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General Assembly. House of Delegates","Account books","Correspondence","Manuscripts (document genre)","10,764.00 items","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. 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.","Organization: This collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1 contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and Series 5 contains manuscript volumes. Arrangement: This collection is arranged into series and then subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names, then by individual name and finally by date. Also available on microfilm University Publications of America.","Additional information may be found at: http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00045.frame","When available, microfilm, photocopies, digital surrogates, or other reproductions must be used in place of original documents.","Papers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman, Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham counties, Virginia.","The papers include correspondence, accounts, legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.","Correspondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.","Subjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.","Austin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43","Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.","Letters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen. This series is divided into subseries by family name.","22 items.","5 items. Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.","17 items. Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).","72 items.","11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.","Susan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.","8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).","19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.","12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.","11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.","11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.","7 items.","Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.","17 items.","Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.","111 items.","29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.","64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.","18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.","14 items.","Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.","6 items.","Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.","26 items.","12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.","14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.","5 items.","Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.","29 items.","11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]","18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.","513 items.","6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).","16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"","11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).","5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026 Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.","19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.","12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.","17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.","8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.","14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.","10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.","12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026 Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.","5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.","17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026 Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.","14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.","18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.","18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.","16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).","10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026 Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026 Co.","13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026 Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.","15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).","15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026 Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026 Tennessee Railroad).","30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026 Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026 Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.","34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026 Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)","35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026 Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026 Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026 Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026 Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.","Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026 Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026 Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026 Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026 Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026 Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).","36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.","218 items.","7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).","7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.","16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.","25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.","27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.","16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.","16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026 Agee which may force the sale of her land.","17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.","10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.","13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.","6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.","25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.","10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).","23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.","390 items.","26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.","21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.","19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.","14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.","8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.","28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).","15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.","6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.","28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.","16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.","5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.","14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.","25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).","30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.","20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.","24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.","383 items.","10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.","21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.","10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.","17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.","7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.","6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].","17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).","34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).","32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).","26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.","23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.","8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)","50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.","22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.","19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.","22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026 Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.","12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.","16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.","10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"","21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.","229 items.","10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.","17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.","18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.","26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.","16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.","22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.","17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)","8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.","84 items.","23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.","31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.","30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).","17 items.","Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.","46 items.","29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Letters written from Nellie [?].","15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.","5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026 bobtail because ragtag \u0026 bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.","5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.","6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).","15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026 undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.","8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.","36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.","219 items.","9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026 Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.","13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.","15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.","16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.","11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.","18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.","24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.","21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026 Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026 Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.","15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).","11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)","23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026 Johnson, [n. p.]","10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.","11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.","16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.","15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).","15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026 Rea.","20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026 Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.","22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.","13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).","13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026 Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.","31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026 McCorkle, Simpson \u0026 Jones.","28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026 Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.","22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.","Many are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.","12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026 Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.","15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.","25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.","2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026 Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.","17 items.","24 items.","41 items.","50 items.","63 items.","41 items.","55 items.","82 items","82 items","88 items.","88 items.","65 items.","65 items.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","73 items.","73 items.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","44 items.","57 items.","57 items.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","54 items.","54 items.","60 items.","60 items.","29 items.","24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.","34 items.","43 items.","43 items.","40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.","49 items.","45 items.","31 items.","32 items.","33 items.","35 items.","41 items.","23 items.","26 items.","31 items.","31 items.","27 items.","27 items.","20 items.","20 items.","15 items.","21 items.","38 items.","26 items.","74 items.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.","126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","84 items.","13 items.","71 items.","40 items.","66 items.","66 items.","62 items.","49 items.","73 items.","65 items.","38 items.","40 items.","64 items.","57 items.","73 items.","94 items.","117 items.","69 items.","97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.","78 items.","93 items.","84 items.","89 items.","51 items.","37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.","20 items.","36 items.","302 items.","48 items.","73 items.","35 items.","20 items.","86 items.","55 items.","38 items.","17 items.","17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.","223 items.","14 items.","33 items.","24 items.","49 items.","11 items.","75 items.","17 items.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","250 items. Papers involving both names.","30 items.","55 items.","51 items.","21 items.","27 items.","42 items.","24 items.","56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.","195 items.","55 items.","22 items.","58 items.","60 items.","64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","22 items.","49 items.","44 items.","59 items.","118 items.","87 items.","70 items.","70 items.","99 items.","103 items.","40 items.","29 items.","21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"","195 items.","106 items.","81 items.","161 items.","164 items.","103 items.","28 items.","26 items.","30 items.","46 items.","32 items.","16 items.","32 items.","57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.","63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.","73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.","41 items.","65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.","40 items.","27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.","20 items.","30 items.","32 items.","33 items.","32 items.","33 items.","49 items.","25 items.","45 items.","44 items.","34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.","93 items.","14 items.","28 items.","17 items.","21 items.","15 items.","19 items.","21 items.","16 items.","33 items.","40 items.","24 items.","17 items.","12 items.","11 items.","11 items.","32 items.","30 items.","30 items.","42 items.","99 items.","52 items.","57 items.","23 items.","22 items.","27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of employees.","38 items.","23 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.","21 items. Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.","24 items.","8 items.","16 items.","18 items.","14 items.","21 items.","46 items. Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.","33 items.","7 items.","27 items.","35 items.","23 items.","29 items.","35 items.","28 items. Includes \"A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.","18 items.","18 items.","33 items.","23 items.","14 items.","173 items.","16 items.","16 items.","6 items.","23 items.","77 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","16 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","29 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","21 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","20 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","57 items.","Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew Jackson as...[the] next President.\"","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","7 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials.","2 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and Twyman.","15 items. Genealogical Materials.","34 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.","2 items. Genealogical Materials.","16 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","10 items. Genealogical Materials.","116 items. Entire box. Genealogical Materials. Includes metal sign \"B. Austin, Attorney at Law\"","Account book of William Adams and his estate.","Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court records, 1847-1848.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes, 1860-1864.","Including farm notes and notes of calls on patients.","Includes farm notes in back, 1840.","Including the estate of George Spiller.","Includes time charts for worker in the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp. 80-81, 292-294.","Including time sheets of work on locks, James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes work on the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.","2 items. Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated papers).","24 items. Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by Francisco.","7 items. Photographs.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)","Horsley family","Spiller family","Austin family","Twyman family","Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Francisco, Peter, d. 1831","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 69 Au7","/repositories/2/resources/392"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Austin-Twyman Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Austin-Twyman Papers"],"collection_ssim":["Austin-Twyman Papers"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"geogname_ssim":["Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"creator_ssm":["Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Horsley family","Spiller family"],"creator_ssim":["Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Horsley family","Spiller family"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837"],"creator_famname_ssim":["Horsley family","Spiller family"],"creators_ssim":["Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Horsley family","Spiller family"],"places_ssim":["Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchased: 10,706 items, 1969."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Legal documents","Medicine--Practice--Virginia","Medicine--Study and teaching--Virginia","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century","Slaves--United States--Correspondence","Slaves--Virginia--Correspondence","Slaves--Virginia--Social conditions","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","United States--History--War of 1812","Virginia. 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Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAustin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePapers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are filed in chronological order within each folder. 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Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e72 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSusan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by Archibald Austin, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e111 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e513 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026amp; Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026amp; Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026amp; Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026amp; Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026amp; Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026amp; Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026amp; Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026amp; Tennessee Railroad).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026amp; Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026amp; Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026amp; Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026amp; Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026amp; Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026amp; Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026amp; Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026amp; Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026amp; Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026amp; Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026amp; Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026amp; Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026amp; Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e218 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026amp; Agee which may force the sale of her land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e390 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026amp; Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e383 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026amp; Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e229 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026amp; Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026amp; Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written from Nellie [?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026amp; bobtail because ragtag \u0026amp; bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026amp; undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e219 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026amp; Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026amp; Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026amp; Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026amp; Johnson, [n. p.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026amp; Rea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026amp; Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026amp; Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026amp; McCorkle, Simpson \u0026amp; Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026amp; Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026amp; Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026amp; Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026amp; Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026amp; Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e63 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e82 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e82 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e88 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e88 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e43 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e43 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e74 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e71 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e66 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e66 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e62 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e94 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e117 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e69 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026amp; Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e78 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e93 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e89 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e51 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e302 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e48 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e86 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e223 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e75 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e250 items. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e51 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e42 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e195 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e59 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e118 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e87 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e70 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e70 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e99 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e103 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e195 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e106 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e81 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e161 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e164 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e103 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e93 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e42 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e99 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e52 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of employees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items. Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Includes \"A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e173 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e77 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. 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Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e135 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e135 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e135 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e135 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e116 items. Entire box. Genealogical Materials. Includes metal sign \"B. Austin, Attorney at Law\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book of William Adams and his estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. 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Spiller genealogical data, pp. 80-81, 292-294.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding time sheets of work on locks, James River and Kanawha Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes work on the James River and Kanawha Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated papers).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by Francisco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. 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include correspondence, accounts, legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.","Correspondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.","Subjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.","Austin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43","Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.","Letters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen. This series is divided into subseries by family name.","22 items.","5 items. Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.","17 items. Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).","72 items.","11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.","Susan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.","8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).","19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.","12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.","11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.","11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.","7 items.","Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.","17 items.","Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.","111 items.","29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.","64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.","18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.","14 items.","Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.","6 items.","Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.","26 items.","12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.","14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.","5 items.","Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.","29 items.","11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]","18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.","513 items.","6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).","16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"","11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).","5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026 Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.","19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.","12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.","17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.","8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.","14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.","10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.","12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026 Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.","5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.","17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026 Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.","14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.","18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.","18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.","16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).","10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026 Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026 Co.","13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026 Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.","15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).","15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026 Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026 Tennessee Railroad).","30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026 Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026 Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.","34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026 Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)","35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026 Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026 Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026 Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026 Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.","Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026 Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026 Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026 Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026 Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026 Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).","36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.","218 items.","7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).","7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.","16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.","25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.","27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.","16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.","16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026 Agee which may force the sale of her land.","17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.","10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.","13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.","6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.","25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.","10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).","23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.","390 items.","26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.","21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.","19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.","14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.","8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.","28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).","15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.","6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.","28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.","16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.","5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.","14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.","25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).","30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.","20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.","24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.","383 items.","10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.","21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.","10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.","17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.","7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.","6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].","17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).","34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).","32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).","26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.","23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.","8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)","50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.","22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.","19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.","22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026 Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.","12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.","16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.","10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"","21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.","229 items.","10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.","17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.","18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.","26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.","16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.","22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.","17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)","8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.","84 items.","23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.","31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.","30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).","17 items.","Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.","46 items.","29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Letters written from Nellie [?].","15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.","5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026 bobtail because ragtag \u0026 bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.","5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.","6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).","15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026 undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.","8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.","36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.","219 items.","9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026 Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.","13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.","15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.","16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.","11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.","18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.","24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.","21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026 Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026 Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.","15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).","11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)","23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026 Johnson, [n. p.]","10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.","11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.","16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.","15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).","15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026 Rea.","20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026 Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.","22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.","13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).","13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026 Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.","31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026 McCorkle, Simpson \u0026 Jones.","28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026 Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.","22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.","Many are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.","12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026 Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.","15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.","25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.","2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026 Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.","17 items.","24 items.","41 items.","50 items.","63 items.","41 items.","55 items.","82 items","82 items","88 items.","88 items.","65 items.","65 items.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","73 items.","73 items.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","44 items.","57 items.","57 items.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","54 items.","54 items.","60 items.","60 items.","29 items.","24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.","34 items.","43 items.","43 items.","40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.","49 items.","45 items.","31 items.","32 items.","33 items.","35 items.","41 items.","23 items.","26 items.","31 items.","31 items.","27 items.","27 items.","20 items.","20 items.","15 items.","21 items.","38 items.","26 items.","74 items.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.","126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","84 items.","13 items.","71 items.","40 items.","66 items.","66 items.","62 items.","49 items.","73 items.","65 items.","38 items.","40 items.","64 items.","57 items.","73 items.","94 items.","117 items.","69 items.","97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.","78 items.","93 items.","84 items.","89 items.","51 items.","37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.","20 items.","36 items.","302 items.","48 items.","73 items.","35 items.","20 items.","86 items.","55 items.","38 items.","17 items.","17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.","223 items.","14 items.","33 items.","24 items.","49 items.","11 items.","75 items.","17 items.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","250 items. Papers involving both names.","30 items.","55 items.","51 items.","21 items.","27 items.","42 items.","24 items.","56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.","195 items.","55 items.","22 items.","58 items.","60 items.","64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","22 items.","49 items.","44 items.","59 items.","118 items.","87 items.","70 items.","70 items.","99 items.","103 items.","40 items.","29 items.","21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"","195 items.","106 items.","81 items.","161 items.","164 items.","103 items.","28 items.","26 items.","30 items.","46 items.","32 items.","16 items.","32 items.","57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.","63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.","73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.","41 items.","65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.","40 items.","27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.","20 items.","30 items.","32 items.","33 items.","32 items.","33 items.","49 items.","25 items.","45 items.","44 items.","34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.","93 items.","14 items.","28 items.","17 items.","21 items.","15 items.","19 items.","21 items.","16 items.","33 items.","40 items.","24 items.","17 items.","12 items.","11 items.","11 items.","32 items.","30 items.","30 items.","42 items.","99 items.","52 items.","57 items.","23 items.","22 items.","27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of employees.","38 items.","23 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.","21 items. Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.","24 items.","8 items.","16 items.","18 items.","14 items.","21 items.","46 items. Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.","33 items.","7 items.","27 items.","35 items.","23 items.","29 items.","35 items.","28 items. Includes \"A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.","18 items.","18 items.","33 items.","23 items.","14 items.","173 items.","16 items.","16 items.","6 items.","23 items.","77 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","16 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","29 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","21 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","20 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","57 items.","Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew Jackson as...[the] next President.\"","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","7 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials.","2 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and Twyman.","15 items. Genealogical Materials.","34 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.","2 items. Genealogical Materials.","16 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","10 items. Genealogical Materials.","116 items. Entire box. Genealogical Materials. Includes metal sign \"B. Austin, Attorney at Law\"","Account book of William Adams and his estate.","Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court records, 1847-1848.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes, 1860-1864.","Including farm notes and notes of calls on patients.","Includes farm notes in back, 1840.","Including the estate of George Spiller.","Includes time charts for worker in the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp. 80-81, 292-294.","Including time sheets of work on locks, James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes work on the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.","2 items. Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated papers).","24 items. Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by Francisco.","7 items. Photographs."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_coll_ssim":["James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)","Austin family","Twyman family","Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Francisco, Peter, d. 1831"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)","Horsley family","Spiller family","Austin family","Twyman family","Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Francisco, Peter, d. 1831"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)"],"famname_ssim":["Horsley family","Spiller family","Austin family","Twyman family"],"persname_ssim":["Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Francisco, Peter, d. 1831"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":571,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T22:55:06.862Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_392","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_392","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_392","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_392","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_392.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Austin-Twyman Papers","title_ssm":["Austin-Twyman Papers"],"title_tesim":["Austin-Twyman Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1765-1939"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1765-1939"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 69 Au7","/repositories/2/resources/392"],"text":["Mss. 69 Au7","/repositories/2/resources/392","Austin-Twyman Papers","Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century","Legal documents","Medicine--Practice--Virginia","Medicine--Study and teaching--Virginia","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century","Slaves--United States--Correspondence","Slaves--Virginia--Correspondence","Slaves--Virginia--Social conditions","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","United States--History--War of 1812","Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates","Account books","Correspondence","Manuscripts (document genre)","10,764.00 items","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. 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.","Organization: This collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1 contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and Series 5 contains manuscript volumes. Arrangement: This collection is arranged into series and then subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names, then by individual name and finally by date. Also available on microfilm University Publications of America.","Additional information may be found at: http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00045.frame","When available, microfilm, photocopies, digital surrogates, or other reproductions must be used in place of original documents.","Papers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman, Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham counties, Virginia.","The papers include correspondence, accounts, legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.","Correspondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.","Subjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.","Austin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43","Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.","Letters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen. This series is divided into subseries by family name.","22 items.","5 items. Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.","17 items. Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).","72 items.","11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.","Susan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.","8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).","19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.","12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.","11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.","11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.","7 items.","Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.","17 items.","Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.","111 items.","29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.","64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.","18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.","14 items.","Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.","6 items.","Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.","26 items.","12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.","14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.","5 items.","Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.","29 items.","11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]","18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.","513 items.","6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).","16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"","11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).","5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026 Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.","19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.","12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.","17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.","8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.","14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.","10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.","12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026 Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.","5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.","17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026 Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.","14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.","18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.","18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.","16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).","10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026 Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026 Co.","13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026 Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.","15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).","15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026 Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026 Tennessee Railroad).","30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026 Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026 Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.","34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026 Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)","35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026 Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026 Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026 Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026 Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.","Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026 Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026 Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026 Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026 Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026 Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).","36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.","218 items.","7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).","7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.","16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.","25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.","27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.","16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.","16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026 Agee which may force the sale of her land.","17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.","10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.","13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.","6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.","25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.","10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).","23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.","390 items.","26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.","21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.","19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.","14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.","8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.","28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).","15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.","6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.","28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.","16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.","5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.","14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.","25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).","30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.","20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.","24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.","383 items.","10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.","21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.","10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.","17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.","7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.","6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].","17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).","34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).","32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).","26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.","23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.","8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)","50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.","22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.","19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.","22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026 Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.","12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.","16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.","10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"","21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.","229 items.","10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.","17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.","18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.","26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.","16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.","22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.","17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)","8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.","84 items.","23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.","31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.","30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).","17 items.","Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.","46 items.","29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Letters written from Nellie [?].","15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.","5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026 bobtail because ragtag \u0026 bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.","5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.","6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).","15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026 undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.","8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.","36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.","219 items.","9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026 Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.","13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.","15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.","16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.","11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.","18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.","24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.","21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026 Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026 Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.","15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).","11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)","23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026 Johnson, [n. p.]","10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.","11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.","16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.","15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).","15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026 Rea.","20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026 Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.","22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.","13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).","13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026 Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.","31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026 McCorkle, Simpson \u0026 Jones.","28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026 Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.","22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.","Many are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.","12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026 Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.","15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.","25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.","2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026 Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.","17 items.","24 items.","41 items.","50 items.","63 items.","41 items.","55 items.","82 items","82 items","88 items.","88 items.","65 items.","65 items.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","73 items.","73 items.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","44 items.","57 items.","57 items.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","54 items.","54 items.","60 items.","60 items.","29 items.","24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.","34 items.","43 items.","43 items.","40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.","49 items.","45 items.","31 items.","32 items.","33 items.","35 items.","41 items.","23 items.","26 items.","31 items.","31 items.","27 items.","27 items.","20 items.","20 items.","15 items.","21 items.","38 items.","26 items.","74 items.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.","126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","84 items.","13 items.","71 items.","40 items.","66 items.","66 items.","62 items.","49 items.","73 items.","65 items.","38 items.","40 items.","64 items.","57 items.","73 items.","94 items.","117 items.","69 items.","97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.","78 items.","93 items.","84 items.","89 items.","51 items.","37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.","20 items.","36 items.","302 items.","48 items.","73 items.","35 items.","20 items.","86 items.","55 items.","38 items.","17 items.","17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.","223 items.","14 items.","33 items.","24 items.","49 items.","11 items.","75 items.","17 items.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","250 items. Papers involving both names.","30 items.","55 items.","51 items.","21 items.","27 items.","42 items.","24 items.","56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.","195 items.","55 items.","22 items.","58 items.","60 items.","64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","22 items.","49 items.","44 items.","59 items.","118 items.","87 items.","70 items.","70 items.","99 items.","103 items.","40 items.","29 items.","21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"","195 items.","106 items.","81 items.","161 items.","164 items.","103 items.","28 items.","26 items.","30 items.","46 items.","32 items.","16 items.","32 items.","57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.","63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.","73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.","41 items.","65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.","40 items.","27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.","20 items.","30 items.","32 items.","33 items.","32 items.","33 items.","49 items.","25 items.","45 items.","44 items.","34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.","93 items.","14 items.","28 items.","17 items.","21 items.","15 items.","19 items.","21 items.","16 items.","33 items.","40 items.","24 items.","17 items.","12 items.","11 items.","11 items.","32 items.","30 items.","30 items.","42 items.","99 items.","52 items.","57 items.","23 items.","22 items.","27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of employees.","38 items.","23 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.","21 items. Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.","24 items.","8 items.","16 items.","18 items.","14 items.","21 items.","46 items. Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.","33 items.","7 items.","27 items.","35 items.","23 items.","29 items.","35 items.","28 items. Includes \"A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.","18 items.","18 items.","33 items.","23 items.","14 items.","173 items.","16 items.","16 items.","6 items.","23 items.","77 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","16 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","29 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","21 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","20 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","57 items.","Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew Jackson as...[the] next President.\"","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","7 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials.","2 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and Twyman.","15 items. Genealogical Materials.","34 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.","2 items. Genealogical Materials.","16 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","10 items. Genealogical Materials.","116 items. Entire box. Genealogical Materials. Includes metal sign \"B. Austin, Attorney at Law\"","Account book of William Adams and his estate.","Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court records, 1847-1848.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes, 1860-1864.","Including farm notes and notes of calls on patients.","Includes farm notes in back, 1840.","Including the estate of George Spiller.","Includes time charts for worker in the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp. 80-81, 292-294.","Including time sheets of work on locks, James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes work on the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.","2 items. Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated papers).","24 items. Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by Francisco.","7 items. Photographs.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)","Horsley family","Spiller family","Austin family","Twyman family","Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Francisco, Peter, d. 1831","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 69 Au7","/repositories/2/resources/392"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Austin-Twyman Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Austin-Twyman Papers"],"collection_ssim":["Austin-Twyman Papers"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"geogname_ssim":["Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"creator_ssm":["Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Horsley family","Spiller family"],"creator_ssim":["Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Horsley family","Spiller family"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837"],"creator_famname_ssim":["Horsley family","Spiller family"],"creators_ssim":["Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837","Horsley family","Spiller family"],"places_ssim":["Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchased: 10,706 items, 1969."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Legal documents","Medicine--Practice--Virginia","Medicine--Study and teaching--Virginia","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century","Slaves--United States--Correspondence","Slaves--Virginia--Correspondence","Slaves--Virginia--Social conditions","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","United States--History--War of 1812","Virginia. 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Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAustin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePapers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are filed in chronological order within each folder. 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Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e72 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSusan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by Archibald Austin, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e111 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e513 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026amp; Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026amp; Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026amp; Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026amp; Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026amp; Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026amp; Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026amp; Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026amp; Tennessee Railroad).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026amp; Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026amp; Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026amp; Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026amp; Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026amp; Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026amp; Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026amp; Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026amp; Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026amp; Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026amp; Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026amp; Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026amp; Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026amp; Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e218 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026amp; Agee which may force the sale of her land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e390 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026amp; Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e383 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026amp; Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e229 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026amp; Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026amp; Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written from Nellie [?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026amp; bobtail because ragtag \u0026amp; bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026amp; undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e219 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026amp; Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026amp; Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026amp; Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026amp; Johnson, [n. p.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026amp; Rea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026amp; Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026amp; Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026amp; McCorkle, Simpson \u0026amp; Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026amp; Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026amp; Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026amp; Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026amp; Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026amp; Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e63 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e82 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e82 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e88 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e88 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e43 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e43 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e74 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e71 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e66 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e66 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e62 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e94 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e117 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e69 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026amp; Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e78 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e93 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e84 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e89 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e51 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e302 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e48 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e86 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e223 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e75 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e250 items. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e51 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e42 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e195 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e59 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e118 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e87 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e70 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e70 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e99 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e103 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e195 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e106 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e81 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e161 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e164 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e103 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e93 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e42 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e99 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e52 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of employees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e217 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items. Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items. Includes \"A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e173 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e77 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew Jackson as...[the] next President.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and Twyman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e135 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e135 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e135 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e135 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Genealogical Materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e116 items. Entire box. Genealogical Materials. Includes metal sign \"B. Austin, Attorney at Law\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book of William Adams and his estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court records, 1847-1848.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books, 1849-1856, including farm notes, 1860-1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding farm notes and notes of calls on patients.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes farm notes in back, 1840.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding the estate of George Spiller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes time charts for worker in the James River and Kanawha Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLedger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp. 80-81, 292-294.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding time sheets of work on locks, James River and Kanawha Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes work on the James River and Kanawha Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated papers).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items. Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by Francisco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items. 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include correspondence, accounts, legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.","Correspondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.","Subjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.","Austin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43","Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.","Letters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen. This series is divided into subseries by family name.","22 items.","5 items. Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.","17 items. Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).","72 items.","11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.","Susan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.","8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).","19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.","12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.","11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.","11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.","7 items.","Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.","17 items.","Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.","111 items.","29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.","64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.","18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired.\"] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.","14 items.","Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.","6 items.","Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.","26 items.","12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.","14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.","5 items.","Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.","29 items.","11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]","18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.","513 items.","6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).","16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave \" [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling.\"","11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).","5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass \u0026 Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.","19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.","12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)","15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.","17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.","8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.","14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.","10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.","12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea \u0026 Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.","5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.","17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick \u0026 Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.","14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.","18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.","18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.","16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).","10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie \u0026 Dunnavant, R. Strabler \u0026 Co.","13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock \u0026 Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.","15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).","15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson \u0026 Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia \u0026 Tennessee Railroad).","30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill \u0026 Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam \u0026 Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.","34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro \u0026 Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)","35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston \u0026 Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.","Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle \u0026 Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe \u0026 Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. \u0026 Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.","Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); \"A Methodist\" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock \u0026 Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler \u0026 Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson \u0026 Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson \u0026 Co. Tredegar), Brown \u0026 Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).","36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.","218 items.","7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).","7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.","16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.","25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.","27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.","16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.","16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West \u0026 Agee which may force the sale of her land.","17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.","10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.","13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.","6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.","25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.","10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).","23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.","390 items.","26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.","21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.","19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.","14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.","8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.","28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.","30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).","15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.","6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition \"Management of Common Schools\" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.","28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. \"The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life.\" Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.","16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.","5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.","14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.","25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).","30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle \u0026 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.","20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.","24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.","4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.","383 items.","10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.","21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to \"\"Miss Smith\"\" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.","10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.","17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.","7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.","6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].","17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).","34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).","32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).","26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.","23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.","8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)","50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.","22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.","19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.","22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler \u0026 Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.","12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.","16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.","10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled \"Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County.\"","21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.","229 items.","10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.","17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.","18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.","22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.","26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book \u0026 Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.","16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.","17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.","22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.","17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)","8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.","84 items.","23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.","31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.","30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).","17 items.","Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.","46 items.","29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Letters written from Nellie [?].","15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in \"Merchant of Venice\"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.","5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : \"The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag \u0026 bobtail because ragtag \u0026 bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.","5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.","6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.","7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).","15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 \u0026 undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.","8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.","36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.","219 items.","9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River \u0026 Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery [\"I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook\"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.","13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.","15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.","16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.","11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.","18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.","24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.","21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones \u0026 Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston \u0026 Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.","15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).","11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)","23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow \u0026 Johnson, [n. p.]","10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.","11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.","16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.","15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).","15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill \u0026 Rea.","20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott \u0026 Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.","22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.","13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).","13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown \u0026 Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.","31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) \u0026 McCorkle, Simpson \u0026 Jones.","28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary \u0026 Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.","22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter \u0026 Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.","16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.","Many are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of \"The Willows\"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.","12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen \u0026 Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.","15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.","25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.","2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam \u0026 Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.","17 items.","24 items.","41 items.","50 items.","63 items.","41 items.","55 items.","82 items","82 items","88 items.","88 items.","65 items.","65 items.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.","73 items.","73 items.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.","44 items.","57 items.","57 items.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.","54 items.","54 items.","60 items.","60 items.","29 items.","24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.","34 items.","43 items.","43 items.","40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.","49 items.","45 items.","31 items.","32 items.","33 items.","35 items.","41 items.","23 items.","26 items.","31 items.","31 items.","27 items.","27 items.","20 items.","20 items.","15 items.","21 items.","38 items.","26 items.","74 items.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.","126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","84 items.","13 items.","71 items.","40 items.","66 items.","66 items.","62 items.","49 items.","73 items.","65 items.","38 items.","40 items.","64 items.","57 items.","73 items.","94 items.","117 items.","69 items.","97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam \u0026 Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.","78 items.","93 items.","84 items.","89 items.","51 items.","37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.","20 items.","36 items.","302 items.","48 items.","73 items.","35 items.","20 items.","86 items.","55 items.","38 items.","17 items.","17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.","223 items.","14 items.","33 items.","24 items.","49 items.","11 items.","75 items.","17 items.","44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","250 items. Papers involving both names.","30 items.","55 items.","51 items.","21 items.","27 items.","42 items.","24 items.","56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.","31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.","195 items.","55 items.","22 items.","58 items.","60 items.","64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","22 items.","49 items.","44 items.","59 items.","118 items.","87 items.","70 items.","70 items.","99 items.","103 items.","40 items.","29 items.","21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for \"taking part in the late rebellion.\"","195 items.","106 items.","81 items.","161 items.","164 items.","103 items.","28 items.","26 items.","30 items.","46 items.","32 items.","16 items.","32 items.","57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.","63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.","73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.","41 items.","65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.","40 items.","27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.","20 items.","30 items.","32 items.","33 items.","32 items.","33 items.","49 items.","25 items.","45 items.","44 items.","34 items. Includes document dated \"Cold Comfort 5 February 1812\" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.","93 items.","14 items.","28 items.","17 items.","21 items.","15 items.","19 items.","21 items.","16 items.","33 items.","40 items.","24 items.","17 items.","12 items.","11 items.","11 items.","32 items.","30 items.","30 items.","42 items.","99 items.","52 items.","57 items.","23 items.","22 items.","27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning \"harsh or cruel treatment\" of employees.","38 items.","23 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","217 items.","16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.","21 items. Includes \"A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County\" for 1777-1800.","24 items.","8 items.","16 items.","18 items.","14 items.","21 items.","46 items. Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.","33 items.","7 items.","27 items.","35 items.","23 items.","29 items.","35 items.","28 items. Includes \"A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia,\" 19 April 1812.","18 items.","18 items.","33 items.","23 items.","14 items.","173 items.","16 items.","16 items.","6 items.","23 items.","77 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","16 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","29 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","21 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","20 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.","57 items.","Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County, \"friendly to the Election of General Andrew Jackson as...[the] next President.\"","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","7 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials.","2 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and Twyman.","15 items. Genealogical Materials.","34 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.","2 items. Genealogical Materials.","16 items. Genealogical Materials.","1 item. Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","135 items. Genealogical Materials.","5 items. Genealogical Materials.","10 items. Genealogical Materials.","116 items. Entire box. Genealogical Materials. Includes metal sign \"B. Austin, Attorney at Law\"","Account book of William Adams and his estate.","Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court records, 1847-1848.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.","Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes, 1860-1864.","Including farm notes and notes of calls on patients.","Includes farm notes in back, 1840.","Including the estate of George Spiller.","Includes time charts for worker in the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp. 80-81, 292-294.","Including time sheets of work on locks, James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes work on the James River and Kanawha Canal.","Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.","2 items. Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated papers).","24 items. Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by Francisco.","7 items. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. 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.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. 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."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBaird Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026amp; Mary Libraries.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Baird Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eDr. Richard P. Ludlow and Alexander Somervail Medical Accounts (Mss. Acc. 2005.35)\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Dr. Richard P. Ludlow and Alexander Somervail Medical Accounts (Mss. Acc. 2005.35)"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection includes papers, 1656-1848, concerning Essex County, Va. including land records and wills, many of which relate to the Rowzee family. Many of the records date from the seventeenth century.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes correspondence, 1830-1920, of members of the Baird family including letters, 1859-1911, of Edward R. Baird while attending the University of Virginia, serving in Pickett's Division and as superintendent of schools in Essex County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere are also letters of William Baird while attending the University of Virginia and business correspondence of the family with publishers and with cigar manufacturers. The collection also includes papers, 1835-1897, of members of the Hunter family including R. M. T. Hunter.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1994.46 Addition: Copy of Baird-Rowzie genealogy chart and Samuel Barron I genealogy chart.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2008.271 Addition: \"Letters to a Nineteenth Century Physician\u0026amp;quot; paper by R.D. Jordan.  Papers concerns letters from owners of ailing slaves in Albemarle County, Virginia to Charles Brown, a Charlottesville physician.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. 1 photostat included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. The deed is transferred from John Weine, Rappahannock County, to Edward Rowzee, March 11, 1665. 1 p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed. Modern autograph copy included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document. Autograph copy included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragments. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTwo questions about a will from Jo[h]n Rowzee to Edward Barradall. 2 pages. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Reply from Edward Barradall, 12 March [?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by William Gooch. 1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Fragments. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph copy signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of land deeded to John Rowzee by John Noel. 1 page. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Description of land deeded to Tho[ma]s Andrews by John Noel, 1754. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. fragments. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Fragments. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of W[illia]m Boutwell as guardian to Mary Ann Boutwell, W[illia]m Boutwell, John Boutwell; also to Burkenhead, Elizabeth and Mary Boutwell; signed by Tho[ma]s Jones, D[i]st[rict] Att[orne]y. 1 page. Copy of autograph document signed. Including autograph note signed on verso. Recept from W[illia]m Boutwell to William Rowzee, 4 Nov. 1784. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder of payment to Thomas Hawkins, Essex County, from W[illia]m Boutwell to pay W[illia]m Gray. 1 page. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Receipt from J[o]hn Gray to Thomas Hawkins, 13 Sept. 1784. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of a bond between W[illia]m Rowzee and W[illia]m Boutwell. 1 page. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Receipt to W[illia]m Boutwell, 18 Aug. 1785. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn order for two barrels of corn and a request for a statement of his account. 1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt from Boutwell to Thomas Hawkins. 1 page. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Receipt from John Boutwell to Thomas Hawkins, 27 Oct. 1785. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph copy signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of bonds paid to Jo[h]n Hord by W[illia]m Rowzee. 2 pages. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Receipt from John Hord to William Rowzee. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elp. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement made between John Rowzee and Apphia Rowzee. 1 page. Copy of autograph document signed. Including copy of autograph document signed on verso. Agreement admitted to record in Essex County by John P. Lee, Clerk, 20 June 1814. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 letters. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e53 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e97 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Fragments. Sk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elp. Sk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elp. Sk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Sk. and Document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e51 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e67 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e72 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e48 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e94 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e90 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e90 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e53 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e67 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e74 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e81 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e48 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e81 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e39 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e125 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pieces. 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Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Photograph and newspaper.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Typewritten document signed and manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Manuscript volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of Baird-Rowzie genealogy chart and Samuel Barron I genealogy chart.  Addition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Letters to a Nineteenth Century Physician\" paper by R.D. Jordan.  Papers concern letters from owners of ailing slaves in Albemarle County, Virginia to Charles Brown, a Charlottesville physician. 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If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. 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.","Dr. Richard P. Ludlow and Alexander Somervail Medical Accounts (Mss. Acc. 2005.35)","Collection includes papers, 1656-1848, concerning Essex County, Va. including land records and wills, many of which relate to the Rowzee family. Many of the records date from the seventeenth century.","The collection also includes correspondence, 1830-1920, of members of the Baird family including letters, 1859-1911, of Edward R. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. 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.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. 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."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBaird Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026amp; Mary Libraries.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Baird Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eDr. Richard P. Ludlow and Alexander Somervail Medical Accounts (Mss. Acc. 2005.35)\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Dr. Richard P. Ludlow and Alexander Somervail Medical Accounts (Mss. Acc. 2005.35)"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection includes papers, 1656-1848, concerning Essex County, Va. including land records and wills, many of which relate to the Rowzee family. Many of the records date from the seventeenth century.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes correspondence, 1830-1920, of members of the Baird family including letters, 1859-1911, of Edward R. Baird while attending the University of Virginia, serving in Pickett's Division and as superintendent of schools in Essex County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere are also letters of William Baird while attending the University of Virginia and business correspondence of the family with publishers and with cigar manufacturers. The collection also includes papers, 1835-1897, of members of the Hunter family including R. M. T. Hunter.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1994.46 Addition: Copy of Baird-Rowzie genealogy chart and Samuel Barron I genealogy chart.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2008.271 Addition: \"Letters to a Nineteenth Century Physician\u0026amp;quot; paper by R.D. Jordan.  Papers concerns letters from owners of ailing slaves in Albemarle County, Virginia to Charles Brown, a Charlottesville physician.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. 1 photostat included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. The deed is transferred from John Weine, Rappahannock County, to Edward Rowzee, March 11, 1665. 1 p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed. Modern autograph copy included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document. Autograph copy included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragments. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTwo questions about a will from Jo[h]n Rowzee to Edward Barradall. 2 pages. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Reply from Edward Barradall, 12 March [?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by William Gooch. 1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Fragments. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph copy signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of land deeded to John Rowzee by John Noel. 1 page. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Description of land deeded to Tho[ma]s Andrews by John Noel, 1754. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. fragments. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Printed document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Fragments. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of W[illia]m Boutwell as guardian to Mary Ann Boutwell, W[illia]m Boutwell, John Boutwell; also to Burkenhead, Elizabeth and Mary Boutwell; signed by Tho[ma]s Jones, D[i]st[rict] Att[orne]y. 1 page. Copy of autograph document signed. Including autograph note signed on verso. Recept from W[illia]m Boutwell to William Rowzee, 4 Nov. 1784. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder of payment to Thomas Hawkins, Essex County, from W[illia]m Boutwell to pay W[illia]m Gray. 1 page. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Receipt from J[o]hn Gray to Thomas Hawkins, 13 Sept. 1784. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of a bond between W[illia]m Rowzee and W[illia]m Boutwell. 1 page. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Receipt to W[illia]m Boutwell, 18 Aug. 1785. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn order for two barrels of corn and a request for a statement of his account. 1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt from Boutwell to Thomas Hawkins. 1 page. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Receipt from John Boutwell to Thomas Hawkins, 27 Oct. 1785. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph copy signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of bonds paid to Jo[h]n Hord by W[illia]m Rowzee. 2 pages. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Receipt from John Hord to William Rowzee. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elp. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement made between John Rowzee and Apphia Rowzee. 1 page. Copy of autograph document signed. Including copy of autograph document signed on verso. Agreement admitted to record in Essex County by John P. Lee, Clerk, 20 June 1814. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Autograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 letters. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e53 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e97 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Fragments. Sk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elp. Sk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elp. Sk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages. Sk. and Document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e31 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e51 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e67 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e72 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e48 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e94 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e90 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e90 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e53 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e67 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e74 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e81 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e48 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e81 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e39 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e125 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pieces. 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Also includes incomplete letter.","Family news; Betty is a bright student of Wilson's; we should help make the remainder of our parents' years happy and contented; NWBB's interest in a woman - marriage? - don't keep it a secret.","Reveals feelings toward women and expresses his dislike for women to have a freedom of expression.","Repair of goods and purchase of goods; an invitation to visit Sunday next.","Purchase of goods requested and money sent.","Purchase of goods requested and money sent; looking forward to NWBB's visit.","Will give ten dollars to repair the shop; purchase of goods requested.","Arrived in Richmond, NWBB not married yet; other news of activities since being in Virginia.","Received NWBB's letter; waiting for NWBB's visit; request for shoes.","Have been slighted by NWBB not spending any time with us this fall; the fever has been raging in Fredericksburg but not so badly here; travel plans. 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Barnes, Richmond, Virginia.","Have inclination to write to NWBB as frequently as ever; family news, please send several items.","Please tell MWT the whereabouts of the Theatre in Richmond; why hasn't NWBB written to some of us; all of us are very well.","Health of family and neighborhood; newsy items about family.","Newsy items about the activities of friends and relatives including the Pages, Jones, Coalters, Peytons, Brookes,...; mentions good water and pure water in Falmouth.","Fabrics sent and items made from fabrics; please send more flannel, silk, and shoes.","Health news; activities of family members and neighbors.","MWT states her affection toward Willy and how MWT desires his presence.","NWBB's visit to Falmouth. Also includes a letter by Lucy? H. ? Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. NWBB's forthcoming visit; LHB places an order for 3 books.","Thanks NWBB for the books, ring, and calico - values the ring most highly; request for additional goods from Richmond.","Lucy Tomlin's health; JHT's effort to make reconciliation with NWBB.","Cousin Lucy's health; forget and forgive for the slight NWBB received on his last visit here. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Retreat, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. NWBB's next visit will be a welcomed one.","Lucy's improved health; another comment on the argument that occurred that \"memorable day - more was construed than was intended.\"","Sister Lucy's health; NWBB's next visit; orders items from Richmond - fabric, paste-boards, comb, etc.","Family news - Lucy's health, NWBB's next visit.","Lucy's health; John Tayloe Lomax has been appointed a professor in the University at Charlottesville; flood waters have devastated bridges and other things here; orders fabric from Richmond.","Family news - everyone has been sick.","Explanation of Vawles' absence when NWBB visited; will make arrangements to pay back money owed.","News of family and activities in the town.","Health of family members, declares love for George; send news of MWTB's children.","BB is anxious to get down; shall send Peg a bedstead; news of family activities; had hoped the chimney would be done before BB got home and had wanted to paint the dining room; Willy's visit.","Have not written because of sore eyes.","Why has MWTB not written; future visit; business at hand is keeping RWT busy; type of \"gal\" that is for RWT.","Health and weather; CB is looking forward to getting home from trip.","Birth of MWTB's son and inquires of MWTB's health since; family news; illness of servants and death of one child.","Health of family members; death of Benedict Crump - thrown from a horse; we're in need of rain and in the midst of a terrible drought.","Sorry to hear MWTB's been sick; MWB's happiness depends a great deal on that of her sisters and brothers; it has not been pleasant since the girls left home; health of family members.","Willy's illness and health news of other family members.","MWB is worried about MWTB's health; MWB understands that MWTB is coming to Falmouth to see Dr. Buck about her spine; insists that MWTB stay with MWB. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Chericoke, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. family news.","Message to Willy; interested in MWTB's health; love matters affairs - RWT has asked two or three demoiselles to be Mrs. Tomlin but all have declined; will see MWTB on the eve of the 13th.","RWF's opinions of physicians of the day - compares RWT's profession with that of the physician; gives news of a lass' marriage.","Cousin St. George Tucker Coalter's health and Nancy's; family news. Also includes a letter by Judy H. Tomlin Coalter, Chericoke, Virginia, to Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia Mr. Coalter's health; instructions on what to do at the house. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to ?.","Sending the horse over for NWBB to please take care of; would like to visit but health is poor.","Health of all; domestic responsibilities - made pickles, catsup, etc; the drought is gone; describes MWB's dear little baby; family affairs.","\"Peg's\"education; family matters. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to \"Peg\"Margaret W. Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia. advice on going to school.","LO's looking forward to a visit from MWTB and the children.","Health of family members; news of the wedding of MWB's daughter, Lucy? Braxton, to Dr. Charles Cocke - with details of dresses, food, etc.","Events of MWB's trip to Vaucluse ?; family news concerning health; well-being and death of members.","Lucy and Charles Cocke had a baby boy who died in its birth, thankful for Lucy's survival, she is slowly recovering; news about crops and animals; general family news.","News of family members; Harry has bachelor quarters and desires a wife; RWT is living within seven miles of Natural Bridge -Mountainous district is prettier than Tidewater; RWT is having a celibacy existence.","Celebration of the Queen of May day. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Jeffersonton P. O., Culpeper County, Virginia. additional details about the celebration of the Queen of May day.","Why hasn't MWTB written; MWB wants to know news of health of MWTB and NWBB; tells of Aunt Lucy's and MWB's colds; Aunt Fanny and sister's visit to Fredericksburg to hear Doctor Plu? and Doctor Alexander preach.","MWTB's health and possible remedies for a cure.","Winter's effect on people; RWT's attitude toward romance.","News of events in Falmouth; reminds NWBB to come and get her at Christmas.","MWB's anniversary and Armistead's 16th birthday; accounts of Armistead's visit home; family news including Lucy's health and Robert's forthcoming marriage.","All are well except Grandma; General Harrison passed through Fredericksburg; hope MWB will profit by your good advice; Aunt Balsora will teach the boys this spring and summer.","Family news; Robert's marriage; MWB fell down the potato hole and bruised herself; health of family members.","Sister Margaret's health and RWT's work with a survey of the New River.","MWB is worried about MWTB's going home safely; Papa's health and George and Bevy's health; sent MWTB's shoes by Dennis.","Death of Mr. Brooke; sends messages to family members.","MWTB's improvement in health; RWT's work load is great since RWT is the only one left in the Engineer Corps, the salary is greatly earned, have had no servant this year, have endured many hardships, RWT is resigning at the end of the year.","Events surrounding the death of Charles Braxton; MWB is concerned about MWTB's poor health; Mrs. Henry Webb had a bad fall; Lucy is in a family way again; Robert sent the accounts to Mr. Green; Aunt Short's death.","Glad to know MWTB's baby is in good health; have had a great deal of company all winter; health news of family members.","MWTB's next visit to Falmouth and what to bring. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia. MWTB's next visit.","Have heard news of MWTB's new baby and MWTB's good health; health news of family.","Inquires about Papa's mouth and Walker's face; news of activities in Falmouth. Also includes a letter by Lucy M. Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpepper County, Virginia Baby Walker and winter vegetables.","Whig meetings with detailed commentary.","News of the Christmas season. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia Christmas and family news.","Obligations to study at school; health of friends and family; wishes that Bev and George could go to some good school.","Weather; health of family; activities of family.","Health of family members and servants; weather; sewing projects; activities of family members.","Health of family members; general family news.","Disagreement between William Braxton and Dr. Perkins and subsequent entanglements; news and health of family members; regrets MWTB's recent death of a child.","News of activities since school broke.","Have had a \"neurologic ? affection of one side of my face and head\"- has affected sight; health of family members; size of children in family; weather conditions.","Also includes letters by Margaret W. Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes) and \"Papa\" (Newman Williamson B. Barnes), Greenfield, Virginia.","Trip to Richmond and shopping expedition; death of Mrs. Dick Smith; delight in visiting them all; brief family news.","Aunt Lucy has gone to Chatham; Aunt Fanny and Bal had been sick; MWB has a dreadful cold; Cousin Nancy and Olivia are going to Chericoke; Bev and Walker send their love; how is George?; MWB supposes that Tomlin and Bev have to do their work.","MWB is not at Chericoke but is staying with Aunt Judy here Presley; glad to know that George has entirely recovered; MWB likes staying here Presley instead of Chericoke because there isn't so much fuss and foolishness here Presley about dressing and having dinner parties - both of which MWB detests; having a quiet time with Uncle Robert and Aunt Judy; social occasions and visits by relatives; Aunt Judy is an \"all powerful woman\"; Tomlin's badness has not been mentioned to MWB; Uncle Robert and Harrison wish they could see you, but MWB does not believe a word of it.","Wonders why BDB has not heard from MWTB or sister Margaret W. Barnes since BDB left; weather here is either snowy or rainy; general news of family and their health; death of Mr. Brook.","Traveling plans; death of Mr. Brooke; sunny weather; other family news.","Land purchase; family health news.","The winter has been filled with much sickness and death; affectionate comments on household slave, Louisa, catching on fire and dying 2 days later; Judy is making a trip to Gloucester; Walker's health has not been good this winter; Fanny looks remarkably well; heard there was a chance that MWTB might move near Falmouth - is it true?; who has written to whom; Dr. Braxton has had much to weigh him down - which has always affected his health; love to MWTB, Willy, and the boys.","Glad TB's in school; behave and learn your lessons; the family misses you.","Apologetic towards JHTC and MWTB's lack of corresponding; rejoice in MWTB's being at Pinewood; JHTC's boys have left for the University; events of Christmas day; JHTC's given up all hopes of getting the place you heard of; love to Peggy, Willy, the boys, and the girls in Falmouth; St. sends his love to all.","Scolds GBB for the lack of information in GBB's letter; Tomlin's starting school; messages to Mama and Papa; MWB sends love to the servants; requests George to get people to write to MWB.","Copied at Clifton, Virginia. Original dated 1797 February 27. JWT fulfills a promise to send a composition or two - one about whether a republican government can exist and the other whether the circumstances of the Romans justified them in their first dictator; JWT looks for money requested every day. Also includes a letter, undated, by W. Tomlin to John W. Tomlin, William \u0026 Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. received your composition which am well pleased with; irate discussion of JW's responsibility as a son to WT including JWT's extravagance with money, JWT 's education, etc.","Glad to hear of George's improving health; \"it seems to be rather hard for you all to understand me BDB.. .\" - BDB has received only kindness and affection from Uncle Harrison? -\"as for the others with the exception of Armistead Braxton it has always been exactly the reverse.. .\" ; news of people staying at the Richmond House Mrs. Gordon talked of you and Papa incessantly; monetary value of Mrs. Gilsom's? farm compared to the value per acre of Pinewood.","MWB apologizes for long silence; Balsora is here Chericoke but is sick now; family news; MWB is behind in domestic chores; MWB's feelings toward children and anxiety caused by them; MWB's loneliness.","MWB was annoyed by the short letter; describes a temperance spring and surrounding countryside; implies the family should visit Mama more.","Arrangements to have MWB's shawl sent back to MWB.","Thanks for BB's last letter; Mary's ? wedding is next week - entertainment for the, wedding; the fair and all its animals; studying is important to VBC.","Beautiful spring-like weather; Mr. Webb has remarried and has brought home the new wife - events upon their arrival; general family information.","BDB is disappointed that MWTB has only written BDB one letter; news items about sister Margaret W. Barnes and Walker and a recent attendance of a church service; love to all at home and in Falmouth - servants and all.","BDB is sending goods to NWBB via railroad; if George is better he should come down for he could get \"an excellent situation\" the cholera is playing \"mischief\" here Richmond.","BDB hopes George will regain his health and strength; complains about BDB's tremendous appetite; sorry to hear of Walker's poor health; Mr. Braxton's barns with a whole crop of wheat burned and Braxton had no insurance; Betsy Braxton is being courted by Mr. Galt the American sculptor; BDB wants to see entire family and invites family down - assures family that the cholera is \"nearly all gone.\"","Explanation for BDB's having not written sooner and why has the family not written to BDB?; after writing Uncle Harrison? please write and let BDB know what MWTB wrote for BDB doesn't want things to be kept a secret from him.","Armistead Braxton and Henrietta are to be married - details about marriage attendants and proposed activities; marriage of Powhatan Moncure and Dora Ashby - BDB wants news to be confirmed; the penitentiary burned down 7 December 1854 .","BDB is sending goods to his MWTB via train; relates amusing incident pertaining to the song \"Hug Eye\" reports yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth.","Long description of weather conditions in Chericoke and the resulting circumstances; MWB expresses feelings of unhappiness for those she loves who have suffered; limited work being done on plantation; sleighing activities; fire in Ingleside kitchen and servants lost nearly all their belongings, but it seems that all are well; family health and news items.","BDB has sent items to MWTB that were requested in yesterday's letter via Stephen; BDB lists most items sent and requests acknowledgment of receipt from Aunt Fanny.","Departure of the girls from the house, their expected activities, and MWB's loneliness; proposed activities of MWB during the summer; reports illness of two people; requests news of MWTB's family.","Peggy's visit and her subsequent stranded situation on the other side of the river because of the ice; health news of several family members; the boat was destroyed and a new one was built; the progress of the garden; activities of family members.","BDB's severe illness and recovery; Walker's serious illness; Aunt Lucy's improving health; the birth of a daughter to Uncle Robert named Edmonia Fitzhugh ? Tomlin; tell Sister Margaret W. Barnes that John Lawson is courting Bunny Braxton again.","Birth of a daughter to Henrietta and circumstances thereafter; schedule of forth coming events including trips, Judy's birthday party, and winter projects; serious condition of Judy at Retreat, Virginia and of her expected death.","Burdensome task of housekeeping and that work is done more out of duty than pleasure \"as the members of the family drop off\"; notes how changes have occurred over the last five years; trip to see Betty - reports on Betty's health, happiness, husband, and their fine living standards; message to Balsora via Margaret Barnes; invitation for MWTB and Peggy to spend the winter and see how Judy H. Tomlin Coalter's health has improved; events upon home coming.","Feel most kindly for George in all his sufferings; will see MWTB tomorrow.","MWB understands that Peggy is to make a \"profession of Religion\"soon; hopes to spend several weeks with MWTB; mentions weather conditions; reports in length the illness of several family members; visits of friends and family; inquires about Fanny and Betty.","Expresses sorrow to \"Margaret\"MWTB and \"Peggy\"MWB in their loss of Newman Williamson B. Barnes; MWB's forth-coming visit to see MWTB and \"Peggy\"MWB; sends love and prayers and sympathy. Also includes a letter by Aunt L?, Baltimore, Md., to Balsora Barnes, .","William Braxton has given up the estate for MWB to manage; with no one to manage MWTB's place MWTB should rent out and hire out the servants; news of family and friends.","Expresses sorrow to MWTB in the loss of a son, George, and glory in his heavenly home with the blessed savior; gives religious support in MWB's sympathy.","Expresses sympathy in MWTB's loss of a son; Betty's confinement and the circumstances concerning the baby; understands from home that all are healthy but Virginia; Fanny Bland is to be married in the fall; activities in Baltimore - church too far away to attend; general family news. Also includes a letter written on the envelope by ?, to \"Ma.\"","Letter is written by Nannie for Harrison Barnes, MWTB's brother, because, HB has a lack of time to spare; HB knows of a position in Richmond that would be wonderful for Tomlin and encourages MWTB to use her influence to get Tomlin to apply: NO expresses her sympathy for MWTB's afflictions; the Springs have been deserted - only about 100 people on the grounds; thinks the position for Tomlin in Richmond is as an assistant with the Postmaster.","Circumstances are such that MWB cannot visit MWTB at this time because Betty is not doing well, but the baby is fine - Betty needs help so as to not become ill; Fanny is to be married this fall and must have assistance in the preparations of the wedding.","Mr. Dallam is ill and has been in bed for more than 3 weeks; have no idea when leaving will be possible; health of Betty and baby and Mrs. Dallam ; Fanny is to be married 11 November and Fanny Coalter is to be married 10 November to a Mr. Brown.","FBCB thinks of MWB often and would like to be of some service; MWB has seen so much trouble; religious information and instruction; FBCB has a good husband; Mama's, Judy H. Tomlin Coalter, health is not good.","Health of Aunt Judy; family activities; summer garden -strawberries and potatoes.","RTB has not gotten a position and sees no chances; please send pants and other summer clothing; RTB inquires about \"the poor old place\"and what Mr. Moncure has done with it: instructions to sod the graves. Also includes a letter by Peggy Tomlin?, Stanly, Virginia, to \"Peggy\"Margaret W. Barnes, . don't worry about Walker for he's fine; information about the family and everyone's health and activities.","A continuation of the pants as mentioned in 20 May 1859 letter; pleased the graves have been sodded; has \"the place\"been sold yet?; please write to RTB.","Please write to RTB; suffering with the heat and would like another coat; wants to know how family is and how the \"black people are\" hope \" they have not sold my dear old home yet\" mentions grave sodding and \"how much I have thought of them\".","Particulars of mother's, Judy H. Tomlin Coalter's last illness and her eventual death.","Glad to know your health and spirits are improving; reminiscences of younger days and activities; looking forward to your visit and bring cousin Balsora Barnes; questions about health of family members.","Anxious to see family and to know what Walker is doing; worn out, cannot eat, and is as ragged as a buzzard; needs warm pants and new shirts; some of you please write; allowed no exercise except drilling - \"Oh that it may now be over is my prayer \"; sends love to everyone black and white.","Activities during war period; information about Elega Willcox?, her husband's running away to avoid the war, and circumstances surrounding the situation.","Two things FBCB forgot to tell MWB yesterday so is writing again; Peronneau was quite sick; instructions for task to be done by MWB; news of friends and relatives.","Financial concerns.","Continuation of financial concerns; status on goods and vegetables; shoes may be sent by mail. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to postman? mailing of package to Frances Bland Coalter Brown.","Arrangements for future visit.","Illness of Johnnie ? and Caroline and current departure plans.","Instructions on daily living; write to Cousin Nannie for she is sick.","Confinement because of illness and lack of ability to do things for self, instructions on daily living; take care of WB's sister, Lizzy.","Written over a period of five days telling of WBB's daily activities at Aunt Fanny's and at school; Thompson's birthday.","Aunt Fanny and Mammy Jane's health; hymn next Sunday; new books. Also includes a letter by Frances Bland Coalter Brown to \"Peggy\"(Margaret W. Barnes). FBCB's return home from N.Y. ? via sleeping car; Miss Jane's great care of the boys during absence; FBCB's much improved health situation.","Sorry to hear WBB had been sick; will send money for hymn book; do what Aunt Peggy and Aunt Fannie tell WBB; write and tell how Thompson is; take care of Aunt Peggy for she is always sick.","Visit of Mrs. Coleman and Mrs. Grinnan and arrival of Cousin Lucy Brent; Aunt Fanny gave Thompson and WBB holiday during everyone's visit; illness and departure of a dining room servant; sends love to Uncle Tomlin, Aunt Marcella?, and Uncle Walker.","Religious Directions to WBB.","Estate of Lelia B. Cocke. Disapproval of the partitioning of Bremo and desire to have the personal property appraised by an expert.","Departure of guests; birth of a daughter to Mrs. Braxton; getting Armistead ready for school up in Caroline; Walker's illness; love to family members. Also includes a note by Lucy ?, Chericoke, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Jeffersonton, Culpepper County, Virginia. \"Cousin Lucy\" sends love to all and particularly to Peg.","A scolding from BB about Beverly's not taking proper care of his health.","Pantaloons are finished; please write; how is GB's Mama's health? Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to \"Peg\" (Margaret W. Barnes), why has MWB not written?; questions about fowls and Peg's studies; love to MWB's Mama, Papa, and brother.","MWB's trip home; George's arrival.","Lucy's illness; arrangements for BB's trip home; hopelessness of Jack Bryan's illness and surrounding circumstances; general family news.","Wedding and plans concerning travel and visit.","Soreness in BB's hands and difficulties encountered. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to George Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia why has GB forgotten BB?; declaration of love for George. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to Beverly Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia why has BB not written? Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia You are a fine boy.","Exchange of presents; BB hopes that the boys can stay for the winter for BB was beginning to teach them to write. Also includes a letter by Lucy H. Barnes to \"Willy\"Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. Willy's children and their education; health of family members. Also includes a letter by Frances C. Barnes to Lucy Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. sewing and quinces.","St. George's serious illness; will send clothes for the boys; can't see at all.","Peggy's attending school near BB, Peggy's failure to arrive yet, and the value of an education for Peggy; send the boys to BB and BB will prepare them for a large school; Lucy's wedding; illness of St. George. Also includes a letter by Lucy M: H. Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia Family affairs.","Willy's illness; clothes for the boys. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to Lucy Barnes? The house is not done.","Beverly Barnes - \". . .all old maids can lecture on the instruction of children to a painful extent to married ladies, Beverly still proves a dutiful teachable child.. .\"; information about the activities of all family members.","BB's love for people and how feelings often \"discompose\"you; Margaret Tomlin's? feelings on how NWBB should come up here and not gander off with Miss S? to New York; cousin Coalter has lost her bridge and others are down in the area; James. N. is a devoted admirer of Fanny's.","Have you and George any work for BB; Cousin Lucy's health is improving; pray often for NWBB's happiness and have loved NWBB more than any being on earth with the exception of two; NWBB's future conduct toward Margaret Tomlin? and interpretive statement of Margaret's feeling toward NWBB.","Requests items to be purchased for BB, Judy, Lucy, Aunt Amy; \"Margaret Tomlin? sends her love to George and yourself.","BB has not sent shirts because of illness; news of Margaret Tomlin? and her journeys; BB requests items to be purchased. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Chericoke, Virginia, to \"Willy\"Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. requests items to be purchased.","\"stips\"? sent for Peg, Lucy, you two and the boys; write to us. Also includes a note by Lucy? ?, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia.","Pantaloons and clothing; horse that was left; Mama wants to visit Greenfield in July \u0026 Mama's health; the garden; please write, we have been mortified at your silence. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"My dear M\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes), Culpeper County, Virginia BB sends MWTB tea towels with Bret's? pantaloons coat; hope MWTB's health is improved; love to the \"dear little children\"and to Willy.","\"Margaret has a new beau but I do not think you need to dread him as a rival\"; the Ball in Richmond; has NWBB heard from home?","NWBB should take better care of his health; religious remarks; health news of family members; Bet is too busy to write.","LMB is glad MWB is attending to MWB's books and being a good child obedient to your parents and brothers; LMB is going to see MWB's Grand Mamma.","George made his appearance last night; LMB fears that Willy is offended; love to all.","LMHB saw Willy last night; what is the matter with Peg and Tomlin?; Judy, the children and St. George Coalter are all well; LMHB sent some things to all of you by Mr. Georges? Charles. Also includes a note by Lucy? M. H.? Barnes,, to \"Peggy\" (Margaret W. Barnes), Greenfield, Virginia. the want of paper compels me to write to MWB and your mother on the same paper; be a good child and take care of yourself; read your Bible and get a portion of it everyday.","LMHB has just returned from Chatham; want to know' if MWTB and family is dead or alive; LMHB is sending Willy's other shirt; why does Peggy not write to LMHB since LMHB has spent so much time instructing her?; all are well except Papa; Balsora and Fanny are at St. George's and Cousin Coalter dines with them today; love to all.","NWBB should not be so low spirited for \"surely a young man never had greater cause for a thankful heart than you,\" LMHB fear that if NWBB continues to be unhappy when he has so much that \"our kind heavenly Father should visit them with some heavy, but just punishment\"; Mama and Aunt Short have left us on a visit to Mrs. Allison; news of Balsora, Margaret, Judy, and Mama; the times are dull; do not be so tardy in answering letters; the girls all write with LMHB in best love to you and George. Also includes a note by Margaret W. Tomlin, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"Willy\" (Newman Williamson B. Barnes), Richmond, Virginia. goods requested.","Delighted to hear you and father are well; Uncle Coalter's illness and Aunt Judy's subsequent unhappiness; have George write and tell MWB about MWB's hen, chickens, and garden. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. pleased you two invalids are improving; glad to know Willy's prospect for corn is good.","MWB is homesick and desires to come home; MWB is concerned about Papa's illness and brother Bev's; news about Uncle Coalter and Aunt Judy, Aunt Balsora, and Aunt Lucy; love to Papa, Aunt Margaret, Uncle B. and MWB's little brothers. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, St. Georges home, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Family situations.","Aunt Mary and Cousin Nannie went up to see Col. Carrington; Uncle ? got MWTB's letter about Tomlin; Beverly seemed very happy when he was here last; Aunt Margaret Tomlin; news of activities and health of various family members; MWB's activities and travel plans; MWB sends love to all in family.","Fanny Braxton has been confined to her bed with violent toothache and pain in her face; arrangements for trip to Richmond; cold weather has arrived; Mrs. Bryan and the Bryan girls.","Instructions for staying well; the ice house repairs; family activities.","Instructions to \"Mama\"for staying well; mention of family visits and activities; illnesses of friends and family. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes, Chericoke, Virginia, to Balsora Barnes, Cousin Maria's distressful situation; MWB's quilt.","Aunt Judy's illness and circumstances surrounding the seriousness of the illness; MWB's concern over MWTB's poor health; family visits and activities.","Relates MWB's accident with knife and subsequent problems with the near loss of MWB's finger; activities and health news of family members.","Snow storm and its effects for all friends and relatives;' Beverley's trip to Wheeling; Jack and his report of activities at Chericoke.","Hybla house burned down and Armistead was only able to save a few things; Mattie ? has caught one of the first beaux in the state - Mr. Wilcox Brown; some of you write to MWB.","Health news of family members; MWB scolds MWTB about what MWTB writes in her letters asks MWTB to be more careful about who she talks about.","News of family activities and trips including visits to the Springs; mentions news of many family members.","Family news; Uncle Walker's new baby, John Walker.","Aunt Lucy has given a favorable account of TB and Walker in your studies; family ventures; Cousins Coalter and Janet are both sick; George looks better than MWB's seen him in a long time.","Cotton sent. Also includes a letter from Margaret W. Barnes to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes) a thank you note.","Recipe and brief news of NWTB's activities.","Instructions for repair of hat, request for knitting needles not sent as requested, and a list of desired goods to be purchased for MTB.","FBCB would have been glad for MWB to join FBCB here; Cousin William thinks that FBCB has had a nervous disorder; the treatments FBCB has enjoyed and FBCB is sure MWB's health requires it too; arrangements for MWB's stay in Bedford.","Ma's illness and FBCB's attempts to go and nurse her; arrival at \"Stanley\"and report of Ma's health; would like MWB to come - FBCB will nurse MWB too; family news; invitation for a visit to Bedford.","Elizabeth and BG have feeble health; Elizabeth went to the Warm Springs and came home because she became nervous there; report of Elizabeth, Will and John Walker's families.","Have sent NWBB a pair of socks. Also includes a letter by Judy H. Tomlin to \"Willy\" Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Hanover Town, Virginia. JHT apologizes for bad behavior on Tuesday evening.","Request for 'shoes to be made; surprised that NWBB did not see more of \"the girls\"while they were in Richmond.","News of JLS's poor health. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin? to \"Willy\" Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. request for cloth.","Christmas holidays - the visitors require the professors to lecture over the holidays and HBT must not miss any, therefore, he cannot spend Christmas with Margaret and brother Willy.","Circumstances surrounding the death of Sally and her mother's intense grief; Margaret is quite sick but the rest here are well.","Request for yard goods from Richmond; JHT looks forward to Willy's visit.","Requests extension of visiting period for \"Peg\"; news of Aunt Mary's health. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes, Stanley, Virginia, to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes), Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia request for MWTB to send some clothing for MWB's extended visit.","MWT has been ill; MWT will remain in Hanover one or two more weeks.","Yard goods requested.","Please send silk dress and fabric. Also includes a note by ? to ? Barnes ? Tomlin, . Janet sent Balsora something in a vial to rub her foot with.","Death of Mrs. B_ and circumstances surrounding situations; my baby seems poorly and so nervous; much obliged to MWB for your kind sympathy and affection; love to one and all.","Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes). Also includes a letter by Beverley D. Barnes to ?,","Ditchley.","Christ Church.","First poem is entitled \"A Royal Colloguing\"sp?. The second poem, begun after the completion of the first, is only a few lines, thus most likely incomplete.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Barnes family","Braxton family","Coulter family","Oliver family","Tomlinson family","Barnes, Margaret W. Tomlin","Barnes, Newman Williamson","English"],"unitid_tesim":["01/Mss. 39.1 B26","/repositories/2/resources/8624"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Barnes Family Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Barnes Family Papers"],"collection_ssim":["Barnes Family Papers"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift: 247 items, 10/16/1938."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Culpeper County (Va.)--History--19th century","Falmouth (Va.)--History--19th century","Fredericksburg (Va.)--History--19th century"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Culpeper County (Va.)--History--19th century","Falmouth (Va.)--History--19th century","Fredericksburg (Va.)--History--19th century"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["247.00 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["247.00 Linear Feet"],"date_range_isim":[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],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. 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.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. 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Other genealogical materials can be found in the \"additional related material\" section. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: \u003cextref href=\"http://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Newman_Williamson_Barnes\" title=\"Newman Williamson Barnes\"\u003e\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information:"],"bioghist_tesim":["The following genealogical information is known about the Barnes family. Margaret W. Tomlin and Newman Williamson B. Barnes had the following children: Margaret W., George B., Beverley, Robert Tomlin, Walker, and Lucy Ball. Newman Williamson B. Barnes had the following sisters: Lucy Barnes, Frances C. Barnes, and Balsora Barnes. Other genealogical materials can be found in the \"additional related material\" section. 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Barnes. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families. Letters contain social and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisappointed in Newman Williamson B. Barnes's not writing; Lucy, Margaret Tomlin, and Balsora Barnes are at Fitzhugh's; have tried to fatten up Judy - Margaret has fattened considerably here; shirts are finished; everyone has been well except Aunt Short; love from Mama and the girls to NWBB and George.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily's four week stay at the Wilderness and the one week visit of Major Jones and family; improvement of Mothers' health; some gentlemen of Fredericksburg serenaded this town last night.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived at Frederick after a fatiguing journey; Lucy, Nancy, and LHO have been sick with ague and fever; LHO is taking children of deceased aunt to live with her ; the children are young and need counsel and advice. Also includes a letter by Lucy Barnes, Frederick, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. LB's health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe girls have gone off to spend the day with Mr. and Miss Bassett amusing themselves with toys; should be very much pleased to be agreeably surprised with NWBB's company; had a letter from Lucy saying all are in good health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBehavior on Sunday has been the subject of the neighbor's discussion since NWBB's departure; has been said that JHT is ill-mannered and rude. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Retreat, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks why he has not written his brother; received a letter from Lucy, mentions NWBB's debt, FCB will pay at any time; Mr. George has commenced his school. Also includes a note by Lucy? H.? Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBalsora E. Barnes is taking a course in grammar and is pleased with studies - geography, history, chemistry, rhetoric, composition; Cousin Williamson's wedding to Lucy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJHT is returning book, please send another; relates gossipy items in a religious text.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaments that Mama chose FCB for the topic of her last letter; family news items; wedding at Elwood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBB's writing capabilities and responsibilities. Also includes a letter by Frances C. Barnes, Union Academy, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. arrival of daughter in family. Also includes incomplete letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; Betty is a bright student of Wilson's; we should help make the remainder of our parents' years happy and contented; NWBB's interest in a woman - marriage? - don't keep it a secret.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReveals feelings toward women and expresses his dislike for women to have a freedom of expression.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepair of goods and purchase of goods; an invitation to visit Sunday next.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of goods requested and money sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of goods requested and money sent; looking forward to NWBB's visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill give ten dollars to repair the shop; purchase of goods requested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived in Richmond, NWBB not married yet; other news of activities since being in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived NWBB's letter; waiting for NWBB's visit; request for shoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave been slighted by NWBB not spending any time with us this fall; the fever has been raging in Fredericksburg but not so badly here; travel plans. Also includes a letter by Lucy Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Hanover Town, Virginia. have not been in a humor to write; everyone is in good health; anxious to see NWBB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah P. Oliver was taken by a fatal chill - instructions on the building of the coffin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe loss of LHO's daughter, Sarah, and LHO's deep sense of grief.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWT's religious convictions and health. Also includes a note by Judy H. Tomlin, Chericoke, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. thanks NWBB for what he sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of the ball; when is NWBB coming over?; please bring goods from Richmond and the 3rd volume of the French Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangements for next Sunday. Also includes a letter by Mary W. Braxton, Chericoke, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave inclination to write to NWBB as frequently as ever; family news, please send several items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlease tell MWT the whereabouts of the Theatre in Richmond; why hasn't NWBB written to some of us; all of us are very well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of family and neighborhood; newsy items about family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewsy items about the activities of friends and relatives including the Pages, Jones, Coalters, Peytons, Brookes,...; mentions good water and pure water in Falmouth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFabrics sent and items made from fabrics; please send more flannel, silk, and shoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth news; activities of family members and neighbors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWT states her affection toward Willy and how MWT desires his presence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNWBB's visit to Falmouth. Also includes a letter by Lucy? H. ? Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. NWBB's forthcoming visit; LHB places an order for 3 books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks NWBB for the books, ring, and calico - values the ring most highly; request for additional goods from Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Tomlin's health; JHT's effort to make reconciliation with NWBB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCousin Lucy's health; forget and forgive for the slight NWBB received on his last visit here. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Retreat, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. NWBB's next visit will be a welcomed one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy's improved health; another comment on the argument that occurred that \"memorable day - more was construed than was intended.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSister Lucy's health; NWBB's next visit; orders items from Richmond - fabric, paste-boards, comb, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news - Lucy's health, NWBB's next visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy's health; John Tayloe Lomax has been appointed a professor in the University at Charlottesville; flood waters have devastated bridges and other things here; orders fabric from Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news - everyone has been sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExplanation of Vawles' absence when NWBB visited; will make arrangements to pay back money owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of family and activities in the town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of family members, declares love for George; send news of MWTB's children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBB is anxious to get down; shall send Peg a bedstead; news of family activities; had hoped the chimney would be done before BB got home and had wanted to paint the dining room; Willy's visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave not written because of sore eyes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhy has MWTB not written; future visit; business at hand is keeping RWT busy; type of \"gal\" that is for RWT.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth and weather; CB is looking forward to getting home from trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBirth of MWTB's son and inquires of MWTB's health since; family news; illness of servants and death of one child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of family members; death of Benedict Crump - thrown from a horse; we're in need of rain and in the midst of a terrible drought.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry to hear MWTB's been sick; MWB's happiness depends a great deal on that of her sisters and brothers; it has not been pleasant since the girls left home; health of family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilly's illness and health news of other family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB is worried about MWTB's health; MWB understands that MWTB is coming to Falmouth to see Dr. Buck about her spine; insists that MWTB stay with MWB. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Chericoke, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMessage to Willy; interested in MWTB's health; love matters affairs - RWT has asked two or three demoiselles to be Mrs. Tomlin but all have declined; will see MWTB on the eve of the 13th.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRWF's opinions of physicians of the day - compares RWT's profession with that of the physician; gives news of a lass' marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCousin St. George Tucker Coalter's health and Nancy's; family news. Also includes a letter by Judy H. Tomlin Coalter, Chericoke, Virginia, to Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia Mr. Coalter's health; instructions on what to do at the house. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to ?.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending the horse over for NWBB to please take care of; would like to visit but health is poor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of all; domestic responsibilities - made pickles, catsup, etc; the drought is gone; describes MWB's dear little baby; family affairs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Peg's\"education; family matters. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to \"Peg\"Margaret W. Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia. advice on going to school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLO's looking forward to a visit from MWTB and the children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of family members; news of the wedding of MWB's daughter, Lucy? Braxton, to Dr. Charles Cocke - with details of dresses, food, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvents of MWB's trip to Vaucluse ?; family news concerning health; well-being and death of members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy and Charles Cocke had a baby boy who died in its birth, thankful for Lucy's survival, she is slowly recovering; news about crops and animals; general family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of family members; Harry has bachelor quarters and desires a wife; RWT is living within seven miles of Natural Bridge -Mountainous district is prettier than Tidewater; RWT is having a celibacy existence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCelebration of the Queen of May day. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Jeffersonton P. O., Culpeper County, Virginia. additional details about the celebration of the Queen of May day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhy hasn't MWTB written; MWB wants to know news of health of MWTB and NWBB; tells of Aunt Lucy's and MWB's colds; Aunt Fanny and sister's visit to Fredericksburg to hear Doctor Plu? and Doctor Alexander preach.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWTB's health and possible remedies for a cure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWinter's effect on people; RWT's attitude toward romance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of events in Falmouth; reminds NWBB to come and get her at Christmas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB's anniversary and Armistead's 16th birthday; accounts of Armistead's visit home; family news including Lucy's health and Robert's forthcoming marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll are well except Grandma; General Harrison passed through Fredericksburg; hope MWB will profit by your good advice; Aunt Balsora will teach the boys this spring and summer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; Robert's marriage; MWB fell down the potato hole and bruised herself; health of family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSister Margaret's health and RWT's work with a survey of the New River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB is worried about MWTB's going home safely; Papa's health and George and Bevy's health; sent MWTB's shoes by Dennis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mr. Brooke; sends messages to family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWTB's improvement in health; RWT's work load is great since RWT is the only one left in the Engineer Corps, the salary is greatly earned, have had no servant this year, have endured many hardships, RWT is resigning at the end of the year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvents surrounding the death of Charles Braxton; MWB is concerned about MWTB's poor health; Mrs. Henry Webb had a bad fall; Lucy is in a family way again; Robert sent the accounts to Mr. Green; Aunt Short's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to know MWTB's baby is in good health; have had a great deal of company all winter; health news of family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWTB's next visit to Falmouth and what to bring. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia. MWTB's next visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave heard news of MWTB's new baby and MWTB's good health; health news of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about Papa's mouth and Walker's face; news of activities in Falmouth. Also includes a letter by Lucy M. Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpepper County, Virginia Baby Walker and winter vegetables.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhig meetings with detailed commentary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of the Christmas season. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia Christmas and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObligations to study at school; health of friends and family; wishes that Bev and George could go to some good school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeather; health of family; activities of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of family members and servants; weather; sewing projects; activities of family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of family members; general family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisagreement between William Braxton and Dr. Perkins and subsequent entanglements; news and health of family members; regrets MWTB's recent death of a child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of activities since school broke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave had a \"neurologic ? affection of one side of my face and head\"- has affected sight; health of family members; size of children in family; weather conditions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes letters by Margaret W. Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes) and \"Papa\" (Newman Williamson B. Barnes), Greenfield, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrip to Richmond and shopping expedition; death of Mrs. Dick Smith; delight in visiting them all; brief family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAunt Lucy has gone to Chatham; Aunt Fanny and Bal had been sick; MWB has a dreadful cold; Cousin Nancy and Olivia are going to Chericoke; Bev and Walker send their love; how is George?; MWB supposes that Tomlin and Bev have to do their work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB is not at Chericoke but is staying with Aunt Judy here Presley; glad to know that George has entirely recovered; MWB likes staying here Presley instead of Chericoke because there isn't so much fuss and foolishness here Presley about dressing and having dinner parties - both of which MWB detests; having a quiet time with Uncle Robert and Aunt Judy; social occasions and visits by relatives; Aunt Judy is an \"all powerful woman\"; Tomlin's badness has not been mentioned to MWB; Uncle Robert and Harrison wish they could see you, but MWB does not believe a word of it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWonders why BDB has not heard from MWTB or sister Margaret W. Barnes since BDB left; weather here is either snowy or rainy; general news of family and their health; death of Mr. Brook.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTraveling plans; death of Mr. Brooke; sunny weather; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand purchase; family health news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe winter has been filled with much sickness and death; affectionate comments on household slave, Louisa, catching on fire and dying 2 days later; Judy is making a trip to Gloucester; Walker's health has not been good this winter; Fanny looks remarkably well; heard there was a chance that MWTB might move near Falmouth - is it true?; who has written to whom; Dr. Braxton has had much to weigh him down - which has always affected his health; love to MWTB, Willy, and the boys.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad TB's in school; behave and learn your lessons; the family misses you.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologetic towards JHTC and MWTB's lack of corresponding; rejoice in MWTB's being at Pinewood; JHTC's boys have left for the University; events of Christmas day; JHTC's given up all hopes of getting the place you heard of; love to Peggy, Willy, the boys, and the girls in Falmouth; St. sends his love to all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScolds GBB for the lack of information in GBB's letter; Tomlin's starting school; messages to Mama and Papa; MWB sends love to the servants; requests George to get people to write to MWB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopied at Clifton, Virginia. Original dated 1797 February 27. JWT fulfills a promise to send a composition or two - one about whether a republican government can exist and the other whether the circumstances of the Romans justified them in their first dictator; JWT looks for money requested every day. Also includes a letter, undated, by W. Tomlin to John W. Tomlin, William \u0026amp; Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. received your composition which am well pleased with; irate discussion of JW's responsibility as a son to WT including JWT's extravagance with money, JWT 's education, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to hear of George's improving health; \"it seems to be rather hard for you all to understand me BDB.. .\" - BDB has received only kindness and affection from Uncle Harrison? -\"as for the others with the exception of Armistead Braxton it has always been exactly the reverse.. .\" ; news of people staying at the Richmond House Mrs. Gordon talked of you and Papa incessantly; monetary value of Mrs. Gilsom's? farm compared to the value per acre of Pinewood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB apologizes for long silence; Balsora is here Chericoke but is sick now; family news; MWB is behind in domestic chores; MWB's feelings toward children and anxiety caused by them; MWB's loneliness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB was annoyed by the short letter; describes a temperance spring and surrounding countryside; implies the family should visit Mama more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangements to have MWB's shawl sent back to MWB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for BB's last letter; Mary's ? wedding is next week - entertainment for the, wedding; the fair and all its animals; studying is important to VBC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeautiful spring-like weather; Mr. Webb has remarried and has brought home the new wife - events upon their arrival; general family information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBDB is disappointed that MWTB has only written BDB one letter; news items about sister Margaret W. Barnes and Walker and a recent attendance of a church service; love to all at home and in Falmouth - servants and all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBDB is sending goods to NWBB via railroad; if George is better he should come down for he could get \"an excellent situation\" the cholera is playing \"mischief\" here Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBDB hopes George will regain his health and strength; complains about BDB's tremendous appetite; sorry to hear of Walker's poor health; Mr. Braxton's barns with a whole crop of wheat burned and Braxton had no insurance; Betsy Braxton is being courted by Mr. Galt the American sculptor; BDB wants to see entire family and invites family down - assures family that the cholera is \"nearly all gone.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExplanation for BDB's having not written sooner and why has the family not written to BDB?; after writing Uncle Harrison? please write and let BDB know what MWTB wrote for BDB doesn't want things to be kept a secret from him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArmistead Braxton and Henrietta are to be married - details about marriage attendants and proposed activities; marriage of Powhatan Moncure and Dora Ashby - BDB wants news to be confirmed; the penitentiary burned down 7 December 1854 .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBDB is sending goods to his MWTB via train; relates amusing incident pertaining to the song \"Hug Eye\" reports yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLong description of weather conditions in Chericoke and the resulting circumstances; MWB expresses feelings of unhappiness for those she loves who have suffered; limited work being done on plantation; sleighing activities; fire in Ingleside kitchen and servants lost nearly all their belongings, but it seems that all are well; family health and news items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBDB has sent items to MWTB that were requested in yesterday's letter via Stephen; BDB lists most items sent and requests acknowledgment of receipt from Aunt Fanny.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeparture of the girls from the house, their expected activities, and MWB's loneliness; proposed activities of MWB during the summer; reports illness of two people; requests news of MWTB's family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeggy's visit and her subsequent stranded situation on the other side of the river because of the ice; health news of several family members; the boat was destroyed and a new one was built; the progress of the garden; activities of family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBDB's severe illness and recovery; Walker's serious illness; Aunt Lucy's improving health; the birth of a daughter to Uncle Robert named Edmonia Fitzhugh ? Tomlin; tell Sister Margaret W. Barnes that John Lawson is courting Bunny Braxton again.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBirth of a daughter to Henrietta and circumstances thereafter; schedule of forth coming events including trips, Judy's birthday party, and winter projects; serious condition of Judy at Retreat, Virginia and of her expected death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBurdensome task of housekeeping and that work is done more out of duty than pleasure \"as the members of the family drop off\"; notes how changes have occurred over the last five years; trip to see Betty - reports on Betty's health, happiness, husband, and their fine living standards; message to Balsora via Margaret Barnes; invitation for MWTB and Peggy to spend the winter and see how Judy H. Tomlin Coalter's health has improved; events upon home coming.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFeel most kindly for George in all his sufferings; will see MWTB tomorrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB understands that Peggy is to make a \"profession of Religion\"soon; hopes to spend several weeks with MWTB; mentions weather conditions; reports in length the illness of several family members; visits of friends and family; inquires about Fanny and Betty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses sorrow to \"Margaret\"MWTB and \"Peggy\"MWB in their loss of Newman Williamson B. Barnes; MWB's forth-coming visit to see MWTB and \"Peggy\"MWB; sends love and prayers and sympathy. Also includes a letter by Aunt L?, Baltimore, Md., to Balsora Barnes, .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Braxton has given up the estate for MWB to manage; with no one to manage MWTB's place MWTB should rent out and hire out the servants; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses sorrow to MWTB in the loss of a son, George, and glory in his heavenly home with the blessed savior; gives religious support in MWB's sympathy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses sympathy in MWTB's loss of a son; Betty's confinement and the circumstances concerning the baby; understands from home that all are healthy but Virginia; Fanny Bland is to be married in the fall; activities in Baltimore - church too far away to attend; general family news. Also includes a letter written on the envelope by ?, to \"Ma.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter is written by Nannie for Harrison Barnes, MWTB's brother, because, HB has a lack of time to spare; HB knows of a position in Richmond that would be wonderful for Tomlin and encourages MWTB to use her influence to get Tomlin to apply: NO expresses her sympathy for MWTB's afflictions; the Springs have been deserted - only about 100 people on the grounds; thinks the position for Tomlin in Richmond is as an assistant with the Postmaster.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCircumstances are such that MWB cannot visit MWTB at this time because Betty is not doing well, but the baby is fine - Betty needs help so as to not become ill; Fanny is to be married this fall and must have assistance in the preparations of the wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Dallam is ill and has been in bed for more than 3 weeks; have no idea when leaving will be possible; health of Betty and baby and Mrs. Dallam ; Fanny is to be married 11 November and Fanny Coalter is to be married 10 November to a Mr. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFBCB thinks of MWB often and would like to be of some service; MWB has seen so much trouble; religious information and instruction; FBCB has a good husband; Mama's, Judy H. Tomlin Coalter, health is not good.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of Aunt Judy; family activities; summer garden -strawberries and potatoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRTB has not gotten a position and sees no chances; please send pants and other summer clothing; RTB inquires about \"the poor old place\"and what Mr. Moncure has done with it: instructions to sod the graves. Also includes a letter by Peggy Tomlin?, Stanly, Virginia, to \"Peggy\"Margaret W. Barnes, . don't worry about Walker for he's fine; information about the family and everyone's health and activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA continuation of the pants as mentioned in 20 May 1859 letter; pleased the graves have been sodded; has \"the place\"been sold yet?; please write to RTB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlease write to RTB; suffering with the heat and would like another coat; wants to know how family is and how the \"black people are\" hope \" they have not sold my dear old home yet\" mentions grave sodding and \"how much I have thought of them\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParticulars of mother's, Judy H. Tomlin Coalter's last illness and her eventual death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to know your health and spirits are improving; reminiscences of younger days and activities; looking forward to your visit and bring cousin Balsora Barnes; questions about health of family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnxious to see family and to know what Walker is doing; worn out, cannot eat, and is as ragged as a buzzard; needs warm pants and new shirts; some of you please write; allowed no exercise except drilling - \"Oh that it may now be over is my prayer \"; sends love to everyone black and white.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eActivities during war period; information about Elega Willcox?, her husband's running away to avoid the war, and circumstances surrounding the situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo things FBCB forgot to tell MWB yesterday so is writing again; Peronneau was quite sick; instructions for task to be done by MWB; news of friends and relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial concerns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContinuation of financial concerns; status on goods and vegetables; shoes may be sent by mail. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to postman? mailing of package to Frances Bland Coalter Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangements for future visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllness of Johnnie ? and Caroline and current departure plans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions on daily living; write to Cousin Nannie for she is sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConfinement because of illness and lack of ability to do things for self, instructions on daily living; take care of WB's sister, Lizzy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten over a period of five days telling of WBB's daily activities at Aunt Fanny's and at school; Thompson's birthday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAunt Fanny and Mammy Jane's health; hymn next Sunday; new books. Also includes a letter by Frances Bland Coalter Brown to \"Peggy\"(Margaret W. Barnes). FBCB's return home from N.Y. ? via sleeping car; Miss Jane's great care of the boys during absence; FBCB's much improved health situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry to hear WBB had been sick; will send money for hymn book; do what Aunt Peggy and Aunt Fannie tell WBB; write and tell how Thompson is; take care of Aunt Peggy for she is always sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisit of Mrs. Coleman and Mrs. Grinnan and arrival of Cousin Lucy Brent; Aunt Fanny gave Thompson and WBB holiday during everyone's visit; illness and departure of a dining room servant; sends love to Uncle Tomlin, Aunt Marcella?, and Uncle Walker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReligious Directions to WBB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEstate of Lelia B. Cocke. Disapproval of the partitioning of Bremo and desire to have the personal property appraised by an expert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeparture of guests; birth of a daughter to Mrs. Braxton; getting Armistead ready for school up in Caroline; Walker's illness; love to family members. Also includes a note by Lucy ?, Chericoke, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Jeffersonton, Culpepper County, Virginia. \"Cousin Lucy\" sends love to all and particularly to Peg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA scolding from BB about Beverly's not taking proper care of his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePantaloons are finished; please write; how is GB's Mama's health? Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to \"Peg\" (Margaret W. Barnes), why has MWB not written?; questions about fowls and Peg's studies; love to MWB's Mama, Papa, and brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB's trip home; George's arrival.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy's illness; arrangements for BB's trip home; hopelessness of Jack Bryan's illness and surrounding circumstances; general family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWedding and plans concerning travel and visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSoreness in BB's hands and difficulties encountered. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to George Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia why has GB forgotten BB?; declaration of love for George. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to Beverly Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia why has BB not written? Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia You are a fine boy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExchange of presents; BB hopes that the boys can stay for the winter for BB was beginning to teach them to write. Also includes a letter by Lucy H. Barnes to \"Willy\"Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. Willy's children and their education; health of family members. Also includes a letter by Frances C. Barnes to Lucy Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. sewing and quinces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George's serious illness; will send clothes for the boys; can't see at all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeggy's attending school near BB, Peggy's failure to arrive yet, and the value of an education for Peggy; send the boys to BB and BB will prepare them for a large school; Lucy's wedding; illness of St. George. Also includes a letter by Lucy M: H. Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia Family affairs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilly's illness; clothes for the boys. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to Lucy Barnes? The house is not done.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeverly Barnes - \". . .all old maids can lecture on the instruction of children to a painful extent to married ladies, Beverly still proves a dutiful teachable child.. .\"; information about the activities of all family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBB's love for people and how feelings often \"discompose\"you; Margaret Tomlin's? feelings on how NWBB should come up here and not gander off with Miss S? to New York; cousin Coalter has lost her bridge and others are down in the area; James. N. is a devoted admirer of Fanny's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave you and George any work for BB; Cousin Lucy's health is improving; pray often for NWBB's happiness and have loved NWBB more than any being on earth with the exception of two; NWBB's future conduct toward Margaret Tomlin? and interpretive statement of Margaret's feeling toward NWBB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests items to be purchased for BB, Judy, Lucy, Aunt Amy; \"Margaret Tomlin? sends her love to George and yourself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBB has not sent shirts because of illness; news of Margaret Tomlin? and her journeys; BB requests items to be purchased. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Chericoke, Virginia, to \"Willy\"Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. requests items to be purchased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"stips\"? sent for Peg, Lucy, you two and the boys; write to us. Also includes a note by Lucy? ?, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePantaloons and clothing; horse that was left; Mama wants to visit Greenfield in July \u0026amp; Mama's health; the garden; please write, we have been mortified at your silence. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"My dear M\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes), Culpeper County, Virginia BB sends MWTB tea towels with Bret's? pantaloons coat; hope MWTB's health is improved; love to the \"dear little children\"and to Willy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Margaret has a new beau but I do not think you need to dread him as a rival\"; the Ball in Richmond; has NWBB heard from home?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNWBB should take better care of his health; religious remarks; health news of family members; Bet is too busy to write.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLMB is glad MWB is attending to MWB's books and being a good child obedient to your parents and brothers; LMB is going to see MWB's Grand Mamma.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge made his appearance last night; LMB fears that Willy is offended; love to all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLMHB saw Willy last night; what is the matter with Peg and Tomlin?; Judy, the children and St. George Coalter are all well; LMHB sent some things to all of you by Mr. Georges? Charles. Also includes a note by Lucy? M. H.? Barnes,, to \"Peggy\" (Margaret W. Barnes), Greenfield, Virginia. the want of paper compels me to write to MWB and your mother on the same paper; be a good child and take care of yourself; read your Bible and get a portion of it everyday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLMHB has just returned from Chatham; want to know' if MWTB and family is dead or alive; LMHB is sending Willy's other shirt; why does Peggy not write to LMHB since LMHB has spent so much time instructing her?; all are well except Papa; Balsora and Fanny are at St. George's and Cousin Coalter dines with them today; love to all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNWBB should not be so low spirited for \"surely a young man never had greater cause for a thankful heart than you,\" LMHB fear that if NWBB continues to be unhappy when he has so much that \"our kind heavenly Father should visit them with some heavy, but just punishment\"; Mama and Aunt Short have left us on a visit to Mrs. Allison; news of Balsora, Margaret, Judy, and Mama; the times are dull; do not be so tardy in answering letters; the girls all write with LMHB in best love to you and George. Also includes a note by Margaret W. Tomlin, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"Willy\" (Newman Williamson B. Barnes), Richmond, Virginia. goods requested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelighted to hear you and father are well; Uncle Coalter's illness and Aunt Judy's subsequent unhappiness; have George write and tell MWB about MWB's hen, chickens, and garden. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. pleased you two invalids are improving; glad to know Willy's prospect for corn is good.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB is homesick and desires to come home; MWB is concerned about Papa's illness and brother Bev's; news about Uncle Coalter and Aunt Judy, Aunt Balsora, and Aunt Lucy; love to Papa, Aunt Margaret, Uncle B. and MWB's little brothers. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, St. Georges home, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Family situations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAunt Mary and Cousin Nannie went up to see Col. Carrington; Uncle ? got MWTB's letter about Tomlin; Beverly seemed very happy when he was here last; Aunt Margaret Tomlin; news of activities and health of various family members; MWB's activities and travel plans; MWB sends love to all in family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Braxton has been confined to her bed with violent toothache and pain in her face; arrangements for trip to Richmond; cold weather has arrived; Mrs. Bryan and the Bryan girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions for staying well; the ice house repairs; family activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions to \"Mama\"for staying well; mention of family visits and activities; illnesses of friends and family. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes, Chericoke, Virginia, to Balsora Barnes, Cousin Maria's distressful situation; MWB's quilt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAunt Judy's illness and circumstances surrounding the seriousness of the illness; MWB's concern over MWTB's poor health; family visits and activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates MWB's accident with knife and subsequent problems with the near loss of MWB's finger; activities and health news of family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSnow storm and its effects for all friends and relatives;' Beverley's trip to Wheeling; Jack and his report of activities at Chericoke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHybla house burned down and Armistead was only able to save a few things; Mattie ? has caught one of the first beaux in the state - Mr. Wilcox Brown; some of you write to MWB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth news of family members; MWB scolds MWTB about what MWTB writes in her letters asks MWTB to be more careful about who she talks about.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of family activities and trips including visits to the Springs; mentions news of many family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; Uncle Walker's new baby, John Walker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAunt Lucy has given a favorable account of TB and Walker in your studies; family ventures; Cousins Coalter and Janet are both sick; George looks better than MWB's seen him in a long time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCotton sent. Also includes a letter from Margaret W. Barnes to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes) a thank you note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecipe and brief news of NWTB's activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions for repair of hat, request for knitting needles not sent as requested, and a list of desired goods to be purchased for MTB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFBCB would have been glad for MWB to join FBCB here; Cousin William thinks that FBCB has had a nervous disorder; the treatments FBCB has enjoyed and FBCB is sure MWB's health requires it too; arrangements for MWB's stay in Bedford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMa's illness and FBCB's attempts to go and nurse her; arrival at \"Stanley\"and report of Ma's health; would like MWB to come - FBCB will nurse MWB too; family news; invitation for a visit to Bedford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth and BG have feeble health; Elizabeth went to the Warm Springs and came home because she became nervous there; report of Elizabeth, Will and John Walker's families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave sent NWBB a pair of socks. Also includes a letter by Judy H. Tomlin to \"Willy\" Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Hanover Town, Virginia. JHT apologizes for bad behavior on Tuesday evening.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for 'shoes to be made; surprised that NWBB did not see more of \"the girls\"while they were in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of JLS's poor health. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin? to \"Willy\" Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. request for cloth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChristmas holidays - the visitors require the professors to lecture over the holidays and HBT must not miss any, therefore, he cannot spend Christmas with Margaret and brother Willy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCircumstances surrounding the death of Sally and her mother's intense grief; Margaret is quite sick but the rest here are well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for yard goods from Richmond; JHT looks forward to Willy's visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests extension of visiting period for \"Peg\"; news of Aunt Mary's health. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes, Stanley, Virginia, to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes), Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia request for MWTB to send some clothing for MWB's extended visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWT has been ill; MWT will remain in Hanover one or two more weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eYard goods requested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlease send silk dress and fabric. Also includes a note by ? to ? Barnes ? Tomlin, . Janet sent Balsora something in a vial to rub her foot with.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs. B_ and circumstances surrounding situations; my baby seems poorly and so nervous; much obliged to MWB for your kind sympathy and affection; love to one and all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes). Also includes a letter by Beverley D. Barnes to ?,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDitchley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChrist Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst poem is entitled \"A Royal Colloguing\"sp?. 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Barnes. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families. Letters contain social and family news.","Disappointed in Newman Williamson B. Barnes's not writing; Lucy, Margaret Tomlin, and Balsora Barnes are at Fitzhugh's; have tried to fatten up Judy - Margaret has fattened considerably here; shirts are finished; everyone has been well except Aunt Short; love from Mama and the girls to NWBB and George.","Family's four week stay at the Wilderness and the one week visit of Major Jones and family; improvement of Mothers' health; some gentlemen of Fredericksburg serenaded this town last night.","Arrived at Frederick after a fatiguing journey; Lucy, Nancy, and LHO have been sick with ague and fever; LHO is taking children of deceased aunt to live with her ; the children are young and need counsel and advice. Also includes a letter by Lucy Barnes, Frederick, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. LB's health.","The girls have gone off to spend the day with Mr. and Miss Bassett amusing themselves with toys; should be very much pleased to be agreeably surprised with NWBB's company; had a letter from Lucy saying all are in good health.","Behavior on Sunday has been the subject of the neighbor's discussion since NWBB's departure; has been said that JHT is ill-mannered and rude. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Retreat, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. family news.","Asks why he has not written his brother; received a letter from Lucy, mentions NWBB's debt, FCB will pay at any time; Mr. George has commenced his school. Also includes a note by Lucy? H.? Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia","Balsora E. Barnes is taking a course in grammar and is pleased with studies - geography, history, chemistry, rhetoric, composition; Cousin Williamson's wedding to Lucy.","JHT is returning book, please send another; relates gossipy items in a religious text.","Laments that Mama chose FCB for the topic of her last letter; family news items; wedding at Elwood.","BB's writing capabilities and responsibilities. Also includes a letter by Frances C. Barnes, Union Academy, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. arrival of daughter in family. Also includes incomplete letter.","Family news; Betty is a bright student of Wilson's; we should help make the remainder of our parents' years happy and contented; NWBB's interest in a woman - marriage? - don't keep it a secret.","Reveals feelings toward women and expresses his dislike for women to have a freedom of expression.","Repair of goods and purchase of goods; an invitation to visit Sunday next.","Purchase of goods requested and money sent.","Purchase of goods requested and money sent; looking forward to NWBB's visit.","Will give ten dollars to repair the shop; purchase of goods requested.","Arrived in Richmond, NWBB not married yet; other news of activities since being in Virginia.","Received NWBB's letter; waiting for NWBB's visit; request for shoes.","Have been slighted by NWBB not spending any time with us this fall; the fever has been raging in Fredericksburg but not so badly here; travel plans. Also includes a letter by Lucy Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Hanover Town, Virginia. have not been in a humor to write; everyone is in good health; anxious to see NWBB.","Sarah P. Oliver was taken by a fatal chill - instructions on the building of the coffin.","The loss of LHO's daughter, Sarah, and LHO's deep sense of grief.","MWT's religious convictions and health. Also includes a note by Judy H. Tomlin, Chericoke, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. thanks NWBB for what he sent.","News of the ball; when is NWBB coming over?; please bring goods from Richmond and the 3rd volume of the French Revolution.","Arrangements for next Sunday. Also includes a letter by Mary W. Braxton, Chericoke, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia.","Have inclination to write to NWBB as frequently as ever; family news, please send several items.","Please tell MWT the whereabouts of the Theatre in Richmond; why hasn't NWBB written to some of us; all of us are very well.","Health of family and neighborhood; newsy items about family.","Newsy items about the activities of friends and relatives including the Pages, Jones, Coalters, Peytons, Brookes,...; mentions good water and pure water in Falmouth.","Fabrics sent and items made from fabrics; please send more flannel, silk, and shoes.","Health news; activities of family members and neighbors.","MWT states her affection toward Willy and how MWT desires his presence.","NWBB's visit to Falmouth. Also includes a letter by Lucy? H. ? Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. NWBB's forthcoming visit; LHB places an order for 3 books.","Thanks NWBB for the books, ring, and calico - values the ring most highly; request for additional goods from Richmond.","Lucy Tomlin's health; JHT's effort to make reconciliation with NWBB.","Cousin Lucy's health; forget and forgive for the slight NWBB received on his last visit here. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Retreat, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. NWBB's next visit will be a welcomed one.","Lucy's improved health; another comment on the argument that occurred that \"memorable day - more was construed than was intended.\"","Sister Lucy's health; NWBB's next visit; orders items from Richmond - fabric, paste-boards, comb, etc.","Family news - Lucy's health, NWBB's next visit.","Lucy's health; John Tayloe Lomax has been appointed a professor in the University at Charlottesville; flood waters have devastated bridges and other things here; orders fabric from Richmond.","Family news - everyone has been sick.","Explanation of Vawles' absence when NWBB visited; will make arrangements to pay back money owed.","News of family and activities in the town.","Health of family members, declares love for George; send news of MWTB's children.","BB is anxious to get down; shall send Peg a bedstead; news of family activities; had hoped the chimney would be done before BB got home and had wanted to paint the dining room; Willy's visit.","Have not written because of sore eyes.","Why has MWTB not written; future visit; business at hand is keeping RWT busy; type of \"gal\" that is for RWT.","Health and weather; CB is looking forward to getting home from trip.","Birth of MWTB's son and inquires of MWTB's health since; family news; illness of servants and death of one child.","Health of family members; death of Benedict Crump - thrown from a horse; we're in need of rain and in the midst of a terrible drought.","Sorry to hear MWTB's been sick; MWB's happiness depends a great deal on that of her sisters and brothers; it has not been pleasant since the girls left home; health of family members.","Willy's illness and health news of other family members.","MWB is worried about MWTB's health; MWB understands that MWTB is coming to Falmouth to see Dr. Buck about her spine; insists that MWTB stay with MWB. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Chericoke, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. family news.","Message to Willy; interested in MWTB's health; love matters affairs - RWT has asked two or three demoiselles to be Mrs. Tomlin but all have declined; will see MWTB on the eve of the 13th.","RWF's opinions of physicians of the day - compares RWT's profession with that of the physician; gives news of a lass' marriage.","Cousin St. George Tucker Coalter's health and Nancy's; family news. Also includes a letter by Judy H. Tomlin Coalter, Chericoke, Virginia, to Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia Mr. Coalter's health; instructions on what to do at the house. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to ?.","Sending the horse over for NWBB to please take care of; would like to visit but health is poor.","Health of all; domestic responsibilities - made pickles, catsup, etc; the drought is gone; describes MWB's dear little baby; family affairs.","\"Peg's\"education; family matters. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to \"Peg\"Margaret W. Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia. advice on going to school.","LO's looking forward to a visit from MWTB and the children.","Health of family members; news of the wedding of MWB's daughter, Lucy? Braxton, to Dr. Charles Cocke - with details of dresses, food, etc.","Events of MWB's trip to Vaucluse ?; family news concerning health; well-being and death of members.","Lucy and Charles Cocke had a baby boy who died in its birth, thankful for Lucy's survival, she is slowly recovering; news about crops and animals; general family news.","News of family members; Harry has bachelor quarters and desires a wife; RWT is living within seven miles of Natural Bridge -Mountainous district is prettier than Tidewater; RWT is having a celibacy existence.","Celebration of the Queen of May day. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Jeffersonton P. O., Culpeper County, Virginia. additional details about the celebration of the Queen of May day.","Why hasn't MWTB written; MWB wants to know news of health of MWTB and NWBB; tells of Aunt Lucy's and MWB's colds; Aunt Fanny and sister's visit to Fredericksburg to hear Doctor Plu? and Doctor Alexander preach.","MWTB's health and possible remedies for a cure.","Winter's effect on people; RWT's attitude toward romance.","News of events in Falmouth; reminds NWBB to come and get her at Christmas.","MWB's anniversary and Armistead's 16th birthday; accounts of Armistead's visit home; family news including Lucy's health and Robert's forthcoming marriage.","All are well except Grandma; General Harrison passed through Fredericksburg; hope MWB will profit by your good advice; Aunt Balsora will teach the boys this spring and summer.","Family news; Robert's marriage; MWB fell down the potato hole and bruised herself; health of family members.","Sister Margaret's health and RWT's work with a survey of the New River.","MWB is worried about MWTB's going home safely; Papa's health and George and Bevy's health; sent MWTB's shoes by Dennis.","Death of Mr. Brooke; sends messages to family members.","MWTB's improvement in health; RWT's work load is great since RWT is the only one left in the Engineer Corps, the salary is greatly earned, have had no servant this year, have endured many hardships, RWT is resigning at the end of the year.","Events surrounding the death of Charles Braxton; MWB is concerned about MWTB's poor health; Mrs. Henry Webb had a bad fall; Lucy is in a family way again; Robert sent the accounts to Mr. Green; Aunt Short's death.","Glad to know MWTB's baby is in good health; have had a great deal of company all winter; health news of family members.","MWTB's next visit to Falmouth and what to bring. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia. MWTB's next visit.","Have heard news of MWTB's new baby and MWTB's good health; health news of family.","Inquires about Papa's mouth and Walker's face; news of activities in Falmouth. Also includes a letter by Lucy M. Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpepper County, Virginia Baby Walker and winter vegetables.","Whig meetings with detailed commentary.","News of the Christmas season. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia Christmas and family news.","Obligations to study at school; health of friends and family; wishes that Bev and George could go to some good school.","Weather; health of family; activities of family.","Health of family members and servants; weather; sewing projects; activities of family members.","Health of family members; general family news.","Disagreement between William Braxton and Dr. Perkins and subsequent entanglements; news and health of family members; regrets MWTB's recent death of a child.","News of activities since school broke.","Have had a \"neurologic ? affection of one side of my face and head\"- has affected sight; health of family members; size of children in family; weather conditions.","Also includes letters by Margaret W. Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes) and \"Papa\" (Newman Williamson B. Barnes), Greenfield, Virginia.","Trip to Richmond and shopping expedition; death of Mrs. Dick Smith; delight in visiting them all; brief family news.","Aunt Lucy has gone to Chatham; Aunt Fanny and Bal had been sick; MWB has a dreadful cold; Cousin Nancy and Olivia are going to Chericoke; Bev and Walker send their love; how is George?; MWB supposes that Tomlin and Bev have to do their work.","MWB is not at Chericoke but is staying with Aunt Judy here Presley; glad to know that George has entirely recovered; MWB likes staying here Presley instead of Chericoke because there isn't so much fuss and foolishness here Presley about dressing and having dinner parties - both of which MWB detests; having a quiet time with Uncle Robert and Aunt Judy; social occasions and visits by relatives; Aunt Judy is an \"all powerful woman\"; Tomlin's badness has not been mentioned to MWB; Uncle Robert and Harrison wish they could see you, but MWB does not believe a word of it.","Wonders why BDB has not heard from MWTB or sister Margaret W. Barnes since BDB left; weather here is either snowy or rainy; general news of family and their health; death of Mr. Brook.","Traveling plans; death of Mr. Brooke; sunny weather; other family news.","Land purchase; family health news.","The winter has been filled with much sickness and death; affectionate comments on household slave, Louisa, catching on fire and dying 2 days later; Judy is making a trip to Gloucester; Walker's health has not been good this winter; Fanny looks remarkably well; heard there was a chance that MWTB might move near Falmouth - is it true?; who has written to whom; Dr. Braxton has had much to weigh him down - which has always affected his health; love to MWTB, Willy, and the boys.","Glad TB's in school; behave and learn your lessons; the family misses you.","Apologetic towards JHTC and MWTB's lack of corresponding; rejoice in MWTB's being at Pinewood; JHTC's boys have left for the University; events of Christmas day; JHTC's given up all hopes of getting the place you heard of; love to Peggy, Willy, the boys, and the girls in Falmouth; St. sends his love to all.","Scolds GBB for the lack of information in GBB's letter; Tomlin's starting school; messages to Mama and Papa; MWB sends love to the servants; requests George to get people to write to MWB.","Copied at Clifton, Virginia. Original dated 1797 February 27. JWT fulfills a promise to send a composition or two - one about whether a republican government can exist and the other whether the circumstances of the Romans justified them in their first dictator; JWT looks for money requested every day. Also includes a letter, undated, by W. Tomlin to John W. Tomlin, William \u0026 Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. received your composition which am well pleased with; irate discussion of JW's responsibility as a son to WT including JWT's extravagance with money, JWT 's education, etc.","Glad to hear of George's improving health; \"it seems to be rather hard for you all to understand me BDB.. .\" - BDB has received only kindness and affection from Uncle Harrison? -\"as for the others with the exception of Armistead Braxton it has always been exactly the reverse.. .\" ; news of people staying at the Richmond House Mrs. Gordon talked of you and Papa incessantly; monetary value of Mrs. Gilsom's? farm compared to the value per acre of Pinewood.","MWB apologizes for long silence; Balsora is here Chericoke but is sick now; family news; MWB is behind in domestic chores; MWB's feelings toward children and anxiety caused by them; MWB's loneliness.","MWB was annoyed by the short letter; describes a temperance spring and surrounding countryside; implies the family should visit Mama more.","Arrangements to have MWB's shawl sent back to MWB.","Thanks for BB's last letter; Mary's ? wedding is next week - entertainment for the, wedding; the fair and all its animals; studying is important to VBC.","Beautiful spring-like weather; Mr. Webb has remarried and has brought home the new wife - events upon their arrival; general family information.","BDB is disappointed that MWTB has only written BDB one letter; news items about sister Margaret W. Barnes and Walker and a recent attendance of a church service; love to all at home and in Falmouth - servants and all.","BDB is sending goods to NWBB via railroad; if George is better he should come down for he could get \"an excellent situation\" the cholera is playing \"mischief\" here Richmond.","BDB hopes George will regain his health and strength; complains about BDB's tremendous appetite; sorry to hear of Walker's poor health; Mr. Braxton's barns with a whole crop of wheat burned and Braxton had no insurance; Betsy Braxton is being courted by Mr. Galt the American sculptor; BDB wants to see entire family and invites family down - assures family that the cholera is \"nearly all gone.\"","Explanation for BDB's having not written sooner and why has the family not written to BDB?; after writing Uncle Harrison? please write and let BDB know what MWTB wrote for BDB doesn't want things to be kept a secret from him.","Armistead Braxton and Henrietta are to be married - details about marriage attendants and proposed activities; marriage of Powhatan Moncure and Dora Ashby - BDB wants news to be confirmed; the penitentiary burned down 7 December 1854 .","BDB is sending goods to his MWTB via train; relates amusing incident pertaining to the song \"Hug Eye\" reports yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth.","Long description of weather conditions in Chericoke and the resulting circumstances; MWB expresses feelings of unhappiness for those she loves who have suffered; limited work being done on plantation; sleighing activities; fire in Ingleside kitchen and servants lost nearly all their belongings, but it seems that all are well; family health and news items.","BDB has sent items to MWTB that were requested in yesterday's letter via Stephen; BDB lists most items sent and requests acknowledgment of receipt from Aunt Fanny.","Departure of the girls from the house, their expected activities, and MWB's loneliness; proposed activities of MWB during the summer; reports illness of two people; requests news of MWTB's family.","Peggy's visit and her subsequent stranded situation on the other side of the river because of the ice; health news of several family members; the boat was destroyed and a new one was built; the progress of the garden; activities of family members.","BDB's severe illness and recovery; Walker's serious illness; Aunt Lucy's improving health; the birth of a daughter to Uncle Robert named Edmonia Fitzhugh ? Tomlin; tell Sister Margaret W. Barnes that John Lawson is courting Bunny Braxton again.","Birth of a daughter to Henrietta and circumstances thereafter; schedule of forth coming events including trips, Judy's birthday party, and winter projects; serious condition of Judy at Retreat, Virginia and of her expected death.","Burdensome task of housekeeping and that work is done more out of duty than pleasure \"as the members of the family drop off\"; notes how changes have occurred over the last five years; trip to see Betty - reports on Betty's health, happiness, husband, and their fine living standards; message to Balsora via Margaret Barnes; invitation for MWTB and Peggy to spend the winter and see how Judy H. Tomlin Coalter's health has improved; events upon home coming.","Feel most kindly for George in all his sufferings; will see MWTB tomorrow.","MWB understands that Peggy is to make a \"profession of Religion\"soon; hopes to spend several weeks with MWTB; mentions weather conditions; reports in length the illness of several family members; visits of friends and family; inquires about Fanny and Betty.","Expresses sorrow to \"Margaret\"MWTB and \"Peggy\"MWB in their loss of Newman Williamson B. Barnes; MWB's forth-coming visit to see MWTB and \"Peggy\"MWB; sends love and prayers and sympathy. Also includes a letter by Aunt L?, Baltimore, Md., to Balsora Barnes, .","William Braxton has given up the estate for MWB to manage; with no one to manage MWTB's place MWTB should rent out and hire out the servants; news of family and friends.","Expresses sorrow to MWTB in the loss of a son, George, and glory in his heavenly home with the blessed savior; gives religious support in MWB's sympathy.","Expresses sympathy in MWTB's loss of a son; Betty's confinement and the circumstances concerning the baby; understands from home that all are healthy but Virginia; Fanny Bland is to be married in the fall; activities in Baltimore - church too far away to attend; general family news. Also includes a letter written on the envelope by ?, to \"Ma.\"","Letter is written by Nannie for Harrison Barnes, MWTB's brother, because, HB has a lack of time to spare; HB knows of a position in Richmond that would be wonderful for Tomlin and encourages MWTB to use her influence to get Tomlin to apply: NO expresses her sympathy for MWTB's afflictions; the Springs have been deserted - only about 100 people on the grounds; thinks the position for Tomlin in Richmond is as an assistant with the Postmaster.","Circumstances are such that MWB cannot visit MWTB at this time because Betty is not doing well, but the baby is fine - Betty needs help so as to not become ill; Fanny is to be married this fall and must have assistance in the preparations of the wedding.","Mr. Dallam is ill and has been in bed for more than 3 weeks; have no idea when leaving will be possible; health of Betty and baby and Mrs. Dallam ; Fanny is to be married 11 November and Fanny Coalter is to be married 10 November to a Mr. Brown.","FBCB thinks of MWB often and would like to be of some service; MWB has seen so much trouble; religious information and instruction; FBCB has a good husband; Mama's, Judy H. Tomlin Coalter, health is not good.","Health of Aunt Judy; family activities; summer garden -strawberries and potatoes.","RTB has not gotten a position and sees no chances; please send pants and other summer clothing; RTB inquires about \"the poor old place\"and what Mr. Moncure has done with it: instructions to sod the graves. Also includes a letter by Peggy Tomlin?, Stanly, Virginia, to \"Peggy\"Margaret W. Barnes, . don't worry about Walker for he's fine; information about the family and everyone's health and activities.","A continuation of the pants as mentioned in 20 May 1859 letter; pleased the graves have been sodded; has \"the place\"been sold yet?; please write to RTB.","Please write to RTB; suffering with the heat and would like another coat; wants to know how family is and how the \"black people are\" hope \" they have not sold my dear old home yet\" mentions grave sodding and \"how much I have thought of them\".","Particulars of mother's, Judy H. Tomlin Coalter's last illness and her eventual death.","Glad to know your health and spirits are improving; reminiscences of younger days and activities; looking forward to your visit and bring cousin Balsora Barnes; questions about health of family members.","Anxious to see family and to know what Walker is doing; worn out, cannot eat, and is as ragged as a buzzard; needs warm pants and new shirts; some of you please write; allowed no exercise except drilling - \"Oh that it may now be over is my prayer \"; sends love to everyone black and white.","Activities during war period; information about Elega Willcox?, her husband's running away to avoid the war, and circumstances surrounding the situation.","Two things FBCB forgot to tell MWB yesterday so is writing again; Peronneau was quite sick; instructions for task to be done by MWB; news of friends and relatives.","Financial concerns.","Continuation of financial concerns; status on goods and vegetables; shoes may be sent by mail. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to postman? mailing of package to Frances Bland Coalter Brown.","Arrangements for future visit.","Illness of Johnnie ? and Caroline and current departure plans.","Instructions on daily living; write to Cousin Nannie for she is sick.","Confinement because of illness and lack of ability to do things for self, instructions on daily living; take care of WB's sister, Lizzy.","Written over a period of five days telling of WBB's daily activities at Aunt Fanny's and at school; Thompson's birthday.","Aunt Fanny and Mammy Jane's health; hymn next Sunday; new books. Also includes a letter by Frances Bland Coalter Brown to \"Peggy\"(Margaret W. Barnes). FBCB's return home from N.Y. ? via sleeping car; Miss Jane's great care of the boys during absence; FBCB's much improved health situation.","Sorry to hear WBB had been sick; will send money for hymn book; do what Aunt Peggy and Aunt Fannie tell WBB; write and tell how Thompson is; take care of Aunt Peggy for she is always sick.","Visit of Mrs. Coleman and Mrs. Grinnan and arrival of Cousin Lucy Brent; Aunt Fanny gave Thompson and WBB holiday during everyone's visit; illness and departure of a dining room servant; sends love to Uncle Tomlin, Aunt Marcella?, and Uncle Walker.","Religious Directions to WBB.","Estate of Lelia B. Cocke. Disapproval of the partitioning of Bremo and desire to have the personal property appraised by an expert.","Departure of guests; birth of a daughter to Mrs. Braxton; getting Armistead ready for school up in Caroline; Walker's illness; love to family members. Also includes a note by Lucy ?, Chericoke, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Jeffersonton, Culpepper County, Virginia. \"Cousin Lucy\" sends love to all and particularly to Peg.","A scolding from BB about Beverly's not taking proper care of his health.","Pantaloons are finished; please write; how is GB's Mama's health? Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to \"Peg\" (Margaret W. Barnes), why has MWB not written?; questions about fowls and Peg's studies; love to MWB's Mama, Papa, and brother.","MWB's trip home; George's arrival.","Lucy's illness; arrangements for BB's trip home; hopelessness of Jack Bryan's illness and surrounding circumstances; general family news.","Wedding and plans concerning travel and visit.","Soreness in BB's hands and difficulties encountered. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to George Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia why has GB forgotten BB?; declaration of love for George. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to Beverly Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia why has BB not written? Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia You are a fine boy.","Exchange of presents; BB hopes that the boys can stay for the winter for BB was beginning to teach them to write. Also includes a letter by Lucy H. Barnes to \"Willy\"Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. Willy's children and their education; health of family members. Also includes a letter by Frances C. Barnes to Lucy Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. sewing and quinces.","St. George's serious illness; will send clothes for the boys; can't see at all.","Peggy's attending school near BB, Peggy's failure to arrive yet, and the value of an education for Peggy; send the boys to BB and BB will prepare them for a large school; Lucy's wedding; illness of St. George. Also includes a letter by Lucy M: H. Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia Family affairs.","Willy's illness; clothes for the boys. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to Lucy Barnes? The house is not done.","Beverly Barnes - \". . .all old maids can lecture on the instruction of children to a painful extent to married ladies, Beverly still proves a dutiful teachable child.. .\"; information about the activities of all family members.","BB's love for people and how feelings often \"discompose\"you; Margaret Tomlin's? feelings on how NWBB should come up here and not gander off with Miss S? to New York; cousin Coalter has lost her bridge and others are down in the area; James. N. is a devoted admirer of Fanny's.","Have you and George any work for BB; Cousin Lucy's health is improving; pray often for NWBB's happiness and have loved NWBB more than any being on earth with the exception of two; NWBB's future conduct toward Margaret Tomlin? and interpretive statement of Margaret's feeling toward NWBB.","Requests items to be purchased for BB, Judy, Lucy, Aunt Amy; \"Margaret Tomlin? sends her love to George and yourself.","BB has not sent shirts because of illness; news of Margaret Tomlin? and her journeys; BB requests items to be purchased. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Chericoke, Virginia, to \"Willy\"Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. requests items to be purchased.","\"stips\"? sent for Peg, Lucy, you two and the boys; write to us. Also includes a note by Lucy? ?, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia.","Pantaloons and clothing; horse that was left; Mama wants to visit Greenfield in July \u0026 Mama's health; the garden; please write, we have been mortified at your silence. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"My dear M\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes), Culpeper County, Virginia BB sends MWTB tea towels with Bret's? pantaloons coat; hope MWTB's health is improved; love to the \"dear little children\"and to Willy.","\"Margaret has a new beau but I do not think you need to dread him as a rival\"; the Ball in Richmond; has NWBB heard from home?","NWBB should take better care of his health; religious remarks; health news of family members; Bet is too busy to write.","LMB is glad MWB is attending to MWB's books and being a good child obedient to your parents and brothers; LMB is going to see MWB's Grand Mamma.","George made his appearance last night; LMB fears that Willy is offended; love to all.","LMHB saw Willy last night; what is the matter with Peg and Tomlin?; Judy, the children and St. George Coalter are all well; LMHB sent some things to all of you by Mr. Georges? Charles. Also includes a note by Lucy? M. H.? Barnes,, to \"Peggy\" (Margaret W. Barnes), Greenfield, Virginia. the want of paper compels me to write to MWB and your mother on the same paper; be a good child and take care of yourself; read your Bible and get a portion of it everyday.","LMHB has just returned from Chatham; want to know' if MWTB and family is dead or alive; LMHB is sending Willy's other shirt; why does Peggy not write to LMHB since LMHB has spent so much time instructing her?; all are well except Papa; Balsora and Fanny are at St. George's and Cousin Coalter dines with them today; love to all.","NWBB should not be so low spirited for \"surely a young man never had greater cause for a thankful heart than you,\" LMHB fear that if NWBB continues to be unhappy when he has so much that \"our kind heavenly Father should visit them with some heavy, but just punishment\"; Mama and Aunt Short have left us on a visit to Mrs. Allison; news of Balsora, Margaret, Judy, and Mama; the times are dull; do not be so tardy in answering letters; the girls all write with LMHB in best love to you and George. Also includes a note by Margaret W. Tomlin, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"Willy\" (Newman Williamson B. Barnes), Richmond, Virginia. goods requested.","Delighted to hear you and father are well; Uncle Coalter's illness and Aunt Judy's subsequent unhappiness; have George write and tell MWB about MWB's hen, chickens, and garden. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. pleased you two invalids are improving; glad to know Willy's prospect for corn is good.","MWB is homesick and desires to come home; MWB is concerned about Papa's illness and brother Bev's; news about Uncle Coalter and Aunt Judy, Aunt Balsora, and Aunt Lucy; love to Papa, Aunt Margaret, Uncle B. and MWB's little brothers. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, St. Georges home, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Family situations.","Aunt Mary and Cousin Nannie went up to see Col. Carrington; Uncle ? got MWTB's letter about Tomlin; Beverly seemed very happy when he was here last; Aunt Margaret Tomlin; news of activities and health of various family members; MWB's activities and travel plans; MWB sends love to all in family.","Fanny Braxton has been confined to her bed with violent toothache and pain in her face; arrangements for trip to Richmond; cold weather has arrived; Mrs. Bryan and the Bryan girls.","Instructions for staying well; the ice house repairs; family activities.","Instructions to \"Mama\"for staying well; mention of family visits and activities; illnesses of friends and family. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes, Chericoke, Virginia, to Balsora Barnes, Cousin Maria's distressful situation; MWB's quilt.","Aunt Judy's illness and circumstances surrounding the seriousness of the illness; MWB's concern over MWTB's poor health; family visits and activities.","Relates MWB's accident with knife and subsequent problems with the near loss of MWB's finger; activities and health news of family members.","Snow storm and its effects for all friends and relatives;' Beverley's trip to Wheeling; Jack and his report of activities at Chericoke.","Hybla house burned down and Armistead was only able to save a few things; Mattie ? has caught one of the first beaux in the state - Mr. Wilcox Brown; some of you write to MWB.","Health news of family members; MWB scolds MWTB about what MWTB writes in her letters asks MWTB to be more careful about who she talks about.","News of family activities and trips including visits to the Springs; mentions news of many family members.","Family news; Uncle Walker's new baby, John Walker.","Aunt Lucy has given a favorable account of TB and Walker in your studies; family ventures; Cousins Coalter and Janet are both sick; George looks better than MWB's seen him in a long time.","Cotton sent. Also includes a letter from Margaret W. Barnes to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes) a thank you note.","Recipe and brief news of NWTB's activities.","Instructions for repair of hat, request for knitting needles not sent as requested, and a list of desired goods to be purchased for MTB.","FBCB would have been glad for MWB to join FBCB here; Cousin William thinks that FBCB has had a nervous disorder; the treatments FBCB has enjoyed and FBCB is sure MWB's health requires it too; arrangements for MWB's stay in Bedford.","Ma's illness and FBCB's attempts to go and nurse her; arrival at \"Stanley\"and report of Ma's health; would like MWB to come - FBCB will nurse MWB too; family news; invitation for a visit to Bedford.","Elizabeth and BG have feeble health; Elizabeth went to the Warm Springs and came home because she became nervous there; report of Elizabeth, Will and John Walker's families.","Have sent NWBB a pair of socks. Also includes a letter by Judy H. Tomlin to \"Willy\" Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Hanover Town, Virginia. JHT apologizes for bad behavior on Tuesday evening.","Request for 'shoes to be made; surprised that NWBB did not see more of \"the girls\"while they were in Richmond.","News of JLS's poor health. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin? to \"Willy\" Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. request for cloth.","Christmas holidays - the visitors require the professors to lecture over the holidays and HBT must not miss any, therefore, he cannot spend Christmas with Margaret and brother Willy.","Circumstances surrounding the death of Sally and her mother's intense grief; Margaret is quite sick but the rest here are well.","Request for yard goods from Richmond; JHT looks forward to Willy's visit.","Requests extension of visiting period for \"Peg\"; news of Aunt Mary's health. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes, Stanley, Virginia, to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes), Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia request for MWTB to send some clothing for MWB's extended visit.","MWT has been ill; MWT will remain in Hanover one or two more weeks.","Yard goods requested.","Please send silk dress and fabric. Also includes a note by ? to ? Barnes ? Tomlin, . Janet sent Balsora something in a vial to rub her foot with.","Death of Mrs. B_ and circumstances surrounding situations; my baby seems poorly and so nervous; much obliged to MWB for your kind sympathy and affection; love to one and all.","Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes). Also includes a letter by Beverley D. Barnes to ?,","Ditchley.","Christ Church.","First poem is entitled \"A Royal Colloguing\"sp?. The second poem, begun after the completion of the first, is only a few lines, thus most likely incomplete."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Barnes family","Braxton family","Coulter family","Oliver family","Tomlinson family","Barnes, Margaret W. Tomlin","Barnes, Newman Williamson"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"names_coll_ssim":["Barnes family","Braxton family","Coulter family","Oliver family","Tomlinson family","Barnes, Margaret W. Tomlin","Barnes, Newman Williamson"],"famname_ssim":["Barnes family","Braxton family","Coulter family","Oliver family","Tomlinson family"],"persname_ssim":["Barnes, Margaret W. Tomlin","Barnes, Newman Williamson"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":249,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T14:01:03.394Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8624","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8624","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8624","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8624","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_8624.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Barnes Family Papers","title_ssm":["Barnes Family Papers"],"title_tesim":["Barnes Family Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1797-1926","1818-1875"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["1818-1875"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1797-1926"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["01/Mss. 39.1 B26","/repositories/2/resources/8624"],"text":["01/Mss. 39.1 B26","/repositories/2/resources/8624","Barnes Family Papers","Culpeper County (Va.)--History--19th century","Falmouth (Va.)--History--19th century","Fredericksburg (Va.)--History--19th century","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. 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.","Arrangement: The collection is arranged chronologically by date. Organization: This collection is organized into 9 series: 1. Correspondence, 1810-1829; 2. Correspondence, 1830-1849; 3. Correspondence, 1850-1869; 4. Correspondence, 1870-1930; 5. Correspondence, n.d.; 6. Envelopes; 7. Financial Papers; 8. Newspaper Clippings; and 9. Poetry.","The following genealogical information is known about the Barnes family. Margaret W. Tomlin and Newman Williamson B. Barnes had the following children: Margaret W., George B., Beverley, Robert Tomlin, Walker, and Lucy Ball. Newman Williamson B. Barnes had the following sisters: Lucy Barnes, Frances C. Barnes, and Balsora Barnes. Other genealogical materials can be found in the \"additional related material\" section. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:  .","Other Information:"," Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00029.frame","Additional genealogical information, the Tomlin Family Chart, and other materials related to this collection can be found under the Brown-Coalter-Tucker Papers (I and II), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."," Brown-Coalter-Tucker Papers (I and II), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. 1816-1839,1839-1929.Collection number: Mss. 65 B85 Group C and D.","Collection contains correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County, Virginia and to their daughter, Margaret W. Barnes. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families. Letters contain social and family news.","Disappointed in Newman Williamson B. Barnes's not writing; Lucy, Margaret Tomlin, and Balsora Barnes are at Fitzhugh's; have tried to fatten up Judy - Margaret has fattened considerably here; shirts are finished; everyone has been well except Aunt Short; love from Mama and the girls to NWBB and George.","Family's four week stay at the Wilderness and the one week visit of Major Jones and family; improvement of Mothers' health; some gentlemen of Fredericksburg serenaded this town last night.","Arrived at Frederick after a fatiguing journey; Lucy, Nancy, and LHO have been sick with ague and fever; LHO is taking children of deceased aunt to live with her ; the children are young and need counsel and advice. Also includes a letter by Lucy Barnes, Frederick, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. LB's health.","The girls have gone off to spend the day with Mr. and Miss Bassett amusing themselves with toys; should be very much pleased to be agreeably surprised with NWBB's company; had a letter from Lucy saying all are in good health.","Behavior on Sunday has been the subject of the neighbor's discussion since NWBB's departure; has been said that JHT is ill-mannered and rude. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Retreat, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. family news.","Asks why he has not written his brother; received a letter from Lucy, mentions NWBB's debt, FCB will pay at any time; Mr. George has commenced his school. Also includes a note by Lucy? H.? Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia","Balsora E. Barnes is taking a course in grammar and is pleased with studies - geography, history, chemistry, rhetoric, composition; Cousin Williamson's wedding to Lucy.","JHT is returning book, please send another; relates gossipy items in a religious text.","Laments that Mama chose FCB for the topic of her last letter; family news items; wedding at Elwood.","BB's writing capabilities and responsibilities. Also includes a letter by Frances C. Barnes, Union Academy, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. arrival of daughter in family. Also includes incomplete letter.","Family news; Betty is a bright student of Wilson's; we should help make the remainder of our parents' years happy and contented; NWBB's interest in a woman - marriage? - don't keep it a secret.","Reveals feelings toward women and expresses his dislike for women to have a freedom of expression.","Repair of goods and purchase of goods; an invitation to visit Sunday next.","Purchase of goods requested and money sent.","Purchase of goods requested and money sent; looking forward to NWBB's visit.","Will give ten dollars to repair the shop; purchase of goods requested.","Arrived in Richmond, NWBB not married yet; other news of activities since being in Virginia.","Received NWBB's letter; waiting for NWBB's visit; request for shoes.","Have been slighted by NWBB not spending any time with us this fall; the fever has been raging in Fredericksburg but not so badly here; travel plans. Also includes a letter by Lucy Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Hanover Town, Virginia. have not been in a humor to write; everyone is in good health; anxious to see NWBB.","Sarah P. Oliver was taken by a fatal chill - instructions on the building of the coffin.","The loss of LHO's daughter, Sarah, and LHO's deep sense of grief.","MWT's religious convictions and health. Also includes a note by Judy H. Tomlin, Chericoke, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. thanks NWBB for what he sent.","News of the ball; when is NWBB coming over?; please bring goods from Richmond and the 3rd volume of the French Revolution.","Arrangements for next Sunday. Also includes a letter by Mary W. Braxton, Chericoke, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia.","Have inclination to write to NWBB as frequently as ever; family news, please send several items.","Please tell MWT the whereabouts of the Theatre in Richmond; why hasn't NWBB written to some of us; all of us are very well.","Health of family and neighborhood; newsy items about family.","Newsy items about the activities of friends and relatives including the Pages, Jones, Coalters, Peytons, Brookes,...; mentions good water and pure water in Falmouth.","Fabrics sent and items made from fabrics; please send more flannel, silk, and shoes.","Health news; activities of family members and neighbors.","MWT states her affection toward Willy and how MWT desires his presence.","NWBB's visit to Falmouth. Also includes a letter by Lucy? H. ? Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. NWBB's forthcoming visit; LHB places an order for 3 books.","Thanks NWBB for the books, ring, and calico - values the ring most highly; request for additional goods from Richmond.","Lucy Tomlin's health; JHT's effort to make reconciliation with NWBB.","Cousin Lucy's health; forget and forgive for the slight NWBB received on his last visit here. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Retreat, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. NWBB's next visit will be a welcomed one.","Lucy's improved health; another comment on the argument that occurred that \"memorable day - more was construed than was intended.\"","Sister Lucy's health; NWBB's next visit; orders items from Richmond - fabric, paste-boards, comb, etc.","Family news - Lucy's health, NWBB's next visit.","Lucy's health; John Tayloe Lomax has been appointed a professor in the University at Charlottesville; flood waters have devastated bridges and other things here; orders fabric from Richmond.","Family news - everyone has been sick.","Explanation of Vawles' absence when NWBB visited; will make arrangements to pay back money owed.","News of family and activities in the town.","Health of family members, declares love for George; send news of MWTB's children.","BB is anxious to get down; shall send Peg a bedstead; news of family activities; had hoped the chimney would be done before BB got home and had wanted to paint the dining room; Willy's visit.","Have not written because of sore eyes.","Why has MWTB not written; future visit; business at hand is keeping RWT busy; type of \"gal\" that is for RWT.","Health and weather; CB is looking forward to getting home from trip.","Birth of MWTB's son and inquires of MWTB's health since; family news; illness of servants and death of one child.","Health of family members; death of Benedict Crump - thrown from a horse; we're in need of rain and in the midst of a terrible drought.","Sorry to hear MWTB's been sick; MWB's happiness depends a great deal on that of her sisters and brothers; it has not been pleasant since the girls left home; health of family members.","Willy's illness and health news of other family members.","MWB is worried about MWTB's health; MWB understands that MWTB is coming to Falmouth to see Dr. Buck about her spine; insists that MWTB stay with MWB. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Chericoke, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. family news.","Message to Willy; interested in MWTB's health; love matters affairs - RWT has asked two or three demoiselles to be Mrs. Tomlin but all have declined; will see MWTB on the eve of the 13th.","RWF's opinions of physicians of the day - compares RWT's profession with that of the physician; gives news of a lass' marriage.","Cousin St. George Tucker Coalter's health and Nancy's; family news. Also includes a letter by Judy H. Tomlin Coalter, Chericoke, Virginia, to Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia Mr. Coalter's health; instructions on what to do at the house. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to ?.","Sending the horse over for NWBB to please take care of; would like to visit but health is poor.","Health of all; domestic responsibilities - made pickles, catsup, etc; the drought is gone; describes MWB's dear little baby; family affairs.","\"Peg's\"education; family matters. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to \"Peg\"Margaret W. Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia. advice on going to school.","LO's looking forward to a visit from MWTB and the children.","Health of family members; news of the wedding of MWB's daughter, Lucy? Braxton, to Dr. Charles Cocke - with details of dresses, food, etc.","Events of MWB's trip to Vaucluse ?; family news concerning health; well-being and death of members.","Lucy and Charles Cocke had a baby boy who died in its birth, thankful for Lucy's survival, she is slowly recovering; news about crops and animals; general family news.","News of family members; Harry has bachelor quarters and desires a wife; RWT is living within seven miles of Natural Bridge -Mountainous district is prettier than Tidewater; RWT is having a celibacy existence.","Celebration of the Queen of May day. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Jeffersonton P. O., Culpeper County, Virginia. additional details about the celebration of the Queen of May day.","Why hasn't MWTB written; MWB wants to know news of health of MWTB and NWBB; tells of Aunt Lucy's and MWB's colds; Aunt Fanny and sister's visit to Fredericksburg to hear Doctor Plu? and Doctor Alexander preach.","MWTB's health and possible remedies for a cure.","Winter's effect on people; RWT's attitude toward romance.","News of events in Falmouth; reminds NWBB to come and get her at Christmas.","MWB's anniversary and Armistead's 16th birthday; accounts of Armistead's visit home; family news including Lucy's health and Robert's forthcoming marriage.","All are well except Grandma; General Harrison passed through Fredericksburg; hope MWB will profit by your good advice; Aunt Balsora will teach the boys this spring and summer.","Family news; Robert's marriage; MWB fell down the potato hole and bruised herself; health of family members.","Sister Margaret's health and RWT's work with a survey of the New River.","MWB is worried about MWTB's going home safely; Papa's health and George and Bevy's health; sent MWTB's shoes by Dennis.","Death of Mr. Brooke; sends messages to family members.","MWTB's improvement in health; RWT's work load is great since RWT is the only one left in the Engineer Corps, the salary is greatly earned, have had no servant this year, have endured many hardships, RWT is resigning at the end of the year.","Events surrounding the death of Charles Braxton; MWB is concerned about MWTB's poor health; Mrs. Henry Webb had a bad fall; Lucy is in a family way again; Robert sent the accounts to Mr. Green; Aunt Short's death.","Glad to know MWTB's baby is in good health; have had a great deal of company all winter; health news of family members.","MWTB's next visit to Falmouth and what to bring. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia. MWTB's next visit.","Have heard news of MWTB's new baby and MWTB's good health; health news of family.","Inquires about Papa's mouth and Walker's face; news of activities in Falmouth. Also includes a letter by Lucy M. Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpepper County, Virginia Baby Walker and winter vegetables.","Whig meetings with detailed commentary.","News of the Christmas season. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia Christmas and family news.","Obligations to study at school; health of friends and family; wishes that Bev and George could go to some good school.","Weather; health of family; activities of family.","Health of family members and servants; weather; sewing projects; activities of family members.","Health of family members; general family news.","Disagreement between William Braxton and Dr. Perkins and subsequent entanglements; news and health of family members; regrets MWTB's recent death of a child.","News of activities since school broke.","Have had a \"neurologic ? affection of one side of my face and head\"- has affected sight; health of family members; size of children in family; weather conditions.","Also includes letters by Margaret W. Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes) and \"Papa\" (Newman Williamson B. Barnes), Greenfield, Virginia.","Trip to Richmond and shopping expedition; death of Mrs. Dick Smith; delight in visiting them all; brief family news.","Aunt Lucy has gone to Chatham; Aunt Fanny and Bal had been sick; MWB has a dreadful cold; Cousin Nancy and Olivia are going to Chericoke; Bev and Walker send their love; how is George?; MWB supposes that Tomlin and Bev have to do their work.","MWB is not at Chericoke but is staying with Aunt Judy here Presley; glad to know that George has entirely recovered; MWB likes staying here Presley instead of Chericoke because there isn't so much fuss and foolishness here Presley about dressing and having dinner parties - both of which MWB detests; having a quiet time with Uncle Robert and Aunt Judy; social occasions and visits by relatives; Aunt Judy is an \"all powerful woman\"; Tomlin's badness has not been mentioned to MWB; Uncle Robert and Harrison wish they could see you, but MWB does not believe a word of it.","Wonders why BDB has not heard from MWTB or sister Margaret W. Barnes since BDB left; weather here is either snowy or rainy; general news of family and their health; death of Mr. Brook.","Traveling plans; death of Mr. Brooke; sunny weather; other family news.","Land purchase; family health news.","The winter has been filled with much sickness and death; affectionate comments on household slave, Louisa, catching on fire and dying 2 days later; Judy is making a trip to Gloucester; Walker's health has not been good this winter; Fanny looks remarkably well; heard there was a chance that MWTB might move near Falmouth - is it true?; who has written to whom; Dr. Braxton has had much to weigh him down - which has always affected his health; love to MWTB, Willy, and the boys.","Glad TB's in school; behave and learn your lessons; the family misses you.","Apologetic towards JHTC and MWTB's lack of corresponding; rejoice in MWTB's being at Pinewood; JHTC's boys have left for the University; events of Christmas day; JHTC's given up all hopes of getting the place you heard of; love to Peggy, Willy, the boys, and the girls in Falmouth; St. sends his love to all.","Scolds GBB for the lack of information in GBB's letter; Tomlin's starting school; messages to Mama and Papa; MWB sends love to the servants; requests George to get people to write to MWB.","Copied at Clifton, Virginia. Original dated 1797 February 27. JWT fulfills a promise to send a composition or two - one about whether a republican government can exist and the other whether the circumstances of the Romans justified them in their first dictator; JWT looks for money requested every day. Also includes a letter, undated, by W. Tomlin to John W. Tomlin, William \u0026 Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. received your composition which am well pleased with; irate discussion of JW's responsibility as a son to WT including JWT's extravagance with money, JWT 's education, etc.","Glad to hear of George's improving health; \"it seems to be rather hard for you all to understand me BDB.. .\" - BDB has received only kindness and affection from Uncle Harrison? -\"as for the others with the exception of Armistead Braxton it has always been exactly the reverse.. .\" ; news of people staying at the Richmond House Mrs. Gordon talked of you and Papa incessantly; monetary value of Mrs. Gilsom's? farm compared to the value per acre of Pinewood.","MWB apologizes for long silence; Balsora is here Chericoke but is sick now; family news; MWB is behind in domestic chores; MWB's feelings toward children and anxiety caused by them; MWB's loneliness.","MWB was annoyed by the short letter; describes a temperance spring and surrounding countryside; implies the family should visit Mama more.","Arrangements to have MWB's shawl sent back to MWB.","Thanks for BB's last letter; Mary's ? wedding is next week - entertainment for the, wedding; the fair and all its animals; studying is important to VBC.","Beautiful spring-like weather; Mr. Webb has remarried and has brought home the new wife - events upon their arrival; general family information.","BDB is disappointed that MWTB has only written BDB one letter; news items about sister Margaret W. Barnes and Walker and a recent attendance of a church service; love to all at home and in Falmouth - servants and all.","BDB is sending goods to NWBB via railroad; if George is better he should come down for he could get \"an excellent situation\" the cholera is playing \"mischief\" here Richmond.","BDB hopes George will regain his health and strength; complains about BDB's tremendous appetite; sorry to hear of Walker's poor health; Mr. Braxton's barns with a whole crop of wheat burned and Braxton had no insurance; Betsy Braxton is being courted by Mr. Galt the American sculptor; BDB wants to see entire family and invites family down - assures family that the cholera is \"nearly all gone.\"","Explanation for BDB's having not written sooner and why has the family not written to BDB?; after writing Uncle Harrison? please write and let BDB know what MWTB wrote for BDB doesn't want things to be kept a secret from him.","Armistead Braxton and Henrietta are to be married - details about marriage attendants and proposed activities; marriage of Powhatan Moncure and Dora Ashby - BDB wants news to be confirmed; the penitentiary burned down 7 December 1854 .","BDB is sending goods to his MWTB via train; relates amusing incident pertaining to the song \"Hug Eye\" reports yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth.","Long description of weather conditions in Chericoke and the resulting circumstances; MWB expresses feelings of unhappiness for those she loves who have suffered; limited work being done on plantation; sleighing activities; fire in Ingleside kitchen and servants lost nearly all their belongings, but it seems that all are well; family health and news items.","BDB has sent items to MWTB that were requested in yesterday's letter via Stephen; BDB lists most items sent and requests acknowledgment of receipt from Aunt Fanny.","Departure of the girls from the house, their expected activities, and MWB's loneliness; proposed activities of MWB during the summer; reports illness of two people; requests news of MWTB's family.","Peggy's visit and her subsequent stranded situation on the other side of the river because of the ice; health news of several family members; the boat was destroyed and a new one was built; the progress of the garden; activities of family members.","BDB's severe illness and recovery; Walker's serious illness; Aunt Lucy's improving health; the birth of a daughter to Uncle Robert named Edmonia Fitzhugh ? Tomlin; tell Sister Margaret W. Barnes that John Lawson is courting Bunny Braxton again.","Birth of a daughter to Henrietta and circumstances thereafter; schedule of forth coming events including trips, Judy's birthday party, and winter projects; serious condition of Judy at Retreat, Virginia and of her expected death.","Burdensome task of housekeeping and that work is done more out of duty than pleasure \"as the members of the family drop off\"; notes how changes have occurred over the last five years; trip to see Betty - reports on Betty's health, happiness, husband, and their fine living standards; message to Balsora via Margaret Barnes; invitation for MWTB and Peggy to spend the winter and see how Judy H. Tomlin Coalter's health has improved; events upon home coming.","Feel most kindly for George in all his sufferings; will see MWTB tomorrow.","MWB understands that Peggy is to make a \"profession of Religion\"soon; hopes to spend several weeks with MWTB; mentions weather conditions; reports in length the illness of several family members; visits of friends and family; inquires about Fanny and Betty.","Expresses sorrow to \"Margaret\"MWTB and \"Peggy\"MWB in their loss of Newman Williamson B. Barnes; MWB's forth-coming visit to see MWTB and \"Peggy\"MWB; sends love and prayers and sympathy. Also includes a letter by Aunt L?, Baltimore, Md., to Balsora Barnes, .","William Braxton has given up the estate for MWB to manage; with no one to manage MWTB's place MWTB should rent out and hire out the servants; news of family and friends.","Expresses sorrow to MWTB in the loss of a son, George, and glory in his heavenly home with the blessed savior; gives religious support in MWB's sympathy.","Expresses sympathy in MWTB's loss of a son; Betty's confinement and the circumstances concerning the baby; understands from home that all are healthy but Virginia; Fanny Bland is to be married in the fall; activities in Baltimore - church too far away to attend; general family news. Also includes a letter written on the envelope by ?, to \"Ma.\"","Letter is written by Nannie for Harrison Barnes, MWTB's brother, because, HB has a lack of time to spare; HB knows of a position in Richmond that would be wonderful for Tomlin and encourages MWTB to use her influence to get Tomlin to apply: NO expresses her sympathy for MWTB's afflictions; the Springs have been deserted - only about 100 people on the grounds; thinks the position for Tomlin in Richmond is as an assistant with the Postmaster.","Circumstances are such that MWB cannot visit MWTB at this time because Betty is not doing well, but the baby is fine - Betty needs help so as to not become ill; Fanny is to be married this fall and must have assistance in the preparations of the wedding.","Mr. Dallam is ill and has been in bed for more than 3 weeks; have no idea when leaving will be possible; health of Betty and baby and Mrs. Dallam ; Fanny is to be married 11 November and Fanny Coalter is to be married 10 November to a Mr. Brown.","FBCB thinks of MWB often and would like to be of some service; MWB has seen so much trouble; religious information and instruction; FBCB has a good husband; Mama's, Judy H. Tomlin Coalter, health is not good.","Health of Aunt Judy; family activities; summer garden -strawberries and potatoes.","RTB has not gotten a position and sees no chances; please send pants and other summer clothing; RTB inquires about \"the poor old place\"and what Mr. Moncure has done with it: instructions to sod the graves. Also includes a letter by Peggy Tomlin?, Stanly, Virginia, to \"Peggy\"Margaret W. Barnes, . don't worry about Walker for he's fine; information about the family and everyone's health and activities.","A continuation of the pants as mentioned in 20 May 1859 letter; pleased the graves have been sodded; has \"the place\"been sold yet?; please write to RTB.","Please write to RTB; suffering with the heat and would like another coat; wants to know how family is and how the \"black people are\" hope \" they have not sold my dear old home yet\" mentions grave sodding and \"how much I have thought of them\".","Particulars of mother's, Judy H. Tomlin Coalter's last illness and her eventual death.","Glad to know your health and spirits are improving; reminiscences of younger days and activities; looking forward to your visit and bring cousin Balsora Barnes; questions about health of family members.","Anxious to see family and to know what Walker is doing; worn out, cannot eat, and is as ragged as a buzzard; needs warm pants and new shirts; some of you please write; allowed no exercise except drilling - \"Oh that it may now be over is my prayer \"; sends love to everyone black and white.","Activities during war period; information about Elega Willcox?, her husband's running away to avoid the war, and circumstances surrounding the situation.","Two things FBCB forgot to tell MWB yesterday so is writing again; Peronneau was quite sick; instructions for task to be done by MWB; news of friends and relatives.","Financial concerns.","Continuation of financial concerns; status on goods and vegetables; shoes may be sent by mail. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to postman? mailing of package to Frances Bland Coalter Brown.","Arrangements for future visit.","Illness of Johnnie ? and Caroline and current departure plans.","Instructions on daily living; write to Cousin Nannie for she is sick.","Confinement because of illness and lack of ability to do things for self, instructions on daily living; take care of WB's sister, Lizzy.","Written over a period of five days telling of WBB's daily activities at Aunt Fanny's and at school; Thompson's birthday.","Aunt Fanny and Mammy Jane's health; hymn next Sunday; new books. Also includes a letter by Frances Bland Coalter Brown to \"Peggy\"(Margaret W. Barnes). FBCB's return home from N.Y. ? via sleeping car; Miss Jane's great care of the boys during absence; FBCB's much improved health situation.","Sorry to hear WBB had been sick; will send money for hymn book; do what Aunt Peggy and Aunt Fannie tell WBB; write and tell how Thompson is; take care of Aunt Peggy for she is always sick.","Visit of Mrs. Coleman and Mrs. Grinnan and arrival of Cousin Lucy Brent; Aunt Fanny gave Thompson and WBB holiday during everyone's visit; illness and departure of a dining room servant; sends love to Uncle Tomlin, Aunt Marcella?, and Uncle Walker.","Religious Directions to WBB.","Estate of Lelia B. Cocke. Disapproval of the partitioning of Bremo and desire to have the personal property appraised by an expert.","Departure of guests; birth of a daughter to Mrs. Braxton; getting Armistead ready for school up in Caroline; Walker's illness; love to family members. Also includes a note by Lucy ?, Chericoke, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Jeffersonton, Culpepper County, Virginia. \"Cousin Lucy\" sends love to all and particularly to Peg.","A scolding from BB about Beverly's not taking proper care of his health.","Pantaloons are finished; please write; how is GB's Mama's health? Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to \"Peg\" (Margaret W. Barnes), why has MWB not written?; questions about fowls and Peg's studies; love to MWB's Mama, Papa, and brother.","MWB's trip home; George's arrival.","Lucy's illness; arrangements for BB's trip home; hopelessness of Jack Bryan's illness and surrounding circumstances; general family news.","Wedding and plans concerning travel and visit.","Soreness in BB's hands and difficulties encountered. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to George Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia why has GB forgotten BB?; declaration of love for George. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to Beverly Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia why has BB not written? Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia You are a fine boy.","Exchange of presents; BB hopes that the boys can stay for the winter for BB was beginning to teach them to write. Also includes a letter by Lucy H. Barnes to \"Willy\"Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. Willy's children and their education; health of family members. Also includes a letter by Frances C. Barnes to Lucy Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. sewing and quinces.","St. George's serious illness; will send clothes for the boys; can't see at all.","Peggy's attending school near BB, Peggy's failure to arrive yet, and the value of an education for Peggy; send the boys to BB and BB will prepare them for a large school; Lucy's wedding; illness of St. George. Also includes a letter by Lucy M: H. Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia Family affairs.","Willy's illness; clothes for the boys. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to Lucy Barnes? The house is not done.","Beverly Barnes - \". . .all old maids can lecture on the instruction of children to a painful extent to married ladies, Beverly still proves a dutiful teachable child.. .\"; information about the activities of all family members.","BB's love for people and how feelings often \"discompose\"you; Margaret Tomlin's? feelings on how NWBB should come up here and not gander off with Miss S? to New York; cousin Coalter has lost her bridge and others are down in the area; James. N. is a devoted admirer of Fanny's.","Have you and George any work for BB; Cousin Lucy's health is improving; pray often for NWBB's happiness and have loved NWBB more than any being on earth with the exception of two; NWBB's future conduct toward Margaret Tomlin? and interpretive statement of Margaret's feeling toward NWBB.","Requests items to be purchased for BB, Judy, Lucy, Aunt Amy; \"Margaret Tomlin? sends her love to George and yourself.","BB has not sent shirts because of illness; news of Margaret Tomlin? and her journeys; BB requests items to be purchased. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Chericoke, Virginia, to \"Willy\"Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. requests items to be purchased.","\"stips\"? sent for Peg, Lucy, you two and the boys; write to us. Also includes a note by Lucy? ?, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia.","Pantaloons and clothing; horse that was left; Mama wants to visit Greenfield in July \u0026 Mama's health; the garden; please write, we have been mortified at your silence. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"My dear M\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes), Culpeper County, Virginia BB sends MWTB tea towels with Bret's? pantaloons coat; hope MWTB's health is improved; love to the \"dear little children\"and to Willy.","\"Margaret has a new beau but I do not think you need to dread him as a rival\"; the Ball in Richmond; has NWBB heard from home?","NWBB should take better care of his health; religious remarks; health news of family members; Bet is too busy to write.","LMB is glad MWB is attending to MWB's books and being a good child obedient to your parents and brothers; LMB is going to see MWB's Grand Mamma.","George made his appearance last night; LMB fears that Willy is offended; love to all.","LMHB saw Willy last night; what is the matter with Peg and Tomlin?; Judy, the children and St. George Coalter are all well; LMHB sent some things to all of you by Mr. Georges? Charles. Also includes a note by Lucy? M. H.? Barnes,, to \"Peggy\" (Margaret W. Barnes), Greenfield, Virginia. the want of paper compels me to write to MWB and your mother on the same paper; be a good child and take care of yourself; read your Bible and get a portion of it everyday.","LMHB has just returned from Chatham; want to know' if MWTB and family is dead or alive; LMHB is sending Willy's other shirt; why does Peggy not write to LMHB since LMHB has spent so much time instructing her?; all are well except Papa; Balsora and Fanny are at St. George's and Cousin Coalter dines with them today; love to all.","NWBB should not be so low spirited for \"surely a young man never had greater cause for a thankful heart than you,\" LMHB fear that if NWBB continues to be unhappy when he has so much that \"our kind heavenly Father should visit them with some heavy, but just punishment\"; Mama and Aunt Short have left us on a visit to Mrs. Allison; news of Balsora, Margaret, Judy, and Mama; the times are dull; do not be so tardy in answering letters; the girls all write with LMHB in best love to you and George. Also includes a note by Margaret W. Tomlin, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"Willy\" (Newman Williamson B. Barnes), Richmond, Virginia. goods requested.","Delighted to hear you and father are well; Uncle Coalter's illness and Aunt Judy's subsequent unhappiness; have George write and tell MWB about MWB's hen, chickens, and garden. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. pleased you two invalids are improving; glad to know Willy's prospect for corn is good.","MWB is homesick and desires to come home; MWB is concerned about Papa's illness and brother Bev's; news about Uncle Coalter and Aunt Judy, Aunt Balsora, and Aunt Lucy; love to Papa, Aunt Margaret, Uncle B. and MWB's little brothers. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, St. Georges home, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Family situations.","Aunt Mary and Cousin Nannie went up to see Col. Carrington; Uncle ? got MWTB's letter about Tomlin; Beverly seemed very happy when he was here last; Aunt Margaret Tomlin; news of activities and health of various family members; MWB's activities and travel plans; MWB sends love to all in family.","Fanny Braxton has been confined to her bed with violent toothache and pain in her face; arrangements for trip to Richmond; cold weather has arrived; Mrs. Bryan and the Bryan girls.","Instructions for staying well; the ice house repairs; family activities.","Instructions to \"Mama\"for staying well; mention of family visits and activities; illnesses of friends and family. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes, Chericoke, Virginia, to Balsora Barnes, Cousin Maria's distressful situation; MWB's quilt.","Aunt Judy's illness and circumstances surrounding the seriousness of the illness; MWB's concern over MWTB's poor health; family visits and activities.","Relates MWB's accident with knife and subsequent problems with the near loss of MWB's finger; activities and health news of family members.","Snow storm and its effects for all friends and relatives;' Beverley's trip to Wheeling; Jack and his report of activities at Chericoke.","Hybla house burned down and Armistead was only able to save a few things; Mattie ? has caught one of the first beaux in the state - Mr. Wilcox Brown; some of you write to MWB.","Health news of family members; MWB scolds MWTB about what MWTB writes in her letters asks MWTB to be more careful about who she talks about.","News of family activities and trips including visits to the Springs; mentions news of many family members.","Family news; Uncle Walker's new baby, John Walker.","Aunt Lucy has given a favorable account of TB and Walker in your studies; family ventures; Cousins Coalter and Janet are both sick; George looks better than MWB's seen him in a long time.","Cotton sent. Also includes a letter from Margaret W. Barnes to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes) a thank you note.","Recipe and brief news of NWTB's activities.","Instructions for repair of hat, request for knitting needles not sent as requested, and a list of desired goods to be purchased for MTB.","FBCB would have been glad for MWB to join FBCB here; Cousin William thinks that FBCB has had a nervous disorder; the treatments FBCB has enjoyed and FBCB is sure MWB's health requires it too; arrangements for MWB's stay in Bedford.","Ma's illness and FBCB's attempts to go and nurse her; arrival at \"Stanley\"and report of Ma's health; would like MWB to come - FBCB will nurse MWB too; family news; invitation for a visit to Bedford.","Elizabeth and BG have feeble health; Elizabeth went to the Warm Springs and came home because she became nervous there; report of Elizabeth, Will and John Walker's families.","Have sent NWBB a pair of socks. Also includes a letter by Judy H. Tomlin to \"Willy\" Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Hanover Town, Virginia. JHT apologizes for bad behavior on Tuesday evening.","Request for 'shoes to be made; surprised that NWBB did not see more of \"the girls\"while they were in Richmond.","News of JLS's poor health. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin? to \"Willy\" Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. request for cloth.","Christmas holidays - the visitors require the professors to lecture over the holidays and HBT must not miss any, therefore, he cannot spend Christmas with Margaret and brother Willy.","Circumstances surrounding the death of Sally and her mother's intense grief; Margaret is quite sick but the rest here are well.","Request for yard goods from Richmond; JHT looks forward to Willy's visit.","Requests extension of visiting period for \"Peg\"; news of Aunt Mary's health. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes, Stanley, Virginia, to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes), Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia request for MWTB to send some clothing for MWB's extended visit.","MWT has been ill; MWT will remain in Hanover one or two more weeks.","Yard goods requested.","Please send silk dress and fabric. Also includes a note by ? to ? Barnes ? Tomlin, . Janet sent Balsora something in a vial to rub her foot with.","Death of Mrs. B_ and circumstances surrounding situations; my baby seems poorly and so nervous; much obliged to MWB for your kind sympathy and affection; love to one and all.","Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes). Also includes a letter by Beverley D. Barnes to ?,","Ditchley.","Christ Church.","First poem is entitled \"A Royal Colloguing\"sp?. The second poem, begun after the completion of the first, is only a few lines, thus most likely incomplete.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Barnes family","Braxton family","Coulter family","Oliver family","Tomlinson family","Barnes, Margaret W. Tomlin","Barnes, Newman Williamson","English"],"unitid_tesim":["01/Mss. 39.1 B26","/repositories/2/resources/8624"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Barnes Family Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Barnes Family Papers"],"collection_ssim":["Barnes Family Papers"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift: 247 items, 10/16/1938."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Culpeper County (Va.)--History--19th century","Falmouth (Va.)--History--19th century","Fredericksburg (Va.)--History--19th century"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Culpeper County (Va.)--History--19th century","Falmouth (Va.)--History--19th century","Fredericksburg (Va.)--History--19th century"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["247.00 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["247.00 Linear Feet"],"date_range_isim":[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],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. 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Barnes. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families. Letters contain social and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisappointed in Newman Williamson B. Barnes's not writing; Lucy, Margaret Tomlin, and Balsora Barnes are at Fitzhugh's; have tried to fatten up Judy - Margaret has fattened considerably here; shirts are finished; everyone has been well except Aunt Short; love from Mama and the girls to NWBB and George.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily's four week stay at the Wilderness and the one week visit of Major Jones and family; improvement of Mothers' health; some gentlemen of Fredericksburg serenaded this town last night.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived at Frederick after a fatiguing journey; Lucy, Nancy, and LHO have been sick with ague and fever; LHO is taking children of deceased aunt to live with her ; the children are young and need counsel and advice. Also includes a letter by Lucy Barnes, Frederick, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. LB's health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe girls have gone off to spend the day with Mr. and Miss Bassett amusing themselves with toys; should be very much pleased to be agreeably surprised with NWBB's company; had a letter from Lucy saying all are in good health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBehavior on Sunday has been the subject of the neighbor's discussion since NWBB's departure; has been said that JHT is ill-mannered and rude. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Retreat, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks why he has not written his brother; received a letter from Lucy, mentions NWBB's debt, FCB will pay at any time; Mr. George has commenced his school. Also includes a note by Lucy? H.? Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBalsora E. Barnes is taking a course in grammar and is pleased with studies - geography, history, chemistry, rhetoric, composition; Cousin Williamson's wedding to Lucy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJHT is returning book, please send another; relates gossipy items in a religious text.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaments that Mama chose FCB for the topic of her last letter; family news items; wedding at Elwood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBB's writing capabilities and responsibilities. Also includes a letter by Frances C. Barnes, Union Academy, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. arrival of daughter in family. Also includes incomplete letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; Betty is a bright student of Wilson's; we should help make the remainder of our parents' years happy and contented; NWBB's interest in a woman - marriage? - don't keep it a secret.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReveals feelings toward women and expresses his dislike for women to have a freedom of expression.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepair of goods and purchase of goods; an invitation to visit Sunday next.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of goods requested and money sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of goods requested and money sent; looking forward to NWBB's visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill give ten dollars to repair the shop; purchase of goods requested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrived in Richmond, NWBB not married yet; other news of activities since being in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived NWBB's letter; waiting for NWBB's visit; request for shoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave been slighted by NWBB not spending any time with us this fall; the fever has been raging in Fredericksburg but not so badly here; travel plans. Also includes a letter by Lucy Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Hanover Town, Virginia. have not been in a humor to write; everyone is in good health; anxious to see NWBB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah P. Oliver was taken by a fatal chill - instructions on the building of the coffin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe loss of LHO's daughter, Sarah, and LHO's deep sense of grief.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWT's religious convictions and health. Also includes a note by Judy H. Tomlin, Chericoke, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. thanks NWBB for what he sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of the ball; when is NWBB coming over?; please bring goods from Richmond and the 3rd volume of the French Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangements for next Sunday. Also includes a letter by Mary W. Braxton, Chericoke, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave inclination to write to NWBB as frequently as ever; family news, please send several items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlease tell MWT the whereabouts of the Theatre in Richmond; why hasn't NWBB written to some of us; all of us are very well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of family and neighborhood; newsy items about family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewsy items about the activities of friends and relatives including the Pages, Jones, Coalters, Peytons, Brookes,...; mentions good water and pure water in Falmouth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFabrics sent and items made from fabrics; please send more flannel, silk, and shoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth news; activities of family members and neighbors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWT states her affection toward Willy and how MWT desires his presence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNWBB's visit to Falmouth. Also includes a letter by Lucy? H. ? Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. NWBB's forthcoming visit; LHB places an order for 3 books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks NWBB for the books, ring, and calico - values the ring most highly; request for additional goods from Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Tomlin's health; JHT's effort to make reconciliation with NWBB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCousin Lucy's health; forget and forgive for the slight NWBB received on his last visit here. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Retreat, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. NWBB's next visit will be a welcomed one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy's improved health; another comment on the argument that occurred that \"memorable day - more was construed than was intended.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSister Lucy's health; NWBB's next visit; orders items from Richmond - fabric, paste-boards, comb, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news - Lucy's health, NWBB's next visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy's health; John Tayloe Lomax has been appointed a professor in the University at Charlottesville; flood waters have devastated bridges and other things here; orders fabric from Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news - everyone has been sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExplanation of Vawles' absence when NWBB visited; will make arrangements to pay back money owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of family and activities in the town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of family members, declares love for George; send news of MWTB's children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBB is anxious to get down; shall send Peg a bedstead; news of family activities; had hoped the chimney would be done before BB got home and had wanted to paint the dining room; Willy's visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave not written because of sore eyes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhy has MWTB not written; future visit; business at hand is keeping RWT busy; type of \"gal\" that is for RWT.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth and weather; CB is looking forward to getting home from trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBirth of MWTB's son and inquires of MWTB's health since; family news; illness of servants and death of one child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of family members; death of Benedict Crump - thrown from a horse; we're in need of rain and in the midst of a terrible drought.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry to hear MWTB's been sick; MWB's happiness depends a great deal on that of her sisters and brothers; it has not been pleasant since the girls left home; health of family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilly's illness and health news of other family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB is worried about MWTB's health; MWB understands that MWTB is coming to Falmouth to see Dr. Buck about her spine; insists that MWTB stay with MWB. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Chericoke, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMessage to Willy; interested in MWTB's health; love matters affairs - RWT has asked two or three demoiselles to be Mrs. Tomlin but all have declined; will see MWTB on the eve of the 13th.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRWF's opinions of physicians of the day - compares RWT's profession with that of the physician; gives news of a lass' marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCousin St. George Tucker Coalter's health and Nancy's; family news. Also includes a letter by Judy H. Tomlin Coalter, Chericoke, Virginia, to Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia Mr. Coalter's health; instructions on what to do at the house. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to ?.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending the horse over for NWBB to please take care of; would like to visit but health is poor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of all; domestic responsibilities - made pickles, catsup, etc; the drought is gone; describes MWB's dear little baby; family affairs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Peg's\"education; family matters. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to \"Peg\"Margaret W. Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia. advice on going to school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLO's looking forward to a visit from MWTB and the children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of family members; news of the wedding of MWB's daughter, Lucy? Braxton, to Dr. Charles Cocke - with details of dresses, food, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvents of MWB's trip to Vaucluse ?; family news concerning health; well-being and death of members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy and Charles Cocke had a baby boy who died in its birth, thankful for Lucy's survival, she is slowly recovering; news about crops and animals; general family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of family members; Harry has bachelor quarters and desires a wife; RWT is living within seven miles of Natural Bridge -Mountainous district is prettier than Tidewater; RWT is having a celibacy existence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCelebration of the Queen of May day. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Jeffersonton P. O., Culpeper County, Virginia. additional details about the celebration of the Queen of May day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhy hasn't MWTB written; MWB wants to know news of health of MWTB and NWBB; tells of Aunt Lucy's and MWB's colds; Aunt Fanny and sister's visit to Fredericksburg to hear Doctor Plu? and Doctor Alexander preach.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWTB's health and possible remedies for a cure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWinter's effect on people; RWT's attitude toward romance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of events in Falmouth; reminds NWBB to come and get her at Christmas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB's anniversary and Armistead's 16th birthday; accounts of Armistead's visit home; family news including Lucy's health and Robert's forthcoming marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll are well except Grandma; General Harrison passed through Fredericksburg; hope MWB will profit by your good advice; Aunt Balsora will teach the boys this spring and summer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; Robert's marriage; MWB fell down the potato hole and bruised herself; health of family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSister Margaret's health and RWT's work with a survey of the New River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB is worried about MWTB's going home safely; Papa's health and George and Bevy's health; sent MWTB's shoes by Dennis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mr. Brooke; sends messages to family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWTB's improvement in health; RWT's work load is great since RWT is the only one left in the Engineer Corps, the salary is greatly earned, have had no servant this year, have endured many hardships, RWT is resigning at the end of the year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvents surrounding the death of Charles Braxton; MWB is concerned about MWTB's poor health; Mrs. Henry Webb had a bad fall; Lucy is in a family way again; Robert sent the accounts to Mr. Green; Aunt Short's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to know MWTB's baby is in good health; have had a great deal of company all winter; health news of family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWTB's next visit to Falmouth and what to bring. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia. MWTB's next visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave heard news of MWTB's new baby and MWTB's good health; health news of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about Papa's mouth and Walker's face; news of activities in Falmouth. Also includes a letter by Lucy M. Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpepper County, Virginia Baby Walker and winter vegetables.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhig meetings with detailed commentary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of the Christmas season. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia Christmas and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObligations to study at school; health of friends and family; wishes that Bev and George could go to some good school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeather; health of family; activities of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of family members and servants; weather; sewing projects; activities of family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of family members; general family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisagreement between William Braxton and Dr. Perkins and subsequent entanglements; news and health of family members; regrets MWTB's recent death of a child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of activities since school broke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave had a \"neurologic ? affection of one side of my face and head\"- has affected sight; health of family members; size of children in family; weather conditions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes letters by Margaret W. Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes) and \"Papa\" (Newman Williamson B. Barnes), Greenfield, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrip to Richmond and shopping expedition; death of Mrs. Dick Smith; delight in visiting them all; brief family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAunt Lucy has gone to Chatham; Aunt Fanny and Bal had been sick; MWB has a dreadful cold; Cousin Nancy and Olivia are going to Chericoke; Bev and Walker send their love; how is George?; MWB supposes that Tomlin and Bev have to do their work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB is not at Chericoke but is staying with Aunt Judy here Presley; glad to know that George has entirely recovered; MWB likes staying here Presley instead of Chericoke because there isn't so much fuss and foolishness here Presley about dressing and having dinner parties - both of which MWB detests; having a quiet time with Uncle Robert and Aunt Judy; social occasions and visits by relatives; Aunt Judy is an \"all powerful woman\"; Tomlin's badness has not been mentioned to MWB; Uncle Robert and Harrison wish they could see you, but MWB does not believe a word of it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWonders why BDB has not heard from MWTB or sister Margaret W. Barnes since BDB left; weather here is either snowy or rainy; general news of family and their health; death of Mr. Brook.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTraveling plans; death of Mr. Brooke; sunny weather; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand purchase; family health news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe winter has been filled with much sickness and death; affectionate comments on household slave, Louisa, catching on fire and dying 2 days later; Judy is making a trip to Gloucester; Walker's health has not been good this winter; Fanny looks remarkably well; heard there was a chance that MWTB might move near Falmouth - is it true?; who has written to whom; Dr. Braxton has had much to weigh him down - which has always affected his health; love to MWTB, Willy, and the boys.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad TB's in school; behave and learn your lessons; the family misses you.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologetic towards JHTC and MWTB's lack of corresponding; rejoice in MWTB's being at Pinewood; JHTC's boys have left for the University; events of Christmas day; JHTC's given up all hopes of getting the place you heard of; love to Peggy, Willy, the boys, and the girls in Falmouth; St. sends his love to all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScolds GBB for the lack of information in GBB's letter; Tomlin's starting school; messages to Mama and Papa; MWB sends love to the servants; requests George to get people to write to MWB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopied at Clifton, Virginia. Original dated 1797 February 27. JWT fulfills a promise to send a composition or two - one about whether a republican government can exist and the other whether the circumstances of the Romans justified them in their first dictator; JWT looks for money requested every day. Also includes a letter, undated, by W. Tomlin to John W. Tomlin, William \u0026amp; Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. received your composition which am well pleased with; irate discussion of JW's responsibility as a son to WT including JWT's extravagance with money, JWT 's education, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to hear of George's improving health; \"it seems to be rather hard for you all to understand me BDB.. .\" - BDB has received only kindness and affection from Uncle Harrison? -\"as for the others with the exception of Armistead Braxton it has always been exactly the reverse.. .\" ; news of people staying at the Richmond House Mrs. Gordon talked of you and Papa incessantly; monetary value of Mrs. Gilsom's? farm compared to the value per acre of Pinewood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB apologizes for long silence; Balsora is here Chericoke but is sick now; family news; MWB is behind in domestic chores; MWB's feelings toward children and anxiety caused by them; MWB's loneliness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB was annoyed by the short letter; describes a temperance spring and surrounding countryside; implies the family should visit Mama more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangements to have MWB's shawl sent back to MWB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for BB's last letter; Mary's ? wedding is next week - entertainment for the, wedding; the fair and all its animals; studying is important to VBC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeautiful spring-like weather; Mr. Webb has remarried and has brought home the new wife - events upon their arrival; general family information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBDB is disappointed that MWTB has only written BDB one letter; news items about sister Margaret W. Barnes and Walker and a recent attendance of a church service; love to all at home and in Falmouth - servants and all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBDB is sending goods to NWBB via railroad; if George is better he should come down for he could get \"an excellent situation\" the cholera is playing \"mischief\" here Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBDB hopes George will regain his health and strength; complains about BDB's tremendous appetite; sorry to hear of Walker's poor health; Mr. Braxton's barns with a whole crop of wheat burned and Braxton had no insurance; Betsy Braxton is being courted by Mr. Galt the American sculptor; BDB wants to see entire family and invites family down - assures family that the cholera is \"nearly all gone.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExplanation for BDB's having not written sooner and why has the family not written to BDB?; after writing Uncle Harrison? please write and let BDB know what MWTB wrote for BDB doesn't want things to be kept a secret from him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArmistead Braxton and Henrietta are to be married - details about marriage attendants and proposed activities; marriage of Powhatan Moncure and Dora Ashby - BDB wants news to be confirmed; the penitentiary burned down 7 December 1854 .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBDB is sending goods to his MWTB via train; relates amusing incident pertaining to the song \"Hug Eye\" reports yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLong description of weather conditions in Chericoke and the resulting circumstances; MWB expresses feelings of unhappiness for those she loves who have suffered; limited work being done on plantation; sleighing activities; fire in Ingleside kitchen and servants lost nearly all their belongings, but it seems that all are well; family health and news items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBDB has sent items to MWTB that were requested in yesterday's letter via Stephen; BDB lists most items sent and requests acknowledgment of receipt from Aunt Fanny.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeparture of the girls from the house, their expected activities, and MWB's loneliness; proposed activities of MWB during the summer; reports illness of two people; requests news of MWTB's family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeggy's visit and her subsequent stranded situation on the other side of the river because of the ice; health news of several family members; the boat was destroyed and a new one was built; the progress of the garden; activities of family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBDB's severe illness and recovery; Walker's serious illness; Aunt Lucy's improving health; the birth of a daughter to Uncle Robert named Edmonia Fitzhugh ? Tomlin; tell Sister Margaret W. Barnes that John Lawson is courting Bunny Braxton again.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBirth of a daughter to Henrietta and circumstances thereafter; schedule of forth coming events including trips, Judy's birthday party, and winter projects; serious condition of Judy at Retreat, Virginia and of her expected death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBurdensome task of housekeeping and that work is done more out of duty than pleasure \"as the members of the family drop off\"; notes how changes have occurred over the last five years; trip to see Betty - reports on Betty's health, happiness, husband, and their fine living standards; message to Balsora via Margaret Barnes; invitation for MWTB and Peggy to spend the winter and see how Judy H. Tomlin Coalter's health has improved; events upon home coming.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFeel most kindly for George in all his sufferings; will see MWTB tomorrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB understands that Peggy is to make a \"profession of Religion\"soon; hopes to spend several weeks with MWTB; mentions weather conditions; reports in length the illness of several family members; visits of friends and family; inquires about Fanny and Betty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses sorrow to \"Margaret\"MWTB and \"Peggy\"MWB in their loss of Newman Williamson B. Barnes; MWB's forth-coming visit to see MWTB and \"Peggy\"MWB; sends love and prayers and sympathy. Also includes a letter by Aunt L?, Baltimore, Md., to Balsora Barnes, .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Braxton has given up the estate for MWB to manage; with no one to manage MWTB's place MWTB should rent out and hire out the servants; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses sorrow to MWTB in the loss of a son, George, and glory in his heavenly home with the blessed savior; gives religious support in MWB's sympathy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses sympathy in MWTB's loss of a son; Betty's confinement and the circumstances concerning the baby; understands from home that all are healthy but Virginia; Fanny Bland is to be married in the fall; activities in Baltimore - church too far away to attend; general family news. Also includes a letter written on the envelope by ?, to \"Ma.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter is written by Nannie for Harrison Barnes, MWTB's brother, because, HB has a lack of time to spare; HB knows of a position in Richmond that would be wonderful for Tomlin and encourages MWTB to use her influence to get Tomlin to apply: NO expresses her sympathy for MWTB's afflictions; the Springs have been deserted - only about 100 people on the grounds; thinks the position for Tomlin in Richmond is as an assistant with the Postmaster.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCircumstances are such that MWB cannot visit MWTB at this time because Betty is not doing well, but the baby is fine - Betty needs help so as to not become ill; Fanny is to be married this fall and must have assistance in the preparations of the wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Dallam is ill and has been in bed for more than 3 weeks; have no idea when leaving will be possible; health of Betty and baby and Mrs. Dallam ; Fanny is to be married 11 November and Fanny Coalter is to be married 10 November to a Mr. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFBCB thinks of MWB often and would like to be of some service; MWB has seen so much trouble; religious information and instruction; FBCB has a good husband; Mama's, Judy H. Tomlin Coalter, health is not good.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of Aunt Judy; family activities; summer garden -strawberries and potatoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRTB has not gotten a position and sees no chances; please send pants and other summer clothing; RTB inquires about \"the poor old place\"and what Mr. Moncure has done with it: instructions to sod the graves. Also includes a letter by Peggy Tomlin?, Stanly, Virginia, to \"Peggy\"Margaret W. Barnes, . don't worry about Walker for he's fine; information about the family and everyone's health and activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA continuation of the pants as mentioned in 20 May 1859 letter; pleased the graves have been sodded; has \"the place\"been sold yet?; please write to RTB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlease write to RTB; suffering with the heat and would like another coat; wants to know how family is and how the \"black people are\" hope \" they have not sold my dear old home yet\" mentions grave sodding and \"how much I have thought of them\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParticulars of mother's, Judy H. Tomlin Coalter's last illness and her eventual death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad to know your health and spirits are improving; reminiscences of younger days and activities; looking forward to your visit and bring cousin Balsora Barnes; questions about health of family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnxious to see family and to know what Walker is doing; worn out, cannot eat, and is as ragged as a buzzard; needs warm pants and new shirts; some of you please write; allowed no exercise except drilling - \"Oh that it may now be over is my prayer \"; sends love to everyone black and white.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eActivities during war period; information about Elega Willcox?, her husband's running away to avoid the war, and circumstances surrounding the situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo things FBCB forgot to tell MWB yesterday so is writing again; Peronneau was quite sick; instructions for task to be done by MWB; news of friends and relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial concerns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContinuation of financial concerns; status on goods and vegetables; shoes may be sent by mail. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to postman? mailing of package to Frances Bland Coalter Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangements for future visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllness of Johnnie ? and Caroline and current departure plans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions on daily living; write to Cousin Nannie for she is sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConfinement because of illness and lack of ability to do things for self, instructions on daily living; take care of WB's sister, Lizzy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten over a period of five days telling of WBB's daily activities at Aunt Fanny's and at school; Thompson's birthday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAunt Fanny and Mammy Jane's health; hymn next Sunday; new books. Also includes a letter by Frances Bland Coalter Brown to \"Peggy\"(Margaret W. Barnes). FBCB's return home from N.Y. ? via sleeping car; Miss Jane's great care of the boys during absence; FBCB's much improved health situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry to hear WBB had been sick; will send money for hymn book; do what Aunt Peggy and Aunt Fannie tell WBB; write and tell how Thompson is; take care of Aunt Peggy for she is always sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisit of Mrs. Coleman and Mrs. Grinnan and arrival of Cousin Lucy Brent; Aunt Fanny gave Thompson and WBB holiday during everyone's visit; illness and departure of a dining room servant; sends love to Uncle Tomlin, Aunt Marcella?, and Uncle Walker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReligious Directions to WBB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEstate of Lelia B. Cocke. Disapproval of the partitioning of Bremo and desire to have the personal property appraised by an expert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeparture of guests; birth of a daughter to Mrs. Braxton; getting Armistead ready for school up in Caroline; Walker's illness; love to family members. Also includes a note by Lucy ?, Chericoke, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Jeffersonton, Culpepper County, Virginia. \"Cousin Lucy\" sends love to all and particularly to Peg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA scolding from BB about Beverly's not taking proper care of his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePantaloons are finished; please write; how is GB's Mama's health? Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to \"Peg\" (Margaret W. Barnes), why has MWB not written?; questions about fowls and Peg's studies; love to MWB's Mama, Papa, and brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB's trip home; George's arrival.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy's illness; arrangements for BB's trip home; hopelessness of Jack Bryan's illness and surrounding circumstances; general family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWedding and plans concerning travel and visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSoreness in BB's hands and difficulties encountered. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to George Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia why has GB forgotten BB?; declaration of love for George. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to Beverly Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia why has BB not written? Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia You are a fine boy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExchange of presents; BB hopes that the boys can stay for the winter for BB was beginning to teach them to write. Also includes a letter by Lucy H. Barnes to \"Willy\"Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. Willy's children and their education; health of family members. Also includes a letter by Frances C. Barnes to Lucy Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. sewing and quinces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George's serious illness; will send clothes for the boys; can't see at all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeggy's attending school near BB, Peggy's failure to arrive yet, and the value of an education for Peggy; send the boys to BB and BB will prepare them for a large school; Lucy's wedding; illness of St. George. Also includes a letter by Lucy M: H. Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia Family affairs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilly's illness; clothes for the boys. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to Lucy Barnes? The house is not done.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeverly Barnes - \". . .all old maids can lecture on the instruction of children to a painful extent to married ladies, Beverly still proves a dutiful teachable child.. .\"; information about the activities of all family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBB's love for people and how feelings often \"discompose\"you; Margaret Tomlin's? feelings on how NWBB should come up here and not gander off with Miss S? to New York; cousin Coalter has lost her bridge and others are down in the area; James. N. is a devoted admirer of Fanny's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave you and George any work for BB; Cousin Lucy's health is improving; pray often for NWBB's happiness and have loved NWBB more than any being on earth with the exception of two; NWBB's future conduct toward Margaret Tomlin? and interpretive statement of Margaret's feeling toward NWBB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests items to be purchased for BB, Judy, Lucy, Aunt Amy; \"Margaret Tomlin? sends her love to George and yourself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBB has not sent shirts because of illness; news of Margaret Tomlin? and her journeys; BB requests items to be purchased. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Chericoke, Virginia, to \"Willy\"Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. requests items to be purchased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"stips\"? sent for Peg, Lucy, you two and the boys; write to us. Also includes a note by Lucy? ?, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePantaloons and clothing; horse that was left; Mama wants to visit Greenfield in July \u0026amp; Mama's health; the garden; please write, we have been mortified at your silence. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"My dear M\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes), Culpeper County, Virginia BB sends MWTB tea towels with Bret's? pantaloons coat; hope MWTB's health is improved; love to the \"dear little children\"and to Willy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Margaret has a new beau but I do not think you need to dread him as a rival\"; the Ball in Richmond; has NWBB heard from home?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNWBB should take better care of his health; religious remarks; health news of family members; Bet is too busy to write.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLMB is glad MWB is attending to MWB's books and being a good child obedient to your parents and brothers; LMB is going to see MWB's Grand Mamma.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge made his appearance last night; LMB fears that Willy is offended; love to all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLMHB saw Willy last night; what is the matter with Peg and Tomlin?; Judy, the children and St. George Coalter are all well; LMHB sent some things to all of you by Mr. Georges? Charles. Also includes a note by Lucy? M. H.? Barnes,, to \"Peggy\" (Margaret W. Barnes), Greenfield, Virginia. the want of paper compels me to write to MWB and your mother on the same paper; be a good child and take care of yourself; read your Bible and get a portion of it everyday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLMHB has just returned from Chatham; want to know' if MWTB and family is dead or alive; LMHB is sending Willy's other shirt; why does Peggy not write to LMHB since LMHB has spent so much time instructing her?; all are well except Papa; Balsora and Fanny are at St. George's and Cousin Coalter dines with them today; love to all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNWBB should not be so low spirited for \"surely a young man never had greater cause for a thankful heart than you,\" LMHB fear that if NWBB continues to be unhappy when he has so much that \"our kind heavenly Father should visit them with some heavy, but just punishment\"; Mama and Aunt Short have left us on a visit to Mrs. Allison; news of Balsora, Margaret, Judy, and Mama; the times are dull; do not be so tardy in answering letters; the girls all write with LMHB in best love to you and George. Also includes a note by Margaret W. Tomlin, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"Willy\" (Newman Williamson B. Barnes), Richmond, Virginia. goods requested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelighted to hear you and father are well; Uncle Coalter's illness and Aunt Judy's subsequent unhappiness; have George write and tell MWB about MWB's hen, chickens, and garden. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. pleased you two invalids are improving; glad to know Willy's prospect for corn is good.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWB is homesick and desires to come home; MWB is concerned about Papa's illness and brother Bev's; news about Uncle Coalter and Aunt Judy, Aunt Balsora, and Aunt Lucy; love to Papa, Aunt Margaret, Uncle B. and MWB's little brothers. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, St. Georges home, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Family situations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAunt Mary and Cousin Nannie went up to see Col. Carrington; Uncle ? got MWTB's letter about Tomlin; Beverly seemed very happy when he was here last; Aunt Margaret Tomlin; news of activities and health of various family members; MWB's activities and travel plans; MWB sends love to all in family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Braxton has been confined to her bed with violent toothache and pain in her face; arrangements for trip to Richmond; cold weather has arrived; Mrs. Bryan and the Bryan girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions for staying well; the ice house repairs; family activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions to \"Mama\"for staying well; mention of family visits and activities; illnesses of friends and family. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes, Chericoke, Virginia, to Balsora Barnes, Cousin Maria's distressful situation; MWB's quilt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAunt Judy's illness and circumstances surrounding the seriousness of the illness; MWB's concern over MWTB's poor health; family visits and activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates MWB's accident with knife and subsequent problems with the near loss of MWB's finger; activities and health news of family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSnow storm and its effects for all friends and relatives;' Beverley's trip to Wheeling; Jack and his report of activities at Chericoke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHybla house burned down and Armistead was only able to save a few things; Mattie ? has caught one of the first beaux in the state - Mr. Wilcox Brown; some of you write to MWB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth news of family members; MWB scolds MWTB about what MWTB writes in her letters asks MWTB to be more careful about who she talks about.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of family activities and trips including visits to the Springs; mentions news of many family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; Uncle Walker's new baby, John Walker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAunt Lucy has given a favorable account of TB and Walker in your studies; family ventures; Cousins Coalter and Janet are both sick; George looks better than MWB's seen him in a long time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCotton sent. Also includes a letter from Margaret W. Barnes to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes) a thank you note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecipe and brief news of NWTB's activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions for repair of hat, request for knitting needles not sent as requested, and a list of desired goods to be purchased for MTB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFBCB would have been glad for MWB to join FBCB here; Cousin William thinks that FBCB has had a nervous disorder; the treatments FBCB has enjoyed and FBCB is sure MWB's health requires it too; arrangements for MWB's stay in Bedford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMa's illness and FBCB's attempts to go and nurse her; arrival at \"Stanley\"and report of Ma's health; would like MWB to come - FBCB will nurse MWB too; family news; invitation for a visit to Bedford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth and BG have feeble health; Elizabeth went to the Warm Springs and came home because she became nervous there; report of Elizabeth, Will and John Walker's families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave sent NWBB a pair of socks. Also includes a letter by Judy H. Tomlin to \"Willy\" Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Hanover Town, Virginia. JHT apologizes for bad behavior on Tuesday evening.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for 'shoes to be made; surprised that NWBB did not see more of \"the girls\"while they were in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of JLS's poor health. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin? to \"Willy\" Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. request for cloth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChristmas holidays - the visitors require the professors to lecture over the holidays and HBT must not miss any, therefore, he cannot spend Christmas with Margaret and brother Willy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCircumstances surrounding the death of Sally and her mother's intense grief; Margaret is quite sick but the rest here are well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for yard goods from Richmond; JHT looks forward to Willy's visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests extension of visiting period for \"Peg\"; news of Aunt Mary's health. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes, Stanley, Virginia, to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes), Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia request for MWTB to send some clothing for MWB's extended visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMWT has been ill; MWT will remain in Hanover one or two more weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eYard goods requested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlease send silk dress and fabric. Also includes a note by ? to ? Barnes ? Tomlin, . Janet sent Balsora something in a vial to rub her foot with.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs. B_ and circumstances surrounding situations; my baby seems poorly and so nervous; much obliged to MWB for your kind sympathy and affection; love to one and all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes). Also includes a letter by Beverley D. Barnes to ?,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDitchley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChrist Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst poem is entitled \"A Royal Colloguing\"sp?. 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Barnes. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families. Letters contain social and family news.","Disappointed in Newman Williamson B. Barnes's not writing; Lucy, Margaret Tomlin, and Balsora Barnes are at Fitzhugh's; have tried to fatten up Judy - Margaret has fattened considerably here; shirts are finished; everyone has been well except Aunt Short; love from Mama and the girls to NWBB and George.","Family's four week stay at the Wilderness and the one week visit of Major Jones and family; improvement of Mothers' health; some gentlemen of Fredericksburg serenaded this town last night.","Arrived at Frederick after a fatiguing journey; Lucy, Nancy, and LHO have been sick with ague and fever; LHO is taking children of deceased aunt to live with her ; the children are young and need counsel and advice. Also includes a letter by Lucy Barnes, Frederick, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. LB's health.","The girls have gone off to spend the day with Mr. and Miss Bassett amusing themselves with toys; should be very much pleased to be agreeably surprised with NWBB's company; had a letter from Lucy saying all are in good health.","Behavior on Sunday has been the subject of the neighbor's discussion since NWBB's departure; has been said that JHT is ill-mannered and rude. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Retreat, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. family news.","Asks why he has not written his brother; received a letter from Lucy, mentions NWBB's debt, FCB will pay at any time; Mr. George has commenced his school. Also includes a note by Lucy? H.? Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia","Balsora E. Barnes is taking a course in grammar and is pleased with studies - geography, history, chemistry, rhetoric, composition; Cousin Williamson's wedding to Lucy.","JHT is returning book, please send another; relates gossipy items in a religious text.","Laments that Mama chose FCB for the topic of her last letter; family news items; wedding at Elwood.","BB's writing capabilities and responsibilities. Also includes a letter by Frances C. Barnes, Union Academy, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. arrival of daughter in family. Also includes incomplete letter.","Family news; Betty is a bright student of Wilson's; we should help make the remainder of our parents' years happy and contented; NWBB's interest in a woman - marriage? - don't keep it a secret.","Reveals feelings toward women and expresses his dislike for women to have a freedom of expression.","Repair of goods and purchase of goods; an invitation to visit Sunday next.","Purchase of goods requested and money sent.","Purchase of goods requested and money sent; looking forward to NWBB's visit.","Will give ten dollars to repair the shop; purchase of goods requested.","Arrived in Richmond, NWBB not married yet; other news of activities since being in Virginia.","Received NWBB's letter; waiting for NWBB's visit; request for shoes.","Have been slighted by NWBB not spending any time with us this fall; the fever has been raging in Fredericksburg but not so badly here; travel plans. Also includes a letter by Lucy Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Hanover Town, Virginia. have not been in a humor to write; everyone is in good health; anxious to see NWBB.","Sarah P. Oliver was taken by a fatal chill - instructions on the building of the coffin.","The loss of LHO's daughter, Sarah, and LHO's deep sense of grief.","MWT's religious convictions and health. Also includes a note by Judy H. Tomlin, Chericoke, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. thanks NWBB for what he sent.","News of the ball; when is NWBB coming over?; please bring goods from Richmond and the 3rd volume of the French Revolution.","Arrangements for next Sunday. Also includes a letter by Mary W. Braxton, Chericoke, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia.","Have inclination to write to NWBB as frequently as ever; family news, please send several items.","Please tell MWT the whereabouts of the Theatre in Richmond; why hasn't NWBB written to some of us; all of us are very well.","Health of family and neighborhood; newsy items about family.","Newsy items about the activities of friends and relatives including the Pages, Jones, Coalters, Peytons, Brookes,...; mentions good water and pure water in Falmouth.","Fabrics sent and items made from fabrics; please send more flannel, silk, and shoes.","Health news; activities of family members and neighbors.","MWT states her affection toward Willy and how MWT desires his presence.","NWBB's visit to Falmouth. Also includes a letter by Lucy? H. ? Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. NWBB's forthcoming visit; LHB places an order for 3 books.","Thanks NWBB for the books, ring, and calico - values the ring most highly; request for additional goods from Richmond.","Lucy Tomlin's health; JHT's effort to make reconciliation with NWBB.","Cousin Lucy's health; forget and forgive for the slight NWBB received on his last visit here. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Retreat, Virginia, to Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. NWBB's next visit will be a welcomed one.","Lucy's improved health; another comment on the argument that occurred that \"memorable day - more was construed than was intended.\"","Sister Lucy's health; NWBB's next visit; orders items from Richmond - fabric, paste-boards, comb, etc.","Family news - Lucy's health, NWBB's next visit.","Lucy's health; John Tayloe Lomax has been appointed a professor in the University at Charlottesville; flood waters have devastated bridges and other things here; orders fabric from Richmond.","Family news - everyone has been sick.","Explanation of Vawles' absence when NWBB visited; will make arrangements to pay back money owed.","News of family and activities in the town.","Health of family members, declares love for George; send news of MWTB's children.","BB is anxious to get down; shall send Peg a bedstead; news of family activities; had hoped the chimney would be done before BB got home and had wanted to paint the dining room; Willy's visit.","Have not written because of sore eyes.","Why has MWTB not written; future visit; business at hand is keeping RWT busy; type of \"gal\" that is for RWT.","Health and weather; CB is looking forward to getting home from trip.","Birth of MWTB's son and inquires of MWTB's health since; family news; illness of servants and death of one child.","Health of family members; death of Benedict Crump - thrown from a horse; we're in need of rain and in the midst of a terrible drought.","Sorry to hear MWTB's been sick; MWB's happiness depends a great deal on that of her sisters and brothers; it has not been pleasant since the girls left home; health of family members.","Willy's illness and health news of other family members.","MWB is worried about MWTB's health; MWB understands that MWTB is coming to Falmouth to see Dr. Buck about her spine; insists that MWTB stay with MWB. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Chericoke, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. family news.","Message to Willy; interested in MWTB's health; love matters affairs - RWT has asked two or three demoiselles to be Mrs. Tomlin but all have declined; will see MWTB on the eve of the 13th.","RWF's opinions of physicians of the day - compares RWT's profession with that of the physician; gives news of a lass' marriage.","Cousin St. George Tucker Coalter's health and Nancy's; family news. Also includes a letter by Judy H. Tomlin Coalter, Chericoke, Virginia, to Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia Mr. Coalter's health; instructions on what to do at the house. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to ?.","Sending the horse over for NWBB to please take care of; would like to visit but health is poor.","Health of all; domestic responsibilities - made pickles, catsup, etc; the drought is gone; describes MWB's dear little baby; family affairs.","\"Peg's\"education; family matters. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to \"Peg\"Margaret W. Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia. advice on going to school.","LO's looking forward to a visit from MWTB and the children.","Health of family members; news of the wedding of MWB's daughter, Lucy? Braxton, to Dr. Charles Cocke - with details of dresses, food, etc.","Events of MWB's trip to Vaucluse ?; family news concerning health; well-being and death of members.","Lucy and Charles Cocke had a baby boy who died in its birth, thankful for Lucy's survival, she is slowly recovering; news about crops and animals; general family news.","News of family members; Harry has bachelor quarters and desires a wife; RWT is living within seven miles of Natural Bridge -Mountainous district is prettier than Tidewater; RWT is having a celibacy existence.","Celebration of the Queen of May day. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Jeffersonton P. O., Culpeper County, Virginia. additional details about the celebration of the Queen of May day.","Why hasn't MWTB written; MWB wants to know news of health of MWTB and NWBB; tells of Aunt Lucy's and MWB's colds; Aunt Fanny and sister's visit to Fredericksburg to hear Doctor Plu? and Doctor Alexander preach.","MWTB's health and possible remedies for a cure.","Winter's effect on people; RWT's attitude toward romance.","News of events in Falmouth; reminds NWBB to come and get her at Christmas.","MWB's anniversary and Armistead's 16th birthday; accounts of Armistead's visit home; family news including Lucy's health and Robert's forthcoming marriage.","All are well except Grandma; General Harrison passed through Fredericksburg; hope MWB will profit by your good advice; Aunt Balsora will teach the boys this spring and summer.","Family news; Robert's marriage; MWB fell down the potato hole and bruised herself; health of family members.","Sister Margaret's health and RWT's work with a survey of the New River.","MWB is worried about MWTB's going home safely; Papa's health and George and Bevy's health; sent MWTB's shoes by Dennis.","Death of Mr. Brooke; sends messages to family members.","MWTB's improvement in health; RWT's work load is great since RWT is the only one left in the Engineer Corps, the salary is greatly earned, have had no servant this year, have endured many hardships, RWT is resigning at the end of the year.","Events surrounding the death of Charles Braxton; MWB is concerned about MWTB's poor health; Mrs. Henry Webb had a bad fall; Lucy is in a family way again; Robert sent the accounts to Mr. Green; Aunt Short's death.","Glad to know MWTB's baby is in good health; have had a great deal of company all winter; health news of family members.","MWTB's next visit to Falmouth and what to bring. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia. MWTB's next visit.","Have heard news of MWTB's new baby and MWTB's good health; health news of family.","Inquires about Papa's mouth and Walker's face; news of activities in Falmouth. Also includes a letter by Lucy M. Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpepper County, Virginia Baby Walker and winter vegetables.","Whig meetings with detailed commentary.","News of the Christmas season. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia Christmas and family news.","Obligations to study at school; health of friends and family; wishes that Bev and George could go to some good school.","Weather; health of family; activities of family.","Health of family members and servants; weather; sewing projects; activities of family members.","Health of family members; general family news.","Disagreement between William Braxton and Dr. Perkins and subsequent entanglements; news and health of family members; regrets MWTB's recent death of a child.","News of activities since school broke.","Have had a \"neurologic ? affection of one side of my face and head\"- has affected sight; health of family members; size of children in family; weather conditions.","Also includes letters by Margaret W. Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes) and \"Papa\" (Newman Williamson B. Barnes), Greenfield, Virginia.","Trip to Richmond and shopping expedition; death of Mrs. Dick Smith; delight in visiting them all; brief family news.","Aunt Lucy has gone to Chatham; Aunt Fanny and Bal had been sick; MWB has a dreadful cold; Cousin Nancy and Olivia are going to Chericoke; Bev and Walker send their love; how is George?; MWB supposes that Tomlin and Bev have to do their work.","MWB is not at Chericoke but is staying with Aunt Judy here Presley; glad to know that George has entirely recovered; MWB likes staying here Presley instead of Chericoke because there isn't so much fuss and foolishness here Presley about dressing and having dinner parties - both of which MWB detests; having a quiet time with Uncle Robert and Aunt Judy; social occasions and visits by relatives; Aunt Judy is an \"all powerful woman\"; Tomlin's badness has not been mentioned to MWB; Uncle Robert and Harrison wish they could see you, but MWB does not believe a word of it.","Wonders why BDB has not heard from MWTB or sister Margaret W. Barnes since BDB left; weather here is either snowy or rainy; general news of family and their health; death of Mr. Brook.","Traveling plans; death of Mr. Brooke; sunny weather; other family news.","Land purchase; family health news.","The winter has been filled with much sickness and death; affectionate comments on household slave, Louisa, catching on fire and dying 2 days later; Judy is making a trip to Gloucester; Walker's health has not been good this winter; Fanny looks remarkably well; heard there was a chance that MWTB might move near Falmouth - is it true?; who has written to whom; Dr. Braxton has had much to weigh him down - which has always affected his health; love to MWTB, Willy, and the boys.","Glad TB's in school; behave and learn your lessons; the family misses you.","Apologetic towards JHTC and MWTB's lack of corresponding; rejoice in MWTB's being at Pinewood; JHTC's boys have left for the University; events of Christmas day; JHTC's given up all hopes of getting the place you heard of; love to Peggy, Willy, the boys, and the girls in Falmouth; St. sends his love to all.","Scolds GBB for the lack of information in GBB's letter; Tomlin's starting school; messages to Mama and Papa; MWB sends love to the servants; requests George to get people to write to MWB.","Copied at Clifton, Virginia. Original dated 1797 February 27. JWT fulfills a promise to send a composition or two - one about whether a republican government can exist and the other whether the circumstances of the Romans justified them in their first dictator; JWT looks for money requested every day. Also includes a letter, undated, by W. Tomlin to John W. Tomlin, William \u0026 Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. received your composition which am well pleased with; irate discussion of JW's responsibility as a son to WT including JWT's extravagance with money, JWT 's education, etc.","Glad to hear of George's improving health; \"it seems to be rather hard for you all to understand me BDB.. .\" - BDB has received only kindness and affection from Uncle Harrison? -\"as for the others with the exception of Armistead Braxton it has always been exactly the reverse.. .\" ; news of people staying at the Richmond House Mrs. Gordon talked of you and Papa incessantly; monetary value of Mrs. Gilsom's? farm compared to the value per acre of Pinewood.","MWB apologizes for long silence; Balsora is here Chericoke but is sick now; family news; MWB is behind in domestic chores; MWB's feelings toward children and anxiety caused by them; MWB's loneliness.","MWB was annoyed by the short letter; describes a temperance spring and surrounding countryside; implies the family should visit Mama more.","Arrangements to have MWB's shawl sent back to MWB.","Thanks for BB's last letter; Mary's ? wedding is next week - entertainment for the, wedding; the fair and all its animals; studying is important to VBC.","Beautiful spring-like weather; Mr. Webb has remarried and has brought home the new wife - events upon their arrival; general family information.","BDB is disappointed that MWTB has only written BDB one letter; news items about sister Margaret W. Barnes and Walker and a recent attendance of a church service; love to all at home and in Falmouth - servants and all.","BDB is sending goods to NWBB via railroad; if George is better he should come down for he could get \"an excellent situation\" the cholera is playing \"mischief\" here Richmond.","BDB hopes George will regain his health and strength; complains about BDB's tremendous appetite; sorry to hear of Walker's poor health; Mr. Braxton's barns with a whole crop of wheat burned and Braxton had no insurance; Betsy Braxton is being courted by Mr. Galt the American sculptor; BDB wants to see entire family and invites family down - assures family that the cholera is \"nearly all gone.\"","Explanation for BDB's having not written sooner and why has the family not written to BDB?; after writing Uncle Harrison? please write and let BDB know what MWTB wrote for BDB doesn't want things to be kept a secret from him.","Armistead Braxton and Henrietta are to be married - details about marriage attendants and proposed activities; marriage of Powhatan Moncure and Dora Ashby - BDB wants news to be confirmed; the penitentiary burned down 7 December 1854 .","BDB is sending goods to his MWTB via train; relates amusing incident pertaining to the song \"Hug Eye\" reports yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth.","Long description of weather conditions in Chericoke and the resulting circumstances; MWB expresses feelings of unhappiness for those she loves who have suffered; limited work being done on plantation; sleighing activities; fire in Ingleside kitchen and servants lost nearly all their belongings, but it seems that all are well; family health and news items.","BDB has sent items to MWTB that were requested in yesterday's letter via Stephen; BDB lists most items sent and requests acknowledgment of receipt from Aunt Fanny.","Departure of the girls from the house, their expected activities, and MWB's loneliness; proposed activities of MWB during the summer; reports illness of two people; requests news of MWTB's family.","Peggy's visit and her subsequent stranded situation on the other side of the river because of the ice; health news of several family members; the boat was destroyed and a new one was built; the progress of the garden; activities of family members.","BDB's severe illness and recovery; Walker's serious illness; Aunt Lucy's improving health; the birth of a daughter to Uncle Robert named Edmonia Fitzhugh ? Tomlin; tell Sister Margaret W. Barnes that John Lawson is courting Bunny Braxton again.","Birth of a daughter to Henrietta and circumstances thereafter; schedule of forth coming events including trips, Judy's birthday party, and winter projects; serious condition of Judy at Retreat, Virginia and of her expected death.","Burdensome task of housekeeping and that work is done more out of duty than pleasure \"as the members of the family drop off\"; notes how changes have occurred over the last five years; trip to see Betty - reports on Betty's health, happiness, husband, and their fine living standards; message to Balsora via Margaret Barnes; invitation for MWTB and Peggy to spend the winter and see how Judy H. Tomlin Coalter's health has improved; events upon home coming.","Feel most kindly for George in all his sufferings; will see MWTB tomorrow.","MWB understands that Peggy is to make a \"profession of Religion\"soon; hopes to spend several weeks with MWTB; mentions weather conditions; reports in length the illness of several family members; visits of friends and family; inquires about Fanny and Betty.","Expresses sorrow to \"Margaret\"MWTB and \"Peggy\"MWB in their loss of Newman Williamson B. Barnes; MWB's forth-coming visit to see MWTB and \"Peggy\"MWB; sends love and prayers and sympathy. Also includes a letter by Aunt L?, Baltimore, Md., to Balsora Barnes, .","William Braxton has given up the estate for MWB to manage; with no one to manage MWTB's place MWTB should rent out and hire out the servants; news of family and friends.","Expresses sorrow to MWTB in the loss of a son, George, and glory in his heavenly home with the blessed savior; gives religious support in MWB's sympathy.","Expresses sympathy in MWTB's loss of a son; Betty's confinement and the circumstances concerning the baby; understands from home that all are healthy but Virginia; Fanny Bland is to be married in the fall; activities in Baltimore - church too far away to attend; general family news. Also includes a letter written on the envelope by ?, to \"Ma.\"","Letter is written by Nannie for Harrison Barnes, MWTB's brother, because, HB has a lack of time to spare; HB knows of a position in Richmond that would be wonderful for Tomlin and encourages MWTB to use her influence to get Tomlin to apply: NO expresses her sympathy for MWTB's afflictions; the Springs have been deserted - only about 100 people on the grounds; thinks the position for Tomlin in Richmond is as an assistant with the Postmaster.","Circumstances are such that MWB cannot visit MWTB at this time because Betty is not doing well, but the baby is fine - Betty needs help so as to not become ill; Fanny is to be married this fall and must have assistance in the preparations of the wedding.","Mr. Dallam is ill and has been in bed for more than 3 weeks; have no idea when leaving will be possible; health of Betty and baby and Mrs. Dallam ; Fanny is to be married 11 November and Fanny Coalter is to be married 10 November to a Mr. Brown.","FBCB thinks of MWB often and would like to be of some service; MWB has seen so much trouble; religious information and instruction; FBCB has a good husband; Mama's, Judy H. Tomlin Coalter, health is not good.","Health of Aunt Judy; family activities; summer garden -strawberries and potatoes.","RTB has not gotten a position and sees no chances; please send pants and other summer clothing; RTB inquires about \"the poor old place\"and what Mr. Moncure has done with it: instructions to sod the graves. Also includes a letter by Peggy Tomlin?, Stanly, Virginia, to \"Peggy\"Margaret W. Barnes, . don't worry about Walker for he's fine; information about the family and everyone's health and activities.","A continuation of the pants as mentioned in 20 May 1859 letter; pleased the graves have been sodded; has \"the place\"been sold yet?; please write to RTB.","Please write to RTB; suffering with the heat and would like another coat; wants to know how family is and how the \"black people are\" hope \" they have not sold my dear old home yet\" mentions grave sodding and \"how much I have thought of them\".","Particulars of mother's, Judy H. Tomlin Coalter's last illness and her eventual death.","Glad to know your health and spirits are improving; reminiscences of younger days and activities; looking forward to your visit and bring cousin Balsora Barnes; questions about health of family members.","Anxious to see family and to know what Walker is doing; worn out, cannot eat, and is as ragged as a buzzard; needs warm pants and new shirts; some of you please write; allowed no exercise except drilling - \"Oh that it may now be over is my prayer \"; sends love to everyone black and white.","Activities during war period; information about Elega Willcox?, her husband's running away to avoid the war, and circumstances surrounding the situation.","Two things FBCB forgot to tell MWB yesterday so is writing again; Peronneau was quite sick; instructions for task to be done by MWB; news of friends and relatives.","Financial concerns.","Continuation of financial concerns; status on goods and vegetables; shoes may be sent by mail. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to postman? mailing of package to Frances Bland Coalter Brown.","Arrangements for future visit.","Illness of Johnnie ? and Caroline and current departure plans.","Instructions on daily living; write to Cousin Nannie for she is sick.","Confinement because of illness and lack of ability to do things for self, instructions on daily living; take care of WB's sister, Lizzy.","Written over a period of five days telling of WBB's daily activities at Aunt Fanny's and at school; Thompson's birthday.","Aunt Fanny and Mammy Jane's health; hymn next Sunday; new books. Also includes a letter by Frances Bland Coalter Brown to \"Peggy\"(Margaret W. Barnes). FBCB's return home from N.Y. ? via sleeping car; Miss Jane's great care of the boys during absence; FBCB's much improved health situation.","Sorry to hear WBB had been sick; will send money for hymn book; do what Aunt Peggy and Aunt Fannie tell WBB; write and tell how Thompson is; take care of Aunt Peggy for she is always sick.","Visit of Mrs. Coleman and Mrs. Grinnan and arrival of Cousin Lucy Brent; Aunt Fanny gave Thompson and WBB holiday during everyone's visit; illness and departure of a dining room servant; sends love to Uncle Tomlin, Aunt Marcella?, and Uncle Walker.","Religious Directions to WBB.","Estate of Lelia B. Cocke. Disapproval of the partitioning of Bremo and desire to have the personal property appraised by an expert.","Departure of guests; birth of a daughter to Mrs. Braxton; getting Armistead ready for school up in Caroline; Walker's illness; love to family members. Also includes a note by Lucy ?, Chericoke, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Jeffersonton, Culpepper County, Virginia. \"Cousin Lucy\" sends love to all and particularly to Peg.","A scolding from BB about Beverly's not taking proper care of his health.","Pantaloons are finished; please write; how is GB's Mama's health? Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to \"Peg\" (Margaret W. Barnes), why has MWB not written?; questions about fowls and Peg's studies; love to MWB's Mama, Papa, and brother.","MWB's trip home; George's arrival.","Lucy's illness; arrangements for BB's trip home; hopelessness of Jack Bryan's illness and surrounding circumstances; general family news.","Wedding and plans concerning travel and visit.","Soreness in BB's hands and difficulties encountered. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to George Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia why has GB forgotten BB?; declaration of love for George. Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to Beverly Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia why has BB not written? Also includes a note by Balsora Barnes to Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia You are a fine boy.","Exchange of presents; BB hopes that the boys can stay for the winter for BB was beginning to teach them to write. Also includes a letter by Lucy H. Barnes to \"Willy\"Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. Willy's children and their education; health of family members. Also includes a letter by Frances C. Barnes to Lucy Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. sewing and quinces.","St. George's serious illness; will send clothes for the boys; can't see at all.","Peggy's attending school near BB, Peggy's failure to arrive yet, and the value of an education for Peggy; send the boys to BB and BB will prepare them for a large school; Lucy's wedding; illness of St. George. Also includes a letter by Lucy M: H. Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Culpeper County, Virginia Family affairs.","Willy's illness; clothes for the boys. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to Lucy Barnes? The house is not done.","Beverly Barnes - \". . .all old maids can lecture on the instruction of children to a painful extent to married ladies, Beverly still proves a dutiful teachable child.. .\"; information about the activities of all family members.","BB's love for people and how feelings often \"discompose\"you; Margaret Tomlin's? feelings on how NWBB should come up here and not gander off with Miss S? to New York; cousin Coalter has lost her bridge and others are down in the area; James. N. is a devoted admirer of Fanny's.","Have you and George any work for BB; Cousin Lucy's health is improving; pray often for NWBB's happiness and have loved NWBB more than any being on earth with the exception of two; NWBB's future conduct toward Margaret Tomlin? and interpretive statement of Margaret's feeling toward NWBB.","Requests items to be purchased for BB, Judy, Lucy, Aunt Amy; \"Margaret Tomlin? sends her love to George and yourself.","BB has not sent shirts because of illness; news of Margaret Tomlin? and her journeys; BB requests items to be purchased. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin, Chericoke, Virginia, to \"Willy\"Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. requests items to be purchased.","\"stips\"? sent for Peg, Lucy, you two and the boys; write to us. Also includes a note by Lucy? ?, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia.","Pantaloons and clothing; horse that was left; Mama wants to visit Greenfield in July \u0026 Mama's health; the garden; please write, we have been mortified at your silence. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"My dear M\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes), Culpeper County, Virginia BB sends MWTB tea towels with Bret's? pantaloons coat; hope MWTB's health is improved; love to the \"dear little children\"and to Willy.","\"Margaret has a new beau but I do not think you need to dread him as a rival\"; the Ball in Richmond; has NWBB heard from home?","NWBB should take better care of his health; religious remarks; health news of family members; Bet is too busy to write.","LMB is glad MWB is attending to MWB's books and being a good child obedient to your parents and brothers; LMB is going to see MWB's Grand Mamma.","George made his appearance last night; LMB fears that Willy is offended; love to all.","LMHB saw Willy last night; what is the matter with Peg and Tomlin?; Judy, the children and St. George Coalter are all well; LMHB sent some things to all of you by Mr. Georges? Charles. Also includes a note by Lucy? M. H.? Barnes,, to \"Peggy\" (Margaret W. Barnes), Greenfield, Virginia. the want of paper compels me to write to MWB and your mother on the same paper; be a good child and take care of yourself; read your Bible and get a portion of it everyday.","LMHB has just returned from Chatham; want to know' if MWTB and family is dead or alive; LMHB is sending Willy's other shirt; why does Peggy not write to LMHB since LMHB has spent so much time instructing her?; all are well except Papa; Balsora and Fanny are at St. George's and Cousin Coalter dines with them today; love to all.","NWBB should not be so low spirited for \"surely a young man never had greater cause for a thankful heart than you,\" LMHB fear that if NWBB continues to be unhappy when he has so much that \"our kind heavenly Father should visit them with some heavy, but just punishment\"; Mama and Aunt Short have left us on a visit to Mrs. Allison; news of Balsora, Margaret, Judy, and Mama; the times are dull; do not be so tardy in answering letters; the girls all write with LMHB in best love to you and George. Also includes a note by Margaret W. Tomlin, Falmouth, Virginia, to \"Willy\" (Newman Williamson B. Barnes), Richmond, Virginia. goods requested.","Delighted to hear you and father are well; Uncle Coalter's illness and Aunt Judy's subsequent unhappiness; have George write and tell MWB about MWB's hen, chickens, and garden. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Greenfield, Virginia. pleased you two invalids are improving; glad to know Willy's prospect for corn is good.","MWB is homesick and desires to come home; MWB is concerned about Papa's illness and brother Bev's; news about Uncle Coalter and Aunt Judy, Aunt Balsora, and Aunt Lucy; love to Papa, Aunt Margaret, Uncle B. and MWB's little brothers. Also includes a letter by Balsora Barnes, St. Georges home, Virginia, to Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes, Family situations.","Aunt Mary and Cousin Nannie went up to see Col. Carrington; Uncle ? got MWTB's letter about Tomlin; Beverly seemed very happy when he was here last; Aunt Margaret Tomlin; news of activities and health of various family members; MWB's activities and travel plans; MWB sends love to all in family.","Fanny Braxton has been confined to her bed with violent toothache and pain in her face; arrangements for trip to Richmond; cold weather has arrived; Mrs. Bryan and the Bryan girls.","Instructions for staying well; the ice house repairs; family activities.","Instructions to \"Mama\"for staying well; mention of family visits and activities; illnesses of friends and family. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes, Chericoke, Virginia, to Balsora Barnes, Cousin Maria's distressful situation; MWB's quilt.","Aunt Judy's illness and circumstances surrounding the seriousness of the illness; MWB's concern over MWTB's poor health; family visits and activities.","Relates MWB's accident with knife and subsequent problems with the near loss of MWB's finger; activities and health news of family members.","Snow storm and its effects for all friends and relatives;' Beverley's trip to Wheeling; Jack and his report of activities at Chericoke.","Hybla house burned down and Armistead was only able to save a few things; Mattie ? has caught one of the first beaux in the state - Mr. Wilcox Brown; some of you write to MWB.","Health news of family members; MWB scolds MWTB about what MWTB writes in her letters asks MWTB to be more careful about who she talks about.","News of family activities and trips including visits to the Springs; mentions news of many family members.","Family news; Uncle Walker's new baby, John Walker.","Aunt Lucy has given a favorable account of TB and Walker in your studies; family ventures; Cousins Coalter and Janet are both sick; George looks better than MWB's seen him in a long time.","Cotton sent. Also includes a letter from Margaret W. Barnes to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes) a thank you note.","Recipe and brief news of NWTB's activities.","Instructions for repair of hat, request for knitting needles not sent as requested, and a list of desired goods to be purchased for MTB.","FBCB would have been glad for MWB to join FBCB here; Cousin William thinks that FBCB has had a nervous disorder; the treatments FBCB has enjoyed and FBCB is sure MWB's health requires it too; arrangements for MWB's stay in Bedford.","Ma's illness and FBCB's attempts to go and nurse her; arrival at \"Stanley\"and report of Ma's health; would like MWB to come - FBCB will nurse MWB too; family news; invitation for a visit to Bedford.","Elizabeth and BG have feeble health; Elizabeth went to the Warm Springs and came home because she became nervous there; report of Elizabeth, Will and John Walker's families.","Have sent NWBB a pair of socks. Also includes a letter by Judy H. Tomlin to \"Willy\" Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Hanover Town, Virginia. JHT apologizes for bad behavior on Tuesday evening.","Request for 'shoes to be made; surprised that NWBB did not see more of \"the girls\"while they were in Richmond.","News of JLS's poor health. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Tomlin? to \"Willy\" Newman Williamson B. Barnes, Richmond, Virginia. request for cloth.","Christmas holidays - the visitors require the professors to lecture over the holidays and HBT must not miss any, therefore, he cannot spend Christmas with Margaret and brother Willy.","Circumstances surrounding the death of Sally and her mother's intense grief; Margaret is quite sick but the rest here are well.","Request for yard goods from Richmond; JHT looks forward to Willy's visit.","Requests extension of visiting period for \"Peg\"; news of Aunt Mary's health. Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes, Stanley, Virginia, to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes), Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia request for MWTB to send some clothing for MWB's extended visit.","MWT has been ill; MWT will remain in Hanover one or two more weeks.","Yard goods requested.","Please send silk dress and fabric. Also includes a note by ? to ? Barnes ? Tomlin, . Janet sent Balsora something in a vial to rub her foot with.","Death of Mrs. B_ and circumstances surrounding situations; my baby seems poorly and so nervous; much obliged to MWB for your kind sympathy and affection; love to one and all.","Also includes a letter by Margaret W. Barnes to \"Mama\" (Margaret W. Tomlin Barnes). Also includes a letter by Beverley D. Barnes to ?,","Ditchley.","Christ Church.","First poem is entitled \"A Royal Colloguing\"sp?. 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Navy","Women--Education--Virginia","Correspondence","Diaries","66 items.","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. 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.","Organization: This collection is organized into 3 series. Series 1 contains Personal Papers and Correspondence; Series 2 contains a Diary; and Series 3 contains the Addition to the Collection, 1992.45. Series 4 contains the Addition to the Collection, 2006.02. Arrangement: The collection is arranged chronologically by date.","The head of the family, Philip Barraud was the son of Daniel Barraud of Norfolk, Virginia. He was born on 8 October 1757. He served as a surgeon in the American Revolution and moved to Williamsburg in 1782. Barraud married Ann Blaws Hansford in 1783 and moved back to Norfolk in 1799 to accept a position as head of the Marine Hospital in Norfolk. He died on 26 November 1830.","Other Information:"," Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00043.frame","When available, microfilm, photocopies, digital surrogates, or other reproductions must be used in place of original documents.","Processed by Cynthia B. Brown in 1984.","Available in microfilm University Publications of America. See also the Barraud Family Music Volumes, #s 9, 12, and 23 in the Music Collection.","Correspondence and other papers, mostly 1810-1860, of the Barraud family of Norfolk, Virginia."," Correspondence of Dr. Philip Barraud (1758-1830), his wife, Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud (1760-1836), and their children, included Daniel Cary Barraud (1790-1867), Otway Byrd Barraud (b. 1801), and Leliana (Barraud) Baker (b. 1805)."," A number of the letters, as well as some poems, are from St. George Tucker (1752-1827), a close friend of Barraud's when he lived in Williamsburg, Va. Subjects covered include the War of 1812, medical service in the American Revolution and social life in Norfolk, Virginia."," Also included are the commissions of John Taylor Barraud (1826-1860), U.S. Navy, and his narrative diary, 1844-1847, while serving off the Mexican coast; a contemporary copy (1820) of Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on the education of women; grants for bounty lands awarded Daniel Cary Barraud for his service in the War of 1812; a composition on Cato by Jonn Taylor Barraud (1826-1860), for the College of William and Mary; and the draft of a letter from James Barron (1758-1851), to President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) regarding Dr. Barraud's public services."," See Also: Southern Women and their Families in the 19 th  Century Papers and Diaries Series C Reel # 01 in Swem Library's microforms area, call number HQ1438 .V5 S68","Scope and Contents","Mentions his brother, Daniel Barraud's eldest son, Philip; sorry to hear he lost all when driven from Norfolk; death of Philip Barraud's mother; mention of Mr. Hansford; comments on the \"plate\" mother left Daniel.","Scope and Contents","Conditions in the army, including mention of \"the Baron [von Steuben\"?], Generals Heath and McDaugall, and Aduef; asks about Barraud's family.","Endorsed, \"Received payment for P. Barraud. G.W. Maupin.\"","Scope and Contents","Will not be able to come for a visit due to his and his wife's poor health; also \"Fan\" will be visiting soon; mention of \"Poll\"; Henry arrived and is helping prepare his [SGT] book [Blackstone's Commentaries] for publication; [Nathaniel] Beverley [Tucker] will winter at \"Bizarre\" with is sister; best wishes for upcoming marriage of [Ann Hansford Barraud and John Hartwell Cockel]; hopes to meet soon, possibly at Swann's Point.","School composition on Cato.","Encourages her to write neat letters, \"clear of blots because it looks very ugly;\" promises to send a present for every \"handsome letter sent;\" upset that Grandpapa will not let Grandmama whip her as she has heard that she [HO'G] keeps herself dirty and \"kicks up her heels in the street;\" praises the value of whipping and studies.","Scope and Contents","Inscribed to Dr. Philip and Mrs. Barraud, 22 June 1809.","Appended is Philip Barraud's explanation of the story. 1827 January 10","An endorsement reads; \"The poor fellow died...no cure was made, consequently no pay can be demanded.\"","Talk of British- U.S. relations; also mention of the safe return of Philip's son from Paris, France.","Scope and Contents","Had safe voyage to England; news of Spain, telling of Madrid being occupied by the Marquis of Wellington, and stating that \"the seige of Cadiz is raised, and many successes of the British in that country render it likely that that country will soon be evacuated by the French\"; also news of Europe, stating that a \"reconciliation with America is expected.\"","Expresses feelings before battle with the British forces; reminisces about childhood. Endorsed as \"1815.\"","Discusses peace between U.S. and Britian; family news.","Words of caution about handling a business transaction in which Barraud is also involved; physical condition of both; repairs to home in Norfolk.","Scope and Contents","Family news, including Daniel Cary Barraud's marriage; discusses their health, and the possibility of his returning home after he has recovered; Captain Crane is courting Miss[?] King, although Gabriel [?] doesn't believe that she [Miss King] really cares for him; Captain Wadsworth, Mary Eliza Taylor, and Mr. [?] Randolph believe that Gabriel wishes that it were she whom he was courting; mention of the Constitution \"breaking ground\" and the upcoming arrival of the Columbus, both of which will provide \"reinforcement\" for the local girls in the way of entertainment on board; she, however, has not permitted Lelia to go - \"this does not prevent their serenading us every night or two [though]\"; Beverly Kennon and Miss [?] Skipwith have \"parted by mutual consent [and] the families are not up on visiting terms\"; expects a visit from William Nivison and his son any day; yearns for fruit since a large storm destroyed their peach trees; mention of Louisa [?], Nancy Moreland and \"little Nan.\"","Scope and Contents","Report of family at \"Bremo\"; mention of John Hartwell Cocke, and a visit by Wilson Cary; various children interested in studies including Philip, who is \"trying French but is rather thick tongued\"; tells of an unsuccessful hunting expedition, stating that Otway [Byrd Barraud] is a \"poor hand with a gun.\"","Scope and Contents","Glad to hear health has improved; mention of his \"poor, sick and afflicted child, Polly\" who is confined to her bed, with neither Dr. Alexander Dickie Galt or Dr. Smith able to find a name or remedy for the illness; describes her illness; tells of a visit by Sally Peachy and her sister Nanny.","Contemporary Cy. Discussion on the education of women.","Scope and Contents","Sending a bundle of clothes for her \"Mammy Jenny\"; inquires about her reading.","Discussion of their health, including poem expressing religious feelings; family news.","Scope and Contents","Family news; tries to persuade Lelia to remain at \"Bremo\" because of a \"violent disease\" prevalent in Norfolk; describes a \"large gale\" which blew two Richmond steam boats up the Eastern Branch.","Announces the birth of Mira Rosa Barraud; the mother is doing well.","Family news; delay of the Tucker family's visit because of the death of Charles Carter; describes how she will fill her time while her husband is away; did not go to \"Bremo\" because there was only room for 4 people in Mr. Cocke's carriage; heard that Patsy [?] is to marry the Baptist preacher, but doesn't believe it; mention of Louisianna's \"affair\" and the attention being paid to her by a \"certain Presbyterian gentlemen\"; has a pot of pickles for her and her \"work table,\" which needs to be repaired.","Enclosing the commission of John Pegram as marshall of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia; requests that he deliver it to him.","Mentions Tucker's recent visit; Barraud family affairs; comments on the deaths of Jefferson and Adams.","Comments and sympathy of brother-in-law, Robert Taylor; other family news; mention of disease in Norfolk.","Invitation for her family to come for a visit; family news.","Scope and Contents","Death of Henry St. George Tucker's daughter, Frances.","Mention of the fire in Norfolk; quotations from Tucker's brother [Thomas Tudor Tucker]'s letter concerning Barraud.","Recollection of the time Barraud lived in Williamsburg \"now [a] deserted village\"; visit of Tucker Coles; other family news; regards from Sally Peachy and others.","Mention of Frank Willis, Mr. Tunstall's appointment in Washington, D.C., Helen and Tucker Coles, [Thomas Tudor Tucker], and other members of the Tudor family; received the leather from Cary.","Thanks him for the letter of sympathy; family news; plans to travel north.","Family news; went horseback riding; heard that Norfolk has become quite \"gay,\" mentioning a party given by Dr. Selden for Elizabeth Johnston, a \"sweet tempered sprightly girl.\"","Acknowledges letter of sympathy upon death of St. George Tucker, his brother.","Family news; mention of John Hartwell Cocke; describes in detail the visit to the \"Rock,\" and a waterfall; social gossip; birth of daughter to Louisianna (Cocke) Faulcon; Nancy [?] is making a flannel waistcoat for herself; asks opinion of the sale of the \"Dover Estate\" for $1,000, stating that it is a \"most elegant place.\"","News of family and friends; mention of the Cocke and Tucker families; election of General Jackson causing a \"great bustle,\" with Doctor Andrews giving a \"great Jackson dinner\"; lecture on the evils of women who lead men on.","Discusses the death of his wife Eliza (Naylor) Tucker, and thanks him for his condolences.","Scope and Contents","Reports that Dr. Barraud was to be removed from his post, and commending Barraud. Including AMsS, letter dated May 14, by Philip Barraud, Norfolk, Virginia, being a statement about his education, and services to the United States by being in charge of several hospitals, including a military hospital, 1776-1779, the Eastern State Hospital; and the Naval Hospital at Norfolk. 2 pages. Also including ADr., by Philip Barraud, stating that his appointment by the Adams Committee was without his consent [an apparent defense against replacement under Jackson's \"spoils system\". 2 pages.","Re: family affairs; is building a \"handsome portico\" at the South door; explains the supplies used, including marble, and the style of architecture as Doric. Including letter by Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud, Norfolk, Virginia. 1 page. Also including explanatory note concerning letter. 1 page.","Health is improving, as is Mother's and Lelia's; had some shirts \"prepared\" for him, and are now being forwarded.Including AL, n.d., from Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud, South Quay, Nansemond County, Virginia, giving health and family information. 2 pages.","Scope and Contents","Imagines the baking of mince pies and cheesecakes for Christmas; tells of the installing of a new stove, and her father's concern that it won't hold enough coal to heat a large room; describes a recent fire and other family news.Including ANS, n.d., from Daniel Cary Barraud. 1 page. Also including explanatory note concerning letter. 1 page.","Did not know his father [Dr. Philip Barraud] during the Revolutionary War - only afterwards; nor did he know Dr. Applewhaite as he was \"fortunate enough not to be sick during the whole of my service [in the Revolutionary War].\"","Included commission appointing him judge of the General Court and Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the first circuit, filling the vacancy made due to the death of Robert B. Taylor. (Commission not enclosed).","Concerning the service of Dr. Orr [in the American Revolution?]; tells some Orr family genealogy; and mentions the marriage of Dr. Applewhaite's sister to Dr. Orr.","Details of the cruise of his ship to the coast [of Africa?], Madeira and the Canaries; prospect of relief in 8 months; tells of his shipmates buying Madeira wine; describes the inhabitants of the Canaries, and their language, which is similar to Latin; tells of a court martial on board the Yorktown.Including N., explaining relationship of William H. Allmand to George P. Blow. 1 page.","Discusses his drinking problem, the family's grief over it, and the prospects that he will be dismissed from the Navy because of it.","Issued by the Dept. of the Interior and signed J.E. Heath, Commissioner. Includes various assignments on verso, 1884, and engravings of Andrew Jackson, and wild horses.","Signed by Franklin Pierce, President of the United States.","Issued by the Dept. of the Interior and signed by J. Minot, commissioner. Includes various assignments on verso, 1884, and numerous engravings depicting a battle from [the War of 1812?], a farmer, an Indian raid, and portraits of Lieut. General Winfield Scott and Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War.","Signed by Jno. Williams.","Baptism of Mary; mention of Joseph Cabell; family news; details about clothes that need to be altered, and a dress that needs to be lined.","Expresses satisfaction with the news of their acquiescence in her engagement to John N. Faulcon; hope her brother continues to recover; plans to visit in a fortnight; mentions her garden and visitors; mentions mutual acquaintances. Adds postscript to Aunt Lelia; requests two dresses be made for her in the next two months.","Narrative diary of John Taylor Barraud, U.S. Navy, while serving on the John Adams, a 20-gun sloop of war. 5 page typed summary included. The diary covers the time from Barraud's arrival by ship in Norfolk, Virginia, after an absence of 3 years. In early 1845, he goes to New York, N.Y. for assignment on the John Adams, which later travels to Pensacola, Florida and then to the Mexican coast. A large part of the diary consists of comments while sailing between Pensacola and Mexico, includes comments on the land, sea, and diplomatic aspects of the Mexican War. In late October, 1846, Barraud sails to Boston, Massachusetts, from whence he travels to New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland, Portsmouth, Virginia, the U.S. Naval Academy, Richmond, Virginia, via canal to the mountains, and back to the Academy.","Photocopy of S. 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Subjects covered include the War of 1812, medical service in the American Revolution and social life in Norfolk, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Also included are the commissions of John Taylor Barraud (1826-1860), U.S. Navy, and his narrative diary, 1844-1847, while serving off the Mexican coast; a contemporary copy (1820) of Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on the education of women; grants for bounty lands awarded Daniel Cary Barraud for his service in the War of 1812; a composition on Cato by Jonn Taylor Barraud (1826-1860), for the College of William and Mary; and the draft of a letter from James Barron (1758-1851), to President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) regarding Dr. Barraud's public services.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e See Also: Southern Women and their Families in the 19\u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003eth\u003c/emph\u003e Century Papers and Diaries Series C Reel # 01 in Swem Library's microforms area, call number HQ1438 .V5 S68\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMentions his brother, Daniel Barraud's eldest son, Philip; sorry to hear he lost all when driven from Norfolk; death of Philip Barraud's mother; mention of Mr. Hansford; comments on the \"plate\" mother left Daniel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eConditions in the army, including mention of \"the Baron [von Steuben\"?], Generals Heath and McDaugall, and Aduef; asks about Barraud's family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed, \"Received payment for P. Barraud. G.W. Maupin.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWill not be able to come for a visit due to his and his wife's poor health; also \"Fan\" will be visiting soon; mention of \"Poll\"; Henry arrived and is helping prepare his [SGT] book [Blackstone's Commentaries] for publication; [Nathaniel] Beverley [Tucker] will winter at \"Bizarre\" with is sister; best wishes for upcoming marriage of [Ann Hansford Barraud and John Hartwell Cockel]; hopes to meet soon, possibly at Swann's Point.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool composition on Cato.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncourages her to write neat letters, \"clear of blots because it looks very ugly;\" promises to send a present for every \"handsome letter sent;\" upset that Grandpapa will not let Grandmama whip her as she has heard that she [HO'G] keeps herself dirty and \"kicks up her heels in the street;\" praises the value of whipping and studies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eInscribed to Dr. Philip and Mrs. Barraud, 22 June 1809.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppended is Philip Barraud's explanation of the story. 1827 January 10\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn endorsement reads; \"The poor fellow died...no cure was made, consequently no pay can be demanded.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalk of British- U.S. relations; also mention of the safe return of Philip's son from Paris, France.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHad safe voyage to England; news of Spain, telling of Madrid being occupied by the Marquis of Wellington, and stating that \"the seige of Cadiz is raised, and many successes of the British in that country render it likely that that country will soon be evacuated by the French\"; also news of Europe, stating that a \"reconciliation with America is expected.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses feelings before battle with the British forces; reminisces about childhood. Endorsed as \"1815.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses peace between U.S. and Britian; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWords of caution about handling a business transaction in which Barraud is also involved; physical condition of both; repairs to home in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily news, including Daniel Cary Barraud's marriage; discusses their health, and the possibility of his returning home after he has recovered; Captain Crane is courting Miss[?] King, although Gabriel [?] doesn't believe that she [Miss King] really cares for him; Captain Wadsworth, Mary Eliza Taylor, and Mr. [?] Randolph believe that Gabriel wishes that it were she whom he was courting; mention of the Constitution \"breaking ground\" and the upcoming arrival of the Columbus, both of which will provide \"reinforcement\" for the local girls in the way of entertainment on board; she, however, has not permitted Lelia to go - \"this does not prevent their serenading us every night or two [though]\"; Beverly Kennon and Miss [?] Skipwith have \"parted by mutual consent [and] the families are not up on visiting terms\"; expects a visit from William Nivison and his son any day; yearns for fruit since a large storm destroyed their peach trees; mention of Louisa [?], Nancy Moreland and \"little Nan.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eReport of family at \"Bremo\"; mention of John Hartwell Cocke, and a visit by Wilson Cary; various children interested in studies including Philip, who is \"trying French but is rather thick tongued\"; tells of an unsuccessful hunting expedition, stating that Otway [Byrd Barraud] is a \"poor hand with a gun.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGlad to hear health has improved; mention of his \"poor, sick and afflicted child, Polly\" who is confined to her bed, with neither Dr. Alexander Dickie Galt or Dr. Smith able to find a name or remedy for the illness; describes her illness; tells of a visit by Sally Peachy and her sister Nanny.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContemporary Cy. Discussion on the education of women.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSending a bundle of clothes for her \"Mammy Jenny\"; inquires about her reading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of their health, including poem expressing religious feelings; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; tries to persuade Lelia to remain at \"Bremo\" because of a \"violent disease\" prevalent in Norfolk; describes a \"large gale\" which blew two Richmond steam boats up the Eastern Branch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces the birth of Mira Rosa Barraud; the mother is doing well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; delay of the Tucker family's visit because of the death of Charles Carter; describes how she will fill her time while her husband is away; did not go to \"Bremo\" because there was only room for 4 people in Mr. Cocke's carriage; heard that Patsy [?] is to marry the Baptist preacher, but doesn't believe it; mention of Louisianna's \"affair\" and the attention being paid to her by a \"certain Presbyterian gentlemen\"; has a pot of pickles for her and her \"work table,\" which needs to be repaired.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing the commission of John Pegram as marshall of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia; requests that he deliver it to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions Tucker's recent visit; Barraud family affairs; comments on the deaths of Jefferson and Adams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments and sympathy of brother-in-law, Robert Taylor; other family news; mention of disease in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation for her family to come for a visit; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Henry St. George Tucker's daughter, Frances.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMention of the fire in Norfolk; quotations from Tucker's brother [Thomas Tudor Tucker]'s letter concerning Barraud.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecollection of the time Barraud lived in Williamsburg \"now [a] deserted village\"; visit of Tucker Coles; other family news; regards from Sally Peachy and others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMention of Frank Willis, Mr. Tunstall's appointment in Washington, D.C., Helen and Tucker Coles, [Thomas Tudor Tucker], and other members of the Tudor family; received the leather from Cary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for the letter of sympathy; family news; plans to travel north.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; went horseback riding; heard that Norfolk has become quite \"gay,\" mentioning a party given by Dr. Selden for Elizabeth Johnston, a \"sweet tempered sprightly girl.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges letter of sympathy upon death of St. George Tucker, his brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; mention of John Hartwell Cocke; describes in detail the visit to the \"Rock,\" and a waterfall; social gossip; birth of daughter to Louisianna (Cocke) Faulcon; Nancy [?] is making a flannel waistcoat for herself; asks opinion of the sale of the \"Dover Estate\" for $1,000, stating that it is a \"most elegant place.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of family and friends; mention of the Cocke and Tucker families; election of General Jackson causing a \"great bustle,\" with Doctor Andrews giving a \"great Jackson dinner\"; lecture on the evils of women who lead men on.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the death of his wife Eliza (Naylor) Tucker, and thanks him for his condolences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eReports that Dr. Barraud was to be removed from his post, and commending Barraud. Including AMsS, letter dated May 14, by Philip Barraud, Norfolk, Virginia, being a statement about his education, and services to the United States by being in charge of several hospitals, including a military hospital, 1776-1779, the Eastern State Hospital; and the Naval Hospital at Norfolk. 2 pages. Also including ADr., by Philip Barraud, stating that his appointment by the Adams Committee was without his consent [an apparent defense against replacement under Jackson's \"spoils system\". 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: family affairs; is building a \"handsome portico\" at the South door; explains the supplies used, including marble, and the style of architecture as Doric. Including letter by Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud, Norfolk, Virginia. 1 page. Also including explanatory note concerning letter. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth is improving, as is Mother's and Lelia's; had some shirts \"prepared\" for him, and are now being forwarded.Including AL, n.d., from Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud, South Quay, Nansemond County, Virginia, giving health and family information. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eImagines the baking of mince pies and cheesecakes for Christmas; tells of the installing of a new stove, and her father's concern that it won't hold enough coal to heat a large room; describes a recent fire and other family news.Including ANS, n.d., from Daniel Cary Barraud. 1 page. Also including explanatory note concerning letter. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDid not know his father [Dr. Philip Barraud] during the Revolutionary War - only afterwards; nor did he know Dr. Applewhaite as he was \"fortunate enough not to be sick during the whole of my service [in the Revolutionary War].\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded commission appointing him judge of the General Court and Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the first circuit, filling the vacancy made due to the death of Robert B. Taylor. (Commission not enclosed).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the service of Dr. Orr [in the American Revolution?]; tells some Orr family genealogy; and mentions the marriage of Dr. Applewhaite's sister to Dr. Orr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetails of the cruise of his ship to the coast [of Africa?], Madeira and the Canaries; prospect of relief in 8 months; tells of his shipmates buying Madeira wine; describes the inhabitants of the Canaries, and their language, which is similar to Latin; tells of a court martial on board the Yorktown.Including N., explaining relationship of William H. Allmand to George P. Blow. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his drinking problem, the family's grief over it, and the prospects that he will be dismissed from the Navy because of it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIssued by the Dept. of the Interior and signed J.E. Heath, Commissioner. Includes various assignments on verso, 1884, and engravings of Andrew Jackson, and wild horses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by Franklin Pierce, President of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIssued by the Dept. of the Interior and signed by J. Minot, commissioner. Includes various assignments on verso, 1884, and numerous engravings depicting a battle from [the War of 1812?], a farmer, an Indian raid, and portraits of Lieut. General Winfield Scott and Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by Jno. Williams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBaptism of Mary; mention of Joseph Cabell; family news; details about clothes that need to be altered, and a dress that needs to be lined.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses satisfaction with the news of their acquiescence in her engagement to John N. Faulcon; hope her brother continues to recover; plans to visit in a fortnight; mentions her garden and visitors; mentions mutual acquaintances. Adds postscript to Aunt Lelia; requests two dresses be made for her in the next two months.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNarrative diary of John Taylor Barraud, U.S. Navy, while serving on the John Adams, a 20-gun sloop of war. 5 page typed summary included. The diary covers the time from Barraud's arrival by ship in Norfolk, Virginia, after an absence of 3 years. In early 1845, he goes to New York, N.Y. for assignment on the John Adams, which later travels to Pensacola, Florida and then to the Mexican coast. A large part of the diary consists of comments while sailing between Pensacola and Mexico, includes comments on the land, sea, and diplomatic aspects of the Mexican War. In late October, 1846, Barraud sails to Boston, Massachusetts, from whence he travels to New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland, Portsmouth, Virginia, the U.S. Naval Academy, Richmond, Virginia, via canal to the mountains, and back to the Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of S. Lawson Barraud's letter to Cary Cocke, 20 Jan. 1851 regarding the Gold Rush. Location of original with John Page Elliott? Acc. 1992.45 Addition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA typescript of a preliminary report on Ann Blaws Barraud by James S. Darling. Report on Ann Barraud as a Williamsburg wife, mother and musician, with notes on her husband Philip, a medical doctor and visiting physician to the Mental Hospital. Acc. 2006.02 Addition\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Correspondence and other papers, mostly 1810-1860, of the Barraud family of Norfolk, Virginia."," Correspondence of Dr. Philip Barraud (1758-1830), his wife, Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud (1760-1836), and their children, included Daniel Cary Barraud (1790-1867), Otway Byrd Barraud (b. 1801), and Leliana (Barraud) Baker (b. 1805)."," A number of the letters, as well as some poems, are from St. George Tucker (1752-1827), a close friend of Barraud's when he lived in Williamsburg, Va. Subjects covered include the War of 1812, medical service in the American Revolution and social life in Norfolk, Virginia."," Also included are the commissions of John Taylor Barraud (1826-1860), U.S. Navy, and his narrative diary, 1844-1847, while serving off the Mexican coast; a contemporary copy (1820) of Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on the education of women; grants for bounty lands awarded Daniel Cary Barraud for his service in the War of 1812; a composition on Cato by Jonn Taylor Barraud (1826-1860), for the College of William and Mary; and the draft of a letter from James Barron (1758-1851), to President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) regarding Dr. Barraud's public services."," See Also: Southern Women and their Families in the 19 th  Century Papers and Diaries Series C Reel # 01 in Swem Library's microforms area, call number HQ1438 .V5 S68","Scope and Contents","Mentions his brother, Daniel Barraud's eldest son, Philip; sorry to hear he lost all when driven from Norfolk; death of Philip Barraud's mother; mention of Mr. Hansford; comments on the \"plate\" mother left Daniel.","Scope and Contents","Conditions in the army, including mention of \"the Baron [von Steuben\"?], Generals Heath and McDaugall, and Aduef; asks about Barraud's family.","Endorsed, \"Received payment for P. Barraud. G.W. Maupin.\"","Scope and Contents","Will not be able to come for a visit due to his and his wife's poor health; also \"Fan\" will be visiting soon; mention of \"Poll\"; Henry arrived and is helping prepare his [SGT] book [Blackstone's Commentaries] for publication; [Nathaniel] Beverley [Tucker] will winter at \"Bizarre\" with is sister; best wishes for upcoming marriage of [Ann Hansford Barraud and John Hartwell Cockel]; hopes to meet soon, possibly at Swann's Point.","School composition on Cato.","Encourages her to write neat letters, \"clear of blots because it looks very ugly;\" promises to send a present for every \"handsome letter sent;\" upset that Grandpapa will not let Grandmama whip her as she has heard that she [HO'G] keeps herself dirty and \"kicks up her heels in the street;\" praises the value of whipping and studies.","Scope and Contents","Inscribed to Dr. Philip and Mrs. Barraud, 22 June 1809.","Appended is Philip Barraud's explanation of the story. 1827 January 10","An endorsement reads; \"The poor fellow died...no cure was made, consequently no pay can be demanded.\"","Talk of British- U.S. relations; also mention of the safe return of Philip's son from Paris, France.","Scope and Contents","Had safe voyage to England; news of Spain, telling of Madrid being occupied by the Marquis of Wellington, and stating that \"the seige of Cadiz is raised, and many successes of the British in that country render it likely that that country will soon be evacuated by the French\"; also news of Europe, stating that a \"reconciliation with America is expected.\"","Expresses feelings before battle with the British forces; reminisces about childhood. Endorsed as \"1815.\"","Discusses peace between U.S. and Britian; family news.","Words of caution about handling a business transaction in which Barraud is also involved; physical condition of both; repairs to home in Norfolk.","Scope and Contents","Family news, including Daniel Cary Barraud's marriage; discusses their health, and the possibility of his returning home after he has recovered; Captain Crane is courting Miss[?] King, although Gabriel [?] doesn't believe that she [Miss King] really cares for him; Captain Wadsworth, Mary Eliza Taylor, and Mr. [?] Randolph believe that Gabriel wishes that it were she whom he was courting; mention of the Constitution \"breaking ground\" and the upcoming arrival of the Columbus, both of which will provide \"reinforcement\" for the local girls in the way of entertainment on board; she, however, has not permitted Lelia to go - \"this does not prevent their serenading us every night or two [though]\"; Beverly Kennon and Miss [?] Skipwith have \"parted by mutual consent [and] the families are not up on visiting terms\"; expects a visit from William Nivison and his son any day; yearns for fruit since a large storm destroyed their peach trees; mention of Louisa [?], Nancy Moreland and \"little Nan.\"","Scope and Contents","Report of family at \"Bremo\"; mention of John Hartwell Cocke, and a visit by Wilson Cary; various children interested in studies including Philip, who is \"trying French but is rather thick tongued\"; tells of an unsuccessful hunting expedition, stating that Otway [Byrd Barraud] is a \"poor hand with a gun.\"","Scope and Contents","Glad to hear health has improved; mention of his \"poor, sick and afflicted child, Polly\" who is confined to her bed, with neither Dr. Alexander Dickie Galt or Dr. Smith able to find a name or remedy for the illness; describes her illness; tells of a visit by Sally Peachy and her sister Nanny.","Contemporary Cy. Discussion on the education of women.","Scope and Contents","Sending a bundle of clothes for her \"Mammy Jenny\"; inquires about her reading.","Discussion of their health, including poem expressing religious feelings; family news.","Scope and Contents","Family news; tries to persuade Lelia to remain at \"Bremo\" because of a \"violent disease\" prevalent in Norfolk; describes a \"large gale\" which blew two Richmond steam boats up the Eastern Branch.","Announces the birth of Mira Rosa Barraud; the mother is doing well.","Family news; delay of the Tucker family's visit because of the death of Charles Carter; describes how she will fill her time while her husband is away; did not go to \"Bremo\" because there was only room for 4 people in Mr. Cocke's carriage; heard that Patsy [?] is to marry the Baptist preacher, but doesn't believe it; mention of Louisianna's \"affair\" and the attention being paid to her by a \"certain Presbyterian gentlemen\"; has a pot of pickles for her and her \"work table,\" which needs to be repaired.","Enclosing the commission of John Pegram as marshall of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia; requests that he deliver it to him.","Mentions Tucker's recent visit; Barraud family affairs; comments on the deaths of Jefferson and Adams.","Comments and sympathy of brother-in-law, Robert Taylor; other family news; mention of disease in Norfolk.","Invitation for her family to come for a visit; family news.","Scope and Contents","Death of Henry St. George Tucker's daughter, Frances.","Mention of the fire in Norfolk; quotations from Tucker's brother [Thomas Tudor Tucker]'s letter concerning Barraud.","Recollection of the time Barraud lived in Williamsburg \"now [a] deserted village\"; visit of Tucker Coles; other family news; regards from Sally Peachy and others.","Mention of Frank Willis, Mr. Tunstall's appointment in Washington, D.C., Helen and Tucker Coles, [Thomas Tudor Tucker], and other members of the Tudor family; received the leather from Cary.","Thanks him for the letter of sympathy; family news; plans to travel north.","Family news; went horseback riding; heard that Norfolk has become quite \"gay,\" mentioning a party given by Dr. Selden for Elizabeth Johnston, a \"sweet tempered sprightly girl.\"","Acknowledges letter of sympathy upon death of St. George Tucker, his brother.","Family news; mention of John Hartwell Cocke; describes in detail the visit to the \"Rock,\" and a waterfall; social gossip; birth of daughter to Louisianna (Cocke) Faulcon; Nancy [?] is making a flannel waistcoat for herself; asks opinion of the sale of the \"Dover Estate\" for $1,000, stating that it is a \"most elegant place.\"","News of family and friends; mention of the Cocke and Tucker families; election of General Jackson causing a \"great bustle,\" with Doctor Andrews giving a \"great Jackson dinner\"; lecture on the evils of women who lead men on.","Discusses the death of his wife Eliza (Naylor) Tucker, and thanks him for his condolences.","Scope and Contents","Reports that Dr. Barraud was to be removed from his post, and commending Barraud. Including AMsS, letter dated May 14, by Philip Barraud, Norfolk, Virginia, being a statement about his education, and services to the United States by being in charge of several hospitals, including a military hospital, 1776-1779, the Eastern State Hospital; and the Naval Hospital at Norfolk. 2 pages. Also including ADr., by Philip Barraud, stating that his appointment by the Adams Committee was without his consent [an apparent defense against replacement under Jackson's \"spoils system\". 2 pages.","Re: family affairs; is building a \"handsome portico\" at the South door; explains the supplies used, including marble, and the style of architecture as Doric. Including letter by Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud, Norfolk, Virginia. 1 page. Also including explanatory note concerning letter. 1 page.","Health is improving, as is Mother's and Lelia's; had some shirts \"prepared\" for him, and are now being forwarded.Including AL, n.d., from Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud, South Quay, Nansemond County, Virginia, giving health and family information. 2 pages.","Scope and Contents","Imagines the baking of mince pies and cheesecakes for Christmas; tells of the installing of a new stove, and her father's concern that it won't hold enough coal to heat a large room; describes a recent fire and other family news.Including ANS, n.d., from Daniel Cary Barraud. 1 page. Also including explanatory note concerning letter. 1 page.","Did not know his father [Dr. Philip Barraud] during the Revolutionary War - only afterwards; nor did he know Dr. Applewhaite as he was \"fortunate enough not to be sick during the whole of my service [in the Revolutionary War].\"","Included commission appointing him judge of the General Court and Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the first circuit, filling the vacancy made due to the death of Robert B. Taylor. (Commission not enclosed).","Concerning the service of Dr. Orr [in the American Revolution?]; tells some Orr family genealogy; and mentions the marriage of Dr. Applewhaite's sister to Dr. Orr.","Details of the cruise of his ship to the coast [of Africa?], Madeira and the Canaries; prospect of relief in 8 months; tells of his shipmates buying Madeira wine; describes the inhabitants of the Canaries, and their language, which is similar to Latin; tells of a court martial on board the Yorktown.Including N., explaining relationship of William H. Allmand to George P. Blow. 1 page.","Discusses his drinking problem, the family's grief over it, and the prospects that he will be dismissed from the Navy because of it.","Issued by the Dept. of the Interior and signed J.E. Heath, Commissioner. Includes various assignments on verso, 1884, and engravings of Andrew Jackson, and wild horses.","Signed by Franklin Pierce, President of the United States.","Issued by the Dept. of the Interior and signed by J. Minot, commissioner. Includes various assignments on verso, 1884, and numerous engravings depicting a battle from [the War of 1812?], a farmer, an Indian raid, and portraits of Lieut. General Winfield Scott and Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War.","Signed by Jno. Williams.","Baptism of Mary; mention of Joseph Cabell; family news; details about clothes that need to be altered, and a dress that needs to be lined.","Expresses satisfaction with the news of their acquiescence in her engagement to John N. Faulcon; hope her brother continues to recover; plans to visit in a fortnight; mentions her garden and visitors; mentions mutual acquaintances. Adds postscript to Aunt Lelia; requests two dresses be made for her in the next two months.","Narrative diary of John Taylor Barraud, U.S. Navy, while serving on the John Adams, a 20-gun sloop of war. 5 page typed summary included. The diary covers the time from Barraud's arrival by ship in Norfolk, Virginia, after an absence of 3 years. In early 1845, he goes to New York, N.Y. for assignment on the John Adams, which later travels to Pensacola, Florida and then to the Mexican coast. A large part of the diary consists of comments while sailing between Pensacola and Mexico, includes comments on the land, sea, and diplomatic aspects of the Mexican War. In late October, 1846, Barraud sails to Boston, Massachusetts, from whence he travels to New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland, Portsmouth, Virginia, the U.S. Naval Academy, Richmond, Virginia, via canal to the mountains, and back to the Academy.","Photocopy of S. Lawson Barraud's letter to Cary Cocke, 20 Jan. 1851 regarding the Gold Rush. Location of original with John Page Elliott? Acc. 1992.45 Addition.","A typescript of a preliminary report on Ann Blaws Barraud by James S. Darling. Report on Ann Barraud as a Williamsburg wife, mother and musician, with notes on her husband Philip, a medical doctor and visiting physician to the Mental Hospital. 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Navy","Women--Education--Virginia","Correspondence","Diaries","66 items.","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. 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.","Organization: This collection is organized into 3 series. Series 1 contains Personal Papers and Correspondence; Series 2 contains a Diary; and Series 3 contains the Addition to the Collection, 1992.45. Series 4 contains the Addition to the Collection, 2006.02. Arrangement: The collection is arranged chronologically by date.","The head of the family, Philip Barraud was the son of Daniel Barraud of Norfolk, Virginia. He was born on 8 October 1757. He served as a surgeon in the American Revolution and moved to Williamsburg in 1782. Barraud married Ann Blaws Hansford in 1783 and moved back to Norfolk in 1799 to accept a position as head of the Marine Hospital in Norfolk. He died on 26 November 1830.","Other Information:"," Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00043.frame","When available, microfilm, photocopies, digital surrogates, or other reproductions must be used in place of original documents.","Processed by Cynthia B. Brown in 1984.","Available in microfilm University Publications of America. See also the Barraud Family Music Volumes, #s 9, 12, and 23 in the Music Collection.","Correspondence and other papers, mostly 1810-1860, of the Barraud family of Norfolk, Virginia."," Correspondence of Dr. Philip Barraud (1758-1830), his wife, Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud (1760-1836), and their children, included Daniel Cary Barraud (1790-1867), Otway Byrd Barraud (b. 1801), and Leliana (Barraud) Baker (b. 1805)."," A number of the letters, as well as some poems, are from St. George Tucker (1752-1827), a close friend of Barraud's when he lived in Williamsburg, Va. Subjects covered include the War of 1812, medical service in the American Revolution and social life in Norfolk, Virginia."," Also included are the commissions of John Taylor Barraud (1826-1860), U.S. Navy, and his narrative diary, 1844-1847, while serving off the Mexican coast; a contemporary copy (1820) of Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on the education of women; grants for bounty lands awarded Daniel Cary Barraud for his service in the War of 1812; a composition on Cato by Jonn Taylor Barraud (1826-1860), for the College of William and Mary; and the draft of a letter from James Barron (1758-1851), to President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) regarding Dr. Barraud's public services."," See Also: Southern Women and their Families in the 19 th  Century Papers and Diaries Series C Reel # 01 in Swem Library's microforms area, call number HQ1438 .V5 S68","Scope and Contents","Mentions his brother, Daniel Barraud's eldest son, Philip; sorry to hear he lost all when driven from Norfolk; death of Philip Barraud's mother; mention of Mr. Hansford; comments on the \"plate\" mother left Daniel.","Scope and Contents","Conditions in the army, including mention of \"the Baron [von Steuben\"?], Generals Heath and McDaugall, and Aduef; asks about Barraud's family.","Endorsed, \"Received payment for P. Barraud. G.W. Maupin.\"","Scope and Contents","Will not be able to come for a visit due to his and his wife's poor health; also \"Fan\" will be visiting soon; mention of \"Poll\"; Henry arrived and is helping prepare his [SGT] book [Blackstone's Commentaries] for publication; [Nathaniel] Beverley [Tucker] will winter at \"Bizarre\" with is sister; best wishes for upcoming marriage of [Ann Hansford Barraud and John Hartwell Cockel]; hopes to meet soon, possibly at Swann's Point.","School composition on Cato.","Encourages her to write neat letters, \"clear of blots because it looks very ugly;\" promises to send a present for every \"handsome letter sent;\" upset that Grandpapa will not let Grandmama whip her as she has heard that she [HO'G] keeps herself dirty and \"kicks up her heels in the street;\" praises the value of whipping and studies.","Scope and Contents","Inscribed to Dr. Philip and Mrs. Barraud, 22 June 1809.","Appended is Philip Barraud's explanation of the story. 1827 January 10","An endorsement reads; \"The poor fellow died...no cure was made, consequently no pay can be demanded.\"","Talk of British- U.S. relations; also mention of the safe return of Philip's son from Paris, France.","Scope and Contents","Had safe voyage to England; news of Spain, telling of Madrid being occupied by the Marquis of Wellington, and stating that \"the seige of Cadiz is raised, and many successes of the British in that country render it likely that that country will soon be evacuated by the French\"; also news of Europe, stating that a \"reconciliation with America is expected.\"","Expresses feelings before battle with the British forces; reminisces about childhood. Endorsed as \"1815.\"","Discusses peace between U.S. and Britian; family news.","Words of caution about handling a business transaction in which Barraud is also involved; physical condition of both; repairs to home in Norfolk.","Scope and Contents","Family news, including Daniel Cary Barraud's marriage; discusses their health, and the possibility of his returning home after he has recovered; Captain Crane is courting Miss[?] King, although Gabriel [?] doesn't believe that she [Miss King] really cares for him; Captain Wadsworth, Mary Eliza Taylor, and Mr. [?] Randolph believe that Gabriel wishes that it were she whom he was courting; mention of the Constitution \"breaking ground\" and the upcoming arrival of the Columbus, both of which will provide \"reinforcement\" for the local girls in the way of entertainment on board; she, however, has not permitted Lelia to go - \"this does not prevent their serenading us every night or two [though]\"; Beverly Kennon and Miss [?] Skipwith have \"parted by mutual consent [and] the families are not up on visiting terms\"; expects a visit from William Nivison and his son any day; yearns for fruit since a large storm destroyed their peach trees; mention of Louisa [?], Nancy Moreland and \"little Nan.\"","Scope and Contents","Report of family at \"Bremo\"; mention of John Hartwell Cocke, and a visit by Wilson Cary; various children interested in studies including Philip, who is \"trying French but is rather thick tongued\"; tells of an unsuccessful hunting expedition, stating that Otway [Byrd Barraud] is a \"poor hand with a gun.\"","Scope and Contents","Glad to hear health has improved; mention of his \"poor, sick and afflicted child, Polly\" who is confined to her bed, with neither Dr. Alexander Dickie Galt or Dr. Smith able to find a name or remedy for the illness; describes her illness; tells of a visit by Sally Peachy and her sister Nanny.","Contemporary Cy. Discussion on the education of women.","Scope and Contents","Sending a bundle of clothes for her \"Mammy Jenny\"; inquires about her reading.","Discussion of their health, including poem expressing religious feelings; family news.","Scope and Contents","Family news; tries to persuade Lelia to remain at \"Bremo\" because of a \"violent disease\" prevalent in Norfolk; describes a \"large gale\" which blew two Richmond steam boats up the Eastern Branch.","Announces the birth of Mira Rosa Barraud; the mother is doing well.","Family news; delay of the Tucker family's visit because of the death of Charles Carter; describes how she will fill her time while her husband is away; did not go to \"Bremo\" because there was only room for 4 people in Mr. Cocke's carriage; heard that Patsy [?] is to marry the Baptist preacher, but doesn't believe it; mention of Louisianna's \"affair\" and the attention being paid to her by a \"certain Presbyterian gentlemen\"; has a pot of pickles for her and her \"work table,\" which needs to be repaired.","Enclosing the commission of John Pegram as marshall of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia; requests that he deliver it to him.","Mentions Tucker's recent visit; Barraud family affairs; comments on the deaths of Jefferson and Adams.","Comments and sympathy of brother-in-law, Robert Taylor; other family news; mention of disease in Norfolk.","Invitation for her family to come for a visit; family news.","Scope and Contents","Death of Henry St. George Tucker's daughter, Frances.","Mention of the fire in Norfolk; quotations from Tucker's brother [Thomas Tudor Tucker]'s letter concerning Barraud.","Recollection of the time Barraud lived in Williamsburg \"now [a] deserted village\"; visit of Tucker Coles; other family news; regards from Sally Peachy and others.","Mention of Frank Willis, Mr. Tunstall's appointment in Washington, D.C., Helen and Tucker Coles, [Thomas Tudor Tucker], and other members of the Tudor family; received the leather from Cary.","Thanks him for the letter of sympathy; family news; plans to travel north.","Family news; went horseback riding; heard that Norfolk has become quite \"gay,\" mentioning a party given by Dr. Selden for Elizabeth Johnston, a \"sweet tempered sprightly girl.\"","Acknowledges letter of sympathy upon death of St. George Tucker, his brother.","Family news; mention of John Hartwell Cocke; describes in detail the visit to the \"Rock,\" and a waterfall; social gossip; birth of daughter to Louisianna (Cocke) Faulcon; Nancy [?] is making a flannel waistcoat for herself; asks opinion of the sale of the \"Dover Estate\" for $1,000, stating that it is a \"most elegant place.\"","News of family and friends; mention of the Cocke and Tucker families; election of General Jackson causing a \"great bustle,\" with Doctor Andrews giving a \"great Jackson dinner\"; lecture on the evils of women who lead men on.","Discusses the death of his wife Eliza (Naylor) Tucker, and thanks him for his condolences.","Scope and Contents","Reports that Dr. Barraud was to be removed from his post, and commending Barraud. Including AMsS, letter dated May 14, by Philip Barraud, Norfolk, Virginia, being a statement about his education, and services to the United States by being in charge of several hospitals, including a military hospital, 1776-1779, the Eastern State Hospital; and the Naval Hospital at Norfolk. 2 pages. Also including ADr., by Philip Barraud, stating that his appointment by the Adams Committee was without his consent [an apparent defense against replacement under Jackson's \"spoils system\". 2 pages.","Re: family affairs; is building a \"handsome portico\" at the South door; explains the supplies used, including marble, and the style of architecture as Doric. Including letter by Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud, Norfolk, Virginia. 1 page. Also including explanatory note concerning letter. 1 page.","Health is improving, as is Mother's and Lelia's; had some shirts \"prepared\" for him, and are now being forwarded.Including AL, n.d., from Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud, South Quay, Nansemond County, Virginia, giving health and family information. 2 pages.","Scope and Contents","Imagines the baking of mince pies and cheesecakes for Christmas; tells of the installing of a new stove, and her father's concern that it won't hold enough coal to heat a large room; describes a recent fire and other family news.Including ANS, n.d., from Daniel Cary Barraud. 1 page. Also including explanatory note concerning letter. 1 page.","Did not know his father [Dr. Philip Barraud] during the Revolutionary War - only afterwards; nor did he know Dr. Applewhaite as he was \"fortunate enough not to be sick during the whole of my service [in the Revolutionary War].\"","Included commission appointing him judge of the General Court and Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the first circuit, filling the vacancy made due to the death of Robert B. Taylor. (Commission not enclosed).","Concerning the service of Dr. Orr [in the American Revolution?]; tells some Orr family genealogy; and mentions the marriage of Dr. Applewhaite's sister to Dr. Orr.","Details of the cruise of his ship to the coast [of Africa?], Madeira and the Canaries; prospect of relief in 8 months; tells of his shipmates buying Madeira wine; describes the inhabitants of the Canaries, and their language, which is similar to Latin; tells of a court martial on board the Yorktown.Including N., explaining relationship of William H. Allmand to George P. Blow. 1 page.","Discusses his drinking problem, the family's grief over it, and the prospects that he will be dismissed from the Navy because of it.","Issued by the Dept. of the Interior and signed J.E. Heath, Commissioner. Includes various assignments on verso, 1884, and engravings of Andrew Jackson, and wild horses.","Signed by Franklin Pierce, President of the United States.","Issued by the Dept. of the Interior and signed by J. Minot, commissioner. Includes various assignments on verso, 1884, and numerous engravings depicting a battle from [the War of 1812?], a farmer, an Indian raid, and portraits of Lieut. General Winfield Scott and Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War.","Signed by Jno. Williams.","Baptism of Mary; mention of Joseph Cabell; family news; details about clothes that need to be altered, and a dress that needs to be lined.","Expresses satisfaction with the news of their acquiescence in her engagement to John N. Faulcon; hope her brother continues to recover; plans to visit in a fortnight; mentions her garden and visitors; mentions mutual acquaintances. Adds postscript to Aunt Lelia; requests two dresses be made for her in the next two months.","Narrative diary of John Taylor Barraud, U.S. Navy, while serving on the John Adams, a 20-gun sloop of war. 5 page typed summary included. The diary covers the time from Barraud's arrival by ship in Norfolk, Virginia, after an absence of 3 years. In early 1845, he goes to New York, N.Y. for assignment on the John Adams, which later travels to Pensacola, Florida and then to the Mexican coast. A large part of the diary consists of comments while sailing between Pensacola and Mexico, includes comments on the land, sea, and diplomatic aspects of the Mexican War. In late October, 1846, Barraud sails to Boston, Massachusetts, from whence he travels to New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland, Portsmouth, Virginia, the U.S. Naval Academy, Richmond, Virginia, via canal to the mountains, and back to the Academy.","Photocopy of S. 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Subjects covered include the War of 1812, medical service in the American Revolution and social life in Norfolk, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Also included are the commissions of John Taylor Barraud (1826-1860), U.S. Navy, and his narrative diary, 1844-1847, while serving off the Mexican coast; a contemporary copy (1820) of Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on the education of women; grants for bounty lands awarded Daniel Cary Barraud for his service in the War of 1812; a composition on Cato by Jonn Taylor Barraud (1826-1860), for the College of William and Mary; and the draft of a letter from James Barron (1758-1851), to President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) regarding Dr. Barraud's public services.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e See Also: Southern Women and their Families in the 19\u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003eth\u003c/emph\u003e Century Papers and Diaries Series C Reel # 01 in Swem Library's microforms area, call number HQ1438 .V5 S68\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMentions his brother, Daniel Barraud's eldest son, Philip; sorry to hear he lost all when driven from Norfolk; death of Philip Barraud's mother; mention of Mr. Hansford; comments on the \"plate\" mother left Daniel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eConditions in the army, including mention of \"the Baron [von Steuben\"?], Generals Heath and McDaugall, and Aduef; asks about Barraud's family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed, \"Received payment for P. Barraud. G.W. Maupin.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWill not be able to come for a visit due to his and his wife's poor health; also \"Fan\" will be visiting soon; mention of \"Poll\"; Henry arrived and is helping prepare his [SGT] book [Blackstone's Commentaries] for publication; [Nathaniel] Beverley [Tucker] will winter at \"Bizarre\" with is sister; best wishes for upcoming marriage of [Ann Hansford Barraud and John Hartwell Cockel]; hopes to meet soon, possibly at Swann's Point.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool composition on Cato.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncourages her to write neat letters, \"clear of blots because it looks very ugly;\" promises to send a present for every \"handsome letter sent;\" upset that Grandpapa will not let Grandmama whip her as she has heard that she [HO'G] keeps herself dirty and \"kicks up her heels in the street;\" praises the value of whipping and studies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eInscribed to Dr. Philip and Mrs. Barraud, 22 June 1809.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppended is Philip Barraud's explanation of the story. 1827 January 10\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn endorsement reads; \"The poor fellow died...no cure was made, consequently no pay can be demanded.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalk of British- U.S. relations; also mention of the safe return of Philip's son from Paris, France.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHad safe voyage to England; news of Spain, telling of Madrid being occupied by the Marquis of Wellington, and stating that \"the seige of Cadiz is raised, and many successes of the British in that country render it likely that that country will soon be evacuated by the French\"; also news of Europe, stating that a \"reconciliation with America is expected.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses feelings before battle with the British forces; reminisces about childhood. Endorsed as \"1815.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses peace between U.S. and Britian; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWords of caution about handling a business transaction in which Barraud is also involved; physical condition of both; repairs to home in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily news, including Daniel Cary Barraud's marriage; discusses their health, and the possibility of his returning home after he has recovered; Captain Crane is courting Miss[?] King, although Gabriel [?] doesn't believe that she [Miss King] really cares for him; Captain Wadsworth, Mary Eliza Taylor, and Mr. [?] Randolph believe that Gabriel wishes that it were she whom he was courting; mention of the Constitution \"breaking ground\" and the upcoming arrival of the Columbus, both of which will provide \"reinforcement\" for the local girls in the way of entertainment on board; she, however, has not permitted Lelia to go - \"this does not prevent their serenading us every night or two [though]\"; Beverly Kennon and Miss [?] Skipwith have \"parted by mutual consent [and] the families are not up on visiting terms\"; expects a visit from William Nivison and his son any day; yearns for fruit since a large storm destroyed their peach trees; mention of Louisa [?], Nancy Moreland and \"little Nan.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eReport of family at \"Bremo\"; mention of John Hartwell Cocke, and a visit by Wilson Cary; various children interested in studies including Philip, who is \"trying French but is rather thick tongued\"; tells of an unsuccessful hunting expedition, stating that Otway [Byrd Barraud] is a \"poor hand with a gun.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGlad to hear health has improved; mention of his \"poor, sick and afflicted child, Polly\" who is confined to her bed, with neither Dr. Alexander Dickie Galt or Dr. Smith able to find a name or remedy for the illness; describes her illness; tells of a visit by Sally Peachy and her sister Nanny.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContemporary Cy. Discussion on the education of women.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSending a bundle of clothes for her \"Mammy Jenny\"; inquires about her reading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of their health, including poem expressing religious feelings; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; tries to persuade Lelia to remain at \"Bremo\" because of a \"violent disease\" prevalent in Norfolk; describes a \"large gale\" which blew two Richmond steam boats up the Eastern Branch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces the birth of Mira Rosa Barraud; the mother is doing well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; delay of the Tucker family's visit because of the death of Charles Carter; describes how she will fill her time while her husband is away; did not go to \"Bremo\" because there was only room for 4 people in Mr. Cocke's carriage; heard that Patsy [?] is to marry the Baptist preacher, but doesn't believe it; mention of Louisianna's \"affair\" and the attention being paid to her by a \"certain Presbyterian gentlemen\"; has a pot of pickles for her and her \"work table,\" which needs to be repaired.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing the commission of John Pegram as marshall of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia; requests that he deliver it to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions Tucker's recent visit; Barraud family affairs; comments on the deaths of Jefferson and Adams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments and sympathy of brother-in-law, Robert Taylor; other family news; mention of disease in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation for her family to come for a visit; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Henry St. George Tucker's daughter, Frances.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMention of the fire in Norfolk; quotations from Tucker's brother [Thomas Tudor Tucker]'s letter concerning Barraud.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecollection of the time Barraud lived in Williamsburg \"now [a] deserted village\"; visit of Tucker Coles; other family news; regards from Sally Peachy and others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMention of Frank Willis, Mr. Tunstall's appointment in Washington, D.C., Helen and Tucker Coles, [Thomas Tudor Tucker], and other members of the Tudor family; received the leather from Cary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for the letter of sympathy; family news; plans to travel north.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; went horseback riding; heard that Norfolk has become quite \"gay,\" mentioning a party given by Dr. Selden for Elizabeth Johnston, a \"sweet tempered sprightly girl.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges letter of sympathy upon death of St. George Tucker, his brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; mention of John Hartwell Cocke; describes in detail the visit to the \"Rock,\" and a waterfall; social gossip; birth of daughter to Louisianna (Cocke) Faulcon; Nancy [?] is making a flannel waistcoat for herself; asks opinion of the sale of the \"Dover Estate\" for $1,000, stating that it is a \"most elegant place.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of family and friends; mention of the Cocke and Tucker families; election of General Jackson causing a \"great bustle,\" with Doctor Andrews giving a \"great Jackson dinner\"; lecture on the evils of women who lead men on.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the death of his wife Eliza (Naylor) Tucker, and thanks him for his condolences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eReports that Dr. Barraud was to be removed from his post, and commending Barraud. Including AMsS, letter dated May 14, by Philip Barraud, Norfolk, Virginia, being a statement about his education, and services to the United States by being in charge of several hospitals, including a military hospital, 1776-1779, the Eastern State Hospital; and the Naval Hospital at Norfolk. 2 pages. Also including ADr., by Philip Barraud, stating that his appointment by the Adams Committee was without his consent [an apparent defense against replacement under Jackson's \"spoils system\". 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: family affairs; is building a \"handsome portico\" at the South door; explains the supplies used, including marble, and the style of architecture as Doric. Including letter by Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud, Norfolk, Virginia. 1 page. Also including explanatory note concerning letter. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth is improving, as is Mother's and Lelia's; had some shirts \"prepared\" for him, and are now being forwarded.Including AL, n.d., from Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud, South Quay, Nansemond County, Virginia, giving health and family information. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eImagines the baking of mince pies and cheesecakes for Christmas; tells of the installing of a new stove, and her father's concern that it won't hold enough coal to heat a large room; describes a recent fire and other family news.Including ANS, n.d., from Daniel Cary Barraud. 1 page. Also including explanatory note concerning letter. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDid not know his father [Dr. Philip Barraud] during the Revolutionary War - only afterwards; nor did he know Dr. Applewhaite as he was \"fortunate enough not to be sick during the whole of my service [in the Revolutionary War].\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded commission appointing him judge of the General Court and Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the first circuit, filling the vacancy made due to the death of Robert B. Taylor. (Commission not enclosed).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the service of Dr. Orr [in the American Revolution?]; tells some Orr family genealogy; and mentions the marriage of Dr. Applewhaite's sister to Dr. Orr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetails of the cruise of his ship to the coast [of Africa?], Madeira and the Canaries; prospect of relief in 8 months; tells of his shipmates buying Madeira wine; describes the inhabitants of the Canaries, and their language, which is similar to Latin; tells of a court martial on board the Yorktown.Including N., explaining relationship of William H. Allmand to George P. Blow. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his drinking problem, the family's grief over it, and the prospects that he will be dismissed from the Navy because of it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIssued by the Dept. of the Interior and signed J.E. Heath, Commissioner. Includes various assignments on verso, 1884, and engravings of Andrew Jackson, and wild horses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by Franklin Pierce, President of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIssued by the Dept. of the Interior and signed by J. Minot, commissioner. Includes various assignments on verso, 1884, and numerous engravings depicting a battle from [the War of 1812?], a farmer, an Indian raid, and portraits of Lieut. General Winfield Scott and Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by Jno. Williams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBaptism of Mary; mention of Joseph Cabell; family news; details about clothes that need to be altered, and a dress that needs to be lined.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses satisfaction with the news of their acquiescence in her engagement to John N. Faulcon; hope her brother continues to recover; plans to visit in a fortnight; mentions her garden and visitors; mentions mutual acquaintances. Adds postscript to Aunt Lelia; requests two dresses be made for her in the next two months.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNarrative diary of John Taylor Barraud, U.S. Navy, while serving on the John Adams, a 20-gun sloop of war. 5 page typed summary included. The diary covers the time from Barraud's arrival by ship in Norfolk, Virginia, after an absence of 3 years. In early 1845, he goes to New York, N.Y. for assignment on the John Adams, which later travels to Pensacola, Florida and then to the Mexican coast. A large part of the diary consists of comments while sailing between Pensacola and Mexico, includes comments on the land, sea, and diplomatic aspects of the Mexican War. In late October, 1846, Barraud sails to Boston, Massachusetts, from whence he travels to New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland, Portsmouth, Virginia, the U.S. Naval Academy, Richmond, Virginia, via canal to the mountains, and back to the Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of S. Lawson Barraud's letter to Cary Cocke, 20 Jan. 1851 regarding the Gold Rush. Location of original with John Page Elliott? Acc. 1992.45 Addition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA typescript of a preliminary report on Ann Blaws Barraud by James S. Darling. Report on Ann Barraud as a Williamsburg wife, mother and musician, with notes on her husband Philip, a medical doctor and visiting physician to the Mental Hospital. Acc. 2006.02 Addition\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Correspondence and other papers, mostly 1810-1860, of the Barraud family of Norfolk, Virginia."," Correspondence of Dr. Philip Barraud (1758-1830), his wife, Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud (1760-1836), and their children, included Daniel Cary Barraud (1790-1867), Otway Byrd Barraud (b. 1801), and Leliana (Barraud) Baker (b. 1805)."," A number of the letters, as well as some poems, are from St. George Tucker (1752-1827), a close friend of Barraud's when he lived in Williamsburg, Va. Subjects covered include the War of 1812, medical service in the American Revolution and social life in Norfolk, Virginia."," Also included are the commissions of John Taylor Barraud (1826-1860), U.S. Navy, and his narrative diary, 1844-1847, while serving off the Mexican coast; a contemporary copy (1820) of Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on the education of women; grants for bounty lands awarded Daniel Cary Barraud for his service in the War of 1812; a composition on Cato by Jonn Taylor Barraud (1826-1860), for the College of William and Mary; and the draft of a letter from James Barron (1758-1851), to President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) regarding Dr. Barraud's public services."," See Also: Southern Women and their Families in the 19 th  Century Papers and Diaries Series C Reel # 01 in Swem Library's microforms area, call number HQ1438 .V5 S68","Scope and Contents","Mentions his brother, Daniel Barraud's eldest son, Philip; sorry to hear he lost all when driven from Norfolk; death of Philip Barraud's mother; mention of Mr. Hansford; comments on the \"plate\" mother left Daniel.","Scope and Contents","Conditions in the army, including mention of \"the Baron [von Steuben\"?], Generals Heath and McDaugall, and Aduef; asks about Barraud's family.","Endorsed, \"Received payment for P. Barraud. G.W. Maupin.\"","Scope and Contents","Will not be able to come for a visit due to his and his wife's poor health; also \"Fan\" will be visiting soon; mention of \"Poll\"; Henry arrived and is helping prepare his [SGT] book [Blackstone's Commentaries] for publication; [Nathaniel] Beverley [Tucker] will winter at \"Bizarre\" with is sister; best wishes for upcoming marriage of [Ann Hansford Barraud and John Hartwell Cockel]; hopes to meet soon, possibly at Swann's Point.","School composition on Cato.","Encourages her to write neat letters, \"clear of blots because it looks very ugly;\" promises to send a present for every \"handsome letter sent;\" upset that Grandpapa will not let Grandmama whip her as she has heard that she [HO'G] keeps herself dirty and \"kicks up her heels in the street;\" praises the value of whipping and studies.","Scope and Contents","Inscribed to Dr. Philip and Mrs. Barraud, 22 June 1809.","Appended is Philip Barraud's explanation of the story. 1827 January 10","An endorsement reads; \"The poor fellow died...no cure was made, consequently no pay can be demanded.\"","Talk of British- U.S. relations; also mention of the safe return of Philip's son from Paris, France.","Scope and Contents","Had safe voyage to England; news of Spain, telling of Madrid being occupied by the Marquis of Wellington, and stating that \"the seige of Cadiz is raised, and many successes of the British in that country render it likely that that country will soon be evacuated by the French\"; also news of Europe, stating that a \"reconciliation with America is expected.\"","Expresses feelings before battle with the British forces; reminisces about childhood. Endorsed as \"1815.\"","Discusses peace between U.S. and Britian; family news.","Words of caution about handling a business transaction in which Barraud is also involved; physical condition of both; repairs to home in Norfolk.","Scope and Contents","Family news, including Daniel Cary Barraud's marriage; discusses their health, and the possibility of his returning home after he has recovered; Captain Crane is courting Miss[?] King, although Gabriel [?] doesn't believe that she [Miss King] really cares for him; Captain Wadsworth, Mary Eliza Taylor, and Mr. [?] Randolph believe that Gabriel wishes that it were she whom he was courting; mention of the Constitution \"breaking ground\" and the upcoming arrival of the Columbus, both of which will provide \"reinforcement\" for the local girls in the way of entertainment on board; she, however, has not permitted Lelia to go - \"this does not prevent their serenading us every night or two [though]\"; Beverly Kennon and Miss [?] Skipwith have \"parted by mutual consent [and] the families are not up on visiting terms\"; expects a visit from William Nivison and his son any day; yearns for fruit since a large storm destroyed their peach trees; mention of Louisa [?], Nancy Moreland and \"little Nan.\"","Scope and Contents","Report of family at \"Bremo\"; mention of John Hartwell Cocke, and a visit by Wilson Cary; various children interested in studies including Philip, who is \"trying French but is rather thick tongued\"; tells of an unsuccessful hunting expedition, stating that Otway [Byrd Barraud] is a \"poor hand with a gun.\"","Scope and Contents","Glad to hear health has improved; mention of his \"poor, sick and afflicted child, Polly\" who is confined to her bed, with neither Dr. Alexander Dickie Galt or Dr. Smith able to find a name or remedy for the illness; describes her illness; tells of a visit by Sally Peachy and her sister Nanny.","Contemporary Cy. Discussion on the education of women.","Scope and Contents","Sending a bundle of clothes for her \"Mammy Jenny\"; inquires about her reading.","Discussion of their health, including poem expressing religious feelings; family news.","Scope and Contents","Family news; tries to persuade Lelia to remain at \"Bremo\" because of a \"violent disease\" prevalent in Norfolk; describes a \"large gale\" which blew two Richmond steam boats up the Eastern Branch.","Announces the birth of Mira Rosa Barraud; the mother is doing well.","Family news; delay of the Tucker family's visit because of the death of Charles Carter; describes how she will fill her time while her husband is away; did not go to \"Bremo\" because there was only room for 4 people in Mr. Cocke's carriage; heard that Patsy [?] is to marry the Baptist preacher, but doesn't believe it; mention of Louisianna's \"affair\" and the attention being paid to her by a \"certain Presbyterian gentlemen\"; has a pot of pickles for her and her \"work table,\" which needs to be repaired.","Enclosing the commission of John Pegram as marshall of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia; requests that he deliver it to him.","Mentions Tucker's recent visit; Barraud family affairs; comments on the deaths of Jefferson and Adams.","Comments and sympathy of brother-in-law, Robert Taylor; other family news; mention of disease in Norfolk.","Invitation for her family to come for a visit; family news.","Scope and Contents","Death of Henry St. George Tucker's daughter, Frances.","Mention of the fire in Norfolk; quotations from Tucker's brother [Thomas Tudor Tucker]'s letter concerning Barraud.","Recollection of the time Barraud lived in Williamsburg \"now [a] deserted village\"; visit of Tucker Coles; other family news; regards from Sally Peachy and others.","Mention of Frank Willis, Mr. Tunstall's appointment in Washington, D.C., Helen and Tucker Coles, [Thomas Tudor Tucker], and other members of the Tudor family; received the leather from Cary.","Thanks him for the letter of sympathy; family news; plans to travel north.","Family news; went horseback riding; heard that Norfolk has become quite \"gay,\" mentioning a party given by Dr. Selden for Elizabeth Johnston, a \"sweet tempered sprightly girl.\"","Acknowledges letter of sympathy upon death of St. George Tucker, his brother.","Family news; mention of John Hartwell Cocke; describes in detail the visit to the \"Rock,\" and a waterfall; social gossip; birth of daughter to Louisianna (Cocke) Faulcon; Nancy [?] is making a flannel waistcoat for herself; asks opinion of the sale of the \"Dover Estate\" for $1,000, stating that it is a \"most elegant place.\"","News of family and friends; mention of the Cocke and Tucker families; election of General Jackson causing a \"great bustle,\" with Doctor Andrews giving a \"great Jackson dinner\"; lecture on the evils of women who lead men on.","Discusses the death of his wife Eliza (Naylor) Tucker, and thanks him for his condolences.","Scope and Contents","Reports that Dr. Barraud was to be removed from his post, and commending Barraud. Including AMsS, letter dated May 14, by Philip Barraud, Norfolk, Virginia, being a statement about his education, and services to the United States by being in charge of several hospitals, including a military hospital, 1776-1779, the Eastern State Hospital; and the Naval Hospital at Norfolk. 2 pages. Also including ADr., by Philip Barraud, stating that his appointment by the Adams Committee was without his consent [an apparent defense against replacement under Jackson's \"spoils system\". 2 pages.","Re: family affairs; is building a \"handsome portico\" at the South door; explains the supplies used, including marble, and the style of architecture as Doric. Including letter by Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud, Norfolk, Virginia. 1 page. Also including explanatory note concerning letter. 1 page.","Health is improving, as is Mother's and Lelia's; had some shirts \"prepared\" for him, and are now being forwarded.Including AL, n.d., from Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud, South Quay, Nansemond County, Virginia, giving health and family information. 2 pages.","Scope and Contents","Imagines the baking of mince pies and cheesecakes for Christmas; tells of the installing of a new stove, and her father's concern that it won't hold enough coal to heat a large room; describes a recent fire and other family news.Including ANS, n.d., from Daniel Cary Barraud. 1 page. Also including explanatory note concerning letter. 1 page.","Did not know his father [Dr. Philip Barraud] during the Revolutionary War - only afterwards; nor did he know Dr. Applewhaite as he was \"fortunate enough not to be sick during the whole of my service [in the Revolutionary War].\"","Included commission appointing him judge of the General Court and Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the first circuit, filling the vacancy made due to the death of Robert B. Taylor. (Commission not enclosed).","Concerning the service of Dr. Orr [in the American Revolution?]; tells some Orr family genealogy; and mentions the marriage of Dr. Applewhaite's sister to Dr. Orr.","Details of the cruise of his ship to the coast [of Africa?], Madeira and the Canaries; prospect of relief in 8 months; tells of his shipmates buying Madeira wine; describes the inhabitants of the Canaries, and their language, which is similar to Latin; tells of a court martial on board the Yorktown.Including N., explaining relationship of William H. Allmand to George P. Blow. 1 page.","Discusses his drinking problem, the family's grief over it, and the prospects that he will be dismissed from the Navy because of it.","Issued by the Dept. of the Interior and signed J.E. Heath, Commissioner. Includes various assignments on verso, 1884, and engravings of Andrew Jackson, and wild horses.","Signed by Franklin Pierce, President of the United States.","Issued by the Dept. of the Interior and signed by J. Minot, commissioner. Includes various assignments on verso, 1884, and numerous engravings depicting a battle from [the War of 1812?], a farmer, an Indian raid, and portraits of Lieut. General Winfield Scott and Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War.","Signed by Jno. Williams.","Baptism of Mary; mention of Joseph Cabell; family news; details about clothes that need to be altered, and a dress that needs to be lined.","Expresses satisfaction with the news of their acquiescence in her engagement to John N. Faulcon; hope her brother continues to recover; plans to visit in a fortnight; mentions her garden and visitors; mentions mutual acquaintances. Adds postscript to Aunt Lelia; requests two dresses be made for her in the next two months.","Narrative diary of John Taylor Barraud, U.S. Navy, while serving on the John Adams, a 20-gun sloop of war. 5 page typed summary included. The diary covers the time from Barraud's arrival by ship in Norfolk, Virginia, after an absence of 3 years. In early 1845, he goes to New York, N.Y. for assignment on the John Adams, which later travels to Pensacola, Florida and then to the Mexican coast. A large part of the diary consists of comments while sailing between Pensacola and Mexico, includes comments on the land, sea, and diplomatic aspects of the Mexican War. In late October, 1846, Barraud sails to Boston, Massachusetts, from whence he travels to New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland, Portsmouth, Virginia, the U.S. Naval Academy, Richmond, Virginia, via canal to the mountains, and back to the Academy.","Photocopy of S. 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