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Incoming letters (boxes 1-43) -- From 1869 to 1923 (and occasionally through the 1940's) incoming letters were filed separately from other material. From 1899 to 1923 all incoming letters were stored annually in special file boxes arranged alphabetically by correspondent's name. The papers in this series are arranged as they were found.","Series II. Copies of outgoing letters (boxes 44-57) -- From the 1870's through the teens copies of outgoing letters were kept chronologically in letterpress books. The books are stored in chronological order.","Series III. Case files (boxes 58-125) -- The case files date back to 1874, but are concentrated between 1920 and 1955. While the dates of these case files overlap the chronological ones described above, case files were by no means regularly created until the early twenties when the other system was virtually abandoned. Since many, but not all, of the case files were numbered, it was impossible to restore them to numerical order. Therefore, they have been grouped into decades and then arranged alphabetically by title found on the original folder. If the original folder was numbered, that number is noted on the new one. The cases concern principally the settlement of debts, property and divorce, as well as, for the last few decades, insurance claims.","Series IV. Legal documents (boxes 126-145) -- These documents, originally stored apart from case files, are organized chronologically according to type of document, the largest groups of which are deeds (1885-1929) and titles (1876-1936). Also included in this series are documents related to specific cases (ca. 1870-1925), to the coal business, and to miscellaneous matters (ca. 1800-1950).","Series V. Financial papers (boxes 146-167 and oversize) -- The financial papers were likewise apparently filed separately in the office. They include notes, bonds, collections, accounts, bills, taxes, etc., and are arranged alphabetically (ca. 1870-1950). Ledgers containing the same sort of financial records are organized by size.","Series VI. General office correspondendence and cases (boxes 168-185) -- This alphabetical file, ca. 1920-1955, was apparently created for routine correspondence concerning clients and office matters. For some reason, certain cases were also incorporated into the alphabetical system, despite the fact that numbered case files continued to be created until the practice closed. (To complicate matters a bit further, there seem to have been two alphabetical files used consecutively. These have now been merged into one.) This series contains correspondence and case files, desk diaries, memoranda, unfiled office papers, and files relating to the insurance companies Eskridge represented.","Series VII. Insurance agency files (boxes 186-217) -- These files of the Insurance Agency of Charlottesville, 1923-1927, cover the period in which W.F. Carter, Jr., was agent. At the beginning of the series are documents concerning the audit of the agency and the subsequent incorporation.","Series VIII. Family business files, civic material and miscellany (boxes 218-232) -- These records, dating from the 1880's, provide a good deal of information about the financial affairs of the Charlottesville Dukes as well as their relatives.","Richard Thomas Walker Duke, son of Richard and Maria Walker Duke, was born 6 June 1822 in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he spent his childhood. After attending private schools, he entered Virginia Military Institute and finished second in the class of 1845. Upon graduating he taught school in Lewisburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), but returned to Charlottesville when his father died in 1849, and began studying law at the University. In 1850, he started his own law practice, and over the next ten years built a law office, was chosen one of Charlottesville's first aldermen, served briefly as mayor, and became commonwealth's attorney. He married Elizabeth Scott Eskridge of Staunton, and they had two sons, William and R. T. W. Jr. (Tom), and a daughter, Mary, all of whom lived to adulthood; two other children died in childhood.","As colonel of the 48th Regiment of the Virginia Volunteers, R. T. W. Duke took an active role in the Civil War. In 1864, he resigned his commission because of a dispute with a superior officer, but re-enlisted thirty days later. He surrendered with his troops at Silas Creek in 1865, and returned to his law practice and position as commonwealth's attorney. From that time on, Duke was known as \"the Colonel,\" and in honor of his service in the recent war, the local camp for the Sons of Confederate Veterans was named for him.","In 1863 Duke bought Sunnyside, a 70-acre tract of land northeast of Charlottesville (on which the Law School is now located), and farmed this property until his death. He was chosen secretary/treasurer of the board of trustees of the Samuel Miller Fund, established in 1869. In 1870, Duke assumed the fifth district's Congressional seat for two terms as a member of the Conservative party. Lobbying for a strong South throughout his term, Duke actively opposed the 14th Amendment. R. T. W. Duke died after a lingering illness in the summer of 1898.","William R. Duke, born in 1849, possessed his father's farming instincts and commitment to political involvement. Together they farmed and resided at Sunnyside, whose ownership William shared with his brother Tom after their father's death. Although William studied law at Virginia, and in 1883 joined his father's law practice, he devoted more energy to farming and such groups as the Virginia Cattlemen's Association. In 1897 he was elected delegate to the Virginia General Assembly. Like his father, William was also involved in local affairs, serving, for example, as clerk of the Miller Fund board of trustees for many years. William died in 1929 and was survived by his sons, William (Billy) and Camman.","Since he was born in 1853, Richard Thomas Walker Duke Jr. (Tom) witnessed the Civil War during his impressionable boyhood years and later wrote about those experiences. A gifted writer and student of languages, Tom studied classics, French, German, and English literature when he entered the University of Virginia in 1870. He was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Prize for the best essay in 1872, and then turned his attention to the study of law in 1873-74. It is likely that he later read law for a time in his father's office before passing the bar. Although the practice of law became his career, Duke wrote prose and poetry the rest of his life, and was published in the New York Herald and such magazines as Century, Lippincott's, and Illustrated American.","Throughout his long career, Tom was active in town, University, and state affairs. Among the organizations in which he held office were the Masons, Zeta Psi fraternity, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Miller Board, the UVA Alumni Association, and the state Democratic Committee. He served from 1886 to 1901 as judge of the Corporation Court (now called the Circuit Court), as commonwealth's attorney from 1916 to 1920, and as a member of the Committee to Revise the Virginia Code in 1908. In addition, he sat on the boards of a variety of corporations, including the Charlottesville Ice Company, the First National Bank, and a number of Kentucky and West Virginia coal development companies in which his family had invested. From 1907 to 1910, Tom edited the Virginia Law Journal.","Tom Duke married Edith Ridgeway Slaughter in 1884, and they produced six children, of whom five grew to maturity: Mary, R. T. W. III (Walker), John Flavel Slaughter (Jack), William Eskridge, and Helen Risdon. He built a spacious home for his family at 616 Park Street. A frequent traveller because of his practice, Duke also travelled for pleasure. As the children grew up, Edith often accompanied him to New York or Washington to shop, visit friends and attend plays, or she took journeys alone to visit children and other relatives. All the Duke children, as they reached their teens, attended boarding school, and all received at least some college education. Edith Duke died suddenly in 1921, and two years later, Tom married Maymee Richardson Slaughter, his wife's sister-in-law from Lynchburg. In March of 1926 Tom died at the age of 76.","Walker, after a few years in the Navy, joined the Army and became a career officer. Jack served in the Army during World War I, and then began a career in business. In 1917, Eskridge took a law degree at Virginia and joined his father's practice. He was plagued by ill-health throughout his career, and soon after their father's death, his sister Mary, a former social worker, began assisting in the law office. Helen, a librarian, worked in New York and Norfolk for a year or so before moving back to the family home. Eskridge and his wife, Lucy Lee, had three children, of whom two, William Eskridge Jr. (Bill) and Lucy Marshall, grew to adulthood. Jack died in 1933; Eskridge, in 1959; Walker, in 1960; Mary, in 1966; and Helen, in 1984.","The Charlottesville law practice established by R. T. W. Duke in 1850 remained in the family for two succeeding generations. After studying law with John B. Minor at the University of Virginia, Duke practiced alone until 1858, when he built his office at 20 Court House Square and took James D. Jones as a partner. Another lawyer, Louis G. Hanckel, joined the firm in the early seventies and handled insurance business. When Tom finished his legal studies in 1874, he assisted his father, whose partner by then was Stephen V. Southall. In the 1880's the firm was called Duke \u0026 Duke, William having joined his father shortly before Tom became judge.","The early work of the firm was limited to real estate, debt collection, and probate work, with an occasional criminal case. In addition, there was ample time for all three lawyers to pursue their assorted outside interests. At the office each man wrote his own letters, Tom switching to a Remington typewriter in 1889, before the days when they could hire a stenographer. The Dukes handled property rentals for some of their clients, the wealthiest and best known of whom was Jefferson Levy, owner of Monticello, the Opera House, and a great deal of other property in town.","With the combination of \"the Colonel's\" death, the social and economic changes in town around the turn of the century, and the energetic leadership of Tom, the workload of the practice increased and became more diverse. Loan and bond operations were added to the civil and criminal work and property management. Around 1917, Eskridge and Clarence E. Gentry joined the firm, now called Duke, Duke and Gentry. The law office was torn down in 1922, and the firm moved to a building shared with other lawyers at the corner of Fifth and Jefferson Streets. The practice flourished, and the Dukes often hired Virginia law students or graduates as clerks or associates, including Elizabeth Tompkins (the first female graduate of the Law School), Bernard Chamberlain, Anna Dinwiddie, and John Yancy.","It has not been determined whether the Dukes sold insurance after Hanckel left, but some time after Eskridge joined the firm in the late teens, the Insurance Agency was established. The title was changed to the Insurance Agency of Charlottesville in 1923, when W. F. Carter Jr. as agent. After Carter misappropriated funds, he was relieved of his job, the agency was incorporated, and the Dukes' interest in the business was eventually bought out by William B. Murphy.","Eskridge carried on the law practice with the assistance of Mary and an occasional associate. In 1937, he wrote that his firm \"is regional and local counsel for a number of insurance companies, Virginia counsel for the Pike Coal Company, and does a general legal business, specializing in insurance, real estate, corporation and probate law, also maintains a collection department.\" With his failing health in the late forties, the practice dwindled until 1955, when Duke and Duke closed a little over a hundred years after it began.","The Duke law firm papers include correspondence, case files, legal, insuarance, and financial records, as well as ledgers. The files provide extensive documentation of a small-town family practice. Since the insurance business and the Dukes's family business affairs were handled in the same office as the law practice, these files had remained with the legal files. The family correspondence found with these papers was transferred to Special Collections in Alderman Library.","The Duke papers were transferred from the first Duke office to the second Duke office, finally to their third office on Park Street, where they apparently were shifted more than once. Things were unavoidably jumbled, but the order within the cartons, the types of file boxes and folders, and the dates made it possible to reconstruct the original filing arrangements.","This collection is rich in source material for scholars of legal, social, or local history. The first area of research focuses on the changes in the character of this small-town law practice from the post-Civil War to the post-World War II periods. There are well-documented accounts in the shifts in the type of legal work the law firm handled, the daily office operations over the years, the economic vicissitudes of the practice, and the attitudes of three generations of lawyers. There is information on the political, economic, and social conditions of the Charlottesville area during the time span of the Dukes' law practice.","Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections","Duke family","Duke, Richard Thomas Walker (R. T. 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Incoming letters (boxes 1-43) -- From 1869 to 1923 (and occasionally through the 1940's) incoming letters were filed separately from other material. From 1899 to 1923 all incoming letters were stored annually in special file boxes arranged alphabetically by correspondent's name. The papers in this series are arranged as they were found.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries II. Copies of outgoing letters (boxes 44-57) -- From the 1870's through the teens copies of outgoing letters were kept chronologically in letterpress books. The books are stored in chronological order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries III. Case files (boxes 58-125) -- The case files date back to 1874, but are concentrated between 1920 and 1955. While the dates of these case files overlap the chronological ones described above, case files were by no means regularly created until the early twenties when the other system was virtually abandoned. Since many, but not all, of the case files were numbered, it was impossible to restore them to numerical order. Therefore, they have been grouped into decades and then arranged alphabetically by title found on the original folder. If the original folder was numbered, that number is noted on the new one. The cases concern principally the settlement of debts, property and divorce, as well as, for the last few decades, insurance claims.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV. Legal documents (boxes 126-145) -- These documents, originally stored apart from case files, are organized chronologically according to type of document, the largest groups of which are deeds (1885-1929) and titles (1876-1936). Also included in this series are documents related to specific cases (ca. 1870-1925), to the coal business, and to miscellaneous matters (ca. 1800-1950).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries V. Financial papers (boxes 146-167 and oversize) -- The financial papers were likewise apparently filed separately in the office. They include notes, bonds, collections, accounts, bills, taxes, etc., and are arranged alphabetically (ca. 1870-1950). Ledgers containing the same sort of financial records are organized by size.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VI. General office correspondendence and cases (boxes 168-185) -- This alphabetical file, ca. 1920-1955, was apparently created for routine correspondence concerning clients and office matters. For some reason, certain cases were also incorporated into the alphabetical system, despite the fact that numbered case files continued to be created until the practice closed. (To complicate matters a bit further, there seem to have been two alphabetical files used consecutively. These have now been merged into one.) This series contains correspondence and case files, desk diaries, memoranda, unfiled office papers, and files relating to the insurance companies Eskridge represented.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VII. Insurance agency files (boxes 186-217) -- These files of the Insurance Agency of Charlottesville, 1923-1927, cover the period in which W.F. Carter, Jr., was agent. At the beginning of the series are documents concerning the audit of the agency and the subsequent incorporation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VIII. Family business files, civic material and miscellany (boxes 218-232) -- These records, dating from the 1880's, provide a good deal of information about the financial affairs of the Charlottesville Dukes as well as their relatives.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers are organized into 8 series: 1st-6th series concern the law practice; 7th series, the insurance business; and the 8th, family business.","Series I. Incoming letters (boxes 1-43) -- From 1869 to 1923 (and occasionally through the 1940's) incoming letters were filed separately from other material. From 1899 to 1923 all incoming letters were stored annually in special file boxes arranged alphabetically by correspondent's name. The papers in this series are arranged as they were found.","Series II. Copies of outgoing letters (boxes 44-57) -- From the 1870's through the teens copies of outgoing letters were kept chronologically in letterpress books. The books are stored in chronological order.","Series III. Case files (boxes 58-125) -- The case files date back to 1874, but are concentrated between 1920 and 1955. While the dates of these case files overlap the chronological ones described above, case files were by no means regularly created until the early twenties when the other system was virtually abandoned. Since many, but not all, of the case files were numbered, it was impossible to restore them to numerical order. Therefore, they have been grouped into decades and then arranged alphabetically by title found on the original folder. If the original folder was numbered, that number is noted on the new one. The cases concern principally the settlement of debts, property and divorce, as well as, for the last few decades, insurance claims.","Series IV. Legal documents (boxes 126-145) -- These documents, originally stored apart from case files, are organized chronologically according to type of document, the largest groups of which are deeds (1885-1929) and titles (1876-1936). Also included in this series are documents related to specific cases (ca. 1870-1925), to the coal business, and to miscellaneous matters (ca. 1800-1950).","Series V. Financial papers (boxes 146-167 and oversize) -- The financial papers were likewise apparently filed separately in the office. They include notes, bonds, collections, accounts, bills, taxes, etc., and are arranged alphabetically (ca. 1870-1950). Ledgers containing the same sort of financial records are organized by size.","Series VI. General office correspondendence and cases (boxes 168-185) -- This alphabetical file, ca. 1920-1955, was apparently created for routine correspondence concerning clients and office matters. For some reason, certain cases were also incorporated into the alphabetical system, despite the fact that numbered case files continued to be created until the practice closed. (To complicate matters a bit further, there seem to have been two alphabetical files used consecutively. These have now been merged into one.) This series contains correspondence and case files, desk diaries, memoranda, unfiled office papers, and files relating to the insurance companies Eskridge represented.","Series VII. Insurance agency files (boxes 186-217) -- These files of the Insurance Agency of Charlottesville, 1923-1927, cover the period in which W.F. Carter, Jr., was agent. At the beginning of the series are documents concerning the audit of the agency and the subsequent incorporation.","Series VIII. Family business files, civic material and miscellany (boxes 218-232) -- These records, dating from the 1880's, provide a good deal of information about the financial affairs of the Charlottesville Dukes as well as their relatives."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRichard Thomas Walker Duke, son of Richard and Maria Walker Duke, was born 6 June 1822 in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he spent his childhood. After attending private schools, he entered Virginia Military Institute and finished second in the class of 1845. Upon graduating he taught school in Lewisburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), but returned to Charlottesville when his father died in 1849, and began studying law at the University. In 1850, he started his own law practice, and over the next ten years built a law office, was chosen one of Charlottesville's first aldermen, served briefly as mayor, and became commonwealth's attorney. He married Elizabeth Scott Eskridge of Staunton, and they had two sons, William and R. T. W. Jr. (Tom), and a daughter, Mary, all of whom lived to adulthood; two other children died in childhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs colonel of the 48th Regiment of the Virginia Volunteers, R. T. W. Duke took an active role in the Civil War. In 1864, he resigned his commission because of a dispute with a superior officer, but re-enlisted thirty days later. He surrendered with his troops at Silas Creek in 1865, and returned to his law practice and position as commonwealth's attorney. From that time on, Duke was known as \"the Colonel,\" and in honor of his service in the recent war, the local camp for the Sons of Confederate Veterans was named for him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1863 Duke bought Sunnyside, a 70-acre tract of land northeast of Charlottesville (on which the Law School is now located), and farmed this property until his death. He was chosen secretary/treasurer of the board of trustees of the Samuel Miller Fund, established in 1869. In 1870, Duke assumed the fifth district's Congressional seat for two terms as a member of the Conservative party. Lobbying for a strong South throughout his term, Duke actively opposed the 14th Amendment. R. T. W. Duke died after a lingering illness in the summer of 1898.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam R. Duke, born in 1849, possessed his father's farming instincts and commitment to political involvement. Together they farmed and resided at Sunnyside, whose ownership William shared with his brother Tom after their father's death. Although William studied law at Virginia, and in 1883 joined his father's law practice, he devoted more energy to farming and such groups as the Virginia Cattlemen's Association. In 1897 he was elected delegate to the Virginia General Assembly. Like his father, William was also involved in local affairs, serving, for example, as clerk of the Miller Fund board of trustees for many years. William died in 1929 and was survived by his sons, William (Billy) and Camman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSince he was born in 1853, Richard Thomas Walker Duke Jr. (Tom) witnessed the Civil War during his impressionable boyhood years and later wrote about those experiences. A gifted writer and student of languages, Tom studied classics, French, German, and English literature when he entered the University of Virginia in 1870. He was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Prize for the best essay in 1872, and then turned his attention to the study of law in 1873-74. It is likely that he later read law for a time in his father's office before passing the bar. Although the practice of law became his career, Duke wrote prose and poetry the rest of his life, and was published in the New York Herald and such magazines as Century, Lippincott's, and Illustrated American.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThroughout his long career, Tom was active in town, University, and state affairs. Among the organizations in which he held office were the Masons, Zeta Psi fraternity, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Miller Board, the UVA Alumni Association, and the state Democratic Committee. He served from 1886 to 1901 as judge of the Corporation Court (now called the Circuit Court), as commonwealth's attorney from 1916 to 1920, and as a member of the Committee to Revise the Virginia Code in 1908. In addition, he sat on the boards of a variety of corporations, including the Charlottesville Ice Company, the First National Bank, and a number of Kentucky and West Virginia coal development companies in which his family had invested. From 1907 to 1910, Tom edited the Virginia Law Journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTom Duke married Edith Ridgeway Slaughter in 1884, and they produced six children, of whom five grew to maturity: Mary, R. T. W. III (Walker), John Flavel Slaughter (Jack), William Eskridge, and Helen Risdon. He built a spacious home for his family at 616 Park Street. A frequent traveller because of his practice, Duke also travelled for pleasure. As the children grew up, Edith often accompanied him to New York or Washington to shop, visit friends and attend plays, or she took journeys alone to visit children and other relatives. All the Duke children, as they reached their teens, attended boarding school, and all received at least some college education. Edith Duke died suddenly in 1921, and two years later, Tom married Maymee Richardson Slaughter, his wife's sister-in-law from Lynchburg. In March of 1926 Tom died at the age of 76.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWalker, after a few years in the Navy, joined the Army and became a career officer. Jack served in the Army during World War I, and then began a career in business. In 1917, Eskridge took a law degree at Virginia and joined his father's practice. He was plagued by ill-health throughout his career, and soon after their father's death, his sister Mary, a former social worker, began assisting in the law office. Helen, a librarian, worked in New York and Norfolk for a year or so before moving back to the family home. Eskridge and his wife, Lucy Lee, had three children, of whom two, William Eskridge Jr. (Bill) and Lucy Marshall, grew to adulthood. Jack died in 1933; Eskridge, in 1959; Walker, in 1960; Mary, in 1966; and Helen, in 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Charlottesville law practice established by R. T. W. Duke in 1850 remained in the family for two succeeding generations. After studying law with John B. Minor at the University of Virginia, Duke practiced alone until 1858, when he built his office at 20 Court House Square and took James D. Jones as a partner. Another lawyer, Louis G. Hanckel, joined the firm in the early seventies and handled insurance business. When Tom finished his legal studies in 1874, he assisted his father, whose partner by then was Stephen V. Southall. In the 1880's the firm was called Duke \u0026amp; Duke, William having joined his father shortly before Tom became judge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe early work of the firm was limited to real estate, debt collection, and probate work, with an occasional criminal case. In addition, there was ample time for all three lawyers to pursue their assorted outside interests. At the office each man wrote his own letters, Tom switching to a Remington typewriter in 1889, before the days when they could hire a stenographer. The Dukes handled property rentals for some of their clients, the wealthiest and best known of whom was Jefferson Levy, owner of Monticello, the Opera House, and a great deal of other property in town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith the combination of \"the Colonel's\" death, the social and economic changes in town around the turn of the century, and the energetic leadership of Tom, the workload of the practice increased and became more diverse. Loan and bond operations were added to the civil and criminal work and property management. Around 1917, Eskridge and Clarence E. Gentry joined the firm, now called Duke, Duke and Gentry. The law office was torn down in 1922, and the firm moved to a building shared with other lawyers at the corner of Fifth and Jefferson Streets. The practice flourished, and the Dukes often hired Virginia law students or graduates as clerks or associates, including Elizabeth Tompkins (the first female graduate of the Law School), Bernard Chamberlain, Anna Dinwiddie, and John Yancy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIt has not been determined whether the Dukes sold insurance after Hanckel left, but some time after Eskridge joined the firm in the late teens, the Insurance Agency was established. The title was changed to the Insurance Agency of Charlottesville in 1923, when W. F. Carter Jr. as agent. After Carter misappropriated funds, he was relieved of his job, the agency was incorporated, and the Dukes' interest in the business was eventually bought out by William B. Murphy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEskridge carried on the law practice with the assistance of Mary and an occasional associate. In 1937, he wrote that his firm \"is regional and local counsel for a number of insurance companies, Virginia counsel for the Pike Coal Company, and does a general legal business, specializing in insurance, real estate, corporation and probate law, also maintains a collection department.\" With his failing health in the late forties, the practice dwindled until 1955, when Duke and Duke closed a little over a hundred years after it began.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Richard Thomas Walker Duke, son of Richard and Maria Walker Duke, was born 6 June 1822 in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he spent his childhood. After attending private schools, he entered Virginia Military Institute and finished second in the class of 1845. Upon graduating he taught school in Lewisburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), but returned to Charlottesville when his father died in 1849, and began studying law at the University. In 1850, he started his own law practice, and over the next ten years built a law office, was chosen one of Charlottesville's first aldermen, served briefly as mayor, and became commonwealth's attorney. He married Elizabeth Scott Eskridge of Staunton, and they had two sons, William and R. T. W. Jr. (Tom), and a daughter, Mary, all of whom lived to adulthood; two other children died in childhood.","As colonel of the 48th Regiment of the Virginia Volunteers, R. T. W. Duke took an active role in the Civil War. In 1864, he resigned his commission because of a dispute with a superior officer, but re-enlisted thirty days later. He surrendered with his troops at Silas Creek in 1865, and returned to his law practice and position as commonwealth's attorney. From that time on, Duke was known as \"the Colonel,\" and in honor of his service in the recent war, the local camp for the Sons of Confederate Veterans was named for him.","In 1863 Duke bought Sunnyside, a 70-acre tract of land northeast of Charlottesville (on which the Law School is now located), and farmed this property until his death. He was chosen secretary/treasurer of the board of trustees of the Samuel Miller Fund, established in 1869. In 1870, Duke assumed the fifth district's Congressional seat for two terms as a member of the Conservative party. Lobbying for a strong South throughout his term, Duke actively opposed the 14th Amendment. R. T. W. Duke died after a lingering illness in the summer of 1898.","William R. Duke, born in 1849, possessed his father's farming instincts and commitment to political involvement. Together they farmed and resided at Sunnyside, whose ownership William shared with his brother Tom after their father's death. Although William studied law at Virginia, and in 1883 joined his father's law practice, he devoted more energy to farming and such groups as the Virginia Cattlemen's Association. In 1897 he was elected delegate to the Virginia General Assembly. Like his father, William was also involved in local affairs, serving, for example, as clerk of the Miller Fund board of trustees for many years. William died in 1929 and was survived by his sons, William (Billy) and Camman.","Since he was born in 1853, Richard Thomas Walker Duke Jr. (Tom) witnessed the Civil War during his impressionable boyhood years and later wrote about those experiences. A gifted writer and student of languages, Tom studied classics, French, German, and English literature when he entered the University of Virginia in 1870. He was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Prize for the best essay in 1872, and then turned his attention to the study of law in 1873-74. It is likely that he later read law for a time in his father's office before passing the bar. Although the practice of law became his career, Duke wrote prose and poetry the rest of his life, and was published in the New York Herald and such magazines as Century, Lippincott's, and Illustrated American.","Throughout his long career, Tom was active in town, University, and state affairs. Among the organizations in which he held office were the Masons, Zeta Psi fraternity, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Miller Board, the UVA Alumni Association, and the state Democratic Committee. He served from 1886 to 1901 as judge of the Corporation Court (now called the Circuit Court), as commonwealth's attorney from 1916 to 1920, and as a member of the Committee to Revise the Virginia Code in 1908. In addition, he sat on the boards of a variety of corporations, including the Charlottesville Ice Company, the First National Bank, and a number of Kentucky and West Virginia coal development companies in which his family had invested. From 1907 to 1910, Tom edited the Virginia Law Journal.","Tom Duke married Edith Ridgeway Slaughter in 1884, and they produced six children, of whom five grew to maturity: Mary, R. T. W. III (Walker), John Flavel Slaughter (Jack), William Eskridge, and Helen Risdon. He built a spacious home for his family at 616 Park Street. A frequent traveller because of his practice, Duke also travelled for pleasure. As the children grew up, Edith often accompanied him to New York or Washington to shop, visit friends and attend plays, or she took journeys alone to visit children and other relatives. All the Duke children, as they reached their teens, attended boarding school, and all received at least some college education. Edith Duke died suddenly in 1921, and two years later, Tom married Maymee Richardson Slaughter, his wife's sister-in-law from Lynchburg. In March of 1926 Tom died at the age of 76.","Walker, after a few years in the Navy, joined the Army and became a career officer. Jack served in the Army during World War I, and then began a career in business. In 1917, Eskridge took a law degree at Virginia and joined his father's practice. He was plagued by ill-health throughout his career, and soon after their father's death, his sister Mary, a former social worker, began assisting in the law office. Helen, a librarian, worked in New York and Norfolk for a year or so before moving back to the family home. Eskridge and his wife, Lucy Lee, had three children, of whom two, William Eskridge Jr. (Bill) and Lucy Marshall, grew to adulthood. Jack died in 1933; Eskridge, in 1959; Walker, in 1960; Mary, in 1966; and Helen, in 1984.","The Charlottesville law practice established by R. T. W. Duke in 1850 remained in the family for two succeeding generations. After studying law with John B. Minor at the University of Virginia, Duke practiced alone until 1858, when he built his office at 20 Court House Square and took James D. Jones as a partner. Another lawyer, Louis G. Hanckel, joined the firm in the early seventies and handled insurance business. When Tom finished his legal studies in 1874, he assisted his father, whose partner by then was Stephen V. Southall. In the 1880's the firm was called Duke \u0026 Duke, William having joined his father shortly before Tom became judge.","The early work of the firm was limited to real estate, debt collection, and probate work, with an occasional criminal case. In addition, there was ample time for all three lawyers to pursue their assorted outside interests. At the office each man wrote his own letters, Tom switching to a Remington typewriter in 1889, before the days when they could hire a stenographer. The Dukes handled property rentals for some of their clients, the wealthiest and best known of whom was Jefferson Levy, owner of Monticello, the Opera House, and a great deal of other property in town.","With the combination of \"the Colonel's\" death, the social and economic changes in town around the turn of the century, and the energetic leadership of Tom, the workload of the practice increased and became more diverse. Loan and bond operations were added to the civil and criminal work and property management. Around 1917, Eskridge and Clarence E. Gentry joined the firm, now called Duke, Duke and Gentry. The law office was torn down in 1922, and the firm moved to a building shared with other lawyers at the corner of Fifth and Jefferson Streets. The practice flourished, and the Dukes often hired Virginia law students or graduates as clerks or associates, including Elizabeth Tompkins (the first female graduate of the Law School), Bernard Chamberlain, Anna Dinwiddie, and John Yancy.","It has not been determined whether the Dukes sold insurance after Hanckel left, but some time after Eskridge joined the firm in the late teens, the Insurance Agency was established. The title was changed to the Insurance Agency of Charlottesville in 1923, when W. F. Carter Jr. as agent. After Carter misappropriated funds, he was relieved of his job, the agency was incorporated, and the Dukes' interest in the business was eventually bought out by William B. Murphy.","Eskridge carried on the law practice with the assistance of Mary and an occasional associate. In 1937, he wrote that his firm \"is regional and local counsel for a number of insurance companies, Virginia counsel for the Pike Coal Company, and does a general legal business, specializing in insurance, real estate, corporation and probate law, also maintains a collection department.\" With his failing health in the late forties, the practice dwindled until 1955, when Duke and Duke closed a little over a hundred years after it began."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Duke law firm papers include correspondence, case files, legal, insuarance, and financial records, as well as ledgers. The files provide extensive documentation of a small-town family practice. Since the insurance business and the Dukes's family business affairs were handled in the same office as the law practice, these files had remained with the legal files. The family correspondence found with these papers was transferred to Special Collections in Alderman Library. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Duke papers were transferred from the first Duke office to the second Duke office, finally to their third office on Park Street, where they apparently were shifted more than once. Things were unavoidably jumbled, but the order within the cartons, the types of file boxes and folders, and the dates made it possible to reconstruct the original filing arrangements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection is rich in source material for scholars of legal, social, or local history. The first area of research focuses on the changes in the character of this small-town law practice from the post-Civil War to the post-World War II periods. There are well-documented accounts in the shifts in the type of legal work the law firm handled, the daily office operations over the years, the economic vicissitudes of the practice, and the attitudes of three generations of lawyers. There is information on the political, economic, and social conditions of the Charlottesville area during the time span of the Dukes' law practice.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Duke law firm papers include correspondence, case files, legal, insuarance, and financial records, as well as ledgers. The files provide extensive documentation of a small-town family practice. Since the insurance business and the Dukes's family business affairs were handled in the same office as the law practice, these files had remained with the legal files. The family correspondence found with these papers was transferred to Special Collections in Alderman Library.","The Duke papers were transferred from the first Duke office to the second Duke office, finally to their third office on Park Street, where they apparently were shifted more than once. Things were unavoidably jumbled, but the order within the cartons, the types of file boxes and folders, and the dates made it possible to reconstruct the original filing arrangements.","This collection is rich in source material for scholars of legal, social, or local history. The first area of research focuses on the changes in the character of this small-town law practice from the post-Civil War to the post-World War II periods. There are well-documented accounts in the shifts in the type of legal work the law firm handled, the daily office operations over the years, the economic vicissitudes of the practice, and the attitudes of three generations of lawyers. There is information on the political, economic, and social conditions of the Charlottesville area during the time span of the Dukes' law practice."],"corpname_ssim":["Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections"],"famname_ssim":["Duke family"],"names_coll_ssim":["Duke family","Duke, Richard Thomas Walker (R. T. W.), 1822-1898","Duke, William Eskridge, 1893-1959","Duke, William Eskridge, 1893-1959","Duke, William R., 1849-1929","Duke, Richard Thomas Walker (R. T. W.), 1822-1898"],"persname_ssim":["Duke, Richard Thomas Walker (R. T. W.), 1822-1898","Duke, William Eskridge, 1893-1959","Duke, William R., 1849-1929"],"names_ssim":["Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections","Duke family","Duke, Richard Thomas Walker (R. T. W.), 1822-1898","Duke, William Eskridge, 1893-1959","Duke, William R., 1849-1929"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":1908,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:41:46.106Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_repositories_4_resources_66","ead_ssi":"viu_repositories_4_resources_66","_root_":"viu_repositories_4_resources_66","_nest_parent_":"viu_repositories_4_resources_66","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/UVA/repositories_4_resources_66.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/106865","title_ssm":["Duke family law firm papers"],"title_tesim":["Duke family law firm papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["circa 1820 - 1959"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["circa 1820 - 1959"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1820/1959"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Duke family law firm papers, 1820/1959"],"text":["Duke family law firm papers, 1820/1959","MSS.79.6","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/4/resources/66","Charlottesville (Va.) -- History -- 19th Century","Charlottesville (Va.) -- History -- 20th century","practice of law -- Virginia","lawyers -- Virginia","The papers are organized into 8 series: 1st-6th series concern the law practice; 7th series, the insurance business; and the 8th, family business.","Series I. Incoming letters (boxes 1-43) -- From 1869 to 1923 (and occasionally through the 1940's) incoming letters were filed separately from other material. From 1899 to 1923 all incoming letters were stored annually in special file boxes arranged alphabetically by correspondent's name. The papers in this series are arranged as they were found.","Series II. Copies of outgoing letters (boxes 44-57) -- From the 1870's through the teens copies of outgoing letters were kept chronologically in letterpress books. The books are stored in chronological order.","Series III. Case files (boxes 58-125) -- The case files date back to 1874, but are concentrated between 1920 and 1955. While the dates of these case files overlap the chronological ones described above, case files were by no means regularly created until the early twenties when the other system was virtually abandoned. Since many, but not all, of the case files were numbered, it was impossible to restore them to numerical order. Therefore, they have been grouped into decades and then arranged alphabetically by title found on the original folder. If the original folder was numbered, that number is noted on the new one. The cases concern principally the settlement of debts, property and divorce, as well as, for the last few decades, insurance claims.","Series IV. Legal documents (boxes 126-145) -- These documents, originally stored apart from case files, are organized chronologically according to type of document, the largest groups of which are deeds (1885-1929) and titles (1876-1936). Also included in this series are documents related to specific cases (ca. 1870-1925), to the coal business, and to miscellaneous matters (ca. 1800-1950).","Series V. Financial papers (boxes 146-167 and oversize) -- The financial papers were likewise apparently filed separately in the office. They include notes, bonds, collections, accounts, bills, taxes, etc., and are arranged alphabetically (ca. 1870-1950). Ledgers containing the same sort of financial records are organized by size.","Series VI. General office correspondendence and cases (boxes 168-185) -- This alphabetical file, ca. 1920-1955, was apparently created for routine correspondence concerning clients and office matters. For some reason, certain cases were also incorporated into the alphabetical system, despite the fact that numbered case files continued to be created until the practice closed. (To complicate matters a bit further, there seem to have been two alphabetical files used consecutively. These have now been merged into one.) This series contains correspondence and case files, desk diaries, memoranda, unfiled office papers, and files relating to the insurance companies Eskridge represented.","Series VII. Insurance agency files (boxes 186-217) -- These files of the Insurance Agency of Charlottesville, 1923-1927, cover the period in which W.F. Carter, Jr., was agent. At the beginning of the series are documents concerning the audit of the agency and the subsequent incorporation.","Series VIII. Family business files, civic material and miscellany (boxes 218-232) -- These records, dating from the 1880's, provide a good deal of information about the financial affairs of the Charlottesville Dukes as well as their relatives.","Richard Thomas Walker Duke, son of Richard and Maria Walker Duke, was born 6 June 1822 in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he spent his childhood. After attending private schools, he entered Virginia Military Institute and finished second in the class of 1845. Upon graduating he taught school in Lewisburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), but returned to Charlottesville when his father died in 1849, and began studying law at the University. In 1850, he started his own law practice, and over the next ten years built a law office, was chosen one of Charlottesville's first aldermen, served briefly as mayor, and became commonwealth's attorney. He married Elizabeth Scott Eskridge of Staunton, and they had two sons, William and R. T. W. Jr. (Tom), and a daughter, Mary, all of whom lived to adulthood; two other children died in childhood.","As colonel of the 48th Regiment of the Virginia Volunteers, R. T. W. Duke took an active role in the Civil War. In 1864, he resigned his commission because of a dispute with a superior officer, but re-enlisted thirty days later. He surrendered with his troops at Silas Creek in 1865, and returned to his law practice and position as commonwealth's attorney. From that time on, Duke was known as \"the Colonel,\" and in honor of his service in the recent war, the local camp for the Sons of Confederate Veterans was named for him.","In 1863 Duke bought Sunnyside, a 70-acre tract of land northeast of Charlottesville (on which the Law School is now located), and farmed this property until his death. He was chosen secretary/treasurer of the board of trustees of the Samuel Miller Fund, established in 1869. In 1870, Duke assumed the fifth district's Congressional seat for two terms as a member of the Conservative party. Lobbying for a strong South throughout his term, Duke actively opposed the 14th Amendment. R. T. W. Duke died after a lingering illness in the summer of 1898.","William R. Duke, born in 1849, possessed his father's farming instincts and commitment to political involvement. Together they farmed and resided at Sunnyside, whose ownership William shared with his brother Tom after their father's death. Although William studied law at Virginia, and in 1883 joined his father's law practice, he devoted more energy to farming and such groups as the Virginia Cattlemen's Association. In 1897 he was elected delegate to the Virginia General Assembly. Like his father, William was also involved in local affairs, serving, for example, as clerk of the Miller Fund board of trustees for many years. William died in 1929 and was survived by his sons, William (Billy) and Camman.","Since he was born in 1853, Richard Thomas Walker Duke Jr. (Tom) witnessed the Civil War during his impressionable boyhood years and later wrote about those experiences. A gifted writer and student of languages, Tom studied classics, French, German, and English literature when he entered the University of Virginia in 1870. He was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Prize for the best essay in 1872, and then turned his attention to the study of law in 1873-74. It is likely that he later read law for a time in his father's office before passing the bar. Although the practice of law became his career, Duke wrote prose and poetry the rest of his life, and was published in the New York Herald and such magazines as Century, Lippincott's, and Illustrated American.","Throughout his long career, Tom was active in town, University, and state affairs. Among the organizations in which he held office were the Masons, Zeta Psi fraternity, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Miller Board, the UVA Alumni Association, and the state Democratic Committee. He served from 1886 to 1901 as judge of the Corporation Court (now called the Circuit Court), as commonwealth's attorney from 1916 to 1920, and as a member of the Committee to Revise the Virginia Code in 1908. In addition, he sat on the boards of a variety of corporations, including the Charlottesville Ice Company, the First National Bank, and a number of Kentucky and West Virginia coal development companies in which his family had invested. From 1907 to 1910, Tom edited the Virginia Law Journal.","Tom Duke married Edith Ridgeway Slaughter in 1884, and they produced six children, of whom five grew to maturity: Mary, R. T. W. III (Walker), John Flavel Slaughter (Jack), William Eskridge, and Helen Risdon. He built a spacious home for his family at 616 Park Street. A frequent traveller because of his practice, Duke also travelled for pleasure. As the children grew up, Edith often accompanied him to New York or Washington to shop, visit friends and attend plays, or she took journeys alone to visit children and other relatives. All the Duke children, as they reached their teens, attended boarding school, and all received at least some college education. Edith Duke died suddenly in 1921, and two years later, Tom married Maymee Richardson Slaughter, his wife's sister-in-law from Lynchburg. In March of 1926 Tom died at the age of 76.","Walker, after a few years in the Navy, joined the Army and became a career officer. Jack served in the Army during World War I, and then began a career in business. In 1917, Eskridge took a law degree at Virginia and joined his father's practice. He was plagued by ill-health throughout his career, and soon after their father's death, his sister Mary, a former social worker, began assisting in the law office. Helen, a librarian, worked in New York and Norfolk for a year or so before moving back to the family home. Eskridge and his wife, Lucy Lee, had three children, of whom two, William Eskridge Jr. (Bill) and Lucy Marshall, grew to adulthood. Jack died in 1933; Eskridge, in 1959; Walker, in 1960; Mary, in 1966; and Helen, in 1984.","The Charlottesville law practice established by R. T. W. Duke in 1850 remained in the family for two succeeding generations. After studying law with John B. Minor at the University of Virginia, Duke practiced alone until 1858, when he built his office at 20 Court House Square and took James D. Jones as a partner. Another lawyer, Louis G. Hanckel, joined the firm in the early seventies and handled insurance business. When Tom finished his legal studies in 1874, he assisted his father, whose partner by then was Stephen V. Southall. In the 1880's the firm was called Duke \u0026 Duke, William having joined his father shortly before Tom became judge.","The early work of the firm was limited to real estate, debt collection, and probate work, with an occasional criminal case. In addition, there was ample time for all three lawyers to pursue their assorted outside interests. At the office each man wrote his own letters, Tom switching to a Remington typewriter in 1889, before the days when they could hire a stenographer. The Dukes handled property rentals for some of their clients, the wealthiest and best known of whom was Jefferson Levy, owner of Monticello, the Opera House, and a great deal of other property in town.","With the combination of \"the Colonel's\" death, the social and economic changes in town around the turn of the century, and the energetic leadership of Tom, the workload of the practice increased and became more diverse. Loan and bond operations were added to the civil and criminal work and property management. Around 1917, Eskridge and Clarence E. Gentry joined the firm, now called Duke, Duke and Gentry. The law office was torn down in 1922, and the firm moved to a building shared with other lawyers at the corner of Fifth and Jefferson Streets. The practice flourished, and the Dukes often hired Virginia law students or graduates as clerks or associates, including Elizabeth Tompkins (the first female graduate of the Law School), Bernard Chamberlain, Anna Dinwiddie, and John Yancy.","It has not been determined whether the Dukes sold insurance after Hanckel left, but some time after Eskridge joined the firm in the late teens, the Insurance Agency was established. The title was changed to the Insurance Agency of Charlottesville in 1923, when W. F. Carter Jr. as agent. After Carter misappropriated funds, he was relieved of his job, the agency was incorporated, and the Dukes' interest in the business was eventually bought out by William B. Murphy.","Eskridge carried on the law practice with the assistance of Mary and an occasional associate. In 1937, he wrote that his firm \"is regional and local counsel for a number of insurance companies, Virginia counsel for the Pike Coal Company, and does a general legal business, specializing in insurance, real estate, corporation and probate law, also maintains a collection department.\" With his failing health in the late forties, the practice dwindled until 1955, when Duke and Duke closed a little over a hundred years after it began.","The Duke law firm papers include correspondence, case files, legal, insuarance, and financial records, as well as ledgers. The files provide extensive documentation of a small-town family practice. Since the insurance business and the Dukes's family business affairs were handled in the same office as the law practice, these files had remained with the legal files. The family correspondence found with these papers was transferred to Special Collections in Alderman Library.","The Duke papers were transferred from the first Duke office to the second Duke office, finally to their third office on Park Street, where they apparently were shifted more than once. Things were unavoidably jumbled, but the order within the cartons, the types of file boxes and folders, and the dates made it possible to reconstruct the original filing arrangements.","This collection is rich in source material for scholars of legal, social, or local history. The first area of research focuses on the changes in the character of this small-town law practice from the post-Civil War to the post-World War II periods. There are well-documented accounts in the shifts in the type of legal work the law firm handled, the daily office operations over the years, the economic vicissitudes of the practice, and the attitudes of three generations of lawyers. There is information on the political, economic, and social conditions of the Charlottesville area during the time span of the Dukes' law practice.","Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections","Duke family","Duke, Richard Thomas Walker (R. T. 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Incoming letters (boxes 1-43) -- From 1869 to 1923 (and occasionally through the 1940's) incoming letters were filed separately from other material. From 1899 to 1923 all incoming letters were stored annually in special file boxes arranged alphabetically by correspondent's name. The papers in this series are arranged as they were found.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries II. Copies of outgoing letters (boxes 44-57) -- From the 1870's through the teens copies of outgoing letters were kept chronologically in letterpress books. The books are stored in chronological order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries III. Case files (boxes 58-125) -- The case files date back to 1874, but are concentrated between 1920 and 1955. While the dates of these case files overlap the chronological ones described above, case files were by no means regularly created until the early twenties when the other system was virtually abandoned. Since many, but not all, of the case files were numbered, it was impossible to restore them to numerical order. Therefore, they have been grouped into decades and then arranged alphabetically by title found on the original folder. If the original folder was numbered, that number is noted on the new one. The cases concern principally the settlement of debts, property and divorce, as well as, for the last few decades, insurance claims.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV. Legal documents (boxes 126-145) -- These documents, originally stored apart from case files, are organized chronologically according to type of document, the largest groups of which are deeds (1885-1929) and titles (1876-1936). Also included in this series are documents related to specific cases (ca. 1870-1925), to the coal business, and to miscellaneous matters (ca. 1800-1950).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries V. Financial papers (boxes 146-167 and oversize) -- The financial papers were likewise apparently filed separately in the office. They include notes, bonds, collections, accounts, bills, taxes, etc., and are arranged alphabetically (ca. 1870-1950). Ledgers containing the same sort of financial records are organized by size.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VI. General office correspondendence and cases (boxes 168-185) -- This alphabetical file, ca. 1920-1955, was apparently created for routine correspondence concerning clients and office matters. For some reason, certain cases were also incorporated into the alphabetical system, despite the fact that numbered case files continued to be created until the practice closed. (To complicate matters a bit further, there seem to have been two alphabetical files used consecutively. These have now been merged into one.) This series contains correspondence and case files, desk diaries, memoranda, unfiled office papers, and files relating to the insurance companies Eskridge represented.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VII. Insurance agency files (boxes 186-217) -- These files of the Insurance Agency of Charlottesville, 1923-1927, cover the period in which W.F. Carter, Jr., was agent. At the beginning of the series are documents concerning the audit of the agency and the subsequent incorporation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VIII. Family business files, civic material and miscellany (boxes 218-232) -- These records, dating from the 1880's, provide a good deal of information about the financial affairs of the Charlottesville Dukes as well as their relatives.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers are organized into 8 series: 1st-6th series concern the law practice; 7th series, the insurance business; and the 8th, family business.","Series I. Incoming letters (boxes 1-43) -- From 1869 to 1923 (and occasionally through the 1940's) incoming letters were filed separately from other material. From 1899 to 1923 all incoming letters were stored annually in special file boxes arranged alphabetically by correspondent's name. The papers in this series are arranged as they were found.","Series II. Copies of outgoing letters (boxes 44-57) -- From the 1870's through the teens copies of outgoing letters were kept chronologically in letterpress books. The books are stored in chronological order.","Series III. Case files (boxes 58-125) -- The case files date back to 1874, but are concentrated between 1920 and 1955. While the dates of these case files overlap the chronological ones described above, case files were by no means regularly created until the early twenties when the other system was virtually abandoned. Since many, but not all, of the case files were numbered, it was impossible to restore them to numerical order. Therefore, they have been grouped into decades and then arranged alphabetically by title found on the original folder. If the original folder was numbered, that number is noted on the new one. The cases concern principally the settlement of debts, property and divorce, as well as, for the last few decades, insurance claims.","Series IV. Legal documents (boxes 126-145) -- These documents, originally stored apart from case files, are organized chronologically according to type of document, the largest groups of which are deeds (1885-1929) and titles (1876-1936). Also included in this series are documents related to specific cases (ca. 1870-1925), to the coal business, and to miscellaneous matters (ca. 1800-1950).","Series V. Financial papers (boxes 146-167 and oversize) -- The financial papers were likewise apparently filed separately in the office. They include notes, bonds, collections, accounts, bills, taxes, etc., and are arranged alphabetically (ca. 1870-1950). Ledgers containing the same sort of financial records are organized by size.","Series VI. General office correspondendence and cases (boxes 168-185) -- This alphabetical file, ca. 1920-1955, was apparently created for routine correspondence concerning clients and office matters. For some reason, certain cases were also incorporated into the alphabetical system, despite the fact that numbered case files continued to be created until the practice closed. (To complicate matters a bit further, there seem to have been two alphabetical files used consecutively. These have now been merged into one.) This series contains correspondence and case files, desk diaries, memoranda, unfiled office papers, and files relating to the insurance companies Eskridge represented.","Series VII. Insurance agency files (boxes 186-217) -- These files of the Insurance Agency of Charlottesville, 1923-1927, cover the period in which W.F. Carter, Jr., was agent. At the beginning of the series are documents concerning the audit of the agency and the subsequent incorporation.","Series VIII. Family business files, civic material and miscellany (boxes 218-232) -- These records, dating from the 1880's, provide a good deal of information about the financial affairs of the Charlottesville Dukes as well as their relatives."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRichard Thomas Walker Duke, son of Richard and Maria Walker Duke, was born 6 June 1822 in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he spent his childhood. After attending private schools, he entered Virginia Military Institute and finished second in the class of 1845. Upon graduating he taught school in Lewisburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), but returned to Charlottesville when his father died in 1849, and began studying law at the University. In 1850, he started his own law practice, and over the next ten years built a law office, was chosen one of Charlottesville's first aldermen, served briefly as mayor, and became commonwealth's attorney. He married Elizabeth Scott Eskridge of Staunton, and they had two sons, William and R. T. W. Jr. (Tom), and a daughter, Mary, all of whom lived to adulthood; two other children died in childhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs colonel of the 48th Regiment of the Virginia Volunteers, R. T. W. Duke took an active role in the Civil War. In 1864, he resigned his commission because of a dispute with a superior officer, but re-enlisted thirty days later. He surrendered with his troops at Silas Creek in 1865, and returned to his law practice and position as commonwealth's attorney. From that time on, Duke was known as \"the Colonel,\" and in honor of his service in the recent war, the local camp for the Sons of Confederate Veterans was named for him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1863 Duke bought Sunnyside, a 70-acre tract of land northeast of Charlottesville (on which the Law School is now located), and farmed this property until his death. He was chosen secretary/treasurer of the board of trustees of the Samuel Miller Fund, established in 1869. In 1870, Duke assumed the fifth district's Congressional seat for two terms as a member of the Conservative party. Lobbying for a strong South throughout his term, Duke actively opposed the 14th Amendment. R. T. W. Duke died after a lingering illness in the summer of 1898.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam R. Duke, born in 1849, possessed his father's farming instincts and commitment to political involvement. Together they farmed and resided at Sunnyside, whose ownership William shared with his brother Tom after their father's death. Although William studied law at Virginia, and in 1883 joined his father's law practice, he devoted more energy to farming and such groups as the Virginia Cattlemen's Association. In 1897 he was elected delegate to the Virginia General Assembly. Like his father, William was also involved in local affairs, serving, for example, as clerk of the Miller Fund board of trustees for many years. William died in 1929 and was survived by his sons, William (Billy) and Camman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSince he was born in 1853, Richard Thomas Walker Duke Jr. (Tom) witnessed the Civil War during his impressionable boyhood years and later wrote about those experiences. A gifted writer and student of languages, Tom studied classics, French, German, and English literature when he entered the University of Virginia in 1870. He was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Prize for the best essay in 1872, and then turned his attention to the study of law in 1873-74. It is likely that he later read law for a time in his father's office before passing the bar. Although the practice of law became his career, Duke wrote prose and poetry the rest of his life, and was published in the New York Herald and such magazines as Century, Lippincott's, and Illustrated American.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThroughout his long career, Tom was active in town, University, and state affairs. Among the organizations in which he held office were the Masons, Zeta Psi fraternity, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Miller Board, the UVA Alumni Association, and the state Democratic Committee. He served from 1886 to 1901 as judge of the Corporation Court (now called the Circuit Court), as commonwealth's attorney from 1916 to 1920, and as a member of the Committee to Revise the Virginia Code in 1908. In addition, he sat on the boards of a variety of corporations, including the Charlottesville Ice Company, the First National Bank, and a number of Kentucky and West Virginia coal development companies in which his family had invested. From 1907 to 1910, Tom edited the Virginia Law Journal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTom Duke married Edith Ridgeway Slaughter in 1884, and they produced six children, of whom five grew to maturity: Mary, R. T. W. III (Walker), John Flavel Slaughter (Jack), William Eskridge, and Helen Risdon. He built a spacious home for his family at 616 Park Street. A frequent traveller because of his practice, Duke also travelled for pleasure. As the children grew up, Edith often accompanied him to New York or Washington to shop, visit friends and attend plays, or she took journeys alone to visit children and other relatives. All the Duke children, as they reached their teens, attended boarding school, and all received at least some college education. Edith Duke died suddenly in 1921, and two years later, Tom married Maymee Richardson Slaughter, his wife's sister-in-law from Lynchburg. In March of 1926 Tom died at the age of 76.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWalker, after a few years in the Navy, joined the Army and became a career officer. Jack served in the Army during World War I, and then began a career in business. In 1917, Eskridge took a law degree at Virginia and joined his father's practice. He was plagued by ill-health throughout his career, and soon after their father's death, his sister Mary, a former social worker, began assisting in the law office. Helen, a librarian, worked in New York and Norfolk for a year or so before moving back to the family home. Eskridge and his wife, Lucy Lee, had three children, of whom two, William Eskridge Jr. (Bill) and Lucy Marshall, grew to adulthood. Jack died in 1933; Eskridge, in 1959; Walker, in 1960; Mary, in 1966; and Helen, in 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Charlottesville law practice established by R. T. W. Duke in 1850 remained in the family for two succeeding generations. After studying law with John B. Minor at the University of Virginia, Duke practiced alone until 1858, when he built his office at 20 Court House Square and took James D. Jones as a partner. Another lawyer, Louis G. Hanckel, joined the firm in the early seventies and handled insurance business. When Tom finished his legal studies in 1874, he assisted his father, whose partner by then was Stephen V. Southall. In the 1880's the firm was called Duke \u0026amp; Duke, William having joined his father shortly before Tom became judge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe early work of the firm was limited to real estate, debt collection, and probate work, with an occasional criminal case. In addition, there was ample time for all three lawyers to pursue their assorted outside interests. At the office each man wrote his own letters, Tom switching to a Remington typewriter in 1889, before the days when they could hire a stenographer. The Dukes handled property rentals for some of their clients, the wealthiest and best known of whom was Jefferson Levy, owner of Monticello, the Opera House, and a great deal of other property in town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith the combination of \"the Colonel's\" death, the social and economic changes in town around the turn of the century, and the energetic leadership of Tom, the workload of the practice increased and became more diverse. Loan and bond operations were added to the civil and criminal work and property management. Around 1917, Eskridge and Clarence E. Gentry joined the firm, now called Duke, Duke and Gentry. The law office was torn down in 1922, and the firm moved to a building shared with other lawyers at the corner of Fifth and Jefferson Streets. The practice flourished, and the Dukes often hired Virginia law students or graduates as clerks or associates, including Elizabeth Tompkins (the first female graduate of the Law School), Bernard Chamberlain, Anna Dinwiddie, and John Yancy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIt has not been determined whether the Dukes sold insurance after Hanckel left, but some time after Eskridge joined the firm in the late teens, the Insurance Agency was established. The title was changed to the Insurance Agency of Charlottesville in 1923, when W. F. Carter Jr. as agent. After Carter misappropriated funds, he was relieved of his job, the agency was incorporated, and the Dukes' interest in the business was eventually bought out by William B. Murphy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEskridge carried on the law practice with the assistance of Mary and an occasional associate. In 1937, he wrote that his firm \"is regional and local counsel for a number of insurance companies, Virginia counsel for the Pike Coal Company, and does a general legal business, specializing in insurance, real estate, corporation and probate law, also maintains a collection department.\" With his failing health in the late forties, the practice dwindled until 1955, when Duke and Duke closed a little over a hundred years after it began.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Richard Thomas Walker Duke, son of Richard and Maria Walker Duke, was born 6 June 1822 in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he spent his childhood. After attending private schools, he entered Virginia Military Institute and finished second in the class of 1845. Upon graduating he taught school in Lewisburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), but returned to Charlottesville when his father died in 1849, and began studying law at the University. In 1850, he started his own law practice, and over the next ten years built a law office, was chosen one of Charlottesville's first aldermen, served briefly as mayor, and became commonwealth's attorney. He married Elizabeth Scott Eskridge of Staunton, and they had two sons, William and R. T. W. Jr. (Tom), and a daughter, Mary, all of whom lived to adulthood; two other children died in childhood.","As colonel of the 48th Regiment of the Virginia Volunteers, R. T. W. Duke took an active role in the Civil War. In 1864, he resigned his commission because of a dispute with a superior officer, but re-enlisted thirty days later. He surrendered with his troops at Silas Creek in 1865, and returned to his law practice and position as commonwealth's attorney. From that time on, Duke was known as \"the Colonel,\" and in honor of his service in the recent war, the local camp for the Sons of Confederate Veterans was named for him.","In 1863 Duke bought Sunnyside, a 70-acre tract of land northeast of Charlottesville (on which the Law School is now located), and farmed this property until his death. He was chosen secretary/treasurer of the board of trustees of the Samuel Miller Fund, established in 1869. In 1870, Duke assumed the fifth district's Congressional seat for two terms as a member of the Conservative party. Lobbying for a strong South throughout his term, Duke actively opposed the 14th Amendment. R. T. W. Duke died after a lingering illness in the summer of 1898.","William R. Duke, born in 1849, possessed his father's farming instincts and commitment to political involvement. Together they farmed and resided at Sunnyside, whose ownership William shared with his brother Tom after their father's death. Although William studied law at Virginia, and in 1883 joined his father's law practice, he devoted more energy to farming and such groups as the Virginia Cattlemen's Association. In 1897 he was elected delegate to the Virginia General Assembly. Like his father, William was also involved in local affairs, serving, for example, as clerk of the Miller Fund board of trustees for many years. William died in 1929 and was survived by his sons, William (Billy) and Camman.","Since he was born in 1853, Richard Thomas Walker Duke Jr. (Tom) witnessed the Civil War during his impressionable boyhood years and later wrote about those experiences. A gifted writer and student of languages, Tom studied classics, French, German, and English literature when he entered the University of Virginia in 1870. He was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Prize for the best essay in 1872, and then turned his attention to the study of law in 1873-74. It is likely that he later read law for a time in his father's office before passing the bar. Although the practice of law became his career, Duke wrote prose and poetry the rest of his life, and was published in the New York Herald and such magazines as Century, Lippincott's, and Illustrated American.","Throughout his long career, Tom was active in town, University, and state affairs. Among the organizations in which he held office were the Masons, Zeta Psi fraternity, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Miller Board, the UVA Alumni Association, and the state Democratic Committee. He served from 1886 to 1901 as judge of the Corporation Court (now called the Circuit Court), as commonwealth's attorney from 1916 to 1920, and as a member of the Committee to Revise the Virginia Code in 1908. In addition, he sat on the boards of a variety of corporations, including the Charlottesville Ice Company, the First National Bank, and a number of Kentucky and West Virginia coal development companies in which his family had invested. From 1907 to 1910, Tom edited the Virginia Law Journal.","Tom Duke married Edith Ridgeway Slaughter in 1884, and they produced six children, of whom five grew to maturity: Mary, R. T. W. III (Walker), John Flavel Slaughter (Jack), William Eskridge, and Helen Risdon. He built a spacious home for his family at 616 Park Street. A frequent traveller because of his practice, Duke also travelled for pleasure. As the children grew up, Edith often accompanied him to New York or Washington to shop, visit friends and attend plays, or she took journeys alone to visit children and other relatives. All the Duke children, as they reached their teens, attended boarding school, and all received at least some college education. Edith Duke died suddenly in 1921, and two years later, Tom married Maymee Richardson Slaughter, his wife's sister-in-law from Lynchburg. In March of 1926 Tom died at the age of 76.","Walker, after a few years in the Navy, joined the Army and became a career officer. Jack served in the Army during World War I, and then began a career in business. In 1917, Eskridge took a law degree at Virginia and joined his father's practice. He was plagued by ill-health throughout his career, and soon after their father's death, his sister Mary, a former social worker, began assisting in the law office. Helen, a librarian, worked in New York and Norfolk for a year or so before moving back to the family home. Eskridge and his wife, Lucy Lee, had three children, of whom two, William Eskridge Jr. (Bill) and Lucy Marshall, grew to adulthood. Jack died in 1933; Eskridge, in 1959; Walker, in 1960; Mary, in 1966; and Helen, in 1984.","The Charlottesville law practice established by R. T. W. Duke in 1850 remained in the family for two succeeding generations. After studying law with John B. Minor at the University of Virginia, Duke practiced alone until 1858, when he built his office at 20 Court House Square and took James D. Jones as a partner. Another lawyer, Louis G. Hanckel, joined the firm in the early seventies and handled insurance business. When Tom finished his legal studies in 1874, he assisted his father, whose partner by then was Stephen V. Southall. In the 1880's the firm was called Duke \u0026 Duke, William having joined his father shortly before Tom became judge.","The early work of the firm was limited to real estate, debt collection, and probate work, with an occasional criminal case. In addition, there was ample time for all three lawyers to pursue their assorted outside interests. At the office each man wrote his own letters, Tom switching to a Remington typewriter in 1889, before the days when they could hire a stenographer. The Dukes handled property rentals for some of their clients, the wealthiest and best known of whom was Jefferson Levy, owner of Monticello, the Opera House, and a great deal of other property in town.","With the combination of \"the Colonel's\" death, the social and economic changes in town around the turn of the century, and the energetic leadership of Tom, the workload of the practice increased and became more diverse. Loan and bond operations were added to the civil and criminal work and property management. Around 1917, Eskridge and Clarence E. Gentry joined the firm, now called Duke, Duke and Gentry. The law office was torn down in 1922, and the firm moved to a building shared with other lawyers at the corner of Fifth and Jefferson Streets. The practice flourished, and the Dukes often hired Virginia law students or graduates as clerks or associates, including Elizabeth Tompkins (the first female graduate of the Law School), Bernard Chamberlain, Anna Dinwiddie, and John Yancy.","It has not been determined whether the Dukes sold insurance after Hanckel left, but some time after Eskridge joined the firm in the late teens, the Insurance Agency was established. The title was changed to the Insurance Agency of Charlottesville in 1923, when W. F. Carter Jr. as agent. After Carter misappropriated funds, he was relieved of his job, the agency was incorporated, and the Dukes' interest in the business was eventually bought out by William B. Murphy.","Eskridge carried on the law practice with the assistance of Mary and an occasional associate. In 1937, he wrote that his firm \"is regional and local counsel for a number of insurance companies, Virginia counsel for the Pike Coal Company, and does a general legal business, specializing in insurance, real estate, corporation and probate law, also maintains a collection department.\" With his failing health in the late forties, the practice dwindled until 1955, when Duke and Duke closed a little over a hundred years after it began."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Duke law firm papers include correspondence, case files, legal, insuarance, and financial records, as well as ledgers. The files provide extensive documentation of a small-town family practice. Since the insurance business and the Dukes's family business affairs were handled in the same office as the law practice, these files had remained with the legal files. The family correspondence found with these papers was transferred to Special Collections in Alderman Library. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Duke papers were transferred from the first Duke office to the second Duke office, finally to their third office on Park Street, where they apparently were shifted more than once. Things were unavoidably jumbled, but the order within the cartons, the types of file boxes and folders, and the dates made it possible to reconstruct the original filing arrangements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection is rich in source material for scholars of legal, social, or local history. The first area of research focuses on the changes in the character of this small-town law practice from the post-Civil War to the post-World War II periods. There are well-documented accounts in the shifts in the type of legal work the law firm handled, the daily office operations over the years, the economic vicissitudes of the practice, and the attitudes of three generations of lawyers. There is information on the political, economic, and social conditions of the Charlottesville area during the time span of the Dukes' law practice.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Duke law firm papers include correspondence, case files, legal, insuarance, and financial records, as well as ledgers. The files provide extensive documentation of a small-town family practice. Since the insurance business and the Dukes's family business affairs were handled in the same office as the law practice, these files had remained with the legal files. The family correspondence found with these papers was transferred to Special Collections in Alderman Library.","The Duke papers were transferred from the first Duke office to the second Duke office, finally to their third office on Park Street, where they apparently were shifted more than once. Things were unavoidably jumbled, but the order within the cartons, the types of file boxes and folders, and the dates made it possible to reconstruct the original filing arrangements.","This collection is rich in source material for scholars of legal, social, or local history. The first area of research focuses on the changes in the character of this small-town law practice from the post-Civil War to the post-World War II periods. There are well-documented accounts in the shifts in the type of legal work the law firm handled, the daily office operations over the years, the economic vicissitudes of the practice, and the attitudes of three generations of lawyers. 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Duke (February 6, 1865) from \n         W. F. Alexander, concerns the claim of\n         the \n         Albemarle Poor Housefor wood used by the\n         Confederate troops while encamped upon land adjacent to their\n         property. There are four letters from Col. Duke to his wife, \n         Elizabeth Eskridge Duke, written while he\n         was a prisoner of war on \n         Johnson's Island, a Union prison camp at \n         Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie, for Confederate\n         officers. Col. Duke was sent there after being captured on\n         April 6, 1865 at \n         Sayler's Creek.","Duke reports that the prisoners of war received good\n         treatment from General \n         Ulysses S. 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He tells her to bring up several points\n         in her petition: 1) he is needed at home to provide for her\n         and their children, 2) he has no influential friends to work\n         on his behalf to secure his release, 3) he is opposed to\n         guerilla war and he refused to allow his son William to join \n         John Singleton Mosby's Raiders.","Duke reports the release of all prisoners below the rank of\n         major and again requests his wife's aid in securing a special\n         release for himself. In this letter (June 10, 1865), he\n         suggests that she write to General Grant telling him that\n         their income is limited, he is needed at home, she will be\n         responsible for his good behavior, he is opposed to guerilla\n         war, and that he applied on April 25 to take the amnesty oath.\n         In addition, he tells her to go to the commander of the\n         Federal forces in \n         Charlottesvilleand ask him to write to\n         General Grant to secure a release for him based on character\n         references from leading citizens of \n         Charlottesville. Col. \n         R. T. W. Dukealso furnishes a detailed\n         description of the \n         Johnson's Islandprison and the place of\n         confinement called the \"Bull pen\", mentioning the gardens of\n         some of the officers, the rations of bread, meat, salt, soap,\n         beans, and hominy, and the presence of a sutter and his store\n         in the pen.","In the fourth letter, he writes concerning the decision of\n         his former slave \n         Janeto leave the Duke farm before his\n         return home, and he tells his wife to get the others to stay\n         on until he can negotiate their hire (June 29, 1865).","Other family letters include one from Col. Duke to his son,\n         R. T. W. Duke, Jr.describing a fierce\n         political vote in the \n         Virginia General Assemblyduring the\n         readjuster controversy (January 25, 1880), and letters from \n         Mary Duke, \n         Eskridge Duke, \n         Walker Duke, and \n         Jack Dukeconcerning family news.","Letters from \n         John Singleton Mosbyto \n         R.T.W. Duke, Jr.written while Mosby was\n         employed for the \n         United States Justice Departmentcontain\n         the following topics: Mosby calls the attempt to blame \n         James Ewell Brown Stuartfor the\n         Confederate defeat at the Battle of \n         Gettysburgas \"one of the greatest crimes\n         in history\" (April 17, 1908); Mosby discourses on his great\n         distaste for the \"profession\" of football in the universities\n         and argues that \"it is more talked about at the University\n         than literature or science\"; he bemoans the irony that\n         \"Cockfighting is a criminal offense in Virginia but killing a\n         man at football is not\" (December 1, 1909); and he speaks with\n         pleasure of his reception at the \n         University of Virginiaand in \n         Albemarle County(May 10, 1915).","Other printed or miscellaneous items include an invitation\n         to the inauguaration of \n         Edwin A. 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He tells her to bring up several points\n         in her petition: 1) he is needed at home to provide for her\n         and their children, 2) he has no influential friends to work\n         on his behalf to secure his release, 3) he is opposed to\n         guerilla war and he refused to allow his son William to join \n         John Singleton Mosby's Raiders.","Duke reports the release of all prisoners below the rank of\n         major and again requests his wife's aid in securing a special\n         release for himself. In this letter (June 10, 1865), he\n         suggests that she write to General Grant telling him that\n         their income is limited, he is needed at home, she will be\n         responsible for his good behavior, he is opposed to guerilla\n         war, and that he applied on April 25 to take the amnesty oath.\n         In addition, he tells her to go to the commander of the\n         Federal forces in \n         Charlottesvilleand ask him to write to\n         General Grant to secure a release for him based on character\n         references from leading citizens of \n         Charlottesville. Col. \n         R. T. W. 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Duke (February 6, 1865) from \n         W. F. Alexander, concerns the claim of\n         the \n         Albemarle Poor Housefor wood used by the\n         Confederate troops while encamped upon land adjacent to their\n         property. There are four letters from Col. Duke to his wife, \n         Elizabeth Eskridge Duke, written while he\n         was a prisoner of war on \n         Johnson's Island, a Union prison camp at \n         Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie, for Confederate\n         officers. Col. Duke was sent there after being captured on\n         April 6, 1865 at \n         Sayler's Creek.","Duke reports that the prisoners of war received good\n         treatment from General \n         Ulysses S. 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He tells her to bring up several points\n         in her petition: 1) he is needed at home to provide for her\n         and their children, 2) he has no influential friends to work\n         on his behalf to secure his release, 3) he is opposed to\n         guerilla war and he refused to allow his son William to join \n         John Singleton Mosby's Raiders.","Duke reports the release of all prisoners below the rank of\n         major and again requests his wife's aid in securing a special\n         release for himself. In this letter (June 10, 1865), he\n         suggests that she write to General Grant telling him that\n         their income is limited, he is needed at home, she will be\n         responsible for his good behavior, he is opposed to guerilla\n         war, and that he applied on April 25 to take the amnesty oath.\n         In addition, he tells her to go to the commander of the\n         Federal forces in \n         Charlottesvilleand ask him to write to\n         General Grant to secure a release for him based on character\n         references from leading citizens of \n         Charlottesville. Col. \n         R. T. W. Dukealso furnishes a detailed\n         description of the \n         Johnson's Islandprison and the place of\n         confinement called the \"Bull pen\", mentioning the gardens of\n         some of the officers, the rations of bread, meat, salt, soap,\n         beans, and hominy, and the presence of a sutter and his store\n         in the pen.","In the fourth letter, he writes concerning the decision of\n         his former slave \n         Janeto leave the Duke farm before his\n         return home, and he tells his wife to get the others to stay\n         on until he can negotiate their hire (June 29, 1865).","Other family letters include one from Col. Duke to his son,\n         R. T. W. Duke, Jr.describing a fierce\n         political vote in the \n         Virginia General Assemblyduring the\n         readjuster controversy (January 25, 1880), and letters from \n         Mary Duke, \n         Eskridge Duke, \n         Walker Duke, and \n         Jack Dukeconcerning family news.","Letters from \n         John Singleton Mosbyto \n         R.T.W. Duke, Jr.written while Mosby was\n         employed for the \n         United States Justice Departmentcontain\n         the following topics: Mosby calls the attempt to blame \n         James Ewell Brown Stuartfor the\n         Confederate defeat at the Battle of \n         Gettysburgas \"one of the greatest crimes\n         in history\" (April 17, 1908); Mosby discourses on his great\n         distaste for the \"profession\" of football in the universities\n         and argues that \"it is more talked about at the University\n         than literature or science\"; he bemoans the irony that\n         \"Cockfighting is a criminal offense in Virginia but killing a\n         man at football is not\" (December 1, 1909); and he speaks with\n         pleasure of his reception at the \n         University of Virginiaand in \n         Albemarle County(May 10, 1915).","Other printed or miscellaneous items include an invitation\n         to the inauguaration of \n         Edwin A. Aldermanas president of the \n         University of Virginiaon April 13, 1905;\n         a postcard picture of Confederate veterans taken at the\n         unveiling of the \n         Confederate Soldier's Monumentat \n         Buckingham Court Houseon June 30, 1908,\n         which included \n         R. T. W. Duke, Jr.; and the British\n         Identity Book issued to \n         R. T. W. Duke, Jr.on February 5,\n         1919.","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Albemarle Poor House","John Singleton Mosby's Raiders","Virginia General Assembly","United States Justice Department","University of Virginia","Confederate Soldier's Monument","Buckingham Court House","Duke family","Richard Thomas Walker Duke","Richard Thomas Walker Duke, Jr.","W. F. Alexander","Elizabeth Eskridge Duke","Ulysses S. Grant","Andrew Johnson","R. T. W. Duke","Jane","R. T. W. Duke, Jr.","Mary Duke","Eskridge Duke","Walker Duke","Jack Duke","John Singleton Mosby","R.T.W. 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There are four letters from Col. Duke to his wife, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Eskridge Duke\u003c/persname\u003e, written while he\n         was a prisoner of war on \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eJohnson's Island\u003c/geogname\u003e, a Union prison camp at \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eSandusky Bay, Lake Erie\u003c/geogname\u003e, for Confederate\n         officers. Col. Duke was sent there after being captured on\n         April 6, 1865 at \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eSayler's Creek.\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDuke reports that the prisoners of war received good\n         treatment from General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eUlysses S. 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He tells her to bring up several points\n         in her petition: 1) he is needed at home to provide for her\n         and their children, 2) he has no influential friends to work\n         on his behalf to secure his release, 3) he is opposed to\n         guerilla war and he refused to allow his son William to join \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eJohn Singleton Mosby's Raiders\u003c/corpname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDuke reports the release of all prisoners below the rank of\n         major and again requests his wife's aid in securing a special\n         release for himself. In this letter (June 10, 1865), he\n         suggests that she write to General Grant telling him that\n         their income is limited, he is needed at home, she will be\n         responsible for his good behavior, he is opposed to guerilla\n         war, and that he applied on April 25 to take the amnesty oath.\n         In addition, he tells her to go to the commander of the\n         Federal forces in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCharlottesville\u003c/geogname\u003eand ask him to write to\n         General Grant to secure a release for him based on character\n         references from leading citizens of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCharlottesville\u003c/geogname\u003e. Col. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eR. T. W. 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Duke was sent there after being captured on\n         April 6, 1865 at \n         Sayler's Creek.","Duke reports that the prisoners of war received good\n         treatment from General \n         Ulysses S. Grant's men, who divided their\n         rations with them and did not submit them to taunts or insults\n         during the march north, and he also mentions that the living\n         conditions of the prison itself were quite bearable (April 20,\n         1865).","In a later letter (June 9, 1865), he asks his wife to write\n         a letter to President \n         Andrew Johnsonfor his release as all\n         officers above the rank of major will be released only upon\n         special application. He tells her to bring up several points\n         in her petition: 1) he is needed at home to provide for her\n         and their children, 2) he has no influential friends to work\n         on his behalf to secure his release, 3) he is opposed to\n         guerilla war and he refused to allow his son William to join \n         John Singleton Mosby's Raiders.","Duke reports the release of all prisoners below the rank of\n         major and again requests his wife's aid in securing a special\n         release for himself. In this letter (June 10, 1865), he\n         suggests that she write to General Grant telling him that\n         their income is limited, he is needed at home, she will be\n         responsible for his good behavior, he is opposed to guerilla\n         war, and that he applied on April 25 to take the amnesty oath.\n         In addition, he tells her to go to the commander of the\n         Federal forces in \n         Charlottesvilleand ask him to write to\n         General Grant to secure a release for him based on character\n         references from leading citizens of \n         Charlottesville. Col. \n         R. T. W. Dukealso furnishes a detailed\n         description of the \n         Johnson's Islandprison and the place of\n         confinement called the \"Bull pen\", mentioning the gardens of\n         some of the officers, the rations of bread, meat, salt, soap,\n         beans, and hominy, and the presence of a sutter and his store\n         in the pen.","In the fourth letter, he writes concerning the decision of\n         his former slave \n         Janeto leave the Duke farm before his\n         return home, and he tells his wife to get the others to stay\n         on until he can negotiate their hire (June 29, 1865).","Other family letters include one from Col. Duke to his son,\n         R. T. W. Duke, Jr.describing a fierce\n         political vote in the \n         Virginia General Assemblyduring the\n         readjuster controversy (January 25, 1880), and letters from \n         Mary Duke, \n         Eskridge Duke, \n         Walker Duke, and \n         Jack Dukeconcerning family news.","Letters from \n         John Singleton Mosbyto \n         R.T.W. Duke, Jr.written while Mosby was\n         employed for the \n         United States Justice Departmentcontain\n         the following topics: Mosby calls the attempt to blame \n         James Ewell Brown Stuartfor the\n         Confederate defeat at the Battle of \n         Gettysburgas \"one of the greatest crimes\n         in history\" (April 17, 1908); Mosby discourses on his great\n         distaste for the \"profession\" of football in the universities\n         and argues that \"it is more talked about at the University\n         than literature or science\"; he bemoans the irony that\n         \"Cockfighting is a criminal offense in Virginia but killing a\n         man at football is not\" (December 1, 1909); and he speaks with\n         pleasure of his reception at the \n         University of Virginiaand in \n         Albemarle County(May 10, 1915).","Other printed or miscellaneous items include an invitation\n         to the inauguaration of \n         Edwin A. Aldermanas president of the \n         University of Virginiaon April 13, 1905;\n         a postcard picture of Confederate veterans taken at the\n         unveiling of the \n         Confederate Soldier's Monumentat \n         Buckingham Court Houseon June 30, 1908,\n         which included \n         R. T. W. Duke, Jr.; and the British\n         Identity Book issued to \n         R. T. W. Duke, Jr.on February 5,\n         1919."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n      "],"corpname_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Albemarle Poor House","John Singleton Mosby's Raiders","Virginia General Assembly","United States Justice Department","University of Virginia","Confederate Soldier's Monument","Buckingham Court House"],"famname_ssim":["Duke family"],"persname_ssim":["Richard Thomas Walker Duke","Richard Thomas Walker Duke, Jr.","W. F. Alexander","Elizabeth Eskridge Duke","Ulysses S. Grant","Andrew Johnson","R. T. 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Duke, Jr., 2) Miscellaneous\n         Material, including items removed from the bound volumes, the \n         Henry Clayletter and documents about the\n         hiring of slaves, and 3) the Diaries of Judge Duke, arranged\n         in chronological order.","This addition to the \n         Duke familypapers contains fifty-six items\n         (5 Hollinger boxes, ca. 1.5 linear shelf feet), 1839-1926,\n         chiefly the diaries and reminiscences, entitled\n         \"Recollections,\" of Judge \n         R.T.W. Duke, Jr.(1853-1926) of \n         Charlottesville, Virginia.","The collection also contains: a stocks and bonds record\n         book (1918); a list of slaves hired out (1854); bonds for the\n         hiring out of a slave (1858 \u0026 1863); and a letter from \n         Henry Clayto \n         William Tompkins(October 12, 1839), in\n         which Clay discusses a letter he received from General \n         William Henry Harrisonconcerning the\n         latter's regret over his competition with Clay over the\n         nomination to the Presidency. Clay also comments on the\n         chances of the Whig party nationwide in upcoming elections,\n         accuses the administration of \n         Martin Van Burenof using public funds for\n         corrupt purposes, and asserts that \n         Andrew Jacksonruled by intimidation and\n         Van Buren by corruption.","The forty-seven diaries of \n         Judge R.T.W. Duke, Jr.span the years from\n         1879-1926; only the diary for the year 1893 is missing.\n         Entries in the diaries include the following topics: weather\n         conditions; deaths of family members and friends; family\n         visits and news; meetings and itineraries of trips; comments\n         about plays and church services; individuals and events in \n         Charlottesvilleand \n         Albemarle County; notes concerning\n         personal expenditures; papers presented on public occasions;\n         business transactions; speaking engagements; legal cases\n         presided over by Duke; quotations; and books read by Duke.","The \"Recollections\" of Duke consist of five leather-bound\n         record books containing his personal reminiscences of people\n         and events during his life. These were written for his\n         children between November 20, 1899, and January 1926. Excerpts\n         from the \"Recollections\" concerning the Civil War have been\n         edited by his daughter, \n         Helen R. Duke, and published in volume\n         three of the \n         Magazine of Albemarle County History.","In volume one of the \"Recollections,\" Duke discusses his\n         early childhood memories of family members, family history,\n         genealogical relationships, \"servants\" (family slaves), \" \n         Morea, \" his school days, \n         John Brown's raid, Col. \n         R.T.W. Duke's raising of the \n         Albemarle Rifles, Lincoln's election,\n         games and playmates, the Civil War, the \n         Monticello Guard, University of\n         Virginiastudent volunteers, neighbors and friends,\n         \" \n         Sunnyside, \" and Sheridan's raid on \n         Charlottesvillein March of 1865.","Volume Two continues Duke's account of the Federal troops'\n         visit to \n         Charlottesville, and also discusses the\n         capture of \n         Richmond, Lee's surrender at \n         Appomattox, Col. Duke's return home, the\n         death of \n         Abraham Lincoln, loyalty oaths,\n         Reconstruction, Duke's attendence at the \n         University of Virginia, his professors,\n         membership in \n         Zeta Psi Fraternity, and meeting his\n         wife, Edith.","The third volume continues with his college education, \" \n         Edgehill\" and the \n         Randolph family, his law career, his\n         membership in the Masons, and in the \n         Cold Spring Barbecue Club. The next\n         volume also discusses the \n         Cold Spring Barbecue Club, associates and\n         friends of the 1870's and the 1890's, and political events,\n         especially the career of General \n         William Mahone.","Volume Five begins with the failure of the \n         Charlottesville National Bankand\n         discusses Duke's early law career. The \"Recollections\" appear\n         to be incomplete, ending about 1882. Judge Duke stopped\n         writing in his \"Recollections\" in January of 1926 due to\n         illness. He died in March of that same year.","Loose items found in the \"Recollections\" and diaries of\n         Duke have been removed and placed in inserts in chronological\n         order in the first box. These items include: postcards,\n         photographs, ads, newsclippings, obituaries, calling cards,\n         letters, and notes.","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Morea","Albemarle Rifles","Monticello Guard, University of\n         Virginia","Sunnyside","University of Virginia","Zeta Psi Fraternity","Edgehill","Cold Spring Barbecue Club","Charlottesville National Bank","Duke family","Randolph family","R.T.W. Duke, Jr.","Henry Clay","William Tompkins","William Henry Harrison","Martin Van Buren","Andrew Jackson","Judge R.T.W. Duke, Jr.","Helen R. Duke","John Brown","R.T.W. 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Clay also comments on the\n         chances of the Whig party nationwide in upcoming elections,\n         accuses the administration of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMartin Van Buren\u003c/persname\u003eof using public funds for\n         corrupt purposes, and asserts that \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Jackson\u003c/persname\u003eruled by intimidation and\n         Van Buren by corruption.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe forty-seven diaries of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJudge R.T.W. Duke, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003espan the years from\n         1879-1926; only the diary for the year 1893 is missing.\n         Entries in the diaries include the following topics: weather\n         conditions; deaths of family members and friends; family\n         visits and news; meetings and itineraries of trips; comments\n         about plays and church services; individuals and events in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCharlottesville\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbemarle County\u003c/geogname\u003e; notes concerning\n         personal expenditures; papers presented on public occasions;\n         business transactions; speaking engagements; legal cases\n         presided over by Duke; quotations; and books read by Duke.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"Recollections\" of Duke consist of five leather-bound\n         record books containing his personal reminiscences of people\n         and events during his life. These were written for his\n         children between November 20, 1899, and January 1926. Excerpts\n         from the \"Recollections\" concerning the Civil War have been\n         edited by his daughter, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHelen R. Duke\u003c/persname\u003e, and published in volume\n         three of the \n         \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eMagazine of Albemarle County History\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn volume one of the \"Recollections,\" Duke discusses his\n         early childhood memories of family members, family history,\n         genealogical relationships, \"servants\" (family slaves), \" \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eMorea\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" his school days, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Brown\u003c/persname\u003e's raid, Col. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eR.T.W. 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Duke's return home, the\n         death of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003e, loyalty oaths,\n         Reconstruction, Duke's attendence at the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003e, his professors,\n         membership in \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eZeta Psi Fraternity\u003c/corpname\u003e, and meeting his\n         wife, Edith.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe third volume continues with his college education, \" \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eEdgehill\u003c/corpname\u003e\" and the \n         \u003cfamname\u003eRandolph family\u003c/famname\u003e, his law career, his\n         membership in the Masons, and in the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCold Spring Barbecue Club\u003c/corpname\u003e. The next\n         volume also discusses the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCold Spring Barbecue Club\u003c/corpname\u003e, associates and\n         friends of the 1870's and the 1890's, and political events,\n         especially the career of General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Mahone\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eVolume Five begins with the failure of the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCharlottesville National Bank\u003c/corpname\u003eand\n         discusses Duke's early law career. The \"Recollections\" appear\n         to be incomplete, ending about 1882. Judge Duke stopped\n         writing in his \"Recollections\" in January of 1926 due to\n         illness. He died in March of that same year.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLoose items found in the \"Recollections\" and diaries of\n         Duke have been removed and placed in inserts in chronological\n         order in the first box. These items include: postcards,\n         photographs, ads, newsclippings, obituaries, calling cards,\n         letters, and notes.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This addition to the \n         Duke familypapers contains fifty-six items\n         (5 Hollinger boxes, ca. 1.5 linear shelf feet), 1839-1926,\n         chiefly the diaries and reminiscences, entitled\n         \"Recollections,\" of Judge \n         R.T.W. Duke, Jr.(1853-1926) of \n         Charlottesville, Virginia.","The collection also contains: a stocks and bonds record\n         book (1918); a list of slaves hired out (1854); bonds for the\n         hiring out of a slave (1858 \u0026 1863); and a letter from \n         Henry Clayto \n         William Tompkins(October 12, 1839), in\n         which Clay discusses a letter he received from General \n         William Henry Harrisonconcerning the\n         latter's regret over his competition with Clay over the\n         nomination to the Presidency. Clay also comments on the\n         chances of the Whig party nationwide in upcoming elections,\n         accuses the administration of \n         Martin Van Burenof using public funds for\n         corrupt purposes, and asserts that \n         Andrew Jacksonruled by intimidation and\n         Van Buren by corruption.","The forty-seven diaries of \n         Judge R.T.W. Duke, Jr.span the years from\n         1879-1926; only the diary for the year 1893 is missing.\n         Entries in the diaries include the following topics: weather\n         conditions; deaths of family members and friends; family\n         visits and news; meetings and itineraries of trips; comments\n         about plays and church services; individuals and events in \n         Charlottesvilleand \n         Albemarle County; notes concerning\n         personal expenditures; papers presented on public occasions;\n         business transactions; speaking engagements; legal cases\n         presided over by Duke; quotations; and books read by Duke.","The \"Recollections\" of Duke consist of five leather-bound\n         record books containing his personal reminiscences of people\n         and events during his life. These were written for his\n         children between November 20, 1899, and January 1926. Excerpts\n         from the \"Recollections\" concerning the Civil War have been\n         edited by his daughter, \n         Helen R. Duke, and published in volume\n         three of the \n         Magazine of Albemarle County History.","In volume one of the \"Recollections,\" Duke discusses his\n         early childhood memories of family members, family history,\n         genealogical relationships, \"servants\" (family slaves), \" \n         Morea, \" his school days, \n         John Brown's raid, Col. \n         R.T.W. Duke's raising of the \n         Albemarle Rifles, Lincoln's election,\n         games and playmates, the Civil War, the \n         Monticello Guard, University of\n         Virginiastudent volunteers, neighbors and friends,\n         \" \n         Sunnyside, \" and Sheridan's raid on \n         Charlottesvillein March of 1865.","Volume Two continues Duke's account of the Federal troops'\n         visit to \n         Charlottesville, and also discusses the\n         capture of \n         Richmond, Lee's surrender at \n         Appomattox, Col. Duke's return home, the\n         death of \n         Abraham Lincoln, loyalty oaths,\n         Reconstruction, Duke's attendence at the \n         University of Virginia, his professors,\n         membership in \n         Zeta Psi Fraternity, and meeting his\n         wife, Edith.","The third volume continues with his college education, \" \n         Edgehill\" and the \n         Randolph family, his law career, his\n         membership in the Masons, and in the \n         Cold Spring Barbecue Club. The next\n         volume also discusses the \n         Cold Spring Barbecue Club, associates and\n         friends of the 1870's and the 1890's, and political events,\n         especially the career of General \n         William Mahone.","Volume Five begins with the failure of the \n         Charlottesville National Bankand\n         discusses Duke's early law career. The \"Recollections\" appear\n         to be incomplete, ending about 1882. Judge Duke stopped\n         writing in his \"Recollections\" in January of 1926 due to\n         illness. He died in March of that same year.","Loose items found in the \"Recollections\" and diaries of\n         Duke have been removed and placed in inserts in chronological\n         order in the first box. These items include: postcards,\n         photographs, ads, newsclippings, obituaries, calling cards,\n         letters, and notes."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n      "],"corpname_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Morea","Albemarle Rifles","Monticello Guard, University of\n         Virginia","Sunnyside","University of Virginia","Zeta Psi Fraternity","Edgehill","Cold Spring Barbecue Club","Charlottesville National Bank"],"famname_ssim":["Duke family","Randolph family"],"persname_ssim":["R.T.W. 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Duke, Jr., 2) Miscellaneous\n         Material, including items removed from the bound volumes, the \n         Henry Clayletter and documents about the\n         hiring of slaves, and 3) the Diaries of Judge Duke, arranged\n         in chronological order.","This addition to the \n         Duke familypapers contains fifty-six items\n         (5 Hollinger boxes, ca. 1.5 linear shelf feet), 1839-1926,\n         chiefly the diaries and reminiscences, entitled\n         \"Recollections,\" of Judge \n         R.T.W. Duke, Jr.(1853-1926) of \n         Charlottesville, Virginia.","The collection also contains: a stocks and bonds record\n         book (1918); a list of slaves hired out (1854); bonds for the\n         hiring out of a slave (1858 \u0026 1863); and a letter from \n         Henry Clayto \n         William Tompkins(October 12, 1839), in\n         which Clay discusses a letter he received from General \n         William Henry Harrisonconcerning the\n         latter's regret over his competition with Clay over the\n         nomination to the Presidency. Clay also comments on the\n         chances of the Whig party nationwide in upcoming elections,\n         accuses the administration of \n         Martin Van Burenof using public funds for\n         corrupt purposes, and asserts that \n         Andrew Jacksonruled by intimidation and\n         Van Buren by corruption.","The forty-seven diaries of \n         Judge R.T.W. Duke, Jr.span the years from\n         1879-1926; only the diary for the year 1893 is missing.\n         Entries in the diaries include the following topics: weather\n         conditions; deaths of family members and friends; family\n         visits and news; meetings and itineraries of trips; comments\n         about plays and church services; individuals and events in \n         Charlottesvilleand \n         Albemarle County; notes concerning\n         personal expenditures; papers presented on public occasions;\n         business transactions; speaking engagements; legal cases\n         presided over by Duke; quotations; and books read by Duke.","The \"Recollections\" of Duke consist of five leather-bound\n         record books containing his personal reminiscences of people\n         and events during his life. These were written for his\n         children between November 20, 1899, and January 1926. Excerpts\n         from the \"Recollections\" concerning the Civil War have been\n         edited by his daughter, \n         Helen R. Duke, and published in volume\n         three of the \n         Magazine of Albemarle County History.","In volume one of the \"Recollections,\" Duke discusses his\n         early childhood memories of family members, family history,\n         genealogical relationships, \"servants\" (family slaves), \" \n         Morea, \" his school days, \n         John Brown's raid, Col. \n         R.T.W. Duke's raising of the \n         Albemarle Rifles, Lincoln's election,\n         games and playmates, the Civil War, the \n         Monticello Guard, University of\n         Virginiastudent volunteers, neighbors and friends,\n         \" \n         Sunnyside, \" and Sheridan's raid on \n         Charlottesvillein March of 1865.","Volume Two continues Duke's account of the Federal troops'\n         visit to \n         Charlottesville, and also discusses the\n         capture of \n         Richmond, Lee's surrender at \n         Appomattox, Col. Duke's return home, the\n         death of \n         Abraham Lincoln, loyalty oaths,\n         Reconstruction, Duke's attendence at the \n         University of Virginia, his professors,\n         membership in \n         Zeta Psi Fraternity, and meeting his\n         wife, Edith.","The third volume continues with his college education, \" \n         Edgehill\" and the \n         Randolph family, his law career, his\n         membership in the Masons, and in the \n         Cold Spring Barbecue Club. The next\n         volume also discusses the \n         Cold Spring Barbecue Club, associates and\n         friends of the 1870's and the 1890's, and political events,\n         especially the career of General \n         William Mahone.","Volume Five begins with the failure of the \n         Charlottesville National Bankand\n         discusses Duke's early law career. The \"Recollections\" appear\n         to be incomplete, ending about 1882. Judge Duke stopped\n         writing in his \"Recollections\" in January of 1926 due to\n         illness. He died in March of that same year.","Loose items found in the \"Recollections\" and diaries of\n         Duke have been removed and placed in inserts in chronological\n         order in the first box. These items include: postcards,\n         photographs, ads, newsclippings, obituaries, calling cards,\n         letters, and notes.","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Morea","Albemarle Rifles","Monticello Guard, University of\n         Virginia","Sunnyside","University of Virginia","Zeta Psi Fraternity","Edgehill","Cold Spring Barbecue Club","Charlottesville National Bank","Duke family","Randolph family","R.T.W. Duke, Jr.","Henry Clay","William Tompkins","William Henry Harrison","Martin Van Buren","Andrew Jackson","Judge R.T.W. Duke, Jr.","Helen R. Duke","John Brown","R.T.W. 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Special\n            Collections Dept.","Morea","Albemarle Rifles","Monticello Guard, University of\n         Virginia","Sunnyside","University of Virginia","Zeta Psi Fraternity","Edgehill","Cold Spring Barbecue Club","Charlottesville National Bank"],"creator_famname_ssim":["Duke family","Randolph family"],"creators_ssim":["R.T.W. Duke, Jr.","Henry Clay","William Tompkins","William Henry Harrison","Martin Van Buren","Andrew Jackson","Judge R.T.W. Duke, Jr.","Helen R. Duke","John Brown","R.T.W. Duke","Abraham Lincoln","William Mahone","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Morea","Albemarle Rifles","Monticello Guard, University of\n         Virginia","Sunnyside","University of Virginia","Zeta Psi Fraternity","Edgehill","Cold Spring Barbecue Club","Charlottesville National Bank","Duke family","Randolph family"],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Duke family papers were given to the Library by\n            William E. 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These were written for his\n         children between November 20, 1899, and January 1926. Excerpts\n         from the \"Recollections\" concerning the Civil War have been\n         edited by his daughter, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHelen R. Duke\u003c/persname\u003e, and published in volume\n         three of the \n         \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eMagazine of Albemarle County History\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn volume one of the \"Recollections,\" Duke discusses his\n         early childhood memories of family members, family history,\n         genealogical relationships, \"servants\" (family slaves), \" \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eMorea\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" his school days, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Brown\u003c/persname\u003e's raid, Col. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eR.T.W. 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Excerpts\n         from the \"Recollections\" concerning the Civil War have been\n         edited by his daughter, \n         Helen R. Duke, and published in volume\n         three of the \n         Magazine of Albemarle County History.","In volume one of the \"Recollections,\" Duke discusses his\n         early childhood memories of family members, family history,\n         genealogical relationships, \"servants\" (family slaves), \" \n         Morea, \" his school days, \n         John Brown's raid, Col. \n         R.T.W. Duke's raising of the \n         Albemarle Rifles, Lincoln's election,\n         games and playmates, the Civil War, the \n         Monticello Guard, University of\n         Virginiastudent volunteers, neighbors and friends,\n         \" \n         Sunnyside, \" and Sheridan's raid on \n         Charlottesvillein March of 1865.","Volume Two continues Duke's account of the Federal troops'\n         visit to \n         Charlottesville, and also discusses the\n         capture of \n         Richmond, Lee's surrender at \n         Appomattox, Col. 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