{"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+Historical+Society\u0026page=3\u0026view=compact","prev":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+Historical+Society\u0026page=2\u0026view=compact","next":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+Historical+Society\u0026page=4\u0026view=compact","last":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+Historical+Society\u0026page=138\u0026view=compact"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":3,"next_page":4,"prev_page":2,"total_pages":138,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":20,"total_count":1374,"first_page?":false,"last_page?":false}},"data":[{"id":"vihi_vih00007_c12_c04","type":"Subseries","attributes":{"title":"Accounts, \n \n 1919-1982","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00007_c12_c04#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00007_c12_c04","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00007_c12_c04"],"id":"vihi_vih00007_c12_c04","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00007","_root_":"vihi_vih00007","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00007_c12","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00007_c12","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00007","vihi_vih00007_c12"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00007","vihi_vih00007_c12"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982","Series 12: John Ryland Gwathmey\n (1888-1982), \"Burlington,\" King William County, Va. \n \n 1916-1982"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982","Series 12: John Ryland Gwathmey\n (1888-1982), \"Burlington,\" King William County, Va. \n \n 1916-1982"],"text":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982","Series 12: John Ryland Gwathmey\n (1888-1982), \"Burlington,\" King William County, Va. \n \n 1916-1982","Accounts, \n \n 1919-1982","Box 18-19"],"title_filing_ssi":"Accounts, \n \n 1919-1982","title_ssm":["Accounts, \n \n 1919-1982"],"title_tesim":["Accounts, \n \n 1919-1982"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Accounts, \n \n 1919-1982"],"component_level_isim":[2],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"collection_ssim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"level_ssm":["Subseries"],"level_ssim":["Subseries"],"sort_isi":24,"containers_ssim":["Box 18-19"],"_nest_path_":"/components#11/components#3","timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00007","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00007","_root_":"vihi_vih00007","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00007","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00007.xml","title_ssm":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"title_tesim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 G9957 c FA2"],"text":["Mss1 G9957 c FA2","Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982","Agriculture","Baptists","Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation","Gwathmey family","Plantation life","Slavery","Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal\n narratives, Confederate","10,000 (ca.) items.","Collection is open for use.","Arranged into fifteen sections by creator.","This collection represents four generations of this\n prominent King William County family. From their family seat\n at \"Burlington,\" the Gwathmey's were active in the political,\n social, and religious life of the county for more than two\n centuries.","Joseph Hardin Gwathmey and his wife, Jeannette Garnett\n (Ryland) Gwathmey, had five children, three of whom, John\n Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), Anna Garnett Gwathmey\n (1879-1979), and Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883- 1974), are\n prominent in this collection.","With the exception of the years he spent at Virginia\n Polytechnic Institute (Now Virginia Polytechnic University and\n State University), John Ryland Gwathmey spent his entire life\n at \"Burlington.\" John Ryland Gwathmey supervised farming and\n timber operations on the family estate and appraised real\n estate in King William and nearby counties. He was also a\n member of the county board of supervisors and of Beulah\n Baptist Church.","The collection begins with the papers of Joseph Gwathmey,\n (1758-1824), a planter, major in the state militia, and deacon\n of the Beulah Baptist Church. These records consist of an\n account book, loose accounts, and estate materials. Major\n Gwathmey's account book also contains records of his\n children's births and lists of horses. Most of his papers,\n however, concern his estate and include the records of\n executors, Richard Gwathmey (1789-1866), John Hill Gwathmey\n (1798-1839), and William Gwathmey (1794-1875). Two accounts\n books contain copies of Joseph Gwathmey's will, inventories,\n appraisals, and accounts and expenses. Loose estate materials\n include accounts, inventories, an indenture selling land to\n Nathaniel Boush Hill, and an 1836 appraisal of slaves.","The papers of William Gwathmey are found in boxes 2-7.\n William Gwathmey inherited \"Wakefield,\" but moved to\n \"Burlington\" upon the death of his brother, John Hill\n Gwathmey, in 1839. A planter and physician, Gwathmey was also\n a trustee of the Beulah Baptist Church.","Dr. Gwathmey's papers begin with a diary of his journey to\n St. Augustine, Florida, with his wife and sister-in-law,\n Hardinia M. Burnley, from 1833 to 1834. Other diaries follow;\n a complete list of these appears in the guide that follows\n this description. The diaries, many of which are kept in\n copies of Richardson's Almanac, mostly concern weather\n conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physicians's visits, and church activities. The pages of an\n 1837 diary describe a trip to New Orleans and southwest\n Louisiana. Entries in the 1852 diary concern a medical\n conference in Richmond (Apr. 28, May 5) and the presidential\n election of that year (Nov. 9). The 1859 diary describes\n hiring day in Ayletts (Jan. 1) and election day (May 26).","Diaries from the Civil War years not only provide\n Gwathmey's views on the war, but also document local events.\n Several 1863 entries describe the appearance of Northern units\n in King William (January 8 and June 5), as well as the baptism\n of slaves at Beulah (Sept. 6). Entries for 1864 describe the\n arrival of Union troops at Ayletts (Mar. 1-2), the doctoring\n of wounded soldiers, and the occupation of \"Burlington\" (May\n 22- 29). Several 1866 entries concern Reconstruction (Feb. 27,\n May 31, June 12-18). These last entries concern formal charges\n bought against a neighbor for mistreating a former slave.","Boxes 3-5 contain the correspondence of William Gwathmey.\n Most of this consists of letters from family members,\n including Joseph Robert Garlick, Frances Fielding (Lewis)\n Gwathmey, Lucy Ann (Garlick) Gwathmey, Richard Gwathmey,\n Washington Gwathmey, and William Henry Gwathmey. Many of these\n letters concern the activities of Beulah Church. Significant\n correspondence incudes the letters of Gwathmey's\n brother-in-law, Edwin Burnley, who apparently deserted his\n wife and went to Mississippi. These letters document his\n divorce and attempts to transfer slaves to his new home. The\n letters of another brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Meaux, concern\n medicine and phyhsicians. Thomas Witt Haynes writes concerning\n WG's son Richard Brooke Gwathmeyh, who served in the 9th\n Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. Letters with Alexander\n Fleet pertain to Gwathmey's brief service in the Ware of 1812,\n for which WG was applying for a pension. An 1865 letter from\n richard Gwathmey describes the Richmond fire, while an 1837\n letter describes a trip to Chicago, Ill.","Three accounts books follow. The first two are indexed and\n primarily consist of accounts with patients, but they also\n include records of family births, servant births, lists of\n livestock, and accounts with the estate of Joseph Gwathmey.\n The second account book also contains accounts, 1875-1895, of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey. The third account book, 1870-1875,\n contains contracts and accounts with farm hands.","Loose accounts begin in box 7. These are followed by deeds\n and bonds, most of which concern land, but which also include\n an indenture to a former slave, Sylvia Hill, granting her\n ownership of her house. Beulah Baptist Church records consist\n of lists of subscriptions, a commonplace book, eulogies for\n Hardin Burnley (1804?-1869), John William Garlick\n (1823?-1866), Edward Hill (d. 1870) and James Trice.\n Miscellaneous materials include photocopies concerning\n Gwathmey's 1812 service and a pass, 1864, signed by James\n Alexander Seddon (1815-1880).","The correspondence of Elizabeth Theresa (Burnley) Gwathmey\n (1806-1879), wife of William Gwathmey, consists mostly of\n letters written by her children. Among those are the letters\n of Mary Atwood Gwathmey, which describe her visit to cousins\n in Mississippi in 1856 and 1857.","The collection contains materials of seven of William and\n Elizabeth (Burnley) Gwathmey's children. The papers of Richard\n Brooke Gwathmey (1838-1864), a soldier in the 9th Virginia\n Cavalry during the Civil War, and William Gwathmey (1840-1858)\n are located in box 8. Also in box 8 are several diaries of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1846-1918), who inherited \"Burlington\"\n upon the death of his father in 1875. Gwathmey, an agent for\n the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, also served as\n superintendent of King William County Schools.","Gwathmey's general correspondence is mostly with friends\n and family members, but also includes a letter signed by\n Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1881-1944), as Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, thanking Gwathmey for the loan of his binoculars\n to the U. S. Navy during the First World War. Account books\n concern farming operations and include accounts with far\n laborers. Loose accounts include receipts from the King\n William County Grange. Records concerning Gwathmey's\n superintendency of King William schools consist mostly of\n certificates, but also include a statistical report, ca. 1905,\n detailing conditions in the system.","The papers of Jeannette Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey\n (1847-1915), wife of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, consist of\n diaries, memoranda and scrapbooks, correspondence, and\n miscellany. The diaries mostly concern the weather and her\n church activities, but the 1905 volume also contains notes on\n the Garnett family. Her memoranda book contains notes on the\n Peachey, Ryland, and Griffin families.","The papers of Owen Overton Gwathmey (1849-1922), Elizabeth\n Burnley Gwathmey (b. 1818), Hardinia Morris Gwathmey\n (1832-1905), and Mary Atwood Gwathmey (1834-1868) are located\n in boxes 11 and 12. Owen Overton Gwathmey was a lawyer and\n judge of the King William Circuit Court. Among his papers are\n deeds of land to Gwathmey in his capacity as trustee for\n Beulah Baptist Church. His miscellany includes the wills of\n Sylvia Hill (d. 1906) and Phillis Garlick, both of King\n William County.","Gwathmey's papers begin with general correspondence, which\n is mostly with family members. Frequent correspondents include\n his sisters, Anna Garnett Gwathmey and Mary Burnley Gwathmey,\n Eleanor Gwathmey (Powell) Dewey, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1878-1945), Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Lewis\n Franklin Powell, associate justice of the United States\n Supreme Court. Many of Powell's letters concern the\n Burlington- Gwathmey Memorial Foundation, but have been filed\n together with the general correspondence. Form letters consist\n mostly of appeals from charitable and political organizations.\n Greeting cards and invitations conclude this box.","Box 17 contains account books. Three of these concern\n farming operations at \"Burlington.\" Financial records consist\n almost entirely of bank statements and federal income and\n property tax returns. Other financial records relate to life\n and health insurance and trust funds, including statements and\n accounts of the Burlington Cemetery Trust Fund.","In the late 1970's, \"Burlington\" was added to the Virginia\n Landmarks Register. Correspondence with the Virginia Historic\n Landmarks Commission concerns the establishment of landmark\n status, the granting of an open space easement, and the\n awarding of a preservation grant and subsequent restoration.\n In 1977, the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation was\n established to maintain the family estate after the death of\n John Ryland Gwathmey. Foundation materials include acts of\n incorporation and correspondence, primarily with lawyers.","Box 30 begins with letters and census reports from the\n Department of Agriculture concerning farming operations at\n \"Burlington.\" Materials pertaining to timber include reports,\n agreement, and accounts with lumber mills. These are followed\n by land records, mostly deeds of lease, concerning other land\n owned by JRG, including a house in Ayletts known as\n \"Gwathmey's,\" and \"Meadow Farm,\" the estate adjacent to\n \"Burlington.\"","John Ryland Gwathmey served as chairman of the industrial\n and Rural Utilities Committee of the Ruritan Club of King\n William County. These papers mostly concern the publication of\n a promotional pamphlet, King William Invites You, and consist\n of correspondence and drafts of the manuscript. Materials from\n JRG's tenure as a member of the county's board of supervisors\n also primarily concern industrial growth and include a\n consultant's 1970 water and sewerage report. Appraisals of\n farms in King William and surrounding counties, conducted by\n JRG, conclude box 31. Papers relating to JRG's service as\n trustee and clerk of the Beulah Baptist Church concern\n subscriptions and renovations to the building. These precede\n student composition books, clippings, and miscellany.","The papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey begin with general\n correspondence (boxes 33-36). Much of this is with her sister,\n Mary Burnley Gwathmey, from 1921-1926. Other frequent\n correspondents include family members: Alice R. Campbell,\n Jeannette O. Campbell, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1878-1945),\n Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Laura Virginia\n (Gwathmey) Young. Box 37 contains correspondence with\n institutions, greeting cards, invitations, account books, and\n accounts. Financial records consist of bank statement and\n checks and investment, tax, and insurance records.","Materials in boxes 41-45 document Anna Garnett Gwathmey's\n career as a general insurance agent in both New York City and\n King William County. These begin with five account books, a\n rate book, and a folder of unanswered solicitations. Client\n files consist of correspondence, claim forms, invoices, and\n policies with individual policy holders. These are arranged\n alphabetically. Records from the various insurance companies\n that AGG represented follow. These consist of letters and\n memoranda from the companies, commission statements, forms,\n bulletins, and promotional materials. Memoranda and rate\n quotes from the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service,\n performance bonds, and miscellany conclude this section.","Materials concerning a patent search consist of reports and\n copies of patents on stockings. Letters and miscellany of New\n York's Three Arts Club pertain to a 1937 benefit bridge\n tournament and dance. Speeches and addresses are mostly from a\n public speaking class. Miscellany includes cards of airplane\n silhouettes, used to test the accuracy of aircraft spotters\n during World War II. Sympathy letters addressed to John Ryland\n Gwathmey and estate materials conclude the papers of Anna\n Garnett Gwathmey.","Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974) graduated from Woman's\n College (now Westhampton College, University of Richmond), in\n 1904. Her general correspondence is located in boxes 47 and 48\n and includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966)\n concerning the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Mamie\n Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower concerning Virginia Democrats for\n Eisenhower in 1952, New York Congressman Carfoline Love\n Goodwin O'Day, and Anna Eleanor (Roosevelt) Roosevelt\n concerning a request for an appointment. Correspondence with\n institutions dates mostly from MBG's years in New York.","Boxes 49 to 51 pertain to MBG's career as an artist and\n designer, begfinning with her papers as a teacher at the\n University of Arkansas and as a teacher and student at\n Columbia University's Teachers College. These primarily\n consist of lecuture notes and notebooks. After receiving a\n master of arts degree from Columbia in 1926, MBG worked for\n James McCreery \u0026 Co. and James A. Hearns and Sons, both\n New York stores. In the early 1930's, she left retaining to\n become an independent design and fashion consultant. Records\n docummenting MBG's career in New York mainly consist of\n company memoranda, bulletins, brochures, layouts of display,\n advertising materials, and newsaper clippings. In 1943, MBG\n accedpt a position as instructor of distributive eeducation at\n Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Va.","Box 50 begins with materials concerning MBG's service, as a\n consultant on merchandising, color, and design, on the\n Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. Thedse consist of\n correspondence, mostly with Executive Director Parke Rouse and\n with textile and paint companies, as well as reports,\n memoranda, press releases, clippings, and advertising and\n promotional materials. General art and design materials\n follow, and include: speeches and addresses, resumes,\n clippings, magazine articles, notes and notebooks, and\n miscellany.","The remainder of MBG's papers are located in boxes 52-54\n and concern her non-art related activities. These begin with a\n few items pertaining to her work for the American Red Cross in\n Oteen, N. C., in 1921, and a trip to Switzerland in 1931.\n Materials concerning MBG's attempts to get funding for the\n publication of the story of Sylvia Hill, a former slave and\n family servant, include correspondence and application with\n foundations and rough drafts of the book. Correspondence,\n addresses, notes, and clippings concerning MBG's service as\n Executive Secretary of the King William County 250th\n Anniversary Committee follow.","Materials concerning Beulah Baptist Church mostly concern\n MBG's writing of Beulah Baptist Church: Highlights and\n Shadows. Copies of two of the Church's minute books are also\n included. Two scrapbooks, a memoranda book, and telephone\n directors follow. The first scrapbook contains clippings,\n lines of verse, snapshots, and obituaries from the early\n twentieth century, as well as three letters of Anna Maria\n (Garnett) Ryland (1826-1851), one to her brother, Reuben\n Meriwether Garnett, and two to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth\n Ferguson (Ryland) Willis.","Genealogical records include notes on the Burnley, Garnett,\n Gwathmey, Meaux, Rucker, Ryland, and Temple families. The\n Gwathmey folder also contains a biographical sketch of Edward\n Garlick Gwathmey (1839-1931) and a manuscript, \"The Gwathmey\n Family of Virginia,\" by Mildred Bates Gwathmey. Clippings,\n miscellany, and estate materials conclude the papers of Mary\n Burnley Gwathmey.","Box 55 contains the papers of miscellaneous family members.\n A complete list of these individuals is found in the guide\n that follows this description. These items include: an\n 1870-1871 diary of Washington Gwathmey (probably kept at \"Bear\n Island,\" Hanover County, Va.), a letter from John Newton\n Ryland to John Meriwether Garnett concerning politics in King\n and Queen County in 1840, and two account books, 1875-1876, of\n Gaskins, Moncure and Co., Essex County, Va.","Account book, 1792-1824; accounts, 1790-1824;\n estate.","Accounts, 1833-1875; deeds, indentures and bond,\n 1818-1873; Beulah Baptist Church, 1829-1872;\n commonplace book; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1848-1868.","Correspondence, 1858-1864; account book, 1856-1864;\n memoranda book, 1859-1860; accounts, 1858-1864;\n estate.","Letters received, 1857.","Account books, 1887-1893, 1895-1917; accounts,\n 1868-1918; and financial records, 1866-1916.","Superintendent of Schools, 1891-1906; miscellany;\n and estate.","Diaries (7 v.), 1874-1875, 1905, 1907, 1908-1909,\n 1912-1913, 1914; memoranda book; correspondence,\n 1867-1915; scrapbook; music scrapbook, 1914; clippings;\n miscellany; resolutions.","Correspondence, 1899-1920; financial records,\n 1879-1916; student notebook, 1876-1877; Beulah Baptist\n Church, 1877-1915; certificates; miscellany; estate.","Letters received, 1864-1888.","Correspondence, 1847-1867; autograph book,\n 1852-1853.","Letters received, 1857-1903; scrapbook.","Form letters; greeting cards; invitations.","Account books, n.d., 1951-1956, 1957-1963,\n 1964-1966, 1972-1974, 1974-1980; receipt book, 1953;\n employee hours book.","Life and health insurance, 1970-1982; automobile\n insurance, 1953-1982; insurance on \"Burlington,\"\n 1964-1982; Burlington Cemetery Trust, 1927-1982;\n trust fund, 1971-1982.","\"Burlington,\" 1977-1982; Burlington-Gwathmey\n Memorial Foundation, 1977-1982.","Farming, 1940-1982; timber, 1922-1981;\n \"Gwathmey's,\" 1977-1982; \"Meadow Farm,\" 1927-1962;\n miscellaneous deeds of lease.","Ruritan, 1950-1972; Board of Supervisors,\n 1955-1970; real estate appraisals, 1952-1977.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1939-1970; student\n composition books; clippings; miscellany.","Correspondence with institutions, 1913-1972;\n greeting cards and invitations; account books,\n 1928-1936, 1931-1941, 1954-1960; accounts,\n 1925-1977.","Planters National Bank, 1916-1933; Southside Bank,\n 1926-1979; Bank of Virginia, 1955-1960; Citizens and\n Farmers Bank, 1961-1971.","Financial records, 1925-1966; land records,\n 1920-1976.","Account books (5 v.): 1921, 1937, 1922-1924,\n 1931-1944, 1936-1940; rate book, 1934; agent's\n letters, 1924-1967; client files, 1928-1970;\n insurance companies: Aetna Life Insurance Company,\n 1931-1945; Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance\n Company, 1933-1958; The Penn Mutual Life Insurance\n Company, 1935-1952; Davenport Insurance Corporation,\n 1937-1941; Winters-Oliver Insurance Agency,\n 1963-1968; Royal Globe Insurance Group, 1954-1962;\n Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service, 1941-1965;\n bonds; miscellany.","Speeches and addresses, memoranda books,\n clippings, miscellany, estate.","Correspondence with institutions, 1916-1973;\n letters of recommendation; greeting cards; accounts,\n 1934-1974; financial records, 1930-1974.","University of Arkansas, 1924-1925; Columbia\n University, 1926-1943; design consultant, 1928-1936;\n Washington-Lee High School, 1943-1959; Virginia 350th\n Anniversary Commission, 1953-1958; speeches;\n biographical; clippings; magazine articles;\n notebooks; notes; miscellany.","Red Cross, 1921; Switzerland, 1931; Syvlia Hill,\n 1943-1959; King William 250th Anniversary Committee,\n 1952-195?.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1961-1967 and minute books,\n 1812-1843, 1936-1952; scrapbooks; directory;\n memoranda book; essays and lines of verse","Genealogical notes; clippings; miscellany;\n estate","Mollie Burnley; Eleanor Gwathmey, 1842-1931; John\n Hill Gwathmey, 1798-1839; Joseph Hardin Gwathmey,\n 1878-1945; Washington Gwathmey; William Gwathmey,\n 1875-1920; William Henry Gwathmey, 1819-1886; Mary\n Overton (Burnley) Meaux; Anna Maria (Garnett) Ryland,\n 1826-1951; John Newton Ryland; unidentified and family;\n miscellany.","Permission to cite, quote, or reproduce for publication\n must be obtained in writing from the Senior Archivist.","Papers of Joseph Gwathmey\n (1754-1824), planter, major in the Virginia militia, and\n deacon of Beulah Baptist Church, consist chiefly of records\n for his estate. Papers of William Gwathmey (1794-1875),\n planter and physician, trustee for Beulah Baptist Church,\n include diaries, 1833- 1874 (20 v.), primarily concerning\n weather conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physician's visits, and church activities (Civil War diaries\n provide his views on the war and document local events);\n correspondence, 1819-1875, with family members, many\n concerning church activities; accounts books, 1825-1875 (3\n v.), for farming operations and physician's services\n (containing also records of family and slave births); loose\n accounts, 1833-1875; deeds and bonds, 1818-1873; and Beulah\n Church records, 1829-1872. Papers of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), planter, insurance agent, and superintendent of\n King William County schools, include diaries, 1872 and 1910;\n correspondence, 1885-1918, chiefly with family members; and\n account books, 1887-1917 (2 v.), concerning farm operations.\n Papers of John Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), planter, include\n correspondence, 1918- 1982, chiefly with family; account\n books, 1951-1980, concerning farming operations; accounts,\n 1919-1982; checks and bank statements; and materials\n concerning the creation of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial\n Foundation. Papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey (1879-1979),\n insurance agent, include correspondence, 1913-1975, with\n family; account books, accounts, and bank records, 1916-1979;\n and business records, 1921-1970, documenting her career in New\n York City and King William County, and include account books\n and client files. Papers of Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974),\n teacher and artist, include correspondence, 1910-1973;\n accounts, 1930-1974; school notes, artwork, and materials\n documenting her work with the Virginia 350th Anniversary\n Commission.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 G9957 c FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"collection_title_tesim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"collection_ssim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"creator_ssm":["Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, Jeanette\n Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey, John Ryland Gwathmey, Anna Garnett\n Gwathmey, and Mary Burnley Gwathmey."],"creator_ssim":["Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, Jeanette\n Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey, John Ryland Gwathmey, Anna Garnett\n Gwathmey, and Mary Burnley Gwathmey."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation,\n 1987."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Agriculture","Baptists","Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation","Gwathmey family","Plantation life","Slavery","Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal\n narratives, Confederate"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture","Baptists","Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation","Gwathmey family","Plantation life","Slavery","Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal\n narratives, Confederate"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["10,000 (ca.) items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open for use.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open for use."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into fifteen sections by creator.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into fifteen sections by creator."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection represents four generations of this\n prominent King William County family. From their family seat\n at \"Burlington,\" the Gwathmey's were active in the political,\n social, and religious life of the county for more than two\n centuries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Hardin Gwathmey and his wife, Jeannette Garnett\n (Ryland) Gwathmey, had five children, three of whom, John\n Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), Anna Garnett Gwathmey\n (1879-1979), and Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883- 1974), are\n prominent in this collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith the exception of the years he spent at Virginia\n Polytechnic Institute (Now Virginia Polytechnic University and\n State University), John Ryland Gwathmey spent his entire life\n at \"Burlington.\" John Ryland Gwathmey supervised farming and\n timber operations on the family estate and appraised real\n estate in King William and nearby counties. He was also a\n member of the county board of supervisors and of Beulah\n Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["This collection represents four generations of this\n prominent King William County family. From their family seat\n at \"Burlington,\" the Gwathmey's were active in the political,\n social, and religious life of the county for more than two\n centuries.","Joseph Hardin Gwathmey and his wife, Jeannette Garnett\n (Ryland) Gwathmey, had five children, three of whom, John\n Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), Anna Garnett Gwathmey\n (1879-1979), and Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883- 1974), are\n prominent in this collection.","With the exception of the years he spent at Virginia\n Polytechnic Institute (Now Virginia Polytechnic University and\n State University), John Ryland Gwathmey spent his entire life\n at \"Burlington.\" John Ryland Gwathmey supervised farming and\n timber operations on the family estate and appraised real\n estate in King William and nearby counties. He was also a\n member of the county board of supervisors and of Beulah\n Baptist Church."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGwathmey Family Papers, 1790-1982 (Mss1 G9957 c FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, 1790-1982 (Mss1 G9957 c FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection begins with the papers of Joseph Gwathmey,\n (1758-1824), a planter, major in the state militia, and deacon\n of the Beulah Baptist Church. These records consist of an\n account book, loose accounts, and estate materials. Major\n Gwathmey's account book also contains records of his\n children's births and lists of horses. Most of his papers,\n however, concern his estate and include the records of\n executors, Richard Gwathmey (1789-1866), John Hill Gwathmey\n (1798-1839), and William Gwathmey (1794-1875). Two accounts\n books contain copies of Joseph Gwathmey's will, inventories,\n appraisals, and accounts and expenses. Loose estate materials\n include accounts, inventories, an indenture selling land to\n Nathaniel Boush Hill, and an 1836 appraisal of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of William Gwathmey are found in boxes 2-7.\n William Gwathmey inherited \"Wakefield,\" but moved to\n \"Burlington\" upon the death of his brother, John Hill\n Gwathmey, in 1839. A planter and physician, Gwathmey was also\n a trustee of the Beulah Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Gwathmey's papers begin with a diary of his journey to\n St. Augustine, Florida, with his wife and sister-in-law,\n Hardinia M. Burnley, from 1833 to 1834. Other diaries follow;\n a complete list of these appears in the guide that follows\n this description. The diaries, many of which are kept in\n copies of Richardson's Almanac, mostly concern weather\n conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physicians's visits, and church activities. The pages of an\n 1837 diary describe a trip to New Orleans and southwest\n Louisiana. Entries in the 1852 diary concern a medical\n conference in Richmond (Apr. 28, May 5) and the presidential\n election of that year (Nov. 9). The 1859 diary describes\n hiring day in Ayletts (Jan. 1) and election day (May 26).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiaries from the Civil War years not only provide\n Gwathmey's views on the war, but also document local events.\n Several 1863 entries describe the appearance of Northern units\n in King William (January 8 and June 5), as well as the baptism\n of slaves at Beulah (Sept. 6). Entries for 1864 describe the\n arrival of Union troops at Ayletts (Mar. 1-2), the doctoring\n of wounded soldiers, and the occupation of \"Burlington\" (May\n 22- 29). Several 1866 entries concern Reconstruction (Feb. 27,\n May 31, June 12-18). These last entries concern formal charges\n bought against a neighbor for mistreating a former slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 3-5 contain the correspondence of William Gwathmey.\n Most of this consists of letters from family members,\n including Joseph Robert Garlick, Frances Fielding (Lewis)\n Gwathmey, Lucy Ann (Garlick) Gwathmey, Richard Gwathmey,\n Washington Gwathmey, and William Henry Gwathmey. Many of these\n letters concern the activities of Beulah Church. Significant\n correspondence incudes the letters of Gwathmey's\n brother-in-law, Edwin Burnley, who apparently deserted his\n wife and went to Mississippi. These letters document his\n divorce and attempts to transfer slaves to his new home. The\n letters of another brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Meaux, concern\n medicine and phyhsicians. Thomas Witt Haynes writes concerning\n WG's son Richard Brooke Gwathmeyh, who served in the 9th\n Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. Letters with Alexander\n Fleet pertain to Gwathmey's brief service in the Ware of 1812,\n for which WG was applying for a pension. An 1865 letter from\n richard Gwathmey describes the Richmond fire, while an 1837\n letter describes a trip to Chicago, Ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree accounts books follow. The first two are indexed and\n primarily consist of accounts with patients, but they also\n include records of family births, servant births, lists of\n livestock, and accounts with the estate of Joseph Gwathmey.\n The second account book also contains accounts, 1875-1895, of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey. The third account book, 1870-1875,\n contains contracts and accounts with farm hands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLoose accounts begin in box 7. These are followed by deeds\n and bonds, most of which concern land, but which also include\n an indenture to a former slave, Sylvia Hill, granting her\n ownership of her house. Beulah Baptist Church records consist\n of lists of subscriptions, a commonplace book, eulogies for\n Hardin Burnley (1804?-1869), John William Garlick\n (1823?-1866), Edward Hill (d. 1870) and James Trice.\n Miscellaneous materials include photocopies concerning\n Gwathmey's 1812 service and a pass, 1864, signed by James\n Alexander Seddon (1815-1880).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence of Elizabeth Theresa (Burnley) Gwathmey\n (1806-1879), wife of William Gwathmey, consists mostly of\n letters written by her children. Among those are the letters\n of Mary Atwood Gwathmey, which describe her visit to cousins\n in Mississippi in 1856 and 1857.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains materials of seven of William and\n Elizabeth (Burnley) Gwathmey's children. The papers of Richard\n Brooke Gwathmey (1838-1864), a soldier in the 9th Virginia\n Cavalry during the Civil War, and William Gwathmey (1840-1858)\n are located in box 8. Also in box 8 are several diaries of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1846-1918), who inherited \"Burlington\"\n upon the death of his father in 1875. Gwathmey, an agent for\n the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, also served as\n superintendent of King William County Schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGwathmey's general correspondence is mostly with friends\n and family members, but also includes a letter signed by\n Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1881-1944), as Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, thanking Gwathmey for the loan of his binoculars\n to the U. S. Navy during the First World War. Account books\n concern farming operations and include accounts with far\n laborers. Loose accounts include receipts from the King\n William County Grange. Records concerning Gwathmey's\n superintendency of King William schools consist mostly of\n certificates, but also include a statistical report, ca. 1905,\n detailing conditions in the system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Jeannette Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey\n (1847-1915), wife of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, consist of\n diaries, memoranda and scrapbooks, correspondence, and\n miscellany. The diaries mostly concern the weather and her\n church activities, but the 1905 volume also contains notes on\n the Garnett family. Her memoranda book contains notes on the\n Peachey, Ryland, and Griffin families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Owen Overton Gwathmey (1849-1922), Elizabeth\n Burnley Gwathmey (b. 1818), Hardinia Morris Gwathmey\n (1832-1905), and Mary Atwood Gwathmey (1834-1868) are located\n in boxes 11 and 12. Owen Overton Gwathmey was a lawyer and\n judge of the King William Circuit Court. Among his papers are\n deeds of land to Gwathmey in his capacity as trustee for\n Beulah Baptist Church. His miscellany includes the wills of\n Sylvia Hill (d. 1906) and Phillis Garlick, both of King\n William County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGwathmey's papers begin with general correspondence, which\n is mostly with family members. Frequent correspondents include\n his sisters, Anna Garnett Gwathmey and Mary Burnley Gwathmey,\n Eleanor Gwathmey (Powell) Dewey, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1878-1945), Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Lewis\n Franklin Powell, associate justice of the United States\n Supreme Court. Many of Powell's letters concern the\n Burlington- Gwathmey Memorial Foundation, but have been filed\n together with the general correspondence. Form letters consist\n mostly of appeals from charitable and political organizations.\n Greeting cards and invitations conclude this box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 17 contains account books. Three of these concern\n farming operations at \"Burlington.\" Financial records consist\n almost entirely of bank statements and federal income and\n property tax returns. Other financial records relate to life\n and health insurance and trust funds, including statements and\n accounts of the Burlington Cemetery Trust Fund.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1970's, \"Burlington\" was added to the Virginia\n Landmarks Register. Correspondence with the Virginia Historic\n Landmarks Commission concerns the establishment of landmark\n status, the granting of an open space easement, and the\n awarding of a preservation grant and subsequent restoration.\n In 1977, the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation was\n established to maintain the family estate after the death of\n John Ryland Gwathmey. Foundation materials include acts of\n incorporation and correspondence, primarily with lawyers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 30 begins with letters and census reports from the\n Department of Agriculture concerning farming operations at\n \"Burlington.\" Materials pertaining to timber include reports,\n agreement, and accounts with lumber mills. These are followed\n by land records, mostly deeds of lease, concerning other land\n owned by JRG, including a house in Ayletts known as\n \"Gwathmey's,\" and \"Meadow Farm,\" the estate adjacent to\n \"Burlington.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Ryland Gwathmey served as chairman of the industrial\n and Rural Utilities Committee of the Ruritan Club of King\n William County. These papers mostly concern the publication of\n a promotional pamphlet, King William Invites You, and consist\n of correspondence and drafts of the manuscript. Materials from\n JRG's tenure as a member of the county's board of supervisors\n also primarily concern industrial growth and include a\n consultant's 1970 water and sewerage report. Appraisals of\n farms in King William and surrounding counties, conducted by\n JRG, conclude box 31. Papers relating to JRG's service as\n trustee and clerk of the Beulah Baptist Church concern\n subscriptions and renovations to the building. These precede\n student composition books, clippings, and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey begin with general\n correspondence (boxes 33-36). Much of this is with her sister,\n Mary Burnley Gwathmey, from 1921-1926. Other frequent\n correspondents include family members: Alice R. Campbell,\n Jeannette O. Campbell, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1878-1945),\n Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Laura Virginia\n (Gwathmey) Young. Box 37 contains correspondence with\n institutions, greeting cards, invitations, account books, and\n accounts. Financial records consist of bank statement and\n checks and investment, tax, and insurance records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials in boxes 41-45 document Anna Garnett Gwathmey's\n career as a general insurance agent in both New York City and\n King William County. These begin with five account books, a\n rate book, and a folder of unanswered solicitations. Client\n files consist of correspondence, claim forms, invoices, and\n policies with individual policy holders. These are arranged\n alphabetically. Records from the various insurance companies\n that AGG represented follow. These consist of letters and\n memoranda from the companies, commission statements, forms,\n bulletins, and promotional materials. Memoranda and rate\n quotes from the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service,\n performance bonds, and miscellany conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning a patent search consist of reports and\n copies of patents on stockings. Letters and miscellany of New\n York's Three Arts Club pertain to a 1937 benefit bridge\n tournament and dance. Speeches and addresses are mostly from a\n public speaking class. Miscellany includes cards of airplane\n silhouettes, used to test the accuracy of aircraft spotters\n during World War II. Sympathy letters addressed to John Ryland\n Gwathmey and estate materials conclude the papers of Anna\n Garnett Gwathmey.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974) graduated from Woman's\n College (now Westhampton College, University of Richmond), in\n 1904. Her general correspondence is located in boxes 47 and 48\n and includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966)\n concerning the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Mamie\n Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower concerning Virginia Democrats for\n Eisenhower in 1952, New York Congressman Carfoline Love\n Goodwin O'Day, and Anna Eleanor (Roosevelt) Roosevelt\n concerning a request for an appointment. Correspondence with\n institutions dates mostly from MBG's years in New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 49 to 51 pertain to MBG's career as an artist and\n designer, begfinning with her papers as a teacher at the\n University of Arkansas and as a teacher and student at\n Columbia University's Teachers College. These primarily\n consist of lecuture notes and notebooks. After receiving a\n master of arts degree from Columbia in 1926, MBG worked for\n James McCreery \u0026amp; Co. and James A. Hearns and Sons, both\n New York stores. In the early 1930's, she left retaining to\n become an independent design and fashion consultant. Records\n docummenting MBG's career in New York mainly consist of\n company memoranda, bulletins, brochures, layouts of display,\n advertising materials, and newsaper clippings. In 1943, MBG\n accedpt a position as instructor of distributive eeducation at\n Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 50 begins with materials concerning MBG's service, as a\n consultant on merchandising, color, and design, on the\n Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. Thedse consist of\n correspondence, mostly with Executive Director Parke Rouse and\n with textile and paint companies, as well as reports,\n memoranda, press releases, clippings, and advertising and\n promotional materials. General art and design materials\n follow, and include: speeches and addresses, resumes,\n clippings, magazine articles, notes and notebooks, and\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remainder of MBG's papers are located in boxes 52-54\n and concern her non-art related activities. These begin with a\n few items pertaining to her work for the American Red Cross in\n Oteen, N. C., in 1921, and a trip to Switzerland in 1931.\n Materials concerning MBG's attempts to get funding for the\n publication of the story of Sylvia Hill, a former slave and\n family servant, include correspondence and application with\n foundations and rough drafts of the book. Correspondence,\n addresses, notes, and clippings concerning MBG's service as\n Executive Secretary of the King William County 250th\n Anniversary Committee follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning Beulah Baptist Church mostly concern\n MBG's writing of Beulah Baptist Church: Highlights and\n Shadows. Copies of two of the Church's minute books are also\n included. Two scrapbooks, a memoranda book, and telephone\n directors follow. The first scrapbook contains clippings,\n lines of verse, snapshots, and obituaries from the early\n twentieth century, as well as three letters of Anna Maria\n (Garnett) Ryland (1826-1851), one to her brother, Reuben\n Meriwether Garnett, and two to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth\n Ferguson (Ryland) Willis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical records include notes on the Burnley, Garnett,\n Gwathmey, Meaux, Rucker, Ryland, and Temple families. The\n Gwathmey folder also contains a biographical sketch of Edward\n Garlick Gwathmey (1839-1931) and a manuscript, \"The Gwathmey\n Family of Virginia,\" by Mildred Bates Gwathmey. Clippings,\n miscellany, and estate materials conclude the papers of Mary\n Burnley Gwathmey.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 55 contains the papers of miscellaneous family members.\n A complete list of these individuals is found in the guide\n that follows this description. These items include: an\n 1870-1871 diary of Washington Gwathmey (probably kept at \"Bear\n Island,\" Hanover County, Va.), a letter from John Newton\n Ryland to John Meriwether Garnett concerning politics in King\n and Queen County in 1840, and two account books, 1875-1876, of\n Gaskins, Moncure and Co., Essex County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book, 1792-1824; accounts, 1790-1824;\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1833-1875; deeds, indentures and bond,\n 1818-1873; Beulah Baptist Church, 1829-1872;\n commonplace book; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1848-1868.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1858-1864; account book, 1856-1864;\n memoranda book, 1859-1860; accounts, 1858-1864;\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters received, 1857.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books, 1887-1893, 1895-1917; accounts,\n 1868-1918; and financial records, 1866-1916.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent of Schools, 1891-1906; miscellany;\n and estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiaries (7 v.), 1874-1875, 1905, 1907, 1908-1909,\n 1912-1913, 1914; memoranda book; correspondence,\n 1867-1915; scrapbook; music scrapbook, 1914; clippings;\n miscellany; resolutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1899-1920; financial records,\n 1879-1916; student notebook, 1876-1877; Beulah Baptist\n Church, 1877-1915; certificates; miscellany; estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters received, 1864-1888.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1847-1867; autograph book,\n 1852-1853.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters received, 1857-1903; scrapbook.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForm letters; greeting cards; invitations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books, n.d., 1951-1956, 1957-1963,\n 1964-1966, 1972-1974, 1974-1980; receipt book, 1953;\n employee hours book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLife and health insurance, 1970-1982; automobile\n insurance, 1953-1982; insurance on \"Burlington,\"\n 1964-1982; Burlington Cemetery Trust, 1927-1982;\n trust fund, 1971-1982.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Burlington,\" 1977-1982; Burlington-Gwathmey\n Memorial Foundation, 1977-1982.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarming, 1940-1982; timber, 1922-1981;\n \"Gwathmey's,\" 1977-1982; \"Meadow Farm,\" 1927-1962;\n miscellaneous deeds of lease.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuritan, 1950-1972; Board of Supervisors,\n 1955-1970; real estate appraisals, 1952-1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeulah Baptist Church, 1939-1970; student\n composition books; clippings; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with institutions, 1913-1972;\n greeting cards and invitations; account books,\n 1928-1936, 1931-1941, 1954-1960; accounts,\n 1925-1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlanters National Bank, 1916-1933; Southside Bank,\n 1926-1979; Bank of Virginia, 1955-1960; Citizens and\n Farmers Bank, 1961-1971.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records, 1925-1966; land records,\n 1920-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books (5 v.): 1921, 1937, 1922-1924,\n 1931-1944, 1936-1940; rate book, 1934; agent's\n letters, 1924-1967; client files, 1928-1970;\n insurance companies: Aetna Life Insurance Company,\n 1931-1945; Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance\n Company, 1933-1958; The Penn Mutual Life Insurance\n Company, 1935-1952; Davenport Insurance Corporation,\n 1937-1941; Winters-Oliver Insurance Agency,\n 1963-1968; Royal Globe Insurance Group, 1954-1962;\n Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service, 1941-1965;\n bonds; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches and addresses, memoranda books,\n clippings, miscellany, estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with institutions, 1916-1973;\n letters of recommendation; greeting cards; accounts,\n 1934-1974; financial records, 1930-1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Arkansas, 1924-1925; Columbia\n University, 1926-1943; design consultant, 1928-1936;\n Washington-Lee High School, 1943-1959; Virginia 350th\n Anniversary Commission, 1953-1958; speeches;\n biographical; clippings; magazine articles;\n notebooks; notes; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRed Cross, 1921; Switzerland, 1931; Syvlia Hill,\n 1943-1959; King William 250th Anniversary Committee,\n 1952-195?.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeulah Baptist Church, 1961-1967 and minute books,\n 1812-1843, 1936-1952; scrapbooks; directory;\n memoranda book; essays and lines of verse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical notes; clippings; miscellany;\n estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMollie Burnley; Eleanor Gwathmey, 1842-1931; John\n Hill Gwathmey, 1798-1839; Joseph Hardin Gwathmey,\n 1878-1945; Washington Gwathmey; William Gwathmey,\n 1875-1920; William Henry Gwathmey, 1819-1886; Mary\n Overton (Burnley) Meaux; Anna Maria (Garnett) Ryland,\n 1826-1951; John Newton Ryland; unidentified and family;\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection begins with the papers of Joseph Gwathmey,\n (1758-1824), a planter, major in the state militia, and deacon\n of the Beulah Baptist Church. These records consist of an\n account book, loose accounts, and estate materials. Major\n Gwathmey's account book also contains records of his\n children's births and lists of horses. Most of his papers,\n however, concern his estate and include the records of\n executors, Richard Gwathmey (1789-1866), John Hill Gwathmey\n (1798-1839), and William Gwathmey (1794-1875). Two accounts\n books contain copies of Joseph Gwathmey's will, inventories,\n appraisals, and accounts and expenses. Loose estate materials\n include accounts, inventories, an indenture selling land to\n Nathaniel Boush Hill, and an 1836 appraisal of slaves.","The papers of William Gwathmey are found in boxes 2-7.\n William Gwathmey inherited \"Wakefield,\" but moved to\n \"Burlington\" upon the death of his brother, John Hill\n Gwathmey, in 1839. A planter and physician, Gwathmey was also\n a trustee of the Beulah Baptist Church.","Dr. Gwathmey's papers begin with a diary of his journey to\n St. Augustine, Florida, with his wife and sister-in-law,\n Hardinia M. Burnley, from 1833 to 1834. Other diaries follow;\n a complete list of these appears in the guide that follows\n this description. The diaries, many of which are kept in\n copies of Richardson's Almanac, mostly concern weather\n conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physicians's visits, and church activities. The pages of an\n 1837 diary describe a trip to New Orleans and southwest\n Louisiana. Entries in the 1852 diary concern a medical\n conference in Richmond (Apr. 28, May 5) and the presidential\n election of that year (Nov. 9). The 1859 diary describes\n hiring day in Ayletts (Jan. 1) and election day (May 26).","Diaries from the Civil War years not only provide\n Gwathmey's views on the war, but also document local events.\n Several 1863 entries describe the appearance of Northern units\n in King William (January 8 and June 5), as well as the baptism\n of slaves at Beulah (Sept. 6). Entries for 1864 describe the\n arrival of Union troops at Ayletts (Mar. 1-2), the doctoring\n of wounded soldiers, and the occupation of \"Burlington\" (May\n 22- 29). Several 1866 entries concern Reconstruction (Feb. 27,\n May 31, June 12-18). These last entries concern formal charges\n bought against a neighbor for mistreating a former slave.","Boxes 3-5 contain the correspondence of William Gwathmey.\n Most of this consists of letters from family members,\n including Joseph Robert Garlick, Frances Fielding (Lewis)\n Gwathmey, Lucy Ann (Garlick) Gwathmey, Richard Gwathmey,\n Washington Gwathmey, and William Henry Gwathmey. Many of these\n letters concern the activities of Beulah Church. Significant\n correspondence incudes the letters of Gwathmey's\n brother-in-law, Edwin Burnley, who apparently deserted his\n wife and went to Mississippi. These letters document his\n divorce and attempts to transfer slaves to his new home. The\n letters of another brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Meaux, concern\n medicine and phyhsicians. Thomas Witt Haynes writes concerning\n WG's son Richard Brooke Gwathmeyh, who served in the 9th\n Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. Letters with Alexander\n Fleet pertain to Gwathmey's brief service in the Ware of 1812,\n for which WG was applying for a pension. An 1865 letter from\n richard Gwathmey describes the Richmond fire, while an 1837\n letter describes a trip to Chicago, Ill.","Three accounts books follow. The first two are indexed and\n primarily consist of accounts with patients, but they also\n include records of family births, servant births, lists of\n livestock, and accounts with the estate of Joseph Gwathmey.\n The second account book also contains accounts, 1875-1895, of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey. The third account book, 1870-1875,\n contains contracts and accounts with farm hands.","Loose accounts begin in box 7. These are followed by deeds\n and bonds, most of which concern land, but which also include\n an indenture to a former slave, Sylvia Hill, granting her\n ownership of her house. Beulah Baptist Church records consist\n of lists of subscriptions, a commonplace book, eulogies for\n Hardin Burnley (1804?-1869), John William Garlick\n (1823?-1866), Edward Hill (d. 1870) and James Trice.\n Miscellaneous materials include photocopies concerning\n Gwathmey's 1812 service and a pass, 1864, signed by James\n Alexander Seddon (1815-1880).","The correspondence of Elizabeth Theresa (Burnley) Gwathmey\n (1806-1879), wife of William Gwathmey, consists mostly of\n letters written by her children. Among those are the letters\n of Mary Atwood Gwathmey, which describe her visit to cousins\n in Mississippi in 1856 and 1857.","The collection contains materials of seven of William and\n Elizabeth (Burnley) Gwathmey's children. The papers of Richard\n Brooke Gwathmey (1838-1864), a soldier in the 9th Virginia\n Cavalry during the Civil War, and William Gwathmey (1840-1858)\n are located in box 8. Also in box 8 are several diaries of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1846-1918), who inherited \"Burlington\"\n upon the death of his father in 1875. Gwathmey, an agent for\n the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, also served as\n superintendent of King William County Schools.","Gwathmey's general correspondence is mostly with friends\n and family members, but also includes a letter signed by\n Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1881-1944), as Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, thanking Gwathmey for the loan of his binoculars\n to the U. S. Navy during the First World War. Account books\n concern farming operations and include accounts with far\n laborers. Loose accounts include receipts from the King\n William County Grange. Records concerning Gwathmey's\n superintendency of King William schools consist mostly of\n certificates, but also include a statistical report, ca. 1905,\n detailing conditions in the system.","The papers of Jeannette Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey\n (1847-1915), wife of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, consist of\n diaries, memoranda and scrapbooks, correspondence, and\n miscellany. The diaries mostly concern the weather and her\n church activities, but the 1905 volume also contains notes on\n the Garnett family. Her memoranda book contains notes on the\n Peachey, Ryland, and Griffin families.","The papers of Owen Overton Gwathmey (1849-1922), Elizabeth\n Burnley Gwathmey (b. 1818), Hardinia Morris Gwathmey\n (1832-1905), and Mary Atwood Gwathmey (1834-1868) are located\n in boxes 11 and 12. Owen Overton Gwathmey was a lawyer and\n judge of the King William Circuit Court. Among his papers are\n deeds of land to Gwathmey in his capacity as trustee for\n Beulah Baptist Church. His miscellany includes the wills of\n Sylvia Hill (d. 1906) and Phillis Garlick, both of King\n William County.","Gwathmey's papers begin with general correspondence, which\n is mostly with family members. Frequent correspondents include\n his sisters, Anna Garnett Gwathmey and Mary Burnley Gwathmey,\n Eleanor Gwathmey (Powell) Dewey, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1878-1945), Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Lewis\n Franklin Powell, associate justice of the United States\n Supreme Court. Many of Powell's letters concern the\n Burlington- Gwathmey Memorial Foundation, but have been filed\n together with the general correspondence. Form letters consist\n mostly of appeals from charitable and political organizations.\n Greeting cards and invitations conclude this box.","Box 17 contains account books. Three of these concern\n farming operations at \"Burlington.\" Financial records consist\n almost entirely of bank statements and federal income and\n property tax returns. Other financial records relate to life\n and health insurance and trust funds, including statements and\n accounts of the Burlington Cemetery Trust Fund.","In the late 1970's, \"Burlington\" was added to the Virginia\n Landmarks Register. Correspondence with the Virginia Historic\n Landmarks Commission concerns the establishment of landmark\n status, the granting of an open space easement, and the\n awarding of a preservation grant and subsequent restoration.\n In 1977, the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation was\n established to maintain the family estate after the death of\n John Ryland Gwathmey. Foundation materials include acts of\n incorporation and correspondence, primarily with lawyers.","Box 30 begins with letters and census reports from the\n Department of Agriculture concerning farming operations at\n \"Burlington.\" Materials pertaining to timber include reports,\n agreement, and accounts with lumber mills. These are followed\n by land records, mostly deeds of lease, concerning other land\n owned by JRG, including a house in Ayletts known as\n \"Gwathmey's,\" and \"Meadow Farm,\" the estate adjacent to\n \"Burlington.\"","John Ryland Gwathmey served as chairman of the industrial\n and Rural Utilities Committee of the Ruritan Club of King\n William County. These papers mostly concern the publication of\n a promotional pamphlet, King William Invites You, and consist\n of correspondence and drafts of the manuscript. Materials from\n JRG's tenure as a member of the county's board of supervisors\n also primarily concern industrial growth and include a\n consultant's 1970 water and sewerage report. Appraisals of\n farms in King William and surrounding counties, conducted by\n JRG, conclude box 31. Papers relating to JRG's service as\n trustee and clerk of the Beulah Baptist Church concern\n subscriptions and renovations to the building. These precede\n student composition books, clippings, and miscellany.","The papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey begin with general\n correspondence (boxes 33-36). Much of this is with her sister,\n Mary Burnley Gwathmey, from 1921-1926. Other frequent\n correspondents include family members: Alice R. Campbell,\n Jeannette O. Campbell, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1878-1945),\n Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Laura Virginia\n (Gwathmey) Young. Box 37 contains correspondence with\n institutions, greeting cards, invitations, account books, and\n accounts. Financial records consist of bank statement and\n checks and investment, tax, and insurance records.","Materials in boxes 41-45 document Anna Garnett Gwathmey's\n career as a general insurance agent in both New York City and\n King William County. These begin with five account books, a\n rate book, and a folder of unanswered solicitations. Client\n files consist of correspondence, claim forms, invoices, and\n policies with individual policy holders. These are arranged\n alphabetically. Records from the various insurance companies\n that AGG represented follow. These consist of letters and\n memoranda from the companies, commission statements, forms,\n bulletins, and promotional materials. Memoranda and rate\n quotes from the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service,\n performance bonds, and miscellany conclude this section.","Materials concerning a patent search consist of reports and\n copies of patents on stockings. Letters and miscellany of New\n York's Three Arts Club pertain to a 1937 benefit bridge\n tournament and dance. Speeches and addresses are mostly from a\n public speaking class. Miscellany includes cards of airplane\n silhouettes, used to test the accuracy of aircraft spotters\n during World War II. Sympathy letters addressed to John Ryland\n Gwathmey and estate materials conclude the papers of Anna\n Garnett Gwathmey.","Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974) graduated from Woman's\n College (now Westhampton College, University of Richmond), in\n 1904. Her general correspondence is located in boxes 47 and 48\n and includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966)\n concerning the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Mamie\n Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower concerning Virginia Democrats for\n Eisenhower in 1952, New York Congressman Carfoline Love\n Goodwin O'Day, and Anna Eleanor (Roosevelt) Roosevelt\n concerning a request for an appointment. Correspondence with\n institutions dates mostly from MBG's years in New York.","Boxes 49 to 51 pertain to MBG's career as an artist and\n designer, begfinning with her papers as a teacher at the\n University of Arkansas and as a teacher and student at\n Columbia University's Teachers College. These primarily\n consist of lecuture notes and notebooks. After receiving a\n master of arts degree from Columbia in 1926, MBG worked for\n James McCreery \u0026 Co. and James A. Hearns and Sons, both\n New York stores. In the early 1930's, she left retaining to\n become an independent design and fashion consultant. Records\n docummenting MBG's career in New York mainly consist of\n company memoranda, bulletins, brochures, layouts of display,\n advertising materials, and newsaper clippings. In 1943, MBG\n accedpt a position as instructor of distributive eeducation at\n Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Va.","Box 50 begins with materials concerning MBG's service, as a\n consultant on merchandising, color, and design, on the\n Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. Thedse consist of\n correspondence, mostly with Executive Director Parke Rouse and\n with textile and paint companies, as well as reports,\n memoranda, press releases, clippings, and advertising and\n promotional materials. General art and design materials\n follow, and include: speeches and addresses, resumes,\n clippings, magazine articles, notes and notebooks, and\n miscellany.","The remainder of MBG's papers are located in boxes 52-54\n and concern her non-art related activities. These begin with a\n few items pertaining to her work for the American Red Cross in\n Oteen, N. C., in 1921, and a trip to Switzerland in 1931.\n Materials concerning MBG's attempts to get funding for the\n publication of the story of Sylvia Hill, a former slave and\n family servant, include correspondence and application with\n foundations and rough drafts of the book. Correspondence,\n addresses, notes, and clippings concerning MBG's service as\n Executive Secretary of the King William County 250th\n Anniversary Committee follow.","Materials concerning Beulah Baptist Church mostly concern\n MBG's writing of Beulah Baptist Church: Highlights and\n Shadows. Copies of two of the Church's minute books are also\n included. Two scrapbooks, a memoranda book, and telephone\n directors follow. The first scrapbook contains clippings,\n lines of verse, snapshots, and obituaries from the early\n twentieth century, as well as three letters of Anna Maria\n (Garnett) Ryland (1826-1851), one to her brother, Reuben\n Meriwether Garnett, and two to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth\n Ferguson (Ryland) Willis.","Genealogical records include notes on the Burnley, Garnett,\n Gwathmey, Meaux, Rucker, Ryland, and Temple families. The\n Gwathmey folder also contains a biographical sketch of Edward\n Garlick Gwathmey (1839-1931) and a manuscript, \"The Gwathmey\n Family of Virginia,\" by Mildred Bates Gwathmey. Clippings,\n miscellany, and estate materials conclude the papers of Mary\n Burnley Gwathmey.","Box 55 contains the papers of miscellaneous family members.\n A complete list of these individuals is found in the guide\n that follows this description. These items include: an\n 1870-1871 diary of Washington Gwathmey (probably kept at \"Bear\n Island,\" Hanover County, Va.), a letter from John Newton\n Ryland to John Meriwether Garnett concerning politics in King\n and Queen County in 1840, and two account books, 1875-1876, of\n Gaskins, Moncure and Co., Essex County, Va.","Account book, 1792-1824; accounts, 1790-1824;\n estate.","Accounts, 1833-1875; deeds, indentures and bond,\n 1818-1873; Beulah Baptist Church, 1829-1872;\n commonplace book; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1848-1868.","Correspondence, 1858-1864; account book, 1856-1864;\n memoranda book, 1859-1860; accounts, 1858-1864;\n estate.","Letters received, 1857.","Account books, 1887-1893, 1895-1917; accounts,\n 1868-1918; and financial records, 1866-1916.","Superintendent of Schools, 1891-1906; miscellany;\n and estate.","Diaries (7 v.), 1874-1875, 1905, 1907, 1908-1909,\n 1912-1913, 1914; memoranda book; correspondence,\n 1867-1915; scrapbook; music scrapbook, 1914; clippings;\n miscellany; resolutions.","Correspondence, 1899-1920; financial records,\n 1879-1916; student notebook, 1876-1877; Beulah Baptist\n Church, 1877-1915; certificates; miscellany; estate.","Letters received, 1864-1888.","Correspondence, 1847-1867; autograph book,\n 1852-1853.","Letters received, 1857-1903; scrapbook.","Form letters; greeting cards; invitations.","Account books, n.d., 1951-1956, 1957-1963,\n 1964-1966, 1972-1974, 1974-1980; receipt book, 1953;\n employee hours book.","Life and health insurance, 1970-1982; automobile\n insurance, 1953-1982; insurance on \"Burlington,\"\n 1964-1982; Burlington Cemetery Trust, 1927-1982;\n trust fund, 1971-1982.","\"Burlington,\" 1977-1982; Burlington-Gwathmey\n Memorial Foundation, 1977-1982.","Farming, 1940-1982; timber, 1922-1981;\n \"Gwathmey's,\" 1977-1982; \"Meadow Farm,\" 1927-1962;\n miscellaneous deeds of lease.","Ruritan, 1950-1972; Board of Supervisors,\n 1955-1970; real estate appraisals, 1952-1977.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1939-1970; student\n composition books; clippings; miscellany.","Correspondence with institutions, 1913-1972;\n greeting cards and invitations; account books,\n 1928-1936, 1931-1941, 1954-1960; accounts,\n 1925-1977.","Planters National Bank, 1916-1933; Southside Bank,\n 1926-1979; Bank of Virginia, 1955-1960; Citizens and\n Farmers Bank, 1961-1971.","Financial records, 1925-1966; land records,\n 1920-1976.","Account books (5 v.): 1921, 1937, 1922-1924,\n 1931-1944, 1936-1940; rate book, 1934; agent's\n letters, 1924-1967; client files, 1928-1970;\n insurance companies: Aetna Life Insurance Company,\n 1931-1945; Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance\n Company, 1933-1958; The Penn Mutual Life Insurance\n Company, 1935-1952; Davenport Insurance Corporation,\n 1937-1941; Winters-Oliver Insurance Agency,\n 1963-1968; Royal Globe Insurance Group, 1954-1962;\n Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service, 1941-1965;\n bonds; miscellany.","Speeches and addresses, memoranda books,\n clippings, miscellany, estate.","Correspondence with institutions, 1916-1973;\n letters of recommendation; greeting cards; accounts,\n 1934-1974; financial records, 1930-1974.","University of Arkansas, 1924-1925; Columbia\n University, 1926-1943; design consultant, 1928-1936;\n Washington-Lee High School, 1943-1959; Virginia 350th\n Anniversary Commission, 1953-1958; speeches;\n biographical; clippings; magazine articles;\n notebooks; notes; miscellany.","Red Cross, 1921; Switzerland, 1931; Syvlia Hill,\n 1943-1959; King William 250th Anniversary Committee,\n 1952-195?.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1961-1967 and minute books,\n 1812-1843, 1936-1952; scrapbooks; directory;\n memoranda book; essays and lines of verse","Genealogical notes; clippings; miscellany;\n estate","Mollie Burnley; Eleanor Gwathmey, 1842-1931; John\n Hill Gwathmey, 1798-1839; Joseph Hardin Gwathmey,\n 1878-1945; Washington Gwathmey; William Gwathmey,\n 1875-1920; William Henry Gwathmey, 1819-1886; Mary\n Overton (Burnley) Meaux; Anna Maria (Garnett) Ryland,\n 1826-1951; John Newton Ryland; unidentified and family;\n miscellany."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to cite, quote, or reproduce for publication\n must be obtained in writing from the Senior Archivist.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to cite, quote, or reproduce for publication\n must be obtained in writing from the Senior Archivist."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers of Joseph Gwathmey\n (1754-1824), planter, major in the Virginia militia, and\n deacon of Beulah Baptist Church, consist chiefly of records\n for his estate. Papers of William Gwathmey (1794-1875),\n planter and physician, trustee for Beulah Baptist Church,\n include diaries, 1833- 1874 (20 v.), primarily concerning\n weather conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physician's visits, and church activities (Civil War diaries\n provide his views on the war and document local events);\n correspondence, 1819-1875, with family members, many\n concerning church activities; accounts books, 1825-1875 (3\n v.), for farming operations and physician's services\n (containing also records of family and slave births); loose\n accounts, 1833-1875; deeds and bonds, 1818-1873; and Beulah\n Church records, 1829-1872. Papers of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), planter, insurance agent, and superintendent of\n King William County schools, include diaries, 1872 and 1910;\n correspondence, 1885-1918, chiefly with family members; and\n account books, 1887-1917 (2 v.), concerning farm operations.\n Papers of John Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), planter, include\n correspondence, 1918- 1982, chiefly with family; account\n books, 1951-1980, concerning farming operations; accounts,\n 1919-1982; checks and bank statements; and materials\n concerning the creation of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial\n Foundation. Papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey (1879-1979),\n insurance agent, include correspondence, 1913-1975, with\n family; account books, accounts, and bank records, 1916-1979;\n and business records, 1921-1970, documenting her career in New\n York City and King William County, and include account books\n and client files. Papers of Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974),\n teacher and artist, include correspondence, 1910-1973;\n accounts, 1930-1974; school notes, artwork, and materials\n documenting her work with the Virginia 350th Anniversary\n Commission.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Joseph Gwathmey\n (1754-1824), planter, major in the Virginia militia, and\n deacon of Beulah Baptist Church, consist chiefly of records\n for his estate. Papers of William Gwathmey (1794-1875),\n planter and physician, trustee for Beulah Baptist Church,\n include diaries, 1833- 1874 (20 v.), primarily concerning\n weather conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physician's visits, and church activities (Civil War diaries\n provide his views on the war and document local events);\n correspondence, 1819-1875, with family members, many\n concerning church activities; accounts books, 1825-1875 (3\n v.), for farming operations and physician's services\n (containing also records of family and slave births); loose\n accounts, 1833-1875; deeds and bonds, 1818-1873; and Beulah\n Church records, 1829-1872. Papers of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), planter, insurance agent, and superintendent of\n King William County schools, include diaries, 1872 and 1910;\n correspondence, 1885-1918, chiefly with family members; and\n account books, 1887-1917 (2 v.), concerning farm operations.\n Papers of John Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), planter, include\n correspondence, 1918- 1982, chiefly with family; account\n books, 1951-1980, concerning farming operations; accounts,\n 1919-1982; checks and bank statements; and materials\n concerning the creation of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial\n Foundation. Papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey (1879-1979),\n insurance agent, include correspondence, 1913-1975, with\n family; account books, accounts, and bank records, 1916-1979;\n and business records, 1921-1970, documenting her career in New\n York City and King William County, and include account books\n and client files. Papers of Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974),\n teacher and artist, include correspondence, 1910-1973;\n accounts, 1930-1974; school notes, artwork, and materials\n documenting her work with the Virginia 350th Anniversary\n Commission."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":49,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00007_c12_c04"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c01_c04","type":"File","attributes":{"title":"Accounts, \n \n 1927-1956","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00010_c04_c01_c04#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c01_c04","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00010_c04_c01_c04"],"id":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c01_c04","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00010","_root_":"vihi_vih00010","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c01","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00010_c04_c01","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00010","vihi_vih00010_c04","vihi_vih00010_c04_c01"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00010","vihi_vih00010_c04","vihi_vih00010_c04_c01"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983),\n Richmond, Va.","Subseries 4.1: General and\n Financial Materials \n \n 1916-1970"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983),\n Richmond, Va.","Subseries 4.1: General and\n Financial Materials \n \n 1916-1970"],"text":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Series 4: Adele Clark (1882-1983),\n Richmond, Va.","Subseries 4.1: General and\n Financial Materials \n \n 1916-1970","Accounts, \n \n 1927-1956"],"title_filing_ssi":"Accounts, \n \n 1927-1956","title_ssm":["Accounts, \n \n 1927-1956"],"title_tesim":["Accounts, \n \n 1927-1956"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Accounts, \n \n 1927-1956"],"component_level_isim":[3],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"collection_ssim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"level_ssm":["File"],"level_ssim":["File"],"sort_isi":9,"_nest_path_":"/components#3/components#0/components#3","timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00010","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00010","_root_":"vihi_vih00010","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00010","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00010.xml","title_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"title_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2","Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Art and state -- Virginia.","Art -- Study and teaching.","Clark,Adele, 1882-1983.","Clark, Estelle Goodman, 1847-1937.","Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.","Federal art Project (Va.)","Houston, Nora, 1883-1942.","Ions, Willoughby, 1881-1977.","League of Women Voters of Virginia.","Mothers and daughters.","Richmond(Va.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th\n century.","Suffrage.","Women artists -- Virginia.","Women -- Family relationships.","Women in politics -- Virginia.","Women -- Suffrage.","900 (ca.) items. (2 archival and 1\n oversize box).","Collection is open for research.","The papers of Adele Clark are arranged into seven series by\n individual and further subdivided by subject or material\n type.","Adele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement.","This collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.","Correspondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement","Adele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.","Adele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.","Accounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.","Materials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.","In 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.","From 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.","In 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.","The rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.","Materials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.","The papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.","Correspondence, 1855; miscellany.","General correspondence, 1903-1936; correspondence\n with daughters, 1906-1929; correspondence with Franklin\n Delano Roosevelt, 1933, 1937; accounts, 1928-1930,\n 1935-1937;","Correspondence, 1917-1938","1933-1941, 1960-1961","Miscellany.","Correspondence and miscellany","Adele Clark: Art Club scrapbook, 1907-1917; WPA\n scrapbook, 1940; certificates and posters.","There are no restrictions.","Include scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"collection_title_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"collection_ssim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Adele Clark in 1979. Accessioned 7 July\n 1986."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Art and state -- Virginia.","Art -- Study and teaching.","Clark,Adele, 1882-1983.","Clark, Estelle Goodman, 1847-1937.","Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.","Federal art Project (Va.)","Houston, Nora, 1883-1942.","Ions, Willoughby, 1881-1977.","League of Women Voters of Virginia.","Mothers and daughters.","Richmond(Va.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th\n century.","Suffrage.","Women artists -- Virginia.","Women -- Family relationships.","Women in politics -- Virginia.","Women -- Suffrage."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Art and state -- Virginia.","Art -- Study and teaching.","Clark,Adele, 1882-1983.","Clark, Estelle Goodman, 1847-1937.","Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.","Federal art Project (Va.)","Houston, Nora, 1883-1942.","Ions, Willoughby, 1881-1977.","League of Women Voters of Virginia.","Mothers and daughters.","Richmond(Va.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th\n century.","Suffrage.","Women artists -- Virginia.","Women -- Family relationships.","Women in politics -- Virginia.","Women -- Suffrage."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["900 (ca.) items. (2 archival and 1\n oversize box)."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open for research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open for research."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Adele Clark are arranged into seven series by\n individual and further subdivided by subject or material\n type.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers of Adele Clark are arranged into seven series by\n individual and further subdivided by subject or material\n type."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Adele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark Papers, 1855-1976 (Mss1 C5472 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers, 1855-1976 (Mss1 C5472 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1855; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral correspondence, 1903-1936; correspondence\n with daughters, 1906-1929; correspondence with Franklin\n Delano Roosevelt, 1933, 1937; accounts, 1928-1930,\n 1935-1937;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1917-1938\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1933-1941, 1960-1961\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and miscellany\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark: Art Club scrapbook, 1907-1917; WPA\n scrapbook, 1940; certificates and posters.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.","Correspondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement","Adele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.","Adele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.","Accounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.","Materials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.","In 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.","From 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.","In 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.","The rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.","Materials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.","The papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.","Correspondence, 1855; miscellany.","General correspondence, 1903-1936; correspondence\n with daughters, 1906-1929; correspondence with Franklin\n Delano Roosevelt, 1933, 1937; accounts, 1928-1930,\n 1935-1937;","Correspondence, 1917-1938","1933-1941, 1960-1961","Miscellany.","Correspondence and miscellany","Adele Clark: Art Club scrapbook, 1907-1917; WPA\n scrapbook, 1940; certificates and posters."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eInclude scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Include scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. 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In \neach series description, there are notes about the record series overall, \ngenerally with some reference to specific materials within the series. The \ncollection primarily consists of a mixture of bound volumes and loose papers, \nall grouped and designated by folder labels and numbers.\n","Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation, incorporated in 1913, was founded through the efforts of James Turner Sloan, a major land manager and developer, and his \ncolleague Owen Robert Jeffrey, from a local mining family in Buckingham. They \nwere joined by Thomas Aubrey Yancey, who also served for many years as the \nfirm's president, and Robert Gamble Cabell, III, of Branch \u0026 Co., the firm that \nhanded much of Arvonia-Buckingham's financial and investments affairs. In fact, \nwhile operations centered in the Arvonia region of Buckingham County, corporate \nactivities were largely run out of offices at Branch \u0026 Co. in Richmond. The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n","Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n","The records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n","Minute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n","A scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. Gathered \nby various successive presidents, James Turner Sloan, Owen Robert Jeffrey, and \nThomas Aubrey Yancey, the files include materials also created by or directed to \nthe secretary/treasurer, Charles Evans Wingo, III. Primarily, these files \nconcern various aspects of mining and production operations.","Of particular interest in this series is an article in a 1961 issue of Mineral \nIndustries Journal entitled \"Slate in Virginia,\" which largely concerns \nArvonia-Buckingham and features a likeness of Thomas Aubrey Yancey (Folder 26).\n","Created or compiled by Robert Gamble Cabell, III, or Charles Evans Wingo, III, these files generally cover financial aspects of the company's history or \nmatters relating to stockholders or actions of the Board of Directors. For a \ntime, the firm invested proceeds from its operations in stock or United States \nTreasury bills, and some files trace the purchase and sale of those instruments \nin the 1950s and 1960s.\n","Once the Board of Directors had determined that the assets of Arvonia-Buckingham should be sold and the corporation dissolved, a series of important actions took \nplace. The sale was negotiated with Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., a subsidiary \nof Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., of Buckingham, Virginia, that appears to have \nbeen created specifically for this purpose, perhaps as a holding company. \nAlthough papers in this collection do not reveal the process, within a few years \nthose assets had been acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, a company \nthat had literally operated alongside Arvonia-Buckingham for many years and that \nhad joined with it and Williams Slate Company, Inc., in forming \nBuckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 to market and sell slate products \nfrom these various firms.","Proceeds from the sale of assets were placed in escrow, partly to fund the final \nactivities of company executives in dissolving the corporation and partly to \nsupplement the previously funded pension plan. 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In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information \n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation, incorporated in 1913, was founded through the efforts of James Turner Sloan, a major land manager and developer, and his \ncolleague Owen Robert Jeffrey, from a local mining family in Buckingham. They \nwere joined by Thomas Aubrey Yancey, who also served for many years as the \nfirm's president, and Robert Gamble Cabell, III, of Branch \u0026 Co., the firm that \nhanded much of Arvonia-Buckingham's financial and investments affairs. In fact, \nwhile operations centered in the Arvonia region of Buckingham County, corporate \nactivities were largely run out of offices at Branch \u0026 Co. in Richmond. The firm \njoined with Williams Slate Company, Inc., and LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation \nto create Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 as the marketing and \nsales arm of these three firms. For many years these firms shared a major market \nfor roofing and structural slate products, but in the mid-1980s the directors \nrecommended to the company's stockholders that Arvonia-Buckingham's assets to be \nsold and the company dissolved, which occurred in 1985. The firm remained on the \nbooks while the company pension plan was terminated and assets distributed \ndirectly or into annuities for former qualified employees. In the meantime, the \nassets of Arvonia-Buckingham (quarries and mining and production facilities and \nequipment) were eventually acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, which \nremains the only firm currently maintaining slate quarrying and production \noperations in Buckingham County.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913\u0026#x2013;1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., Records, 1913–1990 (Mss3 Ar896 a FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.\n"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBranch and Company Records, 1837\u0026#x2013;1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834\u0026#x2013;1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Branch and Company Records, 1837–1976 (Mss3 B7327 a FA1), Virginia Historical \nSociety, Richmond.\n","LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation Records, 1834–1998 (Mss3 L5673 a FA2), \nVirginia Historical Society, Richmond.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe records in this collection consist of two main categories: operational records primarily comprised of minute books of meetings of the board of \ndirectors and stockholders, as well as two series of loose records; and \nmaterials relating to the dissolution of the firm and sale of its assets, and \nthe related matter of distribution of assets of the company's pension plan to \nentitled beneficiaries. 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The company remained an entity some three years beyond \nits official dissolution in order to handle the latter matter, although all its \nassets had by then been sold and all funding of activities was covered by escrow \nfunds established through the sale of those assets merged with those of the \npreviously funded pension plan.\n","Minute books cover meetings of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, and include copies of by-laws, resolutions, and inserted materials \nrelating to company operations, policy, and corporate decision-making. All \nminute books are bound but some minutes (duplicate copies) were also maintained \nloose in files by the secretary-treasurer.\n","A scattering of files created or compiled by the president of Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., survive in this collection and are listed below. Gathered \nby various successive presidents, James Turner Sloan, Owen Robert Jeffrey, and \nThomas Aubrey Yancey, the files include materials also created by or directed to \nthe secretary/treasurer, Charles Evans Wingo, III. Primarily, these files \nconcern various aspects of mining and production operations.","Of particular interest in this series is an article in a 1961 issue of Mineral \nIndustries Journal entitled \"Slate in Virginia,\" which largely concerns \nArvonia-Buckingham and features a likeness of Thomas Aubrey Yancey (Folder 26).\n","Created or compiled by Robert Gamble Cabell, III, or Charles Evans Wingo, III, these files generally cover financial aspects of the company's history or \nmatters relating to stockholders or actions of the Board of Directors. For a \ntime, the firm invested proceeds from its operations in stock or United States \nTreasury bills, and some files trace the purchase and sale of those instruments \nin the 1950s and 1960s.\n","Once the Board of Directors had determined that the assets of Arvonia-Buckingham should be sold and the corporation dissolved, a series of important actions took \nplace. The sale was negotiated with Buckingham Slate Company, Inc., a subsidiary \nof Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., of Buckingham, Virginia, that appears to have \nbeen created specifically for this purpose, perhaps as a holding company. \nAlthough papers in this collection do not reveal the process, within a few years \nthose assets had been acquired by LeSueur-Richmond Slate Corporation, a company \nthat had literally operated alongside Arvonia-Buckingham for many years and that \nhad joined with it and Williams Slate Company, Inc., in forming \nBuckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation in 1929 to market and sell slate products \nfrom these various firms.","Proceeds from the sale of assets were placed in escrow, partly to fund the final \nactivities of company executives in dissolving the corporation and partly to \nsupplement the previously funded pension plan. With the dissolution of the firm, \nqualified participants in the pension plan were offered lump sum distributions \nof benefits (if they had less than $3,500 invested in the plan) or could elect \nlump-sum payments or the establishment of annuities with regular benefits \npayments. Much of the second half of this series concerns the termination of the \npension plan, management of assets briefly by State Mutual Assurance Company of \nAmerica, of Worchester, Mass., the creation of a trust to manage assets, \noversight of the plan termination and distribution of assets by the Pension \nBenefit Guaranty Corporation, and dealings of the company with the U.S. Internal \nRevenue Service. \n","(Articles of Dissolution, Unanimous Consent of Directors)\n\t"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions\n"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions.\n"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eHistorical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026amp; Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Historical and operational materials relating to Arvonia-Buckingham Slate Corporation compiled by its last secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Wingo, \nIII. Arvonia-Buckingham had a long history in Buckingham County, Virginia, as \none of the largest slate quarrying and production companies in the twentieth \ncentury. Founded by members of the Richmond-based Branch \u0026 Co. investment \nbanking firm, or persons closely associated in business with Branch's \nprincipals, the company operated successfully until the mid-1980s, when its \nassets were sold to a subsidiary of Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., called \nBuckingham Slate Company, Inc., and later absorbed by LeSueur-Richmond Slate \nCorporation, which is now the only remaining slate quarrying and production \ncompany operating in Buckingham County.\n"],"names_coll_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"names_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)","Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"corpname_ssim":["Arvonia Buckingham Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Buckingham-Virginia Slate Corporation (Buckingham County, Va.)","Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.","State Mutual Assurance Company (Worchester, Mass.)"],"persname_ssim":["Cabell, Robert Gamble, 1881–1968.","Jeffrey, Owen Robert, 1878–1954.","Sloan, James Turner, d. 1934.","Wingo, Charles Evans, 1917–2005.","Yancey, Thomas Aubrey."],"language_ssim":["English\n"],"total_component_count_is":75,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00021_c04_c03"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00010","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00010#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Include scattered business and personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's personal and professional networks and their political activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother, Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters offers insights into relationships between mothers and their adult children. The collection also contains information on teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political activities.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00010#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00010","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00010","_root_":"vihi_vih00010","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00010","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00010.xml","title_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"title_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2","Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Art and state -- Virginia.","Art -- Study and teaching.","Clark,Adele, 1882-1983.","Clark, Estelle Goodman, 1847-1937.","Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.","Federal art Project (Va.)","Houston, Nora, 1883-1942.","Ions, Willoughby, 1881-1977.","League of Women Voters of Virginia.","Mothers and daughters.","Richmond(Va.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th\n century.","Suffrage.","Women artists -- Virginia.","Women -- Family relationships.","Women in politics -- Virginia.","Women -- Suffrage.","900 (ca.) items. (2 archival and 1\n oversize box).","Collection is open for research.","The papers of Adele Clark are arranged into seven series by\n individual and further subdivided by subject or material\n type.","Adele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement.","This collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.","Correspondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement","Adele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.","Adele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.","Accounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.","Materials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.","In 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.","From 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.","In 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.","The rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.","Materials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.","The papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.","Correspondence, 1855; miscellany.","General correspondence, 1903-1936; correspondence\n with daughters, 1906-1929; correspondence with Franklin\n Delano Roosevelt, 1933, 1937; accounts, 1928-1930,\n 1935-1937;","Correspondence, 1917-1938","1933-1941, 1960-1961","Miscellany.","Correspondence and miscellany","Adele Clark: Art Club scrapbook, 1907-1917; WPA\n scrapbook, 1940; certificates and posters.","There are no restrictions.","Include scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"collection_title_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"collection_ssim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Adele Clark in 1979. Accessioned 7 July\n 1986."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Art and state -- Virginia.","Art -- Study and teaching.","Clark,Adele, 1882-1983.","Clark, Estelle Goodman, 1847-1937.","Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.","Federal art Project (Va.)","Houston, Nora, 1883-1942.","Ions, Willoughby, 1881-1977.","League of Women Voters of Virginia.","Mothers and daughters.","Richmond(Va.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th\n century.","Suffrage.","Women artists -- Virginia.","Women -- Family relationships.","Women in politics -- Virginia.","Women -- Suffrage."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Art and state -- Virginia.","Art -- Study and teaching.","Clark,Adele, 1882-1983.","Clark, Estelle Goodman, 1847-1937.","Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.","Federal art Project (Va.)","Houston, Nora, 1883-1942.","Ions, Willoughby, 1881-1977.","League of Women Voters of Virginia.","Mothers and daughters.","Richmond(Va.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th\n century.","Suffrage.","Women artists -- Virginia.","Women -- Family relationships.","Women in politics -- Virginia.","Women -- Suffrage."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["900 (ca.) items. 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While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Adele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark Papers, 1855-1976 (Mss1 C5472 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers, 1855-1976 (Mss1 C5472 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1855; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral correspondence, 1903-1936; correspondence\n with daughters, 1906-1929; correspondence with Franklin\n Delano Roosevelt, 1933, 1937; accounts, 1928-1930,\n 1935-1937;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1917-1938\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1933-1941, 1960-1961\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and miscellany\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark: Art Club scrapbook, 1907-1917; WPA\n scrapbook, 1940; certificates and posters.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.","Correspondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement","Adele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.","Adele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.","Accounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.","Materials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.","In 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.","From 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.","In 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.","The rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.","Materials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.","The papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.","Correspondence, 1855; miscellany.","General correspondence, 1903-1936; correspondence\n with daughters, 1906-1929; correspondence with Franklin\n Delano Roosevelt, 1933, 1937; accounts, 1928-1930,\n 1935-1937;","Correspondence, 1917-1938","1933-1941, 1960-1961","Miscellany.","Correspondence and miscellany","Adele Clark: Art Club scrapbook, 1907-1917; WPA\n scrapbook, 1940; certificates and posters."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eInclude scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Include scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":45,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00010","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00010","_root_":"vihi_vih00010","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00010","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00010.xml","title_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"title_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2","Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Art and state -- Virginia.","Art -- Study and teaching.","Clark,Adele, 1882-1983.","Clark, Estelle Goodman, 1847-1937.","Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.","Federal art Project (Va.)","Houston, Nora, 1883-1942.","Ions, Willoughby, 1881-1977.","League of Women Voters of Virginia.","Mothers and daughters.","Richmond(Va.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th\n century.","Suffrage.","Women artists -- Virginia.","Women -- Family relationships.","Women in politics -- Virginia.","Women -- Suffrage.","900 (ca.) items. (2 archival and 1\n oversize box).","Collection is open for research.","The papers of Adele Clark are arranged into seven series by\n individual and further subdivided by subject or material\n type.","Adele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement.","This collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.","Correspondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement","Adele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.","Adele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.","Accounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.","Materials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.","In 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.","From 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.","In 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.","The rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.","Materials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.","The papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.","Correspondence, 1855; miscellany.","General correspondence, 1903-1936; correspondence\n with daughters, 1906-1929; correspondence with Franklin\n Delano Roosevelt, 1933, 1937; accounts, 1928-1930,\n 1935-1937;","Correspondence, 1917-1938","1933-1941, 1960-1961","Miscellany.","Correspondence and miscellany","Adele Clark: Art Club scrapbook, 1907-1917; WPA\n scrapbook, 1940; certificates and posters.","There are no restrictions.","Include scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"collection_title_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"collection_ssim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Adele Clark in 1979. 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While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Adele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark Papers, 1855-1976 (Mss1 C5472 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers, 1855-1976 (Mss1 C5472 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. 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His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.","Correspondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement","Adele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.","Adele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.","Accounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.","Materials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.","In 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.","From 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.","In 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.","The rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.","Materials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.","The papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.","Correspondence, 1855; miscellany.","General correspondence, 1903-1936; correspondence\n with daughters, 1906-1929; correspondence with Franklin\n Delano Roosevelt, 1933, 1937; accounts, 1928-1930,\n 1935-1937;","Correspondence, 1917-1938","1933-1941, 1960-1961","Miscellany.","Correspondence and miscellany","Adele Clark: Art Club scrapbook, 1907-1917; WPA\n scrapbook, 1940; certificates and posters."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eInclude scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Include scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":45,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00010"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00010_c05","type":"Series","attributes":{"title":"Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907-),\n Richmond, Va.,","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00010_c05#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eMiscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00010_c05#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00010_c05","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00010_c05"],"id":"vihi_vih00010_c05","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00010","_root_":"vihi_vih00010","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00010","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00010","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00010"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00010"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"text":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907-),\n Richmond, Va.,","Box 2 (cont.)","Miscellany."],"title_filing_ssi":"Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907-),\n Richmond, Va.,","title_ssm":["Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907-),\n Richmond, Va.,"],"title_tesim":["Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907-),\n Richmond, Va.,"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907-),\n Richmond, Va.,"],"component_level_isim":[1],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"collection_ssim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"level_ssm":["Series"],"level_ssim":["Series"],"sort_isi":43,"containers_ssim":["Box 2 (cont.)"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMiscellany.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Miscellany."],"_nest_path_":"/components#4","timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00010","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00010","_root_":"vihi_vih00010","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00010","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00010.xml","title_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"title_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2","Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976","Art and state -- Virginia.","Art -- Study and teaching.","Clark,Adele, 1882-1983.","Clark, Estelle Goodman, 1847-1937.","Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.","Federal art Project (Va.)","Houston, Nora, 1883-1942.","Ions, Willoughby, 1881-1977.","League of Women Voters of Virginia.","Mothers and daughters.","Richmond(Va.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th\n century.","Suffrage.","Women artists -- Virginia.","Women -- Family relationships.","Women in politics -- Virginia.","Women -- Suffrage.","900 (ca.) items. (2 archival and 1\n oversize box).","Collection is open for research.","The papers of Adele Clark are arranged into seven series by\n individual and further subdivided by subject or material\n type.","Adele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement.","This collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.","Correspondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement","Adele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.","Adele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.","Accounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.","Materials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.","In 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.","From 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.","In 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.","The rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.","Materials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.","The papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.","Correspondence, 1855; miscellany.","General correspondence, 1903-1936; correspondence\n with daughters, 1906-1929; correspondence with Franklin\n Delano Roosevelt, 1933, 1937; accounts, 1928-1930,\n 1935-1937;","Correspondence, 1917-1938","1933-1941, 1960-1961","Miscellany.","Correspondence and miscellany","Adele Clark: Art Club scrapbook, 1907-1917; WPA\n scrapbook, 1940; certificates and posters.","There are no restrictions.","Include scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 C5472 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"collection_title_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"collection_ssim":["Adele Clark Papers \n \n 1855-1976"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Adele Clark in 1979. 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While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Adele Clark was a major figure in Richmond's art scene and\n political life for nearly three-quarters of a century. Born in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent her childhood in New Orleans, La.,\n before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years later she\n graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellen School (now\n St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer for the\n chamber of commerce, Miss Clark studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Miss Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York, where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark Papers, 1855-1976 (Mss1 C5472 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Adele Clark Papers, 1855-1976 (Mss1 C5472 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1855; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral correspondence, 1903-1936; correspondence\n with daughters, 1906-1929; correspondence with Franklin\n Delano Roosevelt, 1933, 1937; accounts, 1928-1930,\n 1935-1937;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1917-1938\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1933-1941, 1960-1961\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and miscellany\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdele Clark: Art Club scrapbook, 1907-1917; WPA\n scrapbook, 1940; certificates and posters.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection begins with the papers of Robert Clark\n (1832?-1906) and his wife, Estelle (Goodman) Clark\n (1847-1937). His papers consist of three letters written by a\n brother Tom Clark and miscellany; hers include correspondence,\n accounts, and miscellany. A folder of her general\n correspondence precedes individual folders of letters with her\n three daughters, Adele Clark, Edith (Clark) Cowles, and\n Gertrude (Clark) Dew, as well as one containing two letters\n from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Accounts and letters\n concerning the deaths of two family members follow.","Correspondence of Edith (Clark) Cowles includes letters\n with her sister, Adele Clark, and illustrator Dugald Stewart\n Walker. Adele Clark (1882-1983) was a major figure in\n Richmond's art society and political life for nearly\n three-quarters of a century. Born Adele Goodman Clark in\n Montgomery, Ala., she spent most of her childhood in New\n Orleans, La., before moving to Richmond in 1894. Seven years\n later Clark graduated from the Miss Virginia Randolph Ellett\n School (now St. Catherine's). While working as a stenographer\n for the chamber of commerce she studied art with Lily Logan at\n the Art Club of Richmond. In 1906, Adele Clark received a\n scholarship to the Chase School of Art in New York where she\n studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hays Miller. Shortly\n after her return to Richmond to teach at the Art Club, she\n became involved in the women's suffrage movement","Adele Clark's papers reflect her varied careers and\n avocations, yet mostly pertain to her personal life and art\n activities. Major collections of her papers documenting her\n work with the Equal Suffrage League, the Virginia League of\n Women Voters, and the U.S. Work Projects Administration have\n been given to the Virginia State Library, the University of\n Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and other\n institutions.","Adele Clark's papers begin with a section of general\n correspondence, which consists of letters with family members,\n artists, politicians, and suffragists. Among the more\n prominent are: Ella Graham Agnew, Edmund Minor Archer, Harry\n Flood Byrd (1887-1966), Colgate Whitehead Darden, Marion\n Montague Junkin, Elizabeth Dabney (Langhorne) Lewis, Theresa\n Pollak, and Roberta Wellford. Separate folders contain\n correspondence with Richmond artist Nora Houston and artist\n and designer Willoughby Ions, Adele Clark's first cousin.","Accounts precede financial records, which include materials\n concerning \"Swannanoa,\" the summer home of James Henry Dooley,\n uncle of Nora Houston. Adele Clark was helping the Dooley\n family dispose of this property after the death of Sallie\n (May) Dooley in 1925. A few items documenting Adele Clark's\n brief tenure as acting dean of women at the College of William\n and Mary precede materials concerning her uncle, Edward Samuel\n Goodman, who died in 1931. These include inquiries concerning\n his health, sympathy letters and trust information. Sympathy\n letters concerning the death of Nora Houston, recipes,\n miscellaneous newspaper clippings and personal miscellany\n conclude this section.","Materials pertaining to Adele Clark's art career and\n political activities are located in box 2. These begin with a\n folder of general art correspondence, arranged alphabetically,\n which mostly consists of portrait requests, commissions,\n inquiries, and letters with miscellaneous art institutions.\n Clark was treasurer and member of the board of directors of\n the Richmond Art Club as well as a student and instructor\n there. A minute book, loose minutes, correspondence, loose\n clippings and a scrapbook of clippings, located with oversized\n materials in box 3, document her affiliation with the club. An\n unsigned appeal from James H. Dooley, the club's president, is\n found among the loose minutes.","In 1919, Adele Clark and Nora Houston, with whom she shared\n a studio, founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and\n Handicrafts in an attempt to revive the Chevalier Quesnay de\n Beaurepaire's Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts. This soon\n became the Virginia League of Fine Arts, which merged with the\n Richmond Academy of Arts in 1931. This collection contains a\n copy of the league's constitution, amendments and reports as\n well as a few items of correspondence. Minutes of the board of\n trustees of the Richmond Academy of Arts document the merger\n and the two years following. Lecture notes and student papers\n from the College of William and Mary extension in Richmond\n (Richmond Professional Institute) precede WPA materials. The\n latter mainly consists of letters with Campbell Bascom Slemp\n about the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap, but also\n include a scrapbook, located in box 3, and the transcript of a\n 1963 interview.","From 1941 to 1964, Adele Clark served on the State Art\n Commission, an organization she helped establish in 1916.\n Materials, primarily reports and minutes, span her entire\n affiliation with the commission, but mostly pertain to her\n last three years of service. Materials of the Virginia Society\n for Crippled Children and Adults include correspondence,\n reports and notes on patients and demonstrate Clark's interest\n in using art in rehabilitation. In 1947, a portrait gallery of\n state police officers who died in the line of duty was\n established at state police headquarters in Chesterfield\n County. Adele Clark was commissioned to paint one of these\n portraits. Materials concerning the dedication include\n clippings and a program that contains biographical sketches of\n artists and subjects.","In 1956, the Richmond Artists Association was founded to\n encourage local appreciation and patronage of contemporary\n art. Among these materials are copies of the constitution,\n by-laws, rosters, and a directory. Materials concerning the\n dedication of the Nora Houston Gallery at St. Paul's School in\n 1972 follow. A copy of the dedication address by Edmund Minor\n Archer recounts Nora Houston's contributions to Richmond art.\n Notes and articles, invitations, announcements and exhibition\n information, a visitor's roster to a 1946 exhibition, two\n sketchbooks and loose sketches, and miscellany conclude this\n section.","The rest of Adele Clark's papers concern her role as a\n political activist. These materials are relatively few in\n number and often individual folders contain only several items\n that span a large date range. For example, the first folder in\n this section contains materials concerning women's rights\n (excluding the League of Women Voters) from 1912 to 1976. This\n material includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and\n miscellany concerning various women's issues from suffrage to\n the Equal Rights Amendment. As previously mentioned Adele\n Clark's Equal Suffrage League and Virginia League of Women\n Voters papers were given to another institution. An index to\n those papers donated to the James Branch Cabell Library at\n Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond follows folders\n on the Richmond and Virginia Leagues. In 1923, the Virginia\n League of Women Voters established the Virginia Women's\n Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations to\n coordinate lobbying efforts among like-minded organizations.\n In the mid-1950's this became the Virginia Council on State\n Legislation. Materials concerning these organizations mainly\n include bulletins and reports. In 1921, Governor E. Lee\n Trinkle appointed Adele Clark to the Commission on\n Simplification of state Government. A few items of\n correspondence, reports and bulletins, mostly from budget\n director LeRoy Hodges, document the commission's work.","Materials that pertain to Prohibition and the National\n recovery Administration consist almost entirely of newspaper\n clippings. Minutes and resolutions from a meeting on economic\n security held in Richmond on March 7, 1935, with Secretary of\n Labor Frances Perkins precede miscellaneous information\n concerning a variety of labor and racial issues. A transcript\n of an interview (ca. 1920) with an ex-slave from Maryland is\n found with this material. A folder of political miscellany and\n one concerning Adele Clark's activities on behalf of the\n Diocesan Council of Catholic Women conclude Adele Clark's\n papers.","The papers of Adeline Harmon (Cowles) Cox (1907- ) and\n miscellaneous family items are located at the end of box\n 2.","Correspondence, 1855; miscellany.","General correspondence, 1903-1936; correspondence\n with daughters, 1906-1929; correspondence with Franklin\n Delano Roosevelt, 1933, 1937; accounts, 1928-1930,\n 1935-1937;","Correspondence, 1917-1938","1933-1941, 1960-1961","Miscellany.","Correspondence and miscellany","Adele Clark: Art Club scrapbook, 1907-1917; WPA\n scrapbook, 1940; certificates and posters."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eInclude scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Include scattered business and\n personal correspondence, ca. 1916-1950, as well as newspaper\n clippings, organizational minutes, notes and other published\n and manuscript materials pertaining to a wide array of Clark's\n political and artistic interests. Among the organizations with\n which Miss Clark worked were the Equal Suffrage League of\n Virginia, the League of Women Voters of Virginia, and the\n Federal Art Project in Virginia. Correspondence, 1916-1940 and\n 1926-1939, with Nora Houston (1883-1942) and Willoughby Ions\n (1881-1977) illuminates the relationship between women's\n personal and professional networks and their political\n activities. The correspondence, 1906-1929, of Clark's mother,\n Estelle (Goodman) Clark (1847-1893) with her three daughters\n offers insights into relationships between mothers and their\n adult children. The collection also contains information on\n teaching art history in a variety of contexts, on women's\n suffrage and women's rights, and on other civic and political\n activities."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":45,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00010_c05"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00002_c05_c07","type":"File","attributes":{"title":"Ad Hoc Committee on Public Schools, \n \n 1971-1972","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00002_c05_c07#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vihi_vih00002_c05_c07","ref_ssm":["vihi_vih00002_c05_c07"],"id":"vihi_vih00002_c05_c07","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00002","_root_":"vihi_vih00002","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00002_c05","parent_ssi":"vihi_vih00002_c05","parent_ssim":["vihi_vih00002","vihi_vih00002_c05"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vihi_vih00002","vihi_vih00002_c05"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988","Series 5: Education. \n \n 1955-1972"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988","Series 5: Education. \n \n 1955-1972"],"text":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988","Series 5: Education. \n \n 1955-1972","Ad Hoc Committee on Public Schools, \n \n 1971-1972"],"title_filing_ssi":"Ad Hoc Committee on Public Schools, \n \n 1971-1972","title_ssm":["Ad Hoc Committee on Public Schools, \n \n 1971-1972"],"title_tesim":["Ad Hoc Committee on Public Schools, \n \n 1971-1972"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Ad Hoc Committee on Public Schools, \n \n 1971-1972"],"component_level_isim":[2],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"collection_ssim":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"level_ssm":["File"],"level_ssim":["File"],"sort_isi":63,"_nest_path_":"/components#4/components#6","timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00002","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00002","_root_":"vihi_vih00002","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00002","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00002.xml","title_ssm":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"title_tesim":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 B4252 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 B4252 a FA2","FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988","Bemiss, FitzGerald, 1922-","Outdoor recreation -- Law and legislation","Segregation in education","Virginia -- Politics and government","Ca. 2,750 items (6 archival\n boxes).","Collection is open to all researchers.","As much as possible, the original arrangement of Bemiss's\n papers has been maintained. His General Assembly papers are\n organized by session, with the same basic arrangement\n recurring for each session. Each session's records usually\n begin with materials pertaining to the biennial elections.\n These consist of individual folders of campaign correspondence\n (appeals for and acknowledgments of support, petitions,\n invitations to speak), addresses (including radio and\n television spots), campaign materials (such as examples of\n advertising, sample ballots, literature, platform drafts,\n budget information, voting lists, and clippings), letters of\n congratulation (often including letters from Harry F. Byrd, J.\n Vaughan Gary, and various Virginia governors), and statements\n of expense. Folders containing general correspondence for that\n year follow. These typically include miscellaneous letters\n from constituents, appeals for support and endorsement,\n applications for appointment, invitations, and letters of\n appreciation. Researchers should note that papers relating to\n specific commissions or legislative actions that overlap\n several sessions are arranged by subject and appear later in\n the collection.","Richmond FitzGerald Bemiss (b. 1922) was a member of the\n Virginia General Assembly, serving in both the House of\n Delegates (1955-1959) and the Senate (1960-1967). His papers\n reflect his career in the Assembly, his work on various\n government commissions, and other related political activities\n and interests. Researchers interested in these subjects may\n also want to look at his book, The General Assembly: 1955-\n 1967.","Bemiss entered the House of Delegates at the height of the\n school desegregation crisis and served in that body through\n the extra session of 1959. Although often voting with the\n conservative majority, Bemiss was nonetheless independent of\n the dominant Byrd organization and often took positions\n contrary to the Byrd line. As a member of the Gray commission\n on Public Education, Bemiss supported \"local option,\" was\n opposed to massive resistance, and approved of Lindsay\n Almond's \"freedom of choice\" compromise.","The collection begins with materials pertaining to the 1955\n election, organized as described above. Correspondence,\n addresses, statements and clippings concerning the extra\n session of 1955 and subsequent referendum on the revision of\n the state Constitution to allow tuition grants follow. Letters\n from Governor Thomas B. Stanley and Dabney S. Lancaster\n document Bemiss's efforts in organizing pro-convention\n forces.","The 1956 session of the general assembly was noteworthy for\n the passage of a resolution of \"Interposition.\" This doctrine\n asserts that individual states have the power to declare a\n decision of the Supreme Court unconstitutional until the issue\n is settled through the amendment process. Although eventually\n voting with the majority in support of the resolution, Bemiss\n expressed doubts about the action in a letter to Governor\n Stanley. A letter from Lewis F. Powell, Jr., later an\n associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, also\n questions the assembly's action. Both these letters are found\n in the folder of correspondence and addresses, which is\n followed by newspaper clippings, mostly from the editorial\n series by James J. Kilpatrick in the Richmond News Leader.\n Miscellaneous \"Interposition\" materials include addresses and\n copies of resolutions from other states.","In 1956 Bemiss was appointed to fill a vacancy on the\n Commission on Public Education, chaired by State Senator\n Garland Gray. Materials concerning the Gray Commission consist\n of correspondence and statements, including a joint statement\n by Bemiss and fellow delegate J. Randolph Tucker announcing\n their dissent from the majority report. Correspondence\n concerning the 1956 extra session is mostly from constituents\n concerning the proposed school closing bills. 1957 general\n correspondence and election materials follow. General\n correspondence includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.,\n concerning the settlement of a displaced Hungarian family in\n Richmond. General correspondence for 1958 and 1959 and a\n folder of material concerning the 1958 session of the General\n Assembly precede material concerning the special session of\n 1959.","In January 1959 both the U. S. and state supreme courts\n declared Virginia's school closing laws unconstitutional. The\n assembly, meeting in extra session, replaced the legislation\n with the Commission on Education's \"freedom of choice\" plan,\n which provided for the possibility of some integration. Bemiss\n served on the Perrow Commission, and his papers contain\n commission minutes, reports, and statements from a public\n hearing on March 6 of that year.","Bemiss ran for the State Senate in 1959. Researchers are\n again reminded that the campaign materials are arranged as\n described on the first page of this summary. Campaign\n correspondence includes letters from Lewis F. Powell, who\n advised Bemiss and helped draft statements. Two folders\n containing budget and financial data for the 1960 session\n follow.","The extra session of 1963 dealt with the poll tax issue and\n amending the Virginia Constitution before the 1964\n presidential selection. Materials include letters from\n constituents, copies of resolutions and bills, and clippings.\n Correspondence concerning various bills introduced during the\n 1964 session is arranged by bill, with an index located in the\n front of the folder. Folders concerning the extra sessions of\n 1964 and 1965, both of which dealt with redistricting, include\n addresses, population statistics, a copy of a federal court\n decision , and a Harry Byrd, Sr., statement on the voting\n rights act. Senate materials from 1965-1967 follow, arranged\n as previously described.","In 1967, FitzGerald Bemiss announced his retirement from\n the Senate, citing a need to devote more time to his\n family-run businesses. Materials concerning his announcement\n not to seek re-election include correspondence, clippings,\n editorials, and a statement. Memoranda, mainly of Carter O.\n Lowance, executive secretary to the governor, describes major\n actions of each Assembly session from 1956 to 1968.","The next section of the collection pertains to various\n election campaigns, presidential, senatorial, and\n gubernatorial from 1952 to 1985. Located in box 3, these\n papers mainly consist of campaign literature and clippings and\n precinct returns from Richmond newspapers. In some campaigns,\n however, Bemiss was more actively involved and generated a\n larger number of records. In the 1966 Senate Democratic\n primary, Bemiss worked for the incumbent, A. Willis Robertson,\n in organizing and fund-raising in the third district.\n Correspondence with Robertson concerns the incumbent's age and\n health as compared with that of former Senator Carter Glass.\n Bemiss also served as a budgetary and financial advisor for\n Fred G. Pollard in the 1969 Democratic gubernatorial primary,\n Harry F. Byrd in his 1970 campaign for Senate, and Richard D.\n Obenshain in his 1978 quest for the Republican gubernatorial\n nomination. The section concludes with a folder of election\n analyses by Larry Sabato, a folder of Richmond City Democratic\n Committee memoranda, correspondence, statements and 1965\n redistricting information, a folder of Republican party\n appeals, and a folder of miscellaneous election materials.","The rest of the collection has been arranged in roughly\n chronological fashion around three subjects that interested\n Senator Bemiss: government, education, and the environment.\n These papers reflect Bemiss's service on a number of\n government commission, civic organizations, and community\n affairs groups. Many of these relate to general assembly\n activities that either spanned several sessions or continued\n after his 1967 retirement.","Records pertaining to government begin with several folders\n of otherwise only loosely related materials. The first folder\n in this section concerns the building of a parking lot for the\n Virginia Museum. This is followed by papers concerning the\n standardization of annual reports for the various executive\n departments. In January 1961 Bemiss attended a White House\n conference on aging and conference information as well as\n Bemiss's statements opposing medial aid for the elderly\n through social security, are included in this material.","Addresses concerning the findings of the Commission on\n State and Local Revenues and Expenditures follow. Appointed by\n Governor Albertis S. Harrison in 1962, the commission's\n purpose was to study new and additional sources of revenue.\n Although it was generally understood that this meant preparing\n the way for a state sales tax by eliminating the legal\n barriers and developing plans for distributing the proceeds,\n other actions were also recommended. As chairman of the Local\n Revenues and Expenditures Committee, Bemiss proposed\n legislation prohibiting the underassessment and undertaxation\n of real estate at the expense of public utility facilities,\n whose burden was then passed on to other localities. A folder\n marked \"public utilities' mostly concerns several bills\n introduced during the 1966 session seeking to abolish this\n common practice.","Correspondence with Richmond City Council primarily\n concerns proposed changes in the city charter providing for\n staggered four-year terms for the city's state senators. State\n planning materials concern the establishment of a division to\n oversee long-range planning.","In 1966 Bemiss was appointed by Governor Mills E. Godwin to\n the Virginia Metropolitan Area Study Commission. Under the\n chairmanship of Virginia Polytechnic Institute president, T.\n Marshall Hahn, the commission examined problems created by\n Virginia's growing and shifting population. Bemiss's\n subcommittee on Governmental Structure proposed redrawing\n county boundaries to reflect twentieth-century demands, and\n establishing service and planning districts as alternatives to\n annexation in meeting problems created in multi-jurisdictional\n area. These ideas were, quite naturally, opposed by many in\n the legislature who viewed the proposal as a threat to local\n autonomy. Commission minutes, correspondence, and reports, as\n well as subcommittee correspondence begin box 4. Materials\n concerning the Commission on the Legislative Process, on which\n Bemiss also served, follow. Papers pertaining to the\n Commission on Constitutional Revision again reflect Bemiss's\n interest in multi-locality planning districts. Bemiss planned\n the inauguration of Governor Linwood Holton in 1970 and this\n material consists of memoranda, seating charts, invitations,\n and a program.","The section concerning education begins with a folder of\n general correspondence, consisting of constituent requests,\n invitations to speak, and copies of addresses. Seven folders\n labeled \"State Council of Higher Education\" follow. Bemiss was\n a patron of the bill which created the council, whose purpose\n was to promote and develop a coordinated system of higher\n education in the state. This material, which includes\n correspondence, memoranda, and reports, concerns the creation\n of the council, its early operation, and a VALC report,\n \"education of Scientists, Engineers and Other Specialists.\"\n Other subjects include the separation of colleges in the\n William and Mary System (including Richmond Professional\n Institute) and inter-library cooperation in sharing technical\n services and facilities.","Correspondence with the State Board of Education precedes\n materials related to the Commission on Public Education\n chaired by William B. Spong (not to be confused with the Gray\n Commission). Correspondence, statements, and reports document\n the commission's work, which involved evaluation of school\n curricula and teacher certification requirements. Materials\n pertaining to the Bureau of Educational Research concern the\n establishment of a permanent agency to conduct research in\n education. Budget materials for 1964 concern cuts in higher\n education and include statements by Bemiss and University of\n Virginia President Edgar F. Shannon. A second 1964 folder\n documents an unsuccessful attempt to restrict enrollment in\n Virginia state colleges by out-of-state students. Materials\n pertaining to the Virginia Institute of Scientific Research\n concern the establishment of an institution for graduate\n research in Richmond. Papers of two Richmond organizations,\n the Citizens for Excellent Public Schools and the Ad Hoc\n Committee on Public Schools, demonstrate their commitment to\n public education during the school busing controversy in\n 1971-1972. This section concludes with miscellaneous speeches\n and clippings on education.","The remainder of the Bemiss papers reflect his interest in\n conservation and the environment. Included in this section are\n records concerning several commissions, the Virginia Outdoor\n Recreation Study Commission (1964-1966), the Governor's\n Special Commission on Water Resources (1965-1966), and the\n Governor's Commission on Virginia' Future (1982-1985). Related\n material concerns water pollution and parks.","Bemiss was chairman of the Virginia Outdoor Recreation\n Study Commission, which formulated a comprehensive plan to\n protect and develop Virginia' scenic, natural, and historic\n resources. The Virginia Outdoors Plan, passed by the 1966\n assembly, created a Commission of Outdoor Recreation to\n acquire and maintain parks, scenic areas, camping grounds, and\n other sites for public use. The legislation also created the\n Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now the Division of\n Historic Landmarks). Records of the VORSC consist of\n correspondence, addresses, reports, press releases and\n clippings. Landmarks Commission materials primarily concern\n the acquisition of open space easements at \"Old Mansion,\"\n Caroline County and at \"Wakefield,\" Westmoreland County, and\n attempts by the owners of \"Tuckahoe,\" Goochland County to\n change the route of a proposed highway. Correspondence\n concerning open space easements is primarily with George C.\n Freeman, a lawyer who designed the law allowing property\n owners to grant easements designating areas where future\n development would be prohibited. The Virginia Outdoors Plan\n also created the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to encourage\n private philanthropy towards conservation efforts of the\n state.","Bemiss also served as chairman of the Governor's Special\n Committee on Water Resources, a commission created to\n determine the effects of growth on the state's future water\n resources. An additional folder concerning water resources\n consists primarily of articles on drainage basins of various\n state rivers. Materials concerning water pollution consist of\n a memo on the subject to Governor Linwood Holton and the\n governor's acknowledgment.","Information and brochures concerning several state parks\n begin box 6. The next folder pertains to a trip to the Eastern\n Shore in 1960 and Bemiss's subsequent article on natural areas\n for Virginia Wildlife magazine.","The following three folders demonstrate Bemiss's interest\n in both conservation and metropolitan planning. Materials of\n the Richmond Regional Planning Commission, the Richmond\n Regional Park Authority, and the Capital Region Park Authority\n concern cooperative community efforts in creating open space\n areas in the Richmond metropolitan area. General\n correspondence concerning the James River precedes materials\n pertains to a study commission report on deepening the James\n River channel. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, and reports\n of the Richmond James River Association, of which Bemiss was\n president, reflect that organization's apprehension over water\n usage and the river's flow. The next four folders, consisting\n of correspondence, clippings, newsletters and maps, concern\n the construction of a downtown expressway and its effects on\n natural areas along the James River. Although the expressway\n was built, parts of the historic Kanawha Canal were preserved\n and restored and James River Park was established.","In 1982, Bemiss was appointed to the Governor's Commission\n on Virginia's Future, which was chaired by former Senator\n William B. Spong. The commission's mission was to assess state\n needs and provide planning and direction into the twenty-first\n century. Correspondence, committee assignments, meeting\n summaries, final reports and clippings precede records\n pertaining to the Environment and Natural Resources Task\n Force, which Bemiss chaired. These papers are arranged\n topically (these topics being sub-headings in the final\n report). Subjects include: water, land use, waste management,\n the Chesapeake Bay and fisheries. A final report and related\n papers of the Government and Planning Task Force follow.","In conjunction with his service on the Future Commission,\n Bemiss participated in a conference sponsored by the Virginia\n Institute on Government, in October 1985, on the \"Future of\n the Virginia Environment.\" The collection contains a copy of\n the conference's final statement. Miscellaneous correspondence\n concerning parks and water and addresses pertaining to\n environmental issues conclude this section.","Miscellaneous speeches and addresses, mostly from\n dedication, naturalization, and award ceremonies, precede a\n folder of general miscellany, which includes a 1958 address on\n fiscal management by Senator Harry F. Byrd.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.","Correspondence and addresses; cliippings;\n miscellany.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.","Correspondence; bills (bound); bills,\n resolutions, amendments; Harrison v. Day","Minutes, addresses; public hearing; committee\n report; sub-committee reports; clippings and\n miscellany.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of expense.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulations, statements of\n expense.","Elections for governor, president and senator,\n 1953-1985 (arranged chronologically); analyses by Larry\n Sabato, 1985-1987; Richmond City Democratic Committee,\n 1953-1955, 1963-1967; Republican Party of Virginia,\n 1980-1986; election miscellany.","Minutes; correspondence; reports; Committee on\n Governmental Structure.","Correspondence, 1955-1958; General Assembly,\n 1956-1958; VALC report, 1957; memoranda and reports,\n 1956-1963, 1970; William and Mary, 1961-1962;\n inter-library cooperation, 1962-1965.","budget, 1963-1964; out-of-state college\n enrollment, 1964; Institute of Scientific Research,\n 1965-1967.","Correspondence; addresses; reports; press\n releases; clippings; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1981-1983; Historic Landmarks\n Committee, 1965-1966.","\"Old Mansion,\" 1968-1971; \"Wakefield,\" 1970-1972;\n open space easements, 1966-1979, 1986-1988.","Water resources, 1966-1979; water pollution,\n 1969-1970; state parks, 1957-1974; \"Natural Areas\n System for Virginia,\" 1960-1961; Richmond Regional\n Planning Commission, 1958-1966, 1972; Richmond\n Regional Park Authority 1960-1967; Capital Region\n Park Authority, 1968-1970; James river, 1965-1966,\n 1971; James River Channel, 1962-1964; Richmond\n James River Association, 1964-1970, 1981; Richmond\n Open Space Plan, 1964-1972; Local James Action\n Committee, 1967; Richmond Scenic James Council,\n 1970-1973; James River and Kanawha Parks,\n 1970-1973.","Correspondence; membership; meeting summaries;\n final reports.","Correspondence; membership; water; land use;\n waste management; Chesapeake Bay; fisheries;\n report.","Planning districts; responses; comments.","Correspondence, addresses, etc.","Speeches and addresses, 1958-1975; general\n miscellany.","None.","FitzGerald Bemiss's papers cover\n his career in the Virginia General Assembly, his work on\n various government commissions, and other related political\n activities and interests. Commissions on which he served\n include the Commission on Public Education (a.k.a. the Gray\n Commission), the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission,\n the irginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, and the\n overnor's Commission on Virginia's Future. His areas of\n particular interest included educational and environmental\n issues.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 B4252 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"collection_title_tesim":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"collection_ssim":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"creator_ssm":["Gift of FitzGerald Bemiss,\n Richmond, Va., September 14, 1988."],"creator_ssim":["Gift of FitzGerald Bemiss,\n Richmond, Va., September 14, 1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Bemiss, FitzGerald, 1922-","Outdoor recreation -- Law and legislation","Segregation in education","Virginia -- Politics and government"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Bemiss, FitzGerald, 1922-","Outdoor recreation -- Law and legislation","Segregation in education","Virginia -- Politics and government"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["Ca. 2,750 items (6 archival\n boxes)."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAs much as possible, the original arrangement of Bemiss's\n papers has been maintained. His General Assembly papers are\n organized by session, with the same basic arrangement\n recurring for each session. Each session's records usually\n begin with materials pertaining to the biennial elections.\n These consist of individual folders of campaign correspondence\n (appeals for and acknowledgments of support, petitions,\n invitations to speak), addresses (including radio and\n television spots), campaign materials (such as examples of\n advertising, sample ballots, literature, platform drafts,\n budget information, voting lists, and clippings), letters of\n congratulation (often including letters from Harry F. Byrd, J.\n Vaughan Gary, and various Virginia governors), and statements\n of expense. Folders containing general correspondence for that\n year follow. These typically include miscellaneous letters\n from constituents, appeals for support and endorsement,\n applications for appointment, invitations, and letters of\n appreciation. Researchers should note that papers relating to\n specific commissions or legislative actions that overlap\n several sessions are arranged by subject and appear later in\n the collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["As much as possible, the original arrangement of Bemiss's\n papers has been maintained. His General Assembly papers are\n organized by session, with the same basic arrangement\n recurring for each session. Each session's records usually\n begin with materials pertaining to the biennial elections.\n These consist of individual folders of campaign correspondence\n (appeals for and acknowledgments of support, petitions,\n invitations to speak), addresses (including radio and\n television spots), campaign materials (such as examples of\n advertising, sample ballots, literature, platform drafts,\n budget information, voting lists, and clippings), letters of\n congratulation (often including letters from Harry F. Byrd, J.\n Vaughan Gary, and various Virginia governors), and statements\n of expense. Folders containing general correspondence for that\n year follow. These typically include miscellaneous letters\n from constituents, appeals for support and endorsement,\n applications for appointment, invitations, and letters of\n appreciation. Researchers should note that papers relating to\n specific commissions or legislative actions that overlap\n several sessions are arranged by subject and appear later in\n the collection."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRichmond FitzGerald Bemiss (b. 1922) was a member of the\n Virginia General Assembly, serving in both the House of\n Delegates (1955-1959) and the Senate (1960-1967). His papers\n reflect his career in the Assembly, his work on various\n government commissions, and other related political activities\n and interests. Researchers interested in these subjects may\n also want to look at his book, The General Assembly: 1955-\n 1967.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBemiss entered the House of Delegates at the height of the\n school desegregation crisis and served in that body through\n the extra session of 1959. Although often voting with the\n conservative majority, Bemiss was nonetheless independent of\n the dominant Byrd organization and often took positions\n contrary to the Byrd line. As a member of the Gray commission\n on Public Education, Bemiss supported \"local option,\" was\n opposed to massive resistance, and approved of Lindsay\n Almond's \"freedom of choice\" compromise.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Richmond FitzGerald Bemiss (b. 1922) was a member of the\n Virginia General Assembly, serving in both the House of\n Delegates (1955-1959) and the Senate (1960-1967). His papers\n reflect his career in the Assembly, his work on various\n government commissions, and other related political activities\n and interests. Researchers interested in these subjects may\n also want to look at his book, The General Assembly: 1955-\n 1967.","Bemiss entered the House of Delegates at the height of the\n school desegregation crisis and served in that body through\n the extra session of 1959. Although often voting with the\n conservative majority, Bemiss was nonetheless independent of\n the dominant Byrd organization and often took positions\n contrary to the Byrd line. As a member of the Gray commission\n on Public Education, Bemiss supported \"local option,\" was\n opposed to massive resistance, and approved of Lindsay\n Almond's \"freedom of choice\" compromise."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eFitzGerald Bemiss Papers, 1952-1988 (Mss1 B4252 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers, 1952-1988 (Mss1 B4252 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection begins with materials pertaining to the 1955\n election, organized as described above. Correspondence,\n addresses, statements and clippings concerning the extra\n session of 1955 and subsequent referendum on the revision of\n the state Constitution to allow tuition grants follow. Letters\n from Governor Thomas B. Stanley and Dabney S. Lancaster\n document Bemiss's efforts in organizing pro-convention\n forces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 1956 session of the general assembly was noteworthy for\n the passage of a resolution of \"Interposition.\" This doctrine\n asserts that individual states have the power to declare a\n decision of the Supreme Court unconstitutional until the issue\n is settled through the amendment process. Although eventually\n voting with the majority in support of the resolution, Bemiss\n expressed doubts about the action in a letter to Governor\n Stanley. A letter from Lewis F. Powell, Jr., later an\n associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, also\n questions the assembly's action. Both these letters are found\n in the folder of correspondence and addresses, which is\n followed by newspaper clippings, mostly from the editorial\n series by James J. Kilpatrick in the Richmond News Leader.\n Miscellaneous \"Interposition\" materials include addresses and\n copies of resolutions from other states.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1956 Bemiss was appointed to fill a vacancy on the\n Commission on Public Education, chaired by State Senator\n Garland Gray. Materials concerning the Gray Commission consist\n of correspondence and statements, including a joint statement\n by Bemiss and fellow delegate J. Randolph Tucker announcing\n their dissent from the majority report. Correspondence\n concerning the 1956 extra session is mostly from constituents\n concerning the proposed school closing bills. 1957 general\n correspondence and election materials follow. General\n correspondence includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.,\n concerning the settlement of a displaced Hungarian family in\n Richmond. General correspondence for 1958 and 1959 and a\n folder of material concerning the 1958 session of the General\n Assembly precede material concerning the special session of\n 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn January 1959 both the U. S. and state supreme courts\n declared Virginia's school closing laws unconstitutional. The\n assembly, meeting in extra session, replaced the legislation\n with the Commission on Education's \"freedom of choice\" plan,\n which provided for the possibility of some integration. Bemiss\n served on the Perrow Commission, and his papers contain\n commission minutes, reports, and statements from a public\n hearing on March 6 of that year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBemiss ran for the State Senate in 1959. Researchers are\n again reminded that the campaign materials are arranged as\n described on the first page of this summary. Campaign\n correspondence includes letters from Lewis F. Powell, who\n advised Bemiss and helped draft statements. Two folders\n containing budget and financial data for the 1960 session\n follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe extra session of 1963 dealt with the poll tax issue and\n amending the Virginia Constitution before the 1964\n presidential selection. Materials include letters from\n constituents, copies of resolutions and bills, and clippings.\n Correspondence concerning various bills introduced during the\n 1964 session is arranged by bill, with an index located in the\n front of the folder. Folders concerning the extra sessions of\n 1964 and 1965, both of which dealt with redistricting, include\n addresses, population statistics, a copy of a federal court\n decision , and a Harry Byrd, Sr., statement on the voting\n rights act. Senate materials from 1965-1967 follow, arranged\n as previously described.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1967, FitzGerald Bemiss announced his retirement from\n the Senate, citing a need to devote more time to his\n family-run businesses. Materials concerning his announcement\n not to seek re-election include correspondence, clippings,\n editorials, and a statement. Memoranda, mainly of Carter O.\n Lowance, executive secretary to the governor, describes major\n actions of each Assembly session from 1956 to 1968.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next section of the collection pertains to various\n election campaigns, presidential, senatorial, and\n gubernatorial from 1952 to 1985. Located in box 3, these\n papers mainly consist of campaign literature and clippings and\n precinct returns from Richmond newspapers. In some campaigns,\n however, Bemiss was more actively involved and generated a\n larger number of records. In the 1966 Senate Democratic\n primary, Bemiss worked for the incumbent, A. Willis Robertson,\n in organizing and fund-raising in the third district.\n Correspondence with Robertson concerns the incumbent's age and\n health as compared with that of former Senator Carter Glass.\n Bemiss also served as a budgetary and financial advisor for\n Fred G. Pollard in the 1969 Democratic gubernatorial primary,\n Harry F. Byrd in his 1970 campaign for Senate, and Richard D.\n Obenshain in his 1978 quest for the Republican gubernatorial\n nomination. The section concludes with a folder of election\n analyses by Larry Sabato, a folder of Richmond City Democratic\n Committee memoranda, correspondence, statements and 1965\n redistricting information, a folder of Republican party\n appeals, and a folder of miscellaneous election materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the collection has been arranged in roughly\n chronological fashion around three subjects that interested\n Senator Bemiss: government, education, and the environment.\n These papers reflect Bemiss's service on a number of\n government commission, civic organizations, and community\n affairs groups. Many of these relate to general assembly\n activities that either spanned several sessions or continued\n after his 1967 retirement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords pertaining to government begin with several folders\n of otherwise only loosely related materials. The first folder\n in this section concerns the building of a parking lot for the\n Virginia Museum. This is followed by papers concerning the\n standardization of annual reports for the various executive\n departments. In January 1961 Bemiss attended a White House\n conference on aging and conference information as well as\n Bemiss's statements opposing medial aid for the elderly\n through social security, are included in this material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAddresses concerning the findings of the Commission on\n State and Local Revenues and Expenditures follow. Appointed by\n Governor Albertis S. Harrison in 1962, the commission's\n purpose was to study new and additional sources of revenue.\n Although it was generally understood that this meant preparing\n the way for a state sales tax by eliminating the legal\n barriers and developing plans for distributing the proceeds,\n other actions were also recommended. As chairman of the Local\n Revenues and Expenditures Committee, Bemiss proposed\n legislation prohibiting the underassessment and undertaxation\n of real estate at the expense of public utility facilities,\n whose burden was then passed on to other localities. A folder\n marked \"public utilities' mostly concerns several bills\n introduced during the 1966 session seeking to abolish this\n common practice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Richmond City Council primarily\n concerns proposed changes in the city charter providing for\n staggered four-year terms for the city's state senators. State\n planning materials concern the establishment of a division to\n oversee long-range planning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1966 Bemiss was appointed by Governor Mills E. Godwin to\n the Virginia Metropolitan Area Study Commission. Under the\n chairmanship of Virginia Polytechnic Institute president, T.\n Marshall Hahn, the commission examined problems created by\n Virginia's growing and shifting population. Bemiss's\n subcommittee on Governmental Structure proposed redrawing\n county boundaries to reflect twentieth-century demands, and\n establishing service and planning districts as alternatives to\n annexation in meeting problems created in multi-jurisdictional\n area. These ideas were, quite naturally, opposed by many in\n the legislature who viewed the proposal as a threat to local\n autonomy. Commission minutes, correspondence, and reports, as\n well as subcommittee correspondence begin box 4. Materials\n concerning the Commission on the Legislative Process, on which\n Bemiss also served, follow. Papers pertaining to the\n Commission on Constitutional Revision again reflect Bemiss's\n interest in multi-locality planning districts. Bemiss planned\n the inauguration of Governor Linwood Holton in 1970 and this\n material consists of memoranda, seating charts, invitations,\n and a program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe section concerning education begins with a folder of\n general correspondence, consisting of constituent requests,\n invitations to speak, and copies of addresses. Seven folders\n labeled \"State Council of Higher Education\" follow. Bemiss was\n a patron of the bill which created the council, whose purpose\n was to promote and develop a coordinated system of higher\n education in the state. This material, which includes\n correspondence, memoranda, and reports, concerns the creation\n of the council, its early operation, and a VALC report,\n \"education of Scientists, Engineers and Other Specialists.\"\n Other subjects include the separation of colleges in the\n William and Mary System (including Richmond Professional\n Institute) and inter-library cooperation in sharing technical\n services and facilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with the State Board of Education precedes\n materials related to the Commission on Public Education\n chaired by William B. Spong (not to be confused with the Gray\n Commission). Correspondence, statements, and reports document\n the commission's work, which involved evaluation of school\n curricula and teacher certification requirements. Materials\n pertaining to the Bureau of Educational Research concern the\n establishment of a permanent agency to conduct research in\n education. Budget materials for 1964 concern cuts in higher\n education and include statements by Bemiss and University of\n Virginia President Edgar F. Shannon. A second 1964 folder\n documents an unsuccessful attempt to restrict enrollment in\n Virginia state colleges by out-of-state students. Materials\n pertaining to the Virginia Institute of Scientific Research\n concern the establishment of an institution for graduate\n research in Richmond. Papers of two Richmond organizations,\n the Citizens for Excellent Public Schools and the Ad Hoc\n Committee on Public Schools, demonstrate their commitment to\n public education during the school busing controversy in\n 1971-1972. This section concludes with miscellaneous speeches\n and clippings on education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remainder of the Bemiss papers reflect his interest in\n conservation and the environment. Included in this section are\n records concerning several commissions, the Virginia Outdoor\n Recreation Study Commission (1964-1966), the Governor's\n Special Commission on Water Resources (1965-1966), and the\n Governor's Commission on Virginia' Future (1982-1985). Related\n material concerns water pollution and parks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBemiss was chairman of the Virginia Outdoor Recreation\n Study Commission, which formulated a comprehensive plan to\n protect and develop Virginia' scenic, natural, and historic\n resources. The Virginia Outdoors Plan, passed by the 1966\n assembly, created a Commission of Outdoor Recreation to\n acquire and maintain parks, scenic areas, camping grounds, and\n other sites for public use. The legislation also created the\n Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now the Division of\n Historic Landmarks). Records of the VORSC consist of\n correspondence, addresses, reports, press releases and\n clippings. Landmarks Commission materials primarily concern\n the acquisition of open space easements at \"Old Mansion,\"\n Caroline County and at \"Wakefield,\" Westmoreland County, and\n attempts by the owners of \"Tuckahoe,\" Goochland County to\n change the route of a proposed highway. Correspondence\n concerning open space easements is primarily with George C.\n Freeman, a lawyer who designed the law allowing property\n owners to grant easements designating areas where future\n development would be prohibited. The Virginia Outdoors Plan\n also created the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to encourage\n private philanthropy towards conservation efforts of the\n state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBemiss also served as chairman of the Governor's Special\n Committee on Water Resources, a commission created to\n determine the effects of growth on the state's future water\n resources. An additional folder concerning water resources\n consists primarily of articles on drainage basins of various\n state rivers. Materials concerning water pollution consist of\n a memo on the subject to Governor Linwood Holton and the\n governor's acknowledgment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation and brochures concerning several state parks\n begin box 6. The next folder pertains to a trip to the Eastern\n Shore in 1960 and Bemiss's subsequent article on natural areas\n for Virginia Wildlife magazine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe following three folders demonstrate Bemiss's interest\n in both conservation and metropolitan planning. Materials of\n the Richmond Regional Planning Commission, the Richmond\n Regional Park Authority, and the Capital Region Park Authority\n concern cooperative community efforts in creating open space\n areas in the Richmond metropolitan area. General\n correspondence concerning the James River precedes materials\n pertains to a study commission report on deepening the James\n River channel. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, and reports\n of the Richmond James River Association, of which Bemiss was\n president, reflect that organization's apprehension over water\n usage and the river's flow. The next four folders, consisting\n of correspondence, clippings, newsletters and maps, concern\n the construction of a downtown expressway and its effects on\n natural areas along the James River. Although the expressway\n was built, parts of the historic Kanawha Canal were preserved\n and restored and James River Park was established.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1982, Bemiss was appointed to the Governor's Commission\n on Virginia's Future, which was chaired by former Senator\n William B. Spong. The commission's mission was to assess state\n needs and provide planning and direction into the twenty-first\n century. Correspondence, committee assignments, meeting\n summaries, final reports and clippings precede records\n pertaining to the Environment and Natural Resources Task\n Force, which Bemiss chaired. These papers are arranged\n topically (these topics being sub-headings in the final\n report). Subjects include: water, land use, waste management,\n the Chesapeake Bay and fisheries. A final report and related\n papers of the Government and Planning Task Force follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn conjunction with his service on the Future Commission,\n Bemiss participated in a conference sponsored by the Virginia\n Institute on Government, in October 1985, on the \"Future of\n the Virginia Environment.\" The collection contains a copy of\n the conference's final statement. Miscellaneous correspondence\n concerning parks and water and addresses pertaining to\n environmental issues conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous speeches and addresses, mostly from\n dedication, naturalization, and award ceremonies, precede a\n folder of general miscellany, which includes a 1958 address on\n fiscal management by Senator Harry F. Byrd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and addresses; cliippings;\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence; bills (bound); bills,\n resolutions, amendments; Harrison v. Day\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes, addresses; public hearing; committee\n report; sub-committee reports; clippings and\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of expense.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulations, statements of\n expense.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElections for governor, president and senator,\n 1953-1985 (arranged chronologically); analyses by Larry\n Sabato, 1985-1987; Richmond City Democratic Committee,\n 1953-1955, 1963-1967; Republican Party of Virginia,\n 1980-1986; election miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes; correspondence; reports; Committee on\n Governmental Structure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1955-1958; General Assembly,\n 1956-1958; VALC report, 1957; memoranda and reports,\n 1956-1963, 1970; William and Mary, 1961-1962;\n inter-library cooperation, 1962-1965.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ebudget, 1963-1964; out-of-state college\n enrollment, 1964; Institute of Scientific Research,\n 1965-1967.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence; addresses; reports; press\n releases; clippings; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1981-1983; Historic Landmarks\n Committee, 1965-1966.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Old Mansion,\" 1968-1971; \"Wakefield,\" 1970-1972;\n open space easements, 1966-1979, 1986-1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWater resources, 1966-1979; water pollution,\n 1969-1970; state parks, 1957-1974; \"Natural Areas\n System for Virginia,\" 1960-1961; Richmond Regional\n Planning Commission, 1958-1966, 1972; Richmond\n Regional Park Authority 1960-1967; Capital Region\n Park Authority, 1968-1970; James river, 1965-1966,\n 1971; James River Channel, 1962-1964; Richmond\n James River Association, 1964-1970, 1981; Richmond\n Open Space Plan, 1964-1972; Local James Action\n Committee, 1967; Richmond Scenic James Council,\n 1970-1973; James River and Kanawha Parks,\n 1970-1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence; membership; meeting summaries;\n final reports.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence; membership; water; land use;\n waste management; Chesapeake Bay; fisheries;\n report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlanning districts; responses; comments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, addresses, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches and addresses, 1958-1975; general\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection begins with materials pertaining to the 1955\n election, organized as described above. Correspondence,\n addresses, statements and clippings concerning the extra\n session of 1955 and subsequent referendum on the revision of\n the state Constitution to allow tuition grants follow. Letters\n from Governor Thomas B. Stanley and Dabney S. Lancaster\n document Bemiss's efforts in organizing pro-convention\n forces.","The 1956 session of the general assembly was noteworthy for\n the passage of a resolution of \"Interposition.\" This doctrine\n asserts that individual states have the power to declare a\n decision of the Supreme Court unconstitutional until the issue\n is settled through the amendment process. Although eventually\n voting with the majority in support of the resolution, Bemiss\n expressed doubts about the action in a letter to Governor\n Stanley. A letter from Lewis F. Powell, Jr., later an\n associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, also\n questions the assembly's action. Both these letters are found\n in the folder of correspondence and addresses, which is\n followed by newspaper clippings, mostly from the editorial\n series by James J. Kilpatrick in the Richmond News Leader.\n Miscellaneous \"Interposition\" materials include addresses and\n copies of resolutions from other states.","In 1956 Bemiss was appointed to fill a vacancy on the\n Commission on Public Education, chaired by State Senator\n Garland Gray. Materials concerning the Gray Commission consist\n of correspondence and statements, including a joint statement\n by Bemiss and fellow delegate J. Randolph Tucker announcing\n their dissent from the majority report. Correspondence\n concerning the 1956 extra session is mostly from constituents\n concerning the proposed school closing bills. 1957 general\n correspondence and election materials follow. General\n correspondence includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.,\n concerning the settlement of a displaced Hungarian family in\n Richmond. General correspondence for 1958 and 1959 and a\n folder of material concerning the 1958 session of the General\n Assembly precede material concerning the special session of\n 1959.","In January 1959 both the U. S. and state supreme courts\n declared Virginia's school closing laws unconstitutional. The\n assembly, meeting in extra session, replaced the legislation\n with the Commission on Education's \"freedom of choice\" plan,\n which provided for the possibility of some integration. Bemiss\n served on the Perrow Commission, and his papers contain\n commission minutes, reports, and statements from a public\n hearing on March 6 of that year.","Bemiss ran for the State Senate in 1959. Researchers are\n again reminded that the campaign materials are arranged as\n described on the first page of this summary. Campaign\n correspondence includes letters from Lewis F. Powell, who\n advised Bemiss and helped draft statements. Two folders\n containing budget and financial data for the 1960 session\n follow.","The extra session of 1963 dealt with the poll tax issue and\n amending the Virginia Constitution before the 1964\n presidential selection. Materials include letters from\n constituents, copies of resolutions and bills, and clippings.\n Correspondence concerning various bills introduced during the\n 1964 session is arranged by bill, with an index located in the\n front of the folder. Folders concerning the extra sessions of\n 1964 and 1965, both of which dealt with redistricting, include\n addresses, population statistics, a copy of a federal court\n decision , and a Harry Byrd, Sr., statement on the voting\n rights act. Senate materials from 1965-1967 follow, arranged\n as previously described.","In 1967, FitzGerald Bemiss announced his retirement from\n the Senate, citing a need to devote more time to his\n family-run businesses. Materials concerning his announcement\n not to seek re-election include correspondence, clippings,\n editorials, and a statement. Memoranda, mainly of Carter O.\n Lowance, executive secretary to the governor, describes major\n actions of each Assembly session from 1956 to 1968.","The next section of the collection pertains to various\n election campaigns, presidential, senatorial, and\n gubernatorial from 1952 to 1985. Located in box 3, these\n papers mainly consist of campaign literature and clippings and\n precinct returns from Richmond newspapers. In some campaigns,\n however, Bemiss was more actively involved and generated a\n larger number of records. In the 1966 Senate Democratic\n primary, Bemiss worked for the incumbent, A. Willis Robertson,\n in organizing and fund-raising in the third district.\n Correspondence with Robertson concerns the incumbent's age and\n health as compared with that of former Senator Carter Glass.\n Bemiss also served as a budgetary and financial advisor for\n Fred G. Pollard in the 1969 Democratic gubernatorial primary,\n Harry F. Byrd in his 1970 campaign for Senate, and Richard D.\n Obenshain in his 1978 quest for the Republican gubernatorial\n nomination. The section concludes with a folder of election\n analyses by Larry Sabato, a folder of Richmond City Democratic\n Committee memoranda, correspondence, statements and 1965\n redistricting information, a folder of Republican party\n appeals, and a folder of miscellaneous election materials.","The rest of the collection has been arranged in roughly\n chronological fashion around three subjects that interested\n Senator Bemiss: government, education, and the environment.\n These papers reflect Bemiss's service on a number of\n government commission, civic organizations, and community\n affairs groups. Many of these relate to general assembly\n activities that either spanned several sessions or continued\n after his 1967 retirement.","Records pertaining to government begin with several folders\n of otherwise only loosely related materials. The first folder\n in this section concerns the building of a parking lot for the\n Virginia Museum. This is followed by papers concerning the\n standardization of annual reports for the various executive\n departments. In January 1961 Bemiss attended a White House\n conference on aging and conference information as well as\n Bemiss's statements opposing medial aid for the elderly\n through social security, are included in this material.","Addresses concerning the findings of the Commission on\n State and Local Revenues and Expenditures follow. Appointed by\n Governor Albertis S. Harrison in 1962, the commission's\n purpose was to study new and additional sources of revenue.\n Although it was generally understood that this meant preparing\n the way for a state sales tax by eliminating the legal\n barriers and developing plans for distributing the proceeds,\n other actions were also recommended. As chairman of the Local\n Revenues and Expenditures Committee, Bemiss proposed\n legislation prohibiting the underassessment and undertaxation\n of real estate at the expense of public utility facilities,\n whose burden was then passed on to other localities. A folder\n marked \"public utilities' mostly concerns several bills\n introduced during the 1966 session seeking to abolish this\n common practice.","Correspondence with Richmond City Council primarily\n concerns proposed changes in the city charter providing for\n staggered four-year terms for the city's state senators. State\n planning materials concern the establishment of a division to\n oversee long-range planning.","In 1966 Bemiss was appointed by Governor Mills E. Godwin to\n the Virginia Metropolitan Area Study Commission. Under the\n chairmanship of Virginia Polytechnic Institute president, T.\n Marshall Hahn, the commission examined problems created by\n Virginia's growing and shifting population. Bemiss's\n subcommittee on Governmental Structure proposed redrawing\n county boundaries to reflect twentieth-century demands, and\n establishing service and planning districts as alternatives to\n annexation in meeting problems created in multi-jurisdictional\n area. These ideas were, quite naturally, opposed by many in\n the legislature who viewed the proposal as a threat to local\n autonomy. Commission minutes, correspondence, and reports, as\n well as subcommittee correspondence begin box 4. Materials\n concerning the Commission on the Legislative Process, on which\n Bemiss also served, follow. Papers pertaining to the\n Commission on Constitutional Revision again reflect Bemiss's\n interest in multi-locality planning districts. Bemiss planned\n the inauguration of Governor Linwood Holton in 1970 and this\n material consists of memoranda, seating charts, invitations,\n and a program.","The section concerning education begins with a folder of\n general correspondence, consisting of constituent requests,\n invitations to speak, and copies of addresses. Seven folders\n labeled \"State Council of Higher Education\" follow. Bemiss was\n a patron of the bill which created the council, whose purpose\n was to promote and develop a coordinated system of higher\n education in the state. This material, which includes\n correspondence, memoranda, and reports, concerns the creation\n of the council, its early operation, and a VALC report,\n \"education of Scientists, Engineers and Other Specialists.\"\n Other subjects include the separation of colleges in the\n William and Mary System (including Richmond Professional\n Institute) and inter-library cooperation in sharing technical\n services and facilities.","Correspondence with the State Board of Education precedes\n materials related to the Commission on Public Education\n chaired by William B. Spong (not to be confused with the Gray\n Commission). Correspondence, statements, and reports document\n the commission's work, which involved evaluation of school\n curricula and teacher certification requirements. Materials\n pertaining to the Bureau of Educational Research concern the\n establishment of a permanent agency to conduct research in\n education. Budget materials for 1964 concern cuts in higher\n education and include statements by Bemiss and University of\n Virginia President Edgar F. Shannon. A second 1964 folder\n documents an unsuccessful attempt to restrict enrollment in\n Virginia state colleges by out-of-state students. Materials\n pertaining to the Virginia Institute of Scientific Research\n concern the establishment of an institution for graduate\n research in Richmond. Papers of two Richmond organizations,\n the Citizens for Excellent Public Schools and the Ad Hoc\n Committee on Public Schools, demonstrate their commitment to\n public education during the school busing controversy in\n 1971-1972. This section concludes with miscellaneous speeches\n and clippings on education.","The remainder of the Bemiss papers reflect his interest in\n conservation and the environment. Included in this section are\n records concerning several commissions, the Virginia Outdoor\n Recreation Study Commission (1964-1966), the Governor's\n Special Commission on Water Resources (1965-1966), and the\n Governor's Commission on Virginia' Future (1982-1985). Related\n material concerns water pollution and parks.","Bemiss was chairman of the Virginia Outdoor Recreation\n Study Commission, which formulated a comprehensive plan to\n protect and develop Virginia' scenic, natural, and historic\n resources. The Virginia Outdoors Plan, passed by the 1966\n assembly, created a Commission of Outdoor Recreation to\n acquire and maintain parks, scenic areas, camping grounds, and\n other sites for public use. The legislation also created the\n Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now the Division of\n Historic Landmarks). Records of the VORSC consist of\n correspondence, addresses, reports, press releases and\n clippings. Landmarks Commission materials primarily concern\n the acquisition of open space easements at \"Old Mansion,\"\n Caroline County and at \"Wakefield,\" Westmoreland County, and\n attempts by the owners of \"Tuckahoe,\" Goochland County to\n change the route of a proposed highway. Correspondence\n concerning open space easements is primarily with George C.\n Freeman, a lawyer who designed the law allowing property\n owners to grant easements designating areas where future\n development would be prohibited. The Virginia Outdoors Plan\n also created the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to encourage\n private philanthropy towards conservation efforts of the\n state.","Bemiss also served as chairman of the Governor's Special\n Committee on Water Resources, a commission created to\n determine the effects of growth on the state's future water\n resources. An additional folder concerning water resources\n consists primarily of articles on drainage basins of various\n state rivers. Materials concerning water pollution consist of\n a memo on the subject to Governor Linwood Holton and the\n governor's acknowledgment.","Information and brochures concerning several state parks\n begin box 6. The next folder pertains to a trip to the Eastern\n Shore in 1960 and Bemiss's subsequent article on natural areas\n for Virginia Wildlife magazine.","The following three folders demonstrate Bemiss's interest\n in both conservation and metropolitan planning. Materials of\n the Richmond Regional Planning Commission, the Richmond\n Regional Park Authority, and the Capital Region Park Authority\n concern cooperative community efforts in creating open space\n areas in the Richmond metropolitan area. General\n correspondence concerning the James River precedes materials\n pertains to a study commission report on deepening the James\n River channel. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, and reports\n of the Richmond James River Association, of which Bemiss was\n president, reflect that organization's apprehension over water\n usage and the river's flow. The next four folders, consisting\n of correspondence, clippings, newsletters and maps, concern\n the construction of a downtown expressway and its effects on\n natural areas along the James River. Although the expressway\n was built, parts of the historic Kanawha Canal were preserved\n and restored and James River Park was established.","In 1982, Bemiss was appointed to the Governor's Commission\n on Virginia's Future, which was chaired by former Senator\n William B. Spong. The commission's mission was to assess state\n needs and provide planning and direction into the twenty-first\n century. Correspondence, committee assignments, meeting\n summaries, final reports and clippings precede records\n pertaining to the Environment and Natural Resources Task\n Force, which Bemiss chaired. These papers are arranged\n topically (these topics being sub-headings in the final\n report). Subjects include: water, land use, waste management,\n the Chesapeake Bay and fisheries. A final report and related\n papers of the Government and Planning Task Force follow.","In conjunction with his service on the Future Commission,\n Bemiss participated in a conference sponsored by the Virginia\n Institute on Government, in October 1985, on the \"Future of\n the Virginia Environment.\" The collection contains a copy of\n the conference's final statement. Miscellaneous correspondence\n concerning parks and water and addresses pertaining to\n environmental issues conclude this section.","Miscellaneous speeches and addresses, mostly from\n dedication, naturalization, and award ceremonies, precede a\n folder of general miscellany, which includes a 1958 address on\n fiscal management by Senator Harry F. Byrd.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.","Correspondence and addresses; cliippings;\n miscellany.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.","Correspondence; bills (bound); bills,\n resolutions, amendments; Harrison v. Day","Minutes, addresses; public hearing; committee\n report; sub-committee reports; clippings and\n miscellany.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of expense.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulation, statements of\n expense.","Correspondence, addresses, campaign material,\n letters of congratulations, statements of\n expense.","Elections for governor, president and senator,\n 1953-1985 (arranged chronologically); analyses by Larry\n Sabato, 1985-1987; Richmond City Democratic Committee,\n 1953-1955, 1963-1967; Republican Party of Virginia,\n 1980-1986; election miscellany.","Minutes; correspondence; reports; Committee on\n Governmental Structure.","Correspondence, 1955-1958; General Assembly,\n 1956-1958; VALC report, 1957; memoranda and reports,\n 1956-1963, 1970; William and Mary, 1961-1962;\n inter-library cooperation, 1962-1965.","budget, 1963-1964; out-of-state college\n enrollment, 1964; Institute of Scientific Research,\n 1965-1967.","Correspondence; addresses; reports; press\n releases; clippings; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1981-1983; Historic Landmarks\n Committee, 1965-1966.","\"Old Mansion,\" 1968-1971; \"Wakefield,\" 1970-1972;\n open space easements, 1966-1979, 1986-1988.","Water resources, 1966-1979; water pollution,\n 1969-1970; state parks, 1957-1974; \"Natural Areas\n System for Virginia,\" 1960-1961; Richmond Regional\n Planning Commission, 1958-1966, 1972; Richmond\n Regional Park Authority 1960-1967; Capital Region\n Park Authority, 1968-1970; James river, 1965-1966,\n 1971; James River Channel, 1962-1964; Richmond\n James River Association, 1964-1970, 1981; Richmond\n Open Space Plan, 1964-1972; Local James Action\n Committee, 1967; Richmond Scenic James Council,\n 1970-1973; James River and Kanawha Parks,\n 1970-1973.","Correspondence; membership; meeting summaries;\n final reports.","Correspondence; membership; water; land use;\n waste management; Chesapeake Bay; fisheries;\n report.","Planning districts; responses; comments.","Correspondence, addresses, etc.","Speeches and addresses, 1958-1975; general\n miscellany."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNone.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["None."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eFitzGerald Bemiss's papers cover\n his career in the Virginia General Assembly, his work on\n various government commissions, and other related political\n activities and interests. Commissions on which he served\n include the Commission on Public Education (a.k.a. the Gray\n Commission), the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission,\n the irginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, and the\n overnor's Commission on Virginia's Future. His areas of\n particular interest included educational and environmental\n issues.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["FitzGerald Bemiss's papers cover\n his career in the Virginia General Assembly, his work on\n various government commissions, and other related political\n activities and interests. Commissions on which he served\n include the Commission on Public Education (a.k.a. the Gray\n Commission), the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission,\n the irginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, and the\n overnor's Commission on Virginia's Future. 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From their family seat\n at \"Burlington,\" the Gwathmey's were active in the political,\n social, and religious life of the county for more than two\n centuries.","Joseph Hardin Gwathmey and his wife, Jeannette Garnett\n (Ryland) Gwathmey, had five children, three of whom, John\n Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), Anna Garnett Gwathmey\n (1879-1979), and Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883- 1974), are\n prominent in this collection.","With the exception of the years he spent at Virginia\n Polytechnic Institute (Now Virginia Polytechnic University and\n State University), John Ryland Gwathmey spent his entire life\n at \"Burlington.\" John Ryland Gwathmey supervised farming and\n timber operations on the family estate and appraised real\n estate in King William and nearby counties. He was also a\n member of the county board of supervisors and of Beulah\n Baptist Church.","The collection begins with the papers of Joseph Gwathmey,\n (1758-1824), a planter, major in the state militia, and deacon\n of the Beulah Baptist Church. These records consist of an\n account book, loose accounts, and estate materials. Major\n Gwathmey's account book also contains records of his\n children's births and lists of horses. Most of his papers,\n however, concern his estate and include the records of\n executors, Richard Gwathmey (1789-1866), John Hill Gwathmey\n (1798-1839), and William Gwathmey (1794-1875). Two accounts\n books contain copies of Joseph Gwathmey's will, inventories,\n appraisals, and accounts and expenses. Loose estate materials\n include accounts, inventories, an indenture selling land to\n Nathaniel Boush Hill, and an 1836 appraisal of slaves.","The papers of William Gwathmey are found in boxes 2-7.\n William Gwathmey inherited \"Wakefield,\" but moved to\n \"Burlington\" upon the death of his brother, John Hill\n Gwathmey, in 1839. A planter and physician, Gwathmey was also\n a trustee of the Beulah Baptist Church.","Dr. Gwathmey's papers begin with a diary of his journey to\n St. Augustine, Florida, with his wife and sister-in-law,\n Hardinia M. Burnley, from 1833 to 1834. Other diaries follow;\n a complete list of these appears in the guide that follows\n this description. The diaries, many of which are kept in\n copies of Richardson's Almanac, mostly concern weather\n conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physicians's visits, and church activities. The pages of an\n 1837 diary describe a trip to New Orleans and southwest\n Louisiana. Entries in the 1852 diary concern a medical\n conference in Richmond (Apr. 28, May 5) and the presidential\n election of that year (Nov. 9). The 1859 diary describes\n hiring day in Ayletts (Jan. 1) and election day (May 26).","Diaries from the Civil War years not only provide\n Gwathmey's views on the war, but also document local events.\n Several 1863 entries describe the appearance of Northern units\n in King William (January 8 and June 5), as well as the baptism\n of slaves at Beulah (Sept. 6). Entries for 1864 describe the\n arrival of Union troops at Ayletts (Mar. 1-2), the doctoring\n of wounded soldiers, and the occupation of \"Burlington\" (May\n 22- 29). Several 1866 entries concern Reconstruction (Feb. 27,\n May 31, June 12-18). These last entries concern formal charges\n bought against a neighbor for mistreating a former slave.","Boxes 3-5 contain the correspondence of William Gwathmey.\n Most of this consists of letters from family members,\n including Joseph Robert Garlick, Frances Fielding (Lewis)\n Gwathmey, Lucy Ann (Garlick) Gwathmey, Richard Gwathmey,\n Washington Gwathmey, and William Henry Gwathmey. Many of these\n letters concern the activities of Beulah Church. Significant\n correspondence incudes the letters of Gwathmey's\n brother-in-law, Edwin Burnley, who apparently deserted his\n wife and went to Mississippi. These letters document his\n divorce and attempts to transfer slaves to his new home. The\n letters of another brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Meaux, concern\n medicine and phyhsicians. Thomas Witt Haynes writes concerning\n WG's son Richard Brooke Gwathmeyh, who served in the 9th\n Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. Letters with Alexander\n Fleet pertain to Gwathmey's brief service in the Ware of 1812,\n for which WG was applying for a pension. An 1865 letter from\n richard Gwathmey describes the Richmond fire, while an 1837\n letter describes a trip to Chicago, Ill.","Three accounts books follow. The first two are indexed and\n primarily consist of accounts with patients, but they also\n include records of family births, servant births, lists of\n livestock, and accounts with the estate of Joseph Gwathmey.\n The second account book also contains accounts, 1875-1895, of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey. The third account book, 1870-1875,\n contains contracts and accounts with farm hands.","Loose accounts begin in box 7. These are followed by deeds\n and bonds, most of which concern land, but which also include\n an indenture to a former slave, Sylvia Hill, granting her\n ownership of her house. Beulah Baptist Church records consist\n of lists of subscriptions, a commonplace book, eulogies for\n Hardin Burnley (1804?-1869), John William Garlick\n (1823?-1866), Edward Hill (d. 1870) and James Trice.\n Miscellaneous materials include photocopies concerning\n Gwathmey's 1812 service and a pass, 1864, signed by James\n Alexander Seddon (1815-1880).","The correspondence of Elizabeth Theresa (Burnley) Gwathmey\n (1806-1879), wife of William Gwathmey, consists mostly of\n letters written by her children. Among those are the letters\n of Mary Atwood Gwathmey, which describe her visit to cousins\n in Mississippi in 1856 and 1857.","The collection contains materials of seven of William and\n Elizabeth (Burnley) Gwathmey's children. The papers of Richard\n Brooke Gwathmey (1838-1864), a soldier in the 9th Virginia\n Cavalry during the Civil War, and William Gwathmey (1840-1858)\n are located in box 8. Also in box 8 are several diaries of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1846-1918), who inherited \"Burlington\"\n upon the death of his father in 1875. Gwathmey, an agent for\n the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, also served as\n superintendent of King William County Schools.","Gwathmey's general correspondence is mostly with friends\n and family members, but also includes a letter signed by\n Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1881-1944), as Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, thanking Gwathmey for the loan of his binoculars\n to the U. S. Navy during the First World War. Account books\n concern farming operations and include accounts with far\n laborers. Loose accounts include receipts from the King\n William County Grange. Records concerning Gwathmey's\n superintendency of King William schools consist mostly of\n certificates, but also include a statistical report, ca. 1905,\n detailing conditions in the system.","The papers of Jeannette Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey\n (1847-1915), wife of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, consist of\n diaries, memoranda and scrapbooks, correspondence, and\n miscellany. The diaries mostly concern the weather and her\n church activities, but the 1905 volume also contains notes on\n the Garnett family. Her memoranda book contains notes on the\n Peachey, Ryland, and Griffin families.","The papers of Owen Overton Gwathmey (1849-1922), Elizabeth\n Burnley Gwathmey (b. 1818), Hardinia Morris Gwathmey\n (1832-1905), and Mary Atwood Gwathmey (1834-1868) are located\n in boxes 11 and 12. Owen Overton Gwathmey was a lawyer and\n judge of the King William Circuit Court. Among his papers are\n deeds of land to Gwathmey in his capacity as trustee for\n Beulah Baptist Church. His miscellany includes the wills of\n Sylvia Hill (d. 1906) and Phillis Garlick, both of King\n William County.","Gwathmey's papers begin with general correspondence, which\n is mostly with family members. Frequent correspondents include\n his sisters, Anna Garnett Gwathmey and Mary Burnley Gwathmey,\n Eleanor Gwathmey (Powell) Dewey, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1878-1945), Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Lewis\n Franklin Powell, associate justice of the United States\n Supreme Court. Many of Powell's letters concern the\n Burlington- Gwathmey Memorial Foundation, but have been filed\n together with the general correspondence. Form letters consist\n mostly of appeals from charitable and political organizations.\n Greeting cards and invitations conclude this box.","Box 17 contains account books. Three of these concern\n farming operations at \"Burlington.\" Financial records consist\n almost entirely of bank statements and federal income and\n property tax returns. Other financial records relate to life\n and health insurance and trust funds, including statements and\n accounts of the Burlington Cemetery Trust Fund.","In the late 1970's, \"Burlington\" was added to the Virginia\n Landmarks Register. Correspondence with the Virginia Historic\n Landmarks Commission concerns the establishment of landmark\n status, the granting of an open space easement, and the\n awarding of a preservation grant and subsequent restoration.\n In 1977, the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation was\n established to maintain the family estate after the death of\n John Ryland Gwathmey. Foundation materials include acts of\n incorporation and correspondence, primarily with lawyers.","Box 30 begins with letters and census reports from the\n Department of Agriculture concerning farming operations at\n \"Burlington.\" Materials pertaining to timber include reports,\n agreement, and accounts with lumber mills. These are followed\n by land records, mostly deeds of lease, concerning other land\n owned by JRG, including a house in Ayletts known as\n \"Gwathmey's,\" and \"Meadow Farm,\" the estate adjacent to\n \"Burlington.\"","John Ryland Gwathmey served as chairman of the industrial\n and Rural Utilities Committee of the Ruritan Club of King\n William County. These papers mostly concern the publication of\n a promotional pamphlet, King William Invites You, and consist\n of correspondence and drafts of the manuscript. Materials from\n JRG's tenure as a member of the county's board of supervisors\n also primarily concern industrial growth and include a\n consultant's 1970 water and sewerage report. Appraisals of\n farms in King William and surrounding counties, conducted by\n JRG, conclude box 31. Papers relating to JRG's service as\n trustee and clerk of the Beulah Baptist Church concern\n subscriptions and renovations to the building. These precede\n student composition books, clippings, and miscellany.","The papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey begin with general\n correspondence (boxes 33-36). Much of this is with her sister,\n Mary Burnley Gwathmey, from 1921-1926. Other frequent\n correspondents include family members: Alice R. Campbell,\n Jeannette O. Campbell, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1878-1945),\n Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Laura Virginia\n (Gwathmey) Young. Box 37 contains correspondence with\n institutions, greeting cards, invitations, account books, and\n accounts. Financial records consist of bank statement and\n checks and investment, tax, and insurance records.","Materials in boxes 41-45 document Anna Garnett Gwathmey's\n career as a general insurance agent in both New York City and\n King William County. These begin with five account books, a\n rate book, and a folder of unanswered solicitations. Client\n files consist of correspondence, claim forms, invoices, and\n policies with individual policy holders. These are arranged\n alphabetically. Records from the various insurance companies\n that AGG represented follow. These consist of letters and\n memoranda from the companies, commission statements, forms,\n bulletins, and promotional materials. Memoranda and rate\n quotes from the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service,\n performance bonds, and miscellany conclude this section.","Materials concerning a patent search consist of reports and\n copies of patents on stockings. Letters and miscellany of New\n York's Three Arts Club pertain to a 1937 benefit bridge\n tournament and dance. Speeches and addresses are mostly from a\n public speaking class. Miscellany includes cards of airplane\n silhouettes, used to test the accuracy of aircraft spotters\n during World War II. Sympathy letters addressed to John Ryland\n Gwathmey and estate materials conclude the papers of Anna\n Garnett Gwathmey.","Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974) graduated from Woman's\n College (now Westhampton College, University of Richmond), in\n 1904. Her general correspondence is located in boxes 47 and 48\n and includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966)\n concerning the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Mamie\n Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower concerning Virginia Democrats for\n Eisenhower in 1952, New York Congressman Carfoline Love\n Goodwin O'Day, and Anna Eleanor (Roosevelt) Roosevelt\n concerning a request for an appointment. Correspondence with\n institutions dates mostly from MBG's years in New York.","Boxes 49 to 51 pertain to MBG's career as an artist and\n designer, begfinning with her papers as a teacher at the\n University of Arkansas and as a teacher and student at\n Columbia University's Teachers College. These primarily\n consist of lecuture notes and notebooks. After receiving a\n master of arts degree from Columbia in 1926, MBG worked for\n James McCreery \u0026 Co. and James A. Hearns and Sons, both\n New York stores. In the early 1930's, she left retaining to\n become an independent design and fashion consultant. Records\n docummenting MBG's career in New York mainly consist of\n company memoranda, bulletins, brochures, layouts of display,\n advertising materials, and newsaper clippings. In 1943, MBG\n accedpt a position as instructor of distributive eeducation at\n Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Va.","Box 50 begins with materials concerning MBG's service, as a\n consultant on merchandising, color, and design, on the\n Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. Thedse consist of\n correspondence, mostly with Executive Director Parke Rouse and\n with textile and paint companies, as well as reports,\n memoranda, press releases, clippings, and advertising and\n promotional materials. General art and design materials\n follow, and include: speeches and addresses, resumes,\n clippings, magazine articles, notes and notebooks, and\n miscellany.","The remainder of MBG's papers are located in boxes 52-54\n and concern her non-art related activities. These begin with a\n few items pertaining to her work for the American Red Cross in\n Oteen, N. C., in 1921, and a trip to Switzerland in 1931.\n Materials concerning MBG's attempts to get funding for the\n publication of the story of Sylvia Hill, a former slave and\n family servant, include correspondence and application with\n foundations and rough drafts of the book. Correspondence,\n addresses, notes, and clippings concerning MBG's service as\n Executive Secretary of the King William County 250th\n Anniversary Committee follow.","Materials concerning Beulah Baptist Church mostly concern\n MBG's writing of Beulah Baptist Church: Highlights and\n Shadows. Copies of two of the Church's minute books are also\n included. Two scrapbooks, a memoranda book, and telephone\n directors follow. The first scrapbook contains clippings,\n lines of verse, snapshots, and obituaries from the early\n twentieth century, as well as three letters of Anna Maria\n (Garnett) Ryland (1826-1851), one to her brother, Reuben\n Meriwether Garnett, and two to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth\n Ferguson (Ryland) Willis.","Genealogical records include notes on the Burnley, Garnett,\n Gwathmey, Meaux, Rucker, Ryland, and Temple families. The\n Gwathmey folder also contains a biographical sketch of Edward\n Garlick Gwathmey (1839-1931) and a manuscript, \"The Gwathmey\n Family of Virginia,\" by Mildred Bates Gwathmey. Clippings,\n miscellany, and estate materials conclude the papers of Mary\n Burnley Gwathmey.","Box 55 contains the papers of miscellaneous family members.\n A complete list of these individuals is found in the guide\n that follows this description. These items include: an\n 1870-1871 diary of Washington Gwathmey (probably kept at \"Bear\n Island,\" Hanover County, Va.), a letter from John Newton\n Ryland to John Meriwether Garnett concerning politics in King\n and Queen County in 1840, and two account books, 1875-1876, of\n Gaskins, Moncure and Co., Essex County, Va.","Account book, 1792-1824; accounts, 1790-1824;\n estate.","Accounts, 1833-1875; deeds, indentures and bond,\n 1818-1873; Beulah Baptist Church, 1829-1872;\n commonplace book; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1848-1868.","Correspondence, 1858-1864; account book, 1856-1864;\n memoranda book, 1859-1860; accounts, 1858-1864;\n estate.","Letters received, 1857.","Account books, 1887-1893, 1895-1917; accounts,\n 1868-1918; and financial records, 1866-1916.","Superintendent of Schools, 1891-1906; miscellany;\n and estate.","Diaries (7 v.), 1874-1875, 1905, 1907, 1908-1909,\n 1912-1913, 1914; memoranda book; correspondence,\n 1867-1915; scrapbook; music scrapbook, 1914; clippings;\n miscellany; resolutions.","Correspondence, 1899-1920; financial records,\n 1879-1916; student notebook, 1876-1877; Beulah Baptist\n Church, 1877-1915; certificates; miscellany; estate.","Letters received, 1864-1888.","Correspondence, 1847-1867; autograph book,\n 1852-1853.","Letters received, 1857-1903; scrapbook.","Form letters; greeting cards; invitations.","Account books, n.d., 1951-1956, 1957-1963,\n 1964-1966, 1972-1974, 1974-1980; receipt book, 1953;\n employee hours book.","Life and health insurance, 1970-1982; automobile\n insurance, 1953-1982; insurance on \"Burlington,\"\n 1964-1982; Burlington Cemetery Trust, 1927-1982;\n trust fund, 1971-1982.","\"Burlington,\" 1977-1982; Burlington-Gwathmey\n Memorial Foundation, 1977-1982.","Farming, 1940-1982; timber, 1922-1981;\n \"Gwathmey's,\" 1977-1982; \"Meadow Farm,\" 1927-1962;\n miscellaneous deeds of lease.","Ruritan, 1950-1972; Board of Supervisors,\n 1955-1970; real estate appraisals, 1952-1977.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1939-1970; student\n composition books; clippings; miscellany.","Correspondence with institutions, 1913-1972;\n greeting cards and invitations; account books,\n 1928-1936, 1931-1941, 1954-1960; accounts,\n 1925-1977.","Planters National Bank, 1916-1933; Southside Bank,\n 1926-1979; Bank of Virginia, 1955-1960; Citizens and\n Farmers Bank, 1961-1971.","Financial records, 1925-1966; land records,\n 1920-1976.","Account books (5 v.): 1921, 1937, 1922-1924,\n 1931-1944, 1936-1940; rate book, 1934; agent's\n letters, 1924-1967; client files, 1928-1970;\n insurance companies: Aetna Life Insurance Company,\n 1931-1945; Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance\n Company, 1933-1958; The Penn Mutual Life Insurance\n Company, 1935-1952; Davenport Insurance Corporation,\n 1937-1941; Winters-Oliver Insurance Agency,\n 1963-1968; Royal Globe Insurance Group, 1954-1962;\n Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service, 1941-1965;\n bonds; miscellany.","Speeches and addresses, memoranda books,\n clippings, miscellany, estate.","Correspondence with institutions, 1916-1973;\n letters of recommendation; greeting cards; accounts,\n 1934-1974; financial records, 1930-1974.","University of Arkansas, 1924-1925; Columbia\n University, 1926-1943; design consultant, 1928-1936;\n Washington-Lee High School, 1943-1959; Virginia 350th\n Anniversary Commission, 1953-1958; speeches;\n biographical; clippings; magazine articles;\n notebooks; notes; miscellany.","Red Cross, 1921; Switzerland, 1931; Syvlia Hill,\n 1943-1959; King William 250th Anniversary Committee,\n 1952-195?.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1961-1967 and minute books,\n 1812-1843, 1936-1952; scrapbooks; directory;\n memoranda book; essays and lines of verse","Genealogical notes; clippings; miscellany;\n estate","Mollie Burnley; Eleanor Gwathmey, 1842-1931; John\n Hill Gwathmey, 1798-1839; Joseph Hardin Gwathmey,\n 1878-1945; Washington Gwathmey; William Gwathmey,\n 1875-1920; William Henry Gwathmey, 1819-1886; Mary\n Overton (Burnley) Meaux; Anna Maria (Garnett) Ryland,\n 1826-1951; John Newton Ryland; unidentified and family;\n miscellany.","Permission to cite, quote, or reproduce for publication\n must be obtained in writing from the Senior Archivist.","Papers of Joseph Gwathmey\n (1754-1824), planter, major in the Virginia militia, and\n deacon of Beulah Baptist Church, consist chiefly of records\n for his estate. Papers of William Gwathmey (1794-1875),\n planter and physician, trustee for Beulah Baptist Church,\n include diaries, 1833- 1874 (20 v.), primarily concerning\n weather conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physician's visits, and church activities (Civil War diaries\n provide his views on the war and document local events);\n correspondence, 1819-1875, with family members, many\n concerning church activities; accounts books, 1825-1875 (3\n v.), for farming operations and physician's services\n (containing also records of family and slave births); loose\n accounts, 1833-1875; deeds and bonds, 1818-1873; and Beulah\n Church records, 1829-1872. Papers of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), planter, insurance agent, and superintendent of\n King William County schools, include diaries, 1872 and 1910;\n correspondence, 1885-1918, chiefly with family members; and\n account books, 1887-1917 (2 v.), concerning farm operations.\n Papers of John Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), planter, include\n correspondence, 1918- 1982, chiefly with family; account\n books, 1951-1980, concerning farming operations; accounts,\n 1919-1982; checks and bank statements; and materials\n concerning the creation of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial\n Foundation. Papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey (1879-1979),\n insurance agent, include correspondence, 1913-1975, with\n family; account books, accounts, and bank records, 1916-1979;\n and business records, 1921-1970, documenting her career in New\n York City and King William County, and include account books\n and client files. Papers of Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974),\n teacher and artist, include correspondence, 1910-1973;\n accounts, 1930-1974; school notes, artwork, and materials\n documenting her work with the Virginia 350th Anniversary\n Commission.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 G9957 c FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"collection_title_tesim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"collection_ssim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, \n \n 1790-1982"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"creator_ssm":["Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, Jeanette\n Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey, John Ryland Gwathmey, Anna Garnett\n Gwathmey, and Mary Burnley Gwathmey."],"creator_ssim":["Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, Jeanette\n Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey, John Ryland Gwathmey, Anna Garnett\n Gwathmey, and Mary Burnley Gwathmey."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation,\n 1987."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Agriculture","Baptists","Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation","Gwathmey family","Plantation life","Slavery","Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal\n narratives, Confederate"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture","Baptists","Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation","Gwathmey family","Plantation life","Slavery","Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal\n narratives, Confederate"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["10,000 (ca.) items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open for use.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open for use."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into fifteen sections by creator.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into fifteen sections by creator."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection represents four generations of this\n prominent King William County family. From their family seat\n at \"Burlington,\" the Gwathmey's were active in the political,\n social, and religious life of the county for more than two\n centuries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Hardin Gwathmey and his wife, Jeannette Garnett\n (Ryland) Gwathmey, had five children, three of whom, John\n Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), Anna Garnett Gwathmey\n (1879-1979), and Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883- 1974), are\n prominent in this collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith the exception of the years he spent at Virginia\n Polytechnic Institute (Now Virginia Polytechnic University and\n State University), John Ryland Gwathmey spent his entire life\n at \"Burlington.\" John Ryland Gwathmey supervised farming and\n timber operations on the family estate and appraised real\n estate in King William and nearby counties. He was also a\n member of the county board of supervisors and of Beulah\n Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["This collection represents four generations of this\n prominent King William County family. From their family seat\n at \"Burlington,\" the Gwathmey's were active in the political,\n social, and religious life of the county for more than two\n centuries.","Joseph Hardin Gwathmey and his wife, Jeannette Garnett\n (Ryland) Gwathmey, had five children, three of whom, John\n Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), Anna Garnett Gwathmey\n (1879-1979), and Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883- 1974), are\n prominent in this collection.","With the exception of the years he spent at Virginia\n Polytechnic Institute (Now Virginia Polytechnic University and\n State University), John Ryland Gwathmey spent his entire life\n at \"Burlington.\" John Ryland Gwathmey supervised farming and\n timber operations on the family estate and appraised real\n estate in King William and nearby counties. He was also a\n member of the county board of supervisors and of Beulah\n Baptist Church."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGwathmey Family Papers, 1790-1982 (Mss1 G9957 c FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Gwathmey Family Papers, 1790-1982 (Mss1 G9957 c FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection begins with the papers of Joseph Gwathmey,\n (1758-1824), a planter, major in the state militia, and deacon\n of the Beulah Baptist Church. These records consist of an\n account book, loose accounts, and estate materials. Major\n Gwathmey's account book also contains records of his\n children's births and lists of horses. Most of his papers,\n however, concern his estate and include the records of\n executors, Richard Gwathmey (1789-1866), John Hill Gwathmey\n (1798-1839), and William Gwathmey (1794-1875). Two accounts\n books contain copies of Joseph Gwathmey's will, inventories,\n appraisals, and accounts and expenses. Loose estate materials\n include accounts, inventories, an indenture selling land to\n Nathaniel Boush Hill, and an 1836 appraisal of slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of William Gwathmey are found in boxes 2-7.\n William Gwathmey inherited \"Wakefield,\" but moved to\n \"Burlington\" upon the death of his brother, John Hill\n Gwathmey, in 1839. A planter and physician, Gwathmey was also\n a trustee of the Beulah Baptist Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Gwathmey's papers begin with a diary of his journey to\n St. Augustine, Florida, with his wife and sister-in-law,\n Hardinia M. Burnley, from 1833 to 1834. Other diaries follow;\n a complete list of these appears in the guide that follows\n this description. The diaries, many of which are kept in\n copies of Richardson's Almanac, mostly concern weather\n conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physicians's visits, and church activities. The pages of an\n 1837 diary describe a trip to New Orleans and southwest\n Louisiana. Entries in the 1852 diary concern a medical\n conference in Richmond (Apr. 28, May 5) and the presidential\n election of that year (Nov. 9). The 1859 diary describes\n hiring day in Ayletts (Jan. 1) and election day (May 26).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiaries from the Civil War years not only provide\n Gwathmey's views on the war, but also document local events.\n Several 1863 entries describe the appearance of Northern units\n in King William (January 8 and June 5), as well as the baptism\n of slaves at Beulah (Sept. 6). Entries for 1864 describe the\n arrival of Union troops at Ayletts (Mar. 1-2), the doctoring\n of wounded soldiers, and the occupation of \"Burlington\" (May\n 22- 29). Several 1866 entries concern Reconstruction (Feb. 27,\n May 31, June 12-18). These last entries concern formal charges\n bought against a neighbor for mistreating a former slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 3-5 contain the correspondence of William Gwathmey.\n Most of this consists of letters from family members,\n including Joseph Robert Garlick, Frances Fielding (Lewis)\n Gwathmey, Lucy Ann (Garlick) Gwathmey, Richard Gwathmey,\n Washington Gwathmey, and William Henry Gwathmey. Many of these\n letters concern the activities of Beulah Church. Significant\n correspondence incudes the letters of Gwathmey's\n brother-in-law, Edwin Burnley, who apparently deserted his\n wife and went to Mississippi. These letters document his\n divorce and attempts to transfer slaves to his new home. The\n letters of another brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Meaux, concern\n medicine and phyhsicians. Thomas Witt Haynes writes concerning\n WG's son Richard Brooke Gwathmeyh, who served in the 9th\n Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. Letters with Alexander\n Fleet pertain to Gwathmey's brief service in the Ware of 1812,\n for which WG was applying for a pension. An 1865 letter from\n richard Gwathmey describes the Richmond fire, while an 1837\n letter describes a trip to Chicago, Ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree accounts books follow. The first two are indexed and\n primarily consist of accounts with patients, but they also\n include records of family births, servant births, lists of\n livestock, and accounts with the estate of Joseph Gwathmey.\n The second account book also contains accounts, 1875-1895, of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey. The third account book, 1870-1875,\n contains contracts and accounts with farm hands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLoose accounts begin in box 7. These are followed by deeds\n and bonds, most of which concern land, but which also include\n an indenture to a former slave, Sylvia Hill, granting her\n ownership of her house. Beulah Baptist Church records consist\n of lists of subscriptions, a commonplace book, eulogies for\n Hardin Burnley (1804?-1869), John William Garlick\n (1823?-1866), Edward Hill (d. 1870) and James Trice.\n Miscellaneous materials include photocopies concerning\n Gwathmey's 1812 service and a pass, 1864, signed by James\n Alexander Seddon (1815-1880).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence of Elizabeth Theresa (Burnley) Gwathmey\n (1806-1879), wife of William Gwathmey, consists mostly of\n letters written by her children. Among those are the letters\n of Mary Atwood Gwathmey, which describe her visit to cousins\n in Mississippi in 1856 and 1857.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains materials of seven of William and\n Elizabeth (Burnley) Gwathmey's children. The papers of Richard\n Brooke Gwathmey (1838-1864), a soldier in the 9th Virginia\n Cavalry during the Civil War, and William Gwathmey (1840-1858)\n are located in box 8. Also in box 8 are several diaries of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1846-1918), who inherited \"Burlington\"\n upon the death of his father in 1875. Gwathmey, an agent for\n the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, also served as\n superintendent of King William County Schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGwathmey's general correspondence is mostly with friends\n and family members, but also includes a letter signed by\n Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1881-1944), as Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, thanking Gwathmey for the loan of his binoculars\n to the U. S. Navy during the First World War. Account books\n concern farming operations and include accounts with far\n laborers. Loose accounts include receipts from the King\n William County Grange. Records concerning Gwathmey's\n superintendency of King William schools consist mostly of\n certificates, but also include a statistical report, ca. 1905,\n detailing conditions in the system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Jeannette Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey\n (1847-1915), wife of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, consist of\n diaries, memoranda and scrapbooks, correspondence, and\n miscellany. The diaries mostly concern the weather and her\n church activities, but the 1905 volume also contains notes on\n the Garnett family. Her memoranda book contains notes on the\n Peachey, Ryland, and Griffin families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Owen Overton Gwathmey (1849-1922), Elizabeth\n Burnley Gwathmey (b. 1818), Hardinia Morris Gwathmey\n (1832-1905), and Mary Atwood Gwathmey (1834-1868) are located\n in boxes 11 and 12. Owen Overton Gwathmey was a lawyer and\n judge of the King William Circuit Court. Among his papers are\n deeds of land to Gwathmey in his capacity as trustee for\n Beulah Baptist Church. His miscellany includes the wills of\n Sylvia Hill (d. 1906) and Phillis Garlick, both of King\n William County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGwathmey's papers begin with general correspondence, which\n is mostly with family members. Frequent correspondents include\n his sisters, Anna Garnett Gwathmey and Mary Burnley Gwathmey,\n Eleanor Gwathmey (Powell) Dewey, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1878-1945), Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Lewis\n Franklin Powell, associate justice of the United States\n Supreme Court. Many of Powell's letters concern the\n Burlington- Gwathmey Memorial Foundation, but have been filed\n together with the general correspondence. Form letters consist\n mostly of appeals from charitable and political organizations.\n Greeting cards and invitations conclude this box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 17 contains account books. Three of these concern\n farming operations at \"Burlington.\" Financial records consist\n almost entirely of bank statements and federal income and\n property tax returns. Other financial records relate to life\n and health insurance and trust funds, including statements and\n accounts of the Burlington Cemetery Trust Fund.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1970's, \"Burlington\" was added to the Virginia\n Landmarks Register. Correspondence with the Virginia Historic\n Landmarks Commission concerns the establishment of landmark\n status, the granting of an open space easement, and the\n awarding of a preservation grant and subsequent restoration.\n In 1977, the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation was\n established to maintain the family estate after the death of\n John Ryland Gwathmey. Foundation materials include acts of\n incorporation and correspondence, primarily with lawyers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 30 begins with letters and census reports from the\n Department of Agriculture concerning farming operations at\n \"Burlington.\" Materials pertaining to timber include reports,\n agreement, and accounts with lumber mills. These are followed\n by land records, mostly deeds of lease, concerning other land\n owned by JRG, including a house in Ayletts known as\n \"Gwathmey's,\" and \"Meadow Farm,\" the estate adjacent to\n \"Burlington.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Ryland Gwathmey served as chairman of the industrial\n and Rural Utilities Committee of the Ruritan Club of King\n William County. These papers mostly concern the publication of\n a promotional pamphlet, King William Invites You, and consist\n of correspondence and drafts of the manuscript. Materials from\n JRG's tenure as a member of the county's board of supervisors\n also primarily concern industrial growth and include a\n consultant's 1970 water and sewerage report. Appraisals of\n farms in King William and surrounding counties, conducted by\n JRG, conclude box 31. Papers relating to JRG's service as\n trustee and clerk of the Beulah Baptist Church concern\n subscriptions and renovations to the building. These precede\n student composition books, clippings, and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey begin with general\n correspondence (boxes 33-36). Much of this is with her sister,\n Mary Burnley Gwathmey, from 1921-1926. Other frequent\n correspondents include family members: Alice R. Campbell,\n Jeannette O. Campbell, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1878-1945),\n Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Laura Virginia\n (Gwathmey) Young. Box 37 contains correspondence with\n institutions, greeting cards, invitations, account books, and\n accounts. Financial records consist of bank statement and\n checks and investment, tax, and insurance records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials in boxes 41-45 document Anna Garnett Gwathmey's\n career as a general insurance agent in both New York City and\n King William County. These begin with five account books, a\n rate book, and a folder of unanswered solicitations. Client\n files consist of correspondence, claim forms, invoices, and\n policies with individual policy holders. These are arranged\n alphabetically. Records from the various insurance companies\n that AGG represented follow. These consist of letters and\n memoranda from the companies, commission statements, forms,\n bulletins, and promotional materials. Memoranda and rate\n quotes from the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service,\n performance bonds, and miscellany conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning a patent search consist of reports and\n copies of patents on stockings. Letters and miscellany of New\n York's Three Arts Club pertain to a 1937 benefit bridge\n tournament and dance. Speeches and addresses are mostly from a\n public speaking class. Miscellany includes cards of airplane\n silhouettes, used to test the accuracy of aircraft spotters\n during World War II. Sympathy letters addressed to John Ryland\n Gwathmey and estate materials conclude the papers of Anna\n Garnett Gwathmey.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974) graduated from Woman's\n College (now Westhampton College, University of Richmond), in\n 1904. Her general correspondence is located in boxes 47 and 48\n and includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966)\n concerning the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Mamie\n Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower concerning Virginia Democrats for\n Eisenhower in 1952, New York Congressman Carfoline Love\n Goodwin O'Day, and Anna Eleanor (Roosevelt) Roosevelt\n concerning a request for an appointment. Correspondence with\n institutions dates mostly from MBG's years in New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 49 to 51 pertain to MBG's career as an artist and\n designer, begfinning with her papers as a teacher at the\n University of Arkansas and as a teacher and student at\n Columbia University's Teachers College. These primarily\n consist of lecuture notes and notebooks. After receiving a\n master of arts degree from Columbia in 1926, MBG worked for\n James McCreery \u0026amp; Co. and James A. Hearns and Sons, both\n New York stores. In the early 1930's, she left retaining to\n become an independent design and fashion consultant. Records\n docummenting MBG's career in New York mainly consist of\n company memoranda, bulletins, brochures, layouts of display,\n advertising materials, and newsaper clippings. In 1943, MBG\n accedpt a position as instructor of distributive eeducation at\n Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 50 begins with materials concerning MBG's service, as a\n consultant on merchandising, color, and design, on the\n Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. Thedse consist of\n correspondence, mostly with Executive Director Parke Rouse and\n with textile and paint companies, as well as reports,\n memoranda, press releases, clippings, and advertising and\n promotional materials. General art and design materials\n follow, and include: speeches and addresses, resumes,\n clippings, magazine articles, notes and notebooks, and\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remainder of MBG's papers are located in boxes 52-54\n and concern her non-art related activities. These begin with a\n few items pertaining to her work for the American Red Cross in\n Oteen, N. C., in 1921, and a trip to Switzerland in 1931.\n Materials concerning MBG's attempts to get funding for the\n publication of the story of Sylvia Hill, a former slave and\n family servant, include correspondence and application with\n foundations and rough drafts of the book. Correspondence,\n addresses, notes, and clippings concerning MBG's service as\n Executive Secretary of the King William County 250th\n Anniversary Committee follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning Beulah Baptist Church mostly concern\n MBG's writing of Beulah Baptist Church: Highlights and\n Shadows. Copies of two of the Church's minute books are also\n included. Two scrapbooks, a memoranda book, and telephone\n directors follow. The first scrapbook contains clippings,\n lines of verse, snapshots, and obituaries from the early\n twentieth century, as well as three letters of Anna Maria\n (Garnett) Ryland (1826-1851), one to her brother, Reuben\n Meriwether Garnett, and two to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth\n Ferguson (Ryland) Willis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical records include notes on the Burnley, Garnett,\n Gwathmey, Meaux, Rucker, Ryland, and Temple families. The\n Gwathmey folder also contains a biographical sketch of Edward\n Garlick Gwathmey (1839-1931) and a manuscript, \"The Gwathmey\n Family of Virginia,\" by Mildred Bates Gwathmey. Clippings,\n miscellany, and estate materials conclude the papers of Mary\n Burnley Gwathmey.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 55 contains the papers of miscellaneous family members.\n A complete list of these individuals is found in the guide\n that follows this description. These items include: an\n 1870-1871 diary of Washington Gwathmey (probably kept at \"Bear\n Island,\" Hanover County, Va.), a letter from John Newton\n Ryland to John Meriwether Garnett concerning politics in King\n and Queen County in 1840, and two account books, 1875-1876, of\n Gaskins, Moncure and Co., Essex County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book, 1792-1824; accounts, 1790-1824;\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1833-1875; deeds, indentures and bond,\n 1818-1873; Beulah Baptist Church, 1829-1872;\n commonplace book; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1848-1868.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1858-1864; account book, 1856-1864;\n memoranda book, 1859-1860; accounts, 1858-1864;\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters received, 1857.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books, 1887-1893, 1895-1917; accounts,\n 1868-1918; and financial records, 1866-1916.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent of Schools, 1891-1906; miscellany;\n and estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiaries (7 v.), 1874-1875, 1905, 1907, 1908-1909,\n 1912-1913, 1914; memoranda book; correspondence,\n 1867-1915; scrapbook; music scrapbook, 1914; clippings;\n miscellany; resolutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1899-1920; financial records,\n 1879-1916; student notebook, 1876-1877; Beulah Baptist\n Church, 1877-1915; certificates; miscellany; estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters received, 1864-1888.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1847-1867; autograph book,\n 1852-1853.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters received, 1857-1903; scrapbook.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForm letters; greeting cards; invitations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books, n.d., 1951-1956, 1957-1963,\n 1964-1966, 1972-1974, 1974-1980; receipt book, 1953;\n employee hours book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLife and health insurance, 1970-1982; automobile\n insurance, 1953-1982; insurance on \"Burlington,\"\n 1964-1982; Burlington Cemetery Trust, 1927-1982;\n trust fund, 1971-1982.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Burlington,\" 1977-1982; Burlington-Gwathmey\n Memorial Foundation, 1977-1982.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarming, 1940-1982; timber, 1922-1981;\n \"Gwathmey's,\" 1977-1982; \"Meadow Farm,\" 1927-1962;\n miscellaneous deeds of lease.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuritan, 1950-1972; Board of Supervisors,\n 1955-1970; real estate appraisals, 1952-1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeulah Baptist Church, 1939-1970; student\n composition books; clippings; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with institutions, 1913-1972;\n greeting cards and invitations; account books,\n 1928-1936, 1931-1941, 1954-1960; accounts,\n 1925-1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlanters National Bank, 1916-1933; Southside Bank,\n 1926-1979; Bank of Virginia, 1955-1960; Citizens and\n Farmers Bank, 1961-1971.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records, 1925-1966; land records,\n 1920-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount books (5 v.): 1921, 1937, 1922-1924,\n 1931-1944, 1936-1940; rate book, 1934; agent's\n letters, 1924-1967; client files, 1928-1970;\n insurance companies: Aetna Life Insurance Company,\n 1931-1945; Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance\n Company, 1933-1958; The Penn Mutual Life Insurance\n Company, 1935-1952; Davenport Insurance Corporation,\n 1937-1941; Winters-Oliver Insurance Agency,\n 1963-1968; Royal Globe Insurance Group, 1954-1962;\n Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service, 1941-1965;\n bonds; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches and addresses, memoranda books,\n clippings, miscellany, estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with institutions, 1916-1973;\n letters of recommendation; greeting cards; accounts,\n 1934-1974; financial records, 1930-1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Arkansas, 1924-1925; Columbia\n University, 1926-1943; design consultant, 1928-1936;\n Washington-Lee High School, 1943-1959; Virginia 350th\n Anniversary Commission, 1953-1958; speeches;\n biographical; clippings; magazine articles;\n notebooks; notes; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRed Cross, 1921; Switzerland, 1931; Syvlia Hill,\n 1943-1959; King William 250th Anniversary Committee,\n 1952-195?.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeulah Baptist Church, 1961-1967 and minute books,\n 1812-1843, 1936-1952; scrapbooks; directory;\n memoranda book; essays and lines of verse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical notes; clippings; miscellany;\n estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMollie Burnley; Eleanor Gwathmey, 1842-1931; John\n Hill Gwathmey, 1798-1839; Joseph Hardin Gwathmey,\n 1878-1945; Washington Gwathmey; William Gwathmey,\n 1875-1920; William Henry Gwathmey, 1819-1886; Mary\n Overton (Burnley) Meaux; Anna Maria (Garnett) Ryland,\n 1826-1951; John Newton Ryland; unidentified and family;\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection begins with the papers of Joseph Gwathmey,\n (1758-1824), a planter, major in the state militia, and deacon\n of the Beulah Baptist Church. These records consist of an\n account book, loose accounts, and estate materials. Major\n Gwathmey's account book also contains records of his\n children's births and lists of horses. Most of his papers,\n however, concern his estate and include the records of\n executors, Richard Gwathmey (1789-1866), John Hill Gwathmey\n (1798-1839), and William Gwathmey (1794-1875). Two accounts\n books contain copies of Joseph Gwathmey's will, inventories,\n appraisals, and accounts and expenses. Loose estate materials\n include accounts, inventories, an indenture selling land to\n Nathaniel Boush Hill, and an 1836 appraisal of slaves.","The papers of William Gwathmey are found in boxes 2-7.\n William Gwathmey inherited \"Wakefield,\" but moved to\n \"Burlington\" upon the death of his brother, John Hill\n Gwathmey, in 1839. A planter and physician, Gwathmey was also\n a trustee of the Beulah Baptist Church.","Dr. Gwathmey's papers begin with a diary of his journey to\n St. Augustine, Florida, with his wife and sister-in-law,\n Hardinia M. Burnley, from 1833 to 1834. Other diaries follow;\n a complete list of these appears in the guide that follows\n this description. The diaries, many of which are kept in\n copies of Richardson's Almanac, mostly concern weather\n conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physicians's visits, and church activities. The pages of an\n 1837 diary describe a trip to New Orleans and southwest\n Louisiana. Entries in the 1852 diary concern a medical\n conference in Richmond (Apr. 28, May 5) and the presidential\n election of that year (Nov. 9). The 1859 diary describes\n hiring day in Ayletts (Jan. 1) and election day (May 26).","Diaries from the Civil War years not only provide\n Gwathmey's views on the war, but also document local events.\n Several 1863 entries describe the appearance of Northern units\n in King William (January 8 and June 5), as well as the baptism\n of slaves at Beulah (Sept. 6). Entries for 1864 describe the\n arrival of Union troops at Ayletts (Mar. 1-2), the doctoring\n of wounded soldiers, and the occupation of \"Burlington\" (May\n 22- 29). Several 1866 entries concern Reconstruction (Feb. 27,\n May 31, June 12-18). These last entries concern formal charges\n bought against a neighbor for mistreating a former slave.","Boxes 3-5 contain the correspondence of William Gwathmey.\n Most of this consists of letters from family members,\n including Joseph Robert Garlick, Frances Fielding (Lewis)\n Gwathmey, Lucy Ann (Garlick) Gwathmey, Richard Gwathmey,\n Washington Gwathmey, and William Henry Gwathmey. Many of these\n letters concern the activities of Beulah Church. Significant\n correspondence incudes the letters of Gwathmey's\n brother-in-law, Edwin Burnley, who apparently deserted his\n wife and went to Mississippi. These letters document his\n divorce and attempts to transfer slaves to his new home. The\n letters of another brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Meaux, concern\n medicine and phyhsicians. Thomas Witt Haynes writes concerning\n WG's son Richard Brooke Gwathmeyh, who served in the 9th\n Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. Letters with Alexander\n Fleet pertain to Gwathmey's brief service in the Ware of 1812,\n for which WG was applying for a pension. An 1865 letter from\n richard Gwathmey describes the Richmond fire, while an 1837\n letter describes a trip to Chicago, Ill.","Three accounts books follow. The first two are indexed and\n primarily consist of accounts with patients, but they also\n include records of family births, servant births, lists of\n livestock, and accounts with the estate of Joseph Gwathmey.\n The second account book also contains accounts, 1875-1895, of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey. The third account book, 1870-1875,\n contains contracts and accounts with farm hands.","Loose accounts begin in box 7. These are followed by deeds\n and bonds, most of which concern land, but which also include\n an indenture to a former slave, Sylvia Hill, granting her\n ownership of her house. Beulah Baptist Church records consist\n of lists of subscriptions, a commonplace book, eulogies for\n Hardin Burnley (1804?-1869), John William Garlick\n (1823?-1866), Edward Hill (d. 1870) and James Trice.\n Miscellaneous materials include photocopies concerning\n Gwathmey's 1812 service and a pass, 1864, signed by James\n Alexander Seddon (1815-1880).","The correspondence of Elizabeth Theresa (Burnley) Gwathmey\n (1806-1879), wife of William Gwathmey, consists mostly of\n letters written by her children. Among those are the letters\n of Mary Atwood Gwathmey, which describe her visit to cousins\n in Mississippi in 1856 and 1857.","The collection contains materials of seven of William and\n Elizabeth (Burnley) Gwathmey's children. The papers of Richard\n Brooke Gwathmey (1838-1864), a soldier in the 9th Virginia\n Cavalry during the Civil War, and William Gwathmey (1840-1858)\n are located in box 8. Also in box 8 are several diaries of\n Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1846-1918), who inherited \"Burlington\"\n upon the death of his father in 1875. Gwathmey, an agent for\n the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, also served as\n superintendent of King William County Schools.","Gwathmey's general correspondence is mostly with friends\n and family members, but also includes a letter signed by\n Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1881-1944), as Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, thanking Gwathmey for the loan of his binoculars\n to the U. S. Navy during the First World War. Account books\n concern farming operations and include accounts with far\n laborers. Loose accounts include receipts from the King\n William County Grange. Records concerning Gwathmey's\n superintendency of King William schools consist mostly of\n certificates, but also include a statistical report, ca. 1905,\n detailing conditions in the system.","The papers of Jeannette Garnett (Ryland) Gwathmey\n (1847-1915), wife of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey, consist of\n diaries, memoranda and scrapbooks, correspondence, and\n miscellany. The diaries mostly concern the weather and her\n church activities, but the 1905 volume also contains notes on\n the Garnett family. Her memoranda book contains notes on the\n Peachey, Ryland, and Griffin families.","The papers of Owen Overton Gwathmey (1849-1922), Elizabeth\n Burnley Gwathmey (b. 1818), Hardinia Morris Gwathmey\n (1832-1905), and Mary Atwood Gwathmey (1834-1868) are located\n in boxes 11 and 12. Owen Overton Gwathmey was a lawyer and\n judge of the King William Circuit Court. Among his papers are\n deeds of land to Gwathmey in his capacity as trustee for\n Beulah Baptist Church. His miscellany includes the wills of\n Sylvia Hill (d. 1906) and Phillis Garlick, both of King\n William County.","Gwathmey's papers begin with general correspondence, which\n is mostly with family members. Frequent correspondents include\n his sisters, Anna Garnett Gwathmey and Mary Burnley Gwathmey,\n Eleanor Gwathmey (Powell) Dewey, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1878-1945), Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Lewis\n Franklin Powell, associate justice of the United States\n Supreme Court. Many of Powell's letters concern the\n Burlington- Gwathmey Memorial Foundation, but have been filed\n together with the general correspondence. Form letters consist\n mostly of appeals from charitable and political organizations.\n Greeting cards and invitations conclude this box.","Box 17 contains account books. Three of these concern\n farming operations at \"Burlington.\" Financial records consist\n almost entirely of bank statements and federal income and\n property tax returns. Other financial records relate to life\n and health insurance and trust funds, including statements and\n accounts of the Burlington Cemetery Trust Fund.","In the late 1970's, \"Burlington\" was added to the Virginia\n Landmarks Register. Correspondence with the Virginia Historic\n Landmarks Commission concerns the establishment of landmark\n status, the granting of an open space easement, and the\n awarding of a preservation grant and subsequent restoration.\n In 1977, the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial Foundation was\n established to maintain the family estate after the death of\n John Ryland Gwathmey. Foundation materials include acts of\n incorporation and correspondence, primarily with lawyers.","Box 30 begins with letters and census reports from the\n Department of Agriculture concerning farming operations at\n \"Burlington.\" Materials pertaining to timber include reports,\n agreement, and accounts with lumber mills. These are followed\n by land records, mostly deeds of lease, concerning other land\n owned by JRG, including a house in Ayletts known as\n \"Gwathmey's,\" and \"Meadow Farm,\" the estate adjacent to\n \"Burlington.\"","John Ryland Gwathmey served as chairman of the industrial\n and Rural Utilities Committee of the Ruritan Club of King\n William County. These papers mostly concern the publication of\n a promotional pamphlet, King William Invites You, and consist\n of correspondence and drafts of the manuscript. Materials from\n JRG's tenure as a member of the county's board of supervisors\n also primarily concern industrial growth and include a\n consultant's 1970 water and sewerage report. Appraisals of\n farms in King William and surrounding counties, conducted by\n JRG, conclude box 31. Papers relating to JRG's service as\n trustee and clerk of the Beulah Baptist Church concern\n subscriptions and renovations to the building. These precede\n student composition books, clippings, and miscellany.","The papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey begin with general\n correspondence (boxes 33-36). Much of this is with her sister,\n Mary Burnley Gwathmey, from 1921-1926. Other frequent\n correspondents include family members: Alice R. Campbell,\n Jeannette O. Campbell, Joseph Hardin Gwathmey (1878-1945),\n Laura (Blankenship) Albert Gwathmey, and Laura Virginia\n (Gwathmey) Young. Box 37 contains correspondence with\n institutions, greeting cards, invitations, account books, and\n accounts. Financial records consist of bank statement and\n checks and investment, tax, and insurance records.","Materials in boxes 41-45 document Anna Garnett Gwathmey's\n career as a general insurance agent in both New York City and\n King William County. These begin with five account books, a\n rate book, and a folder of unanswered solicitations. Client\n files consist of correspondence, claim forms, invoices, and\n policies with individual policy holders. These are arranged\n alphabetically. Records from the various insurance companies\n that AGG represented follow. These consist of letters and\n memoranda from the companies, commission statements, forms,\n bulletins, and promotional materials. Memoranda and rate\n quotes from the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service,\n performance bonds, and miscellany conclude this section.","Materials concerning a patent search consist of reports and\n copies of patents on stockings. Letters and miscellany of New\n York's Three Arts Club pertain to a 1937 benefit bridge\n tournament and dance. Speeches and addresses are mostly from a\n public speaking class. Miscellany includes cards of airplane\n silhouettes, used to test the accuracy of aircraft spotters\n during World War II. Sympathy letters addressed to John Ryland\n Gwathmey and estate materials conclude the papers of Anna\n Garnett Gwathmey.","Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974) graduated from Woman's\n College (now Westhampton College, University of Richmond), in\n 1904. Her general correspondence is located in boxes 47 and 48\n and includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966)\n concerning the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Mamie\n Geneva (Doud) Eisenhower concerning Virginia Democrats for\n Eisenhower in 1952, New York Congressman Carfoline Love\n Goodwin O'Day, and Anna Eleanor (Roosevelt) Roosevelt\n concerning a request for an appointment. Correspondence with\n institutions dates mostly from MBG's years in New York.","Boxes 49 to 51 pertain to MBG's career as an artist and\n designer, begfinning with her papers as a teacher at the\n University of Arkansas and as a teacher and student at\n Columbia University's Teachers College. These primarily\n consist of lecuture notes and notebooks. After receiving a\n master of arts degree from Columbia in 1926, MBG worked for\n James McCreery \u0026 Co. and James A. Hearns and Sons, both\n New York stores. In the early 1930's, she left retaining to\n become an independent design and fashion consultant. Records\n docummenting MBG's career in New York mainly consist of\n company memoranda, bulletins, brochures, layouts of display,\n advertising materials, and newsaper clippings. In 1943, MBG\n accedpt a position as instructor of distributive eeducation at\n Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Va.","Box 50 begins with materials concerning MBG's service, as a\n consultant on merchandising, color, and design, on the\n Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. Thedse consist of\n correspondence, mostly with Executive Director Parke Rouse and\n with textile and paint companies, as well as reports,\n memoranda, press releases, clippings, and advertising and\n promotional materials. General art and design materials\n follow, and include: speeches and addresses, resumes,\n clippings, magazine articles, notes and notebooks, and\n miscellany.","The remainder of MBG's papers are located in boxes 52-54\n and concern her non-art related activities. These begin with a\n few items pertaining to her work for the American Red Cross in\n Oteen, N. C., in 1921, and a trip to Switzerland in 1931.\n Materials concerning MBG's attempts to get funding for the\n publication of the story of Sylvia Hill, a former slave and\n family servant, include correspondence and application with\n foundations and rough drafts of the book. Correspondence,\n addresses, notes, and clippings concerning MBG's service as\n Executive Secretary of the King William County 250th\n Anniversary Committee follow.","Materials concerning Beulah Baptist Church mostly concern\n MBG's writing of Beulah Baptist Church: Highlights and\n Shadows. Copies of two of the Church's minute books are also\n included. Two scrapbooks, a memoranda book, and telephone\n directors follow. The first scrapbook contains clippings,\n lines of verse, snapshots, and obituaries from the early\n twentieth century, as well as three letters of Anna Maria\n (Garnett) Ryland (1826-1851), one to her brother, Reuben\n Meriwether Garnett, and two to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth\n Ferguson (Ryland) Willis.","Genealogical records include notes on the Burnley, Garnett,\n Gwathmey, Meaux, Rucker, Ryland, and Temple families. The\n Gwathmey folder also contains a biographical sketch of Edward\n Garlick Gwathmey (1839-1931) and a manuscript, \"The Gwathmey\n Family of Virginia,\" by Mildred Bates Gwathmey. Clippings,\n miscellany, and estate materials conclude the papers of Mary\n Burnley Gwathmey.","Box 55 contains the papers of miscellaneous family members.\n A complete list of these individuals is found in the guide\n that follows this description. These items include: an\n 1870-1871 diary of Washington Gwathmey (probably kept at \"Bear\n Island,\" Hanover County, Va.), a letter from John Newton\n Ryland to John Meriwether Garnett concerning politics in King\n and Queen County in 1840, and two account books, 1875-1876, of\n Gaskins, Moncure and Co., Essex County, Va.","Account book, 1792-1824; accounts, 1790-1824;\n estate.","Accounts, 1833-1875; deeds, indentures and bond,\n 1818-1873; Beulah Baptist Church, 1829-1872;\n commonplace book; miscellany.","Correspondence, 1848-1868.","Correspondence, 1858-1864; account book, 1856-1864;\n memoranda book, 1859-1860; accounts, 1858-1864;\n estate.","Letters received, 1857.","Account books, 1887-1893, 1895-1917; accounts,\n 1868-1918; and financial records, 1866-1916.","Superintendent of Schools, 1891-1906; miscellany;\n and estate.","Diaries (7 v.), 1874-1875, 1905, 1907, 1908-1909,\n 1912-1913, 1914; memoranda book; correspondence,\n 1867-1915; scrapbook; music scrapbook, 1914; clippings;\n miscellany; resolutions.","Correspondence, 1899-1920; financial records,\n 1879-1916; student notebook, 1876-1877; Beulah Baptist\n Church, 1877-1915; certificates; miscellany; estate.","Letters received, 1864-1888.","Correspondence, 1847-1867; autograph book,\n 1852-1853.","Letters received, 1857-1903; scrapbook.","Form letters; greeting cards; invitations.","Account books, n.d., 1951-1956, 1957-1963,\n 1964-1966, 1972-1974, 1974-1980; receipt book, 1953;\n employee hours book.","Life and health insurance, 1970-1982; automobile\n insurance, 1953-1982; insurance on \"Burlington,\"\n 1964-1982; Burlington Cemetery Trust, 1927-1982;\n trust fund, 1971-1982.","\"Burlington,\" 1977-1982; Burlington-Gwathmey\n Memorial Foundation, 1977-1982.","Farming, 1940-1982; timber, 1922-1981;\n \"Gwathmey's,\" 1977-1982; \"Meadow Farm,\" 1927-1962;\n miscellaneous deeds of lease.","Ruritan, 1950-1972; Board of Supervisors,\n 1955-1970; real estate appraisals, 1952-1977.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1939-1970; student\n composition books; clippings; miscellany.","Correspondence with institutions, 1913-1972;\n greeting cards and invitations; account books,\n 1928-1936, 1931-1941, 1954-1960; accounts,\n 1925-1977.","Planters National Bank, 1916-1933; Southside Bank,\n 1926-1979; Bank of Virginia, 1955-1960; Citizens and\n Farmers Bank, 1961-1971.","Financial records, 1925-1966; land records,\n 1920-1976.","Account books (5 v.): 1921, 1937, 1922-1924,\n 1931-1944, 1936-1940; rate book, 1934; agent's\n letters, 1924-1967; client files, 1928-1970;\n insurance companies: Aetna Life Insurance Company,\n 1931-1945; Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance\n Company, 1933-1958; The Penn Mutual Life Insurance\n Company, 1935-1952; Davenport Insurance Corporation,\n 1937-1941; Winters-Oliver Insurance Agency,\n 1963-1968; Royal Globe Insurance Group, 1954-1962;\n Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau Service, 1941-1965;\n bonds; miscellany.","Speeches and addresses, memoranda books,\n clippings, miscellany, estate.","Correspondence with institutions, 1916-1973;\n letters of recommendation; greeting cards; accounts,\n 1934-1974; financial records, 1930-1974.","University of Arkansas, 1924-1925; Columbia\n University, 1926-1943; design consultant, 1928-1936;\n Washington-Lee High School, 1943-1959; Virginia 350th\n Anniversary Commission, 1953-1958; speeches;\n biographical; clippings; magazine articles;\n notebooks; notes; miscellany.","Red Cross, 1921; Switzerland, 1931; Syvlia Hill,\n 1943-1959; King William 250th Anniversary Committee,\n 1952-195?.","Beulah Baptist Church, 1961-1967 and minute books,\n 1812-1843, 1936-1952; scrapbooks; directory;\n memoranda book; essays and lines of verse","Genealogical notes; clippings; miscellany;\n estate","Mollie Burnley; Eleanor Gwathmey, 1842-1931; John\n Hill Gwathmey, 1798-1839; Joseph Hardin Gwathmey,\n 1878-1945; Washington Gwathmey; William Gwathmey,\n 1875-1920; William Henry Gwathmey, 1819-1886; Mary\n Overton (Burnley) Meaux; Anna Maria (Garnett) Ryland,\n 1826-1951; John Newton Ryland; unidentified and family;\n miscellany."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to cite, quote, or reproduce for publication\n must be obtained in writing from the Senior Archivist.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to cite, quote, or reproduce for publication\n must be obtained in writing from the Senior Archivist."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers of Joseph Gwathmey\n (1754-1824), planter, major in the Virginia militia, and\n deacon of Beulah Baptist Church, consist chiefly of records\n for his estate. Papers of William Gwathmey (1794-1875),\n planter and physician, trustee for Beulah Baptist Church,\n include diaries, 1833- 1874 (20 v.), primarily concerning\n weather conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physician's visits, and church activities (Civil War diaries\n provide his views on the war and document local events);\n correspondence, 1819-1875, with family members, many\n concerning church activities; accounts books, 1825-1875 (3\n v.), for farming operations and physician's services\n (containing also records of family and slave births); loose\n accounts, 1833-1875; deeds and bonds, 1818-1873; and Beulah\n Church records, 1829-1872. Papers of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), planter, insurance agent, and superintendent of\n King William County schools, include diaries, 1872 and 1910;\n correspondence, 1885-1918, chiefly with family members; and\n account books, 1887-1917 (2 v.), concerning farm operations.\n Papers of John Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), planter, include\n correspondence, 1918- 1982, chiefly with family; account\n books, 1951-1980, concerning farming operations; accounts,\n 1919-1982; checks and bank statements; and materials\n concerning the creation of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial\n Foundation. Papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey (1879-1979),\n insurance agent, include correspondence, 1913-1975, with\n family; account books, accounts, and bank records, 1916-1979;\n and business records, 1921-1970, documenting her career in New\n York City and King William County, and include account books\n and client files. Papers of Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974),\n teacher and artist, include correspondence, 1910-1973;\n accounts, 1930-1974; school notes, artwork, and materials\n documenting her work with the Virginia 350th Anniversary\n Commission.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Joseph Gwathmey\n (1754-1824), planter, major in the Virginia militia, and\n deacon of Beulah Baptist Church, consist chiefly of records\n for his estate. Papers of William Gwathmey (1794-1875),\n planter and physician, trustee for Beulah Baptist Church,\n include diaries, 1833- 1874 (20 v.), primarily concerning\n weather conditions, farming operations, the health of slaves,\n physician's visits, and church activities (Civil War diaries\n provide his views on the war and document local events);\n correspondence, 1819-1875, with family members, many\n concerning church activities; accounts books, 1825-1875 (3\n v.), for farming operations and physician's services\n (containing also records of family and slave births); loose\n accounts, 1833-1875; deeds and bonds, 1818-1873; and Beulah\n Church records, 1829-1872. Papers of Joseph Hardin Gwathmey\n (1846-1918), planter, insurance agent, and superintendent of\n King William County schools, include diaries, 1872 and 1910;\n correspondence, 1885-1918, chiefly with family members; and\n account books, 1887-1917 (2 v.), concerning farm operations.\n Papers of John Ryland Gwathmey (1888-1982), planter, include\n correspondence, 1918- 1982, chiefly with family; account\n books, 1951-1980, concerning farming operations; accounts,\n 1919-1982; checks and bank statements; and materials\n concerning the creation of the Burlington-Gwathmey Memorial\n Foundation. Papers of Anna Garnett Gwathmey (1879-1979),\n insurance agent, include correspondence, 1913-1975, with\n family; account books, accounts, and bank records, 1916-1979;\n and business records, 1921-1970, documenting her career in New\n York City and King William County, and include account books\n and client files. Papers of Mary Burnley Gwathmey (1883-1974),\n teacher and artist, include correspondence, 1910-1973;\n accounts, 1930-1974; school notes, artwork, and materials\n documenting her work with the Virginia 350th Anniversary\n Commission."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":49,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00007_c12_c10"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00018","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00018#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Include public correspondence, press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, printed materials, legislative bills, private writings, condolences, and family correspondence relating to the political career of J. Sargeant Reynolds, member of the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate, who served as Lieutenant Governor until untimely his death in 1971.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00018#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00018","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00018","_root_":"vihi_vih00018","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00018","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00018.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 R2265 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 R2265 a FA2","A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Elections -- Virginia -- History -- 20th\n century.","Henrico County (Va.) -- Politics and government,\n 1951-","Holton, A. Linwood (Abner Linwood),\n 1923-","Mentally ill -- Care -- Virginia -- History --\n 20th century.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant),\n 1936-1971.","Richmond (Va.) -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Vietnamise Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and\n prisons.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Virginia. Commission to Plan for the Establishment\n of a Proposed State-supported University in the Richmond\n Metropolitan Area.","Virginia. Constitution (1972)","Virginia. General Assembly -- Members -- History\n -- 20th century.","Virginia. Governor (1970-1974 : Holton)","Virginia. Lieutenant Governor (1970-1971 :\n Reynolds)","1,800 items (18 manuscript\n boxes).","Collection is open for research.","This collection is arranged primary in chronological order\n with only a few exceptions. Each series in then broken into\n individual folders organized with similar items sharing the\n same folder. The collection begins with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's political life as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was a delegate from the\n Richmond and Henrico County District. He served in the house\n of delegates from 1964-1966 [Series 1-3].","The next stage of the political life of Reynolds was his\n tenure in the Virginia senate. Reynolds served in senatorial\n district #13 from 1967-1969, before leaving to become the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. Julian Sargeant Reynold\n resigned from the senate on November 12, 1969 to accept the\n office of lieutenant governor. [Series 4-7] (with series seven\n concerned with the lieutenant governor campaign while in the\n senate).","Julian Sargeant Reynolds served as lieutenant governor from\n 1970 until his death, June 13, 1971. These series span the\n entire length of Julian Sargeant Reynolds career as the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. [Series 8-24]","Series 25-26 are the only series that encompass the entire\n span of Reynolds public life with out respect to the office he\n was occupying. Series 25 runs from 1961-1971. While section 26\n includes speech and correspondence from 1964-1971. These two\n series cover the entire span of the collection, with\n correspondences, press releases and clippings.","The next grouping series 27-28 consist primarily of papers\n discussing the illness, subsequent death, of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds. Materials maintained by other members of the family\n are included in these series.","Contains general correspondence, press releases,\n speeches, and newspaper clippings (arranged\n chronologically) of Julian Sargeant Reynolds from\n 1961-1971.","Julian Sargeant Reynolds was born June 30, 1936 in New York\n City moved in 1938 to Richmond with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.\n Richard Samuel Reynolds, Jr. Mr. R. S. Reynolds of the\n Reynolds Metals Company was President from 1948-63 and became\n CEO in 1963. Julian Sargeant Reynolds attended Woodberry\n Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and the Wharton School of\n Finance at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated\n with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1958. He\n joined the Reynolds Metals Company and worked in the Market\n Research Department until 1959. He later worked with the\n Corporate Planning Department until 1961 leaving to become the\n companies assistant treasurer. In January, 1965, he was\n elected Executive Vice President of Reynolds Aluminum Credit\n Corporation. In 1964 he was elected to the House of Delegates\n from the Richmond and Henrico County district. He served in\n the House until his election to the 13th senatorial (Richmond\n and Henrico) district of the Virginia General Assembly. He\n resigned from the senate in 1969 to serve as the elected\n lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1970 until his death June\n 13, 1971. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was married twice. The\n first marriage was performed in Hertford, N. C., September 29,\n 1956 to Elizabeth Weir Veeneman of Louisville, Kentucky. The\n couple had three children, Virginia Weir, J. Sargeant, and\n Jeanne Elizabeth. The couple divorced in 1969. His second\n marriage was to the former Mary Ballou Handy of Lynchburg,\n Va., in 1969. By his second marriage he had one son, Richard\n Roland.","This collection has been divided into thirty seven (37)\n series that are primarily organized to coincide with the\n political life of Reynolds. Series One contains information\n pertaining to Reynold's successful bid for a seat in the\n Virginia House of Delegates. Series Two includes\n correspondence, clippings and press releases from 1966 while\n in the House of Delegates. Series Three contains\n correspondence, committee work which includes the proposed\n merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond\n Professional Institute, and the proposed consolidation of\n Richmond and Henrico county.","Series Four include campaign materials from the November 7,\n 1967 Virginia Senate race. Series Five includes senate\n correspondence, speeches given as senator. Series Six contains\n information on Virginia Senate bills and correspondence\n pertaining to senate legislation. Series Seven contains press\n release and letters to colleagues announcing his run for\n lieutenant governor, and resignation from the senate.","Series Eight contains campaign material concerning his\n election as lieutenant governor. Series Nine contains\n information pertaining to the expenses associated with running\n for the office of lieutenant governor. Series Ten contains\n congratulatory correspondence on a successful lieutenant\n governors race. Series Eleven includes materials concerning\n the inauguration of A. Linwood Holton (as governor) and\n Reynolds as lieutenant governor. Series Twelve includes\n correspondence and information of the proposed 1969\n constitution change in Virginia. Series Thirteen includes\n materials pertaining to Virginia's POW's in Viet Nam, while he\n is lieutenant governor. Series Fourteen includes\n correspondence with the Federation of Women's Club, and\n initiatives to improve medical services in Virginia. Series\n Fifteen contains information on commission appointment while\n Reynolds served as lieutenant governor. Series Sixteen\n includes correspondence, clippings, and press release while\n Reynolds was lieutenant governor.","Series Seventeen contains speeches correspondence and\n clippings of Reynolds involvement with the Young Democratic\n Club of Virginia. Series Eighteen contains speeches\n correspondence and clippings of Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia. Series Nineteen\n contains correspondences speeches made at Virginia colleges.\n Series Twenty includes Reynolds correspondence to various\n groups events and organizations.","Series Twenty-one contains information correspondence, and\n speech given at the annual Shad Plank gathering in Southside\n Virginia. Series Twenty-two contains information on Reynolds\n involvement with the Richmond Urban League. Series\n Twenty-three contains speeches correspondence and clippings\n pertaining to Reynolds association with the Virginia Easter\n Seals Society. Series Twenty-four include speeches and\n correspondence pertaining to the Model General Assembly.\n Series Twenty-five contains general correspondence, press\n releases speeches and clippings (arranged chronologically)\n from 1961-1971. Series Twenty-six includes speeches and\n correspondence concerning high school speeches\n (1964-1971).","Series Twenty-seven contains clippings, correspondence and\n press release concerning the medical condition of Reynolds.\n Series Twenty-eight includes clippings, condolences press\n releases, and funeral arrangements, pertaining to the death of\n Reynolds, June 13, 1971. Series Twenty-nine includes\n contracts, and correspondence concerning the portrait\n dedication to commemorate the late lieutenant governor.","Series Thirty contains information concerning the creation\n and dedication of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.\n Series Thirty-one contains press release, correspondence and\n clippings pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's homestead\n in Patrick County.","Series Thirty-two contains biographies and chronologies\n pertaining to the life of Reynolds. Series Thirty-three\n includes correspondence and clippings relating to first wife\n Virginia Weir and children. Series Thirty-four includes\n correspondence and clippings relating to second wife Mary\n Ballou. Series Thirty five includes personal correspondence of\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton, Jr. Series\n Thirty-six includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","The final series 37 is a compilation of miscellaneous\n information not able to easily fit in the categories listed\n above.","Press releases, correspondence, campaign\n advertisements, and newspaper clippings concerning\n Reynolds's campaign for the Virginia House of\n Delegates.","General correspondence, newspaper clippings, and\n press releases 1966, concerning Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's service as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates.","Contains clippings, correspondence, minutes, and\n committee working files involving Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds while a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Committee work includes consolidation of\n Richmond Professional Institute and Medical College of\n Virginia into Virginia Commonwealth University, and the\n proposed consolidation of Richmond and Henrico\n County.","Materials containing information on the Virginia\n Senate race of Julian Sargeant Reynolds. Include votes\n cast, advertisements, candidacy announcement, clippings,\n endorsements, press releases, and radio spots.","Correspondence, 1968, of Julian Sergeant Reynolds (as\n a Virginia State senator) also include speeches and his\n resignation from the Senate to run for lieutenant\n governor of Virginia.","Information on Virginia Senate bills, including the\n small loan act, right to work, and housing matters.\n Also, include correspondence, clippings, and speeches of\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds as a Virginia State Senator\n relating to these topics.","Contains press releases, speeches, and clippings.\n Also correspondence of Julian Sergeant Reynolds with\n U.S. congressional and Virginia legislators announcing\n his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.","Materials concerning the election and campaign of\n Julian Sergeant Reynolds for lieutenant governor of\n Virginia. Include bumper stickers, broadsides, letters\n of support, clippings, results, advertising, campaign\n speeches of Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Records of campaign expenses, and expense sheets from\n Audio Fidelity Broadcast Corp., and Evert Waddey\n printing company. Also, include correspondence\n concerning hotels, food, printed materials, phone bills\n and all general expenses associated with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's run for the office of lieutenant governor.","Contains congratulatory correspondence from Thalhimer\n Brothers, U.S. congressmen, Virginia lawmakers,\n colleges, labor unions, public and private citizens to\n Julian Sergeant Reynolds on a 1969 successful lieutenant\n governors race.","Includes correspondence, proposals and information on\n the 1969-1970 proposed constitutional change in\n Virginia.","Correspondence of Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as\n lieutenant governor of Virginia) about Virginians held\n as Prisoners of War in Viet Nam. Includes materials from\n the POW Action Committee, Argus advertising, and\n information relating to POW-MIA initiatives.","Includes correspondence of Julian Sargeant Reynolds\n (as lieutenant governor of Virginia) concerning the\n Federation of Women's Club, and initiatives to improve\n medical and mental health services in Virginia.","Includes information on commission appointments to\n and from Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as lieutenant\n governor of Virginia). Also, includes information a on\n commission to study para-mutual betting and general\n legislative committee matters.","Includes correspondence, clippings, and press\n releases of Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as lieutenant\n governor of Virginia) from 1970-1971. Correspondence,\n clippings and press releases, 1970-1971. Among\n Reynolds's accomplishments was the appointment of the\n first female page to the Virginia General Assembly.","Contains speeches, correspondence and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynold's involvement with\n the Young Democratic Club of Virginia.","Contains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia.","Includes Julian Sargeant Reynold's correspondence\n concerning and speeches made at college ceremonies in\n Virginia.","Includes general correspondence of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds concerning various groups, events, and\n organizations.","Contains information, correspondence, speech, and\n response to the 21 April 1971 speech of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds (as lieutenant governor) at the annual Shad\n Plank gathering in Southside Virginia. Reynold's speech\n attacked the right-wing practice of Massive Resistance\n on civil rights.","Contains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds, involvement with\n the Richmond Urban League.","Contains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds involvement with the\n Virginia Easter Seals Society.","Include speeches and correspondence of Julian\n Sergeant Reynolds concerning the Model General\n Assembly.","Includes speeches and correspondence [1964-1971]\n concerning high school commencement ceremonies of Julian\n Sargeant Reynolds.","Contains clippings, correspondence, press releases,\n and medical papers concerning the medical condition of\n Lieutenant Governor Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Includes clippings, condolences, press releases,\n funeral arrangements and published notices concerning\n the death of lieutenant governor Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds on 13 June 1971.","Includes contracts, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning the portrait dedication to commemorate the\n late Lieutenant Governor Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Contains correspondence of and about Mary Ballou\n Reynolds Ballentine (second wife of Julian Sergeant\n Reynolds) concerning J. Sargeant Reynolds Community\n College Richmond, Va. Also, includes materials on the\n grand opening celebration, dedication, first\n commencement and inauguration of the president of J.\n Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Virginia.","Includes press releases, correspondence, clippings,\n and speeches pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's\n homestead near Critz, Patrick County, Va.","Includes biographies and chronologies pertaining to\n the life of Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Includes clippings and correspondence of Julian\n Sargeant Reynolds relating to his first wife, Virginia\n Weir, and their children.","Includes correspondence and clippings of and about\n Mary (Ballou) Reynolds Ballentine (second wife and widow\n of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","Includes personal correspondence of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor, A. Linwood Holton,\n Jr.","Includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","Includes miscellaneous information and correspondence\n with and about J. Sargeant Reynolds.","There are no restrictions.","Include public correspondence,\n press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, printed\n materials, legislative bills, private writings, condolences,\n and family correspondence relating to the political career of\n J. Sargeant Reynolds, member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates and Senate, who served as Lieutenant Governor until\n untimely his death in 1971.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 R2265 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Mrs. Mary Ballou Reynolds Ballentine, Richmond,\n Va., in 1994."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Elections -- Virginia -- History -- 20th\n century.","Henrico County (Va.) -- Politics and government,\n 1951-","Holton, A. Linwood (Abner Linwood),\n 1923-","Mentally ill -- Care -- Virginia -- History --\n 20th century.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant),\n 1936-1971.","Richmond (Va.) -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Vietnamise Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and\n prisons.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Virginia. Commission to Plan for the Establishment\n of a Proposed State-supported University in the Richmond\n Metropolitan Area.","Virginia. Constitution (1972)","Virginia. General Assembly -- Members -- History\n -- 20th century.","Virginia. Governor (1970-1974 : Holton)","Virginia. Lieutenant Governor (1970-1971 :\n Reynolds)"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Elections -- Virginia -- History -- 20th\n century.","Henrico County (Va.) -- Politics and government,\n 1951-","Holton, A. Linwood (Abner Linwood),\n 1923-","Mentally ill -- Care -- Virginia -- History --\n 20th century.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant),\n 1936-1971.","Richmond (Va.) -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Vietnamise Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and\n prisons.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Virginia. Commission to Plan for the Establishment\n of a Proposed State-supported University in the Richmond\n Metropolitan Area.","Virginia. Constitution (1972)","Virginia. General Assembly -- Members -- History\n -- 20th century.","Virginia. Governor (1970-1974 : Holton)","Virginia. Lieutenant Governor (1970-1971 :\n Reynolds)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["1,800 items (18 manuscript\n boxes)."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open for research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open for research."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged primary in chronological order\n with only a few exceptions. Each series in then broken into\n individual folders organized with similar items sharing the\n same folder. The collection begins with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's political life as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was a delegate from the\n Richmond and Henrico County District. He served in the house\n of delegates from 1964-1966 [Series 1-3].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next stage of the political life of Reynolds was his\n tenure in the Virginia senate. Reynolds served in senatorial\n district #13 from 1967-1969, before leaving to become the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. Julian Sargeant Reynold\n resigned from the senate on November 12, 1969 to accept the\n office of lieutenant governor. [Series 4-7] (with series seven\n concerned with the lieutenant governor campaign while in the\n senate).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJulian Sargeant Reynolds served as lieutenant governor from\n 1970 until his death, June 13, 1971. These series span the\n entire length of Julian Sargeant Reynolds career as the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. [Series 8-24]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 25-26 are the only series that encompass the entire\n span of Reynolds public life with out respect to the office he\n was occupying. Series 25 runs from 1961-1971. While section 26\n includes speech and correspondence from 1964-1971. These two\n series cover the entire span of the collection, with\n correspondences, press releases and clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next grouping series 27-28 consist primarily of papers\n discussing the illness, subsequent death, of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds. Materials maintained by other members of the family\n are included in these series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains general correspondence, press releases,\n speeches, and newspaper clippings (arranged\n chronologically) of Julian Sargeant Reynolds from\n 1961-1971.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is arranged primary in chronological order\n with only a few exceptions. Each series in then broken into\n individual folders organized with similar items sharing the\n same folder. The collection begins with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's political life as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was a delegate from the\n Richmond and Henrico County District. He served in the house\n of delegates from 1964-1966 [Series 1-3].","The next stage of the political life of Reynolds was his\n tenure in the Virginia senate. Reynolds served in senatorial\n district #13 from 1967-1969, before leaving to become the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. Julian Sargeant Reynold\n resigned from the senate on November 12, 1969 to accept the\n office of lieutenant governor. [Series 4-7] (with series seven\n concerned with the lieutenant governor campaign while in the\n senate).","Julian Sargeant Reynolds served as lieutenant governor from\n 1970 until his death, June 13, 1971. These series span the\n entire length of Julian Sargeant Reynolds career as the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. [Series 8-24]","Series 25-26 are the only series that encompass the entire\n span of Reynolds public life with out respect to the office he\n was occupying. Series 25 runs from 1961-1971. While section 26\n includes speech and correspondence from 1964-1971. These two\n series cover the entire span of the collection, with\n correspondences, press releases and clippings.","The next grouping series 27-28 consist primarily of papers\n discussing the illness, subsequent death, of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds. Materials maintained by other members of the family\n are included in these series.","Contains general correspondence, press releases,\n speeches, and newspaper clippings (arranged\n chronologically) of Julian Sargeant Reynolds from\n 1961-1971."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJulian Sargeant Reynolds was born June 30, 1936 in New York\n City moved in 1938 to Richmond with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.\n Richard Samuel Reynolds, Jr. Mr. R. S. Reynolds of the\n Reynolds Metals Company was President from 1948-63 and became\n CEO in 1963. Julian Sargeant Reynolds attended Woodberry\n Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and the Wharton School of\n Finance at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated\n with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1958. He\n joined the Reynolds Metals Company and worked in the Market\n Research Department until 1959. He later worked with the\n Corporate Planning Department until 1961 leaving to become the\n companies assistant treasurer. In January, 1965, he was\n elected Executive Vice President of Reynolds Aluminum Credit\n Corporation. In 1964 he was elected to the House of Delegates\n from the Richmond and Henrico County district. He served in\n the House until his election to the 13th senatorial (Richmond\n and Henrico) district of the Virginia General Assembly. He\n resigned from the senate in 1969 to serve as the elected\n lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1970 until his death June\n 13, 1971. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was married twice. The\n first marriage was performed in Hertford, N. C., September 29,\n 1956 to Elizabeth Weir Veeneman of Louisville, Kentucky. The\n couple had three children, Virginia Weir, J. Sargeant, and\n Jeanne Elizabeth. The couple divorced in 1969. His second\n marriage was to the former Mary Ballou Handy of Lynchburg,\n Va., in 1969. By his second marriage he had one son, Richard\n Roland.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Julian Sargeant Reynolds was born June 30, 1936 in New York\n City moved in 1938 to Richmond with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.\n Richard Samuel Reynolds, Jr. Mr. R. S. Reynolds of the\n Reynolds Metals Company was President from 1948-63 and became\n CEO in 1963. Julian Sargeant Reynolds attended Woodberry\n Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and the Wharton School of\n Finance at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated\n with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1958. He\n joined the Reynolds Metals Company and worked in the Market\n Research Department until 1959. He later worked with the\n Corporate Planning Department until 1961 leaving to become the\n companies assistant treasurer. In January, 1965, he was\n elected Executive Vice President of Reynolds Aluminum Credit\n Corporation. In 1964 he was elected to the House of Delegates\n from the Richmond and Henrico County district. He served in\n the House until his election to the 13th senatorial (Richmond\n and Henrico) district of the Virginia General Assembly. He\n resigned from the senate in 1969 to serve as the elected\n lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1970 until his death June\n 13, 1971. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was married twice. The\n first marriage was performed in Hertford, N. C., September 29,\n 1956 to Elizabeth Weir Veeneman of Louisville, Kentucky. The\n couple had three children, Virginia Weir, J. Sargeant, and\n Jeanne Elizabeth. The couple divorced in 1969. His second\n marriage was to the former Mary Ballou Handy of Lynchburg,\n Va., in 1969. By his second marriage he had one son, Richard\n Roland."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJ. Sargeant Reynolds papers, 1965-1991 (Mss1 R2265 a\n FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["J. Sargeant Reynolds papers, 1965-1991 (Mss1 R2265 a\n FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection has been divided into thirty seven (37)\n series that are primarily organized to coincide with the\n political life of Reynolds. Series One contains information\n pertaining to Reynold's successful bid for a seat in the\n Virginia House of Delegates. Series Two includes\n correspondence, clippings and press releases from 1966 while\n in the House of Delegates. Series Three contains\n correspondence, committee work which includes the proposed\n merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond\n Professional Institute, and the proposed consolidation of\n Richmond and Henrico county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Four include campaign materials from the November 7,\n 1967 Virginia Senate race. Series Five includes senate\n correspondence, speeches given as senator. Series Six contains\n information on Virginia Senate bills and correspondence\n pertaining to senate legislation. Series Seven contains press\n release and letters to colleagues announcing his run for\n lieutenant governor, and resignation from the senate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Eight contains campaign material concerning his\n election as lieutenant governor. Series Nine contains\n information pertaining to the expenses associated with running\n for the office of lieutenant governor. Series Ten contains\n congratulatory correspondence on a successful lieutenant\n governors race. Series Eleven includes materials concerning\n the inauguration of A. Linwood Holton (as governor) and\n Reynolds as lieutenant governor. Series Twelve includes\n correspondence and information of the proposed 1969\n constitution change in Virginia. Series Thirteen includes\n materials pertaining to Virginia's POW's in Viet Nam, while he\n is lieutenant governor. Series Fourteen includes\n correspondence with the Federation of Women's Club, and\n initiatives to improve medical services in Virginia. Series\n Fifteen contains information on commission appointment while\n Reynolds served as lieutenant governor. Series Sixteen\n includes correspondence, clippings, and press release while\n Reynolds was lieutenant governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Seventeen contains speeches correspondence and\n clippings of Reynolds involvement with the Young Democratic\n Club of Virginia. Series Eighteen contains speeches\n correspondence and clippings of Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia. Series Nineteen\n contains correspondences speeches made at Virginia colleges.\n Series Twenty includes Reynolds correspondence to various\n groups events and organizations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Twenty-one contains information correspondence, and\n speech given at the annual Shad Plank gathering in Southside\n Virginia. Series Twenty-two contains information on Reynolds\n involvement with the Richmond Urban League. Series\n Twenty-three contains speeches correspondence and clippings\n pertaining to Reynolds association with the Virginia Easter\n Seals Society. Series Twenty-four include speeches and\n correspondence pertaining to the Model General Assembly.\n Series Twenty-five contains general correspondence, press\n releases speeches and clippings (arranged chronologically)\n from 1961-1971. Series Twenty-six includes speeches and\n correspondence concerning high school speeches\n (1964-1971).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Twenty-seven contains clippings, correspondence and\n press release concerning the medical condition of Reynolds.\n Series Twenty-eight includes clippings, condolences press\n releases, and funeral arrangements, pertaining to the death of\n Reynolds, June 13, 1971. Series Twenty-nine includes\n contracts, and correspondence concerning the portrait\n dedication to commemorate the late lieutenant governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Thirty contains information concerning the creation\n and dedication of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.\n Series Thirty-one contains press release, correspondence and\n clippings pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's homestead\n in Patrick County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Thirty-two contains biographies and chronologies\n pertaining to the life of Reynolds. Series Thirty-three\n includes correspondence and clippings relating to first wife\n Virginia Weir and children. Series Thirty-four includes\n correspondence and clippings relating to second wife Mary\n Ballou. Series Thirty five includes personal correspondence of\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton, Jr. Series\n Thirty-six includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe final series 37 is a compilation of miscellaneous\n information not able to easily fit in the categories listed\n above.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePress releases, correspondence, campaign\n advertisements, and newspaper clippings concerning\n Reynolds's campaign for the Virginia House of\n Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral correspondence, newspaper clippings, and\n press releases 1966, concerning Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's service as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains clippings, correspondence, minutes, and\n committee working files involving Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds while a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Committee work includes consolidation of\n Richmond Professional Institute and Medical College of\n Virginia into Virginia Commonwealth University, and the\n proposed consolidation of Richmond and Henrico\n County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials containing information on the Virginia\n Senate race of Julian Sargeant Reynolds. Include votes\n cast, advertisements, candidacy announcement, clippings,\n endorsements, press releases, and radio spots.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1968, of Julian Sergeant Reynolds (as\n a Virginia State senator) also include speeches and his\n resignation from the Senate to run for lieutenant\n governor of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation on Virginia Senate bills, including the\n small loan act, right to work, and housing matters.\n Also, include correspondence, clippings, and speeches of\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds as a Virginia State Senator\n relating to these topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains press releases, speeches, and clippings.\n Also correspondence of Julian Sergeant Reynolds with\n U.S. congressional and Virginia legislators announcing\n his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the election and campaign of\n Julian Sergeant Reynolds for lieutenant governor of\n Virginia. Include bumper stickers, broadsides, letters\n of support, clippings, results, advertising, campaign\n speeches of Julian Sargeant Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords of campaign expenses, and expense sheets from\n Audio Fidelity Broadcast Corp., and Evert Waddey\n printing company. Also, include correspondence\n concerning hotels, food, printed materials, phone bills\n and all general expenses associated with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's run for the office of lieutenant governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains congratulatory correspondence from Thalhimer\n Brothers, U.S. congressmen, Virginia lawmakers,\n colleges, labor unions, public and private citizens to\n Julian Sergeant Reynolds on a 1969 successful lieutenant\n governors race.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence, proposals and information on\n the 1969-1970 proposed constitutional change in\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as\n lieutenant governor of Virginia) about Virginians held\n as Prisoners of War in Viet Nam. Includes materials from\n the POW Action Committee, Argus advertising, and\n information relating to POW-MIA initiatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence of Julian Sargeant Reynolds\n (as lieutenant governor of Virginia) concerning the\n Federation of Women's Club, and initiatives to improve\n medical and mental health services in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes information on commission appointments to\n and from Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as lieutenant\n governor of Virginia). Also, includes information a on\n commission to study para-mutual betting and general\n legislative committee matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence, clippings, and press\n releases of Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as lieutenant\n governor of Virginia) from 1970-1971. Correspondence,\n clippings and press releases, 1970-1971. Among\n Reynolds's accomplishments was the appointment of the\n first female page to the Virginia General Assembly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains speeches, correspondence and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynold's involvement with\n the Young Democratic Club of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Julian Sargeant Reynold's correspondence\n concerning and speeches made at college ceremonies in\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes general correspondence of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds concerning various groups, events, and\n organizations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains information, correspondence, speech, and\n response to the 21 April 1971 speech of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds (as lieutenant governor) at the annual Shad\n Plank gathering in Southside Virginia. Reynold's speech\n attacked the right-wing practice of Massive Resistance\n on civil rights.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds, involvement with\n the Richmond Urban League.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds involvement with the\n Virginia Easter Seals Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInclude speeches and correspondence of Julian\n Sergeant Reynolds concerning the Model General\n Assembly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes speeches and correspondence [1964-1971]\n concerning high school commencement ceremonies of Julian\n Sargeant Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains clippings, correspondence, press releases,\n and medical papers concerning the medical condition of\n Lieutenant Governor Julian Sargeant Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes clippings, condolences, press releases,\n funeral arrangements and published notices concerning\n the death of lieutenant governor Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds on 13 June 1971.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes contracts, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning the portrait dedication to commemorate the\n late Lieutenant Governor Julian Sargeant Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains correspondence of and about Mary Ballou\n Reynolds Ballentine (second wife of Julian Sergeant\n Reynolds) concerning J. Sargeant Reynolds Community\n College Richmond, Va. Also, includes materials on the\n grand opening celebration, dedication, first\n commencement and inauguration of the president of J.\n Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes press releases, correspondence, clippings,\n and speeches pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's\n homestead near Critz, Patrick County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes biographies and chronologies pertaining to\n the life of Julian Sargeant Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes clippings and correspondence of Julian\n Sargeant Reynolds relating to his first wife, Virginia\n Weir, and their children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence and clippings of and about\n Mary (Ballou) Reynolds Ballentine (second wife and widow\n of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes personal correspondence of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor, A. Linwood Holton,\n Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes miscellaneous information and correspondence\n with and about J. Sargeant Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection has been divided into thirty seven (37)\n series that are primarily organized to coincide with the\n political life of Reynolds. Series One contains information\n pertaining to Reynold's successful bid for a seat in the\n Virginia House of Delegates. Series Two includes\n correspondence, clippings and press releases from 1966 while\n in the House of Delegates. Series Three contains\n correspondence, committee work which includes the proposed\n merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond\n Professional Institute, and the proposed consolidation of\n Richmond and Henrico county.","Series Four include campaign materials from the November 7,\n 1967 Virginia Senate race. Series Five includes senate\n correspondence, speeches given as senator. Series Six contains\n information on Virginia Senate bills and correspondence\n pertaining to senate legislation. Series Seven contains press\n release and letters to colleagues announcing his run for\n lieutenant governor, and resignation from the senate.","Series Eight contains campaign material concerning his\n election as lieutenant governor. Series Nine contains\n information pertaining to the expenses associated with running\n for the office of lieutenant governor. Series Ten contains\n congratulatory correspondence on a successful lieutenant\n governors race. Series Eleven includes materials concerning\n the inauguration of A. Linwood Holton (as governor) and\n Reynolds as lieutenant governor. Series Twelve includes\n correspondence and information of the proposed 1969\n constitution change in Virginia. Series Thirteen includes\n materials pertaining to Virginia's POW's in Viet Nam, while he\n is lieutenant governor. Series Fourteen includes\n correspondence with the Federation of Women's Club, and\n initiatives to improve medical services in Virginia. Series\n Fifteen contains information on commission appointment while\n Reynolds served as lieutenant governor. Series Sixteen\n includes correspondence, clippings, and press release while\n Reynolds was lieutenant governor.","Series Seventeen contains speeches correspondence and\n clippings of Reynolds involvement with the Young Democratic\n Club of Virginia. Series Eighteen contains speeches\n correspondence and clippings of Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia. Series Nineteen\n contains correspondences speeches made at Virginia colleges.\n Series Twenty includes Reynolds correspondence to various\n groups events and organizations.","Series Twenty-one contains information correspondence, and\n speech given at the annual Shad Plank gathering in Southside\n Virginia. Series Twenty-two contains information on Reynolds\n involvement with the Richmond Urban League. Series\n Twenty-three contains speeches correspondence and clippings\n pertaining to Reynolds association with the Virginia Easter\n Seals Society. Series Twenty-four include speeches and\n correspondence pertaining to the Model General Assembly.\n Series Twenty-five contains general correspondence, press\n releases speeches and clippings (arranged chronologically)\n from 1961-1971. Series Twenty-six includes speeches and\n correspondence concerning high school speeches\n (1964-1971).","Series Twenty-seven contains clippings, correspondence and\n press release concerning the medical condition of Reynolds.\n Series Twenty-eight includes clippings, condolences press\n releases, and funeral arrangements, pertaining to the death of\n Reynolds, June 13, 1971. Series Twenty-nine includes\n contracts, and correspondence concerning the portrait\n dedication to commemorate the late lieutenant governor.","Series Thirty contains information concerning the creation\n and dedication of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.\n Series Thirty-one contains press release, correspondence and\n clippings pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's homestead\n in Patrick County.","Series Thirty-two contains biographies and chronologies\n pertaining to the life of Reynolds. Series Thirty-three\n includes correspondence and clippings relating to first wife\n Virginia Weir and children. Series Thirty-four includes\n correspondence and clippings relating to second wife Mary\n Ballou. Series Thirty five includes personal correspondence of\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton, Jr. Series\n Thirty-six includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","The final series 37 is a compilation of miscellaneous\n information not able to easily fit in the categories listed\n above.","Press releases, correspondence, campaign\n advertisements, and newspaper clippings concerning\n Reynolds's campaign for the Virginia House of\n Delegates.","General correspondence, newspaper clippings, and\n press releases 1966, concerning Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's service as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates.","Contains clippings, correspondence, minutes, and\n committee working files involving Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds while a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Committee work includes consolidation of\n Richmond Professional Institute and Medical College of\n Virginia into Virginia Commonwealth University, and the\n proposed consolidation of Richmond and Henrico\n County.","Materials containing information on the Virginia\n Senate race of Julian Sargeant Reynolds. Include votes\n cast, advertisements, candidacy announcement, clippings,\n endorsements, press releases, and radio spots.","Correspondence, 1968, of Julian Sergeant Reynolds (as\n a Virginia State senator) also include speeches and his\n resignation from the Senate to run for lieutenant\n governor of Virginia.","Information on Virginia Senate bills, including the\n small loan act, right to work, and housing matters.\n Also, include correspondence, clippings, and speeches of\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds as a Virginia State Senator\n relating to these topics.","Contains press releases, speeches, and clippings.\n Also correspondence of Julian Sergeant Reynolds with\n U.S. congressional and Virginia legislators announcing\n his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.","Materials concerning the election and campaign of\n Julian Sergeant Reynolds for lieutenant governor of\n Virginia. Include bumper stickers, broadsides, letters\n of support, clippings, results, advertising, campaign\n speeches of Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Records of campaign expenses, and expense sheets from\n Audio Fidelity Broadcast Corp., and Evert Waddey\n printing company. Also, include correspondence\n concerning hotels, food, printed materials, phone bills\n and all general expenses associated with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's run for the office of lieutenant governor.","Contains congratulatory correspondence from Thalhimer\n Brothers, U.S. congressmen, Virginia lawmakers,\n colleges, labor unions, public and private citizens to\n Julian Sergeant Reynolds on a 1969 successful lieutenant\n governors race.","Includes correspondence, proposals and information on\n the 1969-1970 proposed constitutional change in\n Virginia.","Correspondence of Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as\n lieutenant governor of Virginia) about Virginians held\n as Prisoners of War in Viet Nam. Includes materials from\n the POW Action Committee, Argus advertising, and\n information relating to POW-MIA initiatives.","Includes correspondence of Julian Sargeant Reynolds\n (as lieutenant governor of Virginia) concerning the\n Federation of Women's Club, and initiatives to improve\n medical and mental health services in Virginia.","Includes information on commission appointments to\n and from Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as lieutenant\n governor of Virginia). Also, includes information a on\n commission to study para-mutual betting and general\n legislative committee matters.","Includes correspondence, clippings, and press\n releases of Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as lieutenant\n governor of Virginia) from 1970-1971. Correspondence,\n clippings and press releases, 1970-1971. Among\n Reynolds's accomplishments was the appointment of the\n first female page to the Virginia General Assembly.","Contains speeches, correspondence and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynold's involvement with\n the Young Democratic Club of Virginia.","Contains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia.","Includes Julian Sargeant Reynold's correspondence\n concerning and speeches made at college ceremonies in\n Virginia.","Includes general correspondence of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds concerning various groups, events, and\n organizations.","Contains information, correspondence, speech, and\n response to the 21 April 1971 speech of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds (as lieutenant governor) at the annual Shad\n Plank gathering in Southside Virginia. Reynold's speech\n attacked the right-wing practice of Massive Resistance\n on civil rights.","Contains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds, involvement with\n the Richmond Urban League.","Contains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds involvement with the\n Virginia Easter Seals Society.","Include speeches and correspondence of Julian\n Sergeant Reynolds concerning the Model General\n Assembly.","Includes speeches and correspondence [1964-1971]\n concerning high school commencement ceremonies of Julian\n Sargeant Reynolds.","Contains clippings, correspondence, press releases,\n and medical papers concerning the medical condition of\n Lieutenant Governor Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Includes clippings, condolences, press releases,\n funeral arrangements and published notices concerning\n the death of lieutenant governor Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds on 13 June 1971.","Includes contracts, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning the portrait dedication to commemorate the\n late Lieutenant Governor Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Contains correspondence of and about Mary Ballou\n Reynolds Ballentine (second wife of Julian Sergeant\n Reynolds) concerning J. Sargeant Reynolds Community\n College Richmond, Va. Also, includes materials on the\n grand opening celebration, dedication, first\n commencement and inauguration of the president of J.\n Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Virginia.","Includes press releases, correspondence, clippings,\n and speeches pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's\n homestead near Critz, Patrick County, Va.","Includes biographies and chronologies pertaining to\n the life of Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Includes clippings and correspondence of Julian\n Sargeant Reynolds relating to his first wife, Virginia\n Weir, and their children.","Includes correspondence and clippings of and about\n Mary (Ballou) Reynolds Ballentine (second wife and widow\n of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","Includes personal correspondence of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor, A. Linwood Holton,\n Jr.","Includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","Includes miscellaneous information and correspondence\n with and about J. Sargeant Reynolds."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eInclude public correspondence,\n press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, printed\n materials, legislative bills, private writings, condolences,\n and family correspondence relating to the political career of\n J. 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Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 R2265 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 R2265 a FA2","A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Elections -- Virginia -- History -- 20th\n century.","Henrico County (Va.) -- Politics and government,\n 1951-","Holton, A. Linwood (Abner Linwood),\n 1923-","Mentally ill -- Care -- Virginia -- History --\n 20th century.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant),\n 1936-1971.","Richmond (Va.) -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Vietnamise Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and\n prisons.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Virginia. Commission to Plan for the Establishment\n of a Proposed State-supported University in the Richmond\n Metropolitan Area.","Virginia. Constitution (1972)","Virginia. General Assembly -- Members -- History\n -- 20th century.","Virginia. Governor (1970-1974 : Holton)","Virginia. Lieutenant Governor (1970-1971 :\n Reynolds)","1,800 items (18 manuscript\n boxes).","Collection is open for research.","This collection is arranged primary in chronological order\n with only a few exceptions. Each series in then broken into\n individual folders organized with similar items sharing the\n same folder. The collection begins with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's political life as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was a delegate from the\n Richmond and Henrico County District. He served in the house\n of delegates from 1964-1966 [Series 1-3].","The next stage of the political life of Reynolds was his\n tenure in the Virginia senate. Reynolds served in senatorial\n district #13 from 1967-1969, before leaving to become the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. Julian Sargeant Reynold\n resigned from the senate on November 12, 1969 to accept the\n office of lieutenant governor. [Series 4-7] (with series seven\n concerned with the lieutenant governor campaign while in the\n senate).","Julian Sargeant Reynolds served as lieutenant governor from\n 1970 until his death, June 13, 1971. These series span the\n entire length of Julian Sargeant Reynolds career as the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. [Series 8-24]","Series 25-26 are the only series that encompass the entire\n span of Reynolds public life with out respect to the office he\n was occupying. Series 25 runs from 1961-1971. While section 26\n includes speech and correspondence from 1964-1971. These two\n series cover the entire span of the collection, with\n correspondences, press releases and clippings.","The next grouping series 27-28 consist primarily of papers\n discussing the illness, subsequent death, of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds. Materials maintained by other members of the family\n are included in these series.","Contains general correspondence, press releases,\n speeches, and newspaper clippings (arranged\n chronologically) of Julian Sargeant Reynolds from\n 1961-1971.","Julian Sargeant Reynolds was born June 30, 1936 in New York\n City moved in 1938 to Richmond with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.\n Richard Samuel Reynolds, Jr. Mr. R. S. Reynolds of the\n Reynolds Metals Company was President from 1948-63 and became\n CEO in 1963. Julian Sargeant Reynolds attended Woodberry\n Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and the Wharton School of\n Finance at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated\n with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1958. He\n joined the Reynolds Metals Company and worked in the Market\n Research Department until 1959. He later worked with the\n Corporate Planning Department until 1961 leaving to become the\n companies assistant treasurer. In January, 1965, he was\n elected Executive Vice President of Reynolds Aluminum Credit\n Corporation. In 1964 he was elected to the House of Delegates\n from the Richmond and Henrico County district. He served in\n the House until his election to the 13th senatorial (Richmond\n and Henrico) district of the Virginia General Assembly. He\n resigned from the senate in 1969 to serve as the elected\n lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1970 until his death June\n 13, 1971. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was married twice. The\n first marriage was performed in Hertford, N. C., September 29,\n 1956 to Elizabeth Weir Veeneman of Louisville, Kentucky. The\n couple had three children, Virginia Weir, J. Sargeant, and\n Jeanne Elizabeth. The couple divorced in 1969. His second\n marriage was to the former Mary Ballou Handy of Lynchburg,\n Va., in 1969. By his second marriage he had one son, Richard\n Roland.","This collection has been divided into thirty seven (37)\n series that are primarily organized to coincide with the\n political life of Reynolds. Series One contains information\n pertaining to Reynold's successful bid for a seat in the\n Virginia House of Delegates. Series Two includes\n correspondence, clippings and press releases from 1966 while\n in the House of Delegates. Series Three contains\n correspondence, committee work which includes the proposed\n merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond\n Professional Institute, and the proposed consolidation of\n Richmond and Henrico county.","Series Four include campaign materials from the November 7,\n 1967 Virginia Senate race. Series Five includes senate\n correspondence, speeches given as senator. Series Six contains\n information on Virginia Senate bills and correspondence\n pertaining to senate legislation. Series Seven contains press\n release and letters to colleagues announcing his run for\n lieutenant governor, and resignation from the senate.","Series Eight contains campaign material concerning his\n election as lieutenant governor. Series Nine contains\n information pertaining to the expenses associated with running\n for the office of lieutenant governor. Series Ten contains\n congratulatory correspondence on a successful lieutenant\n governors race. Series Eleven includes materials concerning\n the inauguration of A. Linwood Holton (as governor) and\n Reynolds as lieutenant governor. Series Twelve includes\n correspondence and information of the proposed 1969\n constitution change in Virginia. Series Thirteen includes\n materials pertaining to Virginia's POW's in Viet Nam, while he\n is lieutenant governor. Series Fourteen includes\n correspondence with the Federation of Women's Club, and\n initiatives to improve medical services in Virginia. Series\n Fifteen contains information on commission appointment while\n Reynolds served as lieutenant governor. Series Sixteen\n includes correspondence, clippings, and press release while\n Reynolds was lieutenant governor.","Series Seventeen contains speeches correspondence and\n clippings of Reynolds involvement with the Young Democratic\n Club of Virginia. Series Eighteen contains speeches\n correspondence and clippings of Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia. Series Nineteen\n contains correspondences speeches made at Virginia colleges.\n Series Twenty includes Reynolds correspondence to various\n groups events and organizations.","Series Twenty-one contains information correspondence, and\n speech given at the annual Shad Plank gathering in Southside\n Virginia. Series Twenty-two contains information on Reynolds\n involvement with the Richmond Urban League. Series\n Twenty-three contains speeches correspondence and clippings\n pertaining to Reynolds association with the Virginia Easter\n Seals Society. Series Twenty-four include speeches and\n correspondence pertaining to the Model General Assembly.\n Series Twenty-five contains general correspondence, press\n releases speeches and clippings (arranged chronologically)\n from 1961-1971. Series Twenty-six includes speeches and\n correspondence concerning high school speeches\n (1964-1971).","Series Twenty-seven contains clippings, correspondence and\n press release concerning the medical condition of Reynolds.\n Series Twenty-eight includes clippings, condolences press\n releases, and funeral arrangements, pertaining to the death of\n Reynolds, June 13, 1971. Series Twenty-nine includes\n contracts, and correspondence concerning the portrait\n dedication to commemorate the late lieutenant governor.","Series Thirty contains information concerning the creation\n and dedication of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.\n Series Thirty-one contains press release, correspondence and\n clippings pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's homestead\n in Patrick County.","Series Thirty-two contains biographies and chronologies\n pertaining to the life of Reynolds. Series Thirty-three\n includes correspondence and clippings relating to first wife\n Virginia Weir and children. Series Thirty-four includes\n correspondence and clippings relating to second wife Mary\n Ballou. Series Thirty five includes personal correspondence of\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton, Jr. Series\n Thirty-six includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","The final series 37 is a compilation of miscellaneous\n information not able to easily fit in the categories listed\n above.","Press releases, correspondence, campaign\n advertisements, and newspaper clippings concerning\n Reynolds's campaign for the Virginia House of\n Delegates.","General correspondence, newspaper clippings, and\n press releases 1966, concerning Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's service as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates.","Contains clippings, correspondence, minutes, and\n committee working files involving Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds while a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Committee work includes consolidation of\n Richmond Professional Institute and Medical College of\n Virginia into Virginia Commonwealth University, and the\n proposed consolidation of Richmond and Henrico\n County.","Materials containing information on the Virginia\n Senate race of Julian Sargeant Reynolds. Include votes\n cast, advertisements, candidacy announcement, clippings,\n endorsements, press releases, and radio spots.","Correspondence, 1968, of Julian Sergeant Reynolds (as\n a Virginia State senator) also include speeches and his\n resignation from the Senate to run for lieutenant\n governor of Virginia.","Information on Virginia Senate bills, including the\n small loan act, right to work, and housing matters.\n Also, include correspondence, clippings, and speeches of\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds as a Virginia State Senator\n relating to these topics.","Contains press releases, speeches, and clippings.\n Also correspondence of Julian Sergeant Reynolds with\n U.S. congressional and Virginia legislators announcing\n his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.","Materials concerning the election and campaign of\n Julian Sergeant Reynolds for lieutenant governor of\n Virginia. Include bumper stickers, broadsides, letters\n of support, clippings, results, advertising, campaign\n speeches of Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Records of campaign expenses, and expense sheets from\n Audio Fidelity Broadcast Corp., and Evert Waddey\n printing company. Also, include correspondence\n concerning hotels, food, printed materials, phone bills\n and all general expenses associated with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's run for the office of lieutenant governor.","Contains congratulatory correspondence from Thalhimer\n Brothers, U.S. congressmen, Virginia lawmakers,\n colleges, labor unions, public and private citizens to\n Julian Sergeant Reynolds on a 1969 successful lieutenant\n governors race.","Includes correspondence, proposals and information on\n the 1969-1970 proposed constitutional change in\n Virginia.","Correspondence of Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as\n lieutenant governor of Virginia) about Virginians held\n as Prisoners of War in Viet Nam. Includes materials from\n the POW Action Committee, Argus advertising, and\n information relating to POW-MIA initiatives.","Includes correspondence of Julian Sargeant Reynolds\n (as lieutenant governor of Virginia) concerning the\n Federation of Women's Club, and initiatives to improve\n medical and mental health services in Virginia.","Includes information on commission appointments to\n and from Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as lieutenant\n governor of Virginia). Also, includes information a on\n commission to study para-mutual betting and general\n legislative committee matters.","Includes correspondence, clippings, and press\n releases of Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as lieutenant\n governor of Virginia) from 1970-1971. Correspondence,\n clippings and press releases, 1970-1971. Among\n Reynolds's accomplishments was the appointment of the\n first female page to the Virginia General Assembly.","Contains speeches, correspondence and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynold's involvement with\n the Young Democratic Club of Virginia.","Contains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia.","Includes Julian Sargeant Reynold's correspondence\n concerning and speeches made at college ceremonies in\n Virginia.","Includes general correspondence of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds concerning various groups, events, and\n organizations.","Contains information, correspondence, speech, and\n response to the 21 April 1971 speech of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds (as lieutenant governor) at the annual Shad\n Plank gathering in Southside Virginia. Reynold's speech\n attacked the right-wing practice of Massive Resistance\n on civil rights.","Contains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds, involvement with\n the Richmond Urban League.","Contains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds involvement with the\n Virginia Easter Seals Society.","Include speeches and correspondence of Julian\n Sergeant Reynolds concerning the Model General\n Assembly.","Includes speeches and correspondence [1964-1971]\n concerning high school commencement ceremonies of Julian\n Sargeant Reynolds.","Contains clippings, correspondence, press releases,\n and medical papers concerning the medical condition of\n Lieutenant Governor Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Includes clippings, condolences, press releases,\n funeral arrangements and published notices concerning\n the death of lieutenant governor Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds on 13 June 1971.","Includes contracts, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning the portrait dedication to commemorate the\n late Lieutenant Governor Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Contains correspondence of and about Mary Ballou\n Reynolds Ballentine (second wife of Julian Sergeant\n Reynolds) concerning J. Sargeant Reynolds Community\n College Richmond, Va. Also, includes materials on the\n grand opening celebration, dedication, first\n commencement and inauguration of the president of J.\n Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Virginia.","Includes press releases, correspondence, clippings,\n and speeches pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's\n homestead near Critz, Patrick County, Va.","Includes biographies and chronologies pertaining to\n the life of Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Includes clippings and correspondence of Julian\n Sargeant Reynolds relating to his first wife, Virginia\n Weir, and their children.","Includes correspondence and clippings of and about\n Mary (Ballou) Reynolds Ballentine (second wife and widow\n of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","Includes personal correspondence of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor, A. Linwood Holton,\n Jr.","Includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","Includes miscellaneous information and correspondence\n with and about J. Sargeant Reynolds.","There are no restrictions.","Include public correspondence,\n press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, printed\n materials, legislative bills, private writings, condolences,\n and family correspondence relating to the political career of\n J. Sargeant Reynolds, member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates and Senate, who served as Lieutenant Governor until\n untimely his death in 1971.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 R2265 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the J. Sargeant Reynolds\n Papers, \n \n 1965-1991"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Mrs. Mary Ballou Reynolds Ballentine, Richmond,\n Va., in 1994."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Elections -- Virginia -- History -- 20th\n century.","Henrico County (Va.) -- Politics and government,\n 1951-","Holton, A. Linwood (Abner Linwood),\n 1923-","Mentally ill -- Care -- Virginia -- History --\n 20th century.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant),\n 1936-1971.","Richmond (Va.) -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Vietnamise Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and\n prisons.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1951-","Virginia. Commission to Plan for the Establishment\n of a Proposed State-supported University in the Richmond\n Metropolitan Area.","Virginia. Constitution (1972)","Virginia. 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Reynolds served in senatorial\n district #13 from 1967-1969, before leaving to become the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. Julian Sargeant Reynold\n resigned from the senate on November 12, 1969 to accept the\n office of lieutenant governor. [Series 4-7] (with series seven\n concerned with the lieutenant governor campaign while in the\n senate).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJulian Sargeant Reynolds served as lieutenant governor from\n 1970 until his death, June 13, 1971. These series span the\n entire length of Julian Sargeant Reynolds career as the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. [Series 8-24]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 25-26 are the only series that encompass the entire\n span of Reynolds public life with out respect to the office he\n was occupying. Series 25 runs from 1961-1971. While section 26\n includes speech and correspondence from 1964-1971. These two\n series cover the entire span of the collection, with\n correspondences, press releases and clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next grouping series 27-28 consist primarily of papers\n discussing the illness, subsequent death, of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds. Materials maintained by other members of the family\n are included in these series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains general correspondence, press releases,\n speeches, and newspaper clippings (arranged\n chronologically) of Julian Sargeant Reynolds from\n 1961-1971.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is arranged primary in chronological order\n with only a few exceptions. Each series in then broken into\n individual folders organized with similar items sharing the\n same folder. The collection begins with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's political life as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was a delegate from the\n Richmond and Henrico County District. He served in the house\n of delegates from 1964-1966 [Series 1-3].","The next stage of the political life of Reynolds was his\n tenure in the Virginia senate. Reynolds served in senatorial\n district #13 from 1967-1969, before leaving to become the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. Julian Sargeant Reynold\n resigned from the senate on November 12, 1969 to accept the\n office of lieutenant governor. [Series 4-7] (with series seven\n concerned with the lieutenant governor campaign while in the\n senate).","Julian Sargeant Reynolds served as lieutenant governor from\n 1970 until his death, June 13, 1971. These series span the\n entire length of Julian Sargeant Reynolds career as the\n lieutenant governor of Virginia. [Series 8-24]","Series 25-26 are the only series that encompass the entire\n span of Reynolds public life with out respect to the office he\n was occupying. Series 25 runs from 1961-1971. While section 26\n includes speech and correspondence from 1964-1971. These two\n series cover the entire span of the collection, with\n correspondences, press releases and clippings.","The next grouping series 27-28 consist primarily of papers\n discussing the illness, subsequent death, of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds. Materials maintained by other members of the family\n are included in these series.","Contains general correspondence, press releases,\n speeches, and newspaper clippings (arranged\n chronologically) of Julian Sargeant Reynolds from\n 1961-1971."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJulian Sargeant Reynolds was born June 30, 1936 in New York\n City moved in 1938 to Richmond with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.\n Richard Samuel Reynolds, Jr. Mr. R. S. Reynolds of the\n Reynolds Metals Company was President from 1948-63 and became\n CEO in 1963. Julian Sargeant Reynolds attended Woodberry\n Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and the Wharton School of\n Finance at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated\n with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1958. He\n joined the Reynolds Metals Company and worked in the Market\n Research Department until 1959. He later worked with the\n Corporate Planning Department until 1961 leaving to become the\n companies assistant treasurer. In January, 1965, he was\n elected Executive Vice President of Reynolds Aluminum Credit\n Corporation. In 1964 he was elected to the House of Delegates\n from the Richmond and Henrico County district. He served in\n the House until his election to the 13th senatorial (Richmond\n and Henrico) district of the Virginia General Assembly. He\n resigned from the senate in 1969 to serve as the elected\n lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1970 until his death June\n 13, 1971. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was married twice. The\n first marriage was performed in Hertford, N. C., September 29,\n 1956 to Elizabeth Weir Veeneman of Louisville, Kentucky. The\n couple had three children, Virginia Weir, J. Sargeant, and\n Jeanne Elizabeth. The couple divorced in 1969. His second\n marriage was to the former Mary Ballou Handy of Lynchburg,\n Va., in 1969. By his second marriage he had one son, Richard\n Roland.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Julian Sargeant Reynolds was born June 30, 1936 in New York\n City moved in 1938 to Richmond with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.\n Richard Samuel Reynolds, Jr. Mr. R. S. Reynolds of the\n Reynolds Metals Company was President from 1948-63 and became\n CEO in 1963. Julian Sargeant Reynolds attended Woodberry\n Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and the Wharton School of\n Finance at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated\n with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1958. He\n joined the Reynolds Metals Company and worked in the Market\n Research Department until 1959. He later worked with the\n Corporate Planning Department until 1961 leaving to become the\n companies assistant treasurer. In January, 1965, he was\n elected Executive Vice President of Reynolds Aluminum Credit\n Corporation. In 1964 he was elected to the House of Delegates\n from the Richmond and Henrico County district. He served in\n the House until his election to the 13th senatorial (Richmond\n and Henrico) district of the Virginia General Assembly. He\n resigned from the senate in 1969 to serve as the elected\n lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1970 until his death June\n 13, 1971. Julian Sargeant Reynolds was married twice. The\n first marriage was performed in Hertford, N. C., September 29,\n 1956 to Elizabeth Weir Veeneman of Louisville, Kentucky. The\n couple had three children, Virginia Weir, J. Sargeant, and\n Jeanne Elizabeth. The couple divorced in 1969. His second\n marriage was to the former Mary Ballou Handy of Lynchburg,\n Va., in 1969. By his second marriage he had one son, Richard\n Roland."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJ. Sargeant Reynolds papers, 1965-1991 (Mss1 R2265 a\n FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["J. Sargeant Reynolds papers, 1965-1991 (Mss1 R2265 a\n FA2), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection has been divided into thirty seven (37)\n series that are primarily organized to coincide with the\n political life of Reynolds. Series One contains information\n pertaining to Reynold's successful bid for a seat in the\n Virginia House of Delegates. Series Two includes\n correspondence, clippings and press releases from 1966 while\n in the House of Delegates. Series Three contains\n correspondence, committee work which includes the proposed\n merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond\n Professional Institute, and the proposed consolidation of\n Richmond and Henrico county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Four include campaign materials from the November 7,\n 1967 Virginia Senate race. Series Five includes senate\n correspondence, speeches given as senator. Series Six contains\n information on Virginia Senate bills and correspondence\n pertaining to senate legislation. Series Seven contains press\n release and letters to colleagues announcing his run for\n lieutenant governor, and resignation from the senate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Eight contains campaign material concerning his\n election as lieutenant governor. Series Nine contains\n information pertaining to the expenses associated with running\n for the office of lieutenant governor. Series Ten contains\n congratulatory correspondence on a successful lieutenant\n governors race. Series Eleven includes materials concerning\n the inauguration of A. Linwood Holton (as governor) and\n Reynolds as lieutenant governor. Series Twelve includes\n correspondence and information of the proposed 1969\n constitution change in Virginia. Series Thirteen includes\n materials pertaining to Virginia's POW's in Viet Nam, while he\n is lieutenant governor. Series Fourteen includes\n correspondence with the Federation of Women's Club, and\n initiatives to improve medical services in Virginia. Series\n Fifteen contains information on commission appointment while\n Reynolds served as lieutenant governor. Series Sixteen\n includes correspondence, clippings, and press release while\n Reynolds was lieutenant governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Seventeen contains speeches correspondence and\n clippings of Reynolds involvement with the Young Democratic\n Club of Virginia. Series Eighteen contains speeches\n correspondence and clippings of Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia. Series Nineteen\n contains correspondences speeches made at Virginia colleges.\n Series Twenty includes Reynolds correspondence to various\n groups events and organizations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Twenty-one contains information correspondence, and\n speech given at the annual Shad Plank gathering in Southside\n Virginia. Series Twenty-two contains information on Reynolds\n involvement with the Richmond Urban League. Series\n Twenty-three contains speeches correspondence and clippings\n pertaining to Reynolds association with the Virginia Easter\n Seals Society. Series Twenty-four include speeches and\n correspondence pertaining to the Model General Assembly.\n Series Twenty-five contains general correspondence, press\n releases speeches and clippings (arranged chronologically)\n from 1961-1971. Series Twenty-six includes speeches and\n correspondence concerning high school speeches\n (1964-1971).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Twenty-seven contains clippings, correspondence and\n press release concerning the medical condition of Reynolds.\n Series Twenty-eight includes clippings, condolences press\n releases, and funeral arrangements, pertaining to the death of\n Reynolds, June 13, 1971. Series Twenty-nine includes\n contracts, and correspondence concerning the portrait\n dedication to commemorate the late lieutenant governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Thirty contains information concerning the creation\n and dedication of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.\n Series Thirty-one contains press release, correspondence and\n clippings pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's homestead\n in Patrick County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Thirty-two contains biographies and chronologies\n pertaining to the life of Reynolds. Series Thirty-three\n includes correspondence and clippings relating to first wife\n Virginia Weir and children. Series Thirty-four includes\n correspondence and clippings relating to second wife Mary\n Ballou. Series Thirty five includes personal correspondence of\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton, Jr. Series\n Thirty-six includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe final series 37 is a compilation of miscellaneous\n information not able to easily fit in the categories listed\n above.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePress releases, correspondence, campaign\n advertisements, and newspaper clippings concerning\n Reynolds's campaign for the Virginia House of\n Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral correspondence, newspaper clippings, and\n press releases 1966, concerning Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's service as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains clippings, correspondence, minutes, and\n committee working files involving Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds while a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Committee work includes consolidation of\n Richmond Professional Institute and Medical College of\n Virginia into Virginia Commonwealth University, and the\n proposed consolidation of Richmond and Henrico\n County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials containing information on the Virginia\n Senate race of Julian Sargeant Reynolds. Include votes\n cast, advertisements, candidacy announcement, clippings,\n endorsements, press releases, and radio spots.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1968, of Julian Sergeant Reynolds (as\n a Virginia State senator) also include speeches and his\n resignation from the Senate to run for lieutenant\n governor of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation on Virginia Senate bills, including the\n small loan act, right to work, and housing matters.\n Also, include correspondence, clippings, and speeches of\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds as a Virginia State Senator\n relating to these topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains press releases, speeches, and clippings.\n Also correspondence of Julian Sergeant Reynolds with\n U.S. congressional and Virginia legislators announcing\n his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the election and campaign of\n Julian Sergeant Reynolds for lieutenant governor of\n Virginia. Include bumper stickers, broadsides, letters\n of support, clippings, results, advertising, campaign\n speeches of Julian Sargeant Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords of campaign expenses, and expense sheets from\n Audio Fidelity Broadcast Corp., and Evert Waddey\n printing company. Also, include correspondence\n concerning hotels, food, printed materials, phone bills\n and all general expenses associated with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's run for the office of lieutenant governor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains congratulatory correspondence from Thalhimer\n Brothers, U.S. congressmen, Virginia lawmakers,\n colleges, labor unions, public and private citizens to\n Julian Sergeant Reynolds on a 1969 successful lieutenant\n governors race.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence, proposals and information on\n the 1969-1970 proposed constitutional change in\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as\n lieutenant governor of Virginia) about Virginians held\n as Prisoners of War in Viet Nam. Includes materials from\n the POW Action Committee, Argus advertising, and\n information relating to POW-MIA initiatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence of Julian Sargeant Reynolds\n (as lieutenant governor of Virginia) concerning the\n Federation of Women's Club, and initiatives to improve\n medical and mental health services in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes information on commission appointments to\n and from Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as lieutenant\n governor of Virginia). Also, includes information a on\n commission to study para-mutual betting and general\n legislative committee matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence, clippings, and press\n releases of Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as lieutenant\n governor of Virginia) from 1970-1971. Correspondence,\n clippings and press releases, 1970-1971. Among\n Reynolds's accomplishments was the appointment of the\n first female page to the Virginia General Assembly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains speeches, correspondence and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynold's involvement with\n the Young Democratic Club of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Julian Sargeant Reynold's correspondence\n concerning and speeches made at college ceremonies in\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes general correspondence of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds concerning various groups, events, and\n organizations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains information, correspondence, speech, and\n response to the 21 April 1971 speech of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds (as lieutenant governor) at the annual Shad\n Plank gathering in Southside Virginia. Reynold's speech\n attacked the right-wing practice of Massive Resistance\n on civil rights.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds, involvement with\n the Richmond Urban League.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds involvement with the\n Virginia Easter Seals Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInclude speeches and correspondence of Julian\n Sergeant Reynolds concerning the Model General\n Assembly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes speeches and correspondence [1964-1971]\n concerning high school commencement ceremonies of Julian\n Sargeant Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains clippings, correspondence, press releases,\n and medical papers concerning the medical condition of\n Lieutenant Governor Julian Sargeant Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes clippings, condolences, press releases,\n funeral arrangements and published notices concerning\n the death of lieutenant governor Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds on 13 June 1971.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes contracts, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning the portrait dedication to commemorate the\n late Lieutenant Governor Julian Sargeant Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains correspondence of and about Mary Ballou\n Reynolds Ballentine (second wife of Julian Sergeant\n Reynolds) concerning J. Sargeant Reynolds Community\n College Richmond, Va. Also, includes materials on the\n grand opening celebration, dedication, first\n commencement and inauguration of the president of J.\n Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes press releases, correspondence, clippings,\n and speeches pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's\n homestead near Critz, Patrick County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes biographies and chronologies pertaining to\n the life of Julian Sargeant Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes clippings and correspondence of Julian\n Sargeant Reynolds relating to his first wife, Virginia\n Weir, and their children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence and clippings of and about\n Mary (Ballou) Reynolds Ballentine (second wife and widow\n of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes personal correspondence of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor, A. Linwood Holton,\n Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes miscellaneous information and correspondence\n with and about J. Sargeant Reynolds.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection has been divided into thirty seven (37)\n series that are primarily organized to coincide with the\n political life of Reynolds. Series One contains information\n pertaining to Reynold's successful bid for a seat in the\n Virginia House of Delegates. Series Two includes\n correspondence, clippings and press releases from 1966 while\n in the House of Delegates. Series Three contains\n correspondence, committee work which includes the proposed\n merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond\n Professional Institute, and the proposed consolidation of\n Richmond and Henrico county.","Series Four include campaign materials from the November 7,\n 1967 Virginia Senate race. Series Five includes senate\n correspondence, speeches given as senator. Series Six contains\n information on Virginia Senate bills and correspondence\n pertaining to senate legislation. Series Seven contains press\n release and letters to colleagues announcing his run for\n lieutenant governor, and resignation from the senate.","Series Eight contains campaign material concerning his\n election as lieutenant governor. Series Nine contains\n information pertaining to the expenses associated with running\n for the office of lieutenant governor. Series Ten contains\n congratulatory correspondence on a successful lieutenant\n governors race. Series Eleven includes materials concerning\n the inauguration of A. Linwood Holton (as governor) and\n Reynolds as lieutenant governor. Series Twelve includes\n correspondence and information of the proposed 1969\n constitution change in Virginia. Series Thirteen includes\n materials pertaining to Virginia's POW's in Viet Nam, while he\n is lieutenant governor. Series Fourteen includes\n correspondence with the Federation of Women's Club, and\n initiatives to improve medical services in Virginia. Series\n Fifteen contains information on commission appointment while\n Reynolds served as lieutenant governor. Series Sixteen\n includes correspondence, clippings, and press release while\n Reynolds was lieutenant governor.","Series Seventeen contains speeches correspondence and\n clippings of Reynolds involvement with the Young Democratic\n Club of Virginia. Series Eighteen contains speeches\n correspondence and clippings of Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia. Series Nineteen\n contains correspondences speeches made at Virginia colleges.\n Series Twenty includes Reynolds correspondence to various\n groups events and organizations.","Series Twenty-one contains information correspondence, and\n speech given at the annual Shad Plank gathering in Southside\n Virginia. Series Twenty-two contains information on Reynolds\n involvement with the Richmond Urban League. Series\n Twenty-three contains speeches correspondence and clippings\n pertaining to Reynolds association with the Virginia Easter\n Seals Society. Series Twenty-four include speeches and\n correspondence pertaining to the Model General Assembly.\n Series Twenty-five contains general correspondence, press\n releases speeches and clippings (arranged chronologically)\n from 1961-1971. Series Twenty-six includes speeches and\n correspondence concerning high school speeches\n (1964-1971).","Series Twenty-seven contains clippings, correspondence and\n press release concerning the medical condition of Reynolds.\n Series Twenty-eight includes clippings, condolences press\n releases, and funeral arrangements, pertaining to the death of\n Reynolds, June 13, 1971. Series Twenty-nine includes\n contracts, and correspondence concerning the portrait\n dedication to commemorate the late lieutenant governor.","Series Thirty contains information concerning the creation\n and dedication of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.\n Series Thirty-one contains press release, correspondence and\n clippings pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's homestead\n in Patrick County.","Series Thirty-two contains biographies and chronologies\n pertaining to the life of Reynolds. Series Thirty-three\n includes correspondence and clippings relating to first wife\n Virginia Weir and children. Series Thirty-four includes\n correspondence and clippings relating to second wife Mary\n Ballou. Series Thirty five includes personal correspondence of\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton, Jr. Series\n Thirty-six includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","The final series 37 is a compilation of miscellaneous\n information not able to easily fit in the categories listed\n above.","Press releases, correspondence, campaign\n advertisements, and newspaper clippings concerning\n Reynolds's campaign for the Virginia House of\n Delegates.","General correspondence, newspaper clippings, and\n press releases 1966, concerning Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's service as a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates.","Contains clippings, correspondence, minutes, and\n committee working files involving Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds while a member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates. Committee work includes consolidation of\n Richmond Professional Institute and Medical College of\n Virginia into Virginia Commonwealth University, and the\n proposed consolidation of Richmond and Henrico\n County.","Materials containing information on the Virginia\n Senate race of Julian Sargeant Reynolds. Include votes\n cast, advertisements, candidacy announcement, clippings,\n endorsements, press releases, and radio spots.","Correspondence, 1968, of Julian Sergeant Reynolds (as\n a Virginia State senator) also include speeches and his\n resignation from the Senate to run for lieutenant\n governor of Virginia.","Information on Virginia Senate bills, including the\n small loan act, right to work, and housing matters.\n Also, include correspondence, clippings, and speeches of\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds as a Virginia State Senator\n relating to these topics.","Contains press releases, speeches, and clippings.\n Also correspondence of Julian Sergeant Reynolds with\n U.S. congressional and Virginia legislators announcing\n his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.","Materials concerning the election and campaign of\n Julian Sergeant Reynolds for lieutenant governor of\n Virginia. Include bumper stickers, broadsides, letters\n of support, clippings, results, advertising, campaign\n speeches of Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Records of campaign expenses, and expense sheets from\n Audio Fidelity Broadcast Corp., and Evert Waddey\n printing company. Also, include correspondence\n concerning hotels, food, printed materials, phone bills\n and all general expenses associated with Julian Sargeant\n Reynold's run for the office of lieutenant governor.","Contains congratulatory correspondence from Thalhimer\n Brothers, U.S. congressmen, Virginia lawmakers,\n colleges, labor unions, public and private citizens to\n Julian Sergeant Reynolds on a 1969 successful lieutenant\n governors race.","Includes correspondence, proposals and information on\n the 1969-1970 proposed constitutional change in\n Virginia.","Correspondence of Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as\n lieutenant governor of Virginia) about Virginians held\n as Prisoners of War in Viet Nam. Includes materials from\n the POW Action Committee, Argus advertising, and\n information relating to POW-MIA initiatives.","Includes correspondence of Julian Sargeant Reynolds\n (as lieutenant governor of Virginia) concerning the\n Federation of Women's Club, and initiatives to improve\n medical and mental health services in Virginia.","Includes information on commission appointments to\n and from Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as lieutenant\n governor of Virginia). Also, includes information a on\n commission to study para-mutual betting and general\n legislative committee matters.","Includes correspondence, clippings, and press\n releases of Julian Sargeant Reynolds (as lieutenant\n governor of Virginia) from 1970-1971. Correspondence,\n clippings and press releases, 1970-1971. Among\n Reynolds's accomplishments was the appointment of the\n first female page to the Virginia General Assembly.","Contains speeches, correspondence and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynold's involvement with\n the Young Democratic Club of Virginia.","Contains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds involvement with the\n Jaycees Civic Association of Virginia.","Includes Julian Sargeant Reynold's correspondence\n concerning and speeches made at college ceremonies in\n Virginia.","Includes general correspondence of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds concerning various groups, events, and\n organizations.","Contains information, correspondence, speech, and\n response to the 21 April 1971 speech of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds (as lieutenant governor) at the annual Shad\n Plank gathering in Southside Virginia. Reynold's speech\n attacked the right-wing practice of Massive Resistance\n on civil rights.","Contains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds, involvement with\n the Richmond Urban League.","Contains speeches, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning Julian Sargeant Reynolds involvement with the\n Virginia Easter Seals Society.","Include speeches and correspondence of Julian\n Sergeant Reynolds concerning the Model General\n Assembly.","Includes speeches and correspondence [1964-1971]\n concerning high school commencement ceremonies of Julian\n Sargeant Reynolds.","Contains clippings, correspondence, press releases,\n and medical papers concerning the medical condition of\n Lieutenant Governor Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Includes clippings, condolences, press releases,\n funeral arrangements and published notices concerning\n the death of lieutenant governor Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds on 13 June 1971.","Includes contracts, correspondence, and clippings\n concerning the portrait dedication to commemorate the\n late Lieutenant Governor Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Contains correspondence of and about Mary Ballou\n Reynolds Ballentine (second wife of Julian Sergeant\n Reynolds) concerning J. Sargeant Reynolds Community\n College Richmond, Va. Also, includes materials on the\n grand opening celebration, dedication, first\n commencement and inauguration of the president of J.\n Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Virginia.","Includes press releases, correspondence, clippings,\n and speeches pertaining to the opening of the Reynold's\n homestead near Critz, Patrick County, Va.","Includes biographies and chronologies pertaining to\n the life of Julian Sargeant Reynolds.","Includes clippings and correspondence of Julian\n Sargeant Reynolds relating to his first wife, Virginia\n Weir, and their children.","Includes correspondence and clippings of and about\n Mary (Ballou) Reynolds Ballentine (second wife and widow\n of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","Includes personal correspondence of Julian Sargeant\n Reynolds and Virginia Governor, A. Linwood Holton,\n Jr.","Includes personal correspondence of Mrs. R.S.\n Reynolds (mother of Julian Sargeant Reynolds).","Includes miscellaneous information and correspondence\n with and about J. Sargeant Reynolds."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eInclude public correspondence,\n press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, printed\n materials, legislative bills, private writings, condolences,\n and family correspondence relating to the political career of\n J. Sargeant Reynolds, member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates and Senate, who served as Lieutenant Governor until\n untimely his death in 1971.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Include public correspondence,\n press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, printed\n materials, legislative bills, private writings, condolences,\n and family correspondence relating to the political career of\n J. Sargeant Reynolds, member of the Virginia House of\n Delegates and Senate, who served as Lieutenant Governor until\n untimely his death in 1971."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":352,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:53:00.773Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00018"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00015","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00015#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 of the collection begins with the papers of Francis Page (1780-1849), consisting of two receipts, one for the digging of a well (1819) and one for his subscription to the National Vaccine Institution (1825).\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00015#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00015","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00015","_root_":"vihi_vih00015","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00015","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00015.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 P1456 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 P1456 a FA2","A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876","Authors, American -- Virginia --\n History.","China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-\n 1912.","Diaries -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th\n century.","Diaries -- Connecticut -- Woodbury -- History --\n 19th century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 20th century.","Education -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Episcopal Church -- Connecticut -- Clergy --\n History -- 19th century.","Episcopal Church -- Virginia -- History.","Family -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","Farm management -- Virginia -- History..","Hanover County (Va.) - - Social life and\n customs.","Laity -- Eipscopal Church -- Virginia.","Missionaries -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Mothers and sons -- Virginia -- History.","Nelson, Robert, 1819-1886.","Oakland (Hanover County, Va.)","Page, Elizabeth Burwell Nelson,\n 1821-1912.","Page family.","Page, Rosewell, 1858-1939.","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.","Virginia -- Social life and customs.","Women -- Virginia -- Family\n relationships.","Women -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","2,050 (ca.)items (18 manuscipt\n boxes)","Collection is open for research.","Collection is arranged in sixteen sections by main entry\n and further subdivided by subject or record type where\n necessary.","Records of four generations of the Page family of Hanover\n County and Richmond, Va., and related families. Represented\n are Francis Page (1780-1849); his son John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, a graduate of the University of\n Virginia, lawyer, and for four years an attorney for the\n Commonwealth in Hanover County; Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page (1821-1912), wife of John Page and mother of Francis\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page, and Rosewell Page; Robert Nelson\n (1819-1886), Episcopal missionary to China and brother of\n Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; Robert's wife, Rose (Points)\n Nelson (1827-1885); Francis Page (1849- 1918), better known as\n \"Frank,\" an Episcopal priest who served parishes in Virginia,\n Texas, and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) of\n Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., and York Harbor, Me., lawyer,\n lecturer and writer, and U.S. Ambassador to Italy from\n 1912-1918; Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page (1867-1888), first wife of\n Thomas Nelson Page and originally from \"Staunton Hill,\"\n Charlotte County, Va.; Florence (Lathrop) Field Page\n (1858-1921), first married to Henry Field (brother of Marshall\n Field) and then married in 1893 to Thomas Nelson Page;\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939) of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, lawyer\n in Richmond, writer, member of the General Assembly of\n Virginia, and second auditor of Virginia from 1912-1928; Ruth\n (Nelson) Page (1871-1975?), second wife of Rosewell Page; Anne\n (Page) Johns (b. 1899) of Richmond, daughter of Rosewell and\n Ruth (Nelson) Page; Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971), Anne\n (Page) Johns' husband; and Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n banker in Richmond and father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns)\n Hill, daughter of Anne (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns;\n and Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill (b. 1881), wife of\n Julien Harrison Hill. Also included are scattered\n correspondence of the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson,\n and Points families, and Page cousins.","Series 1 of the collection begins with the papers of\n Francis Page (1780-1849), consisting of two receipts, one for\n the digging of a well (1819) and one for his subscription to\n the National Vaccine Institution (1825).","Series 2 contains the papers of John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and consist of correspondence,\n 1877-1898. Principal correspondents are his wife, Elizabeth\n Burwell (Nelson) Page, and his sons, Rosewell Page and Thomas\n Nelson Page. One of the few letters in the collection written\n by Rosewell as he practiced law in Danville, Va., is in this\n series. Letters by John Page to his son Thomas discuss family\n activity, political and business tasks that the father wants\n the son to handle in Richmond, Va., business and personal\n advice, and news of the crops at \"Oakland.\"","Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page (1821-1912) materials\n follow in Series 3. Page, of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n kept a diary, 1905, recording activities for each day. Entries\n describe the farm activities at \"Oakland,\" the servants and\n their roles, local epidemics of smallpox, and the lives of her\n son, Rosewell Page, and his wife, Ruth (Nelson) Page, who\n lived at \"Oakland,\" including frequent reference to Rosewell's\n role as a layman in the Episcopal Church, news of her other\n two sons, Francis (better known as Frank) Page, an Episcopal\n priest, and Thomas Nelson Page who occasionally visits\n \"Oakland\" and checks on his land holdings and mill operations\n in Hanover County, Va. Two pages of accounts are at the end of\n the diary and include references to servants' wages and farm\n expenses. Scattered accounts appear throughout the diary.","Also present are letters of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page, chiefly written to her middle son, Thomas Nelson Page,\n from 1876 to 1912. Elizabeth wrote primarily from \"Oakland,\"\n Hanover County, Va., but also while visiting her sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson, in Charlottesville. Her\n letters to Thomas are addressed to numerous locations around\n the United States, especially New York and York, Maine, and in\n Europe. In them, Elizabeth discusses her daily activities on\n the farm at \"Oakland\" and the activities of other family\n members such as her brother, William Nelson, who ran the\n farming operations at \"Oakland.\" With the help of servants,\n she tended chickens, hogs, ducks, and turkeys, preserves food,\n and handled other household tasks. Some of Elizabeth's letters\n to Thomas include attached letters from other relatives to\n Elizabeth such as Frank Page, her oldest son.","In addition to her correspondence with Thomas Nelson Page,\n Elizabeth's papers include letters from her school days at\n Long Branch written to her father, Thomas Nelson; letters from\n her son, Frank Page and his wife, Letitia Rives (Morris) Page,\n writing from Waco, Texas, where he served as an Episcopal\n priest in 1890 and in 1911 as a priest in Brooklyn, N. Y.; a\n 1877 letter from her brother, Robert Nelson, while serving as\n a missionary in China; an 1865 letter from Anne Wickham, a\n niece of Elizabeth, concerning the Civil War and her feeling\n that Jefferson Davis had no role in the assassination of\n Abraham Lincoln; and several letters to Elizabeth in 1888\n expressing sympathy over the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page's first wife.","Series 4 begins with the diary of Robert Nelson (1819-1886)\n kept initially while serving as an Episcopal missionary in\n Shanghai, China, in 1878, as an account book for a children's\n school; then kept in Woodbury, Conn., during the last years of\n his life and that of his wife, Rose (Points) Nelson, whose\n picture and obituary appear on p. 108 of the volume. Robert\n Nelson was a brother of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.","Diary entries from 1885 to 1886 note Robert's\n church-related activities, including the number of baptisms,\n illnesses of church members, attendance at Episcopal\n conferences, and descriptions of his sermons. On page 90,\n Robert talks about his participation as a minister in Ulysses\n Simpson Grant's funeral, and on page 59, Robert laments the\n low nature of his annual salary of $600.00 in 1885. He gives\n much information about his family's daily life, travels,\n illnesses, and birthdays. His children's attendance at school\n and careers are also mentioned. A trip to Virginia, including\n to \"Oakland,\" and Charlottesville, are discussed on pages\n 109-111.","Robert Nelson's correspondence, 1851-1886, was mostly\n written from or addressed to Shanghai, China, where Nelson\n served as a missionary. Included are interesting and detailed\n descriptions of Chinese customs, his family's activities, the\n burning of his chapel and people stealing all the chapel\n furnishings, baptism of Chinese people, and the children's\n school Nelson ran. One letter from Nelson to his sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson of Charlottesville,\n concerns a female student whose family threatens to break her\n legs because she is a Christian.","Robert Nelson's miscellaneous papers include a resolution,\n 1881, by the Committee for the Shanghai Temperance Society. It\n honors Nelson for his service on the eve of his departure from\n China to live the remainder of his life in Connecticut.","Series 5 contains the papers of Rose (Points) Nelson\n (1827-1885), including correspondence, undated-1870,\n containing a partial letter (n.d.) from Rose's daughter, Mary\n C. Nelson, while Mary was traveling by ship towards Yokohama,\n Japan; and a letter (1870) of Rose's to Mary C. Nelson giving\n general advice on life as Mary left their home in Shanghai,\n China, to go to the United States.","Rose Nelson's papers also include parts of a diary written\n probably in 1865 while she was at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County,\n Va. In the diary she discusses her children and family\n activities, the death of Mr. Lincoln, whom she compared to\n Herod, her glowing opinion of the slaves, and how people are\n avoiding taking the oath of allegiance; and a narrative, 1865,\n concerning the death of her son, William Nelson.","Series 6 includes papers of Francis Page (1848-1918). His\n correspondence, 1877-1910, includes a 1903(?) letter to his\n brother, Rosewell Page, concerning the beginning of his\n ministry at St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and letters to\n his other brother, Thomas Nelson Page, congratulating Tom and\n Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, Tom's first wife, on their first\n anniversary and congratulating Tom in 1893 on his second\n marriage to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, telling Tom of his\n call to St. John's Church, asking Tom if he knows anything\n about the church, and discussing family news, including in\n 1911 how Frank is coping with the loss of his first wife,\n Letitia Rives (Morris) Page (better known as Lettie).","Francis Page's legal papers, 1961, include incomplete\n affidavits related to Frank Page and J. Packard Laird, Jr.,\n concerning property in Hanover County, Va. Frank's heirs are\n listed.","Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) materials appear in Series\n 7. Correspondence, 1861-1922 (1,305 items) is arranged in\n chronological order, with undated materials appearing first.\n Fans of Page's works wrote letters commenting on his writing\n and his lectures and asking for autographs, biographical\n sketches of Page, new articles to print in their magazines, or\n permission to reprint portions of his work. Friends wrote to\n arrange meetings and trips, and some wrote their condolences\n at the death of his first wife, Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, in\n 1888. For charitable causes people ask Page to donate money or\n to autograph copies of his books. Notable correspondents\n include William Gillette, an actor and playwright, Joseph\n Forney Johnston, a governor of Alabama and a U.S. Senator,\n Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress from 1899-1939, and his\n second wife, Florence (Lathrop) Field Page.","Most letters from 1861-1887 are written to Tom in Hanover\n County, Va., Richmond, or Charlottesville. From 1861-1877 most\n of the correspondence is business-related as Tom was a\n practicing lawyer in his early adult years, but there is\n scattered correspondence from family and friends, including\n his first wife, Annie. One business letter concerns Tom's\n efforts to buy a farm in Hanover County, Va. In the 1880s his\n correspondence becomes more numerous as he continues to reside\n in Hanover County and Richmond practicing law and beginning to\n receive fan letters for \"Marse Chan,\" one of his early stories\n first appearing in 1884 in the Century Magazine and published\n in a collection in 1887. In 1886 Tom and Annie are married and\n some letters to Tom are written to him aboard ship headed for\n England where they spent their honeymoon. Also, in 1886,\n Rosewell Page, Tom's younger brother, writes to him about his\n law practice in Danville, Va. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's law\n partner in the firm of Page and Carter, Richmond, Va., writes\n Tom in 1887 while Tom is on a trip to Brussels. Carter\n congratulates him on his writing and discusses a Richmond\n group of writers called The Skaerl. Tom writes Carter from St.\n Paul, Minn., talking about his travel and investments. Over\n the years that Tom travels or lives away from Virginia, Carter\n helps to keep the law practice going in Richmond and helps Tom\n with his financial concerns. (After Tom marries the second\n time to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, the partnership is\n dissolved and Tom devotes the rest of his life to writing,\n donating time and money to charitable causes, and serving as\n U.S. Ambassador to Italy during World War I.)","Also, in 1887, most of the correspondence comes from fans\n wanting Tom to lecture in their towns, thanking him for\n assisting them in critiquing their writing, asking for help in\n getting their works published, wanting copies of his work,\n wanting articles written by Tom to publish in university\n publications, newspapers, and magazines, and asking for\n autographs. One publisher expresses his disappointment that\n Tom goes to another publisher. Unrelated to his writing there\n are occasional business letters, including a telegram in which\n a gentleman wants to invest in Page's iron works.","Beginning in 1888, Tom and Annie write frequently while she\n spends time with her parents at \"Staunton Hill,\" Charlotte\n County, Va., or while Tom travels frequently on speaking\n tours. Tom shares some news of his legal schedule, Richmond\n news, and how he misses her. On September 4, 1888, Tom writes\n \"Law is dull. Indeed, I do not know what I should do without\n my Literary side-shows from time to time.\" While traveling in\n Georgia on August 2, 1888, Tom talks about his meeting and\n impressions of Joel Chandler Harris. On August 31, 1888, Tom\n writes Annie that he is trying to get Two Little Confederates\n ready to return to Charles Scribner. Fans continue to\n correspond with Tom praising In Ole Virginia in which appears\n \"Marse Chan,\" and asking him to lecture in locations such as\n Charlottesville, Staunton, and Richmond, all in Va.,\n Louisville, Ky., Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Md., New York,\n N.Y., and Tennessee. Henry Woodfin Grady, a friend of Tom's,\n requests that Tom come to do readings in Atlanta, and Charles\n Scribner communicates with Tom about publishing his\n writings.","Annie died in December 1888, and thus much of the extant\n correspondence for this year includes sympathy letters to Tom.\n Family and friends extend their sympathies at his loss, but\n also, complete strangers write from around the United\n States.","From January through March, 1889, numerous people continue\n to send their sympathies from the United States and abroad.\n Richard Malcolm Johnston, a Georgia lawyer, author, and\n educator who idealized the South as Tom did, offers his\n condolences and talks about his readings on the lecture\n circuit with Mark Twain. In this January 23rd letter, Richard\n writes, \"We had an excellent audience. I never saw Mark so\n fine. It was most generous in [sic] him to volunteer to come\n to my help.\" Tom was to have been Richard's lecture partner\n but Clemens filled in for Tom who canceled due to the death of\n Annie. James Burton Pond, in February and March, corresponds\n with Tom during this sad time. He served as a general agent\n and manager for numerous writers and musicians. In February,\n an artist from Washington, D.C., A. G. Keaton, is arranging\n the details for a portrait he is doing of Annie. (In July and\n August, F. R. Pustet and Co., New York, N.Y., converses with\n Tom about a stained glass window being made as a memorial for\n Annie.)","By April, 1889, Tom began to receive more business-related\n correspondence. Johnston wrote more often, encouraging Tom to\n enter a new lecture arrangement with Pond. Hilgard Tyndale of\n Charles Scribner's Sons discussed the play he was writing\n based on \"Marse Chan\" (3/10/89 and 4/4/89). Several colleges\n invited him to visit. J. M. Stoddart with Lippincott's Monthly\n Magazine notified Tom on April 2nd that he would receive\n $400.00 for two articles he had written, while D. Lothrop\n Company of Boston wanted Tom to write a short serial. Molly\n Elliott Seawell, a fellow author, seemed to see Tom as a\n mentor and asked for advice on her writing.","To help assuage Tom's sorrow, Rosewell and Tom traveled in\n Europe in July and August of 1889. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's\n law partner, kept them abreast of Richmond news and mentioned\n possible investments (7/24/89 and 8/19/89). Fans continued to\n write asking questions about his writings, requesting copies\n of his works, and asking for writing advice. In August, Sally\n Page (Nelson) Hughes, daughter of William Nelson of \"Midway,\"\n Mecklenburg County, Va., gave Tom her personal reminiscences\n of Michel Ney, also known as Peter Stuart Ney.","Tom lived with Rosewell in Richmond during 1890-1891 except\n for when he has away on business, especially in Kentucky. He\n traveled briefly in England during this time also. Family\n letters include letters from Annie's mother, Sarah Alexander\n (Seddon) Bruce (5/7/91 and 11/4/91), Thomas Jefferson Page, a\n Southern expatriate living in Florence, Italy, (1/12/90 and\n 2/26/90), his aunt, Anne Rose Page, who lived much of her life\n at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and his uncle, William\n Nelson, who was the manager of \"Oakland,\" asking for financial\n assistance (3/18/91). (There is much correspondence between\n Tom and his mother, Elizabeth; it appears in Series 3.\n Likewise, correspondence with his father, John, appears in\n Series 2; there is much less of this\n correspondence.)Publishers continued to write Tom, including\n Warwick House, an English publisher writing about royalties;\n Ward, Lock, Boyden and Co., London, trying to defend their\n handling of the sales of In Ole Virginia; and The Christian\n Union, New York, concerning revising a paper Tom has written.\n Much of the correspondence in these years, however, came from\n fans and friends who praised Tom and his works asking again\n for biographical sketches of him, thanking him for speaking to\n their group, encouraging Tom to write a history of the South,\n wanting autographs, and inviting him to visit their homes\n while he is on the lecture circuit. Almost all of Tom's fan\n mail is positive except for two negative letters (one dated\n 10/31/91) from a fundamentalist concerning how Tom rendered a\n verse from the Bible. William G. Eggleston of The Chicago\n Herald wanted help with using black dialect (5/31/90). A few\n letters illustrate Tom's philanthropic nature, as in November\n 1890, someone wrote to ask him to become a member of the Maury\n Memorial Commission. He raised money for the Richmond Public\n Library; Joseph Reid Anderson sent Tom a contribution for the\n library on March 2, 1891.","A baroness in France and Tom began corresponding in 1891.\n There are six letters starting on March 11 concerning\n Alexandre Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire, who wanted to\n establish an academy of arts and sciences in Richmond after\n the American Revolution. Baroness Yetta Blaze de Bury asked\n for Tom's assistance in finding more information about Quesnay\n de Beaurepaire. She also commented on another of Tom's works,\n On Newfound River.","In 1892 Tom continued to live in Richmond, Va., as a\n bachelor in-between frequent travels for speaking engagements.\n Friends invited Tom to visit with them when he spoke in places\n such as New York, Alabama, and Texas, while fans wrote to ask\n him to speak at schools in Louisville, Ky., Winchester, Ky.,\n and Roanoke, Va. or to speak at clubs like the Southern Club\n of Harvard, to provide complimentary passes at clubs like the\n Union League Club of Chicago when he visited in that city, to\n help them with their writing aspirations, and to praise On\n Newfound River and The Old South.","Tom's life changed when he married Florence (Lathrop) Field\n Page on June 6, 1893. After that time, his visits Washington,\n D.C., New York City, and York Harbor, Maine, but throughout\n his marriage Florence and Tom traveled every year overseas.\n Frequent letters from Rosewell kept Tom abreast of matters at\n \"Oakland,\" including comments on how Tom's works were in\n demand in Richmond bookstores, news of neighbors and friends,\n and family activity such as their mother's giving Christmas\n presents to white and black workers at \"Oakland\" or their\n father's discussion about where he was on Christmas Eve during\n each year of the Civil War (12/24/94). Rosewell discussed\n investments, selling family land in Hanover County, Va., Tom's\n tenant, Edmund T. Taylor, at \"Mont Air,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n the status of crops, horses, and livestock, and Tom's opinion\n of Uncle Tom's Cabin as discussed in The Atlanta Evening News\n (1/16/01). Edmund T. Taylor, Tom's tenant farmer in Bandana,\n Va., wrote Tom in August and September of 1901 about the corn,\n potato, and wheat crop and the livestock, sent a drawing of a\n barn that he wanted Tom to approve, and discussed rebuilding\n bridges in Hanover County, Va., washed out by high water.\n Tom's letters to his family in Virginia are rarely found in\n Mss1P1465aFA2 but his letter of May 17, 1893 to Rosewell was\n written prior to going on his honeymoon aboard a steamer to\n London. Tom enclosed a check to provide for contingencies at\n \"Oakland\" and urged Rosewell, if necessary, to contact Thomas\n Nelson Carter, Tom's power-of-attorney and law partner, for\n stocks to be sold to provide emergency monies for the\n homestead.","Business letters came from a lawyer in Charlottesville,\n Va., concerning land Tom wished to buy (7/28/93), Ward, Lock\n and Bowden, a publisher in London, with an attached agreement\n concerning publishing of Tom's works in England (7/14/94),\n Charles Scribner discussing publishing schedules, royalties,\n and a contract for Polly (10/31/94 and 2/11/95) actually\n published earlier in In Ole Virginia in 1887, J. Cabell\n Brockenbrough concerning translating Tom's work into French\n (8/23/95), Sol Smith Russell concerning critiquing Tom's plays\n (7/17/96), and Elizabeth Marbury of New York who was trying to\n submit Red Rock to playwrights and managers but is not having\n any luck (1/29/01). Tom received correspondence from the\n various clubs he was a member of in Washington, D.C., such as\n the Chevy Chase Club (9/13/00). Over the years he served as an\n officer in these clubs and helped with renovations and\n fund-raising. John Stewart Bryan, writing for his father\n Joseph Bryan who was ill, wrote several letters in 1900\n concerning stock in the Lake Superior Co. Occasionally Tom\n received mundane letters about his Washington, D.C., home at\n No. 1759 R Street. Some refer to repairs needed on his\n property. In October 1900, his insurance agent sent a list\n with evaluations of the contents of this home. Like most folks\n with ample financial means, Tom frequently received\n fund-raising letters. For example, a feeder school to the\n University of Virginia located at Morrisville, Va., requested\n money in December 1902.","Friends and fans continued to write with high praises for\n one of Tom's latest works, Red Rock, wanting to know if his\n fiction was based on actual events, or writing to share\n similar stories of black slaves. Ellen Shields of Natchez,\n Miss., inspired by Tom's viewpoint, discussed a sketch of a\n black carpenter who worked for her father on their plantations\n and who liked to preach (7/2/00). The editor of The\n Philadelphia Item asked Tom's opinion about British and\n American reviewers (8/18/00).","Distant family members and sometimes unrelated folks wrote\n Tom for political influence and financial assistance. B. M.\n Fontaine did not want to become further indebted to Tom, and\n Joseph Reid Anderson Bruce, a nephew by marriage, wanted some\n help in getting a job (9/17/00). In June 1900, A. L. Nelson\n wished Tom could help finance a distant relative's education\n at the University of Virginia. A cousin in Naples, Florida,\n requested Tom's aid in getting someone into the U.S. Naval\n Academy (2/12/03), while Frank Nelson, Jr., thanked Tom for\n money loaned to him at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.","From 1904-1908, Tom's correspondence again was an even mix\n of fan letters and business letters. Fund-raising letters\n abound with several requests for complete sets of his printed\n works to be donated to various libraries in Virginia, for\n money to renovate an Episcopal church, or for money to pay for\n medical treatment of indigent persons. Marie von Unschuld at\n the University of Music and Dramatic Art in D.C. wrote for\n Tom's financial assistance in establishing scholarships for\n her students (7/18/04). Tom received mail from agricultural\n researchers about alfalfa experiments and inoculating\n leguminous plants and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\n concerning the building of a road near Beaverdam in Hanover\n County, Va.","Letters from friends and family are scattered through\n 1904-1908; most family letters are from Rosewell, especially\n in 1905, sharing news from the mill and news of the corn,\n wheat, millet, and pea crops, cutting of timber, installing of\n a phone line, selling of lambs and wool, building of a dam on\n one of the Hanover County properties, and changes in tenants.\n Rosewell sent a six-month statement concerning all farm costs\n and asked Tom to pay various debts. Other family letters to\n Tom discuss his financing of schooling for Rosewell's\n daughter, Anne, and for a distant relative, Randolph Rosewell\n Page, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A cousin from Clifton\n Forge, Va., Lizzie R. Taylor, asked Tom for money to build a\n rectory. Strangers as well as friends wanted Tom to help them\n get jobs such as J. L. Hall, a professor at William and Mary\n College, who wanted a job at the University of North Carolina\n (7/7/04), or a law professor at Wake Forest College wanting\n Tom to go to the White House and ask the President to appoint\n him to a district court judgeship (12/16/08). Several letters\n in 1904 indicate that Tom was trying to influence the Library\n of Congress to hire Alexander Welbourne Weddell.","Notable letters to Tom in this time period came from Samuel\n Langhorne Clemens, thanking Florence and Tom for their\n kindness to his wife, who died in June 1904; from Thomas\n Nelson Carter about a land auction; and Teddy Roosevelt, who\n Carter would not vote for \"on account of his putting forward\n the Negroes in the platform...\" (6/24/04); from John Singleton\n Mosby concerning the Gettysburg campaign (10/26/08); from\n Ernest Thompson Seton, an animal painter, lecturer, and\n adventurer (12/8/08); and from Victor Howard Metcalf, lawyer\n and Secretary of the Navy, thanking Tom for a copy of his work\n on Robert E. Lee.","The last box of Thomas Nelson Page correspondence dates\n from 1909 to 1922. The usual pattern of letters prevails here\n but noteworthy letters follow. Leonard Gunnell, a cousin by\n marriage, worked at the Smithsonian Institution and sent Tom a\n picture of the old home at Oakland (1/09). (Oakland burned in\n 1899 and was rebuilt in six months.) Also, in January 1909,\n Tom received letters about horses he can buy in Vermont and\n Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick, son of the inventor, sends Tom\n a book about the Southern black; \"...I send it herewith,\n knowing that you, who understand so thoroly [sic] the old-time\n life of the Southern negro...(2/3/09).\" From Lexington, Ky.,\n Foxhall A. Daingerfield writes Tom his impressions of Robert\n E. Lee, who he knew personally during the Civil War (2/8/09).\n In September 1909, Charles Scribner's Sons enclosed a contract\n for publication of John Marvel, Assistant.","In 1912 there were many letters from Ruth (Nelson) Page to\n Tom. It appears Ruth was helping Rosewell with the management\n of Oakland and other properties owned or subsidized by Tom.\n Rosewell campaigned and won the election to become the second\n auditor of Virginia. He served in that post until 1928; thus,\n much of his time was spent in Richmond. Ruth's letters\n describe family and farm news, especially the health and death\n of her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\n Rosewell still wrote Tom on a few occasions, but the remainder\n of the 1912 letters are sympathy letters from strangers,\n friends, and family concerning Elizabeth's death. A few\n thank-you notes from distant cousins discuss Tom's kindness in\n paying their school tuition.","From 1913 to 1917 there are only twenty items, mainly\n letters from Ruth and Rosewell. Ruth praised Tom upon becoming\n the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Ruth and Rosewell's daughter,\n Anne (Page) Johns, wrote her uncle from Stuart Hall School,\n Staunton, Va.; Tom financed this niece's education. For a\n number of years, there was a school run at \"Oakland,\" and Ruth\n mentioned \"our academy\" in her February 20, 1916 letter. Also,\n in 1916, Jonathan Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, wrote Tom\n about the Federal Reserve Act (5/12/16). Walter Hines Page, a\n cousin and an editor at Doubleday, Page and Co., Long Island,\n N.Y., informed Tom of changes in their personnel, resulting in\n delays dealing with his book (unidentified) (1/19/13). From\n 1918 until Tom's death in 1922, correspondence is slim,\n numbering thirty-two items. The effects of World War I are\n quite evident in letters to Tom in 1918. H. Rozier Dulany, a\n real estate agent in Washington, D.C., wrote Tom about a\n tenant's rent, travels to Tom's farms in Virginia, selling\n Tom's cattle, and the \"scarcity of farm labor in Virginia\"\n (1/1/18). Several of Ruth's letters discussed the effects of\n the war, especially her letter of June 23, 1918. Her April\n 1918 letters dwell on the death of Frank Page, Tom's older\n brother. In September, Ruth explained her move to Richmond\n where her daughter Anne is working for the war effort,\n postponing her education until after the war. In October, Ruth\n discussed the Spanish flu epidemic in Richmond, and in\n November, Ruth described the impact on Richmond of returning\n soldiers. Anne wrote her uncle on October 20 explaining the\n nature of her war job at the bag-loading plant, mentioning\n measuring black powder for ammunition. Rosewell wrote Tom in\n Italy in February 1919, \"You have filled one of the most\n difficult posts in the world with dignity and honor....\" In\n one of Tom's last letters, he wrote to \"Lil Gals,\" probably\n his step-daughters, mentioning he had to borrow money to carry\n on at York Harbor, Maine (9/18/21).","Thomas Nelson Page materials also include financial records\n consisting of receipts or bills for office supplies, crops\n such as oats and hay, farm equipment, lumber, hardware,\n freight charges from Europe, but mainly, royalty payments from\n Charles Scribner's Sons.","Among Page's miscellaneous materials are three\n certificates, 1874-1877, from the University of Virginia for\n Tom's having passed courses in law, and there is a commission\n for Page having attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant of the\n Richmond Light Infantry Blues.","Scattered papers refer to cases Tom handled when he\n practiced law in Richmond, Va. Other notable papers give\n Rosewell the power-of-attorney (1913) for Tom and include a\n copy of Tom's will (1922).","Among the last items in this series are newspaper articles\n about Tom, including a description of his funeral service in\n 1922. Also present are pictures, 1919-1921, including one that\n is undated but identified a dress that belonged to Elizabeth\n (Burwell) Nelson. The caption on this picture says the dress\n was kept at \"Oakland\" and, thus, was lost when the house\n burned in 1899. Photographs taken in 1919 document Italian\n troops guarding the American Embassy and concern Italian\n Premier Vittorio Orlando's return from the Paris peace\n conference. Another photograph shows Tom and Rosewell in\n Denver, Colo. Finishing the series are two undated addresses\n concerning the history of the settlement of Jamestown and the\n commemoration of the Virginia Convention of 1776. A speech,\n probably written by Tom, dated 1906, was given in Lisbon for\n the American Legation, and concerns the medical profession.\n Miscellaneous papers include the wedding announcement (1886)\n for Tom's first marriage to Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, a sonnet\n (undated) to Amelie Louise (Rives) Chandler Troubetzkoy\n written on reading her \"Grief and Faith\", recent news (1919)\n about Yugoslavia as reported in the Italian press, an essay\n (undated) about Page and \"Marse Chan,\" an invitation list\n (undated) for a dinner, probably given in honor of Jonathan\n Daniels at the American Embassy in Italy, and notes (undated)\n about On Newfound River, written in memory of Annie.","Series Eight contains the papers of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page (1867-1888), known as \"Annie,\" Thomas Nelson Page's first\n wife. Her correspondence is mainly from family and friends,\n including her parents, brothers, and sisters, who share family\n happenings and alwayed praise Tom and his writing. William\n Cabell Bruce, a brother, described his life as a lawyer in\n Baltimore, Md., in November 1882, while Charles Bruce, her\n father, wrote about his daily routine at \"Staunton Hill,\n Charlotte County, Va., in March 1887. From 1885 to 1888, James\n Douglas Bruce, another of her brothers, wrote Annie while he\n lived abroad in Germany and France. Family included Thomas\n Nelson Carter, who was a cousin of Annie's and the law partner\n of her husband, and Tom's aunt, Anne Rose Page. In December\n 1886, she wrote Annie a story about a black child brought up\n by a white woman in Goochland County, Va. He murdered the\n woman when he turned eighteen because she would not buy him a\n certain pair of shoes. Anne Rose also commented on Tom's\n writings. Friends such as Lelia Augusta (Myers) Morgan wrote\n in August 1886, about the earthquake in Richmond, Va., while\n Annie and Tom are on their European honeymoon. In February\n 1887, an unidentified correspondent wrote from England\n mentioning a dinner she attended where several artists were\n present including James Abbott McNeill Whistler.","Series Nine includes correspondence exists between Florence\n (Lathrop) Field Page (1858-1921), Thomas Nelson Page's second\n wife, and Rosewell Page, Ruth (Nelson) Page, Anne (Page)\n Johns, all relatives of Tom, and Florence's grandson by her\n daughter Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Henry Field (originally\n named Henry Gibson). Henry wrote from England and described\n the Christmas activities around him in 1908. A few letters to\n Florence relate to financial transactions or obtaining a tutor\n for one of Flo's daughters. Also included are accounts,\n 1897-1900, in part pertaining to paying a tutor and to a\n purchase at a home furnishings store in Washington, D.C.","Series 10 begins with the correspondence, 1888-1938, of\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939). Half of Rosewell's correspondence\n comes from family or friends and half from business\n acquaintances. Aunt Anne Rose Page, along with Rosewell's\n mother, write him about the death in 1893 of Frank's baby,\n Rose, and affairs at Oakland. Ruth, his wife, gives him news\n of their children and Rosewell's parents and requests various\n things for Rosewell to bring from Richmond. Elizabeth Hope\n Stewart of \"Brook Hill\" sends him congratulations for his\n marriage to Ruth in 1898. Other folks compliment him on\n becoming a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and\n express sympathy in the loss of Tom's two wives. While Anne\n (Page) Johns attends Stuart Hall School, Staunton, Va.,\n Rosewell writes his daughter about family news.","As a member of the law firm of Rutherfoord and Page,\n Richmond, Va., Rosewell received legal letters related to\n cases he handled, but much of his business correspondence\n related to either his biography of his brother Tom or Tom's\n publications. From 1922-1937, Charles Scribner's Sons\n corresponded with Rosewell about publishing his biography of\n Tom, royalty payments for at least 28 of Tom's publications,\n renewing copyright on one of Tom's stories, asking Rosewell's\n permission to publish a new edition of Two Little\n Confederates, arranging a special educational edition of Red\n Rock, and concerning movie rights for Tom's works. In 1934,\n Lola D. Moore, a representative for authors and artists in\n Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Calif., corresponded with\n Rosewell wanting to market Red Rock in the movie industry.\n Another agent, Grace Morse of New York, also wrote Rosewell\n about trying to sell movie rights. Other business letters\n refer to \"Oakland\" and the surrounding area in Hanover County,\n Va., including building of a bridge across the South Anna\n River and placement of telephone lines through Page\n property.","The remainder of the series includes accounts, 1897-1927,\n including five notes (1905) on the school account for Hall's\n Free School run by Miss Orr and, probably, sponsored by the\n Page family; notes on logging expenses (no date); accounts\n between Tom and Rosewell concerning farm expenses in\n 1907-1908; and a royalty report for Tom's publication for\n 1927. Also included are undated manuscripts, including a draft\n of Rosewell's Hanover County: Its History and Legends and\n Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman. A draft\n of a speech about Jamestown filed in Series 7.7 possibly was\n by Rosewell also. Lastly, miscellaneous materials, 1868-1916,\n include an undated newspaper picture of Rosewell, his wife and\n daughter, and others attending a memorial observance of Edgar\n Allan Poe's birthday, and a biographical sketch and picture of\n Rosewell.","Ruth (Nelson) Page's papers make up Series 11. Most of\n Ruth's correspondence is found in earlier series of her\n mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page, her\n brother-in-law, Thomas Nelson Page, and her husband, Rosewell\n Page. Other family letters found here include those from Minna\n (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Thomas Nelson Page's step-daughter,\n about a visit to \"Rock Ledge,\" York Harbor, Maine, and of\n Ruth's son, Robert Nelson Page. One letter by this son was\n written in August 1921, from \"Rock Ledge.\" In October 1918,\n Mary C. Nelson, Ruth's sister who served as a Red Cross nurse\n during World War I, wrote from Paris. John Cook Wyllie,\n Director of Libraries at the University of Virginia, addressed\n Ruth in July 1967, discussing the acquisition of Thomas Nelson\n Page papers.","Series 12 contains materials of Anne Page. In 1914, Anne\n Page, daughter of Rosewell and Ruth Page, attended Stuart Hall\n School in Staunton, Va., and she wrote her brother, Robert\n Nelson Page. During World War I, Anne was back in the Richmond\n area working for the war effort at DuPont Engineering Co.;\n this company sent congratulations to its workers, including\n Anne, on November 14, 1918. Anne wrote Karl E. Johnson at the\n Red Cross headquarters in Petersburg, also in 1918, asking if\n she and the Hall's Free School, probably run under the\n auspices of the Page family at \"Oakland,\" could open a canteen\n on the Richmond-Washington Highway to serve soldiers. (Then,\n during World War II, Anne received a letter from Richmond\n Filter Center thanking its workers for their help in wartime.)\n From 1929-1941, Anne received letters from the national Junior\n League Magazine concerning articles that she wrote for this\n publication. William B. Thalhimer, Jr., wrote in April 1951,\n about wanting to honor her as one of Richmond's noted authors.\n From 1967-1969, Anne received letters from various persons\n associated with the University of Virginia concerning the sale\n of Thomas Nelson Page manuscripts to the college.","Anne (Page) Johns's materials also include an annual report\n for 1930-1931, an undated constitution, copies of The Leaguer\n from May 1929-June 1931, and drafts of historical articles on\n the Junior League of Richmond; and war ration books from World\n War II.","One of two letters to Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971),\n husband of Anne (Page) Johns, arrived in April 1953, from an\n assistant to the Ambassador of Italy, thanking Dr. Johns for\n his courtesies when the assistant visited Virginia at the\n centennial celebration of the birth of Thomas Nelson Page.\n Other Frank Johns materials include a war ration book from\n World War II, an undated news article concerning the receipt\n of a portrait of Dr. Johns at Hampden-Sydney College, and a\n 1950 article about the college naming an auditorium for him.\n Johns had served as chairman of the Board of Trustees since\n 1938.","Section 14 concerns Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns) Hill, daughter of Anne\n (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns. Four scrapbooks trace\n Hill's life, beginning as a student in Petersburg, and\n following him throughout his career. The first volume, dated\n 1896-1942, includes a catalogue for the 1895-1896 session of\n the University School in Richmond, Va., the school first\n started in Petersburg, Va., by William Gordon McCabe. Hill is\n listed as a student. Hill participated in sports activities at\n the University School, as well as in college at the University\n of Virginia, which he entered in 1897. The baseball team\n schedule for 1898 includes a picture of the team. After Hill's\n college years, he continued to enjoy sports as noted in this\n scrapbook. One article dated April 11, 1942, concerns Hill's\n son, William M. Hill, captain of the University of Virginia\n football team.","The second volume of Hill's scrapbooks, dated 1904-1943,\n focuses on Hill's adult civic and social activities such as\n his membership in the Commonwealth Club and the Richmond\n German, efforts to get more playgrounds across Virginia,\n service as a member of the Civilian Examining Committee for\n the U.S. War Department in 1918 and a member of the Board of\n Managers of the Richmond Male Orphan Society in 1919. In the\n nineteen twenties he served on the Medical College of Virginia\n Board of Visitors, and in 1936, he was a director of the\n Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. On December 17, 1940,\n Lady Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Shaw Astor wrote Hill after he\n sent a group contribution to relieve the Air Raid distress.\n Personal asides include information about the death of his\n mother, Frances Cadwallader (Harrison) Hill, in 1916, and the\n death of his father, William Maury Hill, in 1918, about the\n wedding of his daughter, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson, in\n 1940, and about the death of Hill, himself, in 1943.","In the scrapbook for 1904-1943 Hill documented the progress\n of his adult career. In his young adult years, he served as\n assistant cashier at the National State Bank in Richmond and\n then, in 1915, he became a director of the National State and\n City Bank, later known as the State-Planters Bank and Trust\n Company. In 1917 he was still cashier but was elected to be a\n vice-president, and in 1920, he became president of the bank.\n A 1920 article by Hill appeared in the Journal of Accountancy.\n Hill became president of Old Dominion Trust Co. in 1922. Other\n news articles highlight his membership in professional groups\n such as the American Bankers Association, his service on the\n Advisory Committee of the Richmond Loan Agency of the\n Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, and his\n appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Advisory\n Committee on Works Allotment in 1935. Enclosures are dated\n 1939 and concern Hill's wife, Lucy, and the birth of their\n seventh child, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson. There are\n photographs and negatives of Diana and other siblings.","The last volume of the scrapbooks, dated 1914-1917,\n concerns Hill's appointment and service as the chief of staff\n of the Governor of Virginia, Henry Carter Stuart. The letter\n from Stuart offering the position to Hill is in the scrapbook\n as well as articles about Stuart. Also included are other\n newspaper articles about Hill's professional and civic\n activities.","Among Hill's miscellany are the certificate signed by\n Governor Stuart, making Hill his chief of staff, along with a\n memorial editorial of December 2, 1943, celebrating the life\n of Hill.","Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill materials include\n letters congratulating Lucy, wife of Julien Harrison Hill, on\n the birth of Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson.","Series Sixteen includes correspondence of extended family\n members in the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson, Points,\n and Page families. Notable letters include an undated Civil\n War letter from a hospital at Warm Springs, Va. from a\n preacher who writes about how hard it is to console the sick\n soldiers and a January 3, 1864 letter from Stevenson Points to\n Lizzie Stevenson when he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Del.\n At the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page in December 1888,\n members of the Bruce family receive sympathy letters. In\n January 1891, George Washington Points corresponded with Mary\n C. Nelson about the genealogy of the Points (also known as\n Poyntz) family. Bryan Lathrop, brother of Florence (Lathrop)\n Field Page, admonished Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby about the\n status of her finances in 1912. Mary C. Nelson, sister of Ruth\n (Nelson) Page and Red Cross nurse during World War I, wrote an\n interesting letter in November 1918, about the ending of the\n war and the reactions in Paris. A last notable letter\n (undated) was written from Scotland to Miss Bessie (otherwise\n unidentified) and is from Johannes Wolf, a musicologist\n specializing in medieval music.","There are no restrictions.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 P1456 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Mrs. William Maury Hill, Richmond, Va., in 1989.\n Accessioned June 26, 1996."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Authors, American -- Virginia --\n History.","China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-\n 1912.","Diaries -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th\n century.","Diaries -- Connecticut -- Woodbury -- History --\n 19th century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 20th century.","Education -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Episcopal Church -- Connecticut -- Clergy --\n History -- 19th century.","Episcopal Church -- Virginia -- History.","Family -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","Farm management -- Virginia -- History..","Hanover County (Va.) - - Social life and\n customs.","Laity -- Eipscopal Church -- Virginia.","Missionaries -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Mothers and sons -- Virginia -- History.","Nelson, Robert, 1819-1886.","Oakland (Hanover County, Va.)","Page, Elizabeth Burwell Nelson,\n 1821-1912.","Page family.","Page, Rosewell, 1858-1939.","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.","Virginia -- Social life and customs.","Women -- Virginia -- Family\n relationships.","Women -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Authors, American -- Virginia --\n History.","China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-\n 1912.","Diaries -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th\n century.","Diaries -- Connecticut -- Woodbury -- History --\n 19th century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 20th century.","Education -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Episcopal Church -- Connecticut -- Clergy --\n History -- 19th century.","Episcopal Church -- Virginia -- History.","Family -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","Farm management -- Virginia -- History..","Hanover County (Va.) - - Social life and\n customs.","Laity -- Eipscopal Church -- Virginia.","Missionaries -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Mothers and sons -- Virginia -- History.","Nelson, Robert, 1819-1886.","Oakland (Hanover County, Va.)","Page, Elizabeth Burwell Nelson,\n 1821-1912.","Page family.","Page, Rosewell, 1858-1939.","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.","Virginia -- Social life and customs.","Women -- Virginia -- Family\n relationships.","Women -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["2,050 (ca.)items (18 manuscipt\n boxes)"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open for research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open for research."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is arranged in sixteen sections by main entry\n and further subdivided by subject or record type where\n necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Collection is arranged in sixteen sections by main entry\n and further subdivided by subject or record type where\n necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords of four generations of the Page family of Hanover\n County and Richmond, Va., and related families. Represented\n are Francis Page (1780-1849); his son John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, a graduate of the University of\n Virginia, lawyer, and for four years an attorney for the\n Commonwealth in Hanover County; Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page (1821-1912), wife of John Page and mother of Francis\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page, and Rosewell Page; Robert Nelson\n (1819-1886), Episcopal missionary to China and brother of\n Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; Robert's wife, Rose (Points)\n Nelson (1827-1885); Francis Page (1849- 1918), better known as\n \"Frank,\" an Episcopal priest who served parishes in Virginia,\n Texas, and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) of\n Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., and York Harbor, Me., lawyer,\n lecturer and writer, and U.S. Ambassador to Italy from\n 1912-1918; Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page (1867-1888), first wife of\n Thomas Nelson Page and originally from \"Staunton Hill,\"\n Charlotte County, Va.; Florence (Lathrop) Field Page\n (1858-1921), first married to Henry Field (brother of Marshall\n Field) and then married in 1893 to Thomas Nelson Page;\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939) of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, lawyer\n in Richmond, writer, member of the General Assembly of\n Virginia, and second auditor of Virginia from 1912-1928; Ruth\n (Nelson) Page (1871-1975?), second wife of Rosewell Page; Anne\n (Page) Johns (b. 1899) of Richmond, daughter of Rosewell and\n Ruth (Nelson) Page; Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971), Anne\n (Page) Johns' husband; and Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n banker in Richmond and father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns)\n Hill, daughter of Anne (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns;\n and Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill (b. 1881), wife of\n Julien Harrison Hill. Also included are scattered\n correspondence of the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson,\n and Points families, and Page cousins.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Records of four generations of the Page family of Hanover\n County and Richmond, Va., and related families. Represented\n are Francis Page (1780-1849); his son John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, a graduate of the University of\n Virginia, lawyer, and for four years an attorney for the\n Commonwealth in Hanover County; Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page (1821-1912), wife of John Page and mother of Francis\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page, and Rosewell Page; Robert Nelson\n (1819-1886), Episcopal missionary to China and brother of\n Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; Robert's wife, Rose (Points)\n Nelson (1827-1885); Francis Page (1849- 1918), better known as\n \"Frank,\" an Episcopal priest who served parishes in Virginia,\n Texas, and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) of\n Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., and York Harbor, Me., lawyer,\n lecturer and writer, and U.S. Ambassador to Italy from\n 1912-1918; Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page (1867-1888), first wife of\n Thomas Nelson Page and originally from \"Staunton Hill,\"\n Charlotte County, Va.; Florence (Lathrop) Field Page\n (1858-1921), first married to Henry Field (brother of Marshall\n Field) and then married in 1893 to Thomas Nelson Page;\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939) of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, lawyer\n in Richmond, writer, member of the General Assembly of\n Virginia, and second auditor of Virginia from 1912-1928; Ruth\n (Nelson) Page (1871-1975?), second wife of Rosewell Page; Anne\n (Page) Johns (b. 1899) of Richmond, daughter of Rosewell and\n Ruth (Nelson) Page; Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971), Anne\n (Page) Johns' husband; and Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n banker in Richmond and father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns)\n Hill, daughter of Anne (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns;\n and Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill (b. 1881), wife of\n Julien Harrison Hill. Also included are scattered\n correspondence of the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson,\n and Points families, and Page cousins."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePage Family Papers, 1819-1976 (Mss1 P1465 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Page Family Papers, 1819-1976 (Mss1 P1465 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 of the collection begins with the papers of\n Francis Page (1780-1849), consisting of two receipts, one for\n the digging of a well (1819) and one for his subscription to\n the National Vaccine Institution (1825).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 contains the papers of John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and consist of correspondence,\n 1877-1898. Principal correspondents are his wife, Elizabeth\n Burwell (Nelson) Page, and his sons, Rosewell Page and Thomas\n Nelson Page. One of the few letters in the collection written\n by Rosewell as he practiced law in Danville, Va., is in this\n series. Letters by John Page to his son Thomas discuss family\n activity, political and business tasks that the father wants\n the son to handle in Richmond, Va., business and personal\n advice, and news of the crops at \"Oakland.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page (1821-1912) materials\n follow in Series 3. Page, of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n kept a diary, 1905, recording activities for each day. Entries\n describe the farm activities at \"Oakland,\" the servants and\n their roles, local epidemics of smallpox, and the lives of her\n son, Rosewell Page, and his wife, Ruth (Nelson) Page, who\n lived at \"Oakland,\" including frequent reference to Rosewell's\n role as a layman in the Episcopal Church, news of her other\n two sons, Francis (better known as Frank) Page, an Episcopal\n priest, and Thomas Nelson Page who occasionally visits\n \"Oakland\" and checks on his land holdings and mill operations\n in Hanover County, Va. Two pages of accounts are at the end of\n the diary and include references to servants' wages and farm\n expenses. Scattered accounts appear throughout the diary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso present are letters of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page, chiefly written to her middle son, Thomas Nelson Page,\n from 1876 to 1912. Elizabeth wrote primarily from \"Oakland,\"\n Hanover County, Va., but also while visiting her sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson, in Charlottesville. Her\n letters to Thomas are addressed to numerous locations around\n the United States, especially New York and York, Maine, and in\n Europe. In them, Elizabeth discusses her daily activities on\n the farm at \"Oakland\" and the activities of other family\n members such as her brother, William Nelson, who ran the\n farming operations at \"Oakland.\" With the help of servants,\n she tended chickens, hogs, ducks, and turkeys, preserves food,\n and handled other household tasks. Some of Elizabeth's letters\n to Thomas include attached letters from other relatives to\n Elizabeth such as Frank Page, her oldest son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to her correspondence with Thomas Nelson Page,\n Elizabeth's papers include letters from her school days at\n Long Branch written to her father, Thomas Nelson; letters from\n her son, Frank Page and his wife, Letitia Rives (Morris) Page,\n writing from Waco, Texas, where he served as an Episcopal\n priest in 1890 and in 1911 as a priest in Brooklyn, N. Y.; a\n 1877 letter from her brother, Robert Nelson, while serving as\n a missionary in China; an 1865 letter from Anne Wickham, a\n niece of Elizabeth, concerning the Civil War and her feeling\n that Jefferson Davis had no role in the assassination of\n Abraham Lincoln; and several letters to Elizabeth in 1888\n expressing sympathy over the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page's first wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4 begins with the diary of Robert Nelson (1819-1886)\n kept initially while serving as an Episcopal missionary in\n Shanghai, China, in 1878, as an account book for a children's\n school; then kept in Woodbury, Conn., during the last years of\n his life and that of his wife, Rose (Points) Nelson, whose\n picture and obituary appear on p. 108 of the volume. Robert\n Nelson was a brother of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary entries from 1885 to 1886 note Robert's\n church-related activities, including the number of baptisms,\n illnesses of church members, attendance at Episcopal\n conferences, and descriptions of his sermons. On page 90,\n Robert talks about his participation as a minister in Ulysses\n Simpson Grant's funeral, and on page 59, Robert laments the\n low nature of his annual salary of $600.00 in 1885. He gives\n much information about his family's daily life, travels,\n illnesses, and birthdays. His children's attendance at school\n and careers are also mentioned. A trip to Virginia, including\n to \"Oakland,\" and Charlottesville, are discussed on pages\n 109-111.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Nelson's correspondence, 1851-1886, was mostly\n written from or addressed to Shanghai, China, where Nelson\n served as a missionary. Included are interesting and detailed\n descriptions of Chinese customs, his family's activities, the\n burning of his chapel and people stealing all the chapel\n furnishings, baptism of Chinese people, and the children's\n school Nelson ran. One letter from Nelson to his sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson of Charlottesville,\n concerns a female student whose family threatens to break her\n legs because she is a Christian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Nelson's miscellaneous papers include a resolution,\n 1881, by the Committee for the Shanghai Temperance Society. It\n honors Nelson for his service on the eve of his departure from\n China to live the remainder of his life in Connecticut.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5 contains the papers of Rose (Points) Nelson\n (1827-1885), including correspondence, undated-1870,\n containing a partial letter (n.d.) from Rose's daughter, Mary\n C. Nelson, while Mary was traveling by ship towards Yokohama,\n Japan; and a letter (1870) of Rose's to Mary C. Nelson giving\n general advice on life as Mary left their home in Shanghai,\n China, to go to the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRose Nelson's papers also include parts of a diary written\n probably in 1865 while she was at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County,\n Va. In the diary she discusses her children and family\n activities, the death of Mr. Lincoln, whom she compared to\n Herod, her glowing opinion of the slaves, and how people are\n avoiding taking the oath of allegiance; and a narrative, 1865,\n concerning the death of her son, William Nelson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 6 includes papers of Francis Page (1848-1918). His\n correspondence, 1877-1910, includes a 1903(?) letter to his\n brother, Rosewell Page, concerning the beginning of his\n ministry at St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and letters to\n his other brother, Thomas Nelson Page, congratulating Tom and\n Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, Tom's first wife, on their first\n anniversary and congratulating Tom in 1893 on his second\n marriage to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, telling Tom of his\n call to St. John's Church, asking Tom if he knows anything\n about the church, and discussing family news, including in\n 1911 how Frank is coping with the loss of his first wife,\n Letitia Rives (Morris) Page (better known as Lettie).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrancis Page's legal papers, 1961, include incomplete\n affidavits related to Frank Page and J. Packard Laird, Jr.,\n concerning property in Hanover County, Va. Frank's heirs are\n listed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) materials appear in Series\n 7. Correspondence, 1861-1922 (1,305 items) is arranged in\n chronological order, with undated materials appearing first.\n Fans of Page's works wrote letters commenting on his writing\n and his lectures and asking for autographs, biographical\n sketches of Page, new articles to print in their magazines, or\n permission to reprint portions of his work. Friends wrote to\n arrange meetings and trips, and some wrote their condolences\n at the death of his first wife, Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, in\n 1888. For charitable causes people ask Page to donate money or\n to autograph copies of his books. Notable correspondents\n include William Gillette, an actor and playwright, Joseph\n Forney Johnston, a governor of Alabama and a U.S. Senator,\n Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress from 1899-1939, and his\n second wife, Florence (Lathrop) Field Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost letters from 1861-1887 are written to Tom in Hanover\n County, Va., Richmond, or Charlottesville. From 1861-1877 most\n of the correspondence is business-related as Tom was a\n practicing lawyer in his early adult years, but there is\n scattered correspondence from family and friends, including\n his first wife, Annie. One business letter concerns Tom's\n efforts to buy a farm in Hanover County, Va. In the 1880s his\n correspondence becomes more numerous as he continues to reside\n in Hanover County and Richmond practicing law and beginning to\n receive fan letters for \"Marse Chan,\" one of his early stories\n first appearing in 1884 in the Century Magazine and published\n in a collection in 1887. In 1886 Tom and Annie are married and\n some letters to Tom are written to him aboard ship headed for\n England where they spent their honeymoon. Also, in 1886,\n Rosewell Page, Tom's younger brother, writes to him about his\n law practice in Danville, Va. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's law\n partner in the firm of Page and Carter, Richmond, Va., writes\n Tom in 1887 while Tom is on a trip to Brussels. Carter\n congratulates him on his writing and discusses a Richmond\n group of writers called The Skaerl. Tom writes Carter from St.\n Paul, Minn., talking about his travel and investments. Over\n the years that Tom travels or lives away from Virginia, Carter\n helps to keep the law practice going in Richmond and helps Tom\n with his financial concerns. (After Tom marries the second\n time to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, the partnership is\n dissolved and Tom devotes the rest of his life to writing,\n donating time and money to charitable causes, and serving as\n U.S. Ambassador to Italy during World War I.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso, in 1887, most of the correspondence comes from fans\n wanting Tom to lecture in their towns, thanking him for\n assisting them in critiquing their writing, asking for help in\n getting their works published, wanting copies of his work,\n wanting articles written by Tom to publish in university\n publications, newspapers, and magazines, and asking for\n autographs. One publisher expresses his disappointment that\n Tom goes to another publisher. Unrelated to his writing there\n are occasional business letters, including a telegram in which\n a gentleman wants to invest in Page's iron works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1888, Tom and Annie write frequently while she\n spends time with her parents at \"Staunton Hill,\" Charlotte\n County, Va., or while Tom travels frequently on speaking\n tours. Tom shares some news of his legal schedule, Richmond\n news, and how he misses her. On September 4, 1888, Tom writes\n \"Law is dull. Indeed, I do not know what I should do without\n my Literary side-shows from time to time.\" While traveling in\n Georgia on August 2, 1888, Tom talks about his meeting and\n impressions of Joel Chandler Harris. On August 31, 1888, Tom\n writes Annie that he is trying to get Two Little Confederates\n ready to return to Charles Scribner. Fans continue to\n correspond with Tom praising In Ole Virginia in which appears\n \"Marse Chan,\" and asking him to lecture in locations such as\n Charlottesville, Staunton, and Richmond, all in Va.,\n Louisville, Ky., Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Md., New York,\n N.Y., and Tennessee. Henry Woodfin Grady, a friend of Tom's,\n requests that Tom come to do readings in Atlanta, and Charles\n Scribner communicates with Tom about publishing his\n writings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnie died in December 1888, and thus much of the extant\n correspondence for this year includes sympathy letters to Tom.\n Family and friends extend their sympathies at his loss, but\n also, complete strangers write from around the United\n States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom January through March, 1889, numerous people continue\n to send their sympathies from the United States and abroad.\n Richard Malcolm Johnston, a Georgia lawyer, author, and\n educator who idealized the South as Tom did, offers his\n condolences and talks about his readings on the lecture\n circuit with Mark Twain. In this January 23rd letter, Richard\n writes, \"We had an excellent audience. I never saw Mark so\n fine. It was most generous in [sic] him to volunteer to come\n to my help.\" Tom was to have been Richard's lecture partner\n but Clemens filled in for Tom who canceled due to the death of\n Annie. James Burton Pond, in February and March, corresponds\n with Tom during this sad time. He served as a general agent\n and manager for numerous writers and musicians. In February,\n an artist from Washington, D.C., A. G. Keaton, is arranging\n the details for a portrait he is doing of Annie. (In July and\n August, F. R. Pustet and Co., New York, N.Y., converses with\n Tom about a stained glass window being made as a memorial for\n Annie.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy April, 1889, Tom began to receive more business-related\n correspondence. Johnston wrote more often, encouraging Tom to\n enter a new lecture arrangement with Pond. Hilgard Tyndale of\n Charles Scribner's Sons discussed the play he was writing\n based on \"Marse Chan\" (3/10/89 and 4/4/89). Several colleges\n invited him to visit. J. M. Stoddart with Lippincott's Monthly\n Magazine notified Tom on April 2nd that he would receive\n $400.00 for two articles he had written, while D. Lothrop\n Company of Boston wanted Tom to write a short serial. Molly\n Elliott Seawell, a fellow author, seemed to see Tom as a\n mentor and asked for advice on her writing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo help assuage Tom's sorrow, Rosewell and Tom traveled in\n Europe in July and August of 1889. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's\n law partner, kept them abreast of Richmond news and mentioned\n possible investments (7/24/89 and 8/19/89). Fans continued to\n write asking questions about his writings, requesting copies\n of his works, and asking for writing advice. In August, Sally\n Page (Nelson) Hughes, daughter of William Nelson of \"Midway,\"\n Mecklenburg County, Va., gave Tom her personal reminiscences\n of Michel Ney, also known as Peter Stuart Ney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTom lived with Rosewell in Richmond during 1890-1891 except\n for when he has away on business, especially in Kentucky. He\n traveled briefly in England during this time also. Family\n letters include letters from Annie's mother, Sarah Alexander\n (Seddon) Bruce (5/7/91 and 11/4/91), Thomas Jefferson Page, a\n Southern expatriate living in Florence, Italy, (1/12/90 and\n 2/26/90), his aunt, Anne Rose Page, who lived much of her life\n at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and his uncle, William\n Nelson, who was the manager of \"Oakland,\" asking for financial\n assistance (3/18/91). (There is much correspondence between\n Tom and his mother, Elizabeth; it appears in Series 3.\n Likewise, correspondence with his father, John, appears in\n Series 2; there is much less of this\n correspondence.)Publishers continued to write Tom, including\n Warwick House, an English publisher writing about royalties;\n Ward, Lock, Boyden and Co., London, trying to defend their\n handling of the sales of In Ole Virginia; and The Christian\n Union, New York, concerning revising a paper Tom has written.\n Much of the correspondence in these years, however, came from\n fans and friends who praised Tom and his works asking again\n for biographical sketches of him, thanking him for speaking to\n their group, encouraging Tom to write a history of the South,\n wanting autographs, and inviting him to visit their homes\n while he is on the lecture circuit. Almost all of Tom's fan\n mail is positive except for two negative letters (one dated\n 10/31/91) from a fundamentalist concerning how Tom rendered a\n verse from the Bible. William G. Eggleston of The Chicago\n Herald wanted help with using black dialect (5/31/90). A few\n letters illustrate Tom's philanthropic nature, as in November\n 1890, someone wrote to ask him to become a member of the Maury\n Memorial Commission. He raised money for the Richmond Public\n Library; Joseph Reid Anderson sent Tom a contribution for the\n library on March 2, 1891.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA baroness in France and Tom began corresponding in 1891.\n There are six letters starting on March 11 concerning\n Alexandre Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire, who wanted to\n establish an academy of arts and sciences in Richmond after\n the American Revolution. Baroness Yetta Blaze de Bury asked\n for Tom's assistance in finding more information about Quesnay\n de Beaurepaire. She also commented on another of Tom's works,\n On Newfound River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1892 Tom continued to live in Richmond, Va., as a\n bachelor in-between frequent travels for speaking engagements.\n Friends invited Tom to visit with them when he spoke in places\n such as New York, Alabama, and Texas, while fans wrote to ask\n him to speak at schools in Louisville, Ky., Winchester, Ky.,\n and Roanoke, Va. or to speak at clubs like the Southern Club\n of Harvard, to provide complimentary passes at clubs like the\n Union League Club of Chicago when he visited in that city, to\n help them with their writing aspirations, and to praise On\n Newfound River and The Old South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTom's life changed when he married Florence (Lathrop) Field\n Page on June 6, 1893. After that time, his visits Washington,\n D.C., New York City, and York Harbor, Maine, but throughout\n his marriage Florence and Tom traveled every year overseas.\n Frequent letters from Rosewell kept Tom abreast of matters at\n \"Oakland,\" including comments on how Tom's works were in\n demand in Richmond bookstores, news of neighbors and friends,\n and family activity such as their mother's giving Christmas\n presents to white and black workers at \"Oakland\" or their\n father's discussion about where he was on Christmas Eve during\n each year of the Civil War (12/24/94). Rosewell discussed\n investments, selling family land in Hanover County, Va., Tom's\n tenant, Edmund T. Taylor, at \"Mont Air,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n the status of crops, horses, and livestock, and Tom's opinion\n of Uncle Tom's Cabin as discussed in The Atlanta Evening News\n (1/16/01). Edmund T. Taylor, Tom's tenant farmer in Bandana,\n Va., wrote Tom in August and September of 1901 about the corn,\n potato, and wheat crop and the livestock, sent a drawing of a\n barn that he wanted Tom to approve, and discussed rebuilding\n bridges in Hanover County, Va., washed out by high water.\n Tom's letters to his family in Virginia are rarely found in\n Mss1P1465aFA2 but his letter of May 17, 1893 to Rosewell was\n written prior to going on his honeymoon aboard a steamer to\n London. Tom enclosed a check to provide for contingencies at\n \"Oakland\" and urged Rosewell, if necessary, to contact Thomas\n Nelson Carter, Tom's power-of-attorney and law partner, for\n stocks to be sold to provide emergency monies for the\n homestead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness letters came from a lawyer in Charlottesville,\n Va., concerning land Tom wished to buy (7/28/93), Ward, Lock\n and Bowden, a publisher in London, with an attached agreement\n concerning publishing of Tom's works in England (7/14/94),\n Charles Scribner discussing publishing schedules, royalties,\n and a contract for Polly (10/31/94 and 2/11/95) actually\n published earlier in In Ole Virginia in 1887, J. Cabell\n Brockenbrough concerning translating Tom's work into French\n (8/23/95), Sol Smith Russell concerning critiquing Tom's plays\n (7/17/96), and Elizabeth Marbury of New York who was trying to\n submit Red Rock to playwrights and managers but is not having\n any luck (1/29/01). Tom received correspondence from the\n various clubs he was a member of in Washington, D.C., such as\n the Chevy Chase Club (9/13/00). Over the years he served as an\n officer in these clubs and helped with renovations and\n fund-raising. John Stewart Bryan, writing for his father\n Joseph Bryan who was ill, wrote several letters in 1900\n concerning stock in the Lake Superior Co. Occasionally Tom\n received mundane letters about his Washington, D.C., home at\n No. 1759 R Street. Some refer to repairs needed on his\n property. In October 1900, his insurance agent sent a list\n with evaluations of the contents of this home. Like most folks\n with ample financial means, Tom frequently received\n fund-raising letters. For example, a feeder school to the\n University of Virginia located at Morrisville, Va., requested\n money in December 1902.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFriends and fans continued to write with high praises for\n one of Tom's latest works, Red Rock, wanting to know if his\n fiction was based on actual events, or writing to share\n similar stories of black slaves. Ellen Shields of Natchez,\n Miss., inspired by Tom's viewpoint, discussed a sketch of a\n black carpenter who worked for her father on their plantations\n and who liked to preach (7/2/00). The editor of The\n Philadelphia Item asked Tom's opinion about British and\n American reviewers (8/18/00).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDistant family members and sometimes unrelated folks wrote\n Tom for political influence and financial assistance. B. M.\n Fontaine did not want to become further indebted to Tom, and\n Joseph Reid Anderson Bruce, a nephew by marriage, wanted some\n help in getting a job (9/17/00). In June 1900, A. L. Nelson\n wished Tom could help finance a distant relative's education\n at the University of Virginia. A cousin in Naples, Florida,\n requested Tom's aid in getting someone into the U.S. Naval\n Academy (2/12/03), while Frank Nelson, Jr., thanked Tom for\n money loaned to him at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1904-1908, Tom's correspondence again was an even mix\n of fan letters and business letters. Fund-raising letters\n abound with several requests for complete sets of his printed\n works to be donated to various libraries in Virginia, for\n money to renovate an Episcopal church, or for money to pay for\n medical treatment of indigent persons. Marie von Unschuld at\n the University of Music and Dramatic Art in D.C. wrote for\n Tom's financial assistance in establishing scholarships for\n her students (7/18/04). Tom received mail from agricultural\n researchers about alfalfa experiments and inoculating\n leguminous plants and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\n concerning the building of a road near Beaverdam in Hanover\n County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from friends and family are scattered through\n 1904-1908; most family letters are from Rosewell, especially\n in 1905, sharing news from the mill and news of the corn,\n wheat, millet, and pea crops, cutting of timber, installing of\n a phone line, selling of lambs and wool, building of a dam on\n one of the Hanover County properties, and changes in tenants.\n Rosewell sent a six-month statement concerning all farm costs\n and asked Tom to pay various debts. Other family letters to\n Tom discuss his financing of schooling for Rosewell's\n daughter, Anne, and for a distant relative, Randolph Rosewell\n Page, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A cousin from Clifton\n Forge, Va., Lizzie R. Taylor, asked Tom for money to build a\n rectory. Strangers as well as friends wanted Tom to help them\n get jobs such as J. L. Hall, a professor at William and Mary\n College, who wanted a job at the University of North Carolina\n (7/7/04), or a law professor at Wake Forest College wanting\n Tom to go to the White House and ask the President to appoint\n him to a district court judgeship (12/16/08). Several letters\n in 1904 indicate that Tom was trying to influence the Library\n of Congress to hire Alexander Welbourne Weddell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotable letters to Tom in this time period came from Samuel\n Langhorne Clemens, thanking Florence and Tom for their\n kindness to his wife, who died in June 1904; from Thomas\n Nelson Carter about a land auction; and Teddy Roosevelt, who\n Carter would not vote for \"on account of his putting forward\n the Negroes in the platform...\" (6/24/04); from John Singleton\n Mosby concerning the Gettysburg campaign (10/26/08); from\n Ernest Thompson Seton, an animal painter, lecturer, and\n adventurer (12/8/08); and from Victor Howard Metcalf, lawyer\n and Secretary of the Navy, thanking Tom for a copy of his work\n on Robert E. Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe last box of Thomas Nelson Page correspondence dates\n from 1909 to 1922. The usual pattern of letters prevails here\n but noteworthy letters follow. Leonard Gunnell, a cousin by\n marriage, worked at the Smithsonian Institution and sent Tom a\n picture of the old home at Oakland (1/09). (Oakland burned in\n 1899 and was rebuilt in six months.) Also, in January 1909,\n Tom received letters about horses he can buy in Vermont and\n Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick, son of the inventor, sends Tom\n a book about the Southern black; \"...I send it herewith,\n knowing that you, who understand so thoroly [sic] the old-time\n life of the Southern negro...(2/3/09).\" From Lexington, Ky.,\n Foxhall A. Daingerfield writes Tom his impressions of Robert\n E. Lee, who he knew personally during the Civil War (2/8/09).\n In September 1909, Charles Scribner's Sons enclosed a contract\n for publication of John Marvel, Assistant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1912 there were many letters from Ruth (Nelson) Page to\n Tom. It appears Ruth was helping Rosewell with the management\n of Oakland and other properties owned or subsidized by Tom.\n Rosewell campaigned and won the election to become the second\n auditor of Virginia. He served in that post until 1928; thus,\n much of his time was spent in Richmond. Ruth's letters\n describe family and farm news, especially the health and death\n of her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\n Rosewell still wrote Tom on a few occasions, but the remainder\n of the 1912 letters are sympathy letters from strangers,\n friends, and family concerning Elizabeth's death. A few\n thank-you notes from distant cousins discuss Tom's kindness in\n paying their school tuition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1913 to 1917 there are only twenty items, mainly\n letters from Ruth and Rosewell. Ruth praised Tom upon becoming\n the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Ruth and Rosewell's daughter,\n Anne (Page) Johns, wrote her uncle from Stuart Hall School,\n Staunton, Va.; Tom financed this niece's education. For a\n number of years, there was a school run at \"Oakland,\" and Ruth\n mentioned \"our academy\" in her February 20, 1916 letter. Also,\n in 1916, Jonathan Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, wrote Tom\n about the Federal Reserve Act (5/12/16). Walter Hines Page, a\n cousin and an editor at Doubleday, Page and Co., Long Island,\n N.Y., informed Tom of changes in their personnel, resulting in\n delays dealing with his book (unidentified) (1/19/13). From\n 1918 until Tom's death in 1922, correspondence is slim,\n numbering thirty-two items. The effects of World War I are\n quite evident in letters to Tom in 1918. H. Rozier Dulany, a\n real estate agent in Washington, D.C., wrote Tom about a\n tenant's rent, travels to Tom's farms in Virginia, selling\n Tom's cattle, and the \"scarcity of farm labor in Virginia\"\n (1/1/18). Several of Ruth's letters discussed the effects of\n the war, especially her letter of June 23, 1918. Her April\n 1918 letters dwell on the death of Frank Page, Tom's older\n brother. In September, Ruth explained her move to Richmond\n where her daughter Anne is working for the war effort,\n postponing her education until after the war. In October, Ruth\n discussed the Spanish flu epidemic in Richmond, and in\n November, Ruth described the impact on Richmond of returning\n soldiers. Anne wrote her uncle on October 20 explaining the\n nature of her war job at the bag-loading plant, mentioning\n measuring black powder for ammunition. Rosewell wrote Tom in\n Italy in February 1919, \"You have filled one of the most\n difficult posts in the world with dignity and honor....\" In\n one of Tom's last letters, he wrote to \"Lil Gals,\" probably\n his step-daughters, mentioning he had to borrow money to carry\n on at York Harbor, Maine (9/18/21).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Nelson Page materials also include financial records\n consisting of receipts or bills for office supplies, crops\n such as oats and hay, farm equipment, lumber, hardware,\n freight charges from Europe, but mainly, royalty payments from\n Charles Scribner's Sons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong Page's miscellaneous materials are three\n certificates, 1874-1877, from the University of Virginia for\n Tom's having passed courses in law, and there is a commission\n for Page having attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant of the\n Richmond Light Infantry Blues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScattered papers refer to cases Tom handled when he\n practiced law in Richmond, Va. Other notable papers give\n Rosewell the power-of-attorney (1913) for Tom and include a\n copy of Tom's will (1922).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the last items in this series are newspaper articles\n about Tom, including a description of his funeral service in\n 1922. Also present are pictures, 1919-1921, including one that\n is undated but identified a dress that belonged to Elizabeth\n (Burwell) Nelson. The caption on this picture says the dress\n was kept at \"Oakland\" and, thus, was lost when the house\n burned in 1899. Photographs taken in 1919 document Italian\n troops guarding the American Embassy and concern Italian\n Premier Vittorio Orlando's return from the Paris peace\n conference. Another photograph shows Tom and Rosewell in\n Denver, Colo. Finishing the series are two undated addresses\n concerning the history of the settlement of Jamestown and the\n commemoration of the Virginia Convention of 1776. A speech,\n probably written by Tom, dated 1906, was given in Lisbon for\n the American Legation, and concerns the medical profession.\n Miscellaneous papers include the wedding announcement (1886)\n for Tom's first marriage to Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, a sonnet\n (undated) to Amelie Louise (Rives) Chandler Troubetzkoy\n written on reading her \"Grief and Faith\", recent news (1919)\n about Yugoslavia as reported in the Italian press, an essay\n (undated) about Page and \"Marse Chan,\" an invitation list\n (undated) for a dinner, probably given in honor of Jonathan\n Daniels at the American Embassy in Italy, and notes (undated)\n about On Newfound River, written in memory of Annie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Eight contains the papers of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page (1867-1888), known as \"Annie,\" Thomas Nelson Page's first\n wife. Her correspondence is mainly from family and friends,\n including her parents, brothers, and sisters, who share family\n happenings and alwayed praise Tom and his writing. William\n Cabell Bruce, a brother, described his life as a lawyer in\n Baltimore, Md., in November 1882, while Charles Bruce, her\n father, wrote about his daily routine at \"Staunton Hill,\n Charlotte County, Va., in March 1887. From 1885 to 1888, James\n Douglas Bruce, another of her brothers, wrote Annie while he\n lived abroad in Germany and France. Family included Thomas\n Nelson Carter, who was a cousin of Annie's and the law partner\n of her husband, and Tom's aunt, Anne Rose Page. In December\n 1886, she wrote Annie a story about a black child brought up\n by a white woman in Goochland County, Va. He murdered the\n woman when he turned eighteen because she would not buy him a\n certain pair of shoes. Anne Rose also commented on Tom's\n writings. Friends such as Lelia Augusta (Myers) Morgan wrote\n in August 1886, about the earthquake in Richmond, Va., while\n Annie and Tom are on their European honeymoon. In February\n 1887, an unidentified correspondent wrote from England\n mentioning a dinner she attended where several artists were\n present including James Abbott McNeill Whistler.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Nine includes correspondence exists between Florence\n (Lathrop) Field Page (1858-1921), Thomas Nelson Page's second\n wife, and Rosewell Page, Ruth (Nelson) Page, Anne (Page)\n Johns, all relatives of Tom, and Florence's grandson by her\n daughter Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Henry Field (originally\n named Henry Gibson). Henry wrote from England and described\n the Christmas activities around him in 1908. A few letters to\n Florence relate to financial transactions or obtaining a tutor\n for one of Flo's daughters. Also included are accounts,\n 1897-1900, in part pertaining to paying a tutor and to a\n purchase at a home furnishings store in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10 begins with the correspondence, 1888-1938, of\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939). Half of Rosewell's correspondence\n comes from family or friends and half from business\n acquaintances. Aunt Anne Rose Page, along with Rosewell's\n mother, write him about the death in 1893 of Frank's baby,\n Rose, and affairs at Oakland. Ruth, his wife, gives him news\n of their children and Rosewell's parents and requests various\n things for Rosewell to bring from Richmond. Elizabeth Hope\n Stewart of \"Brook Hill\" sends him congratulations for his\n marriage to Ruth in 1898. Other folks compliment him on\n becoming a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and\n express sympathy in the loss of Tom's two wives. While Anne\n (Page) Johns attends Stuart Hall School, Staunton, Va.,\n Rosewell writes his daughter about family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs a member of the law firm of Rutherfoord and Page,\n Richmond, Va., Rosewell received legal letters related to\n cases he handled, but much of his business correspondence\n related to either his biography of his brother Tom or Tom's\n publications. From 1922-1937, Charles Scribner's Sons\n corresponded with Rosewell about publishing his biography of\n Tom, royalty payments for at least 28 of Tom's publications,\n renewing copyright on one of Tom's stories, asking Rosewell's\n permission to publish a new edition of Two Little\n Confederates, arranging a special educational edition of Red\n Rock, and concerning movie rights for Tom's works. In 1934,\n Lola D. Moore, a representative for authors and artists in\n Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Calif., corresponded with\n Rosewell wanting to market Red Rock in the movie industry.\n Another agent, Grace Morse of New York, also wrote Rosewell\n about trying to sell movie rights. Other business letters\n refer to \"Oakland\" and the surrounding area in Hanover County,\n Va., including building of a bridge across the South Anna\n River and placement of telephone lines through Page\n property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remainder of the series includes accounts, 1897-1927,\n including five notes (1905) on the school account for Hall's\n Free School run by Miss Orr and, probably, sponsored by the\n Page family; notes on logging expenses (no date); accounts\n between Tom and Rosewell concerning farm expenses in\n 1907-1908; and a royalty report for Tom's publication for\n 1927. Also included are undated manuscripts, including a draft\n of Rosewell's Hanover County: Its History and Legends and\n Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman. A draft\n of a speech about Jamestown filed in Series 7.7 possibly was\n by Rosewell also. Lastly, miscellaneous materials, 1868-1916,\n include an undated newspaper picture of Rosewell, his wife and\n daughter, and others attending a memorial observance of Edgar\n Allan Poe's birthday, and a biographical sketch and picture of\n Rosewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuth (Nelson) Page's papers make up Series 11. Most of\n Ruth's correspondence is found in earlier series of her\n mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page, her\n brother-in-law, Thomas Nelson Page, and her husband, Rosewell\n Page. Other family letters found here include those from Minna\n (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Thomas Nelson Page's step-daughter,\n about a visit to \"Rock Ledge,\" York Harbor, Maine, and of\n Ruth's son, Robert Nelson Page. One letter by this son was\n written in August 1921, from \"Rock Ledge.\" In October 1918,\n Mary C. Nelson, Ruth's sister who served as a Red Cross nurse\n during World War I, wrote from Paris. John Cook Wyllie,\n Director of Libraries at the University of Virginia, addressed\n Ruth in July 1967, discussing the acquisition of Thomas Nelson\n Page papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 contains materials of Anne Page. In 1914, Anne\n Page, daughter of Rosewell and Ruth Page, attended Stuart Hall\n School in Staunton, Va., and she wrote her brother, Robert\n Nelson Page. During World War I, Anne was back in the Richmond\n area working for the war effort at DuPont Engineering Co.;\n this company sent congratulations to its workers, including\n Anne, on November 14, 1918. Anne wrote Karl E. Johnson at the\n Red Cross headquarters in Petersburg, also in 1918, asking if\n she and the Hall's Free School, probably run under the\n auspices of the Page family at \"Oakland,\" could open a canteen\n on the Richmond-Washington Highway to serve soldiers. (Then,\n during World War II, Anne received a letter from Richmond\n Filter Center thanking its workers for their help in wartime.)\n From 1929-1941, Anne received letters from the national Junior\n League Magazine concerning articles that she wrote for this\n publication. William B. Thalhimer, Jr., wrote in April 1951,\n about wanting to honor her as one of Richmond's noted authors.\n From 1967-1969, Anne received letters from various persons\n associated with the University of Virginia concerning the sale\n of Thomas Nelson Page manuscripts to the college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnne (Page) Johns's materials also include an annual report\n for 1930-1931, an undated constitution, copies of The Leaguer\n from May 1929-June 1931, and drafts of historical articles on\n the Junior League of Richmond; and war ration books from World\n War II.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of two letters to Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971),\n husband of Anne (Page) Johns, arrived in April 1953, from an\n assistant to the Ambassador of Italy, thanking Dr. Johns for\n his courtesies when the assistant visited Virginia at the\n centennial celebration of the birth of Thomas Nelson Page.\n Other Frank Johns materials include a war ration book from\n World War II, an undated news article concerning the receipt\n of a portrait of Dr. Johns at Hampden-Sydney College, and a\n 1950 article about the college naming an auditorium for him.\n Johns had served as chairman of the Board of Trustees since\n 1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSection 14 concerns Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns) Hill, daughter of Anne\n (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns. Four scrapbooks trace\n Hill's life, beginning as a student in Petersburg, and\n following him throughout his career. The first volume, dated\n 1896-1942, includes a catalogue for the 1895-1896 session of\n the University School in Richmond, Va., the school first\n started in Petersburg, Va., by William Gordon McCabe. Hill is\n listed as a student. Hill participated in sports activities at\n the University School, as well as in college at the University\n of Virginia, which he entered in 1897. The baseball team\n schedule for 1898 includes a picture of the team. After Hill's\n college years, he continued to enjoy sports as noted in this\n scrapbook. One article dated April 11, 1942, concerns Hill's\n son, William M. Hill, captain of the University of Virginia\n football team.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second volume of Hill's scrapbooks, dated 1904-1943,\n focuses on Hill's adult civic and social activities such as\n his membership in the Commonwealth Club and the Richmond\n German, efforts to get more playgrounds across Virginia,\n service as a member of the Civilian Examining Committee for\n the U.S. War Department in 1918 and a member of the Board of\n Managers of the Richmond Male Orphan Society in 1919. In the\n nineteen twenties he served on the Medical College of Virginia\n Board of Visitors, and in 1936, he was a director of the\n Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. On December 17, 1940,\n Lady Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Shaw Astor wrote Hill after he\n sent a group contribution to relieve the Air Raid distress.\n Personal asides include information about the death of his\n mother, Frances Cadwallader (Harrison) Hill, in 1916, and the\n death of his father, William Maury Hill, in 1918, about the\n wedding of his daughter, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson, in\n 1940, and about the death of Hill, himself, in 1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the scrapbook for 1904-1943 Hill documented the progress\n of his adult career. In his young adult years, he served as\n assistant cashier at the National State Bank in Richmond and\n then, in 1915, he became a director of the National State and\n City Bank, later known as the State-Planters Bank and Trust\n Company. In 1917 he was still cashier but was elected to be a\n vice-president, and in 1920, he became president of the bank.\n A 1920 article by Hill appeared in the Journal of Accountancy.\n Hill became president of Old Dominion Trust Co. in 1922. Other\n news articles highlight his membership in professional groups\n such as the American Bankers Association, his service on the\n Advisory Committee of the Richmond Loan Agency of the\n Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, and his\n appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Advisory\n Committee on Works Allotment in 1935. Enclosures are dated\n 1939 and concern Hill's wife, Lucy, and the birth of their\n seventh child, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson. There are\n photographs and negatives of Diana and other siblings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe last volume of the scrapbooks, dated 1914-1917,\n concerns Hill's appointment and service as the chief of staff\n of the Governor of Virginia, Henry Carter Stuart. The letter\n from Stuart offering the position to Hill is in the scrapbook\n as well as articles about Stuart. Also included are other\n newspaper articles about Hill's professional and civic\n activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong Hill's miscellany are the certificate signed by\n Governor Stuart, making Hill his chief of staff, along with a\n memorial editorial of December 2, 1943, celebrating the life\n of Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill materials include\n letters congratulating Lucy, wife of Julien Harrison Hill, on\n the birth of Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Sixteen includes correspondence of extended family\n members in the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson, Points,\n and Page families. Notable letters include an undated Civil\n War letter from a hospital at Warm Springs, Va. from a\n preacher who writes about how hard it is to console the sick\n soldiers and a January 3, 1864 letter from Stevenson Points to\n Lizzie Stevenson when he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Del.\n At the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page in December 1888,\n members of the Bruce family receive sympathy letters. In\n January 1891, George Washington Points corresponded with Mary\n C. Nelson about the genealogy of the Points (also known as\n Poyntz) family. Bryan Lathrop, brother of Florence (Lathrop)\n Field Page, admonished Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby about the\n status of her finances in 1912. Mary C. Nelson, sister of Ruth\n (Nelson) Page and Red Cross nurse during World War I, wrote an\n interesting letter in November 1918, about the ending of the\n war and the reactions in Paris. A last notable letter\n (undated) was written from Scotland to Miss Bessie (otherwise\n unidentified) and is from Johannes Wolf, a musicologist\n specializing in medieval music.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Series 1 of the collection begins with the papers of\n Francis Page (1780-1849), consisting of two receipts, one for\n the digging of a well (1819) and one for his subscription to\n the National Vaccine Institution (1825).","Series 2 contains the papers of John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and consist of correspondence,\n 1877-1898. Principal correspondents are his wife, Elizabeth\n Burwell (Nelson) Page, and his sons, Rosewell Page and Thomas\n Nelson Page. One of the few letters in the collection written\n by Rosewell as he practiced law in Danville, Va., is in this\n series. Letters by John Page to his son Thomas discuss family\n activity, political and business tasks that the father wants\n the son to handle in Richmond, Va., business and personal\n advice, and news of the crops at \"Oakland.\"","Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page (1821-1912) materials\n follow in Series 3. Page, of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n kept a diary, 1905, recording activities for each day. Entries\n describe the farm activities at \"Oakland,\" the servants and\n their roles, local epidemics of smallpox, and the lives of her\n son, Rosewell Page, and his wife, Ruth (Nelson) Page, who\n lived at \"Oakland,\" including frequent reference to Rosewell's\n role as a layman in the Episcopal Church, news of her other\n two sons, Francis (better known as Frank) Page, an Episcopal\n priest, and Thomas Nelson Page who occasionally visits\n \"Oakland\" and checks on his land holdings and mill operations\n in Hanover County, Va. Two pages of accounts are at the end of\n the diary and include references to servants' wages and farm\n expenses. Scattered accounts appear throughout the diary.","Also present are letters of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page, chiefly written to her middle son, Thomas Nelson Page,\n from 1876 to 1912. Elizabeth wrote primarily from \"Oakland,\"\n Hanover County, Va., but also while visiting her sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson, in Charlottesville. Her\n letters to Thomas are addressed to numerous locations around\n the United States, especially New York and York, Maine, and in\n Europe. In them, Elizabeth discusses her daily activities on\n the farm at \"Oakland\" and the activities of other family\n members such as her brother, William Nelson, who ran the\n farming operations at \"Oakland.\" With the help of servants,\n she tended chickens, hogs, ducks, and turkeys, preserves food,\n and handled other household tasks. Some of Elizabeth's letters\n to Thomas include attached letters from other relatives to\n Elizabeth such as Frank Page, her oldest son.","In addition to her correspondence with Thomas Nelson Page,\n Elizabeth's papers include letters from her school days at\n Long Branch written to her father, Thomas Nelson; letters from\n her son, Frank Page and his wife, Letitia Rives (Morris) Page,\n writing from Waco, Texas, where he served as an Episcopal\n priest in 1890 and in 1911 as a priest in Brooklyn, N. Y.; a\n 1877 letter from her brother, Robert Nelson, while serving as\n a missionary in China; an 1865 letter from Anne Wickham, a\n niece of Elizabeth, concerning the Civil War and her feeling\n that Jefferson Davis had no role in the assassination of\n Abraham Lincoln; and several letters to Elizabeth in 1888\n expressing sympathy over the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page's first wife.","Series 4 begins with the diary of Robert Nelson (1819-1886)\n kept initially while serving as an Episcopal missionary in\n Shanghai, China, in 1878, as an account book for a children's\n school; then kept in Woodbury, Conn., during the last years of\n his life and that of his wife, Rose (Points) Nelson, whose\n picture and obituary appear on p. 108 of the volume. Robert\n Nelson was a brother of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.","Diary entries from 1885 to 1886 note Robert's\n church-related activities, including the number of baptisms,\n illnesses of church members, attendance at Episcopal\n conferences, and descriptions of his sermons. On page 90,\n Robert talks about his participation as a minister in Ulysses\n Simpson Grant's funeral, and on page 59, Robert laments the\n low nature of his annual salary of $600.00 in 1885. He gives\n much information about his family's daily life, travels,\n illnesses, and birthdays. His children's attendance at school\n and careers are also mentioned. A trip to Virginia, including\n to \"Oakland,\" and Charlottesville, are discussed on pages\n 109-111.","Robert Nelson's correspondence, 1851-1886, was mostly\n written from or addressed to Shanghai, China, where Nelson\n served as a missionary. Included are interesting and detailed\n descriptions of Chinese customs, his family's activities, the\n burning of his chapel and people stealing all the chapel\n furnishings, baptism of Chinese people, and the children's\n school Nelson ran. One letter from Nelson to his sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson of Charlottesville,\n concerns a female student whose family threatens to break her\n legs because she is a Christian.","Robert Nelson's miscellaneous papers include a resolution,\n 1881, by the Committee for the Shanghai Temperance Society. It\n honors Nelson for his service on the eve of his departure from\n China to live the remainder of his life in Connecticut.","Series 5 contains the papers of Rose (Points) Nelson\n (1827-1885), including correspondence, undated-1870,\n containing a partial letter (n.d.) from Rose's daughter, Mary\n C. Nelson, while Mary was traveling by ship towards Yokohama,\n Japan; and a letter (1870) of Rose's to Mary C. Nelson giving\n general advice on life as Mary left their home in Shanghai,\n China, to go to the United States.","Rose Nelson's papers also include parts of a diary written\n probably in 1865 while she was at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County,\n Va. In the diary she discusses her children and family\n activities, the death of Mr. Lincoln, whom she compared to\n Herod, her glowing opinion of the slaves, and how people are\n avoiding taking the oath of allegiance; and a narrative, 1865,\n concerning the death of her son, William Nelson.","Series 6 includes papers of Francis Page (1848-1918). His\n correspondence, 1877-1910, includes a 1903(?) letter to his\n brother, Rosewell Page, concerning the beginning of his\n ministry at St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and letters to\n his other brother, Thomas Nelson Page, congratulating Tom and\n Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, Tom's first wife, on their first\n anniversary and congratulating Tom in 1893 on his second\n marriage to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, telling Tom of his\n call to St. John's Church, asking Tom if he knows anything\n about the church, and discussing family news, including in\n 1911 how Frank is coping with the loss of his first wife,\n Letitia Rives (Morris) Page (better known as Lettie).","Francis Page's legal papers, 1961, include incomplete\n affidavits related to Frank Page and J. Packard Laird, Jr.,\n concerning property in Hanover County, Va. Frank's heirs are\n listed.","Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) materials appear in Series\n 7. Correspondence, 1861-1922 (1,305 items) is arranged in\n chronological order, with undated materials appearing first.\n Fans of Page's works wrote letters commenting on his writing\n and his lectures and asking for autographs, biographical\n sketches of Page, new articles to print in their magazines, or\n permission to reprint portions of his work. Friends wrote to\n arrange meetings and trips, and some wrote their condolences\n at the death of his first wife, Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, in\n 1888. For charitable causes people ask Page to donate money or\n to autograph copies of his books. Notable correspondents\n include William Gillette, an actor and playwright, Joseph\n Forney Johnston, a governor of Alabama and a U.S. Senator,\n Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress from 1899-1939, and his\n second wife, Florence (Lathrop) Field Page.","Most letters from 1861-1887 are written to Tom in Hanover\n County, Va., Richmond, or Charlottesville. From 1861-1877 most\n of the correspondence is business-related as Tom was a\n practicing lawyer in his early adult years, but there is\n scattered correspondence from family and friends, including\n his first wife, Annie. One business letter concerns Tom's\n efforts to buy a farm in Hanover County, Va. In the 1880s his\n correspondence becomes more numerous as he continues to reside\n in Hanover County and Richmond practicing law and beginning to\n receive fan letters for \"Marse Chan,\" one of his early stories\n first appearing in 1884 in the Century Magazine and published\n in a collection in 1887. In 1886 Tom and Annie are married and\n some letters to Tom are written to him aboard ship headed for\n England where they spent their honeymoon. Also, in 1886,\n Rosewell Page, Tom's younger brother, writes to him about his\n law practice in Danville, Va. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's law\n partner in the firm of Page and Carter, Richmond, Va., writes\n Tom in 1887 while Tom is on a trip to Brussels. Carter\n congratulates him on his writing and discusses a Richmond\n group of writers called The Skaerl. Tom writes Carter from St.\n Paul, Minn., talking about his travel and investments. Over\n the years that Tom travels or lives away from Virginia, Carter\n helps to keep the law practice going in Richmond and helps Tom\n with his financial concerns. (After Tom marries the second\n time to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, the partnership is\n dissolved and Tom devotes the rest of his life to writing,\n donating time and money to charitable causes, and serving as\n U.S. Ambassador to Italy during World War I.)","Also, in 1887, most of the correspondence comes from fans\n wanting Tom to lecture in their towns, thanking him for\n assisting them in critiquing their writing, asking for help in\n getting their works published, wanting copies of his work,\n wanting articles written by Tom to publish in university\n publications, newspapers, and magazines, and asking for\n autographs. One publisher expresses his disappointment that\n Tom goes to another publisher. Unrelated to his writing there\n are occasional business letters, including a telegram in which\n a gentleman wants to invest in Page's iron works.","Beginning in 1888, Tom and Annie write frequently while she\n spends time with her parents at \"Staunton Hill,\" Charlotte\n County, Va., or while Tom travels frequently on speaking\n tours. Tom shares some news of his legal schedule, Richmond\n news, and how he misses her. On September 4, 1888, Tom writes\n \"Law is dull. Indeed, I do not know what I should do without\n my Literary side-shows from time to time.\" While traveling in\n Georgia on August 2, 1888, Tom talks about his meeting and\n impressions of Joel Chandler Harris. On August 31, 1888, Tom\n writes Annie that he is trying to get Two Little Confederates\n ready to return to Charles Scribner. Fans continue to\n correspond with Tom praising In Ole Virginia in which appears\n \"Marse Chan,\" and asking him to lecture in locations such as\n Charlottesville, Staunton, and Richmond, all in Va.,\n Louisville, Ky., Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Md., New York,\n N.Y., and Tennessee. Henry Woodfin Grady, a friend of Tom's,\n requests that Tom come to do readings in Atlanta, and Charles\n Scribner communicates with Tom about publishing his\n writings.","Annie died in December 1888, and thus much of the extant\n correspondence for this year includes sympathy letters to Tom.\n Family and friends extend their sympathies at his loss, but\n also, complete strangers write from around the United\n States.","From January through March, 1889, numerous people continue\n to send their sympathies from the United States and abroad.\n Richard Malcolm Johnston, a Georgia lawyer, author, and\n educator who idealized the South as Tom did, offers his\n condolences and talks about his readings on the lecture\n circuit with Mark Twain. In this January 23rd letter, Richard\n writes, \"We had an excellent audience. I never saw Mark so\n fine. It was most generous in [sic] him to volunteer to come\n to my help.\" Tom was to have been Richard's lecture partner\n but Clemens filled in for Tom who canceled due to the death of\n Annie. James Burton Pond, in February and March, corresponds\n with Tom during this sad time. He served as a general agent\n and manager for numerous writers and musicians. In February,\n an artist from Washington, D.C., A. G. Keaton, is arranging\n the details for a portrait he is doing of Annie. (In July and\n August, F. R. Pustet and Co., New York, N.Y., converses with\n Tom about a stained glass window being made as a memorial for\n Annie.)","By April, 1889, Tom began to receive more business-related\n correspondence. Johnston wrote more often, encouraging Tom to\n enter a new lecture arrangement with Pond. Hilgard Tyndale of\n Charles Scribner's Sons discussed the play he was writing\n based on \"Marse Chan\" (3/10/89 and 4/4/89). Several colleges\n invited him to visit. J. M. Stoddart with Lippincott's Monthly\n Magazine notified Tom on April 2nd that he would receive\n $400.00 for two articles he had written, while D. Lothrop\n Company of Boston wanted Tom to write a short serial. Molly\n Elliott Seawell, a fellow author, seemed to see Tom as a\n mentor and asked for advice on her writing.","To help assuage Tom's sorrow, Rosewell and Tom traveled in\n Europe in July and August of 1889. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's\n law partner, kept them abreast of Richmond news and mentioned\n possible investments (7/24/89 and 8/19/89). Fans continued to\n write asking questions about his writings, requesting copies\n of his works, and asking for writing advice. In August, Sally\n Page (Nelson) Hughes, daughter of William Nelson of \"Midway,\"\n Mecklenburg County, Va., gave Tom her personal reminiscences\n of Michel Ney, also known as Peter Stuart Ney.","Tom lived with Rosewell in Richmond during 1890-1891 except\n for when he has away on business, especially in Kentucky. He\n traveled briefly in England during this time also. Family\n letters include letters from Annie's mother, Sarah Alexander\n (Seddon) Bruce (5/7/91 and 11/4/91), Thomas Jefferson Page, a\n Southern expatriate living in Florence, Italy, (1/12/90 and\n 2/26/90), his aunt, Anne Rose Page, who lived much of her life\n at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and his uncle, William\n Nelson, who was the manager of \"Oakland,\" asking for financial\n assistance (3/18/91). (There is much correspondence between\n Tom and his mother, Elizabeth; it appears in Series 3.\n Likewise, correspondence with his father, John, appears in\n Series 2; there is much less of this\n correspondence.)Publishers continued to write Tom, including\n Warwick House, an English publisher writing about royalties;\n Ward, Lock, Boyden and Co., London, trying to defend their\n handling of the sales of In Ole Virginia; and The Christian\n Union, New York, concerning revising a paper Tom has written.\n Much of the correspondence in these years, however, came from\n fans and friends who praised Tom and his works asking again\n for biographical sketches of him, thanking him for speaking to\n their group, encouraging Tom to write a history of the South,\n wanting autographs, and inviting him to visit their homes\n while he is on the lecture circuit. Almost all of Tom's fan\n mail is positive except for two negative letters (one dated\n 10/31/91) from a fundamentalist concerning how Tom rendered a\n verse from the Bible. William G. Eggleston of The Chicago\n Herald wanted help with using black dialect (5/31/90). A few\n letters illustrate Tom's philanthropic nature, as in November\n 1890, someone wrote to ask him to become a member of the Maury\n Memorial Commission. He raised money for the Richmond Public\n Library; Joseph Reid Anderson sent Tom a contribution for the\n library on March 2, 1891.","A baroness in France and Tom began corresponding in 1891.\n There are six letters starting on March 11 concerning\n Alexandre Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire, who wanted to\n establish an academy of arts and sciences in Richmond after\n the American Revolution. Baroness Yetta Blaze de Bury asked\n for Tom's assistance in finding more information about Quesnay\n de Beaurepaire. She also commented on another of Tom's works,\n On Newfound River.","In 1892 Tom continued to live in Richmond, Va., as a\n bachelor in-between frequent travels for speaking engagements.\n Friends invited Tom to visit with them when he spoke in places\n such as New York, Alabama, and Texas, while fans wrote to ask\n him to speak at schools in Louisville, Ky., Winchester, Ky.,\n and Roanoke, Va. or to speak at clubs like the Southern Club\n of Harvard, to provide complimentary passes at clubs like the\n Union League Club of Chicago when he visited in that city, to\n help them with their writing aspirations, and to praise On\n Newfound River and The Old South.","Tom's life changed when he married Florence (Lathrop) Field\n Page on June 6, 1893. After that time, his visits Washington,\n D.C., New York City, and York Harbor, Maine, but throughout\n his marriage Florence and Tom traveled every year overseas.\n Frequent letters from Rosewell kept Tom abreast of matters at\n \"Oakland,\" including comments on how Tom's works were in\n demand in Richmond bookstores, news of neighbors and friends,\n and family activity such as their mother's giving Christmas\n presents to white and black workers at \"Oakland\" or their\n father's discussion about where he was on Christmas Eve during\n each year of the Civil War (12/24/94). Rosewell discussed\n investments, selling family land in Hanover County, Va., Tom's\n tenant, Edmund T. Taylor, at \"Mont Air,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n the status of crops, horses, and livestock, and Tom's opinion\n of Uncle Tom's Cabin as discussed in The Atlanta Evening News\n (1/16/01). Edmund T. Taylor, Tom's tenant farmer in Bandana,\n Va., wrote Tom in August and September of 1901 about the corn,\n potato, and wheat crop and the livestock, sent a drawing of a\n barn that he wanted Tom to approve, and discussed rebuilding\n bridges in Hanover County, Va., washed out by high water.\n Tom's letters to his family in Virginia are rarely found in\n Mss1P1465aFA2 but his letter of May 17, 1893 to Rosewell was\n written prior to going on his honeymoon aboard a steamer to\n London. Tom enclosed a check to provide for contingencies at\n \"Oakland\" and urged Rosewell, if necessary, to contact Thomas\n Nelson Carter, Tom's power-of-attorney and law partner, for\n stocks to be sold to provide emergency monies for the\n homestead.","Business letters came from a lawyer in Charlottesville,\n Va., concerning land Tom wished to buy (7/28/93), Ward, Lock\n and Bowden, a publisher in London, with an attached agreement\n concerning publishing of Tom's works in England (7/14/94),\n Charles Scribner discussing publishing schedules, royalties,\n and a contract for Polly (10/31/94 and 2/11/95) actually\n published earlier in In Ole Virginia in 1887, J. Cabell\n Brockenbrough concerning translating Tom's work into French\n (8/23/95), Sol Smith Russell concerning critiquing Tom's plays\n (7/17/96), and Elizabeth Marbury of New York who was trying to\n submit Red Rock to playwrights and managers but is not having\n any luck (1/29/01). Tom received correspondence from the\n various clubs he was a member of in Washington, D.C., such as\n the Chevy Chase Club (9/13/00). Over the years he served as an\n officer in these clubs and helped with renovations and\n fund-raising. John Stewart Bryan, writing for his father\n Joseph Bryan who was ill, wrote several letters in 1900\n concerning stock in the Lake Superior Co. Occasionally Tom\n received mundane letters about his Washington, D.C., home at\n No. 1759 R Street. Some refer to repairs needed on his\n property. In October 1900, his insurance agent sent a list\n with evaluations of the contents of this home. Like most folks\n with ample financial means, Tom frequently received\n fund-raising letters. For example, a feeder school to the\n University of Virginia located at Morrisville, Va., requested\n money in December 1902.","Friends and fans continued to write with high praises for\n one of Tom's latest works, Red Rock, wanting to know if his\n fiction was based on actual events, or writing to share\n similar stories of black slaves. Ellen Shields of Natchez,\n Miss., inspired by Tom's viewpoint, discussed a sketch of a\n black carpenter who worked for her father on their plantations\n and who liked to preach (7/2/00). The editor of The\n Philadelphia Item asked Tom's opinion about British and\n American reviewers (8/18/00).","Distant family members and sometimes unrelated folks wrote\n Tom for political influence and financial assistance. B. M.\n Fontaine did not want to become further indebted to Tom, and\n Joseph Reid Anderson Bruce, a nephew by marriage, wanted some\n help in getting a job (9/17/00). In June 1900, A. L. Nelson\n wished Tom could help finance a distant relative's education\n at the University of Virginia. A cousin in Naples, Florida,\n requested Tom's aid in getting someone into the U.S. Naval\n Academy (2/12/03), while Frank Nelson, Jr., thanked Tom for\n money loaned to him at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.","From 1904-1908, Tom's correspondence again was an even mix\n of fan letters and business letters. Fund-raising letters\n abound with several requests for complete sets of his printed\n works to be donated to various libraries in Virginia, for\n money to renovate an Episcopal church, or for money to pay for\n medical treatment of indigent persons. Marie von Unschuld at\n the University of Music and Dramatic Art in D.C. wrote for\n Tom's financial assistance in establishing scholarships for\n her students (7/18/04). Tom received mail from agricultural\n researchers about alfalfa experiments and inoculating\n leguminous plants and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\n concerning the building of a road near Beaverdam in Hanover\n County, Va.","Letters from friends and family are scattered through\n 1904-1908; most family letters are from Rosewell, especially\n in 1905, sharing news from the mill and news of the corn,\n wheat, millet, and pea crops, cutting of timber, installing of\n a phone line, selling of lambs and wool, building of a dam on\n one of the Hanover County properties, and changes in tenants.\n Rosewell sent a six-month statement concerning all farm costs\n and asked Tom to pay various debts. Other family letters to\n Tom discuss his financing of schooling for Rosewell's\n daughter, Anne, and for a distant relative, Randolph Rosewell\n Page, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A cousin from Clifton\n Forge, Va., Lizzie R. Taylor, asked Tom for money to build a\n rectory. Strangers as well as friends wanted Tom to help them\n get jobs such as J. L. Hall, a professor at William and Mary\n College, who wanted a job at the University of North Carolina\n (7/7/04), or a law professor at Wake Forest College wanting\n Tom to go to the White House and ask the President to appoint\n him to a district court judgeship (12/16/08). Several letters\n in 1904 indicate that Tom was trying to influence the Library\n of Congress to hire Alexander Welbourne Weddell.","Notable letters to Tom in this time period came from Samuel\n Langhorne Clemens, thanking Florence and Tom for their\n kindness to his wife, who died in June 1904; from Thomas\n Nelson Carter about a land auction; and Teddy Roosevelt, who\n Carter would not vote for \"on account of his putting forward\n the Negroes in the platform...\" (6/24/04); from John Singleton\n Mosby concerning the Gettysburg campaign (10/26/08); from\n Ernest Thompson Seton, an animal painter, lecturer, and\n adventurer (12/8/08); and from Victor Howard Metcalf, lawyer\n and Secretary of the Navy, thanking Tom for a copy of his work\n on Robert E. Lee.","The last box of Thomas Nelson Page correspondence dates\n from 1909 to 1922. The usual pattern of letters prevails here\n but noteworthy letters follow. Leonard Gunnell, a cousin by\n marriage, worked at the Smithsonian Institution and sent Tom a\n picture of the old home at Oakland (1/09). (Oakland burned in\n 1899 and was rebuilt in six months.) Also, in January 1909,\n Tom received letters about horses he can buy in Vermont and\n Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick, son of the inventor, sends Tom\n a book about the Southern black; \"...I send it herewith,\n knowing that you, who understand so thoroly [sic] the old-time\n life of the Southern negro...(2/3/09).\" From Lexington, Ky.,\n Foxhall A. Daingerfield writes Tom his impressions of Robert\n E. Lee, who he knew personally during the Civil War (2/8/09).\n In September 1909, Charles Scribner's Sons enclosed a contract\n for publication of John Marvel, Assistant.","In 1912 there were many letters from Ruth (Nelson) Page to\n Tom. It appears Ruth was helping Rosewell with the management\n of Oakland and other properties owned or subsidized by Tom.\n Rosewell campaigned and won the election to become the second\n auditor of Virginia. He served in that post until 1928; thus,\n much of his time was spent in Richmond. Ruth's letters\n describe family and farm news, especially the health and death\n of her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\n Rosewell still wrote Tom on a few occasions, but the remainder\n of the 1912 letters are sympathy letters from strangers,\n friends, and family concerning Elizabeth's death. A few\n thank-you notes from distant cousins discuss Tom's kindness in\n paying their school tuition.","From 1913 to 1917 there are only twenty items, mainly\n letters from Ruth and Rosewell. Ruth praised Tom upon becoming\n the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Ruth and Rosewell's daughter,\n Anne (Page) Johns, wrote her uncle from Stuart Hall School,\n Staunton, Va.; Tom financed this niece's education. For a\n number of years, there was a school run at \"Oakland,\" and Ruth\n mentioned \"our academy\" in her February 20, 1916 letter. Also,\n in 1916, Jonathan Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, wrote Tom\n about the Federal Reserve Act (5/12/16). Walter Hines Page, a\n cousin and an editor at Doubleday, Page and Co., Long Island,\n N.Y., informed Tom of changes in their personnel, resulting in\n delays dealing with his book (unidentified) (1/19/13). From\n 1918 until Tom's death in 1922, correspondence is slim,\n numbering thirty-two items. The effects of World War I are\n quite evident in letters to Tom in 1918. H. Rozier Dulany, a\n real estate agent in Washington, D.C., wrote Tom about a\n tenant's rent, travels to Tom's farms in Virginia, selling\n Tom's cattle, and the \"scarcity of farm labor in Virginia\"\n (1/1/18). Several of Ruth's letters discussed the effects of\n the war, especially her letter of June 23, 1918. Her April\n 1918 letters dwell on the death of Frank Page, Tom's older\n brother. In September, Ruth explained her move to Richmond\n where her daughter Anne is working for the war effort,\n postponing her education until after the war. In October, Ruth\n discussed the Spanish flu epidemic in Richmond, and in\n November, Ruth described the impact on Richmond of returning\n soldiers. Anne wrote her uncle on October 20 explaining the\n nature of her war job at the bag-loading plant, mentioning\n measuring black powder for ammunition. Rosewell wrote Tom in\n Italy in February 1919, \"You have filled one of the most\n difficult posts in the world with dignity and honor....\" In\n one of Tom's last letters, he wrote to \"Lil Gals,\" probably\n his step-daughters, mentioning he had to borrow money to carry\n on at York Harbor, Maine (9/18/21).","Thomas Nelson Page materials also include financial records\n consisting of receipts or bills for office supplies, crops\n such as oats and hay, farm equipment, lumber, hardware,\n freight charges from Europe, but mainly, royalty payments from\n Charles Scribner's Sons.","Among Page's miscellaneous materials are three\n certificates, 1874-1877, from the University of Virginia for\n Tom's having passed courses in law, and there is a commission\n for Page having attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant of the\n Richmond Light Infantry Blues.","Scattered papers refer to cases Tom handled when he\n practiced law in Richmond, Va. Other notable papers give\n Rosewell the power-of-attorney (1913) for Tom and include a\n copy of Tom's will (1922).","Among the last items in this series are newspaper articles\n about Tom, including a description of his funeral service in\n 1922. Also present are pictures, 1919-1921, including one that\n is undated but identified a dress that belonged to Elizabeth\n (Burwell) Nelson. The caption on this picture says the dress\n was kept at \"Oakland\" and, thus, was lost when the house\n burned in 1899. Photographs taken in 1919 document Italian\n troops guarding the American Embassy and concern Italian\n Premier Vittorio Orlando's return from the Paris peace\n conference. Another photograph shows Tom and Rosewell in\n Denver, Colo. Finishing the series are two undated addresses\n concerning the history of the settlement of Jamestown and the\n commemoration of the Virginia Convention of 1776. A speech,\n probably written by Tom, dated 1906, was given in Lisbon for\n the American Legation, and concerns the medical profession.\n Miscellaneous papers include the wedding announcement (1886)\n for Tom's first marriage to Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, a sonnet\n (undated) to Amelie Louise (Rives) Chandler Troubetzkoy\n written on reading her \"Grief and Faith\", recent news (1919)\n about Yugoslavia as reported in the Italian press, an essay\n (undated) about Page and \"Marse Chan,\" an invitation list\n (undated) for a dinner, probably given in honor of Jonathan\n Daniels at the American Embassy in Italy, and notes (undated)\n about On Newfound River, written in memory of Annie.","Series Eight contains the papers of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page (1867-1888), known as \"Annie,\" Thomas Nelson Page's first\n wife. Her correspondence is mainly from family and friends,\n including her parents, brothers, and sisters, who share family\n happenings and alwayed praise Tom and his writing. William\n Cabell Bruce, a brother, described his life as a lawyer in\n Baltimore, Md., in November 1882, while Charles Bruce, her\n father, wrote about his daily routine at \"Staunton Hill,\n Charlotte County, Va., in March 1887. From 1885 to 1888, James\n Douglas Bruce, another of her brothers, wrote Annie while he\n lived abroad in Germany and France. Family included Thomas\n Nelson Carter, who was a cousin of Annie's and the law partner\n of her husband, and Tom's aunt, Anne Rose Page. In December\n 1886, she wrote Annie a story about a black child brought up\n by a white woman in Goochland County, Va. He murdered the\n woman when he turned eighteen because she would not buy him a\n certain pair of shoes. Anne Rose also commented on Tom's\n writings. Friends such as Lelia Augusta (Myers) Morgan wrote\n in August 1886, about the earthquake in Richmond, Va., while\n Annie and Tom are on their European honeymoon. In February\n 1887, an unidentified correspondent wrote from England\n mentioning a dinner she attended where several artists were\n present including James Abbott McNeill Whistler.","Series Nine includes correspondence exists between Florence\n (Lathrop) Field Page (1858-1921), Thomas Nelson Page's second\n wife, and Rosewell Page, Ruth (Nelson) Page, Anne (Page)\n Johns, all relatives of Tom, and Florence's grandson by her\n daughter Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Henry Field (originally\n named Henry Gibson). Henry wrote from England and described\n the Christmas activities around him in 1908. A few letters to\n Florence relate to financial transactions or obtaining a tutor\n for one of Flo's daughters. Also included are accounts,\n 1897-1900, in part pertaining to paying a tutor and to a\n purchase at a home furnishings store in Washington, D.C.","Series 10 begins with the correspondence, 1888-1938, of\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939). Half of Rosewell's correspondence\n comes from family or friends and half from business\n acquaintances. Aunt Anne Rose Page, along with Rosewell's\n mother, write him about the death in 1893 of Frank's baby,\n Rose, and affairs at Oakland. Ruth, his wife, gives him news\n of their children and Rosewell's parents and requests various\n things for Rosewell to bring from Richmond. Elizabeth Hope\n Stewart of \"Brook Hill\" sends him congratulations for his\n marriage to Ruth in 1898. Other folks compliment him on\n becoming a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and\n express sympathy in the loss of Tom's two wives. While Anne\n (Page) Johns attends Stuart Hall School, Staunton, Va.,\n Rosewell writes his daughter about family news.","As a member of the law firm of Rutherfoord and Page,\n Richmond, Va., Rosewell received legal letters related to\n cases he handled, but much of his business correspondence\n related to either his biography of his brother Tom or Tom's\n publications. From 1922-1937, Charles Scribner's Sons\n corresponded with Rosewell about publishing his biography of\n Tom, royalty payments for at least 28 of Tom's publications,\n renewing copyright on one of Tom's stories, asking Rosewell's\n permission to publish a new edition of Two Little\n Confederates, arranging a special educational edition of Red\n Rock, and concerning movie rights for Tom's works. In 1934,\n Lola D. Moore, a representative for authors and artists in\n Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Calif., corresponded with\n Rosewell wanting to market Red Rock in the movie industry.\n Another agent, Grace Morse of New York, also wrote Rosewell\n about trying to sell movie rights. Other business letters\n refer to \"Oakland\" and the surrounding area in Hanover County,\n Va., including building of a bridge across the South Anna\n River and placement of telephone lines through Page\n property.","The remainder of the series includes accounts, 1897-1927,\n including five notes (1905) on the school account for Hall's\n Free School run by Miss Orr and, probably, sponsored by the\n Page family; notes on logging expenses (no date); accounts\n between Tom and Rosewell concerning farm expenses in\n 1907-1908; and a royalty report for Tom's publication for\n 1927. Also included are undated manuscripts, including a draft\n of Rosewell's Hanover County: Its History and Legends and\n Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman. A draft\n of a speech about Jamestown filed in Series 7.7 possibly was\n by Rosewell also. Lastly, miscellaneous materials, 1868-1916,\n include an undated newspaper picture of Rosewell, his wife and\n daughter, and others attending a memorial observance of Edgar\n Allan Poe's birthday, and a biographical sketch and picture of\n Rosewell.","Ruth (Nelson) Page's papers make up Series 11. Most of\n Ruth's correspondence is found in earlier series of her\n mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page, her\n brother-in-law, Thomas Nelson Page, and her husband, Rosewell\n Page. Other family letters found here include those from Minna\n (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Thomas Nelson Page's step-daughter,\n about a visit to \"Rock Ledge,\" York Harbor, Maine, and of\n Ruth's son, Robert Nelson Page. One letter by this son was\n written in August 1921, from \"Rock Ledge.\" In October 1918,\n Mary C. Nelson, Ruth's sister who served as a Red Cross nurse\n during World War I, wrote from Paris. John Cook Wyllie,\n Director of Libraries at the University of Virginia, addressed\n Ruth in July 1967, discussing the acquisition of Thomas Nelson\n Page papers.","Series 12 contains materials of Anne Page. In 1914, Anne\n Page, daughter of Rosewell and Ruth Page, attended Stuart Hall\n School in Staunton, Va., and she wrote her brother, Robert\n Nelson Page. During World War I, Anne was back in the Richmond\n area working for the war effort at DuPont Engineering Co.;\n this company sent congratulations to its workers, including\n Anne, on November 14, 1918. Anne wrote Karl E. Johnson at the\n Red Cross headquarters in Petersburg, also in 1918, asking if\n she and the Hall's Free School, probably run under the\n auspices of the Page family at \"Oakland,\" could open a canteen\n on the Richmond-Washington Highway to serve soldiers. (Then,\n during World War II, Anne received a letter from Richmond\n Filter Center thanking its workers for their help in wartime.)\n From 1929-1941, Anne received letters from the national Junior\n League Magazine concerning articles that she wrote for this\n publication. William B. Thalhimer, Jr., wrote in April 1951,\n about wanting to honor her as one of Richmond's noted authors.\n From 1967-1969, Anne received letters from various persons\n associated with the University of Virginia concerning the sale\n of Thomas Nelson Page manuscripts to the college.","Anne (Page) Johns's materials also include an annual report\n for 1930-1931, an undated constitution, copies of The Leaguer\n from May 1929-June 1931, and drafts of historical articles on\n the Junior League of Richmond; and war ration books from World\n War II.","One of two letters to Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971),\n husband of Anne (Page) Johns, arrived in April 1953, from an\n assistant to the Ambassador of Italy, thanking Dr. Johns for\n his courtesies when the assistant visited Virginia at the\n centennial celebration of the birth of Thomas Nelson Page.\n Other Frank Johns materials include a war ration book from\n World War II, an undated news article concerning the receipt\n of a portrait of Dr. Johns at Hampden-Sydney College, and a\n 1950 article about the college naming an auditorium for him.\n Johns had served as chairman of the Board of Trustees since\n 1938.","Section 14 concerns Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns) Hill, daughter of Anne\n (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns. Four scrapbooks trace\n Hill's life, beginning as a student in Petersburg, and\n following him throughout his career. The first volume, dated\n 1896-1942, includes a catalogue for the 1895-1896 session of\n the University School in Richmond, Va., the school first\n started in Petersburg, Va., by William Gordon McCabe. Hill is\n listed as a student. Hill participated in sports activities at\n the University School, as well as in college at the University\n of Virginia, which he entered in 1897. The baseball team\n schedule for 1898 includes a picture of the team. After Hill's\n college years, he continued to enjoy sports as noted in this\n scrapbook. One article dated April 11, 1942, concerns Hill's\n son, William M. Hill, captain of the University of Virginia\n football team.","The second volume of Hill's scrapbooks, dated 1904-1943,\n focuses on Hill's adult civic and social activities such as\n his membership in the Commonwealth Club and the Richmond\n German, efforts to get more playgrounds across Virginia,\n service as a member of the Civilian Examining Committee for\n the U.S. War Department in 1918 and a member of the Board of\n Managers of the Richmond Male Orphan Society in 1919. In the\n nineteen twenties he served on the Medical College of Virginia\n Board of Visitors, and in 1936, he was a director of the\n Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. On December 17, 1940,\n Lady Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Shaw Astor wrote Hill after he\n sent a group contribution to relieve the Air Raid distress.\n Personal asides include information about the death of his\n mother, Frances Cadwallader (Harrison) Hill, in 1916, and the\n death of his father, William Maury Hill, in 1918, about the\n wedding of his daughter, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson, in\n 1940, and about the death of Hill, himself, in 1943.","In the scrapbook for 1904-1943 Hill documented the progress\n of his adult career. In his young adult years, he served as\n assistant cashier at the National State Bank in Richmond and\n then, in 1915, he became a director of the National State and\n City Bank, later known as the State-Planters Bank and Trust\n Company. In 1917 he was still cashier but was elected to be a\n vice-president, and in 1920, he became president of the bank.\n A 1920 article by Hill appeared in the Journal of Accountancy.\n Hill became president of Old Dominion Trust Co. in 1922. Other\n news articles highlight his membership in professional groups\n such as the American Bankers Association, his service on the\n Advisory Committee of the Richmond Loan Agency of the\n Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, and his\n appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Advisory\n Committee on Works Allotment in 1935. Enclosures are dated\n 1939 and concern Hill's wife, Lucy, and the birth of their\n seventh child, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson. There are\n photographs and negatives of Diana and other siblings.","The last volume of the scrapbooks, dated 1914-1917,\n concerns Hill's appointment and service as the chief of staff\n of the Governor of Virginia, Henry Carter Stuart. The letter\n from Stuart offering the position to Hill is in the scrapbook\n as well as articles about Stuart. Also included are other\n newspaper articles about Hill's professional and civic\n activities.","Among Hill's miscellany are the certificate signed by\n Governor Stuart, making Hill his chief of staff, along with a\n memorial editorial of December 2, 1943, celebrating the life\n of Hill.","Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill materials include\n letters congratulating Lucy, wife of Julien Harrison Hill, on\n the birth of Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson.","Series Sixteen includes correspondence of extended family\n members in the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson, Points,\n and Page families. Notable letters include an undated Civil\n War letter from a hospital at Warm Springs, Va. from a\n preacher who writes about how hard it is to console the sick\n soldiers and a January 3, 1864 letter from Stevenson Points to\n Lizzie Stevenson when he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Del.\n At the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page in December 1888,\n members of the Bruce family receive sympathy letters. In\n January 1891, George Washington Points corresponded with Mary\n C. Nelson about the genealogy of the Points (also known as\n Poyntz) family. Bryan Lathrop, brother of Florence (Lathrop)\n Field Page, admonished Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby about the\n status of her finances in 1912. Mary C. Nelson, sister of Ruth\n (Nelson) Page and Red Cross nurse during World War I, wrote an\n interesting letter in November 1918, about the ending of the\n war and the reactions in Paris. A last notable letter\n (undated) was written from Scotland to Miss Bessie (otherwise\n unidentified) and is from Johannes Wolf, a musicologist\n specializing in medieval music."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":42,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00015","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00015","_root_":"vihi_vih00015","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00015","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00015.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 P1456 a FA2"],"text":["Mss1 P1456 a FA2","A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876","Authors, American -- Virginia --\n History.","China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-\n 1912.","Diaries -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th\n century.","Diaries -- Connecticut -- Woodbury -- History --\n 19th century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 20th century.","Education -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Episcopal Church -- Connecticut -- Clergy --\n History -- 19th century.","Episcopal Church -- Virginia -- History.","Family -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","Farm management -- Virginia -- History..","Hanover County (Va.) - - Social life and\n customs.","Laity -- Eipscopal Church -- Virginia.","Missionaries -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Mothers and sons -- Virginia -- History.","Nelson, Robert, 1819-1886.","Oakland (Hanover County, Va.)","Page, Elizabeth Burwell Nelson,\n 1821-1912.","Page family.","Page, Rosewell, 1858-1939.","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.","Virginia -- Social life and customs.","Women -- Virginia -- Family\n relationships.","Women -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","2,050 (ca.)items (18 manuscipt\n boxes)","Collection is open for research.","Collection is arranged in sixteen sections by main entry\n and further subdivided by subject or record type where\n necessary.","Records of four generations of the Page family of Hanover\n County and Richmond, Va., and related families. Represented\n are Francis Page (1780-1849); his son John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, a graduate of the University of\n Virginia, lawyer, and for four years an attorney for the\n Commonwealth in Hanover County; Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page (1821-1912), wife of John Page and mother of Francis\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page, and Rosewell Page; Robert Nelson\n (1819-1886), Episcopal missionary to China and brother of\n Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; Robert's wife, Rose (Points)\n Nelson (1827-1885); Francis Page (1849- 1918), better known as\n \"Frank,\" an Episcopal priest who served parishes in Virginia,\n Texas, and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) of\n Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., and York Harbor, Me., lawyer,\n lecturer and writer, and U.S. Ambassador to Italy from\n 1912-1918; Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page (1867-1888), first wife of\n Thomas Nelson Page and originally from \"Staunton Hill,\"\n Charlotte County, Va.; Florence (Lathrop) Field Page\n (1858-1921), first married to Henry Field (brother of Marshall\n Field) and then married in 1893 to Thomas Nelson Page;\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939) of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, lawyer\n in Richmond, writer, member of the General Assembly of\n Virginia, and second auditor of Virginia from 1912-1928; Ruth\n (Nelson) Page (1871-1975?), second wife of Rosewell Page; Anne\n (Page) Johns (b. 1899) of Richmond, daughter of Rosewell and\n Ruth (Nelson) Page; Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971), Anne\n (Page) Johns' husband; and Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n banker in Richmond and father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns)\n Hill, daughter of Anne (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns;\n and Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill (b. 1881), wife of\n Julien Harrison Hill. Also included are scattered\n correspondence of the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson,\n and Points families, and Page cousins.","Series 1 of the collection begins with the papers of\n Francis Page (1780-1849), consisting of two receipts, one for\n the digging of a well (1819) and one for his subscription to\n the National Vaccine Institution (1825).","Series 2 contains the papers of John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and consist of correspondence,\n 1877-1898. Principal correspondents are his wife, Elizabeth\n Burwell (Nelson) Page, and his sons, Rosewell Page and Thomas\n Nelson Page. One of the few letters in the collection written\n by Rosewell as he practiced law in Danville, Va., is in this\n series. Letters by John Page to his son Thomas discuss family\n activity, political and business tasks that the father wants\n the son to handle in Richmond, Va., business and personal\n advice, and news of the crops at \"Oakland.\"","Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page (1821-1912) materials\n follow in Series 3. Page, of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n kept a diary, 1905, recording activities for each day. Entries\n describe the farm activities at \"Oakland,\" the servants and\n their roles, local epidemics of smallpox, and the lives of her\n son, Rosewell Page, and his wife, Ruth (Nelson) Page, who\n lived at \"Oakland,\" including frequent reference to Rosewell's\n role as a layman in the Episcopal Church, news of her other\n two sons, Francis (better known as Frank) Page, an Episcopal\n priest, and Thomas Nelson Page who occasionally visits\n \"Oakland\" and checks on his land holdings and mill operations\n in Hanover County, Va. Two pages of accounts are at the end of\n the diary and include references to servants' wages and farm\n expenses. Scattered accounts appear throughout the diary.","Also present are letters of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page, chiefly written to her middle son, Thomas Nelson Page,\n from 1876 to 1912. Elizabeth wrote primarily from \"Oakland,\"\n Hanover County, Va., but also while visiting her sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson, in Charlottesville. Her\n letters to Thomas are addressed to numerous locations around\n the United States, especially New York and York, Maine, and in\n Europe. In them, Elizabeth discusses her daily activities on\n the farm at \"Oakland\" and the activities of other family\n members such as her brother, William Nelson, who ran the\n farming operations at \"Oakland.\" With the help of servants,\n she tended chickens, hogs, ducks, and turkeys, preserves food,\n and handled other household tasks. Some of Elizabeth's letters\n to Thomas include attached letters from other relatives to\n Elizabeth such as Frank Page, her oldest son.","In addition to her correspondence with Thomas Nelson Page,\n Elizabeth's papers include letters from her school days at\n Long Branch written to her father, Thomas Nelson; letters from\n her son, Frank Page and his wife, Letitia Rives (Morris) Page,\n writing from Waco, Texas, where he served as an Episcopal\n priest in 1890 and in 1911 as a priest in Brooklyn, N. Y.; a\n 1877 letter from her brother, Robert Nelson, while serving as\n a missionary in China; an 1865 letter from Anne Wickham, a\n niece of Elizabeth, concerning the Civil War and her feeling\n that Jefferson Davis had no role in the assassination of\n Abraham Lincoln; and several letters to Elizabeth in 1888\n expressing sympathy over the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page's first wife.","Series 4 begins with the diary of Robert Nelson (1819-1886)\n kept initially while serving as an Episcopal missionary in\n Shanghai, China, in 1878, as an account book for a children's\n school; then kept in Woodbury, Conn., during the last years of\n his life and that of his wife, Rose (Points) Nelson, whose\n picture and obituary appear on p. 108 of the volume. Robert\n Nelson was a brother of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.","Diary entries from 1885 to 1886 note Robert's\n church-related activities, including the number of baptisms,\n illnesses of church members, attendance at Episcopal\n conferences, and descriptions of his sermons. On page 90,\n Robert talks about his participation as a minister in Ulysses\n Simpson Grant's funeral, and on page 59, Robert laments the\n low nature of his annual salary of $600.00 in 1885. He gives\n much information about his family's daily life, travels,\n illnesses, and birthdays. His children's attendance at school\n and careers are also mentioned. A trip to Virginia, including\n to \"Oakland,\" and Charlottesville, are discussed on pages\n 109-111.","Robert Nelson's correspondence, 1851-1886, was mostly\n written from or addressed to Shanghai, China, where Nelson\n served as a missionary. Included are interesting and detailed\n descriptions of Chinese customs, his family's activities, the\n burning of his chapel and people stealing all the chapel\n furnishings, baptism of Chinese people, and the children's\n school Nelson ran. One letter from Nelson to his sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson of Charlottesville,\n concerns a female student whose family threatens to break her\n legs because she is a Christian.","Robert Nelson's miscellaneous papers include a resolution,\n 1881, by the Committee for the Shanghai Temperance Society. It\n honors Nelson for his service on the eve of his departure from\n China to live the remainder of his life in Connecticut.","Series 5 contains the papers of Rose (Points) Nelson\n (1827-1885), including correspondence, undated-1870,\n containing a partial letter (n.d.) from Rose's daughter, Mary\n C. Nelson, while Mary was traveling by ship towards Yokohama,\n Japan; and a letter (1870) of Rose's to Mary C. Nelson giving\n general advice on life as Mary left their home in Shanghai,\n China, to go to the United States.","Rose Nelson's papers also include parts of a diary written\n probably in 1865 while she was at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County,\n Va. In the diary she discusses her children and family\n activities, the death of Mr. Lincoln, whom she compared to\n Herod, her glowing opinion of the slaves, and how people are\n avoiding taking the oath of allegiance; and a narrative, 1865,\n concerning the death of her son, William Nelson.","Series 6 includes papers of Francis Page (1848-1918). His\n correspondence, 1877-1910, includes a 1903(?) letter to his\n brother, Rosewell Page, concerning the beginning of his\n ministry at St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and letters to\n his other brother, Thomas Nelson Page, congratulating Tom and\n Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, Tom's first wife, on their first\n anniversary and congratulating Tom in 1893 on his second\n marriage to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, telling Tom of his\n call to St. John's Church, asking Tom if he knows anything\n about the church, and discussing family news, including in\n 1911 how Frank is coping with the loss of his first wife,\n Letitia Rives (Morris) Page (better known as Lettie).","Francis Page's legal papers, 1961, include incomplete\n affidavits related to Frank Page and J. Packard Laird, Jr.,\n concerning property in Hanover County, Va. Frank's heirs are\n listed.","Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) materials appear in Series\n 7. Correspondence, 1861-1922 (1,305 items) is arranged in\n chronological order, with undated materials appearing first.\n Fans of Page's works wrote letters commenting on his writing\n and his lectures and asking for autographs, biographical\n sketches of Page, new articles to print in their magazines, or\n permission to reprint portions of his work. Friends wrote to\n arrange meetings and trips, and some wrote their condolences\n at the death of his first wife, Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, in\n 1888. For charitable causes people ask Page to donate money or\n to autograph copies of his books. Notable correspondents\n include William Gillette, an actor and playwright, Joseph\n Forney Johnston, a governor of Alabama and a U.S. Senator,\n Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress from 1899-1939, and his\n second wife, Florence (Lathrop) Field Page.","Most letters from 1861-1887 are written to Tom in Hanover\n County, Va., Richmond, or Charlottesville. From 1861-1877 most\n of the correspondence is business-related as Tom was a\n practicing lawyer in his early adult years, but there is\n scattered correspondence from family and friends, including\n his first wife, Annie. One business letter concerns Tom's\n efforts to buy a farm in Hanover County, Va. In the 1880s his\n correspondence becomes more numerous as he continues to reside\n in Hanover County and Richmond practicing law and beginning to\n receive fan letters for \"Marse Chan,\" one of his early stories\n first appearing in 1884 in the Century Magazine and published\n in a collection in 1887. In 1886 Tom and Annie are married and\n some letters to Tom are written to him aboard ship headed for\n England where they spent their honeymoon. Also, in 1886,\n Rosewell Page, Tom's younger brother, writes to him about his\n law practice in Danville, Va. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's law\n partner in the firm of Page and Carter, Richmond, Va., writes\n Tom in 1887 while Tom is on a trip to Brussels. Carter\n congratulates him on his writing and discusses a Richmond\n group of writers called The Skaerl. Tom writes Carter from St.\n Paul, Minn., talking about his travel and investments. Over\n the years that Tom travels or lives away from Virginia, Carter\n helps to keep the law practice going in Richmond and helps Tom\n with his financial concerns. (After Tom marries the second\n time to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, the partnership is\n dissolved and Tom devotes the rest of his life to writing,\n donating time and money to charitable causes, and serving as\n U.S. Ambassador to Italy during World War I.)","Also, in 1887, most of the correspondence comes from fans\n wanting Tom to lecture in their towns, thanking him for\n assisting them in critiquing their writing, asking for help in\n getting their works published, wanting copies of his work,\n wanting articles written by Tom to publish in university\n publications, newspapers, and magazines, and asking for\n autographs. One publisher expresses his disappointment that\n Tom goes to another publisher. Unrelated to his writing there\n are occasional business letters, including a telegram in which\n a gentleman wants to invest in Page's iron works.","Beginning in 1888, Tom and Annie write frequently while she\n spends time with her parents at \"Staunton Hill,\" Charlotte\n County, Va., or while Tom travels frequently on speaking\n tours. Tom shares some news of his legal schedule, Richmond\n news, and how he misses her. On September 4, 1888, Tom writes\n \"Law is dull. Indeed, I do not know what I should do without\n my Literary side-shows from time to time.\" While traveling in\n Georgia on August 2, 1888, Tom talks about his meeting and\n impressions of Joel Chandler Harris. On August 31, 1888, Tom\n writes Annie that he is trying to get Two Little Confederates\n ready to return to Charles Scribner. Fans continue to\n correspond with Tom praising In Ole Virginia in which appears\n \"Marse Chan,\" and asking him to lecture in locations such as\n Charlottesville, Staunton, and Richmond, all in Va.,\n Louisville, Ky., Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Md., New York,\n N.Y., and Tennessee. Henry Woodfin Grady, a friend of Tom's,\n requests that Tom come to do readings in Atlanta, and Charles\n Scribner communicates with Tom about publishing his\n writings.","Annie died in December 1888, and thus much of the extant\n correspondence for this year includes sympathy letters to Tom.\n Family and friends extend their sympathies at his loss, but\n also, complete strangers write from around the United\n States.","From January through March, 1889, numerous people continue\n to send their sympathies from the United States and abroad.\n Richard Malcolm Johnston, a Georgia lawyer, author, and\n educator who idealized the South as Tom did, offers his\n condolences and talks about his readings on the lecture\n circuit with Mark Twain. In this January 23rd letter, Richard\n writes, \"We had an excellent audience. I never saw Mark so\n fine. It was most generous in [sic] him to volunteer to come\n to my help.\" Tom was to have been Richard's lecture partner\n but Clemens filled in for Tom who canceled due to the death of\n Annie. James Burton Pond, in February and March, corresponds\n with Tom during this sad time. He served as a general agent\n and manager for numerous writers and musicians. In February,\n an artist from Washington, D.C., A. G. Keaton, is arranging\n the details for a portrait he is doing of Annie. (In July and\n August, F. R. Pustet and Co., New York, N.Y., converses with\n Tom about a stained glass window being made as a memorial for\n Annie.)","By April, 1889, Tom began to receive more business-related\n correspondence. Johnston wrote more often, encouraging Tom to\n enter a new lecture arrangement with Pond. Hilgard Tyndale of\n Charles Scribner's Sons discussed the play he was writing\n based on \"Marse Chan\" (3/10/89 and 4/4/89). Several colleges\n invited him to visit. J. M. Stoddart with Lippincott's Monthly\n Magazine notified Tom on April 2nd that he would receive\n $400.00 for two articles he had written, while D. Lothrop\n Company of Boston wanted Tom to write a short serial. Molly\n Elliott Seawell, a fellow author, seemed to see Tom as a\n mentor and asked for advice on her writing.","To help assuage Tom's sorrow, Rosewell and Tom traveled in\n Europe in July and August of 1889. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's\n law partner, kept them abreast of Richmond news and mentioned\n possible investments (7/24/89 and 8/19/89). Fans continued to\n write asking questions about his writings, requesting copies\n of his works, and asking for writing advice. In August, Sally\n Page (Nelson) Hughes, daughter of William Nelson of \"Midway,\"\n Mecklenburg County, Va., gave Tom her personal reminiscences\n of Michel Ney, also known as Peter Stuart Ney.","Tom lived with Rosewell in Richmond during 1890-1891 except\n for when he has away on business, especially in Kentucky. He\n traveled briefly in England during this time also. Family\n letters include letters from Annie's mother, Sarah Alexander\n (Seddon) Bruce (5/7/91 and 11/4/91), Thomas Jefferson Page, a\n Southern expatriate living in Florence, Italy, (1/12/90 and\n 2/26/90), his aunt, Anne Rose Page, who lived much of her life\n at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and his uncle, William\n Nelson, who was the manager of \"Oakland,\" asking for financial\n assistance (3/18/91). (There is much correspondence between\n Tom and his mother, Elizabeth; it appears in Series 3.\n Likewise, correspondence with his father, John, appears in\n Series 2; there is much less of this\n correspondence.)Publishers continued to write Tom, including\n Warwick House, an English publisher writing about royalties;\n Ward, Lock, Boyden and Co., London, trying to defend their\n handling of the sales of In Ole Virginia; and The Christian\n Union, New York, concerning revising a paper Tom has written.\n Much of the correspondence in these years, however, came from\n fans and friends who praised Tom and his works asking again\n for biographical sketches of him, thanking him for speaking to\n their group, encouraging Tom to write a history of the South,\n wanting autographs, and inviting him to visit their homes\n while he is on the lecture circuit. Almost all of Tom's fan\n mail is positive except for two negative letters (one dated\n 10/31/91) from a fundamentalist concerning how Tom rendered a\n verse from the Bible. William G. Eggleston of The Chicago\n Herald wanted help with using black dialect (5/31/90). A few\n letters illustrate Tom's philanthropic nature, as in November\n 1890, someone wrote to ask him to become a member of the Maury\n Memorial Commission. He raised money for the Richmond Public\n Library; Joseph Reid Anderson sent Tom a contribution for the\n library on March 2, 1891.","A baroness in France and Tom began corresponding in 1891.\n There are six letters starting on March 11 concerning\n Alexandre Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire, who wanted to\n establish an academy of arts and sciences in Richmond after\n the American Revolution. Baroness Yetta Blaze de Bury asked\n for Tom's assistance in finding more information about Quesnay\n de Beaurepaire. She also commented on another of Tom's works,\n On Newfound River.","In 1892 Tom continued to live in Richmond, Va., as a\n bachelor in-between frequent travels for speaking engagements.\n Friends invited Tom to visit with them when he spoke in places\n such as New York, Alabama, and Texas, while fans wrote to ask\n him to speak at schools in Louisville, Ky., Winchester, Ky.,\n and Roanoke, Va. or to speak at clubs like the Southern Club\n of Harvard, to provide complimentary passes at clubs like the\n Union League Club of Chicago when he visited in that city, to\n help them with their writing aspirations, and to praise On\n Newfound River and The Old South.","Tom's life changed when he married Florence (Lathrop) Field\n Page on June 6, 1893. After that time, his visits Washington,\n D.C., New York City, and York Harbor, Maine, but throughout\n his marriage Florence and Tom traveled every year overseas.\n Frequent letters from Rosewell kept Tom abreast of matters at\n \"Oakland,\" including comments on how Tom's works were in\n demand in Richmond bookstores, news of neighbors and friends,\n and family activity such as their mother's giving Christmas\n presents to white and black workers at \"Oakland\" or their\n father's discussion about where he was on Christmas Eve during\n each year of the Civil War (12/24/94). Rosewell discussed\n investments, selling family land in Hanover County, Va., Tom's\n tenant, Edmund T. Taylor, at \"Mont Air,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n the status of crops, horses, and livestock, and Tom's opinion\n of Uncle Tom's Cabin as discussed in The Atlanta Evening News\n (1/16/01). Edmund T. Taylor, Tom's tenant farmer in Bandana,\n Va., wrote Tom in August and September of 1901 about the corn,\n potato, and wheat crop and the livestock, sent a drawing of a\n barn that he wanted Tom to approve, and discussed rebuilding\n bridges in Hanover County, Va., washed out by high water.\n Tom's letters to his family in Virginia are rarely found in\n Mss1P1465aFA2 but his letter of May 17, 1893 to Rosewell was\n written prior to going on his honeymoon aboard a steamer to\n London. Tom enclosed a check to provide for contingencies at\n \"Oakland\" and urged Rosewell, if necessary, to contact Thomas\n Nelson Carter, Tom's power-of-attorney and law partner, for\n stocks to be sold to provide emergency monies for the\n homestead.","Business letters came from a lawyer in Charlottesville,\n Va., concerning land Tom wished to buy (7/28/93), Ward, Lock\n and Bowden, a publisher in London, with an attached agreement\n concerning publishing of Tom's works in England (7/14/94),\n Charles Scribner discussing publishing schedules, royalties,\n and a contract for Polly (10/31/94 and 2/11/95) actually\n published earlier in In Ole Virginia in 1887, J. Cabell\n Brockenbrough concerning translating Tom's work into French\n (8/23/95), Sol Smith Russell concerning critiquing Tom's plays\n (7/17/96), and Elizabeth Marbury of New York who was trying to\n submit Red Rock to playwrights and managers but is not having\n any luck (1/29/01). Tom received correspondence from the\n various clubs he was a member of in Washington, D.C., such as\n the Chevy Chase Club (9/13/00). Over the years he served as an\n officer in these clubs and helped with renovations and\n fund-raising. John Stewart Bryan, writing for his father\n Joseph Bryan who was ill, wrote several letters in 1900\n concerning stock in the Lake Superior Co. Occasionally Tom\n received mundane letters about his Washington, D.C., home at\n No. 1759 R Street. Some refer to repairs needed on his\n property. In October 1900, his insurance agent sent a list\n with evaluations of the contents of this home. Like most folks\n with ample financial means, Tom frequently received\n fund-raising letters. For example, a feeder school to the\n University of Virginia located at Morrisville, Va., requested\n money in December 1902.","Friends and fans continued to write with high praises for\n one of Tom's latest works, Red Rock, wanting to know if his\n fiction was based on actual events, or writing to share\n similar stories of black slaves. Ellen Shields of Natchez,\n Miss., inspired by Tom's viewpoint, discussed a sketch of a\n black carpenter who worked for her father on their plantations\n and who liked to preach (7/2/00). The editor of The\n Philadelphia Item asked Tom's opinion about British and\n American reviewers (8/18/00).","Distant family members and sometimes unrelated folks wrote\n Tom for political influence and financial assistance. B. M.\n Fontaine did not want to become further indebted to Tom, and\n Joseph Reid Anderson Bruce, a nephew by marriage, wanted some\n help in getting a job (9/17/00). In June 1900, A. L. Nelson\n wished Tom could help finance a distant relative's education\n at the University of Virginia. A cousin in Naples, Florida,\n requested Tom's aid in getting someone into the U.S. Naval\n Academy (2/12/03), while Frank Nelson, Jr., thanked Tom for\n money loaned to him at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.","From 1904-1908, Tom's correspondence again was an even mix\n of fan letters and business letters. Fund-raising letters\n abound with several requests for complete sets of his printed\n works to be donated to various libraries in Virginia, for\n money to renovate an Episcopal church, or for money to pay for\n medical treatment of indigent persons. Marie von Unschuld at\n the University of Music and Dramatic Art in D.C. wrote for\n Tom's financial assistance in establishing scholarships for\n her students (7/18/04). Tom received mail from agricultural\n researchers about alfalfa experiments and inoculating\n leguminous plants and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\n concerning the building of a road near Beaverdam in Hanover\n County, Va.","Letters from friends and family are scattered through\n 1904-1908; most family letters are from Rosewell, especially\n in 1905, sharing news from the mill and news of the corn,\n wheat, millet, and pea crops, cutting of timber, installing of\n a phone line, selling of lambs and wool, building of a dam on\n one of the Hanover County properties, and changes in tenants.\n Rosewell sent a six-month statement concerning all farm costs\n and asked Tom to pay various debts. Other family letters to\n Tom discuss his financing of schooling for Rosewell's\n daughter, Anne, and for a distant relative, Randolph Rosewell\n Page, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A cousin from Clifton\n Forge, Va., Lizzie R. Taylor, asked Tom for money to build a\n rectory. Strangers as well as friends wanted Tom to help them\n get jobs such as J. L. Hall, a professor at William and Mary\n College, who wanted a job at the University of North Carolina\n (7/7/04), or a law professor at Wake Forest College wanting\n Tom to go to the White House and ask the President to appoint\n him to a district court judgeship (12/16/08). Several letters\n in 1904 indicate that Tom was trying to influence the Library\n of Congress to hire Alexander Welbourne Weddell.","Notable letters to Tom in this time period came from Samuel\n Langhorne Clemens, thanking Florence and Tom for their\n kindness to his wife, who died in June 1904; from Thomas\n Nelson Carter about a land auction; and Teddy Roosevelt, who\n Carter would not vote for \"on account of his putting forward\n the Negroes in the platform...\" (6/24/04); from John Singleton\n Mosby concerning the Gettysburg campaign (10/26/08); from\n Ernest Thompson Seton, an animal painter, lecturer, and\n adventurer (12/8/08); and from Victor Howard Metcalf, lawyer\n and Secretary of the Navy, thanking Tom for a copy of his work\n on Robert E. Lee.","The last box of Thomas Nelson Page correspondence dates\n from 1909 to 1922. The usual pattern of letters prevails here\n but noteworthy letters follow. Leonard Gunnell, a cousin by\n marriage, worked at the Smithsonian Institution and sent Tom a\n picture of the old home at Oakland (1/09). (Oakland burned in\n 1899 and was rebuilt in six months.) Also, in January 1909,\n Tom received letters about horses he can buy in Vermont and\n Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick, son of the inventor, sends Tom\n a book about the Southern black; \"...I send it herewith,\n knowing that you, who understand so thoroly [sic] the old-time\n life of the Southern negro...(2/3/09).\" From Lexington, Ky.,\n Foxhall A. Daingerfield writes Tom his impressions of Robert\n E. Lee, who he knew personally during the Civil War (2/8/09).\n In September 1909, Charles Scribner's Sons enclosed a contract\n for publication of John Marvel, Assistant.","In 1912 there were many letters from Ruth (Nelson) Page to\n Tom. It appears Ruth was helping Rosewell with the management\n of Oakland and other properties owned or subsidized by Tom.\n Rosewell campaigned and won the election to become the second\n auditor of Virginia. He served in that post until 1928; thus,\n much of his time was spent in Richmond. Ruth's letters\n describe family and farm news, especially the health and death\n of her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\n Rosewell still wrote Tom on a few occasions, but the remainder\n of the 1912 letters are sympathy letters from strangers,\n friends, and family concerning Elizabeth's death. A few\n thank-you notes from distant cousins discuss Tom's kindness in\n paying their school tuition.","From 1913 to 1917 there are only twenty items, mainly\n letters from Ruth and Rosewell. Ruth praised Tom upon becoming\n the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Ruth and Rosewell's daughter,\n Anne (Page) Johns, wrote her uncle from Stuart Hall School,\n Staunton, Va.; Tom financed this niece's education. For a\n number of years, there was a school run at \"Oakland,\" and Ruth\n mentioned \"our academy\" in her February 20, 1916 letter. Also,\n in 1916, Jonathan Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, wrote Tom\n about the Federal Reserve Act (5/12/16). Walter Hines Page, a\n cousin and an editor at Doubleday, Page and Co., Long Island,\n N.Y., informed Tom of changes in their personnel, resulting in\n delays dealing with his book (unidentified) (1/19/13). From\n 1918 until Tom's death in 1922, correspondence is slim,\n numbering thirty-two items. The effects of World War I are\n quite evident in letters to Tom in 1918. H. Rozier Dulany, a\n real estate agent in Washington, D.C., wrote Tom about a\n tenant's rent, travels to Tom's farms in Virginia, selling\n Tom's cattle, and the \"scarcity of farm labor in Virginia\"\n (1/1/18). Several of Ruth's letters discussed the effects of\n the war, especially her letter of June 23, 1918. Her April\n 1918 letters dwell on the death of Frank Page, Tom's older\n brother. In September, Ruth explained her move to Richmond\n where her daughter Anne is working for the war effort,\n postponing her education until after the war. In October, Ruth\n discussed the Spanish flu epidemic in Richmond, and in\n November, Ruth described the impact on Richmond of returning\n soldiers. Anne wrote her uncle on October 20 explaining the\n nature of her war job at the bag-loading plant, mentioning\n measuring black powder for ammunition. Rosewell wrote Tom in\n Italy in February 1919, \"You have filled one of the most\n difficult posts in the world with dignity and honor....\" In\n one of Tom's last letters, he wrote to \"Lil Gals,\" probably\n his step-daughters, mentioning he had to borrow money to carry\n on at York Harbor, Maine (9/18/21).","Thomas Nelson Page materials also include financial records\n consisting of receipts or bills for office supplies, crops\n such as oats and hay, farm equipment, lumber, hardware,\n freight charges from Europe, but mainly, royalty payments from\n Charles Scribner's Sons.","Among Page's miscellaneous materials are three\n certificates, 1874-1877, from the University of Virginia for\n Tom's having passed courses in law, and there is a commission\n for Page having attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant of the\n Richmond Light Infantry Blues.","Scattered papers refer to cases Tom handled when he\n practiced law in Richmond, Va. Other notable papers give\n Rosewell the power-of-attorney (1913) for Tom and include a\n copy of Tom's will (1922).","Among the last items in this series are newspaper articles\n about Tom, including a description of his funeral service in\n 1922. Also present are pictures, 1919-1921, including one that\n is undated but identified a dress that belonged to Elizabeth\n (Burwell) Nelson. The caption on this picture says the dress\n was kept at \"Oakland\" and, thus, was lost when the house\n burned in 1899. Photographs taken in 1919 document Italian\n troops guarding the American Embassy and concern Italian\n Premier Vittorio Orlando's return from the Paris peace\n conference. Another photograph shows Tom and Rosewell in\n Denver, Colo. Finishing the series are two undated addresses\n concerning the history of the settlement of Jamestown and the\n commemoration of the Virginia Convention of 1776. A speech,\n probably written by Tom, dated 1906, was given in Lisbon for\n the American Legation, and concerns the medical profession.\n Miscellaneous papers include the wedding announcement (1886)\n for Tom's first marriage to Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, a sonnet\n (undated) to Amelie Louise (Rives) Chandler Troubetzkoy\n written on reading her \"Grief and Faith\", recent news (1919)\n about Yugoslavia as reported in the Italian press, an essay\n (undated) about Page and \"Marse Chan,\" an invitation list\n (undated) for a dinner, probably given in honor of Jonathan\n Daniels at the American Embassy in Italy, and notes (undated)\n about On Newfound River, written in memory of Annie.","Series Eight contains the papers of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page (1867-1888), known as \"Annie,\" Thomas Nelson Page's first\n wife. Her correspondence is mainly from family and friends,\n including her parents, brothers, and sisters, who share family\n happenings and alwayed praise Tom and his writing. William\n Cabell Bruce, a brother, described his life as a lawyer in\n Baltimore, Md., in November 1882, while Charles Bruce, her\n father, wrote about his daily routine at \"Staunton Hill,\n Charlotte County, Va., in March 1887. From 1885 to 1888, James\n Douglas Bruce, another of her brothers, wrote Annie while he\n lived abroad in Germany and France. Family included Thomas\n Nelson Carter, who was a cousin of Annie's and the law partner\n of her husband, and Tom's aunt, Anne Rose Page. In December\n 1886, she wrote Annie a story about a black child brought up\n by a white woman in Goochland County, Va. He murdered the\n woman when he turned eighteen because she would not buy him a\n certain pair of shoes. Anne Rose also commented on Tom's\n writings. Friends such as Lelia Augusta (Myers) Morgan wrote\n in August 1886, about the earthquake in Richmond, Va., while\n Annie and Tom are on their European honeymoon. In February\n 1887, an unidentified correspondent wrote from England\n mentioning a dinner she attended where several artists were\n present including James Abbott McNeill Whistler.","Series Nine includes correspondence exists between Florence\n (Lathrop) Field Page (1858-1921), Thomas Nelson Page's second\n wife, and Rosewell Page, Ruth (Nelson) Page, Anne (Page)\n Johns, all relatives of Tom, and Florence's grandson by her\n daughter Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Henry Field (originally\n named Henry Gibson). Henry wrote from England and described\n the Christmas activities around him in 1908. A few letters to\n Florence relate to financial transactions or obtaining a tutor\n for one of Flo's daughters. Also included are accounts,\n 1897-1900, in part pertaining to paying a tutor and to a\n purchase at a home furnishings store in Washington, D.C.","Series 10 begins with the correspondence, 1888-1938, of\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939). Half of Rosewell's correspondence\n comes from family or friends and half from business\n acquaintances. Aunt Anne Rose Page, along with Rosewell's\n mother, write him about the death in 1893 of Frank's baby,\n Rose, and affairs at Oakland. Ruth, his wife, gives him news\n of their children and Rosewell's parents and requests various\n things for Rosewell to bring from Richmond. Elizabeth Hope\n Stewart of \"Brook Hill\" sends him congratulations for his\n marriage to Ruth in 1898. Other folks compliment him on\n becoming a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and\n express sympathy in the loss of Tom's two wives. While Anne\n (Page) Johns attends Stuart Hall School, Staunton, Va.,\n Rosewell writes his daughter about family news.","As a member of the law firm of Rutherfoord and Page,\n Richmond, Va., Rosewell received legal letters related to\n cases he handled, but much of his business correspondence\n related to either his biography of his brother Tom or Tom's\n publications. From 1922-1937, Charles Scribner's Sons\n corresponded with Rosewell about publishing his biography of\n Tom, royalty payments for at least 28 of Tom's publications,\n renewing copyright on one of Tom's stories, asking Rosewell's\n permission to publish a new edition of Two Little\n Confederates, arranging a special educational edition of Red\n Rock, and concerning movie rights for Tom's works. In 1934,\n Lola D. Moore, a representative for authors and artists in\n Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Calif., corresponded with\n Rosewell wanting to market Red Rock in the movie industry.\n Another agent, Grace Morse of New York, also wrote Rosewell\n about trying to sell movie rights. Other business letters\n refer to \"Oakland\" and the surrounding area in Hanover County,\n Va., including building of a bridge across the South Anna\n River and placement of telephone lines through Page\n property.","The remainder of the series includes accounts, 1897-1927,\n including five notes (1905) on the school account for Hall's\n Free School run by Miss Orr and, probably, sponsored by the\n Page family; notes on logging expenses (no date); accounts\n between Tom and Rosewell concerning farm expenses in\n 1907-1908; and a royalty report for Tom's publication for\n 1927. Also included are undated manuscripts, including a draft\n of Rosewell's Hanover County: Its History and Legends and\n Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman. A draft\n of a speech about Jamestown filed in Series 7.7 possibly was\n by Rosewell also. Lastly, miscellaneous materials, 1868-1916,\n include an undated newspaper picture of Rosewell, his wife and\n daughter, and others attending a memorial observance of Edgar\n Allan Poe's birthday, and a biographical sketch and picture of\n Rosewell.","Ruth (Nelson) Page's papers make up Series 11. Most of\n Ruth's correspondence is found in earlier series of her\n mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page, her\n brother-in-law, Thomas Nelson Page, and her husband, Rosewell\n Page. Other family letters found here include those from Minna\n (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Thomas Nelson Page's step-daughter,\n about a visit to \"Rock Ledge,\" York Harbor, Maine, and of\n Ruth's son, Robert Nelson Page. One letter by this son was\n written in August 1921, from \"Rock Ledge.\" In October 1918,\n Mary C. Nelson, Ruth's sister who served as a Red Cross nurse\n during World War I, wrote from Paris. John Cook Wyllie,\n Director of Libraries at the University of Virginia, addressed\n Ruth in July 1967, discussing the acquisition of Thomas Nelson\n Page papers.","Series 12 contains materials of Anne Page. In 1914, Anne\n Page, daughter of Rosewell and Ruth Page, attended Stuart Hall\n School in Staunton, Va., and she wrote her brother, Robert\n Nelson Page. During World War I, Anne was back in the Richmond\n area working for the war effort at DuPont Engineering Co.;\n this company sent congratulations to its workers, including\n Anne, on November 14, 1918. Anne wrote Karl E. Johnson at the\n Red Cross headquarters in Petersburg, also in 1918, asking if\n she and the Hall's Free School, probably run under the\n auspices of the Page family at \"Oakland,\" could open a canteen\n on the Richmond-Washington Highway to serve soldiers. (Then,\n during World War II, Anne received a letter from Richmond\n Filter Center thanking its workers for their help in wartime.)\n From 1929-1941, Anne received letters from the national Junior\n League Magazine concerning articles that she wrote for this\n publication. William B. Thalhimer, Jr., wrote in April 1951,\n about wanting to honor her as one of Richmond's noted authors.\n From 1967-1969, Anne received letters from various persons\n associated with the University of Virginia concerning the sale\n of Thomas Nelson Page manuscripts to the college.","Anne (Page) Johns's materials also include an annual report\n for 1930-1931, an undated constitution, copies of The Leaguer\n from May 1929-June 1931, and drafts of historical articles on\n the Junior League of Richmond; and war ration books from World\n War II.","One of two letters to Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971),\n husband of Anne (Page) Johns, arrived in April 1953, from an\n assistant to the Ambassador of Italy, thanking Dr. Johns for\n his courtesies when the assistant visited Virginia at the\n centennial celebration of the birth of Thomas Nelson Page.\n Other Frank Johns materials include a war ration book from\n World War II, an undated news article concerning the receipt\n of a portrait of Dr. Johns at Hampden-Sydney College, and a\n 1950 article about the college naming an auditorium for him.\n Johns had served as chairman of the Board of Trustees since\n 1938.","Section 14 concerns Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns) Hill, daughter of Anne\n (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns. Four scrapbooks trace\n Hill's life, beginning as a student in Petersburg, and\n following him throughout his career. The first volume, dated\n 1896-1942, includes a catalogue for the 1895-1896 session of\n the University School in Richmond, Va., the school first\n started in Petersburg, Va., by William Gordon McCabe. Hill is\n listed as a student. Hill participated in sports activities at\n the University School, as well as in college at the University\n of Virginia, which he entered in 1897. The baseball team\n schedule for 1898 includes a picture of the team. After Hill's\n college years, he continued to enjoy sports as noted in this\n scrapbook. One article dated April 11, 1942, concerns Hill's\n son, William M. Hill, captain of the University of Virginia\n football team.","The second volume of Hill's scrapbooks, dated 1904-1943,\n focuses on Hill's adult civic and social activities such as\n his membership in the Commonwealth Club and the Richmond\n German, efforts to get more playgrounds across Virginia,\n service as a member of the Civilian Examining Committee for\n the U.S. War Department in 1918 and a member of the Board of\n Managers of the Richmond Male Orphan Society in 1919. In the\n nineteen twenties he served on the Medical College of Virginia\n Board of Visitors, and in 1936, he was a director of the\n Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. On December 17, 1940,\n Lady Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Shaw Astor wrote Hill after he\n sent a group contribution to relieve the Air Raid distress.\n Personal asides include information about the death of his\n mother, Frances Cadwallader (Harrison) Hill, in 1916, and the\n death of his father, William Maury Hill, in 1918, about the\n wedding of his daughter, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson, in\n 1940, and about the death of Hill, himself, in 1943.","In the scrapbook for 1904-1943 Hill documented the progress\n of his adult career. In his young adult years, he served as\n assistant cashier at the National State Bank in Richmond and\n then, in 1915, he became a director of the National State and\n City Bank, later known as the State-Planters Bank and Trust\n Company. In 1917 he was still cashier but was elected to be a\n vice-president, and in 1920, he became president of the bank.\n A 1920 article by Hill appeared in the Journal of Accountancy.\n Hill became president of Old Dominion Trust Co. in 1922. Other\n news articles highlight his membership in professional groups\n such as the American Bankers Association, his service on the\n Advisory Committee of the Richmond Loan Agency of the\n Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, and his\n appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Advisory\n Committee on Works Allotment in 1935. Enclosures are dated\n 1939 and concern Hill's wife, Lucy, and the birth of their\n seventh child, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson. There are\n photographs and negatives of Diana and other siblings.","The last volume of the scrapbooks, dated 1914-1917,\n concerns Hill's appointment and service as the chief of staff\n of the Governor of Virginia, Henry Carter Stuart. The letter\n from Stuart offering the position to Hill is in the scrapbook\n as well as articles about Stuart. Also included are other\n newspaper articles about Hill's professional and civic\n activities.","Among Hill's miscellany are the certificate signed by\n Governor Stuart, making Hill his chief of staff, along with a\n memorial editorial of December 2, 1943, celebrating the life\n of Hill.","Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill materials include\n letters congratulating Lucy, wife of Julien Harrison Hill, on\n the birth of Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson.","Series Sixteen includes correspondence of extended family\n members in the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson, Points,\n and Page families. Notable letters include an undated Civil\n War letter from a hospital at Warm Springs, Va. from a\n preacher who writes about how hard it is to console the sick\n soldiers and a January 3, 1864 letter from Stevenson Points to\n Lizzie Stevenson when he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Del.\n At the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page in December 1888,\n members of the Bruce family receive sympathy letters. In\n January 1891, George Washington Points corresponded with Mary\n C. Nelson about the genealogy of the Points (also known as\n Poyntz) family. Bryan Lathrop, brother of Florence (Lathrop)\n Field Page, admonished Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby about the\n status of her finances in 1912. Mary C. Nelson, sister of Ruth\n (Nelson) Page and Red Cross nurse during World War I, wrote an\n interesting letter in November 1918, about the ending of the\n war and the reactions in Paris. A last notable letter\n (undated) was written from Scotland to Miss Bessie (otherwise\n unidentified) and is from Johannes Wolf, a musicologist\n specializing in medieval music.","There are no restrictions.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 P1456 a FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Page Family Papers, \n \n 1819-1876"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Mrs. William Maury Hill, Richmond, Va., in 1989.\n Accessioned June 26, 1996."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Authors, American -- Virginia --\n History.","China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-\n 1912.","Diaries -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th\n century.","Diaries -- Connecticut -- Woodbury -- History --\n 19th century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 20th century.","Education -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Episcopal Church -- Connecticut -- Clergy --\n History -- 19th century.","Episcopal Church -- Virginia -- History.","Family -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","Farm management -- Virginia -- History..","Hanover County (Va.) - - Social life and\n customs.","Laity -- Eipscopal Church -- Virginia.","Missionaries -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Mothers and sons -- Virginia -- History.","Nelson, Robert, 1819-1886.","Oakland (Hanover County, Va.)","Page, Elizabeth Burwell Nelson,\n 1821-1912.","Page family.","Page, Rosewell, 1858-1939.","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.","Virginia -- Social life and customs.","Women -- Virginia -- Family\n relationships.","Women -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Authors, American -- Virginia --\n History.","China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-\n 1912.","Diaries -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th\n century.","Diaries -- Connecticut -- Woodbury -- History --\n 19th century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 20th century.","Education -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Episcopal Church -- Connecticut -- Clergy --\n History -- 19th century.","Episcopal Church -- Virginia -- History.","Family -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs.","Farm management -- Virginia -- History..","Hanover County (Va.) - - Social life and\n customs.","Laity -- Eipscopal Church -- Virginia.","Missionaries -- China -- History -- 19th\n century.","Mothers and sons -- Virginia -- History.","Nelson, Robert, 1819-1886.","Oakland (Hanover County, Va.)","Page, Elizabeth Burwell Nelson,\n 1821-1912.","Page family.","Page, Rosewell, 1858-1939.","Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.","Virginia -- Social life and customs.","Women -- Virginia -- Family\n relationships.","Women -- Virginia -- Social life and\n customs."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["2,050 (ca.)items (18 manuscipt\n boxes)"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open for research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open for research."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is arranged in sixteen sections by main entry\n and further subdivided by subject or record type where\n necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Collection is arranged in sixteen sections by main entry\n and further subdivided by subject or record type where\n necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords of four generations of the Page family of Hanover\n County and Richmond, Va., and related families. Represented\n are Francis Page (1780-1849); his son John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, a graduate of the University of\n Virginia, lawyer, and for four years an attorney for the\n Commonwealth in Hanover County; Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page (1821-1912), wife of John Page and mother of Francis\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page, and Rosewell Page; Robert Nelson\n (1819-1886), Episcopal missionary to China and brother of\n Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; Robert's wife, Rose (Points)\n Nelson (1827-1885); Francis Page (1849- 1918), better known as\n \"Frank,\" an Episcopal priest who served parishes in Virginia,\n Texas, and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) of\n Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., and York Harbor, Me., lawyer,\n lecturer and writer, and U.S. Ambassador to Italy from\n 1912-1918; Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page (1867-1888), first wife of\n Thomas Nelson Page and originally from \"Staunton Hill,\"\n Charlotte County, Va.; Florence (Lathrop) Field Page\n (1858-1921), first married to Henry Field (brother of Marshall\n Field) and then married in 1893 to Thomas Nelson Page;\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939) of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, lawyer\n in Richmond, writer, member of the General Assembly of\n Virginia, and second auditor of Virginia from 1912-1928; Ruth\n (Nelson) Page (1871-1975?), second wife of Rosewell Page; Anne\n (Page) Johns (b. 1899) of Richmond, daughter of Rosewell and\n Ruth (Nelson) Page; Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971), Anne\n (Page) Johns' husband; and Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n banker in Richmond and father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns)\n Hill, daughter of Anne (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns;\n and Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill (b. 1881), wife of\n Julien Harrison Hill. Also included are scattered\n correspondence of the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson,\n and Points families, and Page cousins.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Records of four generations of the Page family of Hanover\n County and Richmond, Va., and related families. Represented\n are Francis Page (1780-1849); his son John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, a graduate of the University of\n Virginia, lawyer, and for four years an attorney for the\n Commonwealth in Hanover County; Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page (1821-1912), wife of John Page and mother of Francis\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page, and Rosewell Page; Robert Nelson\n (1819-1886), Episcopal missionary to China and brother of\n Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; Robert's wife, Rose (Points)\n Nelson (1827-1885); Francis Page (1849- 1918), better known as\n \"Frank,\" an Episcopal priest who served parishes in Virginia,\n Texas, and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) of\n Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C., and York Harbor, Me., lawyer,\n lecturer and writer, and U.S. Ambassador to Italy from\n 1912-1918; Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page (1867-1888), first wife of\n Thomas Nelson Page and originally from \"Staunton Hill,\"\n Charlotte County, Va.; Florence (Lathrop) Field Page\n (1858-1921), first married to Henry Field (brother of Marshall\n Field) and then married in 1893 to Thomas Nelson Page;\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939) of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, lawyer\n in Richmond, writer, member of the General Assembly of\n Virginia, and second auditor of Virginia from 1912-1928; Ruth\n (Nelson) Page (1871-1975?), second wife of Rosewell Page; Anne\n (Page) Johns (b. 1899) of Richmond, daughter of Rosewell and\n Ruth (Nelson) Page; Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971), Anne\n (Page) Johns' husband; and Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n banker in Richmond and father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns)\n Hill, daughter of Anne (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns;\n and Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill (b. 1881), wife of\n Julien Harrison Hill. Also included are scattered\n correspondence of the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson,\n and Points families, and Page cousins."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePage Family Papers, 1819-1976 (Mss1 P1465 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Page Family Papers, 1819-1976 (Mss1 P1465 a FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries 1 of the collection begins with the papers of\n Francis Page (1780-1849), consisting of two receipts, one for\n the digging of a well (1819) and one for his subscription to\n the National Vaccine Institution (1825).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 contains the papers of John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and consist of correspondence,\n 1877-1898. Principal correspondents are his wife, Elizabeth\n Burwell (Nelson) Page, and his sons, Rosewell Page and Thomas\n Nelson Page. One of the few letters in the collection written\n by Rosewell as he practiced law in Danville, Va., is in this\n series. Letters by John Page to his son Thomas discuss family\n activity, political and business tasks that the father wants\n the son to handle in Richmond, Va., business and personal\n advice, and news of the crops at \"Oakland.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page (1821-1912) materials\n follow in Series 3. Page, of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n kept a diary, 1905, recording activities for each day. Entries\n describe the farm activities at \"Oakland,\" the servants and\n their roles, local epidemics of smallpox, and the lives of her\n son, Rosewell Page, and his wife, Ruth (Nelson) Page, who\n lived at \"Oakland,\" including frequent reference to Rosewell's\n role as a layman in the Episcopal Church, news of her other\n two sons, Francis (better known as Frank) Page, an Episcopal\n priest, and Thomas Nelson Page who occasionally visits\n \"Oakland\" and checks on his land holdings and mill operations\n in Hanover County, Va. Two pages of accounts are at the end of\n the diary and include references to servants' wages and farm\n expenses. Scattered accounts appear throughout the diary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso present are letters of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page, chiefly written to her middle son, Thomas Nelson Page,\n from 1876 to 1912. Elizabeth wrote primarily from \"Oakland,\"\n Hanover County, Va., but also while visiting her sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson, in Charlottesville. Her\n letters to Thomas are addressed to numerous locations around\n the United States, especially New York and York, Maine, and in\n Europe. In them, Elizabeth discusses her daily activities on\n the farm at \"Oakland\" and the activities of other family\n members such as her brother, William Nelson, who ran the\n farming operations at \"Oakland.\" With the help of servants,\n she tended chickens, hogs, ducks, and turkeys, preserves food,\n and handled other household tasks. Some of Elizabeth's letters\n to Thomas include attached letters from other relatives to\n Elizabeth such as Frank Page, her oldest son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to her correspondence with Thomas Nelson Page,\n Elizabeth's papers include letters from her school days at\n Long Branch written to her father, Thomas Nelson; letters from\n her son, Frank Page and his wife, Letitia Rives (Morris) Page,\n writing from Waco, Texas, where he served as an Episcopal\n priest in 1890 and in 1911 as a priest in Brooklyn, N. Y.; a\n 1877 letter from her brother, Robert Nelson, while serving as\n a missionary in China; an 1865 letter from Anne Wickham, a\n niece of Elizabeth, concerning the Civil War and her feeling\n that Jefferson Davis had no role in the assassination of\n Abraham Lincoln; and several letters to Elizabeth in 1888\n expressing sympathy over the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page's first wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4 begins with the diary of Robert Nelson (1819-1886)\n kept initially while serving as an Episcopal missionary in\n Shanghai, China, in 1878, as an account book for a children's\n school; then kept in Woodbury, Conn., during the last years of\n his life and that of his wife, Rose (Points) Nelson, whose\n picture and obituary appear on p. 108 of the volume. Robert\n Nelson was a brother of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiary entries from 1885 to 1886 note Robert's\n church-related activities, including the number of baptisms,\n illnesses of church members, attendance at Episcopal\n conferences, and descriptions of his sermons. On page 90,\n Robert talks about his participation as a minister in Ulysses\n Simpson Grant's funeral, and on page 59, Robert laments the\n low nature of his annual salary of $600.00 in 1885. He gives\n much information about his family's daily life, travels,\n illnesses, and birthdays. His children's attendance at school\n and careers are also mentioned. A trip to Virginia, including\n to \"Oakland,\" and Charlottesville, are discussed on pages\n 109-111.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Nelson's correspondence, 1851-1886, was mostly\n written from or addressed to Shanghai, China, where Nelson\n served as a missionary. Included are interesting and detailed\n descriptions of Chinese customs, his family's activities, the\n burning of his chapel and people stealing all the chapel\n furnishings, baptism of Chinese people, and the children's\n school Nelson ran. One letter from Nelson to his sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson of Charlottesville,\n concerns a female student whose family threatens to break her\n legs because she is a Christian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Nelson's miscellaneous papers include a resolution,\n 1881, by the Committee for the Shanghai Temperance Society. It\n honors Nelson for his service on the eve of his departure from\n China to live the remainder of his life in Connecticut.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5 contains the papers of Rose (Points) Nelson\n (1827-1885), including correspondence, undated-1870,\n containing a partial letter (n.d.) from Rose's daughter, Mary\n C. Nelson, while Mary was traveling by ship towards Yokohama,\n Japan; and a letter (1870) of Rose's to Mary C. Nelson giving\n general advice on life as Mary left their home in Shanghai,\n China, to go to the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRose Nelson's papers also include parts of a diary written\n probably in 1865 while she was at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County,\n Va. In the diary she discusses her children and family\n activities, the death of Mr. Lincoln, whom she compared to\n Herod, her glowing opinion of the slaves, and how people are\n avoiding taking the oath of allegiance; and a narrative, 1865,\n concerning the death of her son, William Nelson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 6 includes papers of Francis Page (1848-1918). His\n correspondence, 1877-1910, includes a 1903(?) letter to his\n brother, Rosewell Page, concerning the beginning of his\n ministry at St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and letters to\n his other brother, Thomas Nelson Page, congratulating Tom and\n Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, Tom's first wife, on their first\n anniversary and congratulating Tom in 1893 on his second\n marriage to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, telling Tom of his\n call to St. John's Church, asking Tom if he knows anything\n about the church, and discussing family news, including in\n 1911 how Frank is coping with the loss of his first wife,\n Letitia Rives (Morris) Page (better known as Lettie).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrancis Page's legal papers, 1961, include incomplete\n affidavits related to Frank Page and J. Packard Laird, Jr.,\n concerning property in Hanover County, Va. Frank's heirs are\n listed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) materials appear in Series\n 7. Correspondence, 1861-1922 (1,305 items) is arranged in\n chronological order, with undated materials appearing first.\n Fans of Page's works wrote letters commenting on his writing\n and his lectures and asking for autographs, biographical\n sketches of Page, new articles to print in their magazines, or\n permission to reprint portions of his work. Friends wrote to\n arrange meetings and trips, and some wrote their condolences\n at the death of his first wife, Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, in\n 1888. For charitable causes people ask Page to donate money or\n to autograph copies of his books. Notable correspondents\n include William Gillette, an actor and playwright, Joseph\n Forney Johnston, a governor of Alabama and a U.S. Senator,\n Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress from 1899-1939, and his\n second wife, Florence (Lathrop) Field Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost letters from 1861-1887 are written to Tom in Hanover\n County, Va., Richmond, or Charlottesville. From 1861-1877 most\n of the correspondence is business-related as Tom was a\n practicing lawyer in his early adult years, but there is\n scattered correspondence from family and friends, including\n his first wife, Annie. One business letter concerns Tom's\n efforts to buy a farm in Hanover County, Va. In the 1880s his\n correspondence becomes more numerous as he continues to reside\n in Hanover County and Richmond practicing law and beginning to\n receive fan letters for \"Marse Chan,\" one of his early stories\n first appearing in 1884 in the Century Magazine and published\n in a collection in 1887. In 1886 Tom and Annie are married and\n some letters to Tom are written to him aboard ship headed for\n England where they spent their honeymoon. Also, in 1886,\n Rosewell Page, Tom's younger brother, writes to him about his\n law practice in Danville, Va. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's law\n partner in the firm of Page and Carter, Richmond, Va., writes\n Tom in 1887 while Tom is on a trip to Brussels. Carter\n congratulates him on his writing and discusses a Richmond\n group of writers called The Skaerl. Tom writes Carter from St.\n Paul, Minn., talking about his travel and investments. Over\n the years that Tom travels or lives away from Virginia, Carter\n helps to keep the law practice going in Richmond and helps Tom\n with his financial concerns. (After Tom marries the second\n time to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, the partnership is\n dissolved and Tom devotes the rest of his life to writing,\n donating time and money to charitable causes, and serving as\n U.S. Ambassador to Italy during World War I.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso, in 1887, most of the correspondence comes from fans\n wanting Tom to lecture in their towns, thanking him for\n assisting them in critiquing their writing, asking for help in\n getting their works published, wanting copies of his work,\n wanting articles written by Tom to publish in university\n publications, newspapers, and magazines, and asking for\n autographs. One publisher expresses his disappointment that\n Tom goes to another publisher. Unrelated to his writing there\n are occasional business letters, including a telegram in which\n a gentleman wants to invest in Page's iron works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1888, Tom and Annie write frequently while she\n spends time with her parents at \"Staunton Hill,\" Charlotte\n County, Va., or while Tom travels frequently on speaking\n tours. Tom shares some news of his legal schedule, Richmond\n news, and how he misses her. On September 4, 1888, Tom writes\n \"Law is dull. Indeed, I do not know what I should do without\n my Literary side-shows from time to time.\" While traveling in\n Georgia on August 2, 1888, Tom talks about his meeting and\n impressions of Joel Chandler Harris. On August 31, 1888, Tom\n writes Annie that he is trying to get Two Little Confederates\n ready to return to Charles Scribner. Fans continue to\n correspond with Tom praising In Ole Virginia in which appears\n \"Marse Chan,\" and asking him to lecture in locations such as\n Charlottesville, Staunton, and Richmond, all in Va.,\n Louisville, Ky., Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Md., New York,\n N.Y., and Tennessee. Henry Woodfin Grady, a friend of Tom's,\n requests that Tom come to do readings in Atlanta, and Charles\n Scribner communicates with Tom about publishing his\n writings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnie died in December 1888, and thus much of the extant\n correspondence for this year includes sympathy letters to Tom.\n Family and friends extend their sympathies at his loss, but\n also, complete strangers write from around the United\n States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom January through March, 1889, numerous people continue\n to send their sympathies from the United States and abroad.\n Richard Malcolm Johnston, a Georgia lawyer, author, and\n educator who idealized the South as Tom did, offers his\n condolences and talks about his readings on the lecture\n circuit with Mark Twain. In this January 23rd letter, Richard\n writes, \"We had an excellent audience. I never saw Mark so\n fine. It was most generous in [sic] him to volunteer to come\n to my help.\" Tom was to have been Richard's lecture partner\n but Clemens filled in for Tom who canceled due to the death of\n Annie. James Burton Pond, in February and March, corresponds\n with Tom during this sad time. He served as a general agent\n and manager for numerous writers and musicians. In February,\n an artist from Washington, D.C., A. G. Keaton, is arranging\n the details for a portrait he is doing of Annie. (In July and\n August, F. R. Pustet and Co., New York, N.Y., converses with\n Tom about a stained glass window being made as a memorial for\n Annie.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy April, 1889, Tom began to receive more business-related\n correspondence. Johnston wrote more often, encouraging Tom to\n enter a new lecture arrangement with Pond. Hilgard Tyndale of\n Charles Scribner's Sons discussed the play he was writing\n based on \"Marse Chan\" (3/10/89 and 4/4/89). Several colleges\n invited him to visit. J. M. Stoddart with Lippincott's Monthly\n Magazine notified Tom on April 2nd that he would receive\n $400.00 for two articles he had written, while D. Lothrop\n Company of Boston wanted Tom to write a short serial. Molly\n Elliott Seawell, a fellow author, seemed to see Tom as a\n mentor and asked for advice on her writing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo help assuage Tom's sorrow, Rosewell and Tom traveled in\n Europe in July and August of 1889. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's\n law partner, kept them abreast of Richmond news and mentioned\n possible investments (7/24/89 and 8/19/89). Fans continued to\n write asking questions about his writings, requesting copies\n of his works, and asking for writing advice. In August, Sally\n Page (Nelson) Hughes, daughter of William Nelson of \"Midway,\"\n Mecklenburg County, Va., gave Tom her personal reminiscences\n of Michel Ney, also known as Peter Stuart Ney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTom lived with Rosewell in Richmond during 1890-1891 except\n for when he has away on business, especially in Kentucky. He\n traveled briefly in England during this time also. Family\n letters include letters from Annie's mother, Sarah Alexander\n (Seddon) Bruce (5/7/91 and 11/4/91), Thomas Jefferson Page, a\n Southern expatriate living in Florence, Italy, (1/12/90 and\n 2/26/90), his aunt, Anne Rose Page, who lived much of her life\n at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and his uncle, William\n Nelson, who was the manager of \"Oakland,\" asking for financial\n assistance (3/18/91). (There is much correspondence between\n Tom and his mother, Elizabeth; it appears in Series 3.\n Likewise, correspondence with his father, John, appears in\n Series 2; there is much less of this\n correspondence.)Publishers continued to write Tom, including\n Warwick House, an English publisher writing about royalties;\n Ward, Lock, Boyden and Co., London, trying to defend their\n handling of the sales of In Ole Virginia; and The Christian\n Union, New York, concerning revising a paper Tom has written.\n Much of the correspondence in these years, however, came from\n fans and friends who praised Tom and his works asking again\n for biographical sketches of him, thanking him for speaking to\n their group, encouraging Tom to write a history of the South,\n wanting autographs, and inviting him to visit their homes\n while he is on the lecture circuit. Almost all of Tom's fan\n mail is positive except for two negative letters (one dated\n 10/31/91) from a fundamentalist concerning how Tom rendered a\n verse from the Bible. William G. Eggleston of The Chicago\n Herald wanted help with using black dialect (5/31/90). A few\n letters illustrate Tom's philanthropic nature, as in November\n 1890, someone wrote to ask him to become a member of the Maury\n Memorial Commission. He raised money for the Richmond Public\n Library; Joseph Reid Anderson sent Tom a contribution for the\n library on March 2, 1891.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA baroness in France and Tom began corresponding in 1891.\n There are six letters starting on March 11 concerning\n Alexandre Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire, who wanted to\n establish an academy of arts and sciences in Richmond after\n the American Revolution. Baroness Yetta Blaze de Bury asked\n for Tom's assistance in finding more information about Quesnay\n de Beaurepaire. She also commented on another of Tom's works,\n On Newfound River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1892 Tom continued to live in Richmond, Va., as a\n bachelor in-between frequent travels for speaking engagements.\n Friends invited Tom to visit with them when he spoke in places\n such as New York, Alabama, and Texas, while fans wrote to ask\n him to speak at schools in Louisville, Ky., Winchester, Ky.,\n and Roanoke, Va. or to speak at clubs like the Southern Club\n of Harvard, to provide complimentary passes at clubs like the\n Union League Club of Chicago when he visited in that city, to\n help them with their writing aspirations, and to praise On\n Newfound River and The Old South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTom's life changed when he married Florence (Lathrop) Field\n Page on June 6, 1893. After that time, his visits Washington,\n D.C., New York City, and York Harbor, Maine, but throughout\n his marriage Florence and Tom traveled every year overseas.\n Frequent letters from Rosewell kept Tom abreast of matters at\n \"Oakland,\" including comments on how Tom's works were in\n demand in Richmond bookstores, news of neighbors and friends,\n and family activity such as their mother's giving Christmas\n presents to white and black workers at \"Oakland\" or their\n father's discussion about where he was on Christmas Eve during\n each year of the Civil War (12/24/94). Rosewell discussed\n investments, selling family land in Hanover County, Va., Tom's\n tenant, Edmund T. Taylor, at \"Mont Air,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n the status of crops, horses, and livestock, and Tom's opinion\n of Uncle Tom's Cabin as discussed in The Atlanta Evening News\n (1/16/01). Edmund T. Taylor, Tom's tenant farmer in Bandana,\n Va., wrote Tom in August and September of 1901 about the corn,\n potato, and wheat crop and the livestock, sent a drawing of a\n barn that he wanted Tom to approve, and discussed rebuilding\n bridges in Hanover County, Va., washed out by high water.\n Tom's letters to his family in Virginia are rarely found in\n Mss1P1465aFA2 but his letter of May 17, 1893 to Rosewell was\n written prior to going on his honeymoon aboard a steamer to\n London. Tom enclosed a check to provide for contingencies at\n \"Oakland\" and urged Rosewell, if necessary, to contact Thomas\n Nelson Carter, Tom's power-of-attorney and law partner, for\n stocks to be sold to provide emergency monies for the\n homestead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness letters came from a lawyer in Charlottesville,\n Va., concerning land Tom wished to buy (7/28/93), Ward, Lock\n and Bowden, a publisher in London, with an attached agreement\n concerning publishing of Tom's works in England (7/14/94),\n Charles Scribner discussing publishing schedules, royalties,\n and a contract for Polly (10/31/94 and 2/11/95) actually\n published earlier in In Ole Virginia in 1887, J. Cabell\n Brockenbrough concerning translating Tom's work into French\n (8/23/95), Sol Smith Russell concerning critiquing Tom's plays\n (7/17/96), and Elizabeth Marbury of New York who was trying to\n submit Red Rock to playwrights and managers but is not having\n any luck (1/29/01). Tom received correspondence from the\n various clubs he was a member of in Washington, D.C., such as\n the Chevy Chase Club (9/13/00). Over the years he served as an\n officer in these clubs and helped with renovations and\n fund-raising. John Stewart Bryan, writing for his father\n Joseph Bryan who was ill, wrote several letters in 1900\n concerning stock in the Lake Superior Co. Occasionally Tom\n received mundane letters about his Washington, D.C., home at\n No. 1759 R Street. Some refer to repairs needed on his\n property. In October 1900, his insurance agent sent a list\n with evaluations of the contents of this home. Like most folks\n with ample financial means, Tom frequently received\n fund-raising letters. For example, a feeder school to the\n University of Virginia located at Morrisville, Va., requested\n money in December 1902.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFriends and fans continued to write with high praises for\n one of Tom's latest works, Red Rock, wanting to know if his\n fiction was based on actual events, or writing to share\n similar stories of black slaves. Ellen Shields of Natchez,\n Miss., inspired by Tom's viewpoint, discussed a sketch of a\n black carpenter who worked for her father on their plantations\n and who liked to preach (7/2/00). The editor of The\n Philadelphia Item asked Tom's opinion about British and\n American reviewers (8/18/00).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDistant family members and sometimes unrelated folks wrote\n Tom for political influence and financial assistance. B. M.\n Fontaine did not want to become further indebted to Tom, and\n Joseph Reid Anderson Bruce, a nephew by marriage, wanted some\n help in getting a job (9/17/00). In June 1900, A. L. Nelson\n wished Tom could help finance a distant relative's education\n at the University of Virginia. A cousin in Naples, Florida,\n requested Tom's aid in getting someone into the U.S. Naval\n Academy (2/12/03), while Frank Nelson, Jr., thanked Tom for\n money loaned to him at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1904-1908, Tom's correspondence again was an even mix\n of fan letters and business letters. Fund-raising letters\n abound with several requests for complete sets of his printed\n works to be donated to various libraries in Virginia, for\n money to renovate an Episcopal church, or for money to pay for\n medical treatment of indigent persons. Marie von Unschuld at\n the University of Music and Dramatic Art in D.C. wrote for\n Tom's financial assistance in establishing scholarships for\n her students (7/18/04). Tom received mail from agricultural\n researchers about alfalfa experiments and inoculating\n leguminous plants and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\n concerning the building of a road near Beaverdam in Hanover\n County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from friends and family are scattered through\n 1904-1908; most family letters are from Rosewell, especially\n in 1905, sharing news from the mill and news of the corn,\n wheat, millet, and pea crops, cutting of timber, installing of\n a phone line, selling of lambs and wool, building of a dam on\n one of the Hanover County properties, and changes in tenants.\n Rosewell sent a six-month statement concerning all farm costs\n and asked Tom to pay various debts. Other family letters to\n Tom discuss his financing of schooling for Rosewell's\n daughter, Anne, and for a distant relative, Randolph Rosewell\n Page, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A cousin from Clifton\n Forge, Va., Lizzie R. Taylor, asked Tom for money to build a\n rectory. Strangers as well as friends wanted Tom to help them\n get jobs such as J. L. Hall, a professor at William and Mary\n College, who wanted a job at the University of North Carolina\n (7/7/04), or a law professor at Wake Forest College wanting\n Tom to go to the White House and ask the President to appoint\n him to a district court judgeship (12/16/08). Several letters\n in 1904 indicate that Tom was trying to influence the Library\n of Congress to hire Alexander Welbourne Weddell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotable letters to Tom in this time period came from Samuel\n Langhorne Clemens, thanking Florence and Tom for their\n kindness to his wife, who died in June 1904; from Thomas\n Nelson Carter about a land auction; and Teddy Roosevelt, who\n Carter would not vote for \"on account of his putting forward\n the Negroes in the platform...\" (6/24/04); from John Singleton\n Mosby concerning the Gettysburg campaign (10/26/08); from\n Ernest Thompson Seton, an animal painter, lecturer, and\n adventurer (12/8/08); and from Victor Howard Metcalf, lawyer\n and Secretary of the Navy, thanking Tom for a copy of his work\n on Robert E. Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe last box of Thomas Nelson Page correspondence dates\n from 1909 to 1922. The usual pattern of letters prevails here\n but noteworthy letters follow. Leonard Gunnell, a cousin by\n marriage, worked at the Smithsonian Institution and sent Tom a\n picture of the old home at Oakland (1/09). (Oakland burned in\n 1899 and was rebuilt in six months.) Also, in January 1909,\n Tom received letters about horses he can buy in Vermont and\n Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick, son of the inventor, sends Tom\n a book about the Southern black; \"...I send it herewith,\n knowing that you, who understand so thoroly [sic] the old-time\n life of the Southern negro...(2/3/09).\" From Lexington, Ky.,\n Foxhall A. Daingerfield writes Tom his impressions of Robert\n E. Lee, who he knew personally during the Civil War (2/8/09).\n In September 1909, Charles Scribner's Sons enclosed a contract\n for publication of John Marvel, Assistant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1912 there were many letters from Ruth (Nelson) Page to\n Tom. It appears Ruth was helping Rosewell with the management\n of Oakland and other properties owned or subsidized by Tom.\n Rosewell campaigned and won the election to become the second\n auditor of Virginia. He served in that post until 1928; thus,\n much of his time was spent in Richmond. Ruth's letters\n describe family and farm news, especially the health and death\n of her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\n Rosewell still wrote Tom on a few occasions, but the remainder\n of the 1912 letters are sympathy letters from strangers,\n friends, and family concerning Elizabeth's death. A few\n thank-you notes from distant cousins discuss Tom's kindness in\n paying their school tuition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1913 to 1917 there are only twenty items, mainly\n letters from Ruth and Rosewell. Ruth praised Tom upon becoming\n the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Ruth and Rosewell's daughter,\n Anne (Page) Johns, wrote her uncle from Stuart Hall School,\n Staunton, Va.; Tom financed this niece's education. For a\n number of years, there was a school run at \"Oakland,\" and Ruth\n mentioned \"our academy\" in her February 20, 1916 letter. Also,\n in 1916, Jonathan Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, wrote Tom\n about the Federal Reserve Act (5/12/16). Walter Hines Page, a\n cousin and an editor at Doubleday, Page and Co., Long Island,\n N.Y., informed Tom of changes in their personnel, resulting in\n delays dealing with his book (unidentified) (1/19/13). From\n 1918 until Tom's death in 1922, correspondence is slim,\n numbering thirty-two items. The effects of World War I are\n quite evident in letters to Tom in 1918. H. Rozier Dulany, a\n real estate agent in Washington, D.C., wrote Tom about a\n tenant's rent, travels to Tom's farms in Virginia, selling\n Tom's cattle, and the \"scarcity of farm labor in Virginia\"\n (1/1/18). Several of Ruth's letters discussed the effects of\n the war, especially her letter of June 23, 1918. Her April\n 1918 letters dwell on the death of Frank Page, Tom's older\n brother. In September, Ruth explained her move to Richmond\n where her daughter Anne is working for the war effort,\n postponing her education until after the war. In October, Ruth\n discussed the Spanish flu epidemic in Richmond, and in\n November, Ruth described the impact on Richmond of returning\n soldiers. Anne wrote her uncle on October 20 explaining the\n nature of her war job at the bag-loading plant, mentioning\n measuring black powder for ammunition. Rosewell wrote Tom in\n Italy in February 1919, \"You have filled one of the most\n difficult posts in the world with dignity and honor....\" In\n one of Tom's last letters, he wrote to \"Lil Gals,\" probably\n his step-daughters, mentioning he had to borrow money to carry\n on at York Harbor, Maine (9/18/21).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Nelson Page materials also include financial records\n consisting of receipts or bills for office supplies, crops\n such as oats and hay, farm equipment, lumber, hardware,\n freight charges from Europe, but mainly, royalty payments from\n Charles Scribner's Sons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong Page's miscellaneous materials are three\n certificates, 1874-1877, from the University of Virginia for\n Tom's having passed courses in law, and there is a commission\n for Page having attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant of the\n Richmond Light Infantry Blues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScattered papers refer to cases Tom handled when he\n practiced law in Richmond, Va. Other notable papers give\n Rosewell the power-of-attorney (1913) for Tom and include a\n copy of Tom's will (1922).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the last items in this series are newspaper articles\n about Tom, including a description of his funeral service in\n 1922. Also present are pictures, 1919-1921, including one that\n is undated but identified a dress that belonged to Elizabeth\n (Burwell) Nelson. The caption on this picture says the dress\n was kept at \"Oakland\" and, thus, was lost when the house\n burned in 1899. Photographs taken in 1919 document Italian\n troops guarding the American Embassy and concern Italian\n Premier Vittorio Orlando's return from the Paris peace\n conference. Another photograph shows Tom and Rosewell in\n Denver, Colo. Finishing the series are two undated addresses\n concerning the history of the settlement of Jamestown and the\n commemoration of the Virginia Convention of 1776. A speech,\n probably written by Tom, dated 1906, was given in Lisbon for\n the American Legation, and concerns the medical profession.\n Miscellaneous papers include the wedding announcement (1886)\n for Tom's first marriage to Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, a sonnet\n (undated) to Amelie Louise (Rives) Chandler Troubetzkoy\n written on reading her \"Grief and Faith\", recent news (1919)\n about Yugoslavia as reported in the Italian press, an essay\n (undated) about Page and \"Marse Chan,\" an invitation list\n (undated) for a dinner, probably given in honor of Jonathan\n Daniels at the American Embassy in Italy, and notes (undated)\n about On Newfound River, written in memory of Annie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Eight contains the papers of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page (1867-1888), known as \"Annie,\" Thomas Nelson Page's first\n wife. Her correspondence is mainly from family and friends,\n including her parents, brothers, and sisters, who share family\n happenings and alwayed praise Tom and his writing. William\n Cabell Bruce, a brother, described his life as a lawyer in\n Baltimore, Md., in November 1882, while Charles Bruce, her\n father, wrote about his daily routine at \"Staunton Hill,\n Charlotte County, Va., in March 1887. From 1885 to 1888, James\n Douglas Bruce, another of her brothers, wrote Annie while he\n lived abroad in Germany and France. Family included Thomas\n Nelson Carter, who was a cousin of Annie's and the law partner\n of her husband, and Tom's aunt, Anne Rose Page. In December\n 1886, she wrote Annie a story about a black child brought up\n by a white woman in Goochland County, Va. He murdered the\n woman when he turned eighteen because she would not buy him a\n certain pair of shoes. Anne Rose also commented on Tom's\n writings. Friends such as Lelia Augusta (Myers) Morgan wrote\n in August 1886, about the earthquake in Richmond, Va., while\n Annie and Tom are on their European honeymoon. In February\n 1887, an unidentified correspondent wrote from England\n mentioning a dinner she attended where several artists were\n present including James Abbott McNeill Whistler.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Nine includes correspondence exists between Florence\n (Lathrop) Field Page (1858-1921), Thomas Nelson Page's second\n wife, and Rosewell Page, Ruth (Nelson) Page, Anne (Page)\n Johns, all relatives of Tom, and Florence's grandson by her\n daughter Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Henry Field (originally\n named Henry Gibson). Henry wrote from England and described\n the Christmas activities around him in 1908. A few letters to\n Florence relate to financial transactions or obtaining a tutor\n for one of Flo's daughters. Also included are accounts,\n 1897-1900, in part pertaining to paying a tutor and to a\n purchase at a home furnishings store in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 10 begins with the correspondence, 1888-1938, of\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939). Half of Rosewell's correspondence\n comes from family or friends and half from business\n acquaintances. Aunt Anne Rose Page, along with Rosewell's\n mother, write him about the death in 1893 of Frank's baby,\n Rose, and affairs at Oakland. Ruth, his wife, gives him news\n of their children and Rosewell's parents and requests various\n things for Rosewell to bring from Richmond. Elizabeth Hope\n Stewart of \"Brook Hill\" sends him congratulations for his\n marriage to Ruth in 1898. Other folks compliment him on\n becoming a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and\n express sympathy in the loss of Tom's two wives. While Anne\n (Page) Johns attends Stuart Hall School, Staunton, Va.,\n Rosewell writes his daughter about family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs a member of the law firm of Rutherfoord and Page,\n Richmond, Va., Rosewell received legal letters related to\n cases he handled, but much of his business correspondence\n related to either his biography of his brother Tom or Tom's\n publications. From 1922-1937, Charles Scribner's Sons\n corresponded with Rosewell about publishing his biography of\n Tom, royalty payments for at least 28 of Tom's publications,\n renewing copyright on one of Tom's stories, asking Rosewell's\n permission to publish a new edition of Two Little\n Confederates, arranging a special educational edition of Red\n Rock, and concerning movie rights for Tom's works. In 1934,\n Lola D. Moore, a representative for authors and artists in\n Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Calif., corresponded with\n Rosewell wanting to market Red Rock in the movie industry.\n Another agent, Grace Morse of New York, also wrote Rosewell\n about trying to sell movie rights. Other business letters\n refer to \"Oakland\" and the surrounding area in Hanover County,\n Va., including building of a bridge across the South Anna\n River and placement of telephone lines through Page\n property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe remainder of the series includes accounts, 1897-1927,\n including five notes (1905) on the school account for Hall's\n Free School run by Miss Orr and, probably, sponsored by the\n Page family; notes on logging expenses (no date); accounts\n between Tom and Rosewell concerning farm expenses in\n 1907-1908; and a royalty report for Tom's publication for\n 1927. Also included are undated manuscripts, including a draft\n of Rosewell's Hanover County: Its History and Legends and\n Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman. A draft\n of a speech about Jamestown filed in Series 7.7 possibly was\n by Rosewell also. Lastly, miscellaneous materials, 1868-1916,\n include an undated newspaper picture of Rosewell, his wife and\n daughter, and others attending a memorial observance of Edgar\n Allan Poe's birthday, and a biographical sketch and picture of\n Rosewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuth (Nelson) Page's papers make up Series 11. Most of\n Ruth's correspondence is found in earlier series of her\n mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page, her\n brother-in-law, Thomas Nelson Page, and her husband, Rosewell\n Page. Other family letters found here include those from Minna\n (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Thomas Nelson Page's step-daughter,\n about a visit to \"Rock Ledge,\" York Harbor, Maine, and of\n Ruth's son, Robert Nelson Page. One letter by this son was\n written in August 1921, from \"Rock Ledge.\" In October 1918,\n Mary C. Nelson, Ruth's sister who served as a Red Cross nurse\n during World War I, wrote from Paris. John Cook Wyllie,\n Director of Libraries at the University of Virginia, addressed\n Ruth in July 1967, discussing the acquisition of Thomas Nelson\n Page papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 12 contains materials of Anne Page. In 1914, Anne\n Page, daughter of Rosewell and Ruth Page, attended Stuart Hall\n School in Staunton, Va., and she wrote her brother, Robert\n Nelson Page. During World War I, Anne was back in the Richmond\n area working for the war effort at DuPont Engineering Co.;\n this company sent congratulations to its workers, including\n Anne, on November 14, 1918. Anne wrote Karl E. Johnson at the\n Red Cross headquarters in Petersburg, also in 1918, asking if\n she and the Hall's Free School, probably run under the\n auspices of the Page family at \"Oakland,\" could open a canteen\n on the Richmond-Washington Highway to serve soldiers. (Then,\n during World War II, Anne received a letter from Richmond\n Filter Center thanking its workers for their help in wartime.)\n From 1929-1941, Anne received letters from the national Junior\n League Magazine concerning articles that she wrote for this\n publication. William B. Thalhimer, Jr., wrote in April 1951,\n about wanting to honor her as one of Richmond's noted authors.\n From 1967-1969, Anne received letters from various persons\n associated with the University of Virginia concerning the sale\n of Thomas Nelson Page manuscripts to the college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnne (Page) Johns's materials also include an annual report\n for 1930-1931, an undated constitution, copies of The Leaguer\n from May 1929-June 1931, and drafts of historical articles on\n the Junior League of Richmond; and war ration books from World\n War II.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of two letters to Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971),\n husband of Anne (Page) Johns, arrived in April 1953, from an\n assistant to the Ambassador of Italy, thanking Dr. Johns for\n his courtesies when the assistant visited Virginia at the\n centennial celebration of the birth of Thomas Nelson Page.\n Other Frank Johns materials include a war ration book from\n World War II, an undated news article concerning the receipt\n of a portrait of Dr. Johns at Hampden-Sydney College, and a\n 1950 article about the college naming an auditorium for him.\n Johns had served as chairman of the Board of Trustees since\n 1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSection 14 concerns Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns) Hill, daughter of Anne\n (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns. Four scrapbooks trace\n Hill's life, beginning as a student in Petersburg, and\n following him throughout his career. The first volume, dated\n 1896-1942, includes a catalogue for the 1895-1896 session of\n the University School in Richmond, Va., the school first\n started in Petersburg, Va., by William Gordon McCabe. Hill is\n listed as a student. Hill participated in sports activities at\n the University School, as well as in college at the University\n of Virginia, which he entered in 1897. The baseball team\n schedule for 1898 includes a picture of the team. After Hill's\n college years, he continued to enjoy sports as noted in this\n scrapbook. One article dated April 11, 1942, concerns Hill's\n son, William M. Hill, captain of the University of Virginia\n football team.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second volume of Hill's scrapbooks, dated 1904-1943,\n focuses on Hill's adult civic and social activities such as\n his membership in the Commonwealth Club and the Richmond\n German, efforts to get more playgrounds across Virginia,\n service as a member of the Civilian Examining Committee for\n the U.S. War Department in 1918 and a member of the Board of\n Managers of the Richmond Male Orphan Society in 1919. In the\n nineteen twenties he served on the Medical College of Virginia\n Board of Visitors, and in 1936, he was a director of the\n Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. On December 17, 1940,\n Lady Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Shaw Astor wrote Hill after he\n sent a group contribution to relieve the Air Raid distress.\n Personal asides include information about the death of his\n mother, Frances Cadwallader (Harrison) Hill, in 1916, and the\n death of his father, William Maury Hill, in 1918, about the\n wedding of his daughter, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson, in\n 1940, and about the death of Hill, himself, in 1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the scrapbook for 1904-1943 Hill documented the progress\n of his adult career. In his young adult years, he served as\n assistant cashier at the National State Bank in Richmond and\n then, in 1915, he became a director of the National State and\n City Bank, later known as the State-Planters Bank and Trust\n Company. In 1917 he was still cashier but was elected to be a\n vice-president, and in 1920, he became president of the bank.\n A 1920 article by Hill appeared in the Journal of Accountancy.\n Hill became president of Old Dominion Trust Co. in 1922. Other\n news articles highlight his membership in professional groups\n such as the American Bankers Association, his service on the\n Advisory Committee of the Richmond Loan Agency of the\n Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, and his\n appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Advisory\n Committee on Works Allotment in 1935. Enclosures are dated\n 1939 and concern Hill's wife, Lucy, and the birth of their\n seventh child, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson. There are\n photographs and negatives of Diana and other siblings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe last volume of the scrapbooks, dated 1914-1917,\n concerns Hill's appointment and service as the chief of staff\n of the Governor of Virginia, Henry Carter Stuart. The letter\n from Stuart offering the position to Hill is in the scrapbook\n as well as articles about Stuart. Also included are other\n newspaper articles about Hill's professional and civic\n activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong Hill's miscellany are the certificate signed by\n Governor Stuart, making Hill his chief of staff, along with a\n memorial editorial of December 2, 1943, celebrating the life\n of Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill materials include\n letters congratulating Lucy, wife of Julien Harrison Hill, on\n the birth of Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries Sixteen includes correspondence of extended family\n members in the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson, Points,\n and Page families. Notable letters include an undated Civil\n War letter from a hospital at Warm Springs, Va. from a\n preacher who writes about how hard it is to console the sick\n soldiers and a January 3, 1864 letter from Stevenson Points to\n Lizzie Stevenson when he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Del.\n At the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page in December 1888,\n members of the Bruce family receive sympathy letters. In\n January 1891, George Washington Points corresponded with Mary\n C. Nelson about the genealogy of the Points (also known as\n Poyntz) family. Bryan Lathrop, brother of Florence (Lathrop)\n Field Page, admonished Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby about the\n status of her finances in 1912. Mary C. Nelson, sister of Ruth\n (Nelson) Page and Red Cross nurse during World War I, wrote an\n interesting letter in November 1918, about the ending of the\n war and the reactions in Paris. A last notable letter\n (undated) was written from Scotland to Miss Bessie (otherwise\n unidentified) and is from Johannes Wolf, a musicologist\n specializing in medieval music.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Series 1 of the collection begins with the papers of\n Francis Page (1780-1849), consisting of two receipts, one for\n the digging of a well (1819) and one for his subscription to\n the National Vaccine Institution (1825).","Series 2 contains the papers of John Page (1821-1901) of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and consist of correspondence,\n 1877-1898. Principal correspondents are his wife, Elizabeth\n Burwell (Nelson) Page, and his sons, Rosewell Page and Thomas\n Nelson Page. One of the few letters in the collection written\n by Rosewell as he practiced law in Danville, Va., is in this\n series. Letters by John Page to his son Thomas discuss family\n activity, political and business tasks that the father wants\n the son to handle in Richmond, Va., business and personal\n advice, and news of the crops at \"Oakland.\"","Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page (1821-1912) materials\n follow in Series 3. Page, of \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n kept a diary, 1905, recording activities for each day. Entries\n describe the farm activities at \"Oakland,\" the servants and\n their roles, local epidemics of smallpox, and the lives of her\n son, Rosewell Page, and his wife, Ruth (Nelson) Page, who\n lived at \"Oakland,\" including frequent reference to Rosewell's\n role as a layman in the Episcopal Church, news of her other\n two sons, Francis (better known as Frank) Page, an Episcopal\n priest, and Thomas Nelson Page who occasionally visits\n \"Oakland\" and checks on his land holdings and mill operations\n in Hanover County, Va. Two pages of accounts are at the end of\n the diary and include references to servants' wages and farm\n expenses. Scattered accounts appear throughout the diary.","Also present are letters of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson)\n Page, chiefly written to her middle son, Thomas Nelson Page,\n from 1876 to 1912. Elizabeth wrote primarily from \"Oakland,\"\n Hanover County, Va., but also while visiting her sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson, in Charlottesville. Her\n letters to Thomas are addressed to numerous locations around\n the United States, especially New York and York, Maine, and in\n Europe. In them, Elizabeth discusses her daily activities on\n the farm at \"Oakland\" and the activities of other family\n members such as her brother, William Nelson, who ran the\n farming operations at \"Oakland.\" With the help of servants,\n she tended chickens, hogs, ducks, and turkeys, preserves food,\n and handled other household tasks. Some of Elizabeth's letters\n to Thomas include attached letters from other relatives to\n Elizabeth such as Frank Page, her oldest son.","In addition to her correspondence with Thomas Nelson Page,\n Elizabeth's papers include letters from her school days at\n Long Branch written to her father, Thomas Nelson; letters from\n her son, Frank Page and his wife, Letitia Rives (Morris) Page,\n writing from Waco, Texas, where he served as an Episcopal\n priest in 1890 and in 1911 as a priest in Brooklyn, N. Y.; a\n 1877 letter from her brother, Robert Nelson, while serving as\n a missionary in China; an 1865 letter from Anne Wickham, a\n niece of Elizabeth, concerning the Civil War and her feeling\n that Jefferson Davis had no role in the assassination of\n Abraham Lincoln; and several letters to Elizabeth in 1888\n expressing sympathy over the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page, Thomas Nelson Page's first wife.","Series 4 begins with the diary of Robert Nelson (1819-1886)\n kept initially while serving as an Episcopal missionary in\n Shanghai, China, in 1878, as an account book for a children's\n school; then kept in Woodbury, Conn., during the last years of\n his life and that of his wife, Rose (Points) Nelson, whose\n picture and obituary appear on p. 108 of the volume. Robert\n Nelson was a brother of Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.","Diary entries from 1885 to 1886 note Robert's\n church-related activities, including the number of baptisms,\n illnesses of church members, attendance at Episcopal\n conferences, and descriptions of his sermons. On page 90,\n Robert talks about his participation as a minister in Ulysses\n Simpson Grant's funeral, and on page 59, Robert laments the\n low nature of his annual salary of $600.00 in 1885. He gives\n much information about his family's daily life, travels,\n illnesses, and birthdays. His children's attendance at school\n and careers are also mentioned. A trip to Virginia, including\n to \"Oakland,\" and Charlottesville, are discussed on pages\n 109-111.","Robert Nelson's correspondence, 1851-1886, was mostly\n written from or addressed to Shanghai, China, where Nelson\n served as a missionary. Included are interesting and detailed\n descriptions of Chinese customs, his family's activities, the\n burning of his chapel and people stealing all the chapel\n furnishings, baptism of Chinese people, and the children's\n school Nelson ran. One letter from Nelson to his sister,\n Virginia Lafayette (Nelson) Nelson of Charlottesville,\n concerns a female student whose family threatens to break her\n legs because she is a Christian.","Robert Nelson's miscellaneous papers include a resolution,\n 1881, by the Committee for the Shanghai Temperance Society. It\n honors Nelson for his service on the eve of his departure from\n China to live the remainder of his life in Connecticut.","Series 5 contains the papers of Rose (Points) Nelson\n (1827-1885), including correspondence, undated-1870,\n containing a partial letter (n.d.) from Rose's daughter, Mary\n C. Nelson, while Mary was traveling by ship towards Yokohama,\n Japan; and a letter (1870) of Rose's to Mary C. Nelson giving\n general advice on life as Mary left their home in Shanghai,\n China, to go to the United States.","Rose Nelson's papers also include parts of a diary written\n probably in 1865 while she was at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County,\n Va. In the diary she discusses her children and family\n activities, the death of Mr. Lincoln, whom she compared to\n Herod, her glowing opinion of the slaves, and how people are\n avoiding taking the oath of allegiance; and a narrative, 1865,\n concerning the death of her son, William Nelson.","Series 6 includes papers of Francis Page (1848-1918). His\n correspondence, 1877-1910, includes a 1903(?) letter to his\n brother, Rosewell Page, concerning the beginning of his\n ministry at St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and letters to\n his other brother, Thomas Nelson Page, congratulating Tom and\n Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, Tom's first wife, on their first\n anniversary and congratulating Tom in 1893 on his second\n marriage to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, telling Tom of his\n call to St. John's Church, asking Tom if he knows anything\n about the church, and discussing family news, including in\n 1911 how Frank is coping with the loss of his first wife,\n Letitia Rives (Morris) Page (better known as Lettie).","Francis Page's legal papers, 1961, include incomplete\n affidavits related to Frank Page and J. Packard Laird, Jr.,\n concerning property in Hanover County, Va. Frank's heirs are\n listed.","Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) materials appear in Series\n 7. Correspondence, 1861-1922 (1,305 items) is arranged in\n chronological order, with undated materials appearing first.\n Fans of Page's works wrote letters commenting on his writing\n and his lectures and asking for autographs, biographical\n sketches of Page, new articles to print in their magazines, or\n permission to reprint portions of his work. Friends wrote to\n arrange meetings and trips, and some wrote their condolences\n at the death of his first wife, Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, in\n 1888. For charitable causes people ask Page to donate money or\n to autograph copies of his books. Notable correspondents\n include William Gillette, an actor and playwright, Joseph\n Forney Johnston, a governor of Alabama and a U.S. Senator,\n Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress from 1899-1939, and his\n second wife, Florence (Lathrop) Field Page.","Most letters from 1861-1887 are written to Tom in Hanover\n County, Va., Richmond, or Charlottesville. From 1861-1877 most\n of the correspondence is business-related as Tom was a\n practicing lawyer in his early adult years, but there is\n scattered correspondence from family and friends, including\n his first wife, Annie. One business letter concerns Tom's\n efforts to buy a farm in Hanover County, Va. In the 1880s his\n correspondence becomes more numerous as he continues to reside\n in Hanover County and Richmond practicing law and beginning to\n receive fan letters for \"Marse Chan,\" one of his early stories\n first appearing in 1884 in the Century Magazine and published\n in a collection in 1887. In 1886 Tom and Annie are married and\n some letters to Tom are written to him aboard ship headed for\n England where they spent their honeymoon. Also, in 1886,\n Rosewell Page, Tom's younger brother, writes to him about his\n law practice in Danville, Va. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's law\n partner in the firm of Page and Carter, Richmond, Va., writes\n Tom in 1887 while Tom is on a trip to Brussels. Carter\n congratulates him on his writing and discusses a Richmond\n group of writers called The Skaerl. Tom writes Carter from St.\n Paul, Minn., talking about his travel and investments. Over\n the years that Tom travels or lives away from Virginia, Carter\n helps to keep the law practice going in Richmond and helps Tom\n with his financial concerns. (After Tom marries the second\n time to Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, the partnership is\n dissolved and Tom devotes the rest of his life to writing,\n donating time and money to charitable causes, and serving as\n U.S. Ambassador to Italy during World War I.)","Also, in 1887, most of the correspondence comes from fans\n wanting Tom to lecture in their towns, thanking him for\n assisting them in critiquing their writing, asking for help in\n getting their works published, wanting copies of his work,\n wanting articles written by Tom to publish in university\n publications, newspapers, and magazines, and asking for\n autographs. One publisher expresses his disappointment that\n Tom goes to another publisher. Unrelated to his writing there\n are occasional business letters, including a telegram in which\n a gentleman wants to invest in Page's iron works.","Beginning in 1888, Tom and Annie write frequently while she\n spends time with her parents at \"Staunton Hill,\" Charlotte\n County, Va., or while Tom travels frequently on speaking\n tours. Tom shares some news of his legal schedule, Richmond\n news, and how he misses her. On September 4, 1888, Tom writes\n \"Law is dull. Indeed, I do not know what I should do without\n my Literary side-shows from time to time.\" While traveling in\n Georgia on August 2, 1888, Tom talks about his meeting and\n impressions of Joel Chandler Harris. On August 31, 1888, Tom\n writes Annie that he is trying to get Two Little Confederates\n ready to return to Charles Scribner. Fans continue to\n correspond with Tom praising In Ole Virginia in which appears\n \"Marse Chan,\" and asking him to lecture in locations such as\n Charlottesville, Staunton, and Richmond, all in Va.,\n Louisville, Ky., Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Md., New York,\n N.Y., and Tennessee. Henry Woodfin Grady, a friend of Tom's,\n requests that Tom come to do readings in Atlanta, and Charles\n Scribner communicates with Tom about publishing his\n writings.","Annie died in December 1888, and thus much of the extant\n correspondence for this year includes sympathy letters to Tom.\n Family and friends extend their sympathies at his loss, but\n also, complete strangers write from around the United\n States.","From January through March, 1889, numerous people continue\n to send their sympathies from the United States and abroad.\n Richard Malcolm Johnston, a Georgia lawyer, author, and\n educator who idealized the South as Tom did, offers his\n condolences and talks about his readings on the lecture\n circuit with Mark Twain. In this January 23rd letter, Richard\n writes, \"We had an excellent audience. I never saw Mark so\n fine. It was most generous in [sic] him to volunteer to come\n to my help.\" Tom was to have been Richard's lecture partner\n but Clemens filled in for Tom who canceled due to the death of\n Annie. James Burton Pond, in February and March, corresponds\n with Tom during this sad time. He served as a general agent\n and manager for numerous writers and musicians. In February,\n an artist from Washington, D.C., A. G. Keaton, is arranging\n the details for a portrait he is doing of Annie. (In July and\n August, F. R. Pustet and Co., New York, N.Y., converses with\n Tom about a stained glass window being made as a memorial for\n Annie.)","By April, 1889, Tom began to receive more business-related\n correspondence. Johnston wrote more often, encouraging Tom to\n enter a new lecture arrangement with Pond. Hilgard Tyndale of\n Charles Scribner's Sons discussed the play he was writing\n based on \"Marse Chan\" (3/10/89 and 4/4/89). Several colleges\n invited him to visit. J. M. Stoddart with Lippincott's Monthly\n Magazine notified Tom on April 2nd that he would receive\n $400.00 for two articles he had written, while D. Lothrop\n Company of Boston wanted Tom to write a short serial. Molly\n Elliott Seawell, a fellow author, seemed to see Tom as a\n mentor and asked for advice on her writing.","To help assuage Tom's sorrow, Rosewell and Tom traveled in\n Europe in July and August of 1889. Thomas Nelson Carter, Tom's\n law partner, kept them abreast of Richmond news and mentioned\n possible investments (7/24/89 and 8/19/89). Fans continued to\n write asking questions about his writings, requesting copies\n of his works, and asking for writing advice. In August, Sally\n Page (Nelson) Hughes, daughter of William Nelson of \"Midway,\"\n Mecklenburg County, Va., gave Tom her personal reminiscences\n of Michel Ney, also known as Peter Stuart Ney.","Tom lived with Rosewell in Richmond during 1890-1891 except\n for when he has away on business, especially in Kentucky. He\n traveled briefly in England during this time also. Family\n letters include letters from Annie's mother, Sarah Alexander\n (Seddon) Bruce (5/7/91 and 11/4/91), Thomas Jefferson Page, a\n Southern expatriate living in Florence, Italy, (1/12/90 and\n 2/26/90), his aunt, Anne Rose Page, who lived much of her life\n at \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va., and his uncle, William\n Nelson, who was the manager of \"Oakland,\" asking for financial\n assistance (3/18/91). (There is much correspondence between\n Tom and his mother, Elizabeth; it appears in Series 3.\n Likewise, correspondence with his father, John, appears in\n Series 2; there is much less of this\n correspondence.)Publishers continued to write Tom, including\n Warwick House, an English publisher writing about royalties;\n Ward, Lock, Boyden and Co., London, trying to defend their\n handling of the sales of In Ole Virginia; and The Christian\n Union, New York, concerning revising a paper Tom has written.\n Much of the correspondence in these years, however, came from\n fans and friends who praised Tom and his works asking again\n for biographical sketches of him, thanking him for speaking to\n their group, encouraging Tom to write a history of the South,\n wanting autographs, and inviting him to visit their homes\n while he is on the lecture circuit. Almost all of Tom's fan\n mail is positive except for two negative letters (one dated\n 10/31/91) from a fundamentalist concerning how Tom rendered a\n verse from the Bible. William G. Eggleston of The Chicago\n Herald wanted help with using black dialect (5/31/90). A few\n letters illustrate Tom's philanthropic nature, as in November\n 1890, someone wrote to ask him to become a member of the Maury\n Memorial Commission. He raised money for the Richmond Public\n Library; Joseph Reid Anderson sent Tom a contribution for the\n library on March 2, 1891.","A baroness in France and Tom began corresponding in 1891.\n There are six letters starting on March 11 concerning\n Alexandre Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire, who wanted to\n establish an academy of arts and sciences in Richmond after\n the American Revolution. Baroness Yetta Blaze de Bury asked\n for Tom's assistance in finding more information about Quesnay\n de Beaurepaire. She also commented on another of Tom's works,\n On Newfound River.","In 1892 Tom continued to live in Richmond, Va., as a\n bachelor in-between frequent travels for speaking engagements.\n Friends invited Tom to visit with them when he spoke in places\n such as New York, Alabama, and Texas, while fans wrote to ask\n him to speak at schools in Louisville, Ky., Winchester, Ky.,\n and Roanoke, Va. or to speak at clubs like the Southern Club\n of Harvard, to provide complimentary passes at clubs like the\n Union League Club of Chicago when he visited in that city, to\n help them with their writing aspirations, and to praise On\n Newfound River and The Old South.","Tom's life changed when he married Florence (Lathrop) Field\n Page on June 6, 1893. After that time, his visits Washington,\n D.C., New York City, and York Harbor, Maine, but throughout\n his marriage Florence and Tom traveled every year overseas.\n Frequent letters from Rosewell kept Tom abreast of matters at\n \"Oakland,\" including comments on how Tom's works were in\n demand in Richmond bookstores, news of neighbors and friends,\n and family activity such as their mother's giving Christmas\n presents to white and black workers at \"Oakland\" or their\n father's discussion about where he was on Christmas Eve during\n each year of the Civil War (12/24/94). Rosewell discussed\n investments, selling family land in Hanover County, Va., Tom's\n tenant, Edmund T. Taylor, at \"Mont Air,\" Hanover County, Va.,\n the status of crops, horses, and livestock, and Tom's opinion\n of Uncle Tom's Cabin as discussed in The Atlanta Evening News\n (1/16/01). Edmund T. Taylor, Tom's tenant farmer in Bandana,\n Va., wrote Tom in August and September of 1901 about the corn,\n potato, and wheat crop and the livestock, sent a drawing of a\n barn that he wanted Tom to approve, and discussed rebuilding\n bridges in Hanover County, Va., washed out by high water.\n Tom's letters to his family in Virginia are rarely found in\n Mss1P1465aFA2 but his letter of May 17, 1893 to Rosewell was\n written prior to going on his honeymoon aboard a steamer to\n London. Tom enclosed a check to provide for contingencies at\n \"Oakland\" and urged Rosewell, if necessary, to contact Thomas\n Nelson Carter, Tom's power-of-attorney and law partner, for\n stocks to be sold to provide emergency monies for the\n homestead.","Business letters came from a lawyer in Charlottesville,\n Va., concerning land Tom wished to buy (7/28/93), Ward, Lock\n and Bowden, a publisher in London, with an attached agreement\n concerning publishing of Tom's works in England (7/14/94),\n Charles Scribner discussing publishing schedules, royalties,\n and a contract for Polly (10/31/94 and 2/11/95) actually\n published earlier in In Ole Virginia in 1887, J. Cabell\n Brockenbrough concerning translating Tom's work into French\n (8/23/95), Sol Smith Russell concerning critiquing Tom's plays\n (7/17/96), and Elizabeth Marbury of New York who was trying to\n submit Red Rock to playwrights and managers but is not having\n any luck (1/29/01). Tom received correspondence from the\n various clubs he was a member of in Washington, D.C., such as\n the Chevy Chase Club (9/13/00). Over the years he served as an\n officer in these clubs and helped with renovations and\n fund-raising. John Stewart Bryan, writing for his father\n Joseph Bryan who was ill, wrote several letters in 1900\n concerning stock in the Lake Superior Co. Occasionally Tom\n received mundane letters about his Washington, D.C., home at\n No. 1759 R Street. Some refer to repairs needed on his\n property. In October 1900, his insurance agent sent a list\n with evaluations of the contents of this home. Like most folks\n with ample financial means, Tom frequently received\n fund-raising letters. For example, a feeder school to the\n University of Virginia located at Morrisville, Va., requested\n money in December 1902.","Friends and fans continued to write with high praises for\n one of Tom's latest works, Red Rock, wanting to know if his\n fiction was based on actual events, or writing to share\n similar stories of black slaves. Ellen Shields of Natchez,\n Miss., inspired by Tom's viewpoint, discussed a sketch of a\n black carpenter who worked for her father on their plantations\n and who liked to preach (7/2/00). The editor of The\n Philadelphia Item asked Tom's opinion about British and\n American reviewers (8/18/00).","Distant family members and sometimes unrelated folks wrote\n Tom for political influence and financial assistance. B. M.\n Fontaine did not want to become further indebted to Tom, and\n Joseph Reid Anderson Bruce, a nephew by marriage, wanted some\n help in getting a job (9/17/00). In June 1900, A. L. Nelson\n wished Tom could help finance a distant relative's education\n at the University of Virginia. A cousin in Naples, Florida,\n requested Tom's aid in getting someone into the U.S. Naval\n Academy (2/12/03), while Frank Nelson, Jr., thanked Tom for\n money loaned to him at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.","From 1904-1908, Tom's correspondence again was an even mix\n of fan letters and business letters. Fund-raising letters\n abound with several requests for complete sets of his printed\n works to be donated to various libraries in Virginia, for\n money to renovate an Episcopal church, or for money to pay for\n medical treatment of indigent persons. Marie von Unschuld at\n the University of Music and Dramatic Art in D.C. wrote for\n Tom's financial assistance in establishing scholarships for\n her students (7/18/04). Tom received mail from agricultural\n researchers about alfalfa experiments and inoculating\n leguminous plants and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\n concerning the building of a road near Beaverdam in Hanover\n County, Va.","Letters from friends and family are scattered through\n 1904-1908; most family letters are from Rosewell, especially\n in 1905, sharing news from the mill and news of the corn,\n wheat, millet, and pea crops, cutting of timber, installing of\n a phone line, selling of lambs and wool, building of a dam on\n one of the Hanover County properties, and changes in tenants.\n Rosewell sent a six-month statement concerning all farm costs\n and asked Tom to pay various debts. Other family letters to\n Tom discuss his financing of schooling for Rosewell's\n daughter, Anne, and for a distant relative, Randolph Rosewell\n Page, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A cousin from Clifton\n Forge, Va., Lizzie R. Taylor, asked Tom for money to build a\n rectory. Strangers as well as friends wanted Tom to help them\n get jobs such as J. L. Hall, a professor at William and Mary\n College, who wanted a job at the University of North Carolina\n (7/7/04), or a law professor at Wake Forest College wanting\n Tom to go to the White House and ask the President to appoint\n him to a district court judgeship (12/16/08). Several letters\n in 1904 indicate that Tom was trying to influence the Library\n of Congress to hire Alexander Welbourne Weddell.","Notable letters to Tom in this time period came from Samuel\n Langhorne Clemens, thanking Florence and Tom for their\n kindness to his wife, who died in June 1904; from Thomas\n Nelson Carter about a land auction; and Teddy Roosevelt, who\n Carter would not vote for \"on account of his putting forward\n the Negroes in the platform...\" (6/24/04); from John Singleton\n Mosby concerning the Gettysburg campaign (10/26/08); from\n Ernest Thompson Seton, an animal painter, lecturer, and\n adventurer (12/8/08); and from Victor Howard Metcalf, lawyer\n and Secretary of the Navy, thanking Tom for a copy of his work\n on Robert E. Lee.","The last box of Thomas Nelson Page correspondence dates\n from 1909 to 1922. The usual pattern of letters prevails here\n but noteworthy letters follow. Leonard Gunnell, a cousin by\n marriage, worked at the Smithsonian Institution and sent Tom a\n picture of the old home at Oakland (1/09). (Oakland burned in\n 1899 and was rebuilt in six months.) Also, in January 1909,\n Tom received letters about horses he can buy in Vermont and\n Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick, son of the inventor, sends Tom\n a book about the Southern black; \"...I send it herewith,\n knowing that you, who understand so thoroly [sic] the old-time\n life of the Southern negro...(2/3/09).\" From Lexington, Ky.,\n Foxhall A. Daingerfield writes Tom his impressions of Robert\n E. Lee, who he knew personally during the Civil War (2/8/09).\n In September 1909, Charles Scribner's Sons enclosed a contract\n for publication of John Marvel, Assistant.","In 1912 there were many letters from Ruth (Nelson) Page to\n Tom. It appears Ruth was helping Rosewell with the management\n of Oakland and other properties owned or subsidized by Tom.\n Rosewell campaigned and won the election to become the second\n auditor of Virginia. He served in that post until 1928; thus,\n much of his time was spent in Richmond. Ruth's letters\n describe family and farm news, especially the health and death\n of her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.\n Rosewell still wrote Tom on a few occasions, but the remainder\n of the 1912 letters are sympathy letters from strangers,\n friends, and family concerning Elizabeth's death. A few\n thank-you notes from distant cousins discuss Tom's kindness in\n paying their school tuition.","From 1913 to 1917 there are only twenty items, mainly\n letters from Ruth and Rosewell. Ruth praised Tom upon becoming\n the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Ruth and Rosewell's daughter,\n Anne (Page) Johns, wrote her uncle from Stuart Hall School,\n Staunton, Va.; Tom financed this niece's education. For a\n number of years, there was a school run at \"Oakland,\" and Ruth\n mentioned \"our academy\" in her February 20, 1916 letter. Also,\n in 1916, Jonathan Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, wrote Tom\n about the Federal Reserve Act (5/12/16). Walter Hines Page, a\n cousin and an editor at Doubleday, Page and Co., Long Island,\n N.Y., informed Tom of changes in their personnel, resulting in\n delays dealing with his book (unidentified) (1/19/13). From\n 1918 until Tom's death in 1922, correspondence is slim,\n numbering thirty-two items. The effects of World War I are\n quite evident in letters to Tom in 1918. H. Rozier Dulany, a\n real estate agent in Washington, D.C., wrote Tom about a\n tenant's rent, travels to Tom's farms in Virginia, selling\n Tom's cattle, and the \"scarcity of farm labor in Virginia\"\n (1/1/18). Several of Ruth's letters discussed the effects of\n the war, especially her letter of June 23, 1918. Her April\n 1918 letters dwell on the death of Frank Page, Tom's older\n brother. In September, Ruth explained her move to Richmond\n where her daughter Anne is working for the war effort,\n postponing her education until after the war. In October, Ruth\n discussed the Spanish flu epidemic in Richmond, and in\n November, Ruth described the impact on Richmond of returning\n soldiers. Anne wrote her uncle on October 20 explaining the\n nature of her war job at the bag-loading plant, mentioning\n measuring black powder for ammunition. Rosewell wrote Tom in\n Italy in February 1919, \"You have filled one of the most\n difficult posts in the world with dignity and honor....\" In\n one of Tom's last letters, he wrote to \"Lil Gals,\" probably\n his step-daughters, mentioning he had to borrow money to carry\n on at York Harbor, Maine (9/18/21).","Thomas Nelson Page materials also include financial records\n consisting of receipts or bills for office supplies, crops\n such as oats and hay, farm equipment, lumber, hardware,\n freight charges from Europe, but mainly, royalty payments from\n Charles Scribner's Sons.","Among Page's miscellaneous materials are three\n certificates, 1874-1877, from the University of Virginia for\n Tom's having passed courses in law, and there is a commission\n for Page having attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant of the\n Richmond Light Infantry Blues.","Scattered papers refer to cases Tom handled when he\n practiced law in Richmond, Va. Other notable papers give\n Rosewell the power-of-attorney (1913) for Tom and include a\n copy of Tom's will (1922).","Among the last items in this series are newspaper articles\n about Tom, including a description of his funeral service in\n 1922. Also present are pictures, 1919-1921, including one that\n is undated but identified a dress that belonged to Elizabeth\n (Burwell) Nelson. The caption on this picture says the dress\n was kept at \"Oakland\" and, thus, was lost when the house\n burned in 1899. Photographs taken in 1919 document Italian\n troops guarding the American Embassy and concern Italian\n Premier Vittorio Orlando's return from the Paris peace\n conference. Another photograph shows Tom and Rosewell in\n Denver, Colo. Finishing the series are two undated addresses\n concerning the history of the settlement of Jamestown and the\n commemoration of the Virginia Convention of 1776. A speech,\n probably written by Tom, dated 1906, was given in Lisbon for\n the American Legation, and concerns the medical profession.\n Miscellaneous papers include the wedding announcement (1886)\n for Tom's first marriage to Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page, a sonnet\n (undated) to Amelie Louise (Rives) Chandler Troubetzkoy\n written on reading her \"Grief and Faith\", recent news (1919)\n about Yugoslavia as reported in the Italian press, an essay\n (undated) about Page and \"Marse Chan,\" an invitation list\n (undated) for a dinner, probably given in honor of Jonathan\n Daniels at the American Embassy in Italy, and notes (undated)\n about On Newfound River, written in memory of Annie.","Series Eight contains the papers of Anne Seddon (Bruce)\n Page (1867-1888), known as \"Annie,\" Thomas Nelson Page's first\n wife. Her correspondence is mainly from family and friends,\n including her parents, brothers, and sisters, who share family\n happenings and alwayed praise Tom and his writing. William\n Cabell Bruce, a brother, described his life as a lawyer in\n Baltimore, Md., in November 1882, while Charles Bruce, her\n father, wrote about his daily routine at \"Staunton Hill,\n Charlotte County, Va., in March 1887. From 1885 to 1888, James\n Douglas Bruce, another of her brothers, wrote Annie while he\n lived abroad in Germany and France. Family included Thomas\n Nelson Carter, who was a cousin of Annie's and the law partner\n of her husband, and Tom's aunt, Anne Rose Page. In December\n 1886, she wrote Annie a story about a black child brought up\n by a white woman in Goochland County, Va. He murdered the\n woman when he turned eighteen because she would not buy him a\n certain pair of shoes. Anne Rose also commented on Tom's\n writings. Friends such as Lelia Augusta (Myers) Morgan wrote\n in August 1886, about the earthquake in Richmond, Va., while\n Annie and Tom are on their European honeymoon. In February\n 1887, an unidentified correspondent wrote from England\n mentioning a dinner she attended where several artists were\n present including James Abbott McNeill Whistler.","Series Nine includes correspondence exists between Florence\n (Lathrop) Field Page (1858-1921), Thomas Nelson Page's second\n wife, and Rosewell Page, Ruth (Nelson) Page, Anne (Page)\n Johns, all relatives of Tom, and Florence's grandson by her\n daughter Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Henry Field (originally\n named Henry Gibson). Henry wrote from England and described\n the Christmas activities around him in 1908. A few letters to\n Florence relate to financial transactions or obtaining a tutor\n for one of Flo's daughters. Also included are accounts,\n 1897-1900, in part pertaining to paying a tutor and to a\n purchase at a home furnishings store in Washington, D.C.","Series 10 begins with the correspondence, 1888-1938, of\n Rosewell Page (1858-1939). Half of Rosewell's correspondence\n comes from family or friends and half from business\n acquaintances. Aunt Anne Rose Page, along with Rosewell's\n mother, write him about the death in 1893 of Frank's baby,\n Rose, and affairs at Oakland. Ruth, his wife, gives him news\n of their children and Rosewell's parents and requests various\n things for Rosewell to bring from Richmond. Elizabeth Hope\n Stewart of \"Brook Hill\" sends him congratulations for his\n marriage to Ruth in 1898. Other folks compliment him on\n becoming a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and\n express sympathy in the loss of Tom's two wives. While Anne\n (Page) Johns attends Stuart Hall School, Staunton, Va.,\n Rosewell writes his daughter about family news.","As a member of the law firm of Rutherfoord and Page,\n Richmond, Va., Rosewell received legal letters related to\n cases he handled, but much of his business correspondence\n related to either his biography of his brother Tom or Tom's\n publications. From 1922-1937, Charles Scribner's Sons\n corresponded with Rosewell about publishing his biography of\n Tom, royalty payments for at least 28 of Tom's publications,\n renewing copyright on one of Tom's stories, asking Rosewell's\n permission to publish a new edition of Two Little\n Confederates, arranging a special educational edition of Red\n Rock, and concerning movie rights for Tom's works. In 1934,\n Lola D. Moore, a representative for authors and artists in\n Hollywood and Beverly Hills, Calif., corresponded with\n Rosewell wanting to market Red Rock in the movie industry.\n Another agent, Grace Morse of New York, also wrote Rosewell\n about trying to sell movie rights. Other business letters\n refer to \"Oakland\" and the surrounding area in Hanover County,\n Va., including building of a bridge across the South Anna\n River and placement of telephone lines through Page\n property.","The remainder of the series includes accounts, 1897-1927,\n including five notes (1905) on the school account for Hall's\n Free School run by Miss Orr and, probably, sponsored by the\n Page family; notes on logging expenses (no date); accounts\n between Tom and Rosewell concerning farm expenses in\n 1907-1908; and a royalty report for Tom's publication for\n 1927. Also included are undated manuscripts, including a draft\n of Rosewell's Hanover County: Its History and Legends and\n Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman. A draft\n of a speech about Jamestown filed in Series 7.7 possibly was\n by Rosewell also. Lastly, miscellaneous materials, 1868-1916,\n include an undated newspaper picture of Rosewell, his wife and\n daughter, and others attending a memorial observance of Edgar\n Allan Poe's birthday, and a biographical sketch and picture of\n Rosewell.","Ruth (Nelson) Page's papers make up Series 11. Most of\n Ruth's correspondence is found in earlier series of her\n mother-in-law, Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page, her\n brother-in-law, Thomas Nelson Page, and her husband, Rosewell\n Page. Other family letters found here include those from Minna\n (Field) Gibson Burnaby, Thomas Nelson Page's step-daughter,\n about a visit to \"Rock Ledge,\" York Harbor, Maine, and of\n Ruth's son, Robert Nelson Page. One letter by this son was\n written in August 1921, from \"Rock Ledge.\" In October 1918,\n Mary C. Nelson, Ruth's sister who served as a Red Cross nurse\n during World War I, wrote from Paris. John Cook Wyllie,\n Director of Libraries at the University of Virginia, addressed\n Ruth in July 1967, discussing the acquisition of Thomas Nelson\n Page papers.","Series 12 contains materials of Anne Page. In 1914, Anne\n Page, daughter of Rosewell and Ruth Page, attended Stuart Hall\n School in Staunton, Va., and she wrote her brother, Robert\n Nelson Page. During World War I, Anne was back in the Richmond\n area working for the war effort at DuPont Engineering Co.;\n this company sent congratulations to its workers, including\n Anne, on November 14, 1918. Anne wrote Karl E. Johnson at the\n Red Cross headquarters in Petersburg, also in 1918, asking if\n she and the Hall's Free School, probably run under the\n auspices of the Page family at \"Oakland,\" could open a canteen\n on the Richmond-Washington Highway to serve soldiers. (Then,\n during World War II, Anne received a letter from Richmond\n Filter Center thanking its workers for their help in wartime.)\n From 1929-1941, Anne received letters from the national Junior\n League Magazine concerning articles that she wrote for this\n publication. William B. Thalhimer, Jr., wrote in April 1951,\n about wanting to honor her as one of Richmond's noted authors.\n From 1967-1969, Anne received letters from various persons\n associated with the University of Virginia concerning the sale\n of Thomas Nelson Page manuscripts to the college.","Anne (Page) Johns's materials also include an annual report\n for 1930-1931, an undated constitution, copies of The Leaguer\n from May 1929-June 1931, and drafts of historical articles on\n the Junior League of Richmond; and war ration books from World\n War II.","One of two letters to Frank Stoddert Johns (1884-1971),\n husband of Anne (Page) Johns, arrived in April 1953, from an\n assistant to the Ambassador of Italy, thanking Dr. Johns for\n his courtesies when the assistant visited Virginia at the\n centennial celebration of the birth of Thomas Nelson Page.\n Other Frank Johns materials include a war ration book from\n World War II, an undated news article concerning the receipt\n of a portrait of Dr. Johns at Hampden-Sydney College, and a\n 1950 article about the college naming an auditorium for him.\n Johns had served as chairman of the Board of Trustees since\n 1938.","Section 14 concerns Julien Harrison Hill (1877-1943),\n father-in-law of Ruth Nelson (Johns) Hill, daughter of Anne\n (Page) Johns and Frank Stoddert Johns. Four scrapbooks trace\n Hill's life, beginning as a student in Petersburg, and\n following him throughout his career. The first volume, dated\n 1896-1942, includes a catalogue for the 1895-1896 session of\n the University School in Richmond, Va., the school first\n started in Petersburg, Va., by William Gordon McCabe. Hill is\n listed as a student. Hill participated in sports activities at\n the University School, as well as in college at the University\n of Virginia, which he entered in 1897. The baseball team\n schedule for 1898 includes a picture of the team. After Hill's\n college years, he continued to enjoy sports as noted in this\n scrapbook. One article dated April 11, 1942, concerns Hill's\n son, William M. Hill, captain of the University of Virginia\n football team.","The second volume of Hill's scrapbooks, dated 1904-1943,\n focuses on Hill's adult civic and social activities such as\n his membership in the Commonwealth Club and the Richmond\n German, efforts to get more playgrounds across Virginia,\n service as a member of the Civilian Examining Committee for\n the U.S. War Department in 1918 and a member of the Board of\n Managers of the Richmond Male Orphan Society in 1919. In the\n nineteen twenties he served on the Medical College of Virginia\n Board of Visitors, and in 1936, he was a director of the\n Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. On December 17, 1940,\n Lady Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Shaw Astor wrote Hill after he\n sent a group contribution to relieve the Air Raid distress.\n Personal asides include information about the death of his\n mother, Frances Cadwallader (Harrison) Hill, in 1916, and the\n death of his father, William Maury Hill, in 1918, about the\n wedding of his daughter, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson, in\n 1940, and about the death of Hill, himself, in 1943.","In the scrapbook for 1904-1943 Hill documented the progress\n of his adult career. In his young adult years, he served as\n assistant cashier at the National State Bank in Richmond and\n then, in 1915, he became a director of the National State and\n City Bank, later known as the State-Planters Bank and Trust\n Company. In 1917 he was still cashier but was elected to be a\n vice-president, and in 1920, he became president of the bank.\n A 1920 article by Hill appeared in the Journal of Accountancy.\n Hill became president of Old Dominion Trust Co. in 1922. Other\n news articles highlight his membership in professional groups\n such as the American Bankers Association, his service on the\n Advisory Committee of the Richmond Loan Agency of the\n Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, and his\n appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Advisory\n Committee on Works Allotment in 1935. Enclosures are dated\n 1939 and concern Hill's wife, Lucy, and the birth of their\n seventh child, Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson. There are\n photographs and negatives of Diana and other siblings.","The last volume of the scrapbooks, dated 1914-1917,\n concerns Hill's appointment and service as the chief of staff\n of the Governor of Virginia, Henry Carter Stuart. The letter\n from Stuart offering the position to Hill is in the scrapbook\n as well as articles about Stuart. Also included are other\n newspaper articles about Hill's professional and civic\n activities.","Among Hill's miscellany are the certificate signed by\n Governor Stuart, making Hill his chief of staff, along with a\n memorial editorial of December 2, 1943, celebrating the life\n of Hill.","Lucy Colder De Lancey (Kearny) Hill materials include\n letters congratulating Lucy, wife of Julien Harrison Hill, on\n the birth of Diana Kearny (Hill) Patterson.","Series Sixteen includes correspondence of extended family\n members in the Bruce, Field, Johns, Lathrop, Nelson, Points,\n and Page families. Notable letters include an undated Civil\n War letter from a hospital at Warm Springs, Va. from a\n preacher who writes about how hard it is to console the sick\n soldiers and a January 3, 1864 letter from Stevenson Points to\n Lizzie Stevenson when he was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Del.\n At the death of Anne Seddon (Bruce) Page in December 1888,\n members of the Bruce family receive sympathy letters. In\n January 1891, George Washington Points corresponded with Mary\n C. Nelson about the genealogy of the Points (also known as\n Poyntz) family. Bryan Lathrop, brother of Florence (Lathrop)\n Field Page, admonished Minna (Field) Gibson Burnaby about the\n status of her finances in 1912. Mary C. Nelson, sister of Ruth\n (Nelson) Page and Red Cross nurse during World War I, wrote an\n interesting letter in November 1918, about the ending of the\n war and the reactions in Paris. A last notable letter\n (undated) was written from Scotland to Miss Bessie (otherwise\n unidentified) and is from Johannes Wolf, a musicologist\n specializing in medieval music."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":42,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00015"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00017","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00017#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"The collection includes correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills, correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman; correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\" farm records; and materials concerning the management of \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913, financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks, correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00017#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00017","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00017","_root_":"vihi_vih00017","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00017","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00017.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2"],"text":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2","A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977","Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n 1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n 1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n 1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880.","11,500 (ca.) items (51 manuscript\n boxes).","Collection is open for research.","Arranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by date or subject as necessary.","The Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n William Fanning Wickham.","The collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.","Series 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.","Series 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n 1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n 1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.","John Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n auction of these lands.","Wickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n 1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.","The next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n litigation.","The estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n 1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n 1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).","Correspondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).","Series 4, containing the personal records of William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n 5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n 1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n 1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n 1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n by Wickham.","Wickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n 1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.","\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n 1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n 1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.","Folder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n 1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n plats.","One of the most interesting matters handled by William\n Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n a number of years but returned to England before the American\n Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n had no right to alienate themselves.","Materials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n 1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n trustees.","Records from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).","William Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n 1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.","Additional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n English counties.","Wickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n and bonds.","Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n materials are represented in Series 5.","An important group of three postwar letterbooks\n (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.","Letterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n Yost.","Finally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n Samuel M. Yost.","General Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n 1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n Fanning, and Coffin families).","Box 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n Hill,\" and furnishing the house.","The \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n laborers; and miscellany.","Box 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n 1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n and inventories of stock and equipment.","The next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.","Wickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.","Williams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.","There follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n the Richmond City Railway Company.","Some loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.","General Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n obituary notices and newspaper editorials.","Williams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n 1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n Taylor families.","Two folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n Court.","Five folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n notices.","Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n papers make up Series 7.","Along with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.","Henry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).","An account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n 1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n canceled checks before 1931).","Box 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).","\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n 1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n manager.","Some loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n by Washington and Lee University, 1935.","Records concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n 1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n Wickham.","Many of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n 1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n 1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n Confederate veterans' associations.","Boxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n and/or outstanding contents:","Scrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n 40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n 72).","Scrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n reunions.","Scrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).","Scrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n business.","Scrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n 92).","Scrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).","Scrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n included.","Scrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n socialite.","Scrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n Democratic politics.","Scrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).","Scrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.","Scrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n 1943.","Records from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n 1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n as an officer).","Wickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n taxes).","Wickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n 1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n lines of verse.","Wickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.","Records of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.","Series 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n VA.","Financial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n 1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n follow.","Farm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n 1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n 124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n 1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n 15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.","Box 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n etal.","Mrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n 1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n vestry; and notes.","A visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n 1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n death in 1952 complete Box 48.","Series 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n 1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n estate.","Henry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n 1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Series 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n captain.","Captain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n 1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n 1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n and collected newspaper clippings.","Captain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n notices.","In Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)","Certificate of ordination; letter, 1781; will, 1782;\n genealogical notes; Henry Taylor Wickham correspondence,\n 1930","Certificate of ordination; letter, 1781; will, 1782;\n genealogical notes; Henry Taylor Wickham correspondence,\n 1930","Correspondence, 1783-1812; letters, 1777-1778;\n prayer; biographical sketches","Includes letters to David Parish","Wills; correspondence; financial and land records;\n Wickham et al. v. Leigh et al.; W.H.F. Lee trust","Includes letters of condolence, 1868","Accounts; memorandum of stocks; bonds; land\n records (\"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" \"The\n Lane\").","Frances (Wickham) Graham trust; pardon materials;\n genealogical notes; commonplace book, miscellany;\n estate","Personal account books, 1875-1885 (11 v.); account\n book, 1880-1888, \"household expenses\"; accounts,\n 1861, 1868-1888; bonds, 1877-1888","Farm books, 1866-1888 (15 v.); loose materials,\n 1871-1888","George Harrison Byrd trust; Julia Leiper (Taylor)\n Hubard trust; C. and O. Railway materials, 1872-1888;\n Republican party materials, ca. 1881-1887;\n miscellaneous land records; general miscellany,\n estate.","Accounts, 1875-1913; tax returns; Chesapeake Land\n and Improvement Co..","Genealogical notes; estate of Henry Taylor","Account book, 1867-1870; account book, 1942;\n passbooks, 1915-1926 (2 v.); check stub book,\n 1922-1926; and accounts, 1920-1925, 1931-1933,\n 1938-1939.","Farm books, 1893-1913 [4 v.]; time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements; and land records.","Speeches, addresses, etc.","Law practice; land and tax records","Newspaper clippings; genealogical notes and\n records; general miscellany.","Accounts, 1902-1936; passbooks (3 v.), 1891-1919;\n check stub books (7 v.,) 1896-1923; bank statements\n and canceled checks, 1948-1950; tax forms and\n returns, 1941-1951.","\"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, Va., materials,\n 1891-1925; Ladies' Aid Society, St. Paul's Episcopal\n Church, Hanover County, Va.; visitor's registers (2\n v.), 1930-1961; miscellany","Hanover Troop materials, 1889; personal\n miscellany.","Letters, 1869-1888.","School materials and miscellany.","Family and general miscellany.","There are no restrictions.","The collection includes\n correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Mrs. Credilla B. W. Bordley, Ashland, Va., and\n Lawrence V. M. Wickham, Hanover, Va., in 1987. Accessioned\n 22 July 1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n 1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n 1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n 1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n 1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n 1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n 1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["11,500 (ca.) items (51 manuscript\n boxes)."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open for research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open for research."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by date or subject as necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by date or subject as necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n William Fanning Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n William Fanning Wickham."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWickham Family Papers, 1754-1977 (Mss1 W6326 c FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Wickham Family Papers, 1754-1977 (Mss1 W6326 c FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n 1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n 1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n auction of these lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n 1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n litigation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n 1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n 1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4, containing the personal records of William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n 5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n 1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n 1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n 1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n by Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n 1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n 1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n 1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n 1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n plats.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of the most interesting matters handled by William\n Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n a number of years but returned to England before the American\n Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n had no right to alienate themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n 1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n trustees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n 1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n English counties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n and bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n materials are represented in Series 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn important group of three postwar letterbooks\n (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n Yost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n Samuel M. Yost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n 1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n Fanning, and Coffin families).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n Hill,\" and furnishing the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n laborers; and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n 1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n and inventories of stock and equipment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n the Richmond City Railway Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n obituary notices and newspaper editorials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n 1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n Taylor families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n notices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n papers make up Series 7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlong with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n 1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n canceled checks before 1931).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n 1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n manager.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n by Washington and Lee University, 1935.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n 1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n 1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n 1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n Confederate veterans' associations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n and/or outstanding contents:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n 40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n 72).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n reunions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n 92).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n socialite.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n Democratic politics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n 1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n 1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n as an officer).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n taxes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n 1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n 1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n 1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n 124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n 1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n 15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n etal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n 1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n vestry; and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n 1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n death in 1952 complete Box 48.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n 1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n 1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n captain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n 1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n 1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n and collected newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n notices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of ordination; letter, 1781; will, 1782;\n genealogical notes; Henry Taylor Wickham correspondence,\n 1930\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of ordination; letter, 1781; will, 1782;\n genealogical notes; Henry Taylor Wickham correspondence,\n 1930\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1783-1812; letters, 1777-1778;\n prayer; biographical sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to David Parish\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWills; correspondence; financial and land records;\n Wickham et al. v. Leigh et al.; W.H.F. Lee trust\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters of condolence, 1868\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts; memorandum of stocks; bonds; land\n records (\"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" \"The\n Lane\").\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrances (Wickham) Graham trust; pardon materials;\n genealogical notes; commonplace book, miscellany;\n estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePersonal account books, 1875-1885 (11 v.); account\n book, 1880-1888, \"household expenses\"; accounts,\n 1861, 1868-1888; bonds, 1877-1888\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarm books, 1866-1888 (15 v.); loose materials,\n 1871-1888\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Harrison Byrd trust; Julia Leiper (Taylor)\n Hubard trust; C. and O. Railway materials, 1872-1888;\n Republican party materials, ca. 1881-1887;\n miscellaneous land records; general miscellany,\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1875-1913; tax returns; Chesapeake Land\n and Improvement Co..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical notes; estate of Henry Taylor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book, 1867-1870; account book, 1942;\n passbooks, 1915-1926 (2 v.); check stub book,\n 1922-1926; and accounts, 1920-1925, 1931-1933,\n 1938-1939.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarm books, 1893-1913 [4 v.]; time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements; and land records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches, addresses, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw practice; land and tax records\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings; genealogical notes and\n records; general miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1902-1936; passbooks (3 v.), 1891-1919;\n check stub books (7 v.,) 1896-1923; bank statements\n and canceled checks, 1948-1950; tax forms and\n returns, 1941-1951.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, Va., materials,\n 1891-1925; Ladies' Aid Society, St. Paul's Episcopal\n Church, Hanover County, Va.; visitor's registers (2\n v.), 1930-1961; miscellany\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHanover Troop materials, 1889; personal\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters, 1869-1888.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool materials and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and general miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.","Series 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.","Series 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n 1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n 1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.","John Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n auction of these lands.","Wickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n 1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.","The next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n litigation.","The estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n 1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n 1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).","Correspondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).","Series 4, containing the personal records of William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n 5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n 1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n 1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n 1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n by Wickham.","Wickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n 1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.","\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n 1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n 1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.","Folder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n 1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n plats.","One of the most interesting matters handled by William\n Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n a number of years but returned to England before the American\n Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n had no right to alienate themselves.","Materials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n 1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n trustees.","Records from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).","William Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n 1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.","Additional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n English counties.","Wickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n and bonds.","Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n materials are represented in Series 5.","An important group of three postwar letterbooks\n (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.","Letterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n Yost.","Finally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n Samuel M. Yost.","General Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n 1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n Fanning, and Coffin families).","Box 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n Hill,\" and furnishing the house.","The \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n laborers; and miscellany.","Box 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n 1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n and inventories of stock and equipment.","The next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.","Wickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.","Williams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.","There follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n the Richmond City Railway Company.","Some loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.","General Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n obituary notices and newspaper editorials.","Williams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n 1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n Taylor families.","Two folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n Court.","Five folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n notices.","Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n papers make up Series 7.","Along with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.","Henry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).","An account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n 1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n canceled checks before 1931).","Box 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).","\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n 1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n manager.","Some loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n by Washington and Lee University, 1935.","Records concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n 1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n Wickham.","Many of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n 1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n 1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n Confederate veterans' associations.","Boxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n and/or outstanding contents:","Scrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n 40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n 72).","Scrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n reunions.","Scrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).","Scrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n business.","Scrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n 92).","Scrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).","Scrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n included.","Scrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n socialite.","Scrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n Democratic politics.","Scrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).","Scrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.","Scrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n 1943.","Records from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n 1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n as an officer).","Wickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n taxes).","Wickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n 1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n lines of verse.","Wickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.","Records of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.","Series 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n VA.","Financial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n 1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n follow.","Farm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n 1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n 124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n 1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n 15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.","Box 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n etal.","Mrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n 1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n vestry; and notes.","A visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n 1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n death in 1952 complete Box 48.","Series 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n 1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n estate.","Henry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n 1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Series 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n captain.","Captain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n 1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n 1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n and collected newspaper clippings.","Captain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n notices.","In Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)","Certificate of ordination; letter, 1781; will, 1782;\n genealogical notes; Henry Taylor Wickham correspondence,\n 1930","Certificate of ordination; letter, 1781; will, 1782;\n genealogical notes; Henry Taylor Wickham correspondence,\n 1930","Correspondence, 1783-1812; letters, 1777-1778;\n prayer; biographical sketches","Includes letters to David Parish","Wills; correspondence; financial and land records;\n Wickham et al. v. Leigh et al.; W.H.F. Lee trust","Includes letters of condolence, 1868","Accounts; memorandum of stocks; bonds; land\n records (\"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" \"The\n Lane\").","Frances (Wickham) Graham trust; pardon materials;\n genealogical notes; commonplace book, miscellany;\n estate","Personal account books, 1875-1885 (11 v.); account\n book, 1880-1888, \"household expenses\"; accounts,\n 1861, 1868-1888; bonds, 1877-1888","Farm books, 1866-1888 (15 v.); loose materials,\n 1871-1888","George Harrison Byrd trust; Julia Leiper (Taylor)\n Hubard trust; C. and O. Railway materials, 1872-1888;\n Republican party materials, ca. 1881-1887;\n miscellaneous land records; general miscellany,\n estate.","Accounts, 1875-1913; tax returns; Chesapeake Land\n and Improvement Co..","Genealogical notes; estate of Henry Taylor","Account book, 1867-1870; account book, 1942;\n passbooks, 1915-1926 (2 v.); check stub book,\n 1922-1926; and accounts, 1920-1925, 1931-1933,\n 1938-1939.","Farm books, 1893-1913 [4 v.]; time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements; and land records.","Speeches, addresses, etc.","Law practice; land and tax records","Newspaper clippings; genealogical notes and\n records; general miscellany.","Accounts, 1902-1936; passbooks (3 v.), 1891-1919;\n check stub books (7 v.,) 1896-1923; bank statements\n and canceled checks, 1948-1950; tax forms and\n returns, 1941-1951.","\"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, Va., materials,\n 1891-1925; Ladies' Aid Society, St. Paul's Episcopal\n Church, Hanover County, Va.; visitor's registers (2\n v.), 1930-1961; miscellany","Hanover Troop materials, 1889; personal\n miscellany.","Letters, 1869-1888.","School materials and miscellany.","Family and general miscellany."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe collection includes\n correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The collection includes\n correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n other members of the Wickham and Fanning families."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":53,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:52:57.653Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00017","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00017","_root_":"vihi_vih00017","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00017","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00017.xml","title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2"],"text":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2","A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977","Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n 1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n 1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n 1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880.","11,500 (ca.) items (51 manuscript\n boxes).","Collection is open for research.","Arranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by date or subject as necessary.","The Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n William Fanning Wickham.","The collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.","Series 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.","Series 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n 1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n 1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.","John Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n auction of these lands.","Wickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n 1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.","The next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n litigation.","The estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n 1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n 1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).","Correspondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).","Series 4, containing the personal records of William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n 5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n 1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n 1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n 1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n by Wickham.","Wickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n 1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.","\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n 1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n 1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.","Folder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n 1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n plats.","One of the most interesting matters handled by William\n Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n a number of years but returned to England before the American\n Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n had no right to alienate themselves.","Materials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n 1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n trustees.","Records from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).","William Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n 1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.","Additional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n English counties.","Wickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n and bonds.","Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n materials are represented in Series 5.","An important group of three postwar letterbooks\n (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.","Letterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n Yost.","Finally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n Samuel M. Yost.","General Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n 1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n Fanning, and Coffin families).","Box 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n Hill,\" and furnishing the house.","The \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n laborers; and miscellany.","Box 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n 1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n and inventories of stock and equipment.","The next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.","Wickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.","Williams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.","There follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n the Richmond City Railway Company.","Some loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.","General Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n obituary notices and newspaper editorials.","Williams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n 1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n Taylor families.","Two folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n Court.","Five folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n notices.","Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n papers make up Series 7.","Along with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.","Henry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).","An account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n 1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n canceled checks before 1931).","Box 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).","\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n 1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n manager.","Some loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n by Washington and Lee University, 1935.","Records concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n 1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n Wickham.","Many of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n 1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n 1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n Confederate veterans' associations.","Boxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n and/or outstanding contents:","Scrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n 40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n 72).","Scrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n reunions.","Scrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).","Scrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n business.","Scrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n 92).","Scrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).","Scrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n included.","Scrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n socialite.","Scrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n Democratic politics.","Scrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).","Scrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.","Scrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n 1943.","Records from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n 1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n as an officer).","Wickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n taxes).","Wickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n 1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n lines of verse.","Wickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.","Records of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.","Series 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n VA.","Financial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n 1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n follow.","Farm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n 1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n 124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n 1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n 15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.","Box 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n etal.","Mrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n 1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n vestry; and notes.","A visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n 1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n death in 1952 complete Box 48.","Series 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n 1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n estate.","Henry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n 1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Series 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n captain.","Captain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n 1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n 1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n and collected newspaper clippings.","Captain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n notices.","In Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)","Certificate of ordination; letter, 1781; will, 1782;\n genealogical notes; Henry Taylor Wickham correspondence,\n 1930","Certificate of ordination; letter, 1781; will, 1782;\n genealogical notes; Henry Taylor Wickham correspondence,\n 1930","Correspondence, 1783-1812; letters, 1777-1778;\n prayer; biographical sketches","Includes letters to David Parish","Wills; correspondence; financial and land records;\n Wickham et al. v. Leigh et al.; W.H.F. Lee trust","Includes letters of condolence, 1868","Accounts; memorandum of stocks; bonds; land\n records (\"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" \"The\n Lane\").","Frances (Wickham) Graham trust; pardon materials;\n genealogical notes; commonplace book, miscellany;\n estate","Personal account books, 1875-1885 (11 v.); account\n book, 1880-1888, \"household expenses\"; accounts,\n 1861, 1868-1888; bonds, 1877-1888","Farm books, 1866-1888 (15 v.); loose materials,\n 1871-1888","George Harrison Byrd trust; Julia Leiper (Taylor)\n Hubard trust; C. and O. Railway materials, 1872-1888;\n Republican party materials, ca. 1881-1887;\n miscellaneous land records; general miscellany,\n estate.","Accounts, 1875-1913; tax returns; Chesapeake Land\n and Improvement Co..","Genealogical notes; estate of Henry Taylor","Account book, 1867-1870; account book, 1942;\n passbooks, 1915-1926 (2 v.); check stub book,\n 1922-1926; and accounts, 1920-1925, 1931-1933,\n 1938-1939.","Farm books, 1893-1913 [4 v.]; time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements; and land records.","Speeches, addresses, etc.","Law practice; land and tax records","Newspaper clippings; genealogical notes and\n records; general miscellany.","Accounts, 1902-1936; passbooks (3 v.), 1891-1919;\n check stub books (7 v.,) 1896-1923; bank statements\n and canceled checks, 1948-1950; tax forms and\n returns, 1941-1951.","\"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, Va., materials,\n 1891-1925; Ladies' Aid Society, St. Paul's Episcopal\n Church, Hanover County, Va.; visitor's registers (2\n v.), 1930-1961; miscellany","Hanover Troop materials, 1889; personal\n miscellany.","Letters, 1869-1888.","School materials and miscellany.","Family and general miscellany.","There are no restrictions.","The collection includes\n correspondence (some copies), 1778-1799, of attorney John\n Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Va., and extensive materials\n concerning the settlement of his estate (including wills,\n correspondence, financial, land and legal records, and trust\n materials, some involving Robert E. Lee and William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n Philadelphia, Pa. Alsoincludes correspondence, 1848-1913,\n financial records, and estate materials of Lucy Penn (Taylor)\n Wickham (1830-1913); letterbooks, 1931-1940, scrapbooks,\n correspondence, 1874-1941, farm records, and Virginia Senate\n and Democratic Party materials of Henry Taylor Wickham\n (1849-1943) of \"Hickory Hill\"; correspondence, accounts, farm\n records, and Richmond, Va., rental property records of Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham; and miscellaneous records of\n other members of the Wickham and Fanning families.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 W6326 c FA2"],"normalized_title_ssm":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,\n \n 1754-1977"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Mrs. Credilla B. W. Bordley, Ashland, Va., and\n Lawrence V. M. 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(Robert Edward),\n 1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n 1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n 1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.","Carter, Charles, 1818-","Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.","Democratic Party (Va.) -- History -- 20th\n century.","Diaries -- Virginia -- Hanover County -- History\n -- 19th century.","Fanning family.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Hanover County --\n History -- 19th century.","Gist, Samuel, d. 1815.","Hanover County (Va.) -- History.","Hickory Hill (Hanover County, Va.)","Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),\n 1807-1870.","Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891.","North Wales (Caroline County, Va.)","Plantations -- Virginia -- Hanover\n County.","Real estate management -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n History -- 20th century.","Reconstruction -- Virginia.","Republican Party (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n century.","Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia.","Trusts and trustees -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n century.","Virginia -- History -- Civil War,\n 1861-1865.","Virginia -- Politics and government --\n 1865-1950.","Wickham, Elise Warwick Barksdale,\n 1861-1952.","Wickham family.","Wickham, Henry Taylor, 1849-1943.","Wickham, John, 1763-1839.","Wickham, Lucy Penn Taylor, 1830-1913.","Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888.","Wickham, William Fanning, 1793-1880."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["11,500 (ca.) items (51 manuscript\n boxes)."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open for research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open for research."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by date or subject as necessary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged in thirteen series by main entry and further\n subdivided by date or subject as necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n William Fanning Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Wickham family of Richmond and Hanover County, known as\n the \"Hickory Hill Wickhams,\" was founded by the celebrated\n post-Revolutionary attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). This\n collection traces the descendants of Wickham and his first\n wife, Mary Smith Fanning, through the line of his eldest son,\n William Fanning Wickham."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWickham Family Papers, 1754-1977 (Mss1 W6326 c FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Wickham Family Papers, 1754-1977 (Mss1 W6326 c FA2),\n Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n 1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n 1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n auction of these lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n 1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n litigation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n 1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n 1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 4, containing the personal records of William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n 5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n 1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n 1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n 1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n by Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n 1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n 1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n 1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n 1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n plats.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of the most interesting matters handled by William\n Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n a number of years but returned to England before the American\n Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n had no right to alienate themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n 1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n trustees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n 1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n English counties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n and bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n materials are represented in Series 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn important group of three postwar letterbooks\n (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n Yost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n Samuel M. Yost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n 1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n Fanning, and Coffin families).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n Hill,\" and furnishing the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n laborers; and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n 1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n and inventories of stock and equipment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n the Richmond City Railway Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n obituary notices and newspaper editorials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n 1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n Taylor families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n notices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n papers make up Series 7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlong with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n 1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n canceled checks before 1931).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n 1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n manager.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n by Washington and Lee University, 1935.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n 1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n Wickham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n 1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n 1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n Confederate veterans' associations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n and/or outstanding contents:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n 40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n 72).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n reunions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n 92).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n socialite.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n Democratic politics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n 1943.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n 1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n as an officer).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n taxes).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n 1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n lines of verse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n 1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n follow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n 1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n 124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n 1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n 15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n etal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n 1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n vestry; and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n 1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n death in 1952 complete Box 48.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n 1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n 1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n captain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n 1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n 1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n and collected newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n notices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of ordination; letter, 1781; will, 1782;\n genealogical notes; Henry Taylor Wickham correspondence,\n 1930\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of ordination; letter, 1781; will, 1782;\n genealogical notes; Henry Taylor Wickham correspondence,\n 1930\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1783-1812; letters, 1777-1778;\n prayer; biographical sketches\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters to David Parish\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWills; correspondence; financial and land records;\n Wickham et al. v. Leigh et al.; W.H.F. Lee trust\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters of condolence, 1868\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts; memorandum of stocks; bonds; land\n records (\"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" \"The\n Lane\").\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrances (Wickham) Graham trust; pardon materials;\n genealogical notes; commonplace book, miscellany;\n estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePersonal account books, 1875-1885 (11 v.); account\n book, 1880-1888, \"household expenses\"; accounts,\n 1861, 1868-1888; bonds, 1877-1888\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarm books, 1866-1888 (15 v.); loose materials,\n 1871-1888\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Harrison Byrd trust; Julia Leiper (Taylor)\n Hubard trust; C. and O. Railway materials, 1872-1888;\n Republican party materials, ca. 1881-1887;\n miscellaneous land records; general miscellany,\n estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1875-1913; tax returns; Chesapeake Land\n and Improvement Co..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical notes; estate of Henry Taylor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book, 1867-1870; account book, 1942;\n passbooks, 1915-1926 (2 v.); check stub book,\n 1922-1926; and accounts, 1920-1925, 1931-1933,\n 1938-1939.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarm books, 1893-1913 [4 v.]; time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements; and land records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches, addresses, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLaw practice; land and tax records\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings; genealogical notes and\n records; general miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1902-1936; passbooks (3 v.), 1891-1919;\n check stub books (7 v.,) 1896-1923; bank statements\n and canceled checks, 1948-1950; tax forms and\n returns, 1941-1951.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, Va., materials,\n 1891-1925; Ladies' Aid Society, St. Paul's Episcopal\n Church, Hanover County, Va.; visitor's registers (2\n v.), 1930-1961; miscellany\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHanover Troop materials, 1889; personal\n miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters, 1869-1888.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool materials and miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily and general miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection opens with materials of William Fanning\n (1728-1782) of Brunswick and Greensville counties, Va., an\n Anglican clergyman who was both an uncle of John Wickham and\n father of Wickham's first wife. Included are a certificate of\n ordination, 1754, issued to Fanning as a deacon in the Church\n of England (signed by the Bishop of Gloucester and bearing a\n seal of the Bishop of London); a 1781 letter of Fanning to\n Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson (a copy made in 1857)\n concerning John Wickham; and a will probated in Greensville\n County. Early folders also contain notes on the Fanning, Gray,\n Tazewell, and Wickham families (apparently taken from the\n family Bible of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning); and\n correspondence, 1930, of Henry Taylor Wickham with George\n MacLaren Brydon concerning William and Edmund Fanning.","Series 2 contains papers of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818),\n another of Wickham's uncles who took a particular interest in\n the younger man's education and career. Edmund Fanning pursued\n his own colorful career in colonial administration and\n eventually served as governor of Nova Scotia. His records in\n this collection include correspondence, 1738-ca. 1812, with\n Sir Robert Pigot, John Wickham (concerning Wickham's service\n in the King's American Regiment and as a lawyer in Richmond,\n Va.), and Mary Smith (Fanning) Wickham; letters, 1777-1778\n (copies made in 1873) of Fanning (while serving in the King's\n American Regiment) to James Fanning and Hannah Smith (Fanning)\n Wickham (concerning John Wickham); a prayer, ca. 1788, for the\n governor, council, and assembly of Prince Edward Island,\n Canada; and biographical sketches, ca. 1800-1829.","Series 3 contains a limited number of John Wickham's own\n personal records survive in Box 1 of this collection. Letters,\n 1806, written to Philadelphia merchant David Parish concern\n the personal and financial affairs of entrepreneur David Ross;\n while letters, 1778-1799 (copies of which were made in\n 1873-1874) written to John Wickham (1734-1808) and Harriet\n Smith (Fanning) Wickham, John Wickham's parents, describe his\n travels in Europe and practice of law in Richmond, Va.","John Wickham's land records, 1801-1842, primarily concern\n plantations in Henrico and Goochland counties known as \"Middle\n Quarter,\" \"Lower Quarter,\" and \"Ellerslie\" and are related to\n his acquisition of the \"East Tuckahoe\" plantation. These\n papers consist of proceedings, exhibits, decrees, and other\n records from the lawsuit of Wakelyn Welch, surviving partner\n of Robert Cary and Company of London v. the executors of\n Thomas Mann Randolph (a British debt case that concerns in\n part the sale of \"Middle Quarter Plantation\" and its Negro\n slaves to Wickham in 1800) signed by George Wythe and bearing\n a seal of the Virginia High Court of Chancery; a deed of\n trust, 1838, of Wickham to BenjaminWatkins Leigh and William\n Fanning Wickham for the benefit of John Wickham's children\n (deed covers slaves, cattle, horses, and personal property on\n the plantation); and a newspaper notice, 1842, of the public\n auction of these lands.","Wickham's miscellany contains a commission, 1782, in the\n King's American Regiment of Foot (signed by George III and\n Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, and bears seal); an\n argument, 1795, of John Wickham (through not in his hand) as\n counsel for the U.S. in the U.S. Circuit Court at Richmond in\n U.S. v. Daniel Lawrence Hylton (concerning the\n constitutionality of the federal carriage tax); a deed of\n trust (copy), 1800 to shares in the Bank of Baltimore for the\n benefit of Mary (Gray) Tazewell Fanning; a statement, ca.\n 1820, of the case of John Ponsonby Martin concerning the\n confiscation of the Virginia estate of John Martin by the\n Commonwealth of Virginia in 1779; a student notebook, n.d.,\n used (probably by one of Wickham's children) to practice\n handwriting; lines of verse, 1835, copied from the Southern\n Literary Messenger concerning Wickham's speech before the\n Virginia House of Delegates; and drafts of a biographical\n sketch, 1887, by Williams Carter Wickham.","The next three boxes (Boxes 2-4) cover the very extensive\n and complicated proceedings over the estate of John Wickham.\n Due to a number of technicalities, Wickham's estate matters\n eventually absorbed the estates of Richmond physician James\n McClurg, his father-in-law, and of several of his children who\n died young, and gave rise to an enormous amount of\n litigation.","The estate records begin with two copies of Wickham's\n lengthy will, 1839, probated in Richmond. Correspondence,\n 1852-1875, of William Fanning Wickham (as surviving executor\n with Benjamin Watkins Leigh) including numerous letters from\n Julia (Wickham) Leigh (concerning family affairs and the U.S.\n Customs House in Richmond), John Wickham (1825-1892) of St.\n Louis, Mo., and John Wickham (1825-1902) of \"East Tuckahoe,\"\n Henrico County , Va. An account book, 1856-1880, kept by\n William Fanning Wickham bears frequent notes on transactions\n and financial affairs of the estate and on his trusteeship for\n a younger Wickham daughter, Frances (Wickham) Graham. Loose\n accounts cover the period 1848-1863; bonds, 1853-1869.\n Materials concerning land of John Wickham in Kentucky and\n Missouri and of Doctor McClurg in Randolph County [W.Va.] and\n in Kentucky (Folder 5) include correspondence with Joseph\n Rogers Underwood and others and notes of William Fanning\n Wickham. Estate miscellany consists of a petition to and order\n of the Richmond Circuit Court in 1864; materials, 1858,\n concerning Amy (a Negro slave) at Eastern Lunatic Asylum\n (later Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Va., and notes\n of William Fanning Wickham.Box 4 contains records of a trust\n established by the estate for a granddaughter of John Wickham,\n Charlotte Georgiana Wickham, upon her marriage in 1859 to\n William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. William Fanning Wickham and Robert\n E. Lee served as trustees. Materials include the deed of trust\n (marriage settlement) establishing the trust, signed by all\n the above parties plus Williams Carter (grandfather of the\n bride and her guardian); notes and memoranda of William\n Fanning Wickham, 1858-1868; and an order and receipt,\n 1866-1868, of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee concerning shares of\n Virginia 6% state stock (also signed by Robert E. Lee).","Correspondence of William Fanning Wickham as trustee\n includes numerous communications with Doctor Charles Carter,\n Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (of \"Arlington,\"\n \"Ravensworth,\" Fairfax County, and \"White House,\" New Kent\n County). Two bank books and some loose accounts cover the\n period 1854-1867. Materials, 1856-1879, concern lot #502 at\n Grace and Sixth streets in Richmond and #533 at Broad and\n Sixth streets, owned respectively by Maclurg Wickham and W. H.\n F. Lee in the division of the estate of Doctor James McClurg.\n Another group of records, 1861, concern the lot and tenanment\n on Cary Street adjoining the Bank of Richmond, A deed of\n release (copy), 1867, of W. H. F. Lee conveys land in Warwick\n County, Va., received from the estate of Doctor William\n Foushee. Lastly, materials, 1880-1882, concern a lawsuit in\n Richmond Chancery Court of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee v.\n William Carter Wickham (executor of William Fanning Wickham)\n etal. (including correspondence of Wickham and Lee, an answer\n of Wickham, exhibits, receipts, and notes).","Series 4, containing the personal records of William\n Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) commences with Box 5. A prominent\n attorney of early Richmond like his father, William Fanning\n Wickham retired early to his plantation in Hanover County,\n \"Hickory Hill,\" and devoted the rest of his life to his family\n and to agriculture. He kept a long series of diaries (17\n volumes) beginning in 1828, in which he recorded little of a\n personal nature but much on agricultural operations. weather,\n the sale of produce, plantation life, horse breeding, and\n local affairs. Many of the diaries include lists of Negro\n slaves (with their ages) at\"Hickory Hill\" and adjoining\n plantations, as well as records of slave births and deaths.\n Some volumes include plats of fields (beginning with volume\n 5). Volume 8 covers the Hanover County homefront during the\n Civil War, describing the treatment of slaves and noting\n runaways to the Union Army. It mentions a battle near \"Hickory\n Hill\" on 27 May 1862 (entry for 31 May), news of campaigns and\n Union raids during the summers of 1862 and 1863, and reports\n on the Spotsylvania Campaign, 14-31 May 1864. Volume XIV\n reports the devastating fire at \"Hickory Hill\" on 13 February\n 1875.Wickham's general correspondence covers the period\n 1817-1878 and is generally maintained with family members.\n Letters to Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham and William Carter\n Wickham mostly concern the elder Wickham's trip to Europe in\n 1852 (visiting Geneva, London, Paris, and Rome). Other\n correspondents include Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia\n (largely concerning the estate of Williams Carter, and \"North\n Wales,\" in Caroline County, letters dated 1865 concern the\n postwar crisis in Virginia), Edmund Fontaine (concerning train\n stops on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County),\n William Cabell Rives, Judith Page (Walker) Rives (concerning\n the death of William Cabell Rives), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n (imperfect), James Maclurg Wikcham (concerning the death of\n George Wickham) and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham. Letters of\n condolence, sent to William Fanning Wickham upon the death of\n Anne Butler (Carter) Wickham in 1868, also include\n acknowledgements by Wickham (especially to Robert E. Lee) and\n other members of the Carter and Wickham families, and a prayer\n by Wickham.","Wickham's financial records in Box 7 include accounts,\n 1828-1841, 1854-1863, and 1872-1878; a memoranda book of\n stocks, 1853-1861; bonds, 1878, of Wickham to John Henry\n Wickham and Mrs. Maria F. Wickham; and bonds, 1879, with E.\n and S. Wortham, Richmond commission merchants.","\"Hickory Hill\" land records cover the acquisition of the\n plantation and adjoining acreage between 1828 and 1878 which\n totaled nearly 3500 acres by the latter date. An 1878 survey\n report, title history, and map give an overview of the gradual\n evolution of the plantation. Folder 1 contains deeds,\n 1820-1828, of the heirs of George William Smith to William\n Fanning Wickham and include an agreement, power of attorney,\n and plat. A deed, plat, and survey cover the lands of Doctor\n Josiah Holt. Other records consist of deeds, agreements, and\n plants, 1836-1837, of adjacent lands acquired from the heirs\n of John D. Thilman; plats, notes, and a deed covering the John\n H. Taliaferro lands, 1837-1858; a deed and plats, 1867-1873,\n of land exchanged with Edmund Winston; plats and surveys of\n \"Hickory Hill,\" ca. 1852-1861; miscellaneous adjacent tracts,\n 1833-1867; notes of William Fanning Wickham; and a deed, 1880,\n of Wickham to Williams Carter Wickham.","Folder 2 consists of a report, 1844, concerning a petition\n to build a mill dam t power grist and saw mills; estimated\n values and lists of taxable real and personal property, 1823,\n 1852-1864, 1873; records, 1842-1857, concerning the purchase\n of slaves; accounts of expenses of farm operations, 1866-1876;\n and records of the division of the farm into a field system\n for crop rotation, 1871-1878. The next folder concerns \"South\n Wales,\" the largest trace of the \"Hickory Hill\" plantation.\n Materialsinclude a letter, 1769, of Harry Terrill concerning\n farming operations; a plat, n.d., of a portion of the tract\n between the railroad and the county road; agreements, 1859,\n with the Virginia Central Railroad Company; and a survey and\n plat, n.d., of the Hanover Courthouse Road. Lastly, Folder 4\n concerns \"The Lane\" (a tract also known as \"Lanefield\" or\n \"Long Lane\"). Items include a deed, 1825, of Thomas Nelson\n Carter, deed of trust, agreement, and bond; a bond, 1841, of\n Elizabeth Jacquelin (Ambler) Brent Carrington (with deeds of\n trust and release); a bond, 1843, of Wickham to Littleton\n Waller Tazewell (with deeds of trust and release); and undated\n plats.","One of the most interesting matters handled by William\n Fanning Wickham as an attorney concerned the estate of Samuel\n Gist (d. 1815), a London merchant. Gist lived in Virginia for\n a number of years but returned to England before the American\n Revolution. During that conflict, the Commonwealth of Virginia\n sought to confiscate his lands and goods but the General\n Assembly was prevailed upon to enact legislation in 1782\n vesting his property in the hands of a daughter Mary (Gist)\n Anderson Pearkes and her first husband, William Anderson. Gist\n continued to receive the profits from his estates after the\n war through his manager in Hanover County, Benjamin Toler, and\n by his will sought to emancipate his slaves and provide for\n their welfare through the sale of property in Goochland\n County. An act of Assembly in 1816 created a trust supervised\n by the Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond to be\n administered until all creditors of the estate were satisfied,\n when funds could be generated from the sale of land and other\n property to benefit the freed slaves, who in turn had to leave\n the Commonwealth. William Fanning Wickham acted as one of the\n trustees from 1817 until 1847 and in 1858-1859 heard from\n members of the Quaker committee devoted to the care of free\n blacks in Ohio, where Gist's slaves finally settled. The whole\n issue was raised again in 1877-1880 by E. Cumberland, one of\n the original freedmen who moved to Ohio and settled on lands\n purchased through funds from the estate but which the blacks\n had no right to alienate themselves.","Materials from the Gist estate include correspondence of\n William Fanning Wickham as surviving trustee with agents,\n attorneys, former slaves, and Quakers in Ohio (especially\n David Bailey, a former resident of Petersburg, and George\n Carter) during three periods: 1845-1849 (closing the Virginia\n affairs of the trust), 1850-1858 (reports from Ohio Friends),\n and 1870-1880 (the re-establishment of extended claims by\n former Gist slaves and their descendants). General materials\n include loose accounts, 1826-1853; bonds, 1819; records,\n 1832-1847, concerning the acquisition of lands in Brown and\n Highland counties, Ohio, and the maintenance of former slaves;\n and a letter (copy) of John Wickham (1763-1839) to John\n Hampden Pleasants concerning his role as one of the original\n trustees.","Records from supervision of the Gist estate by the Virginia\n Superior Court of Chancery in Richmond (later the Circuit\n Superior Court of Chancery) include memorials to the court,\n decrees, orders, etc., 1845- 1847, and a long series of\n commissioner's reports, 1818-1847. Records of the case\n Archibald Anderson etal. v. Samuel Gist's executors etal.,\n heard by Chief Justice John Marshall in the Fifth U.S. Circuit\n Court for the Virginia District in Richmond (concerning claims\n under the will of William Anderson) consist of an 1824 decree\n of the court, a statement of accounts, notes of argument of\n the opposing counsel (Robert Stanard and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), and agreement and bond with Richard Anderson, and\n miscellany (copy of an amended bill of complaint and letter of\n William Fanning Wickham to Chancellor Creed Taylor).","William Fanning Wickham also served for many years as agent\n or trustee for his younger sister Frances (Wickham) Graham\n after the death of her husband. Records include an account\n book, 1867=1880; loose accounts, 1871-1882; bonds, 1875-1879,\n of John Wickham (1825-1902), Littleton Waller Tazewell\n Wickham, and Maclurg Wickham; agreements, 1874-1878,\n concerning cash advances for her above-named brothers; a\n lease, 1868, to Grubbs and Williams of Richmond to a lot on\n Eleventh Street between Main and Bank streets; and a receipt,\n 1881, for payment for buildings erected on that lot. Specific\n materials concerning the indebtedness of John and Littleton\n Waller Tazewell Wickham to Maclurg Wickham are comprised of\n deeds of trust, 1858-1877, to \"East Tuckahoe\" and \"Woodside,\"\n Henrico County; a deed of trust (copy) concerning mineral\n rights, 1874, granted to the James River Coal Company; a plat\n of \"East Tuckahoe,\" ca. 1858; and materials of William Fanning\n Wickham concerning John Wickham's bankruptcy proceedings.","Additional personal records of William Fanning Wickham\n (Boxes 9-10) include pardon materials, 1865 (provost marshal's\n certificate, petition to President Andrew Johnston,\n certificate of the Secretary of State (William Henry Seward),\n and pardon document); notes, charts, and materials collected\n by Wickham concerning the Carter, Fanning, Nelson, Randolph\n and Wickham families (see also general correspondence); and a\n commonplace book, n.d. (early nineteenth century), consisting\n primarily of descriptive and historical notes on England and\n English counties.","Wickham's miscellany includes a sketch of Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh prepared by William Hamilton Macfarland; a personal\n reminiscence of John Marshall; a commonplace bok, n.d.\n consisting of notes on the U.S. Constitution and\n constitutional history; essay speech, n.d., probably made at\n Hanover Court House concerning reconstruction in Virginia; an\n inventory of personal papers; a letter, 1843, of Thomas Tabb\n Giles to William Daniel (concerning a book in the library at\n \"Hickory Hill\"); lines of verse; and miscellaneous notes.\n Estate materials consist of a will probated in Hanover County,\n accounts, a letter to the executor (Williams Carter Wickham),\n and bonds.","Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), a son of William\n Fanning Wickham, trained as a lawyer but abandoned the law\n early to become a planter at \"Hickory Hill.\" He served as a\n local militia officer prior to the Civil War and became a\n cavalry general in the army of Northern Virginia. After the\n war, he surprised neighbors and fellow veterans by joining the\n Republican party, a political organization in which he became\n very influential. For many years a second vice-president of\n the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Wickham also served\n in the Virginia Senate, where he opposed the Readjusters. His\n materials are represented in Series 5.","An important group of three postwar letterbooks\n (letter-press) kept by Williams Carter Wickham survives in\n this collection. Volume I covers the years 1877 to 1880 and is\n largely devoted to personal and business affairs and\n Republican party politics. (Indexes to each of the letterbooks\n have been prepared by VHS staff members and are filed with the\n appropriate volumes.) Among the individuals to whom Wickham\n addresses letters in this volume are Robert Rufus Bridgers,\n Doctor Charles Carter (of Philadelphia, concerning the estate\n of Williams Carter and \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, VA),\n John Echols, Charles Meriwether Fry (concerning the Chesapeake\n Coal Company of New York), President Rutherford B. Hayes,\n Virginia Governor Frederick William Mackey Holliday, Collis\n Potter Huntington, Hugh McCullock, William Snead Oakey (of\n Salem, Va.), Doctor Thomas Pollard (concerning the use of marl\n at \"Hickory Hill\"), John Warren Porter (of the Charlottesville\n Republican), George William Richardson (concerning the sale of\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, Va.), William Lawrence Royall,\n James Beverley Sener, U. S. Treasury secretary John Sherman,\n Samuel M. Yost (a Republican party associate), Haxall-Crenshaw\n Company of Richmond, and the Richmond Whig.","Letterbook II (1880-1881) also concerns Wickham's personal\n and business affairs, some relating to the C. and O. Railroad,\n plantation operations and agricultural production, Republican\n party activities, and St. Paul's Church in Hanover County (see\n especially letters to Bickerton Lyle Winston). Among the\n addressees are Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Doctor\n Charles Carter, Robert Randolph Carter, John Callaghan (of\n Norfolk), Charles Meriwether Fry, Philip Haxall (as president\n of Haxall-Crenshaw Company, Richmond), Collis Potter\n Huntington (concerning William Lawrence Royall [p. 7] and\n artist John Adams Elder [p.2651], William Henry Fitzhugh Lee,\n Conway Robinson (concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, a dinner\n for Burr hosted by John Wickham and attended by Chief Justice\n John Marshall, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh), George William\n Richardson, James Beverley Sener, Henry Taylor, and Samuel M.\n Yost.","Finally, Volume III (also 1880-1881) was kept as chairman\n of the Republican State Executive Committee, concerns\n activities of the Central Committee and the Republican State\n Convention in Lynchburg in August 1881, and includes letters\n written to Republican leaders throughout Virginia, especially\n concerning the presidential election of 1880 and state\n elections in 1881. Among the addressees are John Callaghan,\n President James A. Garfield, Doctor Joseph Jorgenson, John\n Singleton Mosby, Arthur Alexander Spitzer, J. B. Work, and\n Samuel M. Yost.","General Wickham's correspondence, 1862-1888, covers any of\n the same subjects as do his letterbooks, with the addition of\n letters concerning the offer of the post of Secretary of the\n Navy to Wickham in the administration of James A. Garfield in\n 1880 and Wickham's own efforts to acquire information on his\n ancestors. Prominent correspondents include Cornelius Clarke\n Baldwin (concerning Joseph Glover Baldwin and Benjamin Watkins\n Leigh), Doctor Charles Carter, Judge Robert William Hughes,\n Collis Potter Huntington, Henry Brainered McClellan\n (concerning James Breathed, Wickham's service as colonel of\n the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Jeb Stuart's raid into\n Pennsylvania in 1862), George William Richardson, Thomas\n Lafayette Rosser (concerning cavalry in the Confederate State\n Army), David Watson Taylor, and Doctor Thomas Fanning Wood (of\n Wilmington, N.C., enclosing a manuscript history of the Wood,\n Fanning, and Coffin families).","Box 12 contains eleven volumes of Wickham's personal\n account books, 1875-1885, and an account book covering\n \"household expenses at Hickory Hill.\" Loose accounts are\n scattered, but cover 1861, 1868-1888, and are heaviest in the\n years 1873-1879. Many of these accounts relate to farming,\n shipping of goods, construction of the mansion at \"Hickory\n Hill,\" and furnishing the house.","The \"Hickory Hill\" farm materials begin with 15 volumes of\n \"farm books,\" 1866-1888, which bear records of expenditures\n and receipts, as well as accounts with individual laborers,\n managers, and timbermen. Loose materials, 1871-1888, include 2\n folders of records concerning the purchase of adjacent lands\n added to the \"Hickory Hill\" tract; a lease to \"Knapp's\" in\n Hanover County for conducting an egg and poultry business; an\n agreement concerning the care of sheep; materials concerning\n the construction of a stable and barn; insurance policies; a\n written plan for farm operations; measurements for carpeting\n several rooms in the mansion house; notes on the division of\n fields for crop rotation; notes and accounts concerning farm\n laborers; and miscellany.","Box 16 is wholly devoted to materials, 1867-1887,\n concerning \"North Wales,\" a plantation across the Pamunkey\n river in Caroline County that Williams Carter Wickham managed\n for his cousin, Doctor Charles Carter of Philadelphia. Initial\n materials include a deed of William Carter, William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham (all as executors and\n trustees of the estate of Williams Carter [d. 1864]) to\n Charles Carter; a lease to John H. Allen, an agreement\n concerning a debt owed by Allen's estate, and a letter of Mrs.\n N. V. Allen to William Fanning Wickham; a letter of E. and S.\n Wortham of Richmond to doctor Carter; an agreement of Williams\n Carter Wickham with John C. Allen as overseer; an appraisal of\n livestock; a map of 1878; and a lease to Williams Carter\n Wickham in 1882. Farm books (3 volumes) cover the period\n 1878-1886, while loose accounts date from the years 1877-1879.\n Miscellaneous items include shipping records (corn); notes on\n plantation operations and field divisions for crop rotation;\n and inventories of stock and equipment.","The next box (17) of Wickham's papers concerns the estate\n of Margaret William Tryon (Fanning) Cumberland of Enham Lodge,\n Leamington, Eng., a sister of Wickham's grandmother Mary Smith\n (Fanning) Wickham. These materials, 1880-1888, concern Mrs.\n Cumberland's bequest of personal items to Wickham. Documents\n that survive include correspondence of Wickham with Mrs.\n Cumberland, Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, and London\n attorney William Ford, executor of Mrs. Cumberland's estate. A\n folder contains notes on the Fanning family; a copy of an\n autobiographical \"statement\" of Edmund Fanning; and\n biographical notes made by Maria Fanning. Another folder\n contains a sketch of a window of Lillington Church,\n Warwickshire, Eng., memorializing Lt. Col. Bentinck Harry\n Cumberland; materials concerning Fanning Grammar School,\n Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, Canada; notes on silver plate\n and jewelry; and a memorandum of assets of the estate.","Wickham followed his father as a trustee for Frances\n (Wickham) Graham, who came to live at \"Hickory Hill.\" Acting\n with Maclurg Wickham over the years 1880-1888, Wickham\n maintained a few items of correspondence, accounts (including\n contributions to the salary of Sewall Stavely Hepbron as a\n rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County), and\n records of financial advances to John Wickham (1825- 1902) and\n Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham.","Williams Carter Wickham also served as a trustee under a\n marriage agreement between George Harrison Byrd of Baltimore\n and Lucy Carter Wickham, one of Wickham's nieces. The records\n of this trusteeship, 1857- 1892, include correspondence with\n Byrd, accounts, and a release issued to the estate of Williams\n Carter Wickham. Materials, 1876-1889, cover Wickham's\n activities as trustee for Reverend Edmund Wilcox Hubard and\n his wife Julia Leiper Taylor (a sister of Wickham's wife,\n Lucy). These consist of correspondence with the Hubards (of\n Bedford an Rappahannock counties, Va.), Henry Taylor, and\n William Penn Taylor; accounts and receipts; a memoranda\n concerning title to land in Richmond, Va.; orders of the\n Westmoreland County Court; and letters to Henry Taylor Wickham\n as executor of Williams Carter Wickham.","There follow materials concerning Wickham's years of\n service with the C. and O. Railway, 1872-1888. Items\n concerning the Central Land Company of West Virginia include\n an agreement of John and Daniel Kerr Stewart regarding lands\n in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio purchased by Collis\n Potter Huntington and his associates under contract with the\n C. and O.; a letter of Daniel Kerr Stewart; and accounts. Some\n records cover Wickham's post as receiver and consist largely\n of newspaper clippings, a letter to the committee for\n reorganization, and an agreement. Another agreement concerns\n fences along Wickham's property in Hanover County. Lastly,\n miscellany includes accounts and complimentary tickets from\n the Richmond City Railway Company.","Some loose Republican party materials, 1881-1887, include\n newspaper clippings concerning Virginia Senator William\n Mahone; an invitation issued to Wickham by the U.S. State\n Department; a petition from Hanover County voters encouraging\n Wickham to retain his seat in the Virginia Senate; and a\n letter of William Fanning Wickham [1860-1900] to Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Rensaw Byerly concerning General Wickham's political\n career. Miscellaneous land records, 1876-1878, consist of a\n deed to land in Hanover County owed by E. F. Baker; insurance\n policies on a lot and house on Cedar Street in Richmond,\n \"Oakland,\" Hanover County, and the Episcopal parsonage of St.\n Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Va.","General Wickham's personal miscellany is comprised of a\n broadside, 1861, as a Virginia state senator for Hanover and\n Henrico counties concerning the Virginia Secession Convention;\n a certificate of election, 1863, to the Confederate States\n Congress (signed by George Wythe Munford); a code book, n.d.,\n used for messages between Wickham and C. T. Dabney; a stock\n certificate, 1886, for 100 shares in Spring Valley Gold Mining\n Company of California; a contract, 1887, for enclosing the\n Wickham family section in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond;\n and a letter, 1882, of Henry Hall of the New York Tribune to\n John Page. Wickham's estate materials include a copy of his\n will probated in Hanover County; telegrams of condolence sent\n to Lucy Penn (Taylor ) Wickham and Henry Taylor Wickham (many\n from his railroad associates and fellow veterans like Collis\n Potter Huntington andFitzhugh Lee); a letter from Virginia L.\n Nelson; a biographical sketch of Wickham and memoranda of his\n Civil War service; resolutions of respect and tribute; and\n obituary notices and newspaper editorials.","Williams Carter Wickham married Lucy Penn Taylor in 1848\n and they lived at \"Hickory Hill.\" Mrs. Wickham's papers, in\n Series 6, include several dozen early letters, 1848-1866, she\n wrote to Elizabeth (Kane) Shields, daughter of Judge John\n Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia and sister of Arctic explorer\n Elisha Kent Kane and Thomas Leiper Kane (all of whom are\n mentioned in the letters, along with notes of William Fanning\n Wickham). Mrs. Wickham's correspondence, 1888-1913, is\n primarily with Henry Taylor and Henry Taylor Wickham, in part\n concerning \"Hickory Hill.\" Her accounts sporadically cover the\n period 1875-1913, along with personal property tax returns,\n 1893-1909. Correspondence, 1902, of Henry Taylor Wickham\n concerns his mother's purchase of shares in the Chesapeake\n Land and Improvement Company of Richmond. Her collected\n genealogical notes concern the Hubard, Leiper, Pendleton, and\n Taylor families.","Two folders of Mrs. Wickham's personal papers concern the\n estate of her father, Henry Taylor of \"Belvidera,\"\n Spotsylvania County, Va. These materials, 1853-1921, are made\n up of a letter of Taylor to Mrs. Wickham; copies of Taylor's\n will; a memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n materials concerning Julia Leiper (Taylor Hubard v. Henry\n Taylor's administrator in the Westmoreland County Court\n (1864-1866) and Julia Leiper (Taylor) Hubard v. Henry Taylor\n etal. in the Westmoreland County Circuit Court. Materials\n regarding a trust created for the benefit of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham consist of the appointment by Julia Dunlap\n (Leiper) Taylor and William Penn Taylor of William Fanning\n Wickham and Williams Carter Wickham as trustees; decrees and a\n report to the Westmoreland County Circuit Court in William\n Carter Wickham etal. v. Henry Taylor's executors etal.; a deed\n of trust and release of Henry Taylor to \"Leeds Farm,\"\n Westmoreland County; extracts from the records of the Circuit\n Court for Spotsylvania County; and proceedings in Rosa V.\n Taylor v. Henry Taylor etal. in Spotsylvania Circuit\n Court.","Five folders of documents concern the estate of Lucy Penn\n (Taylor) Wickham, 1913-1915. These include copies of her\n numerous wills; a legal opinion of Hill Carter; inventories;\n correspondence and accounts of the executors. One folder\n contains records from Henry Taylor Wickham etal. v. Stuart Lee\n Dance, as guardian of the children of William Fanning Wickham\n (1860-1900) in the Hanover County Circuit Court (bill of\n complaint and exhibits; motions and decrees; depositions;\n accounts; notes; petitions for appeal to the Virginia Supreme\n Court of Appeals). \"Hickory Hill\" materials are comprised of a\n lease to Henry Taylor Wickham, 1892; financial records of\n William Fanning Wickham's (1860-1900) management of the farm;\n deeds of the heirs of Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham (Ann Carter\n (Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, Williams Carter Wickham Renshaw, and\n Williams Carter Wickham [1887-1985]); and a deed and agreement\n concerning sale of a portion of \"Prospect Hill,\" adjoining\n \"The Lane,\" to C. P. Cardwell, and access to a road called\n \"The Boulevard\" in Hanover County. Estate miscellany consists\n of materials concerning a debt of Sol L. Bloomberg, a\n memorandum and notes of Henry Taylor Wickham, and obituary\n notices.","Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943), eldest child of Williams\n Carter Wickham and Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, also trained as\n an attorney and practiced for many years in Hanover County and\n Richmond. He was long- time general counsel for the Chesapeake\n and Ohio Railway Company. Henry Wickham's papers begin with a\n series of six letterbooks, 1931-1940, kept at his office in\n the First National Bank Building in Richmond. They cover\n personal business and family affairs, Democratic party\n politics, Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia Senate, his\n law practice, and his activities as a member of the\n Westmoreland Club and supporter of the Richmond Community\n Fund. Reminiscences of the Civil War service of Williams\n Carter Wickham are sprinkled throughout these volumes. His\n papers make up Series 7.","Along with numerous family members, addressees (indexed in\n each letterbook by Wickham himself) include Matthew Page\n Andrews (beginning in vol. IV), Leon Maurice Nelson Bazile\n (begin vol. V), Harry Flood Byrd, William Duval Cardwell,\n Herbert Fitzpatrick McCall Frazier, Carter Glass, Newton Lewis\n Hall (as farm manger of \"Hickory Hill\"), George P. Lyon,\n Andrew Jackson Montague, Rosewell Page, George C. Peery, John\n Garland Pollard, Absalom Willis Robertson, William H. Shelton,\n Cornelius T. Smith, Claude Augustus Swanson, and William\n Munford Tuck (beginning vol. V), and the Richmond real estate\n management firms of Elam and Funsten, Charles A. Rose Co., and\n Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc.","Henry Taylor Wickham's loose correspondence, 1874-1941, is\n largely personal, directed mostly to family members, although\n some items concern his business affairs. A good number are\n letters of condolence on the death of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888). Among the more frequent or significant\n correspondents are Alice (Carter) Bransford (of \"Shirley,\"\n Charles City County, Va.), Ann Carter (Wickham) Renshaw\n Byerly, William Anderson Glasgow (enclosing a typescript copy\n of a memoir by Frederick Johnston and letters, 1814-1815, of\n John Randolph of Roanoke and Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee,\n Robert Henry Renshaw, George Barksdale Wickham (while\n attending Virginia Military Institute,, Lexington), Williams\n Carter Wickham (1887-1985), and Eleanor Landis (Porcher)\n Windle (enclosing a typescript copy of a letter of Anne Butler\n (Carter) Wickham concerning the capture of William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee at \"Hickory Hill\" by Union forces in 1863).","An account book, 1867-1870, of Henry Taylor Wickham covers\n his student days at Washington College (now Washington and Lee\n University) in Lexington and at the University of Virginia,\n and includes lists of law books and lines of verse written by\n Wickham. Along with an account book, 1942, two passbooks,\n 1915-1926, and a check stub book, 1922-1926, financial records\n also include loose accounts, 1920-1939 (mostly consisting of\n canceled checks before 1931).","Box 26 contains materials relating to several real estate\n properties managed for Wickham in the 1930s by Elam and\n Funsten and by Charles A. Rose Co. (1309 East Cary Street, 13\n North Governor Street, and 1333 West Broad Street).","\"Hickory Hill\" materials fill more than three boxes\n (17-30). Beginning with four volumes of farm books, 1893-1913,\n that record wages paid to laborers, general farm accounts, and\n records of agricultural operations, these materials likewise\n include loose farm records and accounts, 1929-1943, consisting\n in part of time sheets, payrolls and produce statements. A few\n additional loose items cover agricultural operations in\n 1894-1898; records collected by Wickham of the southern\n boundary of \"Hickory Hill,\" \"South Wales,\" the \"Lane Island\"\n (formed from a portion of \"The Lane\" by the changing course of\n the Pamunkey river), and land belonging to the estate of\n Christopher Wingfield, consisting primarily of plats, surveys\n correspondence, and notes (most dated between 1908-1915); and\n contracts, 1927-1942, with Newton Lewis Hall as farm\n manager.","Some loose items concerning Wickham's college days include\n certificates and diplomas, 1867-1868, issued by Washington\n College (all signed by Robert E. Lee and various faculty\n members); a membership certificate in the alumni association\n signed by John Echols, Samuel H. Letcher, and others); a\n diploma issued by the University of Virginia, 1870, as\n Bachelor of Law (signed by Socrates Maupin, John Barbee Minor,\n and others); and an honorary doctor of laws degree conferred\n by Washington and Lee University, 1935.","Records concerning Wickham's lengthy career in the Virginia\n Senate range widely. They include vote totals in Hanover and\n Caroline counties for elections held in 1899 and 1907;\n certificates of election, 1923- 1939; a transcript of a\n newspaper clipping, 1906, concerning Thomas Staples Martin;\n clippings concerning members of the Bryan family, the Richmond\n Times-Dispatch, and alleged legislative corruption, 1913;\n certificates concerning election expenditures, 1935; materials\n concerning the primary and general elections of 1939;\n materials, 1934, concerning a proposal to alter Hanover\n County's form of government to a \"county executive\" system\n (newspaper clippings, notes and a letter of Dr. Early Lee Fox\n of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland); and a joint resolution,\n 1942, of the Virginia General Assembly concerning Henry Taylor\n Wickham.","Many of Mr. Wickham's speeches over the year survive in his\n personal papers. Some loose items, 1935-1942, primarily\n concern Democratic party politics and historical subjects in\n Virginia (such as Patrick Henry's political career and college\n life at Washington and Lee University under Robert E. Lee).\n Many more items are bound together in three volumes of\n speeches and addresses (Box 31), including a number of items\n written by or about Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888). For\n examply, in Volume I (1860-1926) there are remarks made by\n Williams Carter Wickham at a meeting of citizens at Henrico\n courthouse, 3 December 1860, concerning instructions from\n electors on his course in the Virginia Senate (no. 1); an\n address of Williams Carter Wickham, ca. 1860, concerning a\n call to the U.S. Congress for a convention to amend the U.S.\n Constitution (no. 2); a speech of Andrew Jackson Montague,\n 1926, concerning Williams Carter Wickham (no. 16); numerous\n addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to literary societies,\n veterans' groups, and local celebrations and commemorations\n (such as the unveiling of portraits at Hanover Court House in\n 1926, with biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, George\n Pitman Haw, John Enoch Mason, John Robert Taylor, and others).\n The remaining two volumes include the following: Volume II\n (1901-1937): addresses of Henry Taylor Wickham to the League\n of Women Voters and local woman's clubs, and as president of\n the Patrick Henry Centennial Association; an 1858 manuscript\n roll of the Hanover Dragoons (later Company G of the 4th\n Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., commanded by Williams\n Carter Wickham); and biographical sketches of James Churchill\n Cooke, William Brockenbrough Newton, Samuel Cornelius Redd,\n and Thomas White Sydnor; and Volume III (1888-1938): primarily\n political campaign speeches of Henry Taylor Wickham;\n recollections of Robert E. Lee; and addresses to local\n Confederate veterans' associations.","Boxes 32 through 37 contain 12 volumes of scrapbooks\n assembled and indexed by Henry Taylor Wickham, 1867-1943. Each\n is listed separately below, with a brief reference to general\n and/or outstanding contents:","Scrapbook I (1867-1932): mostly newspaper clippings\n concerning Republican party politics; orations and speeches of\n Henry Taylor Wickham; Funders-Readjusters in Virginia; John\n Sergeant Wise (pp. 6-10); Williams Carter Wickham (pp. 12-30,\n 40-76); obituary notice of Williams Carter Wickham (p. 39);\n and broadsides, 1867-1886, of Williams Carter Wickham issued\n to voters of Hanover and Henrico counties (pp. 17, 70,\n 72).","Scrapbook II (1888-1936): largely concerns the death of\n Williams Carter Wickham and the monument erected in Monroe\n Park, by Edmund Virginius Valentine; Hanover Troop Association\n reunions.","Scrapbook III (1888-1905): election campaigns and service\n of Henry Taylor Wickham in the Virginia Senate, especially as\n chairman of the senate finance committee and president pro\n tem; broadside to voters (pp. 5- 6); Democratic party\n politics; the Virginia Debt Commission (concerning West\n Virginia's portion of the Virginia state debt).","Scrapbook IV (1905-1923): Henry Taylor Wickham's Virginia\n senate career and elections; letter of Thomas Staples Martin\n to Wickham, 1906 (p. 5); newspaper clippings and magazine\n articles concerning historical subjects and railroad\n business.","Scrapbook V (1923-1930): Virginia Senate career; historical\n celebrations in Hanover County; obituary notices of Admiral\n James Harrison Oliver of \"Shirley,\" Charles City County, Va.\n (pp. 75-77); letter of Harry Flood Byrd to Wickham, 1929 (p.\n 92).","Scrapbook VI (1930-1934): Wickham's memoir of Judge Edmund\n Waddill (pp. 39-41); reports and speech of Wickham concerning\n the bust of Patrick Henry placed in the hall of the Virginia\n House of Delegates, 1932 (pp. 52ff); letter of Douglas\n Southall Freeman to Wickham, 1934 (p. 90).","Scrapbook VII (1934-1937): local legislative issues;\n letters of Francis Pendleton Gaines of Washington and Lee\n University (pp. 12, 24), and William Thomas Reed (pp. 20-21,\n concerning \"Rocky Mills,\" Hanover County); two letters of\n Harry Flood Byrd (p. 94); activities as president of the\n Patrick Henry Bicentennial Association; texts of some speeches\n included.","Scrapbook VIII (1883-1937): Henry Taylor Wickham's career\n and speeches; broadside of Williams Carter Wickham, 1883; many\n clippings about Virginia Chesterman Wickham, Richmond\n socialite.","Scrapbook IX (1937-1938): Virginia Senate service and\n Democratic politics.","Scrapbook X (1939-1940): Virginia Senate career; some\n speeches; correspondence tipped in: R. Walton Moore (15\n September 1939), Robert Kincaid Brock (1 June 1939), Harry\n Flood Byrd (28 February 1940), Carter Class (March 1940).","Scrapbook XI (1940-1942): Virginia Senate career.","Scrapbook XII (1942-1943): letter of Harry Floor Byrd (30\n November 1942); death of Henry Taylor Wickham in March\n 1943.","Records from the law practice of Henry Taylor Wickham date\n mostly from the later years of his career. These include\n materials concerning Wickham's association with the C. and O.\n Railway Company, 1889-1935; license applications and fees,\n 1931-1933; updated law notes; records from Henrico County\n Board of Supervisors v. J. B. Bourne etal., 1934, in the\n Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; and a certificate of\n incorporation (typescript copy), 1919, of the Richmond Gas and\n Electric Appliance Company (including George Barksdale Wickham\n as an officer).","Wickham's land and tax records consist of a deed\n (typescript), 1890, to lot 590 on Grace Street in Richmond; a\n deed (unexecuted), 1916, to land in Hanover County; personal\n property tax forms, 1899-1909; a title insurance policy, 1938,\n covering the Boulevard Apartments, 225 North Boulevard, in\n Richmond; and a petition (typescript copy), ca. 1920 in Henry\n Taylor Wickham v. Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hanover\n County Circuit Court (concerning personal property and income\n taxes).","Wickham saved a large number of newspaper clippings that\n cover his legal and political career, Confederate military\n history, and local history in Caroline and Hanover counties\n and the City of Richmond. He also collected notes and records\n on the following families: Barksdale, Carter, Fanning, Leiper,\n Penn, Taylor, and Wickham. His general miscellany, finally,\n includes cards, notes, telegrams, etc., concerning the\n Wickhams' 50th wedding anniversary in 1935; a power of\n attorney, 1938, concerning the Social security Act; newspaper\n clippings and an eulogy by Wickham at the funeral of Rosewell\n Page; historical notes on the Blair family of Virginia; notes\n concerning visitors to the While Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in\n 1875 (identified in an accompanying photograph); a letter\n (copy), 1926, of Judge Jake Fisher of Braxton County, W.Va.,\n to Herbert Fitzpatrick concerning a Michael Miley photograph\n of Robert E. Lee; lists of books; and miscellaneous notes and\n lines of verse.","Wickham's estate records fill seven folders in Boxes 38-39/\n They begin with obituary notices, resolutions, and memorial\n tributes, and certificates of death and probate. Much of the\n correspondence of the estate, handled by the widow, Elise\n Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham, and Richmond attorney R. Grayson\n Dashiell, is directed to Williams Carter Wickham (1887-1985).\n Financial records include loose accounts, 1943-1944, an\n account book and account statements rom the Savings Bank and\n Trust Company in Richmond, and a check stub book. Tax forms\n and receipts for the years 1940-1944 follow.","Records of rental properties in Richmond managed by Charles\n A. Rose Co. (225 North Boulevard, 721 West Broad Street, 1333\n West Broad Street, and 2711 Hanover Avenue) and by Elam and\n Funsten (1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor Street)\n appear in folders 5-6. Lastly, estate miscellany is comprised\n of correspondence and an application for widow's benefits\n filed with the Railroad Retirement Board, 1947; and an\n agreement with Hill Carter concerning timber on \"Loblolly\n Hill,\" in Hanover County, a portion of the Wickham farm.","Series 8 concerns Elise Warwick Barksdale (1861-1952), who\n married Herny Taylor Wickham in 1885 and lived at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" Her correspondence includes one letter to her father\n dated 1869, and numerous items of communication with family\n members, 1896-1948. Some are written or received as a member\n of the Board of Managers or as president of the Exchange for\n Woman's Work in Richmond, Va. Many letters are written by\n George Barksdale Wickham (while attending Virginia Military\n Institute, Lexington) and Williams Carter Wickham ([1887-1985]\n while serving in the U.S. Navy), while a letter from Doctor\n George Ainsley Barksdale itself bears a letter of Margaret\n (Branch) Glasgow written at Summer Rest resort in Greenwood,\n VA.","Financial records (boxes 41-42) consist of loose accounts\n (including numerous canceled checks), 1902-1936, three\n passbooks on Richmond banks, 1891-1919, and seven check stub\n books, 1896-1923. Bank statements and canceled checks from\n 1948-1950 are filed separately. State and federal income and\n personal property tax forms and returns, 1941-1951,\n follow.","Farm records at \"Hickory Hill\" are quite similar to those\n kept by Henry Taylor Wickham and consist of time sheets,\n payrolls, produce statements, records of expenditures, and\n loose accounts arranged by year. Records (including some lease\n agreements) of investment properties in Richmond managed for\n Mrs. Wickham by Charles A. Rose Co. in the years 1932,\n 1942-1945, and 1947-1950, cover income and disbursements for\n rental properties at 1517-21 West Broad Street, 613-15 North\n Lombardy Street, 721-23 West Broad Street, 225 North\n Boulevard, 1319-23 West Broad Street, 1333 West Broad Street,\n and 2711 Hanover Avenue. Those managed by Elam and Funsten\n were located at 1309 East Cary Street, 13 North Governor\n Street, 1417-23 East Cary street, 1301 East Main Street, and\n 124-30 Virginia Street. Morton G. Thalhimer, Inc., managed the\n properties at 1319 West Broad Street in 1932 and in\n 1947-1950.Box 47 contains some miscellaneous items of members\n of the Barksdale and Warwick families. Mrs. Wickham's\n ancestors. An account, 1859, of Abraham Warwick with Hunt and\n Roskell of London bears a draft of a letter of Warwick to that\n firm, dated 19 November 1860, concerning the unsettled\n political situation in the American South. A letter of Robert\n E. Lee, dated 1 June 1866, to Elise Florence (Warwick)\n Barksdale has been indexed elsewhere. These miscellaneous\n items also include passports, 1810 and 1854, issued to William\n Jones Barksdale by William Pinkney (as American minister to\n great Britain) and William Learned Marcy (as U.S. secretary of\n state). Newspaper clippings collected by Doctor George Ainsley\n Barksdale primarily concern Virginia and Confederate military\n history, while the doctor's scrapbook, 1889-1892, includes a\n pardon signed by Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward (p.\n 15), as well as autograph notes (taken from official C.S.A.\n documents) of Fitzhugh Lee, John Letcher, James Alexander\n Seddon, Walter Herron Taylor, and John Withers (p. 92). The\n scrapbook if filed oversize after Box 47.","Box 48 contains records of the distribution of land at\n \"Brookfield,\" Henrico County, VA., to the heirs of Abraham (or\n Abram) Warwick, including a portion of adjoining land that was\n developed in 1925 as \"Lakeside Terrace.\" Materials include\n bills of complaint, answers, proceedings, decrees, memoranda,\n plats, leases, deeds, and notes and correspondence of Henry\n Taylor Wickham in the related cases of Eliza Agnes (Hayes)\n Warwick (widow of Abram Warwick v. Peter C. Warwick etal. and\n Caroline Warwick v. Elise Warwick (Barksdale) Wickham\n etal.","Mrs. Wickham kept records as an officer of the Ladies' Aid\n Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County from\n 1893 to 1916. The organization raised funds for building\n projects, mission activities, and to supplement the salary of\n their rector. These records are a few items of correspondence;\n an account book, 1893, which includes lists of members; a bank\n pass book, 1893-1894; loose accounts; resolutions of the\n vestry; and notes.","A visitors'' register, 1930-1961, records the sojourn of\n guests at \"Hickory Hill\" and includes the signatures of\n Admiral William Fredericks Halsey (25 Sept. 1938, 29 July\n 1942, 14 Nov. 1946, 27 Jan. 1950, and 22 April 1950) and\n William Munford Tuck (15 April 1939). Mrs. Wickham made many\n diary-like entries in this volume through these years. Another\n visitors' register, 1949, was kept on behalf of the Ashland\n Branch of the Garden Club of Virginia. Miscellany includes a\n membership certificate, 1896, in the Virginia Society of the\n Colonial Dames of America; a life membership certificate\n issued in 1909 by the Association for the Preservation of\n Virginia Antiquities; newspaper clippings concerning the\n Wickham and Barksdale families and \"Hickory Hill\"; and notes,\n recipes and lines of verse. Letters, cards and telegrams of\n condolence sent to Williams Carter Wickham on his mother's\n death in 1952 complete Box 48.","Series 9 contains materials relating to Henry Taylor\n Wickham's brother, William Fanning Wickham (1860-1900), who\n trained to be an attorney and lived for many years at \"Hickory\n Hill.\" His records surviving in this collection include\n materials concerning the Hanover Troop (Troop D of the 1st\n Cavalry Battalion of Virginia Volunteers) consisting of\n letters (including one from Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 19 July)\n written to Wickham in 1889, many enclosing bills of lading for\n military supplies; and oaths of allegiance subscribed to by\n officers and men of the unit. Wickham's personal miscellany\n includes two items of correspondence, 1874; loose accounts,\n 1877 and 1889; notes and records concerning \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm, 1886-1888; and materials, 1900, concerning his\n estate.","Henry and William Wickham's sister, Ann Carter (Wickham)\n Renshaw Byerly appears throughout the collection, but in\n Series 10 are gathered only a small number of letters,\n 1869-1888, written to her by Eleanor Agnes Lee, Mary Anna\n Randolph (Custis) Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Series 11 contains the papers of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1887-1985), son of Henry Taylor and Elise Wickham and the\n last major character to appear in this collection. He attended\n the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and served for many\n years in the U.S. Navy. During the Second World War he was\n hospitalized in Denver, Colo., and later Bethesda, Md., and\n retired on disability in 1945 after reaching the rank of\n captain.","Captain Wickham's correspondence, 1897-1967, includes\n communications from Harry Flood Byrd, Richmond attorney\n Randolph Grayson Dashiell, Admiral William Frederick Halsey,\n and Wickham's wife, Credilla (Miller) Wickham. Records of his\n naval service consist of a letter (copy), 1940, of Doctor\n George Ben Johnston concerning Wickham's physical condition;\n grade records, 1907, and certificates of graduation, 1909,\n 1911, from the U.S. Naval Academy; commissions (some signed by\n Claude Augustus Swanson, William Howard Taft and Woodrow\n Wilson); a Bachelor of Science degree awarded as a graduate of\n the Naval Academy in 1938; orders and reports concerning\n Wickham's naval service, 1941-1943; correspondence and records\n concerning his disability and retirement, 1944-1949 (including\n orders signed by James Forrestal); correspondence and records\n concerning military insurance with the Veterans\n Administration; commendation for services, 1942-1944, as\n Convoy Control Officer of the U.S. Tenth Fleet; and an\n address, n.d., of Wickham to the Hanover County Woman's Club\n concerning his early years of naval service.Miscellany is\n comprised of an undated teacher's recommendation signed by E.\n R. Whitlocke; correspondence and exams of Wickham in the\n LaSalle Extension University course in law, Chicago, Ill.,\n 1945; lineage charts showing the descent of Williams Carter\n Wickham for the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames; wedding\n invitations; a membership certificate, 1912, in the A.P.V.A.;\n and collected newspaper clippings.","Captain Wickham's younger brother, George Barksdale Wickham\n (1888-1928), attended Virginia Military Institute and later\n became a Richmond businessman. His records, in Series 12 of\n this collection, include school materials, n.d.-1903; grade\n reports while a student at V.M.I., 1904-1905, 1907; a wedding\n invitation, 1916; A.P.V.A. certificate, 1912; and obituary\n notices.","In Series 13, the collection closes with family miscellany\n (materials of Lawrence Vernon Miller Wickham while service in\n the U.S. Marine Corps; and a commonplace book, 1973-1977, of\n Lois (Wingfield) Wickham, widow of Williams Carter Wickham\n [1917-1982]) and a few items of general miscellany (autograph\n album, 1877-1889, kept by Carrie Lee Colton in Annapolis and\n Jessup's Cut, Md.; and correspondence, 1877-1886, of Reverend\n Pike Powers of Richmond, Va.)","Certificate of ordination; letter, 1781; will, 1782;\n genealogical notes; Henry Taylor Wickham correspondence,\n 1930","Certificate of ordination; letter, 1781; will, 1782;\n genealogical notes; Henry Taylor Wickham correspondence,\n 1930","Correspondence, 1783-1812; letters, 1777-1778;\n prayer; biographical sketches","Includes letters to David Parish","Wills; correspondence; financial and land records;\n Wickham et al. v. 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Lee and William Henry\n Fitzhugh Lee). Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n Philadelphia, Pa. 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Also contains papers of William Fanning Wickham\n (1793-1880) of \"Hickory Hill,\" Hanover County, Va., including\n diaries (17 v.), 1828-1880, concerning agricultural\n operations, slave families and runaway slaves, and local\n events during the Civil War and Reconstruction; family\n correspondence, 1817-1878; accounts; land records; and\n materials concerning the emancipation and resettlement in Ohio\n of slaves belonging to the estate of Samuel Gist. Also\n contains letterbooks, 1877-1881, of Williams Carter Wickham\n (1820-1888) as a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company official\n and Republican Party State Executive Committee chairman;\n correspondence, 1862-1888; financial records; \"Hickory Hill\"\n farm records; and materials concerning the management of\n \"North Wales,\" Caroline County, Va., for Dr. Charles Carter of\n Philadelphia, Pa. 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