sticker, \"W\u0026L Better Dead, Then Co-ed.\"","FLASHBACK comic strips of Washington and Lee University history","Program, Bertram Turetzky, March 18, 1971.","A Tale of an Oar: A Hidden Message Revealed","Newspaper article, \"W\u0026L Should Change Its Name,\" The Roanoke Times, April 24, 2019.","Article on the restoration in a July 1961 Civil War publication.  Newspaper article, undated, \"W\u0026L President says school will build new museum--and continue using Lee Chapel.\"","Biographies of native American Indians, Robert Latham Owen WLU 1877 and Walter Jonathan Turnbull WLU 1909.","Paper written by Mame Warren, \"Simple Courtesy, The Evolution of the Speaking Tradition at Washington and Lee University,\" prepared for Professor P. M. Forni, Civility and Civilization, The Johns Hopkins University Master of Liberal Arts Program.","Lists of Washington and Lee University students or alumni killed during 20th and 21st century wars including the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf and since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.","World War II list updated by John Rutherford in July 1922.","President Lee's College: Robert E. Lee and the Renewal, Reformation, and Expansion of Washington College.","Includes a Clifton Forge, Virginia, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, notepad, \"We Welcome You to Our City and the Beautiful Mountains of Virginia.\" On the back is Mileage from Clifton Forge to places in Virginia and as far away as Washington, D.C. and Charleston, West Virginia.","Includes \"Genealogy of the Grigsby Family,\" In Part, Including a Brief Sketch of the Porter Family, Republished by Robert Hall McCormick, Chicago, 1905. Originally published by William H. Grigsby, December 1878.","Includes 50th Anniversary Program and a 50th Anniversary Booklet with history, which includes members. The Location of Organizational Meeting, December 1939, held at the Mayflower in Lexington, Virginia.","Includes school reports, marriage certificate, wedding invitation, and letter from Harvey before marriage.  Also included are photographs of Catherine Alphin, her parents and siblings.","A Lutheran Sunday School pin, which may have belonged to Catherine or one of her Alphin family members, while members at Bethany Lutheran Church in Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Contains the photos photos as follows: Catherine in basement at home with crocks, maybe about 1950; a photo of her, maybe on Mother's Day; and a group photo of her three high school aged children, Josephine, Harvey, and Harold. Also included is a group photo of Catherine and four other women, proably Home Demonstration Club, and a group photo of a young Catherine with Hope Welsh and Cecil Welsh. Also included is a photo of Catherine in front of Home Demonstration Market Price's sign.","Catherine's Mirror Drawing Experiment, August 19, 1925.  Also included is Catherine's autograph album, with notes and photos of friends, some marked August 1925.  A 1941 note from her daughter Josephine is included in the album and photos of sisters Mary and Jo Alphin, with a note from Jo.  Photocopies from the 1923 \"The Schoolmadam,\" State Normal School, Harrisonburg, VA, Catherine's Junior year.","Also includes a Myers Hardware Company memorandum book, which has some of Harvey's farm expenses for 1943.","Inludes a pencil marked Southern States Cooperative.","Includes biography, a couple of letters, one of which is from her sister, Elizabeth, a letter that School Board has raised her salary, a post card from brother Thomas, wedding invitation announcing marriage to Albert Orr McCown, and an W\u0026L Bicentennial Celebration invitation to her and Albert.  Also included is insurance receipt, no date.","One item is a Guide Ballot for the General Election, November 2, 1942 for Senator from the 20th Senatorial District of Virginia. (Rockbridge County)","Other material, 1964-1965.","Virginia Laws Made Plain: Laws and Legal Forms Prepared for the Use of Business Men, Farmers, and Mechanics, compiled by Hon. J. D. Hank, Jr..  Presented by Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, 1923.","Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, pocket calendar, 1930. ","Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, check, Sept. 21, 1935, made to Fred Berry from Mrs. Harvey L. Hotinger.","The Rockbridge National Bank pencil showing the 1960 Football Schedule for the Lexington Scarlet Hurricanes.","Photocopy of Kling's letter of resignation as Supt. of the Buena Vista School Board.","Invitation and program for the official dedication of the F. W. Kling, Jr. Elementary School, Buena Vista, Virginia, October 12, 1976.","Included is a Highland Maple Syrup advertisement, no date.","The War Time Diary, F. G. Walter (1837-1930), Co. A, 39th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States Army, June 20, 1863 - April 19, 1865.","Correspondence from Frank, to his brother and mother, December 10, 1862 - June 23, 1864. One letter from Frank's brother, Dorsey, to him, December 31, 1862.","Includes printouts of photographs given by Stewart Bennington.","Included are twelve handwritten lessons done by Catherine (Mrs. Harvey Hotinger), concerning the health of a baby.","Includes brochure, The Public Nurse, Outline of Activities.  Commonwealth of Virginia. State Board of Health. Bureau of Child Welfare. Richmond, 1924.","Bulletins include topics as follows: Scarlet Fever, Smallpox, Typhoid Fever, Measles, Mouth Hygeine, Simple Goiter, The Concrete Slab Pit Privy, Rules and Regulations for the Protection of Public Health, and Why Have Diphtheria?","Jamestown, Virginia National Park Service brochure, reprinted 1961. King's Arms Tavern Midday Fare menu, April 1962 and flyer.  Postcard with raised image of the States Exhibit Building, Jamestown Exposition, 1907.","Reunion Celebration for Classes of 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, and 1949 booklet, which includes \"What We've Been Doing\" forms for each class. Gift of Lisa McCown","Includes programs and newspaper articles for the Lexington High School Post War Year Reunions, July 29, 1978, College Inn Restaurant and June 11, 1983, W\u0026L Evans Dining Hall. Also includes a Memorial Address by George S. Lauderdale, and a Memorial Message prepared by Rev. Marion \"Pat\" Roberston, read by Edwin Adair. Both July 29, 1978. Gift of Lisa McCown","Includes early booklet, West Central 4-H Educational Center, Wirtz, Virginia 24184.  undated [1970's-1980's]","Includes deed trace.","A history of the Caproni biplane, which was forced to land on the John McCown farm, near Rokbridge Baths.  This history was compiled by Leon Johenning, and includes notes about the recovery of the airplane's propeller.","Includes some of Abraham Lincoln's quotes on slavery.","Photocopies of three newspaper articles on the February 17, 1962 Kerrs Creek Fire House dedication, and a February 21, 1987 Honorary Kerrs Creek Volunteer Fire Dept. Member Certificate for Albert T. McCown, who had passed away, August 17, 1985.","Includes photos of the First Lexington High School (1894-1903), the Ruffner builiding, which later was a graded school, Ann Smith Academy, which was used for Lexington High School (1903-1909), Ann Smith High School (1909-1927), which was later used as a grade school, and the Harrington Waddel High School (1927-).","Included is the Article of Incorporation and By-Laws.","Includes yearbooks, 1968-69, 1969-70, and 1970-71.","\"Author Brings Liberian Family'Home'\" THE NEWS-GAZETTE, October 1, 2014. Obituaries of Rev. S. T. A. Richards, Winston D. Richards, Mrs. Vyrie Maurilla Richards, and Liberian Statesman Ambassador George Padmore. Photocopy of a photo of J. Dossen Richards and a photo of John G. A. Richards.","The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.  Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections.","Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives","Rockbridge Historical Society","First Baptist Church (Lexington, Va.)","Randolph Street Methodist Church (Lexington, Va.)","Lylburn Downing School (Lexington, Va.)","Washington Post Company","African-Americans.  Staunton, Virginia","Agricultural Society of Rockbridge","Agriculture","Rockbridge Farmers Exchange","John Deere Centennial","United Way of America","Lee Memorial Association","Lexington Fire Department (Lexington, Va.)","Virginia Cooperative Extension","Rockbridge County Cooperative Extension","Southern Association of Colleges and Schools","Blue Ridge CASA for Children","Washington and Lee University. Board of Trustees","The Roanoke Times","Washington and Lee University. University Library. Special Collections and Archives","Lexington Gazette. (Lexington, Va.)","Washington and Lee University. News Office","Confederate States of America. Army. Liberty Hall Volunteers","Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade","Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 4th","Roanoke Symphony Orchestra","Roanoke Valley Choral Society"," Los Angeles Times (Firm)","Washington and Lee University, Department of Athletics, Basketball","Washington and Lee University. Chavis House","Rockbridge County News","Virginia Historical Society","R. E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church (Lexington, Va.)","Richmond Times-Dispatch","Winchester Star","Washington and Lee University","United Daughters of the Confederacy","Lettie Pate Evans Foundation","Washington and Lee University. Department of Athletics. Football","Frederick Ladies Relief Society","Albemarle County, Virginia","Winthrop University","Washington and Lee University. Chapel","United States Military Academy","United States. National Archives and Records Administration","The Free-Lance Star","Staunton Spectator","Confederate States of America. Army","Lewiston Teller","Idaho Daily Statesman","Washington and Lee University, Department of Athletics, Track and Field","Lexington Historical Shop","Virginia Cavalcade","Washington and Lee University, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications","Norfolk State University (Va.). Academy for Collegiate Excellence and Student Success","Washington and Lee University. Treasurer","Washington and Lee University. Registrar","Rural Living","McCormick Harvesting Machine Company","Washington and Lee University. Admissions Department","Parry McCluer High School","Rockbridge County, Virginia. School Board","Printing","The Dallas Daily Herald","Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital","Stonewall Jackson Hospital","Washington and Lee University. Student Health Center","Lindsey Funeral Home","The Coffeyville Daily Journal","Columbia University","Outdoor Sportsman Group. Fly Fisherman","Omicron Delta Kappa. Alpha Circle","Human Rights","Shenandoah Valley","Osteopathy","Horses","African Americans. Rockbridge County, Virginia","Brownsburg High School","African Americans.  Brownsburg, Virginia.","Grace Memorial Church (Lexington, Va.)","Lexington Presbyterian Church (Lexington, Va.)","New Monmouth Presbyterian Church (Lexington, Va.)","Timber Ridge Presybterian Church (Lexington, Va.)","Bible Society of the Confederate States","Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Artillery. Rockbridge Battery, 1st (1861-1865)","Saddle and Harness Company","Hadson Development Corporation","Sunnyside Farm","Virginia Horse Center","Frontier Culture Museum","Dejarnette Center","Stonewall Jackson Hospital Auxiliary Inc.","Robert E. Lee Hotel","House Mountain. Rockbridge County, Virginia","House Mountain Inn","Hull's Drive-In","Virginia--Rockbridge County--Artists","Rockbridge Regional Library (Lexington, Va.) (Lexington, VA)","West Virginia--Lost River State Park","West Virginia--Lee White Sulphur Spring","Jordan's Point","Palmer Community Center","Washington and Lee University. Phi Beta Kappa","Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway","Yellow Sulphur Springs Company","Virginia--Richmond","Washington and Lee University. Lee House. President's House","Seven Hills. Rockbridge County, Virginia","Cross Roads School","Denmark School","Highland Belle School ","Lexington High School (Lexington, Va.)","The Echo","The Scarletter","Liberty Hall Academy (Lexington, Va.)","Mountain View School","Palmer School","Southern Virginia College","Scotch Irish Congress","Franklin Society and Library Company of Lexington (Lexington, Va.)","The General Store (1894 - ) (Buena Vista, VA)","Denmark Store","Walker and Wood Brothers","United Daughters of the Confederacy. Rockbridge Chapter","Vesuvius Ruritan Club","Virginia Military Institute","Virginia Military Institute. Cameron Hall","University of Maryland","Virginia.  Public Schools","Washington Academy (Lexington, Va.)","Washington and Lee University--Alumni  and alumnae","Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia","The Columns","Washington College","Concert Guild","Washington and Lee University. Doremus Gymnasium","Washington and Lee Univerity. Delta Kappa Epsilon","Kappa Alpha Order","Sigma Nu Fraternity. Lambda Chapter  (Washington and Lee University )","Habitat for Humanity, inc.","New York Times Company","Washington and Lee University.  Journalism Department","Washington and Lee University. School of Law","Washington and Lee University. Lenfest Center for the Arts","Washington and Lee University.  Memorial Gateway","Washington and Lee University. World War","Washington and Lee University. Mock Convention  ","Washington and Lee University. Tucker Hall ","Persian Gulf War","Afghanistan","Vietnam War","World War II","Washington College (Lexington, Va.)","Mill Mountain Zoo","Natural Bridge Zoo","North River Navigation Company","Log Cabins","Ferries--Virginia","Big Spring Mill","Clifton Forge, Virginia","Shenandoah Valley Railroad","Virginia. Department of Highways","Fairfield, Virginia","Lime Kiln Theater (1984-) (Lexington, Virginia)","Beeton family","Rockbridge Area Master Gardeners Association","France. Armele. Escadrille Lafayette","First Baptist Church (Buena Vista, Virginia)","Taverns (Inns)--Rockbridge County, Virginia","African Americans. Amherst County, Virginia","Law. United States","Kerrs Creek Ruritan Club","Virginia. State Teachers College at Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Va.)","Virginia. State Normal School for Women. Harrisonburg, Virginia","Virginia. Eliizabethan College. Salem, Virginia","World War II. Alcohol","World War II. Gasoline","Myers Hardware Co., Inc., Lexington, Virginia","Farming. Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Voting. Rockbridge County, Virginia","Rockbridge National Bank (Lexington, Va.)","Laws. Virginia","Buena Vista School Board","F. W. Kling, Jr. Elementary School. Buena Vista, Virginia","Farmer's Supply Co., Lexington, Virginia","Purina Mills, St. Louis, Missouri","Rockbridge Laundry and Dry Cleaners, Inc.","Rockbridge Farmer's Coop, Lexington, Virginia","Maple Festival (Highalnd County, Virginia)","Glen Maury Park (Buena Vista, Virginia)","Lake Robertson (Rockbridge County, Virginia)","Rockbridge Vineyard and Winery Company (Rockbridge County, Virginia)","Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Battalion 39th, Co.A","University Cleaners. (Lexington and Buena Vista, Virginia)","Denmark, Virginia","Tribbett's Store","Waterloo, Virginia","Kerrs Creek, Virginia","Walnut Flats School","Big Hill, Virginia","Egypt, Virginia","Lucy Selena Furnace","Rockbridge Alum Springs","Downey Family","Carter Family","Kentucky Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission","United States. National Park Service","Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc.","Philadelphia, Pennsylvania","Ohio River","U. S. Army Corps Of Engineers","Fincastle Presbyterian Church","Virginia Bureau of Child Health","Nurses--Virginia","Virginia Department of Health","Pulaski Co. (Va.)","Montgomery County (Va.)","Barclay family","Boatwright Family","Brooks family","Hamilton Family","McDowell family","Johnson family","Snowden Family","Matthews Family","McCown family","Newcomb Family","Rouse Family","Ruffner family","Washington Family","Webster Family","Ailstock Family","Alexander family","Alford Family","Anderson family  ","Blair family","Borden family","Brockenbrough family","Broun family","Brubeck family","Cunningham family","Custis family","Debo family","Dold family","Doremus Family","Edmiston family","Elliott Family","Fix Family","Gaines Family","Harer family","Harman family","Houston family","Hughes family","Johnston family","Jordan Family","Kahle Family","Link family","Livingston family","McAfee family","McClintic family","McFarland family  ","Mohler family","Morrison family","Moore Family","Obenshain family","Paul family","Preston family","Rees Family","Rhea family","Richey family","Salling Family","Scott family","Shaw family","Sherrard Family","Singleton Family","Stuart family","Waddell family","Warner family","Watts family","Whitlock Family","Willson Family","Wood family","Young Family","Leyburn family","Boogher Family","Gouldman Family","Garland family","Hayslett family","Ramsey family","Rogers family","Stearns family","Drummond family","Dickinson family","Mason family","Griffin family","Grigsby family","Porter Family","McGuffin Family","Hartless family","Alphin Family","Hartbarger Family","Bennington Family","Knick Family","Teaford family","Gunn, John McKenzie, Jr.","Adamson, Emily B.","Cauthern, Leslie","Delaney, Theodore C., Jr., Dr.","Jones, Falvorees, Jr.","Morrison, Edlow","Scott, Margaret","Thompson, Irma Blake","Collins, Courtney","Thompson, Irene","African-Americans. Lexington, Virginia","Baker, Wendell","Sloan, Alice","Merchant, Shawheim","Lackey, Tracey Dickerson","Dickerson-Suggs, Stacey","Ragsdale, Frances P.","African Americans. Rockbridge County, Virginia","Dorsey, Phillip","Ruffner, Henry, Reverend","Pierce, R.V. (Ray Vaughn), 1840-1914","Russ, Kurt","McDaniel, John M., III (John Milton)","McCoy, George W. ","Barnes, Emily","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870","Henning, William Waller","Paxton, Alex. S.","Ailstock, Private","Taylor, Alex","Alexander, Archibald","Alexander, Hortense","Tucker, John Randolph","Allan, William, 1837-1889","Reasons, George","Anderson, Jo","McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884","Anderson, Mary P. , - 1885","Armstrong, George D.","Armstrong, Rick","Auden, W.H.","Auden, Constance Rosalie, 1870-1941","Ballangee, James","Barclay, Ted, II (Alexander Tedford)","Barclay, William Houston","Barclay, Elizabeth","Telford, Jane Edmondson","Barclay, Polly Culbertson","Paxton, Phebe Alexander","Moore, Andrew, 1752-1821","Turner, Charles W. (Charles Wilson)","Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956","Johnson, Edward","Baxter, George Addison","Barton, Benjamin Smith, Dr., 1766-1815","Jefferson, Thomas","Basse, Edgar Alfred, Jr.","Blackburn, Thomas","Boatwright, Robert McDearmon","Boatwright, John G. ","Booth, Augustus Lea","Borden, Benjamin, Sr.","Brady, Douglas Ellinipsico, Jr.","Hoffmann, August Carl","Brcin, John David","Brooks, William","White, James J. (James Jones)","Brooks, Andrew","Brooks, James M. ","Brouwer, Margaret Lee","Brown, Alexander S. ","Brown, Fannie","Brown, Clarence J. ","Wilson, John Delane","Brown, Robert","Brown, Benjamin","Brown, John","Brown, Manley","Patterson, William Brown","Bruinsma, Theodore","Buchanan, William","Buchser, Frank","Buncombe, Edward","Campbell, Ben Miller","Campbell, Edmund Douglas","Campbell, Henry Donald","Campbell, Robert Fishburne","Jackson, Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall)","Campbell, J. L. (John Lyle)","Canfield, Verne D.","Carrick, Samuel Czar","Carroll, Robert Patrick","Castle, Gray, 1931-1999","Caudill, Charles, Col.","Cavendish, William Henderson","Cavendish, Andrew","Chamberlain, George E. (George Earle)","Roosevelt, Theodore","Chavis, John","Chittum, Fanny Turner, 1809-1894","Claytor, Alexander B. , 1910-1995","Cline, Patsy","Cocke, Lucian Howard","Cooke, John Esten","Crenshaw, Marjorie Buford, 1912-1994","Crittenden, John J. (John Jordan), 1787-1863","Custis, Daniel Parke","Custis, John Parke","Dale, Rebecca","Daniels, Jonathan M., 1939-1965","Davidson, Charles A. (Charles Andrew)","Davis, Adelaide Sutro Weinberg","Davis, James Paxton, Jr.","Denny, George Hutcheson","Dickinson, Sally Bruce","Diehl, George West","Dodson, Ryland","Drake, George Francis","Driver, Robert J.","Du Pont, Jessie Ball, 1884-1970","Durkin, Kelsey Helen, 1992 - 2013","Edmondson, James K., Colonel","Ellis, Powhatan","Erwin, Benjamin, 1755-1822","Evans, Lettie Pate Whitehead","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert","Fallon, Gary Robert","Farrar, James DuBois","Feddeman, Frederick Augustus","Fishwick, Marshall William","Fithian, Philip","Fletcher, Forest","Fletcher, John","Fletcher, Laura Mason","Ford, Joseph Henry, Jr.","Gaines, Edwin Metcalf, Dr.","Gaines, Francis Pendleton","Garber, Sandy","Garland, Landon C.","Garrett, William Allan","Gatewood, James","Gibbs, James Edward Allen, 1829 - 1902","Gorman, Michael K.","Graham, Samuel Mercer","Greenberg, Mel","Greenwood, John","Groot, Robert Douglas","Hahn, Hilary","Hall, Carolyn","Hall, Randolph","Hamer, Edward B., Jr. (Edward Buck)","Harris, Joyce","Harwood, Doug","Heale, Daniel P. ","Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889","Higgins, Patty","Hite, Malinda","Hobson, John Peyton","Holland, J. Gill","Hotinger, Harvey Lewis","Hotinger, Myrtle","Howe, James Lewis, Jr.","Howerton, James Robert","Howerton, Mary N.","Huber, Helmot","Hudson, Frederick","Hull, Margaret Jones","Roosevelt, Eleanor","Hutcherson, James Morrison","Ipsen, Ernest","Moor, George","Jenks, James Alley","Johnson, Porter","Johnson, W.T. , Rev.","Johnston, William Preston","Jones, John","Jordan, Harry","Jordan, John","Joynes, Edward S.","Ju, I-Hsiung","Junkin, George, 1798 - 1868","Junkin, William F. ","Kahle, Matthew","Kamen, Stan","Kateley, Jack","Kempton, Melvin","Watts, Laura","Styles, Spottswood","King, Martin Luther, Jr.","Kozak, Samuel Joseph","Labro, Philippe","Lacy, Beverly Tucker","Lafferty, John J.","Latane, William","Latture, Rupert Nelson","Lauck, Charles Harold","Lauck, Charley","Peniston, Robert C.","Lee, Annie Carter","Lee, Elijah","Lee, George Bolling","Iversen, Eve","Watts, Jeri Hanel","McCabe, W. Gordon","Lee, George Washington Custis","Lee, Henderson, Rev.","Lee, Henrietta E. ","Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1883","Lee, Mildred Childe, 1846-1905","Brown, Campbell (George Campbell Brown), 1840 - 1893","Scott, George C., 1927-1999","Chester, Samuel H.","Elrod, John W.","McCrummen, Norman H. , III","Lee, Agnes","Lee, Robert E., III, Colonel (Robert Edward), 1869-1922","Lee, Robert E., Jr., 1843-1914","Lee, Robert E., V, 1963-","Lee, Mary Custis","Leech, Holly","Letcher, John S. (John Seymour)","Lewis, Charles C. ","Lewis, James \"Jim\", -1875","Lewis, Sydney","Link, O. Winston (Ogle Winston)","Litzenburg, Thomas V., Jr.","Logan, John Lee, 1848-1890","Lokale, Michael","Lord, Norman Franklin","Lurate, Bob","Lyle, John Blair","MacCorkle, Daniel S. , 1905-","MacDonald, Ronald Herbert","Magruder, George W. ","Manning, Dennis G.","Mann, Larry","Mann, Sally","Matney, Angela Renee","Mattingly, Earl Stansbury","Maury, Matthew Fontaine","McAleer, James","McCaig, Donald","McClintock, J. William, 1931-1994","McCluer, Parry","McClung, Hunter, Dr.","McCown, Albert T.","Lockett, Ward","McCown, Josephine Hotinger","McCown, James L. ","McCormick, Robert, 1780-1846","McCown, John","McCown, John Graham, 1918-1994","Marshall, Richard","McCown, Charles A.","McCown, Alertie","McCown Boyts, Helen Siberia, 1908-1989","McCown, William Burnette, 1912-1982","McCown, Albert Orr","Mccown, Ruby Showalter","Showalter, W.L. ","Showalter, Nannie","McCown, Margaret Virginia","Showalter, Howard","Silas, William","Charles, H. Bernard","McCown, Samuel Thompson","McCown, Ida Shelton","McCown, Mary Shelton","Mccown, Jennifer","McCoy, John W.","McCrory, Julia A. ","McCrory, Elizabeth","McCrory, Samuel H. ","McCrum, Blanche Prichard","McCutchan, Frank, Rev.","McDowell, David Henry","McDowell, Ephriam, 1672-1775","McDowell, Samuel, 1735-1817","McDowell, John, 1706-1742","McFarland, Francis W., Reverend","McKee, William","McKee, John","McLaughlin, William","McLeod, Josephine","Menkemeller , Charles Allison","Miles, A. Stevens, Jr","Miley, Herbert","Miley, Michael, 1841-1918","Miller, James T. , 1856-1927","Miller, James F. ","Miller, Levi","Miller, Louis Franklin","Miriello, Frank A.","Mollenhoff, Clark Raymond","Moore, David E. ","Moore, Edward A. ","Moore, James","Moore, John Lyle","Moore, John Preston","Moore, Thomas Harold","Morrison, James, 1726-1804","Morrison, Robert Hall","Morrison, William McCutchan, Reverend","Mudd, Roger ","Murray, Albert","Murray, Charles Fletcher","Neel, Cyrus F.","Nelson, Robert William","Newton, Hope Hull","Northen, Mary Moody","Nuckols, Richard Henry","Nunnley, Lenora","Osteen, John","Owen, Robert Latham","Padgett, Frank, ?-1854","Parker, Severn Eyre","Patterson, Brown Craig","Glanville, Jim","Mays, Ryan","Beverley, William","Patton, James","Paxton, Elizabeth Alexander","Paxton, Thomas, 1722-1788","Peabody, George, 1795-1869","Pence, Gilbert Eugene","Perry, Marvin Banks, Jr.","Person, Junius Randolph","Pleasants, Alfred W. ","Pleasants, Jackie","Powell, Ottie Cline","Preston, John Thomas Lewis","Pusey, William W., III (William Webb)","Quinn, Robert R. ","Ravenhorst, Albertina","Rayder, Sam","Read, John","Rhinesmith, W. Donald","Rice, W. Thomas","Riegel, O. W. 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","Taylor, Charles Holt","Taylor, William","Telford, Robert Lee","Thompson, William M. , 1864-1955","Tilson, Warren Edward","Tracy, Betty (Elizabeth Kilbourne), 1908-1993","Tucker, Robert Henry","Turnbull, Walter Jonathan","Twombly, Cy","Valentine, Edward Virginius, 1838-1930","Vethake, Henry","Wade, Wada Phyllis","Walker, Forrest Edward","Warren, Mame (Mary Elizabeth)","Washburn, William Crane","Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915","Watkin, Lawrence Edward","Watkins, Richard","Watt, William Joseph","Weaver, William","White, Annie Jo","White, Archibald S., Jr","White, B.D.","White, Henry Alexander","Whitney, George S. (George Stephen)","Williams, Bob","Williams, Boyd H.","Williams, Charles Wiley","Williamson, Thomas Hoomes","Willis, Henry Parker","Wilson, William Lyne","Winchester, James R. ","Winston, Daniel","Wolfe, Thomas","Woods, Magdalene","Woods, Michael","Wu, Nelson I. 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Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["12 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["12 Linear Feet"],"date_range_isim":[1609,1610,1611,1612,1613,1614,1615,1616,1617,1618,1619,1620,1621,1622,1623,1624,1625,1626,1627,1628,1629,1630,1631,1632,1633,1634,1635,1636,1637,1638,1639,1640,1641,1642,1643,1644,1645,1646,1647,1648,1649,1650,1651,1652,1653,1654,1655,1656,1657,1658,1659,1660,1661,1662,1663,1664,1665,1666,1667,1668,1669,1670,1671,1672,1673,1674,1675,1676,1677,1678,1679,1680,1681,1682,1683,1684,1685,1686,1687,1688,1689,1690,1691,1692,1693,1694,1695,1696,1697,1698,1699,1700,1701,1702,1703,1704,1705,1706,1707,1708,1709,1710,1711,1712,1713,1714,1715,1716,1717,1718,1719,1720,1721,1722,1723,1724,1725,1726,1727,1728,1729,1730,1731,1732,1733,1734,1735,1736,1737,1738,1739,1740,1741,1742,1743,1744,1745,1746,1747,1748,1749,1750,1751,1752,1753,1754,1755,1756,1757,1758,1759,1760,1761,1762,1763,1764,1765,1766,1767,1768,1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is open for research use.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["This collection is open for research use."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCottie was the daughter of John D. 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The Board of Directors indluded Raymond Hostetter, Harry Swisher, Raymond Hartbarger, Arthur Alphin, Tom Dunlap, and Harold Hotinger.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Cottie was the daughter of John D. Fitzpatrick, the original owner of the Fitzpatrick General Store at Kerrs Creek, Viginia.","The author, John McCurday was a classmate of Pat Robertson at Lexington High School in Lexington, Virginia.  Pat became a TV evangelistic preacher.  Pat also attended Washington and Lee University, and ran for President of the United States 1988 bid.","Incomplete paper tells stories about the Radford Arsenal in the early 1950s.","Initiators of the new fire department were Dean Knick, R. A. Engleman, Raymond Hostetter, Paul Higgins, Tom Dunlap, Albert McCown, Paul Plott, Warren Smith, and Harry Swisher.  The new officers of the Kerrs Creek Fire Dept. were John A. Hostetter, president; Albert McCown, Vice President; Harry M. Swindler, Secretary; Warren A. Smith, Fire Chief; and Hunter Ayres, Assist. Fire Chief.  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Also included, a June 1995 Thank You from the American Red Cross, Virginia West Virginia Floods DR#686, to Josephine for sharing her time and special talents, while helping people recover from the Virginia/West Virginia Floods.","photocopies","A Texas-Sized Donation for Virginia Colleges, by Gregory Turley, Washington and Lee Class of 1987.","photocopy","General R. E. Lee's war-Horses, Traveller and Lucy Long.  Southern Historical Society Papers. Vol.18. Richmond, Va., January-December, 1890.","photocopy","Dwelling in Lexington, Virginia, designed by Pendleton Scott Clark, architecture renowned for authenticity, was completed in 1929 for W\u0026L Dean and Mrs. Frank J. Gilliam.  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The school burned while the students were at home on Christmas vacation.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["See Catherine's 1922 Elizabethan College yearbook (Rare LD 7251 .S32 E44 v.5 1922). She played basketball and her cousin Hope Welsh also attended there.  The school burned while the students were at home on Christmas vacation."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePublished lecture by retired professor John McKenzie Gunn, dated April 25, 1994; \"Can Economics be Both Relevant and 'good'?\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes four items: \"A Community's Stories\" article from The News Gazzette concerning an exhibit by the Rockbridge Historical Society; a list of 'Old Lexington Colored People,' from the early 1900's from Leslie Lyle Campbell's notes; information on a group of slaves from Caroline County (a page copied from Colonial Caroline: a History of Caroline County, Virginia); and a letter to Special Collections concerning information on the holdings of records concerning black history in Virginia.  Nine Historic Lexington Foundation interviews done for Black History Month 2016, mostly by Beverly Tucker, one by Anne McClung, and one by W\u0026amp;L Students Caitlin Mullen '05 and Anne Young '04, with Lexington African Americans and one Buena Vista resident.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e143 pages printed from the 1810 Virginia Census, listing \"Other Free\" Heads of Household, by family name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegister of Free Negroes of Rockbridge County, Virginia, with index.  According to the Act of the General Assembly of Virginia.  Passed January 25, 1803\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegister of Marriages, Colored Persons in Rockbridge County under act of Virginia Assembly Passed February 27, 1866\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of Washington Post article, \"The Captive Nations of Slaves,\" covering an exhibit at the Museum of the Confederacy named \"Before Freedom Came,\" 1991. \nReceipt for purchase of slave, John. 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The Lexington Gazette, and Rockbridge Farmer, June 23, 1840.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes \"Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book: Designed for Farmers, Mechanics, and all People,\" 1872.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of ledger, 1892-1903.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes a copy of a report of \"Approval of Site, Plans, etc.\" for a school house at Alone Mill; a balance sheet by Alone Canning Co., and a photocopy of a pencil drawn map of Alone Mill. Also includes a lecture paper by Anne McClung, which includes many photos.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes \"Selected Bibliography for Historic Artifact Identification and Analysis\" prepared by Kurt C. Russ and John M. 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Also includes the minutes of Board Meeting, May 9, 1995.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains student paper authored by Emily Barnes '01 titled \"Lee Memorial Association.\" In addition, a copy of a sketch from 1883 about the Lee Memorial Association titled \"Southern Historical Society Papers.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet titled \"Education for a Better Tomorrow, 1992 Annual Report.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Procedings\" publication published by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, including reports and activities of the 100th Annual Meeting in Atlanta Georgia as well as current lists of member insitutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photocopy of a 1758 schedule titled \"To the Militia of the Coutny of Augusta, and for Provisions furnished by sundry inhabitants of the said county, viz.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopies of two letters concerning Washington and Lee student, John West Addison.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle titled \"A Confederate Hero,\" from \u003ctitle\u003eBlue and Gray\u003c/title\u003e, 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiography compiled in 1997 concerning Archibald Alexander (5 pgs. long).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the Washington and Lee Homecoming Queen from c.1893 and her protrait which hangs in the Special Collections vault (WLU Coll PP 0081).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains an article titled \"Colonel William Allan at McDonough\"; an 1889 address by J. Randolph Tucker; and an 1890 memorial by Washington and Lee Board of Trustees concerning Allan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a biography and illustration of Allen under the title of \"The Headlight.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopry of newpaper article concerning Anderson, slave of Cyrus McCormick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of biography concerning Armstrong from the \"Dictionary of American Biography.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle titled \"Civil War Author on the Trail of History.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo copies of a Christmas oration in memoriam of Constance Rosalie Auden.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituaries, clipped from Roanoke Times 2002.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiography of Alexander Tedford Barclay compiled by Washington and Lee student in 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiography compiled in 1997 and geneological chart showing many prominent people of Rockbridge County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNarrative titled \"Aunt Elizabeth Remembers;\" interview with retired Washington and Lee professor, Charles Turner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopies of newspaper clippings concerning the death of Barkley at Washington and Lee University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of a letter to George Baxter from Edward Johnson introducing Dr. Barton, December 21, 1805. Pamphlet entitled, \"How Many Botany Books Did Thomas Jefferson Own?\" mentioning Dr. Barton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of Calyx 1939 yearbook picture. Basse gave donation towards Special Collections workroom.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Fatal Affray,\" Lexington Gazette, January 19, 1854. Murder of Cadet Thomas Blackburn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopies of Calyx yearbook pictures and Alumni directory information. John G. Boatwright '15 made donation for the University Library reading room in memory of Robert McDearmon Boatwright '42.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary, Washington and Lee University News Home, 5/12/2006.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo separate biographies for Borden Jr. and Sr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eE-mail message to the Washington and Lee community concerning Brady's death, obituaries from the News-Gazette and The Roanoke Time. Article titled \"'Pat' Brady's Life One of Quiet Service to a Community He Loved So Dearly,\" the News-Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of letter from Andrew Brooks to sister, January 23,1861; photocopy and written transcript of letter from James J. White relating to the death of William Brooks, July 16,1861; photocopy of telegram to J.M. Brooks relating to the remains of his son, William Brooks, July 20,1861; Diary entries written by Andrew Brooks in Augusta County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComposer in Residence, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Roanoke Valley Choral Society, 1995-1996, pgs. 7-8.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopies of letters to his sister, Fannie, September 20, 1846, and September 7, 1848, while a student at Washington College. Original letters reside at Virginia Military Academy Archives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio script concerning Clarence Brown used in Cincinnati, Ohio on the radio program, \"Personalities in your Government.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert and Benjamin Brown's relatives who attended Washington and Lee University. A letter addressed to President John Delane Wilson from their mother, Elizabeth Barry Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes a Civil War centennial commemorative edition of the Valley News Echo concerning John Brown's Raid and Harper's Ferry(2 copies); Stanton Spectator article titled \"The Out-break at Harper's Ferry\"; Stanton Spectator article concerning John Brown's execution titled \"Results of the Trial\"; Richmond Times-Dispatch article titled \"Documents in Treason Trial of John Brown; The Sunday Baltimore article titled \"Verdict Missing in Brown Papers; a history course examinaton concerning this time period; an account by someone named \"Jackson\" of John Brown's execution addressed to his wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles from three local newspapers titled \"He's a Third-Generation Blacksmith,\" \"The Village Blacksmith, Manly Brown, Dies at 93,\" \"Family Dreams of Living Museum. Jack Chaffee as Blacksmith and Curator of Brown's Forge.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photocopy of the Ministerial Directory of the Presbyterian Church in the United States highlighting William Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains obituary of Bruinsma dated September 17, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes color notecard of Frank Buchser painting of Robert E. Lee, \"The Last Life Portrait of General Robert E. Lee,\" a letter from Buchser to Lee concerning a portrait, Washington and Lee News Release titled \"General Lee 'Comes Home' for His Birthday,\" Religious Herald article titled \"Valentine's Recumbent Statue of General Robert E. Lee,\" and correspondence between various researchers interested in this topic and Special Collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet titled \"Edward Buncombe and Buncombe County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary, \"Thrown from Horse...,\" by Lexington Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary found in the News-Gazette about Edmund Campbell, a Washington and Lee graduate and attorney who worked on various cases concerning desegregation of Virginia schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a biography excerpt from \"Who's Who in America\" and an obituary by the Lexington Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary of John Lyle Campbell Sr. by the Lexington Gazette, a biography writtten by his son Robert Fishburne Campbell, and copies of letters between Robert E. Lee and Prof. Campbell as well as T.J. Jackson and Prof. Campbell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article \"Coach Nears End of Not-So-Typical Career: Washington and Lee's Canfield Prepares for Life After 31 Years of Generals' Basketball,\" and a Roanoke Times article named \" 'I Hope I've Touched Some Lives.' \"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiography by the American National Biography Online.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains one photocopy of obituary by News-Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary by the News-Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorial program for Gray Castle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoanoke Times article concerning Caudill's retirement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a booklet titled \"The Cavendish Family History.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes biography and copies of two letters from Theofore Roosevelt, one concerning a memorial to Robert E. Lee and the other one concerning Chamberlain's son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder contains at least twenty eight separate items concerning John Chavis, from articles, portraits, letters, records, to research papers concerning his role in Washington and Lee Lee as well as African American history. Also included are the W\u0026amp;L Alumni magazine artices, \"Chavis House named,\" March/April 1986 and \"Chavis House dedicated,\"  November/December 1986.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes obituary by Rockbridge County News.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile contains obituary by the News-Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article titled Honor Rolls,\" a set of photographs, and a pamphlet commemorating her life and work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes an obituary written by The Lexington Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLexington Gazette obituary about Crenshaw.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe file includes a biography by the American National Biography Online.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopied catalogue of the Library of Daniel Parke Custis: From a Manuscript in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society, \"The Magazine of History and Biography,\" October 1909, pages 404-412.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Library of John Parke Custis, Esq., of Fairfax County, Virginia, \"Tyler's Quarterly,\" October 1927, pages 97-103.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a greeting card made by the Artists of the Lexington, Virginia Note Card Series, 2002.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe file includes a program in memory of Daniels, hosted at Robert E. Lee Memorial Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article titled \"Turning 90 is Just Another Milestone in Lexington Woman's Interesting Life.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes three articles concerning Professor DeLaney's professional career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopies of newspaper obituaries of her death on December 10,1940. Photocopy of a newspaper article, \"U.D.C. Holds Exercises at Sayler Creek Battlefield\" at which Ms. Dickinson was a speaker. Photocopy of a page concerning Miss Dickinson's book, \"Confederate Leaders.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article titled \"Service Held for Dr. G.W. Diehl.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticled titled \"Judge Ryland Dodson Remembers Early 20th Century Tobacco Farming,\" September 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile contains e-mail message distributed by the Broadcast Mailer at Washington and Lee on the death of Francis Drake.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes biography.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a biography from the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation website and some genealogy from the LDS website.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes two copies of the memorial service program for Farrar's passing and a photocopy of a News-Gazette article titled \"Tiger.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article titled \"He Disciplined Popular Culture\" as well as an obituary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of the \"Washington and Lee Ambulance Unit\" from the 1926 Alumni Directory. This photocopy features an article about Fletcher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes notes on \"Miss Laura.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopies of two obituaries concerning Mr. Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of Roanoke Times newspaper clipping titled \"New President of Washington and Lee.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes obituary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes biography on Mr. Gatewood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of obituary for Mercer Graham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopies of articles concerning the life and career of Mel Greenberg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes biography on Mr. Greenwood, dentist of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a memorial program as well as an obituary by the Roanoke Times.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article titled \"Randolph Hall Refused to Fail.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes memorial program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes two photocopies of the Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine with an article focused on Ms. Harris, titled \"Still Crazy After All These Years.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopy of article titled \"Off the beaten path: the Chronicler of Lexington is an institution himself.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopy of a petition to Jefferson Davis representing that Heale is a citizen of Giles County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an appendix titled \"The Mystery Woman.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of a biographical sketch of Hobson by Charles Lee Hobson, March 5, 1998. Photocopies of two papers by Hobson entitled \"How I came to Elizabethtown, Kentucky\" and \"How General Lee Came to Washington College.\" Photocopies of a letter to Lee concerning Hobson (1869) and a Louisville Times article about the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Harvey's Lexington High School, Senior Class Graduation invitation, June 1, 1950.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of essay titled \"James Lewis Howe - Chemist and Philatelist.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle includes biography and obituary concerning Howerton and his wife Mary N.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes notes on Mrs. Hull, a source for Eleanor Roosevelt's Visit to Goshen Recalled.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes 27 photocopies of letters, transcripts, notes, etc. on Mr. Hutcherson, Washington and Lee University Class of 1902.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a letter concerning Ipsen's chauffer, as well as photocopy of portrait of Lee painted by Ipsen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes \"Stonewall,\" a commemorative section of The News-Gazette concerning the Jackson Statue Rededication. In addition, a set of remarks and notes by Mayor Derrick and papers of lectures given by Mary Coulling, Robert F. Hunter, James I. Robertson, Jr., and the Frederick Ladies Relief Society. Program and brochure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article titled \"Window on the Past: An Unusual Tribute to Stonewall Jackson;\" \"'Stonewall' Jackson's Grave;\" \"Jackson Day,\" and many more copies of similarly focused articles from local newspapers. Also included a brochure reprinted and distributed by Stonewall Jackson Memorial Incorporate, Lexington, Virginia, \"The Religious Character of Stonewall Jackson,\" an address by James Power Smith, D.D., Captain and A.D.C. Staff of General Jackson. The address was delivered at the Inauguration of the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Building, Virginia Military Institute, June 23, 1897.\nA printed map showing all of Stonewall Jackson's movements, Compliments of Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Inc., Lexington, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopies of material concerning Jackson as constable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes eleven photocopies, black and white and color of Moor as Jackson, one of which is at Virginia Military Institute. Two color photos.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article from The American Art Journal titled \"Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Thomas jefferson\" as well as a photocopy of the Spring 1982 article, \"The Adams-Jefferson portrait Exchange.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopies of obituaries and photographs concerning the Johnson and McDowell families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of inside cover of \"Closing Exercises of Privat School.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopy of biography from \"Dictionary of American Biography.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiking Through Albemarle with John Jones, Scottsville Museum, Capturing Our Heritage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a copy of a magazine titled \"The Iron Worker\" as well as handwritten and typewritten copies of \"A Sketch of Colonel John Jordan (1777-1854).  Also includes a paper, \"John Jordan, Virginia Builder,\" by Marshall Fishwick, and a photocopy of Summer 1973 Virginia Cavalcade article, \"John Jordan: Builder and Entrepreneur,\" by L. Moody Simms, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a booklet titled \"Edward Southey Joynes: Father of the University and Life Trustee of Winthrop.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a magazine article titled \"A Chinese Master Opens Western Eyes to Eastern Art.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes various pieces, including \"The Unusual of Lieutenant George C. Junkin, C.S.A.,\" a discourse commemorative of George Junkin delivered in the West Spruce St. Presbyterian Church, and \"George Junkin and His Eschatological Vision,\" and \"Secession Fever on a Southern Campus.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes articles titled \"Matthew Kahle's Log\" and \"Old George , 1844.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe file includes a brochure for The Stan Kamen Collection of Western Art at Washington and Lee University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a biography, obituary, funeral and memorial services programs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary (dated August 1, 1955) and two Athletic Association certificates for cross country, 1928 and track, 1929.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Memoriam, A senseless tragedy. The New President, John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. POST, The Saturday Evening Post, December 14, 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes various copies of programs of \"A Celebration of the Life of King,\" bulletins for churches, as well as various programs, which includes Black History Month.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe 2010 Black History Month program includes the following:  Poem, \"From the Shanty to the White House,\" by Laura Watts; \"Ground Hog Poem,\" by Spotswood Alexander Styles; \"What If There Were No Black Folk?,\" by Barbara Leahy, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a memorial service program held at Lee Chapel on July 5, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of a newspaper article concerning Labro, November 12, 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary from the Rockbridge County News, November 8, 1900.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. J. Lafferty: A Remarkable Life, Secrets of the Blue Ridge\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes information concerning the burial of Latane and a painting of and poem about the burial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article titled \"America's Baskerville Printer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article from the News Gazette titled \"It's a Lauck!\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article concerning the death of Annie Lee by The Roanoke News; a copy of music sung at Ms. Lee's funeral and the Washington and Lee memorial service; articles titled \"Famous Daughter Laid to Rest at W\u0026amp;L\" and \"Annie Lee's Remains Now in Lee Chapel\"; a program, In Memoriam Anne Carter Lee; invitation to private memorial service and luncheon at Lee House; remarks made by Mary Coulling at the private memorial service; remarks made by Capt. Peniston at the private memorial service for Annie Carter Lee; two color postcards of her grave and monument at Warren County, North Carolina; and an excerpt from a letter written at West Point, concerning the young gentlemen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary of Mr. Lee, former Mayor of Buena Vista.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article concerning the death and burial of Dr. G.B. Lee by the Ring-tum Phi.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes obituary of Lee by the Ring-tum Phi; \"From West Point to Fort Point: The Story of George Elliot and Custis Lee\"; \"Major-General George Washington Custis Lee\"; \"Last Battles: The Wartime and Postwar Careers of Custis Lee\"; and photocopies of items at the National Archives concerning G.W.C. Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a booklet with an article titled \"Reverend Henderson Lee: Father of Presbyterianism in Lunenburg County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article titled \"The Manly and Upright will Brand Your Name Infamy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article titled \"They Surrendered Honorably,\" an excerpt from a letter to her cousin Caroline from Derwent, and a collection of letters from Mrs. Mary Custis Lee to the Snowden Family of Alexandria, Virginia entitled \"My Dear Louisa.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes copies of letters containing information suggesting that G. Campbell Brown, stepson of Gen. Richard Ewell, began courting Mildred Lee and later proposed to her. In addition, the file includes an article concerning the death of Mildred Lee's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file includes twenty-seven separate items. Of these items, there are various brochures and booklets entitled, \"Robert E. Lee: Innovative Educator,\" \"Notes on a Visit to Robert E. Lee,\" \"Lee: The Final Achievement,\" and \"Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson Returned to Lexington, Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e In addition, the following articles: \"Furtherance of Southern Education was Lee's Goal;\" \"Aging Successfully: The Example of Robert E. Lee;\" \"How Gen. Lee Came to Washington College;\" \"After 32 Years, Lee-Jackson Painting on Display;\" \"General Lee After the War,\" from the magazine \u003cemph\u003eThe Century Magazine\u003c/emph\u003e; \"Reminiscences of General Lee,\" \u003cemph\u003eThe Outlook\u003c/emph\u003e pages 964-969; \"The Last Years of Lee\" delivered to the United Daughters of the Confederacy; \"The Robert E. Lee Birthday Celebration;\" \"Lee Centennial at Washington and Lee,\" from \u003cemph\u003eThe Southern Collegian\u003c/emph\u003e; \"On the Life and Character of Gen. Robert E. Lee,\" written by John W. Daniel for the \u003cemph\u003eLexington Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e; \"Unveiling Lee's Statue,\" written by John W. Daniel for the \u003cemph\u003eStaunton Spectator\u003c/emph\u003e; Article written for \u003cemph\u003eThe Free-Lance Star\u003c/emph\u003e by Capt. Robert Peniston entitled \"The Last Tour;\" Articled written by John Elrod for the \u003cemph\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c/emph\u003e entitled, \"Lee as Educator Sought to Heal Wounds;\" and an Article written by Captain James L.D. Monroe entitled \"General Robert E. Lee Covers.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe file includes excerpts from letters written by Agnes Lee to her friend Lizzie Fuller and Mrs. R.E. Lee concerning Robert E. Lee's death, as well as \"General Lee's Special Letters,\" notes used by Captain Peniston during his talk to the Alumni College at Washington and Lee, July 2006.  \nThere are two chapters from two books: \"College Days Under General Lee,\" chapter 6 of the book, \u003cemph\u003eMemories of Four-Score Years\u003c/emph\u003e by Samuel Hall Chester; \"The Lee-White Friendship,\" chapter 7 of \u003cemph\u003eOld Zeus: Life and Letters of James J. White.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFinally, the file includes remarks on Robert E. Lee made at Kiwanis by Capt. Robert Peniston, an essay entitled \"Lee at Appomattox,\" photocopies of two sketches by Robert E. Lee of soldiers in the Mexican Army sent home to his children, a copy of an endorsement of young Robert E. Lee from William B. Leary, his teacher in Alexandria, and a program and flier of the memorial observance of Lee given by the Liberty Hall Volunteers re-enactment group and Washington and Lee Alumni. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEight items added to file.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eProgram, Robert E. Lee Week, August 22-26, 1932, The Greenbrier and Cottages, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"A Tribute to General Robert E. Lee,\" by Dr. Julian C. Brown (1856-1904).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAn Interview with General Robert E. Lee by John Leyburn.  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. May to October 1885.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Hardy Heritage by Harold D. Garber, Moorefield (WV) Examiner, January 2010.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Gen. R. E. Lee, The Virginia Gazette, October 14, 1870.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA Dream of Robert E. Lee Comes True, by Virgil C. Jones, The United States Publisher, September 1928.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLEE, The Photographic History of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Cache,\" Autumn Song, by Ceane O'Hanlon-Lincoln.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes various copies of programs for memorial services honoring Robert E. Lee as well as an article entitled \"Decoration Day at the Graves of Lee and Jackson.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary by the \u003cemph\u003eLexington Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e, articles in the \u003cemph\u003eRockbridge County News\u003c/emph\u003e and the \u003cemph\u003eLexington Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e concerning his death and funeral, one entitled \"The Burial March of Dundee.\" In addition, the file includes a \u003cemph\u003eRing-tum Phi\u003c/emph\u003e article entitled, \"May Remove Colonel Lee from Chapel.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes articles entitled \"Children of the Blue and Gray,\" from \u003cemph\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c/emph\u003e and \"Robert E. Lee V Tries to Avoid Trading on His Honored Name\" from \u003cemph\u003eThe Atlanta Journal and Constitution\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes articles entitled \"On the Trail of Robert E. Lee's Daughters\" and \"Author Says Unmarried Women Neglected by Historians\" from the \u003cemph\u003eDaily News Leader\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopies of two obituaries for Mr. Letcher, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an essay written by Charles C. Lewis entitled \"A Tale of an Oar: A Hidden Message Revealed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes obituaries of James Lewis, Stonewall Jackson's faithful body servant, \u003cemph\u003eLexington Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article by the \u003cemph\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary from the \u003cemph\u003eLewiston Teller\u003c/emph\u003e and an article In Memoriam by the \u003cemph\u003eIdaho Daily Statesman\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary from \u003cemph\u003eThe News-Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article by the \u003cemph\u003eNews-Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e entitled \"Shop to Feature Books, Items on War Era.\" In addition, the file includes a brochure to the Lexington Historical Shop and business card for Lurate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article from the \u003cemph\u003eVirginia Cavalcade\u003c/emph\u003e entitled \"John Blair and His 'Automatic Bookstore'.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes three pages with information about MacCorkle for the Alumni Directory and Jacket File.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a brief biography of MacCorkle by the Washington and Lee University News Office, a biographical statement, \"Information for the Alumni Directory and Jacket File,\" and a picture of Stuart MacCorkle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes two obituaries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article by the \u003cemph\u003eRoanoke Times\u003c/emph\u003e entitled, \"New Headmaster Mixes Work and Play.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a magazine article entitled, \"Persisting in the Publishing World.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary by the \u003cemph\u003eNews Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a 2001 article entitled, \"The Man Behind the Name: New Biography Explores The Achievements of 'Fesser' McCluer\" and obituaries for the \u003cemph\u003eLexington Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e and the \u003cemph\u003eRockbridge County News\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of a short biography of McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a medal - \u003cemphp\u003eCentennial of the Reaper, 1831-1931\u003c/emphp\u003e; a booklet entitled \u003cemph\u003eMcCormick Celebration, September 25, 1931\u003c/emph\u003e; a color brochure of the McCormick Farm; a biography from the McCormick International Harvester Collection Archives; and two copies of the \u003cemph\u003eIron Worker\u003c/emph\u003e featuring an article entitled, \"Walnut Grove--Where Farm Mechanization Began.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a program of retirement from 25 years of service to the Buena Vista City Public Schools, two biographies, and two photographs of Albert McCown, about 1955 and Oct. 1980.  Also included an early color Christmas card printed by Albert, before his marriage, while he studied Industrial Arts at VPI. Also a Christmas card printed by Albert at his home in Kerrs Creek, Rockbridge County, VA, about 1970's, when he had his family, and an envelope of Albert's, McCown's Printing Service.  Included is his name tag for the Virginia School Boards Association, Rockbridge County, with ribbons, Board Member, Delegate. A newspaper clipping, \"McCown New Member of School Board,\" and photocopy of the News-Gazette clipping featuring Albert's service to the Rockbridge County School Board.  Also included a return address envelope, Parry McCluer High School, Athletic Department, Buena Vista, VA 24416, maybe printed by Albert when he was Athletic Director there. A 1973-74 basketball/wrestling Parry McCluer high school card.  A photo of Albert and coworker Industrial Arts Teacher, Ward Lockett.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes a 1969 issue of THE VISTA, which includes an article, \"Teacher of the Month: Albert McCown.\" On the title page of this issue is a sketch of the Parry McCluer mascot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are a Father's Day card and Happy Birthday card, both made by his oldest daughter, Lisa. The Happy Birthday card is signed by Lisa, Josephine, his wife, and Jennifer, his youngest daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Washington and Lee application for Admission, April 1, 1947, which was never turned in.  Albert decided to go to VPI in Blacksburg, and graduated in 1957.  He became the Industrial Arts Teacher at Parry McCluer High School in Buena Vista, Virginia, 1959-1984.  Also included is a William Byrd Parent-Teachers Association yearbook, 1957-1958, where Albert is listed as Senior High teacher, where he taught Industrial Arts in Roanoke, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlbert T. McCown Memorial Scholarship recipients, Buena Vista Public Schools, 1987-1995.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a \u003cemph\u003eRockbridge County News\u003c/emph\u003e article entitled, \"Civil War Memoirs of Mr. McCown Telling of Life in Northern Prison\"; other brief newspaper notices about McCown from \u003cemph\u003eThe Dallas Daily Herald\u003c/emph\u003e; an obituary from the \u003cemph\u003eLexington Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e; and an image of Dr. Albert McCown and his father James L. McCown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy from the book, \u003cemph\u003eThe McCormick Reaper Legend\u003c/emph\u003e focusing on John McCown, the \"Blade Maker.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary and picture of John Graham McCown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA photo as baby included and letter from Sears, Roebuck and Co. announcing Josephine as one of the winners of a baby contest.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJosephine's Presbyterian Church in the U. S. Catechism certificate, August 14, 1938.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePledge for regular investment in defense savings bonds, May 16, 1942.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of 1949 Roanoke College yearbook page.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTwo European postcards from first cousin Richard Marshall, 1950's, one addressed to their grandmother, Mrs. Rice Hotinger.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of invitation to Johnston-Willis Hospital School of Nursing graduation, May 16, 1952, including photocopy of photo as RN in 1952. Whiteside Radio Service, Lexington, VA receipt to Josephine Hotinger for purchase of a TV set, etc., October 1954.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Mrs. Josephine H. McCown, R.N. pin worn at the Stonewall Jackson Hospital, 1959-1971, along with hospital mask.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes miscellaneous documents, 1975, 1979, 2003 and 1970 American Red Cross Nursing Program card, and American Red Cross volunteer identification pin, worn while volunteering ath local bloodmobiles, after retiring in 1992. Also her American National Red Cross Nurse pin.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFile also includes photo of Josephine as W\u0026amp;L Student Health Head Nurse and W\u0026amp;L indentification pin worn as Head Nurse, biographical information written at her retirement from Washington and Lee University as head nurse of infirmary, 1992; as well as an article from the News-Gazette, entitled, \"W\u0026amp;L Honors Employees At Banquet\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are two postcards from first cousin Richard Marshall of Urbanna, Virginia, while in Paris, 1951, to Josephine, and the other to his grandmother, Susan Rader Hotinger (Mrs. Rice), 1952, while in Rome.  Also a letter from Richard Marshall to Josephine, March 24, 1952.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photo of Josephine as a little girl, ca.1930.  Also photos included are as follows: Josephine in wedding gown at her home in September 1955, two identified photos of Josephine celebrating her November 1989 birthday with her coworkers from the W\u0026amp;L Infirmary, a group photo of Stonewall Jackson Registered nurses, and Josephine's W\u0026amp;L ID card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of Josephine's obituary from the News-Gazette, September 7, 2022.  She passed away on August 31, 2022.  Also included are her September 10 funeral service programs done by New Monmouth Church and Harrison's Funeral Home. Included is a letter of condolences from W\u0026amp;L President William C. Dudley, September 12, 2022 and Carol Calkins, a nurse coworker at W\u0026amp;L, September 2022.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes 25 photographs and photocopies of photographs of the McCown family and their homes. Includes photographs of various generations and extended family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a wide range of materials. Various photocopies contain documentation of Charles A. McCown and Alertie C. Anderson's wedding in 1907. In addition, a list ascertains the burial of Charles A. McCown, Alertie McCown, and their infant at Fawn Creek Cemetary. A map of Montgomeny Co. KS. Cemeteries highlights cemetery 16 (Fawn Creek). Another map highlights the location of McCowan Springs in Bath County. Additionally, there are three articles by \u003cemph\u003eThe Coffeyville Daily Journal\u003c/emph\u003e. An article in \u003cemph\u003eThe News-Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e covers the recognition of Lisa McCown by the Rockbridge Historical Society in 2002. Finally, a small envelope contains a letter from Charles A. McCown to his mother Ida McCown, two wedding inviations from McCown weddings, memoriams from William B. McCown's passing, and a pamphlet made in memory of Helen McCown Boyts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes one letter from John W. McCoy to an unidentified person.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes four items, two of which are letters between the McCrory siblings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes Columbia University's 1937 \u003cemph\u003eReport of the Dean of the School of Libary Service\u003c/emph\u003e, which mentions of Blanche P. McCrum's tenure at the school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRev. McCutchan, Biography, Glade Spring Presbyterian Church.  A paper, \"The Rank and Importance of Liberal Education,\" submitted by him, April 20, 1870, Washington College.  A sermon by him in Waynesboro, September 14, 1879 and five sermons by him in Rogersville, Tennessee, transcripts, 1892, 1903, 1909, 1914-1915.  Rev. Frank McCutchan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW\u0026amp;L History Class Brings Alum's Story to the Web, William Morrison started first modern human rights movement\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"This,\" World Catalyst Magazine, May 2009 and \"Blue Lights,\" The Shine Journal, both by student Lenora Nunnley, WLU 2009\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Beverley, James Patton, and the Settling of the Shenandoah Valley, Essex County Museum and Historical Society Bulletin, v.55, November 2010\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoctor Andrew Taylor Still, Virginia and North Carolina Ancestors From Revolutionary Times to 1836\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes leaflet, \"Come Cheer for Mame Warren: The Author At?? Years,\" (A Washington and Lee Gentleman Would Never Reveal a Woman's Age.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaniel Winston, Former Slave, Buena Vista Resident, Marks Century of Life, Still Active.  Roanoke Times\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes newspaper article entitled, \"Life of Blacks in Brownsburg Recalled\", \"Brownsburg of Old Recalled\" and the \"The Brownsburg Homicide\". Also included is a pamphlet titles \"Commencement Exercises Invitations for the Senior Class\" (1933), in which students Everette Sensabaugh, Beatrice Hart, Mary Buchanan, Virginia Craig, Mary Lotts, Nellie Wade, Mary Ellen Sweet, Mitchell Swisher, and Hugh Adams are mentioned.The folder also conatins a copy of the \"Historic Brownsburg Newsletter\", volume 6, issue 1, March-April 2009.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes two page Articles of Incorporation of Kerrs Creek Volunteer Fire Company, signed by members, July 19, 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes invitation to the Fall Service of Thanksgiving, Honoring the Life of Louise Mikell, at Cedar Hill, October 1, 2023, Rev. Pendleton, Preacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an eight page paper and a notecard with drawing of Sunnyside home, by Arthur Bartenstein.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes writing ink pen marked, Virginia Horse Center, Honoring Gov. Charles S. Robb, Bill Signing Day, March 22, 1985.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStonewall Jackson's war horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1952 pay schedules for Registered Nurses at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Also included is a sixteen page paper, \"The Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital,\" by Katherine E. McAlpine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Stonewall Jackson Hospital Clinical Laboratories, 1987 pocket calendar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Student's Account of His Visit to the House Mountain.  The Height of Our Mountains by John Elder\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a June 1968 County News newspaer clipping, concerning death of Helen Keller, and states that Helen's great grandmother lived for some years in the Stonewall Jackson House.  She was Elizabeth Aylett, who married Alexander Spottswood Moore, nephew by marriage of Light Horse Harry Lee. After Elizabeth became a widow, she moved from their country home, \"Sydney Cove,\" and moved to Lexington with her five children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes brochure, \"The Upper James River Water Trail: A New Perspective on the Blue Ridge Mountains,\" February 2009.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHistory of the Lost River State Park. A part of this park was formerly known as Lee White Sulphur Spring or Howard's Lick. Also included is a history of the Lee Cabin, whithin the park in Hardy County, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt Jordan's Point - Interpreting the Industrial and Transportation History of the Lexington, Virginia Area, Brochure\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClouds of Glory, A girl born in Richmond of Northern parents adopts Confederate loyalties, Virginia Cavalcade, Autumn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"An Ideal Home Circle\": Lee Residences in Lexington, VA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a Directory of Local Government Officials: Goshen, Glasgow, Lexington, Buena Vista, and Rockbridge, compiled by Lisa McCown, August 7, 1975 for a high school government class.  Also included are four pages of \"Our County Government Offices,\" August 21, 1997, giving the offices and names of the officials in each office, which include the following: Don Austin, Bob Day, Pat Self, Carol Hines, Gordon Saunders, Bruce Patterson, Leanne Shank, Bob Claytor, Bob Hayslett, Ron Argenbright, Charlie McGee, Sam Crickenberger, Eugene Browning, Tom Higgins, Woody Bowyer, Bob Weikel, Wayne Isley, Delbert Moore, Nina Cron, and George Simpson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a Rockbridge County, Virginia road map from 1938, a printed hand drawn regional \"scenic and historic\" map printed as a Christmas gift from Washington and Lee University, and a 2017 Lexingon/Rockbridge Chamber of Commerce community map which includes places and roads for the county as well as local business advertisements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes undated Roanoke Times newspaper artice, \"Prints of old building will be sold to help fund renovation,\" and 2012 Rockbridge Weekly online 2011 article, \"Preservation Virginia Branch Honors Buena Vista Colored School Historical Society.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a one page Closing Exercises Program for June 1, 1950 and a report card for Mary Alphin.  Also included are a June 8, 1971 elementary school certificate and seventh grade 1970-71 citizen award for Lisa Suzanne McCown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes May 1997 LHS Alumni Newsletter, Memorial Donation Announcement 1992 notecard by Josephine H. McCown for Albert T. McCown, and Spring Concert program Lexington High School presents the Scarlet Hurricane Bands and the Lexington Elementary Bands, May 23, 1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a News-Gazette article, October 15, 2003, \"Discipline 'Lovingly Dispensed,' Hardship 'Just The Way It Was': New Book Describes History of Palmer School.\" Palmer: The First Hundred Years in the Buffalo Community.  Also includes two copies of the program for the Palmer Homecoming and Rededication, Centennial Celebration, Palmer Community Center, October 19, 2003.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrochure, Maury River Mercantile, the old Anderson Store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAddress Delivered by the Hon. John W. Brockenbrough on laying the corner stone of the new barracks of the Virginia Military Institute, July 4, 1850.  New York: John Wiley, 1850.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1980's bumper sticker, \"W\u0026amp;L Better Dead, Then Co-ed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFLASHBACK comic strips of Washington and Lee University history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram, Bertram Turetzky, March 18, 1971.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Tale of an Oar: A Hidden Message Revealed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper article, \"W\u0026amp;L Should Change Its Name,\" The Roanoke Times, April 24, 2019.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle on the restoration in a July 1961 Civil War publication.  Newspaper article, undated, \"W\u0026amp;L President says school will build new museum--and continue using Lee Chapel.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographies of native American Indians, Robert Latham Owen WLU 1877 and Walter Jonathan Turnbull WLU 1909.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper written by Mame Warren, \"Simple Courtesy, The Evolution of the Speaking Tradition at Washington and Lee University,\" prepared for Professor P. M. Forni, Civility and Civilization, The Johns Hopkins University Master of Liberal Arts Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists of Washington and Lee University students or alumni killed during 20th and 21st century wars including the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf and since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWorld War II list updated by John Rutherford in July 1922.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresident Lee's College: Robert E. Lee and the Renewal, Reformation, and Expansion of Washington College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a Clifton Forge, Virginia, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, notepad, \"We Welcome You to Our City and the Beautiful Mountains of Virginia.\" On the back is Mileage from Clifton Forge to places in Virginia and as far away as Washington, D.C. and Charleston, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes \"Genealogy of the Grigsby Family,\" In Part, Including a Brief Sketch of the Porter Family, Republished by Robert Hall McCormick, Chicago, 1905. Originally published by William H. Grigsby, December 1878.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 50th Anniversary Program and a 50th Anniversary Booklet with history, which includes members. The Location of Organizational Meeting, December 1939, held at the Mayflower in Lexington, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes school reports, marriage certificate, wedding invitation, and letter from Harvey before marriage.  Also included are photographs of Catherine Alphin, her parents and siblings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Lutheran Sunday School pin, which may have belonged to Catherine or one of her Alphin family members, while members at Bethany Lutheran Church in Rockbridge County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains the photos photos as follows: Catherine in basement at home with crocks, maybe about 1950; a photo of her, maybe on Mother's Day; and a group photo of her three high school aged children, Josephine, Harvey, and Harold. Also included is a group photo of Catherine and four other women, proably Home Demonstration Club, and a group photo of a young Catherine with Hope Welsh and Cecil Welsh. Also included is a photo of Catherine in front of Home Demonstration Market Price's sign.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCatherine's Mirror Drawing Experiment, August 19, 1925.  Also included is Catherine's autograph album, with notes and photos of friends, some marked August 1925.  A 1941 note from her daughter Josephine is included in the album and photos of sisters Mary and Jo Alphin, with a note from Jo.  Photocopies from the 1923 \"The Schoolmadam,\" State Normal School, Harrisonburg, VA, Catherine's Junior year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes a Myers Hardware Company memorandum book, which has some of Harvey's farm expenses for 1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInludes a pencil marked Southern States Cooperative.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes biography, a couple of letters, one of which is from her sister, Elizabeth, a letter that School Board has raised her salary, a post card from brother Thomas, wedding invitation announcing marriage to Albert Orr McCown, and an W\u0026amp;L Bicentennial Celebration invitation to her and Albert.  Also included is insurance receipt, no date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne item is a Guide Ballot for the General Election, November 2, 1942 for Senator from the 20th Senatorial District of Virginia. (Rockbridge County)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther material, 1964-1965.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Laws Made Plain: Laws and Legal Forms Prepared for the Use of Business Men, Farmers, and Mechanics, compiled by Hon. J. D. Hank, Jr..  Presented by Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, 1923.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, pocket calendar, 1930. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, check, Sept. 21, 1935, made to Fred Berry from Mrs. Harvey L. Hotinger.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Rockbridge National Bank pencil showing the 1960 Football Schedule for the Lexington Scarlet Hurricanes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of Kling's letter of resignation as Supt. of the Buena Vista School Board.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eInvitation and program for the official dedication of the F. W. Kling, Jr. Elementary School, Buena Vista, Virginia, October 12, 1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a Highland Maple Syrup advertisement, no date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe War Time Diary, F. G. Walter (1837-1930), Co. A, 39th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States Army, June 20, 1863 - April 19, 1865.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Frank, to his brother and mother, December 10, 1862 - June 23, 1864. One letter from Frank's brother, Dorsey, to him, December 31, 1862.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes printouts of photographs given by Stewart Bennington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are twelve handwritten lessons done by Catherine (Mrs. Harvey Hotinger), concerning the health of a baby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes brochure, The Public Nurse, Outline of Activities.  Commonwealth of Virginia. State Board of Health. Bureau of Child Welfare. Richmond, 1924.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBulletins include topics as follows: Scarlet Fever, Smallpox, Typhoid Fever, Measles, Mouth Hygeine, Simple Goiter, The Concrete Slab Pit Privy, Rules and Regulations for the Protection of Public Health, and Why Have Diphtheria?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJamestown, Virginia National Park Service brochure, reprinted 1961. King's Arms Tavern Midday Fare menu, April 1962 and flyer.  Postcard with raised image of the States Exhibit Building, Jamestown Exposition, 1907.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReunion Celebration for Classes of 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, and 1949 booklet, which includes \"What We've Been Doing\" forms for each class. Gift of Lisa McCown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes programs and newspaper articles for the Lexington High School Post War Year Reunions, July 29, 1978, College Inn Restaurant and June 11, 1983, W\u0026amp;L Evans Dining Hall. Also includes a Memorial Address by George S. Lauderdale, and a Memorial Message prepared by Rev. Marion \"Pat\" Roberston, read by Edwin Adair. Both July 29, 1978. Gift of Lisa McCown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes early booklet, West Central 4-H Educational Center, Wirtz, Virginia 24184.  undated [1970's-1980's]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes deed trace.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA history of the Caproni biplane, which was forced to land on the John McCown farm, near Rokbridge Baths.  This history was compiled by Leon Johenning, and includes notes about the recovery of the airplane's propeller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes some of Abraham Lincoln's quotes on slavery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopies of three newspaper articles on the February 17, 1962 Kerrs Creek Fire House dedication, and a February 21, 1987 Honorary Kerrs Creek Volunteer Fire Dept. Member Certificate for Albert T. McCown, who had passed away, August 17, 1985.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photos of the First Lexington High School (1894-1903), the Ruffner builiding, which later was a graded school, Ann Smith Academy, which was used for Lexington High School (1903-1909), Ann Smith High School (1909-1927), which was later used as a grade school, and the Harrington Waddel High School (1927-).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is the Article of Incorporation and By-Laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes yearbooks, 1968-69, 1969-70, and 1970-71.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Author Brings Liberian Family'Home'\" THE NEWS-GAZETTE, October 1, 2014. Obituaries of Rev. S. T. A. Richards, Winston D. Richards, Mrs. Vyrie Maurilla Richards, and Liberian Statesman Ambassador George Padmore. Photocopy of a photo of J. Dossen Richards and a photo of John G. A. 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concerning information on the holdings of records concerning black history in Virginia.  Nine Historic Lexington Foundation interviews done for Black History Month 2016, mostly by Beverly Tucker, one by Anne McClung, and one by W\u0026L Students Caitlin Mullen '05 and Anne Young '04, with Lexington African Americans and one Buena Vista resident.","143 pages printed from the 1810 Virginia Census, listing \"Other Free\" Heads of Household, by family name.","Register of Free Negroes of Rockbridge County, Virginia, with index.  According to the Act of the General Assembly of Virginia.  Passed January 25, 1803","Register of Marriages, Colored Persons in Rockbridge County under act of Virginia Assembly Passed February 27, 1866","Copy of Washington Post article, \"The Captive Nations of Slaves,\" covering an exhibit at the Museum of the Confederacy named \"Before Freedom Came,\" 1991. \nReceipt for purchase of slave, John. January 26, 1850.","Includes program for the All Saints Memorial Celebration at the Augusta Street United Methodist Church, Nov. 1, 2009, a Fairview Cemetery brochure, and Friends of Fairview Christmas wreath order form, Nov. 23, 2009.","Includes brochure, African-American Heritage, Staunton, Virginia, undated.","Address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Rockbridge, at its annual Fair, at Fancy Hill, October 17, 1839, by the Rev. Henry Ruffner, D. D., President of Washington College.  The Lexington Gazette, and Rockbridge Farmer, June 23, 1840.","Folder includes \"Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book: Designed for Farmers, Mechanics, and all People,\" 1872.","Photocopy of ledger, 1892-1903.","Folder includes a copy of a report of \"Approval of Site, Plans, etc.\" for a school house at Alone Mill; a balance sheet by Alone Canning Co., and a photocopy of a pencil drawn map of Alone Mill. Also includes a lecture paper by Anne McClung, which includes many photos.","Folder includes \"Selected Bibliography for Historic Artifact Identification and Analysis\" prepared by Kurt C. Russ and John M. McDaniel, for distribution at 1989 ASV Historic Artifact Workshop.","Contains booklet titled \"Battle of Asheville.\"","Contains two copies of \"The Ruth Anderson McCulloch Branch of The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiguqities: 1896-1987.\"","Contains a booklet titled \"A Rockbridge Area Resource Guide for People in Need.\" Prepared by Helpline/Information and Referral and United Way of Lexington-Rockbridge County. Also includes the minutes of Board Meeting, May 9, 1995.","Contains student paper authored by Emily Barnes '01 titled \"Lee Memorial Association.\" In addition, a copy of a sketch from 1883 about the Lee Memorial Association titled \"Southern Historical Society Papers.\"","Booklet titled \"Education for a Better Tomorrow, 1992 Annual Report.\"","\"Procedings\" publication published by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, including reports and activities of the 100th Annual Meeting in Atlanta Georgia as well as current lists of member insitutions.","Includes photocopy of a 1758 schedule titled \"To the Militia of the Coutny of Augusta, and for Provisions furnished by sundry inhabitants of the said county, viz.\"","File includes photocopies of two letters concerning Washington and Lee student, John West Addison.","Article titled \"A Confederate Hero,\" from  Blue and Gray , 1984.","Biography compiled in 1997 concerning Archibald Alexander (5 pgs. long).","Correspondence about the Washington and Lee Homecoming Queen from c.1893 and her protrait which hangs in the Special Collections vault (WLU Coll PP 0081).","Contains an article titled \"Colonel William Allan at McDonough\"; an 1889 address by J. Randolph Tucker; and an 1890 memorial by Washington and Lee Board of Trustees concerning Allan.","Includes a biography and illustration of Allen under the title of \"The Headlight.\"","Photocopry of newpaper article concerning Anderson, slave of Cyrus McCormick.","Photocopy of biography concerning Armstrong from the \"Dictionary of American Biography.\"","Article titled \"Civil War Author on the Trail of History.\"","Two copies of a Christmas oration in memoriam of Constance Rosalie Auden.","Obituaries, clipped from Roanoke Times 2002.","Biography of Alexander Tedford Barclay compiled by Washington and Lee student in 1997.","Biography compiled in 1997 and geneological chart showing many prominent people of Rockbridge County.","Narrative titled \"Aunt Elizabeth Remembers;\" interview with retired Washington and Lee professor, Charles Turner.","Photocopies of newspaper clippings concerning the death of Barkley at Washington and Lee University.","Photocopy of a letter to George Baxter from Edward Johnson introducing Dr. Barton, December 21, 1805. Pamphlet entitled, \"How Many Botany Books Did Thomas Jefferson Own?\" mentioning Dr. Barton.","Photocopy of Calyx 1939 yearbook picture. Basse gave donation towards Special Collections workroom.","\"Fatal Affray,\" Lexington Gazette, January 19, 1854. Murder of Cadet Thomas Blackburn.","Photocopies of Calyx yearbook pictures and Alumni directory information. John G. Boatwright '15 made donation for the University Library reading room in memory of Robert McDearmon Boatwright '42.","Obituary, Washington and Lee University News Home, 5/12/2006.","Two separate biographies for Borden Jr. and Sr.","E-mail message to the Washington and Lee community concerning Brady's death, obituaries from the News-Gazette and The Roanoke Time. Article titled \"'Pat' Brady's Life One of Quiet Service to a Community He Loved So Dearly,\" the News-Gazette.","Photocopy of letter from Andrew Brooks to sister, January 23,1861; photocopy and written transcript of letter from James J. White relating to the death of William Brooks, July 16,1861; photocopy of telegram to J.M. Brooks relating to the remains of his son, William Brooks, July 20,1861; Diary entries written by Andrew Brooks in Augusta County.","Composer in Residence, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Roanoke Valley Choral Society, 1995-1996, pgs. 7-8.","Photocopies of letters to his sister, Fannie, September 20, 1846, and September 7, 1848, while a student at Washington College. Original letters reside at Virginia Military Academy Archives.","Radio script concerning Clarence Brown used in Cincinnati, Ohio on the radio program, \"Personalities in your Government.\"","Robert and Benjamin Brown's relatives who attended Washington and Lee University. A letter addressed to President John Delane Wilson from their mother, Elizabeth Barry Brown.","Folder includes a Civil War centennial commemorative edition of the Valley News Echo concerning John Brown's Raid and Harper's Ferry(2 copies); Stanton Spectator article titled \"The Out-break at Harper's Ferry\"; Stanton Spectator article concerning John Brown's execution titled \"Results of the Trial\"; Richmond Times-Dispatch article titled \"Documents in Treason Trial of John Brown; The Sunday Baltimore article titled \"Verdict Missing in Brown Papers; a history course examinaton concerning this time period; an account by someone named \"Jackson\" of John Brown's execution addressed to his wife.","Articles from three local newspapers titled \"He's a Third-Generation Blacksmith,\" \"The Village Blacksmith, Manly Brown, Dies at 93,\" \"Family Dreams of Living Museum. Jack Chaffee as Blacksmith and Curator of Brown's Forge.\"","Includes photocopy of the Ministerial Directory of the Presbyterian Church in the United States highlighting William Brown.","Contains obituary of Bruinsma dated September 17, 1999.","File includes color notecard of Frank Buchser painting of Robert E. Lee, \"The Last Life Portrait of General Robert E. Lee,\" a letter from Buchser to Lee concerning a portrait, Washington and Lee News Release titled \"General Lee 'Comes Home' for His Birthday,\" Religious Herald article titled \"Valentine's Recumbent Statue of General Robert E. Lee,\" and correspondence between various researchers interested in this topic and Special Collections.","Booklet titled \"Edward Buncombe and Buncombe County.\"","Obituary, \"Thrown from Horse...,\" by Lexington Gazette.","Obituary found in the News-Gazette about Edmund Campbell, a Washington and Lee graduate and attorney who worked on various cases concerning desegregation of Virginia schools.","File includes a biography excerpt from \"Who's Who in America\" and an obituary by the Lexington Gazette.","File includes an obituary of John Lyle Campbell Sr. by the Lexington Gazette, a biography writtten by his son Robert Fishburne Campbell, and copies of letters between Robert E. Lee and Prof. Campbell as well as T.J. Jackson and Prof. Campbell.","File includes article \"Coach Nears End of Not-So-Typical Career: Washington and Lee's Canfield Prepares for Life After 31 Years of Generals' Basketball,\" and a Roanoke Times article named \" 'I Hope I've Touched Some Lives.' \"","Biography by the American National Biography Online.","Contains one photocopy of obituary by News-Gazette.","Obituary by the News-Gazette.","Memorial program for Gray Castle.","Roanoke Times article concerning Caudill's retirement.","Contains a booklet titled \"The Cavendish Family History.\"","Folder includes biography and copies of two letters from Theofore Roosevelt, one concerning a memorial to Robert E. Lee and the other one concerning Chamberlain's son.","Folder contains at least twenty eight separate items concerning John Chavis, from articles, portraits, letters, records, to research papers concerning his role in Washington and Lee Lee as well as African American history. Also included are the W\u0026L Alumni magazine artices, \"Chavis House named,\" March/April 1986 and \"Chavis House dedicated,\"  November/December 1986.","Includes obituary by Rockbridge County News.","File contains obituary by the News-Gazette.","File includes an article titled Honor Rolls,\" a set of photographs, and a pamphlet commemorating her life and work.","Folder includes an obituary written by The Lexington Gazette.","Lexington Gazette obituary about Crenshaw.","The file includes a biography by the American National Biography Online.","File includes a photocopied catalogue of the Library of Daniel Parke Custis: From a Manuscript in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society, \"The Magazine of History and Biography,\" October 1909, pages 404-412.","The Library of John Parke Custis, Esq., of Fairfax County, Virginia, \"Tyler's Quarterly,\" October 1927, pages 97-103.","File includes a greeting card made by the Artists of the Lexington, Virginia Note Card Series, 2002.","The file includes a program in memory of Daniels, hosted at Robert E. Lee Memorial Church.","File includes an article titled \"Turning 90 is Just Another Milestone in Lexington Woman's Interesting Life.\"","File includes three articles concerning Professor DeLaney's professional career.","File includes photocopies of newspaper obituaries of her death on December 10,1940. Photocopy of a newspaper article, \"U.D.C. Holds Exercises at Sayler Creek Battlefield\" at which Ms. Dickinson was a speaker. Photocopy of a page concerning Miss Dickinson's book, \"Confederate Leaders.\"","File includes article titled \"Service Held for Dr. G.W. Diehl.\"","Articled titled \"Judge Ryland Dodson Remembers Early 20th Century Tobacco Farming,\" September 2000.","File contains e-mail message distributed by the Broadcast Mailer at Washington and Lee on the death of Francis Drake.","File includes biography.","File includes a biography from the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation website and some genealogy from the LDS website.","File includes two copies of the memorial service program for Farrar's passing and a photocopy of a News-Gazette article titled \"Tiger.\"","File includes an article titled \"He Disciplined Popular Culture\" as well as an obituary.","File includes a photocopy of the \"Washington and Lee Ambulance Unit\" from the 1926 Alumni Directory. This photocopy features an article about Fletcher.","File includes notes on \"Miss Laura.\"","File includes photocopies of two obituaries concerning Mr. Ford.","File includes a photocopy of Roanoke Times newspaper clipping titled \"New President of Washington and Lee.\"","File includes obituary.","Folder includes biography on Mr. Gatewood.","File includes a photocopy of obituary for Mercer Graham.","File includes photocopies of articles concerning the life and career of Mel Greenberg.","File includes biography on Mr. Greenwood, dentist of George Washington.","File includes a memorial program as well as an obituary by the Roanoke Times.","File includes article titled \"Randolph Hall Refused to Fail.\"","File includes memorial program.","File includes two photocopies of the Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine with an article focused on Ms. Harris, titled \"Still Crazy After All These Years.\"","File includes photocopy of article titled \"Off the beaten path: the Chronicler of Lexington is an institution himself.\"","File includes photocopy of a petition to Jefferson Davis representing that Heale is a citizen of Giles County, Virginia.","File includes an appendix titled \"The Mystery Woman.\"","File includes a photocopy of a biographical sketch of Hobson by Charles Lee Hobson, March 5, 1998. Photocopies of two papers by Hobson entitled \"How I came to Elizabethtown, Kentucky\" and \"How General Lee Came to Washington College.\" Photocopies of a letter to Lee concerning Hobson (1869) and a Louisville Times article about the letter.","Includes Harvey's Lexington High School, Senior Class Graduation invitation, June 1, 1950.","File includes a photocopy of essay titled \"James Lewis Howe - Chemist and Philatelist.\"","Article includes biography and obituary concerning Howerton and his wife Mary N.","File includes notes on Mrs. Hull, a source for Eleanor Roosevelt's Visit to Goshen Recalled.\"","File includes 27 photocopies of letters, transcripts, notes, etc. on Mr. Hutcherson, Washington and Lee University Class of 1902.","File includes a letter concerning Ipsen's chauffer, as well as photocopy of portrait of Lee painted by Ipsen.","File includes \"Stonewall,\" a commemorative section of The News-Gazette concerning the Jackson Statue Rededication. In addition, a set of remarks and notes by Mayor Derrick and papers of lectures given by Mary Coulling, Robert F. Hunter, James I. Robertson, Jr., and the Frederick Ladies Relief Society. Program and brochure.","File includes article titled \"Window on the Past: An Unusual Tribute to Stonewall Jackson;\" \"'Stonewall' Jackson's Grave;\" \"Jackson Day,\" and many more copies of similarly focused articles from local newspapers. Also included a brochure reprinted and distributed by Stonewall Jackson Memorial Incorporate, Lexington, Virginia, \"The Religious Character of Stonewall Jackson,\" an address by James Power Smith, D.D., Captain and A.D.C. Staff of General Jackson. The address was delivered at the Inauguration of the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Building, Virginia Military Institute, June 23, 1897.\nA printed map showing all of Stonewall Jackson's movements, Compliments of Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Inc., Lexington, Virginia.","Photocopies of material concerning Jackson as constable.","File includes eleven photocopies, black and white and color of Moor as Jackson, one of which is at Virginia Military Institute. Two color photos.","File includes article from The American Art Journal titled \"Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Thomas jefferson\" as well as a photocopy of the Spring 1982 article, \"The Adams-Jefferson portrait Exchange.\"","File includes photocopies of obituaries and photographs concerning the Johnson and McDowell families.","File includes a photocopy of inside cover of \"Closing Exercises of Privat School.\"","File includes photocopy of biography from \"Dictionary of American Biography.\"","Biking Through Albemarle with John Jones, Scottsville Museum, Capturing Our Heritage","File includes a copy of a magazine titled \"The Iron Worker\" as well as handwritten and typewritten copies of \"A Sketch of Colonel John Jordan (1777-1854).  Also includes a paper, \"John Jordan, Virginia Builder,\" by Marshall Fishwick, and a photocopy of Summer 1973 Virginia Cavalcade article, \"John Jordan: Builder and Entrepreneur,\" by L. Moody Simms, Jr.","File includes a booklet titled \"Edward Southey Joynes: Father of the University and Life Trustee of Winthrop.\"","File includes a magazine article titled \"A Chinese Master Opens Western Eyes to Eastern Art.\"","File includes various pieces, including \"The Unusual of Lieutenant George C. Junkin, C.S.A.,\" a discourse commemorative of George Junkin delivered in the West Spruce St. Presbyterian Church, and \"George Junkin and His Eschatological Vision,\" and \"Secession Fever on a Southern Campus.\"","File includes articles titled \"Matthew Kahle's Log\" and \"Old George , 1844.\"","The file includes a brochure for The Stan Kamen Collection of Western Art at Washington and Lee University.","File includes a biography, obituary, funeral and memorial services programs.","File includes an obituary (dated August 1, 1955) and two Athletic Association certificates for cross country, 1928 and track, 1929.","In Memoriam, A senseless tragedy. The New President, John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. POST, The Saturday Evening Post, December 14, 1963.","File includes various copies of programs of \"A Celebration of the Life of King,\" bulletins for churches, as well as various programs, which includes Black History Month.","The 2010 Black History Month program includes the following:  Poem, \"From the Shanty to the White House,\" by Laura Watts; \"Ground Hog Poem,\" by Spotswood Alexander Styles; \"What If There Were No Black Folk?,\" by Barbara Leahy, 1998.","File includes a memorial service program held at Lee Chapel on July 5, 1997.","File includes a photocopy of a newspaper article concerning Labro, November 12, 1988.","File includes an obituary from the Rockbridge County News, November 8, 1900.","J. J. Lafferty: A Remarkable Life, Secrets of the Blue Ridge","File includes information concerning the burial of Latane and a painting of and poem about the burial.","File includes an article titled \"America's Baskerville Printer.\"","File includes article from the News Gazette titled \"It's a Lauck!\"","File includes an article concerning the death of Annie Lee by The Roanoke News; a copy of music sung at Ms. Lee's funeral and the Washington and Lee memorial service; articles titled \"Famous Daughter Laid to Rest at W\u0026L\" and \"Annie Lee's Remains Now in Lee Chapel\"; a program, In Memoriam Anne Carter Lee; invitation to private memorial service and luncheon at Lee House; remarks made by Mary Coulling at the private memorial service; remarks made by Capt. Peniston at the private memorial service for Annie Carter Lee; two color postcards of her grave and monument at Warren County, North Carolina; and an excerpt from a letter written at West Point, concerning the young gentlemen.","File includes an obituary of Mr. Lee, former Mayor of Buena Vista.","File includes article concerning the death and burial of Dr. G.B. Lee by the Ring-tum Phi.","File includes obituary of Lee by the Ring-tum Phi; \"From West Point to Fort Point: The Story of George Elliot and Custis Lee\"; \"Major-General George Washington Custis Lee\"; \"Last Battles: The Wartime and Postwar Careers of Custis Lee\"; and photocopies of items at the National Archives concerning G.W.C. Lee.","File includes a booklet with an article titled \"Reverend Henderson Lee: Father of Presbyterianism in Lunenburg County.\"","File includes an article titled \"The Manly and Upright will Brand Your Name Infamy.\"","File includes article titled \"They Surrendered Honorably,\" an excerpt from a letter to her cousin Caroline from Derwent, and a collection of letters from Mrs. Mary Custis Lee to the Snowden Family of Alexandria, Virginia entitled \"My Dear Louisa.\"","File includes copies of letters containing information suggesting that G. Campbell Brown, stepson of Gen. Richard Ewell, began courting Mildred Lee and later proposed to her. In addition, the file includes an article concerning the death of Mildred Lee's death.","This file includes twenty-seven separate items. Of these items, there are various brochures and booklets entitled, \"Robert E. Lee: Innovative Educator,\" \"Notes on a Visit to Robert E. Lee,\" \"Lee: The Final Achievement,\" and \"Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson Returned to Lexington, Virginia.\""," In addition, the following articles: \"Furtherance of Southern Education was Lee's Goal;\" \"Aging Successfully: The Example of Robert E. Lee;\" \"How Gen. Lee Came to Washington College;\" \"After 32 Years, Lee-Jackson Painting on Display;\" \"General Lee After the War,\" from the magazine  The Century Magazine ; \"Reminiscences of General Lee,\"  The Outlook  pages 964-969; \"The Last Years of Lee\" delivered to the United Daughters of the Confederacy; \"The Robert E. Lee Birthday Celebration;\" \"Lee Centennial at Washington and Lee,\" from  The Southern Collegian ; \"On the Life and Character of Gen. Robert E. Lee,\" written by John W. Daniel for the  Lexington Gazette ; \"Unveiling Lee's Statue,\" written by John W. Daniel for the  Staunton Spectator ; Article written for  The Free-Lance Star  by Capt. Robert Peniston entitled \"The Last Tour;\" Articled written by John Elrod for the  Richmond Times-Dispatch  entitled, \"Lee as Educator Sought to Heal Wounds;\" and an Article written by Captain James L.D. Monroe entitled \"General Robert E. Lee Covers.\"","\nThe file includes excerpts from letters written by Agnes Lee to her friend Lizzie Fuller and Mrs. R.E. Lee concerning Robert E. Lee's death, as well as \"General Lee's Special Letters,\" notes used by Captain Peniston during his talk to the Alumni College at Washington and Lee, July 2006.  \nThere are two chapters from two books: \"College Days Under General Lee,\" chapter 6 of the book,  Memories of Four-Score Years  by Samuel Hall Chester; \"The Lee-White Friendship,\" chapter 7 of  Old Zeus: Life and Letters of James J. White.","Finally, the file includes remarks on Robert E. Lee made at Kiwanis by Capt. Robert Peniston, an essay entitled \"Lee at Appomattox,\" photocopies of two sketches by Robert E. Lee of soldiers in the Mexican Army sent home to his children, a copy of an endorsement of young Robert E. Lee from William B. Leary, his teacher in Alexandria, and a program and flier of the memorial observance of Lee given by the Liberty Hall Volunteers re-enactment group and Washington and Lee Alumni. ","Eight items added to file.","Program, Robert E. Lee Week, August 22-26, 1932, The Greenbrier and Cottages, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.","\"A Tribute to General Robert E. Lee,\" by Dr. Julian C. Brown (1856-1904).","An Interview with General Robert E. Lee by John Leyburn.  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. May to October 1885.","The Hardy Heritage by Harold D. Garber, Moorefield (WV) Examiner, January 2010.","Death of Gen. R. E. Lee, The Virginia Gazette, October 14, 1870.","A Dream of Robert E. Lee Comes True, by Virgil C. Jones, The United States Publisher, September 1928.","LEE, The Photographic History of the Civil War.","\"Cache,\" Autumn Song, by Ceane O'Hanlon-Lincoln.","File includes various copies of programs for memorial services honoring Robert E. Lee as well as an article entitled \"Decoration Day at the Graves of Lee and Jackson.\"","File includes an obituary by the  Lexington Gazette , articles in the  Rockbridge County News  and the  Lexington Gazette  concerning his death and funeral, one entitled \"The Burial March of Dundee.\" In addition, the file includes a  Ring-tum Phi  article entitled, \"May Remove Colonel Lee from Chapel.\"","File includes articles entitled \"Children of the Blue and Gray,\" from  People Magazine  and \"Robert E. Lee V Tries to Avoid Trading on His Honored Name\" from  The Atlanta Journal and Constitution .","File includes articles entitled \"On the Trail of Robert E. Lee's Daughters\" and \"Author Says Unmarried Women Neglected by Historians\" from the  Daily News Leader .","File includes photocopies of two obituaries for Mr. Letcher, 1994.","File includes an essay written by Charles C. Lewis entitled \"A Tale of an Oar: A Hidden Message Revealed.\"","File includes obituaries of James Lewis, Stonewall Jackson's faithful body servant,  Lexington Gazette .","File includes article by the  Richmond Times-Dispatch .","File includes an obituary from the  Lewiston Teller  and an article In Memoriam by the  Idaho Daily Statesman .","File includes an obituary from  The News-Gazette .","File includes an article by the  News-Gazette  entitled \"Shop to Feature Books, Items on War Era.\" In addition, the file includes a brochure to the Lexington Historical Shop and business card for Lurate.","File includes an article from the  Virginia Cavalcade  entitled \"John Blair and His 'Automatic Bookstore'.\"","File includes three pages with information about MacCorkle for the Alumni Directory and Jacket File.","File includes a brief biography of MacCorkle by the Washington and Lee University News Office, a biographical statement, \"Information for the Alumni Directory and Jacket File,\" and a picture of Stuart MacCorkle.","File includes two obituaries.","File includes an article by the  Roanoke Times  entitled, \"New Headmaster Mixes Work and Play.\"","File includes a magazine article entitled, \"Persisting in the Publishing World.\"","File includes an obituary by the  News Gazette .","File includes a 2001 article entitled, \"The Man Behind the Name: New Biography Explores The Achievements of 'Fesser' McCluer\" and obituaries for the  Lexington Gazette  and the  Rockbridge County News .","File includes a photocopy of a short biography of McClung.","File includes a medal -  Centennial of the Reaper, 1831-1931 ; a booklet entitled  McCormick Celebration, September 25, 1931 ; a color brochure of the McCormick Farm; a biography from the McCormick International Harvester Collection Archives; and two copies of the  Iron Worker  featuring an article entitled, \"Walnut Grove--Where Farm Mechanization Began.\"","File includes a program of retirement from 25 years of service to the Buena Vista City Public Schools, two biographies, and two photographs of Albert McCown, about 1955 and Oct. 1980.  Also included an early color Christmas card printed by Albert, before his marriage, while he studied Industrial Arts at VPI. Also a Christmas card printed by Albert at his home in Kerrs Creek, Rockbridge County, VA, about 1970's, when he had his family, and an envelope of Albert's, McCown's Printing Service.  Included is his name tag for the Virginia School Boards Association, Rockbridge County, with ribbons, Board Member, Delegate. A newspaper clipping, \"McCown New Member of School Board,\" and photocopy of the News-Gazette clipping featuring Albert's service to the Rockbridge County School Board.  Also included a return address envelope, Parry McCluer High School, Athletic Department, Buena Vista, VA 24416, maybe printed by Albert when he was Athletic Director there. A 1973-74 basketball/wrestling Parry McCluer high school card.  A photo of Albert and coworker Industrial Arts Teacher, Ward Lockett.","Also includes a 1969 issue of THE VISTA, which includes an article, \"Teacher of the Month: Albert McCown.\" On the title page of this issue is a sketch of the Parry McCluer mascot.","Included are a Father's Day card and Happy Birthday card, both made by his oldest daughter, Lisa. The Happy Birthday card is signed by Lisa, Josephine, his wife, and Jennifer, his youngest daughter.","A Washington and Lee application for Admission, April 1, 1947, which was never turned in.  Albert decided to go to VPI in Blacksburg, and graduated in 1957.  He became the Industrial Arts Teacher at Parry McCluer High School in Buena Vista, Virginia, 1959-1984.  Also included is a William Byrd Parent-Teachers Association yearbook, 1957-1958, where Albert is listed as Senior High teacher, where he taught Industrial Arts in Roanoke, Virginia.","Albert T. McCown Memorial Scholarship recipients, Buena Vista Public Schools, 1987-1995.","File includes a  Rockbridge County News  article entitled, \"Civil War Memoirs of Mr. McCown Telling of Life in Northern Prison\"; other brief newspaper notices about McCown from  The Dallas Daily Herald ; an obituary from the  Lexington Gazette ; and an image of Dr. Albert McCown and his father James L. McCown.","File includes a photocopy from the book,  The McCormick Reaper Legend  focusing on John McCown, the \"Blade Maker.\"","File includes an obituary and picture of John Graham McCown.","A photo as baby included and letter from Sears, Roebuck and Co. announcing Josephine as one of the winners of a baby contest.","Josephine's Presbyterian Church in the U. S. Catechism certificate, August 14, 1938.","Pledge for regular investment in defense savings bonds, May 16, 1942.","Photocopy of 1949 Roanoke College yearbook page.","Two European postcards from first cousin Richard Marshall, 1950's, one addressed to their grandmother, Mrs. Rice Hotinger.","Photocopy of invitation to Johnston-Willis Hospital School of Nursing graduation, May 16, 1952, including photocopy of photo as RN in 1952. Whiteside Radio Service, Lexington, VA receipt to Josephine Hotinger for purchase of a TV set, etc., October 1954.","Includes Mrs. Josephine H. McCown, R.N. pin worn at the Stonewall Jackson Hospital, 1959-1971, along with hospital mask.","Also includes miscellaneous documents, 1975, 1979, 2003 and 1970 American Red Cross Nursing Program card, and American Red Cross volunteer identification pin, worn while volunteering ath local bloodmobiles, after retiring in 1992. Also her American National Red Cross Nurse pin.","File also includes photo of Josephine as W\u0026L Student Health Head Nurse and W\u0026L indentification pin worn as Head Nurse, biographical information written at her retirement from Washington and Lee University as head nurse of infirmary, 1992; as well as an article from the News-Gazette, entitled, \"W\u0026L Honors Employees At Banquet\".","Included are two postcards from first cousin Richard Marshall of Urbanna, Virginia, while in Paris, 1951, to Josephine, and the other to his grandmother, Susan Rader Hotinger (Mrs. Rice), 1952, while in Rome.  Also a letter from Richard Marshall to Josephine, March 24, 1952.","Includes photo of Josephine as a little girl, ca.1930.  Also photos included are as follows: Josephine in wedding gown at her home in September 1955, two identified photos of Josephine celebrating her November 1989 birthday with her coworkers from the W\u0026L Infirmary, a group photo of Stonewall Jackson Registered nurses, and Josephine's W\u0026L ID card.","Copy of Josephine's obituary from the News-Gazette, September 7, 2022.  She passed away on August 31, 2022.  Also included are her September 10 funeral service programs done by New Monmouth Church and Harrison's Funeral Home. Included is a letter of condolences from W\u0026L President William C. Dudley, September 12, 2022 and Carol Calkins, a nurse coworker at W\u0026L, September 2022.","File includes 25 photographs and photocopies of photographs of the McCown family and their homes. Includes photographs of various generations and extended family members.","File includes a wide range of materials. Various photocopies contain documentation of Charles A. McCown and Alertie C. Anderson's wedding in 1907. In addition, a list ascertains the burial of Charles A. McCown, Alertie McCown, and their infant at Fawn Creek Cemetary. A map of Montgomeny Co. KS. Cemeteries highlights cemetery 16 (Fawn Creek). Another map highlights the location of McCowan Springs in Bath County. Additionally, there are three articles by  The Coffeyville Daily Journal . An article in  The News-Gazette  covers the recognition of Lisa McCown by the Rockbridge Historical Society in 2002. Finally, a small envelope contains a letter from Charles A. McCown to his mother Ida McCown, two wedding inviations from McCown weddings, memoriams from William B. McCown's passing, and a pamphlet made in memory of Helen McCown Boyts.","File includes one letter from John W. McCoy to an unidentified person.","File includes four items, two of which are letters between the McCrory siblings.","File includes Columbia University's 1937  Report of the Dean of the School of Libary Service , which mentions of Blanche P. McCrum's tenure at the school.","Rev. McCutchan, Biography, Glade Spring Presbyterian Church.  A paper, \"The Rank and Importance of Liberal Education,\" submitted by him, April 20, 1870, Washington College.  A sermon by him in Waynesboro, September 14, 1879 and five sermons by him in Rogersville, Tennessee, transcripts, 1892, 1903, 1909, 1914-1915.  Rev. Frank McCutchan","W\u0026L History Class Brings Alum's Story to the Web, William Morrison started first modern human rights movement","\"This,\" World Catalyst Magazine, May 2009 and \"Blue Lights,\" The Shine Journal, both by student Lenora Nunnley, WLU 2009","William Beverley, James Patton, and the Settling of the Shenandoah Valley, Essex County Museum and Historical Society Bulletin, v.55, November 2010","Doctor Andrew Taylor Still, Virginia and North Carolina Ancestors From Revolutionary Times to 1836","Includes leaflet, \"Come Cheer for Mame Warren: The Author At?? Years,\" (A Washington and Lee Gentleman Would Never Reveal a Woman's Age.)","Daniel Winston, Former Slave, Buena Vista Resident, Marks Century of Life, Still Active.  Roanoke Times","Folder includes newspaper article entitled, \"Life of Blacks in Brownsburg Recalled\", \"Brownsburg of Old Recalled\" and the \"The Brownsburg Homicide\". Also included is a pamphlet titles \"Commencement Exercises Invitations for the Senior Class\" (1933), in which students Everette Sensabaugh, Beatrice Hart, Mary Buchanan, Virginia Craig, Mary Lotts, Nellie Wade, Mary Ellen Sweet, Mitchell Swisher, and Hugh Adams are mentioned.The folder also conatins a copy of the \"Historic Brownsburg Newsletter\", volume 6, issue 1, March-April 2009.","Includes two page Articles of Incorporation of Kerrs Creek Volunteer Fire Company, signed by members, July 19, 1960.","Includes invitation to the Fall Service of Thanksgiving, Honoring the Life of Louise Mikell, at Cedar Hill, October 1, 2023, Rev. Pendleton, Preacher.","Includes an eight page paper and a notecard with drawing of Sunnyside home, by Arthur Bartenstein.","Includes writing ink pen marked, Virginia Horse Center, Honoring Gov. Charles S. Robb, Bill Signing Day, March 22, 1985.","Stonewall Jackson's war horse.","Includes 1952 pay schedules for Registered Nurses at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Also included is a sixteen page paper, \"The Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital,\" by Katherine E. McAlpine.","Includes Stonewall Jackson Hospital Clinical Laboratories, 1987 pocket calendar.","The Student's Account of His Visit to the House Mountain.  The Height of Our Mountains by John Elder","Includes a June 1968 County News newspaer clipping, concerning death of Helen Keller, and states that Helen's great grandmother lived for some years in the Stonewall Jackson House.  She was Elizabeth Aylett, who married Alexander Spottswood Moore, nephew by marriage of Light Horse Harry Lee. After Elizabeth became a widow, she moved from their country home, \"Sydney Cove,\" and moved to Lexington with her five children.","Includes brochure, \"The Upper James River Water Trail: A New Perspective on the Blue Ridge Mountains,\" February 2009.","History of the Lost River State Park. A part of this park was formerly known as Lee White Sulphur Spring or Howard's Lick. Also included is a history of the Lee Cabin, whithin the park in Hardy County, West Virginia.","At Jordan's Point - Interpreting the Industrial and Transportation History of the Lexington, Virginia Area, Brochure","Clouds of Glory, A girl born in Richmond of Northern parents adopts Confederate loyalties, Virginia Cavalcade, Autumn","\"An Ideal Home Circle\": Lee Residences in Lexington, VA","Includes a Directory of Local Government Officials: Goshen, Glasgow, Lexington, Buena Vista, and Rockbridge, compiled by Lisa McCown, August 7, 1975 for a high school government class.  Also included are four pages of \"Our County Government Offices,\" August 21, 1997, giving the offices and names of the officials in each office, which include the following: Don Austin, Bob Day, Pat Self, Carol Hines, Gordon Saunders, Bruce Patterson, Leanne Shank, Bob Claytor, Bob Hayslett, Ron Argenbright, Charlie McGee, Sam Crickenberger, Eugene Browning, Tom Higgins, Woody Bowyer, Bob Weikel, Wayne Isley, Delbert Moore, Nina Cron, and George Simpson.","Includes a Rockbridge County, Virginia road map from 1938, a printed hand drawn regional \"scenic and historic\" map printed as a Christmas gift from Washington and Lee University, and a 2017 Lexingon/Rockbridge Chamber of Commerce community map which includes places and roads for the county as well as local business advertisements.","Includes undated Roanoke Times newspaper artice, \"Prints of old building will be sold to help fund renovation,\" and 2012 Rockbridge Weekly online 2011 article, \"Preservation Virginia Branch Honors Buena Vista Colored School Historical Society.\"","Includes a one page Closing Exercises Program for June 1, 1950 and a report card for Mary Alphin.  Also included are a June 8, 1971 elementary school certificate and seventh grade 1970-71 citizen award for Lisa Suzanne McCown.","Includes May 1997 LHS Alumni Newsletter, Memorial Donation Announcement 1992 notecard by Josephine H. McCown for Albert T. McCown, and Spring Concert program Lexington High School presents the Scarlet Hurricane Bands and the Lexington Elementary Bands, May 23, 1976.","Includes a News-Gazette article, October 15, 2003, \"Discipline 'Lovingly Dispensed,' Hardship 'Just The Way It Was': New Book Describes History of Palmer School.\" Palmer: The First Hundred Years in the Buffalo Community.  Also includes two copies of the program for the Palmer Homecoming and Rededication, Centennial Celebration, Palmer Community Center, October 19, 2003.","Brochure, Maury River Mercantile, the old Anderson Store.","Address Delivered by the Hon. John W. Brockenbrough on laying the corner stone of the new barracks of the Virginia Military Institute, July 4, 1850.  New York: John Wiley, 1850.","Includes 1980's bumper sticker, \"W\u0026L Better Dead, Then Co-ed.\"","FLASHBACK comic strips of Washington and Lee University history","Program, Bertram Turetzky, March 18, 1971.","A Tale of an Oar: A Hidden Message Revealed","Newspaper article, \"W\u0026L Should Change Its Name,\" The Roanoke Times, April 24, 2019.","Article on the restoration in a July 1961 Civil War publication.  Newspaper article, undated, \"W\u0026L President says school will build new museum--and continue using Lee Chapel.\"","Biographies of native American Indians, Robert Latham Owen WLU 1877 and Walter Jonathan Turnbull WLU 1909.","Paper written by Mame Warren, \"Simple Courtesy, The Evolution of the Speaking Tradition at Washington and Lee University,\" prepared for Professor P. M. Forni, Civility and Civilization, The Johns Hopkins University Master of Liberal Arts Program.","Lists of Washington and Lee University students or alumni killed during 20th and 21st century wars including the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf and since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.","World War II list updated by John Rutherford in July 1922.","President Lee's College: Robert E. Lee and the Renewal, Reformation, and Expansion of Washington College.","Includes a Clifton Forge, Virginia, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, notepad, \"We Welcome You to Our City and the Beautiful Mountains of Virginia.\" On the back is Mileage from Clifton Forge to places in Virginia and as far away as Washington, D.C. and Charleston, West Virginia.","Includes \"Genealogy of the Grigsby Family,\" In Part, Including a Brief Sketch of the Porter Family, Republished by Robert Hall McCormick, Chicago, 1905. Originally published by William H. Grigsby, December 1878.","Includes 50th Anniversary Program and a 50th Anniversary Booklet with history, which includes members. The Location of Organizational Meeting, December 1939, held at the Mayflower in Lexington, Virginia.","Includes school reports, marriage certificate, wedding invitation, and letter from Harvey before marriage.  Also included are photographs of Catherine Alphin, her parents and siblings.","A Lutheran Sunday School pin, which may have belonged to Catherine or one of her Alphin family members, while members at Bethany Lutheran Church in Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Contains the photos photos as follows: Catherine in basement at home with crocks, maybe about 1950; a photo of her, maybe on Mother's Day; and a group photo of her three high school aged children, Josephine, Harvey, and Harold. Also included is a group photo of Catherine and four other women, proably Home Demonstration Club, and a group photo of a young Catherine with Hope Welsh and Cecil Welsh. Also included is a photo of Catherine in front of Home Demonstration Market Price's sign.","Catherine's Mirror Drawing Experiment, August 19, 1925.  Also included is Catherine's autograph album, with notes and photos of friends, some marked August 1925.  A 1941 note from her daughter Josephine is included in the album and photos of sisters Mary and Jo Alphin, with a note from Jo.  Photocopies from the 1923 \"The Schoolmadam,\" State Normal School, Harrisonburg, VA, Catherine's Junior year.","Also includes a Myers Hardware Company memorandum book, which has some of Harvey's farm expenses for 1943.","Inludes a pencil marked Southern States Cooperative.","Includes biography, a couple of letters, one of which is from her sister, Elizabeth, a letter that School Board has raised her salary, a post card from brother Thomas, wedding invitation announcing marriage to Albert Orr McCown, and an W\u0026L Bicentennial Celebration invitation to her and Albert.  Also included is insurance receipt, no date.","One item is a Guide Ballot for the General Election, November 2, 1942 for Senator from the 20th Senatorial District of Virginia. (Rockbridge County)","Other material, 1964-1965.","Virginia Laws Made Plain: Laws and Legal Forms Prepared for the Use of Business Men, Farmers, and Mechanics, compiled by Hon. J. D. Hank, Jr..  Presented by Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, 1923.","Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, pocket calendar, 1930. ","Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, check, Sept. 21, 1935, made to Fred Berry from Mrs. Harvey L. Hotinger.","The Rockbridge National Bank pencil showing the 1960 Football Schedule for the Lexington Scarlet Hurricanes.","Photocopy of Kling's letter of resignation as Supt. of the Buena Vista School Board.","Invitation and program for the official dedication of the F. W. Kling, Jr. Elementary School, Buena Vista, Virginia, October 12, 1976.","Included is a Highland Maple Syrup advertisement, no date.","The War Time Diary, F. G. Walter (1837-1930), Co. A, 39th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States Army, June 20, 1863 - April 19, 1865.","Correspondence from Frank, to his brother and mother, December 10, 1862 - June 23, 1864. One letter from Frank's brother, Dorsey, to him, December 31, 1862.","Includes printouts of photographs given by Stewart Bennington.","Included are twelve handwritten lessons done by Catherine (Mrs. Harvey Hotinger), concerning the health of a baby.","Includes brochure, The Public Nurse, Outline of Activities.  Commonwealth of Virginia. State Board of Health. Bureau of Child Welfare. Richmond, 1924.","Bulletins include topics as follows: Scarlet Fever, Smallpox, Typhoid Fever, Measles, Mouth Hygeine, Simple Goiter, The Concrete Slab Pit Privy, Rules and Regulations for the Protection of Public Health, and Why Have Diphtheria?","Jamestown, Virginia National Park Service brochure, reprinted 1961. King's Arms Tavern Midday Fare menu, April 1962 and flyer.  Postcard with raised image of the States Exhibit Building, Jamestown Exposition, 1907.","Reunion Celebration for Classes of 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, and 1949 booklet, which includes \"What We've Been Doing\" forms for each class. Gift of Lisa McCown","Includes programs and newspaper articles for the Lexington High School Post War Year Reunions, July 29, 1978, College Inn Restaurant and June 11, 1983, W\u0026L Evans Dining Hall. Also includes a Memorial Address by George S. Lauderdale, and a Memorial Message prepared by Rev. Marion \"Pat\" Roberston, read by Edwin Adair. Both July 29, 1978. Gift of Lisa McCown","Includes early booklet, West Central 4-H Educational Center, Wirtz, Virginia 24184.  undated [1970's-1980's]","Includes deed trace.","A history of the Caproni biplane, which was forced to land on the John McCown farm, near Rokbridge Baths.  This history was compiled by Leon Johenning, and includes notes about the recovery of the airplane's propeller.","Includes some of Abraham Lincoln's quotes on slavery.","Photocopies of three newspaper articles on the February 17, 1962 Kerrs Creek Fire House dedication, and a February 21, 1987 Honorary Kerrs Creek Volunteer Fire Dept. Member Certificate for Albert T. McCown, who had passed away, August 17, 1985.","Includes photos of the First Lexington High School (1894-1903), the Ruffner builiding, which later was a graded school, Ann Smith Academy, which was used for Lexington High School (1903-1909), Ann Smith High School (1909-1927), which was later used as a grade school, and the Harrington Waddel High School (1927-).","Included is the Article of Incorporation and By-Laws.","Includes yearbooks, 1968-69, 1969-70, and 1970-71.","\"Author Brings Liberian Family'Home'\" THE NEWS-GAZETTE, October 1, 2014. Obituaries of Rev. S. T. A. Richards, Winston D. Richards, Mrs. Vyrie Maurilla Richards, and Liberian Statesman Ambassador George Padmore. Photocopy of a photo of J. Dossen Richards and a photo of John G. A. Richards."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.  Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.  Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections."],"names_ssim":["Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives","Rockbridge Historical Society","First Baptist Church (Lexington, Va.)","Randolph Street Methodist Church (Lexington, Va.)","Lylburn Downing School (Lexington, Va.)","Washington Post Company","African-Americans.  Staunton, Virginia","Agricultural Society of Rockbridge","Agriculture","Rockbridge Farmers Exchange","John Deere Centennial","United Way of America","Lee Memorial Association","Lexington Fire Department (Lexington, Va.)","Virginia Cooperative Extension","Rockbridge County Cooperative Extension","Southern Association of Colleges and Schools","Blue Ridge CASA for Children","Washington and Lee University. Board of Trustees","The Roanoke Times","Washington and Lee University. University Library. Special Collections and Archives","Lexington Gazette. 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Bernard","McCown, Samuel Thompson","McCown, Ida Shelton","McCown, Mary Shelton","Mccown, Jennifer","McCoy, John W.","McCrory, Julia A. ","McCrory, Elizabeth","McCrory, Samuel H. ","McCrum, Blanche Prichard","McCutchan, Frank, Rev.","McDowell, David Henry","McDowell, Ephriam, 1672-1775","McDowell, Samuel, 1735-1817","McDowell, John, 1706-1742","McFarland, Francis W., Reverend","McKee, William","McKee, John","McLaughlin, William","McLeod, Josephine","Menkemeller , Charles Allison","Miles, A. Stevens, Jr","Miley, Herbert","Miley, Michael, 1841-1918","Miller, James T. , 1856-1927","Miller, James F. ","Miller, Levi","Miller, Louis Franklin","Miriello, Frank A.","Mollenhoff, Clark Raymond","Moore, David E. ","Moore, Edward A. ","Moore, James","Moore, John Lyle","Moore, John Preston","Moore, Thomas Harold","Morrison, James, 1726-1804","Morrison, Robert Hall","Morrison, William McCutchan, Reverend","Mudd, Roger ","Murray, Albert","Murray, Charles Fletcher","Neel, Cyrus F.","Nelson, Robert William","Newton, Hope Hull","Northen, Mary Moody","Nuckols, Richard Henry","Nunnley, Lenora","Osteen, John","Owen, Robert Latham","Padgett, Frank, ?-1854","Parker, Severn Eyre","Patterson, Brown Craig","Glanville, Jim","Mays, Ryan","Beverley, William","Patton, James","Paxton, Elizabeth Alexander","Paxton, Thomas, 1722-1788","Peabody, George, 1795-1869","Pence, Gilbert Eugene","Perry, Marvin Banks, Jr.","Person, Junius Randolph","Pleasants, Alfred W. ","Pleasants, Jackie","Powell, Ottie Cline","Preston, John Thomas Lewis","Pusey, William W., III (William Webb)","Quinn, Robert R. ","Ravenhorst, Albertina","Rayder, Sam","Read, John","Rhinesmith, W. Donald","Rice, W. Thomas","Riegel, O. W. (Oscar Wetherhold)","Ritz, Wilfred Julius","Robbins, Tom","Robertson, A. Willis (Absalom Willis)","Robinson, John","Root, E.C.","Ruffner, William Henry","Rutherford, Robert","Schlegel, Robert","Sensabaugh, Deborah","Sewall, Samuel Edmund","Shafer, Susan","Shannon, Edgar Finley, Jr., Dr.","Shannon, Samuel","Shields, Jefferson","Silver, Arthur","Smith, Henry Louis","Smith, Livingston Waddell","Snyder, Louis Vernon","Sprunt, David Worth","Stewart, Robert","Still, Andrew Taylor Still","Sugrue, Thomas J.","Swaim, Curran","Switzer, Frank C. ","Tate, William M. ","Taylor, Charles Holt","Taylor, William","Telford, Robert Lee","Thompson, William M. , 1864-1955","Tilson, Warren Edward","Tracy, Betty (Elizabeth Kilbourne), 1908-1993","Tucker, Robert Henry","Turnbull, Walter Jonathan","Twombly, Cy","Valentine, Edward Virginius, 1838-1930","Vethake, Henry","Wade, Wada Phyllis","Walker, Forrest Edward","Warren, Mame (Mary Elizabeth)","Washburn, William Crane","Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915","Watkin, Lawrence Edward","Watkins, Richard","Watt, William Joseph","Weaver, William","White, Annie Jo","White, Archibald S., Jr","White, B.D.","White, Henry Alexander","Whitney, George S. (George Stephen)","Williams, Bob","Williams, Boyd H.","Williams, Charles Wiley","Williamson, Thomas Hoomes","Willis, Henry Parker","Wilson, William Lyne","Winchester, James R. ","Winston, Daniel","Wolfe, Thomas","Woods, Magdalene","Woods, Michael","Wu, Nelson I. ","Young, Cy","Ziegler, Thomas Joseph","Zimmer, Anne Carter","Bare, Virginia R.","Wade, Herman J.","Sensabaugh, Thomas Everett","Sensabaugh, Dorothy","Bare, Emily Lorena","Patterson, Ed","Miller, Henry","Mikell, Louise","Vance, Samuel","Robb, Charles S.","McAlpine, Katherine E.","Gilliam, Frank Johnson","Clark, Pendleton Scott","Gillette, Charles","Lee, Carter","Hobbs, Patricia A.","Douty, Horace","Alphin, Mary","Agnew, Jean Cameron, 1877-1955","Irvine, Carrie M.","Brockenbrough, John","Reynolds, Patrick M","Young, Neely","Quarles, James A., Dr. (James Addison)","Elrod, Mimi Milner","Rutherford, John, Class of 1966","Kern, Thomas D.","Hadsel, Fred L. ","Jarrett, H. Marshall","Lykes, Joseph","Lykes, John","McGuire, Odell S.","Rogers, James C.","Ranson, Thomas D.","Whitley, Paige","Ross, Jacob","Skinner, John","Reed, Avery H.","Gilvin, Jack","Lewis, Peter Simon","McClung, Ann","MacLeod, Douglas","Duvall, Severn Parker Costin","Kondayan, Betty Ruth","Borgus, Brown Colbert","Henry, Patrick","Goldsten, Joseph","Phillips, Charles Franklin, Jr.","White, G. Edward","Hotinger, Catherine Von Bora Alphin","Alphin, Leonidas LyCurgus","Alphin, Olive Virginia Teaford","Welsh, Hope","Rader, Mary E.","McCown, Margaret Virginia Tardy","Hank, J. D., Jr.","Kling, F. W., Jr.","Rouse, Parke Shepherd, III","Carter, Erle Preston","Walter, Frederick William","Walter, Dorsey","Walter, Franklin Gardner","Hartbarger, Cleopatra Evalina \"Party\" Hughes","Bennington, Stewart","Holladay, James Minor, Rev.","McCurdy, John","Spong, William B., Jr., Senator","Lyndon B. Johnson, President","Lyle, Royster, Jr.","Thomas, Carlson, Mrs","Darst, H. Jackson, Dr.","Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865","Hotinger, Josephine Susan","Rice, Horace R."],"language_ssim":["Materials entirely in English."],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":874,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T20:55:58.373Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vilxw_repositories_5_resources_925","ead_ssi":"vilxw_repositories_5_resources_925","_root_":"vilxw_repositories_5_resources_925","_nest_parent_":"vilxw_repositories_5_resources_925","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WLU/repositories_5_resources_925.xml","title_ssm":["Washington and Lee University and Regional Virginia History Research Collection"],"title_tesim":["Washington and Lee University and Regional Virginia History Research Collection"],"unitdate_ssm":["1609-2016"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["1609-2016"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["WLU.Coll.0668","/repositories/5/resources/925"],"text":["WLU.Coll.0668","/repositories/5/resources/925","Washington and Lee University and Regional Virginia History Research Collection","This collection is open for research use.","Cottie was the daughter of John D. Fitzpatrick, the original owner of the Fitzpatrick General Store at Kerrs Creek, Viginia.","The author, John McCurday was a classmate of Pat Robertson at Lexington High School in Lexington, Virginia.  Pat became a TV evangelistic preacher.  Pat also attended Washington and Lee University, and ran for President of the United States 1988 bid.","Incomplete paper tells stories about the Radford Arsenal in the early 1950s.","Initiators of the new fire department were Dean Knick, R. A. Engleman, Raymond Hostetter, Paul Higgins, Tom Dunlap, Albert McCown, Paul Plott, Warren Smith, and Harry Swisher.  The new officers of the Kerrs Creek Fire Dept. were John A. Hostetter, president; Albert McCown, Vice President; Harry M. Swindler, Secretary; Warren A. Smith, Fire Chief; and Hunter Ayres, Assist. Fire Chief.  The Board of Directors indluded Raymond Hostetter, Harry Swisher, Raymond Hartbarger, Arthur Alphin, Tom Dunlap, and Harold Hotinger.","File includes a photocopy of a Richmond Times Dispatch newspaper article, \"Retired Prof. Latture: Living Landmark at W\u0026L,\" March 4, 1974; a commemorative stamp envelope signed by Washington and Lee University Presidents, Denny through Wilson; and obituaries by The Roanoke Times and the News-Gazette.","Washington and Lee Student Journalism Project, by students Catherine Carlock, Erin Galliher, Farrell Ulrich, and Mike White.","Also includes Historical research of Lexington's Lost Cemetery.","Photocopy","HorseMania is a local public art project whose 13 life-sized fiberglass horses were fabricated by local artisan, Mark Cline, painted by local artists, sponsored by businesses and individuals, and placed throughout the cities of Lexington and Buena Vista as well as Rockbridge County, with the purpose of raising funds for Blue Ride CASA for Children.","Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) is a non-profit organization serving our area's most severely abused, abandoned and neglected children through the recruitment, training, and supervision of community volunteers who advocate for their best interests.","News-Gazette article, \"Bodie To Write Rockbridge History,\" The News-Gazette, Feb. 5, 2003; The Weekender article, \"Telling the 'Story' of Rockbridge,\" Dec. 3, 2011; and a cover of Bodie's book, REMARKABLE ROCKBRIDGE: THE STORY OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.","photocopy","Kerrs Creek newspaper announcement that Josephine will be the News-Gazette correspondent for the Kerrs Creek area.  Also included, a June 1995 Thank You from the American Red Cross, Virginia West Virginia Floods DR#686, to Josephine for sharing her time and special talents, while helping people recover from the Virginia/West Virginia Floods.","photocopies","A Texas-Sized Donation for Virginia Colleges, by Gregory Turley, Washington and Lee Class of 1987.","photocopy","General R. E. Lee's war-Horses, Traveller and Lucy Long.  Southern Historical Society Papers. Vol.18. Richmond, Va., January-December, 1890.","photocopy","Dwelling in Lexington, Virginia, designed by Pendleton Scott Clark, architecture renowned for authenticity, was completed in 1929 for W\u0026L Dean and Mrs. Frank J. Gilliam.  The handsome gardens for the Gilliams were primarily designed by the Charles Gillette, a widely regarded landscape architect of Richmond, Virginia.","Lexington in Historic Virginia brochure, about 1970, a notecard with a drawing of North Main Street by Raynal, and a color notecard of the Quilt designed by Gillie W. Campbell and quilted by Elise Bick, 1983. All items given by Lisa McCown, Lexington, VA.","Happy Holidays card from Wade's Mill, John and Karen Siegfried, 2017.  Also included from 2017 are as follows: 7 postcards, brochure, information card, retail grain's price list, and a flyer listing the stone-ground grains available at Wade's Mill. Also, a December 2, 1992 News-Gazetter article on the history of the mill and it's owners at the time.","The 1959 brochure, gift of Lisa McCown.","The Seven Hills of Rockbridge include the homes, Cherry Hill, Fruit Hill, Fancy Hill, Rose Hill, Hickory Hill, Clover Hill, and Liberty Hill.  A map of the location of these homes is included, as well as descriptions from the Rockbridge County, Virginia Hertiage Book.","The Scarletter, Lexington High School newsletter - v.30 no.2, Oct. 31, 1977; v.30 no.7, April 8, 1978; v.30 no.8, May 3, 1978.","Football Programs: Lexington vs. Turner Ashby, Sept. 27, 1974; Lexington vs. Harrisonburg, Oct. 11, 1974; Lexington vs. Broadway, Sept. 9, 1977.","Life in Late Nineteenth Century Rockbridge Baths, paper written at Hollins College, Ms. Mary W. Atwell, Carrie M. Irvine, [ca.1974].","Photocoy","This file includes a list of WLU alumni who went on to careers in the military and achieved the rank of General.","Charles C. Lewis, Jr. W\u0026L '68, '71L; Charles C. Lewis, W\u0026L 1930, M.A. 1931; H. Flood Madison, Jr., W\u0026L 1920.","\"The Honor System at the Washington and Lee University,\" by W\u0026L Prof. J. A. Quarles, April 1902, WESTMINSTER MONTHLY, vol. 1, no.7.","The Record, Mock Democratic Convention, March 6 and 7, 1992. The cover of this booklet has a sketch of Main Street, looking south, with parade. The Mock Convention Record, W\u0026L, April 17, 1995.","Colonnade Oaks flyer, Dashiell Dericks '18.","Poem, \"The Dogwood of Washington and Lee.\"","John Wall Lykes, WLU 1908, Joseph Taliaferro Lykes, WLU 1909, Joseph Taliaferro Lykes, Jr. WLU 1941","Thomas D. Ranson WLU 1859-60","Genealogy compiled by Alex Taylor, whose great grandfather was Alexander Tedford Barclay.","Material given by Tangy (Gilven) Hunter-Hughes, a descendant of Jack Gilvin.","Geneaology of Garland family, who bought some of the Washington College slaves.","Genealogy on the Harman family given by Carolyn Scott, which has photos and biographies of Charles Price Harman, born 1868, and his wife, Rachel Primrose \"Rose\" Cameron Sherrard, and their children.","Genealogy and biography of Rev. Peter Simon Lewis, the pastor of First Baptist Church, Lexington, Va., 1901-1906.","Compiled by Tom Vansant Jr., Descendant of Dr. James Ramsey, Son of William.","Descendant of Robert Alexander of Virginia, founder of the first classical school west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which became the present Washington and Lee University.","Borgus served VMI as head waiter during the period between September 1919 and September 1955.  He then returned for a brief period between the months of September and December 1958.","William Griffin born 1792 in Lexington, married November 21, 1816 in Virginia, and died 1850 in Boone County, Indiana.","Washington and Lee first established a registrar's office in 1910.","Also includes: Multivariate Analysis Through Narrative History, by Alfred L. Brophy.  Reviewing G. Edward White, Law in American History: From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War.","Shep Rouse, W\u0026L Graduate 1976.","Located one mile west of I-81/64 at the Raphine, Virginia interchange.","The University Cleaners businesses were located at 7 N. Jefferson Street, Lexington, VA and 2028 Magnolia Street, Buena Vista, VA.","See also book, \"Big Hill Road,\" in our Rare Book Collection (Rare F 232 .R68 B466 2022), which was compiled by Stewart Bennington and his sister Barbara Nunley.","Photocopy","Gifts of Lisa McCown","\"America's Finest Inland Beach Resort.\" Gift of Lisa McCown","Gift of Lisa McCown","Gift of Lisa McCown","File includes article titled \"Paxton Davis, Former W\u0026L Professor, Dies.\"","See Catherine's 1922 Elizabethan College yearbook (Rare LD 7251 .S32 E44 v.5 1922). She played basketball and her cousin Hope Welsh also attended there.  The school burned while the students were at home on Christmas vacation.","Published lecture by retired professor John McKenzie Gunn, dated April 25, 1994; \"Can Economics be Both Relevant and 'good'?\"","Folder includes four items: \"A Community's Stories\" article from The News Gazzette concerning an exhibit by the Rockbridge Historical Society; a list of 'Old Lexington Colored People,' from the early 1900's from Leslie Lyle Campbell's notes; information on a group of slaves from Caroline County (a page copied from Colonial Caroline: a History of Caroline County, Virginia); and a letter to Special Collections concerning information on the holdings of records concerning black history in Virginia.  Nine Historic Lexington Foundation interviews done for Black History Month 2016, mostly by Beverly Tucker, one by Anne McClung, and one by W\u0026L Students Caitlin Mullen '05 and Anne Young '04, with Lexington African Americans and one Buena Vista resident.","143 pages printed from the 1810 Virginia Census, listing \"Other Free\" Heads of Household, by family name.","Register of Free Negroes of Rockbridge County, Virginia, with index.  According to the Act of the General Assembly of Virginia.  Passed January 25, 1803","Register of Marriages, Colored Persons in Rockbridge County under act of Virginia Assembly Passed February 27, 1866","Copy of Washington Post article, \"The Captive Nations of Slaves,\" covering an exhibit at the Museum of the Confederacy named \"Before Freedom Came,\" 1991. \nReceipt for purchase of slave, John. January 26, 1850.","Includes program for the All Saints Memorial Celebration at the Augusta Street United Methodist Church, Nov. 1, 2009, a Fairview Cemetery brochure, and Friends of Fairview Christmas wreath order form, Nov. 23, 2009.","Includes brochure, African-American Heritage, Staunton, Virginia, undated.","Address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Rockbridge, at its annual Fair, at Fancy Hill, October 17, 1839, by the Rev. Henry Ruffner, D. D., President of Washington College.  The Lexington Gazette, and Rockbridge Farmer, June 23, 1840.","Folder includes \"Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book: Designed for Farmers, Mechanics, and all People,\" 1872.","Photocopy of ledger, 1892-1903.","Folder includes a copy of a report of \"Approval of Site, Plans, etc.\" for a school house at Alone Mill; a balance sheet by Alone Canning Co., and a photocopy of a pencil drawn map of Alone Mill. Also includes a lecture paper by Anne McClung, which includes many photos.","Folder includes \"Selected Bibliography for Historic Artifact Identification and Analysis\" prepared by Kurt C. Russ and John M. McDaniel, for distribution at 1989 ASV Historic Artifact Workshop.","Contains booklet titled \"Battle of Asheville.\"","Contains two copies of \"The Ruth Anderson McCulloch Branch of The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiguqities: 1896-1987.\"","Contains a booklet titled \"A Rockbridge Area Resource Guide for People in Need.\" Prepared by Helpline/Information and Referral and United Way of Lexington-Rockbridge County. Also includes the minutes of Board Meeting, May 9, 1995.","Contains student paper authored by Emily Barnes '01 titled \"Lee Memorial Association.\" In addition, a copy of a sketch from 1883 about the Lee Memorial Association titled \"Southern Historical Society Papers.\"","Booklet titled \"Education for a Better Tomorrow, 1992 Annual Report.\"","\"Procedings\" publication published by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, including reports and activities of the 100th Annual Meeting in Atlanta Georgia as well as current lists of member insitutions.","Includes photocopy of a 1758 schedule titled \"To the Militia of the Coutny of Augusta, and for Provisions furnished by sundry inhabitants of the said county, viz.\"","File includes photocopies of two letters concerning Washington and Lee student, John West Addison.","Article titled \"A Confederate Hero,\" from  Blue and Gray , 1984.","Biography compiled in 1997 concerning Archibald Alexander (5 pgs. long).","Correspondence about the Washington and Lee Homecoming Queen from c.1893 and her protrait which hangs in the Special Collections vault (WLU Coll PP 0081).","Contains an article titled \"Colonel William Allan at McDonough\"; an 1889 address by J. Randolph Tucker; and an 1890 memorial by Washington and Lee Board of Trustees concerning Allan.","Includes a biography and illustration of Allen under the title of \"The Headlight.\"","Photocopry of newpaper article concerning Anderson, slave of Cyrus McCormick.","Photocopy of biography concerning Armstrong from the \"Dictionary of American Biography.\"","Article titled \"Civil War Author on the Trail of History.\"","Two copies of a Christmas oration in memoriam of Constance Rosalie Auden.","Obituaries, clipped from Roanoke Times 2002.","Biography of Alexander Tedford Barclay compiled by Washington and Lee student in 1997.","Biography compiled in 1997 and geneological chart showing many prominent people of Rockbridge County.","Narrative titled \"Aunt Elizabeth Remembers;\" interview with retired Washington and Lee professor, Charles Turner.","Photocopies of newspaper clippings concerning the death of Barkley at Washington and Lee University.","Photocopy of a letter to George Baxter from Edward Johnson introducing Dr. Barton, December 21, 1805. Pamphlet entitled, \"How Many Botany Books Did Thomas Jefferson Own?\" mentioning Dr. Barton.","Photocopy of Calyx 1939 yearbook picture. Basse gave donation towards Special Collections workroom.","\"Fatal Affray,\" Lexington Gazette, January 19, 1854. Murder of Cadet Thomas Blackburn.","Photocopies of Calyx yearbook pictures and Alumni directory information. John G. Boatwright '15 made donation for the University Library reading room in memory of Robert McDearmon Boatwright '42.","Obituary, Washington and Lee University News Home, 5/12/2006.","Two separate biographies for Borden Jr. and Sr.","E-mail message to the Washington and Lee community concerning Brady's death, obituaries from the News-Gazette and The Roanoke Time. Article titled \"'Pat' Brady's Life One of Quiet Service to a Community He Loved So Dearly,\" the News-Gazette.","Photocopy of letter from Andrew Brooks to sister, January 23,1861; photocopy and written transcript of letter from James J. White relating to the death of William Brooks, July 16,1861; photocopy of telegram to J.M. Brooks relating to the remains of his son, William Brooks, July 20,1861; Diary entries written by Andrew Brooks in Augusta County.","Composer in Residence, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Roanoke Valley Choral Society, 1995-1996, pgs. 7-8.","Photocopies of letters to his sister, Fannie, September 20, 1846, and September 7, 1848, while a student at Washington College. Original letters reside at Virginia Military Academy Archives.","Radio script concerning Clarence Brown used in Cincinnati, Ohio on the radio program, \"Personalities in your Government.\"","Robert and Benjamin Brown's relatives who attended Washington and Lee University. A letter addressed to President John Delane Wilson from their mother, Elizabeth Barry Brown.","Folder includes a Civil War centennial commemorative edition of the Valley News Echo concerning John Brown's Raid and Harper's Ferry(2 copies); Stanton Spectator article titled \"The Out-break at Harper's Ferry\"; Stanton Spectator article concerning John Brown's execution titled \"Results of the Trial\"; Richmond Times-Dispatch article titled \"Documents in Treason Trial of John Brown; The Sunday Baltimore article titled \"Verdict Missing in Brown Papers; a history course examinaton concerning this time period; an account by someone named \"Jackson\" of John Brown's execution addressed to his wife.","Articles from three local newspapers titled \"He's a Third-Generation Blacksmith,\" \"The Village Blacksmith, Manly Brown, Dies at 93,\" \"Family Dreams of Living Museum. Jack Chaffee as Blacksmith and Curator of Brown's Forge.\"","Includes photocopy of the Ministerial Directory of the Presbyterian Church in the United States highlighting William Brown.","Contains obituary of Bruinsma dated September 17, 1999.","File includes color notecard of Frank Buchser painting of Robert E. Lee, \"The Last Life Portrait of General Robert E. Lee,\" a letter from Buchser to Lee concerning a portrait, Washington and Lee News Release titled \"General Lee 'Comes Home' for His Birthday,\" Religious Herald article titled \"Valentine's Recumbent Statue of General Robert E. Lee,\" and correspondence between various researchers interested in this topic and Special Collections.","Booklet titled \"Edward Buncombe and Buncombe County.\"","Obituary, \"Thrown from Horse...,\" by Lexington Gazette.","Obituary found in the News-Gazette about Edmund Campbell, a Washington and Lee graduate and attorney who worked on various cases concerning desegregation of Virginia schools.","File includes a biography excerpt from \"Who's Who in America\" and an obituary by the Lexington Gazette.","File includes an obituary of John Lyle Campbell Sr. by the Lexington Gazette, a biography writtten by his son Robert Fishburne Campbell, and copies of letters between Robert E. Lee and Prof. Campbell as well as T.J. Jackson and Prof. Campbell.","File includes article \"Coach Nears End of Not-So-Typical Career: Washington and Lee's Canfield Prepares for Life After 31 Years of Generals' Basketball,\" and a Roanoke Times article named \" 'I Hope I've Touched Some Lives.' \"","Biography by the American National Biography Online.","Contains one photocopy of obituary by News-Gazette.","Obituary by the News-Gazette.","Memorial program for Gray Castle.","Roanoke Times article concerning Caudill's retirement.","Contains a booklet titled \"The Cavendish Family History.\"","Folder includes biography and copies of two letters from Theofore Roosevelt, one concerning a memorial to Robert E. Lee and the other one concerning Chamberlain's son.","Folder contains at least twenty eight separate items concerning John Chavis, from articles, portraits, letters, records, to research papers concerning his role in Washington and Lee Lee as well as African American history. Also included are the W\u0026L Alumni magazine artices, \"Chavis House named,\" March/April 1986 and \"Chavis House dedicated,\"  November/December 1986.","Includes obituary by Rockbridge County News.","File contains obituary by the News-Gazette.","File includes an article titled Honor Rolls,\" a set of photographs, and a pamphlet commemorating her life and work.","Folder includes an obituary written by The Lexington Gazette.","Lexington Gazette obituary about Crenshaw.","The file includes a biography by the American National Biography Online.","File includes a photocopied catalogue of the Library of Daniel Parke Custis: From a Manuscript in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society, \"The Magazine of History and Biography,\" October 1909, pages 404-412.","The Library of John Parke Custis, Esq., of Fairfax County, Virginia, \"Tyler's Quarterly,\" October 1927, pages 97-103.","File includes a greeting card made by the Artists of the Lexington, Virginia Note Card Series, 2002.","The file includes a program in memory of Daniels, hosted at Robert E. Lee Memorial Church.","File includes an article titled \"Turning 90 is Just Another Milestone in Lexington Woman's Interesting Life.\"","File includes three articles concerning Professor DeLaney's professional career.","File includes photocopies of newspaper obituaries of her death on December 10,1940. Photocopy of a newspaper article, \"U.D.C. Holds Exercises at Sayler Creek Battlefield\" at which Ms. Dickinson was a speaker. Photocopy of a page concerning Miss Dickinson's book, \"Confederate Leaders.\"","File includes article titled \"Service Held for Dr. G.W. Diehl.\"","Articled titled \"Judge Ryland Dodson Remembers Early 20th Century Tobacco Farming,\" September 2000.","File contains e-mail message distributed by the Broadcast Mailer at Washington and Lee on the death of Francis Drake.","File includes biography.","File includes a biography from the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation website and some genealogy from the LDS website.","File includes two copies of the memorial service program for Farrar's passing and a photocopy of a News-Gazette article titled \"Tiger.\"","File includes an article titled \"He Disciplined Popular Culture\" as well as an obituary.","File includes a photocopy of the \"Washington and Lee Ambulance Unit\" from the 1926 Alumni Directory. This photocopy features an article about Fletcher.","File includes notes on \"Miss Laura.\"","File includes photocopies of two obituaries concerning Mr. Ford.","File includes a photocopy of Roanoke Times newspaper clipping titled \"New President of Washington and Lee.\"","File includes obituary.","Folder includes biography on Mr. Gatewood.","File includes a photocopy of obituary for Mercer Graham.","File includes photocopies of articles concerning the life and career of Mel Greenberg.","File includes biography on Mr. Greenwood, dentist of George Washington.","File includes a memorial program as well as an obituary by the Roanoke Times.","File includes article titled \"Randolph Hall Refused to Fail.\"","File includes memorial program.","File includes two photocopies of the Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine with an article focused on Ms. Harris, titled \"Still Crazy After All These Years.\"","File includes photocopy of article titled \"Off the beaten path: the Chronicler of Lexington is an institution himself.\"","File includes photocopy of a petition to Jefferson Davis representing that Heale is a citizen of Giles County, Virginia.","File includes an appendix titled \"The Mystery Woman.\"","File includes a photocopy of a biographical sketch of Hobson by Charles Lee Hobson, March 5, 1998. Photocopies of two papers by Hobson entitled \"How I came to Elizabethtown, Kentucky\" and \"How General Lee Came to Washington College.\" Photocopies of a letter to Lee concerning Hobson (1869) and a Louisville Times article about the letter.","Includes Harvey's Lexington High School, Senior Class Graduation invitation, June 1, 1950.","File includes a photocopy of essay titled \"James Lewis Howe - Chemist and Philatelist.\"","Article includes biography and obituary concerning Howerton and his wife Mary N.","File includes notes on Mrs. Hull, a source for Eleanor Roosevelt's Visit to Goshen Recalled.\"","File includes 27 photocopies of letters, transcripts, notes, etc. on Mr. Hutcherson, Washington and Lee University Class of 1902.","File includes a letter concerning Ipsen's chauffer, as well as photocopy of portrait of Lee painted by Ipsen.","File includes \"Stonewall,\" a commemorative section of The News-Gazette concerning the Jackson Statue Rededication. In addition, a set of remarks and notes by Mayor Derrick and papers of lectures given by Mary Coulling, Robert F. Hunter, James I. Robertson, Jr., and the Frederick Ladies Relief Society. Program and brochure.","File includes article titled \"Window on the Past: An Unusual Tribute to Stonewall Jackson;\" \"'Stonewall' Jackson's Grave;\" \"Jackson Day,\" and many more copies of similarly focused articles from local newspapers. Also included a brochure reprinted and distributed by Stonewall Jackson Memorial Incorporate, Lexington, Virginia, \"The Religious Character of Stonewall Jackson,\" an address by James Power Smith, D.D., Captain and A.D.C. Staff of General Jackson. The address was delivered at the Inauguration of the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Building, Virginia Military Institute, June 23, 1897.\nA printed map showing all of Stonewall Jackson's movements, Compliments of Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Inc., Lexington, Virginia.","Photocopies of material concerning Jackson as constable.","File includes eleven photocopies, black and white and color of Moor as Jackson, one of which is at Virginia Military Institute. Two color photos.","File includes article from The American Art Journal titled \"Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Thomas jefferson\" as well as a photocopy of the Spring 1982 article, \"The Adams-Jefferson portrait Exchange.\"","File includes photocopies of obituaries and photographs concerning the Johnson and McDowell families.","File includes a photocopy of inside cover of \"Closing Exercises of Privat School.\"","File includes photocopy of biography from \"Dictionary of American Biography.\"","Biking Through Albemarle with John Jones, Scottsville Museum, Capturing Our Heritage","File includes a copy of a magazine titled \"The Iron Worker\" as well as handwritten and typewritten copies of \"A Sketch of Colonel John Jordan (1777-1854).  Also includes a paper, \"John Jordan, Virginia Builder,\" by Marshall Fishwick, and a photocopy of Summer 1973 Virginia Cavalcade article, \"John Jordan: Builder and Entrepreneur,\" by L. Moody Simms, Jr.","File includes a booklet titled \"Edward Southey Joynes: Father of the University and Life Trustee of Winthrop.\"","File includes a magazine article titled \"A Chinese Master Opens Western Eyes to Eastern Art.\"","File includes various pieces, including \"The Unusual of Lieutenant George C. Junkin, C.S.A.,\" a discourse commemorative of George Junkin delivered in the West Spruce St. Presbyterian Church, and \"George Junkin and His Eschatological Vision,\" and \"Secession Fever on a Southern Campus.\"","File includes articles titled \"Matthew Kahle's Log\" and \"Old George , 1844.\"","The file includes a brochure for The Stan Kamen Collection of Western Art at Washington and Lee University.","File includes a biography, obituary, funeral and memorial services programs.","File includes an obituary (dated August 1, 1955) and two Athletic Association certificates for cross country, 1928 and track, 1929.","In Memoriam, A senseless tragedy. The New President, John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. POST, The Saturday Evening Post, December 14, 1963.","File includes various copies of programs of \"A Celebration of the Life of King,\" bulletins for churches, as well as various programs, which includes Black History Month.","The 2010 Black History Month program includes the following:  Poem, \"From the Shanty to the White House,\" by Laura Watts; \"Ground Hog Poem,\" by Spotswood Alexander Styles; \"What If There Were No Black Folk?,\" by Barbara Leahy, 1998.","File includes a memorial service program held at Lee Chapel on July 5, 1997.","File includes a photocopy of a newspaper article concerning Labro, November 12, 1988.","File includes an obituary from the Rockbridge County News, November 8, 1900.","J. J. Lafferty: A Remarkable Life, Secrets of the Blue Ridge","File includes information concerning the burial of Latane and a painting of and poem about the burial.","File includes an article titled \"America's Baskerville Printer.\"","File includes article from the News Gazette titled \"It's a Lauck!\"","File includes an article concerning the death of Annie Lee by The Roanoke News; a copy of music sung at Ms. Lee's funeral and the Washington and Lee memorial service; articles titled \"Famous Daughter Laid to Rest at W\u0026L\" and \"Annie Lee's Remains Now in Lee Chapel\"; a program, In Memoriam Anne Carter Lee; invitation to private memorial service and luncheon at Lee House; remarks made by Mary Coulling at the private memorial service; remarks made by Capt. Peniston at the private memorial service for Annie Carter Lee; two color postcards of her grave and monument at Warren County, North Carolina; and an excerpt from a letter written at West Point, concerning the young gentlemen.","File includes an obituary of Mr. Lee, former Mayor of Buena Vista.","File includes article concerning the death and burial of Dr. G.B. Lee by the Ring-tum Phi.","File includes obituary of Lee by the Ring-tum Phi; \"From West Point to Fort Point: The Story of George Elliot and Custis Lee\"; \"Major-General George Washington Custis Lee\"; \"Last Battles: The Wartime and Postwar Careers of Custis Lee\"; and photocopies of items at the National Archives concerning G.W.C. Lee.","File includes a booklet with an article titled \"Reverend Henderson Lee: Father of Presbyterianism in Lunenburg County.\"","File includes an article titled \"The Manly and Upright will Brand Your Name Infamy.\"","File includes article titled \"They Surrendered Honorably,\" an excerpt from a letter to her cousin Caroline from Derwent, and a collection of letters from Mrs. Mary Custis Lee to the Snowden Family of Alexandria, Virginia entitled \"My Dear Louisa.\"","File includes copies of letters containing information suggesting that G. Campbell Brown, stepson of Gen. Richard Ewell, began courting Mildred Lee and later proposed to her. In addition, the file includes an article concerning the death of Mildred Lee's death.","This file includes twenty-seven separate items. Of these items, there are various brochures and booklets entitled, \"Robert E. Lee: Innovative Educator,\" \"Notes on a Visit to Robert E. Lee,\" \"Lee: The Final Achievement,\" and \"Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson Returned to Lexington, Virginia.\""," In addition, the following articles: \"Furtherance of Southern Education was Lee's Goal;\" \"Aging Successfully: The Example of Robert E. Lee;\" \"How Gen. Lee Came to Washington College;\" \"After 32 Years, Lee-Jackson Painting on Display;\" \"General Lee After the War,\" from the magazine  The Century Magazine ; \"Reminiscences of General Lee,\"  The Outlook  pages 964-969; \"The Last Years of Lee\" delivered to the United Daughters of the Confederacy; \"The Robert E. Lee Birthday Celebration;\" \"Lee Centennial at Washington and Lee,\" from  The Southern Collegian ; \"On the Life and Character of Gen. Robert E. Lee,\" written by John W. Daniel for the  Lexington Gazette ; \"Unveiling Lee's Statue,\" written by John W. Daniel for the  Staunton Spectator ; Article written for  The Free-Lance Star  by Capt. Robert Peniston entitled \"The Last Tour;\" Articled written by John Elrod for the  Richmond Times-Dispatch  entitled, \"Lee as Educator Sought to Heal Wounds;\" and an Article written by Captain James L.D. Monroe entitled \"General Robert E. Lee Covers.\"","\nThe file includes excerpts from letters written by Agnes Lee to her friend Lizzie Fuller and Mrs. R.E. Lee concerning Robert E. Lee's death, as well as \"General Lee's Special Letters,\" notes used by Captain Peniston during his talk to the Alumni College at Washington and Lee, July 2006.  \nThere are two chapters from two books: \"College Days Under General Lee,\" chapter 6 of the book,  Memories of Four-Score Years  by Samuel Hall Chester; \"The Lee-White Friendship,\" chapter 7 of  Old Zeus: Life and Letters of James J. White.","Finally, the file includes remarks on Robert E. Lee made at Kiwanis by Capt. Robert Peniston, an essay entitled \"Lee at Appomattox,\" photocopies of two sketches by Robert E. Lee of soldiers in the Mexican Army sent home to his children, a copy of an endorsement of young Robert E. Lee from William B. Leary, his teacher in Alexandria, and a program and flier of the memorial observance of Lee given by the Liberty Hall Volunteers re-enactment group and Washington and Lee Alumni. ","Eight items added to file.","Program, Robert E. Lee Week, August 22-26, 1932, The Greenbrier and Cottages, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.","\"A Tribute to General Robert E. Lee,\" by Dr. Julian C. Brown (1856-1904).","An Interview with General Robert E. Lee by John Leyburn.  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. May to October 1885.","The Hardy Heritage by Harold D. Garber, Moorefield (WV) Examiner, January 2010.","Death of Gen. R. E. Lee, The Virginia Gazette, October 14, 1870.","A Dream of Robert E. Lee Comes True, by Virgil C. Jones, The United States Publisher, September 1928.","LEE, The Photographic History of the Civil War.","\"Cache,\" Autumn Song, by Ceane O'Hanlon-Lincoln.","File includes various copies of programs for memorial services honoring Robert E. Lee as well as an article entitled \"Decoration Day at the Graves of Lee and Jackson.\"","File includes an obituary by the  Lexington Gazette , articles in the  Rockbridge County News  and the  Lexington Gazette  concerning his death and funeral, one entitled \"The Burial March of Dundee.\" In addition, the file includes a  Ring-tum Phi  article entitled, \"May Remove Colonel Lee from Chapel.\"","File includes articles entitled \"Children of the Blue and Gray,\" from  People Magazine  and \"Robert E. Lee V Tries to Avoid Trading on His Honored Name\" from  The Atlanta Journal and Constitution .","File includes articles entitled \"On the Trail of Robert E. Lee's Daughters\" and \"Author Says Unmarried Women Neglected by Historians\" from the  Daily News Leader .","File includes photocopies of two obituaries for Mr. Letcher, 1994.","File includes an essay written by Charles C. Lewis entitled \"A Tale of an Oar: A Hidden Message Revealed.\"","File includes obituaries of James Lewis, Stonewall Jackson's faithful body servant,  Lexington Gazette .","File includes article by the  Richmond Times-Dispatch .","File includes an obituary from the  Lewiston Teller  and an article In Memoriam by the  Idaho Daily Statesman .","File includes an obituary from  The News-Gazette .","File includes an article by the  News-Gazette  entitled \"Shop to Feature Books, Items on War Era.\" In addition, the file includes a brochure to the Lexington Historical Shop and business card for Lurate.","File includes an article from the  Virginia Cavalcade  entitled \"John Blair and His 'Automatic Bookstore'.\"","File includes three pages with information about MacCorkle for the Alumni Directory and Jacket File.","File includes a brief biography of MacCorkle by the Washington and Lee University News Office, a biographical statement, \"Information for the Alumni Directory and Jacket File,\" and a picture of Stuart MacCorkle.","File includes two obituaries.","File includes an article by the  Roanoke Times  entitled, \"New Headmaster Mixes Work and Play.\"","File includes a magazine article entitled, \"Persisting in the Publishing World.\"","File includes an obituary by the  News Gazette .","File includes a 2001 article entitled, \"The Man Behind the Name: New Biography Explores The Achievements of 'Fesser' McCluer\" and obituaries for the  Lexington Gazette  and the  Rockbridge County News .","File includes a photocopy of a short biography of McClung.","File includes a medal -  Centennial of the Reaper, 1831-1931 ; a booklet entitled  McCormick Celebration, September 25, 1931 ; a color brochure of the McCormick Farm; a biography from the McCormick International Harvester Collection Archives; and two copies of the  Iron Worker  featuring an article entitled, \"Walnut Grove--Where Farm Mechanization Began.\"","File includes a program of retirement from 25 years of service to the Buena Vista City Public Schools, two biographies, and two photographs of Albert McCown, about 1955 and Oct. 1980.  Also included an early color Christmas card printed by Albert, before his marriage, while he studied Industrial Arts at VPI. Also a Christmas card printed by Albert at his home in Kerrs Creek, Rockbridge County, VA, about 1970's, when he had his family, and an envelope of Albert's, McCown's Printing Service.  Included is his name tag for the Virginia School Boards Association, Rockbridge County, with ribbons, Board Member, Delegate. A newspaper clipping, \"McCown New Member of School Board,\" and photocopy of the News-Gazette clipping featuring Albert's service to the Rockbridge County School Board.  Also included a return address envelope, Parry McCluer High School, Athletic Department, Buena Vista, VA 24416, maybe printed by Albert when he was Athletic Director there. A 1973-74 basketball/wrestling Parry McCluer high school card.  A photo of Albert and coworker Industrial Arts Teacher, Ward Lockett.","Also includes a 1969 issue of THE VISTA, which includes an article, \"Teacher of the Month: Albert McCown.\" On the title page of this issue is a sketch of the Parry McCluer mascot.","Included are a Father's Day card and Happy Birthday card, both made by his oldest daughter, Lisa. The Happy Birthday card is signed by Lisa, Josephine, his wife, and Jennifer, his youngest daughter.","A Washington and Lee application for Admission, April 1, 1947, which was never turned in.  Albert decided to go to VPI in Blacksburg, and graduated in 1957.  He became the Industrial Arts Teacher at Parry McCluer High School in Buena Vista, Virginia, 1959-1984.  Also included is a William Byrd Parent-Teachers Association yearbook, 1957-1958, where Albert is listed as Senior High teacher, where he taught Industrial Arts in Roanoke, Virginia.","Albert T. McCown Memorial Scholarship recipients, Buena Vista Public Schools, 1987-1995.","File includes a  Rockbridge County News  article entitled, \"Civil War Memoirs of Mr. McCown Telling of Life in Northern Prison\"; other brief newspaper notices about McCown from  The Dallas Daily Herald ; an obituary from the  Lexington Gazette ; and an image of Dr. Albert McCown and his father James L. McCown.","File includes a photocopy from the book,  The McCormick Reaper Legend  focusing on John McCown, the \"Blade Maker.\"","File includes an obituary and picture of John Graham McCown.","A photo as baby included and letter from Sears, Roebuck and Co. announcing Josephine as one of the winners of a baby contest.","Josephine's Presbyterian Church in the U. S. Catechism certificate, August 14, 1938.","Pledge for regular investment in defense savings bonds, May 16, 1942.","Photocopy of 1949 Roanoke College yearbook page.","Two European postcards from first cousin Richard Marshall, 1950's, one addressed to their grandmother, Mrs. Rice Hotinger.","Photocopy of invitation to Johnston-Willis Hospital School of Nursing graduation, May 16, 1952, including photocopy of photo as RN in 1952. Whiteside Radio Service, Lexington, VA receipt to Josephine Hotinger for purchase of a TV set, etc., October 1954.","Includes Mrs. Josephine H. McCown, R.N. pin worn at the Stonewall Jackson Hospital, 1959-1971, along with hospital mask.","Also includes miscellaneous documents, 1975, 1979, 2003 and 1970 American Red Cross Nursing Program card, and American Red Cross volunteer identification pin, worn while volunteering ath local bloodmobiles, after retiring in 1992. Also her American National Red Cross Nurse pin.","File also includes photo of Josephine as W\u0026L Student Health Head Nurse and W\u0026L indentification pin worn as Head Nurse, biographical information written at her retirement from Washington and Lee University as head nurse of infirmary, 1992; as well as an article from the News-Gazette, entitled, \"W\u0026L Honors Employees At Banquet\".","Included are two postcards from first cousin Richard Marshall of Urbanna, Virginia, while in Paris, 1951, to Josephine, and the other to his grandmother, Susan Rader Hotinger (Mrs. Rice), 1952, while in Rome.  Also a letter from Richard Marshall to Josephine, March 24, 1952.","Includes photo of Josephine as a little girl, ca.1930.  Also photos included are as follows: Josephine in wedding gown at her home in September 1955, two identified photos of Josephine celebrating her November 1989 birthday with her coworkers from the W\u0026L Infirmary, a group photo of Stonewall Jackson Registered nurses, and Josephine's W\u0026L ID card.","Copy of Josephine's obituary from the News-Gazette, September 7, 2022.  She passed away on August 31, 2022.  Also included are her September 10 funeral service programs done by New Monmouth Church and Harrison's Funeral Home. Included is a letter of condolences from W\u0026L President William C. Dudley, September 12, 2022 and Carol Calkins, a nurse coworker at W\u0026L, September 2022.","File includes 25 photographs and photocopies of photographs of the McCown family and their homes. Includes photographs of various generations and extended family members.","File includes a wide range of materials. Various photocopies contain documentation of Charles A. McCown and Alertie C. Anderson's wedding in 1907. In addition, a list ascertains the burial of Charles A. McCown, Alertie McCown, and their infant at Fawn Creek Cemetary. A map of Montgomeny Co. KS. Cemeteries highlights cemetery 16 (Fawn Creek). Another map highlights the location of McCowan Springs in Bath County. Additionally, there are three articles by  The Coffeyville Daily Journal . An article in  The News-Gazette  covers the recognition of Lisa McCown by the Rockbridge Historical Society in 2002. Finally, a small envelope contains a letter from Charles A. McCown to his mother Ida McCown, two wedding inviations from McCown weddings, memoriams from William B. McCown's passing, and a pamphlet made in memory of Helen McCown Boyts.","File includes one letter from John W. McCoy to an unidentified person.","File includes four items, two of which are letters between the McCrory siblings.","File includes Columbia University's 1937  Report of the Dean of the School of Libary Service , which mentions of Blanche P. McCrum's tenure at the school.","Rev. McCutchan, Biography, Glade Spring Presbyterian Church.  A paper, \"The Rank and Importance of Liberal Education,\" submitted by him, April 20, 1870, Washington College.  A sermon by him in Waynesboro, September 14, 1879 and five sermons by him in Rogersville, Tennessee, transcripts, 1892, 1903, 1909, 1914-1915.  Rev. Frank McCutchan","W\u0026L History Class Brings Alum's Story to the Web, William Morrison started first modern human rights movement","\"This,\" World Catalyst Magazine, May 2009 and \"Blue Lights,\" The Shine Journal, both by student Lenora Nunnley, WLU 2009","William Beverley, James Patton, and the Settling of the Shenandoah Valley, Essex County Museum and Historical Society Bulletin, v.55, November 2010","Doctor Andrew Taylor Still, Virginia and North Carolina Ancestors From Revolutionary Times to 1836","Includes leaflet, \"Come Cheer for Mame Warren: The Author At?? Years,\" (A Washington and Lee Gentleman Would Never Reveal a Woman's Age.)","Daniel Winston, Former Slave, Buena Vista Resident, Marks Century of Life, Still Active.  Roanoke Times","Folder includes newspaper article entitled, \"Life of Blacks in Brownsburg Recalled\", \"Brownsburg of Old Recalled\" and the \"The Brownsburg Homicide\". Also included is a pamphlet titles \"Commencement Exercises Invitations for the Senior Class\" (1933), in which students Everette Sensabaugh, Beatrice Hart, Mary Buchanan, Virginia Craig, Mary Lotts, Nellie Wade, Mary Ellen Sweet, Mitchell Swisher, and Hugh Adams are mentioned.The folder also conatins a copy of the \"Historic Brownsburg Newsletter\", volume 6, issue 1, March-April 2009.","Includes two page Articles of Incorporation of Kerrs Creek Volunteer Fire Company, signed by members, July 19, 1960.","Includes invitation to the Fall Service of Thanksgiving, Honoring the Life of Louise Mikell, at Cedar Hill, October 1, 2023, Rev. Pendleton, Preacher.","Includes an eight page paper and a notecard with drawing of Sunnyside home, by Arthur Bartenstein.","Includes writing ink pen marked, Virginia Horse Center, Honoring Gov. Charles S. Robb, Bill Signing Day, March 22, 1985.","Stonewall Jackson's war horse.","Includes 1952 pay schedules for Registered Nurses at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Also included is a sixteen page paper, \"The Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital,\" by Katherine E. McAlpine.","Includes Stonewall Jackson Hospital Clinical Laboratories, 1987 pocket calendar.","The Student's Account of His Visit to the House Mountain.  The Height of Our Mountains by John Elder","Includes a June 1968 County News newspaer clipping, concerning death of Helen Keller, and states that Helen's great grandmother lived for some years in the Stonewall Jackson House.  She was Elizabeth Aylett, who married Alexander Spottswood Moore, nephew by marriage of Light Horse Harry Lee. After Elizabeth became a widow, she moved from their country home, \"Sydney Cove,\" and moved to Lexington with her five children.","Includes brochure, \"The Upper James River Water Trail: A New Perspective on the Blue Ridge Mountains,\" February 2009.","History of the Lost River State Park. A part of this park was formerly known as Lee White Sulphur Spring or Howard's Lick. Also included is a history of the Lee Cabin, whithin the park in Hardy County, West Virginia.","At Jordan's Point - Interpreting the Industrial and Transportation History of the Lexington, Virginia Area, Brochure","Clouds of Glory, A girl born in Richmond of Northern parents adopts Confederate loyalties, Virginia Cavalcade, Autumn","\"An Ideal Home Circle\": Lee Residences in Lexington, VA","Includes a Directory of Local Government Officials: Goshen, Glasgow, Lexington, Buena Vista, and Rockbridge, compiled by Lisa McCown, August 7, 1975 for a high school government class.  Also included are four pages of \"Our County Government Offices,\" August 21, 1997, giving the offices and names of the officials in each office, which include the following: Don Austin, Bob Day, Pat Self, Carol Hines, Gordon Saunders, Bruce Patterson, Leanne Shank, Bob Claytor, Bob Hayslett, Ron Argenbright, Charlie McGee, Sam Crickenberger, Eugene Browning, Tom Higgins, Woody Bowyer, Bob Weikel, Wayne Isley, Delbert Moore, Nina Cron, and George Simpson.","Includes a Rockbridge County, Virginia road map from 1938, a printed hand drawn regional \"scenic and historic\" map printed as a Christmas gift from Washington and Lee University, and a 2017 Lexingon/Rockbridge Chamber of Commerce community map which includes places and roads for the county as well as local business advertisements.","Includes undated Roanoke Times newspaper artice, \"Prints of old building will be sold to help fund renovation,\" and 2012 Rockbridge Weekly online 2011 article, \"Preservation Virginia Branch Honors Buena Vista Colored School Historical Society.\"","Includes a one page Closing Exercises Program for June 1, 1950 and a report card for Mary Alphin.  Also included are a June 8, 1971 elementary school certificate and seventh grade 1970-71 citizen award for Lisa Suzanne McCown.","Includes May 1997 LHS Alumni Newsletter, Memorial Donation Announcement 1992 notecard by Josephine H. McCown for Albert T. McCown, and Spring Concert program Lexington High School presents the Scarlet Hurricane Bands and the Lexington Elementary Bands, May 23, 1976.","Includes a News-Gazette article, October 15, 2003, \"Discipline 'Lovingly Dispensed,' Hardship 'Just The Way It Was': New Book Describes History of Palmer School.\" Palmer: The First Hundred Years in the Buffalo Community.  Also includes two copies of the program for the Palmer Homecoming and Rededication, Centennial Celebration, Palmer Community Center, October 19, 2003.","Brochure, Maury River Mercantile, the old Anderson Store.","Address Delivered by the Hon. John W. Brockenbrough on laying the corner stone of the new barracks of the Virginia Military Institute, July 4, 1850.  New York: John Wiley, 1850.","Includes 1980's bumper sticker, \"W\u0026L Better Dead, Then Co-ed.\"","FLASHBACK comic strips of Washington and Lee University history","Program, Bertram Turetzky, March 18, 1971.","A Tale of an Oar: A Hidden Message Revealed","Newspaper article, \"W\u0026L Should Change Its Name,\" The Roanoke Times, April 24, 2019.","Article on the restoration in a July 1961 Civil War publication.  Newspaper article, undated, \"W\u0026L President says school will build new museum--and continue using Lee Chapel.\"","Biographies of native American Indians, Robert Latham Owen WLU 1877 and Walter Jonathan Turnbull WLU 1909.","Paper written by Mame Warren, \"Simple Courtesy, The Evolution of the Speaking Tradition at Washington and Lee University,\" prepared for Professor P. M. Forni, Civility and Civilization, The Johns Hopkins University Master of Liberal Arts Program.","Lists of Washington and Lee University students or alumni killed during 20th and 21st century wars including the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf and since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.","World War II list updated by John Rutherford in July 1922.","President Lee's College: Robert E. Lee and the Renewal, Reformation, and Expansion of Washington College.","Includes a Clifton Forge, Virginia, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, notepad, \"We Welcome You to Our City and the Beautiful Mountains of Virginia.\" On the back is Mileage from Clifton Forge to places in Virginia and as far away as Washington, D.C. and Charleston, West Virginia.","Includes \"Genealogy of the Grigsby Family,\" In Part, Including a Brief Sketch of the Porter Family, Republished by Robert Hall McCormick, Chicago, 1905. Originally published by William H. Grigsby, December 1878.","Includes 50th Anniversary Program and a 50th Anniversary Booklet with history, which includes members. The Location of Organizational Meeting, December 1939, held at the Mayflower in Lexington, Virginia.","Includes school reports, marriage certificate, wedding invitation, and letter from Harvey before marriage.  Also included are photographs of Catherine Alphin, her parents and siblings.","A Lutheran Sunday School pin, which may have belonged to Catherine or one of her Alphin family members, while members at Bethany Lutheran Church in Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Contains the photos photos as follows: Catherine in basement at home with crocks, maybe about 1950; a photo of her, maybe on Mother's Day; and a group photo of her three high school aged children, Josephine, Harvey, and Harold. Also included is a group photo of Catherine and four other women, proably Home Demonstration Club, and a group photo of a young Catherine with Hope Welsh and Cecil Welsh. Also included is a photo of Catherine in front of Home Demonstration Market Price's sign.","Catherine's Mirror Drawing Experiment, August 19, 1925.  Also included is Catherine's autograph album, with notes and photos of friends, some marked August 1925.  A 1941 note from her daughter Josephine is included in the album and photos of sisters Mary and Jo Alphin, with a note from Jo.  Photocopies from the 1923 \"The Schoolmadam,\" State Normal School, Harrisonburg, VA, Catherine's Junior year.","Also includes a Myers Hardware Company memorandum book, which has some of Harvey's farm expenses for 1943.","Inludes a pencil marked Southern States Cooperative.","Includes biography, a couple of letters, one of which is from her sister, Elizabeth, a letter that School Board has raised her salary, a post card from brother Thomas, wedding invitation announcing marriage to Albert Orr McCown, and an W\u0026L Bicentennial Celebration invitation to her and Albert.  Also included is insurance receipt, no date.","One item is a Guide Ballot for the General Election, November 2, 1942 for Senator from the 20th Senatorial District of Virginia. (Rockbridge County)","Other material, 1964-1965.","Virginia Laws Made Plain: Laws and Legal Forms Prepared for the Use of Business Men, Farmers, and Mechanics, compiled by Hon. J. D. Hank, Jr..  Presented by Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, 1923.","Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, pocket calendar, 1930. ","Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, check, Sept. 21, 1935, made to Fred Berry from Mrs. Harvey L. Hotinger.","The Rockbridge National Bank pencil showing the 1960 Football Schedule for the Lexington Scarlet Hurricanes.","Photocopy of Kling's letter of resignation as Supt. of the Buena Vista School Board.","Invitation and program for the official dedication of the F. W. Kling, Jr. Elementary School, Buena Vista, Virginia, October 12, 1976.","Included is a Highland Maple Syrup advertisement, no date.","The War Time Diary, F. G. Walter (1837-1930), Co. A, 39th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States Army, June 20, 1863 - April 19, 1865.","Correspondence from Frank, to his brother and mother, December 10, 1862 - June 23, 1864. One letter from Frank's brother, Dorsey, to him, December 31, 1862.","Includes printouts of photographs given by Stewart Bennington.","Included are twelve handwritten lessons done by Catherine (Mrs. Harvey Hotinger), concerning the health of a baby.","Includes brochure, The Public Nurse, Outline of Activities.  Commonwealth of Virginia. State Board of Health. Bureau of Child Welfare. Richmond, 1924.","Bulletins include topics as follows: Scarlet Fever, Smallpox, Typhoid Fever, Measles, Mouth Hygeine, Simple Goiter, The Concrete Slab Pit Privy, Rules and Regulations for the Protection of Public Health, and Why Have Diphtheria?","Jamestown, Virginia National Park Service brochure, reprinted 1961. King's Arms Tavern Midday Fare menu, April 1962 and flyer.  Postcard with raised image of the States Exhibit Building, Jamestown Exposition, 1907.","Reunion Celebration for Classes of 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, and 1949 booklet, which includes \"What We've Been Doing\" forms for each class. Gift of Lisa McCown","Includes programs and newspaper articles for the Lexington High School Post War Year Reunions, July 29, 1978, College Inn Restaurant and June 11, 1983, W\u0026L Evans Dining Hall. Also includes a Memorial Address by George S. Lauderdale, and a Memorial Message prepared by Rev. Marion \"Pat\" Roberston, read by Edwin Adair. Both July 29, 1978. Gift of Lisa McCown","Includes early booklet, West Central 4-H Educational Center, Wirtz, Virginia 24184.  undated [1970's-1980's]","Includes deed trace.","A history of the Caproni biplane, which was forced to land on the John McCown farm, near Rokbridge Baths.  This history was compiled by Leon Johenning, and includes notes about the recovery of the airplane's propeller.","Includes some of Abraham Lincoln's quotes on slavery.","Photocopies of three newspaper articles on the February 17, 1962 Kerrs Creek Fire House dedication, and a February 21, 1987 Honorary Kerrs Creek Volunteer Fire Dept. Member Certificate for Albert T. McCown, who had passed away, August 17, 1985.","Includes photos of the First Lexington High School (1894-1903), the Ruffner builiding, which later was a graded school, Ann Smith Academy, which was used for Lexington High School (1903-1909), Ann Smith High School (1909-1927), which was later used as a grade school, and the Harrington Waddel High School (1927-).","Included is the Article of Incorporation and By-Laws.","Includes yearbooks, 1968-69, 1969-70, and 1970-71.","\"Author Brings Liberian Family'Home'\" THE NEWS-GAZETTE, October 1, 2014. Obituaries of Rev. S. T. A. Richards, Winston D. Richards, Mrs. Vyrie Maurilla Richards, and Liberian Statesman Ambassador George Padmore. Photocopy of a photo of J. Dossen Richards and a photo of John G. A. Richards.","The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.  Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections.","Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives","Rockbridge Historical Society","First Baptist Church (Lexington, Va.)","Randolph Street Methodist Church (Lexington, Va.)","Lylburn Downing School (Lexington, Va.)","Washington Post Company","African-Americans.  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Chavis House","Rockbridge County News","Virginia Historical Society","R. E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church (Lexington, Va.)","Richmond Times-Dispatch","Winchester Star","Washington and Lee University","United Daughters of the Confederacy","Lettie Pate Evans Foundation","Washington and Lee University. Department of Athletics. Football","Frederick Ladies Relief Society","Albemarle County, Virginia","Winthrop University","Washington and Lee University. Chapel","United States Military Academy","United States. National Archives and Records Administration","The Free-Lance Star","Staunton Spectator","Confederate States of America. Army","Lewiston Teller","Idaho Daily Statesman","Washington and Lee University, Department of Athletics, Track and Field","Lexington Historical Shop","Virginia Cavalcade","Washington and Lee University, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications","Norfolk State University (Va.). 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The Board of Directors indluded Raymond Hostetter, Harry Swisher, Raymond Hartbarger, Arthur Alphin, Tom Dunlap, and Harold Hotinger."],"fileplan_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of a Richmond Times Dispatch newspaper article, \"Retired Prof. Latture: Living Landmark at W\u0026amp;L,\" March 4, 1974; a commemorative stamp envelope signed by Washington and Lee University Presidents, Denny through Wilson; and obituaries by The Roanoke Times and the News-Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e"],"fileplan_heading_ssm":["File Plan"],"fileplan_tesim":["File includes a photocopy of a Richmond Times Dispatch newspaper article, \"Retired Prof. Latture: Living Landmark at W\u0026L,\" March 4, 1974; a commemorative stamp envelope signed by Washington and Lee University Presidents, Denny through Wilson; and obituaries by The Roanoke Times and the News-Gazette."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWashington and Lee Student Journalism Project, by students Catherine Carlock, Erin Galliher, Farrell Ulrich, and Mike White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Historical research of Lexington's Lost Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorseMania is a local public art project whose 13 life-sized fiberglass horses were fabricated by local artisan, Mark Cline, painted by local artists, sponsored by businesses and individuals, and placed throughout the cities of Lexington and Buena Vista as well as Rockbridge County, with the purpose of raising funds for Blue Ride CASA for Children.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCourt Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) is a non-profit organization serving our area's most severely abused, abandoned and neglected children through the recruitment, training, and supervision of community volunteers who advocate for their best interests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews-Gazette article, \"Bodie To Write Rockbridge History,\" The News-Gazette, Feb. 5, 2003; The Weekender article, \"Telling the 'Story' of Rockbridge,\" Dec. 3, 2011; and a cover of Bodie's book, REMARKABLE ROCKBRIDGE: THE STORY OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ephotocopy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKerrs Creek newspaper announcement that Josephine will be the News-Gazette correspondent for the Kerrs Creek area.  Also included, a June 1995 Thank You from the American Red Cross, Virginia West Virginia Floods DR#686, to Josephine for sharing her time and special talents, while helping people recover from the Virginia/West Virginia Floods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ephotocopies\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Texas-Sized Donation for Virginia Colleges, by Gregory Turley, Washington and Lee Class of 1987.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ephotocopy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral R. E. Lee's war-Horses, Traveller and Lucy Long.  Southern Historical Society Papers. Vol.18. Richmond, Va., January-December, 1890.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ephotocopy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDwelling in Lexington, Virginia, designed by Pendleton Scott Clark, architecture renowned for authenticity, was completed in 1929 for W\u0026amp;L Dean and Mrs. Frank J. Gilliam.  The handsome gardens for the Gilliams were primarily designed by the Charles Gillette, a widely regarded landscape architect of Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLexington in Historic Virginia brochure, about 1970, a notecard with a drawing of North Main Street by Raynal, and a color notecard of the Quilt designed by Gillie W. Campbell and quilted by Elise Bick, 1983. All items given by Lisa McCown, Lexington, VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHappy Holidays card from Wade's Mill, John and Karen Siegfried, 2017.  Also included from 2017 are as follows: 7 postcards, brochure, information card, retail grain's price list, and a flyer listing the stone-ground grains available at Wade's Mill. Also, a December 2, 1992 News-Gazetter article on the history of the mill and it's owners at the time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 1959 brochure, gift of Lisa McCown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Seven Hills of Rockbridge include the homes, Cherry Hill, Fruit Hill, Fancy Hill, Rose Hill, Hickory Hill, Clover Hill, and Liberty Hill.  A map of the location of these homes is included, as well as descriptions from the Rockbridge County, Virginia Hertiage Book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Scarletter, Lexington High School newsletter - v.30 no.2, Oct. 31, 1977; v.30 no.7, April 8, 1978; v.30 no.8, May 3, 1978.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFootball Programs: Lexington vs. Turner Ashby, Sept. 27, 1974; Lexington vs. Harrisonburg, Oct. 11, 1974; Lexington vs. Broadway, Sept. 9, 1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLife in Late Nineteenth Century Rockbridge Baths, paper written at Hollins College, Ms. Mary W. Atwell, Carrie M. Irvine, [ca.1974].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocoy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file includes a list of WLU alumni who went on to careers in the military and achieved the rank of General.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles C. Lewis, Jr. W\u0026amp;L '68, '71L; Charles C. Lewis, W\u0026amp;L 1930, M.A. 1931; H. Flood Madison, Jr., W\u0026amp;L 1920.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Honor System at the Washington and Lee University,\" by W\u0026amp;L Prof. J. A. Quarles, April 1902, WESTMINSTER MONTHLY, vol. 1, no.7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Record, Mock Democratic Convention, March 6 and 7, 1992. The cover of this booklet has a sketch of Main Street, looking south, with parade. The Mock Convention Record, W\u0026amp;L, April 17, 1995.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonnade Oaks flyer, Dashiell Dericks '18.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePoem, \"The Dogwood of Washington and Lee.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wall Lykes, WLU 1908, Joseph Taliaferro Lykes, WLU 1909, Joseph Taliaferro Lykes, Jr. WLU 1941\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas D. Ranson WLU 1859-60\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogy compiled by Alex Taylor, whose great grandfather was Alexander Tedford Barclay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterial given by Tangy (Gilven) Hunter-Hughes, a descendant of Jack Gilvin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneaology of Garland family, who bought some of the Washington College slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogy on the Harman family given by Carolyn Scott, which has photos and biographies of Charles Price Harman, born 1868, and his wife, Rachel Primrose \"Rose\" Cameron Sherrard, and their children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogy and biography of Rev. Peter Simon Lewis, the pastor of First Baptist Church, Lexington, Va., 1901-1906.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompiled by Tom Vansant Jr., Descendant of Dr. James Ramsey, Son of William.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescendant of Robert Alexander of Virginia, founder of the first classical school west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which became the present Washington and Lee University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBorgus served VMI as head waiter during the period between September 1919 and September 1955.  He then returned for a brief period between the months of September and December 1958.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Griffin born 1792 in Lexington, married November 21, 1816 in Virginia, and died 1850 in Boone County, Indiana.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWashington and Lee first established a registrar's office in 1910.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes: Multivariate Analysis Through Narrative History, by Alfred L. Brophy.  Reviewing G. Edward White, Law in American History: From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShep Rouse, W\u0026amp;L Graduate 1976.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLocated one mile west of I-81/64 at the Raphine, Virginia interchange.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe University Cleaners businesses were located at 7 N. Jefferson Street, Lexington, VA and 2028 Magnolia Street, Buena Vista, VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also book, \"Big Hill Road,\" in our Rare Book Collection (Rare F 232 .R68 B466 2022), which was compiled by Stewart Bennington and his sister Barbara Nunley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGifts of Lisa McCown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"America's Finest Inland Beach Resort.\" Gift of Lisa McCown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGift of Lisa McCown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGift of Lisa McCown\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General"],"odd_tesim":["Washington and Lee Student Journalism Project, by students Catherine Carlock, Erin Galliher, Farrell Ulrich, and Mike White.","Also includes Historical research of Lexington's Lost Cemetery.","Photocopy","HorseMania is a local public art project whose 13 life-sized fiberglass horses were fabricated by local artisan, Mark Cline, painted by local artists, sponsored by businesses and individuals, and placed throughout the cities of Lexington and Buena Vista as well as Rockbridge County, with the purpose of raising funds for Blue Ride CASA for Children.","Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) is a non-profit organization serving our area's most severely abused, abandoned and neglected children through the recruitment, training, and supervision of community volunteers who advocate for their best interests.","News-Gazette article, \"Bodie To Write Rockbridge History,\" The News-Gazette, Feb. 5, 2003; The Weekender article, \"Telling the 'Story' of Rockbridge,\" Dec. 3, 2011; and a cover of Bodie's book, REMARKABLE ROCKBRIDGE: THE STORY OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.","photocopy","Kerrs Creek newspaper announcement that Josephine will be the News-Gazette correspondent for the Kerrs Creek area.  Also included, a June 1995 Thank You from the American Red Cross, Virginia West Virginia Floods DR#686, to Josephine for sharing her time and special talents, while helping people recover from the Virginia/West Virginia Floods.","photocopies","A Texas-Sized Donation for Virginia Colleges, by Gregory Turley, Washington and Lee Class of 1987.","photocopy","General R. E. Lee's war-Horses, Traveller and Lucy Long.  Southern Historical Society Papers. Vol.18. Richmond, Va., January-December, 1890.","photocopy","Dwelling in Lexington, Virginia, designed by Pendleton Scott Clark, architecture renowned for authenticity, was completed in 1929 for W\u0026L Dean and Mrs. Frank J. Gilliam.  The handsome gardens for the Gilliams were primarily designed by the Charles Gillette, a widely regarded landscape architect of Richmond, Virginia.","Lexington in Historic Virginia brochure, about 1970, a notecard with a drawing of North Main Street by Raynal, and a color notecard of the Quilt designed by Gillie W. Campbell and quilted by Elise Bick, 1983. All items given by Lisa McCown, Lexington, VA.","Happy Holidays card from Wade's Mill, John and Karen Siegfried, 2017.  Also included from 2017 are as follows: 7 postcards, brochure, information card, retail grain's price list, and a flyer listing the stone-ground grains available at Wade's Mill. Also, a December 2, 1992 News-Gazetter article on the history of the mill and it's owners at the time.","The 1959 brochure, gift of Lisa McCown.","The Seven Hills of Rockbridge include the homes, Cherry Hill, Fruit Hill, Fancy Hill, Rose Hill, Hickory Hill, Clover Hill, and Liberty Hill.  A map of the location of these homes is included, as well as descriptions from the Rockbridge County, Virginia Hertiage Book.","The Scarletter, Lexington High School newsletter - v.30 no.2, Oct. 31, 1977; v.30 no.7, April 8, 1978; v.30 no.8, May 3, 1978.","Football Programs: Lexington vs. Turner Ashby, Sept. 27, 1974; Lexington vs. Harrisonburg, Oct. 11, 1974; Lexington vs. Broadway, Sept. 9, 1977.","Life in Late Nineteenth Century Rockbridge Baths, paper written at Hollins College, Ms. Mary W. Atwell, Carrie M. Irvine, [ca.1974].","Photocoy","This file includes a list of WLU alumni who went on to careers in the military and achieved the rank of General.","Charles C. Lewis, Jr. W\u0026L '68, '71L; Charles C. Lewis, W\u0026L 1930, M.A. 1931; H. Flood Madison, Jr., W\u0026L 1920.","\"The Honor System at the Washington and Lee University,\" by W\u0026L Prof. J. A. Quarles, April 1902, WESTMINSTER MONTHLY, vol. 1, no.7.","The Record, Mock Democratic Convention, March 6 and 7, 1992. The cover of this booklet has a sketch of Main Street, looking south, with parade. The Mock Convention Record, W\u0026L, April 17, 1995.","Colonnade Oaks flyer, Dashiell Dericks '18.","Poem, \"The Dogwood of Washington and Lee.\"","John Wall Lykes, WLU 1908, Joseph Taliaferro Lykes, WLU 1909, Joseph Taliaferro Lykes, Jr. WLU 1941","Thomas D. Ranson WLU 1859-60","Genealogy compiled by Alex Taylor, whose great grandfather was Alexander Tedford Barclay.","Material given by Tangy (Gilven) Hunter-Hughes, a descendant of Jack Gilvin.","Geneaology of Garland family, who bought some of the Washington College slaves.","Genealogy on the Harman family given by Carolyn Scott, which has photos and biographies of Charles Price Harman, born 1868, and his wife, Rachel Primrose \"Rose\" Cameron Sherrard, and their children.","Genealogy and biography of Rev. Peter Simon Lewis, the pastor of First Baptist Church, Lexington, Va., 1901-1906.","Compiled by Tom Vansant Jr., Descendant of Dr. James Ramsey, Son of William.","Descendant of Robert Alexander of Virginia, founder of the first classical school west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which became the present Washington and Lee University.","Borgus served VMI as head waiter during the period between September 1919 and September 1955.  He then returned for a brief period between the months of September and December 1958.","William Griffin born 1792 in Lexington, married November 21, 1816 in Virginia, and died 1850 in Boone County, Indiana.","Washington and Lee first established a registrar's office in 1910.","Also includes: Multivariate Analysis Through Narrative History, by Alfred L. Brophy.  Reviewing G. Edward White, Law in American History: From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War.","Shep Rouse, W\u0026L Graduate 1976.","Located one mile west of I-81/64 at the Raphine, Virginia interchange.","The University Cleaners businesses were located at 7 N. Jefferson Street, Lexington, VA and 2028 Magnolia Street, Buena Vista, VA.","See also book, \"Big Hill Road,\" in our Rare Book Collection (Rare F 232 .R68 B466 2022), which was compiled by Stewart Bennington and his sister Barbara Nunley.","Photocopy","Gifts of Lisa McCown","\"America's Finest Inland Beach Resort.\" Gift of Lisa McCown","Gift of Lisa McCown","Gift of Lisa McCown"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Identification of item], Washington and Lee University and Regional Virginia History Research Collection, WLU Coll. 0668, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn some cases the citation format may vary. Please contact Special Collections' staff to verify the appropriate format.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Identification of item], Washington and Lee University and Regional Virginia History Research Collection, WLU Coll. 0668, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA","In some cases the citation format may vary. Please contact Special Collections' staff to verify the appropriate format."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eFile includes article titled \"Paxton Davis, Former W\u0026amp;L Professor, Dies.\"\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["File includes article titled \"Paxton Davis, Former W\u0026L Professor, Dies.\""],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee Catherine's 1922 Elizabethan College yearbook (Rare LD 7251 .S32 E44 v.5 1922). She played basketball and her cousin Hope Welsh also attended there.  The school burned while the students were at home on Christmas vacation.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["See Catherine's 1922 Elizabethan College yearbook (Rare LD 7251 .S32 E44 v.5 1922). She played basketball and her cousin Hope Welsh also attended there.  The school burned while the students were at home on Christmas vacation."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePublished lecture by retired professor John McKenzie Gunn, dated April 25, 1994; \"Can Economics be Both Relevant and 'good'?\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes four items: \"A Community's Stories\" article from The News Gazzette concerning an exhibit by the Rockbridge Historical Society; a list of 'Old Lexington Colored People,' from the early 1900's from Leslie Lyle Campbell's notes; information on a group of slaves from Caroline County (a page copied from Colonial Caroline: a History of Caroline County, Virginia); and a letter to Special Collections concerning information on the holdings of records concerning black history in Virginia.  Nine Historic Lexington Foundation interviews done for Black History Month 2016, mostly by Beverly Tucker, one by Anne McClung, and one by W\u0026amp;L Students Caitlin Mullen '05 and Anne Young '04, with Lexington African Americans and one Buena Vista resident.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e143 pages printed from the 1810 Virginia Census, listing \"Other Free\" Heads of Household, by family name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegister of Free Negroes of Rockbridge County, Virginia, with index.  According to the Act of the General Assembly of Virginia.  Passed January 25, 1803\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegister of Marriages, Colored Persons in Rockbridge County under act of Virginia Assembly Passed February 27, 1866\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of Washington Post article, \"The Captive Nations of Slaves,\" covering an exhibit at the Museum of the Confederacy named \"Before Freedom Came,\" 1991. \nReceipt for purchase of slave, John. January 26, 1850.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes program for the All Saints Memorial Celebration at the Augusta Street United Methodist Church, Nov. 1, 2009, a Fairview Cemetery brochure, and Friends of Fairview Christmas wreath order form, Nov. 23, 2009.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes brochure, African-American Heritage, Staunton, Virginia, undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAddress delivered before the Agricultural Society of Rockbridge, at its annual Fair, at Fancy Hill, October 17, 1839, by the Rev. Henry Ruffner, D. D., President of Washington College.  The Lexington Gazette, and Rockbridge Farmer, June 23, 1840.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes \"Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book: Designed for Farmers, Mechanics, and all People,\" 1872.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of ledger, 1892-1903.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes a copy of a report of \"Approval of Site, Plans, etc.\" for a school house at Alone Mill; a balance sheet by Alone Canning Co., and a photocopy of a pencil drawn map of Alone Mill. Also includes a lecture paper by Anne McClung, which includes many photos.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes \"Selected Bibliography for Historic Artifact Identification and Analysis\" prepared by Kurt C. Russ and John M. McDaniel, for distribution at 1989 ASV Historic Artifact Workshop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains booklet titled \"Battle of Asheville.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains two copies of \"The Ruth Anderson McCulloch Branch of The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiguqities: 1896-1987.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a booklet titled \"A Rockbridge Area Resource Guide for People in Need.\" Prepared by Helpline/Information and Referral and United Way of Lexington-Rockbridge County. Also includes the minutes of Board Meeting, May 9, 1995.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains student paper authored by Emily Barnes '01 titled \"Lee Memorial Association.\" In addition, a copy of a sketch from 1883 about the Lee Memorial Association titled \"Southern Historical Society Papers.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet titled \"Education for a Better Tomorrow, 1992 Annual Report.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Procedings\" publication published by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, including reports and activities of the 100th Annual Meeting in Atlanta Georgia as well as current lists of member insitutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photocopy of a 1758 schedule titled \"To the Militia of the Coutny of Augusta, and for Provisions furnished by sundry inhabitants of the said county, viz.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopies of two letters concerning Washington and Lee student, John West Addison.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle titled \"A Confederate Hero,\" from \u003ctitle\u003eBlue and Gray\u003c/title\u003e, 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiography compiled in 1997 concerning Archibald Alexander (5 pgs. long).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the Washington and Lee Homecoming Queen from c.1893 and her protrait which hangs in the Special Collections vault (WLU Coll PP 0081).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains an article titled \"Colonel William Allan at McDonough\"; an 1889 address by J. Randolph Tucker; and an 1890 memorial by Washington and Lee Board of Trustees concerning Allan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a biography and illustration of Allen under the title of \"The Headlight.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopry of newpaper article concerning Anderson, slave of Cyrus McCormick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of biography concerning Armstrong from the \"Dictionary of American Biography.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle titled \"Civil War Author on the Trail of History.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo copies of a Christmas oration in memoriam of Constance Rosalie Auden.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituaries, clipped from Roanoke Times 2002.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiography of Alexander Tedford Barclay compiled by Washington and Lee student in 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiography compiled in 1997 and geneological chart showing many prominent people of Rockbridge County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNarrative titled \"Aunt Elizabeth Remembers;\" interview with retired Washington and Lee professor, Charles Turner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopies of newspaper clippings concerning the death of Barkley at Washington and Lee University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of a letter to George Baxter from Edward Johnson introducing Dr. Barton, December 21, 1805. Pamphlet entitled, \"How Many Botany Books Did Thomas Jefferson Own?\" mentioning Dr. Barton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of Calyx 1939 yearbook picture. Basse gave donation towards Special Collections workroom.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Fatal Affray,\" Lexington Gazette, January 19, 1854. Murder of Cadet Thomas Blackburn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopies of Calyx yearbook pictures and Alumni directory information. John G. Boatwright '15 made donation for the University Library reading room in memory of Robert McDearmon Boatwright '42.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary, Washington and Lee University News Home, 5/12/2006.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo separate biographies for Borden Jr. and Sr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eE-mail message to the Washington and Lee community concerning Brady's death, obituaries from the News-Gazette and The Roanoke Time. Article titled \"'Pat' Brady's Life One of Quiet Service to a Community He Loved So Dearly,\" the News-Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of letter from Andrew Brooks to sister, January 23,1861; photocopy and written transcript of letter from James J. White relating to the death of William Brooks, July 16,1861; photocopy of telegram to J.M. Brooks relating to the remains of his son, William Brooks, July 20,1861; Diary entries written by Andrew Brooks in Augusta County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComposer in Residence, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Roanoke Valley Choral Society, 1995-1996, pgs. 7-8.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopies of letters to his sister, Fannie, September 20, 1846, and September 7, 1848, while a student at Washington College. Original letters reside at Virginia Military Academy Archives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadio script concerning Clarence Brown used in Cincinnati, Ohio on the radio program, \"Personalities in your Government.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert and Benjamin Brown's relatives who attended Washington and Lee University. A letter addressed to President John Delane Wilson from their mother, Elizabeth Barry Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes a Civil War centennial commemorative edition of the Valley News Echo concerning John Brown's Raid and Harper's Ferry(2 copies); Stanton Spectator article titled \"The Out-break at Harper's Ferry\"; Stanton Spectator article concerning John Brown's execution titled \"Results of the Trial\"; Richmond Times-Dispatch article titled \"Documents in Treason Trial of John Brown; The Sunday Baltimore article titled \"Verdict Missing in Brown Papers; a history course examinaton concerning this time period; an account by someone named \"Jackson\" of John Brown's execution addressed to his wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles from three local newspapers titled \"He's a Third-Generation Blacksmith,\" \"The Village Blacksmith, Manly Brown, Dies at 93,\" \"Family Dreams of Living Museum. Jack Chaffee as Blacksmith and Curator of Brown's Forge.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photocopy of the Ministerial Directory of the Presbyterian Church in the United States highlighting William Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains obituary of Bruinsma dated September 17, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes color notecard of Frank Buchser painting of Robert E. Lee, \"The Last Life Portrait of General Robert E. Lee,\" a letter from Buchser to Lee concerning a portrait, Washington and Lee News Release titled \"General Lee 'Comes Home' for His Birthday,\" Religious Herald article titled \"Valentine's Recumbent Statue of General Robert E. Lee,\" and correspondence between various researchers interested in this topic and Special Collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet titled \"Edward Buncombe and Buncombe County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary, \"Thrown from Horse...,\" by Lexington Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary found in the News-Gazette about Edmund Campbell, a Washington and Lee graduate and attorney who worked on various cases concerning desegregation of Virginia schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a biography excerpt from \"Who's Who in America\" and an obituary by the Lexington Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary of John Lyle Campbell Sr. by the Lexington Gazette, a biography writtten by his son Robert Fishburne Campbell, and copies of letters between Robert E. Lee and Prof. Campbell as well as T.J. Jackson and Prof. Campbell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article \"Coach Nears End of Not-So-Typical Career: Washington and Lee's Canfield Prepares for Life After 31 Years of Generals' Basketball,\" and a Roanoke Times article named \" 'I Hope I've Touched Some Lives.' \"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiography by the American National Biography Online.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains one photocopy of obituary by News-Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary by the News-Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorial program for Gray Castle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoanoke Times article concerning Caudill's retirement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a booklet titled \"The Cavendish Family History.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes biography and copies of two letters from Theofore Roosevelt, one concerning a memorial to Robert E. Lee and the other one concerning Chamberlain's son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder contains at least twenty eight separate items concerning John Chavis, from articles, portraits, letters, records, to research papers concerning his role in Washington and Lee Lee as well as African American history. Also included are the W\u0026amp;L Alumni magazine artices, \"Chavis House named,\" March/April 1986 and \"Chavis House dedicated,\"  November/December 1986.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes obituary by Rockbridge County News.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile contains obituary by the News-Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article titled Honor Rolls,\" a set of photographs, and a pamphlet commemorating her life and work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes an obituary written by The Lexington Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLexington Gazette obituary about Crenshaw.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe file includes a biography by the American National Biography Online.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopied catalogue of the Library of Daniel Parke Custis: From a Manuscript in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society, \"The Magazine of History and Biography,\" October 1909, pages 404-412.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Library of John Parke Custis, Esq., of Fairfax County, Virginia, \"Tyler's Quarterly,\" October 1927, pages 97-103.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a greeting card made by the Artists of the Lexington, Virginia Note Card Series, 2002.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe file includes a program in memory of Daniels, hosted at Robert E. Lee Memorial Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article titled \"Turning 90 is Just Another Milestone in Lexington Woman's Interesting Life.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes three articles concerning Professor DeLaney's professional career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopies of newspaper obituaries of her death on December 10,1940. Photocopy of a newspaper article, \"U.D.C. Holds Exercises at Sayler Creek Battlefield\" at which Ms. Dickinson was a speaker. Photocopy of a page concerning Miss Dickinson's book, \"Confederate Leaders.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article titled \"Service Held for Dr. G.W. Diehl.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticled titled \"Judge Ryland Dodson Remembers Early 20th Century Tobacco Farming,\" September 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile contains e-mail message distributed by the Broadcast Mailer at Washington and Lee on the death of Francis Drake.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes biography.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a biography from the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation website and some genealogy from the LDS website.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes two copies of the memorial service program for Farrar's passing and a photocopy of a News-Gazette article titled \"Tiger.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article titled \"He Disciplined Popular Culture\" as well as an obituary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of the \"Washington and Lee Ambulance Unit\" from the 1926 Alumni Directory. This photocopy features an article about Fletcher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes notes on \"Miss Laura.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopies of two obituaries concerning Mr. Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of Roanoke Times newspaper clipping titled \"New President of Washington and Lee.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes obituary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes biography on Mr. Gatewood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of obituary for Mercer Graham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopies of articles concerning the life and career of Mel Greenberg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes biography on Mr. Greenwood, dentist of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a memorial program as well as an obituary by the Roanoke Times.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article titled \"Randolph Hall Refused to Fail.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes memorial program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes two photocopies of the Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine with an article focused on Ms. Harris, titled \"Still Crazy After All These Years.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopy of article titled \"Off the beaten path: the Chronicler of Lexington is an institution himself.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopy of a petition to Jefferson Davis representing that Heale is a citizen of Giles County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an appendix titled \"The Mystery Woman.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of a biographical sketch of Hobson by Charles Lee Hobson, March 5, 1998. Photocopies of two papers by Hobson entitled \"How I came to Elizabethtown, Kentucky\" and \"How General Lee Came to Washington College.\" Photocopies of a letter to Lee concerning Hobson (1869) and a Louisville Times article about the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Harvey's Lexington High School, Senior Class Graduation invitation, June 1, 1950.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of essay titled \"James Lewis Howe - Chemist and Philatelist.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle includes biography and obituary concerning Howerton and his wife Mary N.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes notes on Mrs. Hull, a source for Eleanor Roosevelt's Visit to Goshen Recalled.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes 27 photocopies of letters, transcripts, notes, etc. on Mr. Hutcherson, Washington and Lee University Class of 1902.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a letter concerning Ipsen's chauffer, as well as photocopy of portrait of Lee painted by Ipsen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes \"Stonewall,\" a commemorative section of The News-Gazette concerning the Jackson Statue Rededication. In addition, a set of remarks and notes by Mayor Derrick and papers of lectures given by Mary Coulling, Robert F. Hunter, James I. Robertson, Jr., and the Frederick Ladies Relief Society. Program and brochure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article titled \"Window on the Past: An Unusual Tribute to Stonewall Jackson;\" \"'Stonewall' Jackson's Grave;\" \"Jackson Day,\" and many more copies of similarly focused articles from local newspapers. Also included a brochure reprinted and distributed by Stonewall Jackson Memorial Incorporate, Lexington, Virginia, \"The Religious Character of Stonewall Jackson,\" an address by James Power Smith, D.D., Captain and A.D.C. Staff of General Jackson. The address was delivered at the Inauguration of the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Building, Virginia Military Institute, June 23, 1897.\nA printed map showing all of Stonewall Jackson's movements, Compliments of Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Inc., Lexington, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopies of material concerning Jackson as constable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes eleven photocopies, black and white and color of Moor as Jackson, one of which is at Virginia Military Institute. Two color photos.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article from The American Art Journal titled \"Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Thomas jefferson\" as well as a photocopy of the Spring 1982 article, \"The Adams-Jefferson portrait Exchange.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopies of obituaries and photographs concerning the Johnson and McDowell families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of inside cover of \"Closing Exercises of Privat School.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopy of biography from \"Dictionary of American Biography.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiking Through Albemarle with John Jones, Scottsville Museum, Capturing Our Heritage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a copy of a magazine titled \"The Iron Worker\" as well as handwritten and typewritten copies of \"A Sketch of Colonel John Jordan (1777-1854).  Also includes a paper, \"John Jordan, Virginia Builder,\" by Marshall Fishwick, and a photocopy of Summer 1973 Virginia Cavalcade article, \"John Jordan: Builder and Entrepreneur,\" by L. Moody Simms, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a booklet titled \"Edward Southey Joynes: Father of the University and Life Trustee of Winthrop.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a magazine article titled \"A Chinese Master Opens Western Eyes to Eastern Art.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes various pieces, including \"The Unusual of Lieutenant George C. Junkin, C.S.A.,\" a discourse commemorative of George Junkin delivered in the West Spruce St. Presbyterian Church, and \"George Junkin and His Eschatological Vision,\" and \"Secession Fever on a Southern Campus.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes articles titled \"Matthew Kahle's Log\" and \"Old George , 1844.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe file includes a brochure for The Stan Kamen Collection of Western Art at Washington and Lee University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a biography, obituary, funeral and memorial services programs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary (dated August 1, 1955) and two Athletic Association certificates for cross country, 1928 and track, 1929.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Memoriam, A senseless tragedy. The New President, John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. POST, The Saturday Evening Post, December 14, 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes various copies of programs of \"A Celebration of the Life of King,\" bulletins for churches, as well as various programs, which includes Black History Month.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe 2010 Black History Month program includes the following:  Poem, \"From the Shanty to the White House,\" by Laura Watts; \"Ground Hog Poem,\" by Spotswood Alexander Styles; \"What If There Were No Black Folk?,\" by Barbara Leahy, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a memorial service program held at Lee Chapel on July 5, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of a newspaper article concerning Labro, November 12, 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary from the Rockbridge County News, November 8, 1900.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. J. Lafferty: A Remarkable Life, Secrets of the Blue Ridge\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes information concerning the burial of Latane and a painting of and poem about the burial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article titled \"America's Baskerville Printer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article from the News Gazette titled \"It's a Lauck!\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article concerning the death of Annie Lee by The Roanoke News; a copy of music sung at Ms. Lee's funeral and the Washington and Lee memorial service; articles titled \"Famous Daughter Laid to Rest at W\u0026amp;L\" and \"Annie Lee's Remains Now in Lee Chapel\"; a program, In Memoriam Anne Carter Lee; invitation to private memorial service and luncheon at Lee House; remarks made by Mary Coulling at the private memorial service; remarks made by Capt. Peniston at the private memorial service for Annie Carter Lee; two color postcards of her grave and monument at Warren County, North Carolina; and an excerpt from a letter written at West Point, concerning the young gentlemen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary of Mr. Lee, former Mayor of Buena Vista.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article concerning the death and burial of Dr. G.B. Lee by the Ring-tum Phi.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes obituary of Lee by the Ring-tum Phi; \"From West Point to Fort Point: The Story of George Elliot and Custis Lee\"; \"Major-General George Washington Custis Lee\"; \"Last Battles: The Wartime and Postwar Careers of Custis Lee\"; and photocopies of items at the National Archives concerning G.W.C. Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a booklet with an article titled \"Reverend Henderson Lee: Father of Presbyterianism in Lunenburg County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article titled \"The Manly and Upright will Brand Your Name Infamy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article titled \"They Surrendered Honorably,\" an excerpt from a letter to her cousin Caroline from Derwent, and a collection of letters from Mrs. Mary Custis Lee to the Snowden Family of Alexandria, Virginia entitled \"My Dear Louisa.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes copies of letters containing information suggesting that G. Campbell Brown, stepson of Gen. Richard Ewell, began courting Mildred Lee and later proposed to her. In addition, the file includes an article concerning the death of Mildred Lee's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file includes twenty-seven separate items. Of these items, there are various brochures and booklets entitled, \"Robert E. Lee: Innovative Educator,\" \"Notes on a Visit to Robert E. Lee,\" \"Lee: The Final Achievement,\" and \"Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson Returned to Lexington, Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e In addition, the following articles: \"Furtherance of Southern Education was Lee's Goal;\" \"Aging Successfully: The Example of Robert E. Lee;\" \"How Gen. Lee Came to Washington College;\" \"After 32 Years, Lee-Jackson Painting on Display;\" \"General Lee After the War,\" from the magazine \u003cemph\u003eThe Century Magazine\u003c/emph\u003e; \"Reminiscences of General Lee,\" \u003cemph\u003eThe Outlook\u003c/emph\u003e pages 964-969; \"The Last Years of Lee\" delivered to the United Daughters of the Confederacy; \"The Robert E. Lee Birthday Celebration;\" \"Lee Centennial at Washington and Lee,\" from \u003cemph\u003eThe Southern Collegian\u003c/emph\u003e; \"On the Life and Character of Gen. Robert E. Lee,\" written by John W. Daniel for the \u003cemph\u003eLexington Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e; \"Unveiling Lee's Statue,\" written by John W. Daniel for the \u003cemph\u003eStaunton Spectator\u003c/emph\u003e; Article written for \u003cemph\u003eThe Free-Lance Star\u003c/emph\u003e by Capt. Robert Peniston entitled \"The Last Tour;\" Articled written by John Elrod for the \u003cemph\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c/emph\u003e entitled, \"Lee as Educator Sought to Heal Wounds;\" and an Article written by Captain James L.D. Monroe entitled \"General Robert E. Lee Covers.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe file includes excerpts from letters written by Agnes Lee to her friend Lizzie Fuller and Mrs. R.E. Lee concerning Robert E. Lee's death, as well as \"General Lee's Special Letters,\" notes used by Captain Peniston during his talk to the Alumni College at Washington and Lee, July 2006.  \nThere are two chapters from two books: \"College Days Under General Lee,\" chapter 6 of the book, \u003cemph\u003eMemories of Four-Score Years\u003c/emph\u003e by Samuel Hall Chester; \"The Lee-White Friendship,\" chapter 7 of \u003cemph\u003eOld Zeus: Life and Letters of James J. White.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFinally, the file includes remarks on Robert E. Lee made at Kiwanis by Capt. Robert Peniston, an essay entitled \"Lee at Appomattox,\" photocopies of two sketches by Robert E. Lee of soldiers in the Mexican Army sent home to his children, a copy of an endorsement of young Robert E. Lee from William B. Leary, his teacher in Alexandria, and a program and flier of the memorial observance of Lee given by the Liberty Hall Volunteers re-enactment group and Washington and Lee Alumni. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEight items added to file.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eProgram, Robert E. Lee Week, August 22-26, 1932, The Greenbrier and Cottages, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"A Tribute to General Robert E. Lee,\" by Dr. Julian C. Brown (1856-1904).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAn Interview with General Robert E. Lee by John Leyburn.  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. May to October 1885.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Hardy Heritage by Harold D. Garber, Moorefield (WV) Examiner, January 2010.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Gen. R. E. Lee, The Virginia Gazette, October 14, 1870.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA Dream of Robert E. Lee Comes True, by Virgil C. Jones, The United States Publisher, September 1928.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLEE, The Photographic History of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Cache,\" Autumn Song, by Ceane O'Hanlon-Lincoln.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes various copies of programs for memorial services honoring Robert E. Lee as well as an article entitled \"Decoration Day at the Graves of Lee and Jackson.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary by the \u003cemph\u003eLexington Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e, articles in the \u003cemph\u003eRockbridge County News\u003c/emph\u003e and the \u003cemph\u003eLexington Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e concerning his death and funeral, one entitled \"The Burial March of Dundee.\" In addition, the file includes a \u003cemph\u003eRing-tum Phi\u003c/emph\u003e article entitled, \"May Remove Colonel Lee from Chapel.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes articles entitled \"Children of the Blue and Gray,\" from \u003cemph\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c/emph\u003e and \"Robert E. Lee V Tries to Avoid Trading on His Honored Name\" from \u003cemph\u003eThe Atlanta Journal and Constitution\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes articles entitled \"On the Trail of Robert E. Lee's Daughters\" and \"Author Says Unmarried Women Neglected by Historians\" from the \u003cemph\u003eDaily News Leader\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes photocopies of two obituaries for Mr. Letcher, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an essay written by Charles C. Lewis entitled \"A Tale of an Oar: A Hidden Message Revealed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes obituaries of James Lewis, Stonewall Jackson's faithful body servant, \u003cemph\u003eLexington Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes article by the \u003cemph\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary from the \u003cemph\u003eLewiston Teller\u003c/emph\u003e and an article In Memoriam by the \u003cemph\u003eIdaho Daily Statesman\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary from \u003cemph\u003eThe News-Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article by the \u003cemph\u003eNews-Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e entitled \"Shop to Feature Books, Items on War Era.\" In addition, the file includes a brochure to the Lexington Historical Shop and business card for Lurate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article from the \u003cemph\u003eVirginia Cavalcade\u003c/emph\u003e entitled \"John Blair and His 'Automatic Bookstore'.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes three pages with information about MacCorkle for the Alumni Directory and Jacket File.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a brief biography of MacCorkle by the Washington and Lee University News Office, a biographical statement, \"Information for the Alumni Directory and Jacket File,\" and a picture of Stuart MacCorkle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes two obituaries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an article by the \u003cemph\u003eRoanoke Times\u003c/emph\u003e entitled, \"New Headmaster Mixes Work and Play.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a magazine article entitled, \"Persisting in the Publishing World.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary by the \u003cemph\u003eNews Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a 2001 article entitled, \"The Man Behind the Name: New Biography Explores The Achievements of 'Fesser' McCluer\" and obituaries for the \u003cemph\u003eLexington Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e and the \u003cemph\u003eRockbridge County News\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy of a short biography of McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a medal - \u003cemphp\u003eCentennial of the Reaper, 1831-1931\u003c/emphp\u003e; a booklet entitled \u003cemph\u003eMcCormick Celebration, September 25, 1931\u003c/emph\u003e; a color brochure of the McCormick Farm; a biography from the McCormick International Harvester Collection Archives; and two copies of the \u003cemph\u003eIron Worker\u003c/emph\u003e featuring an article entitled, \"Walnut Grove--Where Farm Mechanization Began.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a program of retirement from 25 years of service to the Buena Vista City Public Schools, two biographies, and two photographs of Albert McCown, about 1955 and Oct. 1980.  Also included an early color Christmas card printed by Albert, before his marriage, while he studied Industrial Arts at VPI. Also a Christmas card printed by Albert at his home in Kerrs Creek, Rockbridge County, VA, about 1970's, when he had his family, and an envelope of Albert's, McCown's Printing Service.  Included is his name tag for the Virginia School Boards Association, Rockbridge County, with ribbons, Board Member, Delegate. A newspaper clipping, \"McCown New Member of School Board,\" and photocopy of the News-Gazette clipping featuring Albert's service to the Rockbridge County School Board.  Also included a return address envelope, Parry McCluer High School, Athletic Department, Buena Vista, VA 24416, maybe printed by Albert when he was Athletic Director there. A 1973-74 basketball/wrestling Parry McCluer high school card.  A photo of Albert and coworker Industrial Arts Teacher, Ward Lockett.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes a 1969 issue of THE VISTA, which includes an article, \"Teacher of the Month: Albert McCown.\" On the title page of this issue is a sketch of the Parry McCluer mascot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are a Father's Day card and Happy Birthday card, both made by his oldest daughter, Lisa. The Happy Birthday card is signed by Lisa, Josephine, his wife, and Jennifer, his youngest daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Washington and Lee application for Admission, April 1, 1947, which was never turned in.  Albert decided to go to VPI in Blacksburg, and graduated in 1957.  He became the Industrial Arts Teacher at Parry McCluer High School in Buena Vista, Virginia, 1959-1984.  Also included is a William Byrd Parent-Teachers Association yearbook, 1957-1958, where Albert is listed as Senior High teacher, where he taught Industrial Arts in Roanoke, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlbert T. McCown Memorial Scholarship recipients, Buena Vista Public Schools, 1987-1995.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a \u003cemph\u003eRockbridge County News\u003c/emph\u003e article entitled, \"Civil War Memoirs of Mr. McCown Telling of Life in Northern Prison\"; other brief newspaper notices about McCown from \u003cemph\u003eThe Dallas Daily Herald\u003c/emph\u003e; an obituary from the \u003cemph\u003eLexington Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e; and an image of Dr. Albert McCown and his father James L. McCown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a photocopy from the book, \u003cemph\u003eThe McCormick Reaper Legend\u003c/emph\u003e focusing on John McCown, the \"Blade Maker.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes an obituary and picture of John Graham McCown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA photo as baby included and letter from Sears, Roebuck and Co. announcing Josephine as one of the winners of a baby contest.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJosephine's Presbyterian Church in the U. S. Catechism certificate, August 14, 1938.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePledge for regular investment in defense savings bonds, May 16, 1942.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of 1949 Roanoke College yearbook page.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTwo European postcards from first cousin Richard Marshall, 1950's, one addressed to their grandmother, Mrs. Rice Hotinger.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of invitation to Johnston-Willis Hospital School of Nursing graduation, May 16, 1952, including photocopy of photo as RN in 1952. Whiteside Radio Service, Lexington, VA receipt to Josephine Hotinger for purchase of a TV set, etc., October 1954.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Mrs. Josephine H. McCown, R.N. pin worn at the Stonewall Jackson Hospital, 1959-1971, along with hospital mask.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes miscellaneous documents, 1975, 1979, 2003 and 1970 American Red Cross Nursing Program card, and American Red Cross volunteer identification pin, worn while volunteering ath local bloodmobiles, after retiring in 1992. Also her American National Red Cross Nurse pin.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFile also includes photo of Josephine as W\u0026amp;L Student Health Head Nurse and W\u0026amp;L indentification pin worn as Head Nurse, biographical information written at her retirement from Washington and Lee University as head nurse of infirmary, 1992; as well as an article from the News-Gazette, entitled, \"W\u0026amp;L Honors Employees At Banquet\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are two postcards from first cousin Richard Marshall of Urbanna, Virginia, while in Paris, 1951, to Josephine, and the other to his grandmother, Susan Rader Hotinger (Mrs. Rice), 1952, while in Rome.  Also a letter from Richard Marshall to Josephine, March 24, 1952.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photo of Josephine as a little girl, ca.1930.  Also photos included are as follows: Josephine in wedding gown at her home in September 1955, two identified photos of Josephine celebrating her November 1989 birthday with her coworkers from the W\u0026amp;L Infirmary, a group photo of Stonewall Jackson Registered nurses, and Josephine's W\u0026amp;L ID card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of Josephine's obituary from the News-Gazette, September 7, 2022.  She passed away on August 31, 2022.  Also included are her September 10 funeral service programs done by New Monmouth Church and Harrison's Funeral Home. Included is a letter of condolences from W\u0026amp;L President William C. Dudley, September 12, 2022 and Carol Calkins, a nurse coworker at W\u0026amp;L, September 2022.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes 25 photographs and photocopies of photographs of the McCown family and their homes. Includes photographs of various generations and extended family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes a wide range of materials. Various photocopies contain documentation of Charles A. McCown and Alertie C. Anderson's wedding in 1907. In addition, a list ascertains the burial of Charles A. McCown, Alertie McCown, and their infant at Fawn Creek Cemetary. A map of Montgomeny Co. KS. Cemeteries highlights cemetery 16 (Fawn Creek). Another map highlights the location of McCowan Springs in Bath County. Additionally, there are three articles by \u003cemph\u003eThe Coffeyville Daily Journal\u003c/emph\u003e. An article in \u003cemph\u003eThe News-Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e covers the recognition of Lisa McCown by the Rockbridge Historical Society in 2002. Finally, a small envelope contains a letter from Charles A. McCown to his mother Ida McCown, two wedding inviations from McCown weddings, memoriams from William B. McCown's passing, and a pamphlet made in memory of Helen McCown Boyts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes one letter from John W. McCoy to an unidentified person.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes four items, two of which are letters between the McCrory siblings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes Columbia University's 1937 \u003cemph\u003eReport of the Dean of the School of Libary Service\u003c/emph\u003e, which mentions of Blanche P. McCrum's tenure at the school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRev. McCutchan, Biography, Glade Spring Presbyterian Church.  A paper, \"The Rank and Importance of Liberal Education,\" submitted by him, April 20, 1870, Washington College.  A sermon by him in Waynesboro, September 14, 1879 and five sermons by him in Rogersville, Tennessee, transcripts, 1892, 1903, 1909, 1914-1915.  Rev. Frank McCutchan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW\u0026amp;L History Class Brings Alum's Story to the Web, William Morrison started first modern human rights movement\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"This,\" World Catalyst Magazine, May 2009 and \"Blue Lights,\" The Shine Journal, both by student Lenora Nunnley, WLU 2009\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Beverley, James Patton, and the Settling of the Shenandoah Valley, Essex County Museum and Historical Society Bulletin, v.55, November 2010\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoctor Andrew Taylor Still, Virginia and North Carolina Ancestors From Revolutionary Times to 1836\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes leaflet, \"Come Cheer for Mame Warren: The Author At?? Years,\" (A Washington and Lee Gentleman Would Never Reveal a Woman's Age.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaniel Winston, Former Slave, Buena Vista Resident, Marks Century of Life, Still Active.  Roanoke Times\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder includes newspaper article entitled, \"Life of Blacks in Brownsburg Recalled\", \"Brownsburg of Old Recalled\" and the \"The Brownsburg Homicide\". Also included is a pamphlet titles \"Commencement Exercises Invitations for the Senior Class\" (1933), in which students Everette Sensabaugh, Beatrice Hart, Mary Buchanan, Virginia Craig, Mary Lotts, Nellie Wade, Mary Ellen Sweet, Mitchell Swisher, and Hugh Adams are mentioned.The folder also conatins a copy of the \"Historic Brownsburg Newsletter\", volume 6, issue 1, March-April 2009.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes two page Articles of Incorporation of Kerrs Creek Volunteer Fire Company, signed by members, July 19, 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes invitation to the Fall Service of Thanksgiving, Honoring the Life of Louise Mikell, at Cedar Hill, October 1, 2023, Rev. Pendleton, Preacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an eight page paper and a notecard with drawing of Sunnyside home, by Arthur Bartenstein.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes writing ink pen marked, Virginia Horse Center, Honoring Gov. Charles S. Robb, Bill Signing Day, March 22, 1985.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStonewall Jackson's war horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1952 pay schedules for Registered Nurses at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Also included is a sixteen page paper, \"The Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital,\" by Katherine E. McAlpine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Stonewall Jackson Hospital Clinical Laboratories, 1987 pocket calendar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Student's Account of His Visit to the House Mountain.  The Height of Our Mountains by John Elder\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a June 1968 County News newspaer clipping, concerning death of Helen Keller, and states that Helen's great grandmother lived for some years in the Stonewall Jackson House.  She was Elizabeth Aylett, who married Alexander Spottswood Moore, nephew by marriage of Light Horse Harry Lee. After Elizabeth became a widow, she moved from their country home, \"Sydney Cove,\" and moved to Lexington with her five children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes brochure, \"The Upper James River Water Trail: A New Perspective on the Blue Ridge Mountains,\" February 2009.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHistory of the Lost River State Park. A part of this park was formerly known as Lee White Sulphur Spring or Howard's Lick. Also included is a history of the Lee Cabin, whithin the park in Hardy County, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt Jordan's Point - Interpreting the Industrial and Transportation History of the Lexington, Virginia Area, Brochure\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClouds of Glory, A girl born in Richmond of Northern parents adopts Confederate loyalties, Virginia Cavalcade, Autumn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"An Ideal Home Circle\": Lee Residences in Lexington, VA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a Directory of Local Government Officials: Goshen, Glasgow, Lexington, Buena Vista, and Rockbridge, compiled by Lisa McCown, August 7, 1975 for a high school government class.  Also included are four pages of \"Our County Government Offices,\" August 21, 1997, giving the offices and names of the officials in each office, which include the following: Don Austin, Bob Day, Pat Self, Carol Hines, Gordon Saunders, Bruce Patterson, Leanne Shank, Bob Claytor, Bob Hayslett, Ron Argenbright, Charlie McGee, Sam Crickenberger, Eugene Browning, Tom Higgins, Woody Bowyer, Bob Weikel, Wayne Isley, Delbert Moore, Nina Cron, and George Simpson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a Rockbridge County, Virginia road map from 1938, a printed hand drawn regional \"scenic and historic\" map printed as a Christmas gift from Washington and Lee University, and a 2017 Lexingon/Rockbridge Chamber of Commerce community map which includes places and roads for the county as well as local business advertisements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes undated Roanoke Times newspaper artice, \"Prints of old building will be sold to help fund renovation,\" and 2012 Rockbridge Weekly online 2011 article, \"Preservation Virginia Branch Honors Buena Vista Colored School Historical Society.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a one page Closing Exercises Program for June 1, 1950 and a report card for Mary Alphin.  Also included are a June 8, 1971 elementary school certificate and seventh grade 1970-71 citizen award for Lisa Suzanne McCown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes May 1997 LHS Alumni Newsletter, Memorial Donation Announcement 1992 notecard by Josephine H. McCown for Albert T. McCown, and Spring Concert program Lexington High School presents the Scarlet Hurricane Bands and the Lexington Elementary Bands, May 23, 1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a News-Gazette article, October 15, 2003, \"Discipline 'Lovingly Dispensed,' Hardship 'Just The Way It Was': New Book Describes History of Palmer School.\" Palmer: The First Hundred Years in the Buffalo Community.  Also includes two copies of the program for the Palmer Homecoming and Rededication, Centennial Celebration, Palmer Community Center, October 19, 2003.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrochure, Maury River Mercantile, the old Anderson Store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAddress Delivered by the Hon. John W. Brockenbrough on laying the corner stone of the new barracks of the Virginia Military Institute, July 4, 1850.  New York: John Wiley, 1850.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1980's bumper sticker, \"W\u0026amp;L Better Dead, Then Co-ed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFLASHBACK comic strips of Washington and Lee University history\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram, Bertram Turetzky, March 18, 1971.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Tale of an Oar: A Hidden Message Revealed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper article, \"W\u0026amp;L Should Change Its Name,\" The Roanoke Times, April 24, 2019.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle on the restoration in a July 1961 Civil War publication.  Newspaper article, undated, \"W\u0026amp;L President says school will build new museum--and continue using Lee Chapel.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographies of native American Indians, Robert Latham Owen WLU 1877 and Walter Jonathan Turnbull WLU 1909.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper written by Mame Warren, \"Simple Courtesy, The Evolution of the Speaking Tradition at Washington and Lee University,\" prepared for Professor P. M. Forni, Civility and Civilization, The Johns Hopkins University Master of Liberal Arts Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists of Washington and Lee University students or alumni killed during 20th and 21st century wars including the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf and since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWorld War II list updated by John Rutherford in July 1922.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresident Lee's College: Robert E. Lee and the Renewal, Reformation, and Expansion of Washington College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a Clifton Forge, Virginia, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, notepad, \"We Welcome You to Our City and the Beautiful Mountains of Virginia.\" On the back is Mileage from Clifton Forge to places in Virginia and as far away as Washington, D.C. and Charleston, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes \"Genealogy of the Grigsby Family,\" In Part, Including a Brief Sketch of the Porter Family, Republished by Robert Hall McCormick, Chicago, 1905. Originally published by William H. Grigsby, December 1878.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 50th Anniversary Program and a 50th Anniversary Booklet with history, which includes members. The Location of Organizational Meeting, December 1939, held at the Mayflower in Lexington, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes school reports, marriage certificate, wedding invitation, and letter from Harvey before marriage.  Also included are photographs of Catherine Alphin, her parents and siblings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Lutheran Sunday School pin, which may have belonged to Catherine or one of her Alphin family members, while members at Bethany Lutheran Church in Rockbridge County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains the photos photos as follows: Catherine in basement at home with crocks, maybe about 1950; a photo of her, maybe on Mother's Day; and a group photo of her three high school aged children, Josephine, Harvey, and Harold. Also included is a group photo of Catherine and four other women, proably Home Demonstration Club, and a group photo of a young Catherine with Hope Welsh and Cecil Welsh. Also included is a photo of Catherine in front of Home Demonstration Market Price's sign.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCatherine's Mirror Drawing Experiment, August 19, 1925.  Also included is Catherine's autograph album, with notes and photos of friends, some marked August 1925.  A 1941 note from her daughter Josephine is included in the album and photos of sisters Mary and Jo Alphin, with a note from Jo.  Photocopies from the 1923 \"The Schoolmadam,\" State Normal School, Harrisonburg, VA, Catherine's Junior year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes a Myers Hardware Company memorandum book, which has some of Harvey's farm expenses for 1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInludes a pencil marked Southern States Cooperative.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes biography, a couple of letters, one of which is from her sister, Elizabeth, a letter that School Board has raised her salary, a post card from brother Thomas, wedding invitation announcing marriage to Albert Orr McCown, and an W\u0026amp;L Bicentennial Celebration invitation to her and Albert.  Also included is insurance receipt, no date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne item is a Guide Ballot for the General Election, November 2, 1942 for Senator from the 20th Senatorial District of Virginia. (Rockbridge County)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther material, 1964-1965.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Laws Made Plain: Laws and Legal Forms Prepared for the Use of Business Men, Farmers, and Mechanics, compiled by Hon. J. D. Hank, Jr..  Presented by Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, 1923.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, pocket calendar, 1930. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, check, Sept. 21, 1935, made to Fred Berry from Mrs. Harvey L. Hotinger.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Rockbridge National Bank pencil showing the 1960 Football Schedule for the Lexington Scarlet Hurricanes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of Kling's letter of resignation as Supt. of the Buena Vista School Board.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eInvitation and program for the official dedication of the F. W. Kling, Jr. Elementary School, Buena Vista, Virginia, October 12, 1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a Highland Maple Syrup advertisement, no date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe War Time Diary, F. G. Walter (1837-1930), Co. A, 39th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States Army, June 20, 1863 - April 19, 1865.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Frank, to his brother and mother, December 10, 1862 - June 23, 1864. One letter from Frank's brother, Dorsey, to him, December 31, 1862.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes printouts of photographs given by Stewart Bennington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are twelve handwritten lessons done by Catherine (Mrs. Harvey Hotinger), concerning the health of a baby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes brochure, The Public Nurse, Outline of Activities.  Commonwealth of Virginia. State Board of Health. Bureau of Child Welfare. Richmond, 1924.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBulletins include topics as follows: Scarlet Fever, Smallpox, Typhoid Fever, Measles, Mouth Hygeine, Simple Goiter, The Concrete Slab Pit Privy, Rules and Regulations for the Protection of Public Health, and Why Have Diphtheria?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJamestown, Virginia National Park Service brochure, reprinted 1961. King's Arms Tavern Midday Fare menu, April 1962 and flyer.  Postcard with raised image of the States Exhibit Building, Jamestown Exposition, 1907.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReunion Celebration for Classes of 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, and 1949 booklet, which includes \"What We've Been Doing\" forms for each class. Gift of Lisa McCown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes programs and newspaper articles for the Lexington High School Post War Year Reunions, July 29, 1978, College Inn Restaurant and June 11, 1983, W\u0026amp;L Evans Dining Hall. Also includes a Memorial Address by George S. Lauderdale, and a Memorial Message prepared by Rev. Marion \"Pat\" Roberston, read by Edwin Adair. Both July 29, 1978. Gift of Lisa McCown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes early booklet, West Central 4-H Educational Center, Wirtz, Virginia 24184.  undated [1970's-1980's]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes deed trace.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA history of the Caproni biplane, which was forced to land on the John McCown farm, near Rokbridge Baths.  This history was compiled by Leon Johenning, and includes notes about the recovery of the airplane's propeller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes some of Abraham Lincoln's quotes on slavery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopies of three newspaper articles on the February 17, 1962 Kerrs Creek Fire House dedication, and a February 21, 1987 Honorary Kerrs Creek Volunteer Fire Dept. Member Certificate for Albert T. 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concerning information on the holdings of records concerning black history in Virginia.  Nine Historic Lexington Foundation interviews done for Black History Month 2016, mostly by Beverly Tucker, one by Anne McClung, and one by W\u0026L Students Caitlin Mullen '05 and Anne Young '04, with Lexington African Americans and one Buena Vista resident.","143 pages printed from the 1810 Virginia Census, listing \"Other Free\" Heads of Household, by family name.","Register of Free Negroes of Rockbridge County, Virginia, with index.  According to the Act of the General Assembly of Virginia.  Passed January 25, 1803","Register of Marriages, Colored Persons in Rockbridge County under act of Virginia Assembly Passed February 27, 1866","Copy of Washington Post article, \"The Captive Nations of Slaves,\" covering an exhibit at the Museum of the Confederacy named \"Before Freedom Came,\" 1991. \nReceipt for purchase of slave, John. January 26, 1850.","Includes program for the All Saints Memorial Celebration at the Augusta Street United Methodist Church, Nov. 1, 2009, a Fairview Cemetery brochure, and Friends of Fairview Christmas wreath order form, Nov. 23, 2009.","Includes brochure, African-American Heritage, Staunton, Virginia, undated.","Address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Rockbridge, at its annual Fair, at Fancy Hill, October 17, 1839, by the Rev. Henry Ruffner, D. D., President of Washington College.  The Lexington Gazette, and Rockbridge Farmer, June 23, 1840.","Folder includes \"Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book: Designed for Farmers, Mechanics, and all People,\" 1872.","Photocopy of ledger, 1892-1903.","Folder includes a copy of a report of \"Approval of Site, Plans, etc.\" for a school house at Alone Mill; a balance sheet by Alone Canning Co., and a photocopy of a pencil drawn map of Alone Mill. Also includes a lecture paper by Anne McClung, which includes many photos.","Folder includes \"Selected Bibliography for Historic Artifact Identification and Analysis\" prepared by Kurt C. Russ and John M. McDaniel, for distribution at 1989 ASV Historic Artifact Workshop.","Contains booklet titled \"Battle of Asheville.\"","Contains two copies of \"The Ruth Anderson McCulloch Branch of The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiguqities: 1896-1987.\"","Contains a booklet titled \"A Rockbridge Area Resource Guide for People in Need.\" Prepared by Helpline/Information and Referral and United Way of Lexington-Rockbridge County. Also includes the minutes of Board Meeting, May 9, 1995.","Contains student paper authored by Emily Barnes '01 titled \"Lee Memorial Association.\" In addition, a copy of a sketch from 1883 about the Lee Memorial Association titled \"Southern Historical Society Papers.\"","Booklet titled \"Education for a Better Tomorrow, 1992 Annual Report.\"","\"Procedings\" publication published by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, including reports and activities of the 100th Annual Meeting in Atlanta Georgia as well as current lists of member insitutions.","Includes photocopy of a 1758 schedule titled \"To the Militia of the Coutny of Augusta, and for Provisions furnished by sundry inhabitants of the said county, viz.\"","File includes photocopies of two letters concerning Washington and Lee student, John West Addison.","Article titled \"A Confederate Hero,\" from  Blue and Gray , 1984.","Biography compiled in 1997 concerning Archibald Alexander (5 pgs. long).","Correspondence about the Washington and Lee Homecoming Queen from c.1893 and her protrait which hangs in the Special Collections vault (WLU Coll PP 0081).","Contains an article titled \"Colonel William Allan at McDonough\"; an 1889 address by J. Randolph Tucker; and an 1890 memorial by Washington and Lee Board of Trustees concerning Allan.","Includes a biography and illustration of Allen under the title of \"The Headlight.\"","Photocopry of newpaper article concerning Anderson, slave of Cyrus McCormick.","Photocopy of biography concerning Armstrong from the \"Dictionary of American Biography.\"","Article titled \"Civil War Author on the Trail of History.\"","Two copies of a Christmas oration in memoriam of Constance Rosalie Auden.","Obituaries, clipped from Roanoke Times 2002.","Biography of Alexander Tedford Barclay compiled by Washington and Lee student in 1997.","Biography compiled in 1997 and geneological chart showing many prominent people of Rockbridge County.","Narrative titled \"Aunt Elizabeth Remembers;\" interview with retired Washington and Lee professor, Charles Turner.","Photocopies of newspaper clippings concerning the death of Barkley at Washington and Lee University.","Photocopy of a letter to George Baxter from Edward Johnson introducing Dr. Barton, December 21, 1805. Pamphlet entitled, \"How Many Botany Books Did Thomas Jefferson Own?\" mentioning Dr. Barton.","Photocopy of Calyx 1939 yearbook picture. Basse gave donation towards Special Collections workroom.","\"Fatal Affray,\" Lexington Gazette, January 19, 1854. Murder of Cadet Thomas Blackburn.","Photocopies of Calyx yearbook pictures and Alumni directory information. John G. Boatwright '15 made donation for the University Library reading room in memory of Robert McDearmon Boatwright '42.","Obituary, Washington and Lee University News Home, 5/12/2006.","Two separate biographies for Borden Jr. and Sr.","E-mail message to the Washington and Lee community concerning Brady's death, obituaries from the News-Gazette and The Roanoke Time. Article titled \"'Pat' Brady's Life One of Quiet Service to a Community He Loved So Dearly,\" the News-Gazette.","Photocopy of letter from Andrew Brooks to sister, January 23,1861; photocopy and written transcript of letter from James J. White relating to the death of William Brooks, July 16,1861; photocopy of telegram to J.M. Brooks relating to the remains of his son, William Brooks, July 20,1861; Diary entries written by Andrew Brooks in Augusta County.","Composer in Residence, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Roanoke Valley Choral Society, 1995-1996, pgs. 7-8.","Photocopies of letters to his sister, Fannie, September 20, 1846, and September 7, 1848, while a student at Washington College. Original letters reside at Virginia Military Academy Archives.","Radio script concerning Clarence Brown used in Cincinnati, Ohio on the radio program, \"Personalities in your Government.\"","Robert and Benjamin Brown's relatives who attended Washington and Lee University. A letter addressed to President John Delane Wilson from their mother, Elizabeth Barry Brown.","Folder includes a Civil War centennial commemorative edition of the Valley News Echo concerning John Brown's Raid and Harper's Ferry(2 copies); Stanton Spectator article titled \"The Out-break at Harper's Ferry\"; Stanton Spectator article concerning John Brown's execution titled \"Results of the Trial\"; Richmond Times-Dispatch article titled \"Documents in Treason Trial of John Brown; The Sunday Baltimore article titled \"Verdict Missing in Brown Papers; a history course examinaton concerning this time period; an account by someone named \"Jackson\" of John Brown's execution addressed to his wife.","Articles from three local newspapers titled \"He's a Third-Generation Blacksmith,\" \"The Village Blacksmith, Manly Brown, Dies at 93,\" \"Family Dreams of Living Museum. Jack Chaffee as Blacksmith and Curator of Brown's Forge.\"","Includes photocopy of the Ministerial Directory of the Presbyterian Church in the United States highlighting William Brown.","Contains obituary of Bruinsma dated September 17, 1999.","File includes color notecard of Frank Buchser painting of Robert E. Lee, \"The Last Life Portrait of General Robert E. Lee,\" a letter from Buchser to Lee concerning a portrait, Washington and Lee News Release titled \"General Lee 'Comes Home' for His Birthday,\" Religious Herald article titled \"Valentine's Recumbent Statue of General Robert E. Lee,\" and correspondence between various researchers interested in this topic and Special Collections.","Booklet titled \"Edward Buncombe and Buncombe County.\"","Obituary, \"Thrown from Horse...,\" by Lexington Gazette.","Obituary found in the News-Gazette about Edmund Campbell, a Washington and Lee graduate and attorney who worked on various cases concerning desegregation of Virginia schools.","File includes a biography excerpt from \"Who's Who in America\" and an obituary by the Lexington Gazette.","File includes an obituary of John Lyle Campbell Sr. by the Lexington Gazette, a biography writtten by his son Robert Fishburne Campbell, and copies of letters between Robert E. Lee and Prof. Campbell as well as T.J. Jackson and Prof. Campbell.","File includes article \"Coach Nears End of Not-So-Typical Career: Washington and Lee's Canfield Prepares for Life After 31 Years of Generals' Basketball,\" and a Roanoke Times article named \" 'I Hope I've Touched Some Lives.' \"","Biography by the American National Biography Online.","Contains one photocopy of obituary by News-Gazette.","Obituary by the News-Gazette.","Memorial program for Gray Castle.","Roanoke Times article concerning Caudill's retirement.","Contains a booklet titled \"The Cavendish Family History.\"","Folder includes biography and copies of two letters from Theofore Roosevelt, one concerning a memorial to Robert E. Lee and the other one concerning Chamberlain's son.","Folder contains at least twenty eight separate items concerning John Chavis, from articles, portraits, letters, records, to research papers concerning his role in Washington and Lee Lee as well as African American history. Also included are the W\u0026L Alumni magazine artices, \"Chavis House named,\" March/April 1986 and \"Chavis House dedicated,\"  November/December 1986.","Includes obituary by Rockbridge County News.","File contains obituary by the News-Gazette.","File includes an article titled Honor Rolls,\" a set of photographs, and a pamphlet commemorating her life and work.","Folder includes an obituary written by The Lexington Gazette.","Lexington Gazette obituary about Crenshaw.","The file includes a biography by the American National Biography Online.","File includes a photocopied catalogue of the Library of Daniel Parke Custis: From a Manuscript in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society, \"The Magazine of History and Biography,\" October 1909, pages 404-412.","The Library of John Parke Custis, Esq., of Fairfax County, Virginia, \"Tyler's Quarterly,\" October 1927, pages 97-103.","File includes a greeting card made by the Artists of the Lexington, Virginia Note Card Series, 2002.","The file includes a program in memory of Daniels, hosted at Robert E. Lee Memorial Church.","File includes an article titled \"Turning 90 is Just Another Milestone in Lexington Woman's Interesting Life.\"","File includes three articles concerning Professor DeLaney's professional career.","File includes photocopies of newspaper obituaries of her death on December 10,1940. Photocopy of a newspaper article, \"U.D.C. Holds Exercises at Sayler Creek Battlefield\" at which Ms. Dickinson was a speaker. Photocopy of a page concerning Miss Dickinson's book, \"Confederate Leaders.\"","File includes article titled \"Service Held for Dr. G.W. Diehl.\"","Articled titled \"Judge Ryland Dodson Remembers Early 20th Century Tobacco Farming,\" September 2000.","File contains e-mail message distributed by the Broadcast Mailer at Washington and Lee on the death of Francis Drake.","File includes biography.","File includes a biography from the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation website and some genealogy from the LDS website.","File includes two copies of the memorial service program for Farrar's passing and a photocopy of a News-Gazette article titled \"Tiger.\"","File includes an article titled \"He Disciplined Popular Culture\" as well as an obituary.","File includes a photocopy of the \"Washington and Lee Ambulance Unit\" from the 1926 Alumni Directory. This photocopy features an article about Fletcher.","File includes notes on \"Miss Laura.\"","File includes photocopies of two obituaries concerning Mr. Ford.","File includes a photocopy of Roanoke Times newspaper clipping titled \"New President of Washington and Lee.\"","File includes obituary.","Folder includes biography on Mr. Gatewood.","File includes a photocopy of obituary for Mercer Graham.","File includes photocopies of articles concerning the life and career of Mel Greenberg.","File includes biography on Mr. Greenwood, dentist of George Washington.","File includes a memorial program as well as an obituary by the Roanoke Times.","File includes article titled \"Randolph Hall Refused to Fail.\"","File includes memorial program.","File includes two photocopies of the Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine with an article focused on Ms. Harris, titled \"Still Crazy After All These Years.\"","File includes photocopy of article titled \"Off the beaten path: the Chronicler of Lexington is an institution himself.\"","File includes photocopy of a petition to Jefferson Davis representing that Heale is a citizen of Giles County, Virginia.","File includes an appendix titled \"The Mystery Woman.\"","File includes a photocopy of a biographical sketch of Hobson by Charles Lee Hobson, March 5, 1998. Photocopies of two papers by Hobson entitled \"How I came to Elizabethtown, Kentucky\" and \"How General Lee Came to Washington College.\" Photocopies of a letter to Lee concerning Hobson (1869) and a Louisville Times article about the letter.","Includes Harvey's Lexington High School, Senior Class Graduation invitation, June 1, 1950.","File includes a photocopy of essay titled \"James Lewis Howe - Chemist and Philatelist.\"","Article includes biography and obituary concerning Howerton and his wife Mary N.","File includes notes on Mrs. Hull, a source for Eleanor Roosevelt's Visit to Goshen Recalled.\"","File includes 27 photocopies of letters, transcripts, notes, etc. on Mr. Hutcherson, Washington and Lee University Class of 1902.","File includes a letter concerning Ipsen's chauffer, as well as photocopy of portrait of Lee painted by Ipsen.","File includes \"Stonewall,\" a commemorative section of The News-Gazette concerning the Jackson Statue Rededication. In addition, a set of remarks and notes by Mayor Derrick and papers of lectures given by Mary Coulling, Robert F. Hunter, James I. Robertson, Jr., and the Frederick Ladies Relief Society. Program and brochure.","File includes article titled \"Window on the Past: An Unusual Tribute to Stonewall Jackson;\" \"'Stonewall' Jackson's Grave;\" \"Jackson Day,\" and many more copies of similarly focused articles from local newspapers. Also included a brochure reprinted and distributed by Stonewall Jackson Memorial Incorporate, Lexington, Virginia, \"The Religious Character of Stonewall Jackson,\" an address by James Power Smith, D.D., Captain and A.D.C. Staff of General Jackson. The address was delivered at the Inauguration of the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Building, Virginia Military Institute, June 23, 1897.\nA printed map showing all of Stonewall Jackson's movements, Compliments of Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Inc., Lexington, Virginia.","Photocopies of material concerning Jackson as constable.","File includes eleven photocopies, black and white and color of Moor as Jackson, one of which is at Virginia Military Institute. Two color photos.","File includes article from The American Art Journal titled \"Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Thomas jefferson\" as well as a photocopy of the Spring 1982 article, \"The Adams-Jefferson portrait Exchange.\"","File includes photocopies of obituaries and photographs concerning the Johnson and McDowell families.","File includes a photocopy of inside cover of \"Closing Exercises of Privat School.\"","File includes photocopy of biography from \"Dictionary of American Biography.\"","Biking Through Albemarle with John Jones, Scottsville Museum, Capturing Our Heritage","File includes a copy of a magazine titled \"The Iron Worker\" as well as handwritten and typewritten copies of \"A Sketch of Colonel John Jordan (1777-1854).  Also includes a paper, \"John Jordan, Virginia Builder,\" by Marshall Fishwick, and a photocopy of Summer 1973 Virginia Cavalcade article, \"John Jordan: Builder and Entrepreneur,\" by L. Moody Simms, Jr.","File includes a booklet titled \"Edward Southey Joynes: Father of the University and Life Trustee of Winthrop.\"","File includes a magazine article titled \"A Chinese Master Opens Western Eyes to Eastern Art.\"","File includes various pieces, including \"The Unusual of Lieutenant George C. Junkin, C.S.A.,\" a discourse commemorative of George Junkin delivered in the West Spruce St. Presbyterian Church, and \"George Junkin and His Eschatological Vision,\" and \"Secession Fever on a Southern Campus.\"","File includes articles titled \"Matthew Kahle's Log\" and \"Old George , 1844.\"","The file includes a brochure for The Stan Kamen Collection of Western Art at Washington and Lee University.","File includes a biography, obituary, funeral and memorial services programs.","File includes an obituary (dated August 1, 1955) and two Athletic Association certificates for cross country, 1928 and track, 1929.","In Memoriam, A senseless tragedy. The New President, John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. POST, The Saturday Evening Post, December 14, 1963.","File includes various copies of programs of \"A Celebration of the Life of King,\" bulletins for churches, as well as various programs, which includes Black History Month.","The 2010 Black History Month program includes the following:  Poem, \"From the Shanty to the White House,\" by Laura Watts; \"Ground Hog Poem,\" by Spotswood Alexander Styles; \"What If There Were No Black Folk?,\" by Barbara Leahy, 1998.","File includes a memorial service program held at Lee Chapel on July 5, 1997.","File includes a photocopy of a newspaper article concerning Labro, November 12, 1988.","File includes an obituary from the Rockbridge County News, November 8, 1900.","J. J. Lafferty: A Remarkable Life, Secrets of the Blue Ridge","File includes information concerning the burial of Latane and a painting of and poem about the burial.","File includes an article titled \"America's Baskerville Printer.\"","File includes article from the News Gazette titled \"It's a Lauck!\"","File includes an article concerning the death of Annie Lee by The Roanoke News; a copy of music sung at Ms. Lee's funeral and the Washington and Lee memorial service; articles titled \"Famous Daughter Laid to Rest at W\u0026L\" and \"Annie Lee's Remains Now in Lee Chapel\"; a program, In Memoriam Anne Carter Lee; invitation to private memorial service and luncheon at Lee House; remarks made by Mary Coulling at the private memorial service; remarks made by Capt. Peniston at the private memorial service for Annie Carter Lee; two color postcards of her grave and monument at Warren County, North Carolina; and an excerpt from a letter written at West Point, concerning the young gentlemen.","File includes an obituary of Mr. Lee, former Mayor of Buena Vista.","File includes article concerning the death and burial of Dr. G.B. Lee by the Ring-tum Phi.","File includes obituary of Lee by the Ring-tum Phi; \"From West Point to Fort Point: The Story of George Elliot and Custis Lee\"; \"Major-General George Washington Custis Lee\"; \"Last Battles: The Wartime and Postwar Careers of Custis Lee\"; and photocopies of items at the National Archives concerning G.W.C. Lee.","File includes a booklet with an article titled \"Reverend Henderson Lee: Father of Presbyterianism in Lunenburg County.\"","File includes an article titled \"The Manly and Upright will Brand Your Name Infamy.\"","File includes article titled \"They Surrendered Honorably,\" an excerpt from a letter to her cousin Caroline from Derwent, and a collection of letters from Mrs. Mary Custis Lee to the Snowden Family of Alexandria, Virginia entitled \"My Dear Louisa.\"","File includes copies of letters containing information suggesting that G. Campbell Brown, stepson of Gen. Richard Ewell, began courting Mildred Lee and later proposed to her. In addition, the file includes an article concerning the death of Mildred Lee's death.","This file includes twenty-seven separate items. Of these items, there are various brochures and booklets entitled, \"Robert E. Lee: Innovative Educator,\" \"Notes on a Visit to Robert E. Lee,\" \"Lee: The Final Achievement,\" and \"Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson Returned to Lexington, Virginia.\""," In addition, the following articles: \"Furtherance of Southern Education was Lee's Goal;\" \"Aging Successfully: The Example of Robert E. Lee;\" \"How Gen. Lee Came to Washington College;\" \"After 32 Years, Lee-Jackson Painting on Display;\" \"General Lee After the War,\" from the magazine  The Century Magazine ; \"Reminiscences of General Lee,\"  The Outlook  pages 964-969; \"The Last Years of Lee\" delivered to the United Daughters of the Confederacy; \"The Robert E. Lee Birthday Celebration;\" \"Lee Centennial at Washington and Lee,\" from  The Southern Collegian ; \"On the Life and Character of Gen. Robert E. Lee,\" written by John W. Daniel for the  Lexington Gazette ; \"Unveiling Lee's Statue,\" written by John W. Daniel for the  Staunton Spectator ; Article written for  The Free-Lance Star  by Capt. Robert Peniston entitled \"The Last Tour;\" Articled written by John Elrod for the  Richmond Times-Dispatch  entitled, \"Lee as Educator Sought to Heal Wounds;\" and an Article written by Captain James L.D. Monroe entitled \"General Robert E. Lee Covers.\"","\nThe file includes excerpts from letters written by Agnes Lee to her friend Lizzie Fuller and Mrs. R.E. Lee concerning Robert E. Lee's death, as well as \"General Lee's Special Letters,\" notes used by Captain Peniston during his talk to the Alumni College at Washington and Lee, July 2006.  \nThere are two chapters from two books: \"College Days Under General Lee,\" chapter 6 of the book,  Memories of Four-Score Years  by Samuel Hall Chester; \"The Lee-White Friendship,\" chapter 7 of  Old Zeus: Life and Letters of James J. White.","Finally, the file includes remarks on Robert E. Lee made at Kiwanis by Capt. Robert Peniston, an essay entitled \"Lee at Appomattox,\" photocopies of two sketches by Robert E. Lee of soldiers in the Mexican Army sent home to his children, a copy of an endorsement of young Robert E. Lee from William B. Leary, his teacher in Alexandria, and a program and flier of the memorial observance of Lee given by the Liberty Hall Volunteers re-enactment group and Washington and Lee Alumni. ","Eight items added to file.","Program, Robert E. Lee Week, August 22-26, 1932, The Greenbrier and Cottages, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.","\"A Tribute to General Robert E. Lee,\" by Dr. Julian C. Brown (1856-1904).","An Interview with General Robert E. Lee by John Leyburn.  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. May to October 1885.","The Hardy Heritage by Harold D. Garber, Moorefield (WV) Examiner, January 2010.","Death of Gen. R. E. Lee, The Virginia Gazette, October 14, 1870.","A Dream of Robert E. Lee Comes True, by Virgil C. Jones, The United States Publisher, September 1928.","LEE, The Photographic History of the Civil War.","\"Cache,\" Autumn Song, by Ceane O'Hanlon-Lincoln.","File includes various copies of programs for memorial services honoring Robert E. Lee as well as an article entitled \"Decoration Day at the Graves of Lee and Jackson.\"","File includes an obituary by the  Lexington Gazette , articles in the  Rockbridge County News  and the  Lexington Gazette  concerning his death and funeral, one entitled \"The Burial March of Dundee.\" In addition, the file includes a  Ring-tum Phi  article entitled, \"May Remove Colonel Lee from Chapel.\"","File includes articles entitled \"Children of the Blue and Gray,\" from  People Magazine  and \"Robert E. Lee V Tries to Avoid Trading on His Honored Name\" from  The Atlanta Journal and Constitution .","File includes articles entitled \"On the Trail of Robert E. Lee's Daughters\" and \"Author Says Unmarried Women Neglected by Historians\" from the  Daily News Leader .","File includes photocopies of two obituaries for Mr. Letcher, 1994.","File includes an essay written by Charles C. Lewis entitled \"A Tale of an Oar: A Hidden Message Revealed.\"","File includes obituaries of James Lewis, Stonewall Jackson's faithful body servant,  Lexington Gazette .","File includes article by the  Richmond Times-Dispatch .","File includes an obituary from the  Lewiston Teller  and an article In Memoriam by the  Idaho Daily Statesman .","File includes an obituary from  The News-Gazette .","File includes an article by the  News-Gazette  entitled \"Shop to Feature Books, Items on War Era.\" In addition, the file includes a brochure to the Lexington Historical Shop and business card for Lurate.","File includes an article from the  Virginia Cavalcade  entitled \"John Blair and His 'Automatic Bookstore'.\"","File includes three pages with information about MacCorkle for the Alumni Directory and Jacket File.","File includes a brief biography of MacCorkle by the Washington and Lee University News Office, a biographical statement, \"Information for the Alumni Directory and Jacket File,\" and a picture of Stuart MacCorkle.","File includes two obituaries.","File includes an article by the  Roanoke Times  entitled, \"New Headmaster Mixes Work and Play.\"","File includes a magazine article entitled, \"Persisting in the Publishing World.\"","File includes an obituary by the  News Gazette .","File includes a 2001 article entitled, \"The Man Behind the Name: New Biography Explores The Achievements of 'Fesser' McCluer\" and obituaries for the  Lexington Gazette  and the  Rockbridge County News .","File includes a photocopy of a short biography of McClung.","File includes a medal -  Centennial of the Reaper, 1831-1931 ; a booklet entitled  McCormick Celebration, September 25, 1931 ; a color brochure of the McCormick Farm; a biography from the McCormick International Harvester Collection Archives; and two copies of the  Iron Worker  featuring an article entitled, \"Walnut Grove--Where Farm Mechanization Began.\"","File includes a program of retirement from 25 years of service to the Buena Vista City Public Schools, two biographies, and two photographs of Albert McCown, about 1955 and Oct. 1980.  Also included an early color Christmas card printed by Albert, before his marriage, while he studied Industrial Arts at VPI. Also a Christmas card printed by Albert at his home in Kerrs Creek, Rockbridge County, VA, about 1970's, when he had his family, and an envelope of Albert's, McCown's Printing Service.  Included is his name tag for the Virginia School Boards Association, Rockbridge County, with ribbons, Board Member, Delegate. A newspaper clipping, \"McCown New Member of School Board,\" and photocopy of the News-Gazette clipping featuring Albert's service to the Rockbridge County School Board.  Also included a return address envelope, Parry McCluer High School, Athletic Department, Buena Vista, VA 24416, maybe printed by Albert when he was Athletic Director there. A 1973-74 basketball/wrestling Parry McCluer high school card.  A photo of Albert and coworker Industrial Arts Teacher, Ward Lockett.","Also includes a 1969 issue of THE VISTA, which includes an article, \"Teacher of the Month: Albert McCown.\" On the title page of this issue is a sketch of the Parry McCluer mascot.","Included are a Father's Day card and Happy Birthday card, both made by his oldest daughter, Lisa. The Happy Birthday card is signed by Lisa, Josephine, his wife, and Jennifer, his youngest daughter.","A Washington and Lee application for Admission, April 1, 1947, which was never turned in.  Albert decided to go to VPI in Blacksburg, and graduated in 1957.  He became the Industrial Arts Teacher at Parry McCluer High School in Buena Vista, Virginia, 1959-1984.  Also included is a William Byrd Parent-Teachers Association yearbook, 1957-1958, where Albert is listed as Senior High teacher, where he taught Industrial Arts in Roanoke, Virginia.","Albert T. McCown Memorial Scholarship recipients, Buena Vista Public Schools, 1987-1995.","File includes a  Rockbridge County News  article entitled, \"Civil War Memoirs of Mr. McCown Telling of Life in Northern Prison\"; other brief newspaper notices about McCown from  The Dallas Daily Herald ; an obituary from the  Lexington Gazette ; and an image of Dr. Albert McCown and his father James L. McCown.","File includes a photocopy from the book,  The McCormick Reaper Legend  focusing on John McCown, the \"Blade Maker.\"","File includes an obituary and picture of John Graham McCown.","A photo as baby included and letter from Sears, Roebuck and Co. announcing Josephine as one of the winners of a baby contest.","Josephine's Presbyterian Church in the U. S. Catechism certificate, August 14, 1938.","Pledge for regular investment in defense savings bonds, May 16, 1942.","Photocopy of 1949 Roanoke College yearbook page.","Two European postcards from first cousin Richard Marshall, 1950's, one addressed to their grandmother, Mrs. Rice Hotinger.","Photocopy of invitation to Johnston-Willis Hospital School of Nursing graduation, May 16, 1952, including photocopy of photo as RN in 1952. Whiteside Radio Service, Lexington, VA receipt to Josephine Hotinger for purchase of a TV set, etc., October 1954.","Includes Mrs. Josephine H. McCown, R.N. pin worn at the Stonewall Jackson Hospital, 1959-1971, along with hospital mask.","Also includes miscellaneous documents, 1975, 1979, 2003 and 1970 American Red Cross Nursing Program card, and American Red Cross volunteer identification pin, worn while volunteering ath local bloodmobiles, after retiring in 1992. Also her American National Red Cross Nurse pin.","File also includes photo of Josephine as W\u0026L Student Health Head Nurse and W\u0026L indentification pin worn as Head Nurse, biographical information written at her retirement from Washington and Lee University as head nurse of infirmary, 1992; as well as an article from the News-Gazette, entitled, \"W\u0026L Honors Employees At Banquet\".","Included are two postcards from first cousin Richard Marshall of Urbanna, Virginia, while in Paris, 1951, to Josephine, and the other to his grandmother, Susan Rader Hotinger (Mrs. Rice), 1952, while in Rome.  Also a letter from Richard Marshall to Josephine, March 24, 1952.","Includes photo of Josephine as a little girl, ca.1930.  Also photos included are as follows: Josephine in wedding gown at her home in September 1955, two identified photos of Josephine celebrating her November 1989 birthday with her coworkers from the W\u0026L Infirmary, a group photo of Stonewall Jackson Registered nurses, and Josephine's W\u0026L ID card.","Copy of Josephine's obituary from the News-Gazette, September 7, 2022.  She passed away on August 31, 2022.  Also included are her September 10 funeral service programs done by New Monmouth Church and Harrison's Funeral Home. Included is a letter of condolences from W\u0026L President William C. Dudley, September 12, 2022 and Carol Calkins, a nurse coworker at W\u0026L, September 2022.","File includes 25 photographs and photocopies of photographs of the McCown family and their homes. Includes photographs of various generations and extended family members.","File includes a wide range of materials. Various photocopies contain documentation of Charles A. McCown and Alertie C. Anderson's wedding in 1907. In addition, a list ascertains the burial of Charles A. McCown, Alertie McCown, and their infant at Fawn Creek Cemetary. A map of Montgomeny Co. KS. Cemeteries highlights cemetery 16 (Fawn Creek). Another map highlights the location of McCowan Springs in Bath County. Additionally, there are three articles by  The Coffeyville Daily Journal . An article in  The News-Gazette  covers the recognition of Lisa McCown by the Rockbridge Historical Society in 2002. Finally, a small envelope contains a letter from Charles A. McCown to his mother Ida McCown, two wedding inviations from McCown weddings, memoriams from William B. McCown's passing, and a pamphlet made in memory of Helen McCown Boyts.","File includes one letter from John W. McCoy to an unidentified person.","File includes four items, two of which are letters between the McCrory siblings.","File includes Columbia University's 1937  Report of the Dean of the School of Libary Service , which mentions of Blanche P. McCrum's tenure at the school.","Rev. McCutchan, Biography, Glade Spring Presbyterian Church.  A paper, \"The Rank and Importance of Liberal Education,\" submitted by him, April 20, 1870, Washington College.  A sermon by him in Waynesboro, September 14, 1879 and five sermons by him in Rogersville, Tennessee, transcripts, 1892, 1903, 1909, 1914-1915.  Rev. Frank McCutchan","W\u0026L History Class Brings Alum's Story to the Web, William Morrison started first modern human rights movement","\"This,\" World Catalyst Magazine, May 2009 and \"Blue Lights,\" The Shine Journal, both by student Lenora Nunnley, WLU 2009","William Beverley, James Patton, and the Settling of the Shenandoah Valley, Essex County Museum and Historical Society Bulletin, v.55, November 2010","Doctor Andrew Taylor Still, Virginia and North Carolina Ancestors From Revolutionary Times to 1836","Includes leaflet, \"Come Cheer for Mame Warren: The Author At?? Years,\" (A Washington and Lee Gentleman Would Never Reveal a Woman's Age.)","Daniel Winston, Former Slave, Buena Vista Resident, Marks Century of Life, Still Active.  Roanoke Times","Folder includes newspaper article entitled, \"Life of Blacks in Brownsburg Recalled\", \"Brownsburg of Old Recalled\" and the \"The Brownsburg Homicide\". Also included is a pamphlet titles \"Commencement Exercises Invitations for the Senior Class\" (1933), in which students Everette Sensabaugh, Beatrice Hart, Mary Buchanan, Virginia Craig, Mary Lotts, Nellie Wade, Mary Ellen Sweet, Mitchell Swisher, and Hugh Adams are mentioned.The folder also conatins a copy of the \"Historic Brownsburg Newsletter\", volume 6, issue 1, March-April 2009.","Includes two page Articles of Incorporation of Kerrs Creek Volunteer Fire Company, signed by members, July 19, 1960.","Includes invitation to the Fall Service of Thanksgiving, Honoring the Life of Louise Mikell, at Cedar Hill, October 1, 2023, Rev. Pendleton, Preacher.","Includes an eight page paper and a notecard with drawing of Sunnyside home, by Arthur Bartenstein.","Includes writing ink pen marked, Virginia Horse Center, Honoring Gov. Charles S. Robb, Bill Signing Day, March 22, 1985.","Stonewall Jackson's war horse.","Includes 1952 pay schedules for Registered Nurses at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Also included is a sixteen page paper, \"The Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital,\" by Katherine E. McAlpine.","Includes Stonewall Jackson Hospital Clinical Laboratories, 1987 pocket calendar.","The Student's Account of His Visit to the House Mountain.  The Height of Our Mountains by John Elder","Includes a June 1968 County News newspaer clipping, concerning death of Helen Keller, and states that Helen's great grandmother lived for some years in the Stonewall Jackson House.  She was Elizabeth Aylett, who married Alexander Spottswood Moore, nephew by marriage of Light Horse Harry Lee. After Elizabeth became a widow, she moved from their country home, \"Sydney Cove,\" and moved to Lexington with her five children.","Includes brochure, \"The Upper James River Water Trail: A New Perspective on the Blue Ridge Mountains,\" February 2009.","History of the Lost River State Park. A part of this park was formerly known as Lee White Sulphur Spring or Howard's Lick. Also included is a history of the Lee Cabin, whithin the park in Hardy County, West Virginia.","At Jordan's Point - Interpreting the Industrial and Transportation History of the Lexington, Virginia Area, Brochure","Clouds of Glory, A girl born in Richmond of Northern parents adopts Confederate loyalties, Virginia Cavalcade, Autumn","\"An Ideal Home Circle\": Lee Residences in Lexington, VA","Includes a Directory of Local Government Officials: Goshen, Glasgow, Lexington, Buena Vista, and Rockbridge, compiled by Lisa McCown, August 7, 1975 for a high school government class.  Also included are four pages of \"Our County Government Offices,\" August 21, 1997, giving the offices and names of the officials in each office, which include the following: Don Austin, Bob Day, Pat Self, Carol Hines, Gordon Saunders, Bruce Patterson, Leanne Shank, Bob Claytor, Bob Hayslett, Ron Argenbright, Charlie McGee, Sam Crickenberger, Eugene Browning, Tom Higgins, Woody Bowyer, Bob Weikel, Wayne Isley, Delbert Moore, Nina Cron, and George Simpson.","Includes a Rockbridge County, Virginia road map from 1938, a printed hand drawn regional \"scenic and historic\" map printed as a Christmas gift from Washington and Lee University, and a 2017 Lexingon/Rockbridge Chamber of Commerce community map which includes places and roads for the county as well as local business advertisements.","Includes undated Roanoke Times newspaper artice, \"Prints of old building will be sold to help fund renovation,\" and 2012 Rockbridge Weekly online 2011 article, \"Preservation Virginia Branch Honors Buena Vista Colored School Historical Society.\"","Includes a one page Closing Exercises Program for June 1, 1950 and a report card for Mary Alphin.  Also included are a June 8, 1971 elementary school certificate and seventh grade 1970-71 citizen award for Lisa Suzanne McCown.","Includes May 1997 LHS Alumni Newsletter, Memorial Donation Announcement 1992 notecard by Josephine H. McCown for Albert T. McCown, and Spring Concert program Lexington High School presents the Scarlet Hurricane Bands and the Lexington Elementary Bands, May 23, 1976.","Includes a News-Gazette article, October 15, 2003, \"Discipline 'Lovingly Dispensed,' Hardship 'Just The Way It Was': New Book Describes History of Palmer School.\" Palmer: The First Hundred Years in the Buffalo Community.  Also includes two copies of the program for the Palmer Homecoming and Rededication, Centennial Celebration, Palmer Community Center, October 19, 2003.","Brochure, Maury River Mercantile, the old Anderson Store.","Address Delivered by the Hon. John W. Brockenbrough on laying the corner stone of the new barracks of the Virginia Military Institute, July 4, 1850.  New York: John Wiley, 1850.","Includes 1980's bumper sticker, \"W\u0026L Better Dead, Then Co-ed.\"","FLASHBACK comic strips of Washington and Lee University history","Program, Bertram Turetzky, March 18, 1971.","A Tale of an Oar: A Hidden Message Revealed","Newspaper article, \"W\u0026L Should Change Its Name,\" The Roanoke Times, April 24, 2019.","Article on the restoration in a July 1961 Civil War publication.  Newspaper article, undated, \"W\u0026L President says school will build new museum--and continue using Lee Chapel.\"","Biographies of native American Indians, Robert Latham Owen WLU 1877 and Walter Jonathan Turnbull WLU 1909.","Paper written by Mame Warren, \"Simple Courtesy, The Evolution of the Speaking Tradition at Washington and Lee University,\" prepared for Professor P. M. Forni, Civility and Civilization, The Johns Hopkins University Master of Liberal Arts Program.","Lists of Washington and Lee University students or alumni killed during 20th and 21st century wars including the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf and since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.","World War II list updated by John Rutherford in July 1922.","President Lee's College: Robert E. Lee and the Renewal, Reformation, and Expansion of Washington College.","Includes a Clifton Forge, Virginia, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, notepad, \"We Welcome You to Our City and the Beautiful Mountains of Virginia.\" On the back is Mileage from Clifton Forge to places in Virginia and as far away as Washington, D.C. and Charleston, West Virginia.","Includes \"Genealogy of the Grigsby Family,\" In Part, Including a Brief Sketch of the Porter Family, Republished by Robert Hall McCormick, Chicago, 1905. Originally published by William H. Grigsby, December 1878.","Includes 50th Anniversary Program and a 50th Anniversary Booklet with history, which includes members. The Location of Organizational Meeting, December 1939, held at the Mayflower in Lexington, Virginia.","Includes school reports, marriage certificate, wedding invitation, and letter from Harvey before marriage.  Also included are photographs of Catherine Alphin, her parents and siblings.","A Lutheran Sunday School pin, which may have belonged to Catherine or one of her Alphin family members, while members at Bethany Lutheran Church in Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Contains the photos photos as follows: Catherine in basement at home with crocks, maybe about 1950; a photo of her, maybe on Mother's Day; and a group photo of her three high school aged children, Josephine, Harvey, and Harold. Also included is a group photo of Catherine and four other women, proably Home Demonstration Club, and a group photo of a young Catherine with Hope Welsh and Cecil Welsh. Also included is a photo of Catherine in front of Home Demonstration Market Price's sign.","Catherine's Mirror Drawing Experiment, August 19, 1925.  Also included is Catherine's autograph album, with notes and photos of friends, some marked August 1925.  A 1941 note from her daughter Josephine is included in the album and photos of sisters Mary and Jo Alphin, with a note from Jo.  Photocopies from the 1923 \"The Schoolmadam,\" State Normal School, Harrisonburg, VA, Catherine's Junior year.","Also includes a Myers Hardware Company memorandum book, which has some of Harvey's farm expenses for 1943.","Inludes a pencil marked Southern States Cooperative.","Includes biography, a couple of letters, one of which is from her sister, Elizabeth, a letter that School Board has raised her salary, a post card from brother Thomas, wedding invitation announcing marriage to Albert Orr McCown, and an W\u0026L Bicentennial Celebration invitation to her and Albert.  Also included is insurance receipt, no date.","One item is a Guide Ballot for the General Election, November 2, 1942 for Senator from the 20th Senatorial District of Virginia. (Rockbridge County)","Other material, 1964-1965.","Virginia Laws Made Plain: Laws and Legal Forms Prepared for the Use of Business Men, Farmers, and Mechanics, compiled by Hon. J. D. Hank, Jr..  Presented by Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, 1923.","Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, pocket calendar, 1930. ","Rockbridge National Bank, Lexington, Virginia, check, Sept. 21, 1935, made to Fred Berry from Mrs. Harvey L. Hotinger.","The Rockbridge National Bank pencil showing the 1960 Football Schedule for the Lexington Scarlet Hurricanes.","Photocopy of Kling's letter of resignation as Supt. of the Buena Vista School Board.","Invitation and program for the official dedication of the F. W. Kling, Jr. Elementary School, Buena Vista, Virginia, October 12, 1976.","Included is a Highland Maple Syrup advertisement, no date.","The War Time Diary, F. G. Walter (1837-1930), Co. A, 39th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States Army, June 20, 1863 - April 19, 1865.","Correspondence from Frank, to his brother and mother, December 10, 1862 - June 23, 1864. One letter from Frank's brother, Dorsey, to him, December 31, 1862.","Includes printouts of photographs given by Stewart Bennington.","Included are twelve handwritten lessons done by Catherine (Mrs. Harvey Hotinger), concerning the health of a baby.","Includes brochure, The Public Nurse, Outline of Activities.  Commonwealth of Virginia. State Board of Health. Bureau of Child Welfare. Richmond, 1924.","Bulletins include topics as follows: Scarlet Fever, Smallpox, Typhoid Fever, Measles, Mouth Hygeine, Simple Goiter, The Concrete Slab Pit Privy, Rules and Regulations for the Protection of Public Health, and Why Have Diphtheria?","Jamestown, Virginia National Park Service brochure, reprinted 1961. King's Arms Tavern Midday Fare menu, April 1962 and flyer.  Postcard with raised image of the States Exhibit Building, Jamestown Exposition, 1907.","Reunion Celebration for Classes of 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, and 1949 booklet, which includes \"What We've Been Doing\" forms for each class. Gift of Lisa McCown","Includes programs and newspaper articles for the Lexington High School Post War Year Reunions, July 29, 1978, College Inn Restaurant and June 11, 1983, W\u0026L Evans Dining Hall. Also includes a Memorial Address by George S. Lauderdale, and a Memorial Message prepared by Rev. Marion \"Pat\" Roberston, read by Edwin Adair. Both July 29, 1978. Gift of Lisa McCown","Includes early booklet, West Central 4-H Educational Center, Wirtz, Virginia 24184.  undated [1970's-1980's]","Includes deed trace.","A history of the Caproni biplane, which was forced to land on the John McCown farm, near Rokbridge Baths.  This history was compiled by Leon Johenning, and includes notes about the recovery of the airplane's propeller.","Includes some of Abraham Lincoln's quotes on slavery.","Photocopies of three newspaper articles on the February 17, 1962 Kerrs Creek Fire House dedication, and a February 21, 1987 Honorary Kerrs Creek Volunteer Fire Dept. Member Certificate for Albert T. McCown, who had passed away, August 17, 1985.","Includes photos of the First Lexington High School (1894-1903), the Ruffner builiding, which later was a graded school, Ann Smith Academy, which was used for Lexington High School (1903-1909), Ann Smith High School (1909-1927), which was later used as a grade school, and the Harrington Waddel High School (1927-).","Included is the Article of Incorporation and By-Laws.","Includes yearbooks, 1968-69, 1969-70, and 1970-71.","\"Author Brings Liberian Family'Home'\" THE NEWS-GAZETTE, October 1, 2014. Obituaries of Rev. S. T. A. Richards, Winston D. Richards, Mrs. Vyrie Maurilla Richards, and Liberian Statesman Ambassador George Padmore. Photocopy of a photo of J. Dossen Richards and a photo of John G. A. Richards."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.  Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.  Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections."],"names_ssim":["Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives","Rockbridge Historical Society","First Baptist Church (Lexington, Va.)","Randolph Street Methodist Church (Lexington, Va.)","Lylburn Downing School (Lexington, Va.)","Washington Post Company","African-Americans.  Staunton, Virginia","Agricultural Society of Rockbridge","Agriculture","Rockbridge Farmers Exchange","John Deere Centennial","United Way of America","Lee Memorial Association","Lexington Fire Department (Lexington, Va.)","Virginia Cooperative Extension","Rockbridge County Cooperative Extension","Southern Association of Colleges and Schools","Blue Ridge CASA for Children","Washington and Lee University. Board of Trustees","The Roanoke Times","Washington and Lee University. University Library. Special Collections and Archives","Lexington Gazette. 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(Lexington, VA)","West Virginia--Lost River State Park","West Virginia--Lee White Sulphur Spring","Jordan's Point","Palmer Community Center","Washington and Lee University. Phi Beta Kappa","Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway","Yellow Sulphur Springs Company","Virginia--Richmond","Washington and Lee University. Lee House. President's House","Seven Hills. Rockbridge County, Virginia","Cross Roads School","Denmark School","Highland Belle School ","Lexington High School (Lexington, Va.)","The Echo","The Scarletter","Liberty Hall Academy (Lexington, Va.)","Mountain View School","Palmer School","Southern Virginia College","Scotch Irish Congress","Franklin Society and Library Company of Lexington (Lexington, Va.)","The General Store (1894 - ) (Buena Vista, VA)","Denmark Store","Walker and Wood Brothers","United Daughters of the Confederacy. Rockbridge Chapter","Vesuvius Ruritan Club","Virginia Military Institute","Virginia Military Institute. 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Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Voting. Rockbridge County, Virginia","Rockbridge National Bank (Lexington, Va.)","Laws. Virginia","Buena Vista School Board","F. W. Kling, Jr. Elementary School. Buena Vista, Virginia","Farmer's Supply Co., Lexington, Virginia","Purina Mills, St. Louis, Missouri","Rockbridge Laundry and Dry Cleaners, Inc.","Rockbridge Farmer's Coop, Lexington, Virginia","Maple Festival (Highalnd County, Virginia)","Glen Maury Park (Buena Vista, Virginia)","Lake Robertson (Rockbridge County, Virginia)","Rockbridge Vineyard and Winery Company (Rockbridge County, Virginia)","Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Battalion 39th, Co.A","University Cleaners. 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Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.","Arranged alphabetically by author.","Wayne and Grace Rickert donated the collection of founders' autographs to the Washington Library in 2021.","See 2021-SC-004-038","See 2021-SC-004-032","The collection contains 41 manuscripts dating 1770-1831. Many of the manuscripts date from the era of the American Revolution, and several are directly relevant to the course of the war. Among the documents are single letters by John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, James Madison, John Marshall, James Monroe, Paul Revere, and George Washington, as well as letters and other documents that include the signatures of signers of the Declaration of Independence.","John Adams writes William Plumer, New Hampshire Senator and Governor, discussing the Fries Rebellion of 1799 in Pennsylvania. He pardoned armed tax resisters, including John Fries, convicted of treason. Letter, signed. 1 page.","Letter from Josiah Bartlett to William Whipple regarding the movement of American and British forces in New York and New Jersey. He outlines the many challenges that the revolutionary cause faced in New York, New England, and generally, including supply and money problems, the health of the troops, and the persistence of divided loyalties in the aftermath of the Americans declaring independence. Bartlett signed the Declaration of Independence and served as governor of New Hampshire during Washington's presidency.","Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Aaron Burr writes to the President of the Senate, Thomas Jefferson, when the United States was almost at war with France in 1798, offering to provide information about New York City's defense plan to the state legislature. He writes, \"As one of the Committee appointed by the inhabitants of the City of New York to direct the temporary defence of the said city I have been instructed to give to either House of the Legislature such information as may be in my power relative to that object. Pursuant to such instructions I shall chearfully [sic] attend the Senate or any Committee thereof for that purpose whenever required\".  Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Aaron Burr writes to Thomas Hill Hubbard regarding a legal case. He writes \"In the case of Jackson... vs Varick and Bacon, I pray you to transmit to me, so soon as may be convenient to you, a copy of the Rule which was entered at the last term on my motion to amend the case and Bill of Exceptions - also certified copies of the affidavits which were produced on each side, those offered by the Depts to be certified separately... so that one my be used without the other. Also certified copies of the Rules entered on the Trials... in the several cases of W.D. Craft vs Baldwin Ex of Elias Baldwin and A. Burr is the same - note the changes, which will be remitted\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Chase writes to William Smallwood, President of the Maryland State Senate, regarding his recent appointment as Chief Judge of the General Court of Maryland and his subsequent resignation from his previous role. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Abraham Clark, a New Jersey delegate, writes to Col. Elias Dayton, an experienced veteran, to inform him he has not won the promotion he sought. Clark writes, \"Congress is impressed with the necessity of observing economy in the public expenses and having been formerly too profuse in the promotion of officers determined to stop their hand. They say N.Jersey hath our Major Gen. and by the reduction proposed we shall have but two Regiments. What prospect have I then of obtaining another Genl. officer... We have had no recommendation for this measure either from the Genl. [Washington] - The Legislature- or even the brigade. You mention the promotion of Genls. [Nathanael] Greene and [Daniel] Morgan, but their appointments were... requests from Maryland [actually Rhode Island] and Virginia, this cannot be offered in your favour. I see the embarrassment the subject is under.\" Clark adds that \"Genl. Sullivan hath wrote to the Genl. desiring his opinion... and desired me to postpone any proposals respecting you, till he rcd. an answer.\" He concludes, \"There stands the matter. I wish the arrangement of our Brigade could be postponed...that some favourable occurrence might offer in your favour.\" Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","Letter from Commercial Committee of Congress, Francis Lewis, James Searle, and John Fell, to Thomas Mumford. Francis Lewis is a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Letter is requesting gunpowder for American Independence, \"...This committee have lodged monies in the hands of the agents at St.Eustatia to procure powder... If therefore you will enclose us your order on Messrs. Milner and Haynes for the remainder for the fifty tons of powder they had contracted to deliver, our agents will immediately pay them the balance that may be due to them. As we shall send a vessel to St. Eustatia in a short time we must beg your answer by return of post...\" St. Eustatia, an island in the Caribbean, was a center for contraband trade during the Revolutionary War. Letter signed. 1 page.","Petition from Ebenezer Dayton to the Executive Council of Pennsylvania. Dayton confesses how he did \"flee from there [New York] as a refugee, leaving his lands in the power of the enemy\", and petitions to acquire a \"whaleboat\".  William Floyd, Dayton's neighbor, certifies Dayton's claims. Floyd is a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Autograph , signed, 2 pages.","William Ellery writes a 'Private \u0026 Confidential' letter to an unknown recipient regarding Daniel E. Updike's health circumstances and ability to work due to alcohol. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Benjamin Franklin writes to General Charles Lee in order to introduce Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","True copy of a General Horatio Gate's letter to John Hancock, in Hancock's hand. Gates writes to Hancock regarding a court martial of Col. Donald Campbell. Letter signed. 1 page.","Elbridge Gerry writes to John Adams, President of the United States. He writes \"If an answer, to the letter which your excellency proposed to write to Mr. Pickering on my concerns, is received, I will do myself the honor of waiting on you at any time which may best serve your convenience. Mrs. Gerry unites with me in best respects to yourself and Lady. Be assured, I remain Dear Sir with every sentiment of attachment.\" Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Lyman Hall, Governor of Georgia and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Mrs. Street (possibly his sister) regarding health and life post Revolutionary war. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Alexander Hamilton writes to Colonel John Fitzgerald, while he waits for the Treaty of Paris to arrive. He writes \"The enclosed letter is for Mr. Bowman who married Mrs. Cattle. I am told he is at Alexandria which makes me trouble you with the letter. Should he have left that place for South Carolina, I will thank you to forward it to him. No definitive treaty yet arrived nor any thing else of importance new. I write in Congress...\" A cessation of hostilities had been proclaimed by the British in February and by Congress in April. The provisional peace treaty, negotiated in Paris, was ratified by Congress on April 15, but a long delay ensued before the signing of the final treaty in Paris, 1783 September 3. Both Hamilton and Fitzgerald served as aides-de-camp to Washington during the Revolution. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes a letter to an unknown sir. He writes regarding a Capt. Cherry. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Patrick Henry writes to the unidentified 'County Lieutenant of Berkely [Berkeley].' He writes \"You are hereby directed to furnish General Hand with the numbers of men he may call from your militia to defend the frontier or challenge the Indians.\" Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","William Hooper, away from the Continental Congress to visit his mother, writes to Joseph Hewes and John Penn regarding General Clinton. Hooper  was a member in all five North Carolina Provincial Congresses, a member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Stephen Hopkins, Governor of Rhode Island and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Christopher Harris during the French and Indian War, ordering a Colonel to take forces to Albany and join Major General William Johnson for a campaign against the French at Crown Point. Autograph document, signed. 2 pages.","Francis Hopkinson, Esq., Judge for the Courts of Admiralty for the State of Pennsylvania, directs Clement Biddle Esq., Marshall for the court, to \"sell at public venue the sloop or vessel called the Polly her guns, tackle, apparel, furniture and all and singular the goods, wares and merchandise laden and found on board her at the time of her capture and that after deducting the costs and charges of the trial condemnation and sale out of the monies arising from the said sale you divide the residue of the said monies into two equal parts one of which you are to pay overunto the agent or agents of the owners of the Brigantine or Vessel called the Fair American to and for their use and the other you are to pay over unto the Agent or Agents of the Officers and Crew belonging to the said Brigantine Fair American to and for their use and if it shall happen that any of the said owners officers or crew shall neglect to appear either in person or by agent to receive their respective shares of said monies then you are forthwith to bring such shares into this court to the intent the same may remain ready to be paid to them whenever they are their agents duly authorised may appear and demand the same according to the Resolves of Congress the usages of nations and the Act of Assembly of this state in such case made and provided and how you shall have executed this writ make return to me at a court of Admiralty to be held at my chambers in Philadelphia on the tenth day of November together with this writ given under my hand and the seal of the court twentieth day of October in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one.\" On verso, Biddle responds confirming sale of the Sloop Polly and cargo. Autograph document signed, 2 pages. Hopkinson was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.","Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of the Independence, writes to Jabez Huntington, regarding preparations being made to prepare for the invasion of the British Navy. Letter mentions William Williams, another signer of the Declaration of Independence and Esek Hopkins, Commander of the Continental Navy. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","John Jay, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown Sir, regarding court and Mr. Antell's affidavit. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","Thomas Jefferson writes, while he was the U.S. Minister to France, to William Gordon about the actions he has taken to assist Gordon's efforts to write a history of the American Revolution, and conveys his thoughts on what market may exist for the publication in France. Gordon conducted part of his research for his history at Mount Vernon. Gordon published The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the late War, and of the Thirteen Colonies from their origin, to that period, 4 vols. (London: William Gordon, 1788). Letter also mentions Marquis de la Fayette. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Lafayette writes to George Augustine Washington. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Francis Lightfoot Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to agents De Berdt, Lee \u0026 Sayre regarding the sale and purchase of 80 hogsheads and tobacco. Autograph letter, signed. 4 pages.","Richard Henry Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Langdon congratulating Langdon as a judge and describing his ill health. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","James Madison, Secretary of State, writes to Mitchill regarding court testimony, possibly in reference to Smith and Ogden trial. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Mercer Patton of Virginia regarding a court case and Judge Johnson. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","James Monroe, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown sir, regarding the sale of enslaved people. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Robert Morris, member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Langdon regarding business relations with John Holker. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Thomas Nelson, signer of the Declaration of Independence and brigadier general in the Continental army, writes to General George Weedon, of Richmond, updating him on the mobilization of Virginia's defenses against a British incursion in the Hampton Roads area.\nAutograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Attorney General for the State of Massachusetts, Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence, files a complaint against the respondent Margaret Draper, as she \"levied war, and conspired to levy War against the Government and people of this Province, Colony, and State; and then and there adhered to the King of Great Britain, his fleets and armies, enemies of the said Province, Colony, and State; and then and there did give them aid and comfort\". Partially printed document, signed by the author, with notes in his hand. 1 page.","Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Burgess Ball to inform him that the president has not selected his Potomac land for the location of a federal arsenal. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Paul Revere writes a discharge certificate for Caleb Legg. Autograph document, signed. 1 page.","Caesar Rodney, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown recipient, ordering \"that the Guard be strengthened with a Captain and twenty four men to be furnished from all the Troops now in town proportion to their numbers\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Armand John DeRosset Sr., regarding Rush's \"second volume of medical inquiries\" about his \"principles on dropsy and pulmonary consumption\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Edward Rutledge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown Sir regarding the legal proceedings in a land dispute. Date is unclear, could be February or July. Autograph letter, signed. 3 pages.","George Walton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Major General Benjamin Lincoln seeking his help regarding sums for the military being misapplied by citizens [Georgia] and hung up in the Department of the Army resulting in shortages for the troops in the Georgia militias. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","George Washington writes to Burgess Ball, regarding Ball's interest in the federal government purchasing some of his land for the construction of an arsenal. Washington indicates that he will leave the matter to the Secretary of War, Timothy Pickering, and not discuss it further, lest their family connection lend an appearance of impropriety. Ball was married to Frances Washington, the daughter of George's brother Charles.  Autograph letter, signed. 3 pages.","William Whipple, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to President Meshech Weare [New Hampshire] regarding the recent arrival of Mr. William Trail from Bermuda. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey, regarding the safe passage of a British deserter, Humphrey Belcher, through American lines. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Oliver Wolcott, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to his wife, Laura Wolcott. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon","Rickert, Wayne","Adams, John, 1735-1826","Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795","Whipple, William, 1730-1785","Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836","Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826","Chase, Samuel, 1741-1811","Smallwood, William, 1732-1792","Clark, Abraham, 1726-1794","Dayton, Elias, 1737-1807","Lewis, Francis, 1713-1803","Searle, James, 1730-1797","Fell, John, 1721-1798","Mumford, Thomas, 1728-1799","Floyd, William, 1734-1821","Dayton, Ebenezer, 1744-1802","Ellery, William, 1727-1820","Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790","Lee, Charles, 1731-1782","Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806","Hancock, John, 1737-1793","Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814","Hall, Lyman, 1724-1790","Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804","Fitzgerald, John, -1799","Harrison, Benjamin, approximately 1726-1791","Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799","Hooper, William, 1742-1790","Hewes, Joseph, 1730-1779","Penn, John, 1740 or 1741-1788","Hopkins, Stephen, 1707-1785","Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791","Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814","Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796","Huntington, Jabez, 1719-1786","Jay, John, 1745-1829","Gordon, William, 1728-1807","Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834","Washington, George Augustine, approximately 1759-1793","Lee, Francis Lightfoot, 1734-1797","Lee, William, 1739-1795","Sayre, Stephen, 1736-1818","De Berdt, Dennis, Jr.","Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794","Langdon, John, 1741-1819","Madison, James, 1751-1836","Mitchill, Samuel L. 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Many of the manuscripts date from the era of the American Revolution, and several are directly relevant to the course of the war. Among the documents are single letters by John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, James Madison, John Marshall, James Monroe, Paul Revere, and George Washington, as well as letters and other documents that include the signatures of signers of the Declaration of Independence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Adams writes William Plumer, New Hampshire Senator and Governor, discussing the Fries Rebellion of 1799 in Pennsylvania. He pardoned armed tax resisters, including John Fries, convicted of treason. Letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Josiah Bartlett to William Whipple regarding the movement of American and British forces in New York and New Jersey. He outlines the many challenges that the revolutionary cause faced in New York, New England, and generally, including supply and money problems, the health of the troops, and the persistence of divided loyalties in the aftermath of the Americans declaring independence. Bartlett signed the Declaration of Independence and served as governor of New Hampshire during Washington's presidency.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAaron Burr writes to the President of the Senate, Thomas Jefferson, when the United States was almost at war with France in 1798, offering to provide information about New York City's defense plan to the state legislature. He writes, \"As one of the Committee appointed by the inhabitants of the City of New York to direct the temporary defence of the said city I have been instructed to give to either House of the Legislature such information as may be in my power relative to that object. Pursuant to such instructions I shall chearfully [sic] attend the Senate or any Committee thereof for that purpose whenever required\".  Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAaron Burr writes to Thomas Hill Hubbard regarding a legal case. He writes \"In the case of Jackson... vs Varick and Bacon, I pray you to transmit to me, so soon as may be convenient to you, a copy of the Rule which was entered at the last term on my motion to amend the case and Bill of Exceptions - also certified copies of the affidavits which were produced on each side, those offered by the Depts to be certified separately... so that one my be used without the other. Also certified copies of the Rules entered on the Trials... in the several cases of W.D. Craft vs Baldwin Ex of Elias Baldwin and A. Burr is the same - note the changes, which will be remitted\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChase writes to William Smallwood, President of the Maryland State Senate, regarding his recent appointment as Chief Judge of the General Court of Maryland and his subsequent resignation from his previous role. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbraham Clark, a New Jersey delegate, writes to Col. Elias Dayton, an experienced veteran, to inform him he has not won the promotion he sought. Clark writes, \"Congress is impressed with the necessity of observing economy in the public expenses and having been formerly too profuse in the promotion of officers determined to stop their hand. They say N.Jersey hath our Major Gen. and by the reduction proposed we shall have but two Regiments. What prospect have I then of obtaining another Genl. officer... We have had no recommendation for this measure either from the Genl. [Washington] - The Legislature- or even the brigade. You mention the promotion of Genls. [Nathanael] Greene and [Daniel] Morgan, but their appointments were... requests from Maryland [actually Rhode Island] and Virginia, this cannot be offered in your favour. I see the embarrassment the subject is under.\" Clark adds that \"Genl. Sullivan hath wrote to the Genl. desiring his opinion... and desired me to postpone any proposals respecting you, till he rcd. an answer.\" He concludes, \"There stands the matter. I wish the arrangement of our Brigade could be postponed...that some favourable occurrence might offer in your favour.\" Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Commercial Committee of Congress, Francis Lewis, James Searle, and John Fell, to Thomas Mumford. Francis Lewis is a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Letter is requesting gunpowder for American Independence, \"...This committee have lodged monies in the hands of the agents at St.Eustatia to procure powder... If therefore you will enclose us your order on Messrs. Milner and Haynes for the remainder for the fifty tons of powder they had contracted to deliver, our agents will immediately pay them the balance that may be due to them. As we shall send a vessel to St. Eustatia in a short time we must beg your answer by return of post...\" St. Eustatia, an island in the Caribbean, was a center for contraband trade during the Revolutionary War. Letter signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetition from Ebenezer Dayton to the Executive Council of Pennsylvania. Dayton confesses how he did \"flee from there [New York] as a refugee, leaving his lands in the power of the enemy\", and petitions to acquire a \"whaleboat\".  William Floyd, Dayton's neighbor, certifies Dayton's claims. Floyd is a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Autograph , signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Ellery writes a 'Private \u0026amp; Confidential' letter to an unknown recipient regarding Daniel E. Updike's health circumstances and ability to work due to alcohol. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Franklin writes to General Charles Lee in order to introduce Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrue copy of a General Horatio Gate's letter to John Hancock, in Hancock's hand. Gates writes to Hancock regarding a court martial of Col. Donald Campbell. Letter signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElbridge Gerry writes to John Adams, President of the United States. He writes \"If an answer, to the letter which your excellency proposed to write to Mr. Pickering on my concerns, is received, I will do myself the honor of waiting on you at any time which may best serve your convenience. Mrs. Gerry unites with me in best respects to yourself and Lady. Be assured, I remain Dear Sir with every sentiment of attachment.\" Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLyman Hall, Governor of Georgia and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Mrs. Street (possibly his sister) regarding health and life post Revolutionary war. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlexander Hamilton writes to Colonel John Fitzgerald, while he waits for the Treaty of Paris to arrive. He writes \"The enclosed letter is for Mr. Bowman who married Mrs. Cattle. I am told he is at Alexandria which makes me trouble you with the letter. Should he have left that place for South Carolina, I will thank you to forward it to him. No definitive treaty yet arrived nor any thing else of importance new. I write in Congress...\" A cessation of hostilities had been proclaimed by the British in February and by Congress in April. The provisional peace treaty, negotiated in Paris, was ratified by Congress on April 15, but a long delay ensued before the signing of the final treaty in Paris, 1783 September 3. Both Hamilton and Fitzgerald served as aides-de-camp to Washington during the Revolution. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes a letter to an unknown sir. He writes regarding a Capt. Cherry. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatrick Henry writes to the unidentified 'County Lieutenant of Berkely [Berkeley].' He writes \"You are hereby directed to furnish General Hand with the numbers of men he may call from your militia to defend the frontier or challenge the Indians.\" Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Hooper, away from the Continental Congress to visit his mother, writes to Joseph Hewes and John Penn regarding General Clinton. Hooper  was a member in all five North Carolina Provincial Congresses, a member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStephen Hopkins, Governor of Rhode Island and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Christopher Harris during the French and Indian War, ordering a Colonel to take forces to Albany and join Major General William Johnson for a campaign against the French at Crown Point. Autograph document, signed. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrancis Hopkinson, Esq., Judge for the Courts of Admiralty for the State of Pennsylvania, directs Clement Biddle Esq., Marshall for the court, to \"sell at public venue the sloop or vessel called the Polly her guns, tackle, apparel, furniture and all and singular the goods, wares and merchandise laden and found on board her at the time of her capture and that after deducting the costs and charges of the trial condemnation and sale out of the monies arising from the said sale you divide the residue of the said monies into two equal parts one of which you are to pay overunto the agent or agents of the owners of the Brigantine or Vessel called the Fair American to and for their use and the other you are to pay over unto the Agent or Agents of the Officers and Crew belonging to the said Brigantine Fair American to and for their use and if it shall happen that any of the said owners officers or crew shall neglect to appear either in person or by agent to receive their respective shares of said monies then you are forthwith to bring such shares into this court to the intent the same may remain ready to be paid to them whenever they are their agents duly authorised may appear and demand the same according to the Resolves of Congress the usages of nations and the Act of Assembly of this state in such case made and provided and how you shall have executed this writ make return to me at a court of Admiralty to be held at my chambers in Philadelphia on the tenth day of November together with this writ given under my hand and the seal of the court twentieth day of October in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one.\" On verso, Biddle responds confirming sale of the Sloop Polly and cargo. Autograph document signed, 2 pages. Hopkinson was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of the Independence, writes to Jabez Huntington, regarding preparations being made to prepare for the invasion of the British Navy. Letter mentions William Williams, another signer of the Declaration of Independence and Esek Hopkins, Commander of the Continental Navy. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Jay, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown Sir, regarding court and Mr. Antell's affidavit. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Jefferson writes, while he was the U.S. Minister to France, to William Gordon about the actions he has taken to assist Gordon's efforts to write a history of the American Revolution, and conveys his thoughts on what market may exist for the publication in France. Gordon conducted part of his research for his history at Mount Vernon. Gordon published The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the late War, and of the Thirteen Colonies from their origin, to that period, 4 vols. (London: William Gordon, 1788). Letter also mentions Marquis de la Fayette. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLafayette writes to George Augustine Washington. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrancis Lightfoot Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to agents De Berdt, Lee \u0026amp; Sayre regarding the sale and purchase of 80 hogsheads and tobacco. Autograph letter, signed. 4 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard Henry Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Langdon congratulating Langdon as a judge and describing his ill health. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Madison, Secretary of State, writes to Mitchill regarding court testimony, possibly in reference to Smith and Ogden trial. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Mercer Patton of Virginia regarding a court case and Judge Johnson. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Monroe, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown sir, regarding the sale of enslaved people. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Morris, member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Langdon regarding business relations with John Holker. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Nelson, signer of the Declaration of Independence and brigadier general in the Continental army, writes to General George Weedon, of Richmond, updating him on the mobilization of Virginia's defenses against a British incursion in the Hampton Roads area.\nAutograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney General for the State of Massachusetts, Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence, files a complaint against the respondent Margaret Draper, as she \"levied war, and conspired to levy War against the Government and people of this Province, Colony, and State; and then and there adhered to the King of Great Britain, his fleets and armies, enemies of the said Province, Colony, and State; and then and there did give them aid and comfort\". Partially printed document, signed by the author, with notes in his hand. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTimothy Pickering, Secretary of War and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Burgess Ball to inform him that the president has not selected his Potomac land for the location of a federal arsenal. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaul Revere writes a discharge certificate for Caleb Legg. Autograph document, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaesar Rodney, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown recipient, ordering \"that the Guard be strengthened with a Captain and twenty four men to be furnished from all the Troops now in town proportion to their numbers\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Armand John DeRosset Sr., regarding Rush's \"second volume of medical inquiries\" about his \"principles on dropsy and pulmonary consumption\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdward Rutledge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown Sir regarding the legal proceedings in a land dispute. Date is unclear, could be February or July. Autograph letter, signed. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Walton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Major General Benjamin Lincoln seeking his help regarding sums for the military being misapplied by citizens [Georgia] and hung up in the Department of the Army resulting in shortages for the troops in the Georgia militias. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Washington writes to Burgess Ball, regarding Ball's interest in the federal government purchasing some of his land for the construction of an arsenal. Washington indicates that he will leave the matter to the Secretary of War, Timothy Pickering, and not discuss it further, lest their family connection lend an appearance of impropriety. Ball was married to Frances Washington, the daughter of George's brother Charles.  Autograph letter, signed. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Whipple, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to President Meshech Weare [New Hampshire] regarding the recent arrival of Mr. William Trail from Bermuda. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey, regarding the safe passage of a British deserter, Humphrey Belcher, through American lines. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver Wolcott, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to his wife, Laura Wolcott. 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Many of the manuscripts date from the era of the American Revolution, and several are directly relevant to the course of the war. Among the documents are single letters by John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, James Madison, John Marshall, James Monroe, Paul Revere, and George Washington, as well as letters and other documents that include the signatures of signers of the Declaration of Independence.","John Adams writes William Plumer, New Hampshire Senator and Governor, discussing the Fries Rebellion of 1799 in Pennsylvania. He pardoned armed tax resisters, including John Fries, convicted of treason. Letter, signed. 1 page.","Letter from Josiah Bartlett to William Whipple regarding the movement of American and British forces in New York and New Jersey. He outlines the many challenges that the revolutionary cause faced in New York, New England, and generally, including supply and money problems, the health of the troops, and the persistence of divided loyalties in the aftermath of the Americans declaring independence. Bartlett signed the Declaration of Independence and served as governor of New Hampshire during Washington's presidency.","Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Aaron Burr writes to the President of the Senate, Thomas Jefferson, when the United States was almost at war with France in 1798, offering to provide information about New York City's defense plan to the state legislature. He writes, \"As one of the Committee appointed by the inhabitants of the City of New York to direct the temporary defence of the said city I have been instructed to give to either House of the Legislature such information as may be in my power relative to that object. Pursuant to such instructions I shall chearfully [sic] attend the Senate or any Committee thereof for that purpose whenever required\".  Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Aaron Burr writes to Thomas Hill Hubbard regarding a legal case. He writes \"In the case of Jackson... vs Varick and Bacon, I pray you to transmit to me, so soon as may be convenient to you, a copy of the Rule which was entered at the last term on my motion to amend the case and Bill of Exceptions - also certified copies of the affidavits which were produced on each side, those offered by the Depts to be certified separately... so that one my be used without the other. Also certified copies of the Rules entered on the Trials... in the several cases of W.D. Craft vs Baldwin Ex of Elias Baldwin and A. Burr is the same - note the changes, which will be remitted\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Chase writes to William Smallwood, President of the Maryland State Senate, regarding his recent appointment as Chief Judge of the General Court of Maryland and his subsequent resignation from his previous role. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Abraham Clark, a New Jersey delegate, writes to Col. Elias Dayton, an experienced veteran, to inform him he has not won the promotion he sought. Clark writes, \"Congress is impressed with the necessity of observing economy in the public expenses and having been formerly too profuse in the promotion of officers determined to stop their hand. They say N.Jersey hath our Major Gen. and by the reduction proposed we shall have but two Regiments. What prospect have I then of obtaining another Genl. officer... We have had no recommendation for this measure either from the Genl. [Washington] - The Legislature- or even the brigade. You mention the promotion of Genls. [Nathanael] Greene and [Daniel] Morgan, but their appointments were... requests from Maryland [actually Rhode Island] and Virginia, this cannot be offered in your favour. I see the embarrassment the subject is under.\" Clark adds that \"Genl. Sullivan hath wrote to the Genl. desiring his opinion... and desired me to postpone any proposals respecting you, till he rcd. an answer.\" He concludes, \"There stands the matter. I wish the arrangement of our Brigade could be postponed...that some favourable occurrence might offer in your favour.\" Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","Letter from Commercial Committee of Congress, Francis Lewis, James Searle, and John Fell, to Thomas Mumford. Francis Lewis is a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Letter is requesting gunpowder for American Independence, \"...This committee have lodged monies in the hands of the agents at St.Eustatia to procure powder... If therefore you will enclose us your order on Messrs. Milner and Haynes for the remainder for the fifty tons of powder they had contracted to deliver, our agents will immediately pay them the balance that may be due to them. As we shall send a vessel to St. Eustatia in a short time we must beg your answer by return of post...\" St. Eustatia, an island in the Caribbean, was a center for contraband trade during the Revolutionary War. Letter signed. 1 page.","Petition from Ebenezer Dayton to the Executive Council of Pennsylvania. Dayton confesses how he did \"flee from there [New York] as a refugee, leaving his lands in the power of the enemy\", and petitions to acquire a \"whaleboat\".  William Floyd, Dayton's neighbor, certifies Dayton's claims. Floyd is a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Autograph , signed, 2 pages.","William Ellery writes a 'Private \u0026 Confidential' letter to an unknown recipient regarding Daniel E. Updike's health circumstances and ability to work due to alcohol. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Benjamin Franklin writes to General Charles Lee in order to introduce Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","True copy of a General Horatio Gate's letter to John Hancock, in Hancock's hand. Gates writes to Hancock regarding a court martial of Col. Donald Campbell. Letter signed. 1 page.","Elbridge Gerry writes to John Adams, President of the United States. He writes \"If an answer, to the letter which your excellency proposed to write to Mr. Pickering on my concerns, is received, I will do myself the honor of waiting on you at any time which may best serve your convenience. Mrs. Gerry unites with me in best respects to yourself and Lady. Be assured, I remain Dear Sir with every sentiment of attachment.\" Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Lyman Hall, Governor of Georgia and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Mrs. Street (possibly his sister) regarding health and life post Revolutionary war. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Alexander Hamilton writes to Colonel John Fitzgerald, while he waits for the Treaty of Paris to arrive. He writes \"The enclosed letter is for Mr. Bowman who married Mrs. Cattle. I am told he is at Alexandria which makes me trouble you with the letter. Should he have left that place for South Carolina, I will thank you to forward it to him. No definitive treaty yet arrived nor any thing else of importance new. I write in Congress...\" A cessation of hostilities had been proclaimed by the British in February and by Congress in April. The provisional peace treaty, negotiated in Paris, was ratified by Congress on April 15, but a long delay ensued before the signing of the final treaty in Paris, 1783 September 3. Both Hamilton and Fitzgerald served as aides-de-camp to Washington during the Revolution. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes a letter to an unknown sir. He writes regarding a Capt. Cherry. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Patrick Henry writes to the unidentified 'County Lieutenant of Berkely [Berkeley].' He writes \"You are hereby directed to furnish General Hand with the numbers of men he may call from your militia to defend the frontier or challenge the Indians.\" Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","William Hooper, away from the Continental Congress to visit his mother, writes to Joseph Hewes and John Penn regarding General Clinton. Hooper  was a member in all five North Carolina Provincial Congresses, a member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Stephen Hopkins, Governor of Rhode Island and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Christopher Harris during the French and Indian War, ordering a Colonel to take forces to Albany and join Major General William Johnson for a campaign against the French at Crown Point. Autograph document, signed. 2 pages.","Francis Hopkinson, Esq., Judge for the Courts of Admiralty for the State of Pennsylvania, directs Clement Biddle Esq., Marshall for the court, to \"sell at public venue the sloop or vessel called the Polly her guns, tackle, apparel, furniture and all and singular the goods, wares and merchandise laden and found on board her at the time of her capture and that after deducting the costs and charges of the trial condemnation and sale out of the monies arising from the said sale you divide the residue of the said monies into two equal parts one of which you are to pay overunto the agent or agents of the owners of the Brigantine or Vessel called the Fair American to and for their use and the other you are to pay over unto the Agent or Agents of the Officers and Crew belonging to the said Brigantine Fair American to and for their use and if it shall happen that any of the said owners officers or crew shall neglect to appear either in person or by agent to receive their respective shares of said monies then you are forthwith to bring such shares into this court to the intent the same may remain ready to be paid to them whenever they are their agents duly authorised may appear and demand the same according to the Resolves of Congress the usages of nations and the Act of Assembly of this state in such case made and provided and how you shall have executed this writ make return to me at a court of Admiralty to be held at my chambers in Philadelphia on the tenth day of November together with this writ given under my hand and the seal of the court twentieth day of October in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one.\" On verso, Biddle responds confirming sale of the Sloop Polly and cargo. Autograph document signed, 2 pages. Hopkinson was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.","Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of the Independence, writes to Jabez Huntington, regarding preparations being made to prepare for the invasion of the British Navy. Letter mentions William Williams, another signer of the Declaration of Independence and Esek Hopkins, Commander of the Continental Navy. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","John Jay, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown Sir, regarding court and Mr. Antell's affidavit. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","Thomas Jefferson writes, while he was the U.S. Minister to France, to William Gordon about the actions he has taken to assist Gordon's efforts to write a history of the American Revolution, and conveys his thoughts on what market may exist for the publication in France. Gordon conducted part of his research for his history at Mount Vernon. Gordon published The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the late War, and of the Thirteen Colonies from their origin, to that period, 4 vols. (London: William Gordon, 1788). Letter also mentions Marquis de la Fayette. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Lafayette writes to George Augustine Washington. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Francis Lightfoot Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to agents De Berdt, Lee \u0026 Sayre regarding the sale and purchase of 80 hogsheads and tobacco. Autograph letter, signed. 4 pages.","Richard Henry Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Langdon congratulating Langdon as a judge and describing his ill health. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","James Madison, Secretary of State, writes to Mitchill regarding court testimony, possibly in reference to Smith and Ogden trial. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Mercer Patton of Virginia regarding a court case and Judge Johnson. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","James Monroe, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown sir, regarding the sale of enslaved people. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Robert Morris, member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Langdon regarding business relations with John Holker. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Thomas Nelson, signer of the Declaration of Independence and brigadier general in the Continental army, writes to General George Weedon, of Richmond, updating him on the mobilization of Virginia's defenses against a British incursion in the Hampton Roads area.\nAutograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Attorney General for the State of Massachusetts, Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence, files a complaint against the respondent Margaret Draper, as she \"levied war, and conspired to levy War against the Government and people of this Province, Colony, and State; and then and there adhered to the King of Great Britain, his fleets and armies, enemies of the said Province, Colony, and State; and then and there did give them aid and comfort\". Partially printed document, signed by the author, with notes in his hand. 1 page.","Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Burgess Ball to inform him that the president has not selected his Potomac land for the location of a federal arsenal. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Paul Revere writes a discharge certificate for Caleb Legg. Autograph document, signed. 1 page.","Caesar Rodney, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown recipient, ordering \"that the Guard be strengthened with a Captain and twenty four men to be furnished from all the Troops now in town proportion to their numbers\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Armand John DeRosset Sr., regarding Rush's \"second volume of medical inquiries\" about his \"principles on dropsy and pulmonary consumption\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Edward Rutledge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown Sir regarding the legal proceedings in a land dispute. Date is unclear, could be February or July. Autograph letter, signed. 3 pages.","George Walton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Major General Benjamin Lincoln seeking his help regarding sums for the military being misapplied by citizens [Georgia] and hung up in the Department of the Army resulting in shortages for the troops in the Georgia militias. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","George Washington writes to Burgess Ball, regarding Ball's interest in the federal government purchasing some of his land for the construction of an arsenal. Washington indicates that he will leave the matter to the Secretary of War, Timothy Pickering, and not discuss it further, lest their family connection lend an appearance of impropriety. Ball was married to Frances Washington, the daughter of George's brother Charles.  Autograph letter, signed. 3 pages.","William Whipple, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to President Meshech Weare [New Hampshire] regarding the recent arrival of Mr. William Trail from Bermuda. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey, regarding the safe passage of a British deserter, Humphrey Belcher, through American lines. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Oliver Wolcott, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to his wife, Laura Wolcott. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon","Rickert, Wayne","Adams, John, 1735-1826","Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795","Whipple, William, 1730-1785","Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836","Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826","Chase, Samuel, 1741-1811","Smallwood, William, 1732-1792","Clark, Abraham, 1726-1794","Dayton, Elias, 1737-1807","Lewis, Francis, 1713-1803","Searle, James, 1730-1797","Fell, John, 1721-1798","Mumford, Thomas, 1728-1799","Floyd, William, 1734-1821","Dayton, Ebenezer, 1744-1802","Ellery, William, 1727-1820","Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790","Lee, Charles, 1731-1782","Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806","Hancock, John, 1737-1793","Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814","Hall, Lyman, 1724-1790","Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804","Fitzgerald, John, -1799","Harrison, Benjamin, approximately 1726-1791","Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799","Hooper, William, 1742-1790","Hewes, Joseph, 1730-1779","Penn, John, 1740 or 1741-1788","Hopkins, Stephen, 1707-1785","Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791","Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814","Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796","Huntington, Jabez, 1719-1786","Jay, John, 1745-1829","Gordon, William, 1728-1807","Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834","Washington, George Augustine, approximately 1759-1793","Lee, Francis Lightfoot, 1734-1797","Lee, William, 1739-1795","Sayre, Stephen, 1736-1818","De Berdt, Dennis, Jr.","Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794","Langdon, John, 1741-1819","Madison, James, 1751-1836","Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831","Marshall, John, 1755-1835","Patton, John M. (John Mercer), 1797-1858","Monroe, James, 1758-1831","Morris, Robert, 1734-1806","Holker, John, 1745-1822","Nelson, Thomas, 1738-1789","Paine, Robert Treat, 1731-1814","Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829","Ball, Burgess, 1749-1800","Revere, Paul, 1735-1818","Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784","Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813","Rutledge, Edward, 1749-1800","Walton, George, 1749 or 1750-1804","Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810","Washington, George, 1732-1799","Weare, Meshech, 1713-1786","Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794","Livingston, William, 1723-1790","Wolcott, Oliver, 1726-1797"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon"],"names_coll_ssim":["Rickert, Wayne"],"persname_ssim":["Rickert, Wayne","Adams, John, 1735-1826","Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795","Whipple, William, 1730-1785","Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836","Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826","Chase, Samuel, 1741-1811","Smallwood, William, 1732-1792","Clark, Abraham, 1726-1794","Dayton, Elias, 1737-1807","Lewis, Francis, 1713-1803","Searle, James, 1730-1797","Fell, John, 1721-1798","Mumford, Thomas, 1728-1799","Floyd, William, 1734-1821","Dayton, Ebenezer, 1744-1802","Ellery, William, 1727-1820","Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790","Lee, Charles, 1731-1782","Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806","Hancock, John, 1737-1793","Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814","Hall, Lyman, 1724-1790","Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804","Fitzgerald, John, -1799","Harrison, Benjamin, approximately 1726-1791","Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799","Hooper, William, 1742-1790","Hewes, Joseph, 1730-1779","Penn, John, 1740 or 1741-1788","Hopkins, Stephen, 1707-1785","Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791","Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814","Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796","Huntington, Jabez, 1719-1786","Jay, John, 1745-1829","Gordon, William, 1728-1807","Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834","Washington, George Augustine, approximately 1759-1793","Lee, Francis Lightfoot, 1734-1797","Lee, William, 1739-1795","Sayre, Stephen, 1736-1818","De Berdt, Dennis, Jr.","Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794","Langdon, John, 1741-1819","Madison, James, 1751-1836","Mitchill, Samuel L. 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Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.","Arranged alphabetically by author.","Wayne and Grace Rickert donated the collection of founders' autographs to the Washington Library in 2021.","See 2021-SC-004-038","See 2021-SC-004-032","The collection contains 41 manuscripts dating 1770-1831. Many of the manuscripts date from the era of the American Revolution, and several are directly relevant to the course of the war. Among the documents are single letters by John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, James Madison, John Marshall, James Monroe, Paul Revere, and George Washington, as well as letters and other documents that include the signatures of signers of the Declaration of Independence.","John Adams writes William Plumer, New Hampshire Senator and Governor, discussing the Fries Rebellion of 1799 in Pennsylvania. He pardoned armed tax resisters, including John Fries, convicted of treason. Letter, signed. 1 page.","Letter from Josiah Bartlett to William Whipple regarding the movement of American and British forces in New York and New Jersey. He outlines the many challenges that the revolutionary cause faced in New York, New England, and generally, including supply and money problems, the health of the troops, and the persistence of divided loyalties in the aftermath of the Americans declaring independence. Bartlett signed the Declaration of Independence and served as governor of New Hampshire during Washington's presidency.","Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Aaron Burr writes to the President of the Senate, Thomas Jefferson, when the United States was almost at war with France in 1798, offering to provide information about New York City's defense plan to the state legislature. He writes, \"As one of the Committee appointed by the inhabitants of the City of New York to direct the temporary defence of the said city I have been instructed to give to either House of the Legislature such information as may be in my power relative to that object. Pursuant to such instructions I shall chearfully [sic] attend the Senate or any Committee thereof for that purpose whenever required\".  Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Aaron Burr writes to Thomas Hill Hubbard regarding a legal case. He writes \"In the case of Jackson... vs Varick and Bacon, I pray you to transmit to me, so soon as may be convenient to you, a copy of the Rule which was entered at the last term on my motion to amend the case and Bill of Exceptions - also certified copies of the affidavits which were produced on each side, those offered by the Depts to be certified separately... so that one my be used without the other. Also certified copies of the Rules entered on the Trials... in the several cases of W.D. Craft vs Baldwin Ex of Elias Baldwin and A. Burr is the same - note the changes, which will be remitted\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Chase writes to William Smallwood, President of the Maryland State Senate, regarding his recent appointment as Chief Judge of the General Court of Maryland and his subsequent resignation from his previous role. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Abraham Clark, a New Jersey delegate, writes to Col. Elias Dayton, an experienced veteran, to inform him he has not won the promotion he sought. Clark writes, \"Congress is impressed with the necessity of observing economy in the public expenses and having been formerly too profuse in the promotion of officers determined to stop their hand. They say N.Jersey hath our Major Gen. and by the reduction proposed we shall have but two Regiments. What prospect have I then of obtaining another Genl. officer... We have had no recommendation for this measure either from the Genl. [Washington] - The Legislature- or even the brigade. You mention the promotion of Genls. [Nathanael] Greene and [Daniel] Morgan, but their appointments were... requests from Maryland [actually Rhode Island] and Virginia, this cannot be offered in your favour. I see the embarrassment the subject is under.\" Clark adds that \"Genl. Sullivan hath wrote to the Genl. desiring his opinion... and desired me to postpone any proposals respecting you, till he rcd. an answer.\" He concludes, \"There stands the matter. I wish the arrangement of our Brigade could be postponed...that some favourable occurrence might offer in your favour.\" Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","Letter from Commercial Committee of Congress, Francis Lewis, James Searle, and John Fell, to Thomas Mumford. Francis Lewis is a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Letter is requesting gunpowder for American Independence, \"...This committee have lodged monies in the hands of the agents at St.Eustatia to procure powder... If therefore you will enclose us your order on Messrs. Milner and Haynes for the remainder for the fifty tons of powder they had contracted to deliver, our agents will immediately pay them the balance that may be due to them. As we shall send a vessel to St. Eustatia in a short time we must beg your answer by return of post...\" St. Eustatia, an island in the Caribbean, was a center for contraband trade during the Revolutionary War. Letter signed. 1 page.","Petition from Ebenezer Dayton to the Executive Council of Pennsylvania. Dayton confesses how he did \"flee from there [New York] as a refugee, leaving his lands in the power of the enemy\", and petitions to acquire a \"whaleboat\".  William Floyd, Dayton's neighbor, certifies Dayton's claims. Floyd is a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Autograph , signed, 2 pages.","William Ellery writes a 'Private \u0026 Confidential' letter to an unknown recipient regarding Daniel E. Updike's health circumstances and ability to work due to alcohol. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Benjamin Franklin writes to General Charles Lee in order to introduce Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","True copy of a General Horatio Gate's letter to John Hancock, in Hancock's hand. Gates writes to Hancock regarding a court martial of Col. Donald Campbell. Letter signed. 1 page.","Elbridge Gerry writes to John Adams, President of the United States. He writes \"If an answer, to the letter which your excellency proposed to write to Mr. Pickering on my concerns, is received, I will do myself the honor of waiting on you at any time which may best serve your convenience. Mrs. Gerry unites with me in best respects to yourself and Lady. Be assured, I remain Dear Sir with every sentiment of attachment.\" Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Lyman Hall, Governor of Georgia and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Mrs. Street (possibly his sister) regarding health and life post Revolutionary war. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Alexander Hamilton writes to Colonel John Fitzgerald, while he waits for the Treaty of Paris to arrive. He writes \"The enclosed letter is for Mr. Bowman who married Mrs. Cattle. I am told he is at Alexandria which makes me trouble you with the letter. Should he have left that place for South Carolina, I will thank you to forward it to him. No definitive treaty yet arrived nor any thing else of importance new. I write in Congress...\" A cessation of hostilities had been proclaimed by the British in February and by Congress in April. The provisional peace treaty, negotiated in Paris, was ratified by Congress on April 15, but a long delay ensued before the signing of the final treaty in Paris, 1783 September 3. Both Hamilton and Fitzgerald served as aides-de-camp to Washington during the Revolution. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes a letter to an unknown sir. He writes regarding a Capt. Cherry. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Patrick Henry writes to the unidentified 'County Lieutenant of Berkely [Berkeley].' He writes \"You are hereby directed to furnish General Hand with the numbers of men he may call from your militia to defend the frontier or challenge the Indians.\" Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","William Hooper, away from the Continental Congress to visit his mother, writes to Joseph Hewes and John Penn regarding General Clinton. Hooper  was a member in all five North Carolina Provincial Congresses, a member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Stephen Hopkins, Governor of Rhode Island and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Christopher Harris during the French and Indian War, ordering a Colonel to take forces to Albany and join Major General William Johnson for a campaign against the French at Crown Point. Autograph document, signed. 2 pages.","Francis Hopkinson, Esq., Judge for the Courts of Admiralty for the State of Pennsylvania, directs Clement Biddle Esq., Marshall for the court, to \"sell at public venue the sloop or vessel called the Polly her guns, tackle, apparel, furniture and all and singular the goods, wares and merchandise laden and found on board her at the time of her capture and that after deducting the costs and charges of the trial condemnation and sale out of the monies arising from the said sale you divide the residue of the said monies into two equal parts one of which you are to pay overunto the agent or agents of the owners of the Brigantine or Vessel called the Fair American to and for their use and the other you are to pay over unto the Agent or Agents of the Officers and Crew belonging to the said Brigantine Fair American to and for their use and if it shall happen that any of the said owners officers or crew shall neglect to appear either in person or by agent to receive their respective shares of said monies then you are forthwith to bring such shares into this court to the intent the same may remain ready to be paid to them whenever they are their agents duly authorised may appear and demand the same according to the Resolves of Congress the usages of nations and the Act of Assembly of this state in such case made and provided and how you shall have executed this writ make return to me at a court of Admiralty to be held at my chambers in Philadelphia on the tenth day of November together with this writ given under my hand and the seal of the court twentieth day of October in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one.\" On verso, Biddle responds confirming sale of the Sloop Polly and cargo. Autograph document signed, 2 pages. Hopkinson was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.","Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of the Independence, writes to Jabez Huntington, regarding preparations being made to prepare for the invasion of the British Navy. Letter mentions William Williams, another signer of the Declaration of Independence and Esek Hopkins, Commander of the Continental Navy. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","John Jay, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown Sir, regarding court and Mr. Antell's affidavit. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","Thomas Jefferson writes, while he was the U.S. Minister to France, to William Gordon about the actions he has taken to assist Gordon's efforts to write a history of the American Revolution, and conveys his thoughts on what market may exist for the publication in France. Gordon conducted part of his research for his history at Mount Vernon. Gordon published The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the late War, and of the Thirteen Colonies from their origin, to that period, 4 vols. (London: William Gordon, 1788). Letter also mentions Marquis de la Fayette. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Lafayette writes to George Augustine Washington. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Francis Lightfoot Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to agents De Berdt, Lee \u0026 Sayre regarding the sale and purchase of 80 hogsheads and tobacco. Autograph letter, signed. 4 pages.","Richard Henry Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Langdon congratulating Langdon as a judge and describing his ill health. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","James Madison, Secretary of State, writes to Mitchill regarding court testimony, possibly in reference to Smith and Ogden trial. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Mercer Patton of Virginia regarding a court case and Judge Johnson. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","James Monroe, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown sir, regarding the sale of enslaved people. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Robert Morris, member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Langdon regarding business relations with John Holker. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Thomas Nelson, signer of the Declaration of Independence and brigadier general in the Continental army, writes to General George Weedon, of Richmond, updating him on the mobilization of Virginia's defenses against a British incursion in the Hampton Roads area.\nAutograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Attorney General for the State of Massachusetts, Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence, files a complaint against the respondent Margaret Draper, as she \"levied war, and conspired to levy War against the Government and people of this Province, Colony, and State; and then and there adhered to the King of Great Britain, his fleets and armies, enemies of the said Province, Colony, and State; and then and there did give them aid and comfort\". Partially printed document, signed by the author, with notes in his hand. 1 page.","Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Burgess Ball to inform him that the president has not selected his Potomac land for the location of a federal arsenal. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Paul Revere writes a discharge certificate for Caleb Legg. Autograph document, signed. 1 page.","Caesar Rodney, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown recipient, ordering \"that the Guard be strengthened with a Captain and twenty four men to be furnished from all the Troops now in town proportion to their numbers\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Armand John DeRosset Sr., regarding Rush's \"second volume of medical inquiries\" about his \"principles on dropsy and pulmonary consumption\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Edward Rutledge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown Sir regarding the legal proceedings in a land dispute. Date is unclear, could be February or July. Autograph letter, signed. 3 pages.","George Walton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Major General Benjamin Lincoln seeking his help regarding sums for the military being misapplied by citizens [Georgia] and hung up in the Department of the Army resulting in shortages for the troops in the Georgia militias. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","George Washington writes to Burgess Ball, regarding Ball's interest in the federal government purchasing some of his land for the construction of an arsenal. Washington indicates that he will leave the matter to the Secretary of War, Timothy Pickering, and not discuss it further, lest their family connection lend an appearance of impropriety. Ball was married to Frances Washington, the daughter of George's brother Charles.  Autograph letter, signed. 3 pages.","William Whipple, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to President Meshech Weare [New Hampshire] regarding the recent arrival of Mr. William Trail from Bermuda. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey, regarding the safe passage of a British deserter, Humphrey Belcher, through American lines. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Oliver Wolcott, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to his wife, Laura Wolcott. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon","Rickert, Wayne","Adams, John, 1735-1826","Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795","Whipple, William, 1730-1785","Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836","Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826","Chase, Samuel, 1741-1811","Smallwood, William, 1732-1792","Clark, Abraham, 1726-1794","Dayton, Elias, 1737-1807","Lewis, Francis, 1713-1803","Searle, James, 1730-1797","Fell, John, 1721-1798","Mumford, Thomas, 1728-1799","Floyd, William, 1734-1821","Dayton, Ebenezer, 1744-1802","Ellery, William, 1727-1820","Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790","Lee, Charles, 1731-1782","Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806","Hancock, John, 1737-1793","Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814","Hall, Lyman, 1724-1790","Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804","Fitzgerald, John, -1799","Harrison, Benjamin, approximately 1726-1791","Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799","Hooper, William, 1742-1790","Hewes, Joseph, 1730-1779","Penn, John, 1740 or 1741-1788","Hopkins, Stephen, 1707-1785","Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791","Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814","Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796","Huntington, Jabez, 1719-1786","Jay, John, 1745-1829","Gordon, William, 1728-1807","Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834","Washington, George Augustine, approximately 1759-1793","Lee, Francis Lightfoot, 1734-1797","Lee, William, 1739-1795","Sayre, Stephen, 1736-1818","De Berdt, Dennis, Jr.","Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794","Langdon, John, 1741-1819","Madison, James, 1751-1836","Mitchill, Samuel L. 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Many of the manuscripts date from the era of the American Revolution, and several are directly relevant to the course of the war. Among the documents are single letters by John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, James Madison, John Marshall, James Monroe, Paul Revere, and George Washington, as well as letters and other documents that include the signatures of signers of the Declaration of Independence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Adams writes William Plumer, New Hampshire Senator and Governor, discussing the Fries Rebellion of 1799 in Pennsylvania. He pardoned armed tax resisters, including John Fries, convicted of treason. Letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Josiah Bartlett to William Whipple regarding the movement of American and British forces in New York and New Jersey. He outlines the many challenges that the revolutionary cause faced in New York, New England, and generally, including supply and money problems, the health of the troops, and the persistence of divided loyalties in the aftermath of the Americans declaring independence. Bartlett signed the Declaration of Independence and served as governor of New Hampshire during Washington's presidency.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAaron Burr writes to the President of the Senate, Thomas Jefferson, when the United States was almost at war with France in 1798, offering to provide information about New York City's defense plan to the state legislature. He writes, \"As one of the Committee appointed by the inhabitants of the City of New York to direct the temporary defence of the said city I have been instructed to give to either House of the Legislature such information as may be in my power relative to that object. Pursuant to such instructions I shall chearfully [sic] attend the Senate or any Committee thereof for that purpose whenever required\".  Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAaron Burr writes to Thomas Hill Hubbard regarding a legal case. He writes \"In the case of Jackson... vs Varick and Bacon, I pray you to transmit to me, so soon as may be convenient to you, a copy of the Rule which was entered at the last term on my motion to amend the case and Bill of Exceptions - also certified copies of the affidavits which were produced on each side, those offered by the Depts to be certified separately... so that one my be used without the other. Also certified copies of the Rules entered on the Trials... in the several cases of W.D. Craft vs Baldwin Ex of Elias Baldwin and A. Burr is the same - note the changes, which will be remitted\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChase writes to William Smallwood, President of the Maryland State Senate, regarding his recent appointment as Chief Judge of the General Court of Maryland and his subsequent resignation from his previous role. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbraham Clark, a New Jersey delegate, writes to Col. Elias Dayton, an experienced veteran, to inform him he has not won the promotion he sought. Clark writes, \"Congress is impressed with the necessity of observing economy in the public expenses and having been formerly too profuse in the promotion of officers determined to stop their hand. They say N.Jersey hath our Major Gen. and by the reduction proposed we shall have but two Regiments. What prospect have I then of obtaining another Genl. officer... We have had no recommendation for this measure either from the Genl. [Washington] - The Legislature- or even the brigade. You mention the promotion of Genls. [Nathanael] Greene and [Daniel] Morgan, but their appointments were... requests from Maryland [actually Rhode Island] and Virginia, this cannot be offered in your favour. I see the embarrassment the subject is under.\" Clark adds that \"Genl. Sullivan hath wrote to the Genl. desiring his opinion... and desired me to postpone any proposals respecting you, till he rcd. an answer.\" He concludes, \"There stands the matter. I wish the arrangement of our Brigade could be postponed...that some favourable occurrence might offer in your favour.\" Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Commercial Committee of Congress, Francis Lewis, James Searle, and John Fell, to Thomas Mumford. Francis Lewis is a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Letter is requesting gunpowder for American Independence, \"...This committee have lodged monies in the hands of the agents at St.Eustatia to procure powder... If therefore you will enclose us your order on Messrs. Milner and Haynes for the remainder for the fifty tons of powder they had contracted to deliver, our agents will immediately pay them the balance that may be due to them. As we shall send a vessel to St. Eustatia in a short time we must beg your answer by return of post...\" St. Eustatia, an island in the Caribbean, was a center for contraband trade during the Revolutionary War. Letter signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetition from Ebenezer Dayton to the Executive Council of Pennsylvania. Dayton confesses how he did \"flee from there [New York] as a refugee, leaving his lands in the power of the enemy\", and petitions to acquire a \"whaleboat\".  William Floyd, Dayton's neighbor, certifies Dayton's claims. Floyd is a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Autograph , signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Ellery writes a 'Private \u0026amp; Confidential' letter to an unknown recipient regarding Daniel E. Updike's health circumstances and ability to work due to alcohol. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Franklin writes to General Charles Lee in order to introduce Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrue copy of a General Horatio Gate's letter to John Hancock, in Hancock's hand. Gates writes to Hancock regarding a court martial of Col. Donald Campbell. Letter signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElbridge Gerry writes to John Adams, President of the United States. He writes \"If an answer, to the letter which your excellency proposed to write to Mr. Pickering on my concerns, is received, I will do myself the honor of waiting on you at any time which may best serve your convenience. Mrs. Gerry unites with me in best respects to yourself and Lady. Be assured, I remain Dear Sir with every sentiment of attachment.\" Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLyman Hall, Governor of Georgia and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Mrs. Street (possibly his sister) regarding health and life post Revolutionary war. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlexander Hamilton writes to Colonel John Fitzgerald, while he waits for the Treaty of Paris to arrive. He writes \"The enclosed letter is for Mr. Bowman who married Mrs. Cattle. I am told he is at Alexandria which makes me trouble you with the letter. Should he have left that place for South Carolina, I will thank you to forward it to him. No definitive treaty yet arrived nor any thing else of importance new. I write in Congress...\" A cessation of hostilities had been proclaimed by the British in February and by Congress in April. The provisional peace treaty, negotiated in Paris, was ratified by Congress on April 15, but a long delay ensued before the signing of the final treaty in Paris, 1783 September 3. Both Hamilton and Fitzgerald served as aides-de-camp to Washington during the Revolution. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes a letter to an unknown sir. He writes regarding a Capt. Cherry. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatrick Henry writes to the unidentified 'County Lieutenant of Berkely [Berkeley].' He writes \"You are hereby directed to furnish General Hand with the numbers of men he may call from your militia to defend the frontier or challenge the Indians.\" Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Hooper, away from the Continental Congress to visit his mother, writes to Joseph Hewes and John Penn regarding General Clinton. Hooper  was a member in all five North Carolina Provincial Congresses, a member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStephen Hopkins, Governor of Rhode Island and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Christopher Harris during the French and Indian War, ordering a Colonel to take forces to Albany and join Major General William Johnson for a campaign against the French at Crown Point. Autograph document, signed. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrancis Hopkinson, Esq., Judge for the Courts of Admiralty for the State of Pennsylvania, directs Clement Biddle Esq., Marshall for the court, to \"sell at public venue the sloop or vessel called the Polly her guns, tackle, apparel, furniture and all and singular the goods, wares and merchandise laden and found on board her at the time of her capture and that after deducting the costs and charges of the trial condemnation and sale out of the monies arising from the said sale you divide the residue of the said monies into two equal parts one of which you are to pay overunto the agent or agents of the owners of the Brigantine or Vessel called the Fair American to and for their use and the other you are to pay over unto the Agent or Agents of the Officers and Crew belonging to the said Brigantine Fair American to and for their use and if it shall happen that any of the said owners officers or crew shall neglect to appear either in person or by agent to receive their respective shares of said monies then you are forthwith to bring such shares into this court to the intent the same may remain ready to be paid to them whenever they are their agents duly authorised may appear and demand the same according to the Resolves of Congress the usages of nations and the Act of Assembly of this state in such case made and provided and how you shall have executed this writ make return to me at a court of Admiralty to be held at my chambers in Philadelphia on the tenth day of November together with this writ given under my hand and the seal of the court twentieth day of October in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one.\" On verso, Biddle responds confirming sale of the Sloop Polly and cargo. Autograph document signed, 2 pages. Hopkinson was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of the Independence, writes to Jabez Huntington, regarding preparations being made to prepare for the invasion of the British Navy. Letter mentions William Williams, another signer of the Declaration of Independence and Esek Hopkins, Commander of the Continental Navy. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Jay, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown Sir, regarding court and Mr. Antell's affidavit. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Jefferson writes, while he was the U.S. Minister to France, to William Gordon about the actions he has taken to assist Gordon's efforts to write a history of the American Revolution, and conveys his thoughts on what market may exist for the publication in France. Gordon conducted part of his research for his history at Mount Vernon. Gordon published The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the late War, and of the Thirteen Colonies from their origin, to that period, 4 vols. (London: William Gordon, 1788). Letter also mentions Marquis de la Fayette. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLafayette writes to George Augustine Washington. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrancis Lightfoot Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to agents De Berdt, Lee \u0026amp; Sayre regarding the sale and purchase of 80 hogsheads and tobacco. Autograph letter, signed. 4 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard Henry Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Langdon congratulating Langdon as a judge and describing his ill health. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Madison, Secretary of State, writes to Mitchill regarding court testimony, possibly in reference to Smith and Ogden trial. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Mercer Patton of Virginia regarding a court case and Judge Johnson. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Monroe, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown sir, regarding the sale of enslaved people. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Morris, member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Langdon regarding business relations with John Holker. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Nelson, signer of the Declaration of Independence and brigadier general in the Continental army, writes to General George Weedon, of Richmond, updating him on the mobilization of Virginia's defenses against a British incursion in the Hampton Roads area.\nAutograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney General for the State of Massachusetts, Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence, files a complaint against the respondent Margaret Draper, as she \"levied war, and conspired to levy War against the Government and people of this Province, Colony, and State; and then and there adhered to the King of Great Britain, his fleets and armies, enemies of the said Province, Colony, and State; and then and there did give them aid and comfort\". Partially printed document, signed by the author, with notes in his hand. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTimothy Pickering, Secretary of War and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Burgess Ball to inform him that the president has not selected his Potomac land for the location of a federal arsenal. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaul Revere writes a discharge certificate for Caleb Legg. Autograph document, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaesar Rodney, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown recipient, ordering \"that the Guard be strengthened with a Captain and twenty four men to be furnished from all the Troops now in town proportion to their numbers\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Armand John DeRosset Sr., regarding Rush's \"second volume of medical inquiries\" about his \"principles on dropsy and pulmonary consumption\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdward Rutledge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown Sir regarding the legal proceedings in a land dispute. Date is unclear, could be February or July. Autograph letter, signed. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Walton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Major General Benjamin Lincoln seeking his help regarding sums for the military being misapplied by citizens [Georgia] and hung up in the Department of the Army resulting in shortages for the troops in the Georgia militias. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Washington writes to Burgess Ball, regarding Ball's interest in the federal government purchasing some of his land for the construction of an arsenal. Washington indicates that he will leave the matter to the Secretary of War, Timothy Pickering, and not discuss it further, lest their family connection lend an appearance of impropriety. Ball was married to Frances Washington, the daughter of George's brother Charles.  Autograph letter, signed. 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Whipple, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to President Meshech Weare [New Hampshire] regarding the recent arrival of Mr. William Trail from Bermuda. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey, regarding the safe passage of a British deserter, Humphrey Belcher, through American lines. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver Wolcott, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to his wife, Laura Wolcott. 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Many of the manuscripts date from the era of the American Revolution, and several are directly relevant to the course of the war. Among the documents are single letters by John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, James Madison, John Marshall, James Monroe, Paul Revere, and George Washington, as well as letters and other documents that include the signatures of signers of the Declaration of Independence.","John Adams writes William Plumer, New Hampshire Senator and Governor, discussing the Fries Rebellion of 1799 in Pennsylvania. He pardoned armed tax resisters, including John Fries, convicted of treason. Letter, signed. 1 page.","Letter from Josiah Bartlett to William Whipple regarding the movement of American and British forces in New York and New Jersey. He outlines the many challenges that the revolutionary cause faced in New York, New England, and generally, including supply and money problems, the health of the troops, and the persistence of divided loyalties in the aftermath of the Americans declaring independence. Bartlett signed the Declaration of Independence and served as governor of New Hampshire during Washington's presidency.","Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Aaron Burr writes to the President of the Senate, Thomas Jefferson, when the United States was almost at war with France in 1798, offering to provide information about New York City's defense plan to the state legislature. He writes, \"As one of the Committee appointed by the inhabitants of the City of New York to direct the temporary defence of the said city I have been instructed to give to either House of the Legislature such information as may be in my power relative to that object. Pursuant to such instructions I shall chearfully [sic] attend the Senate or any Committee thereof for that purpose whenever required\".  Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Aaron Burr writes to Thomas Hill Hubbard regarding a legal case. He writes \"In the case of Jackson... vs Varick and Bacon, I pray you to transmit to me, so soon as may be convenient to you, a copy of the Rule which was entered at the last term on my motion to amend the case and Bill of Exceptions - also certified copies of the affidavits which were produced on each side, those offered by the Depts to be certified separately... so that one my be used without the other. Also certified copies of the Rules entered on the Trials... in the several cases of W.D. Craft vs Baldwin Ex of Elias Baldwin and A. Burr is the same - note the changes, which will be remitted\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Chase writes to William Smallwood, President of the Maryland State Senate, regarding his recent appointment as Chief Judge of the General Court of Maryland and his subsequent resignation from his previous role. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Abraham Clark, a New Jersey delegate, writes to Col. Elias Dayton, an experienced veteran, to inform him he has not won the promotion he sought. Clark writes, \"Congress is impressed with the necessity of observing economy in the public expenses and having been formerly too profuse in the promotion of officers determined to stop their hand. They say N.Jersey hath our Major Gen. and by the reduction proposed we shall have but two Regiments. What prospect have I then of obtaining another Genl. officer... We have had no recommendation for this measure either from the Genl. [Washington] - The Legislature- or even the brigade. You mention the promotion of Genls. [Nathanael] Greene and [Daniel] Morgan, but their appointments were... requests from Maryland [actually Rhode Island] and Virginia, this cannot be offered in your favour. I see the embarrassment the subject is under.\" Clark adds that \"Genl. Sullivan hath wrote to the Genl. desiring his opinion... and desired me to postpone any proposals respecting you, till he rcd. an answer.\" He concludes, \"There stands the matter. I wish the arrangement of our Brigade could be postponed...that some favourable occurrence might offer in your favour.\" Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","Letter from Commercial Committee of Congress, Francis Lewis, James Searle, and John Fell, to Thomas Mumford. Francis Lewis is a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Letter is requesting gunpowder for American Independence, \"...This committee have lodged monies in the hands of the agents at St.Eustatia to procure powder... If therefore you will enclose us your order on Messrs. Milner and Haynes for the remainder for the fifty tons of powder they had contracted to deliver, our agents will immediately pay them the balance that may be due to them. As we shall send a vessel to St. Eustatia in a short time we must beg your answer by return of post...\" St. Eustatia, an island in the Caribbean, was a center for contraband trade during the Revolutionary War. Letter signed. 1 page.","Petition from Ebenezer Dayton to the Executive Council of Pennsylvania. Dayton confesses how he did \"flee from there [New York] as a refugee, leaving his lands in the power of the enemy\", and petitions to acquire a \"whaleboat\".  William Floyd, Dayton's neighbor, certifies Dayton's claims. Floyd is a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Autograph , signed, 2 pages.","William Ellery writes a 'Private \u0026 Confidential' letter to an unknown recipient regarding Daniel E. Updike's health circumstances and ability to work due to alcohol. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Benjamin Franklin writes to General Charles Lee in order to introduce Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","True copy of a General Horatio Gate's letter to John Hancock, in Hancock's hand. Gates writes to Hancock regarding a court martial of Col. Donald Campbell. Letter signed. 1 page.","Elbridge Gerry writes to John Adams, President of the United States. He writes \"If an answer, to the letter which your excellency proposed to write to Mr. Pickering on my concerns, is received, I will do myself the honor of waiting on you at any time which may best serve your convenience. Mrs. Gerry unites with me in best respects to yourself and Lady. Be assured, I remain Dear Sir with every sentiment of attachment.\" Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Lyman Hall, Governor of Georgia and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Mrs. Street (possibly his sister) regarding health and life post Revolutionary war. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Alexander Hamilton writes to Colonel John Fitzgerald, while he waits for the Treaty of Paris to arrive. He writes \"The enclosed letter is for Mr. Bowman who married Mrs. Cattle. I am told he is at Alexandria which makes me trouble you with the letter. Should he have left that place for South Carolina, I will thank you to forward it to him. No definitive treaty yet arrived nor any thing else of importance new. I write in Congress...\" A cessation of hostilities had been proclaimed by the British in February and by Congress in April. The provisional peace treaty, negotiated in Paris, was ratified by Congress on April 15, but a long delay ensued before the signing of the final treaty in Paris, 1783 September 3. Both Hamilton and Fitzgerald served as aides-de-camp to Washington during the Revolution. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes a letter to an unknown sir. He writes regarding a Capt. Cherry. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Patrick Henry writes to the unidentified 'County Lieutenant of Berkely [Berkeley].' He writes \"You are hereby directed to furnish General Hand with the numbers of men he may call from your militia to defend the frontier or challenge the Indians.\" Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","William Hooper, away from the Continental Congress to visit his mother, writes to Joseph Hewes and John Penn regarding General Clinton. Hooper  was a member in all five North Carolina Provincial Congresses, a member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Stephen Hopkins, Governor of Rhode Island and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Christopher Harris during the French and Indian War, ordering a Colonel to take forces to Albany and join Major General William Johnson for a campaign against the French at Crown Point. Autograph document, signed. 2 pages.","Francis Hopkinson, Esq., Judge for the Courts of Admiralty for the State of Pennsylvania, directs Clement Biddle Esq., Marshall for the court, to \"sell at public venue the sloop or vessel called the Polly her guns, tackle, apparel, furniture and all and singular the goods, wares and merchandise laden and found on board her at the time of her capture and that after deducting the costs and charges of the trial condemnation and sale out of the monies arising from the said sale you divide the residue of the said monies into two equal parts one of which you are to pay overunto the agent or agents of the owners of the Brigantine or Vessel called the Fair American to and for their use and the other you are to pay over unto the Agent or Agents of the Officers and Crew belonging to the said Brigantine Fair American to and for their use and if it shall happen that any of the said owners officers or crew shall neglect to appear either in person or by agent to receive their respective shares of said monies then you are forthwith to bring such shares into this court to the intent the same may remain ready to be paid to them whenever they are their agents duly authorised may appear and demand the same according to the Resolves of Congress the usages of nations and the Act of Assembly of this state in such case made and provided and how you shall have executed this writ make return to me at a court of Admiralty to be held at my chambers in Philadelphia on the tenth day of November together with this writ given under my hand and the seal of the court twentieth day of October in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one.\" On verso, Biddle responds confirming sale of the Sloop Polly and cargo. Autograph document signed, 2 pages. Hopkinson was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.","Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of the Independence, writes to Jabez Huntington, regarding preparations being made to prepare for the invasion of the British Navy. Letter mentions William Williams, another signer of the Declaration of Independence and Esek Hopkins, Commander of the Continental Navy. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","John Jay, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown Sir, regarding court and Mr. Antell's affidavit. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","Thomas Jefferson writes, while he was the U.S. Minister to France, to William Gordon about the actions he has taken to assist Gordon's efforts to write a history of the American Revolution, and conveys his thoughts on what market may exist for the publication in France. Gordon conducted part of his research for his history at Mount Vernon. Gordon published The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the late War, and of the Thirteen Colonies from their origin, to that period, 4 vols. (London: William Gordon, 1788). Letter also mentions Marquis de la Fayette. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Lafayette writes to George Augustine Washington. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Francis Lightfoot Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to agents De Berdt, Lee \u0026 Sayre regarding the sale and purchase of 80 hogsheads and tobacco. Autograph letter, signed. 4 pages.","Richard Henry Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Langdon congratulating Langdon as a judge and describing his ill health. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","James Madison, Secretary of State, writes to Mitchill regarding court testimony, possibly in reference to Smith and Ogden trial. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Mercer Patton of Virginia regarding a court case and Judge Johnson. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","James Monroe, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown sir, regarding the sale of enslaved people. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Robert Morris, member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to John Langdon regarding business relations with John Holker. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Thomas Nelson, signer of the Declaration of Independence and brigadier general in the Continental army, writes to General George Weedon, of Richmond, updating him on the mobilization of Virginia's defenses against a British incursion in the Hampton Roads area.\nAutograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Attorney General for the State of Massachusetts, Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence, files a complaint against the respondent Margaret Draper, as she \"levied war, and conspired to levy War against the Government and people of this Province, Colony, and State; and then and there adhered to the King of Great Britain, his fleets and armies, enemies of the said Province, Colony, and State; and then and there did give them aid and comfort\". Partially printed document, signed by the author, with notes in his hand. 1 page.","Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Burgess Ball to inform him that the president has not selected his Potomac land for the location of a federal arsenal. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Paul Revere writes a discharge certificate for Caleb Legg. Autograph document, signed. 1 page.","Caesar Rodney, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown recipient, ordering \"that the Guard be strengthened with a Captain and twenty four men to be furnished from all the Troops now in town proportion to their numbers\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Armand John DeRosset Sr., regarding Rush's \"second volume of medical inquiries\" about his \"principles on dropsy and pulmonary consumption\". Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Edward Rutledge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to an unknown Sir regarding the legal proceedings in a land dispute. Date is unclear, could be February or July. Autograph letter, signed. 3 pages.","George Walton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Major General Benjamin Lincoln seeking his help regarding sums for the military being misapplied by citizens [Georgia] and hung up in the Department of the Army resulting in shortages for the troops in the Georgia militias. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.","George Washington writes to Burgess Ball, regarding Ball's interest in the federal government purchasing some of his land for the construction of an arsenal. Washington indicates that he will leave the matter to the Secretary of War, Timothy Pickering, and not discuss it further, lest their family connection lend an appearance of impropriety. Ball was married to Frances Washington, the daughter of George's brother Charles.  Autograph letter, signed. 3 pages.","William Whipple, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to President Meshech Weare [New Hampshire] regarding the recent arrival of Mr. William Trail from Bermuda. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey, regarding the safe passage of a British deserter, Humphrey Belcher, through American lines. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.","Oliver Wolcott, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to his wife, Laura Wolcott. 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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.","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. 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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. 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. 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. 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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. 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. 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The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","The collection is arranged chronologically within 5 series.","Preliminary description by Ellen R. Strong in 2002.  Sorted by Matthew Niendorf in 2014.  Revised and updated by Del Moore in 2015.","More than 600 items from the period 1757 to 1922, with the bulk falling between 1780 and 1870.  Most items reference members of the Wilkin/Wilkins family of Shenandoah County, Virginia, particularly Godfrey, John, Philip, Benomi, and Benjamin Wilkin.  Other surnames include Gochenauer, Layman, Funkhauser, Koock, and Miller.  Most documents are financial or legal, such as receipts, promissory notes, account statements, and probate records.  There is some correspondence, as well as a few documents relating to military service in the Revolutionary period and the affairs of the German Reformed Church.  Numerous items are written in the German language.","These include tax documents, receipts, promissory notes, and account statements.","Most items are receipts for payment of parish levies and taxes on real estate and personal property.","Receipts acknowledge payments for purchases, services, and debts.","Promissory notes indicate terms for the repayment of loans or payments for services provided.","These items range from brief mention of an item purchased to several pages from a firm's account book.","These include probate records, copies of deeds and indentures, receipts for recording or issuing court documents, and orders to a sheriff to summon witnesses.","In most cases the deceased are members of the Wilkin family or Wilkin family members are administrators of the estates.  Among the deceased are Jacob Coffman, multiple Godfrey Wilkins, Benjamin Layman, John Wilkin, Jacob Wilkin, and Peter Miller.","These include copies of deeds, receipts for recording deeds or registering inherited land, boundary descriptions, and a property sale notice.","Included are a guardian indenture, an apprentice indenture, receipts for issuing and recording court documents, vouchers for payments to witnesses, orders to a sheriff to summon witnesses, and receipts for payment of court settlements.","There are about thirty letters and notes and four empty envelopes.","John Wilkin is the writer or recipient of many items. Some are to or from relatives who have moved to the Midwest. Topics include land, crops, finding wives, and money. Some correspondence with a Mr. E. Duvall involves forming a Branch Society related to alchemy and mining.","There are four empty envelopes; addressees are Isaiah Funkhauser, Dr. E. Duvall, and John Wilkins.","This material includes items relating to military service, church business, medicine, and poetry. There also are newspaper clippings and other printed ephemera, as well as numerous fragments and scribbles.","These ten items include certificates for service, supplies, and attendance at a Court Martial during or just after the Revolution. A return for May 1815 of a company of Virginia militia commanded by Captain Samuel Bare has numbers only – no names.","These three items include an 1841 letter (without signatures) to the German Reformed Church of Woodstock stating why thirty-nine members are withdrawing their membership, an 1854 request for subscribers to pay for a new preacher in German and English in North Mountain Gorge, and a petition signed by more than one hundred members of Evangelic German Reformed congregations in Shenandoah County asking that the German-speaking Rev. John Kessler be given permission to take charge as their minister.","These eight items include medical prescriptions and lists of chemicals.","There are three poems of unknown origin, though one has three or four names on the back, including Edwina V. Hatfield.","Among about twenty-five items are candidate lists for an 1873 election in Shenandoah County, newspaper clippings, Sunday school lessons, blank checks, ads for medical products, and a large ad for a Bible.","There are approximately fifty items, most of which range from small fragments to significant portions of various types of documents. Other items include scrap paper with scribbles and a page of repetitions of statements apparently assigned to a student for disciplinary purposes.","These thirty-five documents apparently are written in German or a combination of German and English. 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